BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
mer. It was a short one too.
: —When it comes to bolstering up allega-
tions the real thing on the page of a hotel
register counts big; don’t is, now ?
¢ About one more little frost in Centre
county and a good many noses that have
been doing a running business will blow
ont until next August. :
—The Gazette's attempt to throw mud ab
JouN DUNLAP isn’t going to hurt JOHN
much. He will be one of the next board
of County Commissioners and so will CAL
WEAVER.
" —Mr. SWARTZ is not too old to learn a
little and one of the things that will do
him good to know is that he doesn’t carry
‘Walker township around in his vest pocket,
as hei imagines he does.
_—ELLIS SHAFFER is making friends and
votes wherever he goes. Men like the way
he ‘approaches them. They say he is a
wan all over, just the kind to make a good
Sheriff of the connty.
—There is no good reason why every
candidate on the Democratic connty ticket
8 hould not he elected this fall. They are
all respectable men, competent to conduct
the offices they seek and they can be relied
on not to equander the people’s money.
* —It took Senator PENROSE exaotly
twenty minutes to tell the people at
Grange park yesterday what he knows
about agriculture. It would probably take
him twenty years to tell them what he
knows about grafting in Philadelphia.
. —~And to think that 1 the good Democratic
money we have been paying the New York
Life as a premium on the policy we hold
in that company: /ielped to make up the
contrib to’ the Republican
national campaign’ fund. “This is too much.
. —Now that th , automobilists have per-
feck ed an orgamizasion following olose on
the heels of the horse-owners collusion a
couple weeks ago does it mean that there is
to be war or peace; or did the machine
0 Wners: simply combine for self-protection’
against such onslaughts as that perpetrated
last week by Hock Toner’s plug on John
Porter Lyon’s big touring car.
: —Republicanism in Centre county seems
to be ‘about the only organization that is
not being asked to get down and ous or is
nob being kicked ons in the tidal-wave of
reform that is sweeping over that party in
the ‘State. Possibly the reason of the’
quietnde in his partionlar seotion is be-’
; cause, leader. Foster wasn’t. permitted to
*, reply, long enangh 10. geb bad and leader
QUIGLEY hasn’t bad a chance yes. -
; —Don’t be continually carping about
something. If things do not suit make the
best of them, becanse you must always
remember thas there were a few million
other persons in the land with just as
* many million diverging ideas who are en-
titled to the same consideration that you
are. It helps sometimes to kick a little,
but be careful not to les she habit become
chronic because no one helps or no one
cares much for the chronic kicker.
—All this talk abou$ Dr. WHITE being a
coal operator, a dentist with a prodigious
practice and a man with so many ironsin
the fire that he wouldn’s be able to attend
to the duties of the office of Treasurer if he
were elected, is all tommy-rot. Show me
the man who says Dr. WHITE ever failed
in any duty he had to perform and I will
show you a man who does notf{speak the
truth, for this very quality of being atten-
tive to every duty is what bas made him
the popular and useful citizen he is.
—Of all the nonsensical campaign argu-
ments we have ever heard of, ‘‘He don’t
need it’’ is the silliest. Because a man is
well enough off that he does not need the
emoluments of the office he seeks should be
a recommendation for him instead of a de-
terrent, as some try to make it. The fact
that a candidate really doesn’t need an of-
fice is one of the best reasons why he should
have it because, if coupled with other
qualifications, the voter would be absolute-
ly certain that in such an one he would
find a successful public officer.
—The death of Rain-in-the-Face, the
famous old Sioux chieftain who is cred-
ited with baving killed Gen. CUSTER dur-
ing the tragic frontier battle that wiped
out thas gallant little command of soldiers,
really marks an epoch in the history of our
country’s development. The Indian was
one obstacle in the development of the great
West that now can feed the world and as
that development moved onward he was
gradually subdued to the docility of a cir-
+
cus tent curiosity: and Rain-in-the-Face,"
himself one of the most murderous, spent
his last days under canvas, a living w witness
of the march of progress.
—1I¢ is a duty of council to the other tax
‘payers of the borongh to see to it that the
contractor who has lately dug up High
strees puts it back in exactly the condition
he found it. After spending the amount
that was spent on the street itis a shame
to mar it so needlessly. We say needlessly
advisedly because the gentleman for whom
the work is being done was asked to tap
the sewer before the street was repaired
and the reason was explained to him. “ Of
course council cannot prevent the digging
up of the street since it desires all persons
to tap the sewers, thus abolishing “cess
pools, but in this particular instance it
will be doing the taxpayers a great injus-
tioe it it does not require the relaying of
the street in as perfect condition as it was
found.
: —And yesterday was the last day of sum- | -
.man and Judge ‘PARKER a rather reckless
. will become the rallying point for the tem-
VOL. 50
The Public is Getting Wise.
* Daring the recent presidental campaign
Judge PARKER, the Democratic nominee
for President, declared that money was be-
ing squeezed ous of the big corporations, in-
cluding the trusts, to swell the Republican
corruption fund. He said that Congress had
created ‘‘a new Department of Commerce
and Labor.” Headded that to the head of
that Department the President bad appoint-
ed his own Secretary and that under the
law, within the Department, provision is
made for the collection from large corpora-
tions, of information ‘‘to be submitted - to
the President for public or private use as
he may direct. The same Secretary, ’’Judge
PARKER continued, ‘‘by grace of the same
Executive, becomes chairman of the Na-
tional Republican committe,” his ohief
duty being *“to collect funds for the pur-
pose of securing the election of the Presi-
dent.” = ?
. This aconsation greatly incensed the
President, it will be remembered. In fact
Roosevelt bounced around *‘like a hen on a
hot griddle,’”’ - and vehemently protested
that both himself and, CORTELYOU had been
grossly slandered and basely traduced. In
mook-heroic periods he; asserted that no
large consributions had been made to the
campaign fund by anybody and no contri-
b utions, great or small, had been made by
corporations, His indignation was express-
ed in big type and broad columns in the
Republican newspapers of the country and
the common people were actually made be-
lieve that ROOSEVELT was a much abused
v ilifier. So much was that the case, in fact,
that the speech greatly injured PARKER
and materially benefited ROOSEVELT. It
tur ned ont to be something like a boome-.
rang because of the audacity of ROOSEVELT
and the oredulity of the public.
But ‘‘he laughs best who laughs lass,’ !
and it is now Judge PARKER'S turn to’
talk. The testimony of G. W. PERKINS,
vice president of the New York Life Insur-.
ance company and a member of the hank-.
ing firm of J. P. MORGAN & Co., before the.
Legislative : commitfee investigating the in-,
surance companies of New - York not only
vindicated Judge PARKER but. proves that
the several ‘big insurance ‘companies did
contribute large sums for the purpose of
corrupting voters and that the managers of
the companies stole the money they contrib-
ated from the stockholders, whose trustees
they were. It has not developed as yet
that either ROOSEVELT or CORTELYOU was
awar e of the source from which this golden
stream came bus it is safe to say that they
were and that CORTELYOU forced the pay-
me nb fully aware of the criminality of the
transaction.
Short of Full Duty.
Those excellent citizens of Philadelphia
who are moving for good government are
tc be commended for their civic virtne but
thus far they have hardly gone to the
length which duty requires. We have no
doubt that they are fully determined to
vote against the machine candidate for
State Treasurer, for failing to do that would
be contributing to the defeat of their avow-
ed purpose. But they have not declared
the fact with the emphasis and directness
that they should. In other words, they
should not only cast their vote against J.
LEE PLUMMER, but they should throw
their moral support into the movement to
defeat him, in order to get the bess results
of their labor.
Every intelligent man knows that the
defeat of a local ticket in Philadelphia is of
little consequence from a political stand-
point if the defeated banditti have a secure
refuge and an impregnable fortress into
which they may retreat. In other words,
if the machine eleots its candidate for State
Treasurer it will bardly feel the loss of the
Sheriff of Philadelphia. The State Treasury
is not only the most secure entrenchment
of the machine but it is its ' principal sup-
ply station and it PLUMMER i is elected ‘it
porarily disorganized force. Bunt with
PLUMMER defeated and the local ticket in
Philadelphia lost there will be no place to
recuperate and recruit.
For these reasons we are surprised that
the Philadelphia reformers have not assert-
ed themselves against the election of PLuM-
MER. As we have said we have no doubt
that it is their ultimate intention to declare
themselves on this point and to that pur-
pose. - But they are losing opportunities
to cripple the machine by neglecting to
make an open declaration of the fact.
Thousands of men throughout the State are
hesitating because of the uncertainty of the
‘Philadelphia reformers on this subjeos.
Urged by conscience on one side and oupid-
ity ‘on the other they are waiting to see
‘“‘how the cat jumps.” If the Philadelphia
reformers would come out for, Berry in un-
equivocal terms the donbters would be re-
solved in favor of good government and the
‘defeat of PLUMMER made as certain as fate.
~i Cider aking has begun and once
again it is possible to regale ourselves with
the amber colored liquid.
| of the monument.
‘| after the next session of the Legislature.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFON TE, PA., SEPT. 22, 1905.
Postpone Action a Couple of Years.
One of the speakers at the LINCOLN party
conference in Philadelphia, the other day,
in outlining the results which that organiza:
tion hopes to achieve said, among other
things, ‘‘we will havea Governor who will
know a knave when he sees him ; who will
not mistake a bucocaneer for a statesman ;
who will not veto hospital appropriations
that he may give money to the erection of
a statue to QUAY. If my vote counts for
anything,’”” he added, ‘‘that statue—in-
sulting and dishonoring to the decent peo-
ple of the State—will, if it be erected, be
broken up and tumbled into the Susque-
hanua.’’
That observation deserves something
more than a passing thought. The QUAY
monument was something in the nature of
a spasm of iniquity. It was the soum |
which formed on the surface of the seeth- |
ing pot ‘of corruption. No Legislature
other than one drunk on the wine of venal-
ity could have been induced to consider
such a proposition. Of course it was
PENNYPACKER'S conception. Because
QUAY snatched him out of a deserved ob-
scurity and placed him first on the bench
and subsequently in the office of Governor
he imagined that he ought to make the |
public erect a monument to his memory
and he approved all sorts of vicious legisla-
tion in exchange for votes for that measure.
If the Legislature were in session now
one of its frst acts would be to repeal the
law authorizing and appropriating funds
for that statue, *‘insulting and dishonoring
to the decent people of the State.”” That
‘| being the case why not defer operations on
the statue until the Legisiature has had an
opportunity to repeal the act. The Gov.
ernor has already appointed commissioners
to secure a design and procure the erection.
But there is no time
fixed for the beginning of operations and
the commissioners can easily forget it until
The Campaign in Progress. :
The campaign | for the rescue of Pennsyl- |
vania from the atrocious’ machine which |
for years has been preying upon the
‘of the Commonwealth as well as the
itself, ‘begun i in earnest on Monday “A
Mr. BERRY, the people’s candidate for
State Treasurer, began his tour of the
State. The initial meeting of the tour was
held at Doylestown on Monday and it was
more than a success. It was a trinmph of
enthusiasm and a climax of earnestness. It
revealed without question the fact that the
people are thoroughly aroused and fully
determined to assert themselves at the bal-
lot box.
On Wednesday Mayor BERRY was in
Harrisburg where the Lincoln Republicans
and the Prohibitionists joined together in
giving him ' such a welcome as has rarely
been seen in that city. The meeting was
held in the court house and there was an
overflow which reached the proportions of
a mass meeting. © Both meetings were ad-
dressed by Mr. BERRY, whose magnetic elo-
quence and convinging arguments had a
marked effect on the audiences. On Thurs-
day he spoke at Newport, Perry county,
and tonight he is in Lancaster. The first
week of the tour will be closed with an all-
day meeting, a feature of which will be an
ox roast, at Pottstown, on Saturday.
No campaign ever opened more auspi-
ciously. Enthusiasm is shown everywhere
and it is the enthusiasm which is the frui-
tion of confidence. The people of Pennsyl-
vania have at last heen awakened to the
iniquity of the machine rule and are ready
and anxious to smite the representative
a nd servile tool of the despoilers. PLUM-
MER is the last straw. His infamous reo-
ord during the two sessions of the Legisla-
ture in which he participated ia too rank
for even strong partisans who have preserv-
ed a trifle of self-respect and he will be de-
feated hy an overwhelming majority.
Plans of the Criminal Conspirators.
The Town Meeting of citizens of Phila-
delphia who are opposed to ‘‘graft’’ held
[in three different places last Saturday even-
ing was a revelation. The machine man-
agers didn’t want euch a meeting to take
place and in order to prevent it hired the
most snitable hall in the city for such a
purpose, at considerable expense, and left
it unoccupied. Bus the determined ‘‘anti-
grafters’’ secured three other ocapacious
auditorinms and instead of one meeting
held three,at each of which the most vigor-
‘ous and eloquent speeches in denunciation
‘of “‘graft’’ and ‘‘grafters’’ were made. In
fact it may be said that a new Declaration
of Independence was written,signed, sealed
‘and delivered at each of them.
The principal speaker at these meetings
‘was Mayor WEAVER and the feature of his
speech was the exposure of the plans of the
machine, - fortunately interrupted by the
political revolution which set in last May.
Those looters had a well devised scheme to |
impoverish the city completely. It con-
templated first the stealing of the gas works
for the benefit of the United Gas Improve-
ment company, next exhausting the bor-
{of the city has been aroused to she inignis
ies, not of PENROSE or of DURHAM or of
Peoditures and finally the seizure of the
municipal water works by the same meth-
ods that were employed to dispose of the
gas works. These operations would have
consumed two years time, bus they would
have diverted hundreds of millions of the
people’s money into the pockets of the con-
spirators.
It is to eliminate from the political sys-
tem of the Commonwealth this band of
pirates that the present campaign for re-
form is being waged and it is fit that every
element of the people who are for ocivia
righteousness should be united in the pur-
pose. The State Treasury is the last en-
trenchment of those conspirators and they
have nominated as their candidate for that
‘position a man who has been and is pecul-
arly servile to them. During the recent
‘session of the Legislature J. LEE PLUMMER
was the agent of the ‘‘gang’’ on the floor
of the House and if they succeed in putting
him into the Treasury they will have se-
cured an advantage which may ultimately
restore . them go power and enable them to
carry outthe looting operations which bave
‘been interrupted.
The Crowning | Blunder,
The. foolish: ostrich bh which hoped to escape
from ‘its pursuers by sticking its small
head in the sand and leaving its big body
exposed was no moze idiotic than the ma-
chine politicians in: Philadelphia who hope
‘to escape a righteous public wrath by with-
drawing one set of candidates and sub-
stituting another set who stand for pregise-
ly the same evil purpose. The people are
not so easily fooled. It wasn’t the men on
the machine Republican ticket that were |
offensive to the public consc ence. If was
the machine and in thas respect the new
ticket is precisely as abhorrent as the old.
The fact of the matter is tht. the people
of Philadelphia have awakened to the
danger of misgovernment, ‘The conscience
‘Mc NicHoL, but of the machiue, RANSLEY.
the i
dire hs the name
of which they operate for ‘the en
of themselves and the material advantage
of their followers throughout the State. It
is the methods not the men that menace.
As a matter of fact the greatest mistake
of all the fatuous blunders which} have
characterized the recent movements of the
Republican machine managers is the with-
drawal of the ticket nominated in June
and the substitution of that named on Sat-
urday last. It is a confession of weakness
and a precursor of defeat. If there had
been even a remote hope of carrying the
city the old ticket would not have been
withdrawn. Confident men are never
cowardly and the withdrawal of a ticket is
the rankest cowardice. It is an aot of dis-
pair and one without even the promise of
safety.
el thar better nor worse |
Frenzied Finance and Corrupt Politics.
The testimony of Mr. GEo. W. PERKINS,
vice president of the New York Life In-
surance company, was a startling revelation
of the relationship between frenzied finance
and corrupt politics. The testimony was
brought out in the investigation of the
Life Insurance companies of New York by
a committee of the Legislature of that
State. It was to the effect that each of the
big insurance companies provide a fund for
corr upting elections and bribing Legisla-
tures and that the fund is disbursed by the
president of the company in some instances
and by other officers in other cases, with-
out the anthority of the board of directors
or consultation with the policy holders,
whose money is thus disposed of, or more
acourately speaking misappropriated.
The salient feature of Mr. PERKINS’ dis-
"| closure was the statement that in each of
the presidential contests of 1896 and 1900
the president of the New York Life con-
tributed $50,000 from the funds of he com-
pany to the corruption fund of the Repub-
lican party and that in the campaign of
1904 an equal sum was pledged but that
only $48,702 and some cents were asked
and paid. It was the oustom,Mr. PERKINS
added, and the other big companies were
equally liberal. The thousands of Demo-
oratio polioy holders who had an interest
in the funds thus misappropriated may
have had a different ‘notion of the subject
but Mr. MoCALL was of the opinion that
their interests would be conserved by the
election of the Repnblican candidate for
President in each of the campaigns and
conse juently he extracted from the treasury
of the company their funds to bribe voters
that his idea might prevail.
From this statement of facts may be
gleaned some of the reasons why thé man-
agers of the big insurance companies are
anxious to bave the oonsrol of their busi-
ness put under the supervision of the
federal government. In two of the three
instances in which this crime was com-
mitted, President ROOSEVELT was. a bene-
rowing capacity of the oity by wasteful ex-
ficiary and as he has proved an appreciative
-of the first city of the Commonwealth. | As
| goes with the qu
| in a leading
gan | Oriminal IE at masqgetid
get Fpl of Republican’ Yueqing tudes
before them ta; : i
| sioners be expeoted to register their own
$3.50 per day that they could have gotten
N 0.8 5
fellow and particularly tenacious in his
friendships, the insurance pirates probably
feel that they would be safe in bis hands,
however mercilessly they plundered ' she
policy holders of their companies. ‘Some
of the state governments are not lik
take the same view of the subje
therefore the looters would be more secure
in the hauds of the President. ' The public
will -hardly concur in their views,however,
aud the ontraged shareholders may take a
notion to inaugurate legal proceedings. for
restitution and punishment of the griminals.
The Apology of ot Senator Penrose,
From the Philadelphia Rec Record. .
It is generally understood that ‘Senator
Penrose will make several Sheath in the
interior of the State (beginning in Centie
county) in defense of the m candi-
date for State Treasurer, whose record in-no
‘small degree involves his‘ own so far: 2
Pennsylvania legislation is concerned.
this is an ‘‘off year’’ in State affairs, ib as
expeoted that the Senator will strictly con-
fine himself to the issue of this. contest.
President Roosevelt will mot peed any
defence at Penrose’s bands before, the peo-
ple of Pennsylvania. What is demanded
of the Senator is that he will SxDlaie, if he
can, the action of his for State
rer, and his own, in. regard to per.
sonal registration of voters; apportionment
of representatives, the P iphia ripper
and other sins of omission and com mission
in the late session of the Legislature, It is
well known that by: bis inflaenca: many
Republican. members of the Legislature
were induced $o vote for the ripper against
their better = judgment and couscience.
With him, therefore, rests the chief. reponsi-
bility for this infamous mutilation of the
charter of Philadelphia, in favor of which
is recorded the vote of his fudidate for
State Treasurer. .
: It may be said that: Penrose’s ‘intimate
cone with, Durham and. MoNichol- ‘in
their attempts to rob Philadelphia ‘of .her.
gas works and. trolley franchises is: a local
matter that does nos. concern the people: of
the interior. That depends upon the degree
of interest which they take in the welfare
any rate, this close conn of Seaator
Sears with the rr sof
uestion of hia
‘the people. They will’ judge toy: hem
selves how mush oon be pus.
ead for the jiaachine.q
why Berry §
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
The State auditor of Indiana was last
week removed by the Governor because,
it is alleged, he invested the public money
in private enterprise. When asked for
an accounting he admitted that he owed
the State about $142,000. He then offered
alleged securities exceeding that amount
but which the Governor says were worth
only $37,000. Hence the removal of the
auditor. That incident is very interesting
to Philadelphia at this time. They will
recall that when a sudden demand was
made upon a State Treasurer for the funds
in his hands some years ago there was a
shortage of $150,000, which had to be made
up by some big politicians. After that
time it is known that the State funds were
again used for private speculative purpose.
To what extent this was done nobody ex-
cept the State leaders can tell. The discov-
ery by the Governor of Indiana concerning
the use of the State funds ought to make
clearer than ever to Pennsylvanians the
necessity of electing William H. Berry as
State Treasurer, so that it can be discover-
ed just bow much actual cash there is in
the treasury, and how much of that which
is supposed to be there is represented by
worthless securities.
~
Why the Grafter Hates “Delay.”
From the Press.
Bus for ‘‘delay’’ and the suspension of
the contract for sand, gravel and pipe on
the filtration beds by Mayor Weaver, Dur-
ham, McNichol & Co., would have made
$625,000 on a contract of $1,016,000
No wonder the grafter and the grafter’s
friend loathe ‘‘delay.’”’ The original con-
tract was for $1,016,000. A fifth or so,
$216,0000, was supplied. On the rest,
$784, 000, the sand, gravel, and pipe in
open bidding, with no pull for a boss firm,
was just $350,000. By this much was the
new offer less than the price at which Dar-
ham, McNichol & Co., would have sap-
plied the ress of the sand, gravel and pipe.
On what is left, $350,000 is saved by
‘‘delay.”’ On all, $625,000 would have been
saved had the work been. done under bids
now made.
By this one transaction the appropriation
for deepening the Delaware, less than $25,-
000, is saved. None of it need come from
taxes. All of it comes from the expected |
profits of Durham, McNichol & Co.; on one
contract.
Is it strange that Grafter & Co., and all
the friends and mouthpieces of Grafter
& Co., are every morning deuauncing
“delay?” :
Real Cause of Hunger. %
From the Washington Star.
A learned physician says that hunger is
the sensation felt because of the contraction
of the muscularis either of the pylorus or
possibly also the entire stomach or of the
duodenum, or of the contraction of the
muscularis’ of all these structures. The
contraction of the pocketbook caused by
the Beef Trust price list may also have
something to do with it.
'
—How conld our over worked commis-
names when they got to thas Atlantic City
hotel. They had worn their writing fin-
gers out before going doing clerical work at
done for half the price.
\uSubeoribe for the WATCHMAN,
ember of Lig a comaps and and |.
: Spawls from the Keystone...
Thursday night and Friday ‘morning:-
~The forty-second annual session‘of the
State Homeopathic medical society was held
in Altooua this week.
- —An epidemic of typhoid fever is raging
at Nanticoke and last week Dr. F. C. John-
son, of the State board of health, sent out
‘an appeal for aid, as the residents of that
place are not able to cope with the disease.
—After they bad picked up silverware to
the value of $1,000 in the home of former
Distict Attorney George B. Ulrich, at Ann-
ville, burglars were frightened away by a
‘watch dog. They fled, leaving all their
plunder behind.
—The State convention of the Luther
League of Pennsylvania will be held in
Williamsport, ‘Tuesday and: Wednesday,
‘October 24th and 25th. Two bundred dele-
gates, representing nearly every county in
the State, will be in attendance.
—A statement comes from Lock Haven
that one day last week D.E. Merritt and
Charles Sbroat, of that place, while driving
through Nittany valley, near Rote, killed a
rattlesnake that measured nine feet in
length and had forty-two rattles.
—Punxsutawney and Big Run business
nien are backers for a new banking company
that is being formed to be located at the
first named place. The capital stock is
$200,000. The banking house will be opened
as soon as a charter can be secured.
“_H. A. Schleintz, of Barnesville, O., is
denuding Central Pennsylvania of its black
walnut timber, which he is buying for ex-
port to Germany. He has collected about
7,000 feet of this valuable timber at Dan-
ville, for which he pays at the rate of $25
per thousand in the tree.
—The apple crop in York county is the
largest i in many years, Trees everywhere
are loaded down and in most orchards it is
necossary to use props to prevent the limbs
ir om snapping. Duripg several days last
week 15,000 bushels of apples were = de«
I'ivered to the applejack distillery at Bentley
Springs, Md. :
—While out on the mountain for berries;
one day last week, Mr. and Mr. John Karns
and Mrs. H. I. Sfoner, of Clearfield, killed
eighteen rattlesnakes. They ran onto a den
of the reptiles and killed three, a large n num-
ber escaping under a huge rock, Then Mr.
Karns stirred them out and Mrs. Stoner
killed fifteen more.
'“—An epidemic of smallpox has broken out
in southern Blair county, near Williams:
burg. The disease was at first thought to
be chickenpox, and its origin was traceable
‘to Mount Union, where an. epidemic recent-
ly raged. There are. now 35. cases of the
disease, and ag a result all schools have been
‘| closed and public gatherings vrobibited.
be _ —Morgan Hertaog, of Altoona, the freight
flagman who was: found dead along the
track of the Cresson and Clearfield ‘division
of ‘the Pennsylvania railroad, near Bakerton,
on Thursday morning, Setember 7, was the
victim of foul play, according to the verdict.
| of the corner’s jury rendered at
Friday. Coroner Prothero, of Cambris coun.
ty, held an inquest and the jury in its ver-
dict fixed the responsibility of Hertzog’s
death on some person or persons unknown.
—The fourth of the fish tug incidents of
the past week took place in mid-Lake Erie
Sunday,when the Canadian cruiser Vigilante
riddled the big tug Harty G. Barnhurst
with small shells from the rifle on the patrol
boat. Captain Nick Fasel, of the tug, ad-
mitted after he escaped that the Vigilante
could have sent her to bottom if Captain
Dunn had so desired. They ran more than
eight miles under full head of steam before
they crossed the boundary line and escaped
from the Canadians.
—The annual reunion of the regimental
associafion of the One Hundred and Twenty-
fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers
was held in Huntingdon on Saturday, 69 of
the survivors being present. Captain Wil-
liam W. Wallace, of Philadelphia, presided
and was re-elected president. The other
officers elected were Thomas McCamant,
vice president; J. R. Simpson, treasurer, and
J. D. Hicks and William T. Miller, secre-
tarics. Altoona was chosen as the place for
holding the next meeting.
—The annual reunion of the survivors oof
the old Bucktail regiment, which did such
good fighting during the Civil war, will be
held in Curwensville on. Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, Octocer 3 and 4. Curwensville is
the home of Col. E. A. Irvin, who was made
captain of the company recruited there early
in 1861. Col. Irvin is the present lieutenant
colonel of the regiment and many of the old
soldiers will make a special effort to meet at
the recruiting ground of the company, from
which he led them to battle some 43 years
ago. 2
—The borough of Clearfield now prides it-
self with having one of the finest, largest
and up-to-tate hosteiries to be found in the
interior of Pennsylvania. The Hotel Dime-
ling, which has been in course of construction
| for over a. year, is completed and last Thurs
day was opened for business. The building
is seven stories high and is a fine piece of
architecture. ' It is built of linestone to the
first floor and the balance is of red pressed
brick with white terra cofta trimmings. It
‘has 266 bed rooms, 47 baths and 15 sample
rooms and is equipped in the most modern
style. It is fire proof in its entirety, has its
own ice plant and electrie light, and the
whole building ' is heated with steam. The
structure complete cost $150,000.
—Ata meeting of the officials of the Mann
Edge Tool Co. held at Lewistown last Fri--
day it was decided to tear down their plant
at Mill Hall and build it up entirely new,
with the exception of the rolling and weld-
ing and the painting and packing depart:
ments. The first of these buildings «will be
left standing as itis practically a new one,
having been built about five years ago. The
paint room is a very good building and will
be moved to the extreme upper end of the
yard. The’ diffe ent departments will’ be
built in rotation so that there will ‘not be
any necessity of transferring axes backward,
but started in the barat one end they will
follow in rotation. one depar nt after
another until they become a finished pro-
duct: A force of men began work,on Monday,
to raze the old buildings.
—Half an inch of snow fell at Kane last