Spawls from the Keystone.
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~The Clearfield county home farm pro-
duced $6,498.62 worth of produce last year.
—The domestic animals of Pennsylvania
have a value "of $152,205,618, and produce
products worth $100,000,000 each year. .
—The employees at the Middletown tube
works have been given a ten per cent. in-
crease. The raise affects about fifteen hun-
dred men.
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Because he could, yez see.
Here's hoping that the visiting Sena-
tors will appreciate Bellelonte’s need for a
hospital.
—Today ends the reign of the ground
hog. Let us hope that spring really is only
four days off. ;
—Oh, no, KUROPATKIN has not retired.
Every reporb received confirms the faos that
he is still onthe road.
—1t may be pip, it may be grip, I care
not what you call it, a day or two will
sarely do for any one that gets it.
—We are so glad that Gen. CHARLES
MiLLER gave COLONEL c that pony before
be decided to retire from the National
Guard.
—1It our Republican friends find that
they can’t get rid of ABt MILLER any oth-
er way, why there is Dr. OSLER’S way out
of if.
—There are many reasons why trouble
never comes single handed. The best one
is that it is usually married and has a large
family of little sroubles.
—It matters little how orderly the Rus-
sian flight from Mukden was made the Japs
will canse the usual disorder again, just as
soon as they get good and ready to do it.
—Russia may not have any generals
who are better than KUROPATKIN, but it
niight be a source of satisfaction to her to
find out how many of them are worse.
—Green is to be the very ultra color for
men’s clothing during the coming season,
And the probabilities are that the greener
the man is the greener will the clothes be.
—The Russian council of nobles in decid-
ing. to ‘continue the war to the bitter
end,” might just as well have lels the word
Afbitter’’ out of it. That would have been
“Fhoroughly understood.
—1Is it to be an increase of valuation, an
increase of millage,a county debt, or a new
board of Commissioners? These are the
questions that $98,378.22 of county expen-
ditures bring right to the point.
- —The machine seems to be on the run
at Harrisburg. If the opposition only
doesn’t get frightened at its own strength
now some fair results might be reasonably
expected of this body ere it adjourns.
—When ANDY CARNEGIE wrote that
Pan American railway commission that he
wanted to see the North and South Ameri-
cas bound together with bonds of steel he
might have had in mind a new market for a
little U. S. S. common. :
-~We wonder if out of the twenty-three
million dollars the P. R. R. expects to
spend for improvements during the coming
summer she will be able to take enough to
plant a few posies in the deserted beds aé
the station in this place.
—The fact that the present sessiou of the
Legislature has made so few laws up to this
time isn’t worrying the people of Pennsyl-
vania. What they are afraid of most is that
the body might waken up to some mis-
guided effort to earn salaries.
—It was no wonder poor old KUROPAT-
KIN didn’t know where he was at for a few
days after the battle of MUKDEN. The loss
of those twenty-three cart loads of maps
was ‘enough to make anyone feel like a
ship without a rudder in strange seas.
—It is now said that Judge LOVE regrets
that he allowed his name to be connected
with the movement to impeach Judge
SMITH. There are people who can never
see a foul thing until their attention is
called to it by the smell caused by putting
their foot in it.
—If as Centre countians we dont rank
firs in many matters, we can at least throw
back our shoulders and point to the amount
of money we expend for {ordinary[county
affairs. $98,378.22 is a sum which com-
pared with the expenditures of other conn-
ties of equal population and necessities,
makes them look insignificant indeed.
—Newspapers can continue publishing
columns on the unmistakable evidences of
prosperity, public speakers may continue
argument on the same theme, bat the only
real, deep, convincing evidence of such a
condition of affairs is to be found in the
condition of the pocket of the individual.
Everyone measures prosperity by his own
standard.
—The $98,478.22 that the County Com-
missioners expended last year in the man-
agement of county affairs. is calculated to
paralyze the belief some people bave enter.
tained that these gentlemen, as public of-
ficials, don’t know any more than the law
allows they should. In she matter of get-
ting away with the public moneys, the
figures show that they know just about all
there is of it.
—Wahile ib is not probable that there will
be any serious opposition to the selection
of Mr. QUIGLEY as chairman of the Re-
publican county committee there are a few
of the old men of the party who are not
mincing words in expressing their opinion
of the plan. Since the death of Col. REED-
ER the Republicans have been without or-
ganization or leadership and it is possible
that Mr. QUIGLEY can furnish both; as for
reconciling the LOVE and HASTINGS ele-
meuts, he ought to be able to do that with-
out much tronble for he has Succeeded in
taking care of hoth waters up to this time
very nicely.
VOL. 50
© STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAR. 17, 1905.
NO. 11.
The Santo Domingo Treaty.
The debate of the Santo Domingo treaty
is now in progress, having begun on Mon-
day, with present prospect of a prolonged
discussion. Left to their own inclinations
and in fluenced by their own judgments, as
Senators were until within a few years,
there would have been no doubt of the re-
sult of the vote when it is reached. But
simul taneously with the opening of the de,
bate on this question the process of log roll.
ing was inaugurated and it may be expected
that the agents of the executive will be con-
stantly in the lobby trading government
patronage for votes. It is even possible
that the President will take a band in the
operations himself as he did about a year
ago w hen the question of a congresional
inv estigation of the frauds in the Postoffice
Department was the issue. Then he sent
for Senators and Representatives and open-
ly proposed bargains with them.
Under these circumstances the Senate
may yield to the extraordinary proposition
expressed in that treaty. That is to say, it
may ratify a treaty which will invest the
President with the authority of an interna.
tional policeman, debase the govern-
ment of the United States to the level of a
bill collector for European usurers and
pledge the people of the United States to
the payment of forty or fifty millions of
debts, two-thirds of which are fraudulent
and little or none of which can ever be
repaid. Such an injustice has never before
been attempted in this country. Probably
no other living man in the same position
would have thought of it. But the inordi-
nate lust for power which is literally con-
suming the vain broncho buster in the
White House leads hin into all sorts of ab-
surdities and this criminal sacrific: of the
American people is the limit.
There is still good reason to hope the
Senate will refuse to be bribed into concur-
rence in this palpable iniquity. WALTER
WELLMAN stated in a letter to the Phila-
delphia Press the other day that if all the
Republican Senators voted in the affirma-
tive they wonid be two short. But two of
them, MITCHELL, of Oregon, and BURTON,
of Kansas, are under criminal indictment
and can’t vote. That leaves them four
short and the distinguished correspondent
adds that the<probabilities. are that two of
them will vote in the negative. This in-
creases the shortage to six and as the same
authority estimates there is no possibility
of getking more than two Democratic Sena-
tors to support the measure, the chances
are that it will fail. We earnestly hope
this prediction will be fulfilled.
We can conceive of nothing that could
happen which would be more inimical to
the interests of the people than the ratitica-
sion of this treaty.
After Controller Larkin.
The atrocious Pittshurg machine has de-
termined to nullify the power of City Con-
troller JOHN B. LARKIN even if it can’t
defeat him at the polls. Mr. LARKIN was
elected to that important office three years
ago by a fusion of the Democrats and de-
cent Republicans against the candidate of
the machine. Subsequently the magnetic
power of public plander brought a consid-
erable number of the seceding Republicans
back to the machine and last month an her-
culean effort was made to defeat Mr. LAR-
KIN for re-election. Bat it was unsuccess-
ful. His splendid record appealed so
strongly to the good citizenship of the city
that he got a much larger majority than
before.
Political plunderers are exceedingly re-
sourcefui, however, and the machine mana-
gers have conceived a plan to minimize
Mr. LARKIN’'S influence on the govern-
ment of the city. That is tosay,they have
determined to deprive him of one of his
most importaut prerogatives by legislation
and a bill aiming for that end has been pre-
pared and will probably be well on its way
toward final passage by the time this issue
of the WATCHMAN reaches its destination.
It is a piratic undertaking and an infamous
expedient. But the machine doesn’t mind
such things as that. It wants the plunder
and its managers would resort to the meth-
ods of the highwayman if they were not
afraid of the consequences.
Here is the scheme. The city charter of
Pittsburg provides that when for any 1ea-
son a special appropriation is desired the
Mayor and City Controller shall unite in a
certificate to councils the existence of an
emergency which requires such a remedy.
It is now proposed to amend the instru-
ment so as to make it necessary for only the
Mayor to sign the certificate. One of the
complaints against LARKIN is tbat he re-
fused to certify emergencies which didn’t
exist and thus saved the taxpayers vast
sums of money and deprived the machine
managers of much graft. But that power
will be taken from him if the machine in-
fluence in the Legislature is sufficiently
potential.
——The Bituminous Record, 'ot Philips-
burg, is now issued twice a month instead
The Republican Party Endorses Vice. |
The Republican majority of the Penn-
sylvania State Senate has formally thrown
the mantle of its protection of and sympathy
for over the vice and crime under police
sanction in Philadelphia. That is tosay,on
Monday evening last Senator HERBST, of
Berks, introduced a resolution reciting the
facts and proposing a committee of five to
make a thorough investigation of the mat-
ter and it was promptly voted down, every
Republican Senator present participating in
the outrage. Senator ScorT, of Philadel-
phia, expressed surprise that such a resoln-
tion should be offered and remarked that
the authorities of Philadelphia could take
care of their own affairs. But the records
reveal the contrary.
The particular vice to which Senator
HERBST referted in his resolution was that:
of beguiling young female immigrants into
lives of shame. The process is to meet
those young women when they come ashore
and promise them lucrative employment.
Una cquainted with the langnage and with-
out knowledge of the customs of the coun-
try thousands of them are perfectly helpless
victims of the conspiracy. The promise
of employment allures them and they are
literally sold to brothel keepers who starve
or frighten them into acquiescence in the
lite of shame and degradation. If they re-
sist\ the police admonish them to obedience.
The police are supported in this atrocious
action by those higher in authority.
The return which the criminals engaged
in this nefarious traffic give to the machine
is shelter for fictitious names registered to
be voted on at the elections. For example,
one of those dens of iniquity was broken up
a few days ago and it was discovered that
twenty men had been voted from the house
at the February election though there was
not a male resident in the place. Some of
the policemen get a direct ‘rake off”’ for
their services in intimidating the girls but
the main consideration is the aid in frandu-
lent voting. It is no longer a local infamy,
however. The vote of the State Senate on
the HERBST resolution makes it a matter
for which the Republican party is respon-
sible. : .
Republican Party Favors Election
Frauds,
The defeat of the motion of Representa-
tive SHEATZ, of Philadelphia, to discharge
the committee on elections of the House
from the further consideration of the per-
sonal registration bill fixes the responsibili-
ty of future ballot frauds. It can no long.
er be said that SAM SALTER is any worse
than his party. He is precisely like the
rest of his political associates. He is a self-
confessed ballots box stuffer and they are
promoters and abettors of the crime. Every
wan of the 125 Republicans in the House
of Representatives who voted against the
motion knew the significance of his action.
Unless he is worse than a fool he under-
stood that his vote meant two years more
of corrupt elections.
We congratulate the decent Republicans
of Centre county on the fact that Represen-
tative WOMELSDORF voted with three other
Republicans for honest elections. That is,
he voted to bring the measure out of com-
mittee for consideration on the floor. But
there were just enough of the exceptions to
prove the rule. Representative WATKINS,
of Lackawanna, Representative BOULTON,
of Clearfield, and Mr. SHEATZ, of Philadel-
phia, composed the roll of honor. That is
60 say, that quartes of Republicans joined
with the eleven Democrats present to make
up the fifteen affirmative votes. But the
action of the 125 who voted in the negative |
fixed the standing of the party on the ques-
tion.
After the vote was taken many raembers
who voted ‘‘no’’ said that they were in fav-
or of the bill but opposed to taking it from
the committee. In that statement they lied
for the purpose of deceiving their constitu-
ents. They knew precisely what their votes
meant. They understood the significance
of their action and if they favor personal
‘reg istration their votes against discharging
the committee from further consideration
marked them as poltroons and wretched
cowards who were afraid to express their
sentiments because it might offend the
machine which owns them body and soul.
But they can’t fool the people with such
subterfayes. They only mark themselves
as fit subjects for popular contempt.
——Republicans already in the field as
oandidates for the nomination for the var-
ious county offices are for sheriff, HENRY
KLINE; treasurer, Isaac UNDERWOOD); re-
corder, Epwarp C. McKinNtey, C. T.
HALL and H. H.. HEWITT; register, E. C.
TUTEN; commissioners, A. V. MILLER,
JOHN G. BAILEY and H. E. ZIMMERMAN.
H. C, QUIGLEY has announced as a candi-
date for county chairman and HARRY
KELLER as a candidate for delegate to the
State convention.
—— During the past week petitions have
been circulated in this and adjoining coun-
ties asking for the renomination of Gen.
James A. Beaver as a candidate for Su-
of weekly.
perior court judge.
Work of the Legislature.
Less than a month of the legislative ses-
sion remains and little has been accom-
plished. Three or four unimportant meas-
ures have reached the Governor, two of
which, the pure food bill and the Lewis
and CLARK exposition have been vetoed.
Those who are directing the work profess
confidence that the appropriation bills will
all be passed and probably they will as no
serious opposition is made to anything,
however bad, and the appropriation bills
have been endorsed by the machine. But
it is scarcely likely that any other import-
ant legislation will be enacted. In fact it
is ‘certain that none of the reform bills
will get through.
Every day brings forth new evidence
that the elections of Philadelphia are con-
trolled by the grossest frauds. A couple
of weeks ago it was shown conclusively
that in one division of the Thirteenth ward
200 ballots were placed in the box before
the polls were opened for the February
election and the votes thus cast were count-
ed for the machine. A week later it was
proven that gangs of repeaters cast near-
ly as many fraudulent votes at one poll in
the Third ward. 16 is well understood
that the same systems of fraud were
practiced in nearly every division in the
city. It is ¢qually certain that the system
of registration is responsible for all this
infamous corruption.
Bat there will be no legislation enacted
daring the present session to remedy the
evil. Almost at the beginning of the ses-
sion two bills were introduced providing
for such personal registration as would
have made this corruption impossible. We
believe that eighty per cent. of the voters
of the State, irrespective of party are in
favor of houest elections. Yet the repre-
sentatives of these people in the Legisla-
ture, controlled by the twenty per cent.
who are venal or influenced by some
other sinister agency refuse to pass
either of the bills so that for two years
more at least this carnival of corruption
which makes the State a reproach to the
Republic will cuntinue.
An Impending Danger.
Governor PENNYPACKER was wise in
adw€pishing the Legislature the other day
of the danger that private water com-
panies organized for speculative purposes
will nltimately absorb the water supply of
the State and work infinite barm on the
community. ‘‘There are now pending be-
fore me,’’ writes the Chief Executive of the
State in a special message to the Legisla-
ture, ‘‘twenty-nine applications for the
incorporation of private water companies.
All of them have been presented within
the last three days, each of them has bus
three incorporators and in all except three
the amount of money paid to the treasurer
of the corporation is $500.’
The purpose of this movement is obvious.
As the population of communities increases
in density the necessities for water multi-
ply. Before the want is felt generally,
therefore, these speculators are preparing
60 seoure the water sheds and that acoom-
plished prey upon the necessities of the
public. It is a cruel process. It means
future suffering and pestilence in the com-
munities affected but it guarantees im-
mense profits to the human wolves engag-
ed in the conspiracy. They understand
that the public must have water just as
they must have air and when the evil day
arrives they will fix the price for acom-
modity which ought to be free but muss
be had at any price.
There is probably no community in
Pennsylvania or elsewhere as secure against
such conspiracies as Bellefonte. Other
towns are settled on larger streams but
none on bodies of water so universally gen-
erous in supply and pure in quality. Bat
becanse of our own safety we should not
be indifferent to the probable danger of
others. On the contrary, it is our duty to
join in the protest against so iniquitous a
conspiracy and in every possible way
promote the remedy. Governor PENNY-
PACKER says that the remedy is in legis-
lation depriving such companies of the
right of eminent domain. Then let such
legislation be enacted.
——We have repeatedly called the at-
tention of our readers to that very lauda-
ble object, the improvement of the Belle-
fonte Academy grounds in time for the cel-
bration of its centennial anniversary in
June and we desire'once again to bring it
to your notice. Quite a number of people
away from town have subscribed liberally,
and the people of Bellefonte who can afford
to do so should be as open-hearted. There
can be no question about the worthiness of
the object. The Academy is a local institu-
tion of learning of which we all can justly
feel proud. It is doing a good work and is
deserving of all the encouragement possi-
ble to give it. Therefore send in your sub-
scription to the ground improvement fund |-
and when the centennial is held in June,
in which you will all be invited to partici-
pate, you will be giad you were one of the
many who helped to put the surroundings
in proper shape.
Opening a New Field for Graft.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The armory bill as reported out of the
committee at Harrisburg is calculated
to open up unlimited opportunities for
graft unless public protest shall be exerted
t0 head off this scheme at once.
Under the terms of the amended bill an
appropriation of $900,000 is made, to be ex-
pended by a hoard known as the Armory
Board of the State of Pennsylvania’’ for
‘‘the payment of its expenses and for pro-
viding, managing and caring for tke Na-
tional Guard of Pennsylvania.’’
. The commission is to exercise its own
judgment as to where and when to buy or
build armories and the particular compan-
ies or regiments to beso favored. The
maximum amount to be expended for an
armory for a company of infantry shall be
$20,000, and for a battery of artillery ora
troop of cavalry, $30,000. :
Not only is the board to provide thear-
mories; but it shall also see to their proper
management, having: power ‘‘to adopt and
prescribe rules and regulations.’’ .
This huge preliminary expenditure, how-
ever, would of course be only a beginning.
It is desired merely as the thin edge of the
wedge. Two years hence the demand
would be for a million. - Ten years hence
the demand might well be for five millions
or even more. For militarism grows on
what it feeds on. os
Is Pennsylvania ready to enter thus up-
on a career of martial extravagance? Is she
prepared to spend her resources in oultivat-
ing a spirit that is at best doubtful and
ab its worst is destructive morally and
economically? The legislature seems ready
to commit the State to a policy the:end of
which might be despotism and unless the
people revolt we shall see a military for-
tress in every town of any size in Pennsyl-
vania within a few years.
A Big Job Even for Providence to
Tackle.
From the New York Evening Post.
_ If the politicians of any locality in Amer-
ica need praying for, they do in Philadel-
phia. We hope it will not be said thas they
are past praying for. Something should
be expected from the fervent petitions of
500 ministers in behalf of Mayor Weaver,
for . praying has often been peculiarly
efficacious in Pennsylvania. Not many
years ago, for instance, a new brewery was
erected in one little Pennsylvania town,
and the local preachers, who were much
opposed to it, prayed that it might be de-
stroyed by fire from heaven. Sure enough,
it was struck by lightning, and the brewer
saw the relation of cause and effect so clear-
ly that he sued the preachers for damages.
Mayor Weaver and Director Smyth, though
they famed angrily over being prayed for,
reported that they felt no unusal sensation
of any sort. ‘‘How dare you ask such a
question ?”’ shouted the Mayor at one of
his questioners. But for all that, it is not
pleasant for the most bardened of public
officials to know that the united pulpit of
the city regards the situation as so desper-
ate that only miraculous intervention can
ameliorate it. The Machine protests, of
course, that nothing is wrong with Phila-
delphia. But there are people who think
differently and as they are nos allowed to
make their will effective through their
votes—only last week the Machine sent its
repeaters into wards hitherto uncorrupted
—there is nothing left for them to do but
pray. :
Got Just What He Deserved.
From the Hughesville Mail.
The sentence. imposed by Judge Woods,
of Huntingdon ‘county, upon a‘‘respect-
able’ citizen who was convicted in his
court of procuring liquor for men of
interoperate habits—a fine of five hundred
dollars and a year’s imprisonment in the
county jail—is a pretty severe one, bus
just, to the dot. The man who has no
better conception of his duty to society
‘than to supply liquor to men who are pro-
scribed by law, men who cannot procure it
themselves at the bar, is a very dangerous
citizen and his prominence and social
standing should cut no figure when he
stands before the bar of justice.
After the Real Powers.
From the Mifflinburg Times.
We have not learned whether the pray-
ers of the clergy of Philadelphia, for the
conversion of Mayor Weaver, have been
answered, but why not pray for the REAL
Mayor—Iz Durham—and ask God to strike
him down on the highway, as Sanl was
stricken on the way to Damascus, and keep
Bs down till he promises to do the right
thing.
Mystery of the Beef Trust.
From the Kansas City Journal.
But just think of the money the packers
were losing some years ago when cattle
were higher and meats of all kinds were
lower! How in the world they kept it up
so long is an impenetrable mystery.
It Begins Early and will be Worked
Late.
From the Portland Argus. hb
If the spirit of boodle and of graft is to
be found thus early in the Isthmian Canal
Commission, what may we expect from the
snhordinate officials throughout the years
of active operations ? :
——When yousee a man walking along
these days with a fishing rod on his snould-
er don’t be fooled by thinking that the
trout season has. opened, it is cnly the
sucker fisherman abroad. At the same
time it is well to remember that every man
who is out looking for suckers does’ not
carry a rod. One man, ov Tuesday, canght
eight nice-sized fish up spring creek.
i R= —————————————— .
——David O. Esters, of this place, and
Melford Pletcher, of Blanchard, are both,
hustling ‘around in: their canvas for the:
‘election as county superintendent. Though
not an’ avowed candidate the present in-:
cumbent, C. L. Gramley, would accept the
place for another term if it were given him.
—Prof. H. Lynn Beers, principal of the
Osceola schools, will resign at the close of the
present term and move to Ann Arbor,
Michigan, where he will take up the study
of medicine.
—The directors of the Newton Hamilton
campmeeting association are planning for
their next campmeeting. The date has not
yet been definitely fixed, but it will likely
be a little earlier than usual.
—The Portage smallpox epidemic is being
rapidly stamped out and no danger is antici-
pated of a further spread of the disease.
There are but twelve cases in the hospital,
and they are all convalescing.
—The temperance people of Mifflin county
had a paper called The County Bulletin printed
containing the names of all the signers of
the applications for licenses within the coun-
ty, and distributed copies through the post-
masters.
—The largest river coal shipment which
has left Pittsburg for months started South
Sunday. The fleet contained about 2,500,000
bushels consigned to Cincinnati and Louis-
ville. Another shipment of 2,000,000 bushels
was made on Monday. :
—Four locomotives are required to baul a
train of 45 loaded coal cars up the grade
from Moshannon to Snow Shoe, on the N. C.
.C. railroad, but one engine will haul from 60
to 75 loaded cars from the head of the Sus-
quehanna to Williamsport.
—The extensive works of the Enterprise
Sand company, at Vineyard, on tke middle
division, was entirely destroyed by fire
Thursday morning. A large number of men
employed by the concern will be thrown out
of employment.
—Ministers representing every church in
Aitoona met Sunday in a union prayer meet-
ing in Grace Lutheran church. The greatest
interest was manifested, and it was decided
to continue the meetings and begin a sys-
tematic crusade for the betterment of that
city.
—Down in Philadelphia the ministers are
praying for the corrupt ring that is running
that city. Should Christian people of the
Quaker City vote differently, then the good
Lord might show some consideration for
their prayers. Voting one way and praying
another is not consistent.
—Fire Sunday morning destroyed the plant
of the Connellsville Car & Machine company,
causing a loss of $150,000, with insurance of
$65,000. Martin Mullen, the night wateh-
man, is believed to have been burned. in the
carpenter shop, which he was seen to enter a
few minutes after the fire was discovered.
—Elizabethtown, in Lancaster county.
boasts of the tallest family in the Common-
wealth. G. W. Kersey,six feet, ten and one-
half inches in height and weighing two hun-
"dred and fifty pounds is the giaut of . the lot.
His brother, S. J. Kersey, is six feet, four
inches high, and a sister living at home with
the brothers is six feet. :
—On March third a wounded deer was
found in a field near Brisbin, which died
shortly after having been discovered. It had
been shot in the neck. The game warden at
Clearfield was notified,and he is now looking
for the violators of the game law. The deer
was dressed and presented to the Clearfield
hospital by the warden.
—All winter long the United States mail
on rural free delivery No. 2 starting from
Blairsville, has been carried by Mrs. Devers,
who isthe regular rural carrier. Her daugh-
ter Mary is an assistant. Notwithstanding
the intense cold Mrs. Devers has not missed
a day, going the full route each day and
making as good time as her male colleagnes.
—Adolph J. Bloch, the Canonsburg mill
worker, who is in the Washington county
jail charged on his own confession with the
murder of Mrs. Kate Fatzinger at Allen-
town, Pa., more than a year ago, was releas-
ed without a hearing. H. V. Schantz, dis-
trict attorney of Lehigh county, telegraphed
that he had secured proof that the man
knew nothing of the crime.
—A bold and daring highway robbery was
committed in the central part of Altoona
early Saturday morning shortly after the
police had left their beats for the police
station to go off duty after a night's work,
when S. F. Geer, employed as a fireman at
the Altoona car shops’ boiler house, was struck
down at Eleventh avenue and Ninth street
shortly after 5 o'clock and robbed of $30.
—Frank O’Boyle, a Scranton young man,
was assisting a lady friend who had fallen
while skating at Rocky Glen, when she fell
again with such suddenness that one of her
feet shot up in the air, a skate blade striking
O’Boyle squarely in the face, inflicting a
deep laceration from the cheek bone to the
chin. It required several stitches to close
the cut, and it is feared that the young man
will carry the scar through life.
—Winburne had a disastrous fire Saturday
morning between 12 and 1 o’clock. It started
in the barn of Dr. H. H. Thompson, totally
destroying the same, together with three
horses, buggies, cases of instruments left in
the buggies, hay, feed, etc., the only things
saved being a pony and buggy. The flames
communicated to the adjoining barns of O.
IL. Schoonover and John Davis, totally
destroying them, together with all the con-
tents. Total loss will be over $2000.
—J. Murray Africa, civil engineer, in new
quarters just established at Huntingdon, has
a stone vault which is ten feet square and is
a safe repository for Mr. Africa’s many
valuable surveys, etc. He claims to have
about 30,000 papers pertaining to different
surveys of Central Pennsylvania, dating
back to 1755. He has a survey of every
original tract of land in Huntingdon county,
:{ and a greater part of those of Bedford coun-
ty, and portions of Blairand Cambria coun-
ty: He has the field book of Samuel Find-
1y, which shows the original survey in 1766
of the tract of land now occupied by the bor-
‘ough of Huntingdon, then known as Stand-
ing Stone place.