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BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
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ink Slings.
—The picnic basket is beginning to make
* goo goo eyes at Hecla and Hunters parks.
—1It love is a disease of the heart, asa
London medical journal states, Dr. Cupid
is the boy who should be kept in close
quarantine.
—The local Republicans pounded a spig-
ot into Uncle SOLLY’s barrel last week and
got a free trip from Harrisburg to DuBois,
with all the trimmings.
--To-day the most truthful of them’ will
lie a little. You know there is nothing
that makes men deviate from the actual
fact quite as much as brook trout.
—Sir HENRY IRVING denies that he is
going to write his memoires. How sad.
We have long been waiting for some ex-
planation of bis claim to being an actor.
Senator BURTON might have thought
he was like DANIEL in the lion’sden, after
his trial and conviction, but, unlike
DANIEL, he won’t be able to get out so
soon.
—With nearly half a million soldiers on
foot in the far East both sides throw a fit of
exnberan t exultation over the grand victo-
ries they have when one or two men are
killed.
—No doubt the Republican national con-
vention would like to unload ROOSEVELT
‘like QUAY’S convention got rid of PENNY-
PACKER, hut then ROOSEVELT doesn’t have
his QUAY.
—1It looks already as if the Republicans
were afraid of PARKER. Whenever a party
that ‘is as firmly intrenched in power as if
has heen gets on the defensive there is an
unmistakable sign of weakness.
—A microbe has been discovered that
will kill rats and other rodents without in-
jury to other animals. Of course the dis-
covery was made in Paris, for the microbe
busin ess has ever flourished there.
—The smart set in London is affecting the
wasp waist again and the wasp waist will
be eflecting the smart set again very short-
ly. There is no accounting for the foolish
ways of the average woman with her stays.
—It is predicted that radium will dis-
appear in eleven hundred and fifty years.
Very sorry to see it go but then at $20,-
0 00,000 a pound we can’t bring ourselves
- to a clear understanding of what it came
at all for.
—Captain RicHMOND P. HOBSON will
have to remain contented with his present
occupation and his kissing acts as a side.
line. He was defeated for nomination to
Congress from the Sixth Alabama district
on Tuesday.
— The Altoona Times recently devoted
half a column of its editorial space to an
effor t to make people believe that riches
will not make them bappy. Up to that
time we had always credited the Times
with having good sense. ?
—The little prison at Ironton, Mo.,
yawns for United States Senator BURTON.
There are a number of prisons in Pennsyl-
vania that yawned so much for another
distinguished Senator a few years ago that
they all feel asleep.
—The Unpited States Senate hasn’t lost
much in the conviction of Senator BURTON,
of Kansas. Any fellow who couldn’t get
into the graft game with more deft-
ness than he did is unfit, even for such a
place as the Pennsylvania Legislature.
—In the light of the reported serious
illness of boss QUAY and the possible out-
come of it what do you suppose the Plow-
boy of Indiana will think of permitting
hi mself to be laid on the shelf from which
he can’t jump into the boss’ shoes.
—A rather peculiar condition of affairs
exists in the Blair-Bedford congressional
district, where JOHN M. REYNOLDS, an
ex-Democrat, is heading the ticket for Con-
gress, and JOSEPH E. THROPP, a supposed-
ly ex-Republican, is the Democratic nom-
inee. If it should bappen to resolve itself
into a mud-slinging campaign how many
times do you suppose the word renegade
will be used ?
—A horse over in New York, that had
lost all the hair out of its tail and become
very unsightly, was supplied with an arti-
ficial tail and at once it became so proud
that it would not stand on the same side of
the street with other horses. And who can
say that there is such a vast difference be-
tween horse and man. Give some woman a
1at and a switch and they will carry their
head as though they owned the earth.
—The Philadelpbia police think they
have discounted the cunning of a SHER-
Lock HOLMES, because someone told them
that he thought a negro named LAWRENCE
GiBsoN had murdered WM. THOMAS, the
aged night watchman at Houston ball, and
when arrested on suspicion GIBSON con-
fessed. The Philadelphia police force is so
unaccustomed to catching criminals tha
when one does walk into their bands they
imagine it is a wonderful achievement.
—Scarcely a day passes that the harrow-
ing accounts of a number of murders do
not blacken the pages of our daily papers.
In many cases life is held so cheap that it
is taken for the most trifling cause. To say
the least this tendency is alarming aud the
time will goon be at hand when the feeling
of insecurity will affect society in general.
Much of the growth of murder can be attrib
uted to the mawkish sentinientality that
too often expresses itself for a murderer.
It the law were swifter in meting ont its
punishment for the crime and less frequent-
ly defeated in its purpose wen and women
would probably think more before they
hurl another sonl into eternity without a
moment’s warning.
VOL. 49
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL
15, 1904.
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NO. 15.
Concerning Highway Improvements
What is called ‘‘the emergency’’ River
and Harbor bill passed the House of Repre-
sentatives in Washington, yesterday. It
carries an appropriation of $3,500,000
and is ostensibly for the purpose of making
repairs in harbors and improvements in
rivers that have been damaged by floods
or otherwise and require instant action.
The real purpose of it istohave a consid-
erable fund at command from which a
few thousand dollars may be drawn for
instant disbursement where it will ‘‘do
the most good’’ in close Congress districts.
It will be remembered that Representative
BATES, of Meadville bad such an emergency |.
on hand last fall. The town of Corry,
where his opponent lives, owns the build-
ing which is used for a postoffice and rents
it to the government. Things were going
badly there for Mr. BATES and someone
suggested that if he could get an increase
in the rent of the postoffice amounting to
$100 it would help him greatly. There-
upon he wrote to *‘Dear BEAVERS’ atking
for the money and gave him assurance
that compliance with his request ‘‘wonld
do me much good at this time.”” He got
the money.
The party managers bave concluded that
it is inexpedient to pass a regular river and
harbor bill this year. The real bill would
carry an appropriation of from $75,000,000
to $100,000,000, and supplementing the
other profligate appropriations would swell
the total to a startling sum. Therefore it
is reasoned that the really important im-
provements in rivers and harbors can go
over for a year if there is an emergency
fund sufficient to meet the political exi-
gencies. Under this arrangement a few
hundred thousand dollars can be expended
in, deepening the Delaware channel so as
to make certain a solid congressional dele-
gation from Philadelphia and make a
Republican majority in Delaware at least
probable. A few thousand more will se-
care a Congressman in St: Louis, probably
a couple in Cincinnati and one here and
there in other sections of the country.
Unless there is actually a land-slide the
carrying of a dozen or so of doubtful dis-
tricts, it is expected, will preserve a Re-
publican majority in the House and if
there is a land-slide no amount of money
would achieve the result.
As a matter of fact there ought to be no
money appro priated for such purposes for
the reason that it is not expended honestly
for the purpose of public improvement, but
is used for political graft. But even if
the contrary were true the appropriation of
vast sums for such purposes isan injustice
to a great majority of people who pay the
taxes. For example, the proposed deepen-
ing of the Delaware channel is for the
purpose of facilitating the business of Phil-
adelphia importers who imagine that it
will help them in their competition with
New York tradesmen... With a channel
which will admis the heaviest draft steam-
ers they believe they can get goods from
foreign producers delivered at their doors
cheaper than at present to the extent, at
least, of the amount of the freight from
New York by rail, for the only difference
in delivery is a matter of time when the
entire distance is by water. But what
good is that te the consumer? Absolutely
none, for the price of the product is the
same in any event and thesaving in freight
charges is only au addition to the profits
of the dealer.
There is one way that the benefits of
river and barbor improvements might be
equalized to tbe tax payers. Thatis to
say if it were made the rule that for every
dollar appropriated for river and harbor
improvements an equal amonnt be appro-
priated for the improvement of roads in
the country. The water ways are the
highways of commerce and the country
roads the highways of agricalture. That
being tiue the improvement of: the water
highways benefits the city merchants at
the expense of all the taxpayers and the
improvement of the land highways bene-
fits the farmers-under precisely the same
conditions. Thus by an equal division
of the appropriation, between land and
water highways, all classes of tax payers
are equally “henefitted. and taxed alike,
which is just and right. Bat under the
present custom of giving vast sums to river
and harbor improvements and. nothing af
all to land road improvements the bulk of
the burden is put on one class, while all
the henefits go to others.
We would suggest, therefore, that in fu-
ture all river aud harbor bills be made to
provide with «qual liberality for Jand road
improvements. Even at this session now
that an emergency river and barbor bill
has been passed a supplemental bill might
be introduced and enacted providing for
an emergency faud of $3,500,000 for read
building in places inland from the seashore.
The improved harhors will enable the im-
porting merchants of the cities "affected to
reach their sources of supply easier and at
less expense and the improved land roads
will enable the produocers to reach the
markets for the disposal of their products
easier and at less expense. Every agricul-
tural constituency in the country is con-
cerned in this matter and the Representa-
tives in Congress of such coustituencies
might be made to realize their obligations
to labor for their constituents as the Rep-
resentatives of city constituencies work for
the benefit of the people whom they look
to for re-election.
An Inadequate Defense.
When BoURKE COCHRAN said the other
day that the President’s ‘‘order’’ which
worked an amendment of the pension laws
was a dangerous usurpation of power Mr.
DALZELL, of Pittsburg, replied that the
House has vigorously and successfully
resisted all attempts of the Senate to en-
croach upon its authority. As a matter of
fact the House hasn’t done anything of
the kind, but even if it had, the statement
of the fact would be no answer to Mr.
COCHRAN’S allegation. He charged the
President with usurpation. which is a
crime punishable by impeachment. He
is a great lawyer and a Representative in
Congress, so tbat his accusations can’t be
brushed aside as coming from irresponsible
authority. Mr. DALZELL’S answer is ap-
parently an attempt to so dispose of it.
The Federal constitution distinctly and
unequivocally declares that ‘‘all legislative
powers herein granted shall be vested ina
Congress of the United States, which shall
consist of a Senate and House of Represen-
tatives.”” The pension laws quite as dis-
tinetly fixed upon certain conditions to en-
title a veteran of the Civil war to what is
called invalid pension. The President's
order alters those conditions radically,
which is an essential element of legislation.
Therefore in making that order the Presi.
dent was usurping the prerogatives of Con-
gress, violating the constitution of the
United States and committing perjury by
breaking his oath of office to ‘‘support,
obey and defend’’ the organic law.
A false pretense that a difference of opin-
ion between the Senate and House of Nlep-
resentatives upon a question of reveriue |
legislation justifies such a misfeasance
in office may deceive JOHN DALZELL, who
stands accused in the BRISTOW report of
criminal conspiracy to cheat the govern-
ment in connection with postoffice favors,
but it won’t fool the intelligent American
people. The crime against the Federal
constitution muss be answered in some
other way. The usurpation by the Pres-
ident of the prerogatives of Congress must
be supported by a stronger and better “ex-
cose or condemned as an admonition
against similar crimes in the future.
DALZELL would better try again.
Penny Will Obey.
While laboting under the belief that
QUAY intended to catapult Governor PEN-
NYPACKER instead of JOHN P. ELKIN into
the Supreme court we expressed the belief
that PENNYPACKER would be quite as obe-
dient as *‘Oleo Bill’’ BROWN could possibly
be in the office of Governor. It is an open
secret that the coming session of the Legisla-
ture is to be a perfect carnival of corruption.
The depreciation in the value of corporate
property has made it{necessary for QUAY to
replenish his resonrces and he intends to
achieve the result by vicious legislation,
including pinch bills, snakes and similar
measures for commercial uses.
At the close of the last session it was
found necessary to kill a numher of bills
of that character because Governor PENNY-
PACKER bad threatened to veto them. It
will be remembered that then QUAY was
on the high tide of prosperity and rarely
visited Harrisburg. The profits of the evil
legislation, therefore, would all have gone
to the Senator’s lieutenants and the Gov-
ernor wouldn’t consent to iramerse him-
self in infamy for their benefit entirely.
But next year it will be different. QUAY
will be at the scene of operations in person
and the hungriest of the mob. He will
compel Cousin SAM to sign, whatever the
result. :
And it won’t be a difficult matter at
that. PENNYPACKER bas uo really well-
founded scruples against vice. He would
just as soon be out of it, probably, and
might even prefer clean hands to those reek-
ing in corruption. But if QUAY wants cor-
ruption PENNYPACKER will be ready to
oblige him beyond question. He will con-
vince himself that there can he no harm
in anything which contributes to the
comfort aud feeeds the expensive passions
of Cousin MATT. These are really not
pleasant facts to promulgate. Bat they
are facts and the public may as weil look
them in the face as to view them from the
rear later on.
—— Writing from Sherman Heights,
Tenn., S. B. Dennis says: ‘‘Enclosed find
one dollar for the WATCHMAN another
year. It is always a pleasure to write an
old friend to come and see me and the
WATCHMAN is truly aun old friend.”’ Jas.
Tobin, of Snow Shoe, writes much in the
same vein and we appreciate hoth letters.
——Andrew Thompson, a well-known
resident of Unionville, is said to be ill he-
yond the hope of recovery.
Still Resisting Investigation.
Daring the discussion of an amendment
to the postoffice appropriation bill the oth-
er day, proposed by Senator GORMAN,
Senator TELLER, of Colorado declared that
there is specific evidence of the loss to the
government of $3,600,000 as the result of
the frauds in the Postoffice Department.
Of this amount, he added, $26,000 had
been traced to MACHEN and $20,000 to
BEAVERS, leaving $3,154,000 unaccounted
for. Mr. GORMAN’S amendment provided
for a searching investigation of the Depart-
ment by a committee of Congress to be
completed before the appropriation to cer-
tain purposes in the Department be avail-
able. Senator TELLER was supporting the
amendment.
If $3,154,000 dollars have been stolen
from the government and nobody knows
who got the money or how it was obtained,
the leaders of the Republican party ought
to be anxious for an investigation rather
than fighting such a proposition. In the
first place until the perpetrator of the
crime is revealed and punished the party
.under whose auspices he operated is respon-
sible, whether the leaders of the party
know who he is or not. If they know and
fail to expose and hand him over to punish-
ment‘ they are accessories after the fact,
which is almost as bad as perpetrating the
crime. Bat in any event they are responsi-
ble because they have been charged with
guarding the interests of the people and
have failed. :
The persistency and energy with which
the Republican leaders in the Senate and
House of Representatives resist every effort
to investigate the frauds make it certain
that they know where the fault lies and
that it is very close to the head of the
administration. If only unimportant per-
sons were concerned there would be no at-
tempt at concealment. BEAVERS and
MACHEN were given up willingly to the
vengeance of the law because they were no
use. But PERRY S. HEATH, who was sec-
retary of the Republican National commit-
tee aud PETTIT, who is a clerk in that com-
mittee, were protected. The other and
greater offenders must be important fel-
lows indeed.
Elkin Absolutely Unfit.
Governor PENNYPACKER appointed
SAMUEL GUSTINE THOMPSON to the of-
fice of Justice of the Supreme court be-
causé, as he stated at the time, he was an
ideal man for the place. Two years ago he
accepted the nomination for Governor for
the reason, as he stated it at the time, that
JouN P. ELKIN was morally and mental-
ly unfit. THOMPSON hasn’t lost any of his
splendid equipment for the bench since
and ELKIN hasn’t improved in morals or
methods. Under the circumstances what
will the Governor do cu election day ? He
certainly can’t support ELKIN.
No argument is required to prove that in
the nature of things the highest order of
moral and intellec tual strength is essential
to qualify a man for the Snpreme court
bench. If a Governor is delinquent in one
particular or another it is bad enough but
not fatal. His term of office is short and
he hasn’t opportunity to do much harm.
He can cavort, as PENNYPACKER has done,
for four years bat then his race is run. He
goes ont and never again gets a chance to
trifle with public affairs. But with a Jus-
tice of the Supreme court itis different.
He must be above suspicion and if he isn’t
he pute dishonor on the judiciary for
twenty-one years. :
Now if ELKIN wasn’t morally fit for
Governor he is less fit for the Supreme
cours bench and if he iz unfit for that office
it is a crime of the gravest character to
elect him. Suppose, for example, be would
pass upon the constitutionality of laws as
a Judge as he did as Attorney General. In
passing upon the right of the Governor to
veto a resolution sabmitting a constitu-
tional amendment to the people, the Sa-
preme court dezlared that the assertion "of
such a right was absurd. Yet ELKIN as-
serted it and upon the bench he might he
equally stupid. :
—-If PARKER is a good man and wonld
make a safe President, if elected, why not
nominate him ? Is it either good sense or
good politics to decry him because some
Democrats who did not vote the ticket in
1896 or 1900 feel that they could support
him ? It is certain that we cannot elect
anyone without having all the votes we
can get and when one issue has failed twice
it is surely time to try another.
-—The German police stopped a bur-
lesque show in Berlin a few nights ago be-
cause one of the ridiculons characters was
called Mr. RooSEVELT. The Germans
have a fine sense of delicacy indeed, but
what a waste of it to undertake to protect
a man who makes himself about as rid-
iculous as possible whenever the opportu-
nity presents. ke
——I¢t is said that a normal human be-
ing breathes twenty-six hundred gallons of
air every twenty-four hours. If this be so
it is easily seen where some people get so
much wind.
‘ney General in the
Quay’s Conspiracy.
The ‘‘quick-change’® of characters in
Senator QUAYS little comedy in Harris-
burg, last week, deceived most of the peo-
ple of the State for the moment, but few of
them are still resting under the delusion.
The delegates were kept in the dark with
respect to the plans of the boss and what
are known as ‘‘the country leaders’’ were
not let into the secret. But if 18 reasonably
vertain that PENNYPACKER, PENROSE,
ELKIN, and probably half a dozen others
were acquainted with the plansa month
ahead of the event. They knew that PEN-
NYPACKER wasn’t to be the candidate for
Justice of Supreme court, but that a man
less fit, if that is possible, was to be.
QUAY wants no reputable and indepen-
dent men in office and he can’t afford to
have his candidates in the lime-light of
public serutiny before they are nominated.
The proposition to nominate PENNYPACK-
ER justly aroused public indignation and
provoked popular protests. The sugges-
tion of JOHN P. ELKIN for the office
wonld bave been reprobated with equal
earnestness and emphasis. Because of that
QUAY compelled PENNYPACKER to con-
tinue in the attitade of a candidate until
it wonld he too late to formulate an
opposition to Elkin whom he intended to
nominate from the heginning. He believ-;
ed that after the nomination the party
whip would keep the voters in line, even
for so bad a candidate. :
It was a base conspiracy which intelli-
gent and conscientious men would prompt-
ly resent. The purpose of it, moreover,
was dastardly. It was to catapult into
the Supreme court a man who is conspic-
uously and notoriously unfit. Governor
HASTING'S dismissed him from a subordi-
nate office in his administration for being
concerned as accessory to a crime, so that
he is morally unfit to sit on the Supreme
court bench. During his term as Attor-
administration of
Governor STONE he made such absurd
decisions in several important cases as to
mark him as mentally unfit. Bat by this
conspiracy ‘of QUAY and PENNYPACKER
he stands to go upon the bench nnless an
aroused public conscience will defeat the
purpose.
Will Roosevelt Get Us
Into Ey
From the Pittsburg Dispatch. 2 .
Recent movements in the far east, on
the suggestion of Admiral Evans, approved
ty the Navy Department, seem to show a
concern by the American authorigies to get
nearer the seat of war and ready for some
kind of interference when it may be order-
ed from Washington, or on the impulse of
some naval officer commanding in some
distant quarter of the world. Early in the
Asiatic war the battle ships of the Asiatic
fleet were gathered near the Philippines,
on the idea that presence nearer the scene
of hostilities would be regarded as an un-
friendly move hy one or the other of the
belligerents. But this has been changed by
a bulletin from the Navy Department
authorizing the admiral to permit bis
squadron to cruise at discretion, in a more
northerly direction, that is, going nearer
the seat of war.
No purpose of intervention is declared
by our Government, but the diplomats at
Washington are reported much concerned
about it, apprehending that the United
States is disposing of its sea power for the
summer in such a way as to be available: if
needed to hack up any national policy.
In connection with possible trouble
for the United States the dispatches from
St. Petersburg tell of Russia’s fear of active
intervention apprehended by the probabili-
tes of China engaging in the war between
Japan and Russia. In this way the United
States may be drawn into a more active
part in the Russo-Japanese war than
bas hitherto been deemed probable. Rus-
sia’s determiuation to promptly act against
China should the Chinese surn in as the
ally of Japan is accepted abroad as an
assured fact. All the Americans have
been acting on the theory that their
interference is most improbable, and so it
has seemed to all Americans who have kept
close watch. But there is no telling what a
day may bring forth. Should China become
embroiled, and war follow between Russia
and China, the interests of the United
States, of England and even of France, may
become involved and the eastern war take
a different shape from; wbat bas ap-
peared as at all possible in the recent past.
Especially would this be the case should
Russia make short work with Chiva’s
threatened intervention. In such emer-
gency England © would make: more ;pro-
nounced: her alliance with Japan.
It is'not unlikely, certainly not an in
possibility, that the Russo-Japanese war
may involve other nations, as it has been
expected and predicted from the start. Tt
is certainly one thing the United States
sbould steer clear of, but it is to be kept in
mind that we have a verv unsafe man at
the head of the affairs in Washington.
Not Citizens but Calves.
Irom the Lancaster Intelligencer. :
That remarkable acrobat performance
‘by which the Governor - assigned to the
future, became the supreme judge of to-day
and the Governor of to-day, assigned to the
supreme bench continues Governor for yet
awhile, has aroused the amused and some-
times the excited comment of the journals,
all of whom see in it the vast versatility as
well as controlling power of the great mag-
ioian Quay who baslong been saying thumbs
up, but who has outdone himself in" this
case in the ‘‘Presto, ciange’’ business. We
sincerely truss that our Republican fellow
citizens are instructed, as well as entertain-
ed, by this magician style of their party
government, for we still have trust that
when they are sufficiently saturated with
appreciation of the fact that under it they
are not citizens, hut calves, they will try
to do something about it.
" ‘Spawls from the Keystone.
—The inter-collegiate debate, in which the
following colleges : State, Franklin and
Marshall, Swathmore and Dickinson partici-
pated-ended Friday night in a victory for
Franklin and Marshal, The latter first de-
feated’ State. On Friday night Dickinson
met F. and M. with the above result.
—George Hildman, of Montandon, 18
years old and six feet tall, who graduated
with honors from Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, last year, has been sent by the
Northumberland county court, tothe state
insane asylum at Danville. He had smoked
ten boxes of cigarettes per day, which with
overstudy unbalanced his mind.
—The third attempt was made Wednesday
night to burglarize the Evangelical parson-
age at DuBois. Hearing the noise at the
kitchen window, the pastor, Rev. A. J. Beal,
secured his revolver, as the robber was en-
tering the window the preacher fired two
shots at him. The midnight intruder fled,
but left a trail of blood behind. :
—A telegram from Harrisburg announces
that an order has been issued from the head-
quarters of the National Guard of Pennsyl-
vania, to the effect that the divisional en-
campment will be held at Gettysburg July
23-30. An order was also issued announeing
that the current season for rifle practice was
opened on April 1st, and will close on Octo-
ber 31st.
—The office of the Williamsport Nail and
Iron works was broken into at two different
times Tuesday evening. By the means of
two large wrenches the lock on the door to
the vault was broken and the papers and
contents of the different drawers were ran-
sacked. The robber then climaxed the af-
fair by setting fire to the papers in the vault.
The fire was extinguished by neighbors with
buckets of water. :
—Mrs. Edward Koons, of Hughesville,
while visiting her danghter in Jersey Shore,
placed a pin in ker mouth, and swallowed it
| ‘as she reached above her head for something.
Since that time Mrs. Koons has constantly
experienced a choking sensation and it is
believed the pin has punctured and lodged
in her windpipe. Physicians have thus far
been unable to remove the pin. Her condi-
tion is becoming alarming.
—Cornelins Cotter, of DuBois, is preparing
a framed exhibit that is novel and unique.
He will have his wholesale liquor license for
the nine years that he was in business ar-
ranged in chronological order and then end
with the sheriff’s sale notice which was post-
ed on his door, and which terminated in
ending him. The picture will be entitled
“A History of the liquor business, and will
have a place in the Y. M. C. A. rooms.
—@Grave fears are entertained by many of
the farmers and other residents along the
river between Lock Haven and Oak Grove
that the new bridge being built at that point
by the New York Central railroad, will be a
serious menace to the passing out of the ice
in the spring. The piers are so close togeth-
er that the ice is almost certain to gorge,
with the result that the= back water will
flood all the districts westwardly, including
the city. 5 ai
—The Pennsylvania railroad company will
convenient for use. Last year 60,000 locust
trees were planted, 13,000 near Conewago
and 17,000 at Newton Hamilton, on the Mid-
dle division. On the subject of timber and
providing for the large needs of the company
in this direction a special report has been
prepared. It will be submitted to the gener-
al manager at an early date.
—The Pennsylvania railroad company will
pay to its shopmen at Altoona this month the
sum of $612,000. It is the biggest pay in the
history of the company, exceeding previous
records by almost $50,000. The Juniata shop
employees received their pay on Saturday
and the other shops Monday. The big pay
is the result of the rush to get much needed
work out. In many of the departments the
men were compelled to work overtime and
in this way swelled their checks by many
dollars.
—Pierce Horr, a traveling salesman for a
pulley company in Wisconsin, developed a
ease of small-pox while stopping at a Wil-
liamsport hotel. He was locked in his room
until the sanitary hospital was made ready
for his reception in the afternoon. The room
was thoroughly fumigated, and every pre-
caution has been taken to prevent a spread
of the disease. Horr has been traveling in
the anthracite coal regions, where the dis-
ease is prevalent. The Williamsport people
were just congratulating themselves that the
city was free from small-pox. :
. —A peculiar damage case was placed on
trial at New Castle before Judge W. D. Wal-
lace. Councilman Robert H. Whaley, of that
place, wants the Citizen’s vational bank to
pay him $15,000 for alleged permanent in-
juries which he claims he received from an
electric shock while leaning against a brass
railing in front of the bank. The plaintiff
says that the employees of the bank would
touch a button whenever they saw any one
leaning on the brass fixtures and that the
sidewalk would be sprinkled in order to cie-
ate an effective current, : FI
-—The verdict of $8,000, which was some
months ago awarded Herman Fulmer, of
Jersey Shore, by the court of Lycoming
county, in his suit for damages against the
‘New York Central and Hudson river rail-
‘road company, was reversed by judge Dean,
‘of the Supreme court, sitting in Philadelphia
on Monday. Fulmer was a car repairer in
the company’s employ and while working
underneath a string of cars on the repair
track, other cars were pusbed in upon the
‘same track and as a result Fulmer had his
Jeft leg injured so badly that amputation
‘was necessary.
—The State Highway Department has put
in'a busy winter preparing for a still more
busy summer. Fifty-eight applications have
been received from twenty-seven different
counties and covering nearly 115 miles of
roads. Contracts have been signed or award-
ed for five different pieces of roads, bids are
being asked at the present time for five more
‘with the plansin course of preparation for
several more. Still the applications continue
to arrive, five having been received during
the past few days from Erie, Venango, Craw-
ford, Lycoming and Chester counties. None
of the supervisors in this section of the State
have as yet been moved by the spirit of prog-
ress to try and better the condition of bad
roads. If we once get a few samples of good
roads the demand for more would soon be
overwhelming.
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