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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—There is nothing doing in county poli-
tios. :
—Here’s hoping that they really were
the bones of JoHN PAUL JONES that we
made sach a fuss over.
—An extra session of Congress is to be
called in November. I'he Good Lord de-
liver us from the evils thereof !
— The steam road roller didn’t havea
very pleasant experience during its first
day in Bellefonte. Did it, Hey?
—It Mr. ROCKERFELLER has really corn-
ered the flaxseed market it is up to our un-
ole RUSSELL SAGE to get busy on the
sledge hammers.
—Allentown was reported as being the
hottest city in the State last week. Why,
only last week? We have always heard
it spoken of as ‘‘the hottest place’’in Penn-
sylvania, winter or summer. 3
—The weather permitting tomorrow
night the people of Bellefonte will be call-
ed upon to make their choice between the
wind jammers and the men who produce
dulces tones from the entrails of deceased
cats.
—Ot course it was to be expected that
the Navy Department would be too busy
building new boats and keeping down the
lid on scandals in Washington to look after
the boilers of the Bennington on the far off
Pacific.
—Up to the present time the only dis-
tinction between a little grafter and a big
grafter was that the big grafter was never
punished. They are gradually getting on-
$0 the same level, however, which is a most
wholesome sign.
—Notwithssanding tbe statement of pres:
ent encambents that the county offices
are scarcely worth having the cool weather
of the early fall will find a bunch of inquisi-
tive candidates hustling to get in to find
out for themselves.
—The smiling Japs may talk all they
please ab out their admiration for M. WITTE
and Baron ROSEN, the Russian peace en-
voys, but when the time comes to settle they
will make them step upto the captain’s
o fice and pay good and plenty.
—It the County Commissioners imagine
they can stand for it before the tax payers
of the county the York Bridge Co. certain-
ly can’t afford to risk its reputation for
satisfactory work by leaving the brick on
the Race bridge in this place as they are.
—1T¢ is altogether probable that if some
of the ‘Peach Colonels’ who are running
the National Guard had to do a little of the
running and pulling themselves while in
eamp there wonldn’t now be so many tales
of brutally treated horses to shock the hu-
mane people of the State.
—All this talk ahont what PENROSE will
agree to and what he won't agree to seems
to be a waste of good wind. Does it mas-
ter much what pleases him in the reorgani-
zation of the Republican party in this
State? He is a dead one now and should
be given no chance of coming to life again.
—Though our fr iend Tom COOPER'S red
locks have grown gray and it would ecarce-
ly be true to call him ‘‘red headed’ any-
more who is there, after reading his sug-
gestions for reform within his party, who
will deny him the ‘‘hopeful’’ end of his
old time soubriquet: ‘‘Red headed and
Hopeful CooPER.”’
—The government statistics that are used
to show that only seventeen regular army
officers of the United States have been’
drunk in the past fifteen years probably
draw the same fine lice of distinction that.
we heard a few days ago when it wasde-
clared that ‘‘gentlemen never get drurk,
they only become exhilerated.”
—We can set the mind of the world to
rest on one of the things that the Kaiser
said $o the Czar during their recent confer-
ence, because we are convinced beyond a
reasonable doubt that he said the same
thing to him that the Governor of North
Carolina once said to the Governor of South
Carolina.
—The fat lady who caused a panie in a
Pittsburg store on Taesday, by fainting in
the midst of a bargain sale crush, had |
things all ber own way when she rolled
down the stairs. Perhaps if she bad not
weighed three hundred pounds she might
have been badly crushed as were some of
the others she bowled out of the way.
—The conviction and sentence to six
months imprisonment of U. 8. Senator
MITCHELL, of Oregon, will piobably pre-
olude that eminent rascal from ever having
a monument erected to his memory in the
capitol park as Salem. Now'had he hap-
pened to have escaped she: imprisonment
part of it he might have: shared alike
fame with his departed’ piers in ori
from Pennsylvania.
—Mr PAUL MORTON, ‘the So ead of
the Equitable Life assurance society, is
credited with baving voluntarily. reduced
his own salary from $100,000 to $75,000
per year. If the report is true the act can
be looked upon as an acknowledgment that
his services are not worth the fabulous
price set by the directors of that mis-man-
aged corporation. Neither has Mr. Mog-
TON made the cut large enough, for meas-
ured by what many amother man of equal
ability—but probably not as much nosorie-
ty—would be able to do for the Equitable
for a sum one fifth as large, it is an abso-
late imposgibility for him to rendered serv-
ice $0 that corporation that will be worth
$75,000 per annum.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 50
Will Stick to Plummer.
The PENROSE-DURHAM-McNICHOL ma-
chine has determined, obviously, to hold on
to the last hope of restoration to power.
That is to say ,we infer from the tone of the
machine press of the State thas the purpose
is 0 continue J. LEE PLUMMER on the Re-
publican ticket throughout the campaign.
Here and there we find a newspaper of that
politizal faith with intelligence and courage
enough to protest. For example, the Pitts-
burg Times in a recent issue unequivocally
demanded the withdrawal of PLUMMER. He
‘‘was never the choice of the Republicans
of Pennsylvania,’’ our Pittsburg ocontem-
porary declares. ‘‘They were never con-
sulted about his nomination,’’ it adds.
“He was merely the choice of the men who
run Philadelphia and bad run the Legisla-
ture in which he was their willing, obedi-
ent servant.”’
Nevertheless the machine leaders have
determined to allow him to remain on the
ticket. The graft which it is possible to
get out of the farming of the ten or twelve
million dollar surplus in the treasury is
sufficent enticement to justify some risks,
and as a matter of fact shere are ‘no risks in
the policy they have determined upon, lit-
erally speaking, for the election of a Repub-
lican whom the people will support under
existing conditions will be quite as bard on
them as the election of the Democratic can-
didate. In other words, in either event the
graft would be cut off, and as the machine
managers have no political convictions, a
Republican who will not ‘‘divy’”’ is no
more desirable to them than a Democrat
who will serve the State honestly. What
they want is the money and that secured
they care for nothing else.
All things considered we understand why
the machine managers have adopted this
notion. What's the advantage to PENROSE,
DurHAM and MceNICHOL to elect an honest
Republican to the office of State Treasurer
or any other office. They don’t know much
about political principles and outside of
PENROSE, who has acquired at least the
rudimentary principles of law, it is safe to
say that not one in the bunch knows what
are the differences between the Republican
and the Democratic parties, or why they
happen to be Republicans instead of Demo-
crats outside of the fact that it is more
profitable a Republican than a Demo-
crat. They ulderstand that there is a re-
mote possibility of electing PLUMMER.
There are a gopd many Republicans so prej-
udiced that they would vote for a bad Re-
publican rather than a good Democrat and
there are a considerable number of machine
men who feel that they must stick togeth-
er or go to jail separately. These two ele-
ments agree in the purpose of keeping
PLUMMER on the ticket and as they con-
trol the party it may as well be assumed
that they will have their way.
That PLUMMER will be defeated no in-
telligent man doubts but what of that?
It’s no worse for the machine to have him
defeated as the candidate of its own choice
than to have a Republican elected who
would administer the office according to
law and in the interest of the people. In
either event they are absolutely outside of
the profits of the office. They realize that
there is no reasonable probability of the
election of PLUMMER. But they have the
instincts of a gambler and understand that
there have been instances in which the
horse with a longlead would break down
on the home-stretch and allow his less
speedy competitor to win. In sticking to
PLUMMER the managers are simply taking
those chances. They have nothing to lose
and everything to win by sticking to
PLUMMER and they will do that il he is
proven guilty of the most obnoxious crimes.
A Fruitless Labor.
The Civil Service Reform association of
Pennsylvania has begun an investigation
of the political activities of Mr. Ww. S.
Lies, of Rotfeville, Assistant United
States Treasurer at Philadelphia. All
sorts of stories have been current for half a
dozen years or more implicating MR. LIEB
in violations of the Civil Service reform
laws and 1 aticns. It has been openly
charged that he bas compelled employes
of the government to contribute to the
campaign corruption fund : for the state
and county committees. Recently he has
been charged with extorting unreasonable
| sums from candidates’ and appropriating
the money to his own use and the acousa-
tion has not been denied.
But we don’t think it’s worth while for
the State Civil Service Reform association
to waste time investigating the matter.
After its investigation is completed and
the facts developed the association will be
without power to enforce the penalties. Of
course the association can appeal to the
county courts as a private prosecutor if the
state criminal code bas been violated. But
such a process is vastly laborious, some-
what expensive and generally froitiess. It
is possible that the association might sum-
mon the accused into the Federal courts
but that proceeding wonld promise little
better results. The only effective course
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 28, 1905.
is a proceeding by the Federal Civil Service
association.
In this fact lies the safety of such men as
LIEB. We have no doubt that he is guilty
on every charge preferred against him.
In fact he has practically confessed and
with the assurance of the Mr. TWEED
added ‘‘what are yon going to do about
it?” The Federal Civil Service reform as-
sociation is abou$ the most arrant humbug
that ever was organized in this broad land.
It will interfere if any Democrats who
happened to hold over under the classified
regulations get busy in politics. But ever
since she elevation of ROOSEVELT to the
Presidency the association has been more
inclined to encourage = than discourage
pernicious activity in behalf of the Repub-
lican party.
Berks County for Stewart.
The Berks county delegates to the Dem-
ocratio State convention, which will reas-
semble at Harrisburg on the 16th ot Au-
gust, have announced their intention of vot-
ing for Justice STEWART for Justice of the
Supreme court. Such a course, they say,
will promote non-partisanship on the bench
advance political morality and ultimately
benefit the State and the party. The Berks
delegation numbers fifteen, the county ap-
pears well up on the roll and its unanimous
vote for STEW ART would have considerable
effect on the resnlt even if there were a
substantial opposition to the policy they
have declared.
Partisanship bas no place on the bench
but unfortunately it has usurped several
seats. This has been shown in the decisions
on every partisan question during recent
years. Since Governor STONE'S office boy
‘‘electioneered’’ the Supreme court in order
to get a decision affirming the constitation-
ality of the Pittsburg ‘‘ripper’’ no political
question has been decided on its] merits,
The late Justice DEAN, who was a conscien®
tious Republican and a just judge,and Jus-
tice MESTREZAT have been on one side
wit h all the Republicans, ‘ ‘catapulted’’and
otherwise, on the other. But we believe
th at Justice STEWART measures up to the
high standard of DEAN and therefore Dem-
ocrats may consistently vote for him.
We have no doubt that the understand-
ing of these facts have influenced the
Berks delegates to their declaration in fa.
vor of STEWART. At least we know that a
large majority of the Democrats all over
the State are for justice STEWART and pre-
cisely for that reason. But there is another
reason, less important, probably,but worth
considering. The nomination of Justice
STEWART by the Democrats will be good
politios because it will concentrate all the
partisan energy of the Democrats and in-
dependent Republicans into the fight against
that atrocious ringster, J. LEE, PLUMMER,
the machine-made candidate for State
Treasurer.
An Absent Scheme.
The Railroad Commissioners of Georgia,
it JosepE M. BROWN, one of the members
of the hoard correctly expresses their pur-
poses, are going to do wonderful things.
That is according to our esteemed contem-
porary, the Savannah News, Mr. BROWN
has declared that it is the ‘‘policy of the
commission to protect the manufacturers of
the State against outside manufacturers.”
The plan by 3which this purpose is to be
achieved is not revealed in Mr. BROWN'S
statement, but presumably it is to discrim-
inate in transportation charges against the
outsiders. That is to say, the freight rates
for Georgia manufacturers, coming and go-
ing, will be less than those for manufactnr-
ers of other States.
The Federal constitution forbids the Tous
ing of a tariff tax upon commerce between
the States and as the policy proposed by
Mr. BROWN wuald be equivalent to such
levy it is not easy to gee how such a policy
can be maintained. But even if it were
possible reprisals would be certain to fol-
low and other States, by adopting similar
policies, would make the enterprise exceed-
ingly expensive to the Georgia manufac
turers. They have some advantages, it is
true, in raw materials. That is they have
coal, cotton, ore and timber within the
borders of the State. But what good would
that do them if their market for the sale of
the product of their mills were confifed to
the State.
The truth is that Railroad Commissioner
BROWN has entirely misconceived the pur-;
pose of the offi ce he has been ' called to oc-
cupy. Railroad Commissoners are to pre-
vent discriminations in freight rates rather
than create them. ‘Besides the federal law
prohibiting discriminations ‘would ‘be in-
voked against the Georgia railroad commis-
sioners the firs§ time they undertook to en-
force such policy. Still the statement of |
Commissioner BROWN - has ' served a good
purpose. It has shown to the public bow
absolutely absurd a man can be and yet get
into an important office. In addition to
that it reveals the great danger of too much
government interference with business that
ought to be private.
Ballot Frauds in Philadelphia.
There is nothing more interesting in the
papers these days than the record of the
frandulent registration of voters in Phila-
delphia. When the investigation was be-
gun under the orders of the new Director
of Pablic Safety a geod many people langh-
ed at what they regarded a farce. We
own that we were among the number and
in view of what has since happened we are
not quite able to be ashamed of the fact.
That is to say,according to the summary of
the result of the work of about two weeks
it bas been officially announced that some-
thing more than 37,000 names have been
stricken from the registry lists. Asa mat-
ter of fact that is less than half the number
that ought to have been stricken off and
will be when a real investigation is made.
Beginning with th. First ward, the re-
port of the police authorities assert, and
ending with the Thirteenth, considerably
more than half the registered list of voters
represented bogus names. In the wards in
which the leaders lived, the men who con-
trol the politics of the city, and State, the
the greatest frands have been revealed. For
example.in the Fifth ward in which State
Harbor Mastor MALONEY resides three-
fourths of the registry was bogus. MALON-
EY was appointed by Governor PENNY-
P ACKER and is the intimate friend of that
marvelous old{false pretender. During the
last session of the Legislature his salary
was increased a couple of thousand dollars
and PENNYPACKER gigued the hill, not-
withstanding its unconstitutionality. The
increase was his reward for manipglating
the registry.
The Seventh ward is the home of DUR-
HAM. It comes next to the Fifth in the
pum ber of fraudulent votes registered. The
Eighth ward in which Senator PENROSE
resides and directs the political operations
is third in the iniquitous list. The Thir-
teenth ward is the bailiwick of Sheriff
MILES, who is also chairman of the Repub-
lican city committee. It is fourth in the
list of fraudulent voting districts and didn’t
have the opportunities of the others. But
all taken together reveal a condition which
should appall the State and make clear to
any intelligent observer the reasons for the
vast Republican majority of Pennsylvania.
We don’t go so far as to say that Republi-
(an candidates would have been defeated at
recent elections on an honest vote but we
will say that majorities would have been
vastly redaced.
Fooling the People.
We can imagine nothing more ahsurd
than the calling of an extra session of Con-
gress about the middle of November for
the purpose of initiating legislation for the
regulation of railroads or for any other pur-
pose. It is palpably a false pretense and
the President must think that the people
are dummies who can be fooled by any
subterfuge or he wouldn’s play such a trick
on them. The middle of November is only
about three weeks ahead of the regular
time for the assembling of Congress. With-
in that period of time the organization can
be effeoted and some bills introduced. But
it is impossible to get any legislation
against which there is opposition even as
far as the calendar in that time.
It is true that legislation introduced dur-
ing the brief special session will take its
place on the calendar and remain alive for
the regular session. Bnt it won’t be ad-
vanced sufficiently to give it advantage over
legislation introduced during the first few
days of the regular session. Obviously
therefore the special session is not for the
purpose of promoting railroad rate legisla-
tion. It is rather for the purpose of deceiv-
ing the people into the belief that the Presi-
dent is exceedingly zealous for that sort of
legislation, whereas as a matter of fact he
is as much the obedient servant of the rail
roads as any man who has ever occupied
the office.
When the President directed ts As.
torney General to disregard the recom-
mendation of special counsel that criminal
proceedings be instituted against the officers
of the Santa Fe railroad he revealed not
only his absolute insincerity with respect’
to that subject bat his ‘all around hum-
buggery. The orime had been confessed
and the guilt fastened on PAUL MORTON,
atthe time Secretary of the Navy. In order
$0 shield MORTON the President issued the
absurd order that the corporation be prose-.
'| outed as ifit were possible to puta oorpora-
tion in jail. Nothing further is needed ‘to
show that THEODORE ROOSEVELT is an
arrant bumbug and a hypocrite, = More-
over he is fooling nobody now. f
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While Dr. WARREN is maki such a
fuss over the outrages practiced on the peo-
ple: ‘of Pennsylvania by the Beef trast we
would respectfully call his attention to the
fact that Pennsylvania once issned a bird
book that is said to hase been slightly
adulterated
The removal of the famous old ‘‘Yel-
low mansion from Broad St., Philadelphia,
won’t blot out the last trace of “‘yellow’’in
that city.
of reor,
NO. 29.
Democratic Party’s | Ups and Downs,
From the Washington Post Post.
Our fine old friend, the Democratic pathy;
seems to have dropped into cogitation, and-
not even the glorious victory of uncle Tom
Davis has aroused the sometimes admirable,
the efttimes aggravating, the always inter-
esting,and always ‘‘unserrified’’ racy
from its meditation of ‘men, things and
events. And whats a wonderful old party
it is, or was! Now a Roger de Coverly, now
a Squire Western, as knightly and as cranky
as Barca Bradwardine, as simple and as
soe Uncle Toby, it is, after all, the
real G. O. P. What other party could have
taken a titbe of the punishment it has with-
stood? What other party could bave sur-
vived the pars it played in the war of 1861-
65? What other party could have survived
its insanity of 1896, to say Roshing. of its
repetition of it in 1900?
In 1864 a war candidate on a pease plat
form; in 1868 a goldbug on'a rag ‘money
platform; in 1872 Horace Greely an il nvet-
erate and lifelong enemy—these are some
of its consistencies. No other party could
have blundered into a forfeiture of the vio-
tory it gained in 1892. Indeed it reminds
one of that not unkindred spirit, David L.
Graves, of Kentucky, a Peveril-
sort of a man, who, when les
moth Cave, fenced off the property
shut out a stage company tha y
brought guests to his hotel , and visitors to
his cave—all because he fell out with and
shot the stage driver. ‘In 1892 Grover
Cleveland was the stage driver the Demo-
cratio party fenced off.
Men have ianghed at the old party, dis-
trusted it, abused it even; but nobody has
hated it. It has been guilty of a thousand
follies, but never of a single crime. It bas
reverenced the Constitution, however er-
roneous may have been its interpretations
of that sacred instrument. Its ins are
patriotic, its impulses good, and" had its
wisdom been equal to its honesty it would
have huried its rival long ago. i a
Nobody knows what the futuré ~hasin |
store for the old party. It may disintegrate
and then, like another Antaeosi§ may be-
come stronger than ever forits ¢ $ with
mother earth. :
Meanwhile it is the other G. o. P. that
is walking the floor these nights, and next
winter; the nights promise to be Tong a and
olefu
Clean as a Hound’s Tooth, Eh?
From the Columbia Independent.
‘‘A Public official should be clean as a
hound’s tooth,’’ said President Roosevelt
early in his administration. But the Pres-
ident has made a sad departure from that
high standard for public officials, of late.
He has attempted to vindicate Paul Mor-
ton, Secretary of the Navy, without due
process of law, he has -dismisied former
Minister Bowen bat retained. igtant
Secretary of State Loomis, afte "Loomis
has been proven to have invested in Venez:
uelan securities, while Minister to that
country, and lately he exalted Loomis
by making him a special ambassador to
France to receive the body of John Paul
Jones, and arranged that Mr. Loomis’
European vacation shall cost him nothing
by giving him a commission to investigate
the American diplomatic posts in Europe.
The President’s bold stand for railway rate
legislation won for him the respect of
Americans irrespective of party and many
there were who hoped that we had return-
ed to the early days of the republic, at least
to the extent of having a non-partisan Pres-
ident. The President’s sourageous stand
with regard to the tariff hogs who are
standing “‘with their feet in the trough’’
added to the hosts of his admirers,although
his tariff reform position was soon abandon-
ed. It may still be that Democrats in
Congress will have to support the President
in his campaign against ‘‘the railroads
which monopolize the great railroads of
the country,” but no admirer of Theodore
Roosevelt can but regres that he shonld
have so departed from his high ideals as he
has done in the Morton,the Bowen and the
Loomis cases.
In Pennsylvania.
From the New York Sun. ;
For years it has been the practice of the
Republican boss of Philadelphia to occupy.
the office of State Commissioner of Insnr-
"ance and therefore the resignation of the
Honorable Izzy Durham will be accepted
as formal announcement of his deposition
from supreme authority in the party.
Governor Pennypacker, in accepting Dar-
bam’s resignation, wrote that the Commis-
sioner’s inattention to his duties bad been
overlooked becanse there was hope ‘‘for
the restoration of his health.”” . Whatever
Durbam’s physical condition may be, be
has failed amazingly in political health in
the last few weeks, and. there is evidence |
that the Hon. Boies Penrose is not so strong
as hewas.
From various parts. of Pennsylvania
comes news that "ag Philadelphia revolt
against Durbar created no feeling of re-.
morse amo hog B Ee rao EL 2 is ta
e Machine wh oh § I:
Penrc e inherited from Senator Quay Quay. Mr,
Quay’s Machine was built for ‘onch of emer-.
genoy as ib arose. It isa question bari
whether his successors can follow sno:
tally the lig of that “political w
Pei veyly nia Repu blicans AHS znd. |
boat and venciate a Machine. If the Quay
heirs are to be pus out of business some
one muss take their place. © Will it be
Senator Knox, late of Pittsburg? Or is
there another man now quietly preparing
to BE hus
‘No Reform from rom Pennypacker. w
From the New York World, 4
Philadelphia need have no illusions. - in
may olamor for honest government. It
may demand that public thieves be sent to
jail. It may seek to free itself from the
olutehes of the corrupt Republican Machine
Bat it must not look for aid or comfort:
from Governor Pennypacker.
Its Studions Arts.
From the Commoner.
That Chicago grand jury managed to|
give the names of a few corrupt labor lead-
ers while skilfully concealing the names of
the wealthy merchants who put up the}
. | money.
" Spawls from the Keystone.
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—A fire at Cameron, last week, destroyed
two million feet of lumber before the flames
conld be extinguished.
—A grain of corn was removed from the
windpipe of a two-year-old boy at Shamokin,
a few days ago, by a hospital surgeon.
—The Pittsburg Railways company on
Saturday bought the thirty-two miles of the
‘| Beaver Valley Traction company for $1,000,-
000.
. —Out of 293 teachers who took the recent
examinations in Armstrong county 286 were
granted certificates; and 250 of this number
were residents of the county.
—Jersey Shore will within a few days be
able to boast of possessing something that
hardly any other town of its size in the State
has—all night street car service.
—William Habroyd, aged 25 years, on
Sunday shot and killed his girl wife, 17
years of age, then sent a bullet through kis
own heart, dying instantly. !
—The Villa Marie convent at New Bed-
ford, Pa., was damaged about $600 by light-
ning. Several sisters’ were stunned, but
none was seriously injured.
—Notwithstanding the efforts of a girl who
tried to save him, a valuable hunter dog be-
longing to Isaac Yoder, of Niantic, near
Boyertown, was stung to death by a swarm
of bees Wednesday.
—The plants of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate company, at Leechburg, Hyde
Park, Vandergrift and Saltsburg are all to
be enclosed with high fences to keep outa
curious public.
—Three boys, foreigners, have been ar-
rested at Johnstown charged with burglariz-
ing a wholesale liquor store. When arrested
the boys had in their possession $140, the
amount missing from the store.
—Because a cow refused to get off the track
a freight train was wrecked on the new
Portage railroad, near Duncansville, on Sun-
day, causing the death of one brakeman and
the serious injury of another.
—Samuel N. Mumma, of near Mt. Joy,
raised eight hundred bushels of wheat on a
twenty-acre tract this year. This average
yield of forty bushels to the acre is one of the
largest in the history of Lancaster county.
. —While he was loading icesthe first day
he worked for the Citizen’s Ice company, at
Altoona on Thursday, a 300 pound cake slip-
ped and fell on Thaddeus Keide, aged 38
years. He died of the resultant injuries.
—Jesse Tomlinson, a brakeman on the
Middle division of the Pennsylvania rail-
‘road, sat down on the railroad track near
Mifflin, Saturday morning, fell asleep and
was run over by his own train and instantly
killed. *
—Thomas Stout,a resident of Jersey Shore,
was found dead in the hay loft of Shuman’s
livery stable at that place one day last week.
He had evidently spent the night there and
must have died from cramps. He was about
40 years of age. .
—Altoona has been selected as the place
for the meeting of the Pennsylvania Edu-
cational Asoociation next year. The school
authorities expect to have the new High
school building sufficiently completed that
the convention may be held there.
—Governor Pennypacker has not yet sign-
ed the death warrant or set the execution
date. of Mrs. Kate Edwards, though it is
three weeks since the board of pardons de-
clined to interfere in her case. It is thought
by seme that he does not intend to do so at
all, thus saving the woman from the gallows.
—Attorney General Hampton L. Carson
has furnished State factory inspector John C.
Delaney with an opinion that employing
school boys for the distribution of news-
papers is not the ‘‘regular’ employment
sought to be regulated by the child labor act
of 1905, and does not violate either the letter
or the spirit of this law.
—Tuesday morning of last week Stephen
B. Patterson, an old war veteran aged 72
years, left his home at Dorsey ore mines to
walk to Tyrone to get his pension voucher.
He failed to return and a search resulted in
the finding of his dead body in a field of the
David Waite farm. There was no sign of
foul play, the man evidently having died
from paralysis. The remains were buried at
Warriorsmark.
—Work on grading for the Pittsburg and
Westmoreland trolley line between Me-’
Keesport and Irwin has been suspended on
account of farmers being engaged in harvest-
ing. The company is doing its own work
and hired farmers and their teams to haul
the earth from the cuts being made along the
line. Soon as grain was ready to cut the
men left the job, a few each day, and today
not a team is on the work.
—William Griffiths, of West Pittston, Lan-
caster county, the well-known mining engi-
neer and geologist, will sail on August 1st
for Southwest Alaska to explore and. report
for a company of American capitalists on the
possibilities of the Matanuska coal fields be-
ing developed to supply the prospective great
Pacific trade with coal for steam purposes.
It is said that there is an immense vein of
bituminous. coal there and that it is of a
superior quality.
—The large new saw mill of John E. Du-
Bois, at Hicks Run, started up the other
day. The erection of the mill has been 'go-
is talk | ingon sinee spring and it has been made a
omplete plant. There is approximate-
‘hundred million feet of lumber to cut,
fifteen t to twenty million, a year. There is
probably. no. more complete ; , plant, or one
‘| having ‘the assurances of a longer r run in the
State, than the Hicks Run mill.
i “prank Vessig, of Shatokin, ‘intedlod
with his wife after he had “received pay at a
colliery, about the proper distribution of the, .
coin,; She wanted a certain amount and he
would not give it to. her. He finally said he
would huxl his money in the Shamokin creek
before he. would submit. He went to the
| stream and threw about $75in the water. A
big crowd of men’ ‘and boys drag the creek
for ‘the more. | Several ‘bills ‘were Tecov-
ered. Ney
: ~—Jobn C. Portes sof a ny who is
mentally unbalanced, ' was arrested shortly
| after midnight Friday morning at the White
: & for attempting’ to scale the high iron
nce around the grounds, and insisting upon
ing the President, who is at Oyster Bay,
He resisted arrest, and awed the officer on.
duty by pointing to a little green bag he car-
Tied and declared that it contained a power
‘ful explosive and enough to blow up every
I politeman on earth.