8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
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: Ink Slings.
—Only three weeks until the eleotion.
—Are you going to attend the election to
help rebuke the gang that tried to muzzle
the press? « ©
~~After Pennsylvania gets through fix-
ing np her public roads what a cinch it will
be for the hobos.
— About the only person the tax gather-
er doesn’t worry this time of the year is
the small-pox victim.
—Game is scarce enough, but the hunter
who didn’t get lots yesterday—according to
his own stery—is scarcer.
—In the good year 2003 the Water street
wall will still be standing as a monument
$0 the sagacity of the present council.
— There are several fellows in Bellefonte
who still have it in for the person who told
them that two can live cheaper than one.
—1I# is the easiest thing in the world to
get married, but the hardest to undo, if
you find you have married the wrong per-
son.
—The Altoona Gazelte alludes to the de-
velopment of that city in a way that will
lead most readers to believe that it is all
the chest tones.
—Congress is to meet in extraordinary
session on November 9th. It is not expeot-
ed that anything extraordinary will be
done, however.
—The record breaking rain fall last week
might have been due to the immense
amount of water that was squeezed out of
U. S. steel, common.
—Are you going to vote for the press
muzzler or will you vote for men who are
on record as being opposed to such outrages
on the freedom of the press?
—ANDREW CARNEGIE doesn’t seem £0
be worrying much about where U. S. stee]
is, but that is largely due to the fact that
A NDY always was ‘‘a wise guy.”’
— Indianapolis, Ind., turned down its
Re publican mayor on Tuesday and elected
a Democrat. There is no mistaking the
D emocratic tide that has already set in.
—The Seaside Ice and Cold Storage Cor
of Atlantic City, has gone into the hands
of a receiver. How’d you like to be the
ice man? He'd rather be a plumber now.
—The government estimates of the coun-
try’s corn crop places it at two billion, three
hundred million bushel and it is abous the
only thing we know of that water hasn’é
hurt this season.
° —The Press says, ‘‘Philadelphia Needs
the Wabash 1” What’s the matter with
the Pennsy and the Reading. Aren’s they
doing enough to her councils in the way of
free transportation ?
—It took THOMAS C. PLATT, of New
York,two years to discover that he couldn’t
ges along without a wife. Tom's perspi-
cacity is evidently not the secret of his suc-
cess as a politician.
—There is some consolation for the vie-
tims of the U. S. steel slump. The coun-
try is full of CARNEGIE libraries, where
all may go and learn to do better things
than stock gambling.
—Labor and capital bad a great day in
Chicago yesterday and the Hon. GROVER
CLEVELAND, equal to the emergency, de-
livered himself of a capital speech over
which he evidently labored hard.
—An Indian named Wakes-up-Last was
killed in a drunken row at Browning, Mon-
tana, on Sunday. It is bardly probable
that Wakes-up-Last will ever wake up at
all any more, still yet, once again.
—The Boston Americans have beaten the
Pittsburg Nationals for the base ball cham-
pi onship of the world. Thus it will be
seen that Boston can do something more
than discuss BROWNING and KEATS.
—Some one has figured out that it would
take she entire population of the United
States one hundred days to shell this year’s
corn crop by hand. We are perfectly will-
ing to continue writing slings with our
hands, however.
—Get ont the full vote in the county
this fall. It is a mistake to imagine that
any election is unimportant. It is the
duty of every good citizen to take his part
in the direction of government and the
only way tbat can be done is through the
ballot.
——Governor PENNYPACKER’S oratory was
applauded by the club women at Carlisle
on Tuesday night. They doubtless realiz-
ed that they could afford to be magnani-
mous, for we’ll bet everyone of them
thought themselves capable of talking
him dumb.
—The Republican machine of Philadel-
phia bas the brazenness to levy a tax of two
per cent on the salaries of public school
teachers in that city for campaign purposes,
after what has happened in that city.
Verily impudence and grafs will succeed
w here honesty fails.
—We don’t want to be regarded as start-
ing the calamity howl before it is really
du e, but it is amusing to read such indica-
tions of the approach of hard times as the
flip- flop Connellsville Courier published on
Saturday, when it said : ‘‘Monpessen has
not been the only town in Western [Penn-
sylvania to suffer during the slight cessa-
tion of business.” ‘‘Slight cessation of
business’? is good. If, perchance, there
should be a Democratic President at Wash-
ington and a Demooratic Congress in con-
trol this same Connellsville Courier
would’nt be speaking in such gentle terms
as ‘‘sl ight ceseation of business.”
A NASA OES
CEN
Demo
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Governor Pennypacker Tuesday ap-
pointed Austin Curtin, of Roland, Centre
county, and 8. K. Schwenk, of Philadelphia,
members of the Vicksburg battlefield me-
morial commission.
—The managers of the National and Amer-
ican league clubs are after some of the local
players for next season,says the Williamsport
News. Big offers are being made. Clymer,
Bressler, Lush, Maitland and Weigand are
the most sought after.
VOL. 48
Pennypacker’s Grave Offense.
Governor PENNYPACKER appears to have
adopted the ‘‘higher law’’ notion which in-
fluenced THEODORE ROOSEVELT when he
was Governor of New York and guides
Governor DURBAN, of Indiana, still. That
is to say he refused, the other day, to honor
the requisition of Governor HUNN, of
Delaware, for a negro under arrest in Phila-
delphia charged with criminal assault on
a white girl ten yeais of age. The reasons
he gives for his action are that not long
ago a negro was lynched in Delaware for a
similar atrocity on a young woman. There-
fore the surrender of the prisoner in ques-
tion, he reasons. might subject him to the
same summary punishment. The Gov-
ernor of Delaware is a Republican and
probably has no more prejudice against the
negro race than the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania. But the Governor of Pennsylvania
takes upon himself the responsibility of re-
fusing to extradite a felon.
Section two of article four of the consti-
tution of the United States provides in the
second paragraph that ‘‘a person charged
in any State with treason, felony or other
crime, who shall flee from justice, and be
found in another State, shall on demand of
the executive authority of the State from
which he fled, be delivered up to be remov-
ed to the State having jurisdiction of the
orime.”’ The constitution of Penasylvania
in Article seven, section one provides that
“Senators and Representatives and all
judicial, State and county officers shall be-
fore entering on the duties of their respec-
tive offices take and subscribe the follow-
ing oath or affirmation: I do solemnly
swear (or affirm) that I will support, obey
and defend the constitution of the United
States’.”” Governor PENNYPACKER took
that solemn oath.
It will be noticed that the provision of
the constitution of the United States is
without reservation of any kind. The
language is mandatory. The person charg-
ed with treason, felony or other crime
‘‘ghall on demand of the executive author-
ity of the State from which he fled, be de-
livered up.”” The language of the State
constitution quoted is equally unequivocal
and positive. All judicial, state and
county officers shall take and subscribe an
oath that he will ‘support, obey and de-
“fend the constitution of the United States.”’
That oath obligates Governor PENNYPACK-
ER to deliver up to the execativeauthority
of Delaware any man accused of treason,
felony or other crime. There is no pro-
vision that the constitution of the United
States may be violated in case a burly
negro bas committed the most atrocious
crime in the catalogue on a defenseless
white child and is likely to be lynched for
it. The Governor is not responsible for
what happens subsequently and has no
alternative except obedience to the fed-
eral constitution and his oath of office.
It may be that QUAY’S eulogist doesn’$
understand the obligation of an oath. It
is possible that in his inordinate vanity be
imagines that his own notions are above
the fundamental law. But in that he is
gravely mistaken. In violating his oath
of office in this respect he is as much a
perjurer as the conscienceless wretch who
for a pecuniary consideration swears false-
ly in a court of justice and he deserves the
punishment quite as much. In refusing to
extradite the guilty negro Governor PEN-
NYPACKER commits perjury and he should
be impeached and punished for the crime.
John Hay’s Diplomacy.
There is bardly a possibility of averting
a war between Russia and Japan and as
PATRICK HENRY remarked on a memor-
able occasion ‘‘the next breeze which comes
from the East may bring the sounds of
clashing arms.”’” The trouble is about
Manchuria. Russia refuses to evacuate
that Chinese province; according to prom-
ise, and Japan interprets her occupation
of the territory as not only prejudicial to
the interests of the land of the Mikado but
as actually menacing to the peace of the
land of flowers, tea and bamboo.
This incident recalls the fact thas long
ago the courtiers of the present administra.
tion were singing praises of the diplomatic
achievement of Secretary of State JOHN
HAY, because he had managed to get Rus-
sia to consent to an evacuation of Man-
churia. That was all that is necessary,
they raid, to opening the doors of China to
the commerce of the United States from
which great wealth would be certain to
flow and wonderful prosperity result. It
marked Mr. HAY, they added, as one of
the most consummate diplomatists of the
present or any other age.
But he doesn’t appear to have accom-
plished much in the matter of opening the
doors of China to our trade if the evacua-
tion of Manchuria were an essential pre-
requisite, for the Russian minister in China
has frankly served notice on the Pekin
government that Russia will never evaou-
ate Manchuria but will hold it for all time
as the legitimate spoil of conquest. If that
be true is must be said that Mr. HAY'S
pretenses as a diplomatist have dwindled
to the most meagre proportions and that
o far as it rests on that achievement it
gamounts to nothing.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Judge Grosscup’s Idea.
Judge GRosscUP, of the federal court for
the District of Chicago, is greatly disturb-
ed with the fear that the corporations of
the country may not be properly taken care
of. The Judge has invariably done his
best to avert any such misfortune to the
corporations and on several occasions has
‘perverted the law so as to serve them. He
was the originator of that peculiar judicial
atrocity which made it a crime for striking
employes to persuade other workingmen to
join them in etrikes in order to force ac-
quiescence in their demands and he has in
varioas other ways endeavored to give the
corporations the best and workingmen the
worst of strike conditions. But his new
alarm has brought forward the most dan-
gerous suggestion of the lot.
The Judge would have the federal gov-
ernment take over to itself by congression-
al legislation absolute control of corpora-
tions and deprive State Legislatures of all
power concerning them. He gives two rea-
sons in support of his proposition, both
bad. The first is that State Legislatures
can’t always be controlled and those in
Democratic States are never amenable to
corporation influences. In this connection
he inferentially argues that congress can
always be depended upon to do the right
thing. The trusts could easily afford to
contribute sufficient funds to control con-
gressional elections, it they could be exempt
from obligation to contribute to legislative
elections. But so long as State Legislatures
can legislate on corporate questions the
trusts are obliged to look after legislative
elections.
The second reason alleged by Judge
GROsSCUP in support of his monstrous prop-
osition is that if corporate legislation were
limited to Congress the interpretation of
corporate laws would be confined to feder-
al courts and under that arrangement the
corporations would have a pudding. Such
Judges as GRosscUP would make short
shrift of striking employes and their com-
plaints, whatever they might be. Govern-
ment by injunction would then become the
rule instead of the exception and it would
soon become as much a crime to strike as
it is now to rob a bank or commit a mur-
der. Meantime we are drifting in that di-
rection and unless the party of monopoly
and militarism is voted out of power there.
is certain to be a speedy end of constitu-
tional government.
Snyder and the People.
In less than three weeks the people of
Pennsylvania will be called on to deter-
mine a most important question concerning
their welfare. They will be asked to choose
between a subservient tool of the corpora-
tions of the State and an able and coura-
geous champion of the people, a man to fill
the office in the government of the State
the occupant of which determines all ques-
tions of right and wrong between the peo-
ple and the corporations. There is not a
rational man in Centre county who would
allow Senator WILLIAM P. SNYDER to sit
as juror in a case between himself and the
Pennsylvania railroad, however small the
amount involved. Everybody knows that,
right or wrong, he would decide in favor of
the corporation.
The Auditor General is not only the jur-
or in all cases in which the Pennsylvania
railroad, the Standard Oil company or any’
other corporation is in contention with the
people of Pennsylvania, but he is the judge
and advocate. Whatever he says with re-
spect to the obligations of corporations is
the law, if the corporation assents to it. If
the corporation feels aggrieved it can appeal
to the courts. But the people have no
such right of redress. The Auditor Gener-
al fixes the matter absolutely. He can
make a railroad company pay all it owes on
the basis of a fair valuation or he can let it
off with a moity of what it ought to pay
and the people bave no right of appeal. No
other officer in this or any other State has
such immense power.
Yet Senator QUAY has chosen for this
great office a man who during eleven years’
service in the Legislature has never once
raised his voice or cast bis vote in the in-
terest of the people as against the corpora-
tions. Every measure of spoliation of the
people for the benefit of the corporations
has bad his earnest and aotive support.
Millions of dollars worth of property have
been voted to the Pennsylvania railroad
during the period of his service in the Leg-
islature and his vote and influence has in-
variably been with the corporations and
against the people. Notwithstanding these
facts, however, the people are now asked
to put him in a position in which he may
do their interests greater harm than before.
If they are wise they will not make such a
blunder.
—As a cabinet maker Mr. BALFOUR can
scarcely be regarded as even a good appren-
tice.
——The Lock Haven school board is ar-
resting troants in that city. It would be
a good plan if some of the boys who are to
be found loafing about our streets daily
were made to feel the importance of the
compulsory education law.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 16, 1903.
New Use of the Surplus.
With a surplus of $17,000,000 in the
State Treasury the Republican machine
contemplates the approach of the election
with considerable complacency. That vast
fand has been judiciously distributed over
the State. Every dollar has been pub
where it will do the most good and the
machine managers are confident of the re-
sult. The usual laborious and somewhat
tedious methods have not been followed
this year. The chairman of the state
committee spent the time amusing himself
in search for big game in British Columbia
which is usually devoted to the work of
the campaign. But he is not worried about
the vote. The surplus is expected todo
the work.
An examination of the list of state de-
positories will show why Senator PENROSE
is confident of victory at the approaching
election’ notwithstanding his failare to
make the preliminary canvasses and per-
form the routine work. Wherever a little
stimulus is needed a commensurate deposit
has been made and the bankers thus fav-
ored are expected to do the rest. The ac-
tivity of a banker is a potent influence in
politics. Customers or others, absolutely
safe, but needing an accommodation can
readily be converted to the idea that it is a
good thing to please the banker. A bor-
rower who is forced to ask for a renewal is
easy game for the banker who wants to
hold the deposit.
The surplus in the State Treasury be-
longs to the people. If it had been per-
mitted to remain in their pockets their
{amilies might have enjoyed some addi-
tional comforts and the sufferings of a sick
child might have been mitigated. Or tak-
en from the people if it bad been applied
to the necessities of the public charities
and other benevolent institutions it might
have been made to serve a useful purpose.
Bust it has been gathered into the treasury
and divided among the bankers for use as
a fund to debauch the ballot and corrupt
the voters of the State. Such a perversion of
power is the gravest crime. The perpe-
trators of it ought to be punished by the
overthrow of their party at the polls.
—The four hundred and two Medal of
Honor men of the United States passed
resofitions som endio General MILES. a6
‘their reunion'at, Gettysburg on’ Tuesday.
| ing notice was posted at the Pennsylvania
Gen. SICKLES tried to kill them but the
men whom Congress has voted the bravest
| of our Nation passed them over his head
and proclaimed to the world that they
endorse MILES, even if he is snubbed by
such paper soldiers as ROOSEVELT and
Roor.
Mr. Dalzell Stands Pat.
Representative JOEN DALZELL, of Pitts-
burg, bas already gone to Washington to
prepare for his work asa Representative in
Congress and solicitor for various corpora-
tions on the floor. Mr. DALZELL always
goes to Washington a month or so before
the session begins for the purpose of look-
ing over the ground and getting things
ready. This time he began that work by
paying a friendly visit to the President.
At the expiration of his conference with
the Chief Magistrate he complacently au-
nounced that there will be neither finan-
cial nor tariff legislation during the extra
session and probably not in she regular
session, which begins on December 1st.
Representative DALZELL is a ‘‘stand-
patter’? of the most confirmed type. He is
connsel for nearly all the steel and iron
corporations and companies in the neigh-
borhood of Pittsburg and is confident that
his clients have nothing to gain by tinker-
ing the tariff. As a Representative in
Congress his constituents are in a different
situation of course. They are taxed heavily
in order that the steel barons and iron
princes and coal and coke kings may
multiply their vast profits. But thesalary
of Congress is only a trifle compared with
the attorneys’ fees which come regularly
from the rich corporate clients and, besides,
his clients can buy the suppor of his con-
stituents anyway.
But the constituencies of other Con-
gressmen suffer because Mr. DALZELL'S
rich clients are satisfied with existing ocon-
ditions and desire to ‘‘stand pat.”’ In every
other congressional district in the State
there is suffering because Mr. DALZELL
takes care of his clents at the expense of
his constituents. But that doesn’t matter
much either to himself or his clients. As
Mr. VANDERBILT once stated it, ‘‘to hell
with the people.’”’ Mr. DALZELL and Mr.
ROOSEVELT have more important matters
to consider than the sufferings of an over-
taxed public. DALZELL'S counsel fees
amounts to nearly $100,000 a year and that
would be enough to live comfortably on,
even if taxes were twice as high.
—Cambria county has just paid to the
city of Lock Haven $400 for the care and
burial of a obild of the Newall family dur-
ing an attack of small-pox. The family
were located in Lock Haven at the time of
the disease, but as their legal residence was
shown to be in Cambria the latter agreed
to settle the bill of $558 by paying $400.
so FARE TBI
NO. 41.
Storm Sweeps Along Coast for Miles.
Torrential Rain Pours Down on New York and all the
Surrounding Country. An Enormous Amount of
Damage Is Done.
NEw YORK,
Oct, 9.—Torrential rain
commencing early yesterday morning and
continuing with scarcely any intermission
until late this afternoon,during which time
the unprecedented precipitation of 10.04
inches was recorded at the local weathe
bureau, today laid New York city and all
the surroundings under a flood, causing
damage that will amount to many hundred
thousands of dollars. Tonight the rain has
ceased, but a coast storm is reported ap-
proaching, and a threatened hurricane ren-
ders it unsafe for vessels of any class to
leave port.
RAILROADS ALL CRIPPLED.
Suburban steam and trolley lines, with
hardly an exception, were crippled by
floods and washounts,and in the early morn
ing rush hours thousands of suburban resi-
dents were unable to reach their offices in
this city. Those who were fortunate enough
to cross the ferries found further progress
blocked by the submerged condition of the
water front streets, across which they were
ferried in trucks and wagons.
WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 9.—The heavy
rain for the past 36 hours is causing con-
siderable damage to property in the oity
and vicinity. The Susquehanna river has
risen 10 feet since last evening and continues
to rise at the rate of 4 inches an hour. A
Brookside, a northern suburb, the wate
flooded the houses and sevezal families had
to move ou.
Fourteen families in North Wilkesbarre
were forced out of their homes at 10 o’clock
The Central and Delaware &
Hudson railroads are affected by the high
water. At Parsons, three miles from here,
tracks are covered in places with water and
the bridges are threatened to be carried
away. It is still raining at 11 o’clock and
a serious flood is threatened in the Wyom-
tonight.
ing valley.
DISASTROUS RAINS AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9.— The heavy |
rain storm which set in Thursday morning
continues tonight. During the last 36
hours 3.1 inches of rain have fallen. The
storm isaccompanied by a high wind, which
reached a maximum of 36 miles an hou
this afternoon.
done in this city or vicinity.
mal, but nowhere near the danger point.
At Atlantic City, N. J., four inches of
rain fell between 8 a. m. and 8 p. m. today.
At Delaware Breakwater the wind reached
a velocity of 50 miles an hour. Hurrican
‘warnings are up along the coast fro
Delaware capes north. :
. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10.—The follow
railroad station here to-day :
‘“The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
announces that on account of the high wa-
ter at Trenton, N. J., the train service be.
tween Philadelphia aud New York city wil
be temporarily abandoned, except to Bris
tol, Pa.”
No trains have reached this city over the
Pennsylvania railroad since midnight last
night because of the flood at Trenton, where
the tracks of the company are under six
The flood at that point is
caused by the high water in the Delaware
feet of water.
river backing up the waters in the Assan
pink creek. The Pennsylvania railroad
company has not had any : sher report o
damage along its lines.
At the Delaware Breakwater today the
wind is still blowing at the rate of fifty
miles an hour. The heavy seas are break
ing over the telegraph lines, but thus far
no disasters to shipping have been reported
A dispatch to the Maritime Exchange
says the life saving station at Townsend’s
Inlet, N. J., reports that the Townsend’s
Inlet hotel was underminded by the high
Beyond the flooding of a
few streets caused by chucked up sewers,
no damage of any consequence has been
The Dela-
ware and Sebuylkill rivers are above nor-
—A disastrous fire occurred shortly before
3 o’clock Monday afternoon at Drury’s Run,
in which the West Branch hotel was totally
destroyed. The origin of the fire is un-
known. This hotel was one of the finest in
the county, and was owned by Jerry Foley.
—The body of Mrs. Mary Lorenz, aged
about 72 years, was found floating in the
creek near Strath Haven Inn, at Swarth-
more, Tuesday morning. She had wandered
from the home of her son-in-law, George W.
Ball, and in all probability committed
suicide.
’
~ —It is said a strange disease has broken
out among swine in Bedford county and
many fine hogsare dying, The malady is
what is know as the hog plague. Nothing
has yet been found to stay the progress of
disease, which in some respects resembles
hog cholera.
Tr
—The commissioners of Lycoming county
have secured from the supervisors the num -
ber of miles of public roads in the county,
which they report to be 1,836. Muncy Creek
_ | township contains the greatest number of
miles 100, and Salladasburg borough the
least number, 2}.
_ —Charles Spaid, of New Berlin, committed
‘suicide last week without any special reason.
He was about twenty-five years old. Several
dz ys previous to the time he committed the
deed, the young man suffered from an aberra-
tion of the mind, and was melancholy and
‘depressed.
—Reunben Behm, of Williamsport, acting
for the S.P.C. A., Thursday arrested 13
years’ old John Warner, son of Henry
Warner, of Pennsdale, for firing shot into
the udders of two cows belonging to August
Fry. Warner paid Fry $75 for the cows and
will also settle for the cruelty part.
—Mrs. William Minch, an aged widow
who lives in a cabin at the edge of the woods
near Mill Creek, at Wilkesbarre was found
dead on the mountain near her home at
midnight Tuesday night. Her little 8-year-
old grandson, who went into the woods with
her to gather fire-wood was found lying
asleep beside her dead body.
—Freddie, 2-years’ old son of John R,
Haynes, of Williamsport, is dead asa result
of drinking about an ounce of whiskey from
a flask. The child had been ill, and the
r | father was about to give it a dose of hot wa-
ter and whiskey. While he was after the
water, the child got the bottle of liquor and
helped himself. Death ensued seven hours
later.
—The State Factory Inspector's Depart-
ment is taking steps for the eradication of
child 1a bor about the State, and the deputies
have been working toward that end in al-
most every county. The children are com-
6
r
ane
the | pelled to show their certificates and even in
- | such cases the youngsters’ fathers have to
- | prove that they are of legal age for working —~
in factories.
—The trouble between the Pennsylvania
Coal and Coke company and its men will
- | likely be settled by arbitration. The miners
1| have chosen T. A. Bradley, of Lilly, to
- | represent them, while J. L. Mitchell, of
Ebensburg, will look after the interest of the
operators. They will meet in a few days to
hear the grievances of the miners and also
the operators’ side of the fight.
—The Lewis family, of Centralia, a little
town near Shamokin, is surely a sadly
: | afflicted one as the entire household is now
f suffering from smallpox, the latest victims
being their mother, father and grandmother,
who have developed the disease. With these
last three it makes ten in all nine of whom
- | contracted the disease from a son and broth-
er, who caught it in Philadelphia.
*| _On Thursday, the 15th inst, the new
state law went into effect, forbidding the dis-
charge of weapons propelling a metal bullet
or pellet, whether powder rifle, air gun.
sea this morning, and is breaking up. The | spring gun or any other kind, in the strects
hotel was a small frame structure and was
in an exposed position.
The storm along the coast prevails with
the same fury as was reported yesterday
-and bas apparently not moved from the.
territory affected by it during the past two
days. .
Property has been damaged to the extent
of thounsands of dollars in this city and
vicinity by the rain and wind. Scores of
buildings were flooded and washouts report-
Both the Dela-
ware and Schuylkill rivers are swollen far
above normal, the latter stream causing
serious damage to mill property along its
ed on nearly all railroads.
banks.
It is estimated that 6,000 textile workers
are idle in Manayunk because of the flood.
Along the lower Schuylkill there are sev-
eral places where the water swept over the
retaining wall and inundated the Fair-
mount Park drives, or, further south, bur-
Service has had to
be temporarily abandoned. Traffic on the
Philadelphia and Reading railway between
New York and Philadelphia was impeded
by the high water in the Raritan river. The
officials feared that the bridge across this
stream might be weakened by the flood and
trains were transferred to the Lehigh Val-
In this way trains
were able to complete their trips, though
ied the railroad tracks.
ley railroad tracks.
not on time.
A washout occurred on the Northeast
Pennsylvania branch of the Reading at
Buckingham, about twenty miles from
here, delaying traffic several hours.
At the weather bureau it was stated that
3:14 inches of rain had fallen since 8 o'clock
yesterday morning. At Manayunk the
Schuylkill river is fourteen feet above nor-
mal, which is two feet lower than the high
est point ever registered.
CIRCUS TRAIN INUNDATED.
TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 10.—A heavy
flood which last night caused the suspen-
sion of through traffic on the Pennsylva-
nia railroad had subsided some at 10 o'clock
to-day, but not sufficient to permit the
There ie no interfer--
ence with traffic between New York and
this vity, bus no trains are running be-
running of trains.
tween New York and Philadelphia.
Five trains that should have passed
through Trenton last night are stalled
and alleys of any city or borough. The
penalty is a fine of $5 for the first offense.
For the second the punishment is fixed at
? | $15 fine, with an imprisonment of 10 to 30
days, with costs.
—A question involving the right of a
school board to deny.an education to a child
residing in the district, but whose parents
live elsewhere, is to be decided shortly by
the Northumberland county, court. The
Mt. Carmel borough school board has de-
clined to permit a 10-year-old girl to attend
school without paying tuition, as her parents
do not live there, and the family with whom
she lives has not adopted her legally.
Twenty-six extra freight brakemen have
been dropped from the service on the Middle
division of the Pennsylvania railroad. The
men are all from that end of the division.
Orders for their lay-off were issued on Sat-
urday and were immediately put into effect,
the men being sent to Altoona Monday for
their time. The latest lay-off resulted from
the same causes as required the dropping of
eight entire crews from the division about
one week ago.
—At Antes Fort on - Sunday, Charles
Woomer was severely cut about the face by
flying glass hurled towards him by an ex-
ploding bottle of catsup which he was trying
to open. Mr. Woomer and his wife, who are
residents of Jersey Snore, were visiting the
latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bastrian
at Antes Fort, when the accident occurred.
It is feared that in addition to the cuts on
Mr. Woomer’s face there is glass in one of
his eyes.
—A new passenger station is to be erected
by the P. R. R. at Lewistown Junction. The
Junction has become an important station
and the forty years’ old structure that now
does duty there is no longer adequate for the
crowds that daily use it. The new station
will be twenty by eighty feet, of tancy brick,
one story in height. The general plan of
all new stations along the Pennsylvania
lines east will be followed, with slate roof,
steam heat, plate and beaded glass windows,
tile and cement flooring, gas and _ electric
fixtures. The station will be built, it is
understood, near the site of the present
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structure.
FE. TS