1 of Bilan before long.
: ‘people talk about the weather
: itis not “hot air’ they give you,
ou ble. with Russia appears t0 be
too many of the WooD variety
7... tbaksheha
BE «ot Geverals:ab she head of her army.
> Don’t te foolish. If it is costing you
‘more money to live than you are making,
don’t stop living. Try making more mon-
ey fiest. >
_ —There are a lot of big men in the
Democratic party in New York, but as this
writing ‘DAVID B. Hin looks like the
head-liner. fl
—We are having the April showers all
‘right enongh,but woe betide the May flow-
er that has the hardihood to push its blush-
ing face to the wind.
p —There are indications that the Czar of
‘Russia will. deplete ‘his forces faster by
chopping the heads off bhiscommanders than
the Japs will do in battle.
_ —There is only the difference of one lit-
“tle letter in HILL and. hell, yet TAMMANY
wasn’t really ina position to discern any
difference at all in what it got at Albany
‘during the fore part of the week.
fre PliB ‘tefreshing. to. read the editorial
_ comments of the Williamsport Sun on the
status of ‘the Democratic party in Pennsyl-
_ _vania. The Sun seems to be so thoroughly
conversant with things ie knows nothing
‘wh tever about.
The Bellefonte. council has essayed to
do some very wonderful things, but will
le ‘please’ keep their eyes on this
the t plan to reduce the taxes and at the
ne Him e raise enough nioney to pay off a
Ce entire commerce of Korea amounts
ttt fifteen million. dollars a year, yet
Russia and Japan are spending almost that
‘amonnt every week they fight over it.
Here is ‘another ‘case of Philippine penny
vise andl pound foolishness.
i | Asa result. of most careful observation
aW scientist avn ounces that the
‘sun ob Df ing ‘its shape. ‘There has been
: a. feakivg » tor = time that Old Sol
is concerned, they wight just as well have
had their Prectivg at home and said noth-
ing to the rest about it. There would have
been just as much satislastion at the out-
come.
—The fact that the birth rate has de-
clined in London from 32.2 per thousand
in 1881 to 28.5 in 1902 is conclusive evi-
dence that children are no longer popular
with the English. This being so we are
constrained to inquire where JOAN BULL
expects to get his soldiers should another
PAaurL KRUGER appear on the horizon a
quarter of a century hence.
—Now tbat there are signs of the suc-
cessful culmination of the effort to giaft a
man's finger onto his face so that it will
do duty a8 a nose for him we rise to 1e-
mark that it is not such a wonderful opera-
tion, after all. There has ever heen a
marked affinity between the fingers and the
nose. In fact it seems absolutely impossi-
ble forsome people to keep their fingers
away fiom that organ and just look at
what an expressive combination the small
hoy has ever heen wont to make of his
wiggling five fingers and nose.
—It is questionable whether it was a
wise proposition for one of our local clergy-
men to promulgate from. his pulpit on a re-
cent Sunday evening, but hedid it and we
give it publicity. He said: ‘‘Looking the
world over and studying the life of hoth
classes I snbmit that there will be far more
women in Heaven than men.”” As an
‘ecclesiastical proposition it might be good,
but if this same gentleman of the cloth had
seen the actions of seme of the women in
the back pews of his church at the very
moment he was giving them a lead along
the path to Heaven he would have been
forced to acknowledge that there might be
a possibility of a good many women back-
ing out, if they should find that there are
not enough men there to go round.
—There is a new political nut for the
Republicans of Centre county to crack. It
has two kernels in it, too. Colonel REED-
ER and COLONEL chambers. Both of tbe
gentlemen bave announced as candidates
for county chairman; the former under an
arrangement with Judge LOVE that the
local organization shall remain as it has
been provided REEDER gives LOVE his un-
qualified support. The latter is tired be.
ing set aside and proposes to show the
bosses that a forty -seventh secretaryship on
the county committee ia entirely too in-
significant a position forsuch a distingnish-
ed COLONEL. Of course it must be
hamiliating to ‘men like chambers, who
gave LOVE their support when REEDER et
al was. fighting him. to the death, to be
turned down, but the Judge knows he van
make them eat out of his hand anytime he
wants to and it might be different with
REEDER.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 49
Work of the Convention.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania may just-
ly “‘point with pride’’ to the convention
which served ite purpose in Harrisburg on
Tuesday and the work of the State Central
committee the day following. A finer
convention never was held anywhere. It
was a gathering of the unbossed and un-
bought yeomanry of the State. They came
together in obedience to a self-imposed but
sacred obligation to fulfill their civic duties
and they discharged every duty as they
understood it. There were no dissensions,
no violent eruptions, no criminations. But
the harmony was not that which character-
izes the relations of master and servant. It
was the fruit of mutual confidence and
common interest.
It was said by those present that never
before has there been in this State, at
least, so haimonious a political convention,
where each unit in the body bad nnbridled
license to express an independent opinion.
Republican conventions have been more
obedient to the mandates of the bosses be-
cause a note of dissension means ostracism
from the political councile of the party.
Bat there were no such restraining infla-
ences at- work in the Democratic conven-
tion of Tuesday. In that body every dele-
gate felt that he was a sovereign with the
full right of free speech and action.
But the patriotic impulses which move
just men to a common purpose guided the
Democrats in convention toa harmonious
session.
Ot the work of the convention little need
be said, for it will commend itself to the
favor of though tful people. .In another
article we have attempted an analysis of
the platform adopted. As to the candidate
for the only office to be filled we need go
no farther than to quote the language of
Governor PENNYPACKER in justifying his
appointment. He represents the highest
standard of fitness. He is not only an ac-
complished lawyer with ripe judicial ex-
perience and legal learning, but in personal
character he is a model of excellence. We
may well revert with satisfaction to the
| work of the convention.
Treasurer Harris Falls.
—
well doing?’ or else be has been called off.
At any rate, he.proposes to let the end of
his term expire without completing the only
real meritorious service he undertook since
he entered upon the duties of his office. To
be exact he has determined to let drop his
purpose of putting to the test the constitu-
tionality of the judicial salary bill enacted
during the last session of the Legislature
which considerably increased the salaries
such a thing is specifically forbidden by the
fundamental law of the State.
State Treasurer HARRIS declares that he
is still convinced that the law in question is
invalid. That being true, his failure to con-
tinue the resistance to its operation is plain-
ly a misfeasance. He is sworn to ‘‘sup-
pott, obey and defend the conssitution.’’
That instrament in the plainest terms for-
bids the increase or decrease in the compen-
sation or emoluments of any public official
during the term for which he was elected.
But the law which Treasurer HARRIS pro-
poses now to let take its course increases
the salaries of public officials and in yield-
iug before the last expedient of resistance
has been exhausted is not defending the
constitution.
The machine selécted the judges to sit on
the question of the validity of the-law be-
cause it was understood tbat if they knew
the law they would conceal the knowledge
in the interest of politics. Judge VON
MOSCHISKER is one of the newly created
Philadelphia machine judges and Judge
BELL, of Blair county, already stands
charged with thé commission of offences
against the Taw“ which are not com-
patible with the dignity of the position
he holds. But hecauase such judges have de:
cided adversely to his contention in the
lower court he declines to carry it to a
higher tribunal. It looks as if HARRIS had
teen called off.
——The Centre Hall Reporter complains
that the telephone service in Penns valley
ounce extended by the local Commercial
company is being more and more restrict.
ed by the United Telephone and Telegraph
Co.., by which the Commercial was ab-
sorbed, sume time ago. Exactly so. What
else could (have been expected? As long
as an undertaking is weak and stroggling
it bows and bends, aud struggles to please
everyone. Bot Jet it get strong enough
to stand on its own legs and it will al-
ways have a leg not inuse with which to
kick the very people who helped it to get
any legs at all. The trouble with the
American people today is that they are
entirely too tender hearted and philan-
thropic with such infants. It must always
be borne in mind that their nuises are nob
taking the job of raising them for love or
matters of public benefit. The almighty
dollar is behind it every. time.
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State Treasurer HARRIS has ‘‘wearied of
of judges in commission, notwithstanding
A Shabby False Pretense.
General GROSVENOR, of Ohio, imposed a
rather shabby false pretense on the House
of Representatives the other day. That is
to say under the rule which permits Repre-
sentatives in Congress to print undelivered
speeches in the Congressional Record by
unanimous consent, he got in an autobiog-
raphy of the President. GROSVENOR
doesn’t usually ask ‘‘leave to print,”
which made it easier for him to practice
the deception, for every Member assumed
at once that any speech which he offered
as his, was his own. But as a matter of
fact the speech in question wasn’t his own.
To be accurate it wasn’t aspeech at all,but
a history of the life of the President, writ-
ten by Mr. ROOSEVELT himself, and now
fraudulently in the Congressional Record.
After this incident it is easy to imagine
that the President bas had the expenses of
his luxurious special trains used in juukets
charged up to the account of sransporta-
tion of the mails in the Postoffice Depart-
ment, for this is a petty and contemptible
swindle. It is customary during presi-
dential campaigns for the party committee
to issue biographies of the candidate. It is
practically an essential necessity of a con-
test and costs little ontside of the postage
which amounts to a good deal.
getting the biography into the Congres-
sional Directory it is made eligible for
transmission through the mails without
cost under a congressional frank so that
the Republican committee will save the
expense of postage by General GROSVENOR’S
trick.
We would not have been surprised ab
any sort of sharp practice on the part of
General GROSVENOR, for on two or three
occasions he has been charged with such
things in connection with fake ency-
clopedias and other bogus contributions to
literature. But we acknowledge a consid-
erable measure of surprise to learn that
the President would lend himself to such a
petty fraud in order to save expenses of the
campaign committee of his party.
probably knows that there will be no reai
scarcity of such funds in the committee,
for Mr. CARNEGIE has pledged a half mil-
lion dollars and ROCKEFELLER will be
equally liberal.
‘will be a good many votes to buy and he
wants to foster the fand for that purpose
as much as possible.
——The street track for wagon roads |
that is being seriomsly discussed in some
western States would not suit in most seo-
tions of Pennsylvania, where steep hills
would make it impossible fora team of
horses to hold back a heavy wagon in a de-
scent. © , :
‘fhe Democratic Platform
Seldom in the history of the politics of
this State bas a convention declared so
wisely on the fundamental questions in
issue between the parties as did that which
assembled at Harrisburg on Tuesday. It
has been said derigively that the Demo-
cratic party has no issues this year. No
intelligent observer of evenis will read the
platform adopted on Tuesday and continue
in that belief. As a matter of fact because
the issues are so numerous, for the reason
that the causes of complaint against the
dominant party are so abundant, the plat-
form was necessarily drawn oat to unusual
length, but it is neither diffusive nor
ambiguous. ‘
At the outset the platform ‘reprobate:
the attempt to dishonor and discredit the
Supreme court of the State, as revealed in
the catapulting of a politician into; that
tribunal. The scheme to transfer Gov-
ernor PENNYPACKER from the office he
now occupies to one of longer tenure and
more generous emolument having failed,
the machine has adopted an équally baz-
ardous experiment by putting a discredit.
ed politician without judicial experience
or established reputation for legal learning
in the position. In resentment ‘of that
audacious and dangerous scheme the con-
vention declared that the Republican party
‘makes the highest judgship a mere per-
quisite of a corrupt machine.”
The platform covers ‘with equal direct:
ness and intelligence every phase of the
existing political conditions. It demands
in unmistakable langnage ‘‘decent ballot
legislation=’’ It charges that the bronco
busting President is a ‘‘standing menace
to constitutional government. It declares
that the Democratic party stands for the
principles expressed by JEFFERSON, ac-
cepted by JACKSON and supported by TIL-
DEN. In fact it is an ideal presentation of
the political issues of the present and such
a declaration of principles as may be sup-
ported with zeal and energy by every lover
of good government.
——The, Republicans of the county are
going, to old their primaries on Jane 11th
and the county convention on June 14th.
This is a little earlier than usual but they
‘want to give Judge LOVE more opportuni-
| ty, after he becomes the nominee, in which
to explain a lot of things to the outraged
citizens of Centre copnty.
But by:
ie!
But he knows that there.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 22, 1904.
NO. 186.
Who Will Get New York?
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that
Judge ALTON B. PARKER, will be made
the Democratic nominee for President by
the St. Lonis convention, public attention
and political speenlation naturally turns to
the probable out-come of a contest between
"PARKER and ROOSEVELT in New York,
which is regarded as one of the three
pivotal States in presidential elections.
Looking at the situation from the view
point of a statistician who writes for the
Pittsburg Post it is about as follows: ‘‘In
1898 a change of 20,000 votes in certain
States would have defeated Mr. McKIN-
LEY. The last Democratic success in a
State contest in New York was in 1897,
when Judge PARKER was elected chief |.
justice by a majority of 60,889, following
the presidential election of 1896, when
Major McKINLEY scored the phenomenal
lead of 266,469. In the three gubernatorial
elections since 1897—+that is in 1898, in
1900 and 1902, the Republican majority
fell off largely from the presidential vote
of 1896. At the last. election in 1902 .po-
litical parties resumed their normal condi-
tions, and Governor ODELL had a plurality
of only 8,803, winning by a scratch and
disaffection as to the Democratic candidate
for Governor.
New Yorkat the presidential election
this fall will poll not less than a million
and a half of votes, with an excess of votes
in the municipal divisions of the State.
The Greater New York alone at the may-
oralty election in 1903 polled nearly 300.-
000 votes, with a Democratic majority for
McClellan of 62,706. The Democratic hope
and expectation of carrying New York this
fall therefore rests on a solid basis of ascer-
tained facts in late election results. Re-
publican admissions and the general tenor
of political and personal drift in the mat-
ter of probable candidates—supposing them
to be ROOSEVELT and PARKER—afford
strong ground for hopeful Democratic ex-
pectations.”’
—Senators QUAY and PENROSE are blam-
ad for the loss of a thirty-five foot channel
in the Delaware. They will not be blamed
for the lose of whatever majorities they
may demand from subservient Philadel-
phia, however.
“w——At a meeting of the directors of the
Y. M. C. A. held on Tuesday evening the
matter of letting the contract for the first
improvements to the property was con-
sidered. A number of bids were received
and opened and upou motion it was de-
cided to turn the awarding of the contract
over to the building committee for final
consideration; with power to place it to
the best advantage. The improvements
contemplated ai this time include the erec-
tion and equipment of the new gymnasium
and the remodeling of the interior of the
old building, but no changes to the front
elevation or to the office property lately
vacated by Blanchard & Blanchard. The
fall plans carry a three-story front with a
store room or suites of offices on the site
now occupied by the small office building.
| Samuel Gault, of this place, and the Hoff-
man Bros., of Williamsport. were the low-
est bidders, there being only a few dollars
between them. The contract has not been
awarded.
——While hoth of the gentlemen who
will represent this congressional district in
the National Democratic convention are
entirely worthy of the honor and capable
of making dignified delegates it is not to
the credit of Clearfield county that she in-
sisted. on baving both of them. = It is neith-
er good politics, nor fair play to be a
piggish simply because you can. And the
day may come when ‘Clearfield will regres
its avariciousness in taking both represen-
tatives for this district. Fartbermore, it
can be added with truthfulness, that many
of the votes that were recorded in the
Democratic column in Clearfield - county
last fall, and ‘upon wliich the apportion-
ment of delegates was made, were secured
though influence and work that emanated
from Centre county.
. ——The design for the soldier’s mona-
ment and Cartin memorial has been select-
ed and the work of construction will be
begun just as soon as the artist makes a few
desired changes. The design of the Van
Amringe Granite Co., of Waverly, Mass.,
was selected over that of the Smith Granite
Co. - It is to cost about $35,000 when com-
pleted and will occupy a position just back
of where the angel fountain now stands in
front of the court house. Gov. Penny-
packer, Gen. Beaver or Senator Patton
were not present at the ineeting of the
committee when the design was selected.
——The Philipsburg Journal states that
James Laws succeeded in pulling out fifty-
nine trout on Friday, the opening day of
the season. We wonder if James and the
Journal know that it is against the law'to
take more that filty trout in one day.
——Former sheriff Cyrus T. BRUN-
GART, of Centre Hall; was sergeant-at-
arms of the Democratic State convention
at Harrisburg on Tuesday.
SE
Pennsylvania Democrats Send Dele-
gates Bound by Unit Rule.
Convention at Harrisburg. The Slate as Prepared
in Advance Went Through Without any Fric-
tion.
HARRISBURG, April 19.—The Demo-
cratic state convention, which was held |-
here to-day, refused to instruct the national
delegates from Pennsylvania to vote for
the nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker,
of New York, for President. The delegates
will go to St. Louis uninstructed and will
be bound by the unit rule.
An attempt was made at the meeting of
the resolution committee of the convention
to amend the platform by substituting for
the unit rule plank a resolution instruct-
ing the delegates for Judge Parker. It
failed and the platform as adopted by the
committee was ubanimously adopted by
the convention.
Justice Samuel Gustine Thompson, of
Philadelphia, was nominated by acclama-
tion for Supreme court justice to succeed | -
himself for the fall term twenty-one
years. He is at present a member of the
Supreme court by appointment of Governor
Pennypacker and his commision expires
next January.
The national delegates’ ‘and electors
chosen by the delegates from the Fifteenth
and Twenty-second districts are contested.
The contests were referred to a committee
to be appointed by Chairman Hall.
The following were unanimously elected
Scleqatesat large to the national’ conven-
‘tion
James M. Goffey, Pittsburg; J. K. P.
Hall, Ridgway; Robert E. Pattison, Phila-
delphia, and Robert E.. Wright, Allentown.
John 8. Rilling, Erie; E. M. Herbst,
Reading George McGowan, Philadelphia,
and J. Davis Broadhead, South Bethlehem,
were elected alternates- at-large.
The following were ' elected Selegdtes
from the Twenty-first district :
W.- E. Wallace, James Kerr.
After the adoption of a resolution. that
Chairman Hall be directed to appoint a
committee of five to formally notify. justice
Thompson of his nomination the conven-
tion adjourned.
Mr. Hall Re-elected.
Elk County Senator Chosen by Acclamation to Lead
the State Democrats. Secretary Meek is Re-ap-
pointed.
A four-minute session was held Wednes-
day afternoon by the State Democratic
committee and State Chairman Hall wads
re-elected by unanimous vete. The roll
call was dispensed with, as a quorum was
present, although Dauphin county bad no
representation, Robert Stucker appearing
| after the meeting had adjourned
‘Senator J. K. P. Hall was nominated for
chairman by ex-Congresems
Davenport, of Wi ori
served with Mr. Hall in Congress and that
it gave him much pleasure to nominate
him. “A’'motion to elect Mr. Hall “by ac-
clamation was: adopted with enthusiasm.
Mr. Hall said . in accepting. that the
Democratic party in Penusylvania is better
organized now than it has been for fifteen
years and that it’ will give a good account
of itself at the next election. His desire
was not to continue at the head of the com-
mittee, owing to his business interests, but
at the request of the party leaders Le con-
sented to serve for another year. Mr. Hall
announced the reappointment of - ex-Sena-
tor P. Gray Meek, of Bellefonte, as secre-
tary.
The following | were elected division
chairmen, making up the State Executive
committee : First, John E. Walter, Leb-
anon ; second, E, S. Doty, Bedford ;. third,
John" B. Keenan, Greenshu fourth,
Wm. H. Knuebe, Erie ; fifth, 2 L. Spang
ler, Bellefonte ; sixth, H. E. Spyker, Lew-
isburg ; seventh, William T. Creasy, Cata-
wissa ; ; eighth, John F. Ancona, Reading
ninth, Charles P. Donnelly, Philadelphis
The only changes among the division
chairmen is in the First district, of which
Dauphin is a part, where Mr. Walter suc-
ceeds T. Z. Minebart, of Chambersburg,
aud in she fifth, where Mr. Spangler takes
the place of Daniel J. Driscoll, of Ridg-
way.
The executive committee will meet in
May, and Dauphin county’s Democratic
affairs will be reviewed.
The Czar of Pennsylvania.
From the Bedford Gazette.
The Pittsburg Times, a stalwart Republi-
can paper, in discussing the supreme court
deal, speaks ‘right out in meetin’.” as
follows : ‘‘Mr. Quay sprang his surprise
without consulting even so close a lien-
tenant as Senator Penrose. Penrose is
wrathful, Lieutenant Governor Brown is
disgusted, Mr. Elkin is more chagrined
than pleased, State ‘Treasurer Harris is on
the warpath, and all up and down the State
| there is a feeling of irritation over this
mostsurprising demonstration of absolutism
in party management. With Senator Quay
so unquestioned in authority and secretive
in method, it is idle to speculate upon the
future of Republican politics in Pennsyl-
vania.”’
Like Bangquo’s Ghost.
From the Clearfield Republicaa.
Judge Love of Centre did not strengthen
himself before the people of his county hy
granting over a half dozen liquor licenses
along the Moshannon. They will all come
back to haunt him in November. The
fellows who have those licenses will not he
worth much to him, Hen it comes to get-
ting votes. i
iY I —————— a ln,
Jail ut Sunbury Closed.
SUNBURY, April 18. —At a meeting of
the county commissioners bere today, ib
was decided to ciose the doors of the coun-
ty jail to all prisoners, except those charg-
ed with felony. Visitors are also barred.
This action was taken to prevent the spread
of smallpox, which is now epidemic in
some sections of the county. ' The April
and May sessions of court were) pastponed
indefinitely by Judge Savidge.. .
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anim mala
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Mrs. Harriet Hunter, of Milton, cele-
brated her 104th birthday anniversary the
other day, and is remarkably well presefved
for her age.
: “' “Rafting logs out of the boom at Williams-
‘| port began Monday. There are about 25,
000,000 feet of logs now in the boom. The
Brown, Clark & Howe saw mill commenced
operations Tuesday
. —Richard Vanderpool died at the Brad-
ford county almshouse on Tuesday at the
extreme age of 105 years. Eleven years be-
fore his death he sustained a paralytic
stroke, which left him bent and feeble, but
from which Le had partially recovered.
- —Guiseppi Ricco, an Italian employed on
a Philadelphia and Reading work train, was
struck and killed by No. 5 east bound pas-
senger train below Williamsport Tuesday
afternoon. His body was hurled some dis-
tance from the track and death resulted al-
most instantly.
—Mrs. Ella Carothers, who became afflict-
ed with small-pox at Tyrone several days
ago, and was subsequently removed to the
contagious disease hospital at the county
home at Hollidaysburg, died at the latter in-
stitution Thursday night. Interment was
made in the Carson valley cemetery.
, —As Scott Miller was walking through an
alley in Lewistown, he tripped and fell,
fracturing his right leg in three places.
Miller crawled on his hands and knees for
almost a block to a carpenter shop, where he
had the fractures reduced and was able to
walk immediately afterward. The leg was
a wooden one.
- —The state insurance department at Har-
risburg is sending out a list of fire insurance
companies said to be illegal in business in
this State. The companies are either bank-
rupt or have not been properly registered.
An agent representing any of the fraudulent
concerns is liable to a fine of from $100 to $1,-
000.
-. —The Clearfield Young Men’s Christian
Association moved last week into its new
$18,000 home, formerly the Weaver home-
stead, which is to be "extensively remodeled
and enlarged this summer. The Association
is only a year old and has made remarkable
progress, the membership being close to the
200 mark.
—A 12-year-old boy named Justin was
killed near Towanda, on the Williamsport
and North Branch railroad, the other day.
A companion dared him to run. across the
track in front of an approaching passenger
train, ‘and in doing so he was caught and
terribly mangled. He died shortly after
reaching the Sayre hospital.
—The new Eagle brick works near Lock
Haven were practically put in operation yes-
terday. The grinding pans were started
yesterday and the making of brick com-
mences to-day. The kilns have not yet all
been erected, but when the plant is fully
completed it will have a capacity of from
60,000 to 65,000 brick per day.
One day last week a Frenchman Lequeux
died at Hawk Run, Clearfield county, after
requesting that no minister nor priest should
conduct a service and decreeing that the vil-
lage band should furnish ‘the Procession to
the cemetery with lively music. When near-
ing the grave the. band started to play
“Nearer My God to Thee,” whereupon a
brother of the dead man called a ‘halt and a
lively march was substituted.
' —Unable to swim and ‘precipitated. from a
boat into twelve feet of water, three Italian
employees of the Campbell brick company at
Coopersdale, a suburb of Johnstown, were
drowned in the Conemaugh river last Satnr-
day evening shortly after 5 o’clock. Three
other men narrowly escaped the same fate.
They were returning from their work and
undertook to cross the river because it gave
them a short route to their homes.
—John, Baker, of Johnstown, formerly of
Hollidaysburg and who is well-known in
Johnstown, has accepted an engagement at
Atlantic City with ‘The Johnstown Flood’’
amusement company. He will enact the
role of alarming the residents of the dam dis-
trict by announcing from horseback the
breaking of the huge reservoir. Mr. Baker
is known as the ‘Paul Revere” of the Cone-
maugh valley. In 1889 he enacted the same
role and saved hundreds of lives.
—The New York Central shops at Oak
Grove, which have been in fall operation on
Sundays for the past two months, did not
work last Sunday. The shut down was or-
dered so that necessary repairs could be
made upon the boilers in the boiler house.
The large amount of work which caused the
Sunday operations iz practically accomplish-
ed and it is not probable that the shops will
work as long or as many hands on Sunday
hereafter.
—A fatal and costly wreck occurred Suun-
day at a point a few miles north of Cler-
mont, near St. Mary’s. Jesse Brown, the
fireman, was instantly killed, and Frank
Krause, the engineer, had his back and both
legs broken. He will die. Both lived at
St. Mary’s. Twenty-two cars and the loco-
motive were badly demolished. The train
got beyond control on a steep grade and left
the rails at a curve. The roadbed was badly
torn up and all traffic was blocked for 14
hours >
—A compound engine of extremely high
speed and power, built for the Pennsylvania
railroad for the purpose of exhibiting at the
World’s fair, by a firm in France, has reach-
ed Altoona. It was shipped in sections, six
large flat cars being required to convey it'to
New York. Itis being put together at the
Juniata shops and will be ready for operation
and shipment at St. Louis in about ten days.
The length of the engine is 71 feet. It is
painted red and black and wiil be changed
to the company’s standard color. A feature
is that there is no pilot attached. E
—Max Fridman, a Barnesboro clothier, re-
cently received a letter from a former resi-
dent of Barnesboro, enclosing $1.50 in pay-
ment for two pairs of gloves stolen from Mr.
Fridman four years ago. The writer of the
letter said he had recently been converted
and wished to make restitution. This was a
case of genuine conversion, A professing
christian whe contracts debts that he knows
he will not be able to pay, or has no inten-
tion of paying, or neglects to, though his in-
tentions were good enough when the pur-
chases were made,is an injury to his church,
no matter how loud his prayers or how active
heis in church Work: