i BY P. GRAY MEEK.
A
; Ink Slings.
—The Board of Pardons having declined
to act GREEN and DILLEN will have to
bang on May 9ih.
—An octopus having been secured for
the New York aquarium the names of
- M oRa and RoCKEY have been suggested as
appropriate.
—Many a hand that clapped loudest
.when Judge LOVE took the chair in Tues-
day’s convention poked a ballot against
him into the hox lass fall.
:—Now Mr. HENRY KLINE will proceed
to tell you what a nice man he will be if
elected sheriff. He won’t expect you,how-
ever, to dig up his past history.
—The Philadelphia girl who got $100
each for two kisses hasn’t inforaed the
world how many of them she gave away
before she knew they could be sold.
—Will wonders never cease ! Here: we
have a report of an egg nine inches long,
seven inches thick and six inches wide and
the owner isn’t certain whether a pea-cock
or a guinea-pig laid it.
—We might be ““our brother’s keepers in
politics’’ as Judge LoVvE declared on Tues-
day, bat if it is true his ex-honor was ad-
dressing a lot, of fellows who clean forgot
their jobs last fall.
. —I6 was too bad that the North American
didn’t reply to tom barter’s letter. Possi-
bly our Philadelphia contemporary didn’s
bave type small enough to properly ex-
press its feelings in the matter.
—As the last spark of JOE JEFFERSON’S
eventful life flickers out those who know
of the interesting old actor will feel that
no toast need be drunk that his memory
‘may live long und prosper.”’
—Mr. MILLER and Mr. BAILEY will
both have opportunity now of explaining
to the liverymen of the county why they
hired their own horses to do the county
work; when they owed that little bit of
patronage to the fellows who helped put
them in office.
—According to present understanding of
the situation Republican politics in Centre
ecounty will be managed about as follows:
Orders and schemes will be conceived by
tom harter,censored by COLONEL chambers,
approved by Judge LOVE and promulgated
by HENRY CUTE QUIGLEY.
—1It was Mr. QUIGLEY’S superior knowl-
edge that knocked ALLISON out of the Re-
“publican nomination for Treasurer. What
right had he to ‘‘butt in’’ there, any how,
unless he was espousing SWARTZ’S candi-
dacy; which, to say the least, was a very
indiscreet thing for a county chairman to
do?
,—It $600 per is all. Philadelphia -Legis-{
lators are worth why doesn’t the Commis-
tee of Seventy of that city buy some of
them to stay away from Harrisburg en-
~ tirely. It could be done for less money
than those Academy of Music meetings
cost and there would be resnlte—which is
more to be desired than anything else.
—The Hon. Fill-up WOMELSDORF has
gone on record as refusing to bury the
QUA Y—HASTINGS hatohet. His fight for
HALL on Tuesday proclaims to the world
in general and HARRY HEWITT and his
friends in particular, that he does not pro-
pose to permit any HASTINGS man to have
recognition so long as he can prevent it.
—No, dear reader, Mr. SAMMY BuD-
DINGER really didn’t mean to scrowdge AL-
LISON and UNDERWOOD clean out of the
running on Tuesday when he moved to
close the nominations immediately after
SWARTZ'’S name was presented. SAMMY is
a little new in political conventions and
that break should be overlooked as a first
offense.
—When Judge LoVE concluded his open-
ing address to the Republican county con-
vention on Tuesday by declaring that ‘‘we
never gain anything by changing the poli-
tics of the nation, State, or community”
DAVE CHAMBERS was observed to mod his
- head in silent, Amen! Every body knows
that DAVE didn’t gain anything by the
change last fall.
—If our Republican friende are going to
make : second. choice instructions binding
they should arrange their primaries so that
second choice candidates can be voted for
at that time. Under existing conditions
SWARTZ secured the North ward of Belle-
fonte and, thereby, his nomination, be-
cause he had ten of the seventy-two votes
polled.
—Not satisfied with having knocked him
ont of the post-mastership at Howard the
| Republican hosses of Centre county have
followed up the persecution of H. C. HoL-
TER, a Republican and a gallant old sol-
dier, until helis almost forced to ask him-
self the question : Why am I a Republi-
can ? The latest outrage was the subterfuge
they used to keep him out of the ranning
for County Commissioner. There is a way
to get even with such people and Mr. Hor-
TER would only be human were he to re-
| sort to it.
Talking abons the way ALLISON was eu-
- chred out of the nomination for Treasurer
two Republicans got very much excited
* the other day. One of them said ‘If will
| raise an awful stink in our party snd I
| ‘propose to have 4 band in’ keeping it up
until election day next fall.” The other
looked at him a moment before replying
with this little story. ‘‘There were . two
pole-cats sitting on ‘a ferice one day when
an automobile’ whizzed bye. The one
one looked at the other and said: What's
the use ?”’
FE Nema
VOL. 50
Parker and Bryan.
The late THOMAS JEFFERSON may be
taken for anything you want, according to
the JEFFERSON day orators. Singularly
enough any one of a score of christians
diametrically opposed to each other will
insist with all the zeal and energy they
can command that the religions dogmas
which they profess are the only genuine
doctrines professed by the Saviour. It is
no exaggeration to say that they are all
right so faras they go and that one isas
nearly correct as another if he is sincere.
It is small wonder, therefore, that differ-
ent men may entertain different notions
concerning the opinions of JEFFERSON in
the event shat he was present in the
flesh at this time.
On the last JEFFERSON day celebrations
were held in New York and Chicago and
distinguished orators spoke at each. Af%
the New York event the principal orator
was Judge ALTON B. PARKER who was the
Democratic and presumably the JEFFER-
SONIAN candidate for President at the last
election. In Chicago the principal orator
of the ocoasion was WM.JENNINGS BRYAN,
who had twice previously occupied the
same relations to the same organization.
Bat their speeches were not alike in any
respect. As a matter of fact they wereas
widely separated in tone and temper as if
one bad been delivered by THEODORE
ROOSEVELT and the other by CARL
SCHURZ, both Republicans.
The lesson of this incident is that the
Democrats of the country must get togeth-
er and that the basis of union must not be
on what he would ‘declare at present, the
changed conditions and respect for consis-
tenoy being duly oonsidered. In other
words, while a strict constructionist and an
apostle of .individuality, the father of
Democracy was neither a clam nor an eel.
In other words, he would bave been oppos-
ed to the trusts as exponents of socialism
and against the radical treatment of them
as the expression of Populism. Both
Judge PA RKER, in New York, and Mr.
BRYAN, in Chicago, went to excess in
estimating JEFFERSON'S present opinions.
Veto Axe Will Swing.
Governor PENRY PACKER has a labor to-
perform. between the present time and she
expiration of the thirty day’s limit in
which he has to consider the legislation
lef for his ecrutiny. There are something
like 500 bills, or rather there were that
number a week ago. Since then the Gov-
ernor has vetoed a considerable number,
signed a few and probably laid some aside
for further consideration. But there are
enough left to oconpy all his time if he
goes through those remaining as carefully
as he has gone through those already con-
sidered this year and two yearsago. And
the Governor may be depended on to exer-
oise great care. :
What a fortunate thing it is that Gov-
ernor PENNYPACKER considers legislation
submitted to him conscientiously, We
wounldn’t say that there are no good hills
among those in hie possession. On the
contrary, we are convinced thas the major-
ity of them are meritorious. Most of them
are appropriation bills and though the
system of dispensing the charity of the
State is iniquitous, the majority of the
charity appropriations ought to be approv-
ed. There are some institutions. favored
which were not approved by the Board of
Public Charities and all such bills ought to
be vetoed. But the majority of the charity
bills are worthy and should be approv-
ed.
The Philadelphia ‘ripper’ bills ought to
be condemned with all the mental energy
the Governor can command, however, and
that is saying a good deal. For example,
the best citizens of Philadelphia, without
respect to party differences, allege that the
purpose of those measures is to convert the
police department into an agency for pro-
moting and protecting crime. If that be
true it is the duty of the Governor to veto
them, and not a word has been offered to
show that it is not true. For these reasons
we believe shat Governor PENNYPACKER
will veto those bills, notwithstanding the
presence . of the machine on the other
side.
Andrews for Chairman.
Information has been sent out from
Philadelphia to the effect that Senator
PENROSE will decline a re-election to the
o fice of chairman of the Republican State
committee next week and that his private
secretary, Mr. WEsLEY R. ANDREWS, will
be chosen as his successor. It may be as-
sumed that this announcement made as
early as las§: Tuesday is tentative. That
is to say, ithas been promulgated as a feel-
‘er. It will'be remembered that two years
ago when PENROSE was first elected to the
chairmanship the first preference of the
machine was Mr. ANDREWS. He is known
as’ the'“‘gum-shoe’’ politician ‘and QUAY.
had great faith in him. But the suggestion
of his: name raised such a storm of indig-
nant protest that is was ivstansly with-
drawn and PENROSE was elected.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 21, 1905.
We are violating no state seoret in stat-
ing that the election of Mr. ANDREWS $0
the chairmanship is preliminary ‘to his
elevation to the Governorship. Two years
ago no secret was made of that fact but
when objection to the lesser honor was
made with such vehemence it was deemed
advisable to say little about the ultimate
purpose. Bus it can safely be said that it
was muever abandoned. QUAY reasoned
that there was plenty of time to remove the
objection to ANDREWS in season for the
gubernatorial nomination if the matter was
skillfully managed. In pursnance of this
notive ANDREWS was made ostensible sec-
retary bus really chairman of the commis-
tee and he has so insinuated himself into
the confidence of the organization that
when he was proposed for chairman the
other day not a single objection was ut-
tered.
The machine understands quite as well
as any one else that their iniquity will not
be tolerated much longer and they are
planning for a season of loot in the end
which, while i may make most of them
fugitives from justice, will guarantee the
generous indulgence in their expensive
vices as long as they live. Governor PEN-
'NYPACKER has heen a great disappoins-
ment to them. They have been unable to
either coerce or entice him into acquiescence
in their infamous enterprises for robbery
and plunder. But they know that they
can depend on ANDREWS to not only share
in the plunder but to aid in the schemes. If
will not be necessary to coax him. Ibis
more likely that a brake will be required
$0 resirain him from excesess.
One Man Power in Earnest.
On oce or two important measures what
was called, derisively or otherwise, ‘‘the
country contingent,’’ asserted itself effecs-
ively during the recent session of the Leg-
islatare. That is to say,the Judges’ retire-
ment bill was completely knocked out, the
absurd OLIVER libel bill was defeated and
one or two other measures, including that
cherished graft producer, the tuberculosis
bill, met the same fate. Bus we van call
to mind a¢ this moment only one measure
which was forced on the machine hy a sin-
gle individual. That was a bill providing
for the compensation of district attorneys
by salary rather than fees.
The fight on that bill was peculiarly bitter
and sneaking, It passed the Senate prompt-
ly and with practical unanimity, just as
the capitol park extension bill introduced
by the same Senator passed that body. Bus
the moment it reached the House of Repre-
sentatives the machine anathema was pro-
nounced on it and the purpsse to smother
it in the Hounse committee was defeated
only by the greatest vigilance. It was de-
feated, however, and after the leaders in
the committee thought sufficient opposition
to defeat it on the floor had been developed,
it was reported out. Under tbe agreement
it was defeated on final passage bus it was
reconsidered under boss orders and passed.
It bas now been signed by the Governor.
We say this bill was forced to passage by
a single individual and that is literally
true. That is to say, after it had been de-
feated on final passage its author, Senator
Fox, of Dauphin connty, waited on the
machine managers and told them the bill
must pass. ‘‘The local machine is against
i,”” was the reply, ‘and the two leading
Representatives in the Legislature for Dan-
phin county are quietly opposing it.”
*‘Very well,” said Senator Fox, “but you
gentlemen remember that Philadelphia had
to raise $70,000 to elect a Republican judge
in Dauphin county ‘in 1903.” Well, “he
continued,’ if this bill is defeated it will
cost twice that money, which you fellows
must provide, to elect Republicans to the
Legislature next time. Singularly enoagh
the argument proved potent, the vote was
reconsidered and the bill passed.
A Statement.
Last week the Gazefte published several
accusations relative to the motives actuating
the cours in granting license in this county
and in justice to the gentlemen concerned
we publish the following affidavits, which
are self explanatory:
State of Penna.)
Centre county,
Dersonally appeared before me, a Nota-
ry Pablic, H. 8. Taylor, of Bellefonte, Centre
county, Pa., who being duly sworn according to
law doth depose and say; That Judge Ellis L.
Orvis did not either directly or indirectly, author-
ize me to tell David Chambers, of Clarence, Pa.,
that he had to sell out to John Boyce; and further
I did not tell David Chambers that ‘he had to sell
oul to John Boyce or not at all.” And further,
Mr. Kaul never wired me in March, 1905, to meet
him in Bellefonte and no such meeting ever took
place in the Centre county jail as charged in last
week's Gazette.
H. 8. TAYLOR.
Sworn to before me the 17th day of April, 1905.
W. HARRISON WALKER,
. Notary Public.
State of Pennsylvania
County of Centre, Jos
Personally appeared before me, a Jus-
tice of the Peace, John Boyce, of Clarence, Pa.,
who being duly sworn, says: The building, lot,
supplies, delive: outfit and general equipment
owned formerly by David Chambers, at Clarence,
and used by him until recently for conducting
the wholesale beer business at that place, was
purchased solely by myselt, and the price of same
was paid him airectly by me.
Further, I am the sole owner of the above men-
tioned property, as well as the wholesale license
recently issued to me; I alone control and con-
duct the bueiness; I am under no obligation to
any individual, firm, company or corporation in
its management, and therefore am free to pur.
chase my supplies wherever I please and will do
80, notwithstanding the intimations of others.
+ JOHN BOYCE.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th
day of April, 1905.
ALFRED THOMPSON,
Justice of the Peace,
Our Sympathy and Danger.
Awaiting the orncial encounter between
the warships of Russia and Japan the sym-
pathies of all the American people natural-
ly and logically go out freely toward the
Asiatics. This would have not been true
probably in any other period in our nation-
al history. Until within a few years Ras-
sia was regarded as our sraditional friend.
In every crisis through which we have
passed she has been our kindly neighbor
and helper while until within a few years
Japan has been looked upon as a pagan
power morally and physically irresponsible.
The change in sentiment is the consequence
of altered conditions. Japan has become
the Yankee force of the East and our meth-
ods are hers.
But while we sympathize with Japan and
hope for her triumph, in her victory lies
our great danger. In other words, Japan
has become a nation of fighters and a peo-
ple who love conflict and conquest. When
she has emerged triumphantly from her
contest with Russia her first thought is
likely to be of ‘‘other worlds to conquer.”
Having thus proved her prowess what is
te réasonable than that she will desire
| it in other directions and where
3'wide world is there so enticing a
field of operations as the Philippine islands.
Probably they may be acquired by pur-
chase and if we ars wise an offer to buy will
not be rejected. But if purchase is mot
available conquest is the remedy.
If Japan had marched against St. Peters-
burg or Moscow, Russia would have repell-
ed the invasion with the ease $hat an ele-
phant broshes a fly from its person. Bus
attacking in Manchuria 6,000 miles from
Russia’s base of supplies the little ‘‘ban-
tam’? of Asia has been able to worry the
giant of the North as every turn. Ina
similar conflic with the United States, the
attack being iv the Philippines, she would
have precisely the same advantage. It was
our attack on Manilla that foreordained
the speedy and practically bloodless vioto-
ry over Spain. in the recent war and it is
the possession of the Philippines which will
for all time make us a victim in the evens
of war. :
———A% the meeting of the Demooratio
State committee, in Harrisburg on Wed-
nesday, J. K. P. HALL was re-elected
chairman without opposition. Wednesday,
May 24th, was named as the day for hold-
ing the State convention in Harrisburg. D.
J. DRISCOLL, of Elk county, was selected
to succeed Col. J. L. SPANGLER as the
member of the executive committee from
the Fifth distrios. !
‘The Gevernor Will Veto.
Representative citizens of Philadelphia
addressed the Governor on Wednesday in
protest against the ‘‘ripper’’ bills passed
during the recent session of she Legisla-
ture. In their arguments they showed
that the purpose of the legislation was
most iniquitous and that in the event of
exeoutive approval the effect will fulfill
their worst expectations. The police force
of Philadelphia will become the instru-
ment of criminals in the promotion of vice
and instead of encouraging crime by law,
as was contemplated through the vice bills
which failed, it will be promoted by force
through the operation of the “rippers.”
During the hearing and since the Gov-
ernor has refrained from giving any inti-
mation of his purpose with respect to dis-
posing of the bills. Yet the machine
managers are confident that he will snppors
them. They offered nosubstantial reason
for such legislation and still they revealed
abiding faith that the Governor will ap-
prove, They know that he is a man of pure
life: who abhors crime and vice and yet
they appear to be confident that he will
legalize the most atrocious forms of iniq-
uity. In fact, they have practically de-
olared that the question is settled and that
in due time the vicious legislation will
become effective.
. We don’t believe, however, that their
confidence is justified by the facts. In
other words, we can’t think that Governor
PENNYPACKER, an educated and honor-
able man, will pervert his power to the
extent of approving such infamous legisla-
tion as that embodied in the bills in ques-
tion. Noman of family, unless he be a
moral degenerate, will help miscreants to
recrait the force of shameless women from
the ranks of innocent country girls and
newly arrived female immigrants, and thas
is plainly the purpose of the bills that he is
asked to veto by all the decent people of
the city and urged to approve by the
machine. |
—Governor Penngpacker has signed
the bill making the office of the dissrio |
attorney a salaried one. : Under the ro-
visions of the act the Centre county dis-
trict attorney will receive $1,000 per year.
——Now that the Republican - county
convention is over what will be the next
circus in town ?
~——Very few fishermen had the temerity
to try their luck during the cold weather
this week. : ra : ed
sa
NO.16.
How We Are Poisoned By the Greed
> of Manufacturers.
From Collier's Weekly. f
The poison campaign will be s long’ one, -
but there is no danger of its being dull. In-
deed, the people are likely to become more
interested in what they eat the more they
learn how strangely and wonderfully food
is mude. Mr Paul Pierce, who was saper-
intendent of the food exhibit at St. Louis
exposition, has begun, in‘*‘Pablic Opinion,”
a series of informatory articles which we
commend to our readers. In 1903 the
American manufacturer seoured the passage
of a law against the importation of adul-
terated food, as it interfered with an infant
industry. This home industry now floar-
ishes like the green bay tree. Peels of
fruit, cores, worm-eaten spots, and worms
are removed, and made into ‘‘pure apple
jelley,” or carrant jelley, plum jam, apple
butter, or whatever is desired. Worn-on$
mules and horses do a final service in res-
taurants and on lunch counters as roast
beef, corned beef, and beef stew. Dr. Leon
8. Waters, an expert in food chemistry, is
authority for the statement thas hogs’ livers
are mixed with chicory before the result
appears as coffee. Mr. Pierce makes the
point that comparatively few deaths result
immediately from adulteration, as the
manufacturers try to keep the poison too |
little in amount to appear in post-mortems.
They oreate nervous diseases and general
debility, and the preparation of the system
$0 receive any disease that may be lurking
about, do more in the long run than is ac-
complished directly. Nevertheless, Dr. J.
N. Hurty, Secretary of the Indiana State
Board of Health, estimates thas sixty-five
per cent. of infant deaths in America are
due directly to bad or poisoned food, In
recent experiments one teas ofa well-
known brand of butter-color given to a kit-
fen caused its instant death, and a sowie.
what large dose sent a full-grown healthy
tom to Heaven.
Needed Where He fs.
From the Johnstown Democrat. :
There will be some objection to the nom-
ination of Judge L. W. Doty,of Westmore-
land, for the superior court vacanoy on the
ground thas his election wonld in all prob-
ality result in she selection of a Repub-
lican to fill his place. Westmoreland. is
apparently a sale Republican county at
present and it is wholly improbable thas
another Democrat could be chosen to suo-
ceed Judge Doty were he to resign. For
this reason there will be hesitancy among
Democrats to listen to Westmoreland’s
plea in behalf of Judge Doty. They will
feel that he is needed where he is and they
will perbaps insist that he is in duty Bou
Toone in the position to which the
Democrats of Westmoreland elected him,
after a bitter struggle and by a narrow mar-
gin. It has not been observed that either
the Westmorelahd Democracy or Judge
Doty himeelf has taken this phase of. the
matter into consideration. Yet surely it is
important. . There is at least as much
reason for having Democrats on the com-
mon pleas as on the superior bench.
As an Englishman Sees It.
From the Danville Intelligencer.
H. Rider Haggard, the famous novelist
and British envoy to America %o investigate
the colonies conducted by the Salvation
Army, unbosomed himselt at Amity,Colo.,
regarding conditions in the United States.
Mr. Haggard is greatly impressed with
America, the vastness of the country and
its resources, and believes Americans are
far ahead of Europeans in enterprise. Mr.
Haggard believes the great trusts of America
are our greatest abiding evil and predicts
all manner of trouble should the people
not take some drastic measures to suppress
them.
*‘I see nothing but revolution and ruin in’
this country if you do not curb your gigantic
trusts,” said Mr. gard. ‘‘Prices have
been elevated to the prohibitive for all but
the very rich and this will cause trouble un-
less a remedy is quickly and thoroughly ap-
plied. I believe the colonization of city peo-
ple in large tracts of land will solve the
problem of high prices. :
"The door people who live in your big
cities and in Colorado get what we consider
in England a good wage, but the cost of liv-
ing isso high here that they have no con-
veniences, comforts or money. The poorer
classes of people in England do not have as
much money as in this country, but they
live better.’” :
Yes, It Would be an Inexcusable Blun-
der.
From the Williamsport Sun. :
"It, as alleged, the Democratic State con-
vention will nominate three candidates for’
superior court judge, the result would be
to give our Republican friends an oppor-
tuaity to elect a Democrat who would be
friendly to them,just as a number of Demo-
oratio magistrates of doubtful party loyalty
were elected in Philadelphia last Feh-
ruary. It is hoped that the Democratic
convention will not commit a blunder of
this kind, and that it will nominate bai
one candidate for judge.
Pensioning Men Who Wanted to Fight.
From the Machesler (N. H.) Union.
Pension Commissioner Warner has found
that the ‘‘old age’’ pension order of Presi-
dent Roosevelt was not liberal enough t)
suit the Board of Review, and they have
extended it in’ many oases to men who
never even enlisted, but make affidavit thas
they ‘‘wanted to.’
The Right Way.
From the Connellsville Courier.
The bill to pension school teachers has
been defeated. The best way to pension
school teachers is to pay them decent sala-
ries while they are able to earn them, thus
enabling them to accumulate their own
pension funds.
Purely a Surprise Party.
From the Baltimore Sun. )
Wonder if the Filipinos know they have
invited a large party of Congressmen to
oross the osean and spend the summer as
$heir guests ?
"| sured.
Spawls from tae Keystone.
—The Sugar Valley Journal celebrated its
eighteenth birthday last week. The editor
remarks that its existence has been “both
‘“‘eventful and turbulent.”
—The Susquehanna planing mills a$
Williamsport, operated by George B. Breon,
were totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night
of last week, Loss $50,000, partially in-
—Judge Smith, on Wednesday appointed
Frank Boyd, mine boss at Kyler mine, Mun-
| son, on the board of mine examiners of the
eighth district, to succeeed the late Eli
Townsend, of Philipsburg.
—Themas Fredericks, an electrician of
Tamaqua, has been held under $1,000 bail
on a charge of trifling with the affections of
Miss Valeria Houser, of the same town. She
places her ““hurted” feelings at $10,000.
—Major General Charles Miller, of the
National Guard of Pennsylvania, has de-
cided to hold the brigade encampments this
year as follows: The First Brigade ‘at Per-
kasie; the Second at Erie and the third at
Mt. Gretna. ’ di
—The Pennsylvania State Bankers’ as
sociation will hold its eleventh aunual con-
vention at Wilkesbarre on June 15th and
16th next, and the local bankers are prepar-
ing for the accommodation of their guests on
an elaborate scale.
—Within one year Mrs. Jeremiah Hass, of
Pennsburg, has given birth to two sets of
| twins, the first pair being born January 25,
1904, and the last on January 14, 1905, and
all of them boys. President Roosevelt has
sent his congratulations,
main line ot the Pennsylvania railréad
Tyrone, has been appointed assistant freig
frainmaster of the middle division. W. H
Herr, of ‘Altoona, succeeds to the place of
yardmaster at Tyrone, 4
—The ‘directors of the Newton Hamilton
Cumpmeeting association met on the grounds
the other day and decided to open the camp
this year on August 3rd and close August
14th. The meeting will be in charge of Rev.
A. L. Miller, of Altoona.
—The Altoona Brick and Tile Company,
limited, | has been awarded the contract for
farnishing a million brick to the borough of
Lewistown for sewer purposes. The matter
has been pending for more than a year and
many State concerns were bidders.
—An illustration of the interest being
shown in Sunbury for the celebration of
0dd Fellows’ day on April 26is found ina
decision of the teachers to give a certain per-
centage of their salaries fo cover the ex-
pense of decorating the High school build-
ing for the event.
~The Penusylvania railroad has started
work preparing for its summer landscape
decoration. - Each road has a large number
of men planting vines, sowing grass seed and
making flower beds at various points en the
lines. It is to be hoped Bellefonte will be
favered this year.
—Captain Jerome Seider, of Company I,
| Fourth regiment, N.G.P., one of the best
‘known aud most popular officers in the
Third Brigade, was found dead in his room
in the company armory at Reading, Monday
night. He had been accidentally asphyx-
iated by illuminating gas.
—A large barn owned by William Bern-
heisel, near Blaine, Perry county, was de-
stroyed by fire recently. Two horses and
forty head of cattle, 3000 bushels of corn,
and large quantities of coarse feed were con-
sumed. A chopping and shredding mill was
also destroyed. The loss was about $10,000.
—Pretty little Flora Krickbaum, of Ben-
ton, the unfortunate victim of rope jumping
will very likely recover. She was operated
upon for appendicitis, cansed by the ex-
ertion of skipping the rope so many times.
She rallied from the operation nicely and
th e physician believes that she will NOW re-
cover, : v
—Having a premonition of death Char"
lotte, thel6 year old daughter of Joseph
Smith, of Annville, Lebsaon county, two
weeks ago confided to one of her friends a
wish that she and three other associates
should act as pall-bearers at her'funeral. ‘A
week ago Miss Smith became ill, and she died:
on Saturday night of cerebro-spinal memin-'
—The workmen of the stone quarries of
Johnsonburg, Ridgeway ,Croyland, Curwens-
ville, Blooms Run and Falls Creek, to the
number ofabout 1,000 were or a strike last
week. They demanded an increase of pay.
The Falls Creek quarrymen in the employ
of G. A. Gocella, have no grievante, but
came out in sympathy with those of other
quarries. Wages in the quarries are from $2
to $3.50.
—A coal compan y, with a capital of $500,-
000 was orgamized Thursday in Johnstown,
to invade the famous Pocahontas coal regions
of West Virginia where mines will be op-
operated on an extensive scale. Among the
capitalists interested are: Frank W. Ots,
John H. Waters, ex-Sheriff Elmer E. Davis,
Robert E. Cresswell and W. I. Stineman, the
latter being the head of the Stineman Coal
and Coke company of South Fork, and H. C.
Hull, of Altoona.
—Rev, Dr. J. Wesly Hill, pastor of Grace
Methodist church, at Harrisburg, and who
gained such widespread notoriety by his
controversies with Dr. 8. C. Swallow when
the Methodist conference was held in Belle-
fonte a few years ago, has received word
from the New York East conference that he
has been transferred to that conference as
pastor of the James street church of Brook-
lyn, N.Y, He will be succeeded at Harris-
burg by Rev. Dr. Isaac L. Wood, of Middle-
town, Connecticut. 1
—A Slavish woman about 23 years of age,
and supposed to be Mary Pitz of the foreign
colony south of Altoona, shortly after
-B’oclock Sunday evening ‘entered the rail-
road yard at Altoona a short distance above
Seventeenth street bridge and, after walking
up and down the track a few minutes passed
over several empty, tracks to ome that a
freight train was passing on. She got down
on her knees by the train and deliberately
stuck her head between two cars. | Her head
‘was taken off as though by a cleaver and ié
fell between the rails, where it lay until the
train had passed, with the hat still securely
pinned to the hair.
—William Wolfgang, a yardmaster for the ; ;