Denarvati tc
GRAY MEEK.
cme
sy P.
Ink Slings.
—With brother SMITH in the field broth-
er DIEHL sees the end of ‘‘easy sleddin’.”
Mr. HocH seems to have had elder
SaooT ‘‘skinned a mile’ in the matter of
wives.
MACHEN declared that he was inno-
cent, but he went to the penitentiary
chained to thirty negro convicts all the
same.
— Little additional lustre will we added
to Old Glory by the acquisition of such
stars as are now, being proposed in Wash-
ington.
—1If all of the Russian Generals were to
resign the Czar might be able to send a
fourth army of very useless privates to the
Manchurian front.
—The only way the Philadelphia clergy
can hope to defeat the machine in that
city is by using machine tactics and that,
the clergy would not do.
—A barrel that will hold 43,800 gallons
has just been completed in Germany. I$
is certainly not to take the place of any
that our Uncle GASAWAY DAVIS had worn
out last fall.
—1It is too bad that each Congressman
will have only sixty-two thousand packages
of seeds to distribute this spring. Why,
there will be nothing to keep ‘‘Uncle SOL-
LY’? busy in Washington.
—The British army is to practice shoot-
ing this year with both eyes open. Quite a
change, because the Boers always declared
that the Johnnies shut both eyes when they
fired in South Africa.
—Science has just announced that fair-
headed people have the best heads of hair.
Of course, you know, we agree that science
isa good thing in general, but ib doesn’t
know it all by any means.
— Mrs. CHADWICK recalls, since the
death of poor old man BECKWITH of the
Oberlin bank, that be bad sinking spells
after his conversations with her. His bank
had a sinking spell from the same cause.
—1It is to be expected that the Legisla-
ture and the Governor will cut down the
appropriations to many of the worthy
charities of the State in order that favorite
banks may reap big incomes from balances
carried with them.
—Horticulturists are making a great
fuss over having at last succeeded in grow-
ing an apple without a core. Asa small
boy we recall that most of our playmates
declared that the apple they were eating
‘‘aint got no core.”
--Mme. SCHUMAN-HEINK, the opera
singer, is to renounce her allegiance to
Germany and become an adopted daughter
of Uncle SAM. Hurrah for the Madam !
Though we do have a suspicion that she is
more for the coin than the stars and stripes.
—The Chicago board of health has issued
an edict against the papkip, which is ac-
cused of being a purveyor of millions of
microbes. It remains to be seen whether
the Chicago man prefers to live long or
have his chin free from the streaks of soft
boiled eggs.
—The Russian nobles have recently given
evidence of sanity that is marvelous. They
have actually appealed to the Czar for the
amelioration of the condition of his people.
Of course, you understand, that in view of
the threatened fall of the dynasty this over-
ture means six for the people and half-a-
dozen for the nobles.
—The country members are beginning
to show signs of taking notice at Harris-
barg. On Tuesday they actually go so far
beyond the control of the machine that
they would bave Killed the notorious
judge’s pevsion bill right then and there,
had not acting speaker McCLAIN averted
the action by his rulings. He only staved
it off for WALTON, however, because the
country boys say they are going to stick.
—The President bas caused the appoint-
ment of BAT MASTERSON to be a deputy
United States Marshal for the district of
New York. BAT’s principal claim to
eminence and fitness is the fact that he has
killed twenty-eight men and has a notch
for each oue of them cut on the butt of his
trusty gun. This is ir the line of the
President’s remarks to the cadets at Anuap-
olis. He advised them to make each shot
hit.
—Mr, and Mis. G. W. DUNVILLE, of
Yankton, S. D., who have twenty-seven
children, are bo visit the President. The
object of the visit is not stated in the dis-
patches but inasmuch as the number of
children about the White House would in-
dicate that the President is observing the
biblical injunction to multiply and popu-
late the land we would suggest that Mr.
and Mrs. DUNVILLE might find more fer-
tile fields for talking over their wonderfal
progeny in a single square of one of Belle-
fonte’s most prominent thoroughfares.
—In a statement recently published by
Mr. SAMUEL DIEHL, who is a candidate to
succeed himself as overseer of the poor of
Bellefonte he states that the debt of his de-
partment at the end of the year 1904 was
$161.13. It is a matter of interest to the
taxpayers to know whether this includes
the outstanding orders, unpaid. If it does
not Mr. DIEHL should state how much
they aggregate, for they certainly represent
indebtedness, since his statement shows he
had no cash on hand to pay them. Anoth-
er question might also be asked at this
time. Will Mr. DIEHL add another mill
to the poor tax for the next year in the
event of his re-election.
‘he invariably acts as pilot for the gang
A) emt
VOL. 50
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 10, 1905.
___ NO.6.
The Iniquity of the Season.
The political event of the season is the
presentment of the Philadelphia grand
jury which lays the blame for the white
slave traffic of that city at the feet of the
municipal administration.
The white slave traffic is peculiar to
Philadelphia. Some time ago it was prac-
siced in New York, but it is so atrocious a
form of crime that the Tammany leaders
wouldn’s tolerate it. If is a traffic in the
virtue of young girls. It may even be des-
ignated as a purchase and sale of human
souls. The dealers in white slaves have
their agents operating in country towns and
at the wharves where immigrants land. In
the country towns they beguile young
girls to the city under promise of profitable
employment. When they get their victims
into the city they turn them over to the
cormorants who hold them prisoners until
th ey consent to sell their virtue. As the
wharves they find friendless and ignorant
girls who are disappointed in their expec-
tation of meeting friends or acquaintances,
and uuder promise of taking care of them
betray them in the same way.
Such a crime is impossible without the
connivance of the authorities. The help-
less girls from the country and the ignor-
ant ones from the wharf would attract the
police by their desperate efforts to escape
if the police hadn’t been instrnoted to be
deaf and blind. The result is they strug-
gle as long as possible against vast cdds
and finally, exbausted and hopeless, yield.
In Philadelphia this beastly traffic is en-
couraged because it helps the Republican
machine in various ways. In the first place
the operators in the crime pay a generous
toll in money to the machine. Secondly,
their resorts, or tospeak more exactly, it
would he better to say stations, are made
places in which to colonize repeaters and’
ballot box stuffers for election purposes. In
some of these dens of vice as many as
twenty men are registered as voters, where-
as, as a matter of fact, there isn’t a man in
the place except the manager of the con-
cern and he votes somewhere else, though
which happens to register from his place
and is lodged there during the night pre-
ceding the election.
It mast be interesting for the clergymen
of the country districts to learn that the
corrupt vote obtained by this process annu-
ally carries the election for the party which
many of them support. Pastors from whose
flock is ocasionally missed a promising
lamb will be delighted to learn that the
wretches who have beguiled her are shield-
ed in their iniquitous operations because
they make themselves vehicles for keeping
in power the party which they themselves
take pleasure in supporting. Ibis an un-
patural and unholy alliance which brings
white slave traders of Philadelphia and the
shepherds of the Christian flock in the
country together in a common offort to
keep the Republican machine in power.
Bus it is a fact, nevertheless, as the clergy
of Philadelphia have discovered, and every
vote cast by a Christian minister in the
country in support of the machine is a help
to the white slave traderssof Philadelphia.
This is no idle rumor or groundless con-
jecture. It isthe sum and substanceof the
presentment of the Philadelphia grand
jury.
Demand for Judges increasing.
The efforts to multiply the number of
judges in this State go merrily on. Bills
have already been introdaced in the Legis-
lature during the present session for six
new judges in Allegheny county, one in
Erie county, one in Cambria county, and
one or two others which have escaped our
memory. If is said that from three to six
-more are wanted in Philadelphia, also, and
that bills providing for them will be intro-
duced in the near future and railroaded
through hoth branches. The January grand
jury for that city reports that there are
6,000 cases on the dockets of the several
courts and that will be the excuse for the
demand.
We have so frequently protested against
this useless and dangerous form of extrava-
gance that we may be accused of ‘‘painful
iteration.”” But at the risk of that we
again declare that there is no necessity for
a single additional judge in any part of
the State and that the creation of new
courts or the increase of the number of
judges for those already existing is crimin-
al profligacy. If there were forty judges
in Philadelphia instead of fifteen the busi-
ness. would be as backward as it is now.
It is not for the reason that the judges are
over-worked that the cases are not tried. It
is because of collusion between the courts
and the criminals to the end that justice
may be defeated.
Take the case of Cambria county, more-
over. The present judge in that distriot
has not asked for help or in any manner
indicated that he wants another judge. On
the contrary, two years ago, when Judge
O'Conner had less experience and conse-
quently was not able to perform as much
work as now. he declared that there was
no necessity for another judge. In Erie
county there is no greater necd for another
judge and so far as Pittsburg is concerned
the present judicial force is ample as any
lawyer at that bar in good repute will tes-
tify. Nevertheless the bills for new judges
Rate Bill Passel.
By the time this issue of the WATCHMAN
goes to press the House of Representa-
tives at Washington will have passed the
EscH-TOWNSAND hill, by courtesy called
the rate bill. On Monday a rule making
it the order was passed. The rule provided
tor discussion on Tuesday and Wednesday
and a vote on Thursday, (yesterday). It
excluded amendments and however palpa-
ble the defects of the measure there could
be no alteration. At this writing the de-
bate is in progress and the infirmities of
the bill have been pointed out plainly. But
all motions to amend have been defeated by
a party vote, practically, and on Thursday
the measure will be passed. In this State
there are = $4,000,000,000 worth of
railroad property. It has been wonderfully
productive for the reason that it bas been
managed with infinite skill and marvelous
judgment. Even if the management of the
Pennsylvania and the Keading railroads
had been less capable they would have
probably been valuable properties for the
reason that the State is so rich in resources
and so abundant in prosperity that those
railroads would have done well in spite of
bad ‘management. Bat the high value of
the properties is likely to be impaired now
that there is a chance to take the manage-
ment out of the capable hands which have
so well directed them and turn them over
to a group of political pirates who will have
no interest in them further than a merce-
nary one.
As we have before stated we are not
averse to such regulation of corporate inter-
ests as may be assumed by government
within the constitution and laws. But
congressional legislation taking the power
of regulating Pennsylvania corporations not
only out the bands of their owners but out
of the control of the State, is a usurpation
of authority, however, that can’t be too em-
phatically condemned. It isnot only a per-
version of the fandamental law of the coun-
try, but an actual overthrow of the prinei-
ples of our government. Happily the Sen-
ate, more conservative as well as more cap-
yet given its assent to the outrage and
maybe it won’t.
Patuison and Roosevelt.
Judge GoRrDON, of Philadelphia, was
neither candid nor accurate in his speech
at the EMORY dinner in that city. He may
believe, as he stated, that President ROOSE-
VELT is at present ‘‘the foremost Democrat
in official position in America.” His
political relationships in recent years have
been such that his idea of Democracy may
be more or less perverted. But he has no
right to quote the late Governor ROBERT
E. PATTISON to support his views on the
subject. At least he has no right to mis-
represent the opinions of the distinguished
Pennsylvania Democrat with the view of
corroborating a statement which is absurd
on its face.
Judge GORDON’S obvions purpose was to
show that President ROOSE VELT’S present
contention for federal control of railroads
is a reiteration of the expressions of Gover-
nor PATTISON on the same subject in 1883.
‘‘In reading President ROOSEVELT’S speech
this morning,’”’ Judge GORDON declared,
‘I was struck by the realization that there
was not a word or a line he uttered that
may not be found, in spirit at least, in the
inaugural address and subsequent messages
of Governor PATTISON, earnest and well
considered pleas for the support of the con-
stitution of the State.
There is a vast difference in the positions
of Governor PATTISON, as expressed in his-
inaugural address of 1883, and messages fol-
lowing, and that of President ROOSEVELT.
As Governor of a sovereign State he urged
the Legislature to obey the constitution by
enacting legislation which would compel
the corporate creatures of the State to ful-
fil their obligations to the people. He had
taken an oath to obey the constitntion and
he was endeavoring to do so. But Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT. is violating the constitu-
tion of the United States by forcing Con-
gress to usurp the prerogatives of the States
in order that his powers may be enlarged
and his authority multiplied.
The Mystery of Judge Swaymne's Case
The effort to gshieid Judge SWAYNE, of
the United States court for Florida, is the
mystery of the present session of Congress.
When the question of his impeachment
was first brought into Congress the eenti-
ment in favor of it was practically unani-
mous. He had been guilty of so many of-
fenses against the judicial proprieties that
every lawyer on the floor was outraged.
The first step in the proceedings was to ap-
point a committee to frame articles of {im-
peachment and if we remember correctly
there wasn’t a vote against the proposition.
But when the subject came up again on a
motion to adopt she report of the commit-
tee, a lot of votes were recorded on the oth-
er side and it was carried by a narrow
margin.
What caused the change in sentiment is
continue to multiply in the Legislature.
the mystery. No new evidence in defence
able of treating such questions, haen’t as |.
of the accused was discovered. No exten-
vating circumstances were brought for-
ward. There was nothing paliable in the
conditions to change the views of anybody.
Bat General GROSVENOR, of Ohio, intimated
that it was a political case. Mr. LITTLE-
FIELD, of Maine, said that it was a persecu-
tion. Mr. PAYNE, of New York, suggested
that he wasn’t quite certain. And so it
went. Instead of the unanimous vote that
was expected to sustain the report of the
committee every Republican on the floor
except twenty-three voted on the other
side. No explanations were given. No
plausible excuse was offered. There had
simply been a reversal of nearly half the
membership. : :
1 The cause of all this is at last leaking
out, however. The principal charge
dgainst the accused is that he had used
special trains of a bankrupt railroad for his
personal pleasure. When the bankruptoy
of the company became known he appoint-
ed a receiver whose tenure of office and
compensation was subject to his own
caprice. Subsequently he ordered the re-
ceiver to supply him with a special train
eqnipped with provisions and manned by
the usual force to take his family to Cali-
fornia once and to Delaware other times.
The expenses came out of the treasury of
the road and the transaction was so nearly
like that of ROOSEVELT when he went to
Yellowstone park that the Republican
leaders came to the conclusion that it
would better be kept quiet. That is the
reason that Judge SWAYNE is likely to es-
cape the consequence of his '‘‘high crimes
‘and misdemeanors in office.”’
An Outrage Upon Americans.
The decision of Attorney General MooDY
fo the effect that Canada wheat imported
into this country for the porpose of grind-
ing into flour for export shall escape the
payment of import duties is a most aston-
ishing official declaration. The DINGLEY
tariff puts a daty on wheat imported, no
matter where it comes from or what it is to
e used for. The decision of the Attorney
neral, therefore, works an amendment
of the DINGLEY law and is a usurpation of
the powers of Congress which is specifically
forbidden by the constitution. All legis-
lation, according to that instrument, is
vested in a Congress consisting of a Senate
and a House of Representatives.
But if there were no such provision of
the constitution the decision would be bad
law and bad policy anyway. For example,
it enables the importers of Canada wheat
to sell flour to foreigners at considerably
less than they can sell it to home con-
snmers thus discriminating in favor of
foreigners who buy flour in this country
and against Americans. In the cost of pro-’
duction in this or any other country the
cost of living becomes an active and impor-
tans factor. For example, if foreign opera-
tives can live for fifty cents a day and
Americans in the same industry require
seventy-five cents a day that difference
must be paid to the American in wages
which enters into the cost of production.
Under the decision of Moony that differ-
ence is created and that is a discrimination
against Americans.
In the metal industry the Steel trust sells
to foreign purchasers at $10 a ton less than
they charge home buyers. The result is that
our shipbuilders, tool makers, engine
builders and other manufacturers who use
steel largely are at a disadvantage to the
extent of that difference, in the markets of
all other countries. The decision of Mr.
MooDY now extends the advantage to all
fields of industrial enterprise and the poli-
icy of our government ie to put a handicap
on all our industries. This is literally
carrying folly to the fall limit of absurdity.
It is discriminating against our own peo-
ple in every line of endeavor and a burn-
ing outrage upon the American people.
———The WATCHMAN has received from
general superintendent T. B. Patton the
eighth biennial report of the Huntingdon
Reformatory, for the years 1903—'04. In
it Centre county is charged with four in-
mates daring the year 1903, who were there
a total of 998 days at a cost of $319.36. In
1904 this county bad 4 inmates for a total
of 643 days at a cost of $199.33. The re-
port throughout is a most creditable one
for the institution.
——1It can now be said that smallpox has
virtnally been stamped out in Centre coun-
ty. Every case in Bellefonte has recovered
and are out of quarantine and the only case
now in the entire county is that of J. W.
Lee, at Hublersburg, and he has almost
entirely recovered. When this family gets
ont of quarantine the couniy will then be
clear of the dread disease, a fact for which
the local boards of health deserve especial
commendation.
——How much, if any, have you given
toward the Academy grounds improve-
ment fund. If you have not yet contribut-
ed, you should do so at onceand get in at
the head of the list.
Of Course it Won’t, It’s Not There to Les-
sen Taxes,
From the Williamsport Sun.
‘‘Farmer’’ Creasy on Wednesday intro-
duced in the House at Harrisburg a bill
providing for the retention by the counties
of all the license taxes now collected, part
of which taxes are paid into the State treas-
ury. This measure, if enacted into law,
would keep in the county treasuries all of
the revenue derived from liquor, billiard
and every other kind of license taxes. Ef-
forts bave been made at previous sessions
of the legislature to have a similar meas-
ure passed, but in vain, and it is not likely
that the machine legislature will take
kindly to Mr. Creasy’s bill at the present
session.
The Pennsylvania State Grange is back of
the Creasy bill, and every farmer indorses
the proposition as a means toward reduc-
ing taxation in the counties. The Legis-
lature, however, will not take any steps to
lessen the hurdens of the counties. All
the money that can be collected in the
counties i3 needed to meet the extravagant
expenditure of the Legislatureand te go to
help swell the State’s deposits in the
banks favored by the machine. The farm-
ers who were told that it would be to
their interests to elect machine legislators
will reap nothing but disappointment for
the faith they placed in machine promises.
A Victory Without Results.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The Beef Trust has lost its fight in the
Supreme court and now all those who re-
gard Mr. Roosevelt as a real trust-buster
will redouble their rejoicings. But it
might be well to restrain jubilations over
this triumph of the President until it be-
comes clear that it means something.
There has been an injunction against the
Beef Trust for many months. It bas been
just as binding upon the combine since the
day it was put in force by the lower court
as it is today. Yet the Reef Trust has
gone about its business absolutely undis-
turbed and has levied tribute on consumers
as ruthlessly as though ne trust-busting
knight errant had ever rode down the pike
to harl his shining lance into the face of
the spoiler. . .
It is to be doubted whether any relief
will accrue to the public as a result of this
‘‘vietory.’’ The real power of the Beef
Trust lies in its secret relations with the
transportation monopoly; and these rela-
tions have not been seriously impaired.
Why Flour is Costly.
Fronr the New York World. “ wy
In extending the export drawback to
Canada wheat, even when mixed with a
larger quantity of American wheat in the
form of flour, the Treasury Department’s
ruling will make flour cost more in the
United States than in any other country.
There is a duty of 25 cents a bushel on
imported wheat. Canada wheat mixed
with the softer American grain makes more
and better flour. On all of this good flour
sold to American consumers a tax must be
paid. On all of this good flour eaten by
foreigners the miller gets a rebate equal to
the tariff.
The export drawback is of great value to
the Minneapolis millers. There are some
eighty millions other people in the United
Slates who would be glad to share its bene-
whe f
Possibly Yon Could Tell Us.
From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner.
A Bt. Louis reader of the Commoner
wants to know why a stolen horse should
be returned to the owner, while a stolen
franchice is held to be as good as against
the people from whom it was stolen? The
Commoner is not able to give any good rea-
son. If anybody attempts to give a
reason, it will probably be that the stock-
holders are innocent purchasers, but as
that does not protect one who buys a sto-
len horse innocently, it can hardly be ac-
cepted as a sound reason. The time may
come when the courts will treat
a stolen franchise as they treat anything
else stolen, only before that time comes
cities will cease to either sell or give away
their franchises to private corporations.
A Panacea for All Ils.
A country newspaper speaksof a man
who always paid for his paper a year in ad-
vance. As a reward he was never sick in
his life, never had a corn on his toes, or
toothache, his potatoes never rot, the frost
never kills his pears, his babies never ory
at night, his wife never scolds, and he has
succeeded in serving three terms on the
school hoard without being criticized. We
do not know whether such happy results
would follow paid-up subscribers to this
paper or not, but it wouldn’t do any harm
to try it.
A Good Thing to Be.
From the Minneapolis (Kan.) Better Way.
The ship subsidy bill will occupy a good
part of the time of Congress this winter. It
is a scheme for the government to give sev-
eral millions to ship owners as was for-
merly done with railroad companies. When
the Farmers’ Alliance advocated loans on
land it was denounced as paternalism. The
ship subsidy—a direct gift—is ‘‘business.’’
Be a ship owner.
And it’s the Same With Republicanism*
From the Newton (Ia.) Herald.
Hamilton represented everything that a
republic cannot be and everything that a
monarchy should be. He was a typical
aristocrat of the imperilalistio school. He
believed in a government of the few and
for the few. He discredited the people,
believing them to be incapable of knowing
what they needed or of having sense enough
to vote for it.
And Thats Exactly What it Was Elect-
ed to Do.
From the Greensburg Argus.
Almost every move thus far made in the
Legislature has had for its purpose the per-
petuation of machine power and the
strengthening of its hold upon the State
treasury. Never in the history of the
State has there been such studied effort to
rob the people and sp little legislation to
further their interests.
Spawls from the Keysfone.
—The family of the late Senator A. E.
Patton have placed a handscme $5,000 monu-
ment at his grave in the Curwensville ceme-
tery.
—The new paper mill at Williamsburg,
Blair county, giving employment to - 200 peo-
ple, will be ready for operation the first of
May.
—The report of State Treasurer Mathues
for January shows a balance in the general
fund of $10,663,024.57 at the close of business
February 1st.
—A mica bed has been discovered near
Trevorton, in Zenby townsbip, Northumber-
land county, and a company is being or.
ganized to develop the land.
—A pine tree was cut at Hoover & Wash-
burn’s saw mill near Philipsburg a couple of
days ago, which measured 15 feet around the
stump, made 14 logs and scaled 4,541 feet of
boards.
—While in the forest of Goshen township,
Clearfield county, after firewood, his dog be-
ing along, Dorsey Wallace was attacked by a
large wild cat, which first killed the dog.
Armed with a stout club, Mr. Wallace suc-
ceeded in killing the animal after a hard
struggle.
—The Goodyear brothers recently offered
John E. DuBois $1,000,000 for 9,000 acres of
timber land in Clearfield county in order to
keep their mills running full time. The
offer was refused, however, as the timber is
worth more than that on the stump, not
counting the bark, etc. :
—Twenty-one and two-tenth inches of
snow fell during the month of January and
including the rainfall of the month the pre-
cipitation was 4.15 inches. During the 17
years the Harrisburg weather bureau has
been operated, only twice has the precipi-
tation been greater during the month of
January.
—Daniel Appleby, a resident of Mount
Union, was run down and instantly killed at
that place at 6 o'clock Monday morning.
He was crossing the track, when he was
struck by train No. 19, which was run-
ning late. Appleby was aged 60 years and
had been employed in the freight station for
a number of years. :
—Ex-State Treasurer Frank G. IIarris, of
Clearfield, and Miss Glenora Gearhart, of
the same place, were married, last Wednes-
day, at the home of the bride’s brother-in-
law, Mr. William A. Bloomer, in Ashville,
S.C. An extended honeymoon trip will be
made through the South ere they return to
make their home in Clearfield.
—The total output of fish from the Erie,
Corry and Bellefonte hatcheries, ,for 1904,
was 78,975,867, of which 5,396,750 were game
fish, including brook trout,black bass, yellow
perch and sunfish, The remainder of the
output was food fish. Frogs are included in
this output, there being 33,000. The cost of
operating the five hatcheries in the State, in-
cluding office expenses, was $28,656.21.
—There is a strike on in the Stewart town-
ship public schools, Fayette county, 43 pupils
quitting because the teacher, Miss Mame
Miller, resigned rather than be tutor for
Antonia Piccio, an Italian. George Hall,
county supervisor of schools, insisted that
Piccio be enrolled as a student, but Miss
Miller, backed by parents of her pupils, ob-
jected. Hall still insisted, and Miss Miller
quit.
—The headless trunk of a man was found
Sunday night near the Lehigh Valley rail-
road tracks in the northern part of Wilkes-
barre. After considerable search the head
was found many feet from the body. It was
so badly mutilated that it was unrecogniz-
able. The man was well dressed in a dark
suit and was about six feet in height, weigh-
ing 225 pounds. No articles were found on
his person that would serve to identify him.
—The ministers of the eastern part of
Pennsylvania, who joined last fall in a pro-
test against the holding of Sunday excur-
sions to the mountain and lake resorts, were
disappointed on Tuesday last to find that
their crusade bad not proved successful.
They were apprised at a meeting of the rail-
road officials that it had been decided that as
long as the people evince a desire for Sunday
excursions by patronizing them they will be
held.
—George E. Rorabach and Herbert J.
Stannert, of Sunbury, will shortly build a
plant a short distance east of Nisbet at which
sand will be taken from the river bed and
put through a renovating process, preparing
it for market. They have bought for the
purpose two acres of land between’ the river
and the Pennsylvania railroad, from Francis
J. Bowling, the consideration being $400.
Their plant will be an extensive one and will
employ a number of men. :
—@eorge W. Getty, of Catawissa township,
Northumberland county, the father of 28
children, is seriously ill, and grave doubts of
recovery a:e entertained. Mr. Getty, who
is a man now well on in years, and who has
grandchildren and great grandchildren in
large numbers, is well known throughout
that section by reason of the number of his
children, some of whom are themselves
grandfathers, even though Getty’s youngest
child is not more than three years of age.
—One of the Cameron county lumber com-
pany’s crews of log loaders have made a load-
ing record which they challenge all other
Pennsylvania lumbermen to equal. In 6
hours and 40 minutes they loaded 51 cars, on
which were 711 logs, estimated to contain
170,000 feet of lumber. John Montgomery
was loaderman; James McCracken, engineer,
and William Wykoff and William Nunn,
hookers. They operated with a standard-
size steam log loader, and some of the logs
were among the largest and heaviest cut in
the Pennsylvania forests in many years.
—Edwin Hoeffner was skating on Wenger's
dam, in Conestoga creek, at Brownstown,
Lancaster county, Sunday, when his younger
brother, John, and his sister, Elizabeth, came
coasting down a hillside and upon the ice.
Edwin Hoeffner skated up behind the sled
and proceeded to push it about the dam.
The ice broke and all three children were
drowned. The sled was found on the brink
of the cavity from which the bodies were
taken. Edwin Hoeffner was 17 years old.
Elizabeth 11 and John 9. They were chil-
dren of George Hoeffner, an employe of the
Conestoga Traction company.