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—Pay yous taxes if you want to vote.
Tomorrow will be the last day on which
FOU 080 80s (00 ach) seusnsd Mao fasid
"It the Macedonian outrages are no
stopped before ‘Thanksgiving. the: entire
United States will take a fall out of turkey.
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— A money famine has no terrors for the
average newspaper man. With us it isa
case of being famished in that direction all
the time. ' 3 Iasi Pe
—Get rioh quick schemes ‘are. all right
when they work quick, but when things go
the other way, like Lake ‘Supeior, et al,
shen it is different. Et
__The frost is on the pumpkin, the corn
is in the shook and I'm wondering bow I’11
get the coat that last spring I pat in
“hook.” :
—TIt is the duty of every good citizen to
vote. ' You cannot vote unless you have
paid taxes within two years prior $0 the
day of election, Have youdoneit?
—The cullud pahson who pulled a re-
volver on two boys down in Lock Haven
a few days ago must have forgotten that
the razah is the weapon of the real callud
gemman. :
— Let us hope that the Jersey City man
who found the name and address of an
Ohio girl on an egg, then wooed and won
her, will never have reason to think he
found a bad egg.
__MARK HANNA is the latest ‘‘gtand
patter.’ He declines to debate with his
opponent, Mr. CLARKE. But MARK’S
bluff will be called by the people of Ohio
on election day.
It is no wonder that Philadelphia is
the hot bed of ballot box stuffers and polit-
ical blacklegs when ten thousand children
in that city are unable to find room’ in the
public schools:
—The ’Squire of Wantage is coming
back to New York to take a hand in the
municipal election over there. It would
scarcely be right to call it ta fine Italian
hand”? when CROKER is so Irish.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer remarks
that ‘‘President ROOSEVELT weighs one
hundred and ninety-six pounds on the
scales.” In the balance of public opinion
he wouldn't bring even that many ounces.
—Though Col. QUAY is seventy years
old he still hunts for big game in the
Maine woods and fishes for big fish in
Florida waters, bus the biggest game and
the higgest suckers the old man ever cateh-
es he gets right here in Pennsylvania.
—Too promiscuous kissing in a Pittsburg
church choir broke up that body and events
ually caused the resignation of the pastor.
It is not stated what the pastor resigned
for, so the public will be left to wonder
whether he was getting his share of the
osculation also.
—1It is important that the Department
of Agriculture has succeeded in excluding
“embalmed food stuff’’ heretofore imported
into this country. Particularly important
because we have about as much embalmed
food right bere at home as the American
public cares about eating.
— Senator HANNA'S declination to meet
JorN H. CLARE, the Democratic nominee
for United States Senator from Ohio, ina
joint debate is mot much of a surprise.
HANNA'S love for ¢‘the dear working men’?
prevents him from letting them know how
little he actually does know.
— Major Delmar is another one of those
real horrid, nasty men who have no con-
sideration for the ladies. Now what he
had to go and trot a mile in two minutes
for is what Miss Lou Dillon would like to
know. Up to the time he did it the lady
horses held the record for trotting speed.
— Mayor CARTER HARRISON, of Chicago,
has started after the ‘‘grafters’’ in the serv-
joe of that city. He says ‘‘it I could fire
thera all they would be jumping from
every window in the city hall. Govern-
ment by ‘‘graft”’ seems to have grown
about as popular as government by injunc-
tion was a few years ago.
— The President is back in Washington.
Now let ns see what he will do about the
Postoffice Department scandals. It might
be well, also, to note how gracefully he
will lose sight of the case of Miss TonD,
the Delaware post mistress, who was re-
moved simply because she was ‘‘personally
objectionable’ to one of the machine poli-
ticians of that State.
—Philadelphia will never have any use
for a thirty-five foot channel to the sea as
long as she keeps thousands of her children
from getting an edncation. That machine
ridden city has given millions to the cor-
ruption of politics, all the while her trade
importance has been dwindling! and she
has regarded herself too poor to provide
public séhools enough for her children. -
~The thousands of Democrats in atten-
dance at Allentown on Wednesday when
the Democratic nominees for state offices
were publicly notified of the honor that bas
been conferred upon them was enough to
inspirg‘the Democracy of the ‘entire State
with-hope. Not for years has there been
such a Jarge, harmonious and representa-
tive gathefing of Demoorats assembled any-
where in Pennsylvania and if it meansany-
thing, it means that the fight this fall is to
be some thing more than, a pretense.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
Snyder an Unat Candidate.
Senator WILLIAM P. SNYDER’S vote for
the press muzzler ought to enlist the op-
position of every citizen of the State who
favors honest government and just adminis.
tration. Its purpose was to stifle criticism
of official venality and make public plun-
dering more secure. That it has so far fail-
ed in its purpose in no respect alters the
iniquity of the measure. Its enormity
turned public sentiment against it but ite
anthors are not responsible for that and it
is more a master. of good luck than any-
thing else that every newspaper in the
State which has courage and capability to
criticise a corrupt public official is not now
muzzled by the machine through the opera-
#ion of the law. Moreover Senator SNY-
DER’S nomination for Auditor General was
his reward for voting for the bill.
But that vote, inimical as it was to the
public interests, is not the only reason why
men who favor integrity in public office
should vote against Senator ‘WILLIAM P.
SNYDER, the machine nominee for Auditor
General. He served in the Legislature
eleven years and during all that time never
once voted in the interest of the people. He
has been known from the heginning of his
legislative career as the willing and obedi-
ent instrument of the corporations. Every
measure which has passed the Legislature,
during the eleven years in which he sat
continuously, that had for its purpose the
subversion of the interests of the people and
the conservation of those of the corpora-
tions has had his active and earnest sap-
port. He has been especially obedient to
the order of the lobbyists of the railroads.
Senator SNYDER has, likewise, been a
faithful adberent of the Republican ma-
chine in his legislative capacity. He has
voted and otherwise promoted the passage
of every measure which provided for the
increase in a number of offices, the increase
in salaries of officers, the creation of com-
missions, and the profligate expenditure of
the people’s money. He has given his
active and earnest support to the ripper
bills, the franchise grabs and the bills
which aimed to rob the public of valuable
property and bestow it on machine poli-
ticians or corporations. The canals which
have been taken from the State and con-
ferred on railroads were conveyed by his
vote.and every device to shift the burdens
of government onto agriculture has been
supported by him.
It is no exaggeration to say that Senator
SNYDER has invariably and consistentiy
been the enemy of the people. Sworn to
support and obey the constitution he has
violated that instrument and his oath of
office whenever the exigencies of politics or
ghe demand of corporations required it at
his hands and such a man is unfit for any
public trust.
In the office of Auditor General he would
have opportunities to serve the oorpora-
ions greater than ever before and it can
confidently be predicted that in the event
of his election every popular interest will
be subverted in order that hie masters, ‘the
corporations, may be satisfied with his ad-
ministration. Will the people of Ceatre
county vote for such a candidate? We
think not.
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Pay Your Taxes Now.
* To-morrow will be Saturday the last day
for the payment of poll taxes in order to
quality voters to participate in the coming
elections. ‘The safer plan is not to defer
payment until the lass moment. Every
voter who knows himself to be delinquent
or is uncertain on the subject should go to
the collector as early as possible and make
the payment or ascertain that be has paid
within two years.
No man who has given careful study to
the subject doubts that a fairly full Demo-
cratic vote will seoure the election of the
Democratic ticket this year. It is what is
called an *‘off year” and the majority par-
ty always loses in greater ratio on a light
vote. But there is another and exceeding-
ly important element in the reckoning this
year. That is the Republicans have nomi-
nated an exceedingly weak ticket, while
the Democrats have named candidates who
are exceptionally strong. This fact will
affect both sides in the polling. Thatis, it
will make the Republicans more indiffer-
ent to the result and will inspire the Dem-
oorate to greater energy and effort.
Because of the opportunities offered
every Democratic voter ought to qualify
himself to vote in order that he may par-
ticipate in the victory tbat can be made
practically certain. The payment of taxes
is the only thing that remains to be at-
tended to and that must be done hefore to-
morrow. If it is neglected all other things
done with the view of voting for our most
excellent candidates will be labor wasted.
Most other defects can be overcome but the
man who hasn’t paid taxes within two
years, will be unable to vote, no matter
how well qualified he may bein other
respects. Aftéend to the matter at once
and be good and ready when election day
comes.
BELLEFON
Uncandid Chairman Dick.
- Senator HANNA, throngh the chairman
of the Republican State committee of Ohio,
declines to meet his competitor for the of-
fice in joint debate of the issues of the
campaign. In a letter of great length
chairman DICK declares that it would be
impossible for Senator HANNA $0 meet Mr,
CLARKE for the reason that Senator HAN-
NA doesn’t really know what sorb of
Democracy. Mr. CLARKE stands for. There
are various kinds of Democracy, Colonel
DICK alleges in his jocore way, and Mr.
CLARKE hasn’t indicated whether he wants
to advocate the New Eugland variety, the
Texas brand or that type which is express-
ed in Ton JoHNsoN’s declaration in favor
of single tax. Colonel DICK is ‘“‘real cute.”’
He frankly declares, moreover, that Sena-
tor HANNA “‘stands pat,’’ and therefore a
joint debate with anybody who doesn’t
wonld be out of the question.
Chairman DICK in thus ‘‘begging the
question’’ may be humorous bat he’s bard-
ly politic. Neither he nor Senator HANNA
could possibly have bad any misunder-
standing of the kind of Democracy which
JorN H. CLARKE stands for. It is clearly
defined in the platform upon which he
stands and means integrity in public life
and decency in polities. It is the kind of
Democracy which JEFFERSON promulgated
and measures candidates for publio office
by the standard of fitness and capability.
It is the variety which influenced JACK-
SON when he struck down the monopoly
in banks which was an inheritance of the
Federal party. It is the type, moreover,
which SAMUEL J. TILDEN represented
when he scourged TWEED and other cor-
roptionists and carried the country by an
overwhelming popular majority in 1876,
the one-hundreth anniversary of the Dec-
laration of Independence.
Manifestly chairman DICK was not
candid in his statement of the reasons for
declining on behalf of Senatar HANNA the
challenge of Mr. CLARKE to a joint dis-
cussion of the issnes of the campaign. He
may have been acourate to the extent that
one of the reasons is that Senator HAN-
NA “stands pat.” He ‘stands pat’ for
high taxes, ship subsidies, profligate ad-
ministration, corruption in office and all
that is evil in politics. He would con-
tinue the present system of taxation be-
cause it takes from the people their earn-
ings vastly in excess of the needsof the gov-
ernment and creates asurplus with which
the Secretary of the Treasury can influence
elections and coerce husiness interests. He
“stands pat’’ for the protection of criminals
in the Postoffice Department, the War
Department and the Interior Department,
and he *“stands pat’’ for all the orimes of
commercialism in politics of which he is
the apostle. It was because he ‘stands
pat’? for all those iniquities that he was
afraid to meet Mr. CLARKE on the stump,
where the chance to expose his infamy
would have been present.
Some of the Causes.
The shrinkage in the value of Steel trust
stock, common and preferred, as revealed
in the difference between the - present
market price and the par, amounts to $402,-
438,708.00. The shrinkage in bonds of the
corporation will add another $100,000,000.-
00 to the aggregate loss making a total of
about $500,000,000.00. The capital of the
concern is about $250,000,000.00 so that
the loss through natural depreciation is
nearly filty per cent. Still it may be said
that the present valuation is equal, it not
greater, than the actual investment. In
other words on a market out of which she
bottom has dropped, the price of the stocks
and bonds of the company is greater or as
great as the investment.
Business men wonder what's the matter
with the stock market and why the fature
is uncertain. But there is nothing strange
or surprising about it. The Steel trust is
simply a sample corporation. That is it is
precisely of the type of the average in-
dustrial truss, larger than others, to be
sure, but organized ou the same principle
and conducted on the same lines. Bub ou
an actual investment of say about $125,-
000,000.00, the corporation has undertak-
eu to pay interest and dividends on double
the amount and put the burden on con-
gamers through the medium of exorbitant
charges for their products. This cripples
enterprise on one band and forces liguida-
tion on the other.
The trouble is with the system. Trusts
establish a fictitions system of business.
They fix prices not on the basis of sapply
and demand, which is the only commercial
standard, but on the necessities incident to
their own blunders. The steel truss, for
example bas maintained the price of steel
rails at $28 a ton for several years, regard-
less of the cost of materials and labor.
When the watered stock was issued it was
estimated that that price was necessary to
create the dividendsand interest and it has
continued since because it was a monopoly.
But prices on the other products counldn’t
be maintained and the original owners of
the stock nnloaded in expectation of a
crash. The recent values indicate the
accuracy of their judgment.
TE, PA., OCTOBER 2, 1903.
"NO. 89.
Snyder as an Administrator,
The public has plenty of “opportunities
to estimate the fitness of Senator WILLIAM
P. SNYDER to administer the office of
Auditor General.” In the first place that is
the most important office in ‘the govern-
ment of the State. The Auditor General
levies and collects all the! taxes on ‘corpora-
tions and if the corporations are satisfied
with his levy 00 one else can call him to
account. Even the Governor is powerless
$0 restrain him if he undertakes abuses in
that direction. He is the assessor. col-
lector and hoard of review, as well ay the
cours of last resort, No power can check
bim in an evil course or call him to account
after it has been perpetrated.
In view of these facts it is worth while
to review his operations in cases in which
he had unlimited power of administration.
One instance can be readily called to mind
for it is sufficiently recent to still remain
fresh in the public mind and was con-
spicuous enough to have attracted wide-
spread popular'attention. We refer to the
Pennsylvania building at the Buffalo Pan
American exposition. As president pro
tem of the Pennsylvania Senate and ex-of-
ficio president of the Pan Ameérioan com-
mission he had absolute control of the con-
struction and equipment of that building.
That his power was abused is known by
every citizen of Pennsylvania ‘who visited
the exposition.
For example, no intelligent man who
visited the building estimated its cost at
more than $6,000 and its farniture and
other equipment at above $4,000, making a
total cost of $10,000. : That was an outside
figure and natives of Pennsylvania - who
have since become citizens of other States
blushed with shame at the beggarly ex-
hibition which the Keystone State made
in the matter of building. As a matter of
fact, however, Senator SNYDER turned in
an expense account of $30,000 for the con-
struction and equipment of the building.
What became of the difference between the
actual cost and the amount drawn from the
State Treasury ? Many have wondered,
but nobody has found out.
Roosevelt's Busy Season.
The President has ended his six months’
vacation and returned so his duties in
Washington. He has his annual message
to prepare and other business to attend to,
bus we are informed tbat be is in splendid
physical condition and fit for any task
which may be imposed on him. We sin-
cerely hope that is true, for there is plenty
for him to do and not all of it easy. In
other words, in addition to the routine
business of his office, the preparing his
message, and the dispensing of patronage,
there is a vast amount of housecleaning to
look after, and the houses are exceedingly
filthy.
For example there is the Post-office De-
partment. The scandals which were de-
veloped last summer bave not been dis-
posed of and none of the culprits punished.
The President was very earnest in his
declaration of purpose to clean out that
angean stable promptly and thoroughly
early in the development of the frauds,
but when he ran up against PERRY
HEATH'S share in the transactions he pauced
Then the Miss TopD episode has since de-
veloped and ous of that bas grown an exceed-
ingly unpleasant incident. That is the
Postmaster General has practically ac-
cused the President of falsification and that
must be resented.
There are frauds in the War Depart-
ment to look after too. A contract for
gloves and other supplies involves a fraud
of the ugliest type and that ought to be
oleared up. In the Interior Department
the Indians have been systematically
robbed for years by the agents of the gov-
ernment and that ought to be punished too
and that will require both time and men-.
tal energy and then there are the offices to
take care of. Altogether the President
stands to have the most strenuons time of
hie life during the next few months.
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—— According to the statement of the
Bellefonte borough school board this dis-
trict is in debt $31,157.33, with doubtful
assets of $4,516. The borough owns two
fine school properties with a value in excess
of $50,000 and maintains splendid pablie
schools on an 8 mills levy on an assessed
valuation of $1,619,259.00. If every cent
of this were collected it would aggregate
$13,473.02 of which $8,826.50 is paid for
teachers alone.
——Senator A. E. Patton has awarded
Vincent Pearl Davis, of Penn township,
Clearfield county, his scholarship to The
Pennsylvania State College. From 81 to
85, 87 to 91; 91 to 95, the scholarship was
enjoyed by Centre county boys. From 95
to 99 and 9° to 03 Clinton county men had
it and now it goes to Clearfield, which is
quite proper; especially as the young man
who gets it is very deserving.
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— There was a meeting in the office, of
Geo. W. Zeigler Esq., in Philipsburg, last
evening, in the interest of good roads. The
projectors of the idea about Philipshurg
hope to get some of the state appropriation
for that purpose. ty "a
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Bellefonte Has no Mossops.
"The following paragiaph that has been
printed in almost every paper in, the State
within the past two weeks. tells of the
putliospiritedness of two Clearfield women:
Misses Alice and Mary Mossop, members
of one of Clearfield’s most prominent fami-
lies, have presented to the Clearfield hospital
directors, four acres of ground in the Third
ward of our neighboring town, near the driv-
ing park, as the site of a hospital - building,
and $20,000, in cash to be used toward building
and equipping the institution. The giftisa
memorial of the late Fred F. Mossop, 3 di-
rector of the hospital and a brother of the do-
nors. This philanthrophic example should
find many followers among the wealthy peo-
ple of Clearfield. : i
“The act is referred to here not so much
as a matter of news, but in order to draw
a lesson from what these two young Clear-
field women have done. Bellefonte has
countless wealthy people who have loved
anes to whose memory they might well
pay some tribute. We have a hospital and
a Y. M. C. A. either one of which afford ex-
cellent channels through which the memory
of some one might be perpetuated in a way
that would bring good to coming genera-
tions. 3 tH pe .
Within the past quarter of a century how
many have passed away in Bellefonte; leav-
ing a plethora behind them for others to en-
joy and how many of these have ay] other
marker than an insignificant shaft in a
cemetery. In another quarter of a cen-
tury the passerby will ‘stop ‘to think a
moment ere he realizes just who they were
when he reads their epitaph. | Is.it not sad
to contemplate that those lives that made an
impress on the community ‘in their day
are nothing hut a ‘memory now.
As long as Clearfield stands Fred. Mos-
sop’s name will live in it; growing'in hal-
Jowedness as the hospital which should bear
his name extends its usefulness. :
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Judge Bailey Dropped : Dead.
Domestic Heard Him Fall in Bathroom and Sum-
moned Assistance, but it Was too Late.
HUNTINGDON. Pa., Sept. 27.—Judge
John M. Bailey, president judge of ' the
Twentieth judicial district, ‘dropped dead
in his bath ‘room early this morning. Hie
fall was heard by a domestic, who sum-
moned a physician, who hurried to his
assistance, but found life extinot. :
Judge Bailey was elected in 1895 ina
triangular fight between two Republicans
and himself. His term would bave expir-
ed in 1906. Judge Bailey was born at
Dillsburg, York county. He was ‘at one
time connected with the law firm of 8 po
Brown and Bailey here. He was a’
her of the constitutional co
1872 and 1873, and served on.
tee of revenue of taxation and finances.
There are already many candidates men-
tioned for his place, among them J ndge
Reynolds, of Bedford county, and Mr.
Culbertson, of Mifflin county.
Judge Bailey leaves a widow and one
son, Thomas Fisher Bailey, Esq,, 8 member
of the Huntingdon county bar. Mrs.
Bailey’s maiden name was Fisher, she be-
ing a sister of the Hon. H. G. Fisher, of
Huntingdon, and an aunt of Mr. Thomas
Fisher, general manager of the Berwind-
White Coal company. ¥ Rd
Judge Bailey was a member of the First
Preshyterian church, of Huntingdon, and
one of its elders.
STORY OF THE CONTEST.
‘The story of the contest that lead to the
election of Judge Bailey to his high posi-
tion was an interesting one. The Legisla-
ture had just made a change in the district,
taking Mifflin county off the Union—-Sny-
der-Mifflin district, leaving the first two
named to form one district separated the
Huntingdon-Centre district, gave Centre
county her own judge. and made a new
district of Huntingdon and Mifflin counties.
Hon. W. McK. Williamson, of Hunting-
don, was appointed president judge of the
new district. . At the time the Hunting-
don-Mifflin houndary dispute was on. The
appointment was made during the early
summer. The Republicans of the district
conld come to no agreement, Mr. M. J.
Culbertson, mentioned above, having the
Mifflin conferees and Mr. Williamson the
Huntingdon conferees. Mr. Williamson
was a brother-in-law to D. W. Woods, Esq.
of Lewistown, a bitter political enemy of
Mr. Culbertson. As neither of the gentle-
men would give way, they both ran inde-
pendent, making it one of the most bitter
and sensational campaigns ever known in
the two counties. Partisan feeling ran
high, and when the election was over in
November, 1892, Judge Bailey bad won
out by a fair majority in a district that
nominally gives a Republican majorisy of
about 1,750. His first appearance on the
bench in each county was the subject of
much speculation, particularly on account
of the boundary dispute, due to the fact
that Messrs Culbertson & Son, on behalf of
Mifflin county, and Judge Williamson, on
behalf of Huntingdon county, were among
the attorneys interested. His actions were
such that neither side had any fault to find.
T AREER
The Price of Patriotism. . .. . ¢ |
From the Brooklyn Eagle. | : * red
“Reports from physicians and sul
are now available, and they show
young America killed 466_ people and
jured 4,499 on the Fourth of last Julgs
nearly 5,000 were killed and injured’ig
earthquake, or oyclone or battle, the
of the disaster would go around the:
and expressions of h Sor d of sy
qt
would come from. every, quarter. Bab this
is only what is expectédiof the Fourth
July, so nobody is supposed to care. W has
a condivion ‘of b i where the. at
thorities survey this shiughter and this in-’
jury, and lite/not a finger to prevent i.”
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From France to and by Balloon.
AOL ENTRAGY dain Aha We
. T.oxboN; Sept. 27.+ Count De La Vaulx
aid Cuong DiOdtremont descended today
in a balloon, pear Hujl, , Yorkshire, having
journeved from Paris: in peventeen and
three-fourth hours. This is the first time’
thas a. balloon bas successfully traveled
from Frapce to England. .
| embraced gixls on the streets of thattown.
management of Howard Consil.
good playing won 17 games and
Beatie Tio lugged tire
Joseph Lamon was fined $23 by th
Hazelton the other day. Lamon:
—Rev. Saniuel A. Wilson, a former pastor
of the Ping street and Newberry M. E.
churches, at Williamsport, was so badly in-
jured by a trolley car at Baltimore on Sun-
day that he died a few hours later.
—Rev. M.S. Jones, pastor of the Lock
day on a warrant which charges the preacher
with wantonly pointing a revolver at Albert
Jackson and his brother Herbert, and un-
lawfully carrying concealed weapons.
—J. N. Bitner, of Flemington, has just
finished a contract of excavation for 15 cel-
lars for new houses. A portion of them were
for the Murray Lumber company of Philips-
burg and the remainder for the Harbison-
Walker company at Mill Hall and Fleming-
ton.
—Riley Hemingway, who has passed the
84th mile stone in life, made a little jaunt of
26 miles from Oregon Hill to Jersey Shore
the other day in less than seven hours on a
visit. Riley frequently walks long distances
and thinks nothing of it.. He has no time
for railroad trains. ° i
—James Lewis, the postoffice robber, it is
thought with his parents, at one time lived
near Mifflinburg, and it is reasonable to
| credit him and his gang with the robberies
committed in Pennsylvania on former occa-
sions. His hand, no doubt, was in the post-
office robberies at Centre Hall and State Col-
lege several years ago.
—Shortly after 10 o’clock Saturday even-
ing a fire broke out in the Summerhill hotel,
Summerhill, and before its fury could be
checked destroyed the structure. As a blaze
‘started in the hotel early Friday morning,
being discovered in time to be put out before
doing any, considerable damage, suspicions
are entertained that an incendiary has been
at work. ‘
—William Bowman, a farmer of Upper
Fairfield township, Lycoming fcounty, and
Mary Heisley, a daughter of Abraham and
Elizabeth Heisley, of the same township,
have been granted a marriage license by
register and recorder Harder, the mother. of
the girl having given consent to the marriage
of her daughter who is only fourteen years
old, while the man is forty-five.
. —A man by the name of Nesbit from
Bakerton was one of the jurors drawn. to
serve at Ebensburg last week. The small-
pox also claimed his attention unknown to
the coutt, and despite his physician’s orders
‘he succeeded in escaping and reached the
county seat in time for the opening of the
‘court. But he was ordered to leave and did
so with as little delay as possible.
—Burglars effected an entrance into the
Muncy postoffice Monday morning at 1:30
and dynamited the safe, but were frightened
away before they secured any plunder. The
concussion from the explosion started the
telephone bell to ringing, which aroused
Miss Dimm, the night operator at the ex-
change, who “wrung up” but got no reply,
‘as the burglars had skipped.
—On Sunday, October 4th, the new Metho-
dist church at Oak Grove will be dedicated.
Rev. F. M. Boggs, of Howard, will occupy
the pulpit on Saturday evening at 7:30
o'clock. Dr. E. J. Gray, of the Williamsport
Seminary will preach on Sunday morning at
10:30 o'clock, and Rev. Boggs will preach in
the evening. The services will be conducted
by Rev. Whitely, the pastor in charge.
—State Treasurer Frank G. Harris is in
receipt of an unsigned letter from Reading,
containing two crisp $100 bills, along ‘with
the announcement that the moneyfwas for
“back taxes due to State.” Mr. Harris says
it is the second time since he has been] State
Treasurer that ‘conscience money’’¢has been
returned to the Treasury Department, . The
$200 will go into the general fund of the
State.
~ —George Scott, who played right half bac
for Treverton against Dickinson Seminary
on Saturday, is in the Williamsport hospital
in a delirious condition. Immediately after
the game ended Scott walkedZ.over to the
side lines and sat down. In a few minutes
he began to complain] of feelingiifaint and
collapsed. A slight bruise at the base of the
skull was found and it is thought that he is
suffering from a concussion of the brain.
—D. F. Dolan, special agent of the rural
free delivery system, was inziCurwensville
recently looking after theinstitution of rural
routes from that place. After a careful ex-
amination and going over the route Mr.
Dolan was compelled to refuse recom”
mendation for free delivery: The reason
given for this refusal was that the route
should cover 20 miles and should serve 100
families or more. The route mapped out
Ryne » n) a
measured only 14 miles and the number of
families did not exceed 64.
—Sunday forenoon while Forest, the’12
years old so n'of Lewis Eyer, of Warriors-
mark valley, and a younger son of William
Van Scoyoc, of Altoona, were returning to
their home in Warrjors;mark valley in a one
horse spring wagon, after’ delivering milk in
Tyrone and a short distance east ofthe Ty-
ono ind Lewisburg railroad bridge the horse
Took fright ‘a ‘an’ eléphant, advertising sign
Which had become detached from its fasten-
ings and placed against a telegraph pole on
the roadside,turning suddenly the boys were
| thrown out of the wagon to the roadbed,
Forest’ Eyer being dragged some distance.
Both received bad cuts and bruises dbout the
head and face.® °° Ae
gut lo ns ae jaa $e a
.. —Two horses did remarkable stuntsion the
Pennsylvania railroad: ‘tracks between
‘Gallitzin and Lilly Saturday mornivg. The
‘horses got on the track at Gallitzin just
dhead of engine 2290 and ran ahead of the
locomotive to Pritchie's Crossing, one aud
one-half mile east of Lilly, where they left
the track. Tha records of the railrpad com-
pany show that engine 2290 : passed Gallitzin
tower al 5:18 and passéd, Lilly at 5:31. ' This
yhakes 8 total running time of twelve min-
“ites for five miles. The horses ran three
‘and one-half miles of this Bistance ahead of
‘the locomotive, It meant they were travel-
ing almost at the rate of a mile in two
minutes. i
: $
y in-
Haven A. M. E. church, was arrested Tues- >