-t BY P. GRAY MEEK. A" Ink Slings. —What is to be done about the brick - on that Race bridge? —The Czar says: ‘The Russian people can rely on me.” What for, NICHOLAS? —Would it be gastronomically possible “for Japan to benevolently assimilate Rus- sia? —It would be so much easier for CH AUNCY DEPEW to be fired off the Equi- table board than to have to resign. —The yellow fever is very bad in New Orleans. Let us see, wasn’t it sbmething like that that PLUMMER had at Harrisburg last winter? —These are the much-talked-of dog days, but we baven’s seen any dogs in Bellefonte wearing muzzles; neither are the pole-cats under the Burgess’ front porch. —-And now poor Mrs. ROCKEFELLER is ill because everybody is pitching into JoHN "D. At any rate she will have all the “gym pathy that her husband has missed. —It will be interesting reading, that forthcoming explanation which Senator PENROSE is said to be preparing concerning th e padded registry lists in Philadelphia. —Senator TILLMAN’S remark that a beer sign looks as much like hades to him as anything should be a cue to ST. PETER that if TILLMAN ien’t good he might be gent to Milwaukee. —Everybody knows that ROBERT F. HU:7ER represents an old and conservative life iusurance company, but if it has taken any risks on his life we would advise a cancellation of his polisies until after he has gotten though experimenting with that new automobile. - — The science of surgery is certainly ad- vancing beyond the most sanguine hopes of the optimistic. When they get to sew- ing up men’s hearts, as they did at Bryn Mawr recently, it seems to us that the human repair shop has reached the high- est degree of efficiency. —The New York tailor who admits t hat he bas been married to a man for eleven years and never knew it until last week will likely bave his worst fears re- alized. He says he wouldn’t care so much if his friends wouldn’t call him a fool. Bless my soul, what else could he be. —RSince former Senator CAMERON has been named on the commission to select a sui table design for the QUAY monument we presume that it would not be out of order to suggesta few bas relief revolvers and coins as very ornate and appropriate designs to be worked in. With the stat- ute of limitations inscribed on the base. —Secretary SHAW denies the soft im- peachment that he is to resign from the treasury portfolio to become the president of a gigantic New York trust company. He says he intends going back to Iowa and if the people demaud it three years hence he will run for President. It would be un- kind of the people to force Mr. SHAW to leave Iowa again. —The snake story-teller has never been heard to greater advantage than this sum- mer; but the man who sent out the story from one of the northeastern counties abou a six foot rattlesnake crawling up a berry picker’s trouser leg, wriggling around in the seat of his pants then running down the leg and out only to frighten a half dozen women onlookers into fits of uncon- sciousnees, deserves a front seat in the realms where ToM PEPPER is supposed to reign supreme. —The editor of the Hollidaysburg Regis- ter calls the editor of the WATCHMAN “‘a liar,” and the editor of the Altoona Tribune says those are my sentiments, too. Thanks, gentlemen. Mr. CARNEGIE should reserve a crypt for’ each of you in the Hall of Fame for having made the discovery. There are others who probably think the ‘same as you but they don’t have newspapers through which to try to make the public "believeit. As to.either of you or your friend Mr. PLUMMER —-and we are glad to ‘know that he bas two, at least, in Blair county—we have nothing unkind to say, p ersonally, but your attempis to defend “him politically, class’ you both with the ‘subservient, trookling, puff-headed ‘‘Mes- _senger Boy’? of the last Legislatnre who took orders like the veriest menial, then snarled and snapped because of his debased position until he was'as generally detested as any man at Harrisburg. He may’ be an officer in the Methodist ‘church, but the Methodist ohurch has had to carry many a heavy load in its day, and he may be highly respected by. the people of Blair county, but .the fact doesn’t seem patent to anyone who knows the real sitna- + tion up there. If he is so highly respected why was he afraid to. go into the conven. tion of hie owe party in his own county and ask for an endorsement for the high office the bosses"thréw to bim in recogni: ‘tion of his truculence? We need not tell the peopl e what LEE PLUMMER is. Those of Blair county know. him for’ what he amounts to up there and that isn’t enough to command the respect of any others than the kind that edit the Register and the _ Tribune, We fancy that Mr. PLUMMER’S colleague in the lass Legislature, also a Republican from Blair: county; would endorse every. word. we have said about VOL. 50 Mr. Plummer's Unsavory Record. Some esteemed but indisereet contempo- raries resent the criticisms of this journal upon the official record of Mr. J. LEE PLUMMER, the Republican machine candi- date for State Treasurer. Our recent state- ment that Mr. PLUMMER, as chairman of the House committee on Appropriations, during the recent session of the Legisla- ture, ‘‘perverted the benevolence of the State to graft,’”” appears to be especially obnoxious to our discreet contemporaries. The esteemed Hollidaysburg Register, for example, grows exceeding wroth. ‘The writer who penned those lines,’’ it declares, ‘‘is not a common liar. He is the kind of liar who goes out of his way to tell harm- fal and malicious lies calculated to injure the character of a man whose shoes he is unfit to lace.”’ Then our contemporary proceeds to eulogize Mr. PLUMMER. ‘‘He is one of our best citizens,’’ the Register de- olares. ‘‘He is highly respected by our people,” it adds. Finally as a cunlminat- ing tribute to his moral virtues it states that ‘‘he is an officer of the Methodist church, a strictly temperate man, oharita- ble and honest and would be the last man in the world to countenance anything of the kind oharged by the irresponsible soribbler of the WATCHMAN.” Thus our esteemed contemporary proves tbat Mr. PLUMMER is an arrant hypocrite in addition to all his other vices and his reputation in Harrisburg, if half what gos- sip whispered is true, credits him with many. But that is neither here nor there. It is up to us to make good what we stated, which is that Chairman PLUMMER is said to have ‘‘perverted the benevolence of the State to graft and that every charity appro- priation made by the last Legislature is said t0 have been subject to a rebate for the benefit of the hosses.’”’ As a matter of fact we might disclaim responsibility for that accusation for it was the Republican Representative in the Legislature for Baut- ler county, Hon. THOMAS HAYS, who open- ly made the charge. But we won’t take the trouble to shift responsibility for the statement. On the contrary we repeat that it was the common understanding in Harrisburg during the session of the Leg- islature, and that Mr. PLUMMER accepted the schedule for. appropriations from the Boas mansion on Front street, Harrisburg, and absolutely ignored the recommenda- tions of committeemen from interested communities and disregarded thearguments of delegations sent to inform the commis- tee. We thank our esteemed but hopelessly stupid contemporary, the Altoona Tribune, moreover, for giving us the opportunity not only to prove the original statement of facts by figures but incidentally to bring into light a few other damaging facts. The stupid Zribune observes, ‘‘there are some institutionsin Centrecounty receiving State aid.”” So there are, stupid contemporary, and let us compare the figures of the ap- propriations to those : institutions with similar institutions in other and more fav- ored sections. For example, Bellefonte has a population of 4,216 and the appropriation ‘to the Bellefonte hospital was $6,000. The Centre county Representatives in the Leg- islature wouldn't obey orders from the Boas mansion. -Now compare that appro- ‘priation with those of favored communities. ‘Following are some of then: : Town. Population. Appropriation* Bellefonte...........coeenn $ 6,000.00 Clearfield.. «.. 20,000.00 Butler....... +. 20,000.00 Uniontown 30,000.00 Kittaning 10,000.00 Franklin 25,000.00 Mt. Pleasant, . 25,000.00 Sayre,........... vr 24,000.00 Brookville .. 21,000.00 Rochester. 20,000.00 ‘Pottsville.. £0,000.00 Bradford... 43,000.00 Washington.. ”" ass 18,000.00 We might continue through the entire list of charity appropriations and the fig- ores will show that where Senators and Representatives were’ obedient to the or- ders of thé corrupt machine the sums given were liberal and where, as in this county, the guide was conscience and the purpose the conservation of public interests and the just work “of obarity, the appropriations were small. The Bellefonte hospital, one of the most deserving institutions of its character: in thecountry,asked only for suf- fivient for maintenance and a small ‘addi- ‘tion that is urgently needed. Bus it was not allowed and a beggarly $6,000 was al- lowed by the, Legislatpre from which the degenerate Governor cut a thousand dol- lars. TINLH, HO hia: ; The stupid Altoona 'T¥ibune. continues: ‘It is true there was some friction between certain members of the committee and Chairman PLUMMER. ' Some were restless over his economy of time. Some were an- gry because he ous. off the supply of free whiskey and beer in the committee rooms and on the special cars conveying members on the fours of inspection of institutions asking aid. Others became very much en- raged near the close‘of the ression because he had the resolution and hopesty to pre- vent a mileage steal by men, every one of whom had a pass over all the railroads in the State.”” That is a gross libel apona him it he were to speak from the inner- most recesses of his heart. considerable number of members of the committee. In the beginning there was STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 4, 1905. restlessness because PLUMMER would do nothing until PENROSE and DURHAM came after the adjournment of Congress and there was no less free beer in the commit- tee rooms last session than during any other. As a matter of fact PLUMMER got into the habit of giving expensive midnight lunches in the committee rooms and on one occasion he had made preparations for so elaborate a banquet to be served at the Commonwealth annex that the machine managers became alarmed and called it off after the printed invitations bad been is- sued. As a matter of fact J. LEE PLUMMER in- troduced no reforms into the deliberations’ or work of the Appropriations committee but on the contrary, as current gossip at the time indicates, he perverted the body into a corrupt and corrupting machine and prostituted the charity of the State to the base uses of political pirates. Mayor Brown's Gallery Play. Were it not for a few facts ‘‘touchin’ on and appertainin’ to’’ the personality of the author and the circumstances under which it was written, Secretary of Internal Affairs IsAAc B. BROWN’S letter addressed to the editor of a Harrisburg contemporary a few days ago, would farnish the ground- work for a most dramatic political situa- tion. But unfortunately for Mr. BROWN he bas a past and even the most skillful manipulation will not be able to prevent a pose meant to be heroic from degenerat- ing into something strikingly resembling the ridiculous. No skirt dancer ever hunted the lime light more persistently than this same Isaac B. BRowN. No patent medicine vender ever worked more assiduously to secure for himself free advertising. Some of the pranks he bas played would have made the fortune for a side-show press agent. But he has not always been suc- cessful, as his memorable Chicago world’s fair exploit proved. That incident centred around a Confederate flag which was part of an exhibit. BROWN pulled down the flag and then hurried back to Harrisburg and sent ont a letter telling how the Major's blood had boiled at the sight of the hated emblem and that he had done to it. Things began to happen about that time —things that would have cured the spot- light habit in any man less vain. A few machine organs in this State ‘‘seen their doty and done it nobly,’’ but the old fash- ioned lectures the intensely patriotic Major BROWN got from all the journals that do their own thinking would have caused a man of ordinary sensibilities to lose sleep. It is not <n record that they had any such effect on the man to whom they were ad- dressed, however. They were the delight of his life, the apple of his eye. They kept bim prominently in the public view for a considerable period and consequently he was happy. So much for the personality of Mr. BROWN, and now as to the circomstances behind his letter. He became an office geeker in 1878 when he ran for the Legis- lature but was defeated. Two years later he had better luck and he has been feeding at the public crib ever since, a period of such exceeding length as to exhaust the patience even of the people of Pennsylva- nia. No one knows better than does Mr. BROWN that he bas overstayed his wel- come. Mo one would be more willing to brazen it through if he thought there was the slightest prospect of success. Under the circumstances what would be more natur- al than bis dramatic pretense of defying the gang. ‘Standing for reform might take with the people and earn another turn at the orib, the Major probably imagined, or failing in that it as least ought to enable him to round out a quarter of a century of office holding in a blaze of glory. Ba itis hardly going to make for better political ‘con ditions in Pennsylvania, for in spite of ‘his talk ‘about offending the organization lead ers in the matter of appointments and his refusal to provide instruments for the use of inepeotors of scales and sealers of ‘weights and measures for which no appro- priation had been. made, the only kind of politics Mr. BROWN knows is the QUAY’ kind and no stream can riee higher than ‘its source. : What, Major BROWN says of the iniquities | of the Republican machine is literally true, Conditions are atrocious and certainly *‘war- rant every sincere Republican of Penneyl- vania in demanding a new deal.”” But what is the use in demanding a new deal if it is ‘accompanied by an assurance that the old ‘deal is good enough. In closing his letter Major. BROWK declares that he ‘‘will do his best to eleot the Republican State ticket now nominated.” Supporting J. Lek PLUMMER for State Treasurer and pleading for reform is hypocrisy that takes |. the cake. ——The thirty-second annual encamp- ment and exhibition of the Patrons of Husbandry of Central Penna. will be held at Grange park, near Centre Hall, Sept. 16th to 22nd inclusive. The Quay Monument. We bad hoped that upon sober second thought and out of respect for the con- science of the Commonwealth the Governor bad determined to allow the QUAY monu- ment project to quietly drop out of sight and be forgotten. In other words, we had begun to expect that Cousin SAM would forget about the act of Assembly appropri- ating $20,000 for the construction of a monument to the memory of Cousin MATT, to_be erected in Capitol park, Harrisburg. We knew and he knew that the passage of that bill was a spasm of wickedness which will for all time stand as a disgrace to the State. He knew that its passage was forced by machine managers now trembling with-. in the shadow of the penitentiary and thas four-fifths of those who voted for it are ashamed of the fact now. : Our hope that Governor PENNYPACKER would forget this most infamous enterprise was not predicated on any faith that the Governor loves justice and detests vice. We bave no such faith. We have, on the con- trary, every reason to believe that Governor PENNYPACKER ig one of those monstrous perverts who delight in vice and find enjoy- mens ju the perpetration of crime. Oar reasons for this ‘belief lie in the direction in which his admiration rans and the disposi- tion of those he selects for associates.QUAY whom he admired more than any other liv- ing man ought to have died in the peniten- tiary and probably would if pleading. the’ statute of limitation hadn't prevented con- viction. DURHAM and DAVE MARTIN, his next friends, are of the sane type. But in any event the hope has been disap- pointed. The other day Governor PENNY PA CKER named the commissioners to select the design and soperintend the construc- tion of the monument. DAVE LANE, of Philadelphia, former Senator CAMERON, of Harrisburg, and Colonel MooDY,of Beaver, are the commissioners. Presumably they will sooner or later proceed with the infamous work. ‘It will consummate the greatest disgrace ever perpetuated on the people. It will be canonizing crime and paying tribute to vice. Is will be honoring the most iniquitous product of the public life of the country. Secrecy 1s Dishonesty. The friendly investigation of the Agri- cultural Department at Washington has t bus far resulted in the dismissal of three conspicuous officials openly, though each of them carried away with him a certificate of character from the Secretary. Many others ‘‘have been dropped from the rolls’’ quietly, we are informed by a friend of the Secretary, ‘“‘without the knowledge of the general public,’ but so far as the records show only three have been found guilty. It is admitted that venality is rampant in the Department, that most of the employes are involved and that the President is deeply concerned. President ROOSEVELT'S mind is set against public investigations. When the fraude in the Postoffice Department were revealed a couple of years ago he bought the votes of Congressmen with patronage to prevent an investigation that would have been searching and earnest. It was believed at the time that some intimate friends of his were inculpated and that his anxiety was to shield them. It was known that PERRY S. HEATH, secretary of the Republican National committee, was in- volved and traces of the crime led np to the private office of the Postmaster General. But it has been learned since that the President is opposed to all public investi- gations. He wants secrecy in everything. It may be set down as a fact that no secret’ investigations of official corruption will be either thorough or effective. Secrecy is intended to cover crime, shield favorites: and ‘make scape-goats ous of others. The suggestion of ‘secrecy implies complicity. What would be thought of a proposition to bave the sessions of court beld in seoret when some conspionous oriminal was brought to trial? It would be denonnced as an outrage'and yet it is no more ontrageous than the secret investiga- tion of frauds in the Departments. Itisa dishonest process and to that extent Presi- dent ROOSEVELT is dishonest. : ——The Street . committee's experiment with a steam road ‘roller, last week, was not a success. ‘After fooling around with the machine for more than §wo days, about half of which time it was stuck fast some- w here, they were fully convinced that the use of a steam roller in: Bellefonte was entirely impracticable. ‘Of course the ex- periment didn’t cost as much as it would to have bought a roller and then found out its nselessness.: ———The prospects for: the Academy the coming year are very bright. ' Many new boys have already reserved rooms and no doubt every room will be filled this year. The Academy surely enters: upon its seo- ond century under the most auspicious circumstances, the day department promis~ ing to be very large. Penrose professes to he much pleased with ganization and owes his present position to _| leaders so do their work. Governor Penuy- packer is ready to do all in his power to aid | From the Clearfield Republican: NO. 30. More Reform Within the Party. From the Pittsburg Post. Governor Pennypacker last Tuesday ap- pointed Robert MeAfee, of Allegheny, Sec- retary of she Commapwealth, to succeed Frank M. Fuller and Jobn A. Berkey, of Somerset county, fo succeed Mr. MoAfee as State commissioner of banking. Senator this action of the governor, and he proha- bly is, for both the appointees have been for many years faithtul adherents of the State machine and have never shown any disposition to protest against any of its proceedings. In selecting them Gover- ernor Pennypacker has shown that he is still in entire sympathy with . she State or- ganization and that he proposes to do all’ be can to perpetuate its power. . Of course nothing else was to have been : expected of bim, for he himself is a creature of the or- it. When he was willing to. go so far to belp the Philadelphia gang in its attempt 60 secure the gas works lease as to sign the ripper bill it became evident that the friends of real reform . in An rai, could not count upon his helpin any effort to drive from power in the State the men. who have brought so many evils upon is. The selection of both the secretary of she: commonwealth and the new commissioner of banking from Western. Pennsylvania in- dicates that Penrose is impressed with the necessity of gathering all the strength he: can in this section to make up for his loss of prestige in Philadelphia. = Had not his machine been in dire straits if is pretty certain that Allegheny county would not have been given the most; lucrative posi- tion in the State administration, Bus for the cloud which Israel W. Durham and his following are now under there is little doubt that the new, secretary of the com-- monwealth would have been named by the Philadelphia machine leader, and that the appointee wonld have been a Philadelphian. Certainly that city would have received: one of the two offices filled last Tuesday. But now that the Philadelphia gang isin dire distress it bas been deemed wise by Penrose to turn to Allegheny county and Somerset county for help. The governor’s action last Tuesday ought to open the eyes of all Republicans to what the reform-within-the-party idea really means. Those who advocate it have no idea whatever of changing the old order of things. They proposs to put on guard only subservient followers of the old machine: who will employ the same methods which have been in vogue for a third of a century- past. Wherever a machine follower who has become obnoxious to the public is put out his place is to be filled by another hold- ing exactly the same sentiments and who can be equally relied upon by the machine this plan. The appointment of David Mar- tin to be State commissioner of insurance, of Robert McAfee to be secretary. of the commonwealth and of John A. Berkey to be commissioner of banking, as well as the appointment of Charles S. Miller as major general, all indicate this. There will be no real reform in the State government until Governor Pennypacker is succeeded by a chief executive selected by the honest citizens of Pennsylvania, regardless of par- ty, and a majority of the Legislature is chosen in the same way. : Durham Driven Out. From the New York Press. —Pennypacker remarks that there has never been any complaint abou$ the man- ner in which the Insurance Department has been managed hy Durham. This is hardly astonishing in view of the fact that the Commissioner bad hardly been in the office lorg enough to get acquainted with its employes, leaving the work to subordi-’ nates while he devoted his whole appetite to the Philadelphia government, owing to its much larger possibilities for loot. The appointment of ‘‘Dave’” Martin to fill Dar- ham’s post is no evidence that Governor Pennypacker has been’ struck by the wave of reform which threatens to engulf the lasting monument to Matthew Stanley Quay than the statne which will be erected to that statesman under a law recently ap- proved by Governor Pennypacker. The re- tirement under fire of Darbam from the State Machine shows that the uprising in Philadelphia has: become soo general for even a crustacean of the Pennypacker type to be insensible to the danger of defying publio sentiment. it Makes the Heathen Laugh. F rom the Springfield Republican. Aimar Sato, spokesman for Japan’s Bar- on Komura, declares that his country wouldn’t take the Philippines as a gift, with a bonus thrown in. © The idea makes him laugh. Our $20,000,000 bunco, with mil- ‘lions of necessitated expenditures piled on top of that, does not seem more satisfying or bearable as time goes on. That we were ‘‘done’’is coming to be the general thought, and nobody wants to haul us down! Still, we can always give back those islands to the people to whom they belong. ‘ No Use for Plummer. The coal miners and mine workers of the Clearfield region bave no use for J. Lee | Plammer, the Republican candidate for State Treasurer. During the late session: of the Legislature ' the miners found no more persistent foe to their . demands, for curative 'legislation than Representative Plummer, of Blair. "They will remember him in’ November. yt Ardent Spirits. in Russian Press. From the New York Times. on - There are ardent spirits in the press of St. Petersburg which proclaim thas. it is in the power of the Russian . plenipotentiaries to put Russia back where she was at the be- ginning of February, 1904. = Those ardent spirits must be vodka. John D, Rockefeller’s Power © From the 8t. Louis Post-Dispatch. 3 John D. Rockefeller can make any new oil fields worthless. The President himself Spawls from the Keystone. . —John Venish, of Windber, Pa., was drowned while attempting to cross Paint creek on a foot bridge. —Leo Short, 25 years old, died at Altoona, from opium poisoning. He is survived by his parents and several brothers and sisters, —The Pennsylvania railroad has secured additional property at Washington, Pa., for the erection of a new station to cost about $40,000. —Jesse: ‘Henderson, the barkeeper at Pleasant Unity, Pa., charged with the kill- ing of Perry Lowry, was released on $7,- 500 bail. —The taxpayers of Jersey Shore last Thurs- day decided by a splendid vote to borrow $20,000 in order to pave Allegheny street from the Dunkle house up to the top of the Junction Hill, .—Altoona is to have a new $100,000 hotel to be known as the Hotel Morrison. ' It is to be built on Twelfth avenue, and will be con- structed of stone and pressed brick with steel superstructure. —Within a few days probably fifts suits will be begun by the treasurer of Lycoming county against delinquent mercantile tax- payers in the county who have failed tv pay their mercantile tax. —During the first four months that the Antes Fort Electric railway has been in operation there were 47000 passengers hauled over the line. This is an average of 12000 travelers for each month. : —While joking with friends at Reading on Wednesday William Magee, aged 69 years, dropped dead at the home of Mrs. Florence Levan. He was a resident of Williamsport, and was in Reading on a visit. —After suffering for weeks with an illness which baffled her physicians, Mrs. Bridget Mangan, of Mintooka,coughed up a frog four inches ‘long. Dr. William Haggerty has placed itin alcohol and will send it to a medical school. : ,—Stephen Forras, known as the Hickory Ridge giant, was reported Wednesday even- ing to be in a dying condition in the North- umberland county prison at Sunbury from wounds received at the hands of an angry posse several days ago. —Construction is to be started this month on the Clearfield and Franklin railroad. It will connect the Franklin division of the Lake Shore with the Beech. Creek division of the N. Y. C. The road will be fron: seventy- five to ninety miles long. eH —Lee Kirkland, a woodsman, was found dead in a clump of bushes at Medix Run last Thursday. The body was discovered at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at a point about 300 °| yards from the Martindale hotel. The doc- tors stated that the man had been dead for several hours. —Pians are now on foot to havea huge union Odd Fellows’ picnic at Nippeno park on Labor day. The Jersey Shore members of that order are now at work trying to se- cure excursion rates from Shamokin, Renovo, Bellefonte and Wellsboro,and if they do there will be fully 10,000 people on the grounds on Labor day. —A vein of silica, more than two feetin thickness, has been discovered at a depth of 40 feet: by workmen who were sinking an air ‘shaft at the mines at Twin Rocks, two miles from Ebensburg. An expert has pronounced the material to be of the best quality. Prep- arations are being made for mining and marketing the product. This is the first de- posit of this kind found in that part of the State. —Miss Tillie Rough, of Berwick, one of a party of young ladies camping near Almedia, took a nap in a hammock swung between two trees Tuesday afternoon, and when she awoke she was horrified to find a copper- head snake coiled in her lap. Her screams for help brought Miss Katharine Gray and Edith Philips to her assistance, who advised her to lie still, and then killed the snake with clubs, —Governor Pennypacker has appointed ex- Senator J. Donald Cameron, of Harrisburg; David H. Lane, Philadelphia, and Samuel H. Moody, Beaver, members of the commis- sion created by the Legislature of 1905 for the erection of a statue of the late Senator Quay in Capitol park, at Harrisburg. The Legislature appropriated $20,000 for the pro- posed statue, the design of which will be selected by the commission. —Joseph Kuntz, of Hazleton, who died in the State hospital, made a rather odd dis- posal of his estate. He directed that the $500 due him from a beneficial society should be used to pay his funeral expenses and provide each person who attended his’ fun- eral with a glass of beer, The remainder of the money he bequeaths to the building fund of St. Joseph’s. congregation, which is erecting a new church in Hazleton. —Some time on Wednesday night or early Thursday morning of last week the Pennsyl- vania passenger station at Ridgway was robbed. The thieves secured very little of value in the ticket office but they broke into the baggage room and rifled five trunks. ‘The robbers reached the contents of the trunks by cutting the locks off, and all five were rendered practically useless. The trunks were the property of traveling sales- men. Norio ~The decision of the American Car and Foundry company to make extensive addi- tions to the steel car department of the com- "| pany’s Berwick plant will make that concern the leading one of the 16 plants of the Amer-_ ican Car and Foundry company, the largest car building company in the world, and will elevate: the Berwick plant to a height in the car-bnilding world” never before reached. The * additions will require the outlay of $150,000, and the buildings in dimensions will be 930 feet in length by 76 feet in width, and will be of brick and steel construction. —Dr. W. P. Eveland, of Bloomsburg, has accepted the presidency of the Williamsport Dickinson seminary,tendered him at a recent meeting of the board of directors of that in- stintion. He was in Williamsport Thursday and met the board of directors of the semi- nary. After inspecting the building he ex- pressed himeelf as pleased with what he saw 4 and with the prospects of the school for the coming year. Dr. Eveland will be very ‘| much at home in his position. Aside from his own college experience, he was an in- structor in Tomb institute at Port Deposit, Md. , He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa has not so much power. and Phi Kappa Sigma fraternities.
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