BY P. GRAY MEEK.
SRE ET SSA
Ink Slings.
The festive West ward poet gay
Is droning out a mournful lay
And looks as though he shold be kicked
Because he had his pockets picked.
He thinks he is a wise old owl—
No place too dark for him to prowl—
But now since he is four plunks short
He's sure he'll cut out Williamsport.
—Well, Well ! Is Philadelphia to be re-
formed at last. :
—Strange that the HEAD of our ticket
should really be its tail.
—A PRUNER hospital would be of far
more use to this community than a PRUNER
orphanage.
—Do you think that Mr. Boston LAW-
SON might have a care for those Oklahoma
cyclones ?
— There seems to have been aspring
hinge on that wide open door that TEDDY
made in the tariff wall.
—At $2,000 a week NAN PATTERSON
will probably deliver $10 worth of talent
and $1,990 worth of notoriety.
—Wouldn’t it be funny if JOHN WEA-
VER'S latest sensational act should land
him in the Governor’s chair.
—The way stocks have been falling late-
ly makes it look as if recent frosts had
frozen the water out of them.
—We Democrats are dandy platform
builders but our trouble seems to be in
getting enough people to stand on them.
—Mayor WEAVER, of Philadelphia,
made Is DURHAM and his crowd look like
dirty deuces in a hay-mow deck when
be fired their pets SMYTHE and COSTELLO.
—In refusing passes over all railroads
Mayor DUNNE, of Chicago, has set an ex-
ample that if followed in Pennsylvania
would make a great many men stay at home
more than they do. ;
—If Mayor WEAVER, of Philadelphia,
only bas the courage to keep it up there
will be snch an exodus of rascals from that
oity as will keep the police all over the
country busy keeping tab on them.
—Farmers complain because the oats is
not doing well, while Bellefonters are
alarmed lest the orop of the wild variety
in Bellefonte will be too large this season.
There are several new sowers in the field.
‘You will find out after isis all over
t hat Philadelphia bas done to her gas lease
stealing councilmen just what the Repub-
lican press of that city did to the press
m dzzling members of the Legislature.
That is, help all of them back into office.
—Secretary HAY is said to be consider-
ing retirement from the cabinet. We infer
that if the rumor is true it is because
there ie something wrong with his system,
If so, JOHN, why not consult Tom LAw-
SON, of Boston? He is a ‘“‘system’’ special-
ist.
—When the Williamsport Sun, on Mon-
day, advised the residents of that city as
follows : *‘Don’t forges to lock your doors
if you go away from home tomorrow,’
it evidently didn’t expect all of the visiting
Knights to be as innocent as our friend
SPEER.
—Mr. Doc. WADDELL, the press agent
of the JoEN ROBINSON shows, has an im-
aguiation that would make Baron MuUN-
CHAUSEN green with envy. It isa pity
that we didn’t get him to touch on the
PRUNER orphanage a little. He would
have built it twenty stories high and en-
d owed it forever—on wind.
—Remember that next Tuesday will be
Memorial day, the season of grateful rever-
ence and remembrance of the dead who
gave their lives for their country. It will
not be a gala event to be celebrated with
baserball games, horse racing and other
games of amusement. Could we but
look across the sea to Japan ard observe
the dignified reverential tribute the living
pay to these who have died bearing
the colors of their Empire we would find
the semi-heathen setting an : example that
this great Christian land might well follow.
—The Democratic state convention did
the right thing in nominating but one
candidate for Superior court judge. Now
we are sure he will be a Demooratio rep-
resentative and not the choice of the bal-
lot box stuffers of Philadelphia. Had
three men been nominated it would have
been possible for the rascals in Philadel-
phia to select the one whom they preferred
and then stuffed in enough ballots to have
put'him ahead of his fellow Democratic
candidates; thus accomplishing his elec-
tion, :
—Every day some new evidence is pre-
sented confirming the belief that men ofa
poetical turn are really not responsible
for a great many things they do. The lat-
est matter of record ate the sandry erratic
performances of the West ward poet lau-
reate during his recent trip to the Knights
Templar conclave in Williamsport. Be-
fore he got on the train in Bellefonte he
lost his ticket and then tuckered himself
out so in the eight mile march in Wil-
liamsport that he wandered into a Repub:
lican club for reinforcement. What he
got there noone koows but what he got
after he mixed up on the streets again was
good for a Demoorat who would so_far for-
get the tenets of hie infantile traiding as
to take on Republican epirits. His pockets
were picked and to cap the climax, when
he got home at three o'clock in the morn-
ing he aroused the whole neighborhood by
making a raid on his own hen roost, ex-
plaining to the white robed figures that
appeared at nearby windows that he was
‘only hunting the eggs.”
VOL. 50
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 26, 1905.
Roosevelt’s Criminal Concession.
Within a period of two weeks President
ROOSEVELT bas made two importantdec-
larations respecting the tariff. In the first
he asserted the reasonable and just policy
of purchasing materials for the use of the
government in markets where they were
offered cheapest. He was influenced to
that by exorbitant prices asked by Amer-
ican manufacturers for necessary articles.
For example, home shipbuilders demanded
$1,400,000 for two 6,000-ton ships for use
in the construction of the Panama canal
which foreign builders offered for $750,-
000. There is no such difference in the
cost of construction but the American
builders conceived the idea that they
could rob the government and the Presi-
den proved that if he had courage aud
conscience they conldn’t.
But within a week he changed his
opinion. According to the published gos-
sip Speaker CANNON and Representative
DALZELL protested that this’ action would
destroy the party. The shipbuilders and
steel mongers, they alleged, had purchased
his election under promise that they would
be licensed to loot the public for four years
more and that it is his duty to make good
the iniquitous bargain. DALZELL made
this proposition entirely plain. ‘‘A Presi-
dent elected on a protection platform,”
Mr. Carnegie’s hired man told him, ‘has
no right to adopt the free trade policy of
buying in the cheapest market.”’ Mani-
festly, according to Mr. DALZELL, his
d uty is to buy in whatever market will af-
ord the largest profits to the contributors
to the corruption fund.
And the President bas adopted that
notion. He has gone into partnership
with the planderers by revoking his ob-
viously just order and declaring that no
ships will be purchased abroad. Those
that are needed will be charted at exor-
bitant rates and the grafters and plunder-
ers will pluck the government bird bare.
The steal barons who sell rails to Earo-
pean customers for $13 a ton will make
the government of the United States pay
$28 a ton for every pound used in the
Panama railroad and the difference will
make the ROCKEFELLERS and the MOR-
GANS, the CARNEGIES and the SCHWABS
richer and the taxpayers poorer as they
grow older. It is an infamous sacrifice of
honor and honesty to feed the rapacity of
criminals, but it is the rule of the Repub-
lican party.
The Philadelphia Gas Deal.
The excitement in Philadephia over the
infamous lease of the gas works has
taken on a new phase. Mayor JOHN
WEAVER on Tuesday summarily dismissed
from office director of public safety SMYTH
and director of public works COSTELLO.
These two men were henchmen of the
machine and controlled thousands of mu-
nicipal appointees, as well as all the profit-
able city contracts. Their dismissal threw
a bomb into the machine camp and gave
Philadelphia hope that the Mayor has at
last awakened to a full sense of his duty.
The lease of the Philadelphia gas works
ander the conditions embodied in the or-
dinance which passed last week robs the
people of Philadelphia of more than $200,-
000,000, which vast sam will be divided
among the contracting parties. It is a
crime which could be perpetrated in no
other community in the civilized world.
Any body of men who have the least
measure of manhood would resent such an
outrage upon their children. But the
Philadelphians won’t remonstrate in a,
practical way. A few blatherskites will
make incendiary speeches and the news-
papers will cry shame. But the general
public will quietly acquiesce in the crime
and the captains of industry and mag-
nates in finance will be trnckling after
DURHAM for a share of the spoils before
six months. -
We have no regret for the loss to
the people of Philad elphia. There is no
reason why the people of Pennsylvania
and throughout the country should not re-
joice that such imbeciles have been de-
prived of their property, except one. The
triumph of crime in one locality jeopar-|
dizes virtue in another and this most colos-
sal of all iniquities in Philadelphia ~ will
probably breed similiar villainies in other
communities. Except for that we should
say it is a just retribution for the crime of
creating and fostering such a gang of po-
litical pirates as exist in that city. As we
remarked last week in commenting apon
the ‘‘ripper”’ bill, the people of Philadel-
phia have deliberately ocuitivated ballot
frauds and other forms of political corrup-
sion and ib is just that they should suffer
the natural consequences.
' —Some one has been circulating the
stocy that JAMES J. GRAMLEY has with-
drawn from the race for commissioner and
he writes to inform us that such is not the
case. He says. ‘‘I am in to win and have
no notion of withdrawing.
——The Pennsvalley Oil and Gas com-
pany are getting things in shape to put
down a test well for oil. al 4
The State Convention.
The Democratic State convention which
met, performed its work and adjourned in
Harrisburg on Wednesday, may well be
characterized as an honor to the party it
represented and a credit to the citizenship
of Pennsylvania. We have had many state
conventions in this old State, and they have
brought together splendid men and devel-
oped grand thoughts and aspirations. But
we are within the limit of reason in saying
that no political convention in this State
within half a century has reflected greater
credit on the Commonwealth than that
which was held in Harrisburg this week.
The organization of the convention, to be-
gin with, was admirable. The temporary
chairman, Hon. JoEN G. HARMON, of Co-
lumbia county,expressed the promise of the
young Democracy. The permanent presi-
dent Hon. J. THOMPSON BAKER, of Union
county, reflected the wisdom and experi-
ence of the ‘‘Old Guard.”” The platform
indicates the courage, integrity and deter-
mination of a magnificent, militant and
honest political organization. Taken to-
gether, the officers, the work and the pur-
pose of the convention must appeal to the
manhood and the conscience of the State.
Democracy in Pennsylvania means the pros-
perity and the progress of the people and
the fact is clearly expressed in the la-
bors of the convention.
Of the ticket nominated we can say noth-
ing but words of approval. JOHN B. HEAD,
the nominee for Judge of the Superior
court, is so admirably equipped for the serv-
ice to which he will be called by the suf-
frages of the people, that reference to it is
sopererrogation. In the prime of life, pro-
foundly learned in the law, of judicial tem-
perament and trained to the practice of the
legal profession, he will adorn the bench
and add new lustre to the jurisprudence of
Pennsylvania.
Treasurer is equally worthy of commenda-
tion. His life is a guarantee of political
regeneration in the fiscal affairs of the State,
in the event of his election, and we confi-
dently invite the support of voters $o, the
Democratic tickes.
Roosevelt’s Absurd Ambition.
The Washington correspondent of the
readers of that newspaper that the Presi-
dent was induced to revoke his just order.
to purchase materials for the Panama canal
in the cheapest markete in order to promote
his absurd scheme for government regula-
tion of railroad rates and federal control of
carrying corporations generally. No doubt
that is the correct interpretation of his act,
Mr. ROOSEVELT imagined that his free
trade policy would encourage tariff revi-
sion legislation during the coming session
of Congress and that such legislation would
consume 80 much time that it would be im-
possible to work his pet scheme through.
That is altogether probable. President
ROOSEVELT is absolutely without political
principles. He has been on every side of
every question and like tbe average oppor-
tunist would as readily advocate the doc-
trines of the Mormon church as any other
if such advocacy would promote his own
interest or flatter his inordinate vanity,
The proposition to buy in the cheapest
market is so palpably just that no doubt he
would prefer it and probably believed when
be declared that policy that he would ad-
here to it. In fact it may be assumed that
he never dreamed that there wonld be any
objection. But when the objection came
he laid down like a moral coward and
cringed like a craven.
There is no policy that would contribute
so materially to his personal aggrandize-
ment as that expressed in his movement to
get control of the carrying corporations.
The President of one considerable railroad
has vast influence but the control of all of
them would give immense power and
myriad opportunities. Therefore ROOSE-
VELT has set out to achieve that result,
even if it wrecks every corporation of the
character in the country and he will saori-
fice every other idea and principle to ac-
complish it. He will fail of course, as he
ought to, for the right of owners to control
their property is inherent and inalienable.
But he will not give up until his resources
are exhausted.
Pennypacker is (0 Blame.
The Philadelphia Record suggests that
Governor PENNYPACKER is largely to
the existing political immorality in that
city. There is no doubt of the accuracy of
that opinion. Governor PENNYPACKER'S
enlogies of QUAY have done more to en-
courage crime than any other single infln-
ence and probably more than any half doz:
en evil influences put together. He has
methodically and insistently held the evil
life of that moral monster up to admiration
and no doubt weak minds have imbibed
from his declaration the idea that iniquities
that are snooessful must be respectable.
When PENNYPACKER, himself some-
thing like a moral pervert, declared that
the record of MATTHEW STANLEY QUAY
was one worthy of popular emulation, he
! committed a grave crime against the con-
The nominee for State:
Philadelphia Public Ledger informs the
blame for the present evil conditions and
science of this Commonwealth. When he
added that he was a greater man than DAN-
IEL WEBSTER or HENRY CLAY be proved
himself an irresponsible sycophant bat
planted seeds of immorality which could
not help generate and produce vice and
crime. As a matter of fact, in that misstate-
ment of merit he demoralized the public
mind to she full measure of his possibilities
and earned popular execration which should
endure until the end of hig useless and mis-
spent life.
PENNYPACKER is largely responsible for
the evils which exist in Philadelphia and
elsewhere thronghous Pennsylvania to-day.
The miseries which the insane wards of the
State will suffer during the next two years
are upon his head and wherever he goes
public sentiment ought to condemn him as
a recreant. He has misused his office to
promote fads and contributed to the misap-
propriation of public funds because such
use of the money of the people fed his vani-
ty and encouraged the forms of vice which
he favored. He is the greatest enemy of
political virtue at present in public life
and his example should be reprobated in-
stead of followed by all men,
Our State Platform.
There has never been a more vigorous or
accurate arraignment of the Republican |
party of Pennsylvania than that embodied
in the platform adopted by the Democratic
State convention held in Harrisburg on
Wednesday. There probably never was
presented to any party such an opportunity
for arraignment as that which the Demo-
orats had before them on Wednesday. But
i6 is only just to say that the delegates in
that convention availed themselves of their
advantages to the full measure, with the re-
sult that we have a platform of which we
‘may all be proud.
To enumerate and expatiate on all the
provisions of the platform would occupy
more space and require more time than we
have at our command at this moment. But
we will be excused for calling especial at-
tention to the emphatic and obviously sin-
cere pledge for the reform of the abuses in
Philadelphia, for the improvement of the
electoral system of the State and the ar-
raignment of: the Republican: party for its
manifest and manifold delinquencies in ‘the |
matter of legislation and administration.
These are crying evils and there correction
is essential to the perpetuity of the Com-
monwealth.
No State has suffered from official venal-
ity like Pennsylvania. No people so much
as those of this State need the fostering in-
fluence of better government. Our vast
wealth and generous gifts of Providence are
systematically perverted to the base uses of
graft. That we bave prospered is a marvel
in view of the waste which has been about
us on every side. The Democracy promises
pot only not to retard but to promote the
prosperity of the people by helping rather
than hindering our advantages and we in-
vite all citizens to join in this benevolent
work.
‘The Bellefonte Schools.
In another colump of to-days WATCH-
MAN will be found the fall program for the
twenty-second annual commencement of
the Bellefonte High school which will be
held next week. A glance at the program
will show that in the graduating class this
year there are jnst seventeen young men
and women who will be given diplomas
next Thursday. When the fact is consid-
ered that notwithstanding the hard ourric-
ul um the High school turned out in 1901
a olass of 14, in 1902 a class of 17, in 1903
a class of 21, in 1904 a class of 17, and now
this year a class of 17 graduates, a record
that surpasses many preparatory schools
and equa Is many of the smaller colleges, it
is a safe conclusion that the Bellefonte
schools are conducted on not only a high
educational plane but in such a manner as
to make ‘them not only earnestly. interest-
ing to the pupils, but an especial object to
them to complete their course.
This fact can he due only to the never-
tiring endeavors of the Bellefonte school
board to at all times furnish the best equip-
ment and to the unceasing work of the su-
perintendent, principal and teachers to give
to the schools all of their time and energy,
not only in instruction but in a hearty co-
operation in their work to the end that the
varied studies are gone through with more
of a spirit of rivalry and pride of excellence
than with the old-time feeling of compul-
sion. ‘And in this manner it is to be hoped
our schools will continue to grow to even a
greater degree of excellence and a place
where the young will deem ié a pleasure
more than a duty to attend.
——The Altoona Times oelebrated its
twenty-second anniversary, Monday morn-
ing, by donning a new dress, and like a
modest maiden it is now charming in its
simplicity. The Times is a good paper and
its management is to be congratulated on
its success. May it have many more years
like the one just closed, which the proprie-
tors claim was the most prosperous of any
since it was established.
LD
NO. 21.
Head and Berry Democratic State Nomi-
nees.
William H. Berry, the reform mayor of
Chester, was nominated for etate treasurer,
and John B. Head, of Greensburg, for judge
of the Superior court by Wednesday's
Democratic state convention on a platform
confined entirely to state issues.
Mr. Berry was. nominated by acclama-
nation, following a sharp contest over the
selection of the nominee fcr judge, al-
though it was conceded from the start that
Mr. Head would be nominated. Mr.
Head led all his competitors on ‘the first
ballot and before the result of the second
ballot could be announced a motion that
his nomination be made unanimous was
adopted.
Berks county started the stampede for
Mr. Head on thesecond ballot by breaking
away from Dewalt and voting for the
Greensburg candidate. Philadelphia then
clinched his nomination By dropping Ward
and coasting its fifty votes for Head. Dela-
wareswitohed from Dickinson to Head, and
while several delegates were on their feet
demanding recognition for the purpose of
changing their votes the motion to make
the nomination unanimous was sprung
and carried.
Judge Peter J. Smith, of Scranton, the
present minority representative in the
Superior court, was not a candidate. Na-
tional Chairman Guffey was present in the
convention hall only a short time. So sure
was Mr. Head of his nomination that he
remained away from Harrisburg during the
convention.
He is virtually assured of election, be-
cause no elector can vote. for more than
three candidates, when four are to be
elected, which is the case this year.
THE NOMINEES.
John B. Head, the candidate for Superior
Court Judge, was born in Westmoreland
County in 1855. He is the: son of William
S. Head, a banker of Latrobe: was edu-
cated in the public schools of that town,
and afterward graduated as Ms. S¢. Mary's
College, at Emmittsburg, Md. Upon his
gradnasion he entered the banking house
constructed by his father and tonk up the
study of law. Later he entered the offices
of the late A. A. Stewart, of Westmore-
land county, and was admitted to prac-
tice in 1880.
Mr. Head practiced in Greensburg for
two years, forming a partnership with H.
P. Laird, an ex-State Senator. In 1882 he
retired from that firm and formed a pars.
nership with James S. Moorhead, and has
continued in that firm since then. The
firm is counsel for the H. C. Frick Coal
company, the Penn Gas Coal company,
the Latrobe Steel company and other large
corporations in western Pennsylvania. | = |
William H. Berry, Mayor of Chester,
Democratic candidate for State Treasurer,
was born in Edwardsville, Ill., on Sep-
tember 9, 1852. His father was Benjamin
Berry, an inventor. Educated in the
public schools, young Berry subsequently
became apprenticed to the trade of ma-
ohinis¢ ina large plant in Buffalo. He
then took a scientific mechanical course in
Mechanics’ Institute, in Buffalo.
THE PLATFORM.
The platform as adopted was as follows :
“The Democracy of Pennsylvania, repeating
its Pisdaes of last year, again tenders to the peo-
ple of the State the power of its organization and
the ballots of its voters to rid the Commonwealth
and its metropolis of machine domination.
“We need not again rehearse the irrefutable
indictments of our recent platforms convictin
the dominant party of the absolute prostitution of
every function of government to corrupt debased
personal partisanship.
*“Fair-minded citizens of the State admit the
truth of these indictments, deplore existing po-
litical conditions, and yet heretofore have faiied
to exercise their power to reform them. :
“The last session of the Legislature was worse
than all its predecessors, disappointed every
hope of the people and responded with alacrity to
eyery command of the machine. Legislation in
the public interest was given no consideration
while scheraes of the ring were forced through
without debate and sometimes by fraudulent
counts of legislators’ votes.
‘‘Extravagant appropriations were made ag-
gregating millions of dollars beyond the revenue
of the State, and leaving only the vote power of
the Governor to save the treasury from bank-
ruptey. The constitutional obligation to reap-
portion the State was utterly disregarded.
“The demand of the people of all political
parties for a fair ballot law was flouted. laries
were increased and needless offices were created
for no other purpose than to reward machine de-
pendents and followers. The established form of
government of the chief city of our State was
overturned so as to bring its powers more com-
pletely under the control of the corrupt and un-
scrupulous men who have so long dominated it.
“The appalling condition of public affairs in
that city has long been a matter of wonder to the
people of the entire country, and Philadelphia is
£10 en of with contempt and scorn wherever mu-
n cipal government is discussed. The people of
our State have been amazed at the apparent sub-
serviency of that city to a corrupt machine. Pub-
lic sentiment seemed paralyzed and civic pride
dead, as at each succeeding election, by enor-
mous majorities, the people of Philadelphia
voted to continue their own debasement.
“Now, as the crowning outrages are about to be
heaped upon her and she finds herself bereft of
her franchises and property, she cries for help.
‘““There is no hope for Philadelphia except in
the union of good citizens with the Democratic
organization to overthrow her machine govern-
ment. i
“To the redemption of Philadelphia this con-
vention hereby ledges the Dover of the Demo-.
cratic organization in the State, acting through
its legislators, and of the Democratic organization
in Philadelphia, with all the votes and power it
can command.
“Sincerely intent upon the reformation of pub-
lic affairs, we invite honest men of all parties and
organizations to a full union with us, {
*‘As the first and important steps to this end
we demand : :
“1. The enactment of a fair ballot law which]
shall provide for personal registration of voters
in the cities of the State, for the securing of a
free, equal and secret ballot, affording the great-
est facility for independent voting, making the
appointment of overseers and the opening of
ballot boxes obligatory whenever démanded by
citizens formally charging contemplated or ac-
complished fraud. nder existing laws, elec-
tions in Philadelphia, affecting the entire State as
well, have become a farce, and will so continue
until these demanded reforms have been secured.
‘2, Legislative apportionment, as commanded
oy the Constitution, to the end that the member-
ship of the Legislature may properly represent
the voters of the State. The continued refusal of
the Republican machine to heed the constitu-
tional command is a political crime of first
enormity. b
“These two propositions accomplished, needed
reforms in many other matters affecting our gov-
ernment will necessarily follow, and we, there-
foreyTesent them as the issues of this campaign.
“While the officials to be chosen at the coming
election will not have power to effect all these re-
forms, yet apopuiap rebuke at the polls of onr
present political domination will do much to
eventually overthrow it.
“We pledge our candidate for State Treasurer
to reform the abuses of the treasury, particularly
the distribution of surplus in favorite banks, and
we favor the passage of legislation to return this
unnecessary accumulation of pablic money to the
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Neil Burgess, of “The County Fair”
fame, has been declared a bankrupt.
—There will be 78 graduates at Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, next month.
—Ninety-nine men took the examination
for mine foreman in Houtzdale, last week.
—The New York Central railroad has
ordered 150 all-steel cars from the American
Car and Foundry works at Berwick.
—A Harrisburg dispatch states that Bishop
J. H, Darlington has selected Harrisburg as
the see city, although he will spend most of
the summer at Eagles Mere.
—Ground for the Mifflin county soldiers’
.| monument will be consecrated with appro-
priate services on Memorial day. Its loca-
tion is on the public square at Lewistown.
—Prof. Ira N, McCloskey, of Lock Haven,
has been appointed one of the State board of
examiners for the East Stroudsburg Normal
school. The examinations will begin on
June 14th.
—Three separate attempts were made last
week against the lives of Charles Grange
and family, of Muncy. All three times in-
mates of the household were shot at but
luckily missed.
—While Mis. Mary Roch and boarders
were eating dinner at the former’s residence
on Mulberry street, Hollidaysburg, Thurs-
day, the rear end wall of the house, which is
a brick structure, collapsed, falling over in
the yard.
—A former conductor of the Pittsburg
Railway company has been conscience-
stricken and has returned $200 in fares that
he had stolen. He makes the return through
his confessor, the Rev. Geo. J. Breckel, rector
of St. Joseph’s church, Milton. »
—A few days ago while Rev. H. E. Har-
man, of Berwick, was attending synod at
Montgomery, John Carothers and Mary
Ludiker, two of his parshioners desired to be
married and not being able to leave the
reverend gentleman performed the ceremony
over the telephone.
—Frank Greco, the contractor who is in
charge of the new work of the Buffalo and
Susquehanna railroad in and around Big
Run, has 300 men at work now and in a
month will have a force of 1,000. He says
that he will rush the work, but it will be
the early part of the winter before it is com-
pleted. .
-—There is a building boom in Windber at
the present time and the indications are that
the coming summer’ will be exceedingly *
prosperous. Over a dozen large and hand-
some residences are being constructed and
the Windber Lumber company has work
valued at $200,000 under way.
—At the convention of sub-district No. 5,
United Mine Workers of America, held at
Punxsutawney last week, it was decided to
pay out of the treasury the sum of $200 to
each of the seven widows of the Eleanora
miners who lost their lives by explosion of
gas in the shaft. The parents of the single
men killed will receive $100. :
—The Owego Rod and Gun club has stock-
ed the Upper Susquehanna river, north of
the Pennsylvania State line, with 5,000,000
yellow bass fry and the anglers of the Upper
Wyoming valley are counting the days it
will take for these fingerlings to swim down
the stream into Pennsylvania and give them
a chance to tell some tall fish stories.
—Burgess John Doll, of Pine Grove,
Columbia county, is anxiously waiting a
decision of the treasury department on the
value of $9,000 in incinerated greenbacks,
which represents the money he placed in his
stove for safe keeping when he went to the
circus a few days ago. While he was absent
one of the family built a fire .in the store.
—After a courtship of less than 24 hours,
John W. Fellip, 34, of Dunbar township,
Fayette county, and Miss Susie DeKart, 21,
of Leisenring, were granted a marriage li-
cense there.. At the register and recorder’s
office Fellip said he had first met Miss De-
Kart the evening before. This is the second
matrimonial experience for Fellip, whose
first wife died.
—The eleventh annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania State Bar Association, which
will be held at Bedford Springs on June 27th,
28h and 29th, will be marked by the pres-
ence of Governor Pennypacker and his wife,
who will "be guests of the lawyers. The
Governor will respond to the toast, ‘‘The
Commonwealth,” at a banquet to be held at
the close of the session.
—The Methodists of Central Pennsylvania,
comprising some 200 congregations, will hold
an outing at Reservoir park, Harrisburg, on
June 20th. The committee on arrangements
met last Wednesday at the home of Rev. Dr.
Isaac Woods, of Grace Methodist Episcopal
church, Harrisburg, and decided to make
“Methodist Day’’ the greatest celebration
ever held at that place. ;
—The New York and Pennsylvania com-
pany Monday closed a deal whereby they
became owners of the controlling interest in |
8,239 acres of woodland in Beech Creek town-
ship. The price for the interest was upwards
of $60,000. The land was’ purchased from
Hopkins & Weymouth, Barber & Keller,
Brown & David, of that city, the Detweiler
estate, of Lancaster county, and the Dallet
and Frismuth heirs of New York and Phila-
delphia.
—Berwick, Columbia county, missed being
the location eof the largest car shopsin the
world last week, says the Bloomsburg Press,
because the owners of a 40-acre tract of land
| jumped the price of their real estate to $1,200
an acre. The American Car & Foundry Co.
of that place contemplated doubling the
capacity of their plant and the number of
their employes, but the high price asked for
the required 40 acres deterred the enlarge-
ment indefinitely.
'' —The Blair county Democratic convention,
‘held there Monday, adopted resolutions scor-
ing the Republican State machine for break-
ing faith with the people and declared that
the only effective check to corrupt legislation
is to place the law-making power directly in
the hands of the people through the initiative
and referendum. The following were nomi-
nated : County commissioner, John' R. Mac-
Farlane, of Altoona, and Calvin Walter, of
Claysburg; auditor, William Hayes, of Holli-
daysburg and Charles Clare, of Altoona;
poor director, H. 8. Werts. Bernard J.
Clark, of Altoona, was elected chairman of
people that local taxation may be reduced.”
the county committee.