BY P. GRAY MEEK.
TA ET RH TOR RPAotiss
ink Slings.
—All we need is some reliance in the
boat that’s going to win and we’ll see the
trim Reliance the first boat coming in.
—There are those who think it strange
that Governor PENNYPACKER shonld re-
fuse to read the daily papers. Evidently
these people forget that ‘‘where ignorance
is bliss ’tis folly to be wise.” :
—For a *‘‘dead issue” the money ques-
tion seems to be giving our friends on Wall
street an unlimited amount of activity just
about this time. It is really strange how
much trouble a ‘dead issue’’ can raise.
—Down in Panama whenever some of-
ficial gets drunk they have a revolution.
If the same cause were to bring the same
effect in this country revolutions would
become so stale that nobody would revolute
any more.
-—~With sixteen hundred and fifty collisions
on the railroads of the United States dur-
ing three months, with over eight hundred
people killed and over eleven thousand in-
jured, there seems to be room for improve-
ment of managements somewhere.
—The smart set at Newport are wearing
last year’s clothes because they have lost
so much on Wall street recently. Isn't it
too bad that this great and glorious coun-
try basn’t a crop of suckers sufficiently large
to keep these stock gamblers free from such
distress.
— Brother HANNA now yearns to become
a ‘‘toncher of the hearts of men.” And
we should think there are great hopes for
him. His experience as a toucher of pockes-
books puts him at the head of the line and
leaves no doubt of his suscess in the touch
ing business.
Really with the effort it is making to
create trouble in’ the South American
Re public, and the job it has undertaken to
make war between Russia and Japan, we
very much fear that this war cloud factory
may overwork itself if there is not some let
up during the dog days.
—Come to think about it from all sides,
as well as from away back, it does not seem
so strange that Mr. BRYAN’s efforts should
be strenuously exerted against the re-
organizers crowding the front of the Demo-
cratic church while there is still so much
room at the mourner’s bench.
—The recent bear raid on Wall street is
said to bave cost JOHN D. ROCKERFELLER
one ‘hundred million dollars, through a
shrinkage of values. That is, when the
water was squeezed out of stocks he held
they were found to be worth that much
less. Water is a pretty expensive liquid
at that price.
—Southern Indiana “and Illinois have
about decided to prevent farther Iynchings
by driving out all their negro population.
While it is quite possible to accomplish
the end in this manner it isa question
whether the loss of so many good negroes
would not be worse than the keeping of a
few bad ones.
—The farmers about Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, are trying to persuade ALFRED
GWYN VANDERBILT, who has a summer
home there, to permit them to elect him to
the town council, but if ALFIE doesn’t
want troubles of his own he had better put
in his time at managing his millions, to
the exclusion of being a councilman.
—The head of the Borelli comet is said
to be 5,000 miles in diameter. In some
parts of the world this is thought to be
astonishing. Here where we are used to
swelled-heads and a miscroscopic examina-
tion of Mr. ROOSEVELT'S imagination shows
its measurement of the President’s brain-
cover to be almost twice this size, there is
nothing astonishing about it.
—The fate that has befallen those St.
Louis delegates who were convicted of
bribery and perjury is enough to make the
Hon. (?) SAMUEL SALTER feel prouder
still that his home isin Philadelphia. They
got five years in the penitentiary and the
Hon. (?) SAMUEL got a job in the com-
missi oners office. There is a difference be-
tween St. Louis and Philadelphia, isn’t
there?
—Stock speculators are just now trying
to catch the public on corn, which they
declare will sell for seventy-five cents in
September and go as high as a dollar later.
The WATCHMAN’S advice to those who
have money to invest is to put it into
legitimate business and let corn alone.
They might get it on the ear, but there is a
far greater likelihood of getting it in the
neck.
—Of course the money question is a
‘‘dead issue.”” Every Republican journal
and every self-satisfied statesman in the
country says its £0, and it must be 20. Bat
then when we come to think about it,
somehow or other we can’t just get the
thing straightened ont to understand clear-
ly, why, if it is a dead issue, there should
be any necessity for an extra session of
Congress to enact new financial legislation,
—It is coming. Yes, sure as the sun
rises out of the east and sets in the west
will the values of all things settle down to
a rational basis soon and the settling will
be called a period of depression. It has
been so ever since men have played with
values'as a child does with a toy balloon
and it will be so until there is a permanent
end of stook watering and stock gambling.
Good times and bad will come aud go and
the wise ' manvis: ther ofie who is prepared
for either.. :
VOL. 48
The
Mr. PERRY 8. HEATH, intimate friend of
Senator HANNA and secretary of the Re-
pablican National convention, will escape
the penalty of his crimes in the Postoffice
Department by the same means that Sena-
tor QUAY got freedom from punishment
for his crimes in connection with the
misuse of money in the treasury of Penn-
gylvania. That is to say to-day the
statute of limitations runs against all
charges of malfeasance in office on the part
of Mr. HEATH. On the 31st day of July,
1900, he drew the last dollar which he
could claim on account of salary and al-
lowances and withdrew from service in
the Department. Three years are the
limitation under the Federal law and that
time is up to-day while Mr. HEATH is en-
joying himself in Japan.
The charges against HEATH might have
been kept alive if the President hadn’t in-
terfered in his behalf. When he took
French leave from his present place of
residence, Salt Lake City, ROOSEVELT was
indignant, or pretended to be, and talked
about an indictment. But soon afterward
Senator HANNA called on him at Oyster
Bay and suggested that it would sound
very bad indeed to have the secretary of
the Republican National committee indiot-
ed for robbing the government, especially
as he had been promised protection in all
his operations. At first the President was
disposed to resent the suggestion of immun-
ity but HANNA reminded him that it was
HEATH who negotiated the agreement be-
teen the Republican committee and the
Mormon church and if faith was broken
with him he might do something desper-
ate. That brought ROOSEVELT to terms.
This little episode pretty clearly reveals
the character of President ROOSEVELT.
He was very earnest for the prosecution of
the postal service culprits until he discov-
ered that action against some of them
would be perilous to the intereste of the
party and he changed his mind. Then he
arranged to have a scape-goat or two and
Mr. BEAVERS has been indicted as many
times as he has fingers and toes. One or
two other unimportant fellows have heen
hauled over the coals, so to speak.
Statute of Limitations.
Insane Partisan Folly.
The indictmén¥ of Mayor HAYS, of Pitts: |
burg, by the grand jury of Allegheny
county for violating an act of Assembly
which forbids the dismissal of veterans of
the civil war from office on ‘account of
politics is a piece of insane political folly.
The act itself is something in the nature of
imbecility. It provides that an honorably
discharged Union soldier in the employ-
ment of the State, city or county, ‘‘having
rendered service in the late civil war of the
United States, shall not be removed, sus-
pended for an unreasonable term, or dis-
charged, utless for good, sufficient, reason-
able or just cause.” * A violation of the
law is punishable by a ‘‘fine not exceeding
$500.00.”
The law was approved by Governor
HASTINGS on the 26th day of May, 1897.
Less than two years after the enactment of
the law Dr. JOHN A. FRITCHEY was elect-
ed Mayor of the city of Harrisburg and
his first official act was to remove every
official in that city government including
a number of veterans of the civil war. An
attempt to defeat his purpose resulted in a
decision by the late Judge SIMONTON, a
jurist of recognized . ability, to the effect
that the power to appoint implied the
power to remove and affirming the legality
of the action of Mayor FRITCHEY, That
was the last heard of the matter.
Soon afterward Governor STONE, who
succeeded Governor HASTINGS in office, re-
moved a lot of veterans of the civil war in-
cluding Captain JoHN C. DELANEY, of
Harrishurg, who enjoyed the distinction of
being a roll of honor man. There was
plenty of talk about prosecuting under the
law of 1897 but the decision of Judge
SIMONTON stood in the way and admonish-
ed those who had the matter in mind of
the folly of such litigation. In view of
that fact it is surprising that the courts of
Allegheny county should have allowed the
case against Mayor HAYS, of Pittshurg, to
have gone to the length of an indictment.
They must have known of the FRITCHEY
case for it was extensively discussed every-
where. :
——The Reading Telegram since coming
under the direction of Congressman GREEN
is rapidly forging to. the front as the lead-
ing journal of that section. It has been so
greatly improved, typographically,editorial-
ly and locally, that one would scarcely
recognize it, and if the same energy, in-
dustry and good judgment continues in its
various departments that bas been shown
every day since the mew management
took charge, the people of Berks county
will have a paper they can be-justly prond
of,and the Democracy of the State one that
can be fuily relied. upon. Congressman
GREEN is to be congratulated on his efforts
to give to his home people a paper worthy
of the great county «in which it is’ pub-
lished. +!
STATE RIGHTS AN
An Improbable Rumor.
oud
There is probably no trath in the pub-
lished rumor that President ROOSEVELT
has acoepted an invitation to attend the
session of the Pennsylvania League of Re-
publican clabs to be held in. Wilkesbarre
some time during the coming fall. The
President is willing to go a long way for
the purpose of making votes which he ap-
pears to think he will need very badly
next year. But there would be such a
measure of stultification in attendinga
session of that League that we can’t possi-
ble think that there is any foundation in
fact for the rumor. Even ROOSEVELT will
draw the line short of that.
The Pennsylvania League of Republican
clubs isthe most ont-spoken sponser of spoils
politics in the country. During all the time
that ROOSEVELT and the real Republican
leaders were professing to advocate civil
service reform that League declared openly
that ‘‘to the victors belong the spoils,’’and
that only dough faces and imbeciles talked
of anything else. It was the mounth-piece
of QUAY in the recent political movements
in the State and whenever anyone complain-
ed of the attitude of the State conventions of
the party when they declared in modified
terms for the merit system, the open boast
of the League that it was for spoils was re-
ferred to.
Under these circumstances ROOSEVELT
can’t attend the session of the League
wherever it is held. The party managers
are considerably alarmed about the coal
1egions this year. There are predictions
of vast Democratic majorities in every
county in that group and the machine
leaders don’t try to conceal the fact that
they are annoyed. But QUAY will hardly
be able to use ROOSEVELT as a cat’s paw to
pull machine chestnuts out of the fire for
him. It would make him too ridiculous
for anything. It would be worse than
some of his absurd gypsy excarsions
+ through the country on horseback or snow
shoes.
—-JAMES R. KEENE’S connection with
the FOXHALL KEENE banking institution
that failed in New York last week seems
to have been one of convenience only.
When things were coming their way in the
stock market JAMES R., was keen to have
it khown that he was interested with his
son FOXHALL, but when the tide changed
and it was time to catch the outsiders the
keen old KEENE withdrew, remarking
that he never had been greatly interested
in the firm.
Duty of the Committee.
The committee of the Pennsylvania State
Editorial association to consider questions
in relation to the press muzzler and enlist
sentiment in favor of its repeal, has been
called to meet in Harrisburg next Tuesday.
The Pennsylvania State Editorial asso-
ciation is a non-partisan organization. It
was organized a third of a century ago to
conserve the interests of the newspaper
press of the State. Its business is to an-
atagonize any men or measures thas are
inimical to the progress and prosperity of
the press of the Commonwealth. That be-
ing the case the duty of the committee at
its meeting nexé Tuesday is plain.
State Senator WILLIAM P. SNYDER,
who is the Republican candidate for Andi-
tor General, voted during the recent ses-
sions of the Legislature for the press muz-
zler. He Lad no grievance against the
newspapers of the State. They had been
exceptionally kind to him. They could
have held him up to putlic ridicule and
made him an object of popular contempt
dozens of times. But they refrained for
the reason that they believed that he was
less to blame than others who influenced
him in the wrong direction. With Quay
it was different. The newspapers very
posing his iniquities. He bad a right to
feel a spirit of resentment.
As an innocent and easily influenced
Legislator it was probably all right to over-
look the delinquencies of Senator SNYDER
and if he hadn’t’ developed the odious
quality of ingratitude, the fact would never
have been referred to again, in all proba-
bility. But as the candidate of his party
for Auditor General, a favor bestowed on
bim as a reward for perfidy to his friends,
the press of Pennsylvania can’t afford to
condone the crime he committed in voting
for the press muzzler. Therefore it is the
duty of the committee of the State Editorial
association, which meets on Tuesday, to
condemn SNYDER in emphatic terms and
pledge opposition to his candidacy until he
is overwhelmingly defeated in November.
—Judging from the bouquets Maj.
Gen. CHAS. MILLER was throwing at ‘the
Second brigade at Somerset on Monday we
are almost persuaded to believe that the
Major is going to enter politics on his own
behalf.
years, but up to this time about all - he has
ever gotten out of it has been satfefaction.
~—Subscrihe for the WATCHMAN.
nearly put him in the penitentiary by ex-.
He hasbeen in it for others for
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 31, 19083.
= "Another Northern Lynching.
On Saturday evening last a colored man
was lynched in Danville, = Illinois, in a
peculiarly brutal and atrocious manner.
without. opportunity to escape he vas
pounded to ‘death = with clubs, kicked
viciously with boots'and thrown out of the
window. Then at the suggestion of some
frenzied woman he was burned at the stake.
Another similar tragedy was averted by
the courage And determination of the sheriff
who resisted a moh which had attacked
the jail for the purpose of taking outa
negro wretch who-bhad outraged a white
women at an adjacent mining camp the day
before. The negro who was lynched had
only shot a white man.
Danville, Illinois, is the home of Hon.
JOSEPH G. CANNON, who is to be Speaker |
of the House of Representatives in the next
Congress. It is said that the negroes in
that neighborhood have become very inso-
lent of late for the reason that in his
anxiety to maintain control of the politics
of the city, Mr. CANNON has been pamper-
ing them a great deal. They have a com-
pany of militia and recently were given fire
apparatus for operating a fire company and
since that it has been perilous for white
women to appear on the streets alter night.
The officers and members of the militia
company have been particularly boastful
of what they would do in the evens of race
troubles. ;
Nobody regrets more than we these re-
curring outrages and to our mind they are
equally abhorrent, whether in the North or
South. But we have always held that the
same causes will produce the same results
in any section and that condemning one
section for resenting a certain nameless
crime by the processes of lynch law is un-
just when it is constantly proved that the
same punishment is meted out in any
other section. Let our Republican friends,
who are constantly’ decrying the South for
this work, turn their eagle eyes to the
North and they will find other points that
need their attention. But the fellows who
are ‘‘close in” are protected. PERRY
HEATH was responsible more than any
other man for the iniguities. But he gets
free because ROOSEVELT wouldn’t allow
him fo be indicted before the time at which
the statute of limitations intervened to pro-
tect him from punishment.
We Have Government Enough.
It would have been surprising, indeed, if
the unfortunate disaster at Jeannette,
Westmoreland county, had not been made
the excuse for demanding government sur-
veillance over something. The passion of
a vast number of people of this country is
government. While the people of all oth-
er civilized nations are assiduously con-
tending for less ‘government those of the
United States, or a considerable proportion
of them, are vociferonsly demanding more.
They want compulsory educational laws,
compulsory vaccination laws and compul-
sory laws of varions other descriptions.
They want government control of all
utilities and = government supervision of
their private affairs of all sorts. They are
government mad.
The breaking of the dam at Jeannette
on July 5th was a great calamity and very
expensive in the loss of life. It is possible
that it was the result of the faulty con-
struction of the wall and might have been
averted if the faults had been absent. But
we don’t see what good a state inspector
wonid have been as a remedial agent. We
are not able to discover how he could have
prevented the extraordinary rainfall which
caused the breaking of the dam. He
might have given warning but according to
the very graphic accounts of the affair
which were published at the time warning
wag given in ample time but the people re-
fused to believe that there was danger and
declined to move from the shelter of the
pavilions into the rain and safety.
As a matter of fact the disaster at Jean-
nette on July 5th, affords no substantial
reasons for the creation of a lot of new
offices and the adding to the already exces-
sive salary list of the State. What the
people of this country want to guarantee
their safety is not more government and
additional restraints upon their liberty but |
the judicious cultivation of self-reliance and
the saving quality of good sense. We
have all the government we need and more.
JEFFERSON said ‘‘that government is best
which governs least,” and the history of
the world proves that these people are
most prosperous who depend in greatest
measure upon their own resources and
their own manhood ‘and intelligence to
promote their own interests. = ‘ ¢
——CARRIE NATION was arrested in
Scranton on Wednesday and fined $10 for
selling without a license. She was selling
sonvenir hatchets when the police decided
to do a little smashing themselves and a
regular Kansas melee followed. i
——We received a poem ahout the death
of John Kerin which would have been
published in this issue had the anthor’s
name accompanied it. We publish noth-
ng ha does not bear the name of the
sender. oe ye
NO. 30.
And With it All, Retains His Position
as Leader of the Republican Party.
—— i
From the Commoner. ~~ fy
The Chicago Tribune, a Republican paper,
while contending that no evidence has yet
been produced that Perry 8. Heath "Tas
committed any criminal act,’”’ admits that
“is is sufficiently established that he ran
constantly on the borderland of outlawry.”’
And then the Tribune says: ‘‘The irreg-
ularities in the Postoffion epartment under
bis administration were constant and
deliberate. He knew all about them. He
sanctioned them. He instigated them, He
wished to violate the civil service ules by
making appointments in an irregular and
1 manner, and he did it.. He be-
baved as a representative of the lowest type
£ political spoilsmen, This is not the
worst abont Mr. Perry Heath. His tenure
of office in the Postoffice Department was
marked by scandalous conduct from begin-
ning to end. More than any. other official
I, ashington, he seems to be responsible
or
his being true, why should Mr. Roose-
x iat Jodirent Shearman} and prosecu:
on of the secrefary of the Republican na-
tional committee ? Can it be possible that
the Roosevelt administration intends to
confine its proceedings against small politi-
cians who were without important influ-
ence? It would, to be sure, be unfair to
conyiot Mr. Heath on the charges preferred
against him without fair and thorough in-
vestigation, but if half that has been charg-
ed is true, Mr. Heath shoald be proceeded
against just as wonld be done in the case
of an uoninfluential man against whom
serious acousations were made.
The One Grave Issue.
From the Philadelphia Record.
In the meantime, while booms for the
Presidency will keep at least till next win-
ter, the importance of the present state
issues cannot be too earnestly urged npon
the consideration of the Democrats and in-
dependent voters. of Pennsylvania. The
issue involves nothing less than the ques-
tion whether a man whose name is associa:
ted with every iniquitous act’ of machine
legislation since 1891, when he entered the
House, shall be elected to the: respon
sible office of Auditor General. To crown
all this, the candidate, William P. Snyder,
is one of the press muzzlers, and on this as
well as on his whole legislative record the
machine has dared to challenge the voters
of Pennsylvania. It is, therefore, of no
small moment to ascertain at the ballot-box
whether a majority of the people of this
great State, with no political issue to di-
vert them or to obscure their ‘judgments,
deliberately approve of this record, inclnd-
ing the assanlt upon the freedom of the
press. So. far from being a party issue,
this is one simply of common honeséy in-
volving nothing else than the ethical ques-
sion whether the highest honors and off'ces
of the Commonwealth shall be the reward
of persistent and conspicious infidelity to
the public interests. These people, then,
who seek to prematurely drag national
questions into the contest do not mean
well either to the public cause or to the
Democratic party.
Such a Blessing Will Never Come,
From the Altoona Tribune.
Discussing the situation on Wall street,
the New York Sun remarks: “The con-
signment of capitalistic bushwhaokers and
blackmailers to the limbo of bankruptoy
and the sending to the penitentiary of the
ruffians who rob and plunder their em-
ployers and dishonor the labor unions—
these things surely make for the common
good?’ seems scarely proportioned to that
suggested for the labor blackmailers. It
would be a blessed thing if those’ who rob
innocent men and women could be sent to
the penitentiary for a term of years with-
out reference to their station in life or the
amount of their financial resources.
Eligible for the Postoffice Department.
From the Johnstown Republican.
During the strike in the anthracite coal
fields the relief fund distributed amounted
$0 over three-quarters of a million dollars.
This vast sum passed through the hands of
hundreds of different people belonging to
the miners! organization, but only one case
of defalcation has been unearthed after
thorough investigation. Of course this is
one too many, but it is many less than the
average, even under more favorable con-
ditions.
A Political Bluff That Everybody
Understands.
From the Monticello (Ia.) Times.
Prominent Republican politicians and
editors are endeavoring to make it appear
that President Roosevelt is a trust smasher
and is being opposed by trust magnates and
the Wall street financiers. No one should
be deceived by snch claims. Every trust
magnate in the United Sértes is satisfied
with Roosevelt’s .administration and is
ready to contribute to a campaign fund to
seoure his election. i
A Forgotten Resolution.
From the Seneca, Kan., Courier-Democrat.
In 1868 the Republican party declared
in the third plank of its platform that ‘‘it
is due to the labor of the nation that taxa-
tion should be equalized and reduced as
rapidly as the national faith will permit.”
in the light of that party’s high tariff,
standing army and navy building schemes
the old plank makes mighty interesting
reading at this day and age." Trp
">
Where Its Stremuousity Is Seem,
From the Johnstown (N. Y.) Democrat, :
There have been pretty bad scandals in
former Republican administrations, bn
for strenuous rascality the Rooseveitian
regime stands unrivalled as a ‘‘business’’
proposition. tails
His Busy Season.
Frem the Indianapolis Sentinel,
President Roosevelt’s vacation . is. ap-
parently being devoted. chiefly to gettin
up a financial bill that will suit Wal
street
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Spawls from the Keystone.
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—Amos Teagarden, a farmer, of Clarks-
ville, Green county, had his neck broken in
a fall from aieolt.; He was 60 yearsold.
=State pure food agents will make, so they
say, 100 ‘arrests of merchants in and near
Hazleton within a week for selling adultera-
ted products.
—Mrs, Mary Clark, who resides at No. 331
North 10th street, Philadelphia, and who will
be 84 years of age on August 24th, boasts that
during her life as a nurse she has nursed 965
babies.
—A Reading fisherman has landed the
daddy frog. In size it is a wonder. Each
leg at the thickest part measured 6} inekes
in circumference, and it is 7 inches wide
across the back. Itis15} inches long, and
when dressed weighed one pound and three
quarters.
—A farmer aged 69 years, secured a license
at the register and recorder’s office in Wil-
liamsport, to wed a woman 47 years of age
and returned in a short time with the license
to get his 75 cents back. His intended bride
died of heart trouble the day before the time
set for the wedding.
—While crossing a field near her home,
Mrs. Edward Kline, of Albany, Berks coun-
ty, was attacked by two large rattlesnakes.
She heard a hissing noise and quickly turn-
ing around saw the reptiles, with uplifted
heads, ready to strike her. Securing a piece
of a fence post, Mrs. Kline beat the reptiles
until both were killed. The one measured 7
feet and carried 14 rattles; the other was 6
feet, 8 inches long, with 13 rattles.
—Emma Foster, aged seven years, whose
home is in the Brighton road extension, near
Pittsburg, was bitten by a snake on Tuesday
morning. The child sat on a boardwalk to
remove her shoes, and a snake bit her in the
heel. Her cousin, Eugene Foster. who was
visiting at the home, heard her scream, and
when he learned the cause tied a shoe string
tightly around her ankle. Dr. Hoffman, to
whom the child was taken, said that the shoe
string probably saved the little girl’s life.
—W. P. Williams, aged 19 years, and a fire-
man on the Pennsylvania and Northwestern
railroad, residing at Bellwood, was made a
cripple for life by an accident which befel
him last Thursday afternoon. He got off his
engine to throw a switch and in doing so his
right foot got caught in a frog. Before he
could extricate it the engine ran forward and
crushed his leg. - At the Altoona hospital an
examination showed that amputation was
necessary and it was taken off at the knee.
—Clara. King, daughter of Mr, and Mrs.
Benjamin King, of Laporte township, Sulli-
van county, aged 8 years, 5 months and 24
days, died the other day of lockjaw. Sever-
al days before she ran an ugly sliver under
one of her finger nails, which caused severe
soreness after being extracted. She was later
taken violently ill and the injured finger be-
gan, swelling alarmingly fast. Medical aid
seemed to avail nothing and the patient lit-
tle sufferer lay in agony until death relieved
her.
—Jacob Renner, a laborer employed by the
Kerbaugh company on the construetion of
the new Portage railroad, was fatally injured
a short distance from his home at the ‘Foot
of Ten,” above Duncansville, Friday even-
ing. He was working at the “Foot of Eight”
and rode down the mountain on an engine.
At the ‘Foot of Ten’’ he jumped off while the
locomotive was in motion, and, having a stiff
leg, fell. His right arm was caught under the
wheels and crushed to the shoulder and his
head ‘was lacerated. The injured man was
taken to the Altoona hospital where he died
at 10:50 o.clock. :
—Joshua Butler, wife and infant child
were struck by the eastbound Black Diamond
express on: the Lehigh Valley railroad Sun-
day afternoon, while driving across the tracks
at Port Bowkley, six miles from Wilkesbarre
and all three are dead. The horse was also
killed. The occupants were hurled fully 100 *
feet, the woman’s death being instantaneous.
The little babe was tossed over the locomo=-
tive and was found lying in the tender. But-
ler, who was found in a field near the track,
died within an hour after the accident. He
was 32 years old, and the wife 23.
I
—Workmen on Monday began the task of
moving the Grand Opera house in Pittsburg
forward bodily to its new foundations and
site, a distance of 22 feet. The building is
128 by 80 feet, and its massive walls and great
beams weigh approximately between 10 and
12 tons per running foot, which: is an aggre.
gate weight of 2496 tons or 4,992,000 pounds.
To do this work the contractors are employ-
ing between 800 and 900 jackscrews, 600 steel
rollers 2} inches in diameter and 100 tons of
steel beams, 15 by 42. This steel was all
bought in Pittsburg, and. was made specially
for this job. The great structure rests on
these beams as it moves forward, and. its
solidity is thus assured. 3 b
—For some months past Adam L. Mensch,
a well known breeder of ducks near Huff’s
Church, Berks county, has been missing
many ducks. Others came home ‘badly
lacerated about the legs. Mr. Mensch deter-
mined to keep a sharp lookout to solve the
mystery. ‘While he was watching a nambes
of young ducks swimming in a pond
farm he noticed one of them suddenly.
under the water and remain there. In
another was pulled to the bottom. The dam
was at once drawn off and ‘three huge snap- .
making a feast of one of the small ducks un:
der a lot of brush near the breast of the dara."
3 —~One result, and not a pleasant one, of the §
extensive mining operations in the ' Windber
field, is the destruction of many, flowing
Ls
of small rivulets which. were a feature of
has seriously impaired the; value of farmin
property and it issaid that the’ dperdting
companies have arranged for the purchase ‘of
a great deal of the surface, the mining Yights
of which’ they ‘already own. A gntieman
conversant with the situation says that the,
original leases, in most cases, contained no
provisions releasing . the coal operators iffom
damages following the mining operations;
and there has been talk of numerous suitd at
law to recover for the destruction’ of thé'na-
tural water supplies. To avoid the expense
and annoyance’ of ‘the suits, afd. probable
payment of heavy damages, it 31 ¢ly that a
large number of farms will be, purchased by
the operators. a
springs and the drying up of a largenumber = ''y
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farming country in that neighborhood.» Th 8] |
pg Vy
short time another disappeared, and-fipally
ping turtles were caught. One of them was ~*~