——E———
A ————————————r——
OR
is 2
oH Sr of gi
; ..
soGatr fis
olde suis
Life osiond un
coming fn’ for their stare of i
Notwithstanding the ‘general inclina- |
tion $0’ Hail, ‘gentle spring, it éame iv’ rain-
ing if fhe‘miost approved fashion. ‘© ©
—With a steam. road-roller ,
councilmen can vie with §
automobile in making a fnss
poltfiSS tuts iided oivewBary esp
even hi master imagination could never
PIORRIR., oro; tilt a Too
—Judging from the dispatch with which
the equinoctial’ got here Old Probs’ must
intend fo run things on schedule time this
year. : : : be ;
—The defeat of the bill granting fran-
ehises to trolley companies to carry freight
as well as passengers, is not whatis hold-
ing up the Bellefonte--State College line.
~.-President ROOSEVELT is to hunt bear
in Texas and lion in Colorado as part of his
recreation this spring. Nothing is said as
to whether he proposes using a gun or the
big stick.
—O0ld Spring creek must bave made a
New Year’s resolution not to- get full this
spring. The way the snow and rains have
passed off bas been a matter for which we
are profoundly thankful.
—The last Congress spent juss $31,000,-
000 more than the Fifty-fifth, which had to
provide for the Spanish war. Thus it is that
peace under the ROOSEVELT idea is more
expensive than war under MCKINLEY.
—The PRUNER home for friendless child-
ren is a reality on paper, but unless a
larger income than $2,500 a year can be
figured out for it it can never be as much
of a memorial to the testator as it will be a
burden to the towns of Tyrone and Belle-
fonte.
A
—Count CASSINI can see no reason why
the Russiane should sue for peace. But then,
you know, it is much easier for the count
to cultivate a war-like spirit in his luxuri-
ous home in Washington than it would be
if he were making tracks for Harbin with
a dozen Japanese bayonets brandishing
under his coat tails.
—The Sultan of Morocco has just ap-
pointed RAISULI, the bandit who carried
our Mr. PERDICARIS off into the moun-
tains ome time ago, to be Governor of sev-
eral provinces in that country. The Sultan
is a very astute gentleman. He couldn’t
make ‘RAISULI obey his law, so he is going
to try him as an exeoutor of it.
France, being tired putting up the
money for the Russian war, has decided
that “honor has been satisfied’’ and peace
negotiations should be begun. It is sur-
pris ing that France has waited as long as
she has to become convinced, when it is
considered that the duellists in that coun-
try usually *‘satisfy honor’’ withoutspilling
a drop of blood.
—Lazy people in Holland are placed in
a cistern and given a pump with which, by
lively work, they are just able to keep the
inflowing water from rising over their heads.
The cure might prove a certain one in Hol-
land, but there are a few who spend their
days on the street within sight of the
WATOHMAN office who we are sure would
drown rather than exert themselves at the
pump. :
---The Gazette's idea that the Democrate
have been responsible for the indebtedness
of Bellefonte borough is like most of tom’s
ideas ; a simple display of ignorance or a
voluntary inclination to lie. The council
of Bellefonte has been Democratic only five
years in the history of the tcwn. The entire
$119,000 indebtedness heing incurred by
Republican bodies.
—Our Episcopalian brethren seem’ to be
very much exorcised these days over the
condition of their church ; while the mem-
bers of other denominations look on with
qualms. The millennium must surely be
approa ching since the lethargio Episcopals
are waking up to realize that christian use-
fulness means something more than read-
ing prayers when it suits them to attend
worship. :
—The Pennsylvania Legislature shonld
not fritter that $20,000 on a cold, inanimate
inexpressive monument to QUAY in the
capitol park at Harrisburg. It would be
better to call on Dr. SCHAEFFER, the State
superintendent of public instruction, to
bave a delegation of school children plant
a plam tree in the park when the next
arbor day comes round. That would be a
memorial worth the while to QUAY.
——A very romantic bit of reading was the
story BEsSIE McCAFFERTY gave to the
Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday. The
young lady is evidently reaping the harvest
of sorrow that always follows too great
confidence in strange men and it should
remind others who are prone to do as she
did that home, with a good mother, how-
ever humble it may be, is far more to he
desired than the gilded allurements of the
most plausible rascal.
—Mr. JoHN D. ROCKEFELLER’S offer of
$100,000 for missions has been spurned by
the congregational ministers of New Eng-
land. They put their refusal of the tender
on the ground that the church cannot con-
scientiously use money that it knows has
been amassed through ‘‘methods that are
morally iniquitous and socially destruc:
tive.”” In theory they may be all right, but
in practice we could never bring ourselves
to believe that it would be wrong to fight
the devil with his own weapons.
2)
Ey As the conspiracy to seize San Domingo
‘is completely uncovered, the iniquity of it
‘passes understanding. No soch national
orime was ever attempted before. The
Panama affairs shocked the] conscience of
the whole world. In that matter Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT organized a conspiracy for
the secession of a portion of the Republio
of Colombia and the subsequent organiza-
tion of a bogus Republic out of the secee-
sion. It was a violation of every principle
of international law and a subversion of
all the cherished traditions of our own
country. But the San Domingo iniquity
is even worse. It involves the subversion
of the government itself and the oreation of
an empire on the ruins which it would
have caused. ,
The facts of the matter may be briefly
stated. A Mr. and Mrs. READER, of Ala-
bama, who have won considerale reputation
and acquired much wealth through inter-
national financial operations, had undertak-
en to finance the Republic of San Domingo.
That is to say,they had made an agreement
with the President of that Republic to
compromise its public debts and discharge
its financial obligations,publie and private,
the oustom revenues to be their security.
Their attorney in the transaction was WIL-
LIAM NELSON CROMWELL, of New York,
who bad been the attorney of the adminis-
tration in the Panama affair. After the
agreement had been made and the READ-
ERS were about to enter upon their duties
under the contract the administration at
Washington became aware of the matter
and implored President MORALES to can-
cel the agreement and deal directly with
the government at Washington. This was
done for the reason, as stated by MORALES,
because he was afraid of ROOSEVELT'S big
stick.
Immediately after the negotiations with
the READERS had been broken off Presi-
dent MORALES entered into an agreement
with the agents of the government at
Washington which resulted in a protocol
under which naval officers of this country
were to take possession of the ports of entry
of San Domingo and the administration
guaranteed the debts, payment of which
was to be made in installments. At this
stage of the gamete Senate ‘‘got wise’”
and interposed its c¢onstitational preroga-
tive of ratifying all treaties. Thereupon
the President declared that the protocol
was only a temporary affair and that a
treaty would be negotiated and gent to the
Senate for ratification. This done Assist-
ant Secretary of State LOOMIS procured the
false statement that an attempt had heen
made to assassinate President MORALES
with the view of hastening operations in the
Senate. The trick was exposed, however,
and instead of promoting the purpose if
turned the Senate the other way.
There could be but one purpose for this
conspiracy and that is to get control not
only of the finances but of all other govern-
ing powers of San Domingo at once and
subsequently using that as a precedent for
acquiring the same power over all the oth-
er Spanish-American Republics. Panama
is already securely fixed and the President’s
power over that bogus Republic is more
complete than the KAISER’S authority over
the affairs of Prussia. But the lust for
power which has been so abnormally de-
veloped in ROOSEVELT urged him to furth.
er experiments and this San Domingo fiasco
is the logical consequence. It is a crime
against the constitution vastly greater than
that committed by JEFFERSON DAVIS and
should be punished by the impeachment of
every man engaged in it.
The Talk of Tax on Coffee.
The talk of taxing coffee is assuming ser-
ious proportions. We bave heard such
gossip frequently within the last thirty
years, or since the tariff tax was taken off
coffee in order to preserve it on other things
in which there were greater returns in the
way of campaign contributions. Rut hith-
erto it has been a sort of ephemeral note or
tentative suggestion. But this time it isa
serious matter. The impending treasury
deficit must be met in some way and to the
Republican mind there is no way more
available than taxing coffee. It is estimat-
ed that a tax of five cents a pound would
yield an average revenue of $55,000,000 a
year, which is just about what will be need-
ed to balance the books.
There is nl tax which would go as direot-
ly into the treasury as that on coffee. There
would be no protection in it at all for the
reason that there is no coffee grown in this
country and therefore there would be no
manipulation of prices so as to add to the
cost of the product over and above the
amount of the tax, in consequence of its im-
position. That was the principal reason
that the tax was taken off coffee soon after
the close of the civil war for the revenues
were too great and it was necessary to re-
duce taxes in some way. The protection-
ists wouldn’t consent to a reduction on any
of the protected articles and coffee was the
only thing left.
But now that people have got nsed to the
legser price of coffee it is doubtful if they
_Poor- Jures' VERNE ‘is neatig 'the| Thc Sem Domingo Conspiracy.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAR. 24, 1905.
would ‘willingly acquiesce in a tax which
would increase. the price. But the alterna-
tive is a reduction of expenses and the poli-
ticians will never stand for that. That
would ont off the gralt beyond question
and whatever the people think of an in-
crease of the price of coffee the politicians
will impose it rather than cut off their
graft. We must have warships and a big
army to satisfy the yearning for power of
President ROOSEVELT and if a coffee tax is
neceesary to that result the coffee tax must
come even if the poor people have to pay
as much to meet their additional expendi-
tures as the rich, by increasing the price of
the coffee they drink.
A False Alarm.
Congressman HULL, of Iowa, chairman
of the House committee on military al-
fairs, is authority for the statement that
after Japan has completely licked Russia
she will cast covetous eyes on the Philip-
pine Islands and either compel us to sell
them at a sacrifice or take them by force of
arms. Of course that is nonsense of the
shabbiest sort and still the possession of
property so far away from home is a dan-
gerous thing, as Spain discovered when she
got into a war with us and as Russia has
ascertained since the beginning of war
with Japan. The occupation of Manchuria
has already cost Russia more than itis
worth and there is always danger to us in
possession of the Philippines.
But Congressman HULL wasn’é influenc-
ed to his expression on the subject by any
fear that Japan will ever try to take the
Philippines by force. He was talking to
frighten his colleagues into liberal appro-
priations for the army. During the dis-
cussion of the Naval appropriation bill
Congressman BUTLER, of West Chester,
made a similar statement and for the same
reason. He didn’t believe it himself unless
he is an ass and he probably didn’t expect to
fool any other Congressman. But he prob-
ably did think that he would alarm the
country by it and thus bring pressure on
Congressmen to consent to the big appro-
priation. All Republicans talk to the
people as if they were fools.
Japan will never attack this country on
account of the Philippines or for any other
reason and we would be just as secure
against attack if our navy was one-third its
present strength and our army cut down to
the limit that it used to be, as now. There
are various reasons for this hut it is only
necessary to mention two. Of these the
first is that Japan understands the vas
resources of this country and is too intel-
ligent to hunt disaster,and the second that
after her victory over Russia she will be
content to turn her attention to repairing
the damage and restoring the resources of
Japan. The Russian victory is great but
expensive and recovery will be the first
thought of Japan.
Lamentable but True.
There is a reasonable probability that
the charitable and corrective institutions of
the State will be improved as the result of
legislation to be enacted during the present
session of the Legislature. Representative
AMMERMAN’S exposure of the condition of
the Danville insane asylum has aroused
public sentiment to such an extent that
the machine will hardly dare to neglect
this demand of humanity. That institn-
tion and others will be enlarged and im-
proved. They will be put into something
like sanitary condition and that accom-
plished patients in snch institutions will
have at least some chance of recovery.
The wards of the State will no longer be
kept in living tombs. :
Have thoughtful citizens of Centre coun-
ty ever gravely considered the reasons why
those institutions have been neglected so
long? Has it ever occurred ta the philan-
thropic and Christian people of the State
that the wards of the Commonwealth have
been kept from year to year'in wretched-
ness in order that the managers of the
atrocious political machine might draw
‘‘gralt’” from the bank balances which
follow a fall treasury? Probably not, but
it is the actual fact. There is nothing new
in Mr. AMMERMAN’S revelations conoern-
ing the Danville asylum. Every machine
Republican has known for years just what
he stated but no relief has been volunteered
because the money was affording profit to
them.
With a balance in the State Treasury of
$15,000,000, the wards of the State have
been kept in peril of their lives and con-
stant wretchedness for the reason that the
treasury balance vielded $300,000 a year
for division among the machine managers.
These gentlemen have become exceedingly
delicate gentlemen. They must go to the
seashore or mountain retreats in the sum-
mer and to the mild climates of the South
and far West in the winter. This mode of
of life is expensive, but it has become nec-
essary to the politicians and the mentally
infirm and physically incapable must suf-
fer in order that the profligate politicians
can indulge their expensive fancies. This
is lamentable, but true.
Republican Party for Fraud.
Last week the Republican wajority of
the Legislature declared itself in favor of
proteoting vice and crime in the passage of
the Pahl bill, the purpose of which is sup-
pression of the Law and Order society of
Philadelphia. This week that atrocious
act has been fitly supplemented by a dec-
laration in favor of ballot frauds expressed
in the vote against the resolution of Sen-
ator GRIM, of Buoks county, to discharge
the committee on elections from farther
consideration of the personal registration
bills and that in the House upon a similar
resolution offered by Representative FLINN,
of Elk county. Both resolutions were de.
feated by a practically unanimous Repub-
ican vote. Inthe Senate three- Republi-
cans voted for honest election out of forty.
In the House seventeen Republicans out
of 189 voted against ballot box stuffing.
The action, deliberately taken, settles
once and for all, the false pretense that the
Republican party stands for integrity or
decency. That a majority of Republican
voters of Pennsylvania favor honest
elections we have no doubt. It wonld be a
slander on the fair fame of the State to say
otherwise and an insult to the public con-
science of the Commonwealth to even infer
such a thing. But unhappily the Repub-
lican organization is not the party and its
purpose and aspirations are diametrically
different. The rank and file of the party
stand for patriotism, progress, probity,
while the o1ganization represents she antith.
esis of those virtues. It'stands for crime
and vice in private life and corruption,
venality and spoliation in public affairs. It
is the exponent of everything vile and the
votes on the Publ and Khrhardé bills and
against personal registration were open ex-
pressions of that fact.
In P hiladciphia at eviry election there
are from sixty to one hundred thousand
fraudulent votes cast and in Pittsburg half
that number. As Senator DEWALT said in
his speech in favor of GRIM’S resolution
that is not the woiss of it. Election
frauds are spreading throughout the State
80 that in every city it is revealing itself.
In Scranton, Wilkesbarre, Harrisburg,
Johnstown and in communities of lesser
populagion padded registry lists are com-
passing their evil consequences and the re-
sult is that the governing power in the
State has become a band of pirates more
daring and demoralizing than any ship's
crew that everscuttled ships on the Spanish
main. They control the election through
fra uds and rob the public hy legislation.
How long will the people who believe
in honest elections and just governments
endure such a state of affairs ?
An Investigation Needed.
There is bright promise of work for the
big stick in Venezuela. The outlook for
farther operations in San Domingo had
grown dim with the adjournment of the
Senate last Saturday and the future looked
drear enough for our strenuous President.
With nothing to do except the routine
labors of his office Mr. ROOSEVELT would be
a sad figure indeed. But that contingency
has been avoided, in all probability. With
characteristic luck Venezuela comes forward
at the opportune moment and creates a dis-
turbance with some French interests. - That
is, the government of that Republic has seiz-
ed the property of the French cable company
and an encounter is likely to be the conse-
quence.
Of course the President will not permit
France to attack Venezuela with force.
T hat would be a violation of the Monroe
D octrine and a complete subversion of the
ROOSEVELT Doctrine. In defence of the
M onroe Dootrine it would probably be nec-
essary to notify France to ‘‘keep off the
grass’’ and that might provoke war with
our European sister Republic. But ROOSE-
VELT won’ assert the Monroe Doctrine in
the matter. The ROOSEVELT Doctrine will
suit him better. Under that dootrine he
can encourage France to action. and then
hecter and - ‘brow-beat Venezuela. That
wretched weakling can’t resent or resist
anything we do and what we will do is
b ully ber to our heart’s content.
It’s a trifle strange, however, that things
al ways happen ROOSEVELT’S way. When
a revolution was needed on the Isthmus
of Panama it happened. There is a sus-
picion that the idea originated in Washing-
ton and a certainty that the enterprise was
financed there. But ROOSEVELT declares
that he knew nothing of it until it was
completed and Presidents never lie. Sanb-
sequently things happened just as he want-
ed them to in San Domingo but he protests
that he had nothing to do with the matter
and politeness requires us to believe him.
Bat we hope this Venezuela business will
be more closely investigated. When a
man’s house burns down too frequently the
Insurance companies think ‘‘there’s some-
thing doing.”
——EDWARD A. UFFINGTON VALEN-
TINE'S new novel ‘‘Hecla Sandwith’”’ is
out. Many local characters are recogniz-
able in it, but we have not pondered deep
enough over it as yet to attempt a oriti-
cism.
Noa.
And Yet Ite only What was to Be Ex-
: . pected.
8
From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner.
President Roosevelt’s inaugural address
was disappointing, Ushered into the high-
ess office within the gift of the people and
assuming responsibilities of a position to
which he was chosen by an overwhelming
plurality, be had’ the opportunity of a life-
time—and he did nos improve it. There
is not a sentiment in the address to lift it
above the common-place—not a sentence
that will be quoted.” With the people
warshalling for a hand-to-hand struggle
with plutocracy there is no bugle call—no
inspiring or encouraging word. In so far
as emphasis is placed on anything ib is
upon war-like preparation to meet an im-
aginary foe. He talks as if this nation,
alter being unmolested for nearly a century,
was about to be menaced by the combined
navies of Europe. i
In so far as he refers to domestic prob-
lems he deals in generalities and muses
phrases which may be construed to mean
anything or nothing. His friends musé
regret that he has failed to give the world
a state paper of high merit and those in-
terested in reform will see in the address
an evidence of weakening in his fight
against corporate aggression. The ‘party
‘leaders have been ‘using the ‘harmony’
argument on him and warning him that an
attempt to secure any radical legislation will
result in a split in hie party. If the inaug-
aural throws any light on. the subject of all
itindicates that she harmony argument is
baving its effect. i
A EA As.
Another Tax on What the People Use.
From the New York World.
In their search for a source of revenue to
relieve the deficit the Republican leaders
are said to have fixed on coffee. Thanks
to the extravagance of Congress, the Gov-
ernment promises to be even shorter of
funds next year than it is now.
Secretary Shaw says that cheap living is
bad for a people. Oa that theory food should
be taxed, either by the Government ot by
the Trusts under a system of Government
protection.. Every family has its break-
fast table and every breakfast table its
coffee cup. A tariff on coffee would result
in the double benefit of raising money for
the Administration and raising its cost of !
living to the consumer. Then Secretary
Shaw might say of coffee what Shakespeare
said of merey : “It is twice blest : it bless-
eth him that gives and him that takes.’’
But no Administration would bope to get
off, after levying another food tax, with-
out an agitation for tariff revision. Even
a Roosevelt might hesitate to start a tem-
pest in a coffee pot.
gees
in
Almost As Expensive As Jingoes,
America.
From Le Cri de Paris.
All told, Russia bas sixty-ive Grand
Dukes, counting the members of the im-
perial family; the Czar’s uncles and broth-
ers receive an anoual pension of 4,000-
000 rubles each.
From the day of his birth a Grand
Duke’s child becomes entitled to an annu-
al pension—1,000,000 rubles if a boy, 500,-
000 rubles if a girl. The revenue of the ex-
isting Grand Dukes exempt from all taxa-
tion amounts to the grand total of fourteen
millions.
To nationalize the country would mean
the wiping out of the entire debt of Russia
and relieve the country of all taxation for
a year, without diminishing the normal
expenditures.
When the Czar Nicholas married, the
danseuse Kezoesinskaia, who was charged
with amusing his leisure moments, receiv-
ed as a present 4,000,000 rubles and a
palace.
Yon Are Right Brother “Democrat.”
From the County (Mo.) Democrat.
‘‘Governor Folk merely told the trath
when he said thas the evil of corrupt elec-
tionsin the cities is largely due to negli-
gence and lack of interest on the part of
honest, intelligent, well-meaning men in
those communities. But the country district
should no longer stand as guardians of their
high-collared, kid-gloved city cousins. If
these city men will not go to the polls, cast
their votes and suppress the hoodlums,
then let the hoodlums run the cities! All
American citizens who are too lazy or too
timid to vote are entitled to neither sym-
pathy nor protection.’
Which? An Attempt to Deceive or An
Evidence of Ignorance.
From The Dallas News.
Editor Cuthbert Powell, of Kansas City,
leaves of Commissioner Garfield nothing
but the by-products. He shows by facts
and figures that Commissioner Garfield did
not know what he was talking about when
he reported that the packers made a profi
of only 99 centsa head. Mr. Powell shows
that the average net profit to the packers,
instead of 2 per cent. on the cattle, is $7.41
a bead, or 15 per cent. on the price of cattle
and that this profit is turned every two or
four weeks—twelve to twenty-four times a
year.
We Need It, Too.
A Chicago man has received from the
editor of the Harvey (N. D.) Post the fol-
lowing note:
It is reported that one of the fastidious,
newly-married ladies of Harvey, N.
D., kneads bread with her gloves on.
This incident may be somewhat peculiar,
but there are others. The editor of
this paper needs bread with his shoes on.
He needs bread with his shirt on. He
needs bread with his pants on; and unless
some of the delinquent subscribers to this
‘Old Rag of Freedom’’ pay up before long,
he will need bread without a thing on, and
North Dakota is no Garden of Eden in the
winter time.
The Way 10 Obliterate Sectionalism.
From The Atlanta Constitution.
The more Pesident Roosevelt demon-
strates that he is a patriot before he is a
partisan the firmer hecomes his hold on the
hearts of his countrymen and the fainter
becomes the lingering trace of seotionalism.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Twenty-three pretty girls who will grad-
uate from the McKeesport High school in
June have decided to put a ban on all yousg
men friends who smoke cigarettes. :
—In the Superior court, last week, Judge
Orlady handed down a decision stipulating
that persons who operate a fish basket net
specifically permitted are liable to a penalty
of $25, ;
—Governor Pennypacker has issued a pree-
lamation setting aside Friday, April 14th,
and Friday, April 28th, as Arbor days and
urges that they be appropriately observed by
the planting of trees.
—Ex-Sheriff H. Dill Loveland, successor of
Loveland & Son, of Antes Fort, has, through
his attorney, John T. Hyatt,of Jersey Shore,
filed an application in bankruptcy in the
United States district court. :
—Gov. Pennypacker, having signed the
bill hereafter it will be a misdemeanor pum-
ishable by a fine of from $100 to $300, for any
one to give a cigarette or cigarette paper te
any person under the age of 21. - 4
—Devoid of clothing and laboring under
the delusion that he was a part of the Japa-
nese army advancing on Mukder John Wal-
lock, an industrious laborer, was found walk-
ing about in the snow one day last week im
Tamauqua, ' : Pr
—A man was caught in the very act of
breaking a lock on a corn crib on the Klase-
ner farm, below Jersey Shore, a night or two
ago,and as a result he carries a 38 caliber ball
in one of his legs, which was fired by David
Fulkrod, who has charge of the farm.
—Dennis Sheehan, who was convicted of
manslaughter for the killing of his son,
Clarence, at Curwensville last summer, was
sentenced last week by Judge A. O. Smith te
pay a fine of $100 and serve eight years at
solitary confinement in the Western peniten-
tiary.
—The authorities at Portage are hopeful of
being rid of smallpox in the next couple of
weeks. There are but seven cases in the hos-
pital and all are convalescing. There are
several other cases scattered through the bor-
ough and all are on the high road to recov-
ery.
—Fourteen carloads of immigrants passed
through Altoona, last Thursday morning en-
route to the west. There were a number of
Italians among them and several got off the
train. and were escorted to the colony on
Ninth avenue by a number of their friends
who were at the station to bid them welcome
to the city.
—F. M. Fox, a Pittsburg freight brakeman
residing at Millwood, was run down by an
engine at New Florence, at 5 o'clock Thurs-
day morning and instantly killed. His train
had stopped and he was walking along the
track and failed to notice the approach of the
engine, which was running west.
—A recent Cumberland paper gives an ae-
count of the lynching of William Pennel said
tobe Clem Pennel, formerly a resident of
Bedford county. He, it is said, was lynched
for bratal assault in western Illinois. Be-
fore the lynching he confessed to the burm-
ing of Mrs. Cornelius Norris and grandson,
ten years old.
—Miss Fannie Long, of Stroudsburg, this
State, who was buried a few days ago, was
not a believer in banks. In all parts of her
house were found packages of money amount-
ing to many hundreds of dollars. One band-
box contained nearly three hundred silver
dollars, and thesilver was black and tarnish-
ed from age.
—A mill for the manufacture of keg heads,
etc., employing twenty hands, at Hunting-
don, was destroyed by fire, last week, the
loss being estimated at $25,000, with $6,000
insurance. Two buildings,all the machinery,
7,000 feet of piping, 180,000 keg heads, etc.,
were destroyed. Tke plant was owned by
the Walsh Manufacturing company, of Pitts-
burg.
—While going west past Bolivar station on
the Pennsylvania railroad iast Thursday, a
large locomotive hauling a long train of
empty steel hopper cars blew up, killing en-
gineer George Ribblett, of Altoona; probably
fatally scalding fireman George Hysong and
conductor Griffith Hare, and injuring a dog-
en of a crew of thirty trackmen who were
working at the place.
—Nothing is known as yet where the
National Guard will camp next summer or
in what order. Under the old scheme pur-
sued in the years gone by the camps will be
by brigade and the Third Brigade will in all
probability camp at beautiful Mt. Gretna,but
there has been considerable talk the past
year about doing away with the brigade
camps and of making Gettysburg a perma-
nent camp ground. :
—Two camps of brawny choppers have just
begun the task of felling Clinton county’s
last big tract of hemlock timber—that in the
Hammersley Fork region. This tract ad-
joins the operation of Brown, Clark & Howe,
of Williamsport, whose loggers are cutting
the Oleona timber, and expect at least four
years more work. There are 500,000,000 feet
of timber on the Hammersley Fork tract;and :
most of this will go to the saw mills of Good-
year Brothers at Austin, and the Lackawan-
na Lumber company at Cross Forks,
—To be sure that no one would interfere
with bim in his effort to kill himself, Henry
Kettle of Shamokin walked toa mountain
top last week, cast away his coat, rolled up
his sleeve and cut an artery, so as to bleed te
death. When in a dying condition from loss
of blood he was found by several men, whe
tied handkerchiefs above the wound and
stopped the flow. He was carried back te
town for medical aid. He is in a critical con-
dition and wants to (rceover, saying he did
not know what he was doing when he slash-
ed himself. X
—An accident on the Cresson [and Clear-
field branch of the Pennsylvania railroad
near Bradley Junction on Saturday after«
noon resulted in the death of engineer John
Gearhart, 46 years old, and Frank Kurtz, 25
years old, a mail clerk; both of Cherrytree.
Jacch Miller, a fireman, of Altoona, was
canght under the wreckage, His foot was
amputated at the Altoona hospital. Several
passengers were cut and bruised, but none
were seriously injured. The train ran into a
pile of earth and rock, which, becoming dis-
lodged from an embankment, had fallen on
the track. The engine was upset and the
mail and baggage car was smashed.