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—I¢ will be Judge PARKER. -
—T he higher the beef trust pushes the
prices the more real ‘‘beefing’’ there is.
—1t is easy to make a party platform.
The trouble is in getting the party to stand
on it.
—General MILES’ declaration of prin-
ciples is all right but its diction is too
good for the masses to understand.
—The Glen Hazel man who wanted to
get cooking utensils made of radium
ought to run for President. He must have
more money than HEARST.
—Dr. SKINNER says that ‘if all the flies
and mosquitoes were dead human life
would not only be prolonged but would be
better worth living.”” Is the Doctor bald-
headed, too?
— Under the new appropriation bill
that has just passed Congress rural mail
carriers will be paid $720 per year and al-
lowed, under certain conditions, to carry
packages for hire.
—If there are really twelve thousand
m ore deaths than births annually among
the people of native stock of Massachusetts
it will not be iong until baked beans and
brown bread civilization is only a tradi-
tion.
—Last year France raised over four hun-
dred and fifty million bushels of potatoes
and is selling them at twenty-cents the
bushel. If the price here keeps going up
there will be a new field of profit open to
smuggling.
—The new post-office appropriation bill
is $250,000.00 less than it was last year.
We are not exactly curious, but we would
like to know which one of the grafters has
become public spirited enoagh to do with-
out his share of the loot for a year.
— The strike of ten thousand diamond
cutters in Amsterdam threatens to cut the
supply away under the demand for awhile.
How embarrassing this will be for the
printers who are usually such large pur-
chasers of the brilliant gems.
—COLONEL chambers does not endorse
his cousin PENNYPACKER’S candidacy for
the Supreme court. Not because he thinks
it wrong to be catapulted into office, but
because he fears that if BROWN were Gov-
ernor he would be catapulted off the Gov-
ernor’s staff and then there would be noth-
ing left of him but chambers again. °°
‘With the hope of decreasing drunken-
ness the Russian government has offered a
prize of $25,000 for a practical way of mak-
ing alcohol undrinkable. Here's chance:
for the Pooh-Poohs to get in sight of son
of the movey. They would ba:
| undrinkal le—for. Russians, a
— When JOHNNY GOWLAND was called
on for a speech on Tuesday he was wise
enough to sit still and saw wood, for had’
JOHNNY once started to speechifying he
would have said. to the other nine aspirants
for the Philipshurg post:office, something
about as follows : Now, I'll just ‘‘take and
tell”? youse fellers, vou ain’t in it, for I’ve
got the office cinched.
—WALTER WELLMAN, the political
writer, says that President ROOSEVELT has
become a very different man from what he
was the day a national calamity made him
President. The sum and substance of the
change, according to Mr. WELLMAN, is that
ROOSEVELT has learned to keep his mouth
shut. Hurrah for ROOSEVELT ! What a
gr eat thing he has accomplished.
—-1f JouN KNISELY had been able to sit
on himself he couldn’s have felt flatter than
he did when Col. JoHN A. DALEY started
tooting hie own horn for the Legislature
in the convention on Tuesday. Up to that
moment everyhody imagined that KNISELY
and W OMELSDORF were to have the nomi-
nation without oppesition, but here an old
soldier jumped into the fray and a hustiing
old soldier like DALEY means trouble for
someone.
—— Mir. BRYAN dictated the policy of
the Democratic party in two campaigns
and failed both times. Though many of
us were not in accord with all of his ideas
we gave them the best support possible,
Now why can’t Mr. BRYAN be just as fair
and submit that bis theories are not what
the public want and permis others to try
the work of building a platform. We don’t
like to believe Mr. BRYAN to be ane of the
rale or 1min kind, but it looks very much
as if that were his class.
—CLEMENT WHISKERANDO DALE, more
popularly known to Republican politics as
Aunt Clemintina, waxed eloquent in the
convention on Tuesday and finally brought
forth the startling declaration ‘‘When one
Republican falls another rises up to take
his place.” Just how long it has taken
the gentle lady of Republicanism to make
this discovery wasn’t stated, but everybody
else knew it was two years ago when Dr.
MELIFULOUS JUVENILE LOCKE rose up
after Aunt Clemintina fell.
—Seunator BURTON, one of the Represen-
tatives of the sovereign State of Kansas, has
been found gujlty of selling his influence.
His is: the first case of conviction under the
act since its passage in 1864. Sewmator BUR-
TON is liable to lose his seat in the Senate:
and can be fined $10,000 or sent to the pen-
itentiary for two years on each of the two
counte on which he was convicted. He can
also be debarred from ever holding an elec-
tive office again. Senator BURTON. is a Re..
publican, Let us see how much punish- .
ment is really meted out to him.
| money of the State in speculative opera-
mation aéquired as a Sevator and that was
| morally a crime. : Bat that makes no dif-
4. | ference to PEXNYPACKER. A moral leop-|
ard ‘and’an ogle: of virtue are the same to; &
‘| islature and that absurdly vain old man,
‘| pose of vengeance. The two fools in Fay-
‘| Republican press condoned the offence of
STATE
VOL. 49
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 1, 1904.
NO. 13.
mms
Petitions are Unnecessary.
Probably the funniest political incident
that bas occurred in recent years was re-
ported from Philadelphia the other day.
It was to she effect that some superservic-
able friend of Governor PENNYPACKER in
that community of corruption and content-
ment was circulating a petition praying
the Governor to accept the Republican
nomination for justice of the Supreme
court and asking for signatures for it. It
would be about as sensible to beg a famish-
ed man to drink or plead with a condemn-
ed murderer as he approached the gallows
to accept a reprieve. PENNYPACKER is 80
anxious for a seat on the Supreme hench
that he would accept the office if every
vote cast for hin was fraudulent and he
knew it.
It is not that the Governor puts a high
estimate on the distinction which service on
the Supreme court bench conveys. If the
office of justice of Peace carried the salary
and was of equal tenure,it would be just the
same to him. Itisn’t honor he is after.
It’s the ‘‘long green.” Next to an over:
weening and immeasureable vanity, capid-
ity is his consuming passion. It is a
fashion of his obsequious friends to refer
with satisfaction to his family pride. He
has no such feeling. If his ancestors bad
been pirates or hichwaymen or even sneak
thieves, he would bave bad the same pride
in them because it isn’t pride at all but
vanity. And his cupidity is developed
quite as abnormally.
Senator QUAY would probably have been
sent to the penitentiary if he hadn’t plead-
ed the statue of limitations in defence
against the charge of misusing the funds of
the State which is a constitutional misde-
meanor. Yet PENNYPACKER thinks he is
a greater man than WEBSTER or CLAY, not
because he has ever achieved anything
which couveys distinction: but for the
reason that be is a cousin of PENNYPACK-
ER. Every body knows that he nsed the
tions and that it isa crime. No intelli-
gent citizen is unaware of the fact that he
speculated in sugar trust shares on infor-
PACKER.
No petitions sare needed to get him to
accept the nomination for justice of the
Supreme court. He would steal the office if
there were no other way to get it and oc-
cupy it after thus acquired if every justice
now in commission should refuse to sit
with him. It’s the money he wants. He
violated his oath of office by signing an un-
constitutional act of the Legislature in-
creasing the salary of justices of the Su-
preme court in order to add to his own
emoluments after QUAY ‘had catapulted
him into the court and he doesn’t have to
be coaxed to accept the fruits of his own
turpitude.
An Unjust Punishment.
Very few of the Senators and Represent-
atives who voted for the press muzzler ab
the last session will be retuined to the
Legislature this year. Senator GRADY the
putative father of the measure has been
laid on the shelf and in Fayette county the
other day the two members who voted for
the bill while their colleague who refused
to swallow the dose was re-nominated. In
Lawrence county only one of the muzzlers
asked for a renomination and he was over-
whelmingly defeated while in nearly every
other county in which nominations have
‘been made the same thing has happened.
Yet we can-see no reason for such treat-
meat of them.
The press muzzler was neither conceived
nor prepared hy Senators or Representa-
tives in the Legislature. It was QUAY’S
bill essentially. Because the newspapers
had compelled his indictment and trial for
misusing the funds of the State be deter-
mined to punish them and he used the leg-
Governor PENNYPACKER to fulfill his pur-
ette county who have been punished by the
people didn’t know what they were doing.
They were simply told to vote for the bill
and they did so just a= they wonld have
obeyed if they would have been ordered to
set fire to the State capital. QUAY is the
culprit and retributive justice should be
concentrated on him.
* Besides the Republican people and the
voting for the press muzzler last fall in the
election of Sevator WILLIAM P. SNYDER
to the office of Auditor General. He bad
taken an active and influential part in the
legislation atid when the poltroonish Re-
publican press of the State enlogized him
it forfeited its'right to protest against the
election of any one else for the same cause.
Nobody can be tried twice for the same of-
fence and in ‘the nomination of SNYDER
the Republica party was putoutrial. His
election, of coarse, operated to acquit and
Changed but Not in the Right Way.
President ROOSEVELT is a ‘‘new man,’
according to WALTER WELLMAN the
Washington correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Press. The President has been
putting himself through a course of self-
discipline, Mr. WELLMAN states, and his
manners are better than formerly. ‘‘He
took himself in hand,” writes his journal-
istic friend. ‘‘He disciplived himself. He
took stock of his weaknesses, his idiosyn-
cracies, bis foibles,”’ with the gratifying
result that he bas ‘‘gos onto his joh.”” In
other words the President doesn’t talk as
loud as he used to, be 1s less effusive and
more dignified than formerly. To sum it
all up he isn’t ‘‘de-lighted’’ near as fre-
quently as when he first became President,
through a national calamity, and every
man who calls is po longer ‘‘just the man
I wanted to see.”’
The change can hardly fail to afford uni-
versal satisfaction. Some of ROOSEVELT'S
antics in the White House during that per-
iod of absurd exuberance to which Mr.
WELLMAN recalls would make a brass-
monkey laugh and an angel weep. One of
its idiosyncracies was expressed in his din-
per on bear claws in the seclusion of a
Mississippi swamp without the conven-
ience of table implements. Another reveal-
ed itself in a ride of severalbours in Vir-
ginia through a March blizzard over roads
80 bad that his horse sank to his knees in
the mud every time his hoof touched the
ground. Another found expression in
sleeping iu a snow drift in the Yellowstone
park wilderness and still another made if-
self manifest in a night’s exposure on the
bank of a lake near Oyster Bay. All these
things will probably be missed from the
routine of his life during the coming sum-
mer, but nobody is likely to complain.
It’s a great pity, however, that when
ROOSEVELT was putting himself through a
course of mental discipline, he didn’t give
it a moral turn. That is to say according
to the interesting statement-of Mr. WELL-
in the master of morals he has ove the
other way to an extent that is literally
amazing. For example before he could be-
come President he had no patience for van-
ity in public life. He couldu’s endure
official malfeasance and corruption was
‘absolutely -abborrent to him. Now he
views such things through different lenzes
altogether and actually seeks the compan-
ionship of the most disreputable and dis-
putable political reprobates. As a matter
of fact we are told that QUAY is now his
most trusted political adviser while a few
months ago be counldn’t tolerate that past-
master in political intrigue at all.
——The papers announce that the old
prize fighter, JOHN L. SULLIVAN, has pur-
chased a small plantation in Texas and
will raise cotton. JOHN has ‘‘raised hell’’
most of his life and if he makes an equal
success of raising cotton SULLY, or no one
else, will ever get that market cornered
again. 3
Senator Burton Convicted.
Senator BURTON, of Kansas, has been con-
victed in a St. Louis court of having ac-
cepted compensation for protecting the in-
terests of a swindling concern hefore the
Postoffice Department. The evidence was
direct, positive and overwhelming. BuUR-
TON’S letters would have settled the matter
if no other testimony had been offered.
“You will be undisturbed for the present, ’’
he wrote his client, ‘‘and they will let me
know before any thing else is done.”” For
that and a few other little trifles the con-
cern paid at the rate of $25,000 a year.
‘‘Send me the first month’s salary,” he
said in the letter in which he gave details
of his first visit to the department.
Yet it may be presumed that if he had
been tried in some other court he would
have escaped the penalty. The evidence
against Senator DEITRICH, of Nebraska,
was quite as direct and just as positive,and
he was acqnitted. In Philadelphia he
would probably bave been given a cer-
tificate of character. But in St. Louis
things are different. There the rich and
the poor, the great and the small are treated
alike. It is not because BURTON isa Re-
publican that he was convicted, either. A
number of wealthy and conspicuous Denio-
crats have heen convicted in the same court
on kindred, though not exactly the same
kind of charges. All boodlers aie alike to
St. Louis justice.
Senator BURTON made a pathetic plea in
his own defence. He declared that he he-
came attorney for the concern because '‘he
needed the money.”” He had observed
that other Senators and Representatives in
Congress practiced law in the departments
and he could see no reason. why he could
not do it as well as others. He named no
names but he might have pointed to JOHN
DALZELL, of Pittsburg. But the cases are
not parallel. Mr. DALZELL does his work
on the floor of the House where he con-
serves the interests of his clients instead of
those of his constituents. Morally there
is no difference bnt legally there is. In
that is the end of the matter. No legislator
ought to be punished now.
i
t
other words DALZELL can’t be convicted
while BURTON has been.
Corrupt and Contented,” Sure.
That Philadelphia is literally ‘corrupt
and contented’’ is proved by recent events.
The last grand jury in a presentment to
the court declared that from evidence ac-
quired in the discharge of its duty it was
satisfied that the municipal authorities and
the promoters of vice are in collusion. If
cited facts in support of the statement
which carried conviction. It named pro-
prietors of dens of iniquity under the pat-
ronage and protection of police officials
and suggested how thestatements might be
verified. It was a most scathing arraign-
ment of a corrupt municipal administra-
tion, but it was made in pursnance of offi-
cial duty. There was no malice in it or even
enmity. It was a fulfillment of a civic ob-
ligation.
But the gentlemen of that grand inquest
were not protected iu their rights after per-
forming their duty. The municipal ad-
ministration and the District Attorney at
once entered into a conspiracy to destroy
the reputation and assassinate the charac-
ter of every member of the body. They
arrested some of the persons referred to in
the presentment and summoned the jurors
to testify against them. That of iisell
would have been an ontrage without prece-
dent 10 enormity, but it wasn’t the worst.
In addition to that an assistant of the Dis-’
trict Attorney’s office assumed the role of
defender of the criminals and by threats of
imprisonment and badgering in other ways
compelled the jurors to reveal the secrets
of the grand inquest.
While intelligent public sentiment stood
appalled at this exhibition of official men-
dacity and vepality, however, another evi-
dence of Philadelphia iniquity was reveal-
ed. The employers of the foreman of the
grand jury dismissed him from his employ-
ment, last Saturday,and thus deprived him
of his means of livelihood. The name of
this firm is S. W. EvANs & Son, umbrella
makers of Frankford. The reason they give
: for the ontrage is that the police espionage
MAN he has vastly improved in the matter!
of deportment while the records show that !
of their employe was injurious to their
business.
tion of their employe interfered with the
plans of the municipal administration to
loot the public and continue a profitable
traffic in crime and vice. It puts the po-
litical life as well as the business machine
inthe beastly partnership.
A Very Lame Apology.
The President has been apologizing for
his unconstitutional service pension law.
He declares in effect that the reason he
usurped the prerogatives of Congress,in ut-
ter contempt of the fundamental law of the
land, was!that he was afraid that Congress
would enact a much more lavish service
pension law. That is a mighty poor excuse,
to use no harsher phrase. The constitution
provides a way by which the President
may prevent Congress from enacting evil
legislation. The veto power was put in
his hands for that purpose. If a bill passed
by Congress is not wholesome or is inimic-
al to public interests, the President can
veto it. But he can’t enact legislation.
The Federal constitution declares in Sec-
tion 1, Article 1, that ‘‘All legislative pow-
ers granted herein shall be vested in a Con-
gress of the United States, which shall con-
sist of a Senate and House of Representa-
tives.”” Amending a pension law in any
way is exercising legislative power and the
order of the President fixing the age of in-
firmity at sixty-two is amending a pension
law. The previous form of the law was
that whenever it was proved by competent
evidence that a person who had served
three months or longer in the army or navy
of the United States during the war of the
rebellion is unable to earn a livelihood on
account of infirmities, not the result of vie-
ious habits, he shall be placed on the pen-
sion list and receive the usual pension. The
order of the President makes it read that
whenever any person who served three
months or longer in the army or navy dur-
ing the war of the rebellion reaches the age
of sixty-two years, he shall be placed on
the pension roll. This is not only an
amendment, but a very radical one.
Clearly then the President had no right
to issue such an order and in issuing it he
violated the constitution and usurped the
prerogatives of Congress. For that he
ought to be impeached and removed from
office. A man who thus transcends the
limits of his authority is a grave menace to
the Republic. He has just as good a right
to order the Supreme court to decide ques-
tions in litigation according to his whims
or direct the army and navy to begin war
against a friendly power. In fact he might
as well instruct she treasury department to
supply him with unlimited funds to carry
out any foolish fancy which may take pos-
session of his carious mind.
——1I¢ is a hopeful sign that the HEARST ;
boom is measured solely by dollars and
cents. Remove the miilions back of the
young New York Journalist and his name
would uever be heard. The Democratic
party may be reduced to great extremes,
but far be it from selling a nomination for
the highest office in the land.
From the York Gazette.
The real reason was that the ac-'
Labor's Opportunity.
One of the opponents of the eight hour
law now under consideration in our na-
tional Legislature in his address before the
congressional committee interjected a little
stump speech by saying that ‘“When Abra-'
ham Lincoln was splitting rails, he didn’t
confine his day’s labor to eight hours,
neither did Garfield, when he, as a boy,
was trudging along the path of the canal,
vor did McKinley in his early life. Yet we
find men today who are demanding that
limit not only for the employees of the gov-
ernment and all who labor on the surface
of the earth, but for those who toil beneath
it as well. These men whom I have named
were doing infinitely harder work than
nine-tenths of these who are now clamor-
ing for the enactment of an eight hour
law.”
The sophistry of such argument as this
must be apparent to every man whether he
be an advocate of the proposed law or not.
Lincoln, it is true, was compelled to do
hard work, but he was working for himself;
the forest and the prairie were alike wide
open to him; opportunity was practically
as easy as the free winds which blew about.
him as he toiled, and his product deter-
mined his wages. But the product of the
laborer of today, especially in the monopo-
lized coal fields, does not determine his’
wages. They are determined by the arbi-
trary terms of the men who would become
rich by the oppression of men who are com-.
pelled to earn their bread in the sweat of
their faces. In Lincoln’s day opportunity
was open to all. But there is a vast differ-
ence hetween the economic conditions
which confronted Lincoln as a railsplitter
and those which confront the laboring man
today. :
The World is Full of Such Youth,
From the Altoona Tribune.
The other day a wagon hauled by a horse
which was driven by an 18-year-old boy
passed down one of the principal avenues
of the city. Several other lads of the age.
of the driver passed along the sidewalk and:
attracted his attention. They were friends
and he was evidently in a jocular mood.
In a friendly way he suddenly belched
forth a volley of oaths that must have been
audible for two squares. Then he pulled.
some cigarette papers from his pocket and |
began to manufacture a cigarette. His
youth and his present dense ignorance are
in his favor, but the chances are he will
never achieve substantial success. Stupefied
by tobacco and brutalized by profanity, he
| will miss all the splendid opportunities
that present themselves along life’s path-
way, ever waiting to become the property
of the vigilant and the competent. When
| age descends upon him he may daily regret
his lost chances and wonder why some off
| his neighbors were so much more fortutiate,.
but he may have ¢o wait until ‘he leaves
this world tefore he begins to realize the
enormity of his crimes against himself.
Where Sand Counts.
From the Altoona Times.
Are you brave? You think so, but can
you keep on doing what is right when cer-
tain other boys laugh at vou? If you can
and do, you are brave; if you weaken un-
der such circumstances you are a coward.
I6 requires more *‘sand”’ to endure ridicule
than to fight—a great deal more.
Sixth Attack on Port Arthur,
Russian Searchlights Discover Merchant Steamers
Making for Harbor. Torpedo Boats in Support,
ST. PETERSBURG, March 27.—Under
cover of darkness this morning, Vice-Ad-
miral Togo made another attempt to bos-
tle up the Russian fleet in Port Arthur but
failed again, and when, after daylight, Vice
Admiral Makaroff steamed ‘out to give bat-
tle, the Japanese commander refused the
challenge and sailed away. The Japanese
practically repeated the tactics of February
24th, by sending in four fireships, preceded
by a torpedo hoat flotilla, with the excep-
tion that the fire ships this time were arm-
ed with Hotchkiss guns for the purpose of
keeping off the Russian torpedo boat de-
stroyers.
The enemy’s attempt was discovered by
means of the shore searchlights and a
heavy fire was opened from the batteries
and from two gunboats which were guard-
ing the entrance to the harbor. The Rus-
sian torpedo destroyer Silni was outside on
scouting duty and to the dash and nerve of
the commander, Lieutenant Krinizki, is
chiefly due the complete defeat of the
plans of the Japanese. He at once made
straight for the on-coming ships under a
hail of fire from the Hotchkiss guns and
torpedoed the leading ship, which sheered
off, followed by the others, three of them
being piled upon the shore under Golden
Hill and one under the lighthouse. The
Silni then engaged the entire six torpedo
boats of the enemy, coming out from a ter-
rific fight with seven killed and her com-
mander and twelve of lrer complement
wounded. But on the Japanese side only
one hoat’s crew was saved. In addition,
according to unofficial reports, it is believ-
ed the Japanese lost two torpedo hoats.
The Japanese cruisers, which supported
the attack, exchanged shots with the bat
teries and then drew off, after which Vice-
Admiral Makaroff took a steam launch and
examined the fireships. An hour later the
Japanese torpedo flotilla, followed by Vice:
Admiral Togo’s fleet came up from a south
erly direction. Just at daybieak Vice-Ad-
miral Makaroff, with his fleet,sailed out to
engage the enemy, but after the ships and
batteries had fired a few long distance shots
Vice-Admiral Togo decided to decline the
issue, and disappeared to the southward.
The news of the repulse of Vice-Admiral
Togo’s second attempt to block Port Ar-
thar creased much rejoicing in the Russian
capital and among all classes the gallantry
of the Silni and her commander, is the snb-
ject of high praise, but above all the mor-
ale of Admiral Makaroff’s willingness to
engage the enemy, showing that be consid-
ered himself strong enough to fight, pro-
duced a splendid impression.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—In the craw of a chicken that was clean-
ed at Porter's Central hotel, Williamsport,
on Saturday were found eighteen blank
cartridges.
—Huge cakes of ice, passing down the :
river Friday morning of last week tore away
another portion of the Shamokin dam al-
most as large as that which was carried away
when the first gorge broke.
—DMorris Rhoads, a young graduate of the
Kutztown Normal school, was shockingly
killed at Shenandoah on Saturday. From
quarantine supplies he was delivering he
drank carbolic acid in mistake for whisky.
—Two hundred and fifty employes of the
billet mill of the Pennsylvania Steel works
at Harrisburg, quit work Saturday because a
recent reduction of working force caused ad-
ditional work. The company immediately
closed the mill.
—Robert Barr, aged ten years, of Holli-
daysburg, on Saturday was pounced upon
by a bull terrier dog and the animal’s teeth
sunk through the lad’s left eyebrow. The
wound was cauterized by a doctor and no
serious results are apprehended.
—A one-pound baby, rushed to the hospi-
tal in Williamsport after its birth, in the
hope of saving the life of the midget, is now
thriving at that institution under scientific
treatment, weighs nearly two pounds, and
probably will survive.
—Elias Hartz, known throughout the
country as ‘‘Reading’s goosebone weather
prophet,” who has been seriously ill for sev-
eral days, is in a very critical condition."
Owing to the fact that Hartz is in his 90th
year, small hopes for his recovery are enter-
tained.
—Between 2 and 3 o’clock Thursday morn-
ing Clark Grazier’s big barn at Huntingdon’
Farnace was burned to the ground together
with four large work horses, sixteen head of :
cattle and twenty sheep. Besides this a
large quantity of hay, straw and grain were
burnt as was much farming machinery.
—The directors of the Northumberland.
Bridge Co., held a meeting in Sunbnry last
week and decided to rebuild the bridge
swept away by the flood last week. Plans
for a fine steel bridge have been ordered.
Until such time as the work is done the com-
pany will conduct a ferry between the two
towns. : :
—The Lewistown council has passed an
| ordinance submitting to a vote of the people
a proposition for negotiating a loan of $100,-
000 to cover the cost of a sewerage system. A
good bit of money, is involved in the proposi-
tion, but life and health is of first import-
ance. So Lewistown will probably vote for
the loan.
—The initial trip to Oak Grove by the
way of the Jersey Shore electric street rail-
way company’s line was made Friday after-
noon, when a special car containing officers
of the company and a few invited guests ran
over nearly the entire line and to its ter-
minus, near the New York Central shop
buildings.
—Arrangements for the annual reunion of
the Pennsylvania Odd Fellows anniversary :
association to be held at Montoursville on -
April 26th, are progressing rapidly and when
the time for the reunion arrives the Odd:
Fellows will find everything. in readiness for :
their reception and comfort. An interesting -
event in connection with the reunion willbe ;
a meeting in the evening of the-Grand lodge ~~ -
to take in past grands of subordinate lodges.
—This year ouly three mills will operate’
in Williamsport—the Righter,
mill, for several years used by the Deemer
| Lumber company, is now nearly dismantled.
There are now between 10,000,000 and 12,-
000,000 feet of logs it the Williamsport boom.
It is likely that the run is about over for this
freshet. The next one will bring a large
number of logs with it which have been
started on their way by this one. Lumber--
far.
—Alva Green, of Gallagher township, was
in Lock Haven on Saturday’ having in his
pessession a five weeks’ old cub bear, for
which he was seeking a purchaser. Peter
Meitzler, of the Riverside hotel, secured the :
snarling, biting critter for $6. Mr. Meitzler :
will probably send the animal as an Easter
offering to one of his Philadelphia friends
instead of the proverbial rabbit. Mr. Green,
with another hunter, shot the mother bear
in the wilds of Gallagher township this week
and captured the three lively cubs.
‘—The Central Pennsylvania Methodist
conference will hold its next annual session
at Berwick, and the following were elected
ministerial delegates to the General confer-
ence at Los Angeles: Dr. W. W. Evans,
presiding elder of the Danville district; Amos
S. Baldwin, presiding elder of the Juniata
district; T. S. Wilcox, presiding elder of the
Williamsport district; E .J. Gray, president
of Williamsport Dickinson seminary; G. W.
Stevens, presiding elder of the Harrisburg
district, and Horace Lincoln Jacobs, pastor
of Ridge avenue church, Harrisburg.
—An Assyrian peddler was murdered
about two miles east of Petersburg Friday
afternoon. A fellow peddler is supposed to
have committed the act. They were togeth-
er at Petersburg in the afternoon where they
quarreled and it is supposed the fight grew
more fierce later in the day. The body was
found by Louis Sanks, of Huntingdon, about
4 o'clock. Three large cuts, supposed to
have been made by a stone, were found on.
the head of the dead man, and his face was
lacerated in a couple places. His home is at
Saxton, Bedford county. The supposed
murderer has not been arrested.
—Lightning played some peculiar pranks.
and did about $3,000 worth of damage dur-
ing the storm Tuesday night on the John J.
Miller farm, two miles south of Irwin. Bolts
struck about a dozen times on the place and
the farm adjoining. The pig pen on the
Miller farm was hit, the bolt striking a hog
on the head, the mark being plainly visible
on the dead animal. The hen house was
also struck and next morning three chickens
were found dead, their heads being severed
from the neck by the lightning. Another
bolt struck the barn and it caught fire under.
the roof. The animals in the barn below
broke loose and they were gotten out of the
burning . building with difficulty. A cow
was stunned by the lightning, and James
Flemmon was severely burned while at work
getting the animal out. The barn, twenty
tons of hay and about 500 bushels of grain
were consumed. That was a pretty good
night’s work for the electric visitor.
w Star and
Brown, Clark & Howe. The old Maynard '
men are well satisfied with the progress thus
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