BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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as Ink Slings.
Z.golonel chambers.
—The Republicaus had twice the crowd
at Grange park that the Democrats had,
but not one-tenth the enthusiasm.
—The New York Democrats pus the final
cinch on the Empire State, on Wednesday,
when they nominated Justice D. CADY
HERRICK for Governor.
—Centre county has spoken on the ques-
tion of militarism. Homeopathic Colonels
* are al! right at Ms. Gretna or Somerset, but
in Centre counsy— Well, that’s different.
—We haven’t beard of a fight among the
Republicans of Philipsburg as to which
one is really entitled to the distinction of
being the only and original chambers
man.
—Senator DAVID B. HILL'S greeting to
the Democracy of Centre county shows
that the astute New York leader bas his
eye on the situation in all parts of the
country.
— The cold wave of the past few days is
properly attributable to the presence of the
‘Indiana Refrigerator’ —meaning the Re-
publican candidate for Vice-President—in
Reading on Wednesday. The frost follows
wherever he goes.
—The little boy out at Sharon who found
a paymaster’s sack containing sixteen
thousand dollars aud received tweniy-five
cents as a reward for returning it to the
owner, has reason to be proud of his honest
character, but there must be a tightness
about that paymaster that even a flax-seed
with a sledge behind it conldn’t penetrate.
. —The result of the Republican primaries
in Centre county last Saturday evening
was rather disastrous to our friend ed-
ward r. chambers. In fact so disastrous
as to knock the handle clear off his name.
For the endoisement for Senator Mr. QuiG-
LEY had 62 votes and Mr. chambers 12.
Of course Mr. QUIGLEY is not going to the
Senate, just yet, because Col. IRVIN car-
ried Clearfield and Clinton counties, there-
fore he will be the Republican nominee.
—At this time when the value of a Mem-
ber at Harrisburg is measured almost sole-
ly for what he can accomplish for his con-
stituents it would he worse than folly to
defeat Mr. KEPLER. He will be very
much needed at Harrisburg during the
coming session, because he has the friends
and the influence there to secure the best
results in the way of appropriations for the
Philipsburg aud Bellefonte hospitals and
The Pennsylvania State College.
—TFor District Attorney we bave need of
an active, promising young lawyer, While |.
fand whioh enables thém to be independent
Mr. H. H. HARSHBEKGER is a very nice
gentleman he is too much of an old fogy
for that particular office. He wonld do
better as master of ceremonies at a quilt-
ing bee or an ‘“‘apple ‘snitzin.” What
Centre county needs is a man like WiL-
LIAM GROH RUNKLE and, judging from
the expressions to be heard on all sides, he
is the man we are going to have for Distriet
Attorney.
—When Mr. WOMELSDORF makes a satis-
factory explavation of his actions towards
fellow Republicans who have been on the
tickes with him. in the past he will stand
in much better favor with them. Is is
hardly reasonable that he should demand
their enthusiastic support of his present
candidacy in the face of the slashiug he has
been guilty of himself. In fact, PHILS
big knife bas been as dangerous to Centre
Republicans in the past as President
R00S EVELT'S big stick has been to some
foreign powers. i
—-It Mr. LAMB had any superior quali-
fications for the office of Prothonotary it
would be different, but it is not known
that he is equipped for anything ia particu-
lar except the work’ he is doing now. Ob
the other hand Mr. KIMPORT has had years
of experience in the office. He is admir-
ably adapted for it. both by his. pleasing
disposi tion and his thorough knowledge of
the business of keeping the conrt records.
In fact h e would be an ideal Prothonotary
and the truth precludes our saying so
much for his opponent.
---JoHN NOLL represents one e of the olds
est and most numerous families in Centre
county. He isan honorahle representative
t00 ; a gentleman who bas lived a sober,
upright life, earning a living for his family
as a mason. He is the kind of a man
who knows the needs of the working peo-
ple, especially, and he is the kind of a man
who should represent them in the Legisla-
ture. Mr. NOLL is not only a skilled
mechanic, buta weli-read gentleman, up
in the affairs of State and could be depend-
ed on to act with the best of judgment in
passing upon the laws proposed for Penn-
sylvania. ‘
—The solicitede of Mr. HARTER, the
editor of the Gazette, for ‘‘the veteran edi-
tor of the WATCHMAN’ is most pathetic.
In fact we were so moved hy his concern
that tears as large as horse chestnuts flow-
ed from the weak old eyes of the veteran
when he read of the plan that the Demo-
crats are making to wreck the WATCH-
MAN and humiliate its editor. It is .too
bad; however, that tom's great, generous,
overflowing heart should waste its sympa-
thy, on such ‘‘a rebel reprobate,’’ because
Judge Love will need that all after No-
vember 8th. Meanwhile the WATCHMAN
will work right on in: the effort to get a
clean, non-partisan’ Judge on the bench’ in’
Centre county and when that is done ¢
public will find ~shat-the-slopping over in’
the Gazette office will be of another kind.
if the people of ¢
| of wearing apparel.
| fuse the mind of farmers, and make them
- ole
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VOL. 49
Profligacy in Government.
The expenditures of the government in-
creased from about $270,000,000 per an-
num during the CLEVELAND administra-
tion to $580,000,000 during last year.
This is considerable more than 100 per cent
increase within a period of less than a dee-
ade, while the increase in population was
probably less than 10 per cent. The state-
ment therefore contained in Mr. ROOSE-
VELT’S letter of acceptance, to the effect
that the present policies and methods of
the administration will be continued in the
event of his election to succeed himself be-
comes a subject of grave concern. That
means an annual tax levy on the people of
this country for purposes of the federal
government of more than $7 per capita.
That vast sum, supplemented by the
local and state taxes, makes poverty of the
people inevitable. :
If the President had defended bis profli-
gacy by the claim of extraordinary de-
mands upon the treasury aod given some
pledge of a more economical administration
in the future the public might have re-
garded with some measure of complacency
the great outlay of the past year. But he
has not esteemed it worth while to take
this course. He bas not considered it of
sufficient importance to call for an apolo-
gy. On the contrary, he boldly declares
tbat the profligacy of the past year has be-
come the settled policy of the administra-
tion and that in the event of his election
it will be continued indefinitely. He does
not even promise to.limit expenditures to
the aggregate of last year. Whatever
amount is necessary to carry out the
methods which he bas adopted, including
the big stick, will be disbursed whether
the people like it or not.
The great evil which government ean in-
flict on a willing people is overtaxation.
Taking from the pockets of the workers
a greater share of their earnings’ than is
essential to the maintenance of efficient
government is robbery quite as much,
even if the amounts are accounted for, as
if they had been stolen.
‘It is a form of robbery, moreover, which
enervates the victims more than any other
beca use it deprives them of that surplus
and resist injustice. It is the form of op-
pression which tyrants invariably adopt
because there is no legal redress for it.
There is 1 redress, ‘however, and
is country’ ure wise, they
will apply [it by. defeating RooseveLr at
the coming election.
’
Mr. Wrights Frauds Exposed.
Advance sheets of the Democratic cam-
paign book already issued present some in-
‘teresting, as well as valuable facts. One
section of this work deals with the juggled
statistics of CARROLL D. WRIGHT, which
purport to show that during the last ten
years, there has been a greater ratio of in-
crease in wages of labor than in the cost of
living. The Democratic book takes these
figures and literally tears them to pieces.
It shows that Mr. WRIGHT has not only
perverted the statistics bat that 1 - has de-
liberately falsified the facts. For xamgle,
be groups various articles and ma es aver-
ages in certain groups, which hav no re-
lation with each other, and assumes that
the result is a correct statement of the rel-
ative cost of a certain element in the ex-
penses of living.
In other words, Mr. WRIGHT classes
cotton as the product of the farm and wool
as an article of clothing. Every reasoning
man knows that if one of these is a product
of a farm the other must be. Cotton is
essentially an element i in the manuofacture
But in order to con-
believe that . agriculture has been a pros.
perons ind ustry durivg the last few years,
he takes the weotton crop of last year, ex-
oceptionally productive, and puts it in that
class. Wool; on the other band, was not a
successful ¢ odity -during the last year
and he pu in the list of clothing, so
as to make is appear that expenses of farm-
ers were light while the oroduots of the
farm were ofa high value. This trick is
j and explained in the Demo-
align hook."
Another fraud of Mr. WRIGHT'S statis-
tics is shown in. that he began his com-
parisons in the dullest year of the decade
and ends them in the most prosperous.
That is to say, he begins with the paric
year of 1893 and ends with the excepsion-
ally prosperous vear of 1903, thus estab-
lishing the false pretense that the DING-
LEY law has maintained prices from be-
ginning to end. Now asa matter of fact,
from 1903'to 1904 there has been a rapid
and continuous depreciation in value and
decrease in wages. In other words, in an
emergency, the DINGLEY law bas sigoally
failed to talfill its promise of maintaining
prices. Not only that, but the Democratic
campaign . book. clearly proves thay the
Republicanmanagers have conspired to de-
«
airs tlie people on this important poins.
Is is an act of perfidy.
‘expressed regret for his riotous life in the
- with a grain of allowance all his professions
sn worthy ofa man |’
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 238, 1904.
Roosevelt’s Change of Heart.
Philosopher DOOLEY in his admirable
treatment of the political situation, in the
New York World of last Sunday, observes
that President ROOSEVELT is trying to live
down his past. In other words, this close
analyst of conditions takes notice of the
reversal of President ROOSEVELT'S attitude
on the subject of peace and war. During
all his public career ROOSEVELT has been
the promoter of war. In a history of the
Rough Riders published in Scribner’s Maga-
zine serially, during 1899, he said that
some men differed with him widely be-
cause they viewed the approach of war
with feelings of genuine horror. Subse-
quently, he described the shooting of a
Spanish soldier by himself with great de-
light, though under circumstances not far
removed from what would be homicide in
‘| oivil life. In fack, in everything that he
has written, he has made himself appear
as a propagandist of war.
For political reasons, the President has
lately assumed the character of an advocate
of peace. As philosopher DOOLEY says, he
bas made application for membership in
the Quaker church. Too late he has dis-
covered that the American people, or that
portion of it which is in the habit of think-
ing, is not enamored of war. Too late he
bas ascertained that the achievements of
the American nation, which thrill the best
people with pride, have been in the arts of
peace. That in feeding Europe, in supply-
ing all countries with the highest type of
industrial products, we have gone farther
in the direction of enriching ourselves and
bettering the world, than could possibly
have been accomplished by wars of any
kind, and these are especially preferable to
the results of wars for conquest. After this
eleventh hour conversion he is now posing
as a man of peace.
If ROOSEVELT were sincere in this pre-
tense of a obange of mind it would bea
subject for popular felicitation. There is
nothing admirable in the character or asti-
tnde of a war lord, The bully is not the
figure that finds favor in the minds of in-
telligent people. Bus there are reasons to
helieve that in his attitude asa man of
peace ROOSEVELT is {indulging in a false
pretense.
He has uot publicly or even privately
pass.
for expressing a preference for the cowboy.
He bas never openly confessed a regret
for declaring that the border ruffian is more
admirable than the Quaker.
Until he does these things, we shall take
of love of peace.
Big Frauds Contemplated,
The great increase in the registration of
voters in Philadelphia is somewhat dis-
couraging to the hopes of an honest elec-
tion and fair return in that city this fall.
The registration indicates a voting popu-
lation of nearly 400,000 whica i= fully 100,-
000 more than the actual populatiun would
show. This padded registry is obviously
for the purpose of increasing rather than
diminishing the fraudulent vote of the city,
which heretofore has averaged about 80,-
000. If the plans are carried out there
will be at least 100,000 fraudulent votes
cast this year, and the boast of one of the
machine managers that ROOSEVELT will
carry every precinct in the city will be
fulfilled. ;
There is yet time, however, to prevent
this gigantic scheme of fraud and there are
two ways to proceed for the achievement
of this result. The first is to appeal to the
courts to purge the registry list and re-
move all names improperly included in the
list of voters. This is both a laborious and
difficult process but probably worth all it
costs in labor and trouble. It will not
only’ guarantee the result desired bus it
will expose the perfidy of those responsible
for the frauds. The other plan is to pnt an
honest, fearless and ‘incorruptible Demo-
crat on every election board, who will re-
sist the ambition of every fraudulent voter
to. cast a ballot. There ought to be no
trouble in carrying out this plan. There
Js certainly sufficient - Democrats of that
type in every precinet in the oity to man
the election board with oue Democrat.
To make sure of the result, both plans
ought to be adopted.
The incentive to Democratic effort for
elections is ample. In the city of Fhila-
delphia, under such conditions, the Demo-
crats will not only carry one Congress dis-
trict hut have a reasonable hope of electing
two Senators and a dozen Representatives
in the Legislature. Besides, it will cut
down the majority on the state ticket to
such figures as will admonish the Repub-
licans in the State that in future, at least
in off years, they will be obliged to vomi-
nate fit candidates. That fact established,
we would bave better government in Penn-
sylvauia and a vastly improved public life
thronghont she conatry.
3 Se
re ay
of the reputation of CARROLL D. WrraHT.
7
——Subsoribe fot the' WATCHMAN.
Dresser Has mo Claim.
No friend of Representative SoLoMoN R.
DRESSER, of Bradford, has undertaken to
give a sufficient reason to justify his claim to
re-election to Congress. Two years ago Mr.
DRESSER was catapulted into the nomina-
tion of the Republican party because ous
of his vast means it was helieved he would
contribute liberally to the QUAY campaign
fund. He was in no way identified with
any of the ‘interests of the people of this
Congress district. He had acquired wealth
by ‘‘absorbing’’ the patents of an employee
for certain devices used in the production
of oil and gas. By the generous use of
money he was elected. Now he asks for a
re-election, though as we have already
shown, he has done nothing in the mean-
time to conserve the interests of the peo-
ple of the district.
During the session in which Mr. DRESSER
has occupied a seat in tbe House of Repre-
sentatives there were abundant oppor-
tunities to serve the public. The postal
scandals were fully developed and they re-
vealed some palpable, les us say, irregulari-
ties on the part of a Representative in
Congress for an adjoining district in Penn-
sylvania. Mr. JosEPH C. SIBLEY, as the
head of a concern operating in Franklin,
Pa., bad influenced the Department to pur-
chase certain products of that concern af
an exorbitant price, and Congress was
asked to investigate the transaction. Bus
Mr. DRESSER, while he took nopars in the
discussion of the question, voted with his
party to prevent the inquiry. In fact, he
resisted with all the force he was able to
command, which was simply his own vote,
any searching investigation of the postal
frands,
Mr. DRESSER’S election two years ago
was achieved because he was a rich resi-
dent of the district. One term of office,
however, is ample recognition of = this
negative merit. It was up to him to show |
some reason for a continuance of public
favor. In this he has signally failed.
There is no possibility that during the re-
wainder of his term he will be able to
make good, for as we pointed out two
weeks ago, the next session will give no
opportunity for ‘initiative reform. or prac-
tical legislation. That being true, the peo-
ple of the district should select a more
‘efficient Representative for the ext Con-
; 3 gress.
He has never apologized to the farmer =
Col.
The nomination 2 of C Col. E. A. IRVIN, of
Clearfield, for the senatorial “vacancy in
this district, shows that the machine is
still. willing but afraid. That is to say,
the manipulators of Republican politics in
the State would infinitely prefer one of
their own type to either the late Senator
PATTON or Col. IRVIN. But they know
that a man of their own ype would be de-
feated and make a virtue of necessity, by
nominating a representative of what they
claim to be the better element, who, never-
theless is likely to obey their behests. The
late Senator PATTON disappointed them on
the press muzzler. There is no reason to
think thas Col. IRVIN will disappoint them
in anything. 5
Col. IRVIN is a gentleman of character,
good reputation aod fairly popular. In the
past, be has made some pretense of inde-
pendence in politics and may have, in local
offices, refused to support candidates of the
worst. type. But there is really nothing
in his record which would command the
support of Democrats to aid his long cher-
ished ambition to get into public office.
He has always been a Republican. He has
at all times stood for the principles of that
party—high tariff, imperialism, profligacy
and even the iniquities of Republican ad-
ministrations have had his support. Per-
sonal disagreements between himself and
QUAY or personal ambitions which QUAY
Irvin. fo for Senator.
failed to indulge made him bn some occa-:
sions appear to be against the machine.
But he never got far enoungh away from it
to have its smell blow from his clothes. It
is true thas last fall he assisted in the de-
feat of Judge GORDON, the machine nom-
inee for Judge in Clearfield, but this he did
not because of a desire to assist the Demo-
crate but because of his personal dislike of
the Republican nominee.
To our mind, it is fortunate that the Re-
publicans have named such a candidate.
It guarantees a campaign for that office,
free from personalities and exempt from
scandal. The Democrats will name a can-
didate more deserving and better adapted
for the service. It is an office which in-
volves much labor and close attention and
Col. IRVIN is not likely to be able or will-
ing to give it either. He has secured the
nomination to gratify personal ambition
rather than serve the publio, and he will
take care of his own interests firss. If the
people of the ‘district want a Senator who
will take care of their interests shey will |,
elect the nominee in oppolition, to Mr.
IRVIN. : :
—1It is given ons that the late. Senator
A. E. Patton left an estase valued at more’
thap A) million dollars. .
‘as fine an exam
1
‘end. * * * If it were as gond
NO. 317.
Amn Issue that Should be Met Boldly.
From the New York World,
In every successful presidential campaign
waged by the Democracy since the Civil
war, tariff reform has been a prominent if
not the all-important i issne. Tilden push-
ed it to the front in 1876 ; it helped to
elect Cleveland in 1884, and it was prac-
tically the sole issue in 1892. Its suppres-
sion by the money question after that
year was the beginning of Democratic
disaster. And the tariff the ceuntry is
enduring to-day is worse than the one that
Tilden’s platform denounced as ‘‘a master-
piece of injustice, inequality and false pre-
tense, ’’or the one that Cleveland’s platform
in 1892 called ‘‘the culminating atrooity of
olass legislation. »
The.Republican party, which {nsists that
the De ould be ‘‘revised by itariends,
has made ite friendly revisions ten fimes
since the close of the war, and the average
duty, is now higher than it was forty years
ies Roosevelt protests ‘against any
attempt to disturb the trusts by reducing
the duties which deliver the American con-
sumer bonnd into their hands, on_ the
ground that in the process of disarming the
great monopolies we might hurt the little
producers that crawl in their shadows.
This is equivalent to saying that the tarifi-
sheltered trusts must go on forever. ‘A
trust can breed a little one every year to
stand between it and the wrath of a
swindled public. There is no ‘‘race sui-
cide’’ of trusts. And as: Lous » there is
an infant corporation §o share andes
scooped from the public.
giants Mr. Roosevelt will ins b that be
looting must not be interrn, oy fir
The Democracy did not oy Til en and
Cleveland by gumshoeing Br
this subject of tariff extortion. as frond
guished from a reasonable and necessary
tariff for revenne, There are no votes to
be gained now from. the beneficiaries of
Dingleyism by timidity, but there are a
good many to be won among she viotimp
of oppression by courage and honesty. )
Swagger and Strut.
From The New York Evening Post.
Students of that ols pre, 8
Roosevelt psychology—shonld not neglect
to read the residens letter of oe
entire, inordinately long tho it be. It
is indeed wordy, and in some parts be-
stows all its a 5:4 Jase reade
relentlessly; but it reveals apofer. Beltr
of the requi-
snbject—
confidence is said to be ‘one
sites of the statesman, and that at leas
Mr. Roosevelt possesses, With what pity
ing condescension does he ;
common law to Judge Parker! An | there |
iis not a tinge of false modesty in his
aseertion that ‘‘no other Adm
‘our history, Ve
world,’’ has stood for humanit;
ically "than bis. own. Furtherm
Tackive
e Io tes-
' manship’’ ‘as that shown ir the Philippine
Your Lord Cromers, your Sir
Islands.
George Grays, and yonr Bartle Freres,
Austria in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Gef-
many in the Reichsland, | France in
Algiers, must all take a back seat!
Throughout, in fact, the President revels
in swashing superlatives. Yet so near to
dust is his grandeur that he tells us that
this greatest, proudest, richest, strongest,
purest, wisest, nation would be overwhelm-
ed with ‘‘disaster’ and “widespread
misery,’’ if by any chance he should fail
of election. In other words, this mighty
land would be ruined if 3 per cent. of the
voters should change their minds about’
tariff schedules. ‘As Dr. Wiley kindly ex-
plained to the visiting English scientists :
*‘Don’t believe a word you hear us say
about polities !"’
An Official | sna Slinger.
From the New York Times.
Toward the Democratic party the Presi-
dent is astonishingly truculent. He defiles
it with every insult his imagination can
conjure up. Itis a vile thing, without
character, withont conrage ; it improvises
its convictions, and abandons them if they
prove unacceptable to the people. Don’t
you like what we’ve done? he shouts at
the Opposition. What are yon going to do
about it? Will yon undo our work if yon
come in? You dare not. Throughout all
that part of the letter in which he deals
with the Democratic party one has a vivid
picture of the clinched fist shaken in the
faces of the miserable creatures at whom
the Presidential vituperation is imed.
The old party has been much castigated
for its sins, but it never got such a tongue-
lashing as this from any high source. It
bas been often preached that a certain
graciousness and courtesy toward a pros-
trate foe was advisable even in the great
moment of triumph, . President Roosevelt
scouts the idea. .He believes he has the
Democratic party down, that he is going to
keep it down, and he pats his foot on its
neck and mauls it to its own great joy. Is
is told of an English barrister thas, pansing
in the course of an argument, he said to
the Judge : “‘Your Lordship, the language
'you have seen fit to employ toward me
would be disrespectful from the Almighty
t0 a black beetle.”’ . The Democrats, out-
raged in their feelings and woefully mis-
handled as they have heen by the Presi-
dent, may feel that even the basest beings
in the land should not deserve to be talked
to by the President quite in this fashion.
But it will do them no good to rub their
wounds. The most effective reply to the
President which they can make is to beat
him at the polls. i
The Beanty of Republicanism.
From the St. Louis Republic. :
‘‘As painted by Mr. Roosevelt, the re-
‘publican party almost discounts Provi-
ence. It is all wise and all beneficens. It
is perfection, full rounded, beautifal.
Accordin to Mr. Roosevelt thetime has
' '| come when those in charge of government
are omniscietit and 'society’s ills are at an
as Mr. Roose-
‘welt to think it is there would be
no farther needof politics and we Si
even’ get along. without the constitution. ”
Spawls om thy the Keystone.
—A lockout of iio and joiners
ordered by the master builders went into ef-
fect, on Tuesday, in Wilkesbarre. Si
—In a freiglit wreck on the Fall Brook.
railroad a car load of cattle was ground to
pieces, fifteen cars and the locomotive were
‘wrecked and brakeman Wallace sustained
injuries that will probably cause his death,
+ —Rev. Charles Wagner, the noted author
of “The Simple Life,” who is making his
first visit to America and is spending this
week as the guest of John Wanamaker, con-
siders Philadelphia the most beautifully nam-
ed city in the world.
—Nearly 700 cut-rate immigrants came in-
to Philadelphia, on Sunday, on the steam-
ship Friesland. Of these fully two-thirds
were Russian Jews of the poorer class. The
examination by the quarantine doctors
showed that there were no cases of contagious
disease on board.
—1J. P. Cabby, a Pittsburg youth who has
been slowly dying of consumption alone and
impoverished in a tent near Redlands, Cali-
fornia, was notified by lawyers that he had
fallen: heir to a large estate in Illinois,
but the good fortune came too late as he died
the night after he received the news.
'—Black diphtheria has broken out at
Brownsville, Pa., and three deaths have re-
sulted. Twelve cases have been reported
‘and the spread is alarming. Twenty-three
years ago the town was scourged with diph-
theria and hundreds of children died and
grave fears are now expressed of the scourge
being repeated.
—While joining heartily in singing ‘“Tell
Me’ the Old; Old Story,” Levi Rothenberger,
aged 56, died in Hipnershitz Reformed
church, near Reading, Sunday night. Mr.
Rothenberger sat next to the organist and
was leading the singing. He had started the
third verse when the hymn book fell from
his hand. The singing was stopped and it
‘big | was found he had died from apoplexy.
~ —Miss H. Boyd, who was sent out by the
Pennsylvania Archeological society to make
investigations and excavations for ancient
cities in Crete, was a passenger on the steam-
er Pamonia which arrived Saturday. from
Trieste, Flume and Palermo. Miss Boyd
said that she found a hidden city in Crete
| and has brought with her many specimens
for the society.’ This is her second trip for
exploration.
After being sweethearts for more than
fifty years, Jerome Huntsinger, aged 76
years, and Auna Lutz, aged 71 years, were
married last Saturday evening at Hazleton.
They were devoted to each other from child-
od, hnt objections were always offered un-
til a month ago the last of the family who
had blocked their happiness died. Both are
wealthy and they will spend their honey-
moon at the World’s Fair. 4
~ —Last Friday afternoon one of the inmates
of the Huntingdon reformatory escaped and
has not yet: been apprehended. He with
about twenty-five others was returning from
work near the farm barn and when turning
the corner of the lane leading into the main
road, he struck at the guard, Mr. Wolfe, and
‘then started off as fast as feet conld carry
‘towards Alexandria. He was committed to.
alm the. reformatory for ten years for burglary.
~The’ will ‘of Charles Billman, an eccen-
tric Barry township farmer, when admitted
| to probate in Pottstown, on Saturday, caused
n ‘great surprise, the valnation. totalling. $35,-
000.. It developed that Billman, on his
death bed, disclosed a secret to his son, who
subsequently found many thousands of
dollars in gold hidden about the house.
Most of the money was under the Tafiets,
and consisted of $20 gold pieces.
—With a farewell dinner in which more
than 500 persons participated, the Bellevue,
Philadelphia, one of the best known hotels
in the world closed its doors forever Monday
night. * Presidents, statesmen, eminent for-
eign visitors have been its patrons and in it
famous lawyers, brilliant wits and represen-
tative men have met for the last score of
years. The Bellevue-Stratford, the eighteen
storied successor, was formaly opened Tues-
day night. i !
—Tyrone car No. 1, Monday afternoon,
while descending the hill on Allegheny
street, Hollidaysburg, going towards Gays-
port, jumped the track and was. precipitated
into the waters of the Juniata river, carrying
its loads of human freight with it. Mrs.
John Ritts, aged 70 years, a resident of Al-
toona, was killed and Rev. William Rose, of
Frankstown, his wife, King Rose, their son
and Miss Juli a Duganne, of Hollidaysburg,
were injured. :
—Over one hundred head of cattle have
died in Lebanon,Chestér and Berks counties,
as a result of the Texas fever infection from
imported Southern cattle. The infection
first broke out in Lancaster and. was caused
by native Pennsylvania cattle infected with
Texas fever. By direction of Dr. Leonard
Pearson, all the farms in the vicinity of
Wernersville, Berks county, having Texas
fever prevalent among the cattle, have been
placed under quarantine. The quarantine
will be maintained until the heavy frost
sets in.
-—In connection with the selection of a
Democratic assemblyman by the Erie nomi-
nating committee a remarkable coincidence
has been brought to light. It has been
found that in the past, six citizens of Erie,
who have lived on Sixth street, between
French and Holland streets, have been sent
to the Legislature. They are : Thomas Sill,
Jonas Gunnison, Gideon J. Ball, George W.
Starr, James Sill and General McCreary.
As Shacklett lives in the same block the
Democrats think it quite likely that the
Legislative lightning will strike him.
—Stephen Fellows, an Englishman of
Barnesboro, shot his wife and 16-year-old
son in the station of that place, Jast Wed.
nesday morning. She, a pretty woman of
thirty-two, twenty years younger than her
husband, with her son had purchased tickets
for New York, when Fellows coolly walked
into the station and fired point blank at her
head. She staggered across the room and
out on the piatform where she fell, Caten-
ing sight of his son cowering behind the,
store, Fellows aimed at him and with a
scream of agony the boy ran past his father
out on the station platform and fell down-
‘ward across the tracks: To make sure both
weve d the pussashin followed his victims
ught the boy may recover,
B EE r shot inn pach, as they lay
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