By P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—How is “your coal bin? Now is the
time to prevent the possibility of being
caught later in the season.
—The Panama canal might be a right
good thing to have on hand to work on
some of these days, if the bottom keeps on
falling out of so many industries.
__If Mr. ROOSEVELT is doing it all, if he
is the man who makes the big crops and
the plentiful proeperity why doesn’t he
stop so many iron furnaces from going ou
of blast ?
—And the boy orator of the Susqueban-
na, the Hon. WILLIAM I. SwoopE, will
not have his ambition to be president of
the Republican clubs of Pennsylvania
gratified. Too bad !
The new law prohibiting the sale of
intoxicating liquors in any federal build-
ing will - make pocket dispensaries and
growlers very much of a fad in Washing-
ton when Congress convenes.
—The condition of the eastern 'peniten-
tiary must be scandalous, indeed, when
the Judges of the courts take to commut-
ing sentences to that institution to im-
prisonment in the county jails.
— The most remarkable case on record is
reported from Allegan, Michigan, where a
young benedict has actually eloped with
his mother-in-law. No one but a Michi-
gander would be a big enough goose to do
such a thing. :
While the President may appear to be
encouraging the large family idea by send-
ing the parents of twenty children his
check for one hundred dollars it is not at
all likely that he will ever attempt to
practice what he indirectly preaches.
— CARRIE NATION is to become an actress,
that is shelis to go on the stage to appear
in the leading role of a play called
“Saloonacy,”’ written especially for her.
How much more appropriate it would bave
been had they left the “‘sa’’ off the title.
—The hungry and unpaid employees of
the Consolidated Lake Superior Co., at
Sault Ste Marie, who threaten the lives of
the directors of the company are not the
only sufferers through that gigantic com-
bination of water and steel. We havea
few right here in Bellefonte.
—The Pennsylvania libel law does not
interfere with legitimate journalism be-
cause its sponsors are afraid;to put ifs con-
stitutionality to the test, but it is the spirit
of the press muzzlers and not the letter of
their law that the people of Pennsylvania
should rebuke this fall.
—Don’t be ashamed to take a small job
at the beginning, for if you do right in that
one a bigger one will soon follow. ‘‘You
can catch a minnow with a worm aod a
bass will take a minnow, and a good ‘fat
bass will tempt an otter and—then you
will have something worth skinning.
—The Sultan of Turkey announces that
the insurrections in his country are about
over and peace will soon be established.
Announcements of this sort are cheap. We
made one of the same kind about condi-
tions in the Philippines about two years
ago, yet we have been spending nearly a
million dollars a day ever since in the vain
attempt to make it good.
—What have become of the thirty mil-
lion dollars the stock holders have lost in
Lake Superior? There is a question in
economies for you. It is just as good real
cash today as it wae the day it was put in-
to the great fraud, yet it represents a loss
of thirty million to one set and a gain of
that amount to some one else; therefore is
it a loss? The answer will vary, of course,
according to which set youn ask about it.
At the recent meeting of The Pennsyl-
vania State Medical Society, at York, the
physicians actually had the temerity to say
that text books on hygiene and physiology
that are prepared for our public schools un-
der the direction of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union ‘‘are actually the most
reprehensible of all the erroneous books
on thesubject.”” Just wait till those phys-
icians get bome. There will be trouble
then, for sure.
—Now somebody is trying to get upa
scrap as to whether there are most Luther-
ans ov Presbyterians or Espicopaleans or
Methodists in the world. Of course while
it is being carried on the ‘‘big church?’’
congregation grows in preponderance and
the devil rubs his sides for glee. It is
strange that churches seem to lose sight
entirely of the fact that they ought to be
fighting a common enemy, instead of con-
tinually displaying jealousy of one an-
other.
—The time is coming, and it is nothing
more than the natural order of things, for
a period of depression to set in. Already
many iron furnaces throughout the coun-
try are going out of blast and on every side
there are indications of an end of the fic-
sitions boom that started when the Spanish-
American war withdrew so many producers
from the fields of agriculture and trade and
made consumers, merely, of them. Every-
thing points to a dull winter and we want
to go on record with this prophecy: Every
man who is thrown oat of work or who is
asked to go on less wages will be told by
the Republican press of the country that
the cause is owing to the disturbed condi-
tion of business on account of the uncer-
tainty of the re-election of a Republican
President. A Republican President has
about as much to do with it as the Sultan of
Sulu, yet there will be plenty of fools to be
blinded by this quadrennial Republican
dust.
Be
VOL. 48
An Interesting
The Washington correspondent of the
New York World gives the public the in-
teresting information that a congressional
investigation will be begun, or at least pro-
posed during the coming session to ascer-
tain who pays the expenses of the Presi-
dential junkets which have occurred so free-
ly and frequently since the accidental, not
to say calamitous elevation of THEODORE
ROOSEVELT to the office. That will be not
only av interesting but a useful inquiry.
The President has had twenty-five junkets
within the two years since that event and
the people have a right to know who pays
the expense and if it transpires, as seems
probable, that the railroad companies bear
the burdens the public ought to be told
what they get in return.
The New York Tribune is responsible for
the statement that the railroad companies
do assume the burdens of these junkets and
adds that they are always glad of the op-
portunity to do so. ‘‘On taking the oath
of office,” that esteemed contemporary
asserts, ‘‘President ROOSEVELT was at
pains to inquire of his Secretary GEo. B.
CORTELYOU whether it was customary for
a President to permit various railroad
companies to provide gratuitously special
trains. He was assured that special trains
had been furnished free of charge to hie
predecessors, not in their personal capacity
but as Presidents of the United States.”
That satisfied him and he has since made
requisitions so freely that he has already
had more special trains than all of his prede-
cessors since WASHINGTON.
But as a matter of fact it had not been
customary for Mr. ROOSEVELT'S prede-
cessors in office to accept such favors at the
bands of corporations which are always
knocking at the doors of the government
for legislative and other favors. One or
two of Mr. ROOSEVELT’S predecessors may
have put themselves under such peculiar
obligations, between the death of LINCOLN
and the present. That LINCOLN never did
is certain for he never left Washington
during his term except on business for the
government and the expenses of such trips
were properly paid for out of the treasury.
It is equally certain that CLEVELAND never
traveled as a dead-head of the railroads
and any others who did simply got the
seryice of the trains. , But ROOSEVELT goes
the whole thinge~ Tt is said, at least that
his food, liquid ‘tefreshment and cigars on
each of his many’ junkets were paid for out
of the funds of the Pennsylvania railroad.
An investigation which will reveal all
the facts in relation to this matter can’t
fail to be intensely interesting. It is to be
hoped that the expectations in regard to it
will not be disappointed.
Event.
—Mr. HANNA'S positive refusal to re-
tire from the Republican national chair-
manship is nothing so wonderful. Did
anyone ever hear of Mr. HANNA'S ever re-
tiring from anything ?
Pay Poll Taxes in Time.
The time for the payment of poll tax in
order to quality for participation in the
coming election will expire one week from
to-morrow. No Democratic voter in the
State ought to fail to make the necessary
payment within that time. No more im-
portant election has occurred in recent
years. The Democrats have not bad a
more hopeful prospect of success within a
quarter of a centary. The prospeots in
1882, when ROBERT E. PATTISON was first
elected Governor, were not half as bright.
The indications in 1890 when he was eleot-
ed the second time were infinitely less
auspicious. For that reason every Demo-
cratic voter ought to qualify himself to par-
ticipate in the election and share’ in the
victory.
The importance of the election can’t be
overestimated. The office of Auditor Gen-
eral is the agency through which the cor-
porations are held to their obligations and
compelled to hear a just share of the burdens
of government. The Republican candidate
for Auditor General this year is the most
subservient tool of the corporations. Dar-
ing a service of eleven years in the State
Legislature his voice and vote were invari-
ably thrown in the interest of corpora-
tions. No proposition was too enormous
to get his support if the corporation mana-
gers favored it. Such a wan in the office
of Auditor General would be a danger to
the interests of the people.
* The danger will never be presented if the
Democrats of the Staté perform their duty.
Thousands of Republicans will vote against
him and other thousands will not vote at
all, because they can’t endure the con-
tinued slavery to the corporations. There-
fore if the Democrats qualify and. having
done that, exercise their rights as the polls
a victory of the greatest significance will
be the result. We hope those in this
county will not prove delinquent. We
desire to be able to say: after the election
that every Democrat in Centre county per-
formed his full duty and under such cir-
cumstances if that splendid young Tribune
of she people, WALTER G. DEWALT, is not
elected the fault won’t be here.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Senator Hanna and Mr. Clarke.
Senator HANNA, of Ohio, participated in
the opening of the Republican campaign in
that State the other day and began his
speech in these words : ‘Mr, CLARKE,
whether be did it thoughtlessly or. inten-
tionally, in public utterance made this
statement : ‘This country is on the verge
of financial and industrial collapse.’ He
sounded that note of danger, Why, God
only knows. Bat to my mind it was a
criminal acs.”’ : Li
Senator HANNA stopped short of his
duty in the matter. That is to say he
ought to have given some sort of reason
why the statement of Mr. CLARKE. the
Democratic candidate for Senator in Con-
gress for Ohio, was a criminal act.
the day that Mr. CLARKE spoke shares in
steel trust which last year earned a net profit
of more than $100,000,000 =old for $17
while the par value is $100. Within three
months there has been an aggregate depre-
ciation in the values of corporation proper-
ty amounting to something like $4,000,-
000,000 and within a week three or four of
the plants of the American Steel company
in this State employing a total of 10,000
men have suspended operations.
Senator HANNA donounced Mr. CLARKE'’S
statement as untrue, but what are the
facts ? Last week the Secretary of ‘the
Treasury arranged fora fand of $50,000,000
to put into Wall street in the event of such
a scarcity of currency as to threaten a
panic. Within a month Senators ALD-
RICH, of Rhode Island, SPOONER, of Wis-
consin, and ALLISON, of Towa, members of
the Senate committee on Finance visited
the President at his Oyster Bay capitol
and urged him to call an extra session of
Congress in October in order that legisla-
tion might be enacted to avert a financial
and industrial collapse and ROOSEVELT
agreed to do so. The other day Secretary
SHAW loaned L$. Louis banks $3,000,000
to avert a panic. :
It may have been wrong for Mr. CLARKE
to tell the truth for sometimes the truth is
demoralizing and it is always safer to
boost than knock. Mr. CLARKE isa man
of affairs and his statement might have
alarmed investors in a way that would
bave helped to bring on a panic. But if
that is true in his case why wasn’t it equal-
1y true in 1893 when Senator HANNA and
the whole pack of trust magnates and pam-
pered monopolists were shouting calamity
for the purpose of bringing on a panic in
order that the incidental hard times might
be blamed on the Democratic party. We
are unable to see any difference except in
favor of Mr. CLARKE, for he doesn’t want
to do harm while they did ?
—The result of the trial at Beaver indi-
cates that Mr. WANAMAKER failed to
paint the bird book steal as black as it
really was.
An Absurd Clamor.
It has heen ascertained that the New
York street railways and other corporations
using the streets for one purpose or another
owe the city something like $20,000,000
for taxes and other obligations under the
law. It has also been discovered that with-
in the last two years no accounts have been
kept by the city authorities against these
corporations and that no demand bas been
made for the payment of taxes and the oth-
er obligations. This would indicate the
grossest neglect of official duty and the
total absence of business methods. I6
might justly be termed criminal careless-
ness in the administration of a sacred pub-
lic trust.
Yet we are told that the business men of
New York are insisting on the re-election
of Mayor Low for another term. We can
understand why the street railway magnates
and other corporate beneficiaries of his
neglect of duty should be anxious to have
his administration and methods continued
indefinitely. They punt money in their
pockets aud add to the value of their prop-
erties, mostly stolen from the people. But
why other business men and taxpayers gen-
erally should desire to prolong the era of
injustice is not so easy to discover. To
them the reform Mayor has been an ex-
ceedingly expensive luxury. He has come
very bigh. :
In New York, according to published
estimates, there are 80,000 children of
school age who are deprived of schooling
because of inadequate school facilities. Two
million dollars would provide the necessary
accommodations to remedy this great evil.
Within the time covered by Mayor Low’s
term of office the city might have collected
$4,000,000 from the corporations and pro-
vided more than enough school buildings
and all the books and other equipment
needed to teach all the children... But not
a cent was collected and the corporation
managers are clamoring for the re-election
of the Mayor. They must think the peo-
ple are fools.
—Since the bottom has fallen ous of the
steel market the bottom seems to have dis-
appeared from the CARNEGIE library gratui-
ty business. :
On
1y hi i to
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 25, 1903.
‘Mr. Chamberlain’s Fiasco.
Mr. JosEPH CHAMBERLAIN’S effort $0
turn the face of Great Britain backward in
the march of civilization has resulted in a
ridiculous fiasco. That is to say his hopes
have been disappointed and he has taken
himself out of public life, in the expecta-
tion, probably that in seclusion - he will
escape the shafts of ridicule which are cer-
tain to be directed at him in any event,
but which would have been more numer-
ous and of keener edge if he had remained
in the cabinet. Tt was a orazy enterprise
anyway and she surprise is that the addle-
brained but energetic agitator was able to
make as much progress as he did with it.
‘Mr. CHAMBERLAIN’S scheme is diamet-
rically the opposite of the aims of civiliza-
tion. Taking his own statement of the
case as expressed in his letter to PREMIER
BALFOUR tendering bis resignation as Col-
onial Secretary, his idea was to promote
Imperial Union. In other words he hoped
to draw the peoplé of tlie United King-
dom and those of the dependent colonies
closer together by trade discriminations
against all others. To be more exact he
wanted to bribe the colonists into acquies-
cence in national servitude by giving them
exclusive markets for their products in the
United Kingdom. The aim ol oiviliza-
tion is to remove the barriers which sepa-
rate peoples of different nationalities. Mr.
CHAMBERLAIN’S scheme would have
strengthened them.
Imperial Union is an impressive phrase
and addressed to a less thoughtful people
than those of Great Britain might have
worked deception. But popular intelli
genoe grasped the fac that while his plan
would have been more than likely to fail
of the purpose which he declared, it would
be absolutely certain to work the evil re-
sults. That is it would have excluded
from the markets of the United Kingdom
the cheap and wholesome foodstuffs pro-
duced in the United States and greatly in-
oreased the cost of living in Great Britain,
adding vastly to thesuffering and privations
of the poor. ' Happily CHAMBERLAIN is
now powerless to do harm.
=Chicago’s desire to supply the school
children with pure water is commendable
in that the wise men out there are evident:
stars the little ones off right.
Symptoms but Not War.
The daily papers continue to be amusing
even if they are a trifle careless in regard to
sruth. For example every now and then
they publish accounts of an outbreak of the
natives in one or another of the Philippine
Islands. The other day two stories of the
same kind were published and one of them
wound up with astatement that one Amer-
joan soldier was killed and several wound-
ed during an attack on an army post by a
considerable body of Moros. Infact if one
didn’t actually know better he would be
deceived into the belief that the archipeligo
is still in a state of war. But we all know
that that is not the case. The war was
officially declared over long ago.
We are still maintaining a vast standing
army on the Philippine Islands and as. we
stated last week our soldiers are constantly
dying of one loathsome disease or another
and the corpses are being brought home in
ship loads. But the war is over beyond
question for Seoretary of War ROOT has
certified to that fact more than once and
he is a truthful man. Some people may
think that where there is an army constant-
ly in readiness to fight, fully equipped for
war and every now and then being called
on to repel an attack of an armed enemy,
that there is a state of war. But they are
old-fashioned folk who don’t know any too
much. When Secretary ROOT says the war
is over, it’s over.
After awhile there will be another ship
load of coffins that has come across the
Pacific ocean from the Asiatic swamps and
our faith in the assurance of Secretary
Root will probably waver,bat weshouldn’t
gi ve np altogether. Next week, probably,
and next month almost certainly there will
be accounts of other encounters between
the troops and the natives which will
probably cause us to doubt somewhat, but
we must be firm in our belief, The dry
season will soon be due in the Philippines
and thats makes the natives active and ag-
gressive and they will shoot our men freely
and frequently. But it won’t be war.
Our able Secretary of War has said that
the war is over and that settles i.
——Judging from the way her represen-
tatives shot at the Nittany Conntry club on
Saturday it is as hard for a Tyrone eye to
get a line on a blue-rock as it was for them
to see a ball in the days of the River
league.
—— Prince Alert paced a mile on the
Empire city track, New York, on Wednes-
day, in 1:57 flat. The world’s record had
previously been held by Dan Patch in 1:59.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
NO. 38,
What is the President’s Motive?
From the Ad Writer,
‘It strikes the writer as decidedly queer
that the President of the United States
should send the parents of twenty children,
one hundred dollars, as recently reported.
We are firm believers in the ‘Life, lib-
erty and pursuit of happiness’! proposition,
as propounded by our ‘‘Great and Only.”
Bat the acts of a public officer, ‘‘a servant
of the people,’’ are, we believe, just snb-
ject to inquiry and criticism, oy
Now what we want to know is, why did
he send it? And we believe we are well
within our rights in demanding an answer:
If he sends the money as a reward for al-
fording the country a practical demonstra-
tion of sérenuosity, it is too small. If if
was intended as a prize for the best human
incubator. it is not deficient in size, but
we contend, unwise in its lack. of restric-
tion. as
Before offering an incentive of this kind,
a board should be appointed, whose duty
would be to ascertain what preporsion of
the “‘hatch’’ is likely to become a, charge
upon the State. Certainly, if laws restriet-
ing immigration are not only constitu.
tional, but right, then, wholesale, irre-
sponsible reproduction in ‘‘blocks of twen-
ty,”’ may not always be a blessing: wholly
without alloy, and should in our opin
be subject to careful supervision. . .
If on the other hand, this award is in
the nature of accident indemnity, the qunes-
tion of inadequacy is magnified. While
we have not the slightest doubs but. that
the parents of this now historical . twenty,
if called upon to testify, would character-
ize at least sixteen of them as ‘horrible
acoidents,’’ still, no self-respeoting Presi-
dent of eighty million people wonld think
of indemnifying a ‘‘Sovereign American’
for accidents of this character, at; the rate
of five or six dollars per accident. Even
the most meagre of assurance policies
would come nearer paying actual damages.
than thas. Gor yas:
We confess ourselves unable to fathom
the motive and call strenuously upon the
President to explain this remittanee..
‘We are thorongh believers in, and advo-
cates of energetic devotion to the busing:s
or calling adapted. It is really remarkable
however, when you come to sorutinize
closely some of the hrightest examples of
strenuosity, what a wonderfnl resemblance
they often bear to hoguosity.
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Many Fugitives.
They Are Flocking to Burghas From Macedonia and
Adrianople. :
BURGHAS, Eastern Ronmelia, September
22.—Fugitives from the disturbed districts
of Macedonia and Adrianople are flocking
here for protection and safety. \ere are
now fnlly 8,000 fugitives in the neighbor-
hood and more are coming in daily,
Two thousand fugitives are now. resting |
in the village of Uram, Yenikoi, in East-
ern Roumelia, and 2,000 others are in the
Roumelian village of Tekenje. A large
number are also in other villages in ‘that
districs. Four thousand women and chil-:
dren are reported to be starving in the
woods along the border. Assistance from
Burghas and other places is entirely insuffi-
cient to keep them alive. :
They report an awful state of affiairs, in
the districts which they left. The terri-
tory between Adrianople and the coast,
they say, has undergone a total change.
This is the district where the insurgent call
to arms recently resulted in the male in-
habitants volunteering en masse. Lately,
however, heavy Turkish drafts have ar-
rived, and the district is in a reign of fter-’
ror. The men have gone to the hills,
while the women have been left in a starv-
ing condition in the villages or in the
woods surrounding their homes.
The Turks have obtained possession of
nearly every point. They are moving de-
tachments of from 1,500 to 2,000 artillery
and cavalry from the south to the north,
from there to the frontier and then east-
ward, in an endeavor to enclose the insur-
gents and cut off their retreat.
The women in the districts surrounding
the villages of Gramitokoff, Burgari and
Konaki, driven to desperation by the state
of affairs, took the offensive themselves
and by skillful maneuvering succeeded in
driving their cattle and sheep and in carry-
ing all of their portable articles into Bul-
garian territory, where they are, for the
time at least, safe from molestation. Before
leaving their homes they destroyed all the
grain. :
LONDON, Sept. 23.—The Balkan situa-
tion to-day presents a somewhat puzzling
aspect. Turkey is showing signs of yield-
ing to the Bulgarian demands and it is evi-
dent from the daily meeting of the council
of ministers at Vildiz, that some sort of
negotiations are in progress with the object
of averting war.
According to a dispatch to the Daily Mail
from Constantinople these conncils concern
two possibilities—either to make an ar-
rangement satisfactory to the Macedonians
or obtain from the great powers promise of
neutrality if it is found impossible to avoid
a war.
Pencoyd Iron Works to Shut Down,
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 21.—More than
3,000 men now employed at the Pencoyd
Iron works, in this city, will be thrown
out of work within two weeks. All the
departments of the plant with the possible
exception of the bridge building shop, will
remain idle until January 1st. The im-
mediate cause for the shut-down is said to
be a lack of orders for the work turned out
by the steel mill. The Pencoy 1 works are
a part of the American Bridge company,
which, in turn, isa part of the United
States Steel corporation. It is rumored
that the works may be removed to the
western end of the State. This could not
be confirmed. :
Wouldn't Send to
DOYLESTOWN,
the Penitentiary.
22.—Judge
September
Herman Yerkes, of the Berks county court,
to-day took official notice of the alleged
irregularities in the eastern state peni-
tentiary at Philadelphia, by sending a con-
victed offender whom he had sentenced to
five years, to the county jail instead of the
penitentiary.
on, |
Spawls from the Keystone, ~~
Fx 0% 54 a J me—-— ¢ $5818 :
—Coalport is to be lighted by electricity.
Capitalists living in that town have organized
a company and expect to construct a plant.
—Captain P. G. Morgart, ex-treasurer “of
Bedford county, died at his home in Everett
on Thursday evening last in the 76th year of
his age. ‘
—Asher Rogers, of Jersey Shore, a few
days ago captured the biggest bass that he
has taken in several years. It was 28 inches
long and weighed nearly eight pounds. He
caught it in Pine creek.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman, one of the
oldest women in Pennsylvania, celebrated
her 110th birthday at her home at Red Bank,
Clarion county, a few days ago. Mrs. Free-
man has children now living aged 80.
—Over at Everett on Monday a good driv-
ing horse belonging to liveryman S. W. Pen-
nell became frightened and ran away, receiv-
ing injuries which rendered it necessary to
hasten the animal’s death by a bullet.
‘—Captain H. A. Miller on Thursday hand-
ed ont ten dishonorable discharges to privates
of Company C, Fifth regiment, at Hollidays-
burg. Two of the men were deserters. That
is getting rid of objectionable men by the
wholesale.
—C. E. Greninger, who robbed the mails
at Williamsport, and the fourjmen{lcaptured
by the Centre county sheriff and posse in the
Seven mountains, will be tried before the
United States district and circuit court at
| Scranton on Monday, October 19th.
—A company recently formed to prospect
for oil in Mifflin county will begin active op-
erations this week. It has leased an Jexten-
sive tract of land from Newton Hamilton to
McVeytown, and will start. in near Atkin-
‘gon’s Mills. ' Traces of oil have been dis-
covered.
—Geo. Leper was sentenced to five] years,
his brother John to three and Samuel Bell,
colored, to three years in the western peni-
tentiary by Judge Bailey at Huntingdon at
the recent session of the Huntingdon county
court of last week for robbing Samuel Kreiger
on August 18th in that place.
—Michael J. Dunbar, a well-known con-
tractor of Williamsport, committed suicide
in his boarding house at Curwensville, at 11
o’clock Saturday forenoon. He shot himself
in the left temple, and died almost instant-
ly. He had been ill for several days. The
body was sent to Williamsport.
—Charles Brunhouse, a merchant of York
who was arrested last July for violating the
state game laws and was fined $260 for snar-
ing 26 cardinal grosbecks, appealed to the
courts and was Saturday acquitted. The
costs were placed upon the prosecutor, Dr.
Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the state game
commission.
—Geo. Robinson, a son of Noble Robinson,
of Liberty township, attempted to commit
suicide on Tuesday last. Young Robinson
shot himself in the left breast with a revolver
‘but with no serious effects. The first cap
exploded sending the ball into hisiibody but
the four remaining caps refused to go off,
else Robinson might have been a dead man
to-day. ;
~The Huntingdon and Broad Top Mount-
| ain railroad, is spending $40,000}onjthe new
cut-off, which eliminates two curves and
does away with the high top trestle. Since
president Colket assumed the direction of .
the affairs of the company four years ago he
has removed no fewer than sixteen of these
trestles and expended $175,000 in betterments
and new equipment.
—Judge Biddle, of Carlisle, in his charge
to the grand jury, called attention to the un-
usual amount of swearing in that borough,
and told the constables to arrest the offend-
ers, as the law required. He fixed the
penalty at 67 cents for eack oath. It would
not go amiss to have some one call attention
to the habit here. The imposition of
a few fines might clear the atmosphere of
some of its blueness.
—The Commissioners’ Association in Penn-
sylvania will meet in Pittsburg on Sept. 30th
and Oct. 1st. The organization is composed
of the county commissioners, their chief
clerks and the county solicitors of every
county in the State. There is usually an at-
tendance of about two hundred but it is ex-
pected this year the enrollment will exceed
that number. At these meetings the work
of conducting county affairs is discussed and
many valuable papers are o flered.
—Alleging that W. Charles Buckmiller had
stolen a kiss from her lips, Miss May Beach-
am, a handsome telephone operator in the
Bell exchange at Lancaster, went to his
home, accompanied by her father, and horse-
whipped him, laying on six vigorous lashes.
The affair has caused much talk. Buck-
miller is a wealthy coal dealer and has a wife .
and family. Had he been a single man the
punishment would have been quite different
—telephone girls are no exception.
—The Pennsylvania railroad has made an
innovation at Broad street station, Philadel-
phia, by the;placing of an information board
in the train lobby. Through trains from the
west and south are frequently delayed, some=
times for an hour or more, and passengers
waiting to take them or persons awaiting the
arrival of relatives or friends have been com-
pelled to stand for hours in the lobby, not
knowing when the train would get in. In
case of serious delay in the arriving of the
train the schedule time of arrival is given on
the board and the time the train is expected
to arrive.
—A collision took place between two fast
passenger trains on the Pennsylvania rail-
road at Conemaugh early Thursday morn-
ing. The first section of the Pittsburg limit-
od, engineer ‘‘Jack’’ McClelland and con-
ductor Daniel Umpholtz. of Pittsburg, stop-
ped to take water. While their train was
taking water the second section of tast line
east engineer Jesse Gilchrist and conductor
Robert Gould, of Pittsburg, crashed into the
Washington sleeper, which was attached to
the rear of the first section of the limited.
The car was badly damaged, as was the engine
of the rear train. Twenty people who were
in their berths at the time were thrown to
the floor of the car, but beyond a few cuts
and being badly shaken up were uninjured.
Traffic was delayed for some time. The
wreck train was summoned and had the
track cleared in a few hours.