BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
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‘Ink Slings.
_—Bellefonte mechanics, clerks and lab-
orers are suffering with union fever just
now.
—Coal is the burning question that is
disturbing the peace of the Bellefonte
council.
—It Mayor WEAVER isn’t honest in his
professions of reform in Philadelphia it is a
shame for him to play such a joke on the
heelers of that city.
—The plow-boy of Indiana started an-
other boom for Governor last Saturday, bat
his boom will probably be on the bum by
the time 1906 rolls around. £
— The four French aeronauts who fell ten
« thousand feet, then rebounded three hun-
dred must have had a little robber some-
where else than in their necks.
— After Pennsylvania gets her six million
five hundred thousand dollars expended on
good . roads she will be ready for another
CoXEY pilgrimage to Washington.
—Why all this agitation about where the
teachers’ institute shall be held ? If the
teachers want to go to Philipsburg that is
our misfortune —and their’s too, maybe.
—“In union there is strength,’’ so said
THOMAS JEFFERSON, but in the union that
was formed in Bellefonte on Wednesday
there is six o'clock closing for the local
stores.
—The President left the Yellowstone
park yesterday and natural conditions will
become normal again in that great reserve
—i e—the geysers can get back to the hot
air business themselves again.
"The new state chairman, Senator J.
K. P. HALL, hasa large contract on his
hands, but it won’t be near so large if the
gang of state disorganizers don’t go to
work at once to try and tie them up.
—They’ve discovered another bunch of
islands in the southern part of the Philip-
pine ' archipelago that they say belongs to
us. Yes, another bunch of islands, and—
incidentally—another bunch of trouble.
. —The Pittsburg Post says the Democrats
have a half a dozen candidates who are
available for the nomination for President
next year, but we are not looking so much
for available candidates as possible win-
ners.
—JouN D. ROCKERFELLER has diszov-
ered that playing golf makes the hair grow.
But if you went to JOHN D. in confidence
he would probably tell you that frequent
applications of petroleum are a better hair
producer than golf playing.
—Former Senator JAMES K. JoNEs, of
Arkansas, is of the opinion that the Demoe-
racy has plenty of good presidential tim-
ber. Why certainly we bave. We have
forests that haven’t been cut into for so
long that they appear to be almost virgin. |
——From the position of the observer
up a tree it looks as il this sanitary busi-
ness is being worked to death. Everything
must be sanitary now, but we don’t ob-
serve that this excessive sanitation is im-
p overishing either the doctor or the under-
taker.
—If Governor PENNYPACKER doesn’t
sign the Salus bill he is very apt to remain
a parrob. If he does he will probably
change To a dead duck in the political pud-
dle. Now it is merely a matter of choice as
to what he’d sooner be, a parrot or a dead
duck.
—There seems to be a general house
cleaning down in Missouri and alum is so
conspicious in it that it will not be much
of a surprise if some of the politicians of
that State shrink clear eut of sight by the
time we all go down to St. Louis to see the
fair.
—Now is the time for the Hon. ALAN
ANCIENT DALE to jump into the breach.
The Republican party in Centre is divided
as to who shall be its leader and ALAN
demonstrated once that when he wants to
be the bell cow all the rest have to fall in
behind. :
--Again the New York Central gets done
paying the damages that the courts are
laying up against it for that Park Ave
tunnel disaster there is likeiy to be a new
policy adopted by the directors of that road
--one that will 100k to the expenditure of
more money on safety appliances and less
on wreck victims.
—W. K. VANDERBILT has been put on
th e marriageable list again by the courts of
New York. The decree of divorce that he
obtained in 1895 did not permit him to re-
marry duriog the life of his divorced wife,
but the court has wiped ont that prohibition
and WILLIE can try again the matrimonial
venture.
—The constitution must have gotten
away behind the flag when Gen. DAVIS
was making terms with the Moros. The
condition under which they accept Amer-
ican sovereignty is that slavery shall con-
tinue. What we need now is another
W ENDELL PHILLIPS and an edition of
U ncle Filipino’s Cabin.
—PATTI is coming back to sing for us,
probably not so much because PATTI is de-
sirous of warbling for Americans as because
PATTI's exchequer is getting low and the
Americans are always delightfully silly
enongh to tumble over one another in the
effort to fill itup. She is to get five thous:
an d dollars each for sixty concerts and, on
the side, is to have accommodations for
herself, her husband, seven servants, twen-
sy -one dogs, filty or sixty birds and an An-
gora goat. How’d you like to be the An-
gora?
“VOL. 48
General Payne's Curious Reasoning.
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Post Master General PAYNE can discern
no fault, he says, in the smuggling opera-
tions of the Porto Rican officials who have
been indulging rather freely in that nefar-
ious business. The articles smuggled huve
been used for making presents, he adds, and
therefore the act is exempt from the turpi-
tude which attaches to smuggling for com-
mercial or personal purposes. This is rath-
er a nice distinction to draw and may not
be fully appreciated by the average man.
Smuggling,according to the revised statutes
of the United States, is a crime, with-
out qualification, just as burglary or piracy
is criminal without respect to the uses to
which the plunder is put. But General
PAYNE makes a distinction cariously
enough.
The reasons given by Mr. PAYNE for
putting this strange construction on the
crime of smuggling by government officials
is that the smuggled articles were given as
presents to native citizens whose friendship
it was desired to win. In other words, if
the matter is thoroughly apalyzed they
were used as currency to bribe Porto Ricans
to acquiescense in some plans of the gov-
ernment on the island. Bribery is also a
‘crime of considerable turpitude so that to
the ordinary mind smuggling in order to
procure the materials with which to bribe
would be a double crime. But General
PAYNE who, before he entered upon the
duties of his present office, was a profession-
al lobbyist takes a different view of the
matter. He knew something of the business
himself.
As a matter of fact this is a striking ex-
ample of the lax morals which have become
the order of our official life. For political
reasons President ROOSEVELT elevates to
one of the most important offices in the
public service a man who can see no fault
in bribing men to do whatever is wanted at
the time. He in turn fails to discern any
barm in the same offense perpetrated by an-
other and supplemented by 4 more heinous
crime in the nature of smuggling.. Thus
the entire official system becomes tainted
with vice and one criminal condones the
practices of another who is equally guilty:
The remedy for this is voting out all the
rascals and putting men in their places who
have a hetter conception of public morals.
An Absurd ‘Speech.
Mr. DaviD M. PARRY, of Indianapolis
who is president of the Manufacturers’
Association of America, made a speech
during the convention of that organization
at New Orleans last week which was both
characteristic and peculiar. He denounced
labor organizations with great vehemence
and indicated that according to his notion
they ought to be prohibited by law. Asa
matter of fact Mr. PARRY can see no real
difference between labor unions and an-
archistic clubs and he would lay the heavy
hand of the law on both asthe surest way
of preventing strikes and perpetuating the
prosperity of the country.
A man who believes in a high protective
tariff by which the masses are mercilessly
robbed in order that unearned bounties
may be divided among the classes could
hardly be expected to entertain any other
view of labor organizations than that ex-
pressed by Mr. PARRY. The DINGLEY tar-
iff law, for example, takes a couple of bil-
lion dollars a year from the pockets of the
people and divides the:-amoant among the
manufacturing barons and the labor unions
teach, among other things, that such rob-
bery is unjust and should be discontinued.
For that reason they are offensive to the
small mind of Mr. PARRY and he would
have them abolished.
It never occurred to Mr. PARRY, how-
ever, that the combination of capital, for
manufacturing and other purposes is pre-
cisely the same as labor unions and that so
long as one kind of industrial combination
is allowed the other must be endured. The
association of which Mr. PARRY is presi-
dent is maintained for the purpose of pro-
moting the interests of capital, just as the
labor unions for the purpose of maintain-
ing the interests of labor and that a man
who is at the head of one has no right to
rail against the other. That is tbe truth,
nevertheless,and it may be added that such
narrow minds as PARRY’s make labor
unions necessary.
——It would seem that the Sunday
paper has already passed the magazine or
book in quantity of reading and he who
would read all of its great budget would
find his time taken up well into the mid-
dle of the week, but notwithstanding this
condition the Philadelphia Press announces
that the Sunday, April 26th, it will add two
more color and balf-tone sections to its
already enormous Sunday edition. Just
how the Press figures that its newsies are
going to stand up under such a load we
can’t say, but if it becomes necessary we
suppose they will all be supplied with
amntomobiles, as the Press is usually equal
to any emergency.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN,
Odell and Roosevelt.
While President ROOSEVELT is enveloped
in the dense wilderness known as Yellow-
stone Park, Governor ODELL,of New York,
is cutting up some queer capers in New
York. In other words the Governor of the
Empire State has recently developed some
presidential aspirations and according to
the best information obtainable be is set-
ting up a machine to capture the delega-
tion. Senator PLATT is doing his best to
prevent the consummation of the scheme,
but with ROOSEVELT three thousand miles
or more away, the Governor is too much
for his ancient competitor who appears to
be getting the worst of the contention.
Of course we have little interest in the
political quarrels of the Republican leaders
in New York and still are mnable to con-
ceal some feeling of satisfaction at the pros-
pect of seeing ROOSEVELT bowled out of
the public eye and eliminated from public
life of the country. In the history of the
government we have had no Chief Magis-
trate who has been as little credit to the of-
fice as be. With the habits of a gypsy and
the impulses of a clown he has kept the peo-
ple of the country in a constant state of fer-
mentation while he bas prostituted every
cherished principle of the government and
honored tradition of the people. :
Governor ODELL is a good deal of a ma-
chine politician and his public record is
more or less unsavory, but in most re-
spects he would be preferable to. Roosg-
VELT in the office of President, That is to
say he would at leat try to maintain the
dignity of the office and give reasonable
consideration to the public welfare.
ROOSEVELT has never done either and that
his strange antics bave not made us the
laughing stock of the civilized world is
attributable entirely to the respect acquir-
ed before he came into the office as the re-
sult of a lamentable national calamity.
The Press Muzzler.,
~The GRADY-SALUS libel bill is not only
without paternity but there is no living
creature willing to acknowledge relation-
ship with it. No individual, association,
order or fraternity asked for it in advance
and no petition has come from any source
requesting its enactment or approval. At
the hearing before the Governor the other
day two lawyers spoke in its behalf, but
| both apologized and neither would ' state
who he represented. Every man of char-
acter shans it as he would a pestilence and
no woman of repute commends it.
On the other hand the pulpit has waxed
eloquent in denunciation of 1ts iniquities.
Ministerial associations, patriotic orders and
fraternal organizations have united in con-
demning it as a thing to be abhorred. The
press, not alone of Pennsylvania but in all
parts of the country, has reprobated it with
all the force and energy it could command
and finally the newspaper editors and pub-
lishers of the State, without respect to po-
litical affiliation, creed or purpose, have de-
nounced it as a menace to popular rights
and civil and religious liberty.
Yet the Governor hesitates as to how he
should treat the measure. As a lawyer he
must know it is atrocious. As a patriotic
citizen he must realize that it is iniquit-
ous. In every respect it is bad and every
consideration of justice, patriotism and
manhood should join to move him to an
official condemnation, not alone of the bill,
but of the vile purposes and unpatriotic
aims which it has in view. That QUAY
favors it is natural. Political exigencies
require the suppression of free speech until
after the next senatorial election. But the
attitude of the Governor on the question is
inexplicable.
Chairman Bliss’ Statement.
Chairman BLISS, of the appropriations
committee of the late Legislature, takes a
cheerful view of the fiscal affairs of the
State. ‘‘There will be no time within the
next two years,’ he says confidently,
‘when the State will not have from six to
seven million dollars in the treasury. He
admits that something like profligacy
characterized the appropriations of the
Legislature of which he was the fiscal di-
rector and that the amount of the disburs-
ing bills far exceeded any previous record,
but the revenues will easily meet the de-
mands on the treasury and leave the snng
figure quoted above to the good.
The appropriations for the two years
will aggregate about $34,000,000 if Mr.
Briss’ estimate of the general appropria-
tion bill is correct, and two millions more
if the estimates of others who have exam-
ined the subject be correct. The revenues
will aggregate $36,000,000 at the lowest,
acoording to Mr. Briss, and probably a
couple of million beyond that figure,but by
skillful manipulation of the accounts the
six or seven millions referred to can always
be kept in the banks of deposit and, at say
two per cent. above the rate of interest
fixed by law which can easily be obtained,
there will be a snug sum $o distribute
among the machine favorites as the usufrunot
of the operation.
Mr. Briss refers to the profligate appro-
priations and the probable balance with
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 24, 1903.
obvious exultation and would have the pub-
lic believe that it is a great financial
triumph. But more thoughtful people are
not likely to take the same view of the
case. In other words business men who
are in the habit of using other people's
money just as they use their own will
probably think it strange that chairman
Briss never thought that it would be a
wise idea to cut appropriations to the low-
est limit consistent with safe government
and reduce the revenues in the same way.
That would have left the six or seven mil-
lions which will be a surplus in the treas-
ury in the pockets of the people who earn it
and where it might be used as the nuclens’
for any business which might be engaged in.
The Last Legislature.
Our esteemed Republican contemporaries
are going to great pains to show that the
recent Legislature was an exceptionally
creditable body and that barring the odious
libel law and one or two other Legislative
monstrosities it was really a very meritor-
ious organization. Measured by its prede-
cessor there is some reason for this landa-
tion because, after killing the eight or ten
snakes which it was intended to pass dur-
ing the closing hours, its produot is better
than that of the session which closed in a
carnival of crime two years ago. Bat that
is about all that can be said in its favor.
That is it wasn’t quite as bad as the Legis-
lature of 1901. ; :
Bui it was exceedingly bad, neverthe-
less, and if the snakes had gone through as
the machine intended they should, if
would have acquired the record for iniqui-
ty. Evenas it is no Legislature in the
history of the State committed so inexcusa-
ble a crime as that which was perpetrated
the day before the close in robbing Repre-
sentatives BLUMLE and FERRY of the seats
to which they had been fairly and justly
elected in order to give as a gratuity the
amount of their salaries to politicians who
had been repudiated by the people but may
be needed in the future by the machine.
In fact the only greater outrage ever com-
mitted was the passage of the ‘‘press-muz-
zler”’ by the same Legislature.
"It can be added that no previous Legisla-
ture ever reached the same measure of prof-
ligacy or showed an equal disregard for the
interests of the public. If the half dozen
or more bills which were killed under the
orders of somebody had gone through, as it
was intended they should, until the morn-
ing of the day before the adjournment, the
Legislature which is now heing damned
with faint praise, would have been the
most atrocious of all. There is nothing in
the record of the hody to praise and very
little that can be exempt from just condem-
nation. :
An Interesting Experiment
The recent movements on the part of
several of the townships, of the county to
make the poor question a strictly local is-
sue and settle it for themselves will be
looked upon with interest from many quar-
ters. The proposition to establish a county
poor farm has been hefore the people of
Centre county several times, but failed be-
cause the paupers united with voters of the
districts having a low poor tax to accom-
plish its defeat. ‘
In the rich agricultural districts of Penns
and Nittany valleys there is no poor tax to
speak of, while in the manufacturing and
mining centres about Bellefonte, Scotia,
Philipsburg and Snow Shoe and through
the Bald Eagle valley the poor tax isan
expense to be considered seriously. With
these two conflicting conditions it is not to
be wondered at that the county poor farm
idea has always been voted down in Cen-
tre county. :
Realizing that the conditions are likely
to remain ever thus several precinets in the
county have established small poor farms of
their own. It has been tried in Boggs
tow nship and proven so successful that
some of the Union township taxpayers took
up the question. It met with great oppo-
sition at first, but finally the Boggs town-
ship success made itself so emphatic to the
Union township taxpayers that they have
hought the CURTIN farm above Unionville
and have a manager on it already. It cost
Union township last year over $1,300.00 to
support her poor and already one entire
family that had been a charge for thirty
years has moved to Altoona, rather than go
to the poor farm, avother family of four
has moved away and another lot of loafers,
who had heen on the township for twenty
years, have waived all rights to aid and
volunteered to go to work, rather than be
sent to the poor farm.
The Union township experiment is worth
watching, especially since it is being con-
ducted by most competent men. It will
be tried out on the most practical basis
possible and is of such a nature as to prove
a valuable object lesson to’ other - precincts
in the county.
——While at a meeting at Fairview
chapel, below Bellefonte, last. Sunday
Chauncey F. York, the Malena manufac-
turer, generously paid half of a note of $50
that the struggling little congregation was
trying to lift that day. :
EN RANI
NO. 17.
This Advice is All Right, But Will the
Times Dare Stand to 1t?
From Senator Sproul’s Chester Times (Rep.)
There can be only one excuse for the pas-
sage of the Salus libel bill and that is for
the politicians who are in the game for
graft to place a gag upon the press that
their evil doings cannot be exposed by the
newspapers. No honest man fears jhe press
and if he is wronged be has ample redress
under the existing laws, which provide for
damages to reputation; but under the Salus
bill any boodler whose croc yi
shown up can immediately proc
the paper which is serving the
the people’s interests. =
Corrupt legislators, the Jers and
ward beelers who .get into offigé and the
whole raf6 of spoilsmen want the Salus bill
and they are the only people vwhibse inter-
ests can beserved by such a mésare. As
a matter of fact this bill is nof gimed at
simply the press of the State, buf
independence and in its workings'w
ford a cover for the deeds that wi
bear the light of publicity. Begagse
of that character are afraid of the
they seek to put a gag upon it by #r
ment of the Legislatnre. ~~
There is only one way to deal with the
men who stand behind such a bill apd that
is for the press of the State to combine for
its own interests, to stand immovably for
the defeat of such legislators if they are
again candidates for re-election and todo
80 without regard to the party interests
they represent.” As a matter of fact no or-
ganization will nominate men who ‘are
thus opposed and they will be soil red ” be-
fore the convention which forms she ticket
meets to do its work. Let the libel ‘bill
sponsors feel the weight of ‘public indigna-
tion as expressed by a wronged press.
A Bad Effect of Carnegle Gratnities.
From the Pittsburg Post. ‘
‘Mr. Carnegie is finding out some of ‘the
disadvantages of profuse benefactions in a
way that he has often adverted to in his
writings. A London paper ‘Gomments on
the fact that his unstinted gifts to educa-
tion in Scotland has had the effect of drying
up the streams of local generosity. Princi-
pal Story has been telling the Glasgow
University council that while he was able
to collect $350,000 for the better equip-
ment and extension of the University
previous to Mr. Carnegie’s gift of $250,000.
he has since been able to collect only a beg-
garly $15,000. Possible donors point to
the lordly sum of $250,000 and button. up
their pockets, in spite of the fact that Mr.
Carnegie’s gifts are to be devoted to entire-
ly different purposes than the equipment
and extension of the University. Appeals
for contributions in aid of the ails, lawand
theology are now ‘‘turned down’’ because
of the munificent gifts in other directions.
Mr. Carnegie in numerous publications has
commented: on: the evil effects : of’ indis-
eriminate giving, and what he said is: con-
firmed by the Scotch educational aunthori-
ties. As they say, lavish giving is drying
up the springs of local generosity.
Just Where We “Are al.”
From the Honesdale Herald.
Where is Pennsylvania located ¥" "The
first boy answered, in China, forit is sur-
rounded by a wall of protection. The sec-
ond boy says no, it is a province of Ger-
many, because it observes the law of lese
majestie. The third boy thinks that it is
located somewhere in Russia or Turkey, he
does not know which, for free speech, a
free prees and free men are not allowed in
those countries. The fourth boy says you
are all wrong. Pennsylvania is a State in
trast ruled America. It is simply boss
ruled Pennsylvania, and with it there is
no other country to compare on earth. Here
the sovereign people rule through despotic
bosses; here laws are made to prosecute all
those honest thinkers that dare raise their
voices against crime or criminals; here we
are taught that evil consists in being found
out. Anything is right that succeeds under
cover. In this happy Elysium the discor-
dant sounds of a free press must never be
heard. Happy home of the silent thief!
Ah! Pennsylvania! !
Why, He's the Whole Pash.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
Discussing presidential possibilities a
political savané has figured out that Roose-
velt’s popularity is waning, that Hanna is
in the running in splendid fettle, and that
the opposition to Roosevelt will probably
combine on Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin.
Few abler men ever sat in the Sebate of the
United States than Senator Spooner, but no
other man has ever borne so strong a hand
in national legislation and remained so lit-
tle known to the general public. That
aside, upon what ground is the assertion
made that Roosevelt's popularity is on the
wane? At this moment of grace no one
can be blind to the fact that he is not only
the strongest man within his party, but al-
so that be is stronger than his party.
The Judicial Measurement of a Jag.
From the Potter county Democrat.
A Kansas jury. after careful investiga-
tion, has decided that a man is not drunk,
in the eyes of the law, no matter how much
booze he way have imbibed, if he is still
in a condition to make a successful horse
trade. In Nebraska, a few years ago, if
was held as a legal principl that when” a
man was unable to hold up a fish pole, he
was too drunk to hold office. Down in
Texas a man is never drunk until he rolls
under the table and wants to go to sleep.
We Ought to Know it All
From the Boston Traveler.
Included in the President’s staff ou his
trip are two secretaries, one physician,
three stenographers, three messengers, two
secret service men, representatives of three
press associations, representatives of three
illustrated papers, two telegraph operators
and one official photographer. There is no
Sanger that publicity will not be fortheom-
ing. : Fo
TET
—Suboribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Senator J. Henry Cochran has been
chosen a Pennsylvania representative at the
Louisiana Purchase exposition.
—The police committee of the Williamsport
“1 council has reported favorably on a curfew -
ordinance and council will take action on the
matter.
—The Renovo council and board of health
met Saturday to take steps to prevent the
borough being invaded by smallpox suspects
from infected districts.
—Dr. Wycoff, who has been practicing
medicine at Loganton for some time, took
down his ‘‘shingle’’ Thursday, and departed
for Glen Campbell, where he will locate.
—1It is reported that there are 200 or more
cases of smallpox at St. Mary’s. Represen-
tatives of the state board of health are there
and there is some talk that the town may be
quarantined.
—W. M. Bair, above Jersey Shore, has a
full blooded Jersey cow that presented him,
four weeks ago, with two male calves that
are in appearance so near alike that it is
impossible to tell them apart.
—Benjamin Rogers, of New Albany, Brad-
ford county, had a hand sawed off sawing
slats on a saw mill the other afternoon. The
flesh was so mangled and torn that the arm
had to be taken off just below the elbow.
—Captain William Sweeley, one of South
Williamsport’s leading citizens, died Friday
‘t afternoon, aged 62 years. Deceased was
identified’ with the National guard, as a
captain of Company B, Twelfth regiment.
—In the neighborhood of Slate Run and
back in the Black Forest lumber camps where
quarantine has been established to prevent
the spread of smallpox trouble is reported.
It is stated that threats have been made to
kill the guards. : :
.—The Governor has signed the bills re-
quiring nonresident hunters and unnaturaliz-
ed foreigners to procure a license before
hunting in this State, and prohibiting the’
discharge of Flobert rifles, ‘air guns, spring
guns, etc. in cities and boroughs.
.—With a large scarf pin supposed to be’
in her throat, a child of Mr. Houck, of
Loyalsock, is a patient at the Williamsport
hospital. On: Sunday Prof. Charles Smith
turned the X rays on her, and, if the pinis
located, an effort will be made to remove it
by an operation. '
—Dorsey A. Bittner, of Renovo, a few days
ago captured a young deer in the river at’
that place. The News says ‘the deer was
chased from the woods by dogs and as a last
resort took to the water. Mr. Bittner, who
was along the bank at the time, procured a
boat and caught the animal.
—A young man in Jersey ‘Shore, says the
Vidette, is kicking like forty.’ He never had
the mumps, and his girl’s little sister has
had it for three weeks and during all this
time he has not been to see his dear girl.
And, to make matters worse, another young
fellow, who has had the mumps, has been
calling on the girl. :
—George Burns, a hero of three wars, and,
who claims to have been with General Gree-
ley, a member of the Jeannette crew, on his
polar expedition, wasa lodger at the Wil-
liamsport police station Saturday night. He
is 73 years old, and claims to have five bullets
.in his body, He has no ribs on his left side,
and his heart is on the right side.
quite a character. :
—Some time Saturday night or Sunday
morning robbers entered the general store of
Benton Duff, at Rockton, Clearfield county,
six miles from DuBois, and carried off half
the stock of goods in the building. The
marauders gathered in a miscellaneous cargo
of loot, consisting of guns, shoes and a little
of every kind of merchandise used in the
stock of a small country store.
© —Charles W. Andrews is the name of an
employe of the Williamsport gas company,
who prevented the destruction of the house
at which he was working at the expense of
severe and serious burns to himself. A
spark from the wrench with which he was
working kindled the gas, and he deliberately
plunged his left hand into the flame, shut-
ting of the supply of gas. He was also badly
burned about the head and face.
—At the late primary election in Winslow
township, . Clearfield county, three school
directors were to be elected, two for three
years and one for one year. The Republi-
cans failed to designate the time on their
official ballot, and: the directors of that party
who were elected have been unseated as the
result of a contest on the part of Democrats.
The decision is important and will establish
a precedent for similar cases. Judge Reed’s
ruling will be generally commended.
—The result of the competitive examina-
tion for the appointment of a naval cadet
to Annapolis, conducted at Clearfield several
weeks ago has been announced to the re-
spective candidates by Congressman S. R.
Dresser. He has named as appointee Joseph
Knapper Jr., of Philipsburg. George Wood-
ward, of Penfield, who ranked second in the
examination, was named as first alternate ;
Julian A. Chase, of Clearfield, second al-
ternate, and Donald Woodward, third al-
ternate.
He is
—A few mornings ago Constable Earnest
took to the Bedford county poor house from
Everett a man named Walter Faitley, an
unnaturalized Canadian. Upon reaching
their destination Faitley was told to take a
seat at the door of building while the officer
tied his horse. This required but a few
minutes, but when he returned to the
Canadian Mr. Earnest was shocked to find
that he was dead. Faitley is said to have
had a horror of the poor house but whether
or not the dread of being a public charge
caused his death cannot be said, He was
sixty years old.
—P. J. Packard, a fireman on the New
York Central railroad, had a narrow escape
from death Saturday night. He fell from
.| his engine while the train was crossing a
trestle, but luckily escaped without any
broken bones. Near North Bend, on the
river line, the railroad crosses a trestle which
is over a public highway. It is thought that
Packard had become blinded by locking into
the fire box and stepped off the train. He
was taken to his home at Jersey Shore by
a special train, and Dr. Mohn summoned.
He found that no bones were broken, but
| that Packard had sustained a contusion of
all the muscles of the back. He is quite
severely injured.
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