CHADWICK seems to have had them.
Talking about taking waye; Casi
—The tall of Port / Arthur ome near
holding out until the spring of 1905.
—If your Uncle SAMMY PENNYPACKER
had bis way we would all be in the dog
pound.
~~The rain on Monday ¥ was sufficient to
water the stook for a few 'days—that is,
the farm stock. -~
‘—It is now the Hon. JouN NoiL in
reality and no one could wear the title
’ more modestly.’
g —Mrs. CHADWICK told her Basband to
believe her and, being a good husband, we
presume he does.
_ —Doubtless many of the new leaves that
were turned over on Sunday are dog-eared
or thumb-marked already.
—There are a few men in Bellefonte just |
mow who would sooner be O. 8. P. than
President of the United States.
—The ambitious candidate is beginning
to be solicitions about saving. the dear
people trom everything but himself.
—And to think shat the public bad be-
gun to think that PENNYPACKER was
~ outgrowing his asinine habits of two years
ago!
—PENNY will probably use his og net
instead of a pistol when be makes up
"his mind to kill the editors of Pennsyl:
/ vania.
—Inasmuch as the Balti fleet didn’t
get there in time to relieve Port Arthur it
will be in order for the Russians to send
something to the relief of the Baltic fleet.
—No, dear reader, while it is true that
Recorder ROWE swore Judge ORVIS into
office on ‘Monday there was nothing in
the proceeding to indicate that he cussed
Judge LOVE out. :
—President ROOSEVELT is early arrogat-
ing to himself dictatorship. - His latest
proposition is to make himself boss of the
Panama canal job. We wonder if he will
submit to a civil service examination.
—Chestnats are so plentifal in New
Hampshire that they are selling at four
cents the quart in many places. Which
d oes President ROOSEVELT take the credit
for: The chestnuts or the low price ?
—We congratulate Judge ORVIS on his
first appointment; that of WILLIAM DAW-
SON as one of his sipstaves. Mr. DAW-
-80N will not only make a. very efficient
officer, but his appointment is a devidedly,
merited honor.
The Ruseis—Japan war bias already |
sost $364,000,000 and the expenses are
climbing up at the rate of $22,500,000
per month. Let us see. How: much did
i$ cost to build that beautiful hall of peace
at The Hague?
—Mr. WM. RANDOLPH HEARST'S am:
bition to become Mayor of New York is
a tacit admission thas he 1s following the
code of prize fighters who have to ‘‘go and
get a record” before they can expect to
“‘take on’’ any big game.
—PENNYPACKER thinks that Philadel-
phia “needs a newspaper which bas the
capacity and inclination to make her ac-
complishments known to the world.”
Surely he can’t take exception to’ what
they bave done for him. He is a native
of that city by adoption.
—New Yorkers consuise 160 gallons
2s a of water per capita, Philadelphians 220
~~ gallons,
gallons.
* ance people to figure out whether clean:
lines or ‘‘chasers’’ is responsible for our
while Bellefonters use 350
It remains for the Temper-
abnormal daily consumption.
—1It the Hon. JomN Noir and Hon.
. PHIL WOMELSDORF succeed in getting
proper appropriations for The Pennsylva-
a ‘nia State Collegeand the Philipsburg and
- Bellefonte hospitals they will bave accom-
plished about all that can reasonably be
_ expeoted of them during this ression of the
Legislature.
~The avnovncemieRt that the present
session of the Legislature is to be brief is
Sa probably inspired by the certainty that the
fifteen Democrats who are in that body will
~~ not be able to put any check on the Re-
publican planderers, whatever, and they
will promptly dissipate the ten million dol
lars in the treasury, then disappear. ;
0
—It was scarcely because of superior
legal ability or better acquaintance with
the case thas the Commissioners of Centre
athe se sent E. R. CHAMBERS to Philadel
~~ phia to argue the GREEN and DILLEN
murder case before the Supreme oourt
i instead of permitting former District At-
torney N. B. SPANGLER “to follow up the
prosecution of the case. The Board of
Commissioners is Republican, Mr. CHAM-
BERS is a Republican and Mr. SPANGLER
; is a Democrat.
~ —The Demoorats of the cavasbize and
i boroughs of Centre county will be wise if
candidates for the local offices to be filled |
they exercise the greatest care in naming
next spring. Everything Should ‘be done
n harmony and without friction for next
all we will have a fall county tickes to
elect and now is the time to begin to build
up an effective and harmonious organiza-
tion thas will finally fully redeem Centre
~ county to the Democracy. There should |
be no occasion for fights ‘anywhere and
‘Democrats shonid see 10, it that nothing
5 3 11d ’
| eept for tae fear. of publio sentiment. Now
The President's Plan
It is practically settled that the Presi-
dent’s ‘plan of solving the freight rate
problem will be adopted by ‘Congress.
The plan is to oreate a court of railroad
lawyers with absolute jurisdiction and
legalize pooling. The court will have
power to increase or diminish rates and
its decisions will be exempt from appeal.
As the judges will all be railroad solicitors
they will probably increase more than di-
mipish and as pooling will be sanctioned
by law competition will be entirely de-
stroyed. Under such circumstances what
the railroads will do ‘to shippers will be
plenty. The effect on consumers is
equally certain. ‘The railroads will bave
a pudding.
If this is to be the outcome of ROOSE-
VELT'S ‘“‘trust busting’ it would have
been better for the people if it had never
been begun. So long as pooling is illegal
there is some measure of restraint on
the corporations. Companies not’ ad-
mitted so the deal sometimes complained
and State Executives like VAN SANT, of
Minnesota, and LAFOLETTE, of Wisconsin,
could find an oppertunity to ‘‘butt in’’
‘now and then. But after the ROOSEVELT
goheme is consummated there will be no
such sgurce of safety. The railroads in
the deal can snap their fingers at disap-
pointed rivals and hand out opprobrious
epithets to Governors who imagine that
their allegiance is to the people.
The changed attitude of the President
reveals his insincerity in pretending to con-
serve the interests of the people as against
the corporations... His claim of responsi-
bility for the judicial dissolution of the
Northern Securities company was false and
fran dalent. The prcceedings which cul-
minated in that decision were instituted
by Governor VAN SANT and would have
been abandoned by the administration ex-
that the election is over, however, the real
purposes. of the administration are un-
covered. ‘They are to proteck the corpor-.
ations in their predatory operations by
legalizing just such’ ‘combinations as the
Securities company was engaged in.
IEEE
Democrats In 0 the Legislature.
The Demoorats. in the ‘Legislature which:
assembled, organized and took a recess of
two weeks on ‘Tuesday, ate few in number
but strong in ability, jntegrity and courage.
They held a canons on Monday night and
considered plans of aétion. Less determ-
ined men so meagre in numerical force
might have concluded to yield quietly to
the overwhelming majority.’ Bus they are
men of different mettle. They declared a
purpose to champion the interests of the
people and contest every step in the con-
spiracy to destroy the rights and loot the
property-of the public. They may be de-
feated but they never will be dismayed.
f wisely those Democrats in the Legisla-
‘ture nominated State Senator ARTHUR G.
DEWALT, of Lehigh county, for President
Pro Tem, of the Senate and Representa:
tive R. ScoTT AMMERMAN, of Montour, for
Speaker of the House. With equally good
judgment they named Hon, Jonw FLYNK, |
of Elk county, for chairman of ‘the caucus.
No better evidence could have been given
of an earnest and just purpose to pursee
the right. With such men in she forefront
there can be no policies pursued other than
‘such as conserve the interests of the people.
Those men could participate in no legisia-
tion inimical to the public. welfare.
The nomination of Hon. James K, P.
“HALL tor Senator in Congress is equally
wise and appropriate. Senator HALL isa}
man of splendid ability and irreproachable |
character. His Democracy is ‘of the ster-
ling type ‘which subordinates personal con- |
siderations to public interests. No man in’
Pennsylvania has labored more assiduously
or intelligently for the party, and in pab-
lic life he has been so scrupulously just to
the peaplé that ‘he has earned and retains
the confi of all, irrespective of party.
The com iment was richly deserved and |
has been properly bestowed. S
Wy
— Wh le there seems to be in the late
eleotion % all the glory our Republican
brethren ean utilize and enjoy, the truth
compels to fear that in the number of
post offices necessary to satisty the demand
there is Sppatenly a ‘most lamentable
shortage.
~——Mr, namics who has the die-
tinction of being CASSIE CHADWICK'S hus-
band, may way bave traveled home ina a second-
class ‘berth, but that doesn’t seem to have
preyen im being in a first-class muss
General Adua 8. Chaffee, comander-
‘in-chief of the United Stajes army, has been
invited to ‘he present at the commence:
College next Juve, and it is just possible
he will i
g PE
——One ‘evening last week the cidizonb
of Poilipsbuse, presented representative
people.
partment of the government. is independ:
ment exerolion of the Pennsylvania State |
STATE RIGHTS AN
Jastice Thompon’ s Decision.
the Supreme court, SAMUEL GUSTINE
‘| THOMPSON, a affir ming the coustitusionality
of the J udges’ salary law of 1903. surpass:
es understanding. It isthe climax of in-
iquity. It indicates that a Judge can ‘no
more resist the temptation to appropriate
money belonging to others, if the oppor-
arms. can forego the desire to take any toy
that happens in its way. It is the sever
est blow that has ever been dealt against
the judiciary. It sacrifices not only public
confidence in that tribunal, bus the respect
of decent public opinion. SAMUEL GUS-
TINT THOMPSON has written himself down
a judicial wanton and every J udge in com-
mission at the time of the passage of the
act, who accepts the increased compensa-
tion it provides, will deserve popular
condemnation as an official robber. :
The argaments of Jodge BELL, of Blair
Philadelphia, in the lower court asserting
the constitutionality of the law was puer-
ile. - The reason, given by Justice THOME.
SON in affirming that decision are simply
words, perverts the purpose of langnage.’
He subverts every principle of legal in-
terpretation and closes his ears to the de-
bates of the framers of the coustitution.
As a matter of fact he tramples upon the
constitution which he was sworn to ‘‘sup-
port, obey and defend,” and violates every
obligation which integrity aud manhood-
imposes on a public official or private oiti-
zen. The bribed Legislator is a monster
of, iniquity. The corrrupt Judge is the
crowning evil of clvilization. He pollutes
the fountain of justice.
It is bardly worth while to follow the
devious line of Justice THOMPSON’S sinister
sophistry. He doesn’t even confuse an in-
_telligent mind by making a plausible case.
Summed up he asserts that the Judges or
Justices of our courts are not public off-
cials. He doesn’t venture an opinion as to
what relationship they hold toward the
He claims that the. judicial de-
ent of the legislative department and there-
fore the legislative department has the |
right to. inorease salaries but not to reduce
them bus that a constitational convention,
which in the nature of things expresses the
voice of the public, can’t restrain legisla:
tive action with respect to the judiciary.
Such rubbish is too absurb to be consider-
ed patiently. The anthor of it ie too ignor-
aut, or worse, to be respected at all.
Lawlessness in in Colorado.
The atrocious lawlessness which Gover-
nor PEABODY, of Colorado, practiced dur-
ing the strike at Cripple Creek lass summer
was scarcely as reprehensible as that which
his party, assisted by a partisan Supreme
court is practicing in Denver now. They
are prozeeding to recommission Governor |
ed and in order to compass the result they
have invoked methods that would startle
the machine managersin Philadelphia. For
example, the other day the Republican ma-
jority of the State Seoate amseated two
members of that body who had held over
from the previous Legislature and “whose
seats had been. confirmed by judicial deois-
ion two years ago.
~ We want to see neither bloodshed nor
anarchy i in consequence. of. elections in Col- |
orado or anywhere else. We have not for-
gotten the calamity in Kentucky in 1900,
| when a hired assassin shot to death the
Democratic Governor-eleot in order to pre-
vent his inauguration and the present Pres-
of New “York, shielded one of the miscre-,
| ants who organized the murderous conspity |
and ‘proposes to punish those ‘who were his
; accessories before the election.
acy. But if the political pirates of Colora-
do persist in their plans of fraud and ocon-
tinue to the end their purposes of subvert:
ing the juss results of the election, upon
‘$heir own heads rest the consequence. In
other words, murderous conspirators should
be deféated at any hazard. THe
Wo years ago a Demooratic Congres
man for Colorado withdrew from a contest
‘beoause some frauds were shown, though
not enough to rob him of his ‘majority.
which came to him in consequence. . The
| Democratic Governor-eleot, ALVA ADAMS,
declares publicly that he wants no ‘commis-
sion tainted with fraud and asks for an hon-
est investigation of the ballots, pledging
himself to abide by the result. Notwith-
standing this offer, however, the Republic-
aus are endeavoring by every fraudulent
process to steal the office. If the result of
their lawlessness should be a wholesale
slaughter we shall have etlseympahy for
the victims, Sok
5 e-No, there were no Grunts then. Had
there been any the sage who advised his
people to “take care of the dimes and the
dollars will take care of themselves,’
would. ‘have known that there was no
chance tor the dollars 8 when 4 the trusts were
BELLEFONTE, PA. JAN. 6, 1905.
The decision handed down by J ustice of
tunity presents itself, than an infant in
county, and Judge VON MOSCHZISKER, of |
absarb. He reverses the meaning of |
PEABODY just as ‘though he had been elect ;
Bus his Republican contemporary accepted |
the seat, tainted with fraud as it was, |
D FEDERAL UNION.
Antipathy R Hua Mad.
“Our esteemed contemporary, the - Phila-
delphia Record, asked a number of distin-
guished Philadelphians what, in their
opinion, is the greatest present need of that
city, and published the answers as a New
Year feature last Sunday. Various things
‘were suggested by various gentlemen, the
much desired thirsy-five foo channel in
the Delaware river being the most frequent.
‘But there was a singular unanimity among
the political pirates. Those predatory
operators and purveyors of crime all agree
that a greater respect for and more lenient
criticism of the public [officials is the para-
mount need of the officials anyway. What
the rest of the people need doesn’t matter
0. those highwaymen.
Bat the most curious response came trom
Governor PENNYPACKER. He is manifestly
in accord with the others of the office-hold-
ing class, but with characteristic effusive-
‘ness shrew in a few side soggestions which
were partioulntly silly. For example, he
said that the paramount ‘need of Philadel-
phia is a newspaper which reflects the vir-
tues'of the model life of the city. Obvious-
ly this was a plapge into an ocean of irony
and a subtle way of giving the newspapers
a dig. The Governor like all other'men of
bad impulses and faint beart, has an antip-
athy against newspapers which denounce
public corruption and expose official venal:
ity. In his letter to the ‘‘Eecord’’ he wae
| giving voice to that antipathy.
This vain old man has no congeption of
his own absurdity. It is neither our prov-
ince nor intention to defend the newspa-
pers of Philadelphia against aspersions
from any source. They are amply able to
take care of themselves against all comers.
But weare within the limits of reason in de-
claring that of all the iniquities of the late
Sévator Quay’s publio life the most atroc-
ious was in imposing SAMUEL W. PENNY-
PACKER upon the people of Pennsylvania as
Governor and thus making his silly moath-
ings a medium of shame . to the public.
His aversion to the newspapers is influene-
ed by the same impulse which makes it
impossible for a rogue to have a good opin-
ion of the law at the moment of his execn-
tion. :
Indictment of Senter Meno.
The indiottent of Sonn HypPLE MiTCH-
BLL, of Oregon, for patticipation in gigantic
land frands in the State which he repre-
sents in Washington, may bave a correct-
ing influence on such practices, but will
pot likely subject the distinguished of-
fender against the law to punishment. If
a thorough aud searching investigation had
been made by, Congress two years ago when
the attempt was made to inaugurate such a
movement it might have been different.
But the statute of limitations is a conven-
ient shelter for Republican statesmen ac-
Pe
will be invoked by MITCHELL.
. The fraudulent acquisition of public
lands by men high up in public lite is one
of the gravest sources of public Corruption.
It will be remembered that when the late
| Postmaster General PAYNE was appointed
accusation of stealing title to minerals be-
neath the soil of an Indian reservation in
Utah. President ROOSEVELT wanted him
‘as political manager, however, and a per-
tunetory investigation exoulpated him.
MITCHELL didn’t operate that way. That
self. Bub he sold his influence as Senator
| to the land pirates ang helped t them to loot
the government of its land under pretense
of acting as attorney.
ing to Secretary of the Interior HITCH-
cock. He no longer needs political help
We are
glad to learn of this change in his temper.
A good deal of the public domain may yet |
‘ways * ter late than never.”’
will not be too free with congratulations
‘until farthér
possible thas €
is in the nature of a false pretense,
re indictment of MITCHELL
re Rasping Co Compliment. :
According to the Philadel phia Press’ pre-
party in Penusylvania,’’ with the exception
able and responsible Republicans residing
‘who have heretofore imagined that they
| cam the matter of managing their party |
calibre of Is . DURHAM, Jim MoNIcHOL,
Mr. ANDREWS and GEO. VARE are put
and rulers of the party in the State.
publican outside of Philadelphia?
| the supply, and, having o
+] OWS of oe
ensed of crimes, and the chances are that it.
to the Postoffice Department he was under |.
| States.”
is to say, he didn’t acquire lands for him-
The ‘President ‘has ‘now. made up bis. :
ident of the United States, then Governor | Pind to run down all such rascals, agcord- |
be saved to the people by this reform of |
the President, and improvements are al-
But we |
evelopments. It is quite
: failed to vote—almost one-quarter of the
| who are shaping our national poli
: snsrolling the party organization. ig
sentation of the situation there isnot an |
“actual leader or ruler of the Republican |
of Senator P. C. KNOX, outside of the oity | or
‘of Philadelphia. This is certainly paying
a high compliment (2) to the hundreds of
in different seotions of the Commonwealth, | the Stage hel
‘amounted to, at least something, when it
| affairs. And this compliment is emphasized | ©
by the fact that creatures of the mental ¥
forward as four of the six actual leaders |
What a glory is must be to be a decent
Could Benefit the State ve They Would,
. But They Won't
From the Pittsburg Post,
It is said the country Members of the
Legislature are perfecting an organization
for the purpose of caring for the interests
of their constituents, and preventing the
Philadelphia and Allegheny county mem-
bers from dicta. ing legislation. The pro-
posed organization will embrace Democrats
as well as Republicans. Certaiuly if such
organization be effected it can, if properly
directed, be the means of accomplishing
much good. for the Jesple of the State. The
one chief source of evil legislation has been
‘the Solegation from Philadel, iia, whose
membership’ with very few sions have
for years been absolutely controlled by the’
corrapt city and State maghine. In for-
mer years the only check in the Legisla-
tare upon evil legislation was the combina-
tion of Some of the country members with
most of those from Allegheny county. Bat
of late the delegation from Allegheny has
‘been joining hands with thas from Phila.
delphia, with lamentable results for the
Commonwealth. The country members of
the Legislature, if they really perfect such
an organization as is planned, Pe have
‘the power to deliver the e State from the evil
influences which have for many years pro-|
ceeded from Philadelphia. y can by
enacting a fair reaportionmer , law decrease
the relative importance of the delegation
from Philadelphia. Again, by eacting a
personal registration law it will become im-
possible for the corrupt Philadelphia ma-
chine to elect the kind of legislators which
to its own disgrace and the great injury of
the State. The enactment of a upiform.
primary election law would aid still Sur
ther in really improving the character of
the Philadelphia delegation to the Legisla-
ture.
mr —————
Yes, And It's One of The Wionis The
People Voted ed to Endure. .
From the Philadelphia Te Ledger. SAR
If the allegations made against the Tot 3
national Paper company before a congres® |
committee last year be true, that trust |
ought not to be permitted to do business
on American soil. It was charged, for in-
stange, not only that it raised prices and
fixed them at an exorbitant 1ate, and dio-
tated to the newspapers where they should
buy thelr pape r and from whom they must
bay it, but a ally presumed to prescribe
the size of the user should buy, the
width ot vo and, therefore the kind of
presses he should use. The charee bas al-
so been made thas the General Tr com
pany combiued with all the other paper
companies to close mills in.
‘were thrown iuto a. ‘panic ba shortage of
paper, it raised the prices ond Reason;
that the o Biber trust or trusts have practio-
ally sa the few rémaining independ-
et Paper manufacturers to their wills;
buy up all the unsold paper of
ig th er makers, corner the market, and
then shat down their own plants system-
.atically, in order to maintain oppressive
prices; and that they sell the product
which ie unsold in this country at the con-
spiracy price to firms in Great Britain for
what can be got for it, and ata much low-
er price than it is sold for in this sountry.
An Objeet Les Lesson Sure.
From the foronto Globe. _
A man in the dry goods business in Bos-
ton, who has a farm in New Haven, pur-
chased last summer an agricultural imple-
ment. from an American maker, which cost
pim $91. | The farm next to this man’s
property is leased by an Irishman not long
in the country. Soon after the arrival of
the new implgment the Irish farmer, look-
ing over his fence, watched the new ma- |
chine at work. ‘Two ears ago, in Ire-
land,”’ he remarked to the dry goods far-
‘mer, ‘‘I got a machine exactly like that
made hy the —— company of the United
“The same concern from whom 1 bought
this; what did you pay for wy asked the
dry goods farmer. |
“It cost me £11 laid down in Belfast Lig
was the teply, which bronght forcibly
home to the American the Diets of
high, protection.
. Three Million Ab Absentee Voters. on
From the New York World.
The fallest vote in proportion 60’ the pop
ulation ever cast in a Presidential y erion
was in 1896; when the ratio was 1605.
By this ratio ‘the vote in. ‘November
wonld have been’ 16,600,000. The vote
actually polled was 3,092, 000 short of this.
Just what proportion of theserpotential
but absentee voters were dissatisfie | Demo-
orats, disgruntled Republicans, disqualified
r Soutbern whites, who had not
Safiioient ooogtivg, to vote in the absence
of areal contest in their State, there is no.
trustworthy method of ascertaining. But
| she fact that more than 3,000,000 citizens
Bymbar whodid vote—is a fact that should
be a mater of serious reflection to the and
anc
She s Near Envugh Naked. 3
From the Bill Bosra.
Mr. a¥leton, the stage manager of
Mother told this story the other
day. An v balleb girl was eogaged. «for
Mother Goose in Boston whe WS :
ere last year. e never been on |
before. The night the dress
given tights ee and
a regular ballot costume. \
from her dressing room I noticed, erga
pi ‘eyeglasses, and I said et ‘You're
going to take off those spectaoles, Aren't
“No, sir,” she said ver, emphatios!
“111 nok take off another fag I,
were.
toute, has been elected i
pal diocese
the city has been sending to Harrisburg, |
spawie trom wn hie Keystone. bi
—The Clearfiold_cou county commissioner
have announced ‘their selection for mer-
of Clearfield.
‘Salladasburg, the other day killed two ‘wild -
one of them weighing 35 pounds.
manufacturing establishment. Home capital
| amount of $60,000 is being subscribed.
B. F. Chase, chairman of the Republican
county committee, of Clearfield, Pa., to an
important consular service.
November, 1904, there were 409 cases of
small-pox in the State of Pennsylvania, con-
siderably less than in the same month last
year:
—The forget turkey ever raised in Lan
caster county, a forty-three pound bronze
gobbler, raised by John Erisman, of Raphe
township, and purchased by John McGinnis,
of Mt. Joy, was sent to President Roosevelt
for his New Year’s dinner.
—Carnegie’ s first gift of the New Year is
$263,000 to ‘the city of Baltimore to make .
‘possible the erection of a new building for
the Maryland Institute, one of the oldest
schools in the State of Maryland and which
cantile appraiser i; the Peron of Jobn Boyce :
—~Neleon Babcock, of Mud Run, near .
cats and a fox. The cats were very large, :
— Bradford is to have a large cutlery i
| is interested in the enterprise. Stock to the
—Senators Penrose and Knex, it is an a,
nounced, will reccomend the appointment of ~
—Dr. Benjamin Lee, secretary of the State :
board of health, reports that in the month of
‘was completely destroyed by fire last Feb:
ruary.
—James H. Allport, of Hastings, recently
received a consignment of six deer and three
moose, which represented their portion of
game gecured by Messrs. Allport, Baldwin
and Tord during a hunting expedition in
the wilds of Maine, whither they go every
season.
at his home near Bloomsburg, last Thursday
~In a midnight encounter witha burglar Re he
night, William Mourey, a farmer, of Kipp's
Run, wounded his antagonist and would
have captured him had not the burglars
eompanion come to his aid by , seu baggine
Mourey.
—Alone and without food on a bleak, wind
swept island in the Susquehanna river, near
Herndon, Thomas Erdman, son of Presiding
Elder Erdman of the Evangelical church,
was a prisoner for over 24 hours owing to the
one to go to his rescue.
—The Beech Creek railroad company is
said to be back of the quo warranto pro-
ceedings recently instituted by Attorney
General Carson to forfeit the charter of the
“Altoona and Philipsburg Connecting rail-
road, which operates a line from Philipsburg
to ‘Ramey, a littie over twenty miles.
floating ice rendering it impossible for any
i
~—Tt has cost $20,000 to rescue the stranded
logs from "the subsidiary streams and get
them into the Susquehanna river above
Williamsport. It ‘cost more than that
amount originally to skid the lumber out of
the woods and get it into the streams so that
it might be carried down to the saw mills.
—Robbers supposed to have been dis-
charged prisoners from the Ebensburg jail,
broke into and ransacked the Pennsylvania
railroad company’s passevger station and
the postoffice at Ebensburg very early one
morning last week, securing 18 cents in the 5
‘former place and nothing at the postoffice.
—The officers of the Pennsylvania railroad i”
eompany have decided to operate the Peters: i 5
An office has
burg /branch by telephone.
been opened at the end of the double track
at Carlim and one at Springfield Junction.
‘Between these two offices it is single line.
Day and ‘night men are employed at ‘these
points.
— Throughout the Central Pennsylvania Ra
coal field work has been rather slack the.
past week on account of the miners cele-
in the Pittsburg district as well # in the
Clearfield regions. x i
—Prof. A. J. McKelrey, assistant secre-
tary of the National Child Labor committee,
read a pa
Association for the advancement of science
brating the holidays, the lack of cars and oe
the scarcity of water. The lack of cars is
severely felt in all sections of the country,
pi
ron ‘‘Child Labor in Southern
Mills” at the recent session of the American
held in Philadelphia, last weck. He said
there are more children under 16 years of
age working in the factories of Pennsylvania 3
‘than there are in all the southern Biates pu
together.
—Imprisoned ina box car of corn, which
he boarded at his home in Campaign, Ii, to
ride five miles to visit his daughter, James
MeDevitt, aged “55, was carried 600 miles,
to his death, He was five days on
xto eat. Car inspectors in ‘the Altoona
heard faint groans, opened the car anc
Tod MeDevitt in a pitiable voudition, b but
he will recover.
—Sup’t. P. E Crowley, who since $e
1st, 1901, has so ably directed the affairs of
the Pennsylvania division of the New York
Central, ‘with headquarters'at Jersey Shore,
has been appointed assistant general superin
tendent of the whole New York Ceueia
system, with headquarters at Syracuse, N.
Y. His rapid promotion js the result
hard work united with cabability: uf ever.
detail of railroad work. g
—From the Youngwoman’s and Rettl
Creek regions and from the Slate Run dis
trict come the reports that ‘the pools a:
being depopulated ot fish by muskrats, otter
mink and weasels, who burrow ler frozen
ground and ice and make prey f the fish in
their contracted quarters. In ohe instance,
along Kettle Creek, where an old splash dam
ot formed a big pool, two black bears were seen
feeding on trout which they bad caught in
their paws through an air hole. The fis :
kept schooling about the air hole, and th
bears—quick as a flash with Stheins pawe—
captured them,
—Jefferson Gaiman, a Hrothes of former
Democratic State chairman John M..Gar-
man, and who has lately worked as a hostler
for T. J. Middagh, at Mifflintown, Juniata
county, ou Friday night, December 23rd,
shot William A. Murray because the latter
blamed the former for alienating the affec-
tions of Ele. wife. Murray was taken to the
‘German hospital, Philadelphia, where the
bullet, which had penetrated the abdomen,
‘was removed but the wound was such tha
he died Tuesday night of last week. Gar:
board of Missions of she Epis Bi
man was arrested and is now in fai] | swatting
Ju for murder. ph
, with nothing to drink and only