Benoa ican,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
~The police of Philadelphia and New
York are CARRIE NATIONing the gambling
houses in those cities.
—The hot weather is coming on and the
Philadelphia Inquirer anticipates the first
sizzard by trying to start a north pole dis-
cussion.
—The recent frosts have played havoo
with all the fruit in the Stat, with the
possible exception of the old plum tree ab
Harrisburg.
__If the Governor has really signed the
GRADY-SALUS press muzzler he must be
ashamed of his work or he would make his
action public.
—The President must have heard some-
thing during his stay in Missouri that con-
vinced him that there is no hope of his
carrying that State.
—Spring has arrived so many times in
earnest, and then toddied back to the lap
of winter, that we will be having summer
before it has taken a good fall ont of the
calendar. :
—They must have put too much alum in
TEDDY'S biscuit down in St. Louis. My,
but he was sour about what he got to eat
during the dedication of the fair buildings
last week. !
—Who is this Mr. ARCHIBALD JONES,
of Pottsville, who insists on booming
CLEVELAND for President? We fear that
Mr. JoNES has an aspiration up his own
sleeve.
— Mr. HANNA has announced that this
talk about his ‘‘being a candidate for the
presidential nomination is all bosh.”’ Can
it be that MARCUS AURELIUS has seen the
hand writing on the wall ?
—King EDWARD having completed his
tour of continental countries it now re-
mains for the favored spots along his itin-
erary to squabble over which one threw
the biggest bouquets at His Majesty.
—As the world revolves and the maize of
political contest, social functions, church
meetings, union organizations and husiness
perplexities thicken it becomes more ap-
parent to the wise man, day by day, that
his mouth was made to be kept tight shut.
—The Lorain, Ohio, affair—the attempt
to fasten the crime of murder on a priest
because some blood hounds yelped on his
trail, has turned out to be as much ofa farce
as the tracking of ELIZA across the canvas
ice in the modern Uncle Tom’s Cabin show.
—Are you stickin’ to your flannels
w hile they’re stickin’ fast to you, its early
yet to shake them, you'll be sorry if you
do, for the doctor’s waitin’ for you, and
pneumonia bas you cinched, then the
undertaker does the rest, before the —1
has you pinched.
—The Governor’s decision that the bene-
fi ts of the judge's salary bill, passed by
the last Legislature, cannot accrue to
* judges now on the bench is a hard blow to
the judges of the State. But, we presume,
they will all beable to worry along on
what they are getting.
—The local village improvement society
will have to get up some kind of a benefit
for the Pennsylvania Rail-road company.
The great corporation bas been reduced to
sodding the flower beds about the station
in Bellefonte because it is too poor (?) to
b uy posies for them.
—We bend the knee reverently to the
Presbyterians of Glendolen, Pa. They are
the first congregation on record who want
to get rid of their minister because his ser-
mons are too short. A parson who could
have overlooked such an unheard of oppor-
tunity deserves to be excommunicated.
— Before the Germans start to build up
the trasts with which they think they can
fight American commercial supremacy we
would like to warn them, lest they burn
themselves while playing with this kind of
fire. America bas a number of blisters
that are too sore to heal up.
—The extremes to which men go 10 their
personal prejudices is having its fruit in
the exodus of the population of Jackson,
Ky. The people are afraid to longer re-
m ain there for fear of being dragged into
the feud that has been the cause of the
wiping out of so many of them recently.
. —Kentucky has added another to the
horrors growing out of her political dissen-
sions of the past few years. The gun of
the assassin in that State seems to be drawn
on every man and all becanse the Republi-
can Governor of Indiana will not deliver to
justice the man who is wanted to tell what
he knows concerning the tragic death of
Governor GOEBEL.
—The capture of Col. ERICSON, the
millionaire American,by the Yaqui Indians
in Mexico is interesting because the Indians
want half a million ransom for him. A$
such a price liberty comes high, but the
Colonel bas the goods to come down with,
besides he has just received some conces-
sions in Mexican land that will pay the
bill several times over.
—Mr. “Bull” ANDREWS, the Penunsyl-
vania politician and New Mexican carpet
bagger, has announced that QUAY will sue-
ceed himself in the United States Senate.
How thankful we all ought to be for this
bit of reassuring uews, for as long as we
have a great statesman (?) like QUAY in
the upper branch of Congress the country
will be safe. It need not be mentioned,
bus if Mr. QUAY should happen not to suc-
ceed himself there will be a bear market in
senatorial togas down in New Mexico that
will drive one Bull out of business any
way.
VOL. 48
A Question of Charity.
The subscribers to the St. Pierre disaster
are asked now to consent to a transfer of the
residue of their subscriptions to the relief
of the distressed Filipinos. Itappears that
the contributions to the St. Pierre sufferers
were more liberal than were expected. It
will be remembered that an eruption of the
mountain devastated the valley for miles
around some time ago. Thousands were
killed and the few who survived were left
in the greatest desolation. The charitable
impulses of this country were appealed to
and the responses were generous. Bub
nobody suspected until recently that more
was contributed than was needed. That
information comes now and with it a
recomm endation of President ROOSEVELT
that the surplus be appropriated to the re-
lief of the sufferings in the Philippine Is-
lands.
There are two ways of disposing of the
surplus in question. The first and it need
hardly be said the best is to return it to
those who contributed it. Only fifty per
cent. of the amount contributed was used.
Consequently every subscriber would get
half his money back, if the return policy
were adopted. That would serve the por-
pose of encouraging liberality when foture
demands of the kind were made and be-
sides it would be honest. Money contrib-
uted for one purpose is improperly used if
diverted to another. The plan is to use it
for another purpose equally deserving, or
apparently so, with the consent of the sub-
seribers. President ROOSEVELT recom-
mends this policy with respect to the St.
Pierre fund. He is always generous with
other people’s money,
We are not so sure that the President
isn’t right in his idea of this matter. The
Filipinos are certainly a perennial source
of want. Ever since we rescued them from
the thraldom of Spain they have been sub-
jeots of just commiseration because they
have heen constantly in need of relief. But
it is not altogether clear thas the money
contributed by the philanthropy of the
country for one charity should be used for
another of an entirely different character.
In other words, the misfortunes of St. Pierre
were Providential while those of the Fili-
pinos are different, That is to say we have
quartered on thé Filipinos military armies
and hordes of overpaid civil officials who
are eating out their substance and it is
doubtful if money contributed for real
charity should be used to relieve distress
brought on in that way.
Under the circumstances, therefore, we
would suggest as an offset to President
ROOSEVELT'S free offer of other people’s
money that the excess contributions for the
relief of the St. Pierre sufferers be returned
to the contributors and the Filipinos be re-
lieved by reducing the number of depen-
dent and a decrease of the enormous sal-
aries of the officials. If that policy had
been adopted by King GEORGE, say about
1774, the little difficulty which cost the
British Empire the American colonies
might have been averted and as PATRICK
HENRY said on a memorable occasion ‘‘if
that be treason make the most of it.”’
The Postal Scandals.
The postoffice scandals continue to ex-
cite Washington and are becoming more or
less a subject of concern in political circles.
The Postmaster General hasn’t found his
head as yet and the President in: his ram-
bles through the West is directing his
thoughts toward him. The 'atest develop-
ment is an attempt to shift the blame on
the ex-Postmaster General. CHARLES
EMORY SMITH and. an official = discharged
during his administration has been in-
duced to state that he was informed of the
irregularities and ‘prevented an investiga-
tion. But that effort ‘flashed in the pan,”’
so to speak. The story wasn’t well con-
structed.
The truth is that the civil service in
Washington is literally rotten and the
venality permeates all the Departments of
the government. The Postmaster General
being himself a professional lobbyist and
not far removed from a common boodler
undertook to suppress the evidence of cor-
raption in that Department and merely
stirred up popular curiosity. If he had
taken the public into his coufidence in the
beginning, admitted the faults which were
revealed and manifested a disposition to
correct them, there wouldn’t have been
half as much scandal. But after the fash-
ion of lobbyists he adopted the sinister
course and the whole administration has
suffered.
The worst frauds have not been exposed
as yet, but they will be. Having permit-
ted the inkling to escape it will be impossi-
ble to prevent the whole story = from com-
ing out. It is practically certain to in-
volve Senator HANNA, of Ohio, and may
put a stain or two on the garment of the
President. But that will make no differ-
ence now. If ROOSEVELT is wise he will
either come home and direct the investiga-
tion or else order PAYNE to take off the
1id and expose the entire fabric, of fraud.
The latter would probably be the safer
course, for it would still leave a loophole
for ROOSEVELT to escape through.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 8, 1903.
The Press Muzzier.
The gossip about Harrishurg indicates
that the Governor has already signed the
GRADY-SALUS ‘‘press muzzler’”’ but is
withholding the announcement of the fact
as long as possible. In other words, in
obedience to the orders of QUAY, he has
given his approval to a measure of legisla-
tion which is not only unconstitutional in
itself and subversive of the highest prinei-
ples of the government, but was enacted
by methods which are productive of every
form of legislative iniguity. That would
be bad under any circumstances. But in
view of the fact that the Governor knows
all about the methods employed to secure
the passage of the measure his approval of
it would be giving his sanction to absolute
frauds.
The constitution specifically declares that
no bill shall become a law unless it has
been read on three separate days in each
House. To passa bill contrary to that
provision of the constitution is to commit
a crime against the fandamental law of the
State. Every Legislator who contributed
to the result perpetrated a perjury and in
signing the measure with knowledge of the
fact the Governor has himself committed
that grave crime. It is almost inconceiv-
able that a man who has served some years
in the judiciary of the State and is at pres.
ent in the high office of Governor could be
guilty of such a thing and yet the gossip
at the capital indicates that fact.
‘Assuming, therefore, that the reports that
the monstrosity has been signed, are true,
we desire to say that we have no reason to
regret the fact. It will make absolutely
no difference in the conduct of this paper.
From the beginning of our control of the
WATCHMAN we have been scrupulously
careful to avoid libeling any one and so
far as that is concerned we apprehend no
greater danger in the future than in the
past. We have made no concealment,
moreover, of the name of the responsible
editor of this paper, so that there is noth-
ing to conceal. But we regret that the
liberty of the press has been stricken down
and the freedom of speech curtailed for
those are American principles that are
saored.
Folly and Malice.
The gossip recently extensively current
in political circles concerning the nomina-
tion of GROVER CLEVELAND for a third
term in the Presidency is a mixture of folly
and malice. Mr. CLEVELAND is not a can-
didate for the favor and it wouldn’t be wise
to nominate him if he were. The tradi-
tions of the country are against a third
term and when WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON
and JACKSON united in creating these tra-
ditions, it would be unwise for any man to
attempt to break them down. No sane
man will accuse Mr. CLEVELAND of lack-
ing intelligence or caution. His acceptance
of the nomination for a third term would
indicate a woeful want of these essential
characteristics. )
Besides, Mr. CLEVELAND is a believer in
party and national traditions. Whatever
else may be said of him nobody will ques-
tion those conservative qualities which bind
men to well established customs. One of
his strongest characteristics is adherence to
what he believes to be the cardinal princi-
ples of the party. A man might as well
depart from the cherished doctrines of equal
taxation and exact justice before the law
as to ignore the prejudice, if that term may
be applied, against the third term in the
Presidency. In view of ‘these facts it may
be assumed that the talk of Mr. CLEVE-
LAND’S nomination next year is inspired
by foolish friends on one band and bitter
enemies on the other.
There is no lack of presidential material
in the Democratic party. It may be said
that ‘‘the woods are full of Democratic
presidential timber.” That being the case
what is the use in discussing the nomina-
tion of a man who, whatever his merits, is
not available because his nomination would
destroy the most cherished ideas of the vast
majority of his party ? If he wanted the
distinction, or if he desired to break up the
traditions in question, it would be differ-
ent. But nothing is further from his de-
sires. He would be the first to resent even
the suggestion of such a thing if it were ad-
dressed to him seriously and in a way that
gave him a chance to do so.
—JIf Mr. CLEVELAND is seeking the
Presidency there is no sense in agitating
the Presidency into seeking him. He ocon-
pies the honorable position of being the
only ex-President living and it is fit that
he should occasionally speak on matters of
great public interest, but why this contin-
ual determination to translate his every ut-
terance into a bid for a third term ?
——The poor duplicate in Potter town-
ship last year was within seven hundred
dollars of as much as the school and now
the Reporter wants to know if a poor farm
wouldn’é reduce the total very materially.
Look at Boggs and Union. :
— Suboeribe for the WATCHMAN.
Roosevelt’s Inordinate Complaint.
- President RoOSEVELT has been com-
plaining ever since his recent official visit
to St. Louis of bad treatment there. His
trip through Kansas since that event has
left a yellow streak of fault-finding. His
party was separated and his valet cut off
from him, he said in one town. He didn’t
get enough to eat was the sum and sub-
stance of his plaint in another, while he
took one Kansas community into his confi-
dence sufficiently to declare that the quar-
ters of some of his friends were in a too
new hotel and they were overcharged for
bad service. It isa sad ending of an in-
auspicions incident and will cost the Sé.
Louis enterprise a good deal through prej-
udices created.
It may be remarked that Mr. CLEVE-
LAND went to and came from St. Louis
about the same time. During his sojourn
in the city he enjoyed the princely hospi-
tality of the same generous host who en-
tertained ROOSEVELT. But he hasn’t ut-
tered a word of complaint. So far as his
speech wonld indicate he was splendidly
taken care of. If he had any companions
they were able to keep in touch with him
all the time or else they bad sense enough |-
to remain silent on the subject. If he had
a valet he was accessiblejconstantly before,
during and after the excercises. Not a
word bas been spoken by the ex-President
or any of his friends derogatory of those
who were kind to him. . :
Such things are determined largely by
breeding. A well-bred man usually ac-
cepts things as he finds them, especially
when the best possible is done for him. It |
is true that some well-bred men are sub-
sequently spoiled and maybe that is what's
the matter with ROOSEVELT. He imagines
that everybody ought to bow down to
him because through a national calam-
ity he bas been put in a position too big
for him. If this is the case the {people of
St. Louis are to be congratulated that he
is “*beefing’’ over the affair like an over-
grown boy. The American peopleare both
intelligent and just and if it appears {that
ROOSEVELT is complaining without cause
he, rather than they, will suffer.
-- Quay’s Dilemma hi Pittsburg.
Senator QUAY is having a “monkey and
parrot” time in Pittsburg. Ten days or
80 ago he went out to that neighborhood to
harmonize things. They needed barmon-
izing badly and he undertook the job.
The BiGELOW Republican faction and the
FLINN Republican contingent were Jat
swords’ points and the leaders off both fac-
tions declared that unless the troubles
were adjusted the next legislative elections
would bring disaster. As QUAY’S suoces-
sor will be chosen by the next Legislature
he had an intimate interest in the affair
and determined to take a hand. It may
be {observed in} passing that the Senator
never does take a hand unless he hasa
personal interest to subserve.
When the Senator reached Pittsburg; he
found things quite as bad as they had been
described, bat his confidence was equal to
the emergency. He first saw FLINN and
thought he had fixed things to his satisfac-
tion. Then he went to BIGELow and im-
agined that he also was reconciled. But
after QUAY withdrew to his Beaver home
the rival chieftains failed to get together.
Thereupon QUAY came back and made
certain promises to FLINN which leaked
out and BIGELOW demanded an explana-
tion. He next made generous pledges to
BicELow and FLINN demanded that he
define his purposes. Between the devil
and the deep sea the Senator has since been
nursiug his disappointment.
The truth is that QUAY has been play-
ing fast and Mose with both factions out
there until each is about ready to cast him
overboard. FLINN demands recognition and
he is entitled to it because whether in suc-
cess or adversity he has kept control of the
organization. BIGELOW insists on recog-/
nition for the reason that without the} or-
ganization he has been able to carry the
city twice and the county once. Under
the circumstances QUAY doesn’t know
what to do. He stands to lose in either
event, for the moment he recognizes one
the other faction will open war on him.
He probably wishes that he had remained
as far away as possible, but is afraid to go.
' ——The storm that blew up in Belle
fonte last Thursday night was enough to
scare a timid person half to death. All
day long it had been observed that moun-
tain fires were raging on all sides of us and
as evening came on the heavens in every
direction wore a lurid glow. It was one
of those evenings that made one ‘‘just
naturally feel queer.”’ About 8 o’clock
the heavy clouds, that had been noticed
banking up in the west, broke in a furious
wind storm. The dust on the streets was
so thick that the lighted store windows
could not be seen from one side to the
other. Itstarted off like a oyclone sure
and there was more than one unueasy resi-
dent until the wind went down, but then
came a pall of smoke that lay over the
town so thick that it was almost impossi-
ble to breathe. For an hour or more this
condition lasted. Houses were penetrated
with the dense clouds of smoke, blown
down from the mountain fires and there
was much discomfort as a result of it.
we RI
NO. 19.
Economic Evolution.
‘I think I speak for the great majority of the
American people when I say that we are notin
the least against wealth as such, whether individ-
‘ual or corporate; that we merely desire to see any
abuse of corporate or combined wealth corrected
and remedied; that we do not desire the abolition
or destruction of big corporations, but, on the
contrary, recognize them as being in many cases
efficient economic instruments, the results of an
inevitable ess of economic evolution.’ —Ex-
tract irom President Rocsevelt’s Milwaukee
speech. :
Bill Jones he waza wonder in his grasp o’
bus’ness ways, : i
An’ he allus had a reason f’r his schemes;
He would look up at the ceilin’ with a sort
0’ sleepy gaze, j
Just as if he saw th’ reason in his dreams.
Couldn’t stump ol’ Bill a minnit, f'r statis-
tics wuz his holt,
An’ he allus said that figgers never lied.
If you handed him a problem calculated f'r
t’ jolt. 5
““Economic evolution,” Bill replied.
When he marked up his terbacker leven
cents upon th’ pound : :
Ezra Jenkins swore it wuz a robber trick;
Said the trust wuz jus’ a stompin’ th’ con-
sumer in the ground,
An’ declared such on’ry doin’s made him
sick.
‘Look here, Bill,” said Ezra hotly, ‘do
you think you kin explain
This here robbin’ goin’ on on ev’ry side?”
With a far off gaze at nothin’ like a man
endurin’ pain, :
‘Economic evolution,”’ Bill replied.
osted bout four
CR
When her caliker was bo
cents on every yard :
Deacon Smithers’ wife was mad enough
to fight;
An’ she spent a hour in jawin’ in a manner
good an’ hard, 3
But ol’ Bill he didn’t mind it, not a mite.
“Why has caliker gone higher while my
aigs is goin’ down,” r
In a voice of passion Missus Smithers
cried... Gy
With a fur-off gaze at nothin’ an’ his
for’he’d full o’ frown,
*‘Economic evolation,”” Bill replied.
When Bill tilted up th’ price uv his prunes
an’ navy beans i
An’ cut down the price uv eggs an’ gar-
den truck, :
Ev'ry farmer's wife wuz askin’, ‘Wonder
what ol’ Bill Jones means,”
An’ complainin’ ’bout their msual bad
luck. :
But Bill kept right on boostin’ the things
he bad t sell, i
While by 2 all that he bought he would
divide; - >
An’ when asked f’r explanation all ‘their
doubts he would dispel— :
‘‘ Economic evolution,” Bill replied.
One day Bill he sot a-schemin’, ’cause his
trade was mighty bad,
An’ determined he would work a mighty
coop—
Which is French an’ meanin’ tricky—an’ a
little later had
Ev’rything a-workin’ his way with a
whoop.
Next day ‘‘Closed up by th’ sheviff”’ wuz
the sign on Joneses store,
But there wasn’t airy bit o’ stock inside,
An’ when asked f’r explanation by his
creditors a score,
‘‘Economic evolution,’’ Bill replied.
The Mote In Our Own Egye.
From the Philadelphia Record. ry
In an Illinois town a few days ago one
negro was accused of au act of violence,
and a white mob gathered and attacked a
whole negro settlement with guns and
clubs and drove away all the negroes who
were not too badly injured to flee. Still
more recently a mob of white: caps ‘in In-
diana attacked three white women aud a
negro, and among other things flogged
some of their victims with barbed wire.
Governor Durbin telephoned the Sheriff of
the county in which the violence was com-
mitted that unless acts of violence in. that
county should cease at once he would rec-
ommend the legislature to remove the Un-
iversity of Bloomington to some other part
of the State. Northern people and papers
make so much of acts of violence . (especi-
ally toward colored people)in the South that
it is necessary to draw especial attention to
these not very infrequent occurrences in
the North.
Early Advertiser.
From Dampman’s treatise on Advertising.
Lot’s wife, when turned into a pillar of
salt, became a standing advertisement, at
top of column, of the wickedness of Sodom
and Gomorrah and the undesirability of
lots in these once lively towns.
It has been claimed by some that Noah
has the first real advertisement: that head-
vertised the flood and kept everlasting at
it until the flood came—with the resuli
that the advertiser owned the earth, while
those who refused to believe in his adver-
tising became food for the fishes.
About His Limit.
From the Cincinnati Inquirer. | :
“ “An enthusiast says that David B. Hil
can have the New York delegation in the
Democratic National Convention if he can
make any use of is. The New York dele-
gation will be of great importance, for
without the Empire State the Democrats
cannot have a very lively Bope of carrying
the election. Mr. Hill has become some-
what crippled as a presidential possibility,
but he might be useful in delivering the
New York delegates where they wouid do
the most good.’’ x
But it Depends on that “If.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The next Legislature is going to be an
improvement on anything of the kind
heretofore if the newspapers stick to their
announced purpoee to oppose the reelection
of every member who voted for the Salns-
Grady bill. Without newspaper support
very few of the members could get .
Spawils from the Keystone.
~—Mrs. Patrick Conray, wife of a farmer
residing near DuBois, was struck by a train
on the Buffald, Rochester and Pittsburg road
Saturday night and instantly killed. She
was 62 years of age.
—1In a gizzard of an 18-months-old rooster
which was killed and dressed for dinner
Mrs. Rebecca Spangler, of Carlisle, found
three pennies, a silver dime, a nickel, an old
fashioned Spanish silver coin and several
buttons.
—A dispatch from New Bloomfield says :
Clark M. Adams, a well-known merchant
and one of the wealthy residents of that part
of the county, died at his home in that place
about 11 o'clock on Saturday night after a
long illness from stomach trouble.
—Donald Killinger, aged a year and four
months, son of William W. and Margaret
Killinger, of Altoona, Friday morning ate a
quantity of pills containing strychnine, think-
‘ing they were candy, and died from the ef-
fects of the poison in a short time.
—The Pittsburg National league ball team
will play at Williamsport on the afternoon
of May 29th. Veil will pitch and Sebring
will no doubt be in the game by that time.
Quite a colony of Lock Haven sports will be
on hand to see the champions.
—An attempt was made late Saturday night
by incendiaries to destroy the buildings of
the Lycoming county fair association, in the
West End, Williamsport. This is the last of
half a dozen incendiary fires and the resi-
dents of that section of the city are thor-
oughly alarmed.
—John M. Dunford, aged 8-years, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Dunford, of Johnstown,
died at the Cambria hospital shortly after
mid-night Sunday morning, from injuries
received in being struck by boards torn.loose
by the wind from the water tank shed on
top of Prospect Hill. ¥ i i
—The finishing touches. are being put on
the handsome and commodious new Lock
Haven hospital and the preparations are now
underway to dedicate the institution with
fitting ceremonies on Memorial day, May
30th. ‘The occasion will mark an important
epoch in the history of that city.
—A fire caused by the burning of papers in
the back yard of the residence of the Misses
Itwin, on Bridge street, Mifflintown, occurred
Sunday morning. The fire department was
called out, and after the burning of the wood
shed and the kitchen in the rear of the large
brick residence the fire was extinguished. .
—Using a piece of window rope, Mrs. Sarah
A. Wilson, seventy-nine years old, of East
Berlin, Adams county, choked herself Mon-
day. She tied the rope about her neck,
fastening the other end to a bed post and,
slipping from a chair, she fell upon her
knees, strangling herself by the weight of
her body.
—Fire, alleged to have been of incendiary
origin, destroyed nine dwellings, a three-
story frame carriage factory, six stables, a
blacksmith shop and a shoemaker’s shop in
Mechanicsburg, Cumberland county, Sun-
day. The total loss of property is estimated
at $50,000, but insurance was carried by only
one of the unfortunate residents, and this
was only for $500. i
—Dr. F. J. Livingston, of Salix, Cambria
county, recently performed an- operation on
the 3-year-old son of John Pretzlos, of Lloy-
dell, removing forty-five tuburculous tumors
ranging in size from a fine-sized cherry to an
orange. In January the Dr. removed twenty-
three similar tumors from the neck of the
child, making a total of sixty-eight tumors.
The child is doing nicely.
—On the 29th of April the borough au-
thorities of Lewistown closed a contract with
J. Murray Africa for plans for a complete
sewerage system of the town, with street and
pavement grades and street lines. A corps
of engineers will be putto work in a few
days on the survey. Mr. Africa is engineer
for the Standard Steel works in Lewistown
This will cost the borough $65,000.
—Four-year-old Maggie Gifford, of Du-
Bois, while playing with a hatchet struck a
bottle of medicine that had been thrown
away a sharp blow. An explosion followed
that scattered glass for many feet in all di-
rections. The detonation was as loud asa
pistol shot and the report followed by the
screams of the child, brought the neighbors
in crowds to the scene, thinking the girl had
been shot. The little one was streaming
with blood.
—Fires were sweeping along Jack’s moun-
tain and other ranges near Lewistown last
week and much damage has been done to
timber tracts. The fire near Reedsvilie
destroyed the house of Joseph Kelley and
endangered railroad property so that fifty
men were ordered out to fight the flames.
The timber, which was largely of young
growth, was much damaged. The fire was
checked by Sunday’s rains and it is thought
there will not be a further spread of the
flames.
—Nothing remains of the famous Wop-
sononock resort on the mountain top above
Altoona but the lookout and several cottages
shorn of all their beautiful surroundings.
An inspection of the sites of the burned
buildings shows with what terific fury the
mad flames did their work. Everything was
burned to ashes ; no slumbering embers re-
main to tell where stood this or that build-
ing. Never did the fire fiend do his work
more effectively.
—All the victims of the Crescent Powder
company catastrophe near Williamsburg on
Thursday were buried in one grave Saturday,
that arrangement having been made and
carried out on account of the impossibility of
distinguishing one from the other. It was
only possible to gather together 200 or 300
pounds of the mangled flesh and bones of the
nine victims. Following is a list of the sur-
viving employes of the plant: Superinten-
dent Adam Taggart, Fred S. Taggart, Wm.
H. Taggart, Joe Simons, brother of the man
who was killed ; Moore McCarthy. Orman
Gibbouy, John Swales, Joseph Roller, Harry
Johnson, Samuel Smith, Dorris Johnson.
Harry Launtzer, two Hungarian laborers,
Mrs. Adam Taggart, Carrie Ross, sister of
the man who was killed ; Mary, Anna and
Laura Campbell. The crash of the exple-
sions frightened the people in Williamsburg
so badly that stories were told Monday of
| families deserting their homes and fleeing to
supposed places of safety.