fe PoBY P. GRAY MEEK. EE ————————————— Ink Slings. — Fashion decrees that today is the time to lay the straw hat up on the shelf. —JoRN C. Rowe has made a good Re- corder and he is entitled to another term. ~The war between Japan and Russia ended officially on Wednesday. Its effects, however, will live forever. What will the rich people get to ride | in when the price of automobiles gets with- in'reach of the poor ? —A girlless telephone exchange might work all right, but what is to become of the fellow who lets off all his extra sass’on them. There was frost in some parts of the county Wednesday night; afore runner of the opening of the campaign for MILLER and BAILEY. —The Commissioners of Centre county are not burning any bridges behind them. They will need all they have buils for their retreat in November. —_ Recent developments disclose the faot that the New York Life Ins. Co., has been manipulated on the frenzied finance basis as well as the Equitable. —Wouldn’t it be nice if the President were to be awarded that NOBEL peace med- a with the $40,000 in cash that goes with . He needs the money. ~The Pittshurg Post expresses it exactly when it says ‘‘the one issue in this State is between the honest men of all parties and the gratters.”” | Which side are you going to stand with ? HARRY JACKSON has never had an elective office in his life. He'is as reputable and competent as it is possible for a man to be and deserves your support for Reg- ister of the county. —There are a lot of loafers in Bellefonte who should be organized into a choral so- ciety and given that new ballad “Don’t Worry, Father, Mother's Got a Job.” They could sing it with such feeling. —Candidate PLUMMER is beginning to find out that there are a number of Repub- licans in Pennsylvania who have the man- hood to stand up and declare that they will not support the kind of a Republican he is. —Artists are criticising the design of the new twenty-dollar bill recently put in circulation. Really we are not ina posi- tion $0 comment because’ we. must con- fess that we would ‘be anxious to Et them were they ugly as the “Telex 2 Kings’ post- ers. —The man who devoured a huckleberry pie five days old and then went into the sea at New Rochelle and drowned left a mystery that will be hard tosolve. Was it the pie that carried him to the bottom and, if so, was it one of the kind that mother ased to make. —If you want to find ont bow much there is in Mr. LINCOLN SWARTZ, the man who aspires to fill the important office of Treasurer of Centre county, just try to pin him down to a sober, serious sensible talk some day when you meet him. After he shakes your hand he will wink several times theo grin a little and it is all off. —The sinking of Admiral ToGco’s battle- ship, the Mikasa, and the loss of six hun- dred of her gallant sailors is one of those strange chances of fortune that no one can account for. After going through the great: est naval engagements of modern times, practically unscathed, the boat was sunk in a peaceful harbor by an explosion in her own magazine. —Chicago was not ‘long in’ producing a woman whose escapades quite give the capers of Cassie CHADWICK the distance flag. + Chicago always was a busy place, bat then it could scarcely be imagined that it was too busy to discover a woman who led the social swim on one of the smart streets and married ‘her daughters to the best catohes in the city while she was ‘bois madame in one of the notorions joints in another section. —When the tax payers stars the pelitic- al house cleaning in the court house it should be remembered that it is duite as important to make a change in the Treas- urer’s office as it is in the Commissioners, A new Roard of Commissioners can only £0 part way in getting fo the bottom of ‘the charges that are openly made against the present Board, they must have a Treasurer in office who will assist them. This Mr. SWARTZ could not be expeoted to do, there. fore Dr. WHITE must be élected in forder that an investigation may be fully made. —Mr. LINCOLN SWARTZ seems to be the Mu NCHAUSEN of local politics. His stories are so absurd that no one will believe them, bus he keeps on telling them just the same, The latest specimen comes up from Walker township, to the effect that he} is telling the people down ‘there ‘that Dr. WHITE has arranged to pay $100 and ten gallons of Whiskey for the delivery of that town- ship. Such a silly tale ‘would {scarcely be told by an imaginative school boy." In the firés place Dr.’ WHITE isn’t peddlingieither money. or whiskey to, secure votes, in the second place the gentleman Mr. SWARTZ is said to have named as his partner]in the deal is above any such trickery and, in the third, Walker township will record a good old majority for Dr. WHITE just as a rebuke to the man who intimates that its voters can be bought with anything. VOL. 50 Pennypacker’s Moral Obliguity. The marvelous moral obliquity of Gov- ernor PENNYPACKER was strangely reveal- ed in his West Chester speech on Saturday last. The occasion was the fiftieth anni- versary of the organization of the Repub- lican party.in that town and the other conspicnons speaker was Vice President Fairbanks. The celebration of Saturday was under the auspices of the machine facti on of the party, the better element having celebrated the event some time ago. It is said, however, that both party and factional lines were disregarded in the af- fair of Saturday and{machine Republicans. reform Republicans and Democrats joined in the anniversary celebration of an his- toric event with equal enthusiasm and earnestness. The Vice President, it is added, appreciated the conditions and re- frained from any reference to the factional differences while PENNYPACKER with his customary unaccountable fatuity plunged into the dirty pool as if he enjoyed filth. If the Governor had adhered to the facts his plainly expressed admiration for politio- al ‘iniquity wouldn’s have been so bad. It was neither the time’ nor place to dis- cuss factional politics or land political im- morality. But Governor PENNYPACKER is so completely absorbed in his own absurd self esteem, that he has no concep- tion of the proprieties. In fact it is not improbable that he imagined on Saturday that the hosts who had assembled to cele- brate what to them seemed an important event, was in reality an ovation to himself. Now that QUAY is dead he actually thinks that he is the only thing within the broad borders of the Commonwealth that is worth while. Under this strange delusion he strats about like a peacock in a barn yard and really imagines that he is admired, whereas, as a matter of fact, there is not an intelligent man inthe State who would extend to him the ordinary courtesies if he were not, unfortunately,Governor of Penn- sylvania. But the point to which we desire to call attention is his obviously willful misrepre- sentation of the facts in relation to the nomination of the late Governor HART- | BANFT for President of the United States, “A Pennsylvanian of wisdom, genuine and olean of character, ’he said, ‘ ‘failed to secure a nomination for the Presidency of the United States through a case of mistaken judgment. I mean JOEN F. HARTRANFT. Only for the revolt against CAMERON he would have secured the nomination.” That is a deliberate falsehood, the pur- pose of it (being to deprecate revolts against political bosses. HARTRANFT never had a chance for the nomination and there was no revolt; against CAMERON in the Penn- syl vania delegation. CAMERON was against the nomination of GARFIELD and he seb up HARTRANFT as a straw candidate to prevent friends of GARFIELD from voting for him and thus making his nomination certain. PENNYPACKER must have known this for it occurred before he was taken with Quavfobia and until that affliction overtook him it is believed that he enjoy- ed a reasonably healthy mind. "That Unanswered Letter. pitts, More than: two weeks ago HENRY C. NiLes Eeq., ‘a’distinguished lawyer and ard ent Republican of York, addressed a letter to: J. LEE. PLUMMER, Republican candidate for State Treasurer, which is still unanswered. The letter alleged oer- tain grave delinquencies on the part of the ‘‘oriminal combination masquerading as Republicans,’ and asked Mr. PLUMMER to to renounce all relationship with the atrocious political machine. It ought not to bave taken long to prepare an answer to the letter. A categorical reply to’ each question might have been made ina few minutes, : Then why bas the Republican candidate for State Treasurer failed” to answer? Sim- ply for the reason ‘that the accusations are literally true and that. PLUMMER can’t. divorce bimsel? from the machine. He owes everything to the bosses and is under obligation to continue in their service.. If ‘and the 'banditti would drop him. A State Treasurer who will, nos use the office as a sonroe of “graft for the bosses is of ‘ma nagers would prefera Democrat of that ype fo a Republican in the place, But PLUMMER is stopped from answer- ing the question of Mr. NILES for the rea- son that his own official record would con- fate any false pretense of contrition which he might allege and he knows that itis ‘better to be silent than to give an oppor- tunity to prove the charges and expose other iniquities. Those are the reasons why Mr. PLUMMER has not answered the he never will anewer that letter. When of his counsel is “‘don’t talk.’” The coun~ sel for the Republican machine has given PLUMMER the same advice and he will obey. . pledge himself, in the event of his election, he would pledge himself to the people he, would be no farther use to the machine | no value to the machine and the ‘machine’ letter of Mr. NILES and for those reasons a oriminal is caught the first admonition: STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPT. 15, 1905. The Only Issue. There is only one issue in the present campaign, Mayor BERRY, ‘he Democratic candidate for State Treasurer, said ina speech the other day, and that is ‘‘grafs.”’ In other words, the question to be deter- mined by the ballots in November is whether the government of the State is to be administered by the people and for the people or by the machine for the bosses. During recent years, as the records of State and municipal governments will show, the benefits of government have gone exclusively to the political managers and the burdens have fallen as completely on the people. This is manifestly unjust and the purpose of the pending contest is to equalize burdens and benefits. Take the case of Philadelphia, for ex- ample. Within a week the facts have been revealed that in the items of sand and gravel alone the favorite contractors, Mc- NicHOL & DURHAM, have overcharged the city in the sum of $550,000 in connec- tion with the construction of the filtration plant. That is a vast sum to be taken from the pockets of the taxpayers and pus into the hands of the contractors. But it is a trifle compared with the sum total of the si milar robheries of the people. In the road building operations and the sani- tary, charity and corrective construction throughout the State precisely the same system of ‘‘graft’’ bas been employed and the aggregate of the robberies is be- yond calculation. There are other forms of ‘‘graft,’ more- over,which will bestopped if Mayor BERRY is elected to administer the finances of the Commonwealth during the next two years. As the close of business on the 31st day of August there was in the treasury a sur- plus of $10,911,883,97 which is being “‘farmed’’ among favored banks, the “‘rake- off’? going to machine leaders. This money belongs to the. people and is taken from their earnings for the use of the political pensioners who enjoy the proceeds of its investment. Mayor BERRY pledges him- self to stop this prolific source of ‘‘graft”’ and that achieved and possible economies introduced there will be a vast decrease in | taxation. A Troubled Contemporary. The esteemed Philadelphia Press regrets that the record of J. LEE PLUMMER, the candidate of its party for State Treasurer, justifies the animadversions upon him ex- pressed by the resolutions of the LINCOLN party conference. Our esteemed contem- porary would like to support the Republi- can ticket. It has always done that in the past, so far as State candidates are con- cerned, and yearns to do so in the present and for the fature. But PLUMMER’S rec- ord is so forbidding that it just can’t rec- oncile its conscience to the work and its suffering is excratiating. Our contemporary needn’t worry its life out over this matter. The nomination of an unfit candidate absolves even a faithfal organ from supporting the ticket and PLUMMER is notorionsly unfit. If the convention had been held after the ‘‘graft’’ exposures in Philadelphia instead of before ’| that event our contemporary declares sub- stantially, PLUMMER wouldn’t have been ‘nominated. But he was nominated and is the candidate and the fact that the conven- tion was held at one time rather than another makes no difference in the fitness of the candidate. But the fitness of the vandidate makes a vast difference in the moral obligations of the voters. In the first place PLUMMER is not the candidate of the Republican party. He is the nominee of what President ROOSE- VELT’S Secretary of State designated as ‘‘a criminal combination masquerading as Republicans.” That being the case neither the Philadelphia Press nor any other Re- publican newspaper nor citizen is under obligations to support him for a non-polis- ical office such as State Tresaurer. There- fore it is the plain duty of the Press to obey the mandates of its conscience and give its earnest and active support to Hon. W. H. BERRY, the taudidate of honest | men of all parties. : Loomis is Out—Thank Heaven. The President bas been compelled, final- ly, to appoint ‘a successor to Assistant Secretary of State Loomis. He has at last ciently $0 recognize the fact that a man _| who appears to be a centre of scandal can’s Loomis has been involyed in so many sinister | be endured in the public ‘service. transactions and has made so poor an ef- fort to ‘extricate himself’ from « them that his continuance in government employ must soon have had a demoralizing infla- ence on the service, = When the BowErN-LooMI1s ‘soandal ‘was VELT ordered the summary dismissal of ‘BowEN and bestowed special favors and sent as special Ambassador to France to attend the ceremonies incident to the srans- fer of the remains of JOHN PAUL] JONES yielded to decent public sentiment suffi- | { present estimates indicate, the under investigation the preponderance of | evidence was against LOOMIS but ROOSE- ‘marked distinctions on‘ Loomis. He was’ from the civil anthorities of France to the naval squadron of this country. That serv: ice completed LoodMIs was subsequently dispa tohed to several European capitals to ‘inspect American embassies. In other words, he was made a sort of censor cf the diplo- matic stations of the country abroad. The downfall of Loomis was brought about not by the vigilance of the adminis- tration but through a quarrel between members of a syndicate of adventurers who had been exploiting in Venezuela. An incident of the quarrel was the discovery of correspondence whioh involved LooMIs in their operations and a complaint to the government of the United States from those injured by him. ROOSEVELT couldn’f defend him against such indubitable proof of his culpability and the result is that he is now ous of a job. He would have been out long ago if the President were less tena- cions in his favoritism or more regardful of decency in official life. But while the country may well rejoice that LooMIs is out it is not certain that the public is to be felicitated on his suc- cessor. ROBERT BACON, who succeeds him in the office of Assistant Secretary of State, is a partner cf J. PIERPOINT MOR- GAN and as the change comes at a time in w hich Mr. MORGAN is engaged in exploit- ing some of his enterprises in China and other Asiatic points it may be merely a transfer of the scandal centre from South America to Asia. In any event ibis cer- tain that Mr. MORGAN isn’t acting for fun. Berry Nominated Again. The LINCOLN party has nominated W. H. BERRY, of Chester, as its candidate for State Treasurer. At a conference held in Phil adelpbia on Monday, in which repre- sentative Republicans of forty counties par- ticipated, he was unanimously chosen as the standard bearer. A convention will be held later, it was announced, in which every county in the State will be repre- sented, and by which the action of the con- ference of Monday will be ratified. It isa movement of the better element of the Re- publican party of Pennsylvania for regen- sition and reform. . “Ihe ‘‘oriminal combination masquerad- ing as Republicans,’ have been repudiated by this body of reputable citizens. ‘‘The pirates of the Barbary coast had as much right to call thenselves Christian mission- aries,” the gentlemen declare in their res- olutions, ‘‘as these political pirates have to call themselves Republicans.”’ In order to stop this false pretense the LINCOLN party has been organized. ‘‘The whole power of the State,” the resolutions continue, ‘‘was used for the plunder of our larger cities to enrich a sordid combination of political contractors and their weak and vile retainers.”” The LINCOLN party isa protest against such perversion and, W. H. BERRY has been chosen ae the fit leader of such a purpose. In the nomination of Mayor ‘BERRY by this force of well meaning. citizens the righteous effort of the Democratic party to redeem the State from the clutches of the despoilers is greatly strengthened. It may be said that the result might have been at- tained better by individual desertions from the machine party and sapport of the Demo- cratic ticket, admirable in every respect. But we all know that party attachments are strong and the desire of those earnest and sincere Republicans to support the fit candidates of their own party for Judges of the Superior court must be respected. . The only political office in contention is that of State Treasurer and for that office they are with the Demccraocy. What the Registration Indicates. The Philadelphia Republican machine sustains a net loss of say 40,000 votes by the registration last week. 'That is $0 say,the machine managers themselves insist that the loss will be considerably. less than that and the agents of the City party declare that 'it will be much more, But conservative estimates adopt] the ffignre pamed and it is cafe to say that it will not be far from the official return. Of course Jf it means that that number of votes will be lost to the Republican party forjit is a notorious fact that every hogus name reg- istered was voted. But that is not all it means. The vigilance which purged the registry lists of 40,000 names illegally en- tered will prevent the personation of as ‘many other voters who,thongh legally reg- |’ istered, bave not been in the ‘habit of vot ing, Thus the Democratic ‘party starts out in the pending contest with a gain of 80,000 Jover the last’ normal ' return in one city alone.’ If the LINCOLN Republicans, she ively ‘party and'“ other independent | ‘organizations ‘develop the strength which | ‘gain of the Demooratio candidate Site Treasurer in Philadelphia will be eq oe : majority “of ‘the’ Repub BL y in the State in off years. Under such ie the" gain in other parts of the State will represent’ a clear majority ‘and will guarantee a viotory for good govern- | pays ment and political ‘morality which will completely extinguish the . iniquitous QUAY Machine and all its votaries. There | o will be no recovery from such a blow. tel NO. 36. . Graft and High Finance. From the Kansas City Times. Bryan is quoted as saying that the ex- ploitation of the people through the opera- tions of ‘high finance’’ presents a new problem to the voters of this country. And soit does, and if there were some way to make it a political issue on which the voters could act with intelli- gence, there would be no question as to the result. Bat the spoilation of the stock jobbers, the grafters, the ocorrupters of legislation and of those who prey on the public generally, cannot be successfully orystallized into a party issue, at least not at this time, for there is but one public opinion as to the evil. Every politician is at least theoretically opposed to these things, and each party atands for ‘honest government and honest officials. But what the people can dois togive greater heed to the character of men‘they elect to public office, from the minor eleo- tions to those of first importance, and espe- cially in filling vacancies ‘in the United States senate. With a gradual improve- ment in the character of public'men, there will be better laws, a stricter nf ent of the laws, and a finer code of morals in the business world. But little progress can be made against boodle and graft unless the laws in existence are enforced and bet- ter ones supplied where old ones are inade- quate. The real problem lies inthe United States senate, which body is largely owned by the money interests, and which blocks the way to reform by presenting specious arguments on behalf of the ‘‘business in- terests’’ and the ‘‘working classes.” The greatest graft the world bas ever known is in the shelter that the protective tariff gives to monopolists and extortion- ists in this country, yet congress, especially the upper branch, isso under the control of the men who benefis by this shelter that it will be to blame if the reform is not ul- timately wronght. A Republican View of It. From Leslie’s Weekly. The Republican party bas everything to gain and nothing to lose bya frank and full acknowledgment of the truth that for many years the policies and she fruits of Republican rule not only ‘in Philadelphia, bus throughout Pennsylvania, have heen a reproach to the good name of the ‘party elsewhere and a stumbling-block in the way of its progress. The curse of Quayism bas hung like a heavy cloud over the record of a party that puts forward the claim of being a leader in all civic and political re- forms, and whose history, as a whole, fall justifies that claim. But Republican domi- nation in Philadelphia bas heen io whit better than Tammany domination -in New York, and no honest Republican AT who is frank with himself will deny the fact or fail to confess that it has been to him a cause of shame and confusion. And what is true in this respect of Phila- delphia has been true to a deplorable ex- tens of other cities in Pennsylvania and of the State as a whole. Republicans who have gloried in the fact that their party has stood for honesty and morality in politics and public life have no reason to be proud of their party history in Pennsylvania for the past thirty-five years. It has been neither honest, straight nor clean. A Pious Pennsylvania Protest. From the Charleston News and Courier. I6 bas recently been disclosed that there are 63,000 illegal names on the Philadel- phia rolls. This is a larger number of ‘‘voters’’ than usually participate in a gen- eral election in South Carolina. We sup- pose that this magnificent frand is intended by the Pennsylvania Republicans as a pious protest at the suppression of the ballot in the South. The old complains of the Crumpackers and Lodges is: that a Northern Congressman represents four or five times as many voters as does a Southern Congressman. ' If the Philadelphia plan is not exceptional it is likely that Northern representation at Washington will keep pace with that of the South unless Sonthern ingenuity shall invent improvements upon the ‘‘Grandfather Clause.”’ If Plammer Recants. From the Harrisburg Patriot. The Press, which has fought the Gang in Philadelphia with ability and energy, says that unless a substitute, against whom no criticism can be made, is put on the ticke$ in place of Plummer, ‘‘only one recourse is lefs, and that is for Mr. Plummer to make | such public declarations as will remove the objections of these who now hesitate to place the custody of the State Treasury in. his hands.” But what. would the promises of a man with Plummer’s record be worth? For what reason would they be entitled to more ‘respect than the ‘present promises of Dave Lane and Jimmy Miles to work for the pas- sage of a personal fegistration law, next time? ; Outside Sie : | From the Providence Journal (Rep.) Taken at large the Democrats of Penn- sylvania are no better than the Republicans of that State, but the Republicans’ have been in power during a long term of ‘years ‘and they have fattened at the public orib ‘until some ‘of them are scandalously sleek. The Democrats have’ made an excellent nomination for the State Treasurership, and the’ ratification of this’ nominasion at the'polls would be not only a rebuke to the corruptionists; ‘but ‘a warning of a more radical revolt in he atnpaien 1 for Gover- nor next year. Missed the Matin Question. Fath From the Pittaburg Times imes (Rep. Ying The spéeoh delivered. by J. Lee: Plum, mer, Republican candidate for State Treas- | to'| urer, “4 the Grangers’ pionio, has a very: familiar sound. Is is reminiscent of. some of ‘Senator Penrose’s platform: efforts. Every farmer in Pennsylvania: knows well, and has known for 40 years, that he no State tax on real estate. , ques~ tion before the people today is; what is be- ing done with the taxes they do pay, and is or is not the Republican State organization in the hands of corrap$ men ? Spawls from the Keystone. —Louis Hildebrant, of Bloomsburg, has been arrested and committed to jail charged with refusing to pay his taxes. —By the blowing up of the Rand Powder company’s plant, at Fairchance,on Saturday, twelve men were instantly killed, thirteen injured and six more are missing. —Caleb Firmin, aged 60 years, mail carrier for ten years between Doylestown and Buck- ingham, dropped dead at the latter place Saturday night after depositing the mail, —John McCullough, aged 17 years, son of Brady McCullough, a farmer near Newville, Cumberland county, disappeared Wednesday and the family fear he has met with foul piay. —While being rushed to the State hospital for treatment for a crushed leg, sustained by an accident at Maple Hill colliery, James Lockley, of Hananoy City, died in the am- bulance. —The annual convention of the ; Clinton County Sabbath School association will be held in the Presbyterian church at Beech Creek on Thursday and Friday; October 5th and 6th. —Negotiations are on between the State and the Central Pennsylvania Lumber com- pany for the purchase, by the former of 20,- 000 acres of land at the head of Fishing creek, in Sullivan county, to be kept as a for: est reserve. —Isaac A. Brittain, the oldest resident of Jersey Shore and a veteran of the civil war, died Friday evening, after a lingering illness of several months. His death was due to old age, he being ‘ninety-one years and two months old. —An epidemic of typhoid fever prevails in’ the town of Nanticoke. Over 100 cases have been reported to the board of health, and so far two deaths have resulted. The opening of public schools has becn deferred and pub- lic funerals have been prohibited. —According to a statement just issued by Fourth "Assistant Postmaster General De- graw, a steady demand comes from Pennsy 1- vania for the establishment of new rural de- livery routes. On September 1 there were 1,816 routes in operation, as against 1,778 on August 1, showing an increase of 38 new routes in one month: —The effects of the action of the last Leg- islature 1n passing a lJaw removing the protec- tion from the blackbirds are being seen’in the wholesale slaughter of the birds that is now going on in all sections of Lancaster ‘county. Thousands are being’ killed, and “it is the opinion of gunners that the blackbird will be almost entirely obliterated from that section before long. y —George W. Haggerty, for several years sergeant-at-arms in permanent charge of the Democratic State headquarters, has re- signed and will take a position as bank cash- ier at Lemoyne, in Cumberland county.State Chairman Hall will appoint a man to succeed Mr. Haggerty. George D, Herbert has been appointed an assistant secretary at State headquarters. —August, an aeronaut, 25 years old, whose home is in Shenandoah, Pa., was instantly killed by falling from his apparatus at Bal- timore,on Saturday. When the balloon reach- ed an altitude of about 2,000 feet Angust seemed to become exhausted. An instant later he was whirling through space, his body rapidly gaining momentum as it fell. His right leg was torn off at the knee and his body was otherwise horribly mangled. —To facilitate the development of about 12,000 acres of rich coal and oil lands recent- ly purchased in the interest of the Buffalo and Susquehanna railroad,in what is known as the Plum Creek district of Pennsylvania, partl y in Armstrong and partly in Indiana county, the Metropolitan Trust company has accepted a mortgage of $5,000,000 on the property, and its attorneys are now engaged in working up the titles. —Rickett’s Battery, companies F and G, of the First Pennsylvania Volunteers, that withstood the charge of the Louisiana Tigers on Cemetery Hill, at the battle of Gettysburg held its nineteenth annual reunion at Ber- wick on Friday.’ Ata banquet in the even- ing addresses were delivered by Dr. Hughes, Frank B. Brockway and Colonel A, D. See- ley. Some of the members present at the-re- union had not met since their discharge from the army in 1865, —Bark loaders at the head of Little Pine creek, while working on a big . pile of hem- lock bark one day last week, killed nearly 400 copperhead snakes,five woodchucks, three minks and two ' weasles, which had taken their residence there. ‘As it will’ require more than a'month to load the entire pile, it is quite likely more ‘‘game” will be un- covered. Hemlock bark has a peculiar attraction for copperhead snakes, and the loaders:expect to unearth a few more, —Bishop J. N. Fitzgerald, of Ocean Grove, N. J., bas appointed the Rev. G. W. Stevens, D. D., presiding elder of the Harrisburg dis- trict, Central Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist church, to be presiding elder of the Danville district, to have full supervis- ion of work until conference. = Dr. Stevens succeeds the late Rev. A.S. Baldwin. He will be, assisted in the quarterly conferences by the other presiding elders. Dr. Stevens will serye the Danville district without compen sation,giv ing the salary. to Mrs.A.S. Baldwin. LEqward’ Hays, who has confessed to a ‘number of burglaries recently perpetrated in Milton and Herndon, and who isin jail at Sunbury. awaiting trial, Thursday night made one of the boldest attempts to escape ‘from the county prison ever made there. He succeeded 'in making a hole in the ceiling of his'¢éll and then through the slate roof of the ‘jail, and had he not returned to his cell for clothing he could have made good his escape. The warden was awakened by Hays’ steps on the jail roof, and an uvestigation resulted in his capture. Rune Re ¥ —The amount of adidas Nate Brion, . Democratic candidate for county. commission- .er in Lycoming county, demands from the Gazette and Bulletin for the, publication of an alleged libelous article - reflecting on’ him is $50,000. | The attorneys for Mr. Brion, Seth T. MéCormick and Otto G. Kaupp,late Tues- YEry | day afternoon having filed their statement. It is not at all likely the case will come to trial at the October adjourned term of civil court, because it is understood that Judge Hart already has as many or more cases on the list than can be handled.
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