BY P. GRAY MEEK.
A SASS tn a.
Ink Slings.
—Fortunately for Pennsylvania Gover-
nor PENNYPACKER’S idiosyncrasies don’t
extend to his ink bottle and veto pen.
—Was the snow yesterday morning
the saplin’ bender, the onion snow, the
daffodil snow or the Easter snow ?
—Since that Chicago victory we have
been looking for someone to jump to the
fore with an Illinois candidate for Presi-
dent.
—Winter got that old
gering in the lap of spring a few hours
yesterday morning. The mountains were
white with snow. -
—1If it is impracticable to have a PRUNER
orphanage a PRUNER hospital would be a
fine memorial and a useful institution to
the entire community.
—Next week the man with the longest
pole and biggest hook may not catch the
most fish bas that won’t deter him from
* telling the biggest lies.
—The way the Democrats swept Chicago
looks as if that city knows where it is to
expect good governruent from, even if a
HARRISON isn’t at the head of the move-
mens.
~—Now is the time when the man who is
earning fifty dollars a month sits np nights
wondering how he is to pay for that twen-
ty dollar spring hat that his wife thinks is
a dream.
—While hunting big game in Coloradc
the President is to guide the country by
wireless telegraphy. As to Panama and
Venezuela, however, the “big stick’’ will:
still be the instrument.
—THoMAS LAWSON has consented to go
to the aid of Kansas in the fight against the
Standard oil. While he may not be able
to accomplish much he will make it inter-
esting for the parties concerned.
—While that bad gang in Philadelphia
will steal the city gas works, if it wants
them, there is no danger of their stealing
the Delaware unless the federal and state
governments will agree to dig it out.
—The intimation that there ‘is graft in
the Bellefonte council is a moet unkind and
unwarranted attack upon a body of gentle-
men whoserve without compensation and
bave done well for the borough’s interest.
—The Philadelphia woman who asked
$10,000 for four kisses and was awarded
$400 must be impressed that while the jury
agreed that she delivered the goods yet
they were not convinced that it was worth
the money.
—Since the Governor has vetoed the bill
providing for an additional law judge in
Cambria county we presume that Judge
O'CoNNER will feel thas he is still regard-
ed as capable of getting through with the
business out there without assistance.
—ANDREW CARNEGIE'S denial of his
aecredited declaration that ‘‘todie rich is
to die disgraced’’ comes a little late, but as
we have not heard of any one acting along
the line he was supposed to have spggest-
ed the lateness of it will not cause any
regret.
—TIt is all wrong for Philadelphia to cry
out to the country Members of the Legisla-
sure to save her from the outrageous ripper
bills. Philadelphia is alone responsible
for the men she sends to the Legislature
and if they give her what she does not want
it is no concern of the rest of the State.
—The death of J. MARSHAL WRIGHT,
of Allentown, has removed a gentleman
whose life was a pleasure to all those about
im. Of a most genial disposition he seem-
ed to emis a constant atmosphere of good
cheer wherever he went and his friends
will be genuinely sorry that he is gone.
—The profit in big navies is exemplified
by a sale in England on Tuesday. Thirty
of her war vessels that cost, originally $15,-
000,000, were sold for $690,600. We are
paying millions for such vessels now thas
will come under the obsolete class almosé
before they are ready for commission.
—It was mean of Prof. WILLIAM G.
SUMMER, of Yale, to say that it costs as
much to build a single battle ship
as it would to found and endow a great
- university. Of course it is all too true,
but the professor would not have said i6
had President ROOSEVELT been a graduate
of Yale.
—Judging from the spasms of terror that
he was thrown into Wednesday [evening
when a rat ran up his trouser’s leg and did
stunts in the seat thereof we would sug-
gest, as a matter of precaution,that the bar
keeper at the Brandt house might keep a
rat trap in that portion of his apparel.
Ot course it woald be little unpleasant if
the steel jaws of the trap were to occa-
sionally fly shat on him, but that woaldn’t
be a circumstance to the unpleasantness
he soffered while the rat ran loose around
his nether end.
—A bill that will befof considerable in-
terest to land owners in this section passed
the House on Wednesday. It provides for
a rebate of taxes to persons who have fifty
or more trees per acre of land. If the bill
covers mountain lands there will doubtless
be many in Centre county to; whom the
State will be owing money; if the rebate is
large enough. The aot was probably con-
ceived as an incentive to preserving forest’
trees and in that it shonld eerve a very ex-
cellent purpose, for trees more than any-
thing else improve our climatic condition
and operate against both floods and
dronths. , .., vod i
fondness for lin- |
VOL. 50
Philadelphia Scems to be Aroused.
rn
‘The mutterings which come from Phil-
adelphia justify a hope that the people of
that city are about ready to revolt against
the Republican machine. : They have been
long suffering and patient. As one of the
most distingnished magazine writers stat-
ed it, they bave'heen contented with the
corruption. ' Bat it looks now as if their
patience is about exhausted. There is an
adage that even a worm will turn when
trodden on and upon the same principle
there is a possibility that the people of
Philadelphia may resent the outrages
which the Republican organization has been
inflicting on them constantly and deliber-
ately. There may be a complete political
upheaval.
How or why the people of Phiadelphia
have submitted to the abuses which bave
been imposed upon them during the last
fifteen years surpasses understanding. Is
isn’t possible that they have not known of
the outrages. It can hardly be that they
are unaware of the fact that they have been
mercilessly robbed and that an increase of
debt at the rate of fifteen million dollars a
year is creating a burden which their
children will be unable to bear, for no
other purpose than to pay the expenses of
the costly vices of their governing class.
To assume that is to assume that they are
idiots and that is impossible in view of
their industrial and commercial progress.
Daring the present session of the Legis-
lature five infamous bills have been intro-
duced. Four of these have been pending
for some time and apparently provoked
listle opposition, though they were palpa-
bly in the interest of crime and vice. The
newspapers protested against them, itis
true, and occasionally the voice of a citizen
ventured a mild objection. The acquies-
cence in such legislation implied a de-
based level of morals bus there appeared to
be acquiescence until the ‘‘ripper’’ bill
wae introduced the other day aud that has
provoked a perfect storm of indignant
protest. The Legislature may pass bad
laws, notwithstanding these protests but
itis reasonably certain they will be ve-
toed. gi
The Equitable Scandal.
Sonie of our esteemed contemporaries are | -
disoussing with much earnestness and some
vehemence what has become known as the
scandal of the Equitable Insurance com-
pany. For example, in the New York
World of last Sunday there is an article of
four or five ordinary columns in length
under the head of ‘‘Equitable Corruption.”
It is set in big type and emphasized with
double leads. It is, says the writer of it,
‘‘the most astoundivg, far-reaching}ifioan-
cial scanda! known in the history of the
United States,’’ and he adds, is approach-
ing its climax in a battle for the control of
the surplus and assets of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society.”
A financial scandal which involves
something like $400,000,000 would justify
some hysterics and we are not surprised
that our esteemed contemporary, being
close to the theatre of action, got a trifle
excited. But there will be no climax, no
exposure and very little, if any, scandal in
consequence of this little family disagree-
ment, for that is practically all it is, assam-
ing that the corporation is the family. As
a matter of fact, the whole affair is a little
quarrel among individuals, jealous of each
other probably, but bound together by the
cohesive force of criminal association and
looting operations extending over a period
of many years and there will be no real ex-
plosion.
The fact of the matter is that president
ALEXANDER, of the Equitable Assurance
Society, undertook to censor Mr. HYDE,
vice president, because that young man was
getting a trifle gay. Young HYDE, who
inherited a majority of the stock of the
corporation, gave a ball in Paris and a din-
ner in New York at which the French Am-
bassador was the principal guest. The ex-
pense of the dinner, a trifle of $100,000,
was charged to the advertising account of
the company and ALEXANDER objected.
The quarrel followed and the scandal was
an incident. But there will be no litiga-
tion for that might put both men in jail,
notwithstanding their vast wealth. It
will be settled np amicably.
—-A certain mixologist in Bellefonte
had a few minutes thrilling experience,
Wednesday night, that eclipsed everything
in the way of snakes, etc. While cleaning
up behind the bar he unceremoneously dis-
turbed a big rat and in running for cover
the rodent sought for a place of safety up
the bartender’s trouser leg, and it was sev-
eral minutes before the man, with the assist-
ance of a half dozen bystanders, succeeded
in extricating the rat.
. ——On Tuesday the Legislature passed
the bill appropriating $6,000 to the Belle-
fonte hospital and also one appropriating
$247,456 to the Pennsylvania State College
passed the Senate.
——The last snow of the season was
seen flying yesterday morning.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE,
Roosevelt for Re-election.
President ROOSEVELT has gone on his
long-distance hunting trip at the expense
of the Pennsylvania and other railroads
and it is said that for a month or more he
will be outside of the confines of civiliza-
tion. On Monday last his luxurious epe-
cial train passed through the State over the
Pennsylvania railroad. 1: made few stops
and he made no speeches in this State. It
wasn’t necessary. The Republicans of
Pennsylvania don’t count. They are
worse than slaves and when anybody wants
them if he is a politician he consults, not
them bat the bosses. There is no use in
wasting breath in coaxing cattle when the
lash of the master subdues them at any
moment.
But he will speak in other States, for
this trip is a preliminary campaign excur-
sion for the contest of 1908, and he will
use his best efforts to win the confidence
and support of the people in the West.
Incidentally he will hunt “big game,’ and
may spend a couple of weeks in the Colo-
rado mountaing roughing it in various
ways. But the biggest game he will aim
at are the State delegations in the next Re-
publican national convention and it may
be added that he will pay little attention
to any that is smaller. His bunting is
only with a gun in so far as such equip-
ments are the most effective. Among cow.
boys the rowel of a spur is more effective
than a volume of history.
This western trip settles all questions as
to President ROOSEVELT'S candidacy for
re-election. Immediately after the vote
was announced last November he declared
that he wouldn’t be a candidate again. It
is possible that at that time he may have
been sincere in that declaration. But the
first breath of favor which came to his no.
tice altered that purpose if it had ever at-
tained the fixture of a purpose. ROOSE-
VELT is not only a candidate for re-election,
but he intends to make the corporations
pay the expenses of his campaign for nomi-
nation and election. This western trip is
the first movement in that direction and
the Pennsylvania railroad will settle the
expense.
Pennypacker a Check.
The Philadelphia vice bills bave been
halted for some reason though nobody
ventures a conjecture on the sabjeot.
There is no doubts of the fact, however, for
the Pahl bill which passed finally more
than two weeks ago has not reached the
Governor at this writing and neither of the
Ehrbardt bills bave been reported from the
Senate committee, though one of them
was referred to that body a week ago
vesterday. The others were referred to
the Senate committee on Monday night of
this week and might easily have been re-
ported out on Taesday. But at this
moment, Wednesday noon, they are still.
slumbering, and smelling bad, in the com.
mittee.
There is no way to account for this ex-
cept on the hypothesis that the bills have
been abandoned. Various reasons might
be given for this circumstance. We would
be glad to think that the influencing cause
is a change of heart upon the pars of the ma-
chine managers. But we can’t summon cre-
dulity enough to believe that. It has been
suggested that the bosses have discovered
another method of acheiving the result for
which those bills were introduced and
pressed. Bat that is alsoa doubtful prop-
osition. The most plausible notion is thas
the Governor has given notice that he will
not approve the bills and that in disap-
proving them he will say something whiol
would be better left unsaid. : ;
In this connection itis only just to say
that Governor PENNYPACKER is making
an enviable record with the exercise of the
veto power this year. Two years ago we
expressed the opinion that the malign in-
fluence on the Governor was QUAY and
that if his Excellency could separate him-
self from his absurd infatuation for that
arch-conspirator, he would be all right.
His record this year confirms that view.
Occasionally, under the inspiration of
incidents with which QUAY was closely
associated, the Governor still rambles into’
dangerous and doubtfal ground. Bus
as a rule he is pursuing a different
course this year and whatever others think
we believe it is the resul$ of his own honest
impulses.
——1It is no unusual thing to hear of a
house or a barn burning or even the woods
to be on fire, but there was a fire in Belle-
fonte last Saturday night that was some-
what exceptional, inasmuch as it was the
graveyard that burned. It was nearly two
o’clock Sunday morning when Mr. Port,
the keeper, was notified that the Union
cemetery was on fire. An investigation
showed that a fire had been started in the
dead and dry grass and it was sweeping
along somewhat on the order of a prairie
fire. Ere the flames could be extinguished
about one-third of the cemetery had been
ourned over and about twenty rods of
fence on the south side destroyed. The
authorities are now hunting for the misore-
ants who started she fire.
PA., APRIL 7, 1905.
An Unjust Majority.
On Monday evening last Senator GRIM,
of Bucks county, was made to feel the
brutal force of a oconscienceless majority.
He offered a resolution to discharge a com-
mittee from the further consideration of a
bill the purpose to suppress which is
obvious. Senator WooD, of Westmoreland
county, whose features prove the DARWIN
theory, was in the chair.
of Philadelphia, raised the point that the
resolution was not in order, though since
time out of mind one of the orders for Mon-
day nights is original resolutions. The
chair, rocking just as a monkey sways in
the branches of a tree, decided that the
point of order was well taken.
. A more absurd incident has never
occurred in a parliamentary body.
Senator GRIM protested and he was sap-
ported by Senator HALL, of Elk,Jand Sen-
ator HERBST, of Berks. But the machine
ediot had gone forth, the gentlemen were
rapped to order aud the routine proceed-
ings continued. Sometime ago,!president
pro tem. SPROUL bad made a diames-
rically opposite ruling on a precisely simi-
lar point and after Senator GRIM had oh-
tained the record of that event he arose to
a question of privilege and cited the faot.
Sepater Scorr made the point that the
question was not privileged andjthe chair
sustained him. All efforts to correct the
obvious injustice failed.
In the Seuate there are forty Republicans
and ten Demcorats. Of the forty Repub-
licans there are two,Col. IRVIN, of this dis-
trict, aud Mr. STEWART, of Franklin coun- |
ty, who are disposed to be fair. But that
leaves the division at thirty-eight to twelve
and still the majority is afraid to be juss
to the handful which constitutes the op-
position. In other words, with the strength
of a giant in a contest with the weakness
of a midget, the Republican majority in
the Senate is as cowardly as a wolf and
invokes injustice and gag method to pre-
vent an encounter. Senator GRIM was
silenced on Monday evening but the echoes
of bis protest will reverberate throughout
the State for years.
% Roosevelt’s Usurpation.
If the reports from Washington]are ac-
curate we no longer have a constitutional
government. That is, those provisions of
the constitution of the government which
makes Congress a co-ordinate branch of the
governing authority have been set aside
and the President governs like the Czar
of Russia. This fact has been revealed in
the organization of the Isthmian canal
board, especially. Daring the recent
session of Congress the President asked for
legislation to enable him to entirely
change the Board conducting'that enter-
prise. There were seven members on the
board which he said were toojmany. He
wanted the number reduced tofthree bus
Congress refused to adopt his sug-
gestion.
The President has not been greatly put
out by this determination of Congress,
however. In other words, he has not been
diverted from his parpose to organize the
commission in his own way. On the}jcon-
trary, as soon as Congress got away from
the capital he set about arranging matters
to suit himself. His first step was a
peremptory demand upon each of the seven
commissioners to resign. Of course this
demand was complied with. Three of the
members are associated with the govern-
ment in another way and had no alterna-
tive. When he got them out he simply
appointed successors enough to carry out
his plans and is in control as effectually as
if the legislation he asked had been
enacted.
This is not only a usurpation of power
but it is treating Congress witk contempt.
It the legislation authorizing such pro-
ceedings as he has adopted had not been
i
Be —— -,
refused, he could easily claim that exigen-
cies required drastic measures and he had
no reason to think that Congress would
object to the exercise of unusual, not to
say extraordinary power. It would be
false but the President doesn’t hesitate to
go tosuch extremes when necessary. Bus
under existing conditions such a claim will
not hold for the reason, that Congress
abs olutely refused to invest him with the
‘power and his usurpation is therefore
aggravated by
temptuously.
treating Congress oon-
——Last Saturday the Lock Haven Ez-
press came out in an enlarged form, one
column being added to each of its eight
pages, making it a six column quarto.
This move was rendered necessary because
of its large and increasing advertising
patronage and the introduction of several
new features. We congratulate the Messrs.
Kinsloe on this manifestation of prosperity
and we trust their good lnck will continue,
as the Express is one of the brightest ex-
changes that comes to our desk.
——The Senate, on Taesday, passed the
bill authorizing the gigging of eels, carp,
suckers and mullets.
From Colliers Weekly.
stance. There is Pennsylvania, for ex-
Senator SCOTT, !
| nations, with England as the pioneer, have
NO. 14.
How Republicanism Succeeds tn Colo-
rado. LIE
Government as disgraceful as thas en-
joyed by the State of Colorado is not often
contemplated by countries which the world
calls civilized. The Constitution of the
United States, guarantees to the people of
each State a Republican form of govern-
ment. It need not be Republican in sub-
ample. Bat the form must be preserved.
In Colorado not only is the will of the
people despised, but the mere pretence of
popular liberty - was abandoned when
strikers were seized by soldiers in the
service of mine owners, and taken out of
the State by violence without any cloak
of laws, without even the most perfunctory
trial, the Courts being told to go to the devil
by the combination of which the elements
were the. Governor, the mine owners, and
the soldiers. The peeple submitted, puz-
zled hy the balancing evil on the other
side, but they expressed their di roval
by defeating Peabody for Governor. There
may be a few Republicans who helieve
Peabody was re-elected on an honest count,
but we doubt if there are a dozen in the
State. Some Republican papers, and some
Republican legislators, even in Colorado,
were honest enoogh to admit that Adams
was elected. The Legislatare calmly stole
the Governorship. The Peabody people
were compelled to divide with another
faction, and hence the deal with the Lieu--
tenant Governor. On our theory of gov-
erument the people of Colorado muss save
themselves, if they wish to be saved, The
nation can not interfere. Local responsi-
bility is the basis of free government. It
is the opposite of orderly aatocracy, which
diminishes certain irregularities at the ex-
pense of the individual's free initiative.
Our system also acts as quarantine. It
confines political diseases to their spot of
origin, instead of allowing each one to
spread across the country. That if is the
best system no believer in democracy can
well doubt; but the entire collapse of free
governments, for the time being, in Colo-
rado is a flagrant instance of how far from
satisfactory any system is. Self-govern-
ment can not be given by a system. It
can only be made possible. In order to se-
cure and preserve it, a community must
stand higher morally than Colorado does
at present.
To the Shame of Civilized Governments.
From the London Times.
For at least half a century European
been telling Oriental nations that their
only hope of salvation lies in adopting
Western habits of thought and Western
civilization. In order to enforce the lesson |
Euorope has invaded their territories, slain
their people, annexed their revenues and
taken possession of their soil. Ope of these
Oriental nations has taken the advice of
Europe. It has mastered the ways of
Western civilization with extraordinary
completeness, thus showing at once that
it is very difierent from other yellow races,
and that it is anxious to profit by our
secular efforts for its regeneration. Yes, as
soon as it accepts our advice, and complies
with our cherished notions of progress-
iveness and intelligence, Europe turns
around and denounces it as a menace to
peace and civilization. For a thousand
years that nation has enjoyed a civilization
of its own, which has produced a physical
and moral education now triumphantly en-
during the severest tess that can be ap-
plied. It meddled with nobody, and is
asked of the world nothing but to be let
alone. Europe would not leave it alone,
and it was wise enough to learn from what
went on in its vicinity thas European in-
terference would go on increasing in pro-
portion to its possession of shings covet-
able. Now that it can protect itself by
European methods against the aggression
of a European nation, it is declared to be
the natural enemy of all the other Earo-
pean nations, which have been living in
fear of its opponent. How wise, how rea-
sonable, how disinterested, and how entire-
ly noble must Europe appear in that na-
tion’s eyes! ‘
The Reasons.
From Address of Gov. Folk of Mo.
While bad men take an active interest
in politics, in large cities especially, many
good men do not like to mix in politics.
They make a mistake in this. In our
country every citizen should be a politician
in the sense that he takes an active inter-
est in the selection of those who represent
the people in an official capacity. Too
many men do not realize the priceless priv-
ilege of American citizenship. They for-
ges the blood and treasure that it has cost.
Men have given up their lives in order
that they might have this right, and any
man who is a man would give up his life
rather than lose it. Yet how carelessly
many of us exercise the ballot ; how indif-
ferent many of us are whether we use it or
not. Bad men are united ; they always
vote; good men are divided. Some of them
vote and some do not. If good men would
only join in patriotic endeavor the bad, be-
ing in the minority, would not be able to
accomplish anything.
It Took Stremuous Work to Save
Josiar.
From the Clearfield Republican.
Ex-Honorable Josiar Hicks had a ter-
rible time re-electing himself chairman of
the Blair county Republican committee
last Saturday. The bludgeon and all
other kinds of weapons bad to be employ-
ed before the delegates could be ‘‘persuad-
ed’’ to support Josiar.
——Just now there is unusual agitation
in Bellefonte over the advisability of ac-
oepting or rejecting the Pruner bequest for
a friendless children orphanage. There is
no doubt but that the special committee
of council will be glad for all the informa-
tion they can obtain on the subject rela-
tive to the sentiment of oar people.
——The county correspondents are re-
porting that snakes have made their ap-
Spawls from the Keysione.
~The Lock Haven and Gleasonton brick
companies have been consolidated.
—The Milton council has adopted a resolu-
tion that its proceedings shall hereafter be
opened with prayer.
—John H. Grumbine, formerly of Centre
Hall, has been made Noble Chief of a new
castle K. G. E., recently instituted at Vinton-
dale, Cambria county.
—Fire Sunday morning in Williamsport
destroyed the Weed block and badly damaged
the Gazette and Bulletin building, causing a
total loss of $100,000.
—Dairyman T. B. Wetzel, of Clinton coun-
ty, is authority for the information that we
have had 33 snows this last winter, the first
one falling on November 26th.
—Griffin Garrett, of Lock Haven, has been
awarded the contract to build a new Presby-
terian church at Midckeyville, to take the
place of the one burned down last fall,
—Thomas Gibson, a driver in the Beech
Creek Coal company’s No. 12 mine at Patton,
was instantly killed about 7 o’clock Thurs-
day morning by the falling of a huge rock
from the mine roof.
—The record for immigrant traffic through
Altoona last week was ninety-two cars, or
about 6,000 persons. Twenty-two car loads
went west Saturday morning. They wers
mostly Italians and Polanders.
—Peter McNish, whose parents reside at
Drane, was instantly kiiled in the steel
works at Conemaugh one day last week.
His remains were brought home and interred
at Osceola. He was 23 years of age.
—Westley Spires, an old railroad man at
Gallitzin, has been retired and placed on the
pension list. He had been in the service of
the company since 1866, and for years had
charge of the old Allegheny tunnel, just east
of Gallitzin.
—The Clearfield and Huntingdon Tele-
phone company has purchased the plant of
the Cresson Telephone company, controlling
nearly all lines in the north of the county.
It is said that the consideration was in the
neighborhood of $25,000.
~The Farmers and Merchants’ National
bank, of Tyrone, is one of the six financial
institutions that has been recently added to
the list of State depositories by State Treas-
urer Mathews. The amount to be given by
the State to this new State depository is
$25,000.
—John C. Walton, of Pittsburg, after five
minutes conversation with his wife, Sunday
night, killed her by cutting her throat with
a razor and then,after cutting his own throat,
walked to the office of a physician, 300 yards
distant, and expired just as police officers
were about to place him under arrest.
—The remains of George Kline, the aged
man who strangely disappeared from the
home of his son on Wilson street in Wil-
liamsport, a ltttle over a year ago, were
found on Sunday afternoon on the hillside
near Sulphur Springs. The discovery was
made by two boys—August Ball and Ray-
mond Barnes.
—Miss Mary Strack, of York, has fully
recovered from an operation for the removal
‘of a one-hundred pound tamor, the largest
on record. Before she was placed on the
operating table she weighed one-hundred
and seventy-two pounds. She now weighs
ninety pounds. She has gained eighteen
pounds since the operation.
—Mrs. Mary Maurer, of Northumberland,
a widow, fell asleep Tuesday evening while
warming her feet in the oven of her kitchen
stove. While she was sleeping her clothing
caught fire and she was burned almost to a
crisp. A daughter of Mrs. Maurer committed
suicide several weeks ago by jumping in the
river because she was the subject of some
neighborhood gossip.
—Fifteen locomotives, making seventeen
carloads, passed through Altoona Friday
night en route to Seattle, Wash., from which
point they will be shipped to Japan. The
engines were built by the Baldwin locomo-
tive works, of Philadelphia, according to a
contract with the Japanese government.
They have three pairs of driving wheels and
are among the heaviest patterns made.
—Ralph W. Kline, of Lancaster, aged 26
years, an artist, was fatally stabbed Sunday
afternoon by Jennie Good, aged 18. Kline
and Miss Good were members of a party, whe
were fishing in the Little Conestago, near
Leng Park. Kline and the girl had a quarrel,
during which Miss Good threatened to cut
his heart out. Thinking that she wounld not
execute her threat, Kline threw ont his
chest and told her tostab. She did, plung-
ing a knife into his breast, near the heart.
—It is stated that the Goodyear Lumber
company, with headquarters at Galeton, Pot-
ter county, has purchased 250,000 acres of
Louisiara timber lands and that the work of
manufacturing on a large scale will eom-
mence this season. The estimated cut is
upwards of 2,000,000,000 feet and the propos-
ed rate of manufacture is 300,000 ft. daily. It
is thought that the tract cannot be stripped
in less time than 30 years. Two mills each
with a daily output of 150,000 feet are to be
erected not far from New Orleans. A num-
ber of Clearfield county woodsmen will go to
these southern operations.
—The body of Trevette T. Bubb, of Jersey
Shore, who escaped from his attendant one
day last week, was found in the river at that
place about 300 yards below the river bridge
Friday ncon. The body was discovered
along shere, where it had lodged in a clump
of bushes, by Edward Harris and Frank
Keyser, who will receive the $50 reward
which was offered. Bubb, it will Le remem-
bered, made two unsuccessful attempts at
suicide before, and it is believed jumped
from the river bridge this last time. He was
aged 49 years. For some years past he had
been afflicted with locomotor ataxia.
—What is said to be the oldest and largest
buck ever killed in Blair county, and evi-
dently the patriarch of the herd of deer
which ranges Tussey mountain, met an
ignominious and untimely end in the vicinity
of Williamsburg on Wednesday last, being
pulled down by dogs almost within sight of
the town, after a long chase. The body of
this magnificent monarch of the forest, half
torn to pieces by his savage assailants, was
discovered on a farm a short distance south-
east from that town, Thursday. The head, a
splendid trophy, with ten-prong antlers, was
recovered by the citizens of Williamsburg
pearance, especially the blacksnake.
and is said to be of unusual size and beauty.