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ro —— A
ink Slings.
—Every well dressed woman isn’t a
CAssiE CHADWICK.
—Talk about women being afraid of a
cow! Why CassiE CHADWICK took the
bull right by the horns when she volon-
tarily started back to Cleveland, Tuesday
night, to face her accusers.
—Many a poor child could be made
happy for ten cents on Christmas morning.
Remember this when you are throwing
money away on yourself and laying the
foundation for bad feelings the next
day.
— ANDREW CARNEGIE must certainly
be sincere in his desire to die poor. He
has actually declined to go to Cleveland to
testify in the CHADWICK case, thereby los-
ing the opportunity of earning the dollar
titty a day thas is paid for that service.
—Since the farmers don’t seem to be
able to make their prayers for rain heard
we would suggest that they get together
and squeeze some water out of the
stocks on the market. There is enough
of that sort to give them a perfect del-
nge.
—The officials of that Oberlin bank,
Messrs. Ira REYNoLDs, of Cleveland;
NEwTON, of Brookline, Mass.,, and
FRIEND, of Pittsburg, are the gentlemen
Pastor WAGNER was really looking for
when be was over here. They could have
given him a few pointers on ‘‘the simple
life.”
—The Pittsburg Post remarks that‘ ‘elec-
tion figures show that a gieat many peo-
ple didn’t think it worth while to vote.
“Is that so? Down this way we have
been under the impression that there were
quite as many voted as there was any
necessity for.
—Up in Boston the Democrats have just
re-elected an Alderman who is at present
engaged in serving a two months sentence
in one of the jails “in that city. This is
nos so complimentary to the lucky candi-
date in jail as it is uncomplimentary to
the unlucky one at liberty.
— We are not for the proposition to pay
the President one hundred thousand per
annum. We are getting about all the
ROOSEVELT we need at fifty-thousand per.
Besides, if the Congressmen’s salaries are
‘to be doubled, also, what in the world
will we do with all the seeds.
—~Candidates for the local offices are
beginning to bob up with all the severity
of the hero of the song. Already THAD
HaMmirroN, THOMAS HowLEYy, 8. H.
DiEHL and GEO. SMITH arein the field
for nomination for overseer of the poor and
asall of them are very good men the
citizens of the borough will bardly be
capable of making a mistake. a
—Senator REED SMooT will not stand
as good a chance of retaining his seat as be
did before she election. Utah cast her
vote for ROOSEVELT, thus the Mormons
earried out their part of the deal, but as
there will be no further use for the Mor-
mons for four years more the very honora-
ble(?) christian(?) Republican party will
probably listen to the voice of the people
and fire him out.
—Col. Wn. C. GREEN, the gentleman
who took half pages in the metropolitan
papers of Tuesday to proclain to the pub-
lic that he was going to Boston next day
to call THOMAS LAWSON a liar, failed to
make good. The only thing that will
convince the public now that Col. GREEN,
himself, is not a liar is another announce-
ment to the effect that there were no trains
running between New York and Boston on
Wednesday.
—Standing on the High street bridge a
few days ago looking at the beautiful trout
playing in the clear waters below a
stranger asked a little boy why ‘‘so many
of the fish have black tails.” Being a
stranger, of course, he didn’t understand
when the youngster undertook to ‘‘put
him wise’”” by this pertinent reply: *‘I
don’t know, unless they are beginning to
put on mourning for JOE RIGHTNOUR’S
official demise.”’
—Professor CROOK, of the Northwestern
University, who actually startled the en-
tire civilized world about three years ago
by announcing that he bad never kissed
nor bugged a woman in his life, is now en-
gaged to be married. While the Professor
ig doubtless a very nice gentleman we
sympathize with the lady. Because if be
got all that was coming to him when he
popped he must have worn her kisser out
and cracked every rib in her body hugging
her.
—The ‘Taxpayer’ who consumed nearly
a column of the valuable space of the Daily
News on Tuesday in telling the people of
Bellefonte what a good thing the new.
Phoenix pumping station is evidently
wasted quite a bit of his time. Everyone
knows that the Phoenix station
will prove a saving, even if it can
be operated only six months in the
“year, instead of from eight to nine,
. as is probable. The question council has
to decide now is only whether it will pay
for twelve months service when such
" gervice is not available. The station is a
.most economical investment, but a clause
in the contract stipulates a maintainance
of a certain horse power at all times and,
* necessarily, when that horse power is not
. maintained there must be a rebate on the
terms of the contract.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 49
cm——
A Dangerous Precedeiit,
We bave no complant against the pur-
pose of Congress to impeach Judge SWAYNE
of the federal cours in Florida. According
to the best evidence obtainable, that
wretch is about as fit to sit ona judicial
bench as the average tramp is to occupy the
seat of an Archangel. He has been concern-
ed in all sorts of judicial swindles. He has
interrupted the course of justice in dozens
of cases and perverted the laws to the serv-
ice of his personal interests. In fact, he
has committed about every offence that a
Judge could commit, and has neither the
integrity, intelligence nor legal learning to
discharge the judicial duties.
But we are not quite satisfied with the
charge upon which the impeachment pro-
ceedings are predicated. It appears that
among numerous other malfeasances
in office, Judge SWAYNE, on at least one
occasion, accepted the use of a special car
to go to another district than his own to
hold court, and charged car fare in his ex-
pense account against the government.
The railroad company, the hospitality of
which he was enjoying, was in the bands
of a receiver of his own appointment. But
the Congressional committee makes no ob-
jection to that. What the statesmen com-
posing that body object to is the charge for
railroad fare that wasn’t paid.
We freely admis that that was a grave
offence, but impeaching an official for it is
a dangerous precedent. For example, it is
well known that every Senator, and Repre-
sentative in Congress who has attended a
Congressional funeral within the last guar-
ter of a century has done the same thing,
aud some of them are still within the limit
of criminal progeoution. Besides, we call
to mind that not long ago the Governor of
Pennsylvania went to the National Guard
encampment in a special car, and certain
high officials of this State attended court at
Clearfield, two or three years ago, making
the journey on passes, and still they
charged car fare in their bills of costs. And
for the past ten years Judges of the courts
of this Commonwealth, who have been
holding courts outside of their own dis-
tricts, and riding ou passes furnished by
the railroad company, have charged and
received mileage for every mile traveled.
This Congressional committee is estab-
lizhing a perilous precedent.
Enlargement of Capital Park.
The movement for the enlargement of the
Capital park at Harrisburg, which is al-
ready receiving considerable attention
throughout the State, deserves encourage-
ment and success. ‘The new capital build-
ing will be one of the most imposing pub-
lic structures in the country. It should
have an adequate setting and environment.
The present park area is obviously insul-
ficient. The east front of the building is
almost on the street line. This fact not
only impairs the beauty of the building,
bat detracts from its utility. Besides the
limited area of the park depreciates the
value of the State property.
The section of the city of Harrisburg ly-
ing directly east of the present capital
grounds and between the present park line
and the railroad is occupied, in the main,
by inexpensive shanties and old buildings
of larger proportions. These are occupied
largely by negroes and Russian Jews.
The value of the structures is hardly to be
oonsidered. The ground is valuable, of
course, but it is worth more to the State
than to any one else, because, owned by
the State, it will enhance the valus of the
other property of the State. It can be ac-
quired now at comparatively little cost.
In other words, there is in it at present op-
portunity for a bargain.
The conditions are auspicious, moreover,
for the purchase of the property. There is
a surpl us in the State Treasury now aggre-
gating about $14,000,000, and the revenues
are redundant, though a trifle less than a
year ago. The payments on account of
the building of the new capital will end
about 1906, and unless taxes are decreased
meantime, the excess in collections will
increase. But even if taxes are reduced,
as they certainly ought to be, the present
surplus remains to invite profligacy in ad-
ministration and feed the cupidity of pub-
lic officials. There can be ro better and
safer way of getting rid of part of this sur-
plus than by enlarging the Capital park.
Of course, this must be done decently
and in order. That is to say, there must
be no jobbing or robbing in the operation.
The State enjoys the right of eminent do-
main. Let it exercise thas right in acquir-
ing the property needed for the enlarge-
ment of Capital park. By the exercise of
that right the necessary land can be ac-
quired at an absolutely just valuation, and
while no present owner will saffer, the
State will be greatly benefitted. Under
these conditions we are cordially in favor
of the extension of Capital park. It is up
to the people of Harrisburg to cousent to
such an arrangement.
S—
——The open hunting season for all
kinds of small game ended yesterday and
the numerous nimrods can now polish up
their guns and store them away.
Reform in Philadelphia.
We greatly fear that the reform move-
mens so auspicionsly begun in Philadelphia
a few weeks ago, will disappoint the ex-
pectations of its friends. It was begun ab
a mass meeting called by the Municipal
League. It appointed a committee to formu-
late a plan of action. The committee has
beld several meetings, and is now ready to
report, the newspapers of the city inform
the public. Bat the nature of the report,
if the outline of it given by the press isac-
curate, is what invites doubt. It recom-
mends a permanent organization ‘which
will bave as its primary idea the endorse-
ment of acceptable candidates.”’ It may
have other aims, but they have not been
revealed.
It may be accepted as a certainty that
‘the endorsement of acceptable candidates’
by any reform organization will have no
more inflaence upon the vote of the city
than the stream of a garden hose would
bave bad on the Baltimore fire. Even if
every reformer in the city, and every man
who favors good government would sag port
the acceptable caadidates endorsed, is
wouldn’t count. The machine would siui-
ply have that many frandulent votes put
into the ballot boxes, and the regular ma-
chine ticket would be elected just the same.
The Philadelphia machine must be fought
with different weapons.
The only way to work reform in Phila-
delpbia is to attack the iniguities of the
machine with such force as will compel
punishment. The ballot box stuffers and
those who employ them must be pat to jail
before reform efforts will prove successful.
The arrest and punishment of the criminals
who make the rounds and deposit she bal-’
lots ie not sufficient. The prosecution of the
miscreants who loaf about the alley saloons
and political olubs ie not enough. = The of--
ficers of the law must get into the Union
League and the Manufacturers’ club and
take the millionaires who supply the money
by the throat.
When that is done there will be some
hope of reform in Philadelphia. That will
be a gigantic enterprise, no doubt. Those
wealthy reprobates have friends on the
bench and vast influence ir every direc-
tion. They bave money to suborn perjury
and fix juries. But they are as guilty as
their agents who actually stuff the ballot]
boxes, and they must be equally punished |
and similarly execrated or. ¢lses reform |g,
movements in that city are wastes of ener-
gy, time and money. The Municipal
League has properly dissolved. When it
supported JOHN WEAVER for Mayor it pub-
licly proclaimed itsimbecility or venality,
Its successor in office is now in the centre
of the stage. :
Narrative of Shame Continued.
In last Sunday’s issue of the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger the narrative of that
city’s shame is continued and with an-
abated interest. Last week we referred to
the story of the SALTER trial in which the
District Attorney, since rewarded by pro-
motion to thegreat office of Mayor of that
city, betrayed his trust, violated his oath
of office and covered himself with infamy.
The narrative in last Sanday’s issue de-
scribed the devions ways by which the
Republican machine collects funds to keep
itself in power. If any Philadelphian or
any Pennsylvanian can read that statement
of iniquity without a feeling of resent-
ment, he is no better than the criminal
wretches whose operations are exposed.
The regular way by which the atrocious
political machine of Philadelphia gets
money to bribe voters, pay for padding the
registry lists and meet the expenses of the
dissolute lives of the party managers, is
assessing the office holders. This process
yields, annually, according to our esteemed
contemporary, a matter of $200,000. But
that is hardly a tithe of the money that is
required for the purpose. Of course a con-
siderable sum is realized every year from
contributions of wealthy men whodraw
profits out of the policies of the Repub-
lican party, but a quarter of a million
would easily cover that revenue. That
leaves to the other source the bulk of the
burden.
Now what is this other source of revenue
of the dominant political organization in a
city which pretends to be influenced by
she principles of Christian civilization ? It
is by issuing verbal livense and guarantee-
ing official protection to lewd women,
keepers of bawdy houses, thieves, gamblers
and other varieties of oriminals. These
purveyors of vice and crime divide the
profits of their reprehensible operations
with the managers of the political machine
and whatever part of the amount is nob
needed for the personal expenses of the
managers is added to the fund collected by
assessing the office holders and that con-
tributed by rich beneficiaries to pay for
ballot frauds. .
——Mr. Thomas Howley is the first man
to announce himself as a candidate for any
office at the borough election in February,
and he is out this week as a candidate for
the nomination for overseer of the poor on
NO. 49.
BELLEFONTE, PA., DEC. 16, 1904.
Senator Knox Talks Democracy.
If Senator KNOX acts officially as he
speaks unofficially he will not differ very
widely from his Democratic associates in
the body of which he has recently become
a member when fundamental principles of
government are under consideration. For
example, in his speech before the Penusyl-
vania society of New York last Monday
evening he quoted firs from Senator MAc-
LAY the Democratic precept that ‘‘we
should reduce the practice of government
to the principles of common sense,”’ and
from the same authority the other equally
pertinens and Democratic idea that “it is
only as public service stands the test of
common sense that it can be a source of
satisfaction to the servant, or of value to
the people.”’ It will be observed that in
that quotation he recognizes the Demo-
oratic theory that public officers are ser-
vants rather than masters.
Following that Senator KNOX next quo-
ted from JEFFERSON the fundamental
Democratic principle that ‘‘the people who
are least governed are best governed,’’ and
added, ‘‘from which it follows that we
should not be diligent in the exercise of
our ingenuity to devise vexatious and
unnecessary laws to fret the people in their.
ordinary occupations.’”’ That might also
have been taken from JEFFERSON or any
other of the founders of Democracy. It
expresses the sentiment which guided them
in all sheir official relations aud is embod-
ied in the Tenth amendment of the conssi-
tution, adopted by the First Congress at
the instance of JEFFERSON, MADISON and
MONROE, which reads : ‘‘The powers not
delegated to the United States by the con-
stitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States respect-
ively, or to the people.”
But how can a man holding such opin-
ions of the fundamental principles of gov-
ernment act with the party which is sub-
verting them and promoting imperialism?
How can he support an administration
which is exhausting every available means
of seizing new power for the Federal gov-
ernment and usurping the powers vested
‘in the co-ordinate branches of the govern-
‘ment ? If Senator KNOX believes what he
said concerning the ‘‘exercise of our inge-
puity to devise vexatious and unnecessary
"laws to fret the people in their ordinary
ocupations,”” he must rebuke the Presi-
‘hie ‘efforts, olearly expressed in
his annual message, to give the adminis-
tration power to fix the rates of transpor-
tation companies and regulate the business
of Insarance companies.
No man can ‘‘serve God and Mammon,’
or preach Democracy and act the opposite,
and still retain the confidence and respect
of the people.
Pennypacker and Reform,
A Philadelphia contemporary sends out
the glad tidings that Governor PENNY-
PACKER will recommend various important
reforms in his annnal message to the Legis-
lature next month. He will urge a re-ap-
portionment of the State into Senatorial
and Legislative districts, and suggests
amendments to the odious FocHT ballot
law it declares. These are certainly needed
reforms, and if the Governor recommends
them he will deserve popular commenda-
tion. And it is not unlikely that he will
doso. He more or less feebly advocated
re-apportionment two years ago, and the
absurd FocHT ballot law made so much
trouble for the voters of all parties that it
has hardly a friend in the State.
But the esteemed contemporary which
gives us this welcome intelligence casts a
shadow of doubt upon its own predictions
by adding that the Governor will also rec-
ommend legislation to abolish the fees of
the Insurance Commissioner, the Secretary
of the Commonwealth and the Attorney
General. It adds, significantly, that such
a measure ‘‘would hardly be regarded with
favor by the ‘organization,’ ’’ but lets the
statement go without other qualification.
That indicates that our contemporary is too
credulous to live in this world of woe, or
else it doesn’t understand our distin-
guished Chief Magistrate. That is, it im-
agines that he will be influenced by public’
interests in making his recommendations.
It may be set down as a dead certainty,
that Governor PENNYPACKER will recom-
mend no reforms that will not meet with
the favor of the organization. Governor
PENNYPACKER wants to secure a seat on
the bench of the Supreme court and knows
that it will come to him only as a reward
for sinister services to the organization.
He is aware, moreover, that abolishing the
fees of the Insurance Commissioner would
take from $15,000 to $20,000 a year out of
the pockets of ISRAEL W. DURHAM and
leave him without a dollar of legitimate
income. Nobody who knows DURHAM im-
agines that he would stand that for a sin-
gle moment, and, that being the case,
PENNYPACKER will not recommend it,
——Arthur B. Kimport, prothonotary-
elect, moved his family from Linden Hall,
last week, to Bellefonte, and is now occu-
the Democratic ticket. Ae
pying the Hoffer house on Logan street.
When Trouble Will Come.
From the I ancaster Intelligencer.
The demand of great industries for
foreign trade, the demand of the govern-
ment for a greater revenue than thas
furnished hy sariffs levied for protection
from the exactions of the combined and
overprotected interests: the demand of the
nations who would buy from us and sell to
us for reasonable treatment and fair en-
couragement of trade—these and many
other demands, though hardly noted now,
must grow to sudden clamor, either with
the first discovery of great profit $o be had
by freer trade, or with the first develop-
ment of a general lack of employment by
labor and capital.
It is perfectly plain that a prosperity
which extends across the Canadian and
Mexican horders, and even across the
oceans; and is marked by singular con-
trasts of depression in many industries,
cannot be said to depend. in Pennsylvania,
upon the existing tariff laws; and when
this truth impresses itself npon the gen-
eral understanding by facts of misfit de-
mand and supply, whether in the direction
of an expansion or a curtailment of Penn-
sylvania’s indostrial activity, there is.
bound to be trouble for the powers that be,
and a summary correction of the so-called
incorrigible tendencies of Pennsylvania.
For be it remembered that within the
memory of living men Pennsylvania, aye,
Lancaster county, gave strong Democratic
majorities, year after year, with the same
persistence that they have in our time
given majorities to the unspeakably cor-
rupt and unworthy Republican party.
Future for the Democracy.
From the Syracuse (N. Y.) Telegram.
There are Republicans in the middle
west in the process of becoming Democrats.’
There are Republicans in New England in
the process of becoming Democrats. The
tyranny of the railroad trust and the
necessity of tariff reform are making Demo-
crats east and west. There is no room in
the Republican party for three present
western Republican Governors--LaFollette,
of Wisconsin; Cummins, of Iowa, and Van
Sant, of Minnesota. It is well to recall
that in face of the Republican landslide
Minnesota in the west and Massachusetts
in the east elected Democratic Governors
who made campaigns on living issues. It
is to be always remembered that Joseph
W. Folk is Governor of Missouri, also
elected on a paramount and vital issue.
There is a future for the Democracy. I
does not lie in a reversion to either Social-
ism, Populism or any other bhair-brain-
ed “ism.” It does not follow paths of
conservatism which are but an inane and
cowardly copy of Republicanism. It is
along the vital principles of the Democracy
brought down to date. Present conditions
demand a vigorous party, radical but n
visionary or insane. A party which w
‘adhere to the Democratic pr pleof eg
rights for all and of spec! Cl for
none. A party which will energetically
and sincerely battle with graft. A party
which will oppose the reign of lawless
monopolies wherever found. A parts
which, true to Folk, Herrick and Douglay,
will gather victory from a temporary de-
eat.
Why It Amounts to So Little.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
With the second largest number of Rep-
resentatives in the Congress the ancient
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania stands
where ag to influence? Certainly not in
the second place. There are at least a
half dozen of the States which outrank
this one in political power, yet with the
exception of New York they are inferior
in all that makes for the greatness and
wealth of an American Commonwealth.
It is mot wholly that Pennsylvania’s Rep-
resentatives are not in notable instances
men of forceful distinction, but they are
so much one-idea wen, the so-called ‘‘Penn-
sylvania Idea.”” that men of broader minds
and less selfish policies exercise a power in
_the:pational legislature which is denied
the members from this State. In legisla-
tion the major part is often purely or im-
purely political, too frequently abjectly
partisan. Upon any political, partisan
question, and commonly npon any econom-
ic one, it is always known long in ad-
vance how the solid delegation from this
State will vote. It can be invariably de-
pended upon, for instance, to vote for the
tariff, then for more tariff, always for more
and bigher duties. Its chief policy in
Congress smacks of sordidness,and Congress
and the country know it.
Not Falldilling Expectations.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Really, after the Republican claims: of
their beneficent deeds, we supposed that
they would see that the rivers were sup-
plied a little waster; bat it is simply
another case of misplaced confidence.
—— Yesterday Rev. James P. Hughes,
principal emeritus of the Bellefonte Acad-
emy, celebrated the 78th anniversary of
his birth and a more hale and hearty old
gentleman than he would not be found in
amonth’s travel. Few of our readers may
know it, bat it is a fact that Rev. Hughes
has been a teacher for over fifty-two con-
secutive years and for the past thirty-six
years be bas been at the head of the Acad-
emy in this place. This is a record that
probably cannot be equalled by any other
man in this State. Aud in addition to his
still teaching every day during the school-
year season Rev. Hughes can ride his
bicycle, skate with the young men and
shoulder his gun and go on the chase with
any old hunter. And his health is such
that there is promise of most any number
of years of active life still in store for him.
——1If the ten dollar. Congressmen, who
are now clamoring for a ten thousand dollar
salary, would only be willing to take for
their services what they are worth to the
country, there wonld be no great
depletion of the treasury after paying fall
price for everything done.
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Keystone.
~ —Engineer Samuel Hertler made a fast
ran with his train from Altoona to Huné-
ingdon Friday night making the trip, a dis-
tance of 34 miles, in 28 minutes.
—The late James V. Brown, of Williams-
port, has provided in his will for the erec-
tion of a public library in that city to cost
$150,000 and also provides for its main-
tenance.
—Jacob Helsel, aged 99 years, who lived
in a shanty in Portage township, was ad-
mitted to the Cambria county almshouse the
other day. Helsel was once a prosperous
farmer and hunter.
—Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern railrcad
engineers are finishing a final survey from
Mahoning to Pittsburg on the west side of
the Allegheny river. Construction is ex-
pected to commence next spring.
—A member of the board of health of
Morris run states that there are 150 cases of
smallpox in that place. Six new cases
developed Wednesday. A number of per-
sons have recovered from the disease.
—David M, Arthur, a moulder took a dose
of rough on rats, at Muncy Wednesday, and
died next morning from the effects of the
poison. He is survived by one daughter and
his wife, who is an inmate of the Danville
hospital for the insane.
—The Elk tanning company, of which the
Tecumseh tannery, of Everett, is a branch,
is at present filling an order of 250,000 sides
of sole leather for the Japanese government.
It will require 17 cars, containing 15,000
sides gach, to transport the leather to the
Pacific coast
—When the Altoona health board attempted
to lodge a newly discovered smallpox patient
in the contagious disease hospital, on Mon-
day, the discovery was made that the build-
ing bad been occupied for a month by about
50 Italians. The smallpox patient is being
treated at home. :
—Prof. H. A. Surface, State Economic
Zoologist,has a white crow that was shot and
wounded on the McKeehan farm, near Mt.
Rock, Cumberland county. The bird, was
captured and after its wound healed it was
sent to Prof. Surface. It is pure white, with
pink bill and the iris of the eyes is jet black
with pink lids.
—The parties who purchased the Hoovers-
ville coal field for $300,000 will apply fora
state charter on January 2nd for a cor-
poration to be known as the Knickerbocker
Smokeless coal company. The applicants
are J. B. Irish and Ned Irish, of Philadel-
phia; W. P. Graff, T. M. Graff and Telford
Lewis, all of Blairsville.
—Register and recorder Enyeart, of Hunt-
ingdon, about three weeks ago ran & splinter
into one of his fingers. A few days later the
wound became quite sore and at intervals he
suffered greatly. The rest of his body is now
becoming affected and blood poisoning is
feared. Grave doubts are now entertained
in regard to Mr. Enyeart’s recovery.
—The Glassport coal company mine near
Milesville, which caught afire in a most un-
usual manner, is still on fire. A forest fire
had been burning near the entrance and the
flames were finally communicated to the
mines through a ground hog hole. The
mine is ‘being flooded. Fortunately miners
_ were not at work when the fire started.
_ —Captain James Rodgers, a well-known
stern of, Hollidaysburg, as rundown by
untingdon flyer on the railroad at
Hollidaysburg Friday morning. He was
crossing the track with his two-horse team
when the train came upon him. Both horses
were killed. Captain Rodgers was seriously
hurt but it is believed that he will recover:
—The new M. E. church at Benedict was
dedicated on Sunday, Dec. 4th, Rev. J. W.
Rue, D. D., of Sunbury, officiating. The
balance of the indebtedness, $1,500, was
raised, together with a surplus of about $175.
The energetic young pastor, Rev. John
Shaffer, and the members of the church as
well, feel highly elated over the success of
the dedicatory services.
—The Philadelphia and Reading railway
company Saturday awarded a contract to the
Standard steel car company for the construe-
tion of 1,000 freight cars, with a capacity of
60,000 pounds each. These cars are to be
delivered to the railroad company in March
and April. It is estimated that 50,000 steel
cars have been ordered by the railroads since
September. This involves a demand for a
half-million tons of steel plates.
—Officer Pat Gainor, who is a member of
the police force of Lindsey, near Punx-
sutawney, was held up the other night by
highwaymen and robbed of his revolver and
mace. The officer was making bis rounds
when he was suddenly corfronted by several
strangers who had the ‘‘drop’” on him and
he was compelled to submit. It is thought
that it was the intention of the men to rob
some of the business places of the village.
—The mixing plant of the Rockdale
powder company at lloffmanville, Md., 28
miles from York, was blown to pieces at
noon Monday. Five persons were in the
building at the time, but all escaped injury.
The only warning was a small blue flame
noticed on the floor as a workman was
wheeling a load of dynamite through the
building. Workmen made a hasty exit, and
were hardly beyond danger when there was
a terrific report. The plant was totally
destroyed.
—Two masked men entered the Leahy
coal company’s office in the Masonic Temple,
Altoona, at noon Saturday, knocked down
clerk Wilbur Ale,bound and gagged him and
stole $2,000 which had been placed in a
satchel ready to be taken to Lilly to pay off
the miners. Ale was alone in the office at
the time, paymaster Charles Leahy having
gone to lunch. The robbers knocked at the
door, and, as Ale opened if, felled him
with a blow in the face, tendering him un-
conscious. After tying him to the safe the
men took the money and disappeared.
—The Rev. Dr. Manning, of New York
City, the newly elected bishop of the Harris-
burg diocese of the Episcopal church, the
new diocese recently established and which
includes Centre county, bas asked for more
time to consider the advisability of accepting
the bishopric. The committee called on him
at his home Tuesday at the vicarage of St.
Agnes, and he announced that he would
make known his decision in a few days. The
congregation of St. Agnes are petitioning
him to remain. The salary in the new field
is $4.000, while the salary at St. Agnes is
000.
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