BY P. GRAY MEEK.
ETE a —
Ink Slings.
—It is evidently a very bad combina-
tion, those three lawyers and two gentle-
men of leisure.
—The men who run the pool rooms in
Philadelphia are being punished very
severely for their nefarious business.
—Ten years is a long time for a man to
hold office, particularly when that man has
been guilty of trying to use the office asa
political sinecure.
—ELLis L. OrvIS has never been a
politician, nor aspired to party leadership,
therefor he would make a much safer Judge
than a man who has.
—GEORGE E. LAMB isa very nice fel-
low but his ability as a drink-mixer
doesn’t qualify him for the office of Pro-
thonotary.
—The United States pays nearly a mil-
lion dollars a day to foreign ships, for carry-
ing its products, yet there are those who
say Republican administrations are all
they should be.
' —The completion of the south Water
street walk is convincing the public that
the WATCHMAN was right when it urged
council to lay stone on north Water street,
instead of granolithic.
—With the Republicans fighting the
way they are in Delaware and Wisconsin it
is next to a certainty that two heretofore
doubtful States will have to be moved over
into the Democratic column.
_—If there were no other reason for it we
would still be justified in demanding
Judge LOVE'S retirement on the sole
ground of his political activities. But
there are many other reasons.
—TFortunately for Bellefonte it wkiss
few lawyers, contractors, and gentlémen of
leisure who are not afraid to put some
money into enterprises to keep the old
town from getting the dry rot.
. —In Japan they don’t have fences
around their farms because [they take up
too much of the ground. In the United
States many farmers don’t have fences, but
it is pringipally because they don’t have
the boards or wire. ;
© —Few as the political Judges are in
Pennsylvania there are too many go long as
there is one left. ‘L'hbey should be promps-
- ly retired. No district can hope to have
an honorable, a dignified ora usefal benoh
‘with a political judge.
—While praying at the grave of a. rela
tiveina Brooklyn cemetery ‘a few days ago
a Polish girl was killed by ‘the tombstone
falling ‘over on her. What a suspense
woald ‘be ended if there were only ‘som
way of Angling ont what she said in the
prayer. © is AA eas Riad 9
—It is =aid that the most remarkable |
prisoner in the United States is the editor
of the Star of Hope, the prison paper pub-
lished in Sing Sing. He is there for bnrg-
lary and bas been a lawyer, reporter, ‘con-
fidence man, secretary to a Khedive of
Egypt, preacher, forger and politician. It
is not stated wl ether he followed the latter
profession in Philadelphia or not.
ARTHUR KIMPORT is ons in his can-
vass to work until the polls close. It
ought not to be necessary for him to do a
bit of campaigning, when he has every
qualification for the office and his oppo-
nent none. He is taking no chances, how-
ever, and will call on everyone possible in
order that he may personally solicit sup-
port. His reputation is known all over the
county, even better than he is himself and
“it seems as if campaigning ought to be a
very pleasant job for him.
—In the Century Magazine for February,
1888, THEODORE ROOSEVELT said of the
wild cowboys of the West: ‘‘They are
much better fellows and pleasanter com-
panions than farmers or agricultural labor-
ers, nor are the mechanics and workmen
of a city to be mentioned in the same
breath.”” What will the farmers, agricul-
tural laborers, mechanics and workmen of
Centre county think of this when they
come to vote on Nov. 8th. Possibly they
will tell Mr. ROOSEVELT to go and get the
cowboys to vote for him.
—The question that many are asking
themselves now is : What motive could
Judge LovE have bad in granting a license
to HARRY WASHBURN, a man who bad |
been a resident of the county scarcely more
than a few months before he applied for li-
cense. WASHBURN bad become notorious
asa hotel keeper in Clearfield county and
when it became apparent that he could not
get license there any more he sold out and
moved over into Centre, where Judge
Love granted his first application, not-
withstanding the fact tbat hundreds of
well-to-do, respectable and responsible
men who have been life-long residents of
Centre county have been rejected by Judge
LovE.
—With only a littie more than three
weeks for the finish of the campaign there
appears to be a lack of aggressive work on
the surface in Centre county. This does
not indicate an indifference on the part of
the voters, however. In fact, it is quite
the reverse. In all the history of local
political contests we bave never known
of deeper thinking about an election. The
ticket is such an important one to us all.
that even the excitement of a presidential
year has been utterly unable to eclipse it.
The people are especially cognizant of the
fact that men, more than party principles,
are to be weighed in this campaign and
they are going deep into the records of all
of them and will vote accordingly, with-
ont making any ado about it.
“VOL. 49
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 14, 1904.
No Claim for Support.
The people of this Congress district are
at present investigating the claims of
SoroMON R. DRESSER, of Bradford, for re-
election as Representative and the result is
not likely to be satisfactory to Mr. DRESS-
ER. He was born in Michigan and came
into Pennsylvania after he had reached the
age of maturity and located in the oil
region.: There heacquired title to a patent
device invented by another, according to
common report, and ‘‘has developed a large
business, ’’ the biographical section of the
Congressional Directory informs us. What
is meant by that is that he has accumulated
a large fortune which ‘enabled him to buy
a congressional nomination when the late
Senator QUAY was dealing in that sort of
commodities.
But the closest scrutiny fails to reveal
anything that Mr. DRESSER has ever done
for the people of this Congress district.
‘We venture to declare that before his nomi-
nation for the office two years ago less than
a score of the citizens of Centre county had
ever heard of him and that up until the
present time no man can pein$ ouf a single
heneficence he “has ever bestowed on any
citizen of the county outside of some ap-
pointments which he has since caused to
be made, not with the idea of conserving
the interests of ‘the people hut in order to
promote his own political interests and
personal aggrandizement. His demand for
another election is a piece of impudent
assurance. Instead of popular approval he
deserves a severe rebuke.
This district is composed of Cameron,
Centre, Clearfield and McKean counties.
The « interests of Centre, Clearfield and
Carieron counties are analagous. They
are essentially Pennsylvania communities
and the combined population of them is,
according to the census of 1900, 130,556.
McKean which is ‘barely linked to the two
populous counties of Centre and Clearfield
by touching Cameron which in turn only
touches arfield, has a population of 51,-
343 and is as widely separated trom the
other counties in: character, industry aud
disposition of the ‘people, as il it were at-
tached to the extrem en ud of the State in
which Mr. DRESSER was born, Michigan.
and that. A
{= The; peofle Job Carre: county owe it to
Congress who is in closer relationship to
them than Mr. DRESSER. If he were con-
spicuously fit for the office the difference
between his interests and those of this
county, might be over-looked. If he were
a statesman whose broadened intellect gave
bim a knowledge of the wants of all the
people, his environment might be over-
locked. Bat as a matter of fact he has no
such claim on the consideration of the peo-
ple.
He was rich enough to buy one nomi-
nation and election and the people should
teach him that if he had the purse of
CROESUS he can’t get another election by
the same process.
The Wisconsin Comedy.
The decision of the Supreme court of
| Wisconsin affirming the regularity of the
LAFoLrTTE faction of the Republican party
puts the President, as well as the Republi-
can National committee, in an anomalous
position. Before that event the committee
declared that Wisconsin was absolutely
certain to elect ROOSEVELT electors any-
way. After the event it was announced
that the decision made the State certain
for ROOSEVELT because the SPOONER fac-
tion would acquiesce, whereas if the deci-
sion had been the other way the Democrats
would bave carried the State becanse the
LAFoOLETTE faction would have kept up
the fight. Now it transpires that the
SPOONER faction intends to keep up the
fight.
: But. that isn’t the most embarrassing
consequence of the decision. The: fight
against LAFOLETTE is a corporation fight
and SPOONER represented the corporations
in it. /Becanse of corporation opposition to
LAFOLETTE, SPOONER induced the Presi-
dent and the Republican National com-
| mittee. to enter the conflict in opposition
to LAFOLEITE and in obedience to the
wishes of the corporations the President
ordered the Republican National econven-
tion to refuse the LAFOLETTE delegates,
whom the decision declares were elected,
admission to the convention. The deci-
sion, therefore reverses the President and
arms LAFOLETTE with a just canse of war
agaiust the President and the SPOONER
faction.
Under these circumstances there can’t
be the shadow of a doubt as to the result
of the election in that State. SPOONER
must keep up his fight against LAFOLETTE
or jose his job as counsel for the corpora-
tions. If hie keeps up his fight LAFOLETTE
will retaliate by fighting ROOSEVELT and
with the party thus divided it is safe to
predict that the Democratic electors will
bave not less than 50,000 majority while
the elestion of the Democratic candidate
for Governor is made equally certain. ‘Al-
together it is an interesting situation.
The latest development’ was the recogni-
tion of the LaFolette State committee by
the National organization. But LAFo-
LETTE now demands an apology for delay.
ere is no imgeruity between this spunty
themselves fo select a Representative in
Mr. Cortelyoun’s Gall.
Mr. GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, chairman
of the Republican National committee, is
said to have given President ROOSEVELT
ostentatious assurance the other day that
no promise has been made or pledge given
to any corporation in consideration of cam-
paign subscriptions.
What a supreme exhibition of gall !
Mr. CoRTELYOU had been for nearly
two years before his appointment as
chairman of Republican National commit-
tee, head of the Department of Commerce.
In that position he has been able to ac-
quire the secrets of all the so-called ‘‘com-
binations in restraint of trade.’’ Possess-
ed of those secrets he has gone to the cor-
porations and demanded whatever he
wanted of them and they had no recourse
but to comply.
It isthe most inignitous exhibition of
governmental robbery in the history of the
world.
When a western bandit holds up a train
and with a pistol at the head of a passenger
demands his money, he doesn’t have to
explain what he proposes to do with the
spoils or what may happen if the request
is not complied with. That is entirely
obvious to the victim. The bandit isn’t
there for fun and the pistol isn’t anything |
like an olive branch expressing sentiments
of fraternity. The victim knows that he |
must pay or be murdered. The handit
has taken chances which are multiplied in
hazard if he doesn’t succeed. Mr. CORTEL- |
YOU occupied precisely the same position.
Morally he is on exactly the same plane.
Both are dastardly criminals and ready to |
go to the same extremes. If CORTELYOU |
were driven by Decessity he would prompt- |
ly take the place of “ESSE JAMES and is!
morally as guilty as that outlaw. 151
But he thinke be can fool the people by
his declaration to the President that there
bas been no coercion in his preditory raid
on the corporations. A political mercenary
without principles of character, a man who
isa Demooras or Republican accordingly,
as one or the other party contributes to his
Ambition, has the impudence $0 assume that
his word will be taken in the face of such’
averwhelming evidence to the contrary as
the circumstances present. On his oath no
intelligent man would believe such a tale
in view of thie facts and tnder no
cumstances would he bave been able to put
corporations under tribute and bleed them
as he has in this matter. Therefore, he in-
sults the intelligence of the people when he
declares that no pledges have been made.
Everybody knows that he has mortgaged
the administration to the limit.
——Ot all the balder-dash that has ever
been heard of none surpasses the shallow
argument of the LOVE people to the effect
that Mr. Orvis, heing interested in much
litigation in Centre county, would have to
call in outside Judges to try many cases,
should he be elevated to the bench. Mr.
ORVIS is a prominent attorney, of course.
If he were not he would not now be a
candidate for Judge. But wasn’t this same
Judge LOVE a prominent attorney ten
years ago and hasn’t he had Jodges
WHITE, BELL, ARCHIBALD, MCCLURE,
GORDON, and others here to try cases for
him. But the people of Centre county are
not concerned about that little matter just
now. What they want isa man who will
be a jndge—reasonable, impartial and not
a petty politician.
John Noll's Candidacy.
The drift of sentiment seems to be strong
for JouN NOLL for the Legislature. Every-
one realizes that Mr. KEPLER ought to he
sent back to Harrisburg because he can he
of so much more’ use this year than he
was in the last session and it is being gen-
erally agreed that Mr. NoLL is the right
man to send with him. The reasons are
many.
* Inthe first place’ a more conservative,
better balanced more dignified gentleman
would be hard to find. As asoldier of she
Civil war his record stands without a blem-
ish. He was never away from duty, either
by leave or sickness, and draws no pension.
He has beena bard. working, honorable
‘citizen who knows the needs of the masses
and has the back bone to stand up for
‘ them, and he is a representative of a large
and useful Centre county family. His
opponents are not the choice of the Repub-
licans of the county. They were forced
on the ticket against the wishes of many
who recognized in Messrs DALE and
DALEY men who ‘had ‘more claim to the
nomination. Mr. KNISELY’S candidacy can
be looked upon as scarcely more than a
joke, while that of WOMELSDORF is the
resuit of an apparent attempt to give the
friends of the late Governor: HASTINGS a
slap in the face.
Mr. NoLL once before sought the pre-
ferment of the voters of Centre county. At
that time he was unsuccessful in his at-
tempt, but since then there bas heen a
growing feeling that a great injustice was
done him and on all sides we hear the
opinion that now is the : Sime: ‘to make
amends. j end
other oir- |
~ Making Senator Hill Popular.
Our Republican contemporaries are ex-
ceedingly bitter against the Hon. DAVID
B. Hirn of New York. That gentleman
is not deporting himself in the presens
campaign according to their potions of
propriety. He is abusing ROOSEVELT they
say,wout of all reason. For example in a
speech delivered in Baltimore, the other
evening, he actually declared that in the
appointment of his private secretary to an
office which revealed all the secrets of the
trusts to-him and subsequently designating
him, armed with such secrets, to the chair-
manship of the Republican National com-
mittee, the President simply made Cor-
TELYOU a sort of a highwayman, and him-
gelf the custodian of the spoils obtained in
his predatory operations.
Our esteemed Republican contempor-
aries forget that in this age of reason and
era. of intelligence, men are loved for the
enemies they make and that in the antip-
athy they are revealing against Senator
HILL, they are making him extremely pop-
plar among ‘the decent and fairminded
people of the country. We. will not he
copstrued as enemies of ' Senator (HILL
when we say that he was nob popular
among a class of ‘citizens of ‘the country
whose good: opinions are - ‘highly prized im
public. life. We have not shared this
enmity against the Senator. He is a skil-
| tal Politician and a tireless and efficient
party leader. But he bas never used
politics for personal gain oy his integrity
has never heén
Bat for some ‘reason he has been un-
popular smong those reputable people who
are averse to practical polities. Oar Re-
publican contemporaries are rapidly and
certainly removing this prejudice, how-
ever. They are assailing the New York
statesman without reason, and that sort of
thing naturally and inevitably enlists
‘sympathy for the man thus vilified. For
‘example, there is ‘no justice in atbacking
him hecanse he tells the truth about
ROOSEVELT and none of them has attempt-
«ed to prove that what ‘he has said about
the President is not the truth. At least
what he said in his Baltimore speech the
3 night is ‘the trath and nothing but |
truth. CORTELYOU’S connection
bh the _ robbery of . the ‘trusts. for,
not of. the “campaign |
fand is a scandal which cannot be too sev-
erely condemned and if Senator HILL most
nearly puts upon it the just and adequate
condemnation, he will be praised rather
than blamed. Our contemporaries have
‘*o’ershot the mark.’
——‘‘Seeing is believing,’ so they: say,
but if anyone bad told us that Col. JoHN
A. DALEY would be the main pillar at the
rally for LovE, WOMELSDORF AND KNISE-
LY, held here last Thursday nigh, prior to
our seeing him in that position, we would
have told them they didn’t know how
much back-bone the Colonel possessed. In
the light of such a recent event, however,
we are forced to acknowledge that we were
the ignorant in this case.
We Want Tariff Not Robbery.
The hysterical efforts of some of the Re-
publican newspapers and orators to make
the public believe that Democratic success
in the coming presidential election will re-
sult in absolute free trade would be amus-
ing if they were not insulting. Anyone fit
to remain outside of an insane asylum
must know that there is no possible chance
of putting this country on a free trade basis
if there were any desire to compass such a
result and that as a matter of fact there is
no such desire among the Democrats. That
there will be a modification of the tariff
rates io the event of Democratic snocess is,
we hope and believe, true. But nothing
more than that ie contemplated or desir-
ed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON was the author of
the first tariff law enacted in this country,
the purpose being, as he said, to raise reve-
nue and, incidentally, to protect infant in-
dustries. The tariff which he proposed
amounted to about three per cent. and
ALEXANDER HAMILTON, who was classed
as a protectionist, expressed the belief that
that was ample. Ever singeethat the Dem-
ocratic plan of raising revenue was by
reasonable tariff taxation and as a matier
of fact, during the entire sixty years in
which the Democratic party governed the
country, all the revenues were raised in
that way, and tariff for revenue has been a
slogan of the Democracy always. It is a
ruling idea of Democratic statesmanship.
The present tariff is not for the purpose
of raising revenue, however, or even of pro-
tecting infant industries. It is for the por-
pose of creating monopolies, fostering trusts
and conferring special favors on political
favorites. The constitution of the United
States authorizes a tariff for revenue, but
not such robbery of the people as enables.
the steel truss to charge home customers ten
dollars a ton more for steel billets than for-|
eign customers are asked to pay, thus giv-
ing the foreign manufacturer a vast advan-
tage over the home producer in the markets.
of the world, That is what the Republi-
cans are doing and that is what the Demo-
cratio platform denounces as robbery. {
NO. 40.
How A Republican Trust Prospers It
Working Men.
From the New York American.
This is the way one Trust does business.
As the Joliet (IIl.) ;plant - of the United
States Steel Company there has been a
‘‘readjustment.” The wages of all the
4000 men employed have been cub. In
many cases the decrease amounts to 50 per
cent. . Skilled workmen who have been
earning $3600 a year, laboring eight hours
a day, have had their wages cut to $2400,
and to earn this they must work twelve
hours a day.
Expert heaters in ghe billet mills have
been given an additional farnace to watch
and their salaries have been cut frop
$2500 to $900 a year.
In a department known as the converter
wages have been cut 35 per cent. the num,
ber of men has been reduced and the work-
ing hours have been increased. Prior
the ‘readjustment’ . fifteen men were &
work at the ingot furnaces. Under +t
‘‘readjustment’’ nine men do the work. 1
. Old men will give way to young men.
The plant gets (the same amount
finished product since as before the ‘‘read-
jussmens.”’ . This is .done by increasing
work.
If they quit they cannot work at their
trade in amy. other plant, because the
Steel Trust controls all the great iron
manufacturing plants. {
There is no competition at home. The.
tariff.outs out the competition from abroad.
Protected by a high tariff, the Trust
dispense with skilled; men at high mage
And make othermen do their work. e
product may not be 20 gnod, but the bu) er
‘has no other source of supply.
This is how a trust treats its employes.
¥
What Rooseveltism Stands for. . x
From the New York Herald.
' Republican partisans, of course, ol; im
shat Mr. Roosevelt’s ' elestion is
tial to national prosperity. Indepen¢
and self-respecting voters, however, Ww
demand far better reasons for this add
cious assertion than any that his defends
have yet begun to give. £
It will be impossible to convince the
thinking masses, who control all elecsit
that the country can. profit by contingin
the policies of an immensely costly {am-
'perialism. An extravagant militarism
Personal government. Enormous | :
‘excessive tariff taxation. Fabulous g
ernment expenditures. | A revival of
‘distracting race issue. A parbnershi
‘the government with monopolies: and
‘less trusts. ‘And the prastiéntion
‘eivil service to political ends,
the hours and. making each man do more;
The men must: accept the cut or quit. 15s
| ud sustained to some of the groups
Lamar, are now agi :
co-operative railroad through Sugar val-
ley.
—The people of Carroltown are now s0 re-
duced for water that they are “allowed only
‘one tubful a day to the family by the water
authorities,
—A slight fire in the stable of Thomas J .
Calaban, early Tuesday morning, smothered
two horses, one a racing pacer “Billy H,”
‘| with a record of 2:20.
—Windber was the scene of a stabbing af-
fray on Sunday in which one Italian badly
injured another. The probable murderer
was arrested in Johnstown the next day.
—Fred Hager and William Brotz have
been arrested and locked up on the charge
of brutally beating Mrs. David Dishong, an
aged resident of Morrellville, Cambria coun-
ty.
—Clinton county’s new railroad town,
Oak Grove, will have a weekly newspaper in
the near future, so it is reported. An up-to-
date job office will be connected with the en-
terprise.
—Rumor fays that alliior Welch, of the
Mount Union Times who was defeated for the
state senatorial nomination in the Hunting-
don-Franklin district, wants to be made
state treasurer.
—Members of the Twelfth regiment who
served in the Spanish-American’ war, will
hold their sixth anniversary at Milton on
October 20th. Special rates have been se-
cured and all members of this regiment are
cordially invited to attend.
. —Michael O’Mally, a resident of Cameron,
‘Was killed Saturday morning shortly after 3
0'¢ k by being struck with a locomotive of
{: ght train, No. 92. The man was 29 years
and was employed as fireman at the coke
juse below Cameron.
—After winning two straight heats in the
2:14 race on the York track last week and
leading i in the third by twenty feet, Lyman
| Reedman, of Baltimore, driver of Noah B.,
-owned. by Thomas Buckley, of Arlington,
Md., fell dead from his sulky to the track.
—Chester county Republicans are worried
| over the fact that the Quakers of that county
refuse to. vote for Roosevelt because of the
insult offered them in one of the President's
books, and fear that hundreds of them will
remain at home on election day in conse-
| quence.
—Mabel, the two-year-old daughter of
.Anzi Transue, of Scott Run, Monroe county,
swallowed six morphine pills, thinking they
‘| were candy. Almost immediately the moth-
‘er, who was visiting a neighbor, returned
‘| and found her baby unconscious, and fter
applying ‘remedies the child’s lite was
“| saved.
—Two ‘huge pumpkins, estimated io weigh
500 pounds each, are the pride
‘grower, William Eppley, of Newber "
York county. If he had been nominated for
sheriff by the Democrats, as he hoped, he
would have had a piece of pumpkin pie for
® | every Democrat in the aunty, fom these
" two vegetables.
| —Unless there are some oljestions filed
3 of elect--
- Harder still will'it be for
‘ers to comprehend how Si
e:nation’s peace. 5
As the antithesis of all that’ would con
flict with the restoration of good feeling,
the calm and judicial ‘campaign of Judge
Parker is bright and big with promise for
the country, now sick of the ceaseless and
distracting agitations inseparable from an
imperialistic regime. * For this reason, if
for no other, the business interests of the
nation may look forward hopefully to the
coming election.
of /
‘A Presidential High-Roller.
From the New York World.
The Roosevelt administration bas ac-
quired the distinction of being the most
expensive in our history.
The second administration . of Madison,
including the war of 1812, cost $130,543,-
763.
The administration of Polk, inclading
the Mexican war cost $173,299,266.
The administration of Lincoln, includ-
ing the Civil war, cost $3,347,802,909 in
paper money, equivalent to from $1,500,-
000,000 to $2,000,000,000 in gold.
The first administration of McKinley,
including the Spanish and Philippine wars,
cost $1,906,126,611.
The administrasion of Roosevelt in an
unbroken peace has cost $2,449,228,545 in
gold. That is nearly four times as mush
as was spent under the scandalous first ad-
ministration of Grant, and three times the
cost of the first administration of Cleve-
land.
President Roosevelt certainly comes
high. Must we really have him ?
The Costiveness of It.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
It has cost the people of the United States
$81.25 per Filipino head to sell the Filip-
inos 60 cents worth of American goods per
capita a year—or just 5 cents’ worth a
month. And this is what imperial expan-
sion has done for trade !
#
Parker mot to Tour,
NEW YORK, Oot. 7.—Chairman Taggart
at Democratic national headquarters gave
out the following statement :
‘‘Shortly after his nomination Judge
‘Parker set about the consideration of his
course of action toward the conduct of the
campaign. He consulted many men of
large experience in such matters and made
an examination of the course of every suc-
cessful candidate. That done. he decided,
as it was necessary for him to do, what his
course should be, and he caused that de-
cision to be made generally known. It
was to the effect that he would not go upon
deem it desirable to make could be made
at Rosemount, following in that respect the
McKinley precedent of 1896.
‘That decision made and announced, he
proceeded to work along the lines he had
marked out for himself. He believed then,
as he helieves now. thai be decided right-
ly, and no amount of entreating would
budge him. His record during all his life
proves that clamor will not move him one
iota. The incident is closed, and those in
charge of the campaign fully approve of
the determination of Judge Parker.”
Judge Parker bas been importuned to
speak in various states, and this announce-,
the stump; that such speeches as he should |
ors, the ballot to be voted next November
ill be nine columns wide, with the follow-
"hibitionist, Socialist, Socialist Labor, Inde:
pendent, Citizens, Roosevelt- -Fairbanks, Pro-
tectionist and one blank,
—Carrying a naked lamp into one of the
old workings of Mount Jessup colliery, near
‘Peckville, Paul Skovera caused an explosion
‘of gas which caught a dozen men at work in
‘the shaft, resulting in the death of himself
‘and John Manoski and the serious burning of
nine others. Five of the others are so badly
injured that their recovery is doubtful.
; ~—Last Saturday the Clinton county com-
| missioners purchased of the Owego bridge
company the superstructure for an 86 foot
bridge with a 12 foot roadway to span Fish-
ing creek near Sanderson’s mill, ‘in Bald
‘Eagle township. The purchase of this
bridge was recommended by the last grand
jury. Monday the commissioners and their
clerk were on the site of the new bridge con-
ferring with the supervisors of Bald Eagle
township who will be expected to construct
| the abutments for the new structure.
—During the past ten or twelve days not
less than five big black bears have been run
down and slaughtered on the mountains sur-
rounding Sugar valley. This indicates, says
the Journal, that wild “‘critters’ of this kind
are rather plenty in these neck o’ woods. At
the head of the class stands Jobn Rubi. He
killed the first two bears below Tylersville.
| Next is A. D. Kleckner, who shot one near
his camp, north of Loganton. Then follows
Samuel Matter and John Cooper, credited
with having trapped a 150 pounder in
| Spruce hollow. Last but not least appear
Newton Snook and John Feidler, strong and
brave, having killed their game with clubs
and stone, along Cherry run, after a long
and hard fight.
—About 4 o'clock last Friday afternoon
Mrs. F. H. Gallagher, of Reynoldsville,
‘ went to the hen house to look for eggs. She
stepped upon a high cross piece to look into
a nest, says the Star, and then stepped off be-
fore letting go of the upper shelf with her
left hand and after her feet were off the
cross piece a ring® on her hand caught on a
nail and the weight of her hody stripped all
the flesh off her finger down to the first joint
and the end of the finger was torn off at the
first joint. Mrs. Gallagher was alone at the
time and she picked up the piece of finger
and walked up through the lot and across
the street to a neighbor’s to get them to send
for a doctor. The doctors amputated the re-
mainder of the finger above the second
Joint.
—A couple weeks ago D, Scott Currin, of
Loganton, sold his printing office and at the
time wrote that ‘‘God only knew what he
would do now.” Mr. Currin is back in the
harness again and has sent out the following
notice : ‘‘After two weeks have passed and
a lot of unpleasant experiences we find our-
selves back again at the editorial tripod.
That man W. F. Seibert, with whom we had
entered into articles of agreement for the sale
of the Sugar Valley Journal printing office,
is a miserable failure, having betrayed the
confidence we had entrusted to him,and then
iugidiously sneaked away to parts unknown,
forfeiting all right and claim to the deal.
Probably it is better for us and also the
‘went is designed to prevent further Similar
requests.
Journal that he did pull out, as he is no good
aud the town is well rid of him."
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