|
——
Son mir: more fire-
photo of play | house attendants any more
? tne Haid alos in New York
n event, politically, as it
: bas it was great enough
; of the opposi-’
als in ye. to belittle its
Dean
From the acho of the new pump in
, trial yesterday it looks as h the Belle-
fonte tax. payers will have to take off their
hats to the present council. A saving of
thousands of dollars is not a usual counncil-
manic performance i in Bellefonte.
—Russia and Japan have supplied them-
_ selves with about every munition of war
known of, except the American mule, and
_ how they expect to conduct a first class
scrap without the use of our rapid fire
. quadruped we are at a loss to understand,
—The closing of so many theatres in all
parts of the country as a result of the Chi-
+ ago horror is not exactly a case of ‘‘lock-
.ing the stable after the horse is stolen,’
but it does look as if there had been an
awful dereliction of Auty, Among officials
everywhere.
| 4 After we e get the largest army and the
strongest navy in the world President.
' RODSEVELT'S idea is probably to turn in and
* lick every country that thinks we can’t do
"it, just to make them all too mad or too
poor to buy any of our bread stuffs, or
manafactures.
Ans Wr
in the future —except on ‘‘bright moon-
light nights.”” Whether it is to be a
councilman or a director of the Bellefonte
Electric Co. who is to stand and watch the |
moon—as a judge of its brightness — bas
not been decided. :
~—The heathen Chinee is getting a little
taste of the suspense that he made minister
CONGER and his little company. feel in
Pekin a few years ago. Trying to watch
which way the cat is going to jump be
twe en Russia and Japan is likely to make
the almond eyed celestial a little crossed
in his lamps.
—Farmers are holding onto’ sheir grain
because they think'a war between Russia
and Japan would send the price of it up.
Such might be the result, but owing to the
necessarily short duration of such a conflict
the Russian output is not likely to be
se duced and the Japs can. get along with-
i out wheathread very bandily. » :
—The Bellefonte council does well to]
stick out:for'iron trolley poles before ‘it
grants a franchise for an ‘electric railway
through our streets. Past councils have
made the mistake of permitting two tele-
phone and an electric light company to
plant poles where they please and never
Day a cent of tax on any of them, eo that
it is little wonder this council is profiting
by such blunders. :
—Real lobsters are said to be cannibals.
If a dozen of them are pat in an aquarinm
together it will not be long until they | have
all been benevolently assimilated by a
large, fat juicy fellow who holds sway
alone. How different with the human
co unterpart of the large, juicy lobster.
Some dizzy little blonde, with faded blue
eyes and a dry weather complexion, usual-
ly eats him up at one gulp. .
—Seventeen thousand new words appeai-
in the latest dictionaries that were un
known in she publicationsof ten years ago
This wonderful increase is not so wonder-
ful when we come to consider the lines of
talk indulged in by snch rapid fire coiners
as the Hon. TEDDY ROOSEVELT, Mr.
ROBERT FiTzsiMMONs, the Hon. JOSEPH.
BRVERIDGE and a few others of the loqua-
eious kind.
—The police of Connellsville should be
ready to step in aud prevent that notorious
! , Shargeter, Ms, KATE SOFFEL, from making
* a show ef hersell when she attempts to
“opéh the play ‘‘A Daring “Woman” thas
bas been written for ber. She has neither
virtue of character nor talent as an actress
and her appearance on the stage is an in-
sult 80 every honorable member of the
profession, as well as an attempt to cater
$0 the most depraved in theatre goers.
°%.1 American people are involved and he has
.{'undertaken to sacrifice’ both."
gb, ine The morality. of |
. Everybody- understands that American
marine; as well as American soldiers and
| sailors, perform their duties faithfully and
courageously hat the faot that fifty marines
at Colon were confronted with danger is no
reason why our goverment should bave
conspired with a handful of adventurers on
the Isthmus of Panama to despoil the Re-
public of Colombia of a part of her territory
and a considerable proportion of her debt
paying power. - Yet that is precisely’ what
has happened and the President discredits
his own statement that ‘‘no one connected
with this government had any part in pre-
paring, inciting or encouraging the late
revolution on the Isthmus of Panama,’’ by
the subsequent statement that ‘this gov-
ernment had several warships on the sea-
coast before the revolution was declared,”’
and that the day before the declaration the
marines at Colon had been directed ‘‘to al-
low no Colombian troops to land within
fifty miles of Panama.’’
Altogether this is the most disgraceful
betrayal of public faith on the part of any
government in the history of civilization.
Our government was under treaty obliga-
tion to protect Colombia in her rights of
sovereignty and property on the Isthmus.
For this guarantee our people and govern-
ment bave enjoyed ralygple concessions
since 1846. In fulfillment of it the United
States troops have been sent filsy times to
restore order and suppress rebellions. . But
through a perverse nature or an uncentrol-
lable inclination to do wrong ROOSEVELT
has taken the opposite course and instead
of protecting the rights of Colombia has
joined in a conspiracy to despoil her. In
wh | support of this outrage he has. the audacity
—Bellefonte is to have reer lights’
to Bpreal to Congress in a special message.
Worse Than Roosevelt.
We learn from a Washington correspon-
dent of the Philadelphia Press that four
‘years ago the late President’ McKINLEY
had deterfnined to make Secretary of War
Roor his political heir and successor in of-
fice and that now,'a public calamity bav-
ing intervened to prevent McKINLEY from
exercising his right of choice then, his ac-
toal but accidental successor in office,
| President ROOSEVELT, proposes to make
Mr. Root his, ‘‘political heir’ and succes-
sor in office... This arrangement simply
postpones the fulfillment of Mr. Roor’s
ambition to be President, if he have such
an ambition, a matter of four years, unless,
of course, exigencies arise, which ‘will
make another postponement necessary or
desirable.
If it be true that President: MoKINLEY t
intended to make RoOT his ‘‘polisical heir’’
und successor jn the office of President it
was rather io than otherwise that it
was prevent ROOSEVELT is bad enough
in ‘the office of President. He has been
aoting like a lown ever since his acciden-
tal el evatioft. He has been frightening
the life ous of business by his queer antics
and jeopardizing the solvency of carrying
corporaticns by making excessive demands
on them for his personal and family accom-
modation and he has been violating the
honor of the: ‘Nasion and tramping-interoa-
tional law under foot. More than thas, he
has violated ‘the constitution more than a
hundred times.
But God pave the country from RooT.
He knows 60 law except his own inclina-
tions. Hes one of those higher law fel-
lows who believe that oaths may be broken,
honor sacrificed, integrity cast to the dogs,
every pringiple of decency submerged in
order to fulfill any ambition which he may
cherish. Daring his term as Secretary of
War he bas Europeanized the army, made
it not a national but a personal force and
prepared on precisely similar lines to those
followed hy the second Napoleon when by
a coup de etat he changed the French pop-
ular government into an empire. If Root
were elected President the Republic
wouldn’t endure a year or else he wonldn’s
live that Jong.
——President ROOSEVELT and Senator
' LODGE may have some idea of benevolent-
ly assimilatipg Canada some day, but that
some day is likely to come when this Na-
sion is. doubled up with dyspepsia from
trying to benevolently assiwilate the Phil-
ippines and Panama. 5
——— Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
ship with. the Mormon church or
is belief in polygamy. But he reasons that
a man can’t be punished for beliefs and
that the constitution forbids religious Vests,
as a qualification for office.
Mr. SMoor has put himself on strong
grounds in his answer bus not the strongest
example he might bave said that his elec-
tion to the office of Senator was in pur-
guance of a bargain between the Mormon
church and the Republican National com-
mittee; that the contract involved the con-
version of the leading newspaper opponent
of polygamy into a supporter of shat iniquit-
ous doctrine; that Senator HANNA had
represented the Republican party in the
transaction, therefore not only encouraging
but promoting. polygamy and that if one is
thrown out the other must be.
If Smoot had taken that position the
opposition to him would bave ended at
once. HANNA is the pet of the group
which has set ont to unseat SMooT and
most of them wonld wink at polygamy as
they have winked at other iniquities to
shield him. It is possible, of course, that
HANNA will ultimately take care of SMooT
and not improbable that he has already
given the assurance in order to prevent the
exposure of the partnership between the
Mormon church and the Republican patty,
bat in any event it is tolerably certain that
SMo00T’s safest plan is to stick to HANNA.
That Apostle of Republicaniem will protect
his partner the Apostle of Polygamy.
A Successful Institute.
It is evident that the 57th annual in-
stitute of the public school teachers of Cen-
tre county lost none of its educational op-
portunities nor pleasing results by baving
been transplanted from Bellefonte to Phil-
ipsburg.
stay of the teachers there so ‘ pleasant that |
had it been pat to a vote they would have.
decided to bold the next institute over the |
mountain also. Philipsburg is full of
hustling, progressive people who are not
afraid to get up and do something; they
are teeming with cordiality all the time
and it is only their everyday manner that
captured the teachers, many of whom had
never been in the place before; not to
mention she trolley ride and banquet that
was thrown in on the ride for the peda-
gogues.
It is well that the session in \ Philipsburg
proved a success for there was considerable
discussion as to the propriety of holding it
in such a remote part of the county. As
for the future sittings, they are at the dis-
position of the teachers and the county
superintendent and will doubtless be
placed where they will do the most good.
The Crowuing Atrocity.
The Senate committe on military affairs
bas voted to recommend the’ confirmation
of the appointment of Dr. WooD as a Major
‘General in thearmy. The vote stood six
to two, Senators HAWLEY, of Connecticut,
and BATE, of Tennessee, being absent. The
names of those voting in the negative are
nos given but presumably they were Cock-
RELL,of Missouri, and PETTUS,0f Alabama,
both Democrats. It is reasonably certain
that both- HAWLEY and: BATE: would have
voted negatively il they had been present.
BATE is a Democrat aud HAWLEY was a
soldier and is a just and honorable gen-
tleman. =
This act coustitutes the ‘‘crowning
atrooity’’ of a dependent, cringing, time-
serving and corrupt Senate. Becapse the
President has patronage to bestow which
Senators can sell,as DEITRICH,of Nebraska,
disposed of that which went to him, an
injustice is. done to every soldier in the
army above the rank of captain whose com-
mission is over ten years old. It is a shame
that the President and Senate traffic in the
patronage of the government just as hux-
sters deal in oabbages in the market but the
shameful record made in the case in point
is proof of the fact. ROOSEVELT owes
Woob a personal obligation and. sacrifices
all the veterans that he may pay bis debt
with publio patronage.
There ie still one chance tha’ thisshame-
ful iniquity may be-averted. The military
committee of the Senate is made up of an
inferior class of Senators. PROCTOR,
‘WARREN, QUARLS, SCorT,- FORAKER and
ALGER are the Republican members out-
side of Mr. HAWLEY the chairman and the
chances are at least hopeful that when the
question comes to a vote on the floor of
the Senate a sufficient number of Republi-
cans will be of the same mind as HAWLEY
to compass the defeat of the trading oper-
ation.
available under the circumstances. For |
It is nota surprise to the WATCHMAN
that Philipsburg should have made the’ day. evening with Col.
&, WILLIAM L. MATHUES bas
law partnershtp in Media and
ig induction into office at Har-
‘May, he will spend three days of
week in his law office. Insurance
missioner DURHAM is now settled on a
h in New Mexico for an indefinite
me and will not be at his office on ‘‘ The
ill” for three months” at least. Deputy
Superintendent of Public Instruction
"Houck is scheduled for a journey to the
‘Holy Land which will occupy three months
ot his time during the coming spring, and
Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth
Beitler is hardly ever in Harrisburg.
We refer to these incidents in order to
eall public attention to the increasing evil
of absenteeism in the public service.
Until within a few years the obligation on
a public official to be diligent in his work
was as binding as that upon an employe of
a factory or corporation of any class. Offi-
cials at the state capital from the Gover-
nor down were required to give personal
attention to the duties of their offices and
there was no complaint in consquence.-
But since ‘the creation of the new QUAY
machine, that is since QUAY has become
the antoorat and men like DURHAM his
prophets, subordinate offices are multiplied
in order that the heads of departments may
have free opportunity to absent themselves
at pleasure.
Insurance Commissioner DURHAM has
been drawing the munificent salary of that
office for nearly five years but he hasu’t
performed the duties five weeks, all put
together. QUAY is enjoying the salary and
emoluments of the office of Senator in Con-
gress but unless he has something of per-
sonal interest pending he is never at his
post. Governor STONE was ahsent from
office more than a third of the time and
Pennypacker is little more regular in per-
formance of his duty, but they all draw
their salarias regularly while the expense
of government is multiplied by employing
substitutes, or rather subordinates, to per-
form their duties. This abuse of power is
something for the public to consider.
What Council Did.
The regular session of council met Mon-
Reynolds as presi-
dent pro tem and members Jenkins, Wise,
on, "and Kirk present, ~~ 2
“ The contract for lighting the: streets was.
taken up and approved after some. discus-
sion. Council failed’ to knock out the
moon-light clause and in the future we
will bave lights on the streets, except on
“‘bright moon-light nights.’” Nothing was
determined as to what constitutes a “bright | P
moon-light night but the wise men of
council thought because the word ‘‘bright’’
had been put in before ‘‘moon-light nighs’’
there was something gained over the old
contract which did not boast the word
bright. fed
The West ward sewer proposition was
introduced by Mr. Wise, of the Street
committee. He reported that the citizens
would pay $200, the P. R. R. Co. $200 and
and if the borough paid $200a 12 inch
sewer could be laid from’ the intersection
of south Thomas and High streets, along
High to Railroad and along Railroad to a
point below Gerberich’s mill, where,is is to
“ir
instruct the committee to ok for bids for
the sewer.
The next question taken up was the
granting of the franchise for a street rail-
way in Bellefonte. A party of Tyrone
gentlemen, among them Mr. T. C. Poor-
man, have been trying for some time to
secure right of ways and franchises for a
trolley line extending from Milesburg to
Pleasant Gap, and ultigiately to Lemont
and State College. .Beveral ordinances
have been drawn up, but none of them
have ‘been satisfactory until the last one
which’ contained only two objectionable
points to the promoters. The principal
requirements of the : borough are that the
company shall pave the track between the
rails and two feet on the outside of each,
erect iron trolley poles and enjoy the fran-
chise for twenty years. To the last two
the eompany objects. They say iron poles
are too expensive and they will accept only
an unlimited franchise. Council voiced a
disposition to extend the limit of the fran-
chise beyond twenty years, but was disin-
clined to give up the iron pole clanse. The
matter wae held over for another week
pending inquiry into the sentiments of the
people of this community. - The members
of council showed a disposition to do the
best thing possible for the town, but as yes
bave nos heard enough expression of opin-
ion on the subject, so that if our people
would think the master over and discuss
it with the councilmen they would be able
to secure, possibly,.a much more acourate
idea of the real sentiment as to the condi-
tions that should be imposed on a corpora.
tion that would nse our streets as would
an eleotrio street railway eompany.
~——Sabsoribe for the WATOHMAS.
gE —
nares. of t]
ate;
‘blankets, linen and cotton for bandages.
posal of the authorities and were utiliz-
time since Chicago has possessed bells to
empty into Spring creek. Couucil voted to |
‘to the unexpressed *hougnts that had fil-
Hundpgeds Burned ina a Chicago Theatre.
The ‘Most Appalling Holocaust Closes the old Year
in Chicago—The Beautiful New Iriquois Theatre:
the ‘Scene of “a Horror yIndescribable—Huntveds
of Women and Childrén Burned and Triplet to
Death in the Turihifvy of an Eye, ;
Cuicado, December 31.—The Troqu's
theatre burned Wednesday
during a crowded matinee performance,
A great number of lives were | the
chief of the fire department estimating
that there are over seven hundred dead.
The fire started in the second act, of the
play, “Blue Beard, Jr.”
It broke out in the flies of the stage,
presumably from a defect in the electrical
dieplay. In an instant the draperies and
flimsy stage settings bad burstinto flames.
The actors and actresses ran wildiy about
the stage as the audience fought and j am-
med its way to the front doors. 1n a
short time the interior of the’ theatre was
apparently a mass of flame and smoke
was issuing in clouds from the front of
the house.
Though the fire broke out in the stage
there was apparently little prot n for
the audience. Women and children were
piling out of the doors and the flames ap-,
patently gained rapidly and it was a con-
siderable time before a. large number . of
people could leave the building.
Meanwhile special calls and a
alarm had summoned an extra
number of fire engines.
According to Stage Manager Galiod all
the theatrical people are accounted - for,
through some were slightly burned.
Among the burned are Polly Whitford,
queen of the fairies, and. Dottie Marlow,
of the pony ballet.
Manager Davis said that . “the ory of
“fire” created a panic and that this ac-
Soupied for eo many people losing their
ivee
The loss of life was the greatest at the
foot of tho stairways from the upper
balconies. At that point the lies of
the persons who sought to flee from the
flames were piled fully twelve feet deep.
The bodies were taken out.as. rapidly ae
the men could enter the smoke-filled cor-
ridor and grasp their awful load,
At 4.50 p. m, the fire was out, but be-
ween asphyxiation and burns the. death
list is very iarge,
At 4.30 o’clock fifty bodies had been:
carried from the theatre into Thompson's
reataurant, one door east. Of these fully:
thirty were dead. a number were _show-
ing faint signe of life and it was impos-
gible to tell at first glance whether about
one dozen of them were dead or glive,
They were mostly the bodies of ysung
women under 20 years of age, and child-
ren from 8 to 12. . Bodies were ey
general
rdinary
the floor, on chaire, tables and one yor
woman in dripping garments was etrete
ed along the Cigar ¢ case.
All the larger dr, ode eres o of the!
city, which are hin two
ater ioe Man- |
erie; Scott & Co., Sclhile-
singer . &. Meyer and ‘the Boston Store,
as soon as they heard of the emergency,
sent wagon load after wagon load of
All of their teams were placed at the ig
edin conveying the wounded to the hos-
pitals or to the offices of nearby. physicians,
Within fifteen minutes after the fire broke
ous fully fifty physicians were on the scene,
and trained nurses seemed to!spring from
the ground so rapidly did they appear.
As soon as a body was taken into the
neighboring stores it’ was examined with
a stethoscope for signs-of life. ft :u -
Caicaco, January 1, —For’ the first
peals, whistles to shriek, and horns to
blow, the old Year was ‘allowed silently to
take its place in history and'the new year
permitted to come with no evidence of
Joy at its birth.
In an official proclamation jssned Thare-
day by Mayor Carter H. Harrison, he
made the suggestion that the usnal New
Yeat’s eve celebration be for thie time
omitted. The idea found a ready re-
eponee in the hearts of the people aud the
Mayor’es worde in fact only gave utterance
ed them all.
The appalling calamity of Wednesday
in the Iroquois theater has cast Chicago
into the deepest grief aud gloom, and for
the time being at least seems to have
chilled and deadened all the ambitions cof
life. Business Thursday wus performed
with the sole view to actual necessity
and even that much was carried ont ina
perfunctory manner.
PROMINENT RESORTS DESERTED.
Ordinarily, on New Year's eve, the
streets of the city are filled with merry-
makers, but Thursdav night the only
throngs tv be found were those around
the morgues; ordinarily, numbers of
fashionable restaurants in the heart of the
city are filled with hight hearted revellers,
who toast the year that passes and bail
the year that comee.
Thursday pight theee places were com-
paratively deserted, and some of them
closed entirely, with doors locked and
curtains drawn. Usually among these
gay people are found many members of
the theatrical profession. Thursday not
a single one of them was in evidence.
CITY’s SECOND GREAT CALAMITY.
For the second time in her life, the city
of Chicago, hae been stricken to the heart.
Not only have many of her sins and
daughters met death in a variety of hor.
rible and torturing forme, but the blow
has fallen almost as heavily upon the
strangers within ber gates. There is hard-
ly a village or town within a radius of 100.
miles of Chicago whose people are not di-
rectly or indireetly interested in the piles
of dead or in the injured which fill the
hospitals, or in the fate of those who seem
to have passed in the ill-fated structure
and of whom no word has since been
heard.
DEATH List ESTIMATED AT 564.
The list of dead continues 28 it was
given Thursday night, in the neighbor.
hood ot 560. It is generally accepted at
.| Fossilville, Bedford county,
died.
the: physicians found that
‘was due to the blow on the |
i Sherrer ‘was arrested and I
-wages.
ous.
Spawls from the Keystone.
~-Information from Clearfield Tuesday
morning says that the thermometer at the
postoflice, in Clearfield; ob # wplock | register -
« Lion below. 3.0% doi
————
—John D. Di of Haatiiuion,
bas beep appointed. by.Goyernor Samuel W.
‘Pennypacker as a member of the board of
managers: of the; Penngylyanie Industrial
Reformatory to succeed Samuel A. Steel, de-
"1 | ceased. : Mr. Dorris is a well-known lasvyer
and is junior member of the en of Fors &
| Dorris. '
—Thomas J. Scott, yardmaster at Tyrone
station, middle division, Pennsylvania rail-
road, has been promoted to the local assis-
tant trainmaster for the middle division,
with headquarters at Mifflin. He succeeds
S. Blair Cramer who died at Mifflin a few
days ago, and he entered upon the duties of
his new place on Monday. )
—A few days ago Walter Burns, of‘near
met with a
'| serious accident. The young man intended
to kill a chicken and loaded his gun, not
knowing that the weapon already contained
a load of powder and shot. When he pulled
the trigger one of the barrels exploded, blow:
ing his left hand off.
—Among the victims of the Chilago hes.
tre disaster was a Miss Porter, niece of Mr.
and Mrs. Barr, of Minneapolis, formerly of
Hollidaysburg. Mrs. Anna Bond, a daugh-
ter of William Thomas, who resided at Holli-
daysbhurg many years ago, and her two chil-
dren, also perished in the holocaust.
—A bold attempt was made Wednesday
‘morning to burn the large plant of the North
American Tannery, at Lewistown, but the
‘night engineer discovered the blaze and with
difficulty extinguished it. The incendiary
returned to see if his villainous attempt was
succeeding and was shot at by the engineer
but the miscreant escaped. :
William Willow, of Lock Haven, was
shot i in the knee Saturday night by Jacob F.
Lehman, a Pennsylvania railroad officer.
Willow and his 14-year-old son, it is alleged.
were taking coal from a car in the lower
yard. When the officer attempted to arrest
‘the father and son they ran. “The officer, ‘as
‘they were fleeing, fired his'revolver to fright-
en them, as he states, the ball taking effect
in the knee of Mr. Willow Sr.
{img Ww. Campbell, a prominent Philadel-
phia coal shipper, has become the possessor
of 338 acres of coal land on Blacklick creek,
along the new Ebensburg and Blacklick ex-
tension of the Pennsylvania railroad. The
sale was made by Harry McCreary, of India-
na, who acquired the land some time ago and
the consideration iuvolved is $11,133.75.
Mr. Campbell will begin operations in the
spring and will employ 200 men. - The coal
will be shipped to tidewater, and although
Mr. Campbell does not at present contem
plate erecting any coke ovens, he may do so
later.
—A telegram to the Philadelphia Press
from Huntingdon, under date of December
26th, says: In an altercation in a restaurant
here Friday night John Smith was struck
over the head by a beer bottle. Smith wan-
dered into a stable and Saturday morning
he was found unconscious and about noen he
Coroner Harman held an autopsy and
's death
i ho
ed ‘in jail,
with having struck the fatal blow.
25 years old and was the youngest
v Meo-Ti Smithy
in minister.
~The new year sees little or no change in
the labor situation at Altoona and vicinity.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company shops,
which employ in the neighborhood of 15;000
men, are at work on full time with no cut in
The bituminous coal situation for
that region also remains'unchanged. Several
efforts were made by small operators recent-
1y to cause an average reduction of 15 per
cent., but in each instance. the miners went
on strike. No settlement has been made and
the strikers appear willing to remain out un-
til the new scale meeting be held there in
March. The big coal concerns are sanding
by the present wage scale. :
—The Assyrian woman who was danger-
hurt in the wreck on the Cumberland
Valley railroad Friday evening when A. C-
Moyer of Tyrone lost his life, has friends in
Tyrone also. ‘Her name is Mrs. Nendia
Syded, aged 29 years. Her husband was «
peddler, and died at Clarksburg, W. Va, two
years ago, and she continued in the same
business, Her mother and a daughter: four
years old reside with Side Modad, who re-
cently purchased the Curtin store in seventh
ward. They have only been in Tyrone’ a
short time going there from Shippensburg.
Soon as word of the injury to the woman
reached Side Modad he at once sent his
brother Macolu Modad to look. after -her.
They are all peddlers and merchants | in‘ a
small wily. 7.
—Special officer W. H. Manning, of the
Blair county branch of the League ot the
American Sportsmen, while patroling the
woods in the vicinity of Mt. Aetna on New
Year's Day, arrested an Italian with an un-
pronounceable name who was engaged in
gunning for rabbits, notwithstanding the
fact that the hunting season had ended fif-
teen days before. The offender was taken
before Justice Isett, where he was promptly
fined $25 for, hunting without a license and
$10 additional for a dead bunny found in his
possession, aggregating, with costs, $38.85.
The foreign money order business will go a
little short in that region for a month or twe,
while the process of education goes marching
on.
—A big black bear, almost frozen, stopped
a heavy freight train on the Pennsylvania
railroad early Sunday morning and the train:
had to te shoveled out of the snowdrift in
which it had halted. The train crew was
making a desperate effort to get to Altoona
in the heart of a wild blizzard. While toiling
up a heavy grade near Dunlo the engineer
saw a black form on the track and shat off
steam. The bear arose and came toward the
locomotive. When the engineer saw that it
was a bear and not a man on the track he
made a desp: rate effort to get started again,
but in vain. The water froze in the supply
pipes, and as the snow drifted deeper in front
of the locomotive the train crew realized that
nothing was to be done but wait for help.
The bear, after vainly trying to warm him-
gelf in the glare from the headlight, fiercely
resenting any movement toward him by the
members of the crew, finally shuffled off in
disgust. The train remained frozen up sever-
al hours until a force of shovelers got it out
of the drift.
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