BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
.»—There have been profligates who had
money to burn but the Republican machine
alone ‘‘eats it up.”
—Which do you want, higher valuations
or higher taxation ? MILLER and BAILEY
have brought one or the other on you.
Vote for them if you like it.
_ —There is no good reason why every man
onthe Democratic ticket should not be
elected next month. Everyone of them is
the equal of his opponent and some are
peers. =
© Is ‘would be interesting to know just
how much of the “‘yellow-dog’’ fund of the
big insurance companies found its way to
the ‘‘yellow mansion,” in Harrisburg, last
winter. ;
“Scientists are telling us now that the
sun id losing its heat and that there is only
enough lefs to last us twenty-four million
years. How sad to think of the possibility
of freezing to death.
~—Longing for other worlds to conquer
President ROOSEVELT has started ous to re-
form foot-ball. When TEDDY goes up
against the College line-up of the country
he will find thas is will take more than
the ‘‘big stick’ to break through.
—WiLL1AM RANDOLPH HEARST, of New
York, like another effervescent young man
we know of, wants anything he can get, 80
he has decided to accept a nomination for
mayor of that city. ‘Accepting a nomina-
tion and getting elected are not synonomous,
however. :
—That Missouri Insurance Commissioner
‘who ie going to make JOHN A. McCaLr,
president of the New York Life, refund to
the company the money he contributed to
the Republican campaign fund is; is is
needless to say, a Densocras.. He may be a
" ‘Democrat, but he “‘ain’t no fool.”
"A man goes to the polls one day in the
year aud then if be doesn’t. vote for com-
‘pesent men he has to work barder every
‘one of the remaining three hundred and
Bixty-four in order to pay for his share of
tbe folly. You'll be in this class’ if you
vote §0 re-elect MILLER and BAILEY.
—Thiogs have come to such a pass in
this neck-o-the- woods that a sell respecting
Republican iz almost ashamed to acknowl-
edge that he intends voting for PLUMMER.
Hundreds of them are outspoken for BERRY
but those who intend voting for the ‘‘mes-
senger boy’’ are not saying anything about
it.
—Word from Blair county is to the ef-
fect that the Republicans up there are going
to explain to their brethren in other parts
of the State just why LEE PLUMMER was
afraid to go before his own county conven-
. dion tn eek. for ite endorsement for State
Treasures. Ramor has it‘that ie will nos
earry his own county.
—When incapable men cause the taxes
to be needlessly raised on your property it
is the equivalent of taking just that much
of your earnings away from you. That is
exactly the situation that. Commissioners
BAILEY and MILLER have led the property
owners of Centre county into. It remaius
to be seen whether those who have been
robbed in this way will vote to have it done
again,
—Now that the truth is out and the
world knows that Japan could nos have
financed her war operations one year longer
M. WITTE will have to take off a few of
the medals that were hung on him for hav-
ing effected a peace settlement so satisfac-
tory to Russia. Japan has a debs of $1,-
250,000,000 and her already impoverished
people muss face a tax three times as great
a8 it was before the first guns of the war
were fired.
—TIt will be in order for editor SCHWARTZ,
of the Altoona 77ribune, to answer the lester
of J. 8. LEISENRING Esq., by saying that
‘‘the only proper reply to the insolens let-
ter should be a cow-hide.”” It is evident
that the 7ribune’s nerves are fast going into
a state of prostration similar to those of its
pet candidate who snapped and soarled at
those who approached bim in Harrisburg
and then tried to excuse his charlish dis-
position on the grounds that he was ous of
sorts, :
—Prof. H. A. SURFACE, the state
economic zoologist, has made a bid for
fame as ‘‘Rosco,’’ the man who ‘‘eats ’em
alive.’’ In order to disprove the theory
that a man ap abt Orangeville, Columbia
eounty, was killed by accidentally eating
a cabbage worm, the Professor volunteers
to eat a worm, himself. Is is very kind of
the Professor to volanteer this demonstra-
sion for science sake, but even if he did eat
a worm and survive that would not prove
thas the other man was pot killed by eat-
_ ing a worm. Any gardener will tell yon
that a cabbage worm will kill one cabbage
head and apparently do no barm to anoth-
er growing right beside it. °
—While the men of the great New York
eathedral of St. John the Divine bave suc-
ceeded in making themselves fels to such
an extent thas sculptor BORGLUM has de-
stroyed two statuee, he had been working
on for a’ year, merely because they were
women angels when the men thought they
should bave heen men angels, no one will
be convinced that the men amount to any
more in that oharch than they do in any
other. It is quite probable that the sculptor
was right, for no ove willdeny that a good
woman comes nearer fulfilling all the ideals
of an angelic being than is possible for any
man, besides the highest type of beauty is
exemplified in she feminine form.
~ VOL. 50
Issues of the
Campaign.
IsAAc ROBERTS, cashier of the Swarth-
more Nasional bank has answered the im-
pudent and immoral letter which chairman
ANDREWS, of the Republican State com-
mittee, recently addressed to the bankers of
the State, to frighten them into contribus-
ing to his corruption fund. Chairman
ANDREWS had insulted the intelligence of
the bankers by declaring that the election
of Mayor BERRY would debase the our-
tency of the country. ‘‘Mr. BERRY’S
election,”” the ANDREWS blackmailing
letter alleged, ‘‘would be proclaimed
throughout the length and breadth of the
land as a trinmph for the cause of free
silver.” Mr. ANDREWS knows, unless he
is a born idiot, that the election of neither
PLUMMER nor BERRY will influence the
carrency and in stating the contrary be
writes himself down a knave. But Mr.
ROBERTS treats his absurd statement seri-
ously, nevertheless, and answers it fisly.
‘“Mr. BERRY'S campaign and election,”’
writes the Swarthmore banker, ‘‘have no
more to do with free silver than with the
rings of Saturn or the man in the moon.
Bus they have a great deal to do with com-
mon honesty and the proper control and
disposal of the State fonds.’” These are
the issues of the campaign in a nutshell. In
his speech accepting the Democratic nomi
nation for the office of State Treasurer
Mr. BERRY said, ‘‘the questions which
ordinarily divide the voters of the State are
sent to the rear. We could not discuss
them if we would. The people would not
listen. They are now determined to rid
this State of a corrupt and corrupting polit-
ical ring, the revelation of whose villainy
bas disgraced our State.” That is only
another form of expressing the idea advanc-
ed by Mr. RoBERTS'that Mr. BERRY'S
election will have much to do with ‘‘com-
m on honesty and the proper cobtrol and
disposal of the State funds,’”’ but nothing
w batever with onrrency or courage.
The Republican machine in this State
bas ‘‘refined iniquity.’ That is to say it
has reduced the process of plundering the
people to an exaot science and has spread
the viras of venality into every seotion of
the State and every department of the
goverumens. There hasn’s been within
ten years a single appropriation to charity,
¢ dnoation,_ or qorreotive institutions, that
basn’t yielded & percentage in graft to the
atrocious ‘‘combination of criminals mas-
querading as Republicans.’’Daring the last
session of the Legislature J.LEE PLUMMER,
the Republican machine candidate for
State Treasurer, apportioned these State
gifts and his nomination is the reward
for his moderation in not demanding for
himself a larger share of the spoils. His
e lection, therefore, means a continuation
of the practice of grafs while the success of
Mr. BERRY will end it. This is only
another way of stating the sane truth.
Signs Point to Berry’s Election.
There can be no doubt that the signs of
the campaign point to a substantial victory
for Hon. WiLLiaM H. BERRY, the candi-
date of the Democracy and the people for
State Treasurer. It will be remembered
that a month ago upwards of 50,000 bogus
names were stricken from the registry lists
in Philadelphia.” That meant a diminution
of the Republican vote of the city to that
extent. Last Saturday 75,000 individual
voters applied for and secured tax receipts
in that oity. A conservative estimate is
that of that number 50,000 were men whe
have not been in the habit of voting in
recent years, all of whom will vote for Mr.
BERRY. The aggregate difference, there-
fore, in favor of the Democratic candidate
in that city alone, is 100,000.
Some time ago the machine managers
claimed that the names stricken from the
registry would be restored and a systematic
effort was made to achieve thas resuls, bus
it failed. Subsequently it was alleged thas
there would be recompense for losses in the
city by gains in other sections of the State.
Both these expectations have been 'disap-
pointed. Asa matter of fact the machine
has lost phantoms in every city in nearly
the same ratio as in Philadelphia, while is
is now oertain thas the courts in various
places will considerably further reduce the
number of names falsely registered. The
impulse, moreover, which angmented the
number of individual tax payments in the
oity was felt in other centres of population.
With a reduced Republican vote of 100,-
000 and an ipcreased opposition vote. of
equal proportions a victory for the Demo-
oratic candidate is certain. It only re-
mains, therefore, for the Democrats of the
State to share in the honor and glory of
this achievement. There never was a more
important election. With the defeat of the
machine the nefarious practice of taxing
the people excessively in order to create
enormous balances in the Treasury for the
use of speculative politicians and in de-
bauching eleckions, will be ended and the
earnings of industrious people will be lefs
in their pockets for the uses of themselves
and their families. ‘This iniquity is the
fountain of mast of the evils of government
in Pennsylvania and bere is the chance to
stop it. * :
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCT. 13, 1905.
Vote for the Man.
The plan of campaign that has for its ob-
ject spreading stories about how rich certain
candidates are will not have much weight
with sensible people. Rich men, as a rule,
are successful men and of all places that
successful men are needed they are most
valuable in county offices. These are faots,
indisputable, and we regres that all of the
candidates on both the Demooratic and
Republican county tickets this fall do not
come under this class. In fact we do not
think that any one of them could be class.
even as a moderately rich man, though
some of them are young emough who have
plenty of time to reap the logical reward of
their intelligence and industry. :
For some. unaccountable reason the ap-
ponents of Dr. WHITE imagine they are
making votes against him by ocironlating
the story that he ie a rich man. No one
knows how untrue the stories are better
than Dr. WBITE and we are sure no one
longs for them to be true any more than
Dr. WHITE. They say he has a practice
amounting to $2,000.00 a year, is a rich coal
operator and has several other sources of
income that probably put him in-the J.
PIERPONT MORGAN olass.
As a matter of fact Dr. WHITE is a
dentist and knowing that ‘he is a good
dentists we imagine that his practice
amounts to considerable mere than $2,-
000.00 a year, in truth it ought to. Bub
what of that > No man runs for President
of the United States because he needs the
$50,000 salary attached to the office. The
late Governor HASTINGS was making far
more movey as president of the Sterling
Coal company than he got as a salary for
being Governor of the Commonwealth,
The late Senator A. E. PATTON, who rep-
resented this district, was a millionaire
when he ran for the office that paid bim
$15 a day for one hundred days. Your
present president Judge could have made
more money out of his law practice than he
will receive during the ten years he serves
you on the bench. It wasn’t the salary
that persuaded the Hon. WM. ALLISON to
run for the Legislature some years ago, be-
cause you know he is a rich man. Scores
of cases of this sort might be cited. It
seems unnecessary, however, since none of
them apply directly to Dr. WHITE. We
that Dr. WHITE is a rich man. Bat he is
not. :
He has the income from his dental prac-
tice ; the volume of which depends entirely
upon bis personal energy and proficiency.
As to being a coal operator. It is true that
with several other gentlemen he did go
into the contracting business during the
recent coal strike with the hope of making
a little extra money, but the extents of the
operation was to reopen a supposedly work-
ed ont mine and take coal ous on a royalty.
Up to this. time the enterprise has never
netted more than $15 a month to any of
the individuals interested in it, so you see
that there is little danger of Dr. WHITE'S
being a rich man, at this rate, until long
after he is through serving yon as County
Treasurer. ‘
Aside from all this talk, which seems to
us the veriest nonsense, Dr. WHITE has
qualifications thas really commend him to
every voter in Centre county : He is one of
the most popular men in our sister town of
Philipsburg. This position’ be bas attain-
| ed beeause of his gentlemanly character,
ever pleasing manner and innate kindli-
ness. He is a member of she Episcopal
church—we think a vestry man—and from
personal knowledge we know him to he
charitable and generous beyond his ability.
The highest compliment we can pay to his
-integrity and uprightness is the statement
that men diametrically opposed to him in
politics in Philipsburg ‘are his bess friends
andwould trust him to'any extents. We make
this statement without fear of contradic-
tion, because we known whereof we speak
and we want you to know the trath about
the man who is asking yon now to elect
him your Treasurer. And bess of all, every-
thing Dr. WHITE is today in Philipsburg
and bas, be has made bimself. He came
to that town when little more than a boy
and it bas been his home ever since. On
the morning of November 8th you will
learn more than we can tell yom of hi®
standing because we fancy the vote the peo-
verify every word we have said about him,
- ——Our candidate for ‘Sheriff is a man
who commends bimrelf to you hecause of
bis fitness for the office he seeks. ELLIS
SHAFFER has the right to demand every
Demooratic vote in Centre county for the
reason thas he bas always been a Democrat
and the family he represents is one of the
oldest and staunchest Democratic contin-
gencies in thé county. All you need to
sonvince you that he is the man for the
place is to meet him. He is pleasant, in-
telligens and has the physique that we
naturally expect to find in that officer of
the law.
- ——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
say directly because in referring to any of |
them we assume, for the sake of argument,
ple over there will givehim wil] more than
No National Politics this Year.
‘Senator FORAKER, of Ohio, gravely an-
nounced thas in speaking in Pennsylvania
he is discussing national issues and has no
interest in the affairs of the Republican
machine. If that be true this is the wrong
year for him to appear on the stump in this
State. © There are absolutely no national
issues involved in the ‘pending contest in
Pennsylvania. The only question $o be
determined by the voters of this State this
fall is one between integrity and roguery.
It is utterly impossible to put any other
construction upon it. There is no division
of sentiment with respect to the judicial
candidates. The Democrats, LINCOLN Re-
publicans and the Prohibitionists have |’
united on a candidate for State Treasurer,
Hon. W. H. BERRY, against the candidate
of the machine whose only distinction is
that ‘during two sessions of ‘the Legislature
bie was the moss servile man in the body in
obedience to the bosses. : ;
«There can bene party politics. in the
management of the State Treasury. Itisa
purely husiness proposition. If the candi-
dates of the swo parties stood for the same
purposes and impulses there might be some
reason in adhering to party lines, just as a
business man may prefer a personal ao-
quaintance in the selection of an agent,
other things being equal. But no sane
business man will select a personal acquain-
tance whom he believes to be dishonest, or
what is 6o the same purpose, is affiliated
with and controlled by dishonest men, in
p reference to another who is well ‘recom-
mended, for any fiduciary services. II
Senator FORAKER imagines that the vos-
ers of Pennsylvania are silly enough to do
such an absurd thing, he is greatly mistak-
en, and in intimating such a belief he pays
a poor compliment to their intelligence.
Business principles are not entirely un-
known in this State.
The fact is that the * issues of this cam-
paign are clearly drawn and fairly well
understood. When Secretary of State
Roor declared that the Republican ma-
chine in this State is composed of a gang of
plunderers = ‘‘masquerading as Republi-
cans,’’ he correctly characterized the ma-
chine managers and @verybody in the State
understands that fact. Their present strife’
is to hold on to the State Treasury as. the
yet important _citadelof graft and they |
are exhausting every expedient to compass
the result because they know.that in the
event of failure they will be thrown out of
power forever and that a better element of
the Republican party will direct that or-
ganizasion in the future. It is because of
this fact, moreover, that national politics
ha ve nothing whatever to do with the cam-
paign. The only question is the renova-
6 ion of the public service and the 1estora-
tion of honesty in official life. =
——If there is any one who can give a
single logical reason why HARRY JACKSON
should not be elected Register of Centre
county we would like to hear it. - So far as
competency is concerned he is far superior
to his opponent for the reason that he has
worked in the office as a clerk at varions
times and knows the routine of it. You
can find in no one more of the qualities of
a gentleman than he possesses and in voting
for him you will be commending a young
man who has worked assiduously to main-
tain a home fora widowed mother and a
sister.
Plummer Against President Roosevelt,
That the Republican machine of Penn-
sylvania is unalterably committed to a
quarrel with President ROOSEVELT, no
longer admits of doubt. When during the
last gession of the Legislature the resolu-
tion endorsing the President's policy of
preventing railroad discrimination was de-
feated by the vote of J. LEE PLUMMER
and his political associates on the floor, Mr.
ROOSEVELT'S iriends interpreted it asa
declaration of war. The agreement re-
cently entered into between. the machine
leaders and Senator FORAKER, of Ohio,
confirms that opinion. FORAKER is openly
against the Presiden and is the candidate
of ROOSEVELT’S opponents for the presi-
dential succession. The Pennsylvania ma-
obine has bargained to support him in the
convention. © = fei perp
Under such circumstances the friends of
President RoOSEVELT in his State are un-
der no obligations to support either the
machine or its candidate, J. LEE PLuM-
MER, whose willingness to oppose the Pres-
ident was revealed in the vote on the reso-
lution above referred to. The resolution
bad been introduced by Mr. CREASY and
after being twice read was adopted unani-
mously. That fact was promptly telegraph-
ed to the president of a certain importans
cor poration, whose ‘office is in Philadel-
phia. . He immediately telegraphed $o
Insurance Commissioner DURHAM at the
Boas mansion in Harrishnrg and within an
hour the vote adopting the resolution was
reconsidered, the measure defeated bya
party vote, Mr. PLUMMER actively partici-
pating in the proceedings. :
NO 40.
Mr. Berry’s Campaign Work.
Mayor BERRY is drawing to she close of
the fourth week of his warvelons cam-
paign on fhe stump and itis within the
lines of conservatism to say that no State
candidate bas. ever so profoundly moved
the people of Pennsylvania. He is not a
finished orator like BRYAN ora silver-
tongued phrase-maker like others who have
spoken within the Commonwealth. = But
his sincerity, his force and his earnestness
inp resenting the issues of the campaign
have made his arguments unanswerable
and his reasoning irresistible. He has won
the confidence and commanded the respeet
of the people everywhere that he has gone.
Such a man enlisted in such a canse can’t
fail to make a marked impression on the
public mind. Thongbtful men have felt
for some time that there is something the
m ater with the public life and have been
seeking the cause. Mr, BERRY, a keen-
sig bted business man and oue $rained in
the rugged principles of honesty, has dis-
covered the source of the evil and is point-
ing it out with such force in logic and il-
lustration that no one can fail so see. This
is the secret of his power on thestump. It
is the reason why all men who hear him
are interested and convinced. It acconnts
for the great snoocess of his meetings,
A campaign thus conducted can’t fail to
produce the desired resulte. There is no
sophistry in his eloguence, no hypnotism
in bis words. But there is earnestness and
information in his statements and they per-
suade. Besides the people are ready for a
political revolution. = The time is ripe for
a change. ' Iniquity has had its day in the
publie life of Pennsylvania. ‘Political im-
morality bas run its course in the Keystone
State. Probably no other man than W. H.
BERRY could have seized the opportunity
as he bas, but he measures up“ to the full
standard of a reform leader and he is mov-
ing to victory. i ‘
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Too Much One-Man Power.
From the Boston Watchman. : fia
The life insurance investigations bave
made it plain that in spite of ‘boards of di-
rectors and other officers the great life 'in-
surance companies are one-man affairs. The
want of good faith in the reorganizasion of
the Equitable Life Assurance ‘Society was
made clear when Paal Morton was a
president with plenary powers, before Gro-
ver Cleveland and his two iates: were
Sppeinted to look. ous for the interests of
‘the policyholders. The a vintment of
these : : a hlind
for the purpose of leading the public to be-
lieve an honest reorganization had been ef-
feoted. The full power is, however, in the
hands of Mr. Morton,over whom they have
no eontrol. They can neither curb. him
nor displace him. His power over the af-
fairs of the society is absolute. The sesti-
mony of Jobn A. McCall, president of the
New York Life Insurance company, before
the committee of the legislature, shows
that the same state of things exist in thas
company. There has been some talk ahous
dummy directors. Apparently all the di-
rectors of these companies are dummies. Is
is difficult to see how the administration of
these and other corporations similarly con-
ducted would be changed if they were sim-
ply the personal property of the presidents.
In the case of the Equitable this al soluse
power was used for the benefit of the pres-
ident and his family and friends; in. the N.
Y. Life there does not appear, any evidence
of the nse of the power, for personal gain.
Our Baitle as Seen From the Other
Side of the Continent.
From the Portland Oregonian.
It is an easy matter to be a reformer when
the physic waves of popular enthusiasm are
running high and swift; just as itis easy to
be brave in battle when the blood is up, |
when the boys are shouting victory and the
foe is in full retreat. What Napoleon call-
ed ‘‘two-oclock-in-the-morning courage’’
is another and a different thing in war,and
the civie courage which sets the teeth in a
death grip and sees the fight throngh to
the end is another and a rarer thing in our
publio life. Slay
That sort of conrage the Philadelphians
seem to bave. The tumult and the shout-
ing of their revolt have died away. What
they need now is the inflexible will to
stand by their leader through thick and
thin, in good report and evil, until, to hor-
row an elegant expression of Boss Durham’s
quoted by The Oregonian’s. correspondent,
there is skatingin bell. . . . . ... .
Perhaps nowhere in America has the issue
ever before been £0 clearly drawn between
representative government and boss rule as
in Philadelphia thisfall. Is the Anglo-
Saxon race losing its . faculty for. self-gov-
ernment? This election will help to answer
the question.
. What the Stand-Patters Wanted.
From the Phila. Public Ledger. iH
- The stand-patters, it appears, have two
methods whereby they hope to put a stay
to any tariff revision which will stimulate
exports, increase business and enlarge the
volume of imports bearing revenue'as the
ports of entry. Oue plan is to slap the old
dollar war tax on heer, from which about
$45,000,000 additional revenue a year may
be expected, and the other is to tax coffee
imports at the rate of three cents a pound.
~The last suggestion comes from Repre-
sentative Burton, of Ohio, the Common-
wealth of stand-patters and offic eholders.
Mr. B rton thinks the tax on the break-
fast table would yield $30,000,000 a year,
and he argues thas the coffee tax would be
‘“‘in line with the Republican policy of
stimulating home industry.” As the qunan-
tity of coffee grown in the United States,
exospt for the comparatively insignificant
yield in our appurtenant colony of Porto
Rico, is very su.all, he means, perhaps, by
‘stimulating industry,”’ the tremendous
industry which the father of a family muss
present very high oost of living,
use in order to pay for the inorease over the
Sprawls from the Keystone.
—The Renovo shops have received orders
to equip two hundred and fifty {freight ears
with air brakes. : :
—The Pennsylvania Daughters of the
American Revolution .are in session this
week at Reading.
—The Bloomsburg public schools were
closed this week to allow the twelve han-
dred school children to attend the Columbia
county fair.
—John 8. Summerskill, aged 21 years, a
member of the Franklin football team, of
Chester, died in the hospital on Sunday from
injuries received during a game Saturday.
—Thomas Halligan, an employe of the
Goodyear saw mill at Galeton, met a horri-
ble fate Friday. He stumbled and fell upon
the “slasher” saw, when his body was
sawed in two.
—The assessed valuation of the property
in Jersey Shore is $1,000,000. The taxes
amount to $34,000, of which amount the
borough gets $29,000, and the county. amd
State the remainder.
—Twenty-four head of cattle from the
Castle Grove herd at Danville, subjected fo
the tuberculin test and found infected, were
shipped to Philadelphia Monday afternoen
where they were killed. :
—Joe W. Furey, of Lock Haven, whe
years ago was lecal editor of the Warom-
MAN, had his second outing in seven years
one day last week. He has been confined te
his bed much of the time for the past fifteen
years.
—Three men were killed and a car load of
race horses from the east en route to the fair
at Bloomsburg were either killed or injured
so badly they had to be shot in a wreek en
the Lyken’s Valley branch of the! Pennsyl-
vania railroad on Sunday. :
. —Pine Creek fishermen have been arrested
by the wholesale the past few days and 16
cases were tried before Justice Martin im
Jersey Shore. Each offender was fined $25.
The charge was that the fishermen had slats
in the bottom of their fish baskets.
—It is authentically .announced that
Carrigan, MecKinnie & Co., of Cleveland,
Ohio, will erect a one million dollar blast
furnace at Bells Mills, Indiana county, this
winter. The company already owns sixty
thousand acres of coal lands in that see-
tion. .
—John Mitchell, president of the United
Mine Workers, says he believes there will
be io trouble between the union and the
operators when the next readjustment ef
scales takes place. He regards the. ontleok
for a peaceful settlement as very satisfac-
tory. :
—The rennion of the 7th Pa. Cavalry as-
sociation will take place th is year at Gettys-
burg on October 23, 24 and 25. The National
cemetery at Gettysburg battlefield are his-
toric grounds, and as a company of the 7th
was raised in this section, it is expected
that quite a lot of old vets will bein at-
tendance,
—The tobacco shed on the farm near Flem-
ington, owned "by Mrs. Daniel Gross, was
destroyed by fire about 12 o’clock Sunday
night, along with a fine crop of tobacco.
‘he tobacco belonged to John Probst, of
ock Haven, and was insured for $700.
There was $500 insurance on the shed.
—Because explosions from a defective
gasoline engine disturbed the serenity of the
Snyder county court, at Middleburg, Mon-
day of last week, Judge McClure issued an
injunction preventing Editor Wagonseller,
of the Post from allowing his power press
to run off the regular weekly edition of that
paper.
—Mr. and Mrs.Charles Miller and a board:
er were chioroformed by burglars Monday
night while asleep in their home at St.
Benedict near Ebensburg, The thieves se-
cured $351. Some silverware was taken
and Mrs. Miller's diamond wedding ring
was removed from her finger and carried off
by the invaders.
—The Clinton county tobacco crop has
been cut and housed, and it is undoubtedly
the finest in ten years, There wers 36Y
acres grown, which will average 1400 pounds
to the acre and net the growers about $65,
000. Fully fifty per cent of the crop has
been sold. Sales reported show an increase
in price over last year.
—Thomas E. Dixon, for several years con-
nected with the Altoona Mirror, committed
suicide Wednesday night by shooting him-
self through the breast. Mr. Dixon had
been ill with nervous prostration and was
discharged from St. Francis hospital only a
few days ago. He was 38 years old and
leaves a wife, mother and several brothers
and sisters.
.'—The arrangements for the formal in-
auguration of the Rev. Dr. William Perry
Eveland as president of the Williamsport
Dickinson Seminary, which will occur om
Friday, October 26, are being completed as
rapidly as possible. There will be a number
of presidents of prominent schools present
and many ministers from various points in
the State.
—The timber of the Forcey lands, lying
between Kylertown and the river, in Clear:
field county, embracing about 4000 acres, is
now being estimated by J. 8S. McQuown and
J. 8. McCreary with a view of havinga
mammoth saw mill operation started soom,
The timber is constituted of all the varieties
common to this locality and much of it is
said to be very fine.
—Governor ‘Pennypacker has postponed
the dedication of the Pennsylvania mona-
ments at Andersonville until December 7,
9, and Chattanooga December 12. These
monuments were to have béen dedicated in
November, but owing to the prevalence ef
yellow fever in the south the dates were
changed by the governor at the request of
the several commissions by which they were
erected.
—Heir of a fortune estimated at $50,000,
Frank Houghton, 32 yearsold, son or Chas.
W. Houghton, wealthy physician, of Phila
delphia, committed suicide by inhaling gas.
After the death of his mother about eight-
een months ago, he became melancholy
and this, added to brooding over his unre:
quited love for Mrs. Horace Houghton, his
sister-in-law, issaid to have prompted the
deed.