“another dash for the North pole.
" the smart women of the place.
Dewsrua Wachon
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
A Se
Ink Slings.
—The less real war news the Jarger the
scare heads.
—The canal treaty has been ratified.
Now let us dig into it.
—After while there will be nothing
more for the Japs to capture.
—Many of the pretty women in Russia
are enanlating HELEN GouLD. But there
is only one HELEN, however.
— Why not make ‘‘cousin MATT’ a doc-
tor of laws, too? He has been keeping
Pennsylvania sick for these many years.
— While wheat is soaring skyward in
price be careful that you don’t soar too
‘high with it and let go when it is too late.
— Lieutenant PEARY is preparing for
Work on
the relief expedition has not been started
yes. ;
—The Chinese evidently don’t care how
soon they get into their own graves,so long
as those of their ancestors are not disturb-
‘ed. : 2
—TIf Russia has any more war vessels she
‘had better fit them out with legs so there
“will be some chance for them to es-
eape.. . ...
—If Mr. WinLIAM 'R. HEARST were $0
‘let up the WILLIAM R. HEARST boom for
‘President would collapse on the in-
stant.
—Of course ‘‘Bull’’ ANDREWS endorses
QUAY'’S letter to Pennsylvanians. “Ball”?
expects to be catapulted into the United
States Senate. :
— Harmony 1s what Pittsburg Republi-
cans are after, but FLINN says it must be
.spelled with an F, and BIGELOW wants it
to begin with a big B, so there you
are. -
It is lissle wonder that Europe has
$wo-thirds of a million more women than
men at the rate at which the impecu-
nious nobles of those lands import our rich
ones.
__It will not be so much a matter of re-
‘gret to the Republican party that PERRY
HEATH is down and out as secretary of the
national committee as it will be to PERRY,
himself.
—Tuesday’s papers announced that
“gold has been struck in Adams county.”’
There will likely be no mention made of
the suckers stuck in Adams county during
the next few montbs.
—A rural sage who was in town the
“other duy said ‘there will be no let up to
winter until March 15th.’ It was not
learned whether he has friends in the coal
“or plumbing business.
+ —1f-Russin could" “only . make up a.few
regiments of her anarchists and put them
in front the Japs would make an end of
the canker that has been sapping her
national spirit away.
—1It is estimated that rats itioy $60,-
000,000 worth of food annually. The per-
centage of this that is brain food is proba-
bly determined by the number of people
who have rats in their garret.
—Young JosEPH LEITER might learn a
few things in wheat deals from Mr. AR-
MOUR. The latter ‘‘cleaned up’’ about
$3,000,000 in his. The former was‘ ‘cleaned
out”’ of about the same amount.
—The wireless telegraphic service be-
tween Port Arthur and the editorial rooms | :
of some of our metropolitan dailies has
M ARCONI'S system back in the district
‘mess enger boy class of speed.
— MARK HANNA'S {ortune, that. was es-
timated at fitteen million dollars before his
death, bas dwindled to three million. Bat
how much better tha is ie his fortune and
not his good name that has shriveled.
—The York Gazetie calls attention to the
number of our business and professional
men who break down in the prime of life
"and urges that we all beware of over-work.
Thank you, brother, we'll try to follow the
. advice.
—Madame ADELINA PATTI nn i
fill a concert engagement at Scranton Sat-
urd ay night because the advance sale did
not reach $50. There can scarcely be any
doubt about this being the Diva's “tare-
well tour.”
_ —An American sailor was killed at San.
Domingo lately and it is beginning to look
as if we would bave to take San to get]
even. JOHNSON was the sailor’s name and
the San Domingans already realize thas
_ they bave had ‘‘too much JOHNSON.”
—The University of Pennsylvania has
conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on
SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER. Hon-
ors are cheap nowadays, since so many in-
stitutions use them as a bait for bequests,
but this marks them down to the bargain
counter rate.
—It is not often tbat such things are
heard of in the West any more, but a re-
port that comes from an Idaho town con-
cerning a voting contest they had out there
recently savors so much of the old time
recklessness and abandonment of the
‘wild and woolly’’ that we cannot resist
noting it. Some one started a voting con-
test for the most popular lady in the town,
offering a grand piano as the prize, All
went well for awhile and there was a very
good natured and exciting contest among
Then the
madam of the biggest ‘‘disorderly’’ house
ia the community jumped in and beat
them all out by a majority of one hundred
and thirty thousand. Wasn't it scandal-
ous ?
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNS N.
“VOL. 49
Perry Heath's Blight.
PERRY 8S. HEATH appears to be deter-
mined to pursue Senator HANNA with his
blighting friendship even into the grave.
That is in resigning the office of secretary
of the Republican National committee the
other day, Mr. HEATH took occasion to
reiterate his intimate relationship with the
dead Senator. No greater’ stain could be
put on any public man than to associate
him with Hears. In life and health
Senator HANNA was strong enough to
stand: it and he even tolerated it. Bat
now that he is dead it is not so certain
that he will escape the consequences of
such a relationship. - People may doubt,
under the circumatances.
Senator HANNA was largely responsible
for the presence of PERRY S. HEATH in
the public life of the country. In that
respect Senator HANNA was unfortunate.
That is he brought several men conspicu-
ously into the public service who turned
out badly. But he was peculiarly con-
stituted. That is he stuck to bis friends
under fire with a tenacity that would have
been commendable if they had deserved
the favor, but was unfortunate in view of
the fact that they didn’t. HEATH was one
of them. HANNA held up for him and
prevented his indictment for corruption in
the postal service. He repays the service
by putting reproach upon the Senator
while he lived and a stain upon his memory
after he is dead.
It may be assumed that HEATH was
forced to resign the secretaryship of the
Republican - National committee. After
the death of HANNA be had no one to pro-
tect him and though ROOSEVELT was ‘a
beneficiary of his most atrocious act, the
agreement with the Mormon church, he
repudiated him the moment he was found
ont. But in his retirement HEATH might
have left HANNA alone. There was no oc-
casion for him to bring HANNA’S name
into the affair. The people were trying to
think well of the dead Senator.. There
were a good many reasons why they should
think well of him. But PERRY HEATH'S
claim of friendship blighted the good opin-
ion of many. It was an outrage upon the
dead.
wrmarnbppese. to Retire .
Senator QUAY has again announced bis |
purpose to retire from public life at the
close of his present senatorial term. He
will not be a candidate for re-election, he
says, and he doesn’t even want a re-elec-
tion to the honorary office of member of the
Republican “national committee. He is
disgusted with everything and wants the
tranquility of private life. ' As most people
would conjecture this double announce-
ment follows immediately after a statement
of his critical illness. It may he assumed
that next week or next month at farthest
it will be forgotten. Ib is a clear case of
the devil sick and the devil well.
When MARK TWAIN, as a member of
that illussrions ‘handful of American citi-
zens,”’ immortalized by himself as the ‘‘In-
nocents Abroad’’ was taken a couple of
days out, with sea-sickness it will be. re-
membered that on the first day of his suf-
fering he was afraid he would die and the
second day he ‘‘was afraid he wouldn’s.”
After reading QUAY’S marvelous manifesto
of a couple: of weeks'ago we' expected that |
another announcement of his retirement
would soon follow. . He was obviously in
‘that exlfilerating. operation which leads to
sea-sickness on land when that was written
and the annouscement of his proposed re-
tiremens came when he had reached that
stage of the ‘consequence which made
MARK TWAIN afraid be wouldn't die.
: But QUAY won't retire until he is driv-
en out by the pent-up indignation of an
outraged peopte. He 'is’as much a candi-
date for re-election to the Senate now as he
was the day be: was first chosen and is as
anxious for another election to membership
in the Republican national committee as
he was when in 1888 that compliment was
first bestowed on him. In fact he is in
politics now for the purpose of recovering
what he has lost by the slump in the val-
ues of corporation stocks during the last
couple of years and with that purpose in
mind he will come to the next Legislature
to loot like a pirate and plunder like a
highwayman.
-—The water question took on a very
serious aspect for a few days last week
when it was discovered that pipes, many
of which were three feet under giound,
were [freezing solid. Fortunately Supt.
Ryan discovered it early and after some
consultation with the water committee of
council it was decided to put the steam
pump into supplemental service for a few
days in order to keep up such an agitation
of the water in the pipes as would prevent
freezing. Many towns in the State were
entirely cut off last week hy the severe
cold and Milton narrowly escaped destruc-
tion by fire because all of her water plugs
were frozen up.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Vast Difference in Meir.
What’s the use in making comparisons
between Governor PENNYPACKER and any
other Governor of any State, past or pres-
ent. The other day Governor HERRICK of
Ohio, was asked to become a candidate for
the Senatorial seat made vacant by the death
of Senator HANNA. In ail probability he
would have been successful for he wasa
very close and faithful friend of HANNA
aud wonld have been a logical successor.
There is hardly any doabt, either, that the
position would have been attractive to him.
The office of Governor of Ohio is without
power or influence and hasn’t even the at-
tractiveness of carrying a good salary, while
that of United States Senator is both influ-
ential and honorable.
Governor HERRICK declined to he a can-
didate for the Senate vacancy for the rea-
son, as he stated it, that. to abandon the
office of Governor would be treacherous to
those who elected him.
be said, ‘‘the people of Ohio elected me
Governor hy an unprecedented majority.
That election placed in my bands a truss
for execution. My duty is plain and clear.
I will execute the trust and remain in the
Governor’s chair.” That was the just and
‘earnest conclusion of an honorable and
manly man. He falfills his obligations as
he anderstands them. He discharges his
duties as he sees them. The :allurements
of a better office fail to entice him from the
path of duty as he estimates it. -
On the other hand QUAY holds out to
Governor PENNYPACKER the probabilities
of a life office at a salary equal to that of
the temporary one he is now filling and he
hastens to accept. During the campaign
for election to his present office it was said
that he might yield to the enticement of a
life tenure on the bench but be protested
that he never would commit such an act
of perfidy. The moment the prospect is
presented to him, however, he jumps at it.
“There it no principle of ethics,’’ he de-
clared, ‘‘which would prevent me from go-
ing before the Republican state convention
as a candidate for the Supreme court or
from asking the support of Mr. QUAY or
any one else who may bave influence.”
Some of our Philadelphia and Harrisburg
contemporaries cite these diametrically
opposite positions ou an analagous proposi-
tion and wonder why PENNYPACKER
doesn’t take the same view of the matter as
HERRICK. There is nothing in the matter
to wonder about. HERRICK is a business
man of keen intelligence and a high sense
of honor, while PENNYPACKER is a vain
and silly old man who doesn’t know the dif-
ence between right aod wrong. He is the
most dangerous man who has been in the
public life of the Commonwealth since the
organization of the State and while his
election to the Supreme bench would be a
public calamity his next two years‘in the
office of Governor nay be nearly as bad.
8
Quay Will Not Resign.
We hope’ there will be no misunderstand-
ing of the report that Senator QUAY intends
to withdraw from politics in the near fu-
ture or decline a re-election to the office he
now occupies. Such an impression would
be misleading if not worse: Senator QUAY
will never take himself out of politics until
the concentrated force of public indigna:
tion drives him out. In other words as
long as there is the hope of graft and the
prospect of plunder, QUAY will remain in
position to ges ;his share. His: present
pecnniary ‘condition is the guarantee of
this. proposition,
Whenever Senator QUAY feels that puts
lic opposition threatens his success in any
important locality he immediately announ-
ces that he has made up his mind to quit
politics, relinquish his public office and re-
tire to private life. Tn that action there is
an implied expression of belief that the
average Republican voter is an idiot. We
are not prepared to take issue with Senator
.QUAY’S understanding of this subject. As a
matter of faot we are not able. to believe
that QUAY is not correct in his estimate of
the intelligence of the average Republican
voter. He knows them better than we and
thus far he has essimated them accurately.
But he doesn't even pretend that he is
serious in this watter. He knows that now
of all times he can’t afford to get out of
| politics. He "needs the money. Three
years ago, when corporate property was at
she highest he felt that he might quit offi-
cial life. But the change in values has left
him without the guarantee of even a com-
fortable evening of life and he wants a
chance during the next Legislature
that he may restore himself to an assurance
of comfort. That is probably why he wants
PENNY put into the Supieme court and
*‘Oleo’ "BROWN into the office of Governor.
——As a result of the severity of the
winter Jacob Markle, the veteran Oak Hall
apiarist, hus lost nineteen swarms of bees
valued at'$5 each. He says that in all his
experience as a bee raiser this has been the
most destructive winter.
——The Monitor, the only Democratic
paper published in Huntingdon county,
suspended on Thursday, because of lack of
support. Woe is Huntingdon.
_manity.
‘‘Last November {
NO. 8.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 6, 1904.
~——A bulletin recently issued by the
United States Department of Agriculture
btirean of animal industry, deals with a
very interesting experiment that has been
in progress at The Pennsylvania State Col-
Agricultural Experiment station for
eral years. It practically comprehends
hi observations and investigations that Dr.
HENRY PRENTISS ARMSBY and his several
assistants have made with the respiration
calorimeter as applied to domestic animals.
The work represents the first tangible re-
solts of an eusirely new departure of
seience in its efforts'to be of service to hu-
It has been looked upon with in-
terest by the scientific world, some with
skepticism, others with confidence in Dr.
ARMSBY’S ability to carry it to successfnl
and useful conclusion. The respiration
calorimeter is a complicated apparatus
constructed especially for, determining the
amount of heat produced: by an agricultur-
al animal, the amount of its energy consum-
ed in making fat and sustaining life, the
available energy of certain foods, as well as
many other matters of knowledge undream-
ed of heretofore yet of incalculable value to
the stock raiser.
¢—=—Though a legal holiday and the
Bhs were closed there was not a single
incident out of the ordinary routine in
Bellefonte on the anniversary of Washing-
ton’s birth, We really mise the little ex-
citement the Grand Army dinner always
stirred up on the 22nd.
Russia’s Startling Statement.
Threshes Quer in Detail Some of the Wheat Already
@one Over. Violations of Law Charged. Thinks
Japan Fractured Several by the Manner in
Which She Proceeded.
St. Petersburg, February 23.—Foreign
Minister Lamsdoiff yesterday sent the
following circular to Russian representa-
tives abroad:
‘Since the rupture of the negotiations
between Russia and Japan the attitude of
the Tokio cabinet has consisted of open
violation of all customary laws governing
the mutual relations of civilized nations.
Without specifying each particular viola-
tion of these laws on the part of Japan,
the imperial government considers it
necessary to draw the most serious atten-
tion. of the powers to the acts of violence
committed by the Japanese government
oe respect to Corea. The independence
integrity- of Corea as a fully independ- |
ent’ empire’ has been fully recognized by
all the powers and the inviolability of
this fundamental principle was confirmed
by articles one of the Simonesedi treaty
and by thie agreement especially coneluded
for this - purpose hetween Japan and
Great Britain on January 30. 1902, as well
as by the Franco- Russian declaration of
March 16, 1902.
*“The Emperor of Corea, foreseeing the
danger of a possible conflict between Ras-
sia and Japan, addressed, early in January,
1904, a note to all the powers declaring
his determination to preserve the strictest
neutrality. This declaration was: received
with eatisfaction by the powers, and
it was ratified by Russia. According
to the Russian minister to Corea, the
British government charged the British
diplomatic representative at Seoul to
present an official note to the Emperor of
Coreo, thanking him for his declaration
of neutrality.
‘“In disregard of all these faots, in spint
of all treaties, in spite of its obligations
and in violation of the fundamental rules
of international law, it has been proved
by exact and fully confirmed. facts that the
Japanese government, first, before the
opening of hostilities against Russia,
landed ite troops in the independent em-
pire of Corea, which had declared its
neutrality ; second, with a ‘Qivision of ifs
fleet it made a sudden attack on February
8, that is, three days prior to, the dec-
laration of war, on two Rupssian’ warp}
in the neutral port of C emalpo.
sommanders of these ships had not oe
notified of the severance ‘of diplomatic
relations, as the Japanese malicionsly
stopped the delivery of Russian telegrams
by the Danish cable and destroyed the
telegraphic communication of the Corean
government. The details of this dastardly
attack are contained and published in an
official telegram from the Russian minis-
ter at Seoul.
“Third, In spite of the international
laws above mentioned, and shortly before
the opening of hostilities, the Japanese
captured as prizes of war, certain Russian
merchant ships in neutral ports of Corea.
*‘Fourth, Japan declared to the Emperor
of Corea, ‘through the Japanese minister
at Seoul, that Corea would henceforth be
under Japanese administration and she
warned the Emperor that in case of his
non-compliance, Japanese troops would
occupy the palace.
*‘Fifth, Through the French minister a
Seoul she summoned the Russian repre-
sentative at the Corean court to leave the
country, with the staffs of the Russian
legation and consulate.
“Recognizing that all the above facts
constitute a flagrant hreach of internation-
al law, the Imperial government consider
it its duty. to lodge a protest with all
powers against this procedure of the Jap-
anese government and it is firmly con-
vinced that all the powers, valuing the
principles which guarantee their relations
will agree with the Russian attitude. At
the same time, the imperial government
congiders it necessary to issue a timely
warning that owing to Japan's illegal
assumption of power in Corea, the govern-
ment declares all orders and declarations
which may be issued on -the part of the
Coreans to be invalid.
“I heg you to communicate this doc-
ument to the governments to which you
are accredited.
[Signed] ‘‘LLAMSDORFF."’
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
we
“explain.
Another Quay Bluff.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The remarkable address
publicans of Pennsylvania’’ sent from the
Florida everglades by Senator Quay was
probably extracted from that statesman
when he was not altogether possessed of
himself. Itcontains internal evidence of a
confusion of mind and: of a betrayal of
temper that are not characteristic of ‘the
Senator in his intervals of composure.
The exposure of the plot to pocket
Pennypacker ‘in the Supreme court and
pitoh Oleo Brown" into ‘the Governorship,
made by “The Record”” ‘December 7 lass,
was essentially confirmed the day alter-
ward by the Governor himself, r. Quay
brazenly declares:
Governor Pennypacker never was and is
not now a candidate for the Republican
nomination for the Supreme court. He has
not sought nor will he seek that nomi-
nation. He has not signified that he: will
accept it if tendered him, and if he is wise
he will keep his counsel upon that question.
But Governor Pennypacker, in a signed
letter insisting that there was no principle
of ethics to prevent his candidacy dor a
place in . the Supreme court with. ingen-
uous frankness let the cat out of he bog.
He said:
If, however, .as ‘‘The Record” predicts,
the Republicn State. Convention sh
fit in its wisdom to nominate me, al
preme court, and that should be
an election, 1 shall return to the
Mr. Quay’s denials, and "his Satimaiin
to Governor Pennypacker to ‘‘say nothing |’
publicly,” came too late. --The broth is
already. spilled. The whole game—the
turning down of Judge Rice and of Mr.
Gilbert for the McCollum vacancy, the
appointment of ex-Judge Thompso!
all the subsequent details of sordid ¢ Fon.
ing—oannot be pushed aside by the Quay
manifesto.
In dealing with Senator Quay it is bet:
ter to consider what he does rather than
what he says. It is quite possible that he
bas made up his mind that the projected
Peunypacker candidacy is a dangerous ex-
periment, and that he is preparing to
abandon it under cover of his denials and
demands for proofs. It would not be the
first time that he has sought escape from
extremely urcomfortable and compromis-
ing situations by similar subterfuge.
Woe is Kentucky.
From the Maysville, Ky., Ledger:
Man born in the wilds of Kentucky is of
feud days and easy virtue. He fisheth,
fiddleth, cusseth and fighteth all the days
of his life.
When he desireth to raise hell he plant-
eth a neighbor, and lo, he reapeth twenty- {
fold.
Ho viseth ven frons he orale so Reon |
the scalp ‘of his grandsire’s ememy aud
bringeth howe in his carcass the ammu-
nition of his neighbor's wife’s cousin’s
gnsie’s father-in-law who avengeth the
ea
Yea, verily, his life is uncertain and he
knoweth not the hour when he may be |
jerked hence.
He goeth forth on a jonrney half-shot
and cometh back on a shutter, shot.
He riseth in the night to let the cat ont
and it taketh nine doctors three days to
pick the buckshot from his person.
He goeth forth in joy and gladness -and
cometh back in scraps and fragments.
He calleth his fellow-man a liar and get-
teth himself filled with scrap iron even to
the fourth generation.
A cyclone bloweth him into the ‘bosom
of his neighbor’s . wife and his neighbor’s
wife’s husband bloweth him into the bosom
of Father Abraham before he hath time to
He emptieth a demijobn’ into himself. and
a shotgun into his enemy and his enemy’s
son lieth in wait on eleotion ‘day, and lo,
the Coroner ploweth up a Totiyaers field to
bury that man.
Woe, woe is Kentucky, for her ly: are
red with bad whiskey and her 1 a
Shes with the blood of damijits!
a
An Acevptable F Resignation.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Perry S. Heath, whose redord as a'form:
er Assistant Postmaster ' General failed to
fing favor in the recent reports of tbat
department and in the published opinion
of President Roosevelt, has’ resigned his
post of secretary od he ‘Republican Nation-
al Committee. . Heath has . been
long known as-a. ais politician. of the
strictest sect; one. whose theory and prac: |:
tice were that the end justified the meaus, |
and that everything is fair in politics. as
in war. The load which his prominence
as a part of the National Committee im-
posed upon the Republican party was an
exceedingly heavy one, since even politic
al parties must bave at their head men
against whom no railing accusations can be
brought by such high authority as the
President of the United States. As by
resigning his post Mr. Heath has lifted ud
load from the party, it may be appropri-
ately said of him shat nothing in his career
as secretary of the National Committee so
became him as his Yesiguation of the posi-
tion.
Major. McClellan Dead.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22.—Major Arthur
McClellan, brother of the late General
George |B. McClellan and uncle of the
mayor. of New York, died suddenly of
heart disease today, at Drifton, Pa., where
he was for many years conuected with
Coxe Bros. Co., coal operators. He was 65
years of age and a veteran of the Civil war.
Plant Trees.
° WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—President and
Mrs. Roosevelt celebrated Washington’s
hirthday by planting a tree in ‘the White
house grounds. The trees are fern leaf
branches: They were ‘planted within the
aren within the semi-circular driveway
leading from Executive avenue to the east
terrace of the White house, one on each
“To the Re- |
Spawls from the Keystone.
_—Tony Felerico perished in & chute of
coal at Pittston.
.—Six lawyers at Stroudsburg tried a case
against hotel keeper Elmer Ely,charged with
purloining contractor J. H. Smith’s dog.
" —Rev. H. A. Gerdsen, of Lancaster, has
accepted the presidency of the Pennsylvania
Chautauqua, succeeding Rev. John H. Groff,
of Middletown.
—George Hodge, the only support of a
widowed mother, was burned to death after
falling asleep beside a stove at Locust Spring
colliery, near Ashland.
—Mine workers’ officials in the Seventh
anthracife district hope to add 1500 members
to the roll in six months by their reduction
of initiation fees from $10 to $2.
insurance office, which has been located at
Huntingdon since its organization in 1868,
will be removed to Wilkesbarre in April.
—Mayor-elect John H. Knies, of Hazleton,
has locked in a burglar-proof safe his list of
appointees to municipal positions, to keep it
secret until his inauguration on April 4th.
—While being hoisted out of Mt. Lookout
colliery, at Wyoming, on a mine cage,
Michael Gibli¢’ s coat caught in a nail ona
timber, and he was hurled to his death, far
‘below. ... .
—Rev. Craig B. Coss, « of Oxford, who was
tendered the pastorate of the Dickinson
Presbyterian church, Cumberland connty,
has accepted, and will enter upon his duties
in April.
—The Sugar Valley Journal says Oliver
Karstetter caught a wild turkey on Friday.
It was so weak that it could ‘not run. away.
He took the fowl home and i is fattening it on
bran, bread ‘and corn,
—Mrs. J. P. Bard, of Clearfield, formerly
of Philipsburg, as a result of a special pension
bill recently passed at Washington, will here-
after receive a pension of $17 per month.
"Hér ‘husband, Cap’t. Bard, rendered his
country valuable service during the war,and
never received a pension while living.
—Thomas, aged about four years, son of
‘Pierce Trexler, of Beech Creek, pushed: a
piece of colored crayon or wax pencil up one
‘of his nostrils several days ago. It caused
the little fellow much discomfort and at-
‘tempt ‘to remove it was futile. He was
‘given in charge of Dr. S. J. McGhee, who
successfully removed it.
—The celebrated Fisk military band, of
Williamspogt, which for the past 25 years has
been one of the most prominent musical
organizations in the State, has ceased to
exist and will hereafter be referred toas a
thing of the past. The dissolution was de-
‘cided upon finally at a business meeting held
at the old band hall, in Marist square, last
‘week.
—John Stevenson, who is employed by
the New York Central railroad, had the mis-
fortune to fall a distance of 20 feet on Thurs-
day afternoon while painting the round-
‘house at Oak Grove. He was on a 20-foot
extension ladder when a hook broke, caus-
ing it to fall. Stevenson landed on his back
and the ladder fell upon his chest and hips,
severely i injuring him.
—John Anderson, a Huntingdon Fatma:
tory inmate known as No. 3791, died at'that
institution the other ‘evening of wcute
phthisis. He was 22 years of age and was
sent there from Lawrence county, his crime
being felonious burglary. Chicago was his
birth place but his parents dying while the
boy was young, he became a wanderer. ‘A
| sister is living, but for years he had not
known anything of her whereabouts.
—The case of Prof. Myers against Samuel
Solomon, the Arabian dealer in the Hodgkins
building, Patton, Pa., for selling cigarettes
to boys under sixteen years of age has been
settled. Mr. Solomon paid the school board
$100 to be devoted to purchasing books for
the school library and also paid the costs in
the case. The board is determined to stop
the illegal selling of cigarettes and will
prosecute any one guilty of the practice.
—One morning last week Mr. Bay, at Qak
Grove, got up, | made the fire and then went
‘back to bed. Shortly after, they heard a
terrible thumping noise and got up, but
could find nothing wrong. Some time, dur-
ing the forenoon Mrs. Bay opened the oven
door and there in the oven was their pet cat,
roasted to death. Pussy was quite a pet and
had crawled in the oven to get warm. Mr.
Bay had closed the oven door, not: knowing
‘the cat was there.
inspector Delaney, from reports. received,
‘says that there is but one county in the State
‘where’ the factory inspection laws ‘regarding
fire escapes are ignored—Clinton county. An
the hotel men, amusement hall owners,
managers of educational institutions and
others, who come ‘under the fire escape law
Matters have reached such a point, that
Major Delaney will: take the matter into
court, but not into the Clinton county court.
.—Miss Ruckman, of Milton, died at the
home of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Sheller, in
Lewisburg,on Sunday night. Miss Ruckman
‘accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Hutchinson,
also of Milton, went there last week to’ at-
‘tend the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Sheller,
which occurred Monday. Both of the sisters
contracted pneumonia and Sunday at mid-
night Miss Ruckman died.. Mrs. Hutchinson
is so low that her death is expected at any
time. There were but the three sisters and
‘the death of two of them within such a short
other sister, makes a particularly sad case.
—A month ago Christian Crimmel was ap-
pointed traveling engineer on the ‘Middle
division of the Pennsylvania railroad with
headquarters at Mifflin, his duties being to
ride on engines running on the division and
instruct engineers and firemen as to their
duties. About midnight Wednesday night
he was riding engine No. 2145, hauling a
west-bound freight train, and at Granville it
ran into a ‘‘light’”’ engine standing on the
track. Both engines and five cars, of the
train were wrecked. The engineer and fire-
man of 2145 jumped and escaped injury, but
Crimmel was caught in the wreckage and his
life crushed out. He was aged 39 years. ‘He
was married five years ago to Miss Hannah’
Shaffer, who survives with one brother, John
Crimmel, of Altoona, where the deceased
‘had resided for many years before going to
Mifflin. He bad been in the service of the
side of the niain walk.
Pennsylvania railroad COMPANY Many years.
—The Pennsylvania Millers’ Mutual Fire.
> —A dispatch fiom Harrisburg to factory
there, have: defied the factory inspector.
time, together with the serious illness of the
pie
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