Demorri ad GRAY MEEK. sY P. Ink Slings. —Most anyone would have given a pen- ny for the thoughts that were running through Judge LoVE’s mind after he heard the returns from Clearfield county. —The result in New York will likely appear far too strenuous for the strenuous gentleman in Washington who wants to be elected President of the United States. —A MCCLELLAND might occupy the white house afterall. Thegallant GEORGE ° B. did’nt get there, but his son has sud- denly loomed up as a presidential possi- bility. —TUnele ANDY CARNEGIE is the only man who isn’t worrying much about United States steel. He has the first mortgage covering about the entire proper- ty of the company. —The handsomest private car in the world is said to belong to CHARLES M, SCHWAB. It cost $50,000, all of which was real money and not the kind that the stock of that ship building trust repre- sents. —The exceptionally light vote in Centre county demonstrates that something more is needed than duty as a citizen to get peo- ple to the polls. ‘The powerful persuad- er’? still stands supreme as the boss vote getter. —Election results all over the county indicate that the Democrats are beginning to come ont of the tall timbers to which they fled three years ago. Pennsylvania and Ohio are the only States in which elections were held in which we did not gain and nothing better was to be expected of two such machine dominated Consmon- wealths. The Result from a Practical Point of View. For the life of us we cannot see where any Republican and particularly the state Machine finds consolation or figures to crow over in the returns of the recent élection. It is true they have Philadelphia to point to, with less than one half its vote polled and more than its total vote returned, but when one looks outside of that city, the reason for Republican jubilation is diffi- cult to see. : Outside the State every election held shows the drift of sentiment to be against the party in power. In Massachusetts that has given as high as 60,000 Republican majority, after a hotly contested fight, that party wins by less than 30,000. In Rhode Island, that has always until last year been a reliable Republican State, the Democrats win, although every effort and ‘influence to give it to the Republican party for ‘the effect it would have on next | years presidential election was put forth. In New York, {where ROOSEVELT and Wall street and all the forces of Fusion and Republicans combined was faced up against the Democracy, the Democratic candidate for Mayor was elected by the overwhelming majority of 70,000—a larger majority than the State outside of Greater New York can give to any candidate for President the Republican party can put in the field next fall. Maryland, that has been going for the Republicans for years, turns round and elects a Democratic Governor by 8,000 and gives both branches of its Legislature to the Democracy by substantial majorities. Kentucky, that has been in the doubtful column for years gets back to its old time Democratic position and elects its Gover- nor by twenty to twenty-five thousand majority. And in all the Southern States there is not a sign of a break or of weaken- ing in the Democratic faith anywhere. And what has Republicanism gained to offset its- losses in Massachusetts, Rhode Island. New York, Maryland and Ken- tucky? Not a vote any where. It has held its own in Ohio, and that is all. New Jersey, Towa and Nebraska all show a falling off of Republican majorities. And as it is outside the State so it is within it. While the majority for the Machine state} ticket is about the usual figures, made up by the count in Philadel- phia and the colored vote of the State, the result in a substantial way is anything else than a Republican victory. " Figuring the results from the basis of representatives in Congress the State Sen- ate, the Legislature and on the bench the Democrats have vastly the best of it. Basing the vote on that cast for the state ticket they fhave won two congressional districts—Schuylkill, York and Adams, and have lost none. We have’ won four Senatorial distriots, Schuylkill (2), Cumberland and Adams (1) and York (1), and have lost none. They bave won eight districts, now represented by creatures of the Machine in the lower House at Harrisburg, namely, Northumberland (1), Adams (2) and Schuylkill (5). . As for Judges, while the Democrats have lost one in Bucks they have gained one each in the Clearfield and Monroe districts, making in all a gain of. 2 Congressional districts, 3 Senatorial distriots, 8 Representative districts, 1 Judicial district. And what has the Machine gained, that it did not bave, or to off-set this loss ? Please examine the returns closely once and tell us if you discover anything for it to boast of. enracratic =I a0! STATE RIGHTS AN Wa 1 D FEDERAL UNION. 1 ot ( } pHa VOL. 48 BELLEFO Roosevelt’s Grandest Blunder. There have been so many incidents of absorbing interest during the few weeks last past that our extraordinary President has not been able to attract the usual amount of public attention. He may have been cutting up his usual antics in Wash- ington and possibly he was but public at- tention having been turned in another direction, they have escaped notice no doubt greatly to his regret, for his vanity covets popular attention, if it doesn’t crave approbation. It was this inordinate pas- sion that made him act the savage in the Mississippi swamps last winter and imitate the gypsy in the Yellowstone in the early summer. It was the same impulse which induced him to take a midnight ride dur- ing his stay in Oyster Bay and bas been responsible for most of his eccentricities throughout his life. But during this period of comparative exemption from presidential follies Presi- dent ROOSEVELT has been able to commit one blunder of extraordinary proportions. In fact it may be said that he has managed to cap the climax of official impropriety. No other President since the beginning of the government ever directly interferedjin a state election. It was an unwritten law of the office that the Chief Magistrate of the country should hold himself aloof from such interference. Mr. ROOSEVELT cast propriety, as well as decency, to the winds and plunged headlong into the contest in Maryland, forcing the campaign to take on lines most dangerous and forbidding. That is to say he laid the lines of the con- test on race difference and precipitated a most dangerous quarrel. Happily no serious consequences follow- ed the turn of affairs though Senator GOR- MAN was forced to assert resentment of the outrage in language which can hardly fail to carry an intense bitterness which will increase rather than diminish during the more than a year which ROOSEVELT has yet to serve in the office to which he was elevated by what may be properly de- scribed as a national calamity. Nor can it be hoped that it will be confined to the President and the Senator for Marylaud. All other Senators who respect the tradi- tions of the country which guarantee the State’s security against such imperial inter- ference with local affairs must feel his pre- rogatives are assailed |by snch an episode and every Se nator who represents a south- ern constituency is forced to the convic- tion that the best interesfs of his State are jeopardized. ——Hallow-eeners did little property damage in Bellefonte Saturday night. Some crossings, steps and fences were torn up, but nothing of extraordinary mo- ment. The children seem to have given up the old cabbage head, corn and tio-tac annoyances and taken to a new stunt. They were out, armed with flour and soap. They used the soap to make all kinds of hieroglyphics on windows and threw the flour on pedestrians, irrespective of the kind of clothes they wore. The effect was volumes of oathes from some of the fel- lows who were sporting their best clothes. S——— An Expensive Luxury. A statement of the present strength of the navy recently issued from the depart- ment contains the information that there are at this time 525 war” ships of various types available for the instant service. That is a vast number and they have been acquired at great cost. There is no luxury quite as expensive as war ships. A first class battle ship costs something like five million dollars each. Cruisers cost from two to four millions each and there is no type of a war vessel which costs less than one and a half millions which is the mini- mum price for transports. It can be seen, therefore, that the war ships of the govern= ment have cost an enormoussum of money. During the last twenty-five years the science of marine architecture has improv- ed so rapidly that war ships become anti- quated on an average in about five years. In other words the navy has to be renewed about once in five years if it is to be main- tained at the highest standard of excel- lence. At that rate the maintenance of a fist class navy of say 500 ships will cost more than $100,000,000 a year, besides the expense of recruiting, compensating and clothing the sailors and marines. That will keep the people of the country poor for all time, even though there isn’t the shadow of a war oloud on the horizon. Taxes are the heaviest kind of burdens. If there were any nse in such a navy the burden might be endured. Patriotic people will suffer uncomplainiugly any sort of privations if good results follow. But what are we to use £00 war ships for in time of peace. - Twenty or thirty might be of ornamental service to transport our dignitaries from point to point. It is said that a consul who is about to visit some remote port in Africa is to be escorted by a fleet of three ships and the President needs a couple for pleasure excursions. But even at that there is no need for 500 at a cost of perpetual poverty to the people. That being true the policy of the govern- ment with 1eSpect to the navy ought to be changed. A Unique Bunco Game. One of the strangest disclosures of the commercial life of the country is that of the organization of the Ship building truss. The reneiver of that corporation in his re- port to the court characterizes it as ‘‘an artistic swindle.”” But he might better have described it as a unique bunco game. The evidence of witnesses who testified be- fore the United States commissioner indi- cated a conspiracy to defraud the public for the benefit of CHARLES M. SCHWAB and J. PIERPONT MORGAN. That is, it revealed the fact that the promoters con- sented to the hestowal of stock many times in excess of the actual value of the cor- poration to those gentlemen and the with- holding from the market of all other secur- ities until this vast volume of water had been disposed of. The obvious purpose of the promoters was to swindle the public. It was be- lieved, no doubt, shat the names of MOR- GAN and SCHWAB would serve this purpose to any extent and that after pre-’ senting them with the trifle of $30,000,000 | of the stock, there would still be good stealing to any amount. The $30,000,000 of stoek bestowed upon those wizards of finance represented actual assets of $300-, 000. It was expected, evidently, that that amount of assets and the names of MOR- GAN and SCHWAB wonld serve as a basis upon which might be floated hundreds of millions of securities. Probably that ex- pectation might have been fulfilled if SCHWAB had played fair. But the mo- ment he got rid of his bogus stock he laid down on his fellow conspirators. The proper place to inquire into the de- tails of this bunco game is the criminal court. 'In such a tribunal there would be some chance of forcing restitution. That is if the alternative of restoring to the despoiled victims the money out of which they had beenjrobbed or going to prison for the robbery bad been presented, there would probably be restitution. Not only that but the proceedings might lead to an investigation of the organization of other corporations predicated on precisely similar plans. The United States Steel corpora- tion, for example, bestowed on Mr. CAR- NEGIE largesses in greater volume but probably in about the same precportion to the assets contributed.. In other words on ‘an actual investment of about $10,000,- 000 CARNEGIE got securities of the Steel trust to the amount of about $750,000,000 and when dividends and interest default, as they certainly will, a similar reckoning will follow. The Ship Sabsidy. The Secretary of the Treasury wants ship subsidies. Ship subsidies would be about as much use to the people of Iowa as two tails would beto a yellow dog, but that makes nodifference. Secretary SHAW knows about as much about ship subsidies as an Angora goat knows of the inhabi- tants of the moon. But Secretary SHAW is no dummy at that. He understands that ship subsidies would be of vast advan- tage to the Republican party and that be- ing true he doesn’t mind the fact that such a policy would be in contravention of the constitution, subversive of the traditions of the country and immensely expensive, with- out corresponding advantage, ‘and that is. enough for him. Perjury, according to his idea, doesn’t go far among friends. Secretary SHAW’S idea of ship sub- sidies, however, is not the same as that of others. The old fashioned notion of ship subsidies was to pay bounties to ships with the possible result of benefitting commerce. Even that notion was falacious but it was in some measure excusable. SHAW’S notion, however, is that ship subsidies are for the exclusive purpose of draining the treasury. Tyranny thrives on poverty and a policy which will keep the treasury empty will justify heavy taxes and that means largesses from which to draw cor- ruption funds. It is a ruinous policy but the Republican party is a ruinous party and the policy which makes poverty is the policy which promotes the Republican party. That is why SHAW wants ship subsidies. The ship subsidy bill which Secretary SHAW proposes to revive is a measure which weuld take $270,000,000 out of the treasury and bestow it on a corporation which has no existence in fact. Ten years ago,when the measure was first proposed, a corporation was organized to receive the subsidy in the event that Congress should voteit. But Congress didn’t vote the sub- sidy and ever since the corporation has maintained a sort of uncertain existence in the expectation that later on the subsidy would be voted. During the last Congress it was defeated by so emphatic a majority that the hope was created that it would stay dead. But SHAW won’t have it that way. He is afraid of a reduction of taxes which would remove one cause of poverty and imperil the future of the Republican party. ——And you're next, Judge LOVE. NTE, PA., NOVEMBER 6, 1903. NO. 44. Bad Features of the Campaign. The campaign which bas just ended will be remembered for long years as one unique in the history of Pennsylvania politics. In fact it may be regarded as the beginning of anew era in the politics of the State. The Republican machine made no attempt to get out the vote. It remained dormant and ap- peared to invite lethargy generally speak- ing,so far as the State ticket was concerned. It is possible that this course was adopted on account of confidence that the Phila- delphia ballot box stuffers would provide a safe majority. If that be true it is prac- tically certain that the expectation was fulfilled. The perfidy of pretending Demo- crates and the criminal recklessness of the Republicans achieved the 1esuls. But there was no lethargy in judicial districts in which vacancies were to be fill- ed. In Blair, Clearfield, Bucks, Dauphin, Leliigh and Monroe counties there was the mest intense anxiety as to the result re- vealed in the extraordinary efforts pus forth by the State Committee in behalf of the Republican candidates. Strangely enough the anxiety for a non-partisan judiciary was made the excuse for this extraordinary effort. In Lehigh and Mon- roe counties, overwhelmingly Democratic and Republican,appointees of the Governor were held up as the exemplars of non- partisanship. In Clearfield county, ‘where a notoriously partisan Judge’s term had ex- pired, he was renominated to represent the same high judicial standard and in Bucks county, where a man who has adorned the office for twenty years happened to be a Democrat an attempt to defeat him was made under the plea of non-particanship. There is but one lesson to be drawn from this state of affairs and that is that the Republican machine has determined to seize the judiciary of the State and prosti- tute it to the base uses of partisan politics. In confirmation of this suspicion the Dauphin county case is in point. The sit- ting Judge there whose successor was elected was appointed to the office by Gov- ernor PENNYPACKER to fill a vacancy caused hy the death of Judge SIMONTON. He is acknowledged to be eminently quali- fied for the office and during his service since last March has made an admirable Judge. But he was not satisfactory to the sent a vast corruption fund into the coun- ty but made support of the machine can- didate a test of partisan standing. He also organized a force of repeaters to operate in Harrisburg, bot the vigilance of Judge JacoB’s supporters nullified their plans. In this movement to prostitute the judi- eciary there is the greatest danger to the Commonwealth. Whatever ills with which Pennsylvania has suffered in the past the people felt secure in the confidence of the ability, fidelity and patriotism of the Bench. Here and there partisan judges managed to get on the bench as in Clear- field. But they were the exception rather than the rule and the evil effect served as an admonition which has made the people of other counties careful in the selection of judicial candidates. But this year the Re- publican machine made a systematic effort to capture half a dozen Judges and pervert that many courts to the service of machine polities. - ——Philipsbarg has a newly organized law and order league and on Friday the first fruit was reaped. The league officers had notified all dealers in that place that they should keep closed on Sunday and all of them heeded the warning excep$ Frank Motter, a tobacco and cigar dealer, who was made the example on Friday, when he was arrested and had to pay a fine of $4 and $4.12 costs. ——The contest which the Bellefonte Republican had been carrying on since July for a handsome Burdette chapel organ came to a close on Saturday and the Pleas- ant Gap Lutheran church was the winner, with 4,453 votes. The Union chapel at Pleasant View bad 3,510, the Coleville chapel 67, Bellefonte Evangelicals 51 and the Lemont Methodists 8. -— The students at The Pennsylvania State College were so elated last Saturday night when they heard that their team had defeated the Annapolis cadets by the score of 17 to 0 that they started in jollify at once. Among other things they burned up the *‘bleachers’’ on the athletic field in order to give a lurid glow to their feel- ings. —When ROGER BROUSE was asked why the Panther Run hunting crowd had not taken to the woods he said: *'It is too warm. Our deer would’nt keep if we were to kill them this kind of weather.’ Now would’nt that rattle the shot in your car- tridge. ——Never in the history of Centre coun- ty bas there been a quieter or more indif- ferent election than was that of Tuesday. Why there wasn’t even enough enthusiasm to wet the whistle of the dryest voter. oe CREAR macline and Senator PENROSE not only Still Brazen in Her Disgrace. Pennsylvania Snyder and Mathues Easily Victorious. Morrison and Henderson Elected to Superior Court Bench— Yerkes Beaten for Judge in Bucks—Trexier Wins the Lehigh Fight. Gordon Badly Beaten in Clear- fleld. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4.—Latest esti- mates from the country districts indicate that the Republican State ticket will have majorities raging from 250,000 to 265,000. William P. Snyder, for Auditor General, has run slightly behind William L. Math- ues for State Treasurer, while Morrison and Henderson, who were chosen Superior Court Judges, polled a vote almost equal to that of Mathues. In the counties where judges of common pleas court were chosen the Republican percentage of victories was far greater than that of the Democrats. The greatest sur- prise was in Lehigh county, where Frank M. Trexler, Republican, defeated Edward Harvey, Democrat. This is the first time in the history of the county that a Repub- lican has been chosen as a judge for the Common Pleas. Harvey’s defeat was. due mainly to the dissatisfaction in the Demo- cratic ranks. The defeat of present Judge Harman Y erkes, Democrat, in Bucks county, by Mahlon H. Stout, Republican, was another victory which the Republican leaders were doubtful of. In Clearfield county the majority of Al- lison O. Smith, Democrat, over Cyrus Gor- don, Republican, for judge, will be about 2,500, and may reach 2,600. Smith car- ried all four wards of Clearfield, where both candidates reside, by 398. He car- ried DuBois, usually good for 500 Repub- lican majority, by 39, and received large majorities in every election district within 10 miles of Clearfield, except one, the home ward of Senator A. E. Patton, in Curwens- ville. which gave Gordon a greatly reduced majority. All the other candidates on the Repub- lican ticket were elected, James P. Staver for sheriff having ahout 700 and W. I. Swope for district attorney 600. Many of the old-time Republican leaders of the county are rejoicing to-day over Judge Gordon’s defeat, claiming it means a new deal in the party management and the re- tirement of the leaders who have run things for several years. New York Opens Its Arms to Tammany. George B. McClellan, Democrat, will be the next mayor of Greater New York, hav- ing defeated Mayor Seth Low for re-elec- tion by a plurality of 63,617, complete un- official returns having been received from every election district in the city. By the same returns Comptroller Edward M. Grout and Charles V. Fornes, president of the Joard of Aldermen, running for re-eleation on the Democratic ticket, though elected. two years ago by the Fusion party, defeat- ed their Fusion opponents by 66,973 plural- ity respectively ; Comptroller Grout leading the city ticket. This sweeping Democratic victory was accomplished for the city and borough tick- ets in four of the five boroughs of the munic- ipality, only Richmond borough (Statan Island), giving Low a plurality and elect- ing Fusion borough officers. J. Edward Swanstrom (Fusion), who, it was thought last night, might be elected president of Brooklyn borough, was defeated by Martin W. Littleton, the Democratic candidate, by 5,129 plurality, in spite of Littleton’s atti- tude in opposition to the Democratic city ticket. McClellan’s total vote for Mayor was 314,906 to 251,289 for Low. William 8S. Devery, Independent candi- date for Mayor, polled only 2,935 votes in the entire city, getting 2,671 of these in Manhattan and the Bronx, 226 in Brooklyn, 38 in Queens and none in Richmond. Maryland in Line for 1904. BALTIMORE, Md.,Nov. 4.—In Baltimore city the entire Democratic state ticket, comprising Edwin Warfield, of Howard county, governor; Gordon T. Atkinson, of Somerset county, comptroller,and William Shepard Bryan, Jr., of Baltimore, attorney general, was given by about 10,000 plural- ity. The Democrats elected in Baltimore city three senators and eighteen members of the house of delegates by large major- ities. The Republicans elected one state senator and six members of the house of delegates. William H. Green, Republi- can, is appparently elected sheriff of city by a plurality of between 100 and 200. The returns from al! the counties of the State have not been received but enough reports are in hand to insure an over- whelming Democratic majority on joint ballot in the general assembly, which will elect a sucessor to ex-Senator Louis E. Mc- Comas. : From returns receiveg at midnight, it is conceded that the Democrats will have on joint ballot eighty-two votes in general assembly to forty-one Republicans. Gen- eral Warfield’s plurality in the state will reach 8,000. Republican Slump Boston, Nov. 4.—Governor John L. Bates was re-elected hy the Republicans by a plurality of 35,849, over Colonel William A. Gaston, in a total of only slightly under that of 1902, when Bates won by 37,120 plurality. With the head of the ticket went the other Republican candidates for state of- fices, as well as seven out of eight mem- bers of the executive council, while the lower branch of the Legislature shows a Republican gain of two members, the Senate remaining unchanged. The Senate next year will stand 33 Re- publicans and 9 Demoorats; and the House 155 Republicans,82 Democrats and 1 Socia- list, with two ties to be decided. in Massachusetts Kentucky Growing in Democracy. LouisviLLe, Ky., Nov. 4.—Returns which are complete, save for a few scat- tered precincts in remote parts of the state, give John C. W. Beckbam, Democrat, for governor, a majority of 30,408 over Morris B. Belknap, Republican. Spawls from the Keystone. —During a stop made in Altoona Friday evening, while passing through that city in his private car “Loretto,” Mr. Charles M. Schwab presented $25 to the station shifting crew of engine No. 1090. —Ira Tice,son of Solomon D. Tice, of How ard, who has been employed: the past two years as fireman on the Middle division of the Pennsylvania railroad,started for Mexico last week where a position as engineer awaits him. —About noon Saturday while Robert Myers was cutting his fire wood at his home in Flemington he was struck in the eye by a stick that was thrown by his axe. The eye- lid was badly cut but the eye itself was not injured. —The two 50-foot sheds on the farm of A. G. Morris, in Sinking valley, in Huntingdon were destroyed by fire on Friday with all their contents of grain and farming imple- ments. It is not known what caused the: conflagration. —The Altoona postoffice stands fourth on the list of revenue producing postoffices in western Pennsylvania. The receipts during the past year were over $63,000, Pittsburg, Erie and Allegheny lead, Johnstown is fifth on the list. The population of Altoona is now over 50,000. —A large bald eagle was shot last week near Jersey Shore. The eagle measured nine feet from tip to tip of the wings and is being mounted by a taxidermist for the Rev. Emerson Karns, pastor of the Epworth church, Jersey Shore, who secured it from the young hunter who shot it. —The knitting mills in Millheim are be- ing thoroughly overhauled ; A. E. Hoke, is the new manager. It is the intention to start some of the machines this week and gradually increase the number until the full complement will be running. This industry has had a variety of experiences. —Of the 3,300 men in Philadelphia em- ployed at the Pencoyd Iron works only a thousand will be left by next Sat- urday. On that day the eight-inch mill will be closed, throwing 500 men out of work. The victims are from various de- partments--laborers, . clerks,’ melters, rollers and mechanics. * By New Year's day the bridge shop, foundry and machine shop, it is expected, will also be closed. .—Saturday was a prolific day for retire- ments on the Pennsylvania railroad in Blair county. Besides Superintendent Blair of the Tyrone division, three veterans were passed to the retired roll at Altoona. They were: Thomas McKee Goodfellow, foreman of the air brake shop; ex-Mayor David Kinch, who has had charge of the tempering fire in the blacksmith shop, and Eden B. Jacoby, an employe of the cab shop under foreman E. E. Seasoltz. : —Governor Pennypacker ‘and staff and other state officials will leave Harrisburg next Saturday in a special car to attend the dedication of the Seventy-third Pennsylvania regiment monument at Chattanooga on Mon- day, and the Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania regiment monument at Shiloh on Thursday. Free transportation has been furnished by Adjutant General Stewart out of a fund appropriated by the last Legislature to the survivors of these regiments to attend the. dedicatory exercises. ; —Jacob Reed, of Montgomery; aged 65 years, while a passenger on the eastbound flyer Saturday,died on the train near Dewart. Mr. Reed and his daughter left home to go to Watsontown, where they bad planned to spend the day with relatives. Apparently he was in good health and spirits. As the’ train neared the station at Dewart Mr. Reed, who was looking out of the car window, made a labored gasp for breath, and sinking in the seat, died before his daughter or any of the passengers realized what had hap- pened. Heart disease is the attributed cause of death. —Huntingdon county is the first to begin the construction of road building under the Sproul road law. A section 2800 feet in length will be built at Smithfield. The sur- veys have been made and specifications ap- proved by the Highway department, and if is the intention of the local authorities fo complete the road as soon as possible. Sur- veys for roads under the new law are being made in Northumberland county, near Shamokin Dam, and also in Beaver and Crawford counties, and one offithese three counties will be the next to receivelsits share of the State appropriatien. —The Tyrone electric railway company, the City passenger railway company {and the Altoona Logan valley railway company have been merged into one corporation, to be known as the Altoona and Logan valley rail- way company. Thursday a mortgage of $4,000,000 in favor of the Equitable trust company, of Philadelphia, was entered in the office of Register and Recorder John W. Cliber, at Hollidaysburg, agaiust the electric lines of the allied companies. The mortgage was given to secure payment of bonds issued at interest rate of 4} per cent. —E. B. Cobaugh, of Middletown, has se- cured a patent from the United States gov- ernment as well as from the government of Great Britain and Canada, on an invention for the erection of army tents. The patent consists in a cross rail near the top of the tent, but was designed more particularly for a support upon which to lay guns during the night. The cross rail also contains a num- ber of hooks upon which clothes etc., can be hung. Another improvement is the idea of making the frame work of iron pipe, which can be screwed and unscrewed. The present. army tents it is said could easily be changed or remodeled to use Mr. Cobaugh’s improve- ment. : —Peter Connelly, aged 27, single, of Pater- son, N. J., met with an accident Saturday afternoon about 3 o'clock which will make him a cripple for life. Connelly was work- ing at Blairsville Intersection until Friday, when he was discharged. He decided to go to Philadelphia Saturday morning to enter the employ of the United Gas Improvement company, and left Blairsville Intersection on a freight train for Philadelphia. Near Gallitzin he fell off the train and was run over by a westbound train. The injured man was taken to the Altoona hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the left leg just below the thigh, the right foot and the right arm. He is in a serious: condition.
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