—— -
Deworrali atc
P. GRAY MEEK.
ink Slings.
Now doth the busy candidate
Make promises galore,
And swears he'll be a better man
‘Than he’s ever been before.
—_Next Tuesday will be ground-hog day.
Look out for your shalow, Tom.
—Why didn’t you run, Tom? We could
bave had such a nice time campaigning
together.
— Tom doubtless thinks there is some-
thing worth living for now that he has
found a candidate.
—Wouldn't it be the best ever if Gen.
MILES were to receive the Democratic nom.
ination for President and be the man to de-
feat ROOSEVELT ?
—The real reason that Russia and Japan
find it inconvenient to get together is be-
cause Japan’s navy can’t sail on laud and
Russia’s infantry can’t walk on water.
—There might be lots of money in the
egg raising business; especially at the pres-
ent prive. But what good is the high price
when the hens can’t be persuaded to lay ?
__ With an unwitting eye to the eternal
fitness of things Congress got into a squab-
ble over J. PIERPOINT MORGAN and flying
machines both on the same afternoon. The
jump from one subject to the other wasn’é
so great, after all, when the affinity of
each for wind and water is considered.
—The new Republican organization in
Centre county is made up of COLONEL
chambers and private TOM harter. A
fierce army, isn’t it? It would either be a
case of the lion leading the ass or the ass
leading the lion, if there were not so much
doubt in the public mind as to whether
there is any lion at all in the bunch.
—The arrest of Mayor CARTER HARRI-
son, of Cineago, for responsibility for the
Iriguois theatre fire, is not a serious nor
dicect 1eflection upon that eminent gentle-
man. It is, however,a warning to officials
everywhere, that in the future the public
will be more insistent that every safeguard
that law and order throws about their
daily life, is properly operative.
—Mme PATTI declined to fill a concert
engagement at Butte, Montana, Tuesday
evening, becanse iat that high altitude
there was too little air and too much smel-
ter smoke for her silver throat. Judging
from the opinion of eastern critics as to the
quality of her voice on this, her positively
“farewell trip,’”’ a little smoke might do it
good. Smoke is usually a preserver of old
things.
. —The Philadelphia Press is of the opin-
ion that the next congressional delegation
from this State will contain but one Demo-
crat. It might prove true, but the Press
should be ashamed to even hint at such an
eventuality. The outrageous gerrymander
by which seven hundred thousand Repub-
licans are given thirty-three représentatives
in Congress and four hundred thonsand
Democrats only one is a disgrace that we
didn’t think the Press brazen enough to al-
lade to.
—The sather unexpected and eccentric
action of Colonel WETMORE, of St. Louis,
in leaving seventy-five thousand dollars to
the Democratic party for the dissemination
of Democratic principles is best explained
by the fact that the Colonel is a resident of
St. Louis. The recent expose of the graft-
ing in the Legislature of Missouri and the
council of St. Louis must have convinced our
benefactor that some of the Democrats
have been back-sliding and need being
done over in the faith of JEFFERSON and
JACKSON.
—The unseating of Congressman HoOWw-
ELL, of the Lackawanna district, in order
to make a place for WILLIAM CONNELL, the
defeated millionaire, is the most brazen
piece of partisan politics eversplayed in the
lower house of Congress. With no other
justification than that HOWELL, a poor
man, bought his election over CONNELL, a
millionaire and a notorious contributor to
campaign corruption funds, the committee
on elections has reported in favor of unseat-
ing (he former and the Republican House
will permit partiean prejudice to sway its
action.
——The Altoona Times strikes a key
note when it says ‘‘We have the greatest
confidence in Mr.
tional platform.”’ Just so. Mr.
country has reason to be very proud. His
recent trip abroad revealed him in a man-
ner that surprised foreigners at his depth
and acumen in affairs of governmeut, but
the silver issue is not for this campaign.
It has been fought for twice and lost twice
and an effort to cram it down the public
neck a third time would be the height of
folly.
—The political pot is beginning te boil
in this county; the latest evidence of it
being the Republican intention to bring
“Little Fill” back into the political arena
for another go at the Legislature and
GEORGE E. LAMB is the pet candidate for
prothonotary. This ia putting Philipsburg
a little strong on the ‘ticket but it will
take fixing up over there after JOHNNY
GoWLAND, HARRY WARFEL and ANDY
BRYAN’S ability and
honesty of purpose but we don’t believe he
is speaking for the six million people who
voted for him twice in insisting that the
16 to 1 plank should be again in the na-
BRYAN
is a great statesman, a man of whom this
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JANUARY 29, 1904.
NO. 4.
Pennypacker's Startling Methods.
Some of our esteemed contemporaries
have curious notions of the distinguished
gentleman who occupies the office of Gov-
ernor of this State at present. The Phila-
delphia Record, for example, can’t see how
the Governor can possibly run for Justice of
Supreme court against a gentleman whom
he himself appointed to the office- In
obedience to his sworn obligation, our es-
teered contemporary reasons, he selected
SAMUEL GUSTINE THOMPSON from all the
lawyers of the State because more than any
other he measured up to the high standard
of an ideal Judge. If ke reaches that stand-
ard, the Record continues, substantially, it
is the Governor’s duty as a citizen to vote
for him and failing to do so will he per-
fidious to the people of the State.
From the view point of our esteemed
contemporary we can understand its per-
plexities. If Governor PENNYPACKER had
selected Justice Thompson, as his oath of
office required him to do, because of his
pre-eminent fitness for the office, his con-
science, if he have any, would, compel him
not only to vote for his election but to influ-
ence all other voters todo the same thing.
Bat as a matter of fact the question of fit-
ness probably never entered into PENNY-
PACKER’S mind in selecting a successor to
Chief Justice McCoLLuM. It never does
into any of his appointments. Political
expediency is his only guide and if the ap-
pointment of a jail-bird to the highest office
in his gift would promote his own or
QUAY'’S political plans he would appoint
him.
Of all the men who have ever prostitut—
ed the public service of Pennsylvania the
most absolutely reckless and dangerous is
SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER. He has
neither pride of opinion nor pleasure in
consistency. He issimplyfavain, conscience-
less and daring old man. The best
appointment he bas ever made was that of
Judge JAcoBs toa seat on the Common
Pleas bench of Dauphin county. But when
a corrupt machine subsequently nominated
a machine politician to succeed bim for the
purpose, as it was boldly stated, ‘of rebuk-
ing the old idiot’’ he calmy and serenely
turned in and supported the machine nomi-
nee and let the distinguished jurist who
‘sérved his purpose of punishing recalei-
trancy to QUAY to an ignominions defeat.
Nothing that he does is surprising.
Constructive Recess Busted.
Senator TILLMAN, of South Carolina,
brought out an interesting fact the other
day. During the course of a speech in the
Senate he incidentally referred to Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT'S ‘‘constructive recess’’
between the close of the extra session and
the beginning of the regular session on the
first Monday of December last. It will be
remembered that about the first business
presented at the regular session was a batch
of presidential nominations, including that
of Dr. LEONARD WoOD to be a Major Gen-
eral in the regular army. It was pointed
ous that nominations made during the ses-
gion didn’t carry commissions with them
until after confirmation to which the reply
was that they were recess appointments,
the recess being ‘‘constructive,’’ and hap-
pening between the adjournment of one
session and the beginning of the other.
When Dr. WooD was first nominated for
not in session and a commission was issued
to him. Under the constitution and the
laws that commission was good, and carried
with it the authority and salary of the of-
fice until ‘‘the end of their next session.”
The ‘‘end of the nextsession’’ of the Senate
was the adjournment of the extra session
and Dr. Woobp’s nomination not having
been confirmed, he would necessarily drop
back in rank and pay toa Brigadier Geveral.
But though only a moment elapsed be-
tween the adjournment of the extra session
and the opening of the regular session, the
President declared that there wasa ‘‘con-
structive recess’’ and nominated Dr. WooD
again, thus enabling him to claim a recess
appointment and retain the commission
aud pay of the higher rank.
Mr. TILLMAN referred to the matter the
other day in counection with a similar
nomiuation of a negro named CRUM to the
office of collector of the port of Charleston,
South Carolina, and protested against such
an interpretation of the constitution where-
upon hoth Senators FRYE and HALE, of
Maine, protested that the Senate would not
be so silly. “There was no recess between
twelve o'clock noon and twelve o'clock
noon of that day,’’ he said,”’ and the Senate
will so declare at the proper time. If that
Major General in the army Congress was |.
be true the commissien of Dr.
Major General of the army expired at
“twelve o'clock noon’ of that day, and if
he has drawn pay as Major General since
he owes something to the government.
Meantime. the President’s absurd
Polygamy and the President.
That REED SMo0T, Apostle in the Mor-
mon church, is secure in his seat in the
United States Senate is made certain by an
incident which occurred in Washington
the other day. SMo00T holds the seat. as
we have previously stated, as a result of an
agreement made four years ago between
the Mormon church and the Republican
National committee. The conditions were
that the Mormon church would help the
Republican party and the Republican party
would help the church. The first fruits of
the agreemeut was electing Republican
electors at the last presidential election and
the second the election of REED SMOOT to
the Senate.
It will be remembered that when the
Legislature of Utah, in fulfillment of the
bargain, announced the purpose to elect
SMO0T a Senator, there was a loud protest
from every section of the country and
ROOSEVELT, who appears to be a moral
coward, was inalined to back out. He did
go so far as to recommend the election of a
less conspicuous officer in the church than
SMoor. But his advice was disregarded
and SMoOT chosen a year ago. Thereupon
with the view of placating public senti-
ment the President anuvounced that he
would not re-appoint S. Wo00D SMOOLEY,
a bishop in the Mormon church, to the
office of assayer of the mint at Bois City,
Idabo. The other day he announced that
he had chauged his mind and will re-
appoint SMOOLEY, the Mormon bishop.
The reason for this change of mind, as
announced upon reliable authority, is that
ander the fostering care of the Republican
party the Mormon church bas prospered
amazingly of late and has spread out so
that it now pretty nearly if not altogether
holds the balance of power in Idaho, Nevada
and several others of the small western
States. The President has concluded,
therefore, that he can afford to ‘‘go up
against?’ the opposition to polygamy in the
east if the Mormon church will guarantee
him the votes of Utah and the other States
pamed, both in the nominating convention
and at the election next fall.
Quay Orders Lunstructions:
Senator QUAY has announced that the
delegates to the Republican national ‘con-
vention for this State will be instructed
for ROOSEVELT. It is understood that he
said to the President that such a thing had
never been done before and that he was
reluctant to order the innovation. But
the President was obdurate. He declared
that he had been giving QUAY free use of
the patronage to sell or trade during the
nearly three years since his induction into
office, and now it is his turn. We haven't
heard that he reminded QUAY of the un-
lawful use made of the patronage at the
time that PENNYPACKER was nominated.
But whether he did or not the ‘‘old man’
yielded and the order to instruct has been
given.
All this comes from the night mares
which the President has been having late-
ly with regard to the nomination. He has
become morally afraid that he will be de-
feated and that HANNA will be the nomi-
nee instead of himself. He knows how
deeply QUAY hates HANNA and how in-
tensely the hatred is reciprocated and he
shares the feeling of QUAY in the matter.
But these sentiments don’t prevent bim
from realizing that if HANNA wants the
nomination he will get it. The President
is vain and silly, bat he never looses sight
of his danger. He can’t convince himself
that HANNA is unpopular. His vanity
doesn’t take that form. It’s rather of the
type that makes cowards.
We don’t think there is any doubt of
ROOSEVELT'S nomination. He is very
foolish and wretchedly craven, but he is a
good deal of a politician’ and be has
neglected no opportunity or failed of no
effort to secure the nomination. The
other day the Postmaster General issued
‘notice to federal officers that there was no
objection to them going to the convention
of delegates, the obvious purpose being to
get postmasters and revenue collectors to
represent the Southern States and he has
intimated in various ways that federal
officers in the North are expected to do
their share. Notwithstanding all these
things, however, he is frightened and has
made QUAY consent to instruetion.
The Plattorm and Candidates.
We sincerely hope there will soon he an
end to acrimonious discussion as to what
sort of a platform and candidates shall be
nominated by the coming Democratic na-
tional convention. The issues of a cam-
paign and the fitness of one man or another
for leadership of the party are proper sub-
jects for friendly consideration in that
spirit which works for the public good or
the success of the party. Bat the declara-
tion that unless such a policy is asserted
able to a decisive and enduring victory.
With a fit candidate and a suitable plat-
form the Democracy will go to the country
with a confidence and aggressiveness which
will contribute largely to its success. Bat
the splendid outlook may be impaired and
the bright prospects materially damaged
by bickerings among party leaders con-
cerning questions which are yet to he
determined. No man has a right to thus
destroy the prospects of the Democratic
party this year.
to support the ticket. Presumably the
convention will nominate the best candi
date and adopt the best platform possible.
The conventions are usually made up of
capable, earnest and intelligent represen-
tatives of the party. In their combined
wisdom they may determine to omit from
the platform this year something that ap-
peared important four years ago. Or in
the development of events it may be deem-
ed advisable to include this year some-
thing which wasn’t even thought of then.
But whatever is included or omitted the
platform wi!l express what appears to the
majority of the delegates to be the best
summary of pertinent issues.
The Democratic national convention
which meets in St. Lows this year will be
guided by the highest impulses of patriot
ism and encouraged by radians hopes of
success. Every promise hefore it is favor-
Senator Buriow's Trouble.
Senator BURTON, of Kansas, has been in-
dicted in St. Lous on the charge of having
taken money as a consideration for in-
fluencing the Postuffice Department. ‘The
Rialto Grain and Securities company of St.
Louis was transacting a business of doubt-
ful character, largely through the mails,
and was threatened with a ‘‘fraud order.’
To avert the result they employed BURTON,
who is a hanker, to influence the Depart-
ment officials and paid him $2,500 in five
checks of $500 each. The fraud order
was withheld and the business continued
for some time. Finally the postoffice
scandals drove the firm out of business and
the investigation revealed the Senator’s
connection with the matter.
Senator BURTON is a very influential
Republican statesman. He is very earnest-
ly f% RooskvELT for President but we
don’t really see how he will escape the
consequences of his relationship with this
fraud. A couple of weeks ago Senator
DEITRICH, of Nebraska, got out of a very
similar scrape by proving that he had taken
the money before he was sworn in as Sena-
tor. In his. case a postoffice had been
moved from one building to another at bis
request, he having been paid by the owner
of the new building for his services. If he
hadn’t been a Senator he wouldn’t have
been able to effect the result. But the
court held that because he badn’t taken
the oath of office he wasn’t a Senator and
the transaction was not criminal.
Senator BURTON admits the transaction
including the checks, but claims that he
was acting as attorney. If he were a
practicing lawyer that defence would at
least be plausible. But he isn’t a prac-
ticing lawyer. He is a banker and bankers
don’t as a rule get counsel fees for their
friendly services. Still there may be a
way to get BURTON out of his trouble. The
political machine is resourceful avd as
PERRY S. HEATH was extricated from a
deeper hole no doubt BURTON will be
rescued. If he were a Democrat there
would be no hope for him. Even a HAN-
NA Republican would find ‘‘a bard road to
travel’’ But being for ROOSEVELT he has
a chance.
Ths Hub-Bub at State College.
While it is not the desire or the inclina-
tion of the WATCHMAN to get mixed up
in the local squabbles that disturb other
places than Bellefonte, for there are al ways
enough here to keep a live newspaper
busy, the last issue of the State College
Times contains such a manifestly unfair
attack on the council of that borough tbat
we feel justified in calling the attention of
the citizens of State College to a few things
that the present administration deserves
lasting credit for. While we know little
about the controversy over the opening of
Pugh street and the laying of side-walks,
where they should or should not be, or as
to whether the councilmen have permitted
personal feelings to out-weigh public
interests in those questions, it must be
admitted that State College borough has
very exceptional street lighting for such a
small place. This has been secured by
the present council in a way that has
added no additional burden to the tax
payers of that place. They have better
streets and crossings, since the present
nunicipal organization has been in power,
debts outstanding when they assum-
ed the duties of their office have been paid
and such extraordinary expenses as large
support to the local fire department and
taking care of a small-pox patient have all
Stands Between Russia ang
Japan.
As It
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
One of the elements of the speculation as
to the cause for the Russian retrograde in
the Korean-Manchurian dispute is furnish-
ed by a report that the French government
made a declaration to Russia that it would
not be drawn into the quarrel, even if Eng-
land should take sides with Japan. Al-
though, as we have noted, there are plenty
of signs that France is opposed to war, such
a declaration wonld be an extreme reversal
from the old alliance. But it would bea
sufficient explanation of the Russian change
of base from advancing claims in Korea to
protests that she must maintain her status
in Manchuria.
Indeed, if France kept out of the quarrel
there would probably be litte need of Eng-
land’s interference. All reports indicate
that the Japanese navy is so far superior to
the Russian in morale and efficiency as to
leave little doubt that it would control the
seas between Japan and the mainland. If
that were the case the problem for Russia
to maintain an army large enough to meet
the Japanese forces over the single line of
the Siberian railway would be a desperate
one. In our Civil war General Sherman
found that the task of keeping open a line
of supplies to support 100,000 men over the
railways for the few hundred miles between
Nashville and Atlanta was too much for
him, and he solved the problem by sending
Thomas back to Nashviile, abandoning the
railway aud striking out for the sea with
ont a base. [For Russia to try to support
| 300,000 soldiers over tue iil furnished Sib
erian railway for thousands of miles would
be a fearful task. If she conld not win
early and decisive victories on land that
difficulty would speil complete disaster.
16 is noticeable, however, thas the naval
issue would he much improved for Russia
if hostilities can be delayed until the
spring, when the ports of Viadivostok and
Port Arthur ave free of ice. That is a con-
tingenay for the future that may yet turn
the pacific tone of present news into actual
war after the lapse of a few months.
Towns Get But Little Relief.
Loss Placed at $2,000,000. Thieves Were Looting
and Posse is after Them With Guns. Electric
Light Plant Out of Service, Town is in Dark-
ness. $10,000 Relief Fund Has Been Subscribed
For Aid of Sufferers.
WILKESBARRE, Pa. Jan. 25.—There was
but little relief from the flood at Blooms-
burg, Catawissa and Espy- this afternoon.
The water had fallen thirteen inches this
morning, but remained stationary to-day.
The cold weather has added to the discom-
fort and all the flooded towns are envelop-
ed in a sheet of ice, two or three inches
thick. iain Ford OX
The ice is still gorged in tbe river from.
Catawissa to Creasy, fifteen miles. The pack
extends to the bottom and is so tight that
the water is flowing across the farm lands,
instead of the channel tonight. The pack
is higher than the bridges at Bloomsburg,
Catawissa and Ruppert, and if the gorge
moves the structures are doomed. Afb
Bloomsburg tonight men and hoys were
skating about the flooded portion of the
town. A gang of thieves is looting the
houses and a posse armed with guus is alter
them.
Catawissa is in bad shape. The town is
without light and all the coal yards are
flooded. At Espy one-half the houses are
uninhabitable. The hotels and residences
at Bloomsburg and Berwick have been
thrown open to the homeless.
The Pennsylvania railroad’s Sunbury di-
vision is under six feet of water from Cata-
wissa to South Danville and the Blooms:
burg division is out of service hetween
Bloomsburg and Danville. Tce ten feet high
is piled on the tracks of the latter road.
The damage is estimated at $2,000,000.
Ten thousand dollars for the sufferers
was subscribed at a public meeting at
Bloomsburg tonight.
In this city the water has been steadily:
receding and for the present all danger is
over between Towanda and here, a distance
of eighty miles.
Japan Waits.
But intimates That Russia Must 8end Answer
Soon.
Tok10, Januaay 26.—The Japanese gov-
ernment has diplomatically intimated to
Baron de Rosen, the Russian minister, that
an early response is desired to Japan's
recent note to Russia. It is calculated
here that the Japanese note reaehed the
Russian cabnet on the afternoon of Jan-
vary 16sh and it is felt that sufficient time
has elapsed for its consideration and the
preparation of a response. The Japanese
gov ernment is unwilling to permit evas-
lons and delays, which are designed to
gain time.
The future course of the Japanese gov-
ernment is a carefully guarded secret. The
length of time that Japan is prepared to
await the pleasure of Russia is unknown.
It seems progable that it hae been deter-
mined to act decisively witein a few days.
The popular temper has long opposed far-
ther delay. While mauy object to Japan's
taking the initiative a majority would now
welcome the issnance of a brief ultimatum
and a declaration of war if that should
prove ineffective. Some outside opinion
here inclines to the belief that the activity
of the Japanese will be limited to tte seiz-
ure of Corea, which enterprise it is thought
Russia would not oppose. The Japanese
government proceeds with absolute secrecy
and the people of Japan are not even in-
formed of the exact demands made upod
Russia. :
Pittsburg Recovering from Flood
PITTSBURG, Jan. 25. —The railroads are
rapidly recovering from the effects of the
flood. In the Pittsburg district the condi-
tions were practically normal to-day, and
the only trouble experienced is on some of
the branch lines through Ohio. The offic-.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The next annual meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture will be held in Belle-
fonte. 2
—The abutment of the Lycoming county
bridge over Loyalsock creek; was Saturday
damaged to the extent of $2,000 by an ice
dam. Oue end of the bridge sagged down
several feet.
—Professor S. M. Tressler, of Dickinson
seminary, Williamsport, while in the act of
taking a flash light photograph Saturday
evening last, was severely burned about the
face by an explosion of powder.
—Burglars Monday night entered the
post-office at Wilcox and dynamited the
safe. When the strong box was opened
they took therefrom $750 in cash and a
lot of stamps. The men escaped by the aid of
horse and sleigh. ‘
—Miss Josephine Bruner, a maiden lady
aged 58 years, living with a maiden sister
eight miles west of Somerset, committed sui-
cide Saturday morning by slashing her
throat with a butcher knife. Melancholia is
assigned as the cause for her act.
—Blair county had 47 prisoners in the
Western penitentiary during the year 1903.
The total cost of their maintenance was $4,-
444, They earned in wages $1,500, which
amount deducted from the sum for mainte-
nance leaves the net cost to the county $2,-
944.
—Thomas H. Jackson has offered $100 re-
ward for the return of the body of Charles
Snyder, his brother-in-law, who disappeared
from his home in Huntingdon, on the 13th
inst. He is a man about 38 years of age, de-
cidedly stooped, 5 feet 5 inches tall, smooth
face, dark hair and eyes, shrinks from meet-
ing people. -
—Isaiah Conley, aged 75 years, associate
judge of Bedford county, died at his home
in Shellsburg Saturday, after a short illness.
Judge Conley’s ancestors were among the
early settlers of Adams county and his
father located in Napier township, Bedford
county, where Judge Conley had lived all
his life. The latter was a captain during
the civil war and in 1864 had a thrilling
escape as a prisoner of war at Macon,
Ga.
—A. Close McClintock, of near Salona,
fell near his home on Thursday morning,
which was the morning the surface of the
ground was covered by a sheet of ice, and
struck the back of his head, the shock: of
which produced paralysis of the neck, which
impairs his speech to the extent that he can-
not express himself only in monosyllables.
A consultation of physicians failed to bring
any relief. His condition is quite seri-
ous.
—Frequent robberies of loaded freight cars
in the Pennsylvania railroad yards at Cone-
maugh of late have annoyed the officers con-
nected with that concern, and this has led to
some diligent work on the part of the rail-
road policemen, of whom there are several
stationed in that vicinity, A clue was re-
cently followed up which resulted in the re-
covery of nearly $300 of goods and the ar-
rest of mine men in connection with the
case.
—Hollidaysburg is beginning to exper-
ience the noise and din that belongs to a
+ main }ine town, The general movement of
freight east and west over the New Portage
and Petersburg cut-off railroads began last
Thursday. A dozen main line freight trains
of 500 cars now pass through that town daily
and this number will be increased as soon as
the present cramped facilities of the East
Hollidaysburg round house will be improved
and in a short time the New Portage locomo-
tives will be housed there.
—The people of Jenner and Quemahoning
townships, Somerset county, are much
wrought up over the death from rabies of
Charles Gindlesberger, the boy who ‘died at
Critchfield postoffice on Wednesday of last
week. They have circulated a petition to the
State sanitary stock board, asking that all
the dogs in the two townships be muzzled
until such time as all danger of the devel-
opment of rabies is past. This was done be-
cause the dog whose bite is believed to have
been responsible for the boy’s death had been
fighting with dogs in various places, and sev-
eral of the dogs have died.
—The anniversary of Williamsport Com-
mandery, Scottish Rite Masons, which will
be celebrated this week, is an event which
is not only of interest in Williamsport,
but to Scottish Rite Masons everywhere.
The steady and rapid growth of the body
consistory has been almost phenomenal,
and its membership of over 800 will be
increased this week to over 1,000. The
principal event will be the unveiling of the
life-size marble statue of the late William
Howard, whose greatest monument is the
cathedral in which it stands. It took
place Wednesday evening and was open
to members, visiting brethren, candi-
dates and their ladies.
—The Rev. J. C. Kreusch, of the Presbhy-
terian church, of Somerset, was found
dead in his room in the ‘Presbyterian par-
sonage, about 6:30 Saturday morning. For
the past week the Rev. Kreusch had been
suffering from an acute attack of indiges-
tion, but seemed much improved. He pre-
pared his Sunday morning's sermon Friday
evening, and, just before retiring at ahout
9:30, appeared to be in the very best of
spirits. As he did not appear at his usual
breakfast time, a member of the family
went to his room and there found him, al-
ready dressed, lying dead upon the floor.
A physician who was summoned pronounced
death due to organic heart trouble, which
had seized him after he arose.
— Mrs. Catherine Kinley, residing a short
distance below Antes Fort, along the P. and
E. railroad, was struck and instantly killed
Saturday night by train No.1. Mrs. Kinley,
who was 44 years old, left her home at 5
o'clock and went to Jersey Shore on a visit
to friends. On her way home she stopped at
Gheen and Spigelmyer’s grocery store at
Antes Fort to make a number of purchases,
after which she started to walk home, going
down the railroad tracks. It is supposed
Mrs. Kinley stepped out of the way of a
freight train and was struck by the belated
stractive recess’’ is also exploded and the
incident will carry a rather severe rebuke
with it.
BOLGER get through with their post-office
mix-up. But then it won’t take two such
past-masters of politics as COLONEL
jals express hope that all the lines will be
free from the high water within twenty-
four hours. With the passing of the flood,
been met without increase of taxation and
on a very slightly increased valuation.
These are facts that our contemporary,
passenger train, which was running at a
high rate of speed to make up lost time.
Mr. Kinley, becoming alarmed at his wife's
in the: platform and sach a man nominated
as the candidate she ticket and party will
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chambers and private TOM long to straigh-
ten any kink that may happen in the
Philipsburg postmastership, for you know
Sat, postmaster questions are tom's long
suit.
. —“Pll show them who ruus the Re
publican party of Centre coanty.”’—T.-
‘he opposed, is objectionable because it is
demoralizing if not absolately destructive
of party organization. ! >
It is the duty of Democrats, high and low,
the Times, should weigh over against the
grievances it appears to have before con-
demning the council of its home town as
a body of mercenary, self-interested-per-
sons.
the officials have roughly estimated the
damage done by the flood, which is not as
heavy as the previous floods at this time.
The cost of repairs will not be like that
of two years ago.
long absence from home, started ‘up the rail-
road tracks at 11:30 o'clock, in search of her,
and was horrified to find her mangled body
lying between the tracks.