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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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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.