BY P. GRAY MEEK. OS Ink Slings. —Next Thursday we will all be a wear- in’ o’ the green. —The broader a man’s knowledge be- comes the fewer things he actually knows. —We wonder if the Russian battleship commanders ever heard that old ‘Down. Went McGinty’ song. —Old Winter will give Miss Spring a pair of very sore knees unless he lets up very soon in this lingering in her lap busi- ness. : —Real estate transfers in Centre county last Thursday and Monday were very numerous. All the little creeks had a hand in the business. -—Yellow journalism is not likely to come into popular favor with the ascen- d enoy of the yellow Japs. Because they are of different shades of yellow. —And this is the winter of our discon- tent made inglorious spring by the non- appearance of American dollars—From one of PATTIS ‘‘farewell’’ muses. " —It scientists succeed in their efforts to provide some very cheap substitute for coal let us hope their next job will be to discover a good cheap substitute for the plumber. - : —T he Republicans have a campaign is- sue at last, The President removed a post- “master ont in Ohio the other day because he bad secured his appointment through a commercial transaction. —1It is to be hoped that the next time “Little Egypt’ and her twenty beau- teous (?) burlesquers come to town there will be a sufficient stock of antique eggs on band to do ‘the bunch’’ justice. —In 1892 the population of Western Australia was fifty-eight thousand. Today it has grown to two hundred and twenty- four thousand. Can it be that they havea Mormon colony in Aostralia also ? —The SMITHS needn’t feel so grand. In the light of recent developments there would have been just ahout as many peo- ple of other names if they had heen fortu- nate enough to have had a Mormon elder in their lot. —French astrologers having agreed that the skies portend many horrors during 1904 all we have to do is wait and see. Of course we would be fur more anxious had we not already heard that the Delaware peach crop is a dead one. —The truant officer is at work in Boggs township and one parent, at least, who thought the law of no account is languish- ing in jail because he thought it best to permit his children to grow up in igno-’ rance; rather than attend school. ; —Though there were only sixteen thon- sand Jews in Jerusalem in 1885 they have grown in numbers until they aggregate forty-one thousand now. It is a wonder there is room for them to talk in the narrow streets of that ancient city. : —We wonder if shoes out in Utah are free, like school books in Pennsylvania. Brother JosePH SMITH has acknowledged being the father of forty-two little SMITHS and if he really has to provide for them all what JOE needs is sympathy, not persecu- tion. —Se nator HOAR got brother SMITH, of the * ‘Latter Day Saints,”” badly tangled up on Tnesday. After the old Massachusetts lawyer got through with SMITH the Mor- mon head had practically acknowledged that he considered himself a more omnipo- tent head than the Lord. —The lynching of ‘‘a poor helpless ne- gro’’ .at Springfield, Ohio, on Tuesday, would have been‘‘one of the most atrocions outrages ever perpetrated in defiance of law and order’’ had not Ohio given the largest Republican majority ever piled ap in that State at a very recent election. —The negro who was sentenced to one thousand years in prison in Texas for an attempted assault will bardly have reason to feel grateful for the commutation feat- ure of the law that allows him two hun- dred years off for good behavior, unless he takes the time off before the beginning of the regular sentence. — It the report be true that Mr. BRYAN is to present Mr. HEARST'S name to the next Democratic national convention it is certain that the New York journalist will have all the advantage of oratory. Ora- tory, however, has figured too fatally in the last two presidential campaigns for reaso nable Democrats to have much confi- dence in it as a means to success next fall. —JoHN T. SHOENER, of Pottsville, has been sent to jail for three years for fee-tak- ing. He was clerk of the Luzerne county courts, a Senator of the State of Pennsylva- nia and at one time sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives. He claimed ali these honors should militate against his punishment, but the court very rightly an- swered that a man who had heen thus trusted by the people should suffer all the more for a violation of such a trust. —The Bellefonte council has dignified its old ‘‘Nuisance’’ committee with the rather high sounding and more pretentious title of ‘‘Sanitary committee.’”’ In object- ing to the change 'member KIRK from the West ward remarked that ‘‘a rose by any other name would smell inst as sweet.’ All of which the committee in question will discover for itself when ruminating among the dead cats and dogs, pig sties and polluted gutters that are ite particular reason for being in existence. VOL. 49 Quay and Pennypacker. We learn through the medium of the Washington cor respondent of an esteemed Philadelphia contemporary that Senator QUAY is the most intimate and trusted friend of the President. ‘‘ROOSEVELT for- | merly bad an antipathy against the Penn- sylvania Senator.”’ the correspondent in question writes; ‘‘bus since he has learned to know him and appreciate his spiendid ability as a political manager, he consults him more frequently and with more im- plicit confidence, than any other man in public life. As a matter of fact,”’ contin- ues this enthusiastic but it may be some- what prejudiced political historian, ‘‘the President never makes a movement of im- portance in politics without first consuls- ing QUAY.” How nice this is for QUAY and how promptly he utilizes the opportunity it af- fords. The threatened opposition to the nomination of Cousin SAM for the office of Justice of the Supreme court was porten- tious of trouble. It was a comparatively easy matter to dispose of that of Justice J. HAY Brown, whose acquaintance is limited and influence circumscribed and he simply wrote the manifesto previously referred to in these columns. Buf the up- wards of a hundred distinguished Phila- de Iphia lawyers were different and their proposed endless chain perplexing. The Senator was equal to the emergency, how- ever. He has simply made requisition on the President for help. He proposes to get PENROSE appointed chairman of the Republican National committee and that accomplished every recalcitrant will be dropped outside the breastworks, not for a brief season, but forever. That will bring them to terms. But how different for the President. MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY is known throughout the length and breadth of the land as the most notoriously corrupt poli- tician who bas ever debauched the public service of the country. By his own con- fession he extracted funds from the State while acting as commissioner of the sink- ing fund, lost it in speculation and borrow- ed from his friends to make restitution when Colonel BUTLER. of Chester county, became State Treasurer. Subsequently he was obliged to plead the statute of limita- tion to escape conviction and punishment for again misusing the funds (of the State and he bas committed every other politic- al crime in the catalogne. But the Presi- dent, who formerly professed to be a civil service reformer and still claims to esteem honor and decency, has tied up with this arch-conspirator and corruptionist and per- mits him to use the public service for fur- ther debauching the politics of the country. The Matter of Big Navies. Mr. BALFOUR, Premier of the British empire, appears to have adopted President ROOSEVELT’S idea of the potency of a ‘‘big stick’’ as an agency of peace. In ‘advocat- ing a vast increase of the British navy, the other day in the British parliament the Premier declared that ‘‘the British navy is the greatest power for peace in the world.” The inference is that according to his judg- ment, the vastness of the naval power of Great Britain is the only thing which keeps some envious or ambitious power from making war against it. We are not able to take that view of the subject and though every now and then Great Britain needs chastisement it isn’t ‘the strength of her navy which prevents the administra: tion of is. 8 Abeo lute adherence to the principles of justice is ‘‘the greatest power for peace in the world.” When Great Britain sent her fleets and armies for’ purposes of conquest into the Transvaal Republic she deserved such a castigation-as would have tanght her better manners and greater regard for justice for a thousand years. It was a orime against civilization, an outrage upon human liberty. But it wasn't her great navy which restrained the decent impulse to interfere which must have been felt by every justice-loving people on the face of the earth. Germany or France could bave easily landed sufficient force on her soil in that emergenuy to have swept her from the face of the map. : But even if Great Britain does need ‘‘a big stick,” in the shape of an expensive navy, to restrain the impulse of other pow- ers to attack her that is not true of this country. So longas we behave gurselves, obey the advice of WASHINGTON to avoid foreign complications, and deal justly with those who have international relations with us, we are as secure against attack without a single warship as we could be if a shon- sand battleships armed to the limit were plowing the deep inviting attack by shak- ing ‘‘a big stick” in the teeth of the world. Big navies are for for the purpose of keep- ing the people poor by overtaxing their re- sources in times of peace and the fewer of them there are in the world the better. —It would be singular if the Senate were to recognize plural wives. "WAGNER, Pennsylvanians Digging In. ‘Pennsylvanians Delved Deep in the Postal Pie,’”’ is the alliterative headline over a Washington dispatch giving details of a report of the postoffice committee of the House concerning congressional influ- ence on the postal scandals which appeared in a Philadelphia contemporary the other day. Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gener- al Bristow said in his report at the open- ing of the extra session in November that some Congressmen were involved. To avoid a genuine invesiigation of that ac- cusation a motion for an inquiry was re- ferred to the house committe on Postoffices and Post Roads. That committee reported yesterday the names of the Senators and Representatives involved. They are a curious lot. It would require too much space to give tte entire list, but we would be unjust to our readers if we failed to give the names of those from this State. Ol course QUAY stands at the head. Ever since he has been in conspicuous public life he bas been mix- ed up in every scandal within his reach. He just bad to ‘‘butt in’’ to the affairs of the postoffice at Curwensville aod he got a $90 clerkship raised to $800. It didn’t last long but it showed that QUAY was willing. PENROSE also ‘‘got his feet wet.”” He in- terfered in a case at Edinboro and also at Houtzdale. In our neighboring town he got a $40 job scheduled at $600 a year. It wasn’t much, but it revealed an ‘‘infloonce.”’ The Representatives in this State who figured in the looting operations were of Montgomery; BATES, of Crawford, EVANS, of Cambria; ACHESON, of Washington; SIBLEY, of Venango; DALZELL, of Pittsburg, and BUTLER, of Chester. BATES needed help very badly in his last. campaign and he told ‘‘Dear BEAVERS’ all about it. BUTLER was im- portunate and bad numerous friends to take care of and all of them were energetic enough. But none of them came forward to save ‘‘Dear BEAVERS’ when he was forced to resign and serve the purpose of a scape- goat. They remained silent and let their victim suffer. Meantime this glimpse in- to the affair increases the necessity for a more searcheng inquiry. Dr. Wood’s Case. The consideration of the nomination of Dr. LEONARD WooD for the office of Major General is scheduled for this week and by the time this paper reaches its destination that crowning outrage may be consum- mated. WooD is nosoldier. Shortly be- fore the beginning of the Spanish war be was commissioned as surgeon in the army and became the physician of the President and a favorite of the family. As tite break- ing out of that war he was commissioned as Colonel of the Rough Riders, his next inferior officer being Lieut. Colonel Ro0OSE- VELT. In that position he gave TEDDY every opportunity to exploit himself. In fact, it looks as if he was glad to be out of danger. y : Fan; As a reward for this service to TEDDY Dr. WooD has heen promoted with a fre- quency that has no parallel in the history of our army. Wesay for that reason, be- cause there was no other. He had ‘‘never set a squadron in the field.”’ He had never. participated in a battle. - He had never planned a military campaign or conducted a manoever. But he was jumped over the heads of hundreds of real soldiers, ‘gallant ‘veterans of numerous battles and made first colonel and then brigadier general. In ‘each case it was said to ‘meet the require- ments of some civil emergency and there was comparatively little complains. Bus this last promotion was without such ex cuse. It was plainly’ to pay the debts of the President. . yo If Senator HANNA had lived this great outrage might not have been consummated. To his great honor let it be said he was op- posed to such a base prostitution of power. But ROOSEVELT has no such respect for justioe and decency. He imagines that the noblest use of the public service is to pro- mote his personal purposes. He appears to have no appreciation of - right or wrong. His oath binds him to obey the constitu- tion and the laws, bus like the fatuous and vain Governor PENNYPACKER he pays no attention to his oath and recognizes no law but his own will. If the country escapes from him without violence it will be fortu- pate. His ambition is greater than that of Caesar. ——The WATCHMAN has heen publish- ing for several weeks an able expurgation of the international Sunday school lesson. As it is a feature exclusively controlled in thie section by this paper it involves con- siderable expense. If it is appreciated it will be continued. If our readers do not care for it we could devote the ‘space to ‘something else, therefore we would like to have an expression of opinion from any who bave found it of use and are learning to rely on it. . ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. STATE RIGHTS Ano FE LoAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 11, 1904. A Bogus Reformer. When JoHN WEAVER was nominated by the Republican machine for the office of Mayor of Philadelphia, the WATCHMAN took occasion to question the sincerity of his pledges of reform. He had previously served the purposes of the machine by ac- cepting a nomination for district attorney against a man who was to be punished for prosecutiog with zeal and intelligence the charge agaist QUAY for misusing ‘the funds of the State and every lawyer of con- siderable ability in the city had been asked to take the nomination. , One refusal fol- lowed another, however, until finally DUR- HAM thought of WEAVER and he consented to become a stalking horse. He was elected by fraudulent votes and his first public 1 performance was to acquit SAM SALTER of balet. box stuffing, notwithstanding his practical admission of guilt. Subsequently, and - as- it’ now appears, with’ the consent of the machine managers, he convicted three or four miscreants who bad been levying blackmail ou school teachers and deceived the geueral public into the belief that he was a capable and conscientious official. About that time it was’ necessary to find a man to run for Mayor who could fool most of the people and ‘WEAVER was chosen. The impres- sion was diffased among the voters that the object was to get him out of the office of district attorney and put him into one in which he could do less harm. But we saw through the transparency and declared that the real purpose was to get another machine man into the Mayor's office, ASH- BRIDGE having been so bad that it was necessary to get a man of a different type. Soon after entering upon the duties of his new office WEAVER began asserting in- dependent and reform policies. DURHAM wae ‘away at the time and the new Mayor would acknowledge no other master. But when DuRHAM came back. WEAVER changed his tone. He said the Insurance Commissioner was the peeriess leader of the party and accepted bis dictation in every- thing. Since then the commissioner has gone away again and the Mayor began splurging. But when he went a trifle too far the other day he was reminded that the | reed of the SALTER trial-was “accessible v| and unless he promptly ‘‘got off the perch,” ‘| a8 QUAY would say, the details would be made public. That settled the matter and ‘WEAVER has since accepted responsibility for the infamous conditions which brought out a rebuke of the grand jury and has practically given up his pretences of re- form. He will obey the rules of the bosses to the end. Concerning the Unit Rule, Those of our esteemed contemporaries, mostly Republican; by the way, which are attacking the unit rule with as much vehemence and energy as the late DON QUIXOTE assailed the windmill are making a mountain out of a molehill. There is no danger to the Republic or sacrifice of any sacred principle in the unit rule. It some- times puts needed restraints on cranks and circumsoribes the opportunities of crooks. Bat there is small cause for complaint in | either of those results. Asa matter of fact, to our mind, both are deserving of encouragement. Cranks make poor guides and crooks indifferent followers. Every time Pennsylvania has ‘‘out any figare’’ in National conventions the dele- gation operated under. the unit rale. In ‘that wiy-it'made itself felt and inthe com- ing conveution, with seventy-two votes cast together, it will .bé more powerful than ever. Why should we throw away the op- portunity to exercise a considerable, if not a controlling influence in the convention ? We can see no valid reason and challenge any man to. present one. The cardinal Democratic doctrine of majority rule is ex- pressed in that policy. It disfranchises no man in the delegation because each has a right to express his preference. But ‘after the choice of the majority has been as- ‘certained it gives the voice of the State volume and potentiality. It the Pennsylvania delegation had not adopted the nnit rale in 1856 the State would never have had. a Presidents, for the least break in the delegation would have defeated BUCHANAN’S nomination as he had enemies, subsequently Republi- ouns, who were ready and anxious to make the break. If the unit rule bad not pre- vailed in the convention of 1880 HANCOCK never would have been nominated and the great campaign of that vear wounld thus have been made impossible. Four years later, after the withdrawal of RANDALL from the contest, the delegation divided and got no credit for the nomination of the first Democrat elected to the Presidency since BUCHANAN. HEARTS CoURAGEOUS.—With the next issue the WATCHMAN beging the publication of Hallie Ermine Rive’s subcessful novel ‘‘Hearts Courageous.’”’ It is a pretty story, intensely interesting and was one of . the most popular books published. It will extend over a period of from twelve to fifteen weeks and if you want to read it remember that it begins next week. NO. 10. Democrats Plan to Get an Inquiry. Revelations in Postoffice Department Warrant a Searching Investigation. : WASHINGTON, March 8.—The Republi- can leaders will have to set back their date for adjourning Congress three or four weeks at least if a movement now under way among the Democratic Senators is carried out. This movement has for its objects the forcing of a general investigation of all the exectutive departments by committees of Congress, and especially an investigation. of the postoffice department without delay, in accordance with the resolutions intro- duced in both the House and Senate: E An all-around agreement among the Democratic Senators has not yet beén reach- ed on the matter, but the leaders are gen- erally in favor of the move and i¢ is nearly certain that it will be made. The dispos- ition of the Democratic Senators who are | talking the matter up is to take the posi- tion that the revelations in the postoffice department not only justify but urgently require an investigation of ‘that depart- ment by a committee of Congress, and that the extent of the irregularities: already’ proved in the postal service, the Indian service and the land office point with equal. emphasis to the necessity of a congressional overhauling of all the departments of the Government. ; WHEN THE TEST WILL COME. If the fight is decided on, it will be made when the postoffice appropriation bill comes up for consideration in the Senate, which will not be for a week. or ten days. The failure of Senator Penrose’s commit- tee to take any active step toward making an investigation of the postal scandals will be made the immediate occasion’ of the Democrats for a showdown by the Repub- | licans. The debate on the matter will take np a good deal of time and. finally, if the Republicans vote down the Democratic resolutions calling for investigations, there will be a still more prolonged debate at- tacking the Republican position ‘and call- ing the attention of the country ‘at great length to the scandal that has been un- earthed in the various departments thas have been mentioned above. pid : Democrats say thas in any event the de- bate of the postoffice appropriation bill will] run along for a month, unless the Republi- cans speedily consent at least to an inves- tigation of the postal service. If this plan is carried out, it is more likely to be the middle of June than the first of May when adjournment is reached. : Election Frauds in Cuba. Natlonalists Accused of an Attempt to Tamper With. Returns, J me h HAVANA, March 4.—A serious sitdation has developed here as a result of allega= tione of attempts at fraud in: the official election returns for Havana province. The Provincial Electoral Board, which con- sists entirely of Nationalists, has been de- barred from the roem in the provincial gov- ernment building in which the ballots and the returns are recorded by an order issued by a Judge of the Primary Court. This action was taken in response to Republican complaints that the members of the Board | were destroying tickets. : 5 The Nationalists disclaim any. intention of interfering with the returns, aud point out that there was no temptation to fraud, inasmuch as the average Nationalist major- ity in Havana province was 2000. : General allegations of fraud have been made against the Nationalists of Santiago: province and the Republicans, :who swept. Santa Clara province. ee A ‘Good Sense Has Prevailed. From the Wilkesbarre Union-Leader. Everybody has seen at some time a horse “‘pulled up’’ so suddenly and powerfully by his driver as to throw the animal off its feet. This experience has just befallen the administration at Washington. Last week it was announced that orders had heen given for the Third United States Infantry, now stationed in Kentucky, to sail at the earliest possible moment on the transport Sumoer for the Isthmus of Panama. Sev- eral hundred United States marines are now in Colon and Panama ‘with nothing’ to do, and it is proposed to send them to, Guantanamo, where the conditions are more healthful. No necessity for sending a large force of soldiers to the Isthmus now exists, so far as the public has been in- formed. As soon as the news of this mili- tary movement reached the capitol build- ing Senators and Memhers by the dozen hurried to the President and implored him to cancel it. They realized thas: it fully justified every oharge of head-strong and head-long trouble-seeking . that bad ever been brought against the present executive. Their influence was too power-' ful to be resisted, even by a Colonel of Rough Riders, and the regiment of sol- diers will stay in Kentucky some. time longer. A ———————— The Church and the State. From the Johnstown Tribune. It appears from the evidence of Prophet Smith, head of the Mormon church, before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, that Senator Reed Smoot ‘ras compelled to receive permission from the church authorities before announcing his candidacy for the office. This settles Smoot. There is no place in the United. States Senate for a man whose allegiance to a church is paramount to his country.’ God and country first; church organiza- tions, creeds, and isms next. = ! Politics in the Licenses. From the Clearfield Republican. In the granting of the wholesale liquor license opposite Osceola Judge Love must have traded the real thing for expectation. Several years ago he swapped a hotel li- oense at Sandy Ridge with Judge ‘Gordon for a wholesale down in Cooper. Love's Osceola man will have to ran his business pretty close to Judge Smith’s rules or he might be in the Clearfield jail about the time Love will need him most. ——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN. Spawls from the Keystone. —Governor Pennypacker has designated April 8th and April 22nd as Arbor days for Pennsylvania. —Clearfield had a fire scare on Friday evening. The livery stable, near the P. R. R. station took fire and béfore the flames could be extinguished, had burned the roof entirely. —The last Legislature passed a law in- creasing the appropriation to be paid by the county commissioners for the burial of a soldier from $35 to $50. This new law may not be generally known to old soldiers. -—H., -E. Kirk and J. H. Helfright have leased the Huntingdon Journal. Mr. Kirk will have active charge of the paper. He has been foreman of the Journal office’ for a number of years and afterwards held the | same position in the Monitor office. —The large barn belonging to M. T. Fer- guson, below Lumber City, Clearfield coun- ty, was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire Monday. Thestock had all been driven from the burning building, but the cows ran in again and were consumed. The lossis a heavy one. ‘—Dewey, the valuable pacing horse, owned by I. A. Snyder, of ‘Bloomsburg, was poison- ed Wednesday morning by someone who placed a bottle of strychnine in the animal’s feed box. The horse was valued at $500 and Mr. Snyder is determined to ferret out the man who is guilty of the crime. —Some time ago a pot of gold, buried under his grist mill by the late Christian Weidler,was found by relatives. While mem.’ bers of the Weidler family were cleaning house, they found $600 in bills, which Mr. Weidler had sewed up in the mattress and bed-clothes used on his bed. —The three little children of Mrs. Wert Smith, and her brother-in-law and sister-in- law, Calvin and Gertie Smith, of near Mackeyville, are all very sick with typhoid |] fever.. Calvin and Gertie contracted the disease while nursing their brother Wert, who died and was buried at Rebersburg last Friday. —The town of Wallacetoun, on the line of the Beech Creek railroad, suffered a heavy fire loss: Tuesday morning when the large general store of Frank Kramer and several residences were destroyed. The store loss was total, but many articles were saved from the surrounding residences. The loss will reach $15,000. ‘—George E. Koepp is a member of the Second ward school board, Pittsburg, al- though only 16 years of age. John G. Koepp, his father, was a candidate on the Citizens’ and Orphans’ tickets for a three-year term. The Republicans thought they had indorsed him for the one-year term, but they made a mistake in the name and indorsed and elected the son. —The Pennsylvania railroad constitutes a coporate empire, as remarkable for its ad-; ministration as it is for its size; but, great as, its « gross earnings are—$132,626,416—out-; topping the Southern Pacific, the next larg- est, by $30,000,000 and the New York Cen- tral by $45,000,000, the broad currents of: trade and transportation. are more powerful: ‘than any railroad, however big. —Typhoid and scarlet fever are vieing for predominance at Latrobe. The condition in the family. of Dr. J. L. Lemon, in which four members, including the doctor, are ill with typhoid fever, is equaled in the family of S. A. Bingham, in which Mr. and Mrs. Bingham and two children are ill with scarlet fever. Two. children of the Rev. Ebenezer Flack, of the First Presbyterian church, have scarlet fever, and a number of others are sufferers from one or the other of the diseases. —Fish commissioner Meehan has been notified that about two-thirds of the Fish Protective associations in the State will send delegates to the convention of Fish Associa tions and Fishing clubs to be held in Harris- burg on March 24th and 25th, under the auspices of the Department of Fisheries. This convention will be held to devise means for the bringing into closer relations of the various organizations and with a view to organizing fish protective associations in every coanty so as to equalize the distribu- tion of fish by the State. Papers will be read on matters of interest to fishermen. _—The first accident on the Jersey Shore trolley line since traffic began last fall oc- curred at.6:30 o'clock Friday evening when John, the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Flook, who reside at Jersey Shore Junction, fell under a car and the wheels passed over his left leg near the knee, terri- bly crushing the flesh and bone. The in- jured boy was removed to his home, where it was found necessary to amputate the leg ahove the knee. It is not known just how the boy came to fall in front of the car. The motorman standing in the vestibule did not see him. In fact, nobody saw the accident. —Frank B. Mattern, who was the son of the late Jacob Mattern, and was borm and reared at Hollidaysburg, died at his'home'in Pittsburg very suddenly early Sunday morn- ing. He was aged 41 years. He was an electrician by occupation and was the first superintendent of the Hollidaysburg electric light plant. He -had been engaged in the electrical supply business in Pittsburg for the past ten years. He had relatives and friends in this vicinity, who will regret to learn of his early demise. He is survived by a wife and three children—Margaret, Frank and Stanley, and a brother, Robert Mattern, delinquent tax collector of Pitts- burg. —It was a smooth trick, but a contemp- tably mean one that a man who gave his name as Samuel Hill played on undertaker Alfred Simons, of Mount Union, Thursday of last week. He bought a casket for $60 and paid for it with a $65 check which was drawn by Reuben D. Rohrer and endorsed by Samuel Hill on the First national bank, Huntingdon, receiving five dollars in cash as change. The undertaker, as directed, sent the casket to Mapleton, and followed him- self on the next train, expecting to find the body of the wife of Hill. But no corpse could be found and Hill was not there to help arrange for the funeral. ' Then the undertaker discovered he was short five dol- lars, besides the express charges for the casket to and from Mapleton and whatever his time was worth.
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