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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
RE MORTAR,
Ink Slings.
—It is none too soon to begin hustling
for the ticket.
—The ticket was made by the people.
Now it is up to the people to give it rous-
ing support.
—There is still time for summer to mals
good, but she is not showing a very mark-
ed inclination to do so.
—OsSCAR has been deposed as king of
Norway and now there is a question to
debate as to whether he or Norway is worst
off.
—The attempt on the life of Vice Presi-
dent FAIRBANKS at Flint, Michigan, did
not even warm that gentleman into a fever
of excitement.
+ —With the College and Academy com-
mencements both on hand for next week
we will all be teo busy to pay much atten-
tion to the PRUNER orphanage or the race
bridge.
—The survey for the new Bellefonte
State College line has been ahomt com-
pleted and all tbat stands between us
and the clang of the trolley gong is the
money to build the road.
—The imperial wedding in Germany a
few days ago was one of surpassing pomp
and splendor, but it merely represented the
old story of love that is as common in the
shanty as it is in the castle.
—The doctors are renewing their admon-
ishions against promiscuous kissing. Of
course it is not to be presumed that the ban
is placed on candidates who are endeavor-
ing to make votes by kissing babies.
—The duties of American Ambassador to
England are very onerous. WHITELAW
REED had to shake hands with King ED-
WARD, and attend four social functions,al!
in the first week he arrived in London.
—CoRNELIUS N. Briss threatened to
take a piece of Mr. JAcoB H. SCHIFF’S
hide/in:New York on Wednesday and all
because of the trouble thas bas arisen be-
tween that other HYDE and the Equitable.
—Dancing and gayety are the principal
means of passing the time in Vladivostok,
so reports from that Russian post declare.
After a little while the Japs will start up
there to teach the careless Russians the
art of walking Spanish.
; ~The, taxpayers of the county can
begin the work of reducing the county: ex:
penditures: below :the $90,000 mark by
showing their neighbor that the only way
to do thie is to change the management in
the office of the County Commissioners. The
election of DUNLAP and WEAVER will ac |
complish this end... : :
ds. sik
per week for alcoholic re This | ©
means more than three loaves of bread a
day, and bread is the ‘‘staff of lite.’” ‘‘Bug
juice,”’ however, makes men forget that
they need any staff of life until they are
too full to keep any of it down, even if
they did bave it.
—Lieutenant PEARY, the Arctic explor-
er who will sail from New York on July
4th in another effort to find the North pole
says: ‘‘Perhaps I may find the Garden of
Eden located there, who knows?’ If he
does we'll bet our last winter’s storm coat
to a linen duster that he’ll find old mother
E VE wearing more than the proverbial fig
leaf.
—The Altoona audience that made it so
unpleasant for NAN PATTERSON that she
decided on the spot to. quit the stage is to
be congratulated. - It was not to be expeot-
ed that she would be made feel the impu-
dence of her position so soon, but since she
that this will be the last we hear of her and
her spectacular career.
—The platform speaks plain truths to
the voters of Centre county. What we
need now is to put the county hack into
hands that will keep it out of debt. When
the present Republican Board of Commis-
sioners went into office there was a surplus
in the treasury. Today there is a deficit
of many thousands of dollars. Such a con-
dition is due solely to mismanagement and
the sooner we get rid of the men who have
involved wus in deb the better it will be.
——DMr. D. A. GROVE, one of the de-
feated candidates for County Commissioner,
didn’t go home on Tuesday evening, either
broken-hearted or despondent. He pitched
in to business at once and the same after-
noon that be was ““bowlied’’ out of the race
for Commissioner he bought and sold two
car loads of wheat, for which he paid $1 per
bushel, clearing enough on the sale to
square his expenditures while a candidate-
Mr. GROVE is one of the kind of men who
keeps things moving, and withal is one of
the best Democrats in the county.
—Though it is simply reitterating the
objection this paper raised at the time the
first survey was made for the location of
the soldier's. monument and the CURTIN
memorial, the WATCHMAN most heartily
endorses the sentiments expressed in the
Democrat of yesterday morning. It will
neither be a credit to the county nor to
those having the movement in charge to
permit ite erection directly in front of the
court house. The site is not desirable in
any way and most objectionable in many,
Aside from the fact that it will complete-
ly eclipse the court house, not only the
most important but the most classio
structure we have in the county, the
place is neither elevated nor large enough
to be appropriate for the size of the ' monn:
.| dustrious and in every way qualified to
CULL
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
“VOL. 50
A Good Ticket.
The ticket that the Democracy of the
county will be expected to, and we feel
will, enthusiastically support at the com-
ing fall election is this week presented to
the public. The convention that named it
was made up of honorable, fair and reliable
Democrats and their action on Tuesday
bus registered the decision of the Demo-
cratic voters of the county as expressed at
the primaries on Saturday last. In twenty
years the will of the Democratic people has
not been as clearly and as explicitly regis-
tered and of the names, as given on the
ticket, there is not a single one who se-
cared his nomination either by dictation,
manipulation or through the interference
or influence of clignes. In every instance
the nominee is the man who received the
most votes at the delegate election ; thus
making it the ticket of the Democratic
people of the county, rather than that of a
convention or any other power.
From the top to the hottom the ticket is
a good one—no better perbaps than others
that could have been made when we remem-
ber the many good men and excellent
Democrats who submitted their names as
aspirants for position. . But there is no one
who will say that there is a single nominee
unfit for the place he has been given, or
unworthy the honor the party has seen
proper to bestow.
The candidates are all in the prime of
life, active, earnest and responsible men—
men who represent the Democratic idea of
careful attention to public duties—economy
in public affairs; the polite and decent
treatment of every man, woman and child
who has business to transact in a public
office, and the faithful performance of every
obligation imposed upon them as servants
of the people. And their ideas will be
recognized and carried out by every man
upon the ticket.
For Sheriff’ the convention gave us ‘Mr.
SHAFFER. Mr. SHAFFER'S is éne of the
oldest, Jasgest and ‘most ofaent
Demposiatial”
life, blessed with. a vigorous constitution
that has been builded up by hard labor on
afarm, is of pleasing address, fine physique,
has a good education, is sober and in-
make one of the best and most popular
Sheriffs the county has ever had. He comes
from a township made up of honest Demo-
cratic farmers and which in the entire his-
tory of the county has never had a Sheriff,
or a Democratic nominee for that office. It
is due not only to the nominee, but to the
township that presents him as a candidate
that he should,as he will receive the united
and earnest support of every Democrat.
The candidate for Treasurer, DR. F. K.
WHITE, of Philipsburg, is one of the best
known men within the county and in addi-
tion one of its strongest and most influ-
ential citizens. To every working Demo-
crat he bas been known for years as one of
the staunchest backers the party has had,
and one of the most earnest and intelligent
advocates of Democratic men and measuores
that this section of the State could poing
to. A gentleman of the highest type of
character, earnest in every undertaking,
honest in every detail and movement, the
taxpayers will find in him a Treasurer
about whose accounts there need be no un-
easiness and over whose official work censor-
ship will be unnecessary. Few men in the
county are better fitted for this important
position and none will receive a heartier
support from political friends or a warmer
endorsement from political enemies than
will DR. WHITE.
For Recorder, JOHN C. ROWE was again
placed upon the ticket. This was due Mr.
ROWE, not only because the usuages of the
party concede a second nomination for the
place, buf for the careful, efficient and
popular manner in which he has filled the
position during the past three years as well.
Centre county has had many good and
obliging men to perform the duties of the
Recorder’s cffice and it is no reflection on
any of them to say that Mr. ROWE’S work
in that line will compare favorably with
the best. His records are kept up to date:
His work is correct and neat and the treas-
ment each one receives while deing busi-
ness in his office is such as to call forth the
warmest praise from all.
Mr. HARRY JACKSON, of Bellefonte, who
was named for Register, enjoys the personal
acquaintance of more people within the coun
ty, perhaps than any other gentleman upon
the ticket. For the six years that he has
been filling tbe office of deputy sheriff, he
has been thrown into association with the
citizens of every part of the county and if
there is one among our entire population
ment.
_ | charge of the county expenditures there
oss | Will be no $92,000 per year of the people's
‘money squandered in. running the. ordisary
o | ans of i sounky :
who knows or has met him and does not
admire him for his unostentatious, gentle-
manly manners, it must be someone whose
liver is out of order, or one of that kind of
beings who don’t know a good fellow when
be meets him. Mr. JACKSON’s work and
actions while serving as deputy sheriff is
evidence of the efficient and satisfactory
manner in which the office of Register will
be filled by him. Poor or rich, influential
or obscure, all with whom he had to do were
treated with that courtesy and kindness
that made friends even with those against
whom the barshest sentence of the law bad
to be enforced.
For Commissioner, we have for one candi-
date Mr. JoEN L. DuNLAP, of Spring
township, who began life as a farm laborer,
edncated himself avd taught school afew
terms, and then took up the occupation of
carpenter and builder as a calling. A man
of sound judgment and wide knowledge of
men and affairs, and with a sense of justice
that will prevent the robbing of taxpayer
Peter to benefit taxpayer Paul through the
manipulations of assessments or favoritism
in office. Mr. DUNLAP is recognized as
an indutrious, sturdy,honest man and when
elected will act as Commissioner for the best
interests of the taxpayers of the county.
Along with Mr. DUNLAP, Mr. CALVIN
A. WEAVER, of Coburn, was selected for
County Commissioner. Mr. WEAVER has
had ‘experience in county affairs, having
acted as deputy sheriff daring a greater
portion of the term of Mr. JoEN P. CONDO,
acd during which time he made many
warm and enthusiastic friends. He bas for
yeas been engaged in the coal and lumber
business at Coburn, where by his honesty,
his fair dealing and attention to business
he has built up a trade second to none in
the county. He is a man of the strictest
integrity, of ripe judgment and one whom
no influence could sway either toward ex-
travagant expenditure in county affairs, or
favoritism in the matter of assessments.
With Messrs. DUNLAP and WEAVER in
FBetiver, are e both bright. well educated and.
worthy young Democrats. They have the
ability to thoroughly examine into every
item of county expenditures and if any
error or wrong is: found they have the
courage to charge it up to those responsi-
ble. There will be no shirking of duty on
the part of either of these gentlemen.
DR. FISHER, of Zion, who is presented
for Coroner, is one of the oldest and best
known physicians in the county. He will
make an admirable official and will prove
one of the strongest candidates on the
ticket.
Governor Pennypacker Out of It.
LT
Governor PENNYPACKER is ‘‘hoist on
bis own petard,”’ and whatever else hap-
pens in the future of Pennsylvania politics
that absard worshipper of QUAY and DUg-
HAM will be completely eliminated from
the public life of the Commonwealth. In-
sanely egotistical, extremely selfconscious
and immensely foolish he has been striv-
ing in season and out to buy a seat on the
Supreme bench. With that purpose in
view he has during the past two years com-
mitted every political iniquity that was
possible. He bas made a virtue of QUAY’S
crimes and a merit of DURHAM’S immor-
alities. But he went a step too far. His
last bargain has been pronounced too ini-
guitous even for the machine to ratify.
We are easily within reason in saying
that PENNYPACKER is the worst man
morally who has ever been catapulted into
important public office in this State. He
| is a moral pervert and a’political degener-
ate. He has violated every principle of
law and outraged every element of justice
during the period of his incumbency of the
office he has disgraced and dishonored.
Bat his last bargain with the corrupt ma-
chine was ‘‘the straw which broke the
camel’s back.” It revealed him to the
public in his true light as a political huck-
ster and a party prostitute. It has taken
him out of the pale of decent politics and
consigned him to an infamous seclusion for
the remainder of his misspent life.
We congratulate the people of Pennsyl-
vania that this miserable old party hack is
no longer a menace to the political moral-
ity and official integrity of the Common-
wealth. We felicitate the public that he
will no longer be able to trade his official
prerogatives for personal aggrandizement
and that under no possible conditions can
he ever hope to taint the atmosphere of
our court of last resort with his absurd per-
son and odious presence. He has dug his
own political grave and the sooner he lays
himself in it the better. When that event
occurs, moreover, the people should mark
it with a monument which will serve for
all time as an admonition against political
iniquity.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 9, 1905.
Fair Chance for Democracy.
Philadelphia ex-Magistrate SOUTH, has
begun his official duties by inaugurating a
movement to purge the registry lists. It
is estimated that there are in the neighbor-
hood of 100,000 names improperly on the
registry lists of the city. Director SouTH
fixes the number at 50,000, but that is an
underestimate. Of this vast number of
fraudulent voters from ten to fifty each are
registered from the residences of policemen
in certain wards. Mr. SoUTH has ordered
all the policemen who have more than one
voter in their houses to show that they be-
long there. If they can’t show up properly
the courts will be asked to strike the names
off.
The campaign committee of the Reform
party bas issued a platform. It declares
that its purpose is: “First, the election of
honest, capable and disinterested officials ;
Second, advocating personal registration in
obedience to the mandate of the people;
Third, advocating the repeal of the amend-
ments to the Bullitt bill, known as the
*‘ripper;’’ Fourth, insisting that the police
shall be entirely disassociated with politics,
thas the tenure of office in city departments
shall not he dependent on political con-
tributions or services and that all contracts
and proposals for the use or disposition of
the city’s franchises shall be given the
largest publicity.” Upon this platform
young and old men are invited to join with
an assurance of just treatment and a square
deal.
"If these pledges are fulfilled there is little
risk in predicting a complete reversal of
political conditions in Pennsylvania. The
fraudulent votes in Philadelphia, Pitts-
burg and other cities in the Commonwealth
during recent years have easily exceeded
the Republican majority with the excep-
tion of that cast for Presidents ROOSEVELT
last fall. The fraudulent vote in Phila:
delphia was a large part of the total and
owing to conditions which are now obvious
itis safe to say that it the machine is de-
Hessen from frauds in that city. they will
success at the coming election.
Roosevelt and the Machine,
We are carions to learn to what extent
President ROOSEVELT will contribute mor-
al and material assistance to Senator PEN-
ROSE and insurance commissioner DURHAM
in their effort to recover power in Phila-
delphia and continue in Pennsylvania.
ROOSEVELT pretends to have some respect
for political integrity and considerable
apathy for civil service reform. It has been
shown by disclosures already made in Phil-
adelph ia that PENROSE and DURHAM have
been no better than pirates in their politic-
al control and that they bave taken mon-
ey unlawfully from officials and appropriat-
ed it to their own use.
Under the circumstances, if President
ROOSEVELT permits PENROSE and DURHAM
to trade on federal patronage he will plain-
ly confess his own political immorality.
He allowed QUAY to trade all kinds of
federal offices for votes for PENNYPACKER
in the convention in which Judge ELKIN’S
majority was changed into a minority by
‘‘mysterious influences” over night, but it
was said that QUAY had hypnotized him as
he did others. But PENROSE and DUR-
HAM can’t hypnotize anybody. There is
no finesse in their operations. They are
simply course bludgeon wielders and if
ROOSEVELT helps them it will be because he
is like them.
Without the help of ROOSEVELT, PEN-
ROSE and DURHAM will be as completely
overthrown in the State as they are now
repudiated and dishonored in Philadelphia.
In fact they are afraid to submit the nomi-
nation of a candidate for Justice of the Su-
preme court to a convention to be chosen
or even to the convention chosen a couple
of months ago when they were omnipotent.
Therefore we shall watch ROOSEVELT’s dis-
tribution of the patronage in this State in
the immediate future with curious inter-
est and invite others to keep an eye on
Washington. Mrantime we predict thas
ROOSEVELT will be with the machine.
——The Pennsvalley Oil and Gas com-
pany has been at work the past two weeks
drilling a test well east of Centre Hall.
Though they have not yet struck anything
to indicate the presence of either oil or gas,
they disclosed the fact that the first sixty
feet below the surface was one big bed of
iron ore; so that in the event of neither oil
nor gas being found the company can go in-
to the ore mining business.
———Nan Patterson, who was out on “the
road less than a week with the ‘‘Romance
in Panama’’ company appeared in Altoona,
last Saturday night, and so small and dis-
couraging was the audience that Nan took
the first train out of the city, Sunday
morning, for her home in Washington, de-
claring tbat she would quit the stage.
A
Assistant Director of Public Safety of
| Plats, of New York, has done; he repre-
- have not the time to adjust the railroad
NO. 23.
Where Anarchy is Bred.
From The Portland Oregonian. May 28th.
The active anarchist has his earthly para-
dise noless than his passive vassal. The
latter blooms in unrivaled beauty in Phila-
delpbia; the former is found in bis
estate in the United States Senate. To that
Valhalla of lost reputations he has climbed
upon the ruins of the moral or civil law,
and often of both; he has Sotrupted the en.
tire population of some ‘insignificant com-
munity like Rhode Island; he has made
himself the representative and steadfast
champion of incorporate freebooters: ‘a8
sents a coterie of be r men, a clique
of railroad men, the Standard Oil crowd;
be is the delegate of land and timber
thieves, whom he defends against the law
as the robber baron of former times did his
licentious vassals. Such are some of the
men who pass bills against anarchy in the
United States Senate, They do more to
advance anarchy in one session of Congress
than all their statutes can do against it in
halt an eternity. The President sees to
negotiating reciprocity treaties with foreign
nations; the good sense of the country ap-
proves them, - they would promote the gen-
eral wellare, but they would cut off here
and there a fréebooter from his accustomed
rapide. The Senatorial anarchist who r
resents those freebooters lies in wait
the treaty with his bom! ; at’ the fatal
moment he throws it with an aim which
his brother in Moscow or the Haymarket
may envy in vain, and the fragments of
the treaty are carted away tot grave.
yard. This senatorial graveyard is a
flourishing’ place. Reciprocity, = arbi-
tration, Haytian administration, ' Canadian
comity, all lie peacefully buried there—or
the pieces of them do; while in a shady
nook may be seen by the summer tourist a
neat grave already dog for the President's
railroad rate bill. How pathetic the epi-
taphs on the tombstones in that last ress.
ing place of so many murdered infants!
Here, side by side, tenderly decked with
tansy and everlasting flowers, slumber pos-
tal currency and parcels post. The sweet
babes ‘have one gravestone with a lamb
carved on if, and this touching fin!
To make the express business fat
These lovely babes were slain’ by Platt. }
For the connoisseur of epitaphs, 1
jossible, iy? Ra i) veya Lisa
ul place to glean in; to the student ¢
Sevisiat pla is only less fnatructive than the
Senate chamber.
Adopting Democratic
Panama canal iy What are they’
going to charge it to this year, and what is
to be done about it ? The Kepublican lead-
ers abused the Wileon bill shamefully be-
cause (after the income tax was eliminated)
it did not raise enough revenue to run the
government. What about the Dingley
bill ? Must we raise the tariff, which is al-
ready nearly prohibitive, or will the Re-
publicans bedriven to a reduction of the
tariff in order to increase the revenues, or
will they attempt to cut dowd expenses,
and if so, where? Will they reduce the
army ? If so, they will adopt a Democratic
policy. Will they reduce the navy appro-
priations ? If so, they will adopta Demo-
cratic policy. Or will they be forced to
favor the income tax as a means of support-
ing the government ? If go, they will adopt
a Democratic polioy.
Having been forced to accept the Demo-
cratio position on the trust question, and
on the question of railroad regulation, will
they now be compelled to adopt the Demo-
oratio position on the question of taxation ?
Surely the Democrats have reason to re-
joice at the vindication of their principles.
Suffering from Political
Hypermetro=
pia. :
From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner.
Senator Newlands, of Nevada, in a speech
recently delivered, points out with great
force the tendency of the Republican lead-
ers to legislate for the Philippine Islands,
and to ignore legislation necessary for this
country. Some of them are very far-sighted,
80 to speak—that is, the farther away the
thing is the more clearly they seem to see
it. No one has better pointed out this de-
feot in eyesight than Senator Newlands.
He says : ‘Whilst we have been conquer-
ing other countries, monopoly has conguer-
ed our own. We have time tosettle the
railroad question in the Philippines; we
question in the United States. We have
the time to give a moderate tariff to the
Philippines; we have no time to correct an
excessive tariff in the United States. We
can expend vast sums in Cuba, in the
Philippines, in Panama, in colonial ex-
ploitation and in naval expansion, but we
have no money. for the internal development
of the Republic. Our harbors and our
water-ways are neglected. Our reform
legislation rests in committees, and asa
result either of favoritism or of neglect in
legislation, the greatest plutocracy in the
history of the world has been created,
whilst we have kept our eyes strained to-
wards the horizon of imperial and inter-
national grandeur.”’
Complimentary
packer.
From the Erie Times (Rep.)
The people are in no temper at this time,
and neither will they be for the next few
months, to look with any patience on any
move baving for its end the placing of
Governor Pennypacker, on the Supreme
Jbench. If he is weary of being the Governor
“of. the State let him resign and retire to
private life. There would not be any great
regret if he should decide to take such a
step. To give serious thought of his re-
signing for the purpose of taking the Sn-
preme conrt nomination would be like
adding fuel to a fire already well started.
The people cannot be prevailed on to sus-
tain. or ratify any snch a move and good
Not Very to Penny=
yiged fo the]
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Huntingdon county fair has been
announced for September 4th, 5th, 6th and
th,
—The date has been selected for the Clear-
field county soldiers’ reunion, which is to
be held this- year in Houtzdale, - on Thurs-
day, June 15th.
—It is asserted that the Wabash railroad
will now positively be built on through to
the east, and will pass through Clearfield
and Centre counties.
—Under the annual readjustment of post-
master’s salaries, Philipsburg has dropped
from $2,400 to $2,300, while Osceola has in-
creased from $1,500 to $1,600.
—It is now believed that the shoes con-
taining dynamite, which were left in the
yard of Mrs. Lulu Engle, in Uniontown,
‘came from Monongahela City.
—Thirty thousand dollars will be spent in
increasing the capacity of the Lock Haven
yard of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad.
A new siding, 7,800 feet long, with two
bridges will be built.
—While' seated at a table eating lunch
with his family, John Pete of near Hills-
ville, agent of the New Castle Brewing com-
pany, was shot and instantly killed on Sun-
day. The murderer escaped.
—The B. R. & P. station at Sykesville was
entered by thieves last Wednesday night
and goods amounting to $150 in value were
stolen. An entrance was effected by raising
8 window with the aid of a pick.
—Senator Penrose has announced that the
Republican state commitiee will nominate
a candidate for Supreme court judge to suc-
ceed the late Justice Dean, thus rendering
unnecsssary the recalling of the Republican
state convention.
—The annual interdenominational holiness
camp meeting at Mahaffey will ‘be held this
year earlier than usual, beginning Friday,
June 23rd, and closing July 2nd. Major L.
M. Williams, of Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, N.
Y., will have charge. .
—John Tittle, a farmer, aged 55 years, and
his son, James, aged 17 years, were instantly
killed and his daughter, Bertha, aged 13
years, was fatally injured by being struck by
an express train on the stone arch bridge on
the Pennsylvania railroad between Mexico
and. Port Royal Sunday afternoon.
.—The State encampment of the G. A. R.
was held in Reading Wednesday and Thurs-
day. A feature of the session was the un-
veiling of the $10,000 monument to President
McKinley, the money for which was sub-
scribed largely by school children, secret and
fraternal organizations and working people.
—Taking effect June first there was an ad-
vance of 10 cents per ton on egg, stove and
nut sizes of anthracite coal. This is neces-
sary on account of the mining companies
advancing their price 10 cents per toll be-
ginning June 1st. . There will be a further
‘advance of 10 cents per ton beginning July
1st.and August 1st.
“William Trost, who' spent the Past
several months jr Panama, has returned to
%
Bis tise at Min
“Two wellknown East Stroudsburg ve res-
dents had a thrilling experience during a
thunderstorm Sunday. A bolt struck the
dining room, where Drs. Angle and Cross
were eating, knocking Dr. Cross off his chair
and under the table. When he picked him-
self up he discovered that the bread he had
been eating was nicely toasted.
—The commencement exercises of the
Lehigh University at South Bethlehem will
take place June 11th to the 14th. Rt. Rev.
James Henry Darlington, D. D., Bishop of
Harrisburg, will preach thas baccalaureate
sermon, and Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, D.
D. L. L. D., bishop of Central Pennsylvania,
will address the graduating class,’
—Governor Pennypacker on Wednesday
evening appointed William H. Staake and
Walter Géorge Smith, of Philadelphia, and
C. LaRue Munson, of Williamsport, a com-
mission to codify and revise the divorce
laws of the State. The appointment was
made in accordance with a bill passed dur-
ing the recent session of the Legislature.
—Mrs. Anna Wilkes, of Butler, has filed a
statement in her suit against the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg railroad company, in.
which she asks for $50,000 damages for the
death of her husband, Engineer Cortland J.
Wilkes, in the wreck of the Buffalo éxpress,
near Butler March 11th., Wilkes was in the
engine cab accompanying the regular engi-
neer for the purpose of learning the run.
Mrs. Wilkes claims he was in reality a pass-
enger, and that his death was caused by care"
lessness.
—Miss Charlotte Bressler, of Mill Hall,
has in her possession an Easter egg seventy-
seven years old that she prizes very highly.
It is dyed a yellow color, onion skins were
probably used in the dying process, and is
marked with the year 1828. It originally
belonged to Sarah M. Bressler, mother of
Mis. C. R, Gearhart, of Lock Haven, and
Miss Bressler. The egg isin a perfect state
of preservation, but is as light as cork and
requires very careful handling.
—Joseph Bauer, of Kersey, recently pur-
chased an abandoned house standing along
the Dagus Mines railroad near Kersey and
formerly owned and occupied by Peter Con-
nors. While tearing the building down a
few days ago, Mr. Bauer uncovered a pack-
age hid beneath the stairway, and upon un-
doing it he found twenty good watches of
different makes, styles and materials, a
handful of rings and four revolvers. The
paper in which the property was done up
was a newspaper dated June, 1904. The
goods were undoubtédly stolen and had
been hidden in this old house by the rob-
bers.
—The fastest long distance passenger train
in the world is about to be established by
the Pennsylvania railroad. It will be a
limited train between New York and Chi-
cago, and will make the trip in each direc-
tion in 18, hours, or more than 50 miles an
hour for the entire run. The distance be-
tween the two cities by way of Philadelphia,
Pittsburg and Crestline is 913 miles. To
make the trip withih 18: hours and stop at
the several cities along the route will ne-
cessitate the running of the train at a speed
close to 50 miles am hour. There will be
spurts that will exceed that fast. time.. The
party leadership will not press if at this
time. y
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