ArTane ~~ BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Will there be any Japs left to occupy Port Arthur after she does fall ? — Next to the fas babies DAVE STUART'S pumpkin seems to be the fattest thing at the fair. —To-day will wind up the fair. I¢ has been fair weather, a fair orowd and fair attractions. : —Why all this fuss over the plot §o wreck she new battleship Connecticut. She wasn’t wrecked, was she? —No dear, that wasn’t JOHN KNISELY, the Republican nominee for Legislature, among the ponderosities in that little show on the fair grounds. —ANDREW CARNEGIE can afford to write books . because he need not care whether the editions reach the fitty-thou- sand mark or nos. —The Presbyterians of Antioch, Mo., have just called their third minister in eighty years. Strange—what a difference there is in Presbyterians North and South ? —We love some men for the enemies they bave made, but most of Judge LOVE'S trouble seems to be : with some of the friends he has made. .—Ten years of office for one man seems to be a pretty good thing especially when it has netted him $39,004.26 and a year and a-balf’s salary and mileage yet to come. —The declination of Mr. KERR was not unexpected. It has placed the Democracy of the Thirty-fourth district in the em- ‘barrassing position of finding an eleventh- hour candidate. } —With the fair over we oan all settle down to talking politics again. By the way bets are already being made that ORVIS will have a majority of a thousand in the county. —It you want to see what ROOSEVELT and FAIRBANKS will look like on the morning of November 9th just gaze npon the transparency in front of Republican headquarters in this place. — The Democratic county ticket in Cen- tre will win next month, not so much be- cause it is Demooratio as because the peo- ple of Centre county have the good judg- ment that prompts them to vote for the best men. . —NoLL is growing in strength everyday. The people of Centre county have already made up their minds that neither Mr. WOMELSDORF nor Mr. KNISELY are just the kind of men they waus to send to repre- sent them at Harrisburg. : ~ —The Republican says ‘‘Little PHIL WOMELSDORF has been tried in she fire of . legislative life and found true as steel.” So they say, but it is she kind of steel that was in the knife that be ran into evpry- body whom he imagined stood in his way. —The largest dam in the world is said to be in the State of Colorado. Colorado will likely hold ¢he palm until the morning of Nov. 9th, when the largest damn in the world will be the one that Love, KNISELY, LavB, WOMELSDORF and HARSHBERGER join in uttering. —In a boastful sort of way Little FILL’S friends from over the mountain say : ‘‘Juss watch WOMELSDORF’S vote in Philipsburg and Rush.” We expect to watoh so that we can say to Mr. KNISELY, ““We told you so.’”’ As an artist with the knife everyone knows that LITTLE FILL is a past-master. Sie —The Republican has *‘heard it said that WILL RUNKLE has the best office practice of any lawyer at the Centre county bar.” And what if be has. What we want for a District Attorney is just such a man. One who knows enough law to properly con- duct the Commonwealth’s side of cases, withont having to call a loi of expensive assistants to his aid. —The Bellefonte hospital is especially in need of funds. The next Legislature will have to do more for it else its doors will have to be closed and the merciful work it ' has been doing ended. The Hon. J. W. KEPLER was ‘‘the man behind the gun’ in getting the last appropriation through. Why take any chances on the next one. Let’s send him back. —The Rev. O. R. MILLER, of Washing- ton, D. C., who is now lecturing in Penn- sylvania under the auspices of the Reform Burean, might know a great many things about good and had legislation and, no doubt, is doing a very earnest work in. furtherance of the former; bus he would tind his talks far more convincing if they were a trifle more consistent. For example, when in Bellefonte, Sunday, he sought signers to a memorial to the Legislature pray ing the Pennsylvania body to pass a local option law so that we people here in Centre county can vote out licenses if we want to do is, irrespective of the senti ment of the people in any other county. At the same time he waxed eloquent on the good such a law would bring. He told of the work the Reforin Bureau is doing in Congress for a federal enactment to make it possible so take Mormons outside of Utah for trial for polygamy. Withont the pre- tense of raising an argument on the merits of the individual propositions we cannot see how Rev. MILLER can consistently work and pray for special rights in Penn. sylvania, that is, the right of local ex- pression on temperance, while he is work- ing and praying to deny the special right of the people of Utah to trial in their own courts. Contest in Pennsylvania. The Democratic campaign in Pennsylva- nia is progressing in fineform. Candidates have been nominated for Senator in every district in which there is a vacancy. Only two legislative districts in the State are without Democratic nominees aud there are candidates for Congress in every district ex- cept one and in that there is a dispute which will have to be settled in cours. It may be necessary to make a second nomina- tion for Senator in this district, owing to the reported declination of Mr. KERR, but it may safely be predicted that $his delin- quency will be supplied in ample time to secure a place for the nominee on the ticket and effect a good organization and we can say that in that the party is in bet- ter shape than it has been for a dozen years. The resuft of party organization and pol- itical activity is that the party is certain to gain largely in congressional, senatorial, legislative and judicial strength. Early in the campaign we predicted the election of ten Congressmen and a gain of five Sena- tors in the State. The gain in legislative ‘seats will not be less than fifteen, while we are absolutely certain to add six to our list of Judges. This will be an achievement in the boss-ridden State of Pennsylvania which may justly be claimed as a substan-’ tial Democratic victory. If the frauds in the large cities are prevented to the extent which at present seems probable the Re- publican majority for presidential electors will be reduced to nominal figures. There is plenty of encouragement in this condition of affairs for the Democrats of Pennsylvania and some incentive to extra exertion. At present the organization in Philade}phia is arranging to purge the reg- istry list with the view of minimizing the fraudulent vote there. A systematic and thorough canvass of the city, it is alleged, bas been made and the city committee rays it is prepared to go to the courts not only with a list of names improperly entered, but with ample evidence of the fact. There ‘are a vast number of them, in one voting division the proportion of fraudulent registry being in thie proportion of three to one of the legal voters. If all these fraud- ulent voters are stricken off, as is promis- ed a comparatively honest vote will be polled and in shat event the Republican strength will be reduced in the neighbor- hood of 70,000. That may not guarantee a Demooratic majority in the State, bu it will keep the Republicans at home to save themselves from defeat. So much for or- ganization. An Expert im Mendacity. Former Attorney General PHILANDER C. KNox is new in politics, but apparently schooled in mendacity. For example, in defending the President’s Panama policy in his Philadelphia speech on Saturday evening last Mr. KNOX asserted that ‘‘i¢ is said in some quarters that he violated the constitution and the law of nations by recognizing the Independence of Panama and by negotiating a treaty with that Republic.” That statement is a deliberate and premeditated falsehood. Everybody knows that *‘it is an executive function to recognize the existence of foreign powers.’ But that is not the act of ROOSEVELT of which the people complain. The objec- tion is to the fact that he conspired for the Panama revolution and then recognized the Panama Republic before it had become an entity. The facts of the matter are that after the refusal of the government of Colombia to ratify the HAY-HERRAN treaty President ROOSEVELT instantly began negotiations with a handful of adventurers, not repre- sentative citizens of the province of Panama, who organized the Republic of Panama out. of nothing. and that RoOSE- VELT as promptly notified the government of Colombia that any attempt to ccerce these adventurers into obedience to the laws of the constituted and recognized government would be resisted with all the force of the government of the United States. That was the recognition, not of the Republic of Panama but the aet of secession and was precisely what our gov- ernment declared in 1861 would be a viola- tion of international law if perpetrated by any power. That was the outrage which has put an indelible stain on thie country. Mr. KNoX, who was introduced to bis audience as a fit successor of Senator QUAY, may be an able lawyer and a skillful juggler of phrases but he deceives no in- telligent man by such perversions of facts and history as that to which we have re- ferred. ROOSEVELT has not been criticiged for the exercise of any constitutional pre- rogative.. He has been denounced with be- coming earnestness for going outside of the constitution and outraging vot only the laws but the sacred rights of she people. He bas been censured properly bus not ex- cessively for using the army and navy without anthority of law and in violation of the constitution to menade the peace of the world and keep himself in the lime- light of conspicuity for personal aggrandize- mens. Mr. KNOX has made a bad begin- ning in polisics in his Philadelphia speech . Senator Davis’ Letter. The last of the letters of acceptance, that of former Senator HENRY G. DAVIS, Demo- cratic nominee for Vice-President, was made public on Monday and will compare favorably with the best of the others. It is brief, forceful and pertinent. It is just such a document as might be expected from a man who bas gained the highest dis- tinction in public life and the greatest suc- cess in business. Conservative in tone and clear in expression, it conveys at once the impression that its author is a courageous and conscientious man who speaks from a sense of duty and advocates what he be- lieves to be just and right. ‘The times are propitions,’’ he declares ‘‘for the re- instatement of the Democratic party in control of the government,”’ and then he proceeds to give reasons for his belief. As in his speech of acceptance Senator DAVIS lays special stress on the profligacy of the present Republican administration which asks for a renewal of commission and impudently asserts that in the event of its success the policies complained of will be continued. These policies have re- sulted in an enormous increase of the per capita expenses of the government.- No- body would complain of an increase pro- portionate to the multiplication of popula- tion. That is to be expected. But when the vastly greater number of people are charged an even greater ratio per capita and the aggregate totals up an appalling measure of extravagance, it is time that those responsible for the waste should be called to account and the public who pay admonished of the danger of such obvious recklessness. Senator DAvis is charaoteristically specific in his letter of acceptance. After pointing out the profligacy by a table of comparative figures he expresses his en- dorsement of the Panama caoal project and his reprobation of the means employ- ed in promoting it and then in eloguens phrases condemns as the sum and sab- stance of political iniquity tariff rates which ‘‘enable powerful combinations to extort unjust and oppressive tribute from the people.” In support of this he cites the fact that steel rails which are being made for $15 a ton are selling at the mille for home consumption for $28 a ton and for the foreign market at from $18 to $22. ‘“This unjust discrimination against our people,” continues the candidate, *'is made possible only by a tariff- that on thi article is entirely too high.” Upon all other issues of the campaign Senator DAVIS is equally clear and em- phatic. He condems in vigorous phrase those combinations inimical to industrial prosperity and subversive of individual ef- fort known as trusts, because they operate in restraint of trade. He favors local self- government and arbitration, laments the recent revival of racial prejudices and in conclusion pays a generous tribute to his colleague on the ticket who, he declares, “‘can be depended upon at all times to ob- serve that self-control in speech and action which isso necessary to safe 1easoning and sound judgment.’’ Campaign of Slander. A campaign of regularly organized slan- der has been organized against the Demo- cratic candidate for President in New York. It is said that Governor ODELL is respon- sible for this extraordinary movement and that may be true for the exposure of that atrocious corruptionist is said to have driven him mad. But such expedients are not likely to prove advantageous. The similar attempt at vilification in the first CLEVELAND campaign brought disaster to its inventors and the chances are more than even that the same result will follow this plange into the realms of mendacity. The plan is to employ corrupt mercen- aries to travel through the country and circulate by word of mouth slanders which it wonld be impossible to distribute through newspapers or circulars. For example the particular envoy who is working labor organizations tells the workingmen that PARKER is opposed to the eight hour law. Farmers are assured that the Judge is friendly to the trusts. At a railroad men’s meeting at Kingston, New York, the rail- roaders were told by the emissary that dur- ing the Chicago strike ten years ago Judge PARKER declared that ‘‘strikers ought to be hung,” and that the speaker heard Judge PARKER say in a store at Esopus, that ‘a dollar a day is enough for any workingman. { All these stories are false, of course, but they have been secretly circulated and it will be difficult to refute them. As a mat- ter of fact, however, Judge PARKER'S opinions as shown by hie judicial decisions are directly the opposite from those falsely stated hy the villainous agents of a corrupt boss. He sustained the eight hour law and affirmed the right to strike in decisions from the bench and the employes on his farm are paid the highest wages of any in the neighborhood. But those facts won’t protect him from the desperate political pirates who are conducting the campaign of the opposition. A Curious Defence. The most curious contribution to the literature of the campaign is an article in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly written by Representative SAMUEL W. ‘McCALL, of Massachusetts. The editor of the Magazine had undertaken to get opin- ions upon ‘‘the issues of the campaign,” from representative leaders of both parties. To accomplish she result Congressman Me- CALL was invited to present the Republi- can side and EDWARD M. SHEPARD, of New York, that of the Democracy. Mr. SHEPARD’S paper is adroit, forceful and persuacive. . He is an able lawyer and capable disputant. But as the esteemed Philadelphia Public Ledger observes, ‘it is in no sense derogatory to Mr. SHEPARD that the argument in favcr of the election of Mr. PARKER rather than Mr. ROOSEVELT,”’ is‘‘less forcefully presented by him than by the Republican Congressman.’’ ~ For example, after paying tribute to Mr. PARKER ‘‘as’ a man of courage and in- dependence,’’ who ‘bac had large experi- ence in publio affairs of the kind to develop a conservative and fair-minded executive,’ and brushing aside as puerile the objection to Mr. DAVIS on account of his age, he gays the ‘‘present contest is not essentially ‘between candidates but between parties,’ and he believes that the Republican party is more trustworthy than the Democratic.’ In support of this view he cites the cases of ANDREW JOHNSON and GROVER CLEVE- LAND, both of whom obeyed conscience but sacrificed the sapport of their parties. In reaching a conclusion from these premises, however, he denies the Republican claim of consistency in support of the gold stand- ard. ““The lass heavy blow aimed at sound money,’’ be added, ‘‘was struck by the SHERMAN silver purcbasing act,’ and finally declares that that act, the MoKIN- LEY tariff law aud the fear of revolutionary legislation on the tariff, were equally responsible for the panic of 1893. The second reason which Mr. MeCALL gives for supporting the Republican party, rather . than the Democratic, is that. the Republican parky ia more likely to revise the tariff by reducing the schedules than the Democratic, party. This belief is in- duced by the failare of the Demoorats to make the WILSON tariff law a free trade measure and the facility of the Republican party to reverse itself when political x cies require it. He says that ROOSE! innocuous, that the tariff fosters trusts, that the Republican policies in the Philip- pines must be abandoned or stamp taxes restored to meet the additional expenses of government and in conclusion commends ROOSEVELT because his palpable purpose is to cheat his supporters by reversing his policies in international affairs. ‘‘That creature of carnage and war, of blood and iron,’’ he declares, referring to the popular jdea of ROOSEVELT, ‘‘is largely the off- spring of the imagination of some of his eunlogists.”’ This is literally ‘‘damning with faint praise” the candidate whom the Congress- man professes to support. Throughout the article there is a vein of sarcasm which is susceptible of no other interpretation than an expression of hostility. It confirms every charge which has been made against the President and finally asks for support of him because of his perfidious nature. Political Conditions Favorable. Political conditions have never been more promising for the Democracy of Pennsylva- nia than they are at present. Nominations have been made in nearly all the counties and in many where hitherto only partial tickets have been named, this year candi dates have been nominated for every office. We regres that in a few instances that de- moralizing practice has been continued this year. Bus they are fewer than at any time within a score of years. In every instance, moreover, care has been taken to nominate strong candidates, so that there is sincerity in the Democratic endeavor this year. Nothing could be more gratifying than this. It isn’t of iteelf sufficient to create the hope of vietory. But it is an impor- tans element in what will produce victory in conjunction with vigilance, energy and assiduity. The Republican majority in this State is not so overwhelming. It is true that the returns indicate a preponder- ance, which is invincible. But it must be remembered that ninety per cent. of the years are frandulent and with that feature eliminated it is more than possible that the other ten per cent. can be overcome by vig- ilance and energy. i We hope that in this county, at least, the effort will he made. We have an ad- mirable ticket. Our oandidates are all worthy of the united and earnest support of the voters. They are pledged to con- serve theiinterests of the people and will use every endeavor to restore the public Jife:of the county to the simple methode of the better days of the county. By such a course a vast amount of money can be saved to the people to whom it belongs. Besides that, and equally important, public morals will be improved by the defeat of the atrocious machine and Centre county ought to have a share in the honor of that achievement. : J 11's proceedings against the trusts were majorities returned during the last ten. | STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. wre re VOL. 49 BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 7, 1904. %2 NO. 89. Hush ! Hush! From the Boston Herald. : Governor Wright, of the Philippines, Democrat as he waz, and perbaps ig, knows his place and his duty to the man who gave it to him. He writes to the President a most useful letter that arrives in the nick of time, and is promptly disseminated to the public. Governor Wright’s opinion is that it is dangerons for the American peo- ple to talk about the questions of giging and so long as they have such a desire they will not settle down in contentmés under the governing commission the Good Father at Washington . has .benevolently provided for them. Hence the Amer people ought not to talk out loud abo advantages and saying that might ¢ themselves by getting rid of the pines. It Interferes with the great benevolent assimilation, eto,. eto. Some the newspapers speak of Governor Wright's opportune letter as the President’s reply to Judge Parker. More appropriately it may be called the President’s confirmation of Judge Parker. For did not the Judge eay ‘‘a free people cannot with-hold freedom free 2’ The President, by the publicatic of this letter, is telling us that, Ba 48 1 hold the Filipinos in subjection, we ¢ safely indulge at home in free speech abo the wisdom of doing so, that we must keep _our mouths shut and strengthen our grip. There are persons yes living who know that it was once dangerous to mention liberty in the hearing of slaves, or, ind ,in any way by which they might be led to believe that their freedom was possible. The | was on all our lips, and the word of can- tion was ‘‘Hush !”” Hush !’”” We have now and Secretary Taft and Governor Wright are all crying, ‘Hush ! for God’s sake, hush!’ What does it betoken when American oiti- zens are besought not to breathe the world independence, for fear the idea will harm some people somewhere ? How Mr. Rocsevelt’s Beef Trust Gets in Its Work. Manchester, (Eng.,) letter to Lewiston Jour- nal. ; Now here is a fuuny thing, io tace of can beef over there—any cut you want, and as good as any that you can buy in any American neat market—for five-pence; or ten cents a pound! They cus it me in joints, very little in steaks,znd they adver- tise it as ‘American beef,’ many prefering it to the native-killed product. I saw sev- eral stores where they sold nothing but American beef, and there a tobe a rush of buisness all the time. I bought a sample of it, juss for e ment, and took it home with me and had it cooked. in- She American style. It was just as good ag any beefateak thas I ever ate inmy life, and mind you, I five-pence !"’ i eHow do a hE saying that it shows plainly that American wholesalers can afford to sell beef to their own country at cheaper rates than they are pow doing.”’ Little or No Hope. From the Clearfield Republican. Judge Love, of Centre, has little orno hope of re-election. The other day he addressed the Republican county commit- tee, called together to take action on the vacancy caused by the death of Col. W. F. Reeder, who was county chairman. said be was not extremely anxious for another term on the bench; that if the leaders expected him to go'out and button- hole voters they would be mistaken, as he intended to leave his record with the peo- ple and be treated accordingly. He said he felt he could make much more mone practicing law than sitting on the ve and the responsibility and labor would not be so great. All who heard the speech viewed it in the light of a virtual acknowledgement of defeat and notice to the people of Centre that he intends to ‘get into the practice of law immediately after the first of January next and pick up if possible the best clients of the late Colnel Reeder and of “Ellis Orvis, who will succeed him as Judge. The Profitable Philippines. From the Lancaster Intelligencer, Sept. 22. It is very plain that the trade of the Philippines thus far developed ‘‘costs more than it comes to.’ Take the following summary : Purchase price (Quit-Claim deed from oo; dispossessed OWIET).....uvirereennseee rons ,000,000 Purchase price, Friars’ lands................ 7,239,000 Increase army expenditures for five years over average expenditure pre- vious thereto, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1908:........ovisieisionns idaivarsasseienrery 500,000,000 Boats for patrolling inland waters and increase in naval expense due solely to Philippine acquisition to June 80th, 1903...........c000 000000000 atesesvasseies sien 25,000,000 Appropriation for first Philippine Com- mission, $250,000; spent by Commis- sion to J une 30th, 1303......... ussaussattrony 179,000 Transport service and cost of vessels to , June 30th, 1908.......c.commrmiissiannianidoniinn ,000,000 Average interest at 2 per cent. for two and one-half years on above................ 45,181,350 $647,599,350 Assume 25 per cent. Foon: to persons Supplying exports of United States to Philippines for same five years, $16,- BUBIE00. La hd Ba 4,082,901 Net cost to American people ,517,448 Where the Workingman’s Wages Go. From the New York World, Sept. 28th. On July lst, 1897, at the beginning of the eighth year of Republican rule, now drawing to a close, the per oapita cost of clothing in the United States was shown by Dun’s index numbers to be $13.808. On May 1st of the present year it was $17.425 Thus in this single item the cost of liv- ing has increased hy over 26 per cent. The increase amounts to $18.08 per family on one branch of outlay which represents only 15 per cent. of the average family’s living expenses. The cost of clothing is $12.90 per family higher now than it was on January lst, 1890, under the administration of Presi- dent Harrison, which was so sigoaily overthrown a little later by she ‘‘revols of the shopping women.’ 5 the Filipinos independence some time. If only makes them want to have independent '|.smoked. from another people and themselves remain | fallen upon a similar time. The President | our recent beef strike. You can buy Ameri: © “WellT ean’ account for it, excepb¥by Love | Spawls from the Keystone. —The new woven wire mill company, at Lock Haven, started their spool winding machines monday morning. : —After nine years of courtship Catharine Welsh, of Conshohocken, aged 54 years, has sued Christopher Farrell, of that town, for breach of promise to wed her. —Marie, the br ht and interesting 14 year old daughterof Mr. and Mrs. George Walsh, died at he” parents’ home at Renovo last Wednesday wiorning at 4 o’clock. Death was caused by | ¢kjaw following vaccination —L. 8. Jackson and wife, of Lock Haven, accompanied Frank Creps, wife and son to Madisonburg last Sunday, where they visit- ed Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Jackson. Upon the return trip there were in the carriage five generations, a thing which but seldom oc- curs. .-—Roger Wainwright, 18 years old and Ruth Wagner, 16 years of age, both pupils of the Lewisburg High school, ran away to ‘New York last week and were married. The parents of both are well-to-do and willing to extend forgiveness but so far the young couple have not been located. ~The male teachers in the Scranton pub- hools have been requested by the Teach - ! coramittee of the Board of Control not to e shool children have, when re- sm oking, replied that they could asm in it, because their teachers ~ —The fever epidemic in the eastern part of Washington county is spreading rapidly. | There are now 40 cases. Trained nurses are being hurried into the valley from Washing- ton and Pittsburg, and the physicians of the neighborhood are working day and night. ‘The disease is invading Courtney, Coal, Bluff and other mining towns. ‘ ~ —Wm. H. Hinkley, for many years a well known passenger conductor on the Penn’a. railroad, his run being between Renovo and Harrisburg died very suddenly at the Union | station at Harrisburg, Saturday morning. He was 55 years old and is survived by a widow and four children. He was well ‘known to all railroad men and enjoyed a wide acquaintanceihip. : —At a hearing before Justice Staver in Jersey Shore last week, Charles Bixley and Walter Bergstrom, the boys who were ar- rested for forcing angle worms down the throat and neck of a younger companion named William Hummer, were held for court in the sum of $300. The boys admit having put the werms down the boy’s neck, but deny having forced any down his throat. —The University of Pennsylvania was opened last Friday morning for the 149th year ot its existence with 3,000 students en-. rolled. It is reported that a gift of $100,000 has been made to the Veterinary school of the University and if this be troe it will ‘place tke Veterinary department on a plane with the most famous schools of Paris and make it surpass anything of the kind in this country. : —Frederick Shaff, president of the Lancas- ter & York Furnace railway company, who owns a chestnut orchard of 300 acres, in which are planted 70,000 chestnut trees, for three days this week threw the orchard opén to all the school children in the county and supplies guides to show the youngsters where 10 6nd he chestnuts, After next Saturday ‘the orchard will be opened to all residents of . La ter oounty. i Lotion "The increase in typhoid fever cases in Johnstown within the last few days is caus- ing alarm and unless relief comes soon in heavy downpours of rain to flush the valleys and the river conditions will grow worse. There are now 40 cases, most of them serious. The Stony creek is lower than it has been for many years and the city water supply is so short that the company has been obliged to furnish consumers from the almost stag- nant Stony creek. —Mrs. John Gaudam has disposed of the Junction house, Lock Haven, to D. B. John- son, formerly proprietor of the Revere house at Renovo, for the consideration of $5,300. Mr. Johnson will conduct the house after the necessary preliminaries toward taking pos- session have been made. Charles Adde, the ‘presont proprietor has purchased the fur- nishings and good will of the Beck hotel and in the future will conduct it. ; —Frank Cherwick, a mine laborer, em- ployed at the Jeansville colliery, Wilkes- barre, received word through the Austrian Consul at New York, that by the death of an uncle in Austria he had inherited a fortune, Cherwick, who has been earning about $20 a month, stopped work st once, broke the handle of his shovel, threw his dinner pail in the creek and gave his working clothes to a friend. He will take the first steamer he can get for Europe, and says he hopes that he will never have to work again. —Last Saturday afternoon Watsontown had a big fire causing a loss of $75,000, which is largely covered by insurance. The fire originated in the Watsontown door and sash company, and was caused by a spark from a locomotive on the Penn’a railroad: The en- tire plant, lumber yard, and a number of tenement houses, owned by the company, were destroyed. As there was a high wind blowing, at one time it was feared the entire town would be burned. The Milton fire company promptly responded to the call for assistance and rendered valuable service. In the midst of the confusion two trolley cars collided and two men and two women were seriously injured, one of the former being ex-Burgess John Jenkins, of Milton, who sustained internal injuries, —A general delivery of prisoners in North- umberland county jail was prevented last Friday night at Sunbury by Geo. Hancock, warden. Lewis Pfrom, of Mt. Carmel, who was sentenced to serve six years for man- slaughter, had manufactured a key from old tin cans which could unlock every cell door on the penitentiary side. The intention was to release the prisoners at a late hour and then to ring for the turnkey. He was to be overpowered and, if necessary, murdered. The keys were to be taken and then the con- victs would escape to the street through the front door. A trusty revealed this plot to to Hancock, who searched Pfrom’s cell and found the key. The leader of tho gang was put in the dungeon while his confederates are being watched. The warden will recom- mend to the court to have Pfrom removed to the Eustern Penitentitary.
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