-will take more than gas to settle.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
. —Willie was a hunter bold
* Until he sawa b'ar
- And then they say his feet got cold
And Willie ran so far
That he wound up on a precipice
Somewhere near Jackson’s hoie
He'd never lived to tell us this
Had the b'ar not been so old
That it conldn’t bite through Willie’s hide
Because it was so tough
But there are marks in Willie’s side
Where the ba’r put up its blutf.
— Bellefonte is getting the automobilitis
so bad that we fear a pending morasmus of
sundry pocket-books.
— While England and France are making
goo-goo eyes at each other what do you
suppose Russia and Germany are thinking?
—Window glass is just one hundred per
cent. higher now than it was last March.
Many a man who needed a pane then will
have a pain because he has to buy it now.
~—What do yon suppose is back of this
French proposition to put thirteen months
in thé year. ‘Can it be that they are run-
ning short of Christmas presents on the
other side.
—Now it turns ont that Mr. Secretary
SHAW isn’t going to resign from the Cabi-
net at -all. Possibly be didn’t hear the
buzz of that presidential bee that he has
been snpposed to be listening for.
—1If. it be true shat that Altoona gas cor-
poration has been stealing seventy-five thou-
sand gallons of water every day, for the
past seven years, from the city’s water
mains, there is likely to be trouble that it
—The Pittsburg woman who is suing
her husband for divorce because he will
not permit ber to kiss him as much as she
likes should have tried him ous more thor-
oughly before she promised to take him
‘for better or for worse.’ :
—The announcement that Japan’s new
census report shows that the population of
the Island Empire has reached the fifty
million mark is, of course, not made at
this time to affect the peace negotiations.
With such a population it would he possi-
ble for her to put an army of three million
or more in the field.
— Baron KoMURA, the Japanese peace
envoy, is said to have eighty trunks full of
documents to read to M. WITTE, the Rus-
sian envoy. It is no wonder that WITTE
is quoted as being in favor of a continuance
of the war, but what aside partner Ko-
MURA would bave been for QUAY in those
days in the United States Senate when he
found it useful to take up all the time
reading documents.
==What supervisor in Centre connty is |
going to be the first to take advantage of
the State’s offer to pay seventy-five per
cent of the cost of building good township
roads? Some day all of our public high-
ways will be made after modern methods
and will be kept in the condition they
should be and there will be great honor
attached to the name of the man who was
first to secure State roads for Centre county.
—The unique ordinance that is soon to
be introduced into the city councils of
Pasadena, Cal., requiring that the larynx
of all roosters within the city limits shall
be cub in order to prevent them from crow-
ing and thus arousing the leisurely populace
at an unseemly hour in the morning will
be hailed with delight by many, but what
of the rooster ? How in the world is he to
be taught to crow with his toes when he
needs every one of them to hold onto the
fence rail that he must be perched upon
before the inclination strikes him, :
—The Republican press of the State is
speaking very proudly of the fact that their
party actually held “a white man’s state
convention in Virginia.” Oho! Says the
fox! Can this be the beginning of the
divorcing of the negro vote in the south for
political reasons? If itis we will watoh
with interest the attempts of the g. o. p. to
unload the burden south of the Mason and
Dixon line, yet still hold onto it to the
north. ‘That scheming ‘organization has
often heen able to deal both from the top
and bottom of the deck, but such a bold
attempt as this wonld be would scarcely, go
undetected by the colored population. .
--THoMAS A. EDISON'S catastrophe at a
summer resort hotel, a few days ago, will
arouse the sy mphthy of the entire country.
The wizzard may be a wizzard, indeed,
whep is. comes.. $0. things, electrical, but
when be lost the. gable end of his trousers
there was a——ocondition - thas all the
theorizing in the brain of a shrewd wan
could ‘nob surmount.
but one pair of trousers with “him' and ‘as
there were no stores at’ the resort we pre:
sume be had to back out of the hotel when
he : started - his Higucmivious atetrens: tor
bome: 7 3:
'—Those who are ‘concerned. because thery
is no local political talk should be reassured
by the conviction thas it is only the calm
before the storm. © It is well not to stars
the fall'campaign $00 ‘soon for the public
has no desire to get mixed ap in’ a strébuous
political fight before ‘it is necessary, and
then ‘there is. always the possibility of a
cam \paign_ getting, stale from over work.
The Democrats have the ammunition for
the fall, all right enough, but it had, better
be saved until later and | then concentrated
in a shor, desisive fire that will completes
ly route'the exéravagant office holders on
the other side who are after’ a release of
{ Poor EDISON had
VOL. 50
Machine Will Stick to Plummer.
The unfitness of J. LEE PLUMMER for
the office for which he was nominated by
the recent Republican State convention is
becoming so obvious that demands are
coming from all sections of the State that
he be taken off the tickets. - His complete
servility to the corrupt machine during the
recent session of the Legislature is becom-
ing generally known and in the absence of
other reasons would be sufficient to turn
all independent voters against him. Bus
his prostitution of the powers of the office
of chairman of the committee on appropria-
tions is the gravest objection. That isa
crime against decency that no honest man
can condone.
But what’s the use in taking him from
the ticket and putting another like him in
his place ? The machine wants the graft
from the treasury surplus and will no more
consent to the election of an anti-machine
Republican who would administer the
office justly than it will to elect the Demo-
cratic candidate. That is the particular
plum which goes into the pockets of the
chief gangsters. They draw four per cent.
on the twelve to fifteen millions and pay
the State two. It is an easy matter to
figure ont what is left and that is the graft
from this particular office. Does anybody
imagine that it would be ' relinquished by
nominating an honest man ? Certainly not,
and any man the gang will accept will be
as bad as PLUMMER.
We don’t say that there are uot plenty
of honest men the Republican party. On
the contrary we know of many who would
adorn the office and instantly stop the
graft. But such a man would be of no
possible use to the machine. It would not
allow a man of this kind to be placed upon
the ticket if PLUMMER was taken off. He
would contribute in no way to paying for
the expensive vices of the gangsters and
they are carrying enough dead weight al-
ready. The nominees for Judges of the
Superior court and Justice of the Supreme
court are of no use to them and they don’t
want any more of that kind. They realize
a great disadvantage as compared with oth-
er years:-when ballot box stuffing was easy
and political crimes common. But they
have all to gain and little to lose and will
stick to PLUMMER.
St——
Rottenness in One. Department.
‘New developments in in the Department of
Agriculture at Washington indicate that
ev ery bureau in that Department is rotten
with corruption. At first it was believed
that only the bureau of statistics was tainted
and that only the cotton growersand wheat
producers were harmed and a few brokers
helped by the false reports issued. But it
turns out that the bureau of animal in-
dustry is quite as bad, the bureau of fertil-
izing experiments nearly as bad and all
the other bureans more or less affected by
the canker. In one or the other of these
bureaus the interests of nearly every farmer
of the country and most business men are
concerned.
In the burean of animal industry, for
exam ple, it had been arranged that the
Beef trust concerns would be favored in the
matter of inspection. Under the law no
packer can sell the products of his business
until it has been certified by an inspector
appointed by. the Department. The custom
has been therefore to neglect, on one ac-
couns or another to provide inspeotors for
concerns in competition with ‘the truss
until the trust’ product bas been ‘disposed
of in a monopolized market. If the meat
was fit for use afterward it was inspeoted
and allowed to go out. Otherwise it was
a dead loss to the packer and it is said that
the Beef trust paid liberally for this prefer-
ence, | an
In the bureau of fertilizing experiments
the practice was a trifle different but quite
as reprehensible. There a scientist who
invented a solution recommended it ‘as the
only expedient for certain important pur-
poses and as it could only be procured from
a mannfacturing establishment, largely
owned by his wife, he, was in_the enjoy-
ment of | guitea generous income: from the
operation. | Itis said that be would actual:
1y bave ‘become a ' millionaire ina very
short time if the traffic bad not ‘been inter:
fered with, by prying investigators. ‘Mean-
time ihe 1 rather foolish old man who man-
ot the. Department, expresses a sublime
confidence in the eropks ; who have already
renigned. 9 # t io
| —————
—~—The Look Haven Ezpress aysiiian
ry Winton; who took the place of John D.
H all as conductor on the Central Railroad
of Péntisylvania ‘between Bellefonte and
Mill Hall, is rendering entire satisfaction
to both the company and the ‘traveling pub:
lie. He is courteons and obliging and
when it comes to hauling a big picnic he
knows how: to do.it.s0.as. to avoid accidents
or inconvenience to those ‘who ‘patronize
the road. Heisa very aesepialile: man for
the Pace; )
§ A —,
The postoffice at Potters Mills will
be closed on.Aungust 15h, after which resi-
dents in that neighborhood will be served
license to squander the county’s money.
by free rural delivery from Spring Mills.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUG. 11, 1905.
One Fight this Year.
Leading Democrats of the State continue
in the opinion, almost within the shadow
of the reassembled convention, that the
nomination of Justice STEWART, of Cham-
bersburg, as the Democratic candidate for
Supreme court justice will be good politics
and wise policy. Senator JAMES K. P.
HALL, chairman of the Democratic State
committee, has expressed this view since
his return from the West within a week
and we notice that the party press is prac-
tically unanimous on the subject. We can
see no reason for disagreeing with Senator |
HALL and our esteemed contemporaries.
The nomination of Judge STEWART is en-
| tirely appropriate and eminently proper.
If the death of Justice DEAN had oo-
ocurred before the meeting of the recent Re-
publican State convention, Judge STEWARD
would neither have been appointed to | he
vacancy nor nominated for the s n
by the Republican party. Some man of
the type of PLUMMER with the machine
brand indelibly stamped upon his fore-
head would have been chosen, or even the
impossible and unspeakable PENNYPACKER
might have been catapulted into the nomi-
nation, But Judge DEAN died about the
time that the Philadelphia political revolu-
tion set in and STEWART was taken asa
sort of olive branch to placate the decen$
element of the party. If elected he will
be a judge rather than a partisan.
This concession to decency on the part of
the Democratic party of tne State must not
be interpreted, however, as a surrender to
even the reform false: pretensions of the
machine. It is made for the reason that
non-partisanship on the bench has been the
settled policy of the Democratic party of
the State for years and the party leaders
feel that there ought to be a concentration
of party effort and Democratic vigor in the
work of rescuing the State Treasury from
the pirates who have been exploiting it so
long. We have no fight on judicial candi-
dates at all but we have a fight to the
finish on the wretched machine’ sontrolled
candidate of the Republicans for State
Treasurer.
Mr. Niles Points the Way.
Mr. HENRY C. NILES, of York, recently
_presid ent of the Pennsylvania bar associa-
tion, has indicated his purpose with respect
to voting next fall. Mr. NILES is a Re-
publican but during the recent convention
of the bar association at Bedford Springs,
expressed detestation of the methods of the
PENROSE machine to which we feferred at
the time. Last week he attended the coun-
ty convention of his party and introduced
a series of resolutions condemning not only
the methods but the persons who employ
them. He imagined he was expressing the
sentiment of his party but found he was
mistaken. His resolutions were over-
whelmingly defeated.
But Mr. NiLes didn’t follow the ex-
ample of Major BROWN, the Secretary of
Internal affairs, who has recently revealed
disappointment because he is not to be re-
nominated. It will be remembered that
Major BROWN denounced candidate PLUM-
MER, reprobated in bitter expletives the
influences which procured his nomination
and finally wound up by declaring that be
will do all in his power to elect the ticket
this year, including PLUMMER. Mr. NILES
didn’t show that kind of poltroonery. On
the ‘contrary, the day after his party de-
clared its adherence to the machine he an-
nounced his intention to repudiate its candi-
date and support the admirable nominee of
the Democracy, Mr. W. H. BERRY.
This is not only the courageousbut the in-
telligens course. If J.LEE PLUMMER is elects
ed in November the rake-off from the de-
posits in favored banks will form the nuole-
us of 'a fund which will restore the machine
to power in Philadelphia within five years
and keep it in control of the affairs of the
State during the interval. It is absurd to
be opposed to the machine and its methods
and in favor of the election of PLUMMER,
who is the sum and substance of all that is
iniquitious in the mackine. For that rea- |
son every intelligent independent Republi-
can in the State will follow the example of
Mr. NILES and vote for the excellent Demo-
oratic candidate.’
nal bound aries of the Empire and pay an
indemnity covering the entire cost of the
war to Japan, she has no alternative. Her
navy is at the bottom of the sea or in com-
mission in the Japanese establishment. Her
army in Asia is practically annihilated and
her credit is about on the level of that of a
profligate who has deposited hie Jast asset
with a pa wn-broker at ruinous usury. If
she doesn’t yield now on whatever terms
are offered the hosts of Japan will probably
invade European Russia and renew the
slaughter there.
But M. WITTE, the leading Russian states-
man, hasn’t measured up to expectations.
He has been saying things which are calon-
lated to inflame the public mind in Japan
‘and create a demand for conditions which
will be actually impossible. If that hap-
pens it will be M. WitTE’s fault. It on
his arrival he bad expressed a disposition
| for peace, not on any terms, but. on. fair
terms , he would probably have. found the
diplomatie KAMURO not only approachable
but accommodating. That crafty heathen
hasn't been making a fool of himself. He
basn’s opened hisi mouth improperly or ut-
ter ed a word which could be misinterpret-
ed. He has shown the highest order of
diplomatic intelligence.
errr
Dave Lanes Faulty Explanation.
* DavID H. LANE, of of Philadelphia has np-
dertaken to show that the fictitious {names
on the registry lists in that city are the re-
sult of accident other thav the consequence
of design. The May registry, he declares,
just before the election last fall and that
those non-resident at this time are of men
who lived where they are registered then
but have since removed. DAVE LANE is
himself the champion crook of the city. In
a speech instructing the *‘ward workers,”
which is the local name for the city offi-
cials, delivered less than two years ago he
told them that every man wonld be re:
quired to poll five votes in addition to his
own or lose his job. :
Even if what Mr. LANE says is true, it
wouldn’t justify the padding of the regis-
try lists as the police investigation has
shown. The law- requires that the pre-
cinot assessors make a house to house can-
vass twice a year and copying the last reg:
“istration is not a compliance with that re-
quirement. But Mr. LANE’s statement is
as false ae his advice to the Ward workers
was inignitous. The second canvass by
the police, which is nearly accurate, shows
that there are about 100,000 fictitious or
fraudulent names on the several registry
lists of the city and that number of people
haven’s removed or died since the registra-
tion made last fall. Mr. LANE must get a
more plausible story.
As a matter of fact the fictitious and
trandulent names were put on the registry
lists by men employed by the Republican
machine at the instance of DAVE LANE,
Senator PENROSE, Mr. DURHAM, Insur-
ance’ Commissioner MARTIN and others.
Among them was DAVE LANE’S coachman,
though he never honestly earned enough
money to buy a wheelbarrow, and nobody
iscredulous enough to believe that he, an
unnaturalized foreigner, got on the list by
mistake. The truth of the matter is that
such men as LANE proonred the fraudulent
registration and the crime “will never’ be |
sufficiently indemuified until every man of
that corrupt gang is gent to the pesiten:
tiary. { i
For a State Highway.
A number of the leading citizens of Belle-
fonte, Spring and Boggs Twps.,have started
a movement for the building of a macadam-:
ized road between Bellefonte'and Milesburg
under the State Highway act recently pass-
ed by the Legislature. The cost of build-
ing this piece of road would be in the neigh-
'b orhood of eight thonsand dollars, Under,
the, provision of the. act, seventy-five. per
cent. of the amount ‘would be ‘paid-by the
State out of the appropration made for such
purpose and the remaining, twenty-five per
cent. would, be divided equally between the
county and the: township or ‘t6wnehips |
throagh whicli the road’ would’ ‘Past.
There is probably no other road leading to
7 | Bellefonte over which there is; more travel
The Peace Commisstoners. :
The peace commissioners ‘representing | |
Russia and Japan are now formally organ-
ized at Portemontb, New. Hampshire, and
will robably reach a satistactory conola-
sion in due course of time. We are some:
what disappointed in the principal plenipo-
tentiary from Russia, however. He has the
reputation of being a statesman of the first
rank and largest experience. ' But ever
since his arrival in this country he has
been chattering like a magpie. “Russia
will not accept Japan’s terms,” he said on
one oocasion when he didn’t know what
Japan's terms are. *‘Russia should make
preparations for’ continuing the war,’’ hé
‘| said on another occasion. Both statements
ought to have been withheld. wR
In the first place Russia must have peace
on any terms. If she is obliged to cede all
the territors she owns. outside of the origi-
lagagy od asliu
SPIED 38 Jas s351b
: than the road from ‘hereto Milesburg and
it it were macadamized it would last &
lifetime and longer with, very little repair.
It would also make a very pleasant drive-
way and perhaps would be. an inspiration
to the county authorities and supervisors of |
other townships to take advantage of the
aot of Legislature and build good roads
throng hous the county as fast as possible,
pays a road tax of about $85,000 a year it oa
easily be seen that if the amount was prop
erly applied to the building of good roads
it would be a matter of only a score or more
years until all the principal thoroughfares |
in the county would be macadamized and |
in first olass shape; and only then would
the farmers and others realize Sher advan:
tage: of good: roads. ! !
dul Sabot to the WATORMAN, |
: ‘ Bain
was simply copied from the registry fmade/|
When it is considered that Centre county | Isaao
NO. 31.
Real Reform Within the Party,
From the Phila. Record,
It matters not what disguise the masque:
gang will remain, as Secre| Root called
it, a ‘‘corrupt and criminal combination.’
A pirate crew is still a Her though
raders of the Organization a put on, the
it impudently sails under Stars and
Stripes. Captain Penrose ‘00 more de-
ceive honest Republicans as to the ‘charac-
ter of his sale by Jouning thie uniform of a
reformer and going in for yurgation of the
padded lists than he could ‘by a hue and
cry for ballot reform, personal TEistrasion
and the repeal of the ripper. Nor will the
accession of a few respectabi
and the retirement to the e Jer )
ceptionally besmirched lead
a new character to the Organiz
Stigma 1a on Joy iden May
counsel and now President Howse ee Sec-
retary of Sate will stiek, ty 4
It is a “ool tad min
sion?’ for plan 1
over laid an) thin ng e
should be wi cout of it there w
nothing left. = It is an_ ins $0 dec
Forte for this frand to masfy
ry Bonaparte bith t
er the name of the c
fy at ae % mange a
their all iance ag
ization. They are in
right could pe o 2 to be a plein
naval officer.
can ge out of it; and sue
“There is only ode way in e Re-
| publican Organization th’ A Je ed and
that is in the manner o d the R e-
publican voters of Chest a ee
counties—by {opt nd | in fairly
conducted and open without the
SS eralitn of she oan, a
get rid o gan p : and
county tickets ng I Hi lan Sate ar -
est votes. iy ; hot ah
A Tired Diptomae
From the Johnstown Democrat. :
‘The nation will be pia tos by the news
from Europe to the e
ing, is very tired. i
In a communication Liss, president i it is
that Loomis, aot-
stated that his ardudo omatic labors
in connection with the removal of the bones
of John Paul Jonds, 4 hay wer his bones
—has 80 exhausted great man that be-
fore attempting any i detail of his mis-
sion he would be con, to seek rest.
Yet it is hard to be ve ‘that Loomis, aot-
ing, is quite as tired as $he American peo-
ple. ¢ has dou 8 r ormed a trying
mission and it often ns that too fre-
quent and too liberal d sing has the ex-
hausting effect of whiéh | e ex-minister to
Columbia complains. Bat the sired feel-
ing which has oveteq } > bardly . to
be mentioned i din. it that
tired feeling Spey ay ths t-
ed States are i Ie as spthidy of the
spectacle they are made to present hy the
Roosevelt administration in doing special
honors to a diplomat known to have used
his official position in promoting dubious
claims and in feathering his own nest.
However, if Loomis, acting, should be-
come so tired that he conld never get rest-
ed up sufficiently to resume his special mis-
sion itis believed the American people
would feel no little relief.
A Pittsburg Suggestion.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Machine politicians in Philadelphia are
facing a serious situation. One by one they
are being deprived of employment by May-
or Weaver ‘and his administration, and
since the State Machine cannot place all of
them in paying positions they have nowhere
to turn for help. ' What is to become of
them is the question they cannot answer
unless they decide to forego politics as a
profession and get down to honest toil.
Manifestly the Mayor will be doing a’
wrong to himself and the people who so un-
grudgingly give him their support if he re-
tains in office one member of the organiza-
tion that has disgraced the city and wasted
its‘ money. These men owe their first al-
legiances to the ward bosses; and they in
turn to the leaders who have go long’ been
in control of the situation. They have made
the padding of pay-rolls ‘abd voting of
Machine politics when conducted for priv-
' | ate benefit. In public position they can con
tinue their work and prove a valuable ad-
dition to the soattered ranks of‘ the Ma-
chine. Once on the outside, with no favors
to offer the followers they are without pow-
of: of the kind that makes politics profiable)
3
{Se
" Open ‘Suggestions Wanted,
Pi the Clearfield Republican.
- Before the commission. recently ap oink;
‘ed by Governor Pennypacker 0 iro
$20,000 monument to the late Bos Liv Bh
rees npon a design suggestions should be
80! eited Pon the people who are paying
for he job ob. ‘How would the fign
Faw weal of the Che
os n as hand some of the.
¢ placed in the State Eig 3 i
Iateral
‘ing the term of Amos. C: n ABieh
of er hand she pistol with w
he, of the Fel Jes’ tank wi
Popuie tthe Quay § statue is a a
ai allowed. to a the Ca v
‘should be onic. hat
win teaoh & moral lesson. Ex-§ Cam-
eron, of the’ Soniugiesion, oa
some of the hogus coll ateral : A
ought to be able to Tooate Hi )
pistol. HEH GOT
" Browns: Tagratinde. «| d Ha 3
From the Uniontown Genius of Liberty, 2 ig 1)
ha the secretary | of internal, affairs,
Brawn, does not chow a commend-
able ogre e of gratitude ‘to the machine
shat has kep$ him in office for. 20 years, he
the solemn truth when he. Jsclares
publicly § tat the present organization, of
‘the Repn ty isa di mae. and
should b by, a new:and better: Li
_There, eis Eplan many who will
‘his gestion that he should be; one of. the:
‘candidates the party when it ps
undergone the purifying process -
anaes or the en pangs of defeas.:
OE ee oot | a on
ser) eficiary of tne Pr or a score of |
years, Je 1nabat do a
G knows if, A sje 1 sn itl Sis od
: ers of
Spawls from the Hcysone.
—Bishop Eigene A. Garvey sailed from
Rome, last Saturday, and should arrive at
his ‘home in Altoona tomorrow or early next
week, C07 1] po
- —Two suits; one tors tres cents a the
ther) for. fiahs cents, have been. brought in
Yor county b y a turnpike, company, against
Charles E. Booker, for toll.
~The Granger’s inter-state picnic and ex-
hibition'at Williams Grove will be held
August 28th to September 2nd. Governor
Pennypacker is on the program to be present
and make a speech.
—Harrisburg is making elaborate arrange
ments to celebrate an “Old Home Week,”
October 1to 7. Invitations have been sent
all over the country to former residents, and
a big time is expected.
—George Edward Reed, D.D., LL.D.,
president of Dickinson College, Carlisle, bas
been notified thut the late Margaret Jones,
of Baltimore, had given $1,000 to the endow-
ment fund of the college.
—Monday afternoon while City Treasurer
E. M. Kauffman’s back was turned a’ thief
slipped into his office in city hall, Lancaster,
and stole a box containing $476.76 from the
safe which was unlocked.
_.—The threatened strike on the part of the
Shawmut Coal company miners employ ed at
Byrnedale, Force, Elbon and Shawmut,
which would have meant idleness for over
3,000 men, has been settled.
T—W.H. Miller, aged abut 25 years, em-
ployed as a farm hand by Alexander Sayers
"| aged about 60. years, near New Bethlehem,
Clarion county, was shot and almost instant-
ly killed by his employer last Mondsy even
ing.
: ‘—Henry | and William Schmidt,twin broth:
ith Scranton, celebrated their seve n
tieth birthday on Saturday. They are car
penters and still: follow their trade. They
have been residents of the vicinity of Scran-
ton fifty-one’ years,
the northern end of Fulton county the house
of J. B. Welch, in Burns:Cabins, was struck
by lightning and both ends knocked out
The supposition is that two bolts struck the
house at the same time.
—The growing of peanuts is an experi-
ment with some farmers about Jersey Shore
this season. Wherever the plants are grow-
ing they are reported as doing well so far.
Ifthe frost keeps off until late the prospect
-of a good crop is excellent.
—Miss Emma Vickory; : of Windber, a
victim of last week's wreck oil the Somerset
& Cambria branch of tlie’ Baltimore & Ohio,
is dead as a result of | her injuties received
when she was hurled through. the window
of the car to the bottom of ther river, 30.feet
below.
—Masjor Alexander McDowell, clerk of the
National House of Representatives, ' an-
nounced THursday the successor to the late
Henry Robinson, of Mercer; disbursing clerk
of the House, will be Charles S. Hoyt, of
New York. Mr. Hoyt has been Mr. Robin-
son’s assistant for several years past.
* —The Department * of Fisheries has re-
ceived word from the citizens of Union City,
Erie ‘county. that they have secured thirty-
five acres of land at that place, which has
been approved by Commissioner Meehan, as
an auxiliary fish hatchery. This was author-
ized at the last session of the Legislature.
—The large frame barn owned by George
Williams, at Belden, Bedford county, was
struck by lightning during Sunday’s thunder
storm. It was damaged to the amount of
about $100. At Island Park, Wolfsburg, a
large chestnut oak tree was peeled from top
to bottom by the lightning’s stroke.
—Jacob Marts, a shoe merchant of Turtle
Creek, has found his parents after twenty-
three years of separation. When about 4
years ol d Marts was kidnapped from his
home by John Powell, a rejected suitor of
the boys’ mother. Powell kept the boy with
him for years, until the child had forgotten
his parents. {
—Miss Cora Fornwall, aged 22, ot Altoona,
suffered a nervous collapse last Thursday
night, the effects of a severe toothache. She
hecame so nervous on the dentist's chair
that work had to bestopped ‘ on her teeth.
Her condition became critical ‘next morning
and before a physician could’ be Shanfoned
she was dead.
—A fire caused by boys smoking cigarettes
near a straw stack destroyed the barn, straw
shed and three wagon sheds of Henry Long-
enberger, near West Berwick, Wednesday
night. Four cows and two calves “perished
in the flames, and the entire season’s crops
were destroyed. The loss is about $1, 000
partially covered by insurance.
—The heart of the Chestnut Ridge moun-
tains, in Fayette county, isto. be pierced by
a steam railway, if the, plans of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company are carried out, It
soith-west brance at a point: where Moyer
and Coalbrook cross” the lower portion of
Bullskin township; the “Rich Hill” Soustry
on top of the ridge.
' Thomas Porter and sons, Stanford
Norman, of Flemington, Clinton, CO!
while ‘berrying, on ‘Bald "Eagle. honatel
came across a four foot copperhead suake,
which they.saw in the a of swallowing
small snakes. : The reptile was: killed, when
to thie surprise of the: party ' about twenty-
five’ small copperheads : ‘wriggled out of’ the
3 | body of the ‘mother snake’ and’ ‘were also
dispatched. 1"
3 — Ms. | Stratton, of, Satan Station; who
is almost 94 years old, has: recently pieced a
quilt of a pattern called *'The;:White House
>| Steps,” in red and white, and presented it to
the Sheridan’ ‘circle. The ndustrious ld
lady, completed thé piecing Bt ‘the ‘quilt in
a uta week. e Circle Tadies ‘proposed
to quilt | the SL and, send it to the
‘old ladies’ ‘home at Derry. Station, for the
‘use of the oldest old lady there... 9
“A goose 41 yéars of age is da’ curiosity
reported from, _Faunettsburg,. ‘and itis cer
tainly one of Franklin county’s remarkables,
b.| says the Chambersburg Public Opinion. This
venerable goose, however, is ‘feeling ‘the ef -
fects of age and’¢an barely move about on its
legs. Itis owned by" Crawford ‘and Mise
Anna Eve me ct iA] ty, of Make |
¥ a ceoun 3 REY
| appearance om the , She fac Unt mate
year as did Crawford Everett, « fog dim ne
t 5 ie a *
: “During a a thunder storm that passed over
is proposed to run a snb-branch from the’
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