BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—_—
3 nk Slings.
*~—One hard rain tears up more streets in
Bellefonte than the Street committee can
repair in a month.
- —It might be possible that PENROSE will
take the stump this fall. He thinks he
runs everything else in Pennsylvania.
—Two finet bodies of men or better vol-
enteer firemen will not be seen in the big
parade in Philipsburg than our own Logans
and Undines.
—The back-bone of summer wasn’$
really broken by the recent cool wave.
Today we have reason to believe that it was
only bent a little.
—Up to this time neither Russia nor
Japan show an inclination to cause a flurry
in the salt market by overloading the tail
of the dove of peace.
—King Edward has dined twenty thous-
and persons during the past year and poor
JOHN ROCKEFELLER can’t dine himsell—
because his stomach is so bad.
“‘—Political gossip has it that General
JAMES A. BEAVER is to be chief adviser
and leader of the Republican campaign in
this county this fall.
~The hot weather has -nothing todo
with the smell of scandal that is coming up
from the canal zone just now. They have
hos weather in Panama all the time.
—The Milwaukee owner of a flat who
has offered to give a months rent free for.
every baby born in the apartments is evi-
dently in training for the Presidency.
—Ezxpenses are piling up on the borough.
Y esterday two booze artists had to be
hauled to the lockup in a diay wagon.
Couldn’t these fellows be persuaded to
walk until we get some of our other bills
paid.
— “It is no disgrace to wash windows or
sweep a floor. The disgrace comes when
it is'done poorly,’’ says BOOKER T. WASH-
I NGTON, the greatest colored man living.
How true and yet how many of both races
who fail to see it that way.
—If we were to act upon Justice BREW-
ER’S suggestion to make a woman President
of the United States who would keep the
lions from over-running the Rocky moun-
tain countries ‘and the fish from crowding
the water out of Oyster bay.
—The. good people of Chester county
having subscribed $50,000 to defeat the
ruling machine in that district and shen,
forth with, announced that no part of the
fund is to be spent for liquor or buying
votes, it remains to be seen what kind of a
campaign they will conduct.
| —Mr. SWARTZ, the Republican aspirant
for Treasurer, must think he carries Walker
township in bie vest pocket. © At the meet-
ing of their candidates held in this place
on Saturday he said : There are just sixty-
nine Republicans in Walker township and
I will poll every one of them for my fellow
candidates.
—The honest though somewhat ambigu-
ous, admission of the Gazette that it would
not ‘‘holler’’ about the borough council if
it could only get a little of the borough
printing is delightfully refreshing. Just
watoh the next statement of the county
commissioners and you will discover why
it is not ‘‘hollering’’ about the reckless use
of county funds in that office.
—We certainly peed war or something
else to keep our army officers busy, if idle-
ness is likely to give them all a mania for
pinching the legs of their fellow officers
wives. This TAGGART-MINER scandal is
about as nasty an affair as has come to
light in years and for the good of the army
and the honor of the army women the
wh ole nest of them ought to be court mar-.
tialed.
—1It took considerable talking to make
the Prohibition convention understand
that the only way their party can hope to
accomplish any good in Pennsylvania is by
joining forces with the best element of
either of the two leading parties. In this
case the endorsement of BERRY, for State
Treasurer, was the best thing the Prohi-
bitionists could have done, though it was
to be expected that those of them whose
fanaticism gets the better of reason would
undertake to vote the endorsements propo-
sition. down. The same reason that
prompted the Democrats to nominate Judge
STEWART was sufficient to warrant the
Prohibitionists in placing Mr. BERRY on
their ticket.
—The Gazette's attempt to excuse Mr.
SWARTZ for circulating an untrathfnl story
about Dr. WHITE, the Democratic nominee
for Treasurer, places it in the same olass
with the candidate whom it espouses. The
WATCHMAN last week said that Mr.
SWARTZ has been trying to make argu-
ment for himself by saying that, if elected,
Dr. WHITE will not give his personal atten-
tion to the office. In the first place Sach a
statement is too silly for a reasonable per-
son to believe, for the reason. that no man
would give the amount of bond tbat is re-
quired of a County Treasurer and then fail
in giving the office his personal oversight.
But laying this aside we charge both the
Gazette and Mr. SWARTZ with untruth-
fulness in even intimating that Dr. WHITE
does not intend. giving his office all the
time that it requires for a careful and con-
soientious administration of its affairs.
He is going to be the next Treasurer of
Centre county and all the lying that can
be done about bim won’t keep him from
it.
VOL. 50
Elkin a Candidate for Governor.
That JoEN P. ELKIN still cherishes an
ambition te ocoupy the Executive mansion
at Harrisburg scarcely admits of a doubt.’
That he was put on the bench for the par-
pose of extinguishing this flame is beyond
question. For some reason QUAY had set
his face against ELKIN’S desire in this re-
spect, - Men differas to the cause of this
fact. For many years ELKIN had been
QUAY’S most servile tool and QUAY en-
couraged his gubernatorial aspirations. But
suddenly he faced about and candidly sold
the ‘‘plow boy’’ that he couldn’t have the
place. Some say that it was becanse ELKIN
was counsel for the Wabash railroad and
others that it was for the reason that while
Attorney General he was wolfish in de-
manding favors from the Pennsylvania
railroad. In any event the Pennsylvania
railroad was against ELKIN and as lobbyist
for that corporation QUAY was obliged to
turn him down. He said it was because
ELKINS record was so bad that the party’
couldn’t hope to win with him as the
candidate. But nchody ever took QUAY
| literally. In other words,few people would
believe him on oath.
Whatever the reasons were that influenc-
ed QUAY to oppose ELKIN the methods he:
invoked against him created sympathy for
the “‘plow-boy.” He had hosts of friends
among the practical politicians. They ad-
mired his lack of conscience and his nerve.
While Attorney General of the State, sup-
posed to be counsel for the Commonwealth
in all litigation against corporations, he
stood in the corridor of the Lochiel hotel,
Harrisburg, openly handing out railrcad’
passes to political workers. No other At-
torney General in the State had ever ac-
cepted even a personal pass on any railroad,
probably. It implied compromise with
the corporation extending the favor and
under the constitution was a crime... But
ELKIN didn’t mind that. He not only de-
manded passes for himself bat for ‘all his
friends and taxed the Pennsylvania rail-
road for such favors to such an extent that
its officers declared he should not be made
Governor and compelled QUAY to search
for another candidate. The faot that he
was counsel for the Wabash was the osten-
sible reason,but the fear of confiscation was
the real cause.
But ELKIN proposes to be Governor yet
and the interviel of Governor STONE pab-
lished in the papers of last Sunday is a
practical announcement of the fact. Upon
the death of QUAY, PENROSE succeeded
him as Pennsylvania lobbyist and he could
have been depended npon to oppose ELKIN
if his power had not been broken. Bus he
doesn’t countnow. He is a ‘‘dead duck
in the pit,” and the ELKIN followers will
brush him aside with the facility that a
Kansas cyclone would remove a pile of
straw in its course. The Pennsylvania
railroad is a potent force, however, and it
is possible that it will be able to defeat the
Judge’s ambition. In any event the ma:
chine candidate will be a corporation servi-
tor. We bardly think it will be ELKIN
and it is not likely to be WATRES, whose
corrups bargain with QUAY at the time of
PENNYPACKER’S nomination lost him all
the friends be had among decent people.
But it can be set down as a certainty that
ELKIN is a candidate and that every cor-
rupt influence which made the STONE ad-
ministration of the office of Governor odious
will be for him.
Governor Stone’s Opinions.
Former Governor WILLIAM A. STONE
has given his impressions of present polit-
ical conditions to the public through a
newspaper interview-and they are more or
less interesting. Governor STONE is a
rather interesting person. Course he is,
and be knows as little as the sum of human
understanding is measured in this period
of educational advancement. But he was
for years one of the most servile and obedi-
ent emissaries of QUAY apd through long
association with that conspirator acquired
some familiarity with the tricks of polit-
ical chicanery. Because of this mental
equipment, if it may be so called, his opin-
ions on political questions may he regarded
as of some value. :
Obviously the former Governor cherishes
up against Senator PENROSE some of the
enmity which was created wher Quay by
‘‘some mysterious force converted:ia ma-
jori ty for ELKIN into a majority for ‘PEN-
NYPACKER over night.’” In’ other words, he
blames PENROSE for the present demoraliz.
ed condition of the party in the State and
infer entially admit that the chances are
that the Republican candidate for State
Treasurer, J. LEE PLUMMER, will be de-
feated at the coming election. . “PENROSE
must take the stump as QUAY did in 1900
when the party was in danger,” Governor
STONE continued, but he sharply refused
to say that in his opinion PENROSE'S work
on the stump would prove effective.
The most significant of all former Gov-
ernor STONE'S statements, however, is con-
tained in this thrust between the PENROSE
ribs. “If QUAY bad been alive,’ he said,
‘‘he never would bave permitted the Demo-
crats to nominate STEWART for Justice.
STATE RIGHTS AND
FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFON TE, PA., AUG. 25, 1905.
He would have named a candidate for the
bench and made an issue of the Judgeship.
Now the issue is for State Treasurer ob one
side and clean politics on the other.” In
other words, through PENROSE’S cowardice
a man who is practically a Democrat was
first appointed and subsequently nominated
for Justice and the Democrats having
adopted him there is no chance to make an
issue that will interest the Standard Oil
Berry Makes Good Impression,
In the political history of Pennsylvania
no man has ever made a more profound
impression than William H. Berry, the
Democratic nominee for State Treasurer,
in go brief a period. Mr. Berry was little
kn own outside of his own neighborhood
two years ago.
regarded as a citizen of high character and
There he was favorably
company or other monopolies.
Politics in Chester County.
The political revolution in Chester coun-
ty is one of the marvels of the pericd. As
we have stated in the past the most safely
splendid ability, who bad acquired a
thoroogh understanding of business and a
fair measure of prosperity. He was a
Demoorat. in polities and faithful to his
political and civic obligations, but was not
a politician. Last February he was nomi-
nated for Mayor of Chester, the city in
entrenched local machine in the State was
that in Chester connty. Nobody ventured
to dispute its power. No one dreamed of
questioning its omnipotence. LARRY EYRE
was literally the whole thing. What he
said was the law of the party, the official
pronouncement of the machine. But all
of a sudden the conditions changed. With
miracalous rapidity an opposing force ap-
peared and developed. At first LARRY
laughed at such temerity. It appeared to
him absurd and he said so with charac-
terietic politeness and emphasis. But it
remained.
Last week Mr. EYRE offered to com-
promise with the strange force which had
invaded his political preserve. Just think
of it. Lary EYRE, who had been since
“time out of mind’! accustomed to order
things as he felt inclined forced to com-
promise. If the offer had been accepted if
would have been strange enough. But as
a matter of fact it was rejected contemptu-
ously and notice served on Mr. EYRE that
unconditional surrender was bis only alter-
native. He hasn’t quite brought himself
to accept such a fate as yet but he will. He
is too wise to throw himself into a thresh-
ing machine and he might as well do that
as to refuse to surrender. In other words,
if he doesn’t obey he will be crashed.
This condition jn Chester county is
simply an expansion of the political revo-
lation in Philadelphia and before three
months have elapsed it will have spread
nearly all over the State. The iniquities
of the Republican machine have actually
become unendurable to decent men and
they are determined to overthrow it. In
Chester county the Republicans will vote
for the Republican judicial candidates with |
the fidelity of former years. But they have
repudiated the Republican machine and its
atrocious candidate for State Treasurer and’
will be September 7th.
those who are anxious to help purge the
State of machine domination nex fall.
which be lives, and was formally introduo-
ed into politics,
Chester is a city with a large Republican
majority, more than two to one. A Demo-
cratic nomination in that city was not an |
enticing thing. Ordinarily it meansa good
deal of trouble, some expense and a rather
humiliating defeat.
cepted the burdens, the obligations and
the responsibilities.
office.
put another in his place. But the people
of Chest er wanted a Mayor of his type and
he was elected. Then people began won-
dering what manner of man could achieve
such a victory. Before be was in office
three months the papers were publishing
things about him because he had turned
the town inside cut.
But Mr. BERRY ac-
He didn’t want the
In fact be would much rather have
Thus BERRY drew public attention to-
ward him and when the Democrats of the
State were looking about for an available
candidate for State Treasurer, they turned
their eyes in his direction.
the sort of fellow that was needed. He
bas intelligence, integrity and courage.
Public affairs in the State are just in the
condition that he found them in Chester
and it was concluded to invite him to ex-
tend his reform work.
was unanimously nominated and his first
speech in the campaign indicates that no-
body will be disappointed in his work, If
he is elected the needed reforms will fol-
low as certain as fate.
He was just
In other words, he
——The last day for registering voters
Don’t forget this
The Pleasures of Automobiling.
Bellefonte has now five owners of auso-
the local ticket of the EYRE machine. For
Treasurer they will vote for WiLnraym H,
BERRY and for county offices they will
support a fusion ticket.
——Thursday, Sept. 7th, will be the lass
day on which you can register it you wan
to vote in the fall.
Dave Lane’s Independent
. The Republican campaign committee of
Philadelphia has made a virtue of necessity
and adopted a resolution pledging itself to
assist in the work of purging the registry
‘‘When the devil was sick the devil
a monk would be,”. and the Philadelphia
Republican machine is a very sick devil.
The police canvass of the city showed 60,-
000 bogus names on the registry. The
canvass of the Citizen’s committee revealed
about 80,000 names improperly registered.
Both were bad showings and the machine
concluded that it would better pretend to
favor improvement. The resolutions are
the outcome of this determination.
Singularly enough the resolutions were
introduced by DAVID H. LANE, a profes-
sional politician and as eorrupt a manager
as ever stuffed a ballot box. Two years
ago LANE publicly advised policemen and
other employees of the city to stuff ballot
lists.
Assurance.
mobiles with a total of eight machines, and
if all reports are correct there are still more
to follow. It looks very nice to sit idly
and see a orowd go speeding by at the rate
of twenty miles an hour and upwards, but
that is only the pleasant side of an autoist’s
¢/{life. The public have not yes been taken
| into confidence as to the other side. The
bard-luck stories are only swapped when
machine owners get together, but even then
some leak out. Of course it is not pleas-
ant to stick on the road miles from home
and have tobe hauled in by that despised
animal, the horse; or to break a chain in
the middle of a very dark night; or run
into a telegraph pole; or push your ma-
chine over muddy roads a half mile up a
mountain; or while going along at a twen-
ty-five mile clip at 11 o’clock at night to
suddenly plunge into a mud hole over axle
deep and have to trot around a mile or’ so
and wake up an old farmer to get a horse to
water is so deep it sizzles around the en-
gine of your machine; or get stuck on a lit-
tle up grade just when you’re trying to
show off; or go out for a little trip of
pleasure and come home so covered with
dust and dirs you resemble a knight of the
road. All the above and mush more has
been the experience of Bellefonte machine
owners and yet they are enthusiastic au-
pull you out; or ford a stream where the :
boxes. . Other men of his wretched type
have encouraged such work in a quiet way.
But LANE came out boldly and told them
not only that they were expected to pro-
vide fraudulent votes but that they were
obliged to and that any of them who failed
to poll five votes would be discharged from
tom obilists.
—The literary world has suffered a loss
in the death of Mrs. MARY MAPES DODGE,
which occurred at Ontario Park in the
Catskills, last Monday. Few writers. have
the service of the city. This is a matter of
public record.
Yet DAVE LANE had the supreme as-
surance, the sublime impudence to in-
troduce a resolution pledging the machine
of which he'is a putrid part to help purify
the elections. :
He ought to be scourged for his insult to
public intelligence.
Every man in the city with the under-
standing of a dog knows that DAVE LANE
doesn’t favor honest elections.
Every man knows that he has promoted
frands every .year of his: mature life and
that before he grew rich from the plander
of municipal corruption he actually perpe-
trated them.
That being true he will. fool no one with
his reform false pretenses.
He won’t'even deceive himself.
——The business men’s picnic now be-
ing a thing of the past the next big time
will be the big Centre County Fair.
ER AA Ss.
——DBesure to have yourself registered
‘before Thursday, Sept. 7th.
been successful from the start as was she
in her first literary venture, the “Irvington
Stories,’” a collection of tales for children.
Ever since ber writings bave been eagerly
sought for and as editor-in-chief of Sr.
NICHOLAS she has made glad the hearts of
thousands of children.
——Philipsburg anticipates. big things
from the new coal developments on the One
Mile ran.’ The coal is of splendid quality,
the veins are thick and there is a large body
of it, and with a number of strong com-
panies to operate the same, a new stimulus
must of ‘necessity be given the mining in-
terests of that community,and greater pros-
‘perity will consequently be the result.
—Russia will concede every point claim-
ed by Japan, but positively refuses to pay
an indemnity; either in such a form or
disguised under any other: name. It is
now up to Japan to recede from her position
or order OYAMA to
Russian position.
——Su bseribe for the WATCHMAN.
proceed for another
~ NO.83.
Cause for Congratuiation.
From the Poughkeepsie News-Press.
~The Democratic party can congratulate
itself’ that none of its representatives in
high placesare underindiotment or sentence
for malfeasance in office; that it 1s not Demo-
cratio Senators and representatives who
dispose of public offices for a monetary con-
sideration; that it is not the fauls of Demo-.
cratic office holders that such catastrophies'
as the Slocum horror or the Bennington
disaster occurred; that it does not hold in
the Senate for political purposes the Mor-
mon Smoot; that the trail of ‘‘gralt”
stretohing through the postoffices, interior,
agricultural and printing departments of
the government, is not worn smooth by the
feet of its faithful; that Democrats are not
figuring either conspicuously or af all'in
land-grabbing schemes, in rakeoffs on army
uniforms, in all the little and great scandals
that bave marked the national adminis-
tration since the 4th of March, 1897. The
Democratic party can congratulate itself
that its last two federal administrations
were honest and clean’ and decent. It can
congratulate itself that the very name
Democracy stands in state and nation a
synonym for decency. = Bo
in Regard to Plummer,
From the Wilkes-Barre News. Hehe
Mr. Plummer represents that which is
most offensive and iniquitous in the odious
Machine. Daring the last session of the
Legislature he was the instrument through
which the Machine managers prostituted
the beueficence of the State into a source of
graft and a medinm of bribery. = He ‘sap-
ported the infamous Publ bill and other
measures intended to promote vice and pro-
tect crime, including the Philadelphia
“Ripper.’” But so long as the Machine is
in control of the party organization there is
no reason why he should decline. -
The Machine is in hard lines this year.
The reform movement in Philadelphia will
out at least 100,000 from the aggregate vote
of the party in that city alone. The reform
movement ontside the city as expressed by
Mr. Niles, of York, and Major Brown, of
Harrisburg, will take another 100,000 from
the total. These things mean tolerably
certain defeat, and defeat to Plummer
means obliteration. But withdrawal means
the same. It is a confession of guilt and a
certain consignment to disgraceful and dis-
honored oblivion. Aa :
———— .
Black Corruption or Common Deceney.
From the Pittshurg Leader (Rep.) x
The leaders of the Democracy cannot be
too strongly commended for the spirit
which they have shown in making this
possible. ~ Under their guidance, the De-
mocracy has been inspired to cast partisian-
‘| ship aside, to name candidates Tepresent-
| ing the loftiess principles and ta pr
: and toy provide
means whereby ‘all honest eltizens may go-
operate to secure good government an
borrow the Rooseveltian phrase, “a square
deal for every man.” It now remains only,
for the independent elements to take ad-.
vantage of the opportunity offered them in
order to insure a triumph for the reform
cause a8 memorable in its way as that
achieved in 1883, when Robert E. Pattison
was elected Governor. That these ele-
ments will respond as the emergency de-
mands is hardly to be doubted. The issue
between black corruption and common de-
cency is too plain to be ignored.
The Clear [ssue.
From the Phila. Record.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania have
now pat it up to the members of all the
other parties in Rennsylvania whether they
desire to co-operate in a combined assault
upon graft.
There are 400,000 Democratic votes that
may be counted upon as sure to be cast for
John Stewart td" keep the Supreme court
of the State sweet, clean and free from re-
proach ; t0 put an honest, God-fearing man
in the control of the State Treasury and to
help dig the’ grave of political corruption
in the minagement of State and municipal
affairs. =
It is no time to act upon questions of
Federal politics or to sit in judgment on
the motives of men who ally themselves
with the movement for civio sanitation.
. “For graft’or ‘‘against graft”’is the only
issue.
Can’t be Stopped by Popguns.
From the Phoenixville Rep. id
The revolt of the Republican party in
Chester county and in the State has be-
come too formidable to he stopped by pop-
guns. Injunctions failed to save Darbam
and McNichol in Philadelphia; and the
opinions of shrewd lawyers will be similar-
ly ineffective in Chester county. The pri-
mal doctrine of human rights is too import-
ant to be turned aside hy pettifogging
arts.
The Focht Brand of Reform.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
The Hoh. Benjamin Focht, author of the
razzle-dazzle official ballot, comes to the
fore with a demand for ‘‘reform within the
party.’’ ‘The kind of “‘reform’’ Mr. Foch
‘| favored us with when he was a State Sena.
tor was simply a refinement upon crude
Machine methods. The Hon. Benjamin is
a reformer ‘with much of the Heathen
Chinee propensity for cheating and decep-
tion.
Will Listen When it “Hollers.'’,
From the Paoii (Md) News. 3 :
Maybe the Democratic party bas struck |
its lucky time again. Republican stand-
| patters say that they will put on a stamp
tax to meet the deficit instead of adjusting
the tariff to a revenue basis. If they do.
the country will listen when the old Dem-
ocratio.party hollers, :
PTT 1 SRR NE
-——As. their festival, Saturday night,’
the Milesburg base ball team cleared forty’
dollars, enough to pay for their uniforms
and a few other slight obligations. So far
this season the Milesburg team has play
seven games, winning five of them. I
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‘ing since 1903.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—There are two cases of small pox in Wil-
hamsburg, Blair county. A
—An eel 44 inches in length, which made
a meal for. 9- persons, was caught in the
‘Maiden creek, Berks county, by Dr. John B.
Musser of Reading. . ie .
—Mrs, Jeremiah Yeakel, of Hughesville,
is the owner of two turkey hens that have
made a record as layers, having for this sea-
son a credit of 165 eggs, besides hatching 50
young turkeys. aa
—G. M. Greely, an expert electrician of
Philadelphia, was electrocuted at Indiana,Pa.,
a few days ago while making an inspection
of some work there by coming in contact
with a live wire.
‘ —Fire, Sunday morning, totally destroyed
the plant of the New Castle Forge and Belt
company, at New Castle, throwing six hun.
dred men out of employment. The loss is
placed at $100,000. Ss
—Ethel Vandersloot, of York, who has not
walked a step in twelve years,Sunday morn-
ing got out of bed and walked around ‘al’
most as well as anybody. * For six years she
had not been out of doors and physicians had
given her case up as helpless.
~-Experiments conducted in Lancaster coun
ty by the State Department of Agriculture
in the growing of Sumatra tobacco under
cover have resulted in the production of a
leaf that equals in quality the famed prot
duct of the East India island.
—Fred R. Bartles, supervisor of the Beech
Creek division of the New York Central rail-
road, with headquarters at Clearfi eld,recent-
ly received an appointment as assistant engi-
neer on the Panama canal, with offices in the
city of Panama. He at once tendered his res
ignation and left for Panama last Thursday.
, —Adam Heiler,a farmer of Fairview town:
ship, near Goldsboro, Pa., has proved that he
is one of the legal heirs of Jacob Heighler:
the California millionaire, who left an es-
tate of $4,000,000 when he died a short time
ago on the Pacific coast. Heiler will receive
a half million as his share of the estate, which
will be divided by the California courts early
in September.
* —Deer is more plentiful in Pennsylvania
than they have been for many years, accord-
ing to the reports to the State game commis-
sioner. Some of the game wardens report
deer in localities where there have been none
of those animals for many years. The re-
ports also indicate a large abundance of wild
turkeys and pheasants, and an ‘unusually
small quantity of quail.
- —The first human footprint ever found iu
anthracite coal was uncovered by Michael
Sincavage, a miner at Eagle Hill colliery,
Thursday, the fossil being a man’s footprint.
Fossils of snakes, ferns, etc., have been plen-
tiful, but this is the first evidence that pre-
historic man was in existence in this country
during the formation of the coal beds. The
print, it is estimated, must have been made
10,000 years ago. ;
1 —The appeal taken from the county audi-
tors’ settlement by the taxpayers of Clear-
field county relative to the expenditure of al-
leged exorbitant sums for lightning rods and
the painting and repairs of county buildings
by the 'ex-board of county commissioners,
Charles Cole, Henry Deim and W. C. Davis,
will iov'be Jed; Thee: comiishioers last
week agreed to refund to the county $2,500
and pay the costs. The case has been hang-
—R. M. Bailey,at one time president of the
' Central Pennsylvania: Telephone ;company;
before it became merged with the Pennsyl-
vania Telephone conipany, died at his home
in Williamsport, Sunday at noon. . The de-
ceased was well known in this locality and
was at one time an operator for the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at Tyrone. The funeral took
place on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
_ | the body being taken to Milton for inter-
ment.
—The Renovo News is responsible for the
following: Frank J. Steel entertained a few
friends at the Crescent club house on the
North side mountains Sunday. Breakfast
was served the party, the ‘principal dish be-
ing fried rattlesnake, preparéd in a tempting
manner by Grant Ginter. - The snake repast
was greatly enjoyed by the gentlemen, and
some being epicurean in their tastes, their
judgment in the matter of rattlesnake as a
food will have to be accepted as final.
—By a deal completed within the last few
days 3,000 acres of coal lands, said to be the
richest in the bituminous regions, has been
bought by J.L. Mitchell and Rembrandt Peale,
of Philadelphia, from the, Kennedy Coal and
Coke company at Thomas mills, 10 miles from
Johnstown. In this tract there are 3,000 acres
and the price paid by the purchasers was
$600,000. J. Blair Kenderly,of Philadelphia,
and others have purchased the property of
the Valley Stone and Coal company of Johns-
town, dealers in coal. The latter tract com-
prises 800 acres and brought $450,000.
—The greatest engineering feat in the State
is said to be the stripping of the surface from
the Mammoth, the biggest vein of anthracite
coal in existence, by the St. Clair Coal com-
vany. This vein covers an area 800 feet wide
by one and one-half miles in length. ‘Four
large steam shovels, weighing seventy-five to-
eighty tons each, are scooping off the surface
at the rate of 52,000 equare yards of stone and
dirt a month. The work is being pushed
day and night, with the aid of electricity,
and the explosives arealso touched off by
electricity. The work is on a scale, engineers
say, which is excelled only by that of the
Panama canal. The cost of the work, which
is being done by a Philadelphia company,
will be $1,500,00.
‘—No applicant will be considered for ap:
pointment on the State police . force by Capt.
| John C.Groome,superintendent, whose height
is less. than 5 feet 6 inches without shoes.
Capt. Groome has also decided that each ap-
plicant shall pass a mental and physical exa-
mination, mast be a citizen * of the ‘United
States, of sound’ ‘constitution, able to ride, of
good moral character and’ between the ages
of 21 and 41 years. Applicants with military
| or naval experience will be given preference
over all others and each applicant will be re-
quired to sign a blank, giving his name and
address, age, height, place of birth, occupa-
tion, whether Le is married or single and
whether he has had previous military or na-
val service. Several Bellefonters are appli-
cants for appointments on the force.