8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
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ink Slings.
*—And the fifteenth of Ap} is only three
months off.
—The opening of 1904 seems to be
‘fraught with as many frightful disasters as
the closing days of 1903.
—The need for raising the salaries of
Congressmen will not be great until there
is a dearth of men who are willing to go to
Congress.
—The successful man never measures a
.day by the number of its work hours, but
by the amount he can accomplish while
‘they last.
—1If the Republicans are looking for
anything worse than ROOSEVELT for Presi-
dent how does it come that no ove has dis-
covered PENNYPACKER.
—The British have licked the MAD
MULLAH again, but unfortunately for that
rather unworthy potentate’s followers he
doesn’t seem to know when he is licked.
—The Democratic national convention-is
to meet in St. Louis on July 6th. Let us
hope that the next President of the United
States will be named there on that date.
—The recent experience of license appli-
cants in Clearfield county demonstrates
that Judge SMITH has made up his mind
to make hofels of the ‘hotels’ in thas
county.
* —Senator QUAY had to give up and go
over to Philadelphia on Tuesday to consult
specialists about his health. Was it any
wonder? He had been present in the Sen-
ate for seven days in succession.
—All of the United States Steel com-
pany’s plants are to be put in operation at
once. The passing of that last dividend
must have relieved the constipation that
was apparently bothering the great corpo-
ration. ;
" —The Democrats of the National com-
mittee had better watch that forty-thon-
sand dollar check that the husiness people
of St. Louis presented them wish at Wash-
mgton on Tuesday. They have been a
little crooked in Missouri lately.
—With the Woops, the MACHENS, the
BEAVERS, the HEATHS, the BRISTOWS, the
DIETRICHS and. the other SMOOTY spots
about Washington there will be no end of
campaign material next fall, withont even
a whisper of the Philippines, or Panama.
— According to a contemporary it has |
been announced that CHARLES M. SCHWAB
holds five hundred pounds of ship building
trust securities. Allowing twenty pounds
to the gallon be must have about twenty-
five gallons of waterin a bucket somew \
in his vaults.
| Prof, LANGLEY has desided w enter [of
pin the flying 1
as the St. Louis fair.
trance is partially contingent on the. pro-
fessor’s heing able to dig his machine np
out of the Potomac, for the waters of which
it has an unmistakable fondness.
—The man who wandered into the
federal court in Chicago on Monday and
wanted to have the State of Ohio arrested
was undoubtedly off his trolley, but per-
haps he bad jaost heard that—at last—
Tod JoHNsoN had succeeded in fixing
three cent street car-fares in Cleveland.
—-ALFRED AUSTIN'S latest contribution
toward holding his joh as poet-lanreate of
Fuogland is entitled “Moving Onward.”
No doubt the literary world is delighted to
Jearn that ALF has at last wakened up to
the necessity of “moving onward” a little.
‘The fact of the matter is that he has been
so far backward that no one can afford to
wait now until ‘he catches upward.
——Io un very trenchant editorial calling
upon Governor PENNYPACKER to resign if
he wants to be a candidate for the Supreme
_ eourt bench, the Republican Pittsburg
Times says, ‘This ig a great State, anyhow,
and judging by the recent past, it does not
take a SOLOMON to keep the wheels of gov-
ernment moving smoothly.” How true it
is that £0 many men who have not the first
idea of statesmanship have been elevated to
the highest honor within the gift of the
people of Pennsylvania. And how true it
is that of all of them SAMUEL WHITTAKER
PENNYPACKER is. the puniest.
~—According to Mr. THEODORE ROOSE-
VELT'S idea of it, as expressed in the or-
der retiring Gen. YOUNG, all that is neces-
sary to make a great soldier is to be able to
kow tow and salaam a sufficient number of
times to ‘‘the commander-in-chief,’’ who,
in thia case, happens to be Mr. THEODORE
ROOSEVELT, In that particalar branch of
carpet-knight etiquet Gen. MILES was a
signal failare—but then General MILES bad
a military record when ROOSEVELT and Dr.
Woop were not yet dry behind the ears
and he earned so wany honors with his
sword that he could never get into the
hang of winning them with a Hyonphantie
tongue or a pliant backbone. :
-~It the report he true that Congressman
DouGLASS, of New York, said what he is
oredited with having said about Roosk-
VELT, at the banquet given by the New
York Congressmen to Senator THoMAS C.
PLATT, iv Washington, last week, the
Rough Rider must feel very much like a
mao up a tree. Mr. Douarass, under the
tiring influences of plentifal,qpantities of
champagne, declared that ‘“‘every Republi-
ean Member from New York knows that
ROOSEVELT can’t carry New York, nor can
he be elected,s0 why continue this lying in
your throats when it would be better for
the party tocome out squarely against him
and bunt a man who can be elected.’
Of course "the en- |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., J JANUARY 15, 1904.
_ VOL. 49
Pennypacker Will be Nominated.
Because there is little public discussion
of Governor PENNYPACKER'S proposition
to swap two years of his term in the office
of Governor for twenty-one years on the
Supreme court bench some of our esteemed
contemporaries are disposed to think that
the scheme has been abandoned. There is
nothing and could be nothing further from
the trath. Governor PENNYPACKER will
be nominated for Supreme court judge at
the coming Republican state convention.
There will be little enthusiasm in the
movement but that makes no difference.
Enthusiasm is unimportant to Republican
politicians. QUAY’S orders secure the
nomination and if necessary frandulent
votes in sufficient number to compass the
election will be provided.
The scheme to transfer PENNYPACKER
trom the office of Governor to that of the
Supreme court is one of the most cherished
which the QUAY machine has ever concoct-
ed. It never originated in PENNYPACKER'S
brain. It is the product of the gray mas-
ter in Quay’s cranium and the pur-
pose is less to get PENNYPACKER
on the bench than it is to get ‘‘Oleo”’
Brown into the office ' of Governor. Some
man of his type is necessary to the ma-
chine in that office. The rich harvest of
loot which was gathered daring STONE'S
incumbency of the gubernatorial office is
a delightful memory in the minds of the
machine managers. The thousands of dol-
lars which they carried away from Harris-
burg during the session of 1901 was the
inspiration of the PENNYPACKER swap
scheme.
It will be remembered that during the
last week of the last session of the Legisla-
ture a number of promising snakes were
killed. The session had not been altogeth-
er without boodle and the ‘‘rake-off'’ from
the appropriations was immense. Bat
the really productive measnres of the ses-
sion were the snakes which were kept on
the calendar to be rushed throogh inthe
excitement of closing.’ Finally about that
time they were called up, one. after anoth-
|.er, and on motion of a machine Senator’
stricken. from. the calendar.
The reason
given wae shay the Governor wonldn’s con-
robberies manifest in the measures in
question were too much for him and he
refused assent.
For that reason the achive began
scheming to get him ous of the office before
the next session. Every crook connected
with it understood .that with. ‘‘Oleo”’
BROWN in the office there would be no
trouble. He might demand a share, it
was reasoned, but that would make no
difference. With a friendly Governor
there would he pienty for all. In fact
under such circumstances opportunities
for grafs can be created in proportion to
the demand. If the snakes of the last
session badn’t been killed every one of the
guug would have gotten rich. The yield
‘would have been equal to that of the pre-
vions session. But the Governor kicked
over the traces and now he must be put
in a place where he can’t interfere with
the graft.
Sempre
Get Good Election Officers.
Democrats throughout the county ought
to give careful attention to the matter of
candidates for the local elections between
this time and the date of the Spring elec-
sion. There is no political duty more bind-
ing on the citizen than that of selecting
capable and intelligent township and
borough officials. The election officers are
especially important from a party stand:
point and every Democratic voter in the
county shonld exert his best efforts to se-
cure competent Judges and Inspectors of
elections and aesessors of registration.
Work given to that purpose now will make
that in the fall much easier.
. It may not be generally known, but it is
true, nevertheless, that the Republican
state machine is ‘zealously endeavoring to
extend the Philadelphia system of ballot
box stuffing into every ‘part of the State
and wherever there is a considerable pop
ulation or congestion of voters the plan is
to introduce it. We do not charge that the
average Republican citizen of Centre coun-
ty wonld lend bimself to such criminal
operations. But we do believe that there
are some in almost every community who
would resort so even such expedients so
compass the success of their party. Every
available means of preventing it should
therefore be taken, 5
‘The best stonrity against election frauds
is in the election (of men ‘to donduot the
elections who are both vigilaot enough to
detect frauds and courageous cuough to
prevent them. Sgch men can be found in
every. election district in the county and it
is the duty of the party workers to search
them out and secure their election. In
performing this service the first stép toward
party success in the more important fall
elections will be taken. This fact. should
be borne in ming and acted on by: every,
Democratic voter in the county.
Penrose Jor € Chairman.
The esteemed New few Yok Sun suggests
that. inasmuch as President ROOSEVELT
has been unable, thus far, to find a man
willing to accept the chairmanship of the
Republican National committee for the im-
pending campaign, he assume that office
himself. It would be an innovation, our
New York contemporary admits, and un-
diguified and a violasion of traditions and
of. the civil service regulations, but such |
things wounldn’t matter to President ROOSE-
VELT, that great newspaper contends, for
he has already broken all cherished tradi-
tions, smashed precedents, is himself an
innovation and has no dignity to main-
tain. Those things are literally true and
yet we have doubts.
Senator HANNA has positively refased
to continue at the head of the Republican
organization. He came into conspicuous
public notice as the friend of President
MoKINLEY in 1896 and has never lost a
fight. In the approaching contest he sees
nothing but disaster and declines to put
his back under the burden. Secretary of
War Roor is very similarly situated. He
bas a reputation for legal ability and po-
litical sagacity and the defeat of the party
ander his management would wreck all
his hopes of future party honors. Governor
CRANE, of Massachusetts, is able, adroit
and rich but he is just trying to find a
place in national politics and doesn’t care
to come in the guise of a Jonah.
A cursory view of the field might lead
to the impression that in the declination of
those three gentlemen the resources of the
party are exhausted and shat there is noth-
ing lefs for ROOSEVELT hut to take charge
himself. But this is altogether too gloomy
a view to take of the situation. We can
find a man for the place if the President
will apply to us and without going farther
than Philadelphia. There is Senator PEN-
ROSE, not only willing but anxious to take
up the labor. He wouldn't makea very
good chairman, probably, for with ‘‘mon-
ey to hurn’’ last fall he was unable to get
more than half the vote of this State to the
polls. - But even PENROSE would be bet-
ter than ROOSEVELT.
. .———~The death of Janus Ww. | SwEELY, a
4 =
1 ‘home’ I 3 # By =
night, a fromthe field-ol journalism gra
in Central Penusylvania, one ‘of the most
conspicions elements. Ae editor and owner
of the Williamsport Sun he was a fearless,
progressive, successful newspaper man and
though only forty-one years of age he had
attained a position of respect and influence
in the city of his birth that wonld be
coveted by men of far greater years.
Philadelphia Takes the Cake.
City controller LARKIN, of Pittsburg,
has issued a manifesto to the voters in
which he says that ‘‘thieves rule thas city.’’
Mr. LARKIN ig a Democrat who was elect
ed to the office as the result of the first fu-
sion of Democrats and Republicans under
the appellation of the ‘Citizens’ party.
Subsequently QUAY enticed the Republi
cans of the combination to desert their al-
lies and unite with his friends. Thus the
QUAY ‘crowd secured all the important of-
fices except controller and organized a ma-
chine , gpite.as iniquitous and probably
more ravenous than the-old FLINN ma-
chine. It is that! organization’ to ‘which
Mr. LARKIN refers i in his manilesto. It is
the BIGELOW crowd. :
In proof of his statement controller LAR
KIN quotes the tax rate of several oities
and shows that that of Pittsburg is the
highest. No douht he is acourate in his
statement. We have neither his figures
nor those of other cities at hand. for com-
patison.- But the fact that the tax rate is]
high while presumptive evidence of profli-
gacy is not conclusive on the subject. In
‘other words, a city may have a compara-
tively low tax rate and still be criminally
profligate. The record of Philadelphia is
the sufficient proof of that fact. Few cities
have as low a tax rate as Philadelphia and
there is none that begins to ‘be as corrupt
and profligate.
How is it managed ? Easy. Philadel.
phia doesn’t collect money hy taxing pro-
cesses, either to pay current expenses or ma-
turing . obligations. She simply borrows
money and within the last ten years has
borrowed nearly $60,000,000. The vast
sum in addition to the. tax collections,
which at the rate of $1.86 on the $100 the
rate there for many years aggregates an
most profligate oity in the, world, Pittsburg
is probably bad. enough. . The likelihood
is that, as Mr. LARKIN declares, it is ruled
by thieves. But the distinetion_ of being |
the most corrupt city belongs. to Philadel.
phia and. Pittsburg,can’s get it away.
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A TG Adusitibor ds. she. name of» Tobe]
page infant thas the stork ‘bas carreid into |
the lap of :newspaperdom' in ‘Altoona, |
Just what the mission of the Advertiser isis
rather hard to discover for it devotes most
of ita space to a.discussiou of the safety
of the opera house in that city:
NO. 2.
§ Rosevelt’s False Pretenses.
| The ‘minority report of the senate com-
mittee on Military Affairs in the case of
Dr. Woop, prepared by Senator Scorr of
West Virginia and made public on Monday,
fra the public a new phase of that inter-
ting comedy. That is to say until now
it was believed that the President im-
gined that Dr. WooD had some claim to
a military record and that thoogh favor-
sm was ohvious in the appointment it
might be justified to bis own conscience
through that belief. As a matter of fact,
wwever, the President didn’t imagine
anything of the kind. He positively knew
that Dr. Woob hadn’t even the shadow of
a military record and that he tried to de-
ceive the public hy concealing the facts.
That this fraud was attempted knowing-
ly and dishonestly by the President is
revealed in the evidence of General JAMES
H. WILSON, late a menber of the strike
settlement commission © in this State,
quoted freely in the minority report, or
speaking more exactly in the review of the
evidence made by Senator Scorr. Gener-
al WILSON testified as followings:
* Later ‘T had another interview with Mr.
RooseveLrt, after she had been’ elected Vice-
sident "of the United States, at his home at
more Hill. He began then in rather ex-
{avagant. prsise of General Woop, whereupon
‘Governor RooseverLr, I think: you are, per-
Inter mistaken about that. If [am correctly .
med, General Woop was never under fire
in his life until the Spanish war hegan, either ’
in the Geronimo campaign or at any. other
time. In the Spanish war he was*never in
hit t one battle, and that at Las Guasimas,
re but for his resené and’ support by the
Solored traops he wold: have been badly han-
i “Oh yes,” said Mr. Roosev ELT, ‘‘he was al
San Joan.”
'o which I replied. “I beg your pardon,
hie was not. You. know that be was in the
rear looking for ammunition.”
“Yes,” said he, “but lo not tell anybody.”
Woop had made a creditable exhibition: of
military skill and ability at San Juan,
President ROOSEVELT has jumped him over
thé heads of more than a hundred veterans
who had splendid wilitary records aud
proved their fitness for command in numer-
ons hattles on southern fields during the
‘Civil war and in bloody encounters with
savage enemies’ on the western plains
since. What a crime against justice and the
“honor of the country is thus attempted and
what right has the man guilty of it to ask
suffrages of honest voters to con: |
ced? It is an outrage which should he.
‘rebuked by every friend of fairness in
the land. '
+ —Chicago iz furniehing the real sinews
of war for both ‘Japan aud Russia. Our
canned beef was so widely advertised hy
that prince of press agenss—former Sec-
retary ALGER—-that everybody wants it
now.
Creating False Impressions.
The Washington correspondents of the
administration organs have set themselves
to the task of creating the impression that
the opposition of the Democratic Senators
in Congress to the bogus Panama treaty
will result in a war between this country
and Colombia. Tbe same policy was
adopted three years ago to silence the just
opposition to thre imperial plans ‘in the
Philippine Islands and was in a measure
successful. We hardly think, bowever,
that it will work again, for as LINCOLN
said “you can’t fool all the people all the
time,”’ and the people now realize that
they: were badly fooled in that matter.
. The scheme is to make it appear that the
government of Colombia is placing de-
pendence on the “help of the Democratic
party in the event of war aud that the ex-
peotation ix based on the utterances of
Democratic Senators. For ‘example one of
those merceuary seribblers wrote the other
day that “the report from Bogota that the
Colombian “government is looking to the
Democrats in the United States ‘Senate for
support in the Panama. matter is not a sur,
prise to she Republican leaders. Since the
notorious action of the Demoorats in en-
couraging the insurgents i in the’ ‘Philippines
four years ago it is regarded as only nat-
ural that the Colombians should look to
the same source for assistance in trying to
overthrow the administration’s policy in
ite efforts to secure the construdtion of the
Panama canal. 2 :
It there isa war between the govern-
‘ment of Colombin aud that of the United
States it won't be beciuse the Democrats
in the United States Senate have properly
condemned the criminal violation of treaty
and moral obligations, bus for the reason
' that sach international crimes have been
perpetrated by the government of the
Unised States or rather hy the administra-
tion of President RoosevELT. The Demo-
crats in the Senate have done nothing ex-
cept what was their duty. They have pro-
tested against the betrayal of the honor of
*{ the government they love and failure to do
180 would have heen perfidy of the basest
| sort.
ee ‘ Hla
talked of as delegates to the Republican
national convention from-this, the: wemty.
2 first congressional distriot.
oe SREB AAIS n
Yet upon the false pretense that General |
ie him ina position he has thus ’ dis]
' indicate ite pre eminence...
| ~——Col. WiLBUR F. REEDER and Stats |!
Treasurer FRANK 'G. HARRIS are béivg |
The First in 4 1n the Field. ar
From the Pittsburg Post.
Democrats everywhere should Selivitat»
the Democracy of Massachusetts for bring
ing forward in formal manner one of that
State’s most distinguished citizens, the
Hon. Richard Olney, for: President.
Whether or not we favor the Olney can-
didacy, the benefits of its intrusion in the
field a¢ this juncture cannot -he denied.
It gives definiteness and candor $0 a pro-
gram that has been hesitant Saud halting
until now.
It is highly probable that the Olney,
candidacy cannot be at he more’
seriously at this time than a ‘mere ‘‘feel-
er.”” In the parlance of the pa it
may be only an effort of his
“ry him out.’” But whatover ky he its
present strength or object, the of in-,
terest worth noting is that it will have the
effect of developing other cand
.we likely shall know the complete list of
entries from . which to choose a leader in
the great fight the militant Demogracy
will make this year against the o aed
special interests that are entrenched
arrogant, predatory wealth, Mr. hind
has shown the qualities of resourcefal and
courageous leadership : inspired, hy: the
ideals of Democracy, gnided: by the} prin-
ciples implanted in the organization by
Jefferson and fought for with sublime
courage by Jackson. =.
Whether the element of wide popularity
is now or could be enlisted on the side of
Mr. Oley is a question for :the futpre to
answer. While he has been uously
hefore the people fot many years, @ has
been no occasion to text his personal follow:
ing or the possesrion by him of those peon-
liar qualities that develop popnlarity, . Hix
course in dealing with British areogance in
the Venezuelan case while he was nestetary
of state shows him to he no$ to assert
in firm and significans language | purpose
of this Governmeis to preserve the
ern Hemisphere for the - developmen of
those political idedls for whigh: the
of the Republio gave their hlood and
Not since! the. Monroe duetrinet wae
entinciated has so important. at annennce,
mens concerning the attitnde of she United
States toward the antignated institnsions
and the lingering spirit of :fendaliam of
Europe héen made as was contained in Mr.
Olney’s famons note tothe Biitish foreign
office on the subjecs of Venezuela, *‘The
fias of the United States is the daw of the
New World,” is what he in effect said.
The spiris asserted hy Mr.. ney toward
the weak and stragglibg 8 of Latin
America presents sucha ¢o $ to’ that
displayed hy she’ Roosevelt administration
that it undoubtedly ‘wounld have great
weight ina campaign between him and the
Rough Rider.
Buber in ian iew of. the, Olney |
acy which is. still more ressive.
It will he remembered that only afew davs
hefore the Massachusetts Demoarey spoke
Mr. Olney in a public speech in New York
declared that if the party hoped to win ir
should again tarn to Mr. Cleveland. Mr.
Oluey is a man of plain speech. He hag
few of the arts of verbal deception. He
meant what he said in his New York ad-
dress. It is therefore not improbable that
hig implied willingness to assume the role
of avowed candidate is designed chiefly to
test the temper and disposition of the party
toward Mr. Cleveland.
a factor both of disturbance and strength,
Hence it will he worth while to watch:
closely the Olney candidacy for a How
esky,
Sensible Conclusions.
From the Philadelphia Ri Record. .
* The uncertainty apparent in. the; Demo-
oratic ranks as to the selection of the next
candidate for the Presidency is not with-
ous.certain strategic advantages. It serves
to bring to the front suitable men in all
parts of the country and necessitates a can-
vass of possibilities which is of great edu-
cational advantage. It baffles the cam-
paigning expedients of the opposition, who
are kept in doubt where to concentrate
their fire. . The delay in choice also serves
to more thoroughly expose the weak points
of the already settled Roosevelt candidacy
and to further develop the jealousies and
antagonisms which the Republican ‘leaders
are no longer at pains to conceal.
Cleveland and Bryan having both ‘de-
hiberately taken themselves out of the. list
of availables. and having thus simplified
the situation by making i$ possible to pus
aride dead wood: and dead: issues, there
need be no hurry to pick the man. It will
he: enough when the Democratic _conven-
tion shall assemble to ascertain its two-
thirds preference and to make both can-
didate and platform to fit into the ex-
igencies of the national situation, While
the Democrats are considering, the Re-
publicans = are floundering - about in a
morass of mistakes and perplexities when
are slowly undermining. the public; con-
fidence.
—— “Principles of Animal Nutrition’’ is
the title of a volume hy HENRY PRENTISS
ARMSBY, Ph. D., director of the Pennsyl-
vania State College Agricultural Experi-
ment Station, which has just been publish-
éd by JorN WILEY & SoNs, of New York,
and CHAPMAN & HALL, of London. While
Dr. ArRMSBY’S rank as an expert in animal |
natrition is probably equal’ to that of ‘any |
other scientist in the world the advance |
criticisms of his latest contribution to the
useful literature of that field are such as to |i
Highest Eng- |
‘lish, German and American authorities |
‘unite in unstinted praise of the valueof the |
‘work of which the London, England, Rurol
World says:. ‘We regard it as one ol the
most valuable pulsations of the Jind: in
recent years.”
—— At its last meeting Millhein: ea
granted a franchise to J. G. Spavgler; of
Mapleton Depot, Huntingdon county, to
install a public water-works in that place.
es, with |.
the result that within a month or less time | $070.
{ well-known. She was 21 years old.
If that is his por- |
pose hiscandidacy introduces :to the canvass
Spawls eam. 4h the - Reystone.
—Two hubby bosebe ‘born on Christmas day
to Charles Ritter, aged 70, at his home on
Bristol pike and Pennypacker lane,are report-
ed as strong and healthy, and Mrs. Ritter,
now 60 years old, is also doing well.’
—The home of A..B; Burrows, a prominent
farmer, near Stevensville, Bradford county
valued at $12,000, was totally : destroyed by
‘the explosion of gasoline torch whieh was
being used to thaw out a frozen water pipe.
—Actor Herbert Lindholm, the small-pox
victim, who has been quarantined and under
treatment for the past month in a passenger
coach on the Reading siding at Milton, has
entirely recovered from the dread disease
and has gone to-New York city.
—The Pennsylvania railroad will add
only 100 locomotiveés to its equipment uring
the present year, as against 500 (in 1903.
- Half of the order will ‘be placed with the
Baldwin locomotive company, so a leading
official of the" company said ‘Saturday. The
other fifty locomotives will be built at the
company’s shops in Altoona,
—Peter Meitzler, proprietor of the River-
side hotel, Lock Haven, who has rounded
out a half century of yéars ‘as a landlord,
will celebrate the event by entertaining his
«friends and the city officials at a banquet, to
be given on Wednesday evening,” January
20th, at 8:30 o'clock, invitations for which
{| were sent out yesterday.
—Winber is very nearly if not quite the
baby town of the State, yet the assessment
just completed shows a total valuation of
000. The report shows 615 freeholders,
592 tenants, 948 single mén—a total of 1,822
taxable inhabitants. There are 940 school
children and 186 births and 58 deaths have
been reported. Last year the valuation was
$640,000,-with 1,052 taxables.
—Harry Riebsam, a lineman who has been
working at Barnesboro, Cambria county, and
who returned to Williamsport on Monday,
has been attacked by small-pox and is Dow
in the custody of the health. authorities.
Riebsam bad been ahont the streets for sever-
al days and probably mingled with many peo-
ple, hundreds of whom may have heen un-
wittingly exposed to the contagion.
—The remains of Miss Beulah Seibert, the
Newberry young lady who died from ‘burns
sustained at Roaring Spring, at the Nason
hospital, where she was studying to become
a nurse, was buried in Newberry on Friday
afternoon. Miss Seibert attended High
school asa member of the 1902 class, and was
Her
parents and one sister, Ella, survive.
. —Three Polanders, Mike Dudock, James
Correll and Tylon Saroma, were arrested
Saturday night at their homes in Newberry,
charged with coining and passing counterfeit
nickels. The officers not only captured the
men, but also found the moulds and tools
uged and some unfinished coin and raw ma:
terial. . Dudock is about 33 years of age,
Saroma about 40, snd Correll about 18.
" —From the effects of a wound inflicted
two weeks ago by the accidental discharge of
a gun in the hands of her little grandson,
Mrs. Jane Watt died recently as: her home
mn Paulton, Westmoreland county. She was
in her eightieth’ year. The grandchild ‘had
taken the gun from its accnstomed place,
| and, believing it w was unloaded, snapped. the
trigger. The shot. took effect in the grand.
mother’s right shoulder.
—Porter Wright, a Civil war veteran, was
blown to pieces while on his way home from
Glen Campbell Monday morning. The old
man stopped at a fire to. warm himself, not
knowing that some Italians blasting on the
new township road bad placed some dyna-
mite in dinner buckets to thaw out before the
fire. While Mr. Wright was standing at the
blaze the stuff let go and the old man was lit-
erally torn to shreds,
~Miles Shady, aged 12 years, son of D. E.
Shady, was accidentally shot while examin-
ing a revolver at his home at Glen Union,
Clinton county, Wednesday evening. The
{ boy was curious to know whether the revol-
ver was loaded and was making a close ex-
amination of the weapon when it was acei-
| dentally discharged. The ball entered the
right cheek and came out near the right
eye.
. —Blacklick, Indiana county, is at present
in the throes of an epidemic of: diphtheria
and Friday there were seven cases of that
frightful disease in the little town. So far
there has been one death, one of the pupils
of the primary department of the public
schools, All the sick are children belonging
to the same department and in order. to pre-
vent further spread of the disease the school
directors instructed the principal to eloge the
school for at least one week. beabtith
-~August Swenson. an aged man who lived
on the banks of Kettle creek, was found: dead
a few days ago, curled up before bis hearth,
where the fire had barned. The body was
found by two woodsmen who were on their
way from Germania to a lumber camp on Ket-
tle creek. It was thought the old man bad died
Thursday night when a snow storm was rag-
ing and the weather was extremely cold,
Swenson, it is stated, was a Swede and came
to this country when Ole Bull established his
colony at Oleona, Potter county.
—Mrs. George J Houck, who lives about
one mile northeast of Loyalseckville, Lycom-
ing county, is lying at the home of a neigh-
bor, Mrs. Harvey Rentz, critically il} as the
result of inhaling smoke and flame ina des:
verate fight with fire at her" home ° Satorday
night. While her busband was at Jodge fire
| broke out in the clothes press upstairs. The
| only people in the house at the time were
Mrs. Houck and her 2-year-old child and a
neighbor aged 77. The old man and Mrs.
Houck fought the flames until help arrived
and the lower part of the house was saved. .
—Schem E. Royer, abrakeman on the Pitts-
burg division, while his train of leaded coal
cars on the way from Gallitzin to Altoona
was resting on a side track at Allegrippus,
‘Friday evening, got off and began’ to walk
‘along the side of the traiv. A snapper was
‘coming down on the next track, ‘returning
{from a soap, and Royer, nol noticing or hear:"
iing the approaching engine, was run down
‘and. death was iustantaneous. His lifeless
‘body was found by his fellow trainmen. Both:
{legs were severed from his body a few inches
‘below the thigh and’badly mangled; his neck
‘was also broken. He was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Royer, “of Millmont, Union,
‘I'county, and was about 21 years of age. He
had only railroadeéd about four months: