Teworraiic; atcha GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. 8y P. —PENNYPACKER didn’t decline. QUAY did is. —Its all fixed up now, but what is to be done for Oleo BILL BROWN ? —Maybe cousin PENNY’S heart wouldn’t stand for the suddenness of that catapult act.’ —The sweet girl graduate is already commencing to worry over her commence- ment frock. -—Korea contains 82,000 square miles. From all reports the Japs hold about 81,- 999 of them. —All the motions were made in QUAY’S cottage at Atlantic City. They were only carried at Harrisburg. —Up to this time Mr. HEARST hasn’t had a run for the money he is reported to have put into his boom. -—Every day presents its opportunities to someone who doesn’t see them until it is too late to grasp them. —There is more than one way of fooling the people of Pennsylvania and MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY always bas a nice new one up his sleeve. —If PARKER should turn out to he the man TEDDY will have to do some of the roughest riding he has ever tackled in New York. —In Japan women commit suicide when their husbands disgrace themselves in the army. In this country they are more sensi- ble and get a divorce. —It isn’t the nice things they are saying now about him that will repay cousin PENNY for the $210,000 salary be bas missed by declining to be catapulted onto the Supreme bench. —It is very evident that the Russians are luring the Japs somewhere, but it ap- pears that the Russians are as much at a loss to know where that somewhere is as the rest of the world" —Might it have been COLONEL cbham- bers who persuaded cousin PENNY to change his mind ? If the COLONEL thinks so it would be unkind to wake him up from such a lovely dream. —Mr. BRYAN’S determination to have bis say, even if the courts of Connecticut won’t permit him to talk all he wants to before them, is probably a clever plan for. booming the circulation of the Commoner in the New Epgland States. Chicago has a boy who is only seven vears old, yet preaches the gospel in a masterly way. Chicago isn’t to be relied on, however, in its judgment of what preaching is. There was a time, you know, when they thought DOWIE was a preacher. —JoHN P. ELKIN was an unsafe man to. be nominated for Governor two years ago, yet he is regarded as just the man fora seat on the highest tribunal of the State. Verily, the exigencies of Republican pol- itics reconciles that party to anomalies that are strange. —The Philadelphia society girl who at- tempted to get into a ‘‘for men only’’ show by disguising herself in man’s apparel had a perfect right to do just what she did, but then the question arises: Is she an orna- ment either to her own ‘‘sassiety’’ or to so- ciety at large? ~-PARKER is being called an interroga- tion point hy the Republican press of the country. From present appearances it looks as if he’ll be the point at the end of the interrogation they’ll puto themselves as to ‘‘How did it Happen’’ on the morn- ing after the election in November. — Buigess WALKER tried the ball and chain on a trio of drunken tramps who undert ook to run Bellefonte on Tuesday. The bobos were very unwilling workers and, naturally enough, it was the fellows who won’t work themselves who stood on the side-walks and gabbled about it being inhuman to treat men in such a way. —Judge HARRY WHITE'S defeat for re- nomin ation to the hench on which he has been a more or less conspicuous occupant for the past twenty years, is said to have been due to money and other corrupting influences. If this be so there are evident- ly very few voters in Indiana county who can’t * ‘be seen’ for he bad only three hep dred votes. » —Judges BELL and So Bi and Attorney General CARSON are, no doubt, very learned in the law, but.we are not quite réady to admit that they know more ahout the constitution of Pennsyl- vania than the very able men who framed it in 1872. When they said ‘no law shall extend the term of any public officer, or in- crease or diminish his salary or emolu- ments, after his election or appointment,’’ they likely knew just what they were do- ing and a judge on. the bench, elected by the people, was a ‘‘public officer’ then, for all the superior wisdom of the wise men of today. ~-Peuusylvania Republicans lose sight entirely of their complete domination by one man in their joy in having escaped the humiliation of baving a man they didn’s want catapulted onto the Supreme hench. However pleasing it may be to think they accomplished something in that the fact of QUAY’s absolute supremacy is all the more patent. It was not that he cared a rap for public opinion, the petitions of bar associa- tions or the importuning of prominent men, but merely because it suited his par- pose better to put ELKIN on the hench than to elevate his doting old cousin. i VOL. 49 STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 8, 1904. NO. 14. A Machine ‘Frick. Governor PENNYPACKER, at the elev- enth hour,declined the Republican nomina- tion for justice of the Supreme court and the machine nominated JOHN P. ELKIN in his place. The announcement was a great surprise to the delegates in the convention, according to the newspaper reports of the event. But it may confidently be said that it was no surprise to the machine mana- gers. On the contrary it was a well matur- ed scheme on their part to prevent a legit- imate contest among the lawyers of the State fit for the service of the honor of the nomination and leave it an easy gift for the bosses to bestow on whomever they choose. That it is better PENNYPACKER was not chosen is true, for he is neither morally nor mentally fit. Bat it is equally certain that the next least fit man has been taken in his place. PENNYPACKER’S nomination would have cast an aspersion on the judiciary of the State, because of the obvious intrigue on the part of himself and Senator QUAY to ‘‘catapult’’ him into the office. But the nomination of ELKIN doesn’t guarantee the court freedom from suspicion. As a subordinate in the cabinet of the late Gov- ernor HASTINGS he committed so palpable a violation of the law that he bad to be dismissed in disgrace. He has done noth- ing since to remove the stain on his reputa- tion and a tainted judge impairs the char- acter of the court. If judge JOHN STEW- ART had been chosen, or if the choice bad fallen on either of the other gentlemen who were named as suitable for the office, the court wonld have been safe. But the trick which kept PENNYPACKER in view as the *‘ancinted’’ until it was too late to make a canvass for a more suitable man, enabled the machine to impose ELKIN on the peo- ple. There has been no popular demand for the nomination of JOAN P. ELKIN to this great office. He was as little thought of in connection with the nomination before the declination of PENNYPACKER, so far as popular sentiment is concerned, as PENNY- PACKER was before the’ ambition seized that gentleman after the passage of the law increasing the salary of the judges. There are probably 500 Republican lawyers in the State better qualified for the office. emissary on thie bench of the highest court ELKIN has been chosen and he will accept, it is a stultification to do so, for two years ago he declared that no man had a right to accept such favors at the hands of the ma- ‘| chine unless he had previously submitted his name to the consideration of the people. As PENNYPACKER defeated him then he defeats others now. Bribing the President. Mr. AN DREW CARNEGIE, according to a Washington correspondent, has pledged himself to contribute a million dollars to the ROOSEVELT campaign fund. Mr. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER may be depended upon to be equally liberal and the other trust magnates and monopolists will do their share. It is the price they bave agreed to pay for immunity 0 rob the public. It is the consideration which they have guaran- teed for the pledge of the President that no more prosecut ions of trusts will be made. The decision of the Supreme court in the Northern Securities case is an affirmation of the constitntionality,as well as the adequacy of the SHERMAN anti-trust law. It also served to . admonish the trust magnates that they must make terms with the Presi- dent. Mr. CARNEGIE sold his CARNEGIE steel company property to the steel trust for about $750,000,000 worth of the bonds of the trust which are guaranteed to yield five per cent. interest and are therefore ‘‘guilt-edged’’ securities. The property represented an‘actual investment of about $5,000,000 and if the trust was dissolved would be worth. probably ' $100,000,000. Mr, ROCKEFELLER’S holdings in the Stand- ard oil company are worth as much, if not more than CARNEGIE’S bonds in the Steel trust. If that trust were dissolved the de- preciation in value-would be quite as great and it may be estimated . that those two gentlemen, together, would lose in the neighborhood of a billion and a quarter of dollars. They are willing to give a million dollars a piece to prevent such a thing. It would he asbrewd business operation and they are not stupids Paying a Senator or Representative in the Legislature or Congress to vote a par- ticular way on a measure of legislation is bribery, which is a crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary. Pay- ing a judge on the bench to construe a law one way or another is a crime of the grav- est character and because there is a sus- picion of such a thing in one of the south- ern States the judge in question is threat ened with impeachment proceedings. Bat here we have a President who has heen bribed by truss magnates to nullify a law and he has the assurance to ask the people who suffer from his criminal misfeasanze to vote him an extension of sine and a renewal of power to betray them. Such impudence is without parallel in the political history of the country. But | because the ‘machine wanted an. obedient | Starting State of Affairs. Judge HARRY WHITE, of Indiana county, who was defeated for renomination on Saturday, ascribes his misfortune to the corrupt use of money. ‘‘It was the most corrupt campaign,’’ the Judge declared in an interview just before the vote, ‘‘of all in any county in Pennsylvania.” There were two candidates hesides him- self in the contest, one of whom rais- ed $15,000 of a corruption fund and the other $10,000. He declined to contribute to such a purpose himself, he saye#, and that is the reason one of the other candi- dates was brought out, and siuvgularly enough, the one thus brought into the field varried off the nomination. We have no doubt that there was plenty of corruption in that primary coatest, but it was hardly as bad as the Judge imagines it to have been. That is to say it was probably the woist that ever happened in Indiana county,but the chances are that in other counties it has been exceeded. In fact corruption is becoming the rule in judicial nominations and elections. In Clearfield county, for example, a year ago |8, boodling was carried to high water mark at the Republican primaries and in Dau- phin county last fall it is said that the Republican state committee sent $70,000 into the fight after the well supplied local resources had been exbausted. in Blair county last year the political morals which governed the judicial contest were pretty rank and in fact such things are becoming the rule rather than the exception. It is a grave misfortune that political corruption is increasing in this. State. and the most lamentable feature of the affair is that it asserts itself most offensively in judicial contests. It is the result, of course, of a degenerate public sentiment, primarily. That is corrupt men are elect- ed to office and corruption is contageous.. The man who accepts money one year will demand it the next and the number of per- sons in a community who first accept und finally demand money for their votes is multiplying at a startling ratio. But while the QUAYS and PENNYPACKERS and ROOSEVELTS are in office we are en- couragiug corruption. An Unjust Deetsion. a I6 requiresa vast fund of patience totem- | 3 perately discuss the decision of the court’ affirming the constitutionality of the jus dicial salary act of 1903. But such a decis- ion has been given by Judge Vox Mos- CHISZKER of Philadelphia in the case. of the Attorney General againgt State Treas- urer HARRIS. . That it is based on a tech- nicality, however, is not surprising. That is to say it is held by the court ‘that the provision of the organic law which forbids the increase of salaries during the term of office is overborne by the other provision which declares that Judges shall at stated times ‘‘receive for their services an ade- quate compensation which shall be fixed by law and paid by the State.” During a recent hearing of a license case in Philadelphia Judge VON MOSCHISZKER rebuked a witness for casting aspersions on an applicant for license if he was unpre- pared to support them by ample testimo- ny. . It was in the interest of the machine to have the license in question granted and charges against the applicant might pro- voke such opposition to the granting as couldn’t be overcome, Under the ocir- cumstances the Judge probably. thought it was safer to intimidate the witness than to adopt any other course. He was about as near to the line of duty and as close to the principles of law in that action as in the decision affirming the constitutionality of the judges’ salary act of 1903. * In the briefs of the lawyers and in the arguments of couusel in the case in point, there was no allegation that the salaries of judges under the old law was inadequate, No judge on the bench ever tet up the proposition that his salary was less than ib ought to have been. If the salary of a Supreme court judge had heen as low as $5,000 there would be reason in the prop: osition that the amount was inadequate. But so far from that being true the judges were entirely content with their compen- sation, with a few exceptions, and judicial nominations were sought after with as much zeal as those for any other office in the gift of the people. The truth is that this decision is an outrage. --—The announcement that J. C. MEY- ER Esq. is an aspirant to represent this congressioual district in the National Con- vention of the Democracy will doubtless meet with favor in all quarters. Certain it is that no more dignified nor intelligent gentleman could be chosen for that honor- able service and inasmuch as there are no aspirants from this county the endorse- ment of Centre county will probakly be unanimously given to Mr. MEYER. ——~The Philipsburg Methodists have de- cided to put a $2,500 pipe organ in their church. Andrew Carnegie bas offered to present the church with half of the amount necessary to purchase the organ. ‘Moving Against Pennypacker. On Saturday last the movement of the lawyers of the State in opposition to the: nomination of Governor PENNYPACKER for justice of the Supreme court culminated in an address of singular dignity and force to the people of the State. The address re- cited that the lawyers of the State had heen appealed to and that there was ‘‘an al most universal disapproval, under present circumstances, of the nomination of the Governor to the office of justice of the Su- preme court,’”’ that his intrigue to place himself on the bench had ‘‘the appearance of evil,’”’ and that if he accepted the nomi- pation evil *‘will be .indelibly stamped up- on him. ” But the lawyers hardly swerved. Gov- ernor PENNYPACKER from a cherished purpose. He wanted the office of justice of the Supreme court because it pays ten thousand dollars a year and will last long- er than he is likely tolive. His inordinate onpidity and unequaled vanity were alike aroused and he would strive for the office if it involved the sacrifice of every rk of manhood and principle of honor that he has ever felt.. He knew that he cotild’ be elected only by electoral frauds; but that fact didn’t restrain him in the least. It snited QUAY’S purpose best to have him decline and for that reason, and that reason alone, he 41 80. —Contrary to the expectations of many supposed to be well informed persons the court has handed down a decision declar- ing the judges salary increase bill to be constitutional. It is contrary to both the spirit .and the letter of the constitution, however, but what matters that to a party that respects no law other than its own necessities. Glant Democracy is Awake. From the Philadelphia Record. In the national conventions of the Dem- veratie party two important rules prevail shat are not enforced in Republican nation- al conventions. Under the two-thirds rule no Democratic nominations can be made for President and Vice-President except by a yote of two-thirds of the assembled dele: gates. Under the unit rule the majority of the delegation casts the whole vote of a hs in the convention, no matter how may be the protesting minority. “But in many of the States the unit rule is not enforced. Whatever may be said for or against these rules, it may be observed that some of the most vehement advocates of the two- thirds role are quite as vehement in their oppozition to the unit rule. The explana- tion is that, while they find an advantage in the former rule, there is none for them in the other. Thus the Bryan-Hearst com- bination that is’ seeking by hook or by crook to gather one-third of the delegates, including representatives from Hawaii, Alaska and other outlying territories,hopes to force its candidate upon the convention by wearing out the majority; and it bap- pens just now that the unit rule does not serve the purpose of those who want:to use the twin regulation for all it is worth. Since, then, it is not likely that the two- thirds rule will be abolished, the practical consideration is as to its effect upon the de- liberation of the coming Democratic Na- tional Convention. The total number of delegates in the convention will be 994, so that it will be necessary for the political adventurers who are working for 2 boodle candidate— William R. Hearst—to muster 332 delegates in order to obstruct the will of the majority. Thus far they have been unable to secure solid delegation anywhere, except in two or three territories, although in a few States they may control a majori- ty of delegates. In such a body scattered delegates will not be able to exercise much influence against the weight of united and instructed delegations from such great States as New York, Pennsylvania and In- diana. Since the irresistible Democratic movement for a conservative candidate and an old-fashioned platform has set in the Bryan-Hearst propagandists will he lucky if they can count two hundred delegates when the National Convention shall open its sessions at St. Louis. « : One thing that has mightily contributed toward nnifying Democratic action, espec- ially in the Southern States,is the determi- nation that the National Convention of the party shall not be snbjected to sinister ele- ments such as make themselves felt in Re- publican national conventions. Every four vears the Democrats of the South witnessa fresh exhibition of the arts employed in their region of the country to produce and control negro delegations to. nominate a Republican candidate for President. On the first imitation of a purpose to employ the same corrupt methods in behalf of a trafficker in a Democratic nomination for President the Democracy not merely of the South, but of the whole country, took the alarm. Hence the mighty current that has set in for a conservative nomination for President at St. Louis, aud for the employ- ment of every rule that conld be legiti- mately invoked to enforce the will of the Democratic party in its National Conven- tion. It was a great mistake to assume that the Democracy had fallen into a hyp- notic slumber, and would leave the field without a struggle to ‘a combination bent on the rnin of the party. The evidences are all around us that the giant has shaken his invincible locks, and that he never was more formidable to the foes of Democratic principles and of good government that he promises to he in the coniing campaign. ——The Centre Democrat office has heen moved into its own new building on High street, where the publication and business is being done under more commodious circumstances than ever before. ‘between the joy of ‘man give for his life; but ' gave his life to the shi He Died for His Order. From the Philadelphia Pub Public Ledger. ‘“The welfare of one is the concern of all’”’ is the shibboleth of organized labor, and it is a good and proper thing that men combine, to the end that by. their united strength they shall protect the weakest of their number from rapacity, oppression and and injustice. It is well that when a sord- id, harsh, cruel employer uses his power to injure a single employe for any cause, or for no cause, his comrades in labor shall make his comrads in labor shall ‘make his cause their own, make it the common canse of all those who labor that they may live and enjoy living. The rule, however, seems from the evi- dence of many direfnl cases sometimes to work away, when the welfare of the indi- vidual is sacrificed to the real or i imaginary concern of the organization. The story of such a case was told last week by the news- papers of New York, the sacrificial victim being one Michael Farley, a derrickman. Michael was employed ou an apartment house in course of construction in that city. He had a good job, hé. thonght, being quite satisfied with it; but three weeks ago the autocratic walking delegate appeared ou the scene and ordered Michael to go on strike. Of course, he obeyed, as the strike concerned the many, to which be must loyally sacrifice his own individual -wel- fare. Bus he had not anything put by: for the rainy day of the proverb, which was, in this ‘instance, the strike. The butcher a baker and candlestick maker refused - give him credit, as he was out of a job. Tuesday last Michael was again ‘given his old job atthe derrick. Upon: ‘report- ing to the foreman he said: ‘I haven’t bad a meal in three days, but the joy -of this will keep me going. I have been liv- ing on scraps.” He bad no money. to buy breakfast that day, but heroically worked right on, upheld by the joy of be- ing permitted to go to work again. When the day was nearly done he arms of a fellow-workman, dead; killed by the joy of getting back his 3or or by starvation. To get a really clear view of the case of Michael Farley we must consider it in comparison with that of the walking delegate who ordered him to quit work with which and with all its conditions he was entirely satisfied. The ‘moment “he struck, “his wages, his means to live, ceas- ed. Being idle, wageless and having no savings, he was refused credit; for three weeks nearly, always hungry,’ Be sought a new job, but did nof find one. For three days this loyal son of organized labor, who sacrificed himself fo the.convern of the many, lived on seraps, and on the last day ting work and wages again and the cruel gation, he fell dead. If is said that ‘‘al iChas) Farle; 3 i 4 It was a great price that this" Irish laborer paid for: his fidelity to his organjza- tion. Where, however, was the walking delé- gate during the three weeks that Michael was starving by his order ? He was draw- |, ing regularly and fully his fat salary. = He was not looking for a job; he had such | a good one. He did not go bungry, nor live on such Seraps as he could pick up here and there. He lived in clover, so to speak; was ‘‘wrapped in measureless, comfort, as in lamb’s wool,”’ while Michael vainly hunted for work and starved. All things considered, it does seem as if the many for whose concern this poor Irish- man loyally starved and died might have sympathetically looked to him after its walking delegate had’ deprived him of the means of living. If it is really true that the welfare of one is the concern of all, the welfare of this one faithful unionist should have been the concern of all good unionists. Whither Has it Gone? From the Chicago Public. : : ‘What has become of the ‘‘full dinner pail,’’ that pressidigatorial present of the political bunko man tc American working- men? The coal miners have dolefally an- swered, in the expressive language of the street, ‘‘You may search me!’ They wanted to strike against a reduction of wages; but John Mitchell urged them not to, because times are hard and getting harder. So they have voted against a strike agreeing to accept lower wages; not be- cause they wanted to, but because times are getting so dull they dared not do oth- erwise. Bat why are times dall ? Bryan is politically dead, isn’t he? Johuson was de- feated, wasn’t he? and by the “full dinner pail’’ vote, which responded so confidingly to Mr. Hanna's cheering appeal to *‘stand pat!”’ These enemies of theHanna-McKinley dinner pail haven’t brought on hard times. They bhaven’t had a chance to. Everything bas been under the control of Hanna, Mec- Kinley, Rousevelt and “ otlier ‘protection ‘*joss,”’ who, as Roosevelt has put it, gives us good times ‘under Republican -adminis- trations .nd bad times under Democratic administrations. It begins to look as if the Repablisans would be caught in a pres- idential election with empty dinner pails on their bands, which they can neither fill nor again successfully pretend to fill. Judge White Beaten. INDIANA, Pa., April 3. —Judge Harry White met his firs defeat in Indiana county politics at the Republican primaries here to-day; when he lost his fight for re- nomination for a third term. It was the bitterst political contest ever waged in thiscounty. Both his opponents, Samuel Couningham and S.J. Telford; polled more votes than did Mr. White. Returus from the nearby districts give Tel- ford the lead. but many of the principal precincts are to he heard from. Interest centered on the judgeship fight. as there was no opposition to the balance of the ticket. The state delegates are in- structed in reference to Supreme conrt struggle. The largest vote ever cast in the county was polled. Judge White is now more than 70 years cld and has been prominens$ in local poli- tice for a half century. In'a statement, is- sued a few days ago, he alleged ‘bribery and announced that hie: wonld return to the practice of law, if defeated. ell into the’ things will a |i | construction and Spawls from the Keystone. raised for the Thaddeus Stevens memorial industrial school, of Lancaster, Pa. from the Municipal hospital at Johnstown last week. There are yet three there, who time. new industry—a steel plant that will employ 300 men to start with. The citizens are try- ing to raise $60,000 and nearly the whole amount has been subscribed. That's enter. prise for you. ,—Charles McHenry, cook at Zimmerman’s lumber camp, was found drowned a few miles from DuBois on Sunday morning. It is thought that he fell off a bridge on Satur- day evening. He was aged about 45 or 50 years and had a family. —James Arbegast, a well-known resident of Renovo and formerly a locomotive engi- neer, was struck by the west-hound Buffalo flyer near Renovo Tuesday afternoon and was instantly killed. Mr. Arbegast was walking on the ties about 200 feet above the Paddy’s run bridge and was going in the di- rection of Renovo, which is a. mile or more distant. —Lientenant Fred B. Kerr has resigned from the U. S. army and will return to Clearfield to assume the charge of one of the, departments of his father’s largely increas- ing business. Lieutenant Kerr, who is a graduate of West Point, served his country three years in the Philippines and was stationed one year in the west with XOmpERy C, 22nd Regular Infantry. —Lying across a path in the forest near the camp of the Herritt lumber operations at Eddy Lick, Sunday morning, was found the lifeless body of W. C. Callahan, a well known woodsman, whose home was in Jersey Shore when he was not employed on lumber opera- tions. Deceased was aged 56 years. It is supposed that he had an attack of heart fail- ure while returning alone to the camp. —The body of a strange man was found in the Juniata river by Frank Weaver, near Port Royal, Sunday. The body, it is sup- posed, is that of Charles Snyder, who disap- peared from his home in Huntingdon about six weeks ago. A freight crew in crossing the Philadelphia and Erie railroad bridge Friday saw the body floating. The body was picked up fifteen miles below the bridge. —Typhoid fever seems to have a grip on the people of Ridgway. The Record of that town says the number of cases is estimated from 28 to 47, some of which are mild while ‘others are severe, then suggests ‘‘that at the lowest figures it should be a warning to take all. precaution against its spreading. It'is probably caused by the drinking water. ‘If all ‘persons would boil the water used for this purpose it would aid in checking the spredd of the disease.” : —The Hollidaysburg municipality is spreading her wings so as to keep even wi the boom that is on in the old capital town, ‘Monday evening the town ‘council pris that an ordinan J to obtain ‘expended apg building; $15,000, general street .improye- ‘ment; $19,000 for the erection of a municipal sewerage system in accordance with the rec- ommendations of the board of. health. —Edward Robinson, a woodsman employed on Thomas Smith’s log drive, was drowned late Thusday evening in the swift waters: of ‘Kettle creek. Robinson, ‘with a: number of other log drivers, was attempting to break a log jam, about a mile and ‘a balf above ‘Oleona. When the big jam gave away the men were all plunged into the seething, roaring waters of the creek. Robinson fought bravely for bis life. One of his com- panions caught his hand, but on account.of the swift current was unable to give any as- sistance. Robinson sank and drowned. The body. was found a mile and a half from where he sank. ; : : —The judgeship campaign in Indiana county reached its climax of bitterness late Friday night when Frank Jamison, one. of the best known young men of Indiana and active supporter of Samuel Cunningham, was perhaps. fatally wounded by a negro with whom he bad quarreled over politics. An armed posse of special deputies set out at once in pursuit of Charles Fisher, who is sup- posed to have done the shooting, and early Saturday morning placed him and four of his companions under arrest. One of the pris. oners, Noah Savington, : was shot, but not seriously wounded, while attempting to es- cape. Jamison, who was shot through the left lung near the heart, is at home with small chances of recovery. : —Recent appointments made at the Meth- odist conference show that Lewisburg, Salt Lake City and Williamsport have figured uniquely. The Rev. I. N. Moorehead, some. ‘years ago, was located in Lewisburg, and the conference sent him to occupy the pulpit of Grace church, of Williamsport. Later he was sent to Salt Lake City. Now the Rev. J. L. Albritton, who has been the minister at. Grace church for some time past, has been port from Salt Lake City when Mr.Moorehead went west., The third one to figure in the situation is Rev. J. 8S. Leilich. He has been located at Lewisburg, from: which place he was sent to Salt Lake City as a missionary, and now he is to return to Lock Haven. —Milton Poust, of near’ Hughesville, has 500 peach, 120 cherry and as many plum’ and apple trees. He has been exceptionally successful as a peach grower, and it may be’ which is as follows: Before setting the trees plough and thoroughly pulverize the soil of ) | the intended orchard; then set the trees, planting potatoes between the rows. .The following year raise anothercrop of potatoes. Each year, thereafter,in the spring and early summer, keep the weeds down by the use of a harrow. Later in the season plough, turn: ing up a shallow furrow and drill in buck. wheat, using a goodly supply of phosphate. Let the chickens have the run of the orchard and the entire use of the buckwheat. Mr. Poust says that by properly feeding his trees in this way he is not troubled with borers or the yellows or anything else that is blight- ing. He has some trees in his orchard that are eleven years old and that are just as bright and thrifty as those five years old. —The schools of Clearfield county have just contributed $188.04 to the fund being —Two small-pox patients were discharged : will not be ready for discharge for some: —Reynoldsville is endeavoring to get a § uFnishing of A. municipal : sent to T.ewisburg. He came to Williams- of interest to know his method of culture; gai pe ee ini ivi isi
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