BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—
Ink Slings.
—~STED
—The world’s fair at St. Louis sbould
be kept closed on Sunday.
—It Russia keeps on retreating she will
soon have the Japs lured clear over into
Europe.
—The Delaware peach crop has bzen
heard from and: if reports be true it has
died in infancy.
—With former Governor PATTISON, of
"Pennsylvania, running as a dark horse, it
wight be a long shot, after all, that will
win in the next presidential race.
—What more laudable ambition could
the Pennsylvania Democracy have than to
do at St. Louis ‘‘that which, in their wis-
dow, seems best for the party and the
country ?”’
— Just to keep the pot boiling there is a
revolution on hand in Hayti. Let us see
if the President jumps to the recognition
of another band of usurpers as speedily as
he did in Panama.
—St. Louis hotels will require guests to
d ouble-up]} during the continuance of the
fair. ‘This does not necessarily mean that
the diet will be principally green apples,
cucumbers and watermelon.
—Certain it is that when names were
selected for those towns in Manchuria and
Korea that are just now occupying the top-
notch of notoriety in the war news columns
there was no partiality shown for any par-
ticular letters of the alphabet.
—The first explanation of the stupendous
scale on which the Panama canal is to pro-
gress is made in the announcement that
Mr. WALLACE, of Chicago, is to be the
general superintendent at a salary of
twenty-five thousand dollars a year.
— JouN D. ROCKEFELLER, the Standard
oil octopus, says that when he was a boy
he could milk a cow. He didn’t say,
however, that as he has grown older he
has learned to milk bulls and bears and
ev erything else that he can get his digits
to encircling.
— Russia having cabled for twenty-thou-
sand square feet of exhibit space at the St.
Louis exposition the public is naturally
filled with wonderment as to whether it is
her army or her navy or both that she
wants to stow away beyond the reach of
the Japs.
—The receipts from customs having
fallen off $21,000,000 dnring the fiscal
year just closed and those from internal
revenue having made an increase of only
$3, 000,000 during the same period we
might find ourselves reduced to the ex-
tr eme of borrowing money for our expen-
sive President. ’ -
--Philadelphia has decided to permit
the Liberty Bell to be removed to St.
Louis for the exposition in that city. Inas-
much as $15,000 have been appropriated to
pay the transportation of the historic old
bell there will be margin enough to pro-
vide spirits even more exbilerating than
those of '76.
—Now that the real big political boss
LovE has made DALE, QUIGLEY and
chambers all get out of the road for REED-
ER, let us see whether he will force DALEY
and DALE out of the legislative race to
make the running smooth for WOMELS-
DORF and KNISELY. The latter are in with
the machine and the machine is LOVE and
LOVE is going to run it to make his own
path way as easy as possible.
—The Atlanta Constitution is filled with
concern as to who will keep the buttons
sewed on for the summer girl of 1904 who,
Dame Fashion decrees, must wear suspend-
ers. The Constitution ought to be old
enough to know that a girl has no use for
buttons, unless they be brass ones on a
sold ier’s coal. Pins and strings do all the
work for her that man accomplishes with
buttons and nails.
— Again you are wrong, Col. BAILEY, of
the Johnstown Democrat, the Democrats of
this country never made a platform that
they invited Mr. BRYAN to occupy. He
was the builder of both the platforms on
which he stood and if our memory serves
us right he refused to ocoupy the second
one at all, unless it was built just to his
liking. We are not opposed to Mr. BRYAN,
but we do insist that he bas no right to be
calling the kettle black as long as the pot
is taking on soot as rapidly as it is.
—The Reading preacher who made him-
self more or less conspicuous in a hunt for
an ideal wife has announced that his search
is o’er, He found the kind he was looking
for in Newark, N. J., and strange as it
may seem none of the many requirements
that he bad set up for her to fulfill em-
braced the one that a would-be Bellefonte
benedict prescribed in his advertisement
for a wife. He wanted one that was ‘well
built,”” while the Reading preacher thought
of everything else than her physical
structure.
—The Pittsburg Dispatch says that a
woman clad only in a night robe chased a
robber across the Smithfield street bridge
in that city at twelve-thirty Wednesday
morning and when a policeman had arrest-
ed the man for her she went to the station
house, where she left a forfeit for her ap-
pearance against him in the morning. In-
asmuch as the Dispatch seems sure that all
she had on was a night robe we are led to
wonder at what forfeit she could have left,
unless it was that precious bit of lingerie,
itself. How shocking.
VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 13, 1904.
Mr. Palmer’s Pretense.
The Hon. HENRY W. PALMER, Repre-
sentative in Congress for the Luzerne coun-
ty district of this State, in announcing his
candidacy for renomination makes a very
significant and rather startling statement.
He says that he ‘‘will neither buy the
nomination nor bargain for it.’’ He re-
affirms the principles of politics which he
uttered when he first became a candidate
for the place, which as we recollect the
matter was that he would adhere to party
tenets of the earlier and better days of the
organization and would reserve the right to
independence in thought and action under
the direction of conscience. His neighbors
who knew him better than he knew him-
self, however, weren’t frightened by that
declaration. They knew he would be “‘all
right’’ and elected him.
That they were not mistaken in their
estimate has been substantially proved by
his record in the House. He has been the
ready and usually an adroit supporter of
every partisan iniquity that political ex-
igencies have forced into consideration.
When the CONNELL-POWELL contest was
before the House he was particularly rank
in his partisanship and censured Represen-
tative SHIRAS, of Pittsburg, because that
gentleman, influenced by conscience, pro-
tested against the outrage of giving CoN-
NELL a seat to which he was not elected.
Mr. SHIRAS is a Republican but he couldn’t
stomach that iniquity and because of that
fact HENRY W. PALMER held him up to
ridicule as a sentimentalist rather than as
a partisan which political interests requir-
ed him to be at that time.
But a change appears to have come over
the spirit of Mr. PALMER'S dreams. In
his announcement of his candidacy made
public the other day he says “‘hribery in
elections offends against good morals and
good citizenship and unless checked will
one day ruin the Republic.”” He never
uttered a truer statement and probably
never spoke more insincerely, though in-
sincerity is one of his conspicuous char-
acteristics. He probably is unwilling to
buy votes besause though well-off he is
somewhat ‘‘near’’ and he made his state-
ment, likely, because he hoped it would
serve the same purpose as buying votes and
come much cheaper. Mr. PALMER knows
that his party has been kept in power for a
dozen years by bribery in elections and yet
he acquiesces in, the result every time.
Roosevelt's Wants and Plans.
The President has indicated to a few
friends what kind of a platform he wants
the coming convention to promulgate and
it may be said that his statement of the
matter is peculiarly ROOSEVELTIAN. That
is to say Mr. ROOSEVELT is characteristical-
ly pbarisaical in describing the sort of a
code of principles which he would have the
convention declare. As a matter of fact he
wants votes and he doesn’t care a tinker’s
‘‘cuss-word’’ how he gets them. If itis
necessary to stuff every ballot box in the
country in order to guarantee his sucoess
he would promptly recommend the opera-
tion and gladly contribute all the patron-
age at his command toward compensation
for the work. Since the beginuing of the
government there has been no man ina
really distinguished public office so abso-
lutely regardless of moral obligations.
But with a hypocritical pretense of vir-
tue the President announces that he de-
mands at the hands of his party a platform
which will represent the highest virtues in
government. Besides that he ostentatious-
ly adds that the platform must be ‘‘in-
cisive, decisive, concise and precise.”” In
other words he wonld have it candid and
honest in the expression of the purposes of
the party. In that event it would be nec-
essary to condemn the iniquities of the
past. The bargain with the Mormon
church to give a seat in the United States
Senate to the polygamists of Utah, entered
into four years ago and substantially re-
newed recently in the postponement of the
expulsion of REED SMooT, would have to
be denounced in unequivocal terms and
the other shady transactions including the
Postoffice Department frauds would nec-
essarily be acknowledged.
Everybody who knows anything knows
that ROOSEVELT doesn’t want anything of
that kind. Every intelligent man in the
country understands that ROOSEVELT pre-
vented an investigation of the Postoffice
Department by corrupt methods in order
to conceal the frauds and the suspicion is
equally universal that the reason he pre-
vented the investigation was because he
knew it would show the expenses of his
luxurious trips of last year were frandulent-
ly, and with his consents, charged up to the
account of the transportation of mails.
ROOSEVELT wants candor at this time just
as WM. M. TWEED wanted it when SAM-
UEL J. TILDEN was pressing that arch
rogue toward a prison cell and his false
pretense and flamboyant hypocrisy fools
nobody with enough brains to protect him-
self from a bunco steerer. or a dealer in
‘‘green goods.’
Quay’s Vast Ambitions.
Senator QUAY may be a very sick man,
as the Washington dispatches indicate, but
he is not a man without ambition, accord-
ing to a Harrisburg dispatch in the Phila-
delphia Ledger of Monday morning. The
old man is very much in public life, if the
statements of that correspondent are to be
believed. He is suffering intensely with
‘“‘cirrhosis of the liver’”” which is both a
painful and dangerous malady. But he
has his eyes on the main chance, neverthe-
less, and not only proposes to go up higher
himself, but to fill the vacancy which the
upward movement will cause by first the
appointment and subsequently the election
of his son RICHARD.
The biographer of QUAY may not be as
devoted to his subject as BOSWELL was to
JOHNSON but he is certainly partial in his
estimate of the capabilities and possibilities
of the old man. He frankly tells us of the
plane of the Senator which are, considering
his health, surprisingly ambitions. He will
be re-elected to the United States Senate
next February, he states, though why that
won’ be achieved in January. considering
the unanimity which he assures us, pre-
vails, is left to conjecture. But after he is
elected this biographer assures us that he
will resign, dramatically, name his own
successor and then step ‘‘into the cabinet
of President ROOSEVELT as Secretary of
State to succeed Mr. Hav.”
We are really somewhat surprised at
some of the statements of Mr. QUAY'S
biographer and inclined to think that after
all he may be only a ‘“‘space-writer’”” who
has imposed on our esteemed contemporary.
As a matter of fact we have not been in-
clined to agree with the common estimates
which invest the Senator with something
like, superhuman powers and make all
things possible to him. That he is a
shrewd manipulator in polities is true be-
yond question. But he is hardly able to
do anything that his fancy suggests a:d
we believe that if he undertakes to cati-
pult his son RICHARD into his senatorial
seat he will provoke an opposition too
p otential to be overcome.
¢Bertie’’ Adam’s Ignorant Blunder
The Hon. ‘‘BERTIE’? ADAMS, easily the
most talented Representative in Congress
for Philadelphia, made a characteristic
‘*break’’ during the closing hours of the
session of Congress which has just drawn
to a close. Representative JOHN SHARPE
WILLIAMS, of Mississippi, was at the time
addressing the House and took JOHN DAL-
ZELL to task for the spirit of know noth-
ingism expressed in his reference previous-
ly to BoURKE COCHRAN’S foreign birth.
‘The gentleman from Penpsylvania’’ he
observed, ‘‘who made his eloquent perora-
tion tirade last week against foreign born
hoodlume, does not live far from the field
of Gettysburg. Daring the last war the
Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania, ‘Owens Own’ as
it was called, was in evidence in defend-
ing Pennsylvania soil.”’
This aroused the Hon. ‘‘BERTIE.”’
“Will the gentleman permit me?” he
simpered. ‘‘Certainly,’’ replied Mr. WiL-
LIAMS. ‘‘Only for a correction.” added
the Hon. ‘‘BERTIE.” ‘‘That was the
Sixty-ninth New York regiment,” said
‘““BERTIE"’ in conclusion and with a self-
satisfied air. ‘It is quoted in this book
*‘the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania,’’ “‘Owen’s
Own,’’ responded Mr. WILLIAMS, “and I
expect this Federal officer knew what he
was talking about,’’ whereupon the Demo-
crasio side of the House properly broke out
in uproarious applause.
Of course the Hon. ‘‘BERTIE’’ was speak-
ing in ignorance and made an egregious ass
of himself. The regiment which perform-
ed such distinguished service at Gettys-
burg was the Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania, a
Philadelphia organization, and probably a
considerable portion of it were residents be-
fore their enlistment in the Congress die-
trict now misrepresented by the Hon.
“BERTIE.”” But what difference is it
whether those heroic Irishmen who offered
their lives for the preservation of the
Union lived in one State or another? The
contemptible Know Nothingism expressed
by JOHN DALZELL was an insult to the
memory of them in any event and the
Hon. ‘‘BERTIE'S’’ effort to rob his own
State of the distinction which those Irish
heroes conferred on it was characteristic
of him and his party.
——Aud now A. A. DALE Esq., has an-
nounced for the Legislature, that is to say
he bas joined forces with Col. JOHN A.
DALEY in an effort to see whether the Re-
publican party in Centre county has any
use for its old wheel horses who were help-
ing it fight its fights and bearing its bar-
dens long before either WOMELSDORF or
KNISELY were heard of.
——The Republican announces JOHN G.
LovE, of Bellefonte, as a candidate for
President Judge of this district. Let us
see—where have we heard that name be-
fore? Oh yes, he is the man HARRY WASH-
BURN is booming.
Tariff Taxes and Prices.
Tabor commissioner CARROLL D.
WRIGHT has issued a bulletin compar-
ing the present prices of necessities with
those of the past thirteen years. He in-
cludes in his list of articles food-stuffs,
clothing, manufactured products and what
he calls ‘‘raw commodities'’ which include
beans, eggs, milk, rice etc. In food arti-
cles the increase in price during the year
1903 amounted to something like fifty per
cent. In clothing the inorease is twenty
per cent. Manufactured products are
higher by twenty-one and a-half per cent.,
and the raw commodities have increased in
price a matter of thirty-three per cent. In
metals, which of course includes farm im-
plements the increase is thirty per cent.
In the matter of fuel and light there was
an increase during 1903 amounting to 100
per cent. In the fuel and light class, or as
Mr. WRIGHT designates it ‘‘group,’’ there
are only two items, anthracite coal and re-
fined petroleam. These two products are
controlled hy the anthracite coal trust and
the Standard oil company. For some time
there has been a rather insistent demand
for the enforcement of the anti-trust law
against these monopolies. A week or so
ago the Attorney General admitted the
culpability of the anthracite coal trust but
added that the evidence against it had
been so adroitly concealed that it would be
impossible to hold it to account. No effort
has been made to compel the Standard oil
company to obey the law.
In the matter of wages there has been no
increase. As a matter of fact commissioner
WRIGHT bas not included labor among the
commodities considered in his bulletin,but
everybody knows that during the year
covered by the bulletin the tendency of
wages hag been downward, notwithstand-
ing the upward trend of the necessaries of
life. This fact invites an inquiry as to the
effect of a tariff on wages. It is clearly
shown by Mr. WRIGHT'S figures that the
prices of necessaries of life are increasing
waterially under the influence of tariff
taxation. That is the protected articles
have shown the largest increase. Bus
wages have declined regularly so that the
earners have not shared in the prosperity
of the tariff.
Discouraging Report from St. Louis.
Former United States Senator CARTER,
of Montana, who is now chief of the United
States commission at the St. Louis exposi-
tion is authority for a statement to the ef-
fect that the hotel and boarding house
keepers of St. Louis have inaugurated a
system of extortion which is more repre-
hensible that any kind of robbery that has
been indulged in since piracy lost its
position as the dominant force on the sea.
They charge enormously, Mr. CARTER de-
clares, both for lodging and meals, and
their inordinate cupidity threatens to de-
feat the success of the great enterprise.
‘We sincerely hope that there is no founda-
tion in fact for Mr. CARTER’S accusation.
The city of St. Louis has been splendidly
favored by the press and public in this
matter. Congress has supperted the ex-
position by appropriations of princely
liberality and the newspapers of all sec-
tions have urged their readers to attend
the show and contribute to its success. But
if those who take this advice are to be rob-
bed by a lot of avaricions hotel keepers
there is likely to be a vast change in the
tone of the press within a few days. Asa
matter of fact some of the leading papers of
the country are already hedging on the
subject.
Most people who will attend the St.
Louis exposition are intelligent searchers
after information and knowledge. They
realize that the exposition is a vast uui-
versity, equipped with much that can be
found nowhere else and that every de-
partment of it contains object lessons which
it will be well for them to learn. Thus
believing they will be willing to pay any
just charges which may be assessed against
them for the advantage they will receive.
But they will not stand for extortion and
the minute the people of St. Louis begin
that there will be a call-off that will be
heard from one end of thie broad land to
the other.
The Wheat Outlook.
Four weeks ago had you asked
any farmer who came to town what
was the outlook for crops he would
have answered. ‘‘Not over a half a
yield, any place. and in plenty of sections
not a fourth of what they should be.”
Conditions have materially changed within
the past four weeks, and now the promise
is that in some sections an ordinary crop
of winter grain will be harvested, while in
most parts of the county a full half, if not
over, is promised. There are farms down
the Nittany valley that look as if 30
bushels to the acre would be gathered, but
this is about the only section in which a
good yield is promised. Elsewhere
throughout the county, the fields are
spotted—high spots where the snow was
blown off and low spots where ice accumu-
lated, showing no growth whatever.
Eu
NO. 19
Gen. Kuropatkin Orders Retreat.
Intends to Avoid Battle Until He Has Sufficient
Forces to Meet Japs.
PARIS, May 9.—The correspondent at
St. Petersburg of the Echo de Paris tele-
graphs as follows :
‘General Kuropatkin has ordered a gen-
eral retreat and no doubt intends to avoid
a battle until he bas sufficient forces. He
actually has at his disposal not more than
150,000 men, exclusive of the garrison at
Port Arthur which consists of 50,000, and
the garrison at New Chwang of 15,000.
‘A general who knows the secrets of the
mobilization tells me that the last 1000
men making up the required 500,000 will
leave Kasen July 1, adding : ‘We will
be very sick if the railway is not worked
well. It is not likely that General Kuro-
patkin will fatigne his troops unnecessari-
ly. If the Japanese press him, he will re-
tire from Liao Yang to Mukden or even to
Harbin. Retreat certainly is painful, but
it is now indispensable.”’
RUSSIANS WILL LEAVE SUFFICIENT GUARD
TO PREVENT PILLAGING.
SHAN HAl KwAN, May 9.—(6:30 p.
m. )—The evacuation of New Chwang con-
tinues. The Russian authorities have
promised to leave a sufficient rear guard to
prevent pillaging by Chinese bandits who
are in the vicinity and awaiting an oppor-
tunity to get into the city.
Nothing farther has been heard of the
Japanese transports which were seen re-
cently near Kia Chau.
The Russians are commandering cattle
on the west side of the Liao river, and the
Chinese are indignant at this procedure.
A Japanese spy bas been discovered at
New Chwang. He was approached by the
Russians, who pulled at his cue, which
came off. He was taken prisoner, but sab-
sequently escaped with the help of some
Chinese, who distracted the attention of
the Russians.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR GEN. KUROPATKIN.,
St. PETERSBURG, May 9.—7:45 p. m.—
The reinforcements prepared for General
Kuropatkin are being hurried. The last
statement of the mobilization of the Tenth
and Seventeenth army corps has been sig-
nalized by the calling out of the reserves
in the Moscow and Kharkoff provinces.
They will go to the front, thus placing
another 100,000 men at Kuropatkin’s dis-
posal.
The announcement of the mobilization
of four army corps along the Volga, which
will follow in July or August, is expected
next month. The reserves of each army
corps involve about 20,000 men, an army
corps in times of peace numbering 20,000
men and in war time, 50,000. An army
corps on a war footing includes three in-
fantry divisions of four regiments each of
three battalions ; a division of cavalry,
consisting of three regiments of six squad-
rons each ; one Cossack regiment, adorigade
of field artillery and also three detachments
of engineers and sappers.
By the departure of these troops, the
Russian European army will be six out of
thirty-one army corps. The previous drafts
of troops from Enropean Russia, has heen
formed into Siberian rifle battalions, with-
out changing the organization of the Em-
peror’s force on this side of the Urals. The
present units will be transferred bodily to
Manchuria, retaining their present officers
and staffs.
A Big Coal Deal Closed.
The Beech Creek Coal and Coke Co. Merged With
the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Co. /
Official announcement has been made of
a gigantio coal deal, involving nearly $12,-
000,000 of capital, by which the Pennsyl-
vania Coal and Coke Co. become the pur-
chaser of the Beech Creek Coal and Coke
Co., which has been more or less closely
identified with New York Central inter-
ests. Negotiations for the purchase bave
been pending for a long time, but were not
consummated until Thursday, when the
formal transfer papers were signed.
In making the announcement, president
W. A. Lathrop of the Pennsylvania Coal
and Coke Co. said that there would be no
ohanges in the personnel of the two cor-
porations and that James Kerr would con-
tinue as president of the Beech Creek Co.
The deal is of more than usual interest be-
cause the Pennsylvania Co. has principally
used the tracks of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, while the Beech Creek Co. has ship-
ped over those of the New York Central.
Their consolidation now indicates the har-
monious relations of these two great com-
panies in the soft coal regions of this State.
Through the addition of the Beech Creek
Co. the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Co.
now controls upward of 117,000 acres of
coal and surface, chiefly in Blair, Cambria,
Clearfield and Indiana counties, containing
upwards of 1,000,000,000 tons of coal. Up-
on these lands are located 44 operating col-
lieries, with a daily shipping capacity of
25,000 tons. In addition the company
owns 1,100 coke uvens, 1,200 houses, 1,000
railroad cars and numerous electric light
and water companies at various points
throughout the region. The company also
controls the Hooverhurst and Southwestern
raiiroad and the North River Coal and
Wharf Co., with docks at Port Liberty, in
New York harbor. Upon the completion
of the merger the total honds of both com-
panies outstanding will amount to $11,-
302,000.
By securing the Beech Creek properties
the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Co. be-
comes the largest bolder of soft coal lands
in the country, and with the future devel-
opment of its lands is ultimately destined
to become the largest producer.
Under the new deal its officers are:
President, W. A, Lathrop; vice presidents,
T. H. Watkineand C. D. Simpson, of
Scranton; directors, R. H. Williams, 8S. T.
Peters, H. G. Lloyd, Robert Mitchell, Jas.
Kerr and A. E. Patton.
It is Seo.
From the Danville Intelligencer.
In a speech on the tariff on Monday,
Senator Bacon proved that our sewing ma-
chines, sold for $15 in England cost $25 in
this country, and that American steel rails
could he hought $5 a ton cheaper in Eng-
land than in Pennsylvania or Alabama.
ham re Hd
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Beezer Bros., of Clearfield, have pur-
chased the old Mansion house site in that
place and it is said will erect thereon a five-
story hotel.
—The Sunbury water company has ‘begun
Three million gallons of sand-filtered water
daily.
celluloid collar worn by a colored youth
named Fisher, who resides in Johnstown,
and before it could be torn off the lad’s neck
had been quite severely burned. Results
might have been worse but for a passer-by,
who aided the frightened boy in )stting rid
of his hot collar.
—The DuBois Printing and Publishing
company will about the middle of this
month launch another morning daily paper.
The company is incorporated and will use a
telegraph service. The paper will float un-
der the name of the Morning Journal and the
publishers will make an effort to have it
brimful of the latest news. :
—The Pennsylvania railroad has awarded
the contract for the construction of seven
miles of track on the Possum Glory branch
of the Cherry Tree and Dixonville railroad
to Charles A. Sims. The new line is an ex-
tension and will run from Two Lick creek to
Yellow Lick creek, in Indiana county. The
line is being jointly constructed by the Penn-’
sylvania and Vanderbilt interests.
—Charles A. Hess, of Lewisburg, had a
portion of a needle removed from his arm
this week, which became imbedded in the
flesh when he was a babe, 35 years ago. It
could not be located then. It moved back
and forth, and recently the arm became sore.
The surgeon had trouble in finding the
needle, for even after freezing the arm and
making an incision, it moved about as
though it were alive.
—P. A. Strand, a man of about 60 years,
living at the settlement called Little Sweden,
near Peale, while despondent from drinking,
retired Tuesday night, not to rest, but for
the purpose of taking his own life. He ac-
complished this end by putting a dynamite
cap in his mouth, which exploded and blew
his head off. A wife and family survive.
He was buried on Thursday. Another warn-
ing of the consequences of drink.
—The Presbyterian church of the borough
of Indiana have concluded to erect a new
church on the site now occupied by the old
one. At a congregational meeting held at
the close of Sunday morning’s service the
building committee and trustees were author-
ized to let the contract. As soon as the con-
tract is let steps will be taken to remove the
old and make ready for the new. The esti-
mated cost of building and furnishing is
$65,000 of which a little over $28,000 is
pledged.
—Retrenchent orders are being put into
force on the New York Central railroad, but
the Pennsylvania division will not suffer a
great deal. Several yard clerks, however,
have been laid off at Jersey Shore and in the
motive power department division Supt.
Walton will cut his pay roll $2,000 a month.
The Oak Grove shops will not be affected by
the order, but eight laborers in the junction
car shops were dismissed. The remainder of
the curtail will be made at various places
along the division.
—Friday afternoon last officer Bathurst, of
Huntingdon, arrested in that town several
lads between the ages of 14 and 18 years who
were pitching pennies for keep. They were
taken before mayor Petrikin, where a se-
vere reprimand was administered, giving
them to understand that a recurrence of the
crime would mean thirty days imprison-
ment and $10 fine. Officer Bathurst and
opinion of persons of sound ethics; but how
about the boys who shoot marbles for keep ?
—The canceling machine in the World's
Fair post office was put into operation Tues-
day, and the first letter to be canceled was
addressed to President Francis, from Farren
Zerbe, of Tyrone, chief of the souvenir coin
department. The envelope bore a three-cent
stamp designed especially for the Philadel-
phia Centennial, in 1876; a two-cent stamp
of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Oma-
ha in 1898; a two-cent stamp of the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901, and
the Lonisiana Purchase Exposition stamp of
1904.
—Mrs. Sherman Jamison was released
from the Clinton county jail Monday after-
noon. Sheriff Shearer secured some clothing
for the woman and her two children, Wil-
iiam and Harry Thomas, purchased railroad
tickets for them to Huling’s tower, their
former home, and put them on the 3:40
afternoon train. The trio were loath to go
as the sheriff and his wife had treated them
during their stay more kindly than they had
ever known before, but as there were no
legal grounds for holding them longer it was
thought best to discharge them from custo-
dy.
—Desperately wounded by the fangs of a
mad dog and intent upon saving members of
her family from similar misfortune, Mrs. Da-
vid Keckler, living near Waynesboro, Frank-
lin county, struggled with and conquered
the animal on Saturday. Mrs. Keckler’s
dog had been away for several days and re-
turned Saturday afternoon, barking and
snapping at objects and giving all evidence
of being mad. Suddenly it sprang at Mrs.
Keckler and bit her hand, its teeth sinking
deep into her flesh. With remarkable nerve
she caught the dog and forced him into a
summer house and imprisoned him there so
that he could not hurt others. The woman
was taken to Baltimore for treatment.
—The Liberty bell will be taken to St.
Louis. This was decided upon Thursday
when both branches of the city councils of
Philadelphia passed a resolution appointing
a special joint committee of 24 to escort the
revolutionary relic, and appropriating $15,-
000 to defray the expenses. The start will’
be made early in June, but before the old
bell is placed in the Pennsylvania building
at the World’s Fair it will have passed
through the principal cities of the Louisiana
territory. The bell will remain at St. Louis
until the close of the exposition, and will be
under a constant guard of Philadelphia po-
licemen. President Francis, of the exposi-
tion, will be asked to name a special day to
be known as ‘Liberty Bell Day.”
a filtration plant for their local service,
mayor Petrikin were entirely right in the"
will be supplied the residents of that town
—While burning brush a spark ignited a :