BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—1If spooning is to be cut out at Atlantic
City what's the use of going there any-
how?
— Politics make strange bed-fellows, but
that ain’t a patchin’ to what some cases in
court do.
—The new Water street wall looks strong
enough to withstand even a Japanese at-
tack in force.
—Thig is the day of the political flopper,
next comes the time for the political
whopper.
—Any young man voting on age this fall
could be proud of being able to say that
he had cast his first ballot for Judge
PARKER.
—The evidence against DOMINIC was not
so very convincing, but he needs a term in
the penitentiary and the jnry probably
convicted him on general principles.
—Tonight the big pugs JEFFRIES and
MuxsRo will come together in San Fran-
cisco. No one will be much concerned as
to which one gets licked or how hard the
‘licking is.
—It will take more than Mr. CARROLL
D. WRIGHT'S statistics to induce the
workingman to believe - that he is earning
more money now-a-days than he is spend-
ing for his living.
—Mellon’s food and malted milks will
be of more importance around the imperial
" Russian palace now than the remnants of
the Russian fleet or the rehabilitation of
her shattered armies.
—The Turkish minister of the Navy
being worth a little over twelve million
dollars on a salary of eight thousand it is
not to be expected that we will get what
is coming to us so very soon. ;
—The population of Japan increase!
over thirteen million during the twenty-
one years preceding 1893, but at the rate
they are heing killed off in those md
assaults upon Port Arthur the next census
of the Mikado’s realm will likely not prove
a3 promising. ;
—The millions of bugs that swarmed
.down on Bellefonte Sunday evening were
not woggle bags, but it is just probable
that not having anybody to play with in
WETZEL'S. swamp—the Governor being
away at St. Lonis—they decided on having
an outing and. floated up here to pester us.
—Mr. jail-breaker-semi-murderer-watch
stealer GREEN has heen busying himsell
lately trying to place his troubles on the
ravishing-jail-breaker-semi-murderer DIL-
LON, but no one has appeared yet who has
‘the temerity to say that Mr, GREEN was
“not 61d enough to know the difference be-
- -—Mpr; ‘HENRY CUTE: QUIGLEY made a
ten-stroke with DOMINIC and the shoes on:
Tuesday and the pretty part of it all is
that his own head and his has are not like-
ly to get into the same relative condition
in which she Italian’s feet and the shoes,
which were sopposed to be so incriminat-
ing, appeared before the jury.
—1It was not a matter of much surprise
that it should have taken all of yesterday
afternoon to empanel a jury in the GREEN
and DILLON cases. The panel was almost
exhausted hefore twelve men who had not
previously formed opinions that would
interfere with their giving a verdict ac-
cording to the evidence could be secured.
The case has become so notorious that few
Centre countians have not reached a ver-
dict in their own minds already.
—A London expert says that betting
men should give up the habit after they
have reached the age of fifty ; because of
their tendency to make mistakes after they
have reached that age. The advice seems
$0 be good. ‘While a man is no longer re-
garded as being old at fiféy he has either
reached the time of over cautiousness or
over recklessness and if he is a betting
man the results will prove unprofitable to
him either way he is effected.
—Col. JoHN A. DALEY is one of the
gallant old soldiers whose days of useful-
ness are regarded as being ended. That is,
the Love, LAMB, KNISELY, WOMELSDORF
combination thought he was of no farther
use to ‘them and he was euchred out of a
nomination his party really wished to be-
stow upon bim. Of course the Colonel
may be a dead duck in. their particular
pond, but then their pond may not prove
to be as big as they.thought it.
—We infer from posters hanging about
the town that Judge LOVE is to open his
campaign in the conrt house yard
on Saturday evening, September
third. The occasion is an ‘‘Ice Cream
Festival and Republican Rally.” It
is particularly appropriate that the two
should go hand in hand, for the frapped
extract of the cow is about the only thing
we can think of that wonld not be frozen
stiffer by the frost that seems to surround
the Judge.
—The entire estate of the late Governor
PATTISON has heen appraised at only nine
shousand dollars. While most persons
who knew him probably believed him to be
well off in this world’s goods’ the measare
of esteem in which his memory will be held
will be heightened by this evidence oi his
scrupulous honesty in politics. There is
no doubs of his having had opportunities
to hecome very rich, but Governor PATTI-
SON’s ideals of riches were founded rather
on spiritual tlian worldly treasures. Like
SAMUEL J. RANDALL he died a poor man, |
bus rich in the things that all the wealth of
a MORGAN can’t huy.
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VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 26, 1904.
NO.38.
Old Signs Anew.
The sounds of industrial tronbles in all
sections of the country are not the only
indications of similarity between the con-
ditions now and those which were present
in 1892 and preceded the financial paralysis
of the following year. Then the treasury
deficits were the fore-runners of the put-
ward movement of gold and the ultimate
panic and forced purchase of treasure to
prevent bankruptcy. We can all recall the
events of that unfortunate period. Labor
strikes against reductions of wages cal-
minated in July of that year in the Home-
stead slaughter. Immediately afterward
came the big treasury deficit for the same
month and then after the defeat of HARRI-
SON for re-election came the panic which
was inevitable.
In 1892, as now, the commercial paralysis
was the result of excessive taxation. Taxes
are just or unjust levies upon the earnings
of the people. If they are necessary to the
maintenance of government they are just ;
for government is essential to the preserva-
tion of property and the protection of life.
But taxes in excess of that which is neo-
essary ‘to the maintenance of economical
government are unjust and enervating and
the exactions under the McKINLEY law
were excessive in 1892 as those under the
DINGLEY law are excessive now. Then
they brought on the panic of 1893 by ex-
hausting the resources of the people and
‘compelling treasury deficits first and final-
ly gold exportations. Thesame conditions
are present again but the evil consequences
may be averted.
That is to say by checking the profligacy
which in 1892 aggravated the evil and
made the remedy impossible, the events
which followed in 1893 may be prevented.
But the course which was taken then muss
be avoided now. That is to say we must
not allow the imperialists to pursue their
destructive course before and after the
presidential election this year as we did in
1892. In other words it is a duty to hus-
band ‘our resources before and after the
‘election this year and not allow the rob-
bery $o continue beyond the election and
up ‘until the inanguration without com-
plaint. Weall knew, in Angust 1892, as
we all know now that there is a panic im-
pending. Bus then we tamely submitted
‘to “thie evils which we knew were being
perpetrated if} she confidence that after the
election the remedy could be applied and af-
ter shat event we found it was too late. Let
us pursue the other course this time. That
is, let us begin to take care of our resources,
national and individual, before they are
entirely exhausted and with such precaun-
tions and a Democratic administration
afterward we will be secure.
.——Every man who expects to vote for
the next President—ALTON B. PARKER—
should be sure that his name is upon the
Registry before September 7¢h. After that
-date it will be too late. :
Wrignt's Bogus Statistics.
The laboring element of the country is
taking notice of Mr. CoORROLL D.
WRIGHT'S statistics. Mr. WRIGHT who
never was anything other than a scurvy
politician with an inclination to figures
has been trying to show thas the increase
of wages during recent years has been
equal if not greater than the increase in
the expenses of. living. To accomplish
this result he has made a comparison of
the wage rates of 1893 with ‘ those of 1903
and a similar comparison of the cost of com-
modisies in 1901 with those of 1903. It is
a contemptible fraud bus just what might
have been expected from an official eyco-
phant like WRIGHT.
‘Wages were lowest in 1893 bus the pur-
chasing power of a day’s work in that year
was high. “Wages were highest in 1903
and the purchasing power of a day’s labor
less than ten years before, but still a good
average. But after the meridian of 1893
the wages of labor hegan-to decline and
simultaneously ‘the cost of living took
the upward trend. The resulf is that dur-
ing thelast year the tendency has been
constantly and rapidly against labor and
CARROLL D. WrIGHT’s effort to first con-
fuse and then deceive the public with jug-
gled figures is the most disreputable and
contemptible exhibition of partisan char-
latanism which we can call to mind.
Bat as we have observed the labor ele-
ment of American citizenship, the hess,
truest and most intelligent, has taken
notice of Mr. WRIGHT'S attempted fraud
and the consequence will be disastrous to
WRIGHT.
of the Philadelphia branch of the Eleotric-
ians’ association in an interview publish-
ed in the Philadelphia Ledger the other.
day shows that the $2 a day earned by
electricians five years ago went further to-
ward discharging the cost of living than
the $3.20 which they receive now,notwith-
standing the fact tbat the trade of the
electrician is a growing ove and the de
mand for such services is greater than the
supply. "
For example the business agent
A United Democracy.
The Democracy enters the impending
campaign with the pleasant spectacle of a
united party so cheer itto victory. Mr.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, that mag-
nificent combination of conscience and
eloquence, is scarcely less enthusiastic in
the support of the ticket than JAMES E.
CARTER and FREDERICK R. COUDERT, of
New York, illustrious constitutional law-
yers, whose legal ideas of sound money
kept them out of the tight during the cam-
paigns of 1896 and 1900. PATRICK CoL-
LINS, of Massachusetts; SENATOR PETTUS,
of Alabama, who differso widely on non-
essentials are to-day ‘ike men of a single
sult is shat in every section of the country
there is the confidence which increases
energy and inspires confidence.
There is a tradition that in this country
of splendid achievement and unmeasured
resources that which is needed is always
available. And there never was a time
in which the united and earnest efforts
of the Democracy were - 80 much needed.
Can any thoughtful man intelligently
review the events of the past three years
without a feeling of dread of what might
have occurred ? With RoosZVELT in the
office of President, absolutely unrestrained,
for the obligations of the constitution and
the laws and his oath of office never in-
fluenced him in the least, there is no pos-
sibie way of estimating the oonsequences
if his caprice had taken a dangerous turn,
as it might have done at any moment. A
united Democracy is a guarantee against
that danger. :
The harmony in the Democratic party,
therefore, which assures the success of the
Democratic ticket, may be justly regarded
as a Providential dispensation to save this
grand Republic from destruction. ROOSE-
VELT is bebaving well now, but his deport-
ment is not the consequence of inclination.
Af this time last year he was pursuing a
different course. Then he was ‘‘cavort-
ing’’ though the country at the expense of
the railroads under forced tribute - depend-
ing on padded bills for service to recom-
strictly to business. But tbe change is of
‘the head rather than the heart ‘and for the
‘purpose of deceiving the public. If he
were not a candidate now he would be
aoting as he did shen. If he is elected. in
November he will resume his wild career
even though in ends in wrecking the Re-
public.
——Remember that it is but a few days
“until the registration of voters closes. Wed-
nesday, September 7th, is the last day.
Roosevelt Bound to Trusts.
President McCALL, of one of the big New
York insurance companies, who has hither-
to professed to be a Democrat, has declared
that he is this year for the Republican
ticket. Mr. J. PIERPONT MORGAN'S prin-
cipal Philadelphia partner has become the
onllecting agent of the Republican national
committee. Mr. STILLMAN, Mr. JoHN D.
ROCKEFELLER'S cashier, has announced his
earnest support of ROOSEVELT. ANDREW
CARNEGIE has offered to contribute half a
million dollars to the Republican campaign
fund. Mr. MORGAN himself states that he
is reconciled to ROOSEVELT and Mr. ROCKE-
FELLER ig'striving with all his might for
the success of the Republican party. Mr.
SCHWAB bas also aligned himself on that
side.
These gentlemen represent the genius of
trusts. ROCKEFELLER and MORGAN are
the head of the combination and the others,
well paid agents and instruments, For a
time they made a pretense of being op-
posed to ROOSEVELT but it was false and
fraudulent. There never was a moment
that a danger of TEDDY’S defeat for the
nomination would not bave brought them
actively into the fight in his behalf. In
faot it may be asserted without fear of con-
tradiction that it was they who kept oppo-
sition to his nomination out of the field.
But they wanted to force him to petition
for their support and on their own terms
and they have succeeded. They have him
under mortgage.
It may be accepted as a truism that gen-
tlemen of the ROCKFELLER, MORGAN and
CARNEGIE. stripe will never support a
Democratic candidate for President. They
may have a choice among Republicans or a
reason for making one Republican bind
himself to them ; but they know shat. all
Democrats are against their interests for
the fundamental principles of ' that party
are diametrically opposed to the system
which they pursue in business. Therefore
whatever political predilections gentlemen
may have, if they are opposed to trusts and
the financial conditions which create trusts,
they must be opposed, to the party and the
candidate which is under the control of
those men and ROOSEVELT is so bound.
~—Do you knew that you are register-
ed? If nos, be certain that you are before
the 7th of September or it will be too late.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
mind in support of the ticket and there.
pense them, while now he is. attending |
Mr. Pulitzer’s Indictment.
In an open letter to the President, pub-
lished on Tuesday, Mr. JOSEPH PULITZER,
editor of the New York World, quotes from
twenty-six speeches delivered by THEO-
DORE ROOSEVELT between November,1897,
and May, 1903, in every one of which the
spirit of militarism, the desire for conquest
and the yearning for war, and blood and
suffering were the dominant features. Mr.
PULITZER shows that the triumpbs of
peace do not appeal to the ROOSEVELT
mind. The achievements of art and science,
the victories of indnstry make no impres-
sion on his mind. It is the operation mili-
tant that secures his sympathy. He wants
to crush and destroy and devastate.
The American people are a peculiarly
peaceful people. In war they have proved
valiant,courageous and capable. But they
have not sought war. Their contentions
bave been in the fields of industrial aotiv-
ity. ' The conquests which appealed to the
minds of the fathers of the Republic were
those of production and creative effort. To
make two blades of grass grow where pre-
vicusly one developed was their ambition
and the result was entirely sasisfactory. A$
least the country prospered phenomenally
and increased in wealth and strength with
a rapidity never measured or even dreamed
of before. But.these were the achieve-
ments of peace, the triumphs of industry
and intelligence.
ROOSEVELT’S idea is to change the trend
of American public sentiment. He wants
what NAPOLEON wanted a little more than
a hundred years ago and he desires to
achieve the results by the same processes.
To borrow his own pet phrase he has iron
in his blood and he wants to make it fels
in every direction. WASHINGTON was a
tame figure in the affairs of his day and
generation compared with BISMARK and
ROOSEVELT imitates BISMARK rather than
follow the example of WASHINGTON. It is
the more spectacular course and ROOSE-
VELT is spectacular. But the American
people are not and when they recover from
the frenzy of ROOSEVEL® they will regret
that it ever existed.
a EE
Young Men Whe Cannot Vote.
. Don’t forget the fact that young Demo-
orats who voted on age last fall, and whose
‘nfiifies are not upon the Registry, cannot,’
under any circumstances, vote ‘at the com-
ing election. Other voters can gualily to
their residence and the payment of a tax,
‘tered or not, but the young man who voted
on age at the election of 1903 will be de-
his name is not upon the Registry there will
be no tax assessed against him, and as he
has never paid a tax, and cannot until he is
properly assessed, he cannot qualify as the
law requires and consequently is prohibit-
ed voting. . 4
Do not. overlook this important. facs.
Republican registration assessors are in the
habit of *‘overlooking’’ the names of Demo-
crats who voted on age and in this way
prevent thousands from voting every year.
Do not let such a trick win this time. Be
sure that every young Democrat is regis-
tered and at the polls to vote. ;
——There are always men who are
negligent about their voting. = 1f not regis-
tered they will refuse to go to the election.
This is the class of men that Democrats
should be sure are upon the Registry lis.
The doubtful vote will be with the Dem-
ooracy this fall and it is the doubtfal
voter who never sares whether he is regie-
tered or not. Fix this vote for the Demo-
cratic ticket by seeing that it is prepared
to vote. This yon must do hefore the
evening of September 7th, ye
——The dam in the river at Lock Haven
is in danger of becoming a thing of the
past. Heretofore the Pennsylvania rail-
road bas kept it in repair, but that corpe-
ration is said to have decided against fix-
ing it up again. In such an event the cit-
izens of Lock Haven are face to face with a
$10,000 repair bill or else lose the fine body
of water that has been such an attraction
ab that city. = Lock Haven people are pro-
gressive, however, and are not afraid to
spend money in public enterprises, so we
take it that when the time comes, rather
than lose their boating and bathing the
necessary money for repairs will be forth-
coming.
——The most important matter for
Democratic voters to attend to now is to
see that each and every man who will vote
for PARKER and DAVIS is properly regis-
tered. The registration closes on Wed-
name is not upon that list always bas
trouble in casting his ballot. This is a
matter that should be attended to at once.
Save time and trouble on election day by
seeing that yonr name is upon the Registry
NOW.
——The Bellefonte athletics and Snow
Shoe base ball teams met on the diamond
here yesterday afternoon and the visitors
+ were defeated by the score of 9 to 7.
nishes the following instruction table :
‘United States Senate 1,190,000
atives 2,814;
xecutiv
and thus secure their votes, whether regis- |
prived of this privilege, for the reason that if |
nesday, September 7th, and the voter whose |
How Republican Prosperity” 1s Fat-
tening New England Working-
men.
From the Springfield Republican (Ind.)
Never in the history of the cotton man-
ufacturing industry in Rhode Island has
there been as serious a general depression
as prevails to-day. ‘Mills that have never
been before shut down for vacation periods
and seldom have ran on short time are
either now running on half their usnal
time or else are closed.
A staff’ correspondent of the Boston
Transcript says that some of the Fall River
mills were absolutely closed, and in New
Bedford some mills have not operated their
lodms in full'for more than nine months.
There has been so much enforced idleness
that public'and private property have be:
extensively drawn up. Me 47 lite Reon.
union of spinners has paid out five or six
thousand dollars in curtailment a
Mayor Ashley, of that city, says be has
h
never seen 80 seriows a sitpation :
ublio
oor de-
the working people, and he urges’
‘works fo give employment. poor
partment of the city is being drawn upon
increasingly every week. Six years a
the city paid ons $60,000 on account of the
long strike, and the prospects are that this
season that sum will be much ‘exceed
ded.
A manufacturer says the condition is the |:
worst that New Bedford has known in its
history as a mill centre. The curtailment
of production has cat down the weekly pay
roll in the city $70,000. In the past 1d
months the drain on’ the Fall River poor.
department bas increased rapidly and ‘‘to- |
day fully a third more is being distributed
from the city store and the department in
general than at any previous time in the |
city’s history.’ : :
This isa bad condition of affairs surely,
and if matters are so bad, what would
the result if the workers accepted a further
out of 12 1-2 per cent. in wages. It is said
that with full time—whiob is not promised .
if the ont was accepted—weavers wonld
make $6.50 per week, not enough $0 sup-
port a family with the present high cost of
iving.
Our “World Power” Galt.
From the New Orleans Times-Demoecrat.
If Republican newspapers and Republi:
can politicians want to discass the issue of |
ersonian simplicity’’ let them explain |-
Ye
why it is that the cost of maintainin
Federal Government has ‘increased i he
cent. within the last ten years, while the
population of the country bas increased
ess than 6 per cent. In this connection, a
writer in the New York Evening Post fur-
b 56 li gpg’ ppg FOYSEBY
POPUIBLION. ..ooci.ssrsi76,000,000 180,000,000 555
tate Department...... 1,842,00(
Public Printing........... 3,644,000 - ;
Bureau Fngravi dt os ih
Printing.......... . 1,186,600 2,782,000 118
War Department 57,000,000 ° 121,683,000 = 115
Navy Departmeut......32,000,000. 83,116,000 160
: ———
: Teddy and Grover.
From the New York World, August 18tk,
President Roosevelt's administration has
added $18,000,000 a month, or $600,000 a
day, or. $2,500 an hour, more to the cost of
Government than was paid during the last
four years of President. Cleveland's admin-
(istration. {4
A Belated Councilman.
Jobn B. Elkin is said to have decided
no make any speeches in this campaign
after holding a lengthy conference on)
subject with the Republican leaders. This
decision is. a most belated one, and will
not. help him any with right-thinking
voters. Mr. Elkin was nominated several
months ago for the high and honorable
position of judge of the Supreme cours of
the State. With a man who bad a proper
Sanoepsion of the position he was thus
placed in an immediate and complete re-
tirement from political activity wonld have
followed. But Mr. Elkin did not see
things that way. A short sime afterward
he announced that he proposed to still run
things in his own county of Indiana. and
$0 mix in politicos there as of yore. Then
came the death of Senator Quay, and Mr.
Elkin plunged np to his neck in politics in
the vain effort to seize the dead leader’s
seat. Failing in this his next move was to
accompany the Pennsylvania delegation to
the Republican national convention in the
hope of fostering his political aspirations.
But the atmosphere of Chicago proved very
chilly, and be quickly turned his face
homeward. Now it is announced that he
will take no pars in the campaign. Under
all the circumstances this announcement
has no value. It is certainly not dictated
by any appreciation which Mr. Elkin may
have of the proprieties of his position, but
simply because it is thought to be good
politics. Mr. Elkin has no real qualifica-
tions for the judiciary, and the voters of
Pennsylvania will do ‘wisely to keep him
off the bench, and thus afford him.an op-
portunity to follow his natural bent for
dabbling in the political mire. 3
Mines Close for Campaign.
ALTOONA, Aug. 23.—Daring Jnly and
August the production of soft coal in the
Central Pennsylvania field has fallen to
the lowest ebb kuown in 10 years: The
55,000 operatives of the mines have ‘been
working but two and three days per week.
This week the largest workings of the
Berwind-White coal company. at Windber,
olosed indefinitely for a lack of orders.
The manufacturing depression eastward
is tbe cause of the slump 1n coal produc-
tion, Mills and factories which are usually
good buyers have cut their orders in twain
50 await the resnlt of the presidantial elec-
tion.
——The great Centre county fair, which
this year will be bigger and better than
ever, is only ahous five weeks away and
farmers and others should begin at once to
get their exhibitions in order.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Huntingdon expects to have a silk mill
in operation soon.
—Seven murder cases are scheduled for the
August criminal ‘court, which convenes at
Greensburg, Aug. 29th. *
—Meadow Green has a 12-year old farmer
who led’ all his’ neighbors in .getting in his
hay and grain crops. Good boy!
—They bave a mighty mean thief in Loc&-
Haven. The other night he stole a piece of
crepe from a store door in that town.
—The Memorial hospital, at Johnstown,
contains nearly a score of typhoid fever
cases, many of them, however, from outside
the city.
—Hon. James Kerr, of Clearfield, at the
last meeting was elected a member of the
state committee, Young Men’s Christian
association, bituminous region department.
—A young man named William G. Stiffler
has been lodged in the Lock Haven jail on
the charge of stealing $100 from George Cof-
fey, clerk of a Mill Hall hotel. He admitted
his guilt.
—When about to announce the benediction
at the Beaver Memorial M. E. church at
‘Lewisburg Sunday evening Dr. J. L. Albrit-
ton, pastor of the church, who was formerly
of Williamsport, became speechless and the
. congregation was dismissed.
—The large barn belonging to Geo. Dun-
‘mire, near MeVeytown, was struck by light-
ning Wednesday evening and destroyed with
all its contents, except the stock and imple-
ments. The insurance lapsed a few weeks
ago and the loss is about $2,000.
—Sam K. Auterm, of New York City, was
'seen in Lock Haven Sunday with a four
months old cub bear which he and Robert
‘Byron of the same place caught in the Bald
Eagle mountains south of Lock Haven, about
three weeks ago. The bear is already be-
coming quite tame. Rls
—A peculiar automobile accident occurred
at Philipsburg a few evenings ago. While
[drawing the gasoline from Dr. Andrew’s ma-
chine, preparatory to sending it away, it took
fire and the woodwork was totally consumed
There was a gallon of gasoline in the tank
‘and it made a terrific blaze.
—Information has been made by Pure
Food Inspector, James Foust, against four
‘merchants of Osceola, for selling hamburg
steak and pork chops ‘‘doctored’’” with sul--
phides. Itis said that thisis the first in-
‘stance that has come before the department
| where pork chops and steaks of any kind
have been ‘‘preserved.’”’
"The Bedford Hawkeye, which is generally
regarded as the, personal organ of Joseph E.
Thropp, is informed ‘‘that Mr. Thropp has
not sought the congressional nomination,
but that in the event of his endorsement by
the democratic conferees he wonld stand for
the best interests of the people regardless of
political differences.”
~Elmer From, aged 18 years, who lived
with’ his father along the. old pike in the
Lewistown Narrows, directly opposite the
dam, was drowned in the Juniata river near
| Bixler's on the 16th. He was subject to epi-
lepsy and it is supposed he was attacked with
| a fit and fell out of his boat. The body was
recovered about 2:30 o'clock that afternoon.
| “Richard Keefe and wife, of Seottdale,
have brought an action of trespass‘against
the Pittsburg, McKeesport and Connellsville
Railway company asking damages in the
sum of $10,000, for the loss of their son, Jos-
eph Keefe, who was run down and killed by
a car while standing on the crossing. in
Swedetown, a ‘suburb of Scottdale, on July
4,.1904.
—Out in Pike township, Clearfield county,
Thomas Jefferson Bloom, a prosperous farm-
er, owns a ten-acre meadow that has produc-
ed a crop of timothy hay each successive sea-
son for ninety-eight years. The field was
cleared and seeded by his grandfather, Wm.
' | Bloom, in 1806, and has never been plowed,
i | but is given a top dressing every two years.
Twenty loads were garnered off the land this
summer. :
—This is a perfectly free country. A Nor-
ristown Judge has just decided that a girl has
a right to sit on her best young man’s lap ; a
New York judge has given an opinion that
‘a boy may enjoy the privilege of snoring in
church ; a York judge has afirmed that the
father of a girl hasa right to throw her
young man out of doors if he hangs on later
than 11 o’clock ; it has just been judiciously
determined that a man does not have to have
his mother-in-law in the house.
—A party of berry pickers under the direc-
tion of John B. Probst, of Lock Haven,have
been camping out several weeks, gathering
some of the finest huckleberries that have
been brought to the Lock Haven market.
The camp was nearly .40 miles away from
that city in the mountains and was located
in the heart of an extensive patch of berries.
Fred Probst, of Lockport, who is over 70
years old, was with the party and he alone
picked 708 quarts, The whole party picked
over 6,060 quarts of fine huckleberries.
—An intoxicated man who said his name
was Philip Lawrence, and his home in
'Houtzdale, provided the loiterers in the vi-
cinity of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts-
burg station, at Clearfield, with a thrill or
two Friday afternoon by making a flying
leap onto the pilot of a moving locomotive,
The young man missed his footing partly
and for a second it looked as if he would fall
in front of the machine, but he clung to the
upper work with his hands. The train was
stopped and tbe man jumped down and ran
‘away.
—J. W. Fetters and wife, an aged couple
who live near Feightner’s school house,
about four miles from Greensburg, on the
Mt. Pleasant road, together with the mother
of Mrs. Fetters, who is aged 93 years, were
the victims of a brutal assault and robbery
between 12 and 1o’clock one morning re-
cently. The robbers broke in the door with
a battering ram, knocked down Mrs. Fetters,
bound and gagged her husband and ransack-
ed the house from garret to cellar, securing
$60 and a check for $50 drawn in favor of
‘the old man by his son, Dr. W, II. Fetters,
of Scottdale. Two guns and a revolver that
‘were in the house were broken and thrown
into the ‘yard. The old grandmother was
not molested, but the fright and excitement
have caused nervous prostration that may
prove fatal.
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