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Have you seen the lovely teacher
In that dream of a suit of brown
Have you seen the learned creature
" _ As'she flits about the town
Have you wondered what she’s doing here
In that very stylish suit
The reason should be very clear
She’s attending institute.
—The fact that Pennsylvania needs a
Jok FOLK is patent to most everyone, bus
the need is likely to remain a permanent
one.
—-It it was ROOSEVELT’S personality that
elected him, what in the world pulled
FAIRBANKS through ? It must bave been
the ice man.
—The pompous turkey struts around
A pecking-pecking-peck
A week from now it will be found
With an ax sunk in its neck.
—If ToM WATSON’S party really thought
it was following JEFFERSON it couldn’
have had a very acute sense of hearing for
the tinkle of the bell on the shade of its
leader.
When we read that the Republican na-
tional committee had four hundred thous-
and dollars left over it is only natural for
us to wonder what would have happened |
had they spent it all.
—Aprcpos of the announcement that a
Maryland distillery has sent Bishop Por-
TER a case of whiskey we would advise our
good Episcopalian friends to pray the good
Lord to send him a siphon of religion.
—The North American’s posing as an
earnest advocate of civic reform in Phila-
delphia reminds us of the old story of the
fellow who was stiff as starch on dress
parade and not worth a damn in a charge.
—When you Republicans are looking
around for a candidate for Governor why
don’t you let your lamps fall on edward
r. chambers. You hoast that you make
Governors out of anything now-a-days and
surely here you will find something that
will fill every requirement.
— Mis. CATHARINE PORTER, of Wyom-
ing, who traveled fifteen hundred miles
for the sole purpose of casting her vote
should be a lesson in the duties of citizen-
ship to some of the fellows around Belle-
fonte who demanded ten dollars for travel-
ing two squares to the polls.
—Judging from the comment of the
State press the Pennsylvania ballot must
be the ‘‘worst ever.” With all its faults
we are of the opinion that ROOSEVELT
would still have had that four hundred
and ninety thousand majority even if we
badn’t had any ballot at all.
—Mayor JoHN WEAVER, of Philadel-
phia, may occupy the home of the late
Governor PATTISON but he is not likely to
hold she place of affection and respect fill-
ed by the man who preferred rectitude of
charac ter to riches acquired by traffic in
public utilities.
—We applaud Mr. DEPEW'S declaration
that the successful party must give the
whole people ‘‘a minimum of discontent
and a maximum of satisfaction.”’ Bat we
will have to be classed with the doubting
“Thomases if he ineans that the Republican
party will bring any such a condition of
affairs to pass.
—The Hon. ANDREW CARNEGIE will be
the guest of honor atthe Pennsylvania
State College Governor's day ceremonies
today and if all goes well the cadet band
should play ‘‘One of His Legs is Longer
than it Really Ought to be’’ as the great
philanthropist takes his departure. That
is the one tune that will give expression to
the situation.
—Over in this neck-o-the-woods people
who ‘“‘move between days’’ are usually
supposed to do so to avoid paying rent.
While we wouldn’t for the world have the
public believe that Mr. STREAMER, the
Philipsburg clothier and furnisher, should
be classed with that sort because he moved
his big store from one room to another in
_a single night, we do think he has a ‘kick
coming’ from the Philipsburg Journal for
telling of his energy under such a head.
—Russia’s declaration that she will
listen to no peace propositions is tanta-
mount to a declaration that the Japanese
will eventually be crushed. And while
we all admire the pluck and brilliancy
with which the Mikado’s forces have add-
ed victory upon victory a person who stops
$0 think of the resources of the two coun-
tries at war cannot but shrink with hor-
ror at the thooght of what must be the
ultimate fate of fair Japan if the conflict
is not stopped.
—GEORGE H. SMULL, of Smullton, may
be very clever as an insurance man——and
we know he is but there are a few
things he has to learn before he will wear
many medals as a politician. One of them
is that if he wants to vote anybody he will
‘have to get up in the morning. On elec-
tion day GEORGE arose at 5 o’clock and
struck off two miles distant to the moun-
tain, where old ISAIAH ROYER resides,
thinking he would capture the old man’s
vote because he had previously given him
sundry ‘‘chunks of tobacco.’”” Bat some
of the alert Democrats of that section bav-
ing a suspicion that GEORGE might be up
‘to just such a trick, had gone to the
RoYER house an hour earlier and persnad-
‘ed the occupant to go to vote with them —
and he did. Of course GEORGE feels bad
about it because that was the only vote,
other than his own, that he felt sure of,
‘but then his case wasn’t any worse than
that of ABE MILLER’S attempt to capture
old MICHAEL DOUGHERTY. Get ABE to
tell yon about it. He likes to refer to the
incident.
VOL. 49
When Compared With
Others!
. ‘Before you boast too loud know what
you are talking about’’ 18 advice our Re-
publican newspaper friends might well
heed when referring to Pr:sident ROOSE-
VELT’S recent victory. 34% electoral votes
to 141, as will be the zesult between Mr.
ROOSEVELT and M:. PARKER, is large
enough, we all know, for all prac-
tical purposes ; but so far as its being
the “‘greatess political victory ever wou by
mortal man,”’ as is olaimed by those who
don’t know, or won’t tell the truth, is
simply not so, or in other words it is the
baldest brag, that the figures knock the
the “stuffin’’ out of entirely.
The facts are that measuring success by
the proportion of the electoral vote cast,
Mr. ROOSEVELT comes ninth in the list of
what was considered ‘‘overwhelming vic-
tories’ or political land slides, eight
former Presidents having been elected by a
larger electoral vote, in proportion to the
whole number cast, than he will be.
- JEFFERSON’S victory in 1804, when he
received 162 electoral votes to 14 cast for
CHAS. C. PICKNEY, was a much greater
victory.
MONROE’S success in 1820, when he was
given 231 electoral votes toa single one
cast for JoHN QuiNcY Apalis, puts Mr.
ROOSEVELT’S hoasted ‘‘greatest victory’’
to shame.
JACKSON'S victory in 1832, with 219
electoral votes to 49 for CLAY, beats Mr.
ROOSEVELT three to one.
HARRISON'S election in 1840, when he
won with 234 electoral votes to 60 for VAN-
BUREN, was a political land slide, com-
pared to which that for Mr. ROOSEVELT, is
a wheel-barrow dump beside a mountain
fall.
PIERCE’S victory in 1852, was doubly
significant to and immensely greater than
ROOSEVELT'S, when he carried every State
in the Union but four, and received 254
electoral votes to but 42 cast for General
Scorrt.
LINCOLN’S snceess in 1864, with all the
bitterness and the calamities of the war
charged to him, was four times greater
than that of ROOSEVELT. He had 212
electoral votes to but 21 for Gro. B. Mc-
CLELLAN.
GRANT'S 214 electoral votes to SEY-
MORE’S 80 in the election of 1868, and his
268 to but 42 given to HORACE GREELY,
in 1872, were both greater and more to be
boasted of victories than ROOSEVELT’S.
Even CLEVELAND'S election in 1892
when he had 277 electoral votes to 145 for
BENJAMIN HARRISON, was more of a
political land slide, because that victory
was won against the power and influence
of an administration intrenched in office
and void of scandals, extravagance or
profligacy.
So that in measuring presidential vie-
tories hy the number of electoral votes
cast— (Mr. ROOSEVELT will have but 345
to Mr. PARKER’S 141)—Mi. ROOSEVELT’S
election in place of being the ‘‘greatest
political victory ever won’’ must take its
place as ninth on the list. Eight others
having won by greater majorities and all
under more adverse circumstances.
Then considering his victory (?) fiom the
standpoint of the popular vote, there cer-
tainly is little for a decent man to boast of.
It is larger, to be sure, but the vote of the
United States is larger than it has ever
been before and if we take into mind the
character of the vote and the means used
to swell it, surely no right thinking man
would feel proud of such an endorsement
—Eliminate from that vote.
The illiterate and prejudiced negro.
The ignorant and boss voted foreigner.
The purchasable vote, to insure which
the trusts put up $5,000,000.
The fraudulent vote, which in Philadel-
phia alone it is boasted 100,000 were count-
ed. *
The repeater vote that was paid for out
of the corruption fund furnished by the
tariff protected trusts.
The office holders vote, that had to be
for him.
And what would Mr. ROOSEVELT have
to boast of in the way of a ‘‘popular ma-
jority ?"’
If being elected by this class of voters
by the money of trusts and the work of the
repeater and false counter, is a matter to
glorify over, then Mr. ROOSEVELT should
evel in such glory to his heart’s content.
Was Small
A Double Loss.
Our friends over in Clearfield seem to
have suffered a double loss at the recent
election. In addition to losing the entire
Democratic ticket, the returns show that
the chaps who were hossing the party over
there, also lost the power to hog everything
in the congressional district at the coming
Democratic State convention. Hereafter,
at least until Clearfield Democrats do bet-
ter for the party than they did on the Sth
inst., Centre county will bave as many
delegates to the State conventions as does
that county, and it won't ask or take all
the little honors that are to be dis-
tributed either. : ¥
1
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
D FEDERAL UNION.
NOV. 18, 1904.
No Need of Reorganization.
Present talk about reorganizing the
Democratic party ig a good deal of a waste
of mental energy The Democratic party
was badly beaten in the election and the
result was disappointing in many respects.
But that party has vast recuperative pow-
er and so far as the conditions are reveal
ed at present, there is no cceasion for
reorganization. Within two years the
party will be on its feet again and as
vigorous and aggressive as ever. When
the next congressional! elections are due
the Democracy will he doing business at
the old stand and playing the game
‘‘for keeps.”
The Democratic party was not half as
badly beaten this vear as it was in 1872,
when HORACE GREELEY was the candi-
date and yet two years later it elected a
majority of Congress and in 1876 gave a
suhstantial majority of the popular vote
and a considerable majority of the elector-
al vote to SAMUEL J. TILDEN. He was
cheated out of the fruits of his victory but
even that failed to dismay the Democracy
and that party carried a majority of the
succeeding Congress. There was no re-
organization then because the party lead-
ers were unselfish and there will be no
reorganization now for the reason that the
rank and file are as vigorous as ever.
All that is necessary to restore the
Democratic party to its splendid estate is
for Democrats to keep perfecting their
local organizations, and attend to their
business between now and the next con-
gressional election, two years hence. The
Republicans can be depended upon mean-
time to open the way for Democratic
victory and if the Democrats are ready it
will come. And they will be ready if the
people of this country haven’t lost their
reason. Drank with power, and saturated
with the spirit of imperialism the Republi-
cans will do something to admonish the
American people that they are unsafe and
the Democracy will do the rest.
The Far Easterm War.
Count CASSINI, Russian Ambassador at
Washington, resents: with a good deal of
feeling, a proposition to intervene to stop
“the war in the far east by mediation. The
war will continue, he declares substantial-
ly, until Japan has been conquered and
Russia satisfied. But this haughty scion
of Russian aristocracy may he mistaken.
The war may be stopped, not when Russia
is ready, but when civilization grows tired
of the needless sacrifice of human lives and
treasure. Even if Muscovite pride is
humbled, that result is more than possible.
If the contention of Russia in Manchuria
were just. If the war had been the conse-
quence of Japan’s greed for conquest or
hunger for territory, there would be some
reason in the attitude of Count CASSINT.
But as a matter of fact the cause of the
strife is Russia’s bad faith, not only to
Japan bat to the whole world, and when-
ever the world grows tired of the carnage,
it will have the justification, if not the
actual right, to intervene and if Russia
resents a wholesome chastisement will be a
fit punishment for her temerity.
We are not in favor of intermeddling
with such affairs by the government of the
United States. We cannot bring ourselves
to the belief that we have any reason to
mix op in Asiatic or Enropean politics.
But we have a humanitarian interest in
the preservation of life and if Russia pro-
poses to continue the war until ber an-
tagonist is exhausted or obliterated we
would favor the extension of our moral in-
fluence to the powers of Europe in a work
of pacification. The war has gone too far
already. It must stop short of extinction.
A Plenty of Them.
Speaking of future Democratic candidates
for President there ought to be no lack of
good ones, if runniog ahead of a party
ticket ie evidence of worth or popularity.
There is the new Democratic Governor
of Massachusetts, who ran 120,000 votes
more than did the presidential nominee.
Then there is the Democratic Governor
elect of Minnesota, who surprised himself
and the entire country by running 135,000
ahead of his ticket.
Then there is the new reform Democratic
Governor of Missouri, who out-distanced
PARKER as a vote getter 50,000.
And to this list of successful Democratic
candidates for Governor must be added,
Colorado’s popular nominee, who in that
listle State ran 25,000 ahead of the
Democratic presidential candidate.
And in the same class with these, al-
though not succeeding at the election, is
the late Democratic candidate for Governor
of New York, who secured 100,000 more
votes than did PARKER and DAVIs.
The Democratic nominee for Governor in
Michigan, who ran 90,000 more votes than
did the Democratic presidential nominee.
And the Democratic candidate for Gov-
ernor in Rhode Island, who was ahead of
the balance of the Democratic ticket 15,-
Surely there is no lack of promising
presidential nominees, as long as men who
can run in the face of such a political
cyclone as the one we have just experienced
and with the results stated, are to be found.
Empire and Emperor.
Professor GOLDWIN SMITH doesn’t be-
lieve that the immense Republican ma-
jority has changed the nature of President
ROOSEVELT. Some less observing indi-
viduals have been discussing Entopian
; plans in relation to the result of the elec-
tion.
cause ROOSEVELT’S majority was far in ex-
cess of the normal Republican strength be
will interpret it as a commission for him
to be a President, not of a party but of the
people, and that during his coming ad-
ministration he will pay little or no atten-
tion to party lines. But Prof. SMITH takes
a different view of the matter. He is of
the opinion that ROOSEVELT is an imperial-
iat and that where there is an empire there
must be an emperor.
In this connection and without prejudice
there are some matters which must be con-
sidered. GOLDWIN SMITH’S notion is that
expansion, attended by bluster, big stick
and military exploitation necessarily means
empire and that where there is empire there
must be an emperor. That is a reasonable
proposition. In the firat place Republicans
never bully. They are modest and un-
assuming as becomes those who attend to
their own business and leave others to take
care of themselves. But ROOSEVELT has
never been inclined to such a course. He
always wants to boss somebody and is never
satisfied unless he is acting in the capacity
of guardian for some one else. This is the
spirit of empire unmistakably expressed.
Bus there is another link in the evidence
of a change to empire in this country which
Prof. GOLDWIN SMITH has not touched.
That is in the fact that in the Philippines
and in Porto Rico we have ‘‘subjects’’ in-
stead of citizens. Now as a master of fact
Republicans can have no subjects. The
essence of Republicanism is that all men
are created equal. Where that truth is
recognized no man undertakes to govern
another. How could he? Equality means
that all are on a common level and though
one man may temporarily occupy the posi-
tion of director of affairs, a sort of foreman
of the shop, that is as far as he can go. But
ROOSEVELT is not satisfied with that dis-
He wants to run the whole ma-
Jihiction. x
Ouine and in’ view of that fact Prof. SMITH
is right. We have the empire and the
emperor will come.
Not Much Loss.
The result of the election in Missouri is
not flattering to President ROOSEVELT,
though according to the returns he carried
that State and thereby ‘‘broke the solid
South.’”” The campaign in Missouri was
peculiar. JOSEPH W. FOLK, Democratic
District Attorney of St. Louis, inangurated
an irrepressible conflict against corruption,
though leaders of his own party were in-
volved in the scandals. In pursnance of
his plan of campaign he became a candidate
for Governor. All the crooks of his own
party were against him but he secured the
nomination though he was handicapped in
the running by machine associates on the
ticket.
If ROOSEVELT had been a reformer he
would have joined in with FOLK in an ef-
fort to reform the politics of the State.
That is what was expected of him. But so
far from doing that he united with the
crooks of both parties and employed every
expedient known to practical politics to
defeat FOLK and elect a Republican who
was venal enoungh to attract the support of
every corrupt Democrat who was opposed
to FOLK. But even such aun alliance was
unable to defeat FOLK. He was elected by
a sabstantial majority though hy trading,
log-rolling and other disreputable political
tricks ROOSEVELT was able to secure the
election of his electors and the Republicans
carried the Legislature.
Thus ROOSEVELT profited by a combina-
tion of the corrupt forces of the State, but
happily it won’t do him much good. The
electoral vote of Missouri wasn’t necessary
to elect ROOSEVELT and the Republican
majority in the Legislature is of little
consequence. If it had been the other
way, Senator COCKRELL who has been in
sympathy with the Imperialiste for a num-
ber of years and has supported ROOSEVELT
in all his schemes of empire during the
past three vears, would have been elected.
As it is Missouri will have a Republican
Senator to serve the Republican party in-
stead of a professing Democrat to serve
RoosevELT. We don’t see that Democracy
has lost much.
Could Do It Themselves,
Now that Philadelphia business men and
manufacturers have spent about all their
own ready cash to hire Republican repeat-
ers and purchase the endorsement of a
tariff supporting administration, it can be
confidently expected that they will set up
a howl for other people to come to the
front and pay for deepening the channel of
the Delaware river, in order that public
‘‘grists may continue to come to their
mill.”
If Philade]phia business interests would
contribute one-half the amount to making
the Delaware navigable that they do for
corrupting the voters of their own and oth-
er cities, there would be no need of their
eternal begging from public funds to
make this much needed improvement.
They bave been telling us that be-
of party control
NO. 45.
Profits and the Philippines.
They figure the cost in dollars and cents
And balance the books with profits galore.
They figure the balance of the trade immense
As steamers ply to the island’s shore.
But what of the blood of the widow’s son
Shed over the waves of the ocean wide?
Can dollars and cents and profits immense
Give back to the mother the son who died?
He sailed away "neath his country’s flag
And his heart beat high with a patriol’s
re.
When duty gave orders he did not lag,
But marched and fought in the swamp and
mire.
Then greed and lust for an empire’s gain
Wrought changes quick in the flag’s intent.
And the soldier brave fills a foreign grave
That greed may garner its cent per cent.
They balance the books—for a soldier’s life
Is measured by profits on new found trade.
The mother who gave her son to the strife
Is told to rejoice at the profits made.
And the old flag floats o’er the broad blue
sea
Above the heads of a subject race;
And they say the stain is hidden by gain
And the profits will balance the flag’s dis-
grace. :
They measure the flag by dollars and cents ;
They offer the boys on the field for gain.
The bloodsked wrought gives them no of-
fense,
For their profits roll in the empire’s train.
The widow’s son sleeps his long, last sleep
In a far-off land, but she should not sigh,
For the ‘books’ are square—and the pages
air
Will sbow that the profits are mounting
high.— Exchange.
Farewell and Forward.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Judge Parker has issued a most credita-
ble valedictory address to the Democratic
party, recognizing that the temporary
leadership, which was so strangely
and unwarrantably seized for him at St.
Louis, has passed from him, and giving
good counsel as to party harmony, while
urging steady opposition to what he aptly
calls “the vicious tariff circle,’’ the system
by which the trusts
so easily retain the protection which
enables them to make their home prices.
Judge Parker's farewell is well timed, and
will be well received.
At the same time Mr. Bryan has issued
an equally appropriate, but far more
vigorous and inspiriting address to the
great mass of the Democracy, of whom he
bas never ceased to be the actual leader.
He does not hesitate—Mr. Bryan never
hesitates—to say what he thinks about
men and things, and his phrases ripg and
cat with all their old force. /
With the possible exception of his. re-
dent Roosevelt in the general result of the
election, Mr. Bryan’s analysis of the cause
of the overwhelming Democratic defeat
commends itself as reasonable. He is
undoubtedly right in summizg up the
chief causes of defeat in the declaration
that the Democratic party attempted to be
conservative in the presence of conditions
which demanded radical remedies. ‘‘It
sounded a partial retreat, when it should
have ordered a charge all along the line.”’
And yet, because of the after-glow of
prosperity, the glitter of an adventurous
and extravagant policy, and the indisput-
able personal strength of Theodore Roose-
velt among those who do not scan him
closely, or weigh his deeds thoughtfully,
it may be doubted whether a charge all
along the line would have been success-
ul.
Certainly the party unity, which has
been achieved under the otherwise luck-
less leadership of Judge Parker, should
he worth something; and the experience
thus dearly won should be worth a great
deal. But now we follow no longer the
timid counsels of those who would, above
all things, conciliate the money powers
and soothe those who take alarm at the
mere whisper of the word radical. By
natural causes the money question has
shelved itself for a generation or so; but
our party is plainly urged to the moss
radical and uncompromising opposition to
trust and tariff evils, and along that line
it will fight its way.
Why, Certainly.
From the New York World.
The Steel Truss and its associates in the
pools controlling the price of steel are to
meet here next Tuesday and raise the
whole list of rates ‘‘to suit the conditions
which have arisen in the iron and steel
markets.’
Why, certainly !
““The conditions which have arisen’’ con-
sist of an election whose result is interpret-
ed by the Trusts as an assurance that their
operations will not be interfered with eith-
er by the criminal law or by a reduction in
their tariff bounties. They are now pro-
ceeding, in the language of Wall street, to
‘‘take profits.’’
“The Steel Trust alone,’’ said Governor-
elect Douglas, of Massachusetts, ‘‘reaps
$80,000,000 a year out of protection, and
pockets it, selling abroad cheaper than we
can buy from it.”’ Naturally, when the
Trust proposes to squeeze the public still
harder it is more expedient to do the work
» week after than a week before the elec-
ion.
The Somth Can “Stand it."
From the Atlantic Constitution.
The South is not going to indulge itself
in worries or vain regrets. With the great-
est cotton crop it hasever known, and the
whole world after it at high prices, the
South greets the other sections of our com-
mon country with cheerfulness and confi-
dence. Down here we have our eyes turn-
ed hopefully toward the future. We have
gone through many a worse experience,
only to come out smiling. With the lion’s
share of the prevailing national prosperity
—due to a beneficent Providence, and not
to the Republican party— we send greetings
to the sister States, North and West, and
agsure them all: We can stand is if they
can.
/ ———Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
resi-
Spawls from the Keysfone.
—One Perry county farmer, J. E. Kinzer
by name, declares that he and his wife husk-
ed 650 bushels of corn in six days.
—August Frank, a civil war veteran, liv-
ing in South Philipsburg, stepped in the
way of a moving locomotive last Tuesday
evening, loging his left arm and leg.
—Dr. G. A-Beck, a well known physician
of Flemington, fell dead in the postoffice at
that place Monday afternoon. "He was 50
years old and is survived by a wife, twe
sons and a daughter.
—D. M. Morris, the well known Loganton
merchant, was taken suddenly ill Friday
night with convulsions, producing a semi-
conscious condition in which he lingered un-
til Sunday morning when death ensued.
—Dr. J. P. Burchfield, the oldest physi-
cian in Clearfield, died at his home in that
borough last Tuesday afternoon. after an
illness of two days. He was in his 7Ist
year and is survived by his wife and six
children.
—A mortgage for $25,000 against the First
| United Evangelical church, of Williamsport,
of which Rev.J. F. Dunlap is pastor, was
burned Sunday, closinga week of jubilee
services. Rev. M. F. Fosselman and Rev. J,
A. Hollenbaugh delivered the se rmons.
—The big spring, from which Philipsburg
has for some time been getting its water sup-
ply, on account of the dry weather is unable
to meet the heavy demands made upon it,
and the water company has been obliged to
get its supply directly from Cold Stream.
—Four men, unknown tramps, perished in
the fire that destroyed the Hagerty barn,
near Altoona, on Friday morning. Six
horses were also burned to death. Another
tramp was considerably burned and went to
the hospital for repairs. The loss is estimat-
ed at $10,000, with an insurance of $1,500.
—The fast mail No. 11, made another fast
run over the middle division Monday morn-
ing. It covered the distance between Al-
toona and Harrisburg, 132 miles, in 132
minutes. It was hauled by engine No.
1634, which was handled by engineer
William Dunmire and fireman J. W.
Baird.
—The editor of the Barnesboro Star is in-
formed that Rembrandt Peale, general
superintendent for Peale, Peacock & Co., has
decided to erect one hundred and fifty tene-
ment houses in south Spangler. The houses
will be necessary to accommodate the men
who are employed at their mine in that part
of town.
—A heavy rain and sleet storm, Sunday
evening, along the Philadelphia division be-
tween Lancaster and Philadelphia did great
damage to the telegraph and tele:
phone lines. The wires were broken down
and practically crippled railroading over the
division. The westbound trains were from
one to three hours late.
—The Missouri Pacific Railroad company,
has offered Mrs. Weber, widow of George
Weber, of Troutville, who was killed in the
wreck at Warrensburg, Mo., a few days ago,
$5,000 in settlement for all damages. Mus.
Weber has been advised by her attorney to
accept the tender rather than go to the ex-
pense and bother to stand suit for a larger
amount. The relatives of all the other’ vic-
tims of the wreck have been offered similar
amounts. ;
—Dr. J. M. Brown, head of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad relief association department
of the Middle and Philadelphia divisions,
with an office at Harrisburg, was stricken
with paralysis Sunday morning at his farm
at Spruce Creek. He had walked into the
orchard and while sitting on a log suddenly
became ill. He was taken to the house and
physicians summoned and an examination
revealed that he had been stricken with
paralysis.
—The thirteen State Normal schools in
Pennsylvania will ask the next Legislature
to increase their biennial appropriation from
$20,000 to $40,000. This was decided at a
meeting at Harrisburg Friday of the trustees
and principals of these schools to discuss’ the
legislation which they will advocate at the
next session. A legislative committee, con-
sisting of Drs. Lytle, of Millersburg; Waller,
of Bloomsburg, and Phillips, of Chester, was
appointed.
—Col. Wm. E. Sprague, of Williamsport,
an ex-sheriff of Lycoming county, died at
Renovo Sunday afternoon, of heart trouble,
brought on by an attack of indigestion. Mr.
Sprague left Williamsport Saturday for
Niagara Falls, N. Y., and when the train
had reached Renovo he became so ill that it
was necessary to remove him to the Renovo
hotel. The Elks, of which he was a mem-
ber, took the body to Williamsport where the
funeral took place Tuesday afternoon.
—Western express struck a deer which
was standing on the track near Petersburg
Thursday afternoon, of last week, and threw
it to one side of the track, where it lay, bad-
ly hurt. Some of the crew on a freight train
which was following the express, discovered
the crippled deer, and getting off the train
cut its throat with a knife and then placed
it in the cabin car. The animal was a fine
buck, weighing over 200 pounds. On ac-
count of the mountain streams being dried
up it is supposed the buck had come down
for water.
—James Miller, 43 years old, of Bratton
township, Mifflin county, died last Sunday
from hydrophobia. Early last spring a
strange dog, showing symptoms of rabies,
came to Miller’s house and bit a cow and a
pet dog. The pet dog and several puppies
were seized with convulsions, and Miller,
in killing one of the pups, was bitten. Be-
ing under the impression that the animals
had been poisoned he took no precaution
against the dread disease. A few days ago
he was seized with terrible pains. Convul-
sions followed and he died in agony. He
leaves a wife and six children.
—Postoffice inspector J. H. Wardle reports
the recent arrest in Cherokee county, Kan-
sas, of Thomas Miller, late postmaster at
Hawk Run, Clearfield county. Miller, who,
it is said, was a fugitive, baving been indict-
ed at the May term of the United States dis-
trict court at Pittsburg for embezzlement of
$854.81, money order funds, was taken into
custody by the United States marshal and
his removal to this district for trial will fol-
low. Miller abandoned his office on Dec.
29th, 1903, and was enabled to keep his
whereabouts a secret for some time. When
arrested he was employed as a coal miner.