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"7" _LDid you see the Golden Eagles
' | As they paraded round the town
Now were’nt they as festive birds
As ever could be found?
—Flinch is a new game of cards with
which ministers and church zealots may
-whip the devil around the stump. 3
—The Chicago glue workers having
struck the windy city is not likely to be
so stuck up for some time, at least.
—No doubt Mr. ROOSEVELT would like
to regard the Beirut incident as being olos-
ed, but, like Banquo’s ghost, ‘it won’t
down.
—Mr. BRYAN’S advice to the Ohio
Democrats is something that is peculiarly
appropriate for the Centre county voters of
that faith.
—There seems to nothing left for Miss
TopD, the Delaware post-mistress who was
removed to make a place for an ADDICKS
man, to do, but hold onto the straps.
—The Japanese recently bought an island
near Korea. It isa wonder that the Japs
weren’t deterred in their purpose by our
costly experiment at island buying. i
—September was on a fair way to beat
June for fair weather until Tuesday’s break
came. It has gotten down to work again
and let us hope the finish will bea fine
one.
—No self respecting man can vote for
SNYDER. He was the leader of the press
muzzlers and a vote for him would be an
endorsement of that notoriously iniquitous
measure.
—Lt. Peary is to make another run for
the pole next spring. As a pole horse,
the lieutenant has always set a good pace
but be has never been able to lead the field
to the goal.
——Quite a number of men tried to beat
the ‘‘three shell’ and ‘‘envelope’’ games at
the circus on Tuesday. It is needless to
say that the circus sharks got the money
and our fellows got the experience.
-<Captain WRINGE, the skipper of Sir
THOMAS LiPTON’S defeated Shamrock III,
has decided to remain in the United States
and become a citizen, It is well. In
about one year we will make a good sailor
out of him.
—Secretary SHAW is sending money to
St. Louis because he says the people need
it there. If needs are all that are required
the whole treasury could be dumped right
‘here! in Bellefonte, without satisfying
them by half. $ reid
—Bellefonte’s union labor organizations
made a very creditable appearance in Mon-
day’s parade, If all labor organizations
were as dignified and dispassionate as these
men’ looked there would be less confliot be-
tween employer and employee... il
—The deeper the probe goes into the
post-office scandals in Washington the more
polluted it becomes. On Tuesday six more
crooked officials were indicted and the no-
torious BEAVERS gave himself over to the
law, but BEAVERS will not be punished by
this administration.
—Down South the cullud man is ap-
parently not afraid to die. His only kick
seems to be in the way the death occurs.
At a recent hanging in Florida an old
darkey witness exclaimed, as the drop fell:
‘Thank God, the black man is gittin’ his
just deserts at lass.”’ ,
—An army transport has just arrived
from the Philippines bearing the bodies of
four hundred soldiers who died in that far
off land that our war of conquest might be
carried on. It is an awful price we are
paying to force an unwilling people to
submit to our domination.
—The Democrats of Pennsylvania have
a ticket that should inspire the confi-
dence of every voter in the party, they
have a platform that every honest Penn-
sylvanian cap stand on and they have rea-
son to be hopeful in the coming campaign.
Win or lose, it is always comforting to
know that you are right.
—The English must he getting very
tired of themselves. Every time one of
their great disciples opens his mouth to
the public it is to comment on some of the
derelictions of his people. . All these us-
terances are but growing evidence of the
decadence of the British Empire. The
time for the tail wagging the dog is pass-
ing.
—T hat there are still some fools left in
this c ommunity is the unmistakable con-
clusion that the public will arrive at as
the news of the fleecing of several men by
the three shell game at the circus on Tues-
day spreads. For years the newspapers of
the county have been trying to persuade
the public to let such gambling schemes
alone, but without avail. For with each
succeeding season there seems to be a new
crop of suckers to feed the professional
sharks. There is always some one with
more money than brains and it is begin-
ning to appear as if the lesson of other’s
blunders will never be learned. Old men
and college boys were taken in alike, on
Tuesday. The oid men ought to have
known better. The college boy needed
his eye teeth out and the operation vost
him ten.
——In their deep anxiety to have Mr.
CLEVELAND made the Democratic candi-
date for President in 1904 the Republican
press seems to have forgotten entirely that
‘‘soup-house’’ era that for so long a time
they exploited with such hilarions volu-
bility. Which goes to show whata great
thing for the cause of truth it is that some
people have short memories.
VOL. 48
Roosevelt’s Fine Promises. :
The President has a marvelous faculty
for making fine promises and a wonderful
facility for breaking them. His latest
promise in the direction of reform is that
hereafter in filling. consular vacancies he
will simply promote from a lower grade to
the higher. That sounds fine to the ear.
It embodies the very essence of the merit
system, providing, of course, that the per-
son filling the lower post has capability
and adaptation for the service. Otherwise
it will be a wretched expedient, for it will
simply advance officials who are no good to
places in which they must necessarily do
greater harm, :
Mr. ROoSEVELT’S honesty in making this
promise is exemplified in his selection—
within the past two days—of a Fayette
county school teacher for the position of
second Secretary of .- Legation at Con-
stantinopleone of the most important
and at present one of the most trouble-
some posts, in the Turkish Empire.
To this place, that under existing condi-
tion needs the cool judgment of the trained
diplomat, and when a single mistake may
involve the government in interminable
difficulties, if not actual war, a country
school teacher, without experience in dip-
lomacy, and without knowledge of the
questions agitating Northern Asia, is chos-
en as this country’s representative. And
Mr. ROOSEVELT has the gall to stand before
the public and proclaim his devotion to the
merit system.
Out upon such hypocrisy ?
And it will be thesame in future appoint-
ments.
If Senator PLATT, or QUAY, or ALLI-
SON or some other fellow with a pull will
come along and demand the desirable
berth for some broken down servitor who
needs a snug place “in some warm
-climate,”” and because it will he good
politics to placate the Senator or the other
fellow with a ‘‘pull’’ the patient and plod-
ding fellow who has burned midnight oil
in qualifying himself for the promotion
will reap a rich harvest of disappointment.
No President since the first attempt to
xm has so flagrant-
es of civil service
reform as ROOSEVELT. , One of the early
civil service commissioners much - was ex- |
1 in this direction and when |
service he declared that |
at the outset of
the maintenanse and extension of the sys-
tem would be his constant aim, the public
promptly fell a victim of his promise. As
a matter of fact, however, he has sought
out for his official favor the most desperate
politicians known to the public service and
from PAYNE, in the Postoffice Department,
to CLARKSON, in the New York custom
house, he has filled the offices with moral
ori pples.
Shaw's Disregard of Law.
Secretary SHAW has again shown his
utter contempt for the restrictions of law.
The revised statutes distinctly declare that
no funds of the government shall be de-
posited in hanks unless secured by a depos-
it of United States bonds of equal face
value. The purpose of the act of Congress
was to secure the government against loss
through the insolvency of banks which may
be used as government depositories. It is
known that bonds of the government, in
the vaults of the treasury are absolutely
safe as security. They can be converted
instantly by covering them into the treasury
as cancelled obligations. Corporation,
state or municipal bonds are not so safe
because they are liable to depreciation un-
der a foroed sale.
Last week, however, Secretary of the
Treasury SHAW deposited several millions
of treasury funds in St. Louis banks taking
as security bonds of the State of Missouri
and of the city of St. Louis. He feels that
they afford ample security and if they are |
given time to mature they probably will
be. But suppose something should happen
that the money was needed at once, what
would the Secretary do, especially in the
event that the bank was unable to provide
the amount? Bonds of the State of Missouri
were never what is called ‘‘guilt-edged”’
property. On a forced sale they would
probably slump off perceptibly and in the
event of a currency squeeze couldn’t he
sold at all. The Secretary of the Treasury
would be in a bad hole then.
But the danger of loss is less a cause for
objecting to the deposit on such security
than the violation of law. When the high
officers of the government contemptuously
disregard the provisions of the law others
soon fall into the babit and the path to
anarchy is hlazed., That much accomplish-
ed the rest is easy. Ordinary citizens need
little incitement to make them disregard
the restraints of law. One or two glaring
instances of malfeasance in high office are
sufficient. For that reason the habit which
Secretary SHAW has of riding ruthlessly
over the law, which be invariably does
whenever the law happens to get in his way
or interferes with his plans is dangerous.
The smuggler or forger does no worse and
he is not expected to do any better.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
One Form of Expression.
One of the incidents of the Labor Day
parade in Philadelphia wae a float on which
was held a cadaverons looking goat labeled
‘‘press muzzler.”” We refer to this merely
to show that no effort of the machine lead-
ers to suppress that palpable political issue
will avail. It is in the minds of the peo-
ple and they will discuss it. Under orders
from QUAY the Republican state platform
was silent on the subject. When arrange-
ments had been made to have it discussed
in public debate at Ms. Gretna, QUAY’S
mandate was sufficiently potential to smash
the program. But he can’t reach the plain
people. They read and think and talk as
they like and they are against the press
muzzler.
© No doubt the dressing of a cadaverous
goat ip uniform was the most available
means at the time of expressing their
repugnauce of the policies represented in
the press muzzlerand it was rather a happy
thought. The iniquity is as horrible as
any caricature could represent it. But
there is a better way to express condemna-
tion of it in the future. That is to say by
voting ‘against Senator WM. P. SNYDER
one of the most active supporters of it the
reprobation of the people will be more ef-
feotually declared. We say more effectnal-
ly because by that means the most serious
penalty will be inflicted on the authors and
promoters of it. The defeat of the machine
candidate for Auditor General will cut off
the principal source of revenue from some
of the machine managers.
If SNYDER is defeated for that office this
year two results will be accomplished. One
is that no other man who voted for the
measure in either branch of the Legislature
will ever have the hardihood to run for any
office again. ‘‘That is a consummation
devoutly to be wished.’”’ It will most cer-
tainly rid the public life of the Common-
wealth of a most pestiferous element. The
other advantage is that it will break up
the system by which the QUAY machine
cheats the treasury in the matter of corpora-
tion taxes. In other words those miscreants
settle with corporations for less than they
owe in consideration of a commission to
some of the machine leaders aud a Demo-
cratic Auditor General will stop it.
Sign of Bad Citizenship.
According to the Philadelphia Record
there are 6,000 voters in that city who
never attend the elections. That means,
if it means anything, that there are that
many men in Philadelphia who uninten-
tionally, but nevertheless certainly, contrib-
ute to the corruption of the ballot. We say
unintentionally because the Record conveys
the idea that they are of that element in
the community which is so busy in busi-
ness operations and professional engage-
ments that they think they bavn’t time to
vote. But they are registered regularly
and their names are used by repeaters and
personaters for stuffing the ballot boxes
and instead of being against the machine,
as they would be if they voted, their votes
are cast for it invariably. :
To our mind ‘the g.avest fault a good
citizen can commit is to fail to go to the
election, if a man who fails to go the elec-
tion can be a good citizen. If it were not
for his indifference to his duty as a citizen
the machine managers would ‘be unable to
hold their power over a single election.
We measure other communities by the
standard of our own and everybody knows
that decent citizens are vastly in the ma-
jority here. Indeed their preponderance
is so great that it wouldn’t be necessary as
a rule to join together to prevent the elec-
tion of bad and unfit men. The worthy
men in each party could control the
primary elections in each and if they
would assert themselves and nominate good
men there would be no bad candidates or
bad officials to menace the public service.
‘We have no doubt that there are 60,000
voters in Philadelphia who never vote but
every man of them is voted every year.
The repeaters use the names of those re-
spectable business and professional men to
vote on and thus they are made important
factors in the work of debauching the bal-
lot and demoralizing the politics of the
city. The remedy for this is to vote in the
future. In this town and county there are
also a considerable number of voters who
fail to attend the elections. They deceive
themselves into the notion that it makes
little difference. If the delinquency were
only occasional and isolated that would
be true. But it is frequent and in
bunches and results in the election of unfit
men for important offices and the betrayal
of public interests.
—-H. C. DERN, for many years editor
of the Altoona Tribune, and prominent in
the business affairs of the Mountain city,
died at his home in that place on Tuesday
morning. He bad been in poor health for
some time, though his death was not ex-
peoted as so sudden a consequence of it.
Mr. DERN, was 73 years old and a man of
whom apy community might feel prond.
Mild in disposition, courageous in integrity
and steadfast in christian zeal his was a
life of usefulness, a life that might he
emulated to the advantage of mankind.
firmly ‘resolved to carry out the policy of
‘act, and commercial treaties to that end
vend in the Cuban trouble, and adds
‘be no war.” ‘Upon the point to which
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 11, 1903.
Roosevelt and McKinley. {
The pretense of President ROOSEVELT'S
friends that he'is fulfilling his promise to
carry ont the policies of his predecessor in
office, President McKINLEY, is provoking
resentment in. some surprising quarters.
For example in the current number of Har-
per’s Weekly, the Journal of Civilization,
the matter is taken up and treated exbaus-
tively...“ The principal features of Mr. Mc-
KINLEY’S policy are well known, or should
be,’’ the leading editorial in that publica-
tion asserts. ‘‘As the last speech that he
delivered shows,’’ it continues, ‘‘he was
reciprocity contemplated by the DINGLEY
had been negotiated during his administra-
tion, but had not been confirmed by the
Senate. They remain unconfirmed to this
day; nor is Mr. ROOSEVELT known to have
made the slightest effort to bring about rec-
iprocity ‘with any country except Cuba.”
As a matter of fact, President MoKIN-
LEY’S last speech went further than a reso-
lution to carry out the policy of reciprocity
contemplated by the. DINGLEY “act. He |
distinctly expressed the opinion that if was
the duty of our government to ‘‘sell where-
ever there were: customers to buy,’’ and to
make such concessions in ‘the’ ‘matter of
tariff redaction and create such: business
relations as would guarantee markets. The
plain inference to be drawn from that prop-
osition is that the tariff schedules should
be altered at such points and to such an ex-
tent as would attract purchasers for our
manufactured : products and that even if it
were jecessary to abandon the tariff policy
there would be more to be gained by secur-
ing foreignmarkets than by protecting home
industries. No other construction can be
put on MoKINLEY’S speech and in failing
to carry out that policy, ROOSEVELT has
betrayed the pledge made almost at the
the side of MeKINLEY’S coffin.
Harper's Weekly calls attention to anoth-
er point upon which President ROOSEVELT
widely: diverged from the policy of his
predecessor. ‘‘Another characteristic fea-
sure of Mr. MoKINLEY’S policy,” it states
in the same article, ‘‘was his determination
to ayoid war if possible.” In support of
i§ assertion our contemporary recalls the
reltotdnce’ with which MoKINLEY inter.
“‘that he was driven into hostilities much
against his will by the destruction of the
Maine. Even after that catastrophe,’ he
adds, “his closest friend, Senator HANNA,
declared in Wall street, that there would
ROOSEVELT refers so frequently, moreover,
the Weekly shows he is not in agreement
with the policy of MoKINLEY. ‘‘Neither
was Mr. McKINLEY one of those statesmen
who regard the maxim ‘in time of peace
prepare for war,’ as applicable to the Unis-
ed States. He, on the contrary, like THOM.
AS JEFFERSON, was inclined to think that
active and incessant preparation for war is
aph to beget a bellicose temper.’
Altogether the scrupulously careful and
exceptionally conservative ‘‘Journal of Civ-
ilization’’ sums up the differences between
the policies of McKINLEY and those of his
successor in office in a way that can bardly
fail to challenge the attention of the friends
of McKINLEY. That gentleman had reach-
ed the full fruition of hisambitions and was
directing his mind and energies to such a
conservation of public interests as would
embalm his memory in the hearts of his
countrymen present and future as that of
‘WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON had been
enshrined. But ROOSEVELT, with the sor-
did expectations of personal gain and polit-
ical profit, cast all these sublime principles
to the dogs and joined with the irreconcila-
bles and the looters to spoliate to the end
that his election for a full term might be
secured.
The Essence of Political Principles.
In all the speeches or public expressions
that Wu. J. BRYAN has made, he bas never
said anything more to the point, or that
shows the principles that actuate the man
more than his advice to the Democracy of
Ohio to support CLARK, (an open and
avowed gold Democrat) for United States
Senator for the reason that ‘‘it is Detter to
support a Democrat who is wrong on one issue
than a Republican who is wrong on all.’
So long as Mr. BRYAN adhers to this
position the professed Democrats who swal-
lowed all there was obnoxious, corrupt
and oppressive in Republicanism in 1896,
and again in 1900, in order to show their
hostility to a proposed financial policy,
will have a hard time convincing the masses
that they are better Democrats than he.
——Wednesday morning we were sitting
wondering where the next dollar was to
come from. Two days of dissipation had
ruined our pookethook and old Col. R. E.
Morse was pounding at the back door -of
our garret, as if he surely wanted in, when
along comes a nice letter from Harry Wood,
of Philipsburg, with a nice piece of the
long green in it. Indeed the sight was so
refreshing that morning that we had
to stop right there and go out and take one
to the wish that the ‘‘woods are full of
Harry Woods.”
BE ——
NO. 36.
We Have no Tears to Shed, Mr. Root,
From an Unknown Exchange, :
Must you bid us all good-bye,
Mr. Root?”
Please observe our eyes are dry.
Mr. Root.
Though you leave us we'll survive,
And Withons you, Ye will strive
'0 keep hope and joy alive.
Mr. Root.
When you let brave Miles retire,
Vi of Bootie and
ictim of your spite and ire,
Mr. Root, P
Then we sized you up as nil, ’
Small potatoes. few in hill,
‘That you didn’t fill the bill,
Mr. Root. faaly
‘When you braced up and resigned,
Mr. Root
We were not surprised to find,
Mr. Root, {
That in bidding you farewell =~
. Teddy made your headpiece swell
By the gush that on you fell, . . :
: Mri Root. t
“Send you off will sigh ‘and tear,
; I i 4 : ¢
But let' Miles go with a sneer,
Mr. Root. sdreT
By. the side of Miles, the hale,
You compare—no idle tale— N
. Like a tadpole with a whale,
' Mr. Root.
So we say, Good-bye and 0,
Mr. Root, 2
: 1. Root. 43 3
~ Best that it should happen so, ,.
Mr. Root. 30
As you've treated other men _
May you thus be treated when *
You’re in private life again,
Mr. Root. i
As Sir Thomas Sees, Us.
From the Altoona Evening Gazette.
' Tired of talking yacht and ‘racing, Sir
Thomas Lipton Sunday discussed’ the rela-
tive commercial strength of England and
the United States. He said: =~ :
“There is no more loyal Britisher than
myself, but I can’t close my eyes to one
thing, and that is we are a decaying nation,
commercially, as compared. to your coun-
try, and the United States is the greatest
country on the face of the earth today.
“In England onr imports exceed our ex-
ports two to one, while over here it is just
the other way. Our merchants can’t seem
to understand that you must supply peo.
ple of other countries with what Le want
and not with what the people of England
need. z o
“When a man lands in New York and
wants to do business all he has to do is e
go into an office and in a few moments he
can find out all he wants t» know. In Lon,
don, if he went into an onice in the i
line of business, alter a lot of talk he woul
probably be informed that he might find
out what he wanted to know in Manohes.
ter. New York is in touch with the ‘whole’
country, while London the metroj
the world, is not. a rr Sha
‘Not only that, but in England thére are’
two classes, while here men are on an equal
footing, all working for the good of their
own country. A New Yorker may have
his Fifth avenue mansion, but he goes down
to Wall street and mixes in with all sorts
of people: so all swing together for a com-
mon end.
‘“There is a kind of feeling here that one
man is as good as another. No one class
pulling one way and one another’ as it is
abroad.”’ Ras
Sir Thomas is a shrewd judge of men and
events, and his opinion is therefore of add-
ed value. It was probably humiliating to
his British pride to talk as he did, but he
was speaking the truth. :
More Graft in the Philippines.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The latest scheme for ‘‘graft’’ in the
Philippines is in the building of its rail-
roads. The administration at Washington
is now considering a proposition that the
government is to give the railroads charters
and the right of way over government land
and guarantee the interest on the cost of
building the roads. This will be an in-
centive to swell the cost of the building of
the roads =o that the insiders can at once
secure a good rake off. The railroads will
then have to be capitalized for probably as
least donble what they actually cost and
the government will have to guarantee in-
terest on watered stock. This iz a nice
scheme for the friends of Secretary Root
and as he isabout to retire from the cabi-
net there is no reason why he will not him-
self participate in the proceeds.
How the government—the people who
pay the taxes—will come out in the deal
can be readily imagined and that freight
and passenger rates will be exorbitant is a.
certainty. That the government will be
called upon to pay the interest and evens-
ually the principal on the securities issued
on the railroads is the history of all like
undertakings and that the taxpayers of the
United States will be the eventual suffer-
ers is almost a certainty.
Graft under the present administration
is becoming epidemic. ;
What Assurance is There ?
From the Pittsburg Dispatch, (Rep.)
Republican organs in the State are now
trying to evade the Salus Grady issue by
declaring that there is no doubt that the
next Legislature will repeal that act. If
the press of the State without regard to
party refuses to support the men instra-
mental in passing that act or who voted for
it there might be some reason to expect
that repeal.
But what reason is there to expect the
repeal from a Legislature not elected, and
when the only platform that declares
for its repeal is that of the Democratic
party ? How, indeed, can its repeal be ex-
pected from a Republican Legislature when
the direct issue is raised between a Re-
publican candidate who voted for that bill
and a Democratic candidate who voted
against it if the Republican organs tamely
indorse the former ?
Indeed, if there should be any Republi-
can legislator at the next session disposed
to resist the orders of the party dictators
for the salvation of their pet measure the
latter conld urge that the course of the’
organs proves that measure to he just suit-
ed to the Republican section of the press of
the state. Under those circumstances, too,
it would be difficult to hold that the argu-
is of}
4 i
TERRE,
Spawls from the Keystone.
s—
~Early Friday morning thieves broke in-
to the Hotel Douglas, at Clearfield, and stole
from the pantaloons of the proprietor, Leidy
Leathers, about $63.00, :
—Edward McCormick, recently transfer-
red from’ a supervisorship on the Tyrone
division to Chester, died at Philadelphia on
Tuesday. He was aged 33 years,
—Thomas Collins jumped from a bridge at
Cross Fork and was drowned in Little creek.
He had threatened to commit suicide during
the day. ' The body was recovered.
—The Grand United Colored Order of Odd
Fellows in session at Altoona re-elected Jared
W. Ford, of Philadelphia, as president. Wed-
nesday the convention concluded with a
grand ball,
, —Jerry Shimmel, a contractor of Wal-
|laceton, was killed by a New York Central
Passenger train near the County home in
Clearfield, on Wednesday. Shimmel was in
town as a witness on a criminal case.
—Harry T. Wise, a railroad policeman of
Mifilinburg who shot Kenyon Taylor, of Har-
risburg, while attempting to arrest him for
riding on a freight train, was tried on the
charge of shooting with intent to kill, and
was convicted.
—Henry W. Miller, of Lewistown, has
| been awarded $4500 damages against the
Lewistown Light, Heat and Power company
on the claim that a falling wire knocked him
down and he was so badly hurt that he is
now partly paralyzed.
—Last week’s Jersey Shore Vidette contain-
ed the following item : “On Thursday, Aug.
27th, the Vidette man captured a white toad.
It certainly isa pretty little animal and is
quite a curiosity. We have it on exhibition
in the office. Drop in and see it.”
—Invitations have been issued for the wed-
ding of Miss Elizabeth R. Murray, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas H. Murray, of Clear-
field, and James P. O’Laughlin, of the same
place. The marriage will occur at Clearfield
on Wednesday, September 23rd, at 4:30
o’clock.
—The State Forestry Reservation commis-
| ion held a session at Harrisburg this week
and made offers of the various owners of
about fifty-five thousand acres of lands in Ly-
coming, Tioga, Fulton and Franklin counties.
Should the amount offered be agreed upon
these lands will become the property of the
State for forestry reserve purposes.
—The state board of charities at its quar-
terly meeting Wednesday adopted the plans
of Philip H. Johnston, of Philadelphia, for
the new state homeopathic insane hospital
near Allentown. The building will accom-
modate 1,000 patients and will be one of the
most complete institutions of its kind in the
‘country. The last legislature appropriated
$300,000 for the building. '
—The board ‘of managers of the Chester
‘Hospital decided on Tuesday not to accept
the receipts from the automobile which is be-
ing raffled for the benefit of the institution.
The board does not think the hospital should
‘be a party to any game of chance. It is said
| that those in charge of the ‘matter used the
name of the hospital without permission of
: the hospital authorities.
~A Houtzdale old lady named Kelly,
arose Saturday morning before any of the
other members of the family were awake and
walked into an opening from which a stair-
way had been removed, falling to the floor
below. Her moans awakened her daughter,
who found her mother lying unconscious.
There were no bones broken but concussion
of the brain cause by the fall resulted fatally
on the following Tuesday.
—Edward Glenn, of Nant-y-Glo, a brake-
man on the Pittsburg division, in stepping
from the front end of an engine to another
track, was struck by a snapper going down
the ‘Altoona yard at Twenty-fourth street
yesterday afternoon. He was removed to
the hospital. His injuries consisted of a
crush of the right foot, lacerations of the
head and face and a broken nose. It was
found necessary to amputate the foot about
six inches below the knee.
—Carrie Nation, the wielder of the hatchet,
and bar-room smasher, passed through Al-
toona Saturday night on Philadelphia ex-
press enroute to the east. She made her
presence known to the crowd as soon as the
train stopped at the depot. Up went the
window at the seat she occupied and out went
a head that was soon recognized as that of
Carrie Nation. A crowd gathered around
and to it she made a speech condemning the
bar-rooms and the liquor traffic. She kept
up her barangue until the train pulled away
much to the interest of the crowd.
—Judge Landis Wednesday afternoon sen-
tenced Henry C. Koffroth, aged 33 years, a
farmer, residing in Salisbury township, Lan-
caster county, to fifteen years’ solitary con
finement in the eastern penitentiary. Koff-
roth was convicted on indictments charging
horse stealing, arson and larceny. It was
shown that on April 20th last, Koffroth stole
a horse from John H. Skiles, of Salisbury
towuship, took it to the barn of Edward P.
Dehaven, a few miles away, and exchanging
Skiles’s horse for a better one belonging to
Dehaven, fired the latter’s stable to cover
his crime. Six horses and twenty cattle
were burned to death. Later, when the dis-
covery became imminent, Koffroth led De *
haven’s horse into the Welsh mountains,
shot and disemboweled it.
—The new Portage railroad will be opened
for traffic about October 1st. The track-lay-
ing has been completed and the contractor’s
men are now engaged in surfacing the road
and finishing up the odd jobs. A double
track has been laid all the way from Dan-
cangville to Cresson. It is being ballasted
with cinder from the old dump at Hollidays-
burg. which is said to be an improvement on
limestone, holding its place between the ties
better. Connection with the main-line
tracks has been made at Cresson. The con-
nection, however, is only with the east-
bound tracks. Within the next few days
the other tracks will also be joined to the
new Portage road. A number of sidings are
yet to be built along the new tracks, and
large forces of men are rushing these to com-
pletion. A railroad official is authority for
the statement that at first only a moderate
amount of traffic will be hauled over the new
Portage, for the reason that there is a scarci-
ty of yard room at Hollidaysburg, as well as
ment is not correct.
motive power facilities.