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+ ink Slings.
ne “the Republican club swallowed
‘the ROOSEVELT club?
: —That letter of ROOSEVELT'S ought to
cause a drop in the price of radium.
. ——Keep JonN Nort in mind. He isa
candidate for ASSEMBLY ‘and would make
a very honorable and unsefal Legislator.
—A Democratic gain of twenty-four per |
cent against a Republican of five per cent.
puts a different iiss on the returns from
Maine.
—Ten years in one office i is long cenokigh
for a man who has spent nine of them try-
ing to build up a machine that could boss
those who put him there.
*''—Don’t forget the COLONEL when you
‘speak of e. r. chambers the aspirant for
Senator. He impresses that point on you
‘by the way he has his advertising matter
printed.
© _We might live to see the day when the
same sly, cunning in diplomacy and decis-
ive action which we are applauding in the
Japanese might be the source of much em-
_barrassment to ourselves.
, —Two dollar wheat is predicted for next
.May. Mr. ROOSEVELT basn’t as yet come
forward to olaim the oredit, presumably
_becanse two dollar wages are not predicted
for the laborer with which to buy bread.
— “We shall do in the future as we have
-in the past’’ says ROOSEVELT in his letter
“ot acceptance. Here's carte blanche for the
post- office thieves and all other public
pl underers to continue stealing the pnblic
- money.
No, dear Reader, Dr. LocKE will not
‘be a candidate for the Senate. His disin-
-clination is probably not due so much to
“private tom’s declaration that he couldn't
have it, as it is to the fact that Mr. DRESSER
“isn’t a candidate for this particular office.
'—COLONEL chambers is making a
regular pink tea affair out of his candidacy
‘for State Senator, which is announced on
‘large pink placards, embellished with the
"COLONEL’S corpulent self. It struck us
“as being a case of pink bills for pale peo-
“ple. ;
'_BuLL ANDREWS has been landed at
“last. His exile in New Mexico has not
borne the fruit that the late QUAY led him
"to expect, bus he bas been named as a
delegate to Congress, which is the next best
thing, since New Mexico stands no im-
. mediate chance of having any Senators.
mh trust for saving souls has been in-
. corporated ons in Indiana. It can not be
- possible that it is the intention to corner
. the price of Salvation when they sing to us
‘every Sunday “Salvation is Free !"’—For
the sake.of the effect of this paragraph the
reader is supposed to forget that the collec-
tion plate is always passed right after the
hymn is sung
—Some of the Philadelphia papers seem
to be very much concerned because babies
are bought and sold, cheaper than dogs,
in that city. = The price quoted varies from
$25 to $30. The outside world would feel
likewise outraged at such traffic were it
not so well known that about election time
grown men are honght for a dollar a head
in that city.
—Now for the fight between Mr. HENRY
CuTE QUIGLEY Esq. and the COLONEL.
Both of the gentlemen are filled with ambi-
tion to become Senator. QUIGLEY hasn’6
as yet announced his plan of campaign,
while the COLONEL is already at work
trying to out-do both W. L. DOUGLASS
and LYDIA PINKHAM in’ getting his pic-
ture before the public.
—If President ROOSEVELT will show us
how the men who are working in the mines
in Centre county at $1 per day and other
laborers who are receiving but $1.10 per
day are to figare out that ‘‘the purchasing
power of their wage has grown: faster than
the cost of living’’ then we will admit that
our desire to call him what he really ap-
pears to be is founded on a false premise.
—A Prince of the royal-blood from some-
where, who chanced to be in Bellefonte on
Taesday, espied a wagon loaded with shav-
ings passing on the street, and facetiously
inquired ‘of his companion : ‘‘Is that a
load of Force ?”’ Judging from this sample
Princes are not as dense as they are crack-
ed up to be. And for the want of more
definite information we are forced to in-
trodace you to this one as ‘‘Sunny Jim.’
—Judge LoVE formally opened his cam-
paign at an ice oream festival in the court
house yard, last Saturday night. , The
children who constituted ninety-nine per
cent of the audience kept up such a com-
motion that we are unable to quote his
exact langnage further than his rather
startling announcement that the returns
* from Vermont indicate that ROOSEVELT
and I will both be elected. Up to that
moment we were under the impression that
the Judge was running for an office .in
Centre county.
—It Judge LOVE really did tell the Re-
publican leaders of the county that he
could make more money practicing law
than he can by sitting on the bench he
probably told the truth. But a law practice
yieldiog ‘more than $5,000 per annum in
Centre gonnty means plenty of good bard
- work and you all know on what terms the
* Judge and work appear to be. There is
_ one thing certain, the WATCHMAN doesn’t
intend to put itsell in she position of hav-
ing the Judge accuse it of standing in the
way of his making more money than he
can on the bench.
VOL. 49
In his admirable speech to the editors
of the country on last Thursday, Demo-
cratic candidate for President, ALTON B.
PARKER, briefly contrasted the expendi-
tures of the government during the admin-
istration of GROVER CLEVELAND and
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. ‘During Mr.
CLEVELAND'S first term,’’ said Mr PARK-
ER, “‘the average annual expenditure was
about $269,000,000. For the past three years
it has been about $519,000,000. The
govermental expenditure amounted to
$582,000,000, which is not equalled by any
year since the Civil war with the exception
of the year of the Spanish war.”” In other
words, the expenses of the government
during the last year of the ROOSEVELT ad-
ministration is more than twice as much
as the last year of the CLEVELAND admin-
istration, both periods being of profound
peace. There must be some allowance for
the increase of govermental service be-
tween 1896 and 1904 but it would be ab-
-sard tc say that the difference is so great.
The real issue of the present campaign
is the profligacy of the present administra-
tion. We have a right to complain of the
various infractions of the constitution, of
the disregard of law and of the corruption
in the several departments. Bnt those
things are administrative evils which mighé
be remedied by a change in the control of
the government. The profligacy, however,
is a party policy and to check it there must
be a complete reversion of the parties. The
ROOSEVELT administration bas gone to the
limit of expenditures and unless if is
changed the inevitable result is bankruptoy.
This is more than the ordinary defalcation
of an individual. It means the complete
failure of the government to meet its obli-
gations and fulfill the requirements of
honest business principles.
We are not disposed to insist. on cheese-
paring as a principle of administration. In
other words, we believe in ample govern-
mental resonices to meet generous govern-
mental requirements. But a polioy which
more than doubles the cost of administra-
tion within half a dozen years when the
increase of population is less than ten per
cent and the functions of government have
undergone no material change is intoler-
“lable, ‘because. ,it involves ‘disaster, both
economic and financial, Judge PARKER
has pledged himself and his administra-
tion to a return to the economic basis of
the last Democratic administration and the
wisdom of the public will be exemplified in
the election of such a candidate.
Promises of Continued Extravagance
and Jingoism.
In his letter of acceptance President
ROOSEVELT said, thas, ‘‘Il continued in
{| power we shall continue our foreign policy
and our handling of the navy on exactly
the same lines in the future as in the
past.” If that means anything it means
that the expenditures of the navy shall be
continned at the rate expressed in the last
appropriation, which is at the rate of more
than double that of any previous year
in the history of the government and near-
ly five times as much as that during the
period in the CLEVELAND administration
when the foundations of the new navy
were laid. It also shows that the big stick
is to be brandished over every national
‘‘weakling’’ in the wide world until the
end of time.
The foreign policy since the accidental
and unfortunaté accession of ROOSEVELT to
the Presidency has been one of brag and
bluster. No incident in a foreign country
has heen so unimportant that we have not
found an excuse:to ‘butt in.”” Nodispute
among foreign powers has been too insig-
nificant to command our attention. Our
warships have been ready to steam np at
the drop of the hat and interfere’ with the
affairs of any power or people. Except
when Great Britian was transgressing the
rules of war and the principles of liberty
by subverting free republics, ‘we have in-
variably intervened. Bat on that occasion
we sat silent, the big stick suppressed
while the empire ran rough shod over the
territory and people of a self-governing na-
where previously the emblem of liberty
bad existed.
President RooseVELT will continue the
foreign policy which has destroyed the tra-
ditions of our government, if be is continu-
ed in power. GEORGE WASHINGTON ad-
monished us to avoid such foreign compli-
cations. THOMAS JEFFERSON cautioned us
against such meddling. Every President
between the first and the last has studious-
ly avoided such disturbing relations. But
ROOSEVELT has gone out into the world
with his big stick proclaiming from the
decks of our warships that he is willing
and ready to regulate the whole world and
the result, she practical Qoublivg of our ad-
ministrative expenses.
Are the American people ready to follow
this dangerous and fatuous leadership. If
they are they will vote for ‘ROOSEVELT, if
Judge PARKER.
tion and set up the standard of monarchy
not, the alternative is So eas; a vote for:
STATE RIGHTS AN
Roosevelt’s Letter of Aeceptance.
It there were any evidence needed to
prove THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S unfitness
for the great office into which an unfortu-
pate accident cast him, it is abundantly
supplied in his letter of acceptance, made
public the other day. Misrepresentation
is the leading feature of the document. No
sourvy politician could have shown greater
‘disregard for the obligations of morality
and decency. He accuses without reason
and maligns with absolute wrecklessness.
No President has ever before indulged in
such an undignified and unbecoming tirade.
It is to be hoped that none of his successors
until the end of time will againso grievi-
ously offend.
The letter is too long and too tedious to
take all its featnres up in rotation and
point out their weaknesses, but we may
find time to revert to that characteristic
blunder in which he attributes the panic
of 1893 to tariff legislation, which was not
enacted until a year and one-half after the
time that the industrial paralysis had spent
its fury. ‘‘Itis but ten years since the
last attempt was made,’’ writes the Presi
dent, ‘by means of lowering the tariff, to
prevent some people from , prospering too
much. The attempt was entirely success-
ful. The tariff law of that year was among
the causes which in that year and for some
time afterwards effectually prevented any-
body from prospering tco much and labor
from prospering at all.’’ © Unless the Presi-
dent's extraordinary egotism has complete-
ly paralyzed his brain he must know that
the panic of 1893, to which he refers, was
the result of the overous tax burdens, im-
posed through the operations of the Mo-
KINLEY tariff law, which culminated in
the Homestead riot in July, 1892. The
WiLsoN tariff bill was not enacted ' until
October, 1894, and couldu’t have been
responsible in the slightest degree for in-
cidents which had occurred more than a
year and one-half previously.
‘The President is equally wreckless it
other acousations and claims. For ex-
ample, he ageerts that the settlement of |
the coal strike was an individual act of
the President. That is a monumental
falsehood. The President may have ex-
ercised some influence in bringing ‘about
the settlement. But he did not achieve it
himself any more than the administration
jnssituted the proceedings in the Northern
Securities case. That litigation was in-
angurated by the Governor of Minnesota,
who had the greatest difficulty in getting
the administration to carry it to a conclu-
gion. The claim that the Republican party
established the gold standard, is equally
false and fraudulent. The CLEVELAND
administration forced the gold standard
upon the country at a time when THEO-
DORE ROOSEVELT was denouncing single
standard advocates as inimical to sound
currency as the silver mine owners in the
Rockey mountains.
The President disingenuously asserts
every act of Lis own administration and that
of his predecessor in office, which has met
with popular favor, and challenges a pub”
lic declaration of the Democrats that they
would reverse it. Do our opponents ob-
ject to the way in which the MONROE
doctrine has been strengthened and up-
held, he asks? Do they object to what
has been done in reference tothe petition
of American citizens against the Kishenev
massacre, he adds. . Do they object to the
fact that the international tribunal at the
Hague was rescued from impotence. Cer-
tainly not. But they do object to the ab-
surd claim that the ROOSEVELT adminis-
tration had anything to do with such re-
sults. The MONROE doctrine was never
stronger and never held in higher esteem
than when in 1895 President CLEVELAND
served notice on the British Empire to
keep off the grass in South America or
suffer the penalty of intermeddling. There
was no brandishing of a big stick over the
heads of national weaklings on that occa-
sion. The admonition was addressed to
the greatest naval power in the world and
that power promptly acquiesced.
What a Disaster the Cat Rates on
Steamship. Lines Will be.
In the Philadelphia Inquirer, of Sept.
5th, is an alarming showing of the effect of
steamship rate cutting war in the character
of steerage passengers of the steamer
Westernland. Of the 800 passengers, 625
were registered in the steerage department
aod none of them had to pay over $7.75
fare. The steamship companies have been
reducing the steerage rates and as a conse-
quence there has been a steady influx of
immigrants into this country. The actual
amount of money that goes into the hands
of the steamship company is only $3.75
out of every fare. The remaining $1 is
divided between the agent who sells the
ticket in Europe and the United States
government. Hitherto one hoard of in-
spectors has been sufficient to cope with
the problem of the examining passengers
but three are now required. This low rate
bas attraoted hundreds of paupers from
the poorest quarters of European cities and
made an alarmingly great rush into this
country. Just why we all sit by, and see
this evil without attempting to stem it is
incomprehensible, as no other problem of
the day will have the far reaching and
disastrous results that this deluge of im-
migrants will.
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 16, 1904.
The Vermont Election.
‘‘The Dutch have taken Holland.” That
is, to say, the Republican party carried
Vermont the other day by about the usual
majority and ever since that event the
papers of that party have been insisting
that the presidential contest is thereby set-
tled. The day before the election in Ver-
mont, the Democrats carried Arkansas by
a vastly greater majorisy. In fact, there
were hardly enough of votes cast for the
Republican candidate there to entitle him
to a place among the scattering. Bat that
seems to have been withous effect on the
presidential contest. Only Republican
victories count in’ Republican estimation.
The Republican majority in Vermont is
just about what everybody expected. The
Republican candidate for Governor bas in
the neighborhood of about 30,000 votes
more than his Democratic antagonist. This
result was achieved at the expense of a
campaign of extraordinary energy and
activity. Every conspicuous Republican
orator between the two oceans was brought
into service and vast sumsof money were
spent in getting voters to the polls. After
all, the majority is nearly 15,000 less than
it was in the September election of 1896
and 10,000 less than at the September elec-
tion of 1900. It requires the sbrongest
sort of optimism to interpret this as’ an un-
usual Republican victory.
It may be that the Republicans were
fearful of a different result in Vermont.
Possibly they imagined that the New Eng-
land sanity would cause a revolt against
intense that it could not be checked even
by the use of money and the playing on
prejudices. Under such circumstances,
there may be relief in the discovery that
things are not as bad as they might have
been. But it may be set down as certain
that the result of the Vermont election
will have precious little influence on the
poll in: New York, Indiana, Wissonsin and
Virginia, the States which will determine
the vexs President.
——When the Bellefonte and Philips-
burg hospital and The Pennsylvania State
College are asking for appropriations from
the next Legislature’ KEPLER will be the
mah who will be needed at Harrisburg.
knows all the old Members and is'in a posi-
tion to enlist their support.
TT err TT
——WILLIAM GROH RUNKLE wants the
needs a man just like Mr. RUNKLE.
The Editorial Pligrimage.
The visit of the editors of Demooratic
and Independent antecedents to the
presidential candidate of that party, last
week, was a unique and we believe, a use-
ful inovation in political customs. The
Editors gathered from all parts of the
country acd though hastily summoned
were largely represented at the meeting.
Their visit to the presidential candidate
gave them a rare opportunity to measure
the character and estimate the merit of the
man whom they are supporting for the
greatest office in the gift of the people.
That their best expectations were fulfilled
may be regarded as oertain.
Judge PARKER revealed himself on this
occasion in his true character. Complete-
ly divorced from his judicial office, he
entered into the political life which is be-
fore him: If under the circumstances, he
had faltered or seemed uncertain, as to
his course, his long devotion to judicial
duty would have been an ample excuse.
Bat bhedid not falter. He met the re-
quirements of the occasion with a prepar-
edness which could not have been improv-
ed if he had been doing nothing during
the last 20 years except ‘practice politics.
He was firm, certain, sure ‘in everything.
He took hold of the issues promptly and
with a firm graspand he discussed them
with a measure of intelligence which was
gratifying to all his hearers.
The meeting was good for the editors,
as well as for the candidate. 16 brought
them into closer relations with each other
and gave a new impulse to their earnest-
ness and enthusiasm. After Judge PARK-
ER’S speech they were better able to
encounter the duties of the campaign be-
cause in his language he pointed out to
them the course which involves unity of
aotion, which is always effective. Chair-
man TAGGART of the national committee
is $0 be congratulated on the sunocess of
this unusual feature of his campaign. It
was admirably conceived and splendidly
exeonted. The good effects will soon
be ‘apparent.
——The Republican farmers of Centie
conunty haven’t mnch choice on their own
‘ticket this fall and that is the reason so
many of them are going to vose for farmer
KEPLER and farmer KIMPORT.
for Prothonotary. He knows the office
well and there ien’s a lawyer as the Centre
county bar, Republican or Democrat, who
will not vouch for his proficiency.
SS RI,
the absurdities of the administration so
| H8. was there during the last session,
office of District’ Attorney and the office
tion,
——ARTHUR B. KIMPORT is the man
NO. 36.
More “Plutocratic Drift to Parker.”
From the New York World, Sept. 8th. ***
“It is all going one way,’”’ said Mr. E.
H. Harriman, president of the Union
Pacific, when he returned from Europe the
other day and discussed politics incidental-
ly with thereporters. ‘No ‘one wants to
put the Republicans out.’’
How the downtrodden, oppressed, bedev-
iled American millionaire clings to the
President and the Grand Old Party ! Here
is Mr. Harriman, in the hour of h s North-
ern Securities troubles and a rate war on
wire nails with the Missouri Pacific, fond-
ly Join his trust in the administration.
Less than a week ago Mr. Geo. Gould,
who controls the Missouri Pacific, “which
has been quarreling with Mr. man’s
road, came home from Europe and testi-
fied abundantly to his confidence in Mr.
Roosevelt and Republican policies.
A few days earlier Mr. Henry C. Frick,
of the steel trust, returned from Europe
and willingly confided to the reporters his
belief that the President and the Republi-
can’ party had earned the support: of the
business interests. Mr. Morgan is said to
be for Mr. Roosevelt. His busines
ciates are actively supporting Mr
vel$, and it is likely that John
would bet a million that the Pre
as siife and sane as anybody.
This is doubtless what an es!
publican contemporary means: heldb anys:
‘‘the drift of plutocracy toward fudge |
Parkers is still in evidence. n
Lak
Hunger Will Bring Them To Their
Senses. :
From Harper’s Weekly, (Rep.)
England away from its ‘Republican moor-
ings. For example, the cofton mills have |
to compete with the Southern mills. In
the Massachusetts mills the hours of labor |
are restricted by legislation. In the Sonth
they are not. The Southern mills have
cotton at their doors and pay low w
The Massachusetts mills pay frei ht
charges on their cotton and higher wages
to their hands. The Massachusetts mills
can only live by making finer goods. But.
for that they need the long staple. Egyp- |
tian cotton on which they haye to pay a
duty. There were glass-works on Cape’
Cod; they used wood for fuel until the |.
wood was gone, Then cheap Dominion
coal would have helped them. Bus there |
is a duty on coal, and the glass manu-
facturing business has moved $0 Pittsburg,
where coal is handy. , If Pennsylvania and
the coal roads are strong enough to ma in-
tain the duty on coal, New gland will
eventually rebel. She bad a for iture_
manufacturing business. for w
needs cheaper lamber. There is
on lumber, and New England hae
to buy her farniture and
Minnesota and Michigan. Se if, it goes
England mast, live, and il even ually. th
problem of living makes it necessary .
vote the Democratic ticket, she will vote
that ticket. She may nos "break loose this
year, but in time hunger will beat tradi-
How Republican High Prices Increase
the Death Rate.
From the Brooklyn Eagle. y
The Republican talk about ‘/prosperity’’
sounded like a joke in the face of the re-
cently printed tables showing the increase
in the cost of living. But in the face of
the rising death-rate and the amonniés ex-
‘pended by charitable societies in New York
city suoh a claim becomes either a satire
or a tragedy. The death-rate has risen
from 18.18 last year £022.24 for the first
six months of the present year. The total
namber of deaths in the city last year was
67,000, while for the first half this year it
is 42,000. The officials of the health de-
partment attribute this rise in the death-
rate to increasing poverty and to lack of
proper food and clothing. = Bodies weaken-.
ed for lack of food succumb to all sorts of
diseases. Although this snmmer has been
singularly cool, the proportion of deaths
among children suffering from intestinal
diseases has been unnsually high. The
lack of food is explained by high prices.
The same wages will buy only abous two-
thirde as much food as they would two or
three years ago,and the poor have to scrimp
themselves in many ways.
Gold Bricking the Farmer.
From the Lincoln Neb. Commoner.
Farmers who are compelled to sell their
produots in the open markets and buy
their supplies in a restricted market shonld
carefully study the boastful statements of
the Republican organ which says : ‘In the
three months of May, June and July of
the present year this country exported
$120,789,769 worth of mannfactured
goods.’”’ This is at the rate of $40,000,000
a month, or over $480, 000,000 a year. "Yet
these same manufacturers raise the cry of
“‘infant industry’’ and insist that they
have a high rate of ‘‘protection’’ against
the European competition which they so
much dread here at home and so blithely
meet abroad. As long as they can charge
the local consumer two prices and meet the.
foreigner in competition in foreign lands,
the manufacturers naturally contribute
liberally - to the party that makes a Shib-
boleth of protection in order to secure
fonds to keep itself entrenched in power.
The wonder is that the average American
citizen has not long since awakened to a
full realization of the gold brick game so
often worked on him,
: An Owner of Democratic ¥iciory,
From the Elmira Gazette.
If the Democratic party is looking for a
sign the Gazetie is able to supply one. The
budding and leaving of the Democratic
hickory pole raised as Mosherville, Pa.,
near that city, is certainly eligible to rank
as a portent. This hickory pole was raised
in honor of the Democratic national ticket
fouryears ago. It remained a bare pole
until a short time ago. After the nomina-
tion of Parker, however, the villagers were
amazed to observe the pole putting on
sigos of life. Budsappeared. Then came
leaves. The bare and apparently dead
Spawls from the Keysfone..
—Lock Haven will repair the great river
dam at that place and harness the river for
light; heat and, power.
—Mrs, Eckley B. Coxe, widow of the Lu-
zerne county coal operator, whose: charities
are. very bounteous among the anthracite
miners, will, it is stated, open a hospital for
constmptive miners, near Laurytown.
—Curtis Young, of Sarah Furnace, sus-
tained a fractured nose, laceration of the face
and had his right eye knocked out by a bel-
ligerent mule. Had the mule struck a little
higher Young would have been instantly
killed.
—Richardson L. Wright,the oldest member
of the board of education, died Sept. 10th, in
Philadelphia, aged 84 years. He was at one
time speaker of the lower branch of the
Pennsylvania Legislature and was a member
of that body four sessions.
—Two cherry trees bearing fruit in mid-
September are to be seen on the farm of J.
Frank Torbert, near Jersey Shore. The
trees are twelve years old but have never
before borne a cherry. The cherries are
black and are excellent to cook and eat.
—Blaine Hoffman, 19 years old, was tack-
led by an opposing player in a game of foot-
ball on Saturday at Lykens, where he re-
sides, and received such serious internal in-
juries when the remaining players piled
upon him that he died at'3 o'clock Sunday
afternoon,
: —James Longhortram, of Chester, Pa., fin-
ed Mary Walker $40.20 or 67, cents for each
of the oaths she used. The warrant was
sworn out by the trustees of the Temple Bap-
tist church, charging her with disturbing
public worship by swearing in front of the
‘church.
—There, is confined in the county jail at
Meadville a man by the name of Norman
| Thomas to answer to court with threatening
life. Thomas once suffered sunstroke and
.sincé then becomes mentally unbalanced
every 1 presidential year, due to the excite-
| ‘ment 0 ‘of the campaign.
—Nearly 55,000 men and boys in the an-
thracité: region who have been idle for a
week, resumed work at Ashland last Friday,
‘| when operations were started at 60 collieries.
'| The Toss of. production during the suspension
Give tariff time and it will fetch How,
amounts to about 350,000 tons, and the money
Tost to wage earners is considerably i in ex-
cass pf $250,000.
—The annual celebration of the Grand
Army of Republic, chief event at Lakemont
‘park, Altoona, ‘heretofore has been marked
by tremendous attendance at that popular Te-
sort but never. before was one held that
equalled the event of last Saturday. It. is
conservatively estimated that more than 25,-
000 budylle were in attendance:
~The Altoona Times states that a mad dog
in Sinking valley roaming at large last Sun-
day: night bit three victims, John P. Baker,
of Tyrone, was: bitten on the thumb while
| attempting to assist Edward Hartman in
fighting the dog. Hartman was also bitten
on the right thumb and Lawson Remey was
knocked down and bitten in the eyebrow.
~Join A. Lawver, of the Altoona Times,
whose‘ mysterious disappearance was an-
| nounced in this column two weeks ago last
‘| "Thursday morning, walked into the home of
John Bressler, a relative, at Donnelly’s
1' Mills,” Perry county, whom he intended to
visit when he left Altoona, Friday, August
26th. Thursday night he was brought to
his home near Bellwood by friends, who say
he is suffering from a derangement of the
brain and that he will recover after a rest.
—Dancing and singing and absolutely fear-
less, Milovar Kovovick was hanged in the
‘Washington county jail for the murder of
contractor Sam’l. T. Ferguson, at West Mid-
dletown, Sept. 23, 1903. As Kovovick emerg-
ed from his cell door, between the sheriffand
his assistant, he began singing ina loud
voice a Croatian farewell song, and as he
neared the platform started to dance. He
kept this up until. he reached the trap door
and was swung through to his death,
—James B. McManigle, who had been
missing from Milroy since Sunday, August
28th, was found by searching parties on Sat-
urday evening about six o'clock, at Miller's
old saw mill in Cox valley. The mill is not
in service and is about one and a half miles
from the traveled road and about seven miles
from Milroy. Several apple trees are located
here and he had been subsisting on the fruit.
‘He willingly returned home with his friends.
The only reason he gave for his absence was
that he became bewildered; that the sun
seemed to rise in the west, and he was un-
able to locate the right direction to reach
home.
—What is possibly the first suit of the kind
in Pennsylvania—one based on the allegation
that a woman 76 years old, thrashed a man of
35 years—has just been instituted by Samuel
Biover, of Oley, Berks county, against Mrs,
Mary Reider, of the same township. The
trouble was caused by Mr. Biever removing
some rails that were an obstruction to a
wagon loaded with wheat. Mrs. Reider, it
is alleged, used a stout stick or cane so vigor-
ously on Biever that **he was stunned, great-
ly burt, bruised and: wounded, and became
sick, sore, lame and disordered in conse:
quence.” Mr. Biever,who'is from Pottstown,
claims $1,000.
—Commander Booth-Tucker,after laboring
for ten years as head of the Salvation Army
in this country, bade the organization fare-
well in an _ address in Carnegie hall, Pitts
burg, Sept. 12th, He will leave for Europe
in a short time. Some of the comparative
figures of the conditions of the organization
in April, 1896, and Sept., 1904, are: With
absolutely nothing in 1896 the army now has
seven homes for women, 21 rescue homes,
three farm colonies with 3,000 acres and 530
colonists. There are given each year Christ-
mas dinners to 300, 000 persons, ‘while 3,000,-
000 beds are provided annually for the poor.
In 1896 the property value of the army was
$437,000, and now it is $1,520,000.
—Harry S. Batchelder, the famous Yale col-
lege man and football player, was sentenced in
court at Reading, Sept. 13, toa fine of $100
and six months in Berks county Jail for con-
ducting a Sampling pl ace in connection w' th
his cigar Tr oe poul room. While sent-
ence was pronounced by Judge Ermen-
trout, the ped jury brought in a'true bill
against Batchelder’s wife, who was Miss May
Cassidy, of Reading, for jembeaaling $2,600
belonging to Berg Bros. in whose store. she
had been cashier previous to, her romantic
marriage to Harry Batchelder, in Atlantic
atick is now a live tree.
“City, last year.