ArTane
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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. :
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11's proceedings against the trusts were
majorities returned during the last ten.
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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.’
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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.