$
wie
do wn’! at the fair yesterday.
| go many people there and so much . doing
: _8Y P, GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
‘Yesterday ‘broke “all records at the
: fair.
—It would be far cheaper to have new
_. Commissioners than to pay more taxes by
re-electing ‘the old ones.
‘—While today will end the fair for this |
year it will also mark the beginning of the
work for a greater one next year.
—1It would be go easy for us to desoribe
Mr. LINCOLN SWARTZ fo you if there were
only a more polite word than liar to use.
——Lake Superior is reported in the
pap ers as looking up. Can this old drag-
. met be makinga play for another crop of
suckers. .
‘EARL “TUTEN is. a mice young Zdliow.
# all right enough, but he would be too slow.
0 beat’ HARRY JACKSON even if some one
ave im | aclub. :
ndidate BERRY deplares, with all
the certainty of knowing it: “I am popu- |
lar + What matters that so long as LEE
PLUMMER is so unpopular.
: ‘ZJAre you a Demoorat ? It you are, stop
| ¥hink a mintue! What did HEN
iE ever do for you or your party thai
iret be for him.
{~The Gazette urges you to ‘‘give LINK
SWARTZ, who digs in the ground for a liv- |
ing, a chance.” ' What's the matter with
giving’ ‘Doctor WHITE, who digein your
tooth for a living a ohanoe.
—The politicians had a poor ‘‘show |
There were
. that'it was a rare man who bad an ear to
. lend to the ambitions candidate. .
|| When it comes to making fair weather
we will all have to take off our hats to the
weather man at last. It’ took him some
years to get the receipt just right but no
one should venture a suggestion after this.
week. :
'—The Gazelle wants a chance for LINK:
SWARTZ “who digs i in the ground.”’ ‘There:
is all the chance in the world for LINK
down in Walker township, ‘but his neigh-
bors say he is lazy and won’ dig unless he:
Gan’t. help it. :
«=—The fightin Pennsylvania this fall is
nota political fight at all. It is not Demad-
. crate fighting Republicans but thie good’
people of the State——the honest anti-
grafting citizens—fighting a corrupt’ gong.
, Which side are you on?
—They are thinking of saving that corn
monument down at the fair for nse asa
macker ‘on MILLER and BAILEY'S political’
grave. Tt would be so appropriate becanse'
by November it would be so muck like. the
county treasury—all shelled out. »
—The old case of the lawyer whe told a
young practitioner that ‘‘when your side is
weak and yom have no case turn in and
give the lawyers on the other side h——1"
is called to mind by the frantic efforts of
the Gazelte to make a defense for its can.
didates this fall.
— The fact that Bishop POTTER has de-
clared for women’s suffrage should not be
looked upon too, hopefully by the ladies
who want to vote. The Bishop ‘isn’t the
most snccessful hooster in the world—wit-
ness that subway saloon in New York that
failed of its mission after he had given it
his benediction.
——It is always best to pay all your
taxes and take a receipt for the amount;
but there are times when that is impossible.
If suoh is the condition with you, the pay-
ment of either STATE OR COUNTY tax, by
to-morrow, Saturday evening, will entitle
you to vote. No matter how hard up you
are, don’s forget to bave a receipt for either
one or the other of these taxes.
—All the man who is in doubt about
voting for ELLIS SHAFFER or HENRY
KLINE need do is meet the two men; have’
a talk with each one of them and then act
according as they have impressed him.’
There is no doubt that Mr. SHAFFER is the
better man of the two for sheriff. And if
you want to do something for a farmer do
it for him, He was horn and raised on a
farm and represents a great many more
farmers shan does Mr. KLINE,
—The fair will be over today. Now let
us settle down and talk politics, a little.
Really, if you bad a business that was be-
ing operated very nicely for $60,000 a year.
and you happened to ges sired of your man-
agers—men do sometimes—and get others
who run the cost of the same business up to
$90,000 a year, what would you think? I
know. You wouldn’t think at all, you’d
simply worry yourself sick for fear you
couldn’t ges the old managers back. You
can get them back in charge of the county’s
affairs by voting for DUNLAP and WEAVER.
—Suppose you were a farmer and were
buying phosphate at $22.00 the ton and you
found that you were getting only abous
12 bu. of wheat to the acre, what would
you think? "If yen bad any sense at all
you would think that you were losing
money avd the phosphate was doing it.
Then you’d try anotber brand of phosphate,
wouldn’t you ? Of course you wonld and
you’d keep on trying until you founda
brand that would save you some money.
Now the point is this. ' If you are a farmer
or a mechanic, or a merchant or a lawyer,
or any other kind of a man you have a vote
in Centre county this fall, perbaps. You
have been trying a Board of County Com-
missioners for the past three years who
have been losing money for you. Now's
you’re time to change. Vote for a new
VOL. 50
Grave Suspicion Confirmed.
mmm
Some time ago one of the speakers at a
public meeting within this State intimated
that probably if the true facts were exposed
portion of the $10,000,000, alleged to be a
surplus in the State Treasury, is not, asa
matter of fact, real money or even a valua-
ble asset. In other words, the speaker in
question insinuated that a considerable
| portion of the treasury balance is made up
of notes of politicians, some worthless and
others outlawed, and of deposits in banks,
some already defunct and others so orip-
"1 pled that they would go to the wall the
moment demand was made on them for
payments. ‘This charge was denounced as a
malicious attempt to destroy the credit of
every bank which is a State depository.
But the exposure made by Mayor BERRY
in his speech at Meadville last Saturday
night actually confirms the statement. He
showed that the defunct Spartansburg,
Crawford county, bank was a State deposi-
tory and thas at the time of its failure it
had $5,000 of the State money, a consider-
able portion of which was loaned to W. H.
ANDREWS, of New Mexico, and W. R. AN-
DREWS, ab present private secretary of
Senator PENROSE and chairman of Repub-
lican State committee. Of course $5,000 is
a comparatively trifling part of ten or
twelve million dollars, but the defunct
Spartansburgibank is only one of the many
State depositories and if all were called to
‘‘make good,”’ probably a considerable
so. - The fact that school appropriations
are held back shows:something wrong with
the cash balance.
‘The honest people of Pennsylvania who
contribute a considerable proportion of the
revenues of the State simply want to know
the truth about the State Treasury. We
all know that at the last ‘‘show down”
there was more that a quarter of a million
dollars represented by. worthless notes
‘land valueless I. O. TU’. Since then
| QUAY bas been shaking the plum tree and
various forms of speculation while the
treasury records are held in the profoundest
statement «f the facts. Tle has been chosen
because hie ¢an be depended upon to con-
ceal the facts. The plain duty of the peo-
ple, therelore, is to elect Mayor BERRY be-
cause in the evens of his election the truth
will be revealed. !
The Proposed Quay Monument.
A correspondent writing in a Philadel:
phia contemporary of resent date suggests a
design for the proposed QUAY monument to
to be erected in Capitol park, Harrisburg,
in the event that the legislation on that
subject is ratified at the coming election
by the success of the machine ‘candidate
for State Treasurer, J.- LEE PLUMMER.
PLUMMER is:defeated ‘the monument will
absurd and ‘imbecile Governor may be to
cannonize venality, no commission can he
induced to aot before the next Legislature
repeals the law wad withdraws the PpIo:
priation. ”
Bat if the unexpected should bappen, if
PLuMMER should be elected and the monu-
ment erected the writer suggests that the
proper thing would be to bave an effigy of
QUAY picking the pocket of Father PENN;
or in the event that the friends of PENN
should object to such an exhibition of the
founder of the State, an effigy ‘of QUAY
shaking the plum ‘tree would be the next
most appropriate conception. There is a
good deal of reason in both propositions.
The first suggestion has the greater merit
as most nearly expressing the practices of
QUAY. But it would be a trifle tough on
Father PENN, who wasn’s altogether an
idiot and consequently wonldn’t likely
tolerate such a performance continuously.
Therefore = the second proposition wovld
better be adopted.
Bat after all, as we have frequently ob-
served, there isn’t so much difference be-
tween QUAY and his associates in the
Fennsylvania machine, and those who have
succeeded him in control. QUAY was bad
enough. His life wosa long continued
career of political crime and organized
fraud. For nearly fifty years he bad been
systematically plundering the public and
in defiance of the laws of God and man
built ap a vast fortune for the survivors
of bis family. But his death didn’t end
the iniquity. His dropping out didn’s
check the predatory operations of the ma-
chine. The system which he practised is
the rightful object of ‘public reprehension
and no matter what form the monument
takes it will bean insult ‘o the integrity
and an outrage upon the conscience of the
people of Pennsylvania. The way to pre-
vent the outrage is to defeat the candidate
of the party.
~——To-morrow, Saturday, will be the
last day upon which you can pay your tax
brand, get DUNLAP and WEAVER.
and insure your right to vote.
i would be discovered that a considerable |/
proportion of them would be unable to do |-
other. politicians have heen indulging in’
secrecy. “We all know. that it. PLUMMER
iis elected Treasurer thero-will be no public
by the machine as candidate for the office
The writer acourately’ estimates that if
never be efected, for however anxious our
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 6, 1905.
Castle’ s Charges Amply Proved.
Move Taxes Certain.
It is too late now to correct the mistake
made three years ago in the selection of a
board of County Commissioners. That mis-
take will have to be paid for in tax-money,
wrung from the taxpayers of the county,
no matter what they may think or how
they may kick about it. Taxes now are
high, but they are nos as high as they must
be in order to meet the extraoidinary ex-
penditures incurred by the incompetence or
extravagances of the two men who are now
asking a longer lease of office and who are
button-holing every man they meet to
vote to keep them in control of the manage-
ment of the county affairs.
It is not oharged that either Mr. MILLER,
or Mr. BAILEY are dishonest, but in the’
manner in which they bave transacted the
business of the. county they have both |g
proven their incompetence beyond question.
They went into office with the county out §
of debs, and a balance in the treasury
*1$25,927.03. It has taken, them but two |
years to get away with that balance and
place thé county in debs, any place from
ten thousand up to thirty thousand dol:
lars.
Admitting that it is, or was at the Jast
settlement, but ten thousand dollars—the:
amount they borrowed from a Bellefonte
bank at the time of making their annual
statement in order to show a balance,
in the treasury—this would show that
in two years they expended $35,927.03
more than the ipcome of the county was.
Our taxes now are based on a three-mill
levy for county purpose. The valuations
in many instances are above the actual
value of the property assessed. Particular-
ly is this true of farm property. The total
amount of money raised on the assessed
values of farm and other property is in
round figures $46,000. From licenses un-
seated land and state tax returned—the
other available sources of income—we re-
ceive about $20,000 making the total in-
come of the county about: . $66,000. From
these latter sources we can expect no in-
creased amount to meet increased expendi-'
ture. - The income from licenses and the |
proportion of state tax returned is fixed |
by law and ig not subject to assessment as
is the real estate of ‘the county. Conse-
quently when we need more money $0 pay. ;
county expenditures, either valuations.
must be raised or the millage’ increased.
And under the management of Mr,
MILLER and Mr. BAILEY, the county and |
tax-payers are facing that condition now.
As we have shown, these gentlemen have
so managed the county affairs thatin two
years they have expended or squandered
$35,927.03 more than the entire income of
the county based on present valuation and
a three-mill levy.
How is this shortage to be met? By
an increase of millage or an increase of
valuations? ‘And in either evens, the
STARTLING FACT IS THAT IT WILL REQUIRE.
AN INCREASE OF 25 PER GENT OR A FULL,
ONE-FOURTH ADDITION TO ‘THE PRESENT
TAXATION of the county to keep from get-
ting into debt deeper. :
And here is where the question comes
home to the tax-payer. He must pay for
the past, but does he WANT THIS KIND OF
MANAGEMENT TO CONTINUE. If be does
the way is clear. The election of Mr.
MILLER and Mr. BAILEY will continue it.
If he does not, his duty to himself ‘and his
family require that he shall go, vote as. $0
show his disapproval of ‘the extravagance
and profligacy that bas characterized the
management of county affairs under these
two officials.
Incompetence or Profligacy.
Three years ago the tax-payers of the
county changed the Board of Commission-
ers because of alleged extravagance and in-
competence. The figures given in the last
county statement show that the present
board--two of which are seeking re-elec-
tion—were able, last year, to get away with
$14,291.98, more of the peoples money than
the average yearly expenditures of the board
that the tax-payers repudiated and voted
ous of office in 1902 because of its acknowl-
edged extravagance and profligacy.
And what do these same tax-payers pro-
pose doing about the matter of exorbitant
and unnecessary expenditure of county
moneys now ? No Board of Commissioners
that has ever attempted to manage the
county affairs has been as reckless or as in-
competent as the present one has proved
itself to be. Over $90,000.00 of expendi-
tures in a single year, and with nothing to
show for it, when the actual and necessary.
costs of county affairs should not exceed
$65,000, is the record they have made.
A vote for MILLER or BAILEY is an en-
dorsement of this kind of reckless and in-
competent management. It is a vote for
higher valuation: and an increase of mil-
lage both. :
Tax-payers do you want this ? 2:
B® OCT. 7th. WE
Do you ask what about if ? :
Its the last day that you can pay your
| Btate or County tax, in order to secure
Go and attend to this
NOW. Eo)
your vote this fall.
Ca
ast week we referred to accusations
e by HoMER L. CASTLE Esq., Prohi-
ition candidate for Justice of the Supreme
oourt in a speech delivered at Harrisburg,
to the effect that Senator PENROSE had
been using state funds through a bank in
Allegheny copnty of which Mr. CASTLE
was a direcbor. and solicitor. = We added
tha Senator PENROSE had somewhat ve-
ently denied the accusation and that
Mr. CASTLE had supported it by substan-
tial evidence. Since then the Senator has
practically‘ ‘owned the solt impeachment.’
That is to say, that he borrowed the amount
of. money in question from the bank refer-
an ordinary matter of business.” He ne-
glects to state, however, that the bank got
~ loan and that when the bank: enforced’
#8 payment of the note, because the'Sen-
br refused to pay interest, the State de-
0sit was withdrawn. That is the Sinister
feature of the affair. = =. « i
.—— that, ‘however, Mr. Caste he
g flier, and even graver reve.
aes pe delivered as Union-
n feos... week bemade the assertion that
Fake ‘bank had accepted a deposit of
$100,000 of State funds upon the conditions
that $75,000 of the money was to be loan-
ed to W. H. ANDREWS to be used in ex-
ploiting railroad enterprises and political
ambitions in New Mexico. Two prominent
Pittsburg politicians, whose names were
given by Mr. CASTLE, were to endorse the
note, which made it comparatively good, as
commercial paper goes. But no security
can overcome the statutory inhibition
against using State funds for individual
purposes, and that is precisely what the
trénsaction involved. One of the politicians
entered an evasive denial of the charge and
the other remained silent, which was just
a8 well, for the next night at Greensburg
and a night or two later at Frauvklin, Mr,
CASTLE not only proved she charge but ex-
‘hibited correspondence showing that two
‘other Pittsburg banks bad refused deposits
of like amounts on similar terms. :
In a speech at Meadville last Saturday
dd
fortified himself with the court records and
thus equipped he showed that a defunct
ban k at Spartunsburg, Crawford county,
controlled during ite brief existence by a
“machine politician named TRYON, aform-
‘er Representative in the Legislature, had at.
the time its doorsclosed finally, and pre-
sumably still has a State deposit of $5,000,
nea rly half of which was ‘loaned to W. R.
ANDREWS, the QUAY politician now of
New Mexico,and to W. R. ANDREWS, Sen-
ator PENROSE’S private secretary and the
present chairman of the Republican State
committe. These cumulative proofs of the
use of State funds by machine politicians
are substantial reasons why the: machine
candidate for State Treasurer should be de-
feated and the candidate who will lift the
lid, elected.
False Pretense and Bogus Boasting.
The insincerity of the boast of Republi-
can leaders that they are confident of vic-
tory is revealed i in the desperate expedients
to which they are resorting to avert the de-
feat which they know is impending. In
Philadelphia for example, after failing to
restore the phantoms to the registry list,
they have been invoking equally contempt-
ible methods. The other day the receiver
‘| of taxes for the city refused to honor an
order for the payment of taxes on the flimsy
pretext that because it was a printed blank,
filled in in writing, that it wasn’t an ine
struments in writing as required by law.
Of course the courts overrnled such an ab-
suid position and reversed the contempti- | 8
ble and superserviceable official.
Again we hear that the machine mana-
gers are placarding the bill boards and dead
walls of the city with slanders upon Mayor
WEAVER in the hope of distracting public
attention from their past iniquities. If
they were confident of victory they would
not resort to such practices. If they had
even a reasonable hope of electing their
subservient tool, J. LEE PLUMMER, to the
office of State Treasurer, they - would not
bave taken down the ticket nominated in
June, and substituted a lot of dummies of
whom they are not only not sure but ac-
tually afraid of. But it is not the local of-
fices in Philadelphia they are concerned
about. In faot they wouldn’t mind the
temporary loss of all the court house offices
if they were sure of preserving that moss
important citadel of their power, the State
Treasury.
The local offices in Philadelphia’ to be
filled next month are hopelessly lost to
them and neither DURE AM, nor LANE, nor
MARTIN, nor MoNICHOL are unaware of |
the fact, The substitution of one ticket
for another bas deceived nobody in the city.
It basn’t made the difference of a dozen
votes there. ‘But the machine managers
hoped that the false pretense of reform
would fool the voters of the conntry and in-.
red to. But he declares that ‘‘it was only |
deposit in consideration of ‘making. H
‘argue that Mr. Loomis bas
night Mayor BERRY, the Democratic can- | od vio w
date for State Treasurer, took a hand in. ; ob mse of a
istio Suton Mr. Ermny had provigndle. ‘oon
NO. 39.
duce them to accept it as an act of contrition
which would. influence .them to vote for
PLUMMER for State Treasurer. That pur-
pose achieved and the graft of the treasury
secured for another term, they conld goon ||
recover lost ground and riot in plunder as |
boldly as ever. The treasury and the or-
ganization preseqged and they bare no tear:
for the fature.
+ ——It you don’t bave ped)
money to pay all your taxes, the
is required to receive and receipt for
ever amount you can pay him. ‘Have what
you do pay him credited to your State or |
County tax, and a receipt for either of these.
Friday a throwing stones; eto,
‘at automobilists while passing in their mas/|
chines. ‘They were taken before bu
W. Harrison Walker who gave.
severe ., reprimand, - suspending
pending the good : behavior .of ithe
Sport is spot but when it’ comes’
ing missiles at a person passi
kind of a vehicle itis a reprehensible
and the kind of punishmen
be meted out $0 a boy oh
ind. is the bent oer the Knee.
ind..
ee
From the Pittsburg Post. ;
Mr. Roosevelt endeavors $0 ‘g
Loomis a clean bill of healthupon’ bri
ance from the public service.
markable letter the President futhis]
country, and the correspondence 4
for another comfortable berth.
to profit from the mild censure bis p
financial transactions in Que I
from an evidently reluctan oh ye
The promptitude with whic! ootni
appeal for. ri bilitation WAS. Answere
compels recall of the delay until afset ele
sion of the pathebic request of fo
master General Tyner, gy ed
for some slight vindication y.
dent of charges indorsed . b
in a soothing note a
report, which virboally |
before hearing: ub
The disclosures of cabinet
sip ruos that he is to be the sexs ahiet Jas:
‘tice of the supreme cours. Mr. Hay is dead
and much reference to his views is made.
Much of she incubus is shifted upon his
shoulders, because, itis said, he felt’ he
ought to bear the burden of Bowen's spec:
ifications. = Then Bowen, the once minister
in Persia, the minister in Venezuela, who
steered the United States through an em-
barrassing period when England, Germany
and Italy were stretching the Monroe doo-
trine; Bowen, about whom Magazine arti’
oles and officials raised their plaanditst—his
Bowen has come to be ‘‘vain.”” But he
never got mixed up with as halt company
checks while he served this Government
at Carracas.
The last of the Bowen: Eooinis contro-
versy has not been heard. - Congress will
beyond doubt take a hand and run to earth,
the charges that demanded only*‘mild cen:
sure.”’ A'mere departmental investigation
will not suffice. - Mr. Hay canno$ be sub-
penaed, bat the vai of his friend-
ship for Loomis can be conceded, and . the
inquiry proceed as to the essential facts
which relate to friendship for a‘truss’ The
people will want something more than bu-
man vanity. before they are willing to con-
demn Bowen and apologize to Loomis, ac-
quitted by ‘‘reform within the Dany.” »’
A Fool Cure for for Drunkards.’
From the Johnstown Democrat.
It is hard to tell sometimes whether all
of the reformers have turned fools or all of
the fools bave turned reformers. Certain
it is that every now and then some very
worthy people start in upon what looks
like a determined effort to make a really
deserving cause ridiculous. In Berlin some
foolish society has inaugurated a new meth-
od. of caring for the drunkards shat reel
around the streets. Women form the corps
i perform the service. The women are
upposed. to go about in conples and assist
the bibulous either to their homes or to
the police station. = The theory is that the
virtues of noble womanhood will appeal to
the drink-crazed fools that are doing the
reeling. From what men know about men
who get drunk and reel along the streets it
is quite certain that the virtues of noble
womanhood will pass unnoticed. The idea
may be all right in Europe where women
are very small potatoes anyway. They may
handle the common drunk just as they like
over in Berlin. But in America when he
comes staggering down the street with his
addled brain, reeking breath and depraved
tongue those who love their women will
send them into the house and ring for a
great, big policeman. i
Rongh om Iz.’
From the Press.
Emory Storrs once said there was a great
difference between HAVING the smallpox
and BEING the smallpox. The Republi.
can party in Philadelphia HAS the small-
pox; the ‘‘Organization’”’ IS the smallpox.
The disease is inherently, viciously, virn.
lently corrupt; youn cannot reform it; but
the victim afflicted with the disease can be
saved by expelling and throwing off the
disease.
Joke on Chauncey.
From the Cumberland Times.
Senator Depew should at least explain
how he happened to be satisfied with a
measly $20,000 a year from the Equitable,
while ‘‘Andy’’ Hamilton was getting $235, -
st
will secure your right to vote this fall. Its |
ls a relative ‘who lives! Minneapolis two large
To pi
>| Daily Record. It appeared to a pai
hE Raush, returning from Quakake
r. The animal,
‘| which the public is cordially invited.
Sprawls from the Keystone.
—The public schools at Jeanette have been
closed for one week on account of an out-
break of, ‘diphtheria.
—An Oil City collector known to the Der- .
rick has several hundred specimens of the
troe pearls, which he has taken from" mus:
sels found ir Oil éreek.
« The other day Allen Gebuian, of Clay-
ton, Bucks county, discovered a turtle in one
‘of the fields of his farm which had carved on
its shell “H. F. Y., 1808.”
| —After the Dayton fair, near Kittaning,
week, barrels of empty bottles were
‘picked up all over the fair grounds and a
-| search revealed a very ingenious speak-easy.
—A son, weighing two and three-quarter
pounds, was born Sunday to Mr. and Mrs.
William Schaffer, of Hebron. The baby is
perfectly formed and the’ attending pbysi-
cians say he will live.
—The Thirteenth Pennsylvania Veteran
Gavalry association held its annual reunion
here last Thursday. . Captain D. P. Bricker,
of Jersey Shore, was elected president. The
‘next meeting ‘will be held ‘at Huntingdon i in
Octdbér 1906. ©
~ —The Watkin’s Glen property was sold at
Sheriffs sale last week on a mortgage of $14,
1000. A second mortgage of $22,500 was held
by the Green estate which bought in the
property. It: curious that this ‘wonder-
‘resort is not a paging institution. :
a Tn
—William ott nger, of York, recently sent
Fut
‘the Sheepnose variety,
‘which were grown upon a tree at’ Lupica,
ny; which his grandfather had Plait:
‘ed more than a century ago.
—Capt. J. P. Dravo, 8 prominent. and.
‘wealthy rivi , died Saturday at Beaver,
after along Irie: of cancer of the stomach,
86 years. - He was known as the ‘Dean
e of the Waterways, and was one of the prime
; organizers. of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie rail-
| road. :
—Forty years ago Rev. D. M. Gardner was
| pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal chrch,
Lock Haven, and he has promised. to be pres-
‘ent at the annual Old People’s Day, on. Oc-
| tober 8th. Rev. Samuel Creighton, who was
= | a classmate of Dr. Gardner; will also be pres-
‘{'ent to assist’ Rev. Dr. H. R. Bender, the pe.
Tr. | ent pastor.
—Many residents of Coleraine are excited
over the reported appearance of a wildeat
south of that ‘towh, says the Mahang; / City
was first constrained to show
ht, but Small ‘turned tail and scrambled
of through ha woo.
; Ra “Viasbluny, a 74-year -old resident
'}'of Denver; Lancaster county, is a crack shot,
16-'| who Las 8 delight in bringing down hawks.
© Denver News, he
aw ring thirty inch-
hy oper to eS and afew: ‘days earlier he
A I | shot two hawks of the same variety, but of
ny smaller size.
is loader. gun. ©
an. i .—The twenty-second annual reunion of
nm the One Hundred and Tenth Pennsylvania
He uses an. ‘old style muzzle-
Veteran Volunteer association will be held
yi ne on’ Friday, October 20th, ns in
ind Army of the Republic Hall.
meeti ing will convene at 10 o'clock a. a
There will be a camp fire at 7. 30: p, m. to.
For
card orders apply to G. W. Buck, secretary,
‘Altoona, Pa.
‘Frederick Shoff, the owner of extensive
chestnut groves in Lancaster county, will
throw them open four days next week to the
school children of the county, who will be
privileged to gather all the nuts they want.
The following week the groves will be open
to the public. Mr. Shoff will have a squad
of policeman in the orchards to prevent out.
siders from entering on the days the school
children are there. .
—The Neversink Mountain hotel, located
on the summit of the Neversink mountain,on
the outskirts of Reading, was destroyed by
fire last Friday evening. The building, a
large four-story frame structure, was erected
twelve years ago, ‘ata cost of $100,000. How
the fire originated i is not definitely known.
The hotel was closed a month ago and had
been turned over to a-watchman. There was
an insurance of $40,000. Le
—Farmers of Westmoreland county have
organized a protective association against pot
hunters; They have regular officers, a pros-
ecuting committee and funds to pay legal
expenses. Trespass notices giving extracts
from the laws are posted on each farm. Mem-
bers have agreed to give permission to men
who go shooting for sport to hunt under cer-
tain conditions, but the pot hunter, especial-
ly foreigners, will not be allowed on the
property of the members.
—Investigation has revealed the fact that
Thos. J. Scott, the geologist and mining ‘en-
gineer who was found dead in a shaft. near
Belsena, Clearfield county, on Wednesday
night, and who was thought to have met his
death as a result of an accident, was in reali-
ty murdered. His empty purse and papers
were found 200 yards from the mine, and
there were evideuces of a desperate struggle.
The theory is that he was slain and his body
carried into the mine to hide evidence of the
crime.
—The typhoid fever victims increase at
Nanticoke almost every hour, and last Sun-
day was a gloomy day for the residents of
that town. Five more deaths occured since
Saturday night. There are now 320 cases in
Nanticoke and vicinity. Dr. Johnson, of
Philadelphia, who is in charge of the situ-
ation, had a conference Sunday with all the
milk dealers to devise proper means and
plans for transacting the milk business in
the future. = From every pulpit last Sunday
came words of warning to the people to boil
the water and milk used.
—Haunted, day and night, by the ghast]y
vision of the man whom it is alleged he mur-
dered, Steve Forbes is rapidly losing his
mind in the Sunbury prison, and it is believ-
ed will soon become a raving maniac. Forbes
is the man who is charged with striking
John Cozak on tbe head with an ax during a
christening, Cozak afterwards dying. Forbes
attempted to commit suicide at the jail by
cutting his throat with u table knife Sunday
afternoon. Since then he has almost con-
stantly paced his cell, night and day, and re-
fusing food, sleeping ‘only when he becomes
s0 exhausted that he can no longer remain
000 in one year from the New York Life.
awake,