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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
In ST ty
Ink Slings.
—Don’t forget the primaries tomorrow.
—Has anybody been interested enough
to find ont whether the Russians can play
marbles ?
—If this PRUNER orphanage agitation
continues Bellefonte will have to join forces
with the referendum advocates.
*That Philadelphia ‘‘ripper’’ seems to
have gotten in its work considerable in ad-
vance of the time provided by the Ao of
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VOL. 50
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 2, 1905.
The Hopeful Democrats.
- In the light of closer inspection and more
Assembly.
—JoHN WEAVER, of Philadelphia, pass-
ed out of the ‘‘stuffed shirt’’ class in a way
that leaves a grave doubt as to whether
anyone was justified in giving him that
title.
— After all there is nothing like ‘‘taking
time by the fore-lock.’’ If you will remem-
ber, the Czar had SCHWAB over to Russia
three weeks ago to talk over the probable
cost of a new Navy.
—1If IBSEN really ‘‘can’t endure children,
music or flowers,”” as he says, it is a pity
he ever grew up; because there can cer-
tainly be very little of loveliness in life for
the author.
—The members of the Bellefonte council
probably haven’t as many titles as are ap-
pended to the names of the distinguished
gentlemen who are to talk to us tonight on
the PRUNER orphanage, but it is a safe
wager that they know where they are ab
without being told by this propaganda.
—Possibly it is on the theory that if
takes a rascal to catch a rascal the admin-
istration justifies the appointment of Mr.
RATHBONE to service in the Post office
Department service men. He is the same
RATHBONE who was convicted of irregular
conduct in the Cuban post office frauds a
year or two ago.
—The people of Philadelphia must keep
constantly awake to the fact that they have
not won their battle yet. They have only
driven back the enemy's outposts. They
most continue on the assumption that there
is no grafter like a dead grafter and
fight until every member of the dominant
machine in that city has been politically
exterminated. ’
—Brother BAILEY, of the Johnstown
Democrat, is cock-sure that Col. J. M. GUF-
FEY is, solely and alone, the whole Demo-
oratic party of Pennsylvania. Possibly
when o ur strenuous friend gets his attic in
order he can figure out and tell us who
casts the other 400,000 votes usually given
the Demaocratio ticket or where the villains
are who manipulate the returns to this
extent. :
'——1It you bave any preference asto
which of the gentlemen named for the
various positions on the Democratic ticket
shall have the places, the time to choose is
at the primaries tomorrow (Saturday)
afternoon. Don’t forget your duty, asa
good citizen, to go out and vote for the
best men. At the primaries tomorrow is
where the ticket is made, and every Demo-
crat in the county is interested in having
that ticket as good and as strong as it is
possible to make it.
—Tomorrow the primaries for the Demo-
cratic party in Centre county will he held.
At that time every person who is interested
in the welfare of the party should express
his personal preference of the aspirants for
the various offices to be filled. The man
who fails to attend the primaries of his
party and then spends months in complain-
ing about the makeup of the ticket he is
expected to support has very small ground
for argument and absolutely no justifica-
tion for his action.
——The man who fails to go to the
ptimaries tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon
and then growls because his choice of can-
didates was not successful deserves neither
sympathy nor respect. At the primaries
is where the masses of the voters have the
power to make the ticket just as they
would have it, and the man who don’t
take interest enough to go out and voice
his own wishes in this matter has no right
to kick alterwards if his favorites fail to
receive the nomination.
—Acoording to reports Governor PENNY-
PACKER is having some trouble in making
up his mind as to whom he should appoint
on the QUAY monument commission. To
a person who cannot fully comprehend
the fine conception of what the Governor
deems constitutes a statesman and a proper
memorial it is difficult to suggest names for
consideration, but in our humble way we
present the following, as persons who would
be quite in accord with the Governor's
ideals in this peculiar dilemma: The Hon.
SAM SALTER, the Hon. Is. DURHAM, and
the Hon. BULL ANDREWS.
—While it may be from motives of
purest philanthropy or out of the goodness
of hearts that want to show us the error of
our ways, it would, nevertheless, have
been better if the distinguished gentlemen
who are to agitate ns tonight on the
PRUNER orphanage question had had the
endorsement of the council of Tyrone be-
fore they presume: to tell Bellefonte its
duty. Inquiry in Tyrone yesterday re-
vealed the fact that their mission is entire-
ly without warrant so far as any organized
or public effort in that direction is concern-
ed and also that there has been so little
disonssion of the matter in that place that
the people have really formed no definite
opinion.
AARNE BAA 0S Sd
convention are
moreover. The elequence and earnestness
of the speeches, the harmony and decorum
of the proceedings and the universal and
deliberate examination the work of the
Democratic state convention of last week
becomes more pleasing. The nominee for
State Treasurer, Mayor BERRY, of Chester,
has announced his acceptance of the honor
bestowed on him and declares his purpose
of entering into the campaign with the
energy and ability which achieved his great
victory in February. The friends of the
nominee for Judge of the Superior court,
JoHN B. HEAD, of Westmoreland county,
are overjoyed with the compliment which
was conferred on them through him, more-
over, and expect to give him an overwhelm-
ing majority.
In fact the ticket has won
favor on every hand.
The press comments on the work of the
particularly inspiring,
enthuosiastic acceptance of the results by
all the candidates and the friends of the
candidates is inspiring and significant.
These things coupled with the fact that the
machine-made ticket of the Republican
party bas created no enthusiasm anywhere
leads to the most earnest hope of Demo-
cratic sncoess.
in e very county in the State and promises
to create a political revolution which will
rescue the State from the predatary outlaws
who have been looting it for years.
It has aroused expectation
All that is necessary to compass this re-
sult is for the Democrats of Pennsylvania
to do their part.
favor and if it is kept at flood during the
period intervening between now and the
election there can be no doubt of the re-
sult.
of the iniquities of the mashine.
determined to put a stop to the official loot™
ing and legalized robbery.
orats must show that they are in earnest in
order $o get the help of men who favor good
government outside the organization.
The tide has set in our
The people of Pennsylvania are tired
They are
But the Demo-
The
work of the convention last week was a
su bstantial proof of that earnestness. The
energy of the voters of that faith will com-
plete the evidence.
Beware of John Weaver.
We would warn the people of Philadel:
phia against making a dem-i-god of Mayor
WEAVER. He has broken from the ma-
chine it is true and contributed materially
to the defeat of the conspiracy to loot the
city through the lease of the gas works.
But he has given no conclusive evidence of
an improvement in morals since he organ-
ized his administration in the interest of
vice and crime by the appointment of
CosTELLO and SMYTH, as Directors of Pub"
lic Works and Public Safety, respectively.
He was disappointed because the machine |
failed to make a place for him on the bench,
according to promise, and may be a trifle
resentful. But he isnot an earnest reformer.
JoBN WEAVER was elected District At-
torney by the Philadelphia machine in
order to punish District Attorney RoTH-
ERMEL for prosecuting QUAY for robbing
the State Treasury. His first act in that
office of any importance was to allow
SAMUEL SALTER to escape punishment for
ballot box stuffing, though he had practical-
ly confessed the crime by running away and
remaining a fogitive from justice until the
expiration of ROTHERMEL’S term of office.
For WEAVER’S service to the machine and
SALTER he was promoted to the office of
Mayor and he appointed many men who
bad given falee evidence in behalf of SAL-
TER to office. That didn’t indicate po-
rlitical morals of a high standard.
Subsequently as Mayor he supported the
machine in all its iniquities under promise
that a place would be made for him on the
bench by the creation of a new court or the
passage of a bill which would retire two of
the present judges and make a vacancy for
him. The machine didn’t make good and
WEAVER has turned against it. For this
he is entitled to the support of those in the
reform movement but hardly to the reputa-
tion of a reformer. At any rate he is not
deserving of the lionizing which has been
bestowed on him. The thousands who fol-
low him on the streets like worshipping
hosts may regret their misplaced confidence.
It DURHAM offers him the price he may yes
betray them.
The Defeat of Rojestvensky.
The overwhelming defeat of Admiral
ROJESTVENSKY’S fleet may be said to have
shattered the last hope of Russian victory
in the war with Japan. For months the
faith of the Czar was centered in his navy.
His land forces had heen routed at every
point and for six months have been pursuing
the FABIAN polioy of evasion in order that
complete extinction could be avoided until
the arrival of his invincible naval armada
would afford relief. But now the armada
bas been as completely beaten ag the army
at Port Arthur and there is nothing to ex-
pect other than a resumption of operations
on land and a renewal of the defeats which
KUROPATKIN sustained.
It can hardly be said that the fault of
the recurring disasters lies with the troops
or the seamen, and we include the officers
as well as the men in that classification.
STOESSEL made a splendid defense of Por
Arthur and after his defeat KUROPATKIN’S
withdrawal of the force was equal to the
best achievement of military genius. But
he was unable to check the victorious pro-
gress of the Japs and since he relinquished
the command to LINEVITCH there has
been little if any improvement in condi-
tions. ROJESTVENSKY’S movement from
Russia to the the Korean Straits where he
met disaster was equally skillful and mas-
terly. No man could have done better.
~ But the fortunes of war have been saved.
He wasn’t just, however. He betrayed
faith with the whole world in occupying
Manchuria after he bad invaded it with-
out right or reason and there is now a
chance that he will lose his crown and
probably his life as a penalty for his fool-
hardiness. Meantime he can hardly longer
refuse to accept any reasonable proposition
looking toward peace and i$ is to be hoped
that such a proposition will not be long
delayed.
Keep Pennypacker off the Bench.
An impression prevails in all quarters
that Governor PENNYPACKER will be the
nominee of the Republican party for the
vacancy on the Supreme bench created by
the death of the late Justice DEAN. It is
well known that the Governor aspires to a
seat on that bench and that he would have
been nominated a year ago if the protest
against the purpose had not been made
strong and insistent. QUAY desired it as a
further reward for PENNYPACKER'S absurd
eulogies. DURHAM and other political
pirates wanted it because they felt that
their schemes would be promoted with
‘‘Oleo’’ BROWN in the office of Governor.
But QUAY became frightened at the vol-
ume of opposition and abandoned the
plan.
Daring the recent session of the Legis-
lature she judicial seat was held up to
PENNYPACKER’s hope constantly. When.
ever a peculiarly bad piece of legislation
came before him for approval DURHAM’S
emissaries were at his ear whispering words
of promise and he signed bills which the
machine managers themselves would have
hesitated to approve if the responsibility:
had been put upon them. Probably they
never intended to fulfill the pledges. Ifis
certain that they had no expectation that
the obligation would mature so soon.
| But the unexpected happened. A vacancy
has ocourred on the bench and they are de-
termined to ‘‘make good.”’
The election of SAMUEL W. PENNY-
PACKER to the Supreme bench would be
nothing short of a public calamity. Public
confidence in that tribunal is already
greatly impaired. Several recent deois-
ions have been questionable and the in-
fluence of the corrnpt machine has been re-
vealed. But if PENNYPACKER were added
to the bench there could be no longer any
doubt of its complete surrender to the
evil. Ignorant of the law and bigoted by
nature he would interpret according to his
fancies or in obedience to corrupt impulses.
It would be better to put DURHAM on the
bench at once than to place such a ‘‘fence’’
of the boodlers in that position. We can’t
believe that the people will so blunder.
Why, Oh, Why *
Why is it that we hear not the name of
our own ex-Judge JOHN GRAY LOVE men-
tioned as a possible successor to the seat
on the Supreme court bench made vacant
by the death of the lamented Judge DEAN ?
Why is it that we see not in any of the ma-
chine organs of the Commonwealth the
suggestion that our ex-Judge should at
least have a show for the position ? Why is it
no. asurance is given by any of the bosses
that among the probabilities for the place
is Centre county’s recent tool of the State
gang ?
Others much less subservient to the will
and the wishes of the machine while wear-
ing the judicial ermine are graciously
named ag possible successors to the position.
Others who did their best, but fell’ far
short of him in soiling the bench at the
dictation of those who make Judges for the
Republican party, are put forth as proba-
ble candidates. But not a word do we
hear or a line can we see that leads one to
believe that his ex-honor, our neighbor J.
G. L., is even thought of for the place.
Surely there is someone being forgotten.
Certainly there must be a large rifé in the
recollection of the bosses, else why does
not the service he so lavishly rendered the
machine, while in the position to do so,
call forth even the recognition of being
named among the possibilities for this place.
——This week the engineering corps of
Stute College under the direction of an ex-
pert from J. Gilbert White & Co., of New
York, began making the survey for the
proposed new trolley road from. Bellefonte
to State College. It is expected that it
will take three weeks to cover the entire
route of about twenty miles.
——Subsoribe for the WATCHMN.
NO. 22.
Defeat of the Philadelphia Ring.
Through the sagacity of the principal
culprit, THOMAS DOLAN, president of the
gas trust, the Philadelphia machine has
escaped an overwhelming defeat and got
off with a severe licking. In other wads,
the lease of the gas works of that city, at a
price a couple hundred million dollars less
than they are worth to the Gas Improve-
ment company, has been prevented for the
present,at least. It may be that it iz only a
postponement, and that at some future
! time the deal will be consummated. But
so far as appearances indicate the facts
there will be no immediate lease of the
property at any price and the conspirators
who were concerned in the operation are
in the position of defeated tricksters.
This issue of the matter is the result of
an extraordinary assertion of popular op-
position to the deal, Committees of var-
ious kinds were appointed to urge opposi-
tion. The Mayor removed the Directors
of Public Works and Safety because of
their sympathy for the scheme and the
Supreme court was invoked to give him
authority to name their sucessors. Public
meetings were held in all parts of the city
and resolutions denouncing the iniquity
adopted. But the indications are that the
deal would have gone through notwith-
standing the protests if DOLAN hadn't
withdrawn fiom the negotiations. That
act on his part nullifies the whole matter.
There can be no bargain without two par-
ties to it.
The defeat of the machine can be made
permanent, however, if its opponents con-
tinue the warfare against the organization
and carry it to its logical conclusion. But to
achieve that result the volice must be tak-
en out of politics absolutely, the partner-
ship between the anthorities and criminals
dissolved and ballot box stuffings dicontin-
ued. If those things are done a political
revolution in the city will follow, the
“ripper” bill enacted during the lest ses-
sion will be repealed and the Democratic
party will be restored to power both in the
city and the State. The DoLaXS and other
millionaire corruptionists may all go to the
penitentiary bus the city will be saved.
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Reform Not Yet Accomplished.
The. Philadelphia Republican machine
has apparently collapsed and Insurance
Commissioner DURHAM seems to have sar-
rend ered unconditionally. That is to say,
on Monday last, after the VARE Broth-
ers and other hitherto dependents had de-
serted him, he annonnced that opposition
to the plans of Mayor WEAVER has been
abandoned. ‘I have advised my friends,”
he declared in a note to the newspaper re-
porters, ‘‘not to oppose the confirmation
of Mr. ACKER, as director of public works,
and of Mr. Potter, as director of public
safety, if their names are sent to Select
Council by the Mayor.”” That is accepted
as a notice of withdrawal from the conflict
for control, as DOLAN’S letter expressed
abandonment of the gas deal.
Bat it is far from a complete victory for
reform. The police force, with all its pro-
pensities to shield vice and protect ecrimi-
nals, remains unchanged. The 10,000 or
more other pensioners of the municipal
machine are undisturbed. The ward
bosses are unimpaired in their power over
this vast army of dependents. The dens
of vice are still ‘‘fences’’ for plunder and
asyloms for ballot box stuffers. The
padded registry lists are still in existence
and the voting machinery in the hands of
DURHAM'S cohorts. The big battle is still
to be fought, the crucial encounter yet a
matter of the future and what is of even
greater signifieance the implements of war
are in the hands of DURHAM,
We will begin to hope for the overthrow
of the machine when some of the con-
epirators become fugitives from justice.
When the processes of the criminal courts
begin reaching out for men like THOMAS
DOLAN and public sentiment drives Sen-
ator PEN ROSE to restitution, there will be
reason to think that the machine is really
defeated. These results can be achieved.
They are no more powerful or firmly en-
trenched than TWEED was when justice be-
gan gunning for him. It is only a ques-
tion of the courage and intelligence of the
reformers. If they are equal to the emer-
genoy the machine will not only be com-
pletely defeated but most of its managers
will die in prison.
——First church of Christ, Scientists of
Howard, Pa., announces a lecture on
Christian Science, to be given in Christian
‘obapel, this (Friday) evening by Judge S.
H. Hanna, of Colorado. Some fifteen years
ago Judge Hanna retired from the practice
of law to engage in Christian Science work, |
‘and for ten years served as editor-in-chief
of the periodicals of this denomination
published in Boston. He is widely known
as an able lecturer, and for the last two
years has been a member of the Christian
Science Board of Lectureship of the First
ohuroh of Christ, Scientists, of Boston,
Mass., founded by Mrs. Eddy, the author
of the text-book on Christian Science.
The Great Retreater,
From the Johnstown Democrat.
President Roosevelt’s backbone melted
expected under the fierce heat of stand pat
indignation over hig declaration of war. on
the trusts. He now is understood to have
modified bis order in connection with the
purchase of supplies for the Panama canal
and it is given out from Washington tha
‘‘no materials for canal constrnotion vill
be bought in foreign countries beyond sue
‘as may he required for immediate use’’ ane
it is explained that Mr. Roosevelt never
‘bad any intention ‘‘to go into the markets
of the world for canal materials unless
there was a tendency of home manufac-
turers to combine to force the prices of sup-
plies to exorbitant figures.” ~~
This is'a great come-down. If indicates
another standpat victory over the adminis-
ration.
they declared that the announ icy,
Roosevelt and Seoretary Tone pol (4
to be abandoned.
tration brought about its ears was like :
Dakota blizzard or a sirocco of the de
and the man with the big stick
bigger bluster had to run for cover. =
This is really the most humiliating of the
many humiliating retreats Mr. Roosevel
has had to beat since he entered the Presi-
dency. Probably no other President jl
ever thundered so in the index. Certainly
no President has had to put ap with so
many rebukes from his own party. He was
thrashed out of his boots on the reciprocity
issue. His tariff revision program was
knocked into a cocked hat by Uncle Joe
Cannon and Mr. Dalzell. He bad the floor
wiped up with him and his San Domingo
job by a Senate which refused to take or-
ders. His Venezuelan butting-in was one
of the most melancholy exhibitions of go-
ing off a¢ half cock ever witnessed in any
country. He was given another frightfal
upset on the railway rate business by: Con-
gress. And now the confession is made
that the tariff barons have compelled him
to eat dirt on the question of buying ships
and supplies for the Panama railway and
canal in the open market. he
-Yet it is olear that Mr. Roosevelt had
the trusts pretty well soared. They really
believed he meant what he said and that
be would stand pat. But your anole Joe
Cannon has hauled him down. The ad-
ministration shifts its position ae gracefully
as a hippopotamus might turn a handspring.
It apologizes for baving permitted itself to
be misunderstood and it weakly lays the
blame on the newspapers. Yes there is
every evidence that the newspapers made
no mistake. The administration was not
misquoted or misrepresented. It only put
its foot into ib and is now trying to pull i¢
out. The trusts have added
from Mr. Roosevelt's scalp to their belt:
Death of Supreme Court Justice John
Dean.
Hon. John Dean, a justice of the Supreme
court of Pennsylvania, died at his home in
Hollidaysburg at 7:30 Thursday evening.
The end came peacefully in the presence of
all the members of his family. g
Three weeks ago Justice Dean suffered a
slight stroke of paralysis, supposed to be
the result of overwork. He left his apart-
ments in Philadelphia and returned to his
‘home in Hollidayshurg. For a few days
after his return home his condition seemed
to improve, when suddenly" pneumonia
with other complications set in.
_ Dr. 8. Solis Cohen,a Philadelphia special-
ist, was summoned and reached the patient
Wednesday afternoon, but ‘was unable to
stay the progress of the disease. Af 2
o’clock in the morning the judge became
unconscious and remained in that condi-
tion until he died. Among those at the
bedside along with his wife and four dangh-
ters were a brother, Samuel Dean, of
Rochelle, Ills., and a sister, Mrs. Charles
Balt, of Philadelphia.
The funeral was held Monday afternoon
and was one of the most largely attended
of any ever held in Blair county.
Judge Dean was born in Williamsburg,
Blair county, February 15th, 1835. He re-
ceived his education in the common schools,
the Williamsburg academy, and Washing-
ton College of Washington, Pa. He taught
school for a while and afterwards read law
with James Bell and D. H. Hoffins in Hol-
Raagsbure; being admitted to the bar in
In 1857 he was elected superintendent of
the Blair county public schools. He was
appointed district attorney in 1867 to fill
an. unexpired term and was afterwards
elected for a full term.
In 1871 he was elected judge of the
Twenty-fourth judicial districs, including
Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria counties,
defeating a Democrat and Independent
Democrat, He was re-elected in 1881 and
in 1891. In 1892 he was elected to the
Supreme bench on the Republican ticket.
Some Queer Contradictions,
From the Catholic Standard.
If the Panama canal strip is not territory
of the United States, as the New York Zri-
bune maintains, whose territory is it? If
the United States flag flies over it and the
affairs of the place are controlled by United
States officials, oan it be described as a for-
eign territory ? Many ourious contradic-
tions have been put forward since we set
out a-colonizing, but the most curious of
all is the repudiation of ownership of a
place of which we have got possession and
intend to hold while grass grows and yel-
low fever exists.
Patting an End to Worry.
From the New York World. i
Ita few more lawyers get into the case
there will be no Equitablesurplus to worry
about. .
— Rev. George D. Pennypacker, of
Philipsburg, while on a visit with friends
in Huntingdon, last week, had the mis-
| fortune to cut his foot with a hatchet, The
wound is a bad one and in consequence the
‘reverend ' gentleman is incapacitated for
church work, for a time, at least.
down into his boots rather sooner than we
od | pital at Philadelphia for treatment.
It shows that Cannon and Dalzell
and the trust Senators and Representatives
knew what they were talking about when aces
of | Sheridan and Robesonia.
The storm the adminis.
another. tuft:
"and insure annually a vast tonnage.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The last two weeks pay of the American’
Car and Foundry company, at Berwick, ag-
gregated $78,900.
—The fifty-fifth annual commencement of
the Bucknell university at Lewisburg will
be held from June 16th to 21st. «
—Aplan is on foot to establish a fish
hatchery at Bedford and it is said that Con-
gressman John M. Reynolds, whose home is
in that place, has agreed to donate a large
plot of land for the purpose.
—The Pennsylvania railroad has awarded
a contract to the Carnegie Steel company
for eight miles of steel ties that will be ex-
petimented with. Ten miles of track of the
new ties are in use on the Lake Shore rail-
road and are said to be a success in every
way. %
—Arrangements are nearly completed for
the thirty-ninth annual State encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be
held at Reading on Tuesday, Wednesday,
‘Thursday, June 6, 7 and 8. Over three
thousand delegates are expected present.
—Rev. A. 8. Baldwin, presiding elder of
the Danville district, Central Pennsylvania
M. E. conference, is in the Methodist hos-
His
ailment has been diagnosed as cancer of rhe
lower bowels and his condition is reported
to be serious. : ; :
—For the first time in many years all the
furnaces in the Lebanon valley are now in
operation, The last stack to be lighted was
‘the second Lebanon furnace, of the Penn-
Sylvania Steel company. There are twelve
furnaces located in ‘the cities—Cornwall,
—Mrs, Miles L. Fry, of Mazee, Juniata
county, was found dying inher kitchen
early last Friday morning with a 22-calibre
target gun on the floor by her side. Her
young son, aged 13, found her unconscious
on the floor. She never regained conscious-
elt | ness and died shortly afterwards. The shoot-
ing is veiled in mystery.
—Fifteen Italian laboring men were car-
ried down a steep grade on C. W. Sones’
narrow gauge lumber road near Hillsgrove,
last Thursday, on a log truck. The truck
collided with a work train and two men
were killed outright and a third fatally in-
jured.
—Samuel Clarr, an aged farmer and vet-
eran of the Civil war, residing three miles
southwest of East Freedom, was held up in
his barn on Friday at noon by a robber and
beaten into : insensibility and robbed. His
right arm was frightfully mutilated any may
have to be amputated. It is not known how
much money the robbers sectired.
—The charred body of James B. Miller, a
blacksmith, of Rainsburg, Bedford county,
was found in the ruins of his shops early
Tuesday morning. = Neighbors discovered
the place on fire shortly before four o’cloclk,
and when they could not find Miller a search
was made of the ruins as soon as they had
cooled sufficiently, and the remains were
discovered.
~—Residents of Almedra, Columbia county,
are excited over a number of excavations
made in that vicinity by strange men who,
it is believed, are searching for the [hidden
wealth of Philip Miller, who died in the
70's, Miller had no faith in banks, but did
considerable business as a money lender.
After his death no money could be found
and many unsuccessful efforts have been
made to find his supposed hoard.
—Governor Pennypacker has appointed
William Jennings, Major S. Hart, Albert J,
Fager, of Harrisburg: Thomas G. Sample, of
Allegheny, and Cyrus Lantz, of Lebanon, a
commission to erecta monument in the na-
tional cemetery at Fredericksburg, to ‘‘com-
memorate the heroism, sacrifices and patrio-
tism’’ of the One Hundred and Twenty-
seventh Pennsylvania regiment at the bat-
tle of Fredericksburg.
{—Because Theresa W. Kreamer, a pretty
young woman, with whose family he board-
ed in Scotch Plains, N. J., refused to marry
him, Frank Huber, a machinist, shot her in
the face on Sunday. Believing that he had
killed the girl, Huber ran into the woods
nearby, where later his body was found shot
through the head. Miss Kreamer probably
will recover. Huber was a widower and
formerly lived in Altoona.
—Charles M. Schwab proposes to build 100
houses and a fine hotel at Bethlehem for the
employes of the Bethlehem steel works,
which he controls. The houses are to be
modern dwellings, of six and eight rooms
and will be built of brick and wood. Mr.
Schwab’s favorite contractor, P. W. Finn, is
preparing the specifications and an estimate
of the probable cost, which will be some=
where between $250,000 and $300,000.
—In the office of District Attorney Thos.
H. Hudson at Connellsville, Pa., is a lady's
shoe, the hollowed heel of which, it is said,
contains enough dynamite and nitro-glycer-
ine to kill a number of persons. Wednesday
night Mrs. Lule Engle, of Uniontown, Pa.,
found a pair of ladies’ shoesin ber back
yard. While examining them she discovered
that the heel of one had been hollowed out,
four exploding caps placed on four iron pegs
set in and the hole filled with waste, soaked
with nitro-glycerine. The shoes were turned
over [to the authorities who are making a
rigid investigation,
—The constables of Northumberland Co.
are making a hard fight for fees they claim
are due them. Constable Michael O'Leary,
of Shamokin, some time ago sued the county
commissioners for the same mileage as the
sheriff received in serving court subpoenas.
Judge Savidge ruled that the constables were
not entitled to the sheriff’s 10-cent mileage,
but should be paid at the rate of half the
amount claimed. The decision of the Su-
perior court last Thursday in another suit of
a similar nature, favoring the constables, has
inspired an appeal to the Superior court from
the decision of Judge Savidge.
—The biggest coal deal ever ‘engineered in
this State is about to be closed. The deal
involves 200,000 acres of Greene county coal
land located along the proposed route of the
Wabash railroad, and the selling price aver-
ages $125 per acre, making a total of $25,000,-
000. J. V. Thompson, the wealthy operator,
is engineering the deal, and is believed to be
backed by George J. Gould. The coal land
involved takes in the whole Greene county
district, and when taken over by the Wa-
bash will forever cut off a competitive line
Some
of the coal land was bought from the farmers
as low as $26 an acre. 3