; _ Philadelphia. is wondefally anxioe
ink Slugs.
to seoure the trade that about forty years
ago she was just as anxious to drive away.
—1If the new Phoenix pumping station |
works the present council will go down in| =
it will likely go down. inf _
gal the Cl I
—When the M.S. QUAY,” the Phila-
delpbia harbor master’s new cutter was
hed on Saturday ‘‘she wabbled when
e water. It isn’t any wonder
that she did, with such a name.
© It took: ‘two prayers to get the Senate
started off right in the filty-eighth Con-
gress. The good Lord alone knows how
many it will take to get the Senators fixed
up’ right again after the session is over.
—GORMAX i is starting in to shake up
the dry bones in the Senate ina way that
will probably arouse that body to a sense
of some ( other duty than merely allowing
itself to become a esting, place for sleepy
ol; millionaires. TE
L_As a grafter ‘the New York surgeon
who has just grafted an ear from one man
to ‘another and prophesies that soon legs
andiarms will be grafted inthe same man-
er isa “shine’” when compared with some
. Philadelphia councilmen.
there are hy on the other side ywhere
Why is it that months after the price
of edmmodities went ‘soaring skyward the
producers of f such were given an increase
ol Sage "wages, yet the very instant there isa
+ lof [depression ‘wages go down? At
8 ai. d d of Eithe game there | 3s never any
sed ms
SPE Gh ‘Englishman,
rel ot the. day, is dead.
gies fo minds’ his lite has
ally and _psychologic-
ished by mankind
v
~ VOL. 48
A Strained Constraction.
Under the advice of Secretary of War
‘Root the President has construed the frac-
tion of a minute which intervened between
the adjournment of the extra session of the
United States Senate and the opening of
the session as a ‘‘recess.’”” Webster's
dictionary defines recess as an intermission
in proceedings of a legislative body.” The
reports of the proceedings of the Senate on
Monday show that the body met at 11.30
o’clock and soon after went into executive
session. A$ 11.50 the doors were reopened
and with Senator PLATT of Connecticut in
the chair a resolution thanking President
pro tem FRYE for his fairness during the
extra session was considered and adopted.
Thereupon Mr. FRYE resumed the chair
and declared that the hour fixed by law
for the beginning of the regular session
having arrived, the called session is‘‘ ad-
journed without day.’”’ He immediate-
ly called the regular session to order and
prayer was offered by the Rev. Mr. PRET-
TYMAN.
There was no intermission in the pro-
ceedings there so far as can be discovered.
Yet upon the advice of Secretary of War
RooT President ROOSEVELT has assumed
that there was an intermission long enough
for him to nominate Dr. WooD to the office
of Major General in the army and 167
other persons to other positions in the civil
and military service of the government.
Accordingly he has made the nominations
and reports are to the effect that the com-
missions will be issued at once. In that
event Dr. Woop will draw the salary of a
Major General until whatever time the
senate confirms or rejects his nomination or
1 failing to do either during the present ses-
gion until the day of adjournment, wben
another ‘‘recess’”’ appointment can be
legally made. That will enable ROOSEVELT
to juggle the affair until his term of office
‘| expires which, happily, will not be later
than the fourth of March, 1905. But that
, | will be long enough.
The constitution authorizes the Presi-
| dent to issue commissions in order to fill
his vacancies in public offices which happen
who would make worthy successors to Mr.
PERRY HEATH there would be no objec-
tion to their coming in.
—JoHN D. ROCKEFELLER has given $10,-
000 to the Oil City Y. M. C. A., which, by
the way, is the first donation of the sort he
has ever made to Pennsylvania. It is to
be hoped that President HARPER and the
Chicago University will not get mad about
this, but the public wont care much how
mad they get if the price of oil isn’t push-
ed up another notch as a result of it.
7—The Presidents’ message to Congress,
being about ¢ix colamns long, will have to
be omitted from this issue. Taking it for
granted that all our readers will feel very
sorry not to have an opportunity of read-
ing it ' for themslves we do the next best
thi ng by stating that it contains about five
thousand good English words coupled to-
gether in such a way ae to read beautifully’
bat mean little.
— If the North American and other Phila-
delphia, papers want to kill all the survivors
of the typhoid epidemic in unfortunate.
Batler with ennui all they need to do is con-
tinue a few days longer those silly articles
about ‘‘Dr.- FRENCH and the twenty-five
nurses Philadelphiasent.”” There is no
doubt of their doing a good work in Bat-
ler; but then there is some doubt as to
their doing it all.
—The Governor PENNY denies-that he
appointed SAMUEL GUSTINE THOMPSON, a
Democrat, to serve out an unexpired term
on the Sapreme court bench so that he can
be nominated and elected to the bench
next fall, ‘when his term as Governor is
about over. He denies ‘‘the soft impeach-
ment’’ of his intentions, but adds that if
the ‘‘ party nominates me for the Supreme
coart, I shall return to the bench.”
—The Cincinnati girl who wedded a
‘Washington, Pa. man a few days ago and
after the ceremony disclosed to him thas
she was really an heiress and vot the poor
girl he thooght her to be, is a jewel in
more ways than one. The satisfaction he
must have had in knowing his wife’s
ability to keep a secret was enough pleas-
ure for one day, without the half-million
unexpected fortune and other little things
that went with her.
. —Prol. LANGLEY'S second airship took
au ignominions tumble into the Potomac
on Tuesday. The professor is reported as
having been greatly chagrined because his
flying machine wouldn't fly, bat then the
Professor ought to have known better than
to call it a flying machine. Had he called
it a submarine boat or ait aquatic fowl the
papers would have been fall of his success.
All of ‘which goes to show that there is a
great deal in a name after all.
Li daring ‘the recesses between sessions of the
In suotiier clause he is authoriz-
\ with the’ advice and
te,” appoint, other |
gnment. But be ‘has no
pissian “mén* nominated |}
during a session of Congress until. after’
they bave been confirmed hy the Senate
and doing so is a usarpation of power the
most dangerous and destructive in its char-
acter. Such a usurpation is the gravest
crime agaicst the Republic and if Congress
were animated by the spirit which bas
made the American Congress great among
the institutions of the world, he would be
impeached before a week had elapsed. If
this outrage is permitted to go unchalleng-
ed it will establish a precedent which may
lead to something worse.
Philadelphia} Congressmen.
The death of Co bgressman BURK, of
Phila delphia, brings into public notice
again the peculiar methods of selecting
Representatives in Congress in that city.’
In fact it bas become the richest plum of
the politicians'and as vice and crime have
been used by what DAVE LANE calls ‘the:
organization’’ for years as a political asset,
it m ay be said that of late. death has be-
come an agent in: the collection of funds.
That is to say within a comparatively brief
‘period of time two of the new Congressmen
have died and the two who probably paid
the highesé prices for their seats. Their
death makes the seats available for sale
again. :
The plano there i is to sell the seat to the
highest bidder, regardless of his character.
or fitness. When a vacancy occurs all the
wealthy men in the district are invited to
join in the competition or rather the hid-
ding. Whoever sedures the prize holds it
as long as hie lives uriléss he grows tired of
the position, That being the case the
price asked is high. Ts is estimated that
as high as $75,000 has been paid ‘and the
money is divided among the ‘“Ward Lead-
ers’”’ in the district. Upon the death of
Representative FOEBRDERER a few months
ago the seat was offered to JoHN WANA-
MAKER for $75,000 but he declined it.
Representative MOON got it at a somewhat
lower price.
In the case of BURK Commissioner DUR-
HAM has announced that DAVE MARTIN
shall bave the disposal of the seat. There
are a good many rich men in the district
and he will probably get a large sum for
the place. This will be MARTIN'S first
prize since he left the organization with
QUA Y’S brand of a dollar mark on his fore-
head eight years ago. But it will make
up for the long wait, for instead of going
to balf a dozen as happened in the case of
FOERDERER’S suczessor it will be in one
lump.
may take a notion to select their own Rep:
resentative in Congress. It is the RAN -
D ALL district.
~——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
Still the people in that district |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 49.
BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 11, 1908.
Roosevelt’s Yellow Streak.
President ROOSEVELT has again reveal-
ed his willingness to temporize with crime
when soch a sinister course will promete
his political interests. That is to say the
question of the dismissal of PERRY S.
HEATH from the secretaryship of the Re-
publican National committee having been
brought up squarely before him, he has
consented to permit him to remain in the
office. The alternative was the open
opposition of Senator MARK HANNA and he
hadn’t the courage to encounter it: “There-
fore he consents to a compromise with
crooks rather than prejudice his chances
of election. A man of finer fibre would
have adopted the other course. One of
genuine courage would have throttled the
evil and conquered or sustained a manly
defeat.
Assistant Postmaster General BRISTOW’S
report inculpated Mr. HEATH in various
ways. . It not only disclosed the fact that
he was directly concerned with the ‘‘rake-
off”’ in the Department, but that be had
association with the corrupt stock opera-
tions which have so scandalized the postal
service. In his memorandum the Presi-
dent declared, emphatically, that every
man connected with those iniguities must
be promptly and fitly punished. But he
has since consented not only to immunity
from punishment for Mr. HEATH but to
his retention in the office of secretary of
the Republican National committee. The
scurviest politician couldn’t possibly have
shown the yellow streak more completely.
Even lobbyist PAYNE couldn’t have done
worse.
President ROOSEVELT has simply writ-
ten himself down an arrant humbug. Pro-
fessing to abhor every form of fraud in
public life he embraces aud coddles politic-
al and official criminals for personal
reason. We say criminals in this conneec-
tion because in his memorandum the
President declared they were guilty.. Yet
he doesn’t spurn HEATH as an honorable
man would. He consents to political as-
sociation with him as if he were a man of
high character and just reputation. After
such an exhibition of lax morals. what more
can be expected of ROOSEVELT than that he
will consent-to any other form of crime to
uaranbee his election. Having done that
of coarse during his subsequent official life
crime.
Dr. Wood Renominated.
The President has reappointed Dr.
LEONARD Wo0D a Major General,notwith-
standing the evidence of his unfitness and
in spite of the injustice it involves. He
might have saved the country from that
humiliation. He is under obligations $o
Dr. Woop, no doubt. - When he was a
subordinate to Dr. WooD in the Rough
Riders, he was given every opportunity to
make himself conspicuous. In thus oblig-
ing his subordinate Dr. WooD may have
been influenced by one consideration or
another. That is it may have been the
result of an amiable disposition to indulge
an errasio youngster or the fact that it was
safer to remain in seclusion while within the
range of Spanish rifles might have been the
cause. In any event he has been amply
paid for his part in the affair.
But President ROOSEVELT has made up
ihis mind to'squaré the accounts in another
way. In other words ROOSEVELT has de-
termined to overpay Dr. Woop by giving
him an appointment far ahead of anything
he deserves. There are people so peculiar-
ly constituted that they are profiigately
generous with other people’s money. If
they employ a man for another they agree
that they are commissioned to make a pur-
chase for another they pay the most ex-
be of this type. . Paying his personal debt
to WooD in coin which belongs. to, the
people he is liberal ‘beyond reason. After
baving paid it ten times over by favors al-
ready given he wants to make it a thon-
sand fold by this last nomination.
If there were no others than himself and
Dr. Woop concerned in the affair there
wouldn’t be much harm in this purpose of
the President. Dr. Woop would have a
position that be is unfit to fill, according
to the evidence of numerous witnesses
heard before the Senate committee, but in
times of peace there isn’t much for a Major
General to do and one man can do it as
well as another. But in the case in point
it is vastly different. In promoting Dr.
WooD to the rank of Major General he
elevates him over the heads:of more than
a hundred veterans who have earned the
favors of the government by actnal,hazard-
ous and efficient service. That is an in-
justice of the proportions of a crime and
the Senate shonld not only reject the nomi-
| nation but rebuke the President.
, —— There: are. some very timely and
helpful hints. ou Christmas buying and
Christmas entertainments on other pages
of this edition. If you an interested you
will appreciate reading them, Chat ‘
Fhe will bethe slave of his companione in|
to pay exorbitant wages. In the event
‘travagant prices. . ROOSEVELT ‘appears to
The President's Message.
President ROOSEVELT’S annual message
to Congress is a unique public document.
As the New York 7imes states, ‘‘the time
will come when just-minded men will wish
that that part of President ROOSEVELT’S
message in which he explains and defends
his course upon the Isthmus of Panama
might be expunged from the national
records.”” Our metropolitan contemporary
might have added that from start to finish
the message is a travesty on statecraft. It
reveals the operations of a mind qualified
to write posters for a circus but absolutely
destitute of the qualities which measures
and masters questions of moment. No in-
telligent American will read the message
without blushing in shame.
The obvious purpose of the President
was to puff his administration with the
view of promoting his chances for election
to sncceed himself. To quote again from
our New York contemporary, ‘‘the vision
of President ROOSEVELT is so clouded and
his reasoning so disturbed by the fires of
his ambition,”” that he actually makes
himself ridiculous. He opens with the
"declaration that ‘the country is to be con-
gratulated on the amount of substantial
achievement which has marked the past
year, and then preceeds to exploit ‘the or-
ganization of the new Department of Com-
merce and Industry as the sum and sub-
stance of benevolent achievement. Noth-
ing more absurd bas ever been asserted.
But the follies of the message might be
over-looked if it were not for the vices
which it expresses. For example he under-
takes to justify his Panama policy by recit-
ing a lot of iniquities which have occurred
on the Isthmus daring the pass half a cen-
tury. There have been a number of riotous
demonstrations, he asserts and nobody
denies his allegation. But these demonstra-
tions have been of the people of Panama
against their rightful government and any
foreign interference ought to have been in
behalf of the government and in the inter-
est of order. Hitherto interferences have
been in that direction but in the present
instance the President of the United States
has taken the opposite course and in-
terfered in behalf of rebellion. It isshame-
ful but true. .
is
% ————
The _Postofiice Frauds,
¥ When the question of ‘of’ referring the ¢ tes-
timony taken by Assistant, Postmaster Gen-
eral BRISTOW in relation to fiauds in the
postal service to Senator PENROSE'S com-
mittee came up in ‘the Senate on Tuesday,
Senator GORMAN protested. ‘Fraud and
corruption has been admitted;’he de-
clared, ‘“and the country is not satisfied
with the investigation.” ‘He added that
‘‘those who had been accused had said that
others higher up were as guilty as they,”’
and under those circumstances Mr. GORMAN
thought that there ought to be a real inves-
tigation. In this view the public is likely
to concur.
No more absuid proposition was ever
made than that to refer charges of fraud to
Senator PENROSE. When he was a candi-
date for mayor of Philadelphia, a few years
ago, the public conscience literally revolted
and the clergy protested that his life was
so atrociously immoral that his election to
the office would be an outrage. He has
been for years the intimate friend and close
associate of all the ballot box stoffers and
political criminals in that city of vice and
the reference of any charge of fiaud to his
committee would be equivalent to a decla-
ration of endorsement of is.
Senator GORMAN knows the purpose of
the motion to refer that testimony to the
PENROSE committee. He understands
that the object is not to secare an investi-
gation but to prevent such a thing. If the
evidence were so referred within a week
a pe
‘every inculpated rascal wonld be spirited
away a3 SALTER was ‘concealed until ar-
.rangements could be made for their acquit-
tal by a miscarriage of justice. Senator
GORMAN was right in his protest against
such a miscarriage of justice. It is to be
hoped that be will persist in the course he
has taken until an investigation is foroed,
which will uncover ail the guilty rascals.
——While the butchering was going on
‘at the home of Jacob Royer, near Colyer,
recently a rifle that had been used ic
knocking the hogs down and then stood
aside, was picked up by one of the party.
The family cow was passing’ the house at
the time and, throwing the gun to his
shoulder and drawing a bead on poor old
sookey, the joking warksman exclaimed :
“Were that cow a deer, what a delightful
shot.” Then the gun—juss like every old
gun thas isn’t supposed to be loaded—went
off and she good family cow fell dead in her
sracks.
~ ——In Lycoming county a judge recently
sentenced a boy to six years and six months
in the penitentiary for stealing satchels at
the railroad station. In this county they
don’t get that much for killing people.
— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Our Congressmen.
Assignments to Places on the Standing Committees.
Representative Evans, of Nineteenth District,
Gets a Place on Two Additional Committees.
WASHINGTON, December 5.—In the
committee assignments announced to-day
Pennsylvania fares fully as well as she did
in the last Congress. She has secured two
more chairmanships, that of Representative
Sibley to be chairman of the committee on
manufactures, and that of Representative
Wright to be chairman of the expenditures
in the agricultural department. Pennsyl-
vania now has five chairmanships, as fol-
lows: :
Mahon, of war claims; Olmsted, of
elections No. 2; Sibley, of manufactures;
Wanger, of expenditures in the postoffice
department, and Wright, of expenditures
in the agricultural department.
Pennsylvania retains her influential
position on the more important committees
of the House by having Representative
Dalzell as member of the committee on
rules, and the committee on ways .and
meats; Bingham as a member of the com-
mittee on appropriations; Acheson, on
rivers and harbors; Adams, : on foreign
affairs and immigration; Butler, on naval
affairs; Olmsted, on insular affairs and
elections number 2; McCreary, on banking
and currency; Palmer, on judiciary;
Wanger, on interstate and foreign com-
merce; Sibley, on manufactures, and Mor-
rell, on District of Columbia. :
The rearrangement of the committees: to:
accommodate a large number of new mem-
bers in this House necessitated changes in
the assignments of some of the Pennsyl: |
vania members. Mr. Adams gave up his
place on the military committee Mr.
Bingham declined a reappointment on the
postoffice and post roads committee. Both
of these gentlemen have their full share of
work and responsibility on other commit.’
tees to which they have been: appointed.
Mr. Bates has heen put on elections No.l,
instead of the committee on expenditures
in public buildings. It bad been hoped.
that the speaker could see his way clear to
appointing Mr. Bates on the committee of
public: buildings ‘and grounds, ‘but the
situation would not permit of the assign:
ment.’
Representative Cassell, who had rather
insignificant committee assignments last |
Congress, has been appointed to the com-
mittee ‘on aceounts, census and elections
No. 3. Representative’ Evans retains his
place on the two committees he was at-
tached to last Congress, the revision of the
laws and private land claims, and in addi-
tion has been assigned to the committee on
immigration and naturalization. Of the
new Republican members Mr. McCreary,
of Philadelphia, has received probably the
best appointments, having been assigned to
the committee on banking avd cnrrency.
Pennsylvania bas bad 2 Tepiusentative on
this.committee for man
Representative Boston. or neaster,
its chairman for two or three terms.
The four Democrats from Pennsylvania
were at the mercy of the new Demobrasic
leader, Mr. Williams, of . Mississippi, . who
recommended minority appointments,. and
they cannot boast of any very fine assign-
ments. Mr. Dickerman got a place on the
committee of patents, Mr. Howell on
mines and mining, Shull on railways and
canals, and Kline, who comes from _the
rock-ribbed Thirteenth district, drew a
booby prize in being assigned to ventila-
tion and acoustics.
The following is the list of Pennsylvania
members and their assignments.
Acheson, rivers and harbors, expendi-
tures in the navy department; Adams,
immigration and naturalization, foreign
affairs, expenditures in the state depart-
ment; Bates, coinage, weights and meas-
ures,. elections No. 1; Bingham, appropri-
ations; Brown, coinage, weights and meas-
ures, pensions; Butler, claime, naval af-|
fairs; Cassell, accounts, census, elections
No. 3; Cooper, railways and canals, levees,
and improvements of the Mississippi river,
irrigation of arid lands; Dalzell, ways and
means, rules; Deemer, railways and canals, |
invalid pensions; Dickerman, patents;
Dreseér, coinage, weights and measures,
patents; Evans, revision of the laws, pri-
vate land claims , immigration and natarali-
zation; Howell, mines and mining, levees
and improvements of the Mississippi river;
Kline, ventilation and acoustics; Lafean,
election of President, vice President and
Representatives in Congress, expenditures
in the navy department; McCreary, bank-
ing aod currency; Mahon, war claims;
Moon, revision of the laws, edncasion,
Morrell, District of Columbia, expendi-
tures in the treasury department; Olmsted;
election No. 2, insnlar affairs; Palmer, ju-
diciary, Pacific railroads; Patterson, mines
and mining, expenditures in the interior
department, pensions; Porter, alcoholic
liquor traffic, industrial arts and exposi-
tions, expenditures in the department of
justice; Shiras, public lands; Shull, rail-
ways and canals; Sibley, postoffice and
post: roads, wanufactures: Smith; reform
in civil service, militia; Wanger, interstate
and foreign commerce, expenditures. in the
postoffice department; Wright, agricnl-
ture, expenditures in the department of
agriculture.
Is a Bird Herself.
Mrs. William Robbin,of Louisville, Ky.,
Wednesday was married to David Buzzard.
It is her fourth matrimonial venture.. She
was a Miss Martin, daughter of one of the
best known Bourbon county families.
She first married Robert Crow. He died
and she married John Sparrow six months
afterward. She and Mr. Sparrow did not
agree, and a divorce followed. Mrs. Spar-
row became Mm. William Robbin, but
again a divorce was found advisable.
After a year of lonely life, Mrs. Robbin
has become Mrs. David Buzzard. She bas
two Crows, one Sparrow, one Robbin and
a Buzzard at her home. She says she pre-
fers ‘‘birds’’ for husbands.
The Century’s Five Great Men
Senator Daniel, of Virginia, said in a
recent speech of Baltimore that the pive-
teenth century produced only five soldiers
who could be called great : Napoleon, Well-
ibgson; Von Moltke, Grant and Robert E.
ee.
‘typhoid fever.
ley railroad station.
RE ls
‘ Spawls from the Reyuivan.
—Graduates of the Petersburg, Huntingdon
county High school have set on foot a move-
ment to organize an Alumni association.
—Huntingdon county is the first county in
the State to begin the construction of road
building under the Sproul road law. A sec-
tion of 2800 feet is being built in that county
as an experiment,
—A boy by the name of Noll jumped off
the eastbound fiyer on the Bald Eagle Valley
railroad, as they were passing Vail, about
12:40 Saturday and was seriously injured.
The train at the time was running 40 miles
an hour.
—The First Presbyterian church of Lewis-
town has extended a unanimous call to Rey.
William L. Mudge, pastor of the Pheonix-
ville Presbyterian church, to succeed Rev.
William Harrison Decker, who accepted a
call from Homestead.
—The excitement over the big strike of gas
at Hyner continues. During the past week
thousands visited the wells. The Renovo
borough council will be asked within a few
days for permission to lay the pipes and the
gas will be taken there.
—Sam Pawich, an Austrian aged 18 years,
was stabbed at his boarding house on Branch
‘street, Johnstown, Saturday night and died
at the Memorial hospital Monday morning.
There was a quarrel among his countrymen
and during it he was stabbed.
—Three new cases of small pox have de-
veloped in Johnstown since Saturday and
there has been one death—Michael Egan,
aged 22 years. He was a native of Gallitzin
and is survived by his wife, who was Miss
Stella Passmore, of Clearfield. His parents
are also living.
—During the christening exercises at a Slav
home near Grass:Flat, Clearfield county,Sun-
day. afternoon, George Hudok, of Pleasant
Hill, shot and instantly killed a young man
of the same nationality by the name of Thos.
Korencick. The entire party had been
drinking heavily and after the murder Hu-
dok disappeared.
—The DuBois Courier says George Slimmer,
a -young ‘man living at Slimmier’s school
house, - located between Big Run and Trout-
» ville, returned home from Anita last Thurs
day suffering from what was supposed to be
The doctors have row
diagnosed the case as small pox. Slimmer ,
was employed in a hotel at Anita.
~The thirty second annual convention of
the Pennsylvania state grange convened in
Wilkesbarre on Tuesday. Headquarters were
opened at the armory. Besides the 1,000
delegates to the convention 500 more guests
were present as well as many prominent
Grangers from other States including the mas-
ters of the New York and New Jersey state
Granges.
—One day last week while Miss Pearl Ep-
sen, of Nippenose valley, was going about her
1abors she fainted and fell directly on top of
the red hot coal stove. Immediately she re-
turned to consciousness, and upon examina-
tion it was found that the hair was burned
off one side of her head and her one arm ter-
ribly burned from the hand to the shoulder.
—A Pottsville, Pa., employment agent be-
lieves that he has solved the servant prob-
lem. He has entered into negotiations with
several immigration societies in the south to
late. bring 25,000 negro girls to the north. . These
a8 4 girls,’ it is said, will be used not only as do-
mestics, but also as operatives in factories.
New Orleans is to be the central point of
shipment.
—Fire Sunday night destroyed the club-
house of the Mohawk club, a three story
frame structure, together with its contents,
at Jeannette. The place was unoccupied .
when the fire broke out. The firemen found
an overturned stove, which is supposed to.
have originated the fire. The club lost all its
paraphérnalia and the uniforms of the foot ‘
ball team. The loss is placed at $1,500.
—Rev. Henry Evans, a muscular DuBois"
parson, who got his' dander up.and knotked
two small men out in short order and was ar-'
rested for assault and battery, waived a trial
and pleaded guilty at the Clearfield county
court on Monday. Judge Gordon after giv-
ing the parson some very pointed advice on
what a cultured, educated gentleman and:
minister should do, sentenced Rev. Evans to
pay a fine of $25 in each case and cost of prose -
cation.
—A. Williamson, a well known lumberman.
of Bellwood, has purchased from heirs of
John Rohn estate over 1,000 acres of excel-
lent timber land, lying along the West
Branch railroad in the vicinity of Karthaus.
‘The tract contains over three million feet of
lomber. The consideration was $7,000. John
Rohn is the man who mysteriously disap-
peared about four years ago, and no trace of
him was ever found, it being the general sup-
position that he was murdered and his body
hidden.
—Saturday afternoon a stranger was talk-
ing to another man at Mill Hall depot when
the train pnlled out from the Bald Eagle Val-
Noticing it the stranger,
made an attempt to get on, but in doing so he
lost his hold and was thrown under the mov-
ing train about half of his body being on eith-
er side of the rail. By supreme presence of
mind he threw himself quickly around out
of danger. It was a close call and caused the
spectators to hold their breath for a moment.
—An order has been issued from National
Guard headquarters announcing another
change in officers’ uniforms to conform with
those of officers’ of the regular army. The
orders require the change from light blue to
white stripes on trousers for infantry officers
after February 1st, 1904. The return to white
stripes makes the uniforms the same as they
were before the order adopting light blue
stripes was issued some time ago. Some of
the infantry officers had not yet changed
from white to light blue and will not be re-
quired to make any change by the new edict.
—Humphrey Chilcote, aged 85 years, left
his home in Hares Valley, about October 25,
to visit friends at Three Springs. After
spending a few days there went to Shirleys-
burg, where he tarried about a week at the
almshouse, leaving that institution without
informing anyone as to where he was going.
He has not been seen or heard from since, not
having returned to his home, it is feared he
might have taken ill and died while crossing
the mountain. Any person knowing any-
thing as to where Mr. Chilcote is will confer
a favor by notifying Isaac Dell, at Latta
Grove, Pa
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