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--It is notable that no man without a
bar'l is mentioned for QUAY’S place.
—Up to this time we zan’t say that we
approve of the June variety of weather.
—The Bellefonte police made a regular
crusade on the independent order of hooze
fighters on Wednesday.
—The man who robbed the home for the
aged in Pittsburg, on Wednesday, of $3,000
in cash ought to be drawn and quartered.
—And to think of it! Race riots in
Philadelphia. Hide-bound, partisan, black
Republican Philadelphia, where negroes
do such valiant service on election day.
. —It Mayor MCLANE, of Baltimore, com-
mitted suicide because of the harsh eriti-
cisms of his political antagonists, then he
was too weak a man to be Mayor of such a
city.
—_It HogsoN wants to do a really useful
act when ‘he goes to the St. Louis conven-
tion he might encourage all the contending
fact ions to kiss and make up. He is the
past-master of kissers.
—GEORGE E. LAMB, the Philipsburg as
pirant for Prothonotary before the Repub-
lican convention, was in town on Wednes-
day looking worried. It can’t be possible
that NEWTON BAILEY has him gkeered.
—Itis probable that no man will ever
succeed to the position in Pennsylvania
politics made vacant by the death of the
late MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY. Though
many may aspire, nene will achieve.
Nebraska is ‘Johnny on the Spot’
again with a platform and policy for the
next national Democratic campaign, bub
Nebraska will have to let the SOLOMOXNS
of some other States have a say at St.
Louis.
_ _Colorado is turning her attention to
the production of rubber from sage brush,
which leads the facetious man fo remark
that it conld all be consumed at home in
‘making her gold and silver a little more
elastic.
. —After all what is it we commemorate
on Memorial day. Is it the heroic in the
fallen eoldier or the canse be stood for?
Because if it is the former then there could
be no objection to the erection of a monu-
ment to LER at Gettysburg. }
. —From the ramblings of discontent we
hear because of Judge LOVE'S determina-
tion to make WOMELSDORF and KNISELY
the Republican nominees for Assembly it
is beginning to look as if the Judge has de-
cided to sacrifice himself for the sake of
his friends.
—With the Democratic National con-
vention only a month off and no candidate
‘forging to the front in the race for perfer-
ment it is beginning to look as if the dele-
gates will have something more to do than
merely vote their instructions and then
strike for the Pike to talk the resals over.
— France has decided to join forces with
uncle SAM in rescuing one of our citizens
from the hands of Moroccan bandits who
are holding him for ransom. That is, she
will permit the process of catching the
bandits, if it entails no more warlike dem-
onstration against Morocco than throwing
galt on the tails of the bandits.
—Before starting for the QUAY faueral
at Beaver COLONEL chambers informed
some of his friends here that he was going
“mer ely as a private oitizen.”’ This proba-
bly accounts for his having been so com-
pletely submerged in the crowd that bis
pame was never mentioned among the
hundreds of notables present.
—With eight warships making demon-
strations in front of Tangiers and the coun-
try back of the city infested with murder-
ous bandits the poor Sultan cf Morocco
finds it certainly a case of out of the jaws
of Seylla into those of Charybdis, this thing
of trying to rescue Mr. PERDICARIS from
the bandits because Uncle SAM claims him
as oue of his citizens.
—Has anybody compared ROOSEVELT’S
speech at Gettysburg on Monday with
LINCOLN'S memorable address at the same
place ? The accidental President of to-day
esteems himself so vastly superior to all of
his predecessors in everything else that it
is to be presumed that bis conceit will lead
him to believe that LINCOLN’S famous
classic was a school boy’s speech when com-
pared with his.
—Mayor MCCLELLAN, of New York, is
looming up as a presidential possibility,
but the question is raised as to his eligi-
bility because he was born in Dresden,
Saxony, and is therefore, possibly not a
“natural born American citizen,’’ as the
constitution requires a President to be.
It would be too bad if a technicality such
as this were to rob the son of the famous
old fighter of the highest office within the
gifs of the Nation.
—What the North American bad to say
edisorially of the late Senator QUAY, in its
jssue of Monday, may have been true
enough, but such an expression comes with
very bad grace from that journal. Ever
since its reorganization under the present
management the North American has been | 3 ; Ld
in passive sympathy with everything wiei- fer would have been made without a pro-|:
: Herth s [ 9 er is +
ous. that QUAY represented. in: Pennsyl: test and ‘‘Oleo’’ BILL BROWN would have |
vania politics. That is, while it' might
nob have supported the QUAY propositions
it did nothing for the ones opposed to
them. It is like the North American, how-
ever, to tradnce the memory of the dead in
the effort to conceal its own dereliction in
the way of conserving the public weal.
“VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 3, 1904.
NO. 22.
Senator Quay’s Public Record.
It is a gracious as well as a wise impulse
of the human heart which puts a restraint
upon the criticism of the dead. It the
whole truth, good and bad were told of any
man largely in the public view, the in-
fluence for good would be meagre, in some
cases at least, and many hearts which de-
served happiness would be sadly and eruel-
ly wounded. The criticism might operate
as an admonition which would guide others
to avoid the errors and that would be a
good result. But it is better that the warn-
ing is withheld than that in the issuing of
it innocent human beings should be made
to suffer. Better it is that ninety and nine
guilty may escape than that one innocent
should be unjustly punished.
We are moved to these thoughts by the
death of MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY. In
his public career, as it is written in the rec-
ords of Pennsylvania and the country, there
is little to challenge admiration. By
devious way he has achieved wonderful
success in politics. The most corrupt and
servile political machine ever created in
this or any other country is the fittest
monument of his labors. Yet he had an
amiable side, fairly well developed. He
was a scholar, a student and above all a
kind hearted map. These elements-deserve
admiration. It is said that they enlisted
for QUAY the friendship of men to whom
his political methods and aspirations were
deeply abhorrent.
It is not worth while to review his pub-
lic life in this article. It began nearly a
balf a century ago and continued without
interruption, practically, until his death
and a summary of his services would re-
quire much space. But in it there is little
to be found which materially increased the
sum of human happiness. He was a good
soldier, we are told, bus he was at the
front only a brief period and his best work
during the Civil war was in the capacity of
military secretary or attache to Governor
CURTIN. Yet he got a medal which dis-
tinguished. him above REYNOLDS, or
MEADE, or RICHARD COULTER, who in the
same rank fought courageously on half the
battlefields of the war.
Senator QUAY served in she Legislature
of Pennsylvania but there are no beneficent
laws on the gtatute books whioh he origi-
nated or alivooated,. He was Secretary of
the Commonwealth under.two Governors,
bat effected no substantial reforms. Ina
gervice of nearly eighteen years in the Sen-
ate of the United States he made no im-
press upon the records .of thas body. But
he has secured more appointments in the
public service than any other man of his
generation or any other. Moreover, he is
said to have been faithfui to his friends,
though HENRY HALL, of Pittsburg, de-
clares that that was not one of his virtues
and proves it. But we are not disposed to
criticise him at his time aud would praise
bim if it were possible.
Pemnypacker’s Lonely Situation.
However the death of Senator QUAY af-
fects other men and measures in the State
it leaves Governor PENNYPACKER the most
lonely and forlorn figure tbat has ever fill-
ed aspace in the public life of Pennsyl-
vania. If QUAY bad lived gratitude for
the Governor's absurd infatuation and fre-
quent fulsome eanlogies would have com-
pelled him to ‘take care’’ of PENNY. But
now that he is dead there will be no one on
earth to perform that service. Dispised by
those who supported him in the belief that
he would respect pledges of reform and
hated by those who expected that be would
open the flood-gates of corruption for their
benefit, he is certainly without hope of
future political preferment.
PENNYPACKER’S nomination was one of
QUAY'’S tricks. Public sentiment was on
the verge of revolt in consequence of the
tidal wave of venality which surged over
the State during the administration of Gov.
STONE and QUAY congeived the idea of
taking a man little known and of clean
life whom he felt certain he could control,
asa gnarantee of better things: It wag an
ill-disguised subterfuge but accomplished
the resnlt. QUAY assured the machine
managers that PENNYPACKER would serve
them and the reformers that he would be
with them. The result was that both ele-
ments were disappointed and now that
QuAY is dead they will'turn the fire of
revenge on the Governor.
The movement to transplant PENNY-
PACKER from the office of Governor toa
geat on the Supreme bench didn’t originate
with QUAY. It wns a suggestion of his
subordinates in the machine and it was de-
feated hy PENNYPACKER'S insane gar-
rulity. That was a new cause of enmity
against him aud & fresh source of trouble.
for them. If he had kept quiet the trans-.
been given unlimited license to loot during.
the next session of the Legislature. But
PENNYPACKER'S senseless penchant for
writing made ' bim so ridiculous that: the
whole thing bad to be called off. QUAY
protected hiny from punishment at the time,
but now vials of pent-up wrath will be
poured on his head without protest.
" appointment
Penrose Taking Chances.
“Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread,’’ is an adage as old as it is accurate
and is aboumt to be exemplified again if
Washington dispatches are to he depended
upon. That is to say we are informed
through the daily press that Senator PEN-
ROSE of this State; Senator KEEN, of New
Jersey, and Senator HALE, of Maine, in-
tend in the near future to appear before
President ROOSEVELT to file in person a
protest against the appointment of Secre-
tary CORTELYOU to the important political
office of chairman of the Republican Na-
tional committee. We bave never suspect-
ed either of these gentlemen of idiocy, but
if that report be true all of them must
have taken leave of their senses.
We have not been informed as to why
Senators KEAN and HALE are opposed to
CORTELYOU. They have both been ex-
ceedingly subservient to the ‘‘master,’’
and ROOSEVELT accepts no divided alle-
giance. With him it is the entire adminis-
tration or no part of it. With respect to
PENROSE the reasons for his course may
easily be conjectured. He wants the job
himself and probably hopes that in the
event that CORTELYOU is thrown over-
board it may come.to him. For that rea-
gon it is possible that he will take the
chances of joining his colleagues from New
Jersey and Maine in protesting against the
of the President’s friend,
though that involves a grave danger of
“getting himself disliked.”
For example, a week ago to-day Senators
SPOONER, of Wisconsin, and FAIRBANKS,
of Indiana, with one or two less conspicu-
ous colleagues, called on the President to
remonstrate against the appointment of
CORTELYOU. They used the same line of
reasoning which other Senators had previe
ously employed. In other words they said
that CORTELYOU is not a Republican and
therefor can’t command either the obedi-
ence or the confidence of the rank and file.
But what they got for sheir pains was plen-
ty. The President read them a regular
Mrs. CAUDLE curtain lecture and dismiss-
ed them ourtly after telling them to mind
their own business. What would happen
if PENROSE should be similarly insulted.
—The fach that a banker at Lynn, Mas:
sachusetts, has been seized by an incurable
disease, contracted through handling paper
money, isn’t likely to strike much ‘terror
to the heart of Uncle RUSSEL SAGE. ~~
Champion of the People.
The practical certainty of Hon. WIiL-
r1aM T. CREASY’S return to the Legislature
for another term is a subject for popular |
congratulation in all parts of Penneylva-
nia. Mr CREASY has been during the last
two sessions easily the champion of the
people on the floor. No other man has
been so vigilant, so courageous and so capa-
ble in fighting for the interests of tue
public and against the conspiracies of the
machine. He has been earness, honest
and faithful and his considerable experience
in the House bas the better qualified him
for effective service.
Columbia county is one of she few legis-
lative districts in’ Pennsylvania which
continues Democratic ascendency. It is
no stretch of the imagination to assume
that that facts is attributable largely to the
high standard official life which is main-
tained by the Demoorats of thas county.
The election of Mr. CREASY for four con-
secutive terms in she Legislature and the
next session is in pursuance of that policy,
It is as oreditable to the people of the
county as it iscomplimentary to the gentle-
man honored.
During the last swosessions Mr. CREASY
was practically alone in defense of the
principles of Democracy on the floor. No
other man consistently and continuously
demanded ballot and tax reform legislation.
Such a man is of the highest value, nos
only to the constituency which eleots him
and the party which he represents but to
all the people of the State whom he serves
faithfully. and well. Columbia county is
to be congratulated on having such a rep-
resentative and the people ought to keep
him in service as long as he will consent.
——The Rev. Dr. Edward J. Gray, presi-
dent of Williamsport Dickinson seminary,
who for some weeks has heen seriously ill
at the Jobns Hopkins University hospital,
at Baltimore, returned home Tuesday after-
noon. Dr. Gray is much improved, but is
still very weak from the operation which
he underwent. When he arrived at the
seminary the entire student body and the
faculty lined up on the campus and waived
Sheir hands, giving the doctor the Chautan-
gua salute.
© Dr. R. J. Young, the Snow Shoe
physician who is charged by Father Victor
Zarek with having falsely caused his im-
prisonment for causing the death of An-
drew Sotka, waived a hearing before 'Jus-
tice Keichline, on Saturday, and was bound
over in $1,000 bail for his appearance at |
court. ‘John Uzzle beoame hié: bondsman.
The Tangier Incident Again.
The fleet of American warships dispatch-
ed to Tangier the other day has reached its
destination and Rear Admiral CHADWICK
in command has delivered the ultimatom
to the SULTAN of Morocco. The SULTAN,
who has no navy and a very small army,
has been harrassed almost to‘death of late
years by predatory bands of outlaws in the
mountains near Tangier. These bands
have been making incursions into the cities
at intervals and taking with them on their
withdrawal anything of value that came
within their notice. Frequently they have
kidnapped well-to-do citizens and held
them for ransom. The incident of this
kind was the kidnapping of a wealthy resi-
dent of Tangier named PERDICARIS who
was born in this country and may be still
an American citizen, and his step-son, who
is a British subjeot.
The perpetator of this crime is a revolu-
tionist who has been trying to overthrow
the SULTAN and usurp his place and power.
One of his methods of warfare is to kid-
pap conspicuous oitizens, remove them
to impregnable places in the mountain
fastneseses - and sell their persons to
the SULTAN whose treasury has beenjdrain-
ed in that way. When PERDICARIS was
taken and the demand for ransom made it
was discovered that he claimed to be an
American citizen and the government at
Washington was notified. Meantime the
SULTAN proceeded with all his available
resources to recover the victim of outlawry
or negotiate for his release. But instead
of showing appreciation of that service the
goverment of the United States threatened
to send an expedition against Tangier and
in pursuance of that threat a fleet is now
menacing the city. ;
This brings us face to face with a situa-
tion. Our ultimatum is, presumbly, tha
the SULTAN produce the person of the kid-
napped citizen or the city will be destroy-
ed. But suppose the SULTAN can’t do
that, which appears to be the case. There
will be uo alternative but to destroy the
city or acknowledge that the threat was the
bluff of a ruffianly bully. It the latter
course is adopted this country will become
she laughing stock of the civilized world.
1t the city is destroyed, on tbe other hand,
it willbe an international crime of such |
grave proportions as to be likely to provoke | Censu
B 2 V 7 T itt en a
‘defense OF THE hod of the rece ion ia :
tion of the population of the United States
the resentment of all civilization. These are
‘hard lines to serve between but they are
about what an intelligent people deserve as
a penalty for putting a hair-brained clown
{ into position to inflict such harm on them.
The Governor’s Duty.
The death of Senator QUAY has revived
the discussion of the question of the man-
ner of filling vacancies in the body of
which he was a member, that happen
during a recess besween sessions of the Leg-
islature. The Republican machine is de-
ocidedly averse to calling an extra session
of the Legislature. The managers are
afraid of the effect of sach an incident on
the coming election. It would be certain
to excite jealousies and provoke factions.
They are therefore invoking every fallacy
to influence the Governor to neglect the
mandate of the constitution which requires
him to call a special session by proclama-
tion on a notice of sixty days to fill the va-
cancy.
First, they say an extra session of the
Legislature would be expensive and pro-
ductive of little good, which ie literally
true.
before the Fourth of July, assuming that
it will be called immediately and there is
no session of she Senate until the first Mon-
day of December. In the event that an
election should be held in July the tenure
would run only until March next, giving a
service of three months. However meritor-
ious such service might be, it would hard-
ly be worth what it cost. Bus that doesn’t
absolve the Governor of his obligation to
‘support, obey aad defend’’ the oconstitu-
tion. He must do that or write himself
down a perjurer. :
The first duty of the Governor is to obey
the constitution, however, expensive or
otherwise. Unless he does that he brings
all laws and every form of authority into
contempt. When the chief magistrate of a
State fails of obedience to the constitution
he has no right to hold other citizens to
their obligations to obey the laws. This
proposition is palpable and true. One class
of citizens must not enjoy immunity to
disregard their obligations if another is
held to the line. Therefore, while we may
agree to the statement that an extra session
will be expensive and of little value we can,
pevertheless, see no way by which the Gov-
ernor may escape from the duty of calling
it.
—— James A. FIEDLER, formerly of
this place, is the editor of the DuBois
Morning Journal, a fourth daily to be
launched in that city of 14,000 people.
We hope he can keepit afloat. He has
the ability, sure enough.
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—s=Suhsoribe for the WATCHMAN:
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At hest the session couldn’t be held |
‘From the New York Sun.
Increased Cost of Living.
From the Lincoln, Neb., Commoner.
The Wall Street Journal says there bas
been an increase of 6 per cent in com-
modisy prices during the last five months,
and it adds ‘‘the people will be apt to ar-
gue that there must be something radically
wrong with the business and political
system of the country, if the cost of living
advances at a time when wages are being
reduced and the volume of business is fall-
ing off.”
While the Journal says it is ‘‘anwilling
$0 join'in the ' wholesale denunciation of
trusts,’’ it says that ** the trusts are held
responsible by the bulk of the people for
the increased cost of living.”
While it says ‘a trust well managed
with a due sense of responsibility, nob
merely to stockholders, bus to the people,
may be in the highest degree beneficial
to the country, ’’ it adds: ‘‘But the power
which these combinations put info the
hands of a few men who control them,
sometimes leads to conditions that are
oppressive. The power to control prices
results in such greed for profit that com-
petition is not merely regulated, but
crushed, and prices are made which fall
heavily upon the people.” -
The Journal might have spared itself the
statement that this power placed in the
hands of a few men*' sometimes leads: to
conditions that are oppressive.” The
Journal hit considerably . nearer the truth
when it admitted that the power to con-
trol prices results in such greed for profit
that the people are oppressed.
There are no good trusts. Everyone
who has maintained that there are good
trusts and bad trusts has failed to accept
the challenge to point out the good trusts.
There are trusts ‘‘well managed’’ and
managed ‘‘with a due sense of responsibili-
ty; but they are well managed for the
men who immediately control them; and
the sense of responsibility is not to the
people, but to the greed of the trust mag-
nates. The power to fix prices and to ob:
tain corners upon the things which the
people must have is too great a power to
be vested in the hands of a few men. \
In this period of falling wages and in-
creasing prices, it is not at all strange that
men conclude that there must be some-
thing radically wrong with the business
and politcal system of the country. It
will be strange, however, if the masses who
have borne these burdens all too long and
all too patiently continue ‘to submit and
even go to the polls ‘and place in power
men who are under obligation to maintain
the very system that is now pressing so
heavily upon the people. a
A —————— g
Was the ‘Money Wasted ? h
From the Pittsburg Dispatch. YL
~ Mr. 8. 8. D. North, of the United States
and its various cities. He argues that the
calonlation by the ratio of increase im .the
previous decade: was the only means at
hand; that it is shown tobe reasonably
correct by the fact that the same method
in the previous decade would bave brought
a result within three-quarters of one per
cent of the actual enumeration, and having
adopted this method he was obliged to ap-
ply it to all cities impartially. 3
This seems plausible enough so far, but
its weakness is displayed hy just one fact.
If calculations by percentages would do
the United States need not maintain an
expensive census bureau todo the work.
Any reasonably geod arithmetician could
take pencil and paper and figure out the
population of the nation or his own city
for himself. What we have censuses for is
to get the actual facts.
As a master of facs, Mr. North’s method,
while it might work a reasonable approxi-
mation to the result in 1900, would have
been far away from the results of 1890,
1880, 1870 and 1860. It is even more un-
reliable with regard to the population of
cities and different sections in which the
ratios of growth vary materially from
decade to decade. On the plain under-
standing that the recent alleged census is a
mere arithmetical calculation it ean do no
harm—and precious little good.
Beaten in Our Own Field.
Philippine imports of iron and steel and
manufactures thereof for the calendar year
1903 show an increase of approximately 10
per cent. over those of 1902. The figures
are $2,102,915 for 1903 and $1,909,679 for
1902. Of the total for the two years the
United States secured only about 23.7 per
cent. More than three-quarters of the
trade was captured by our English and
European competitors. Ouor percentage of
the trade of 1902 was a small fraction less
shan 25; for 1903 it was 22.5. We did not
even hold our own. =~ 2
The largest single item last year was
iron sheets and plates. England supplied
nearly all of is. The next item in impor-
tance was steel rails. Germany supplied
one-half, Belginm 40 per cent. The Unis-
ed States placed 2.4 per cent. Out of a
steel rail trade of $159,528 we supplied
$3,766. The business in structural iron and
steel in 1903 doubled that of 1902. Great
Britain sold 90 per cent. of it, and the
United States supplied ahont enough te
ballast a catboat. We were even beaten
out in electrical supplies and sewing ma-
chines, ?
It the Philippines are worth having at
all, their trade ought to be worth culti-
vating. The financial balance against us
is already quite large enough. It is to be
hoped that Heaven will send the next ses-
gion of Congress a measure of grace and
Wisiom that will materially change such a
record. : :
Wherein They are Strong.
From the Vanango Spectator. Hat
Senator Dick refused to plant a tree in.
the botanical gardens at” Washington ‘on
‘the ground ‘that be doesn’t know ‘enough
about farming. All the agricultural knowl-
edge that the average politician cares abont
is simply enough to enable bim to farm the
farmers. When it comes to grafting, how-
ever, the hosses are prepared to speak as
experts. . 20 x
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Spawls from the Keystone.
—William Coleman, of Montgomery, in
trying to jump on a train, had his foot erush-
ed off and died. )
—Two Italians were taken before ’Squire
‘Barclay in Clearfield on Thursday and fined
78.74 for killing robins.
—A boy named Fred Gohrig plunged from
| the garret to the cellar of a three-story
building being erected at Newberry and was
probably fatally hurt.
—Greensburg electors have voted in" favor
of adding $10,000 to the borough bonded
debt, the money to be used in the erection of
a new school building.
—An Altoona man set a trap Monday
night and early on the morning of June 1st
had in limbo a daddy and mammy rat and
no less than twenty-three baby rats, enough
to stock completely a rodent kindergarten.
—For having in his possession 13 under-
sized trout, Barney McCaully, of West
Branch, was fined $130, and being unable to
pay the fine was sentenced to serve out the
fine in the county jail at the rate of $1 per
day.
—Two deaths have occurred in the home
of Samuel B. Haney, near Union Furnace,
his wife and mother both dying within
eight hours of each other, the former of con-
sumption and the latter of a complication of
ailments.
—Charles Miller, the 10-year-old South
Fork boy who was injured by falling from a
tree last Friday, a jagged limb cutting in
two his right kidney, passed away at the
Memoral hospital, Johnstown, early Wednes-
day morning.
—Do not catch frogs before the first of
July. The frog business will be watched
this season by the fish wardens and persons
catching or selling frogs during the month of
May or June are liable to ten dollars fine
and imprisonment for every frog caught or
sold. :
—While seated on a couch in his home at
Flemington, the other morning, Tom John-
son struck a match and lit his pipe. The
flame from the match ignited the fringe and
in a few moments the couch was burning
fiercely. It was quickly carried into the
yard, where it was destroyed.
© '—Commissioner of Fisheries W. E.
Meehan has made the announcement, in
view of a contrary impression which appear-
ed to prevail among some anglers, that it is
unlawful to use a gig or spear to catch fish.
Such violations of the law, the Commissioner
says, would subject the guilty person to a fine
of $25.
whelming influx of mill hands from the
great mill district of Lancashire, Erxgland.
Many of the mills there have been shut
down owing to the scarcity and high price of
cotton, and the depression that has resulted
has led to a large exodus of the employees to
this country.
—George Sharrer, Western Union operato
at Huntingdon, died at his home there Tues:
day morning, of stomach trouble, he having
been on the decline sinee his arrest, trial
and acquittal, for the alleged murder of John
Smith. He worried over the accident until
he finally died. He was aged about 38
years and is survived by his wife and one
daughter, Bertha. MEA.
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_ —The remains of Lifford Johnston, ‘who
was killed in the tow boat ‘Fred Wilson’
explosion near Louisville, Ky., last Thurs-
day, was buried in Tyrone on Sunday after-
noon. "The deceased was aged 27 years and
is survived by his mother and the following
brothers and sisters: Mrs. Ella. Rodkey, of
Missouri; Mrs. Howard Neff, of Bucyrus,
Ohio; Mrs. Sara Deeter, of Franklinville;
Mrs, Clara Fisher, Misses Frances and Dol-
lie and Harry Johuston at the family home
‘in Tyrone. - Lele ; .
—During the heavy storm Wednesday
night a Swede, commonly called *‘Jack the
Sailor,” was walking from Allport to Mun-
son, swinging a hatchet in his hand. When
opposite the old Loeder slope there came a
blinding flash of lightning and ‘the next
thing the Swede knew he was lying in the
road drenching with rain and slowly regain-
ing consciousness. His hatchet had disap
peared and a long mark on his right leg be-
tween the knee and ankle showed where the
electric fluid had left’ the hatchet, entered
the limb and passed out. :
—In Sunbury Monday a stranger entered
the bar of the Clement house and extended
his hand to the proprietor, A. J. Boyer, who
was alone. Not knowing the man, and not
wishing to be outdone in politeness, the land-
lord reached forth his hand. Instantly the
fellow grabbed him by the left arm and en-
deavored to secure a valuable diamond from
his finger. A struggle ensued during which
Mr. Boyer was cut and bruised with an in-
strument, but by a terrific blow he knocked
the daring robber against the wall. He then
dashed out the door and escaped, not having
accomplished his purpose. ;
—On Monday a Jewish grocer was hauled
up for passing a greenback at Platt-Barber’s
place in Philipsburg which had been rather
cleverly raised from one dollar to five by
pasting figure fives cut from tobacco stamps
over the figure ones on the corners of the
bill. He promptly gave a genuine bill in its
place and turned around and arrested an
Italian who he said gave him the bill in pay-
ment for potatoes last Thursday. Ata hear-
ing before ’Squire Gearhart in Chester Hill
Monday, the hill having been passed in, Clear-
field county, the matter was settled and the
costs divided. A Front street. grocer also
had one of the bills unloaded on him Mon-
day. ry
On Saturday evening, Calvin Smith, son of
Andrew Smith, who resides on a farm
near Mackeyville, threw a set of harness on
his horse and jumped on behind the harness
to ride out to Salona to get his buggy. While
going down the lane his horse suddenly
frightened,jumped to the side and threw Mr.
Smith to the ground. As he fell his feet be-
came entangled in the harness,which fright-
ened the horse more, which caused him to
run and kick at the body of the young man
as he dragged at the side. The young man
finally ‘freed himself and dropped to the
ground, but not until he had been badly in-
jured. His right cheek is crushed in,’ two
ribs'are broken, his breast and abdomen, 'ser-
iously injured and a bad bump on the back
of the head, which caused concussion of "the
brain. He 1s in'a very serious condition”
. —Philadelphia is threatened with an over- ~
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