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tink Slings.
—Tuesday morning was one of the kind
thas made the groand-bog sis up and take
notice.
—The thermometers in this section seem
to vary as much in their stories as some of
the leading politiciavs.
—~We suppose when the Presbyterians
finally decide to call their new minister he
will say **That’s good.”
—Even the passes over the Bellefonte
and Centre Hall turnpike bave been an-
pulied. This is too mach.
~This is the kind of weather that wakes
us all sit up and take notice of the stories
of the impending coal strike,
—The “pickings’’ in the Pennsylvania
insurance commissioner's office certainly
make the pay look like thirty cents.
— Japan needs a big vavy now far less
than millions of her wretched, starving
populace need enough rice to subsist one.
~The Russian rebellion, Tom LAWSON
and Judge LOVE'S congressional boom seem
to have been lost eight of for the time be-
ing. :
—Farmer STONE didn’t absorb the p. &
b abit from his brother, the former Gover-
nor. He told all he knew withoat an after
thought.
~What engineer WALLACE says of Sec
retary TAFT in public leads us to believe
that whas he says in private wouldn't be
fit to print.
—I8 DURHAM probably has no family
connection with the New York MeCurDY'S
but he certainly bas a powerful business
likewise to them.
—Io Greenland women paint their faces
blue aud yellow. Iu this country lazy
livers make them yellow without painting
and then they look ‘‘blue’’ enough.
—Dr. SCHAFFFER'S idea of teaching the
young to shun cigarette smoking sounds
too much like theory to have been the delib-
erate utterance of such a practical educator.
~The dispensary is to be abolished in
South Carolina. This does not mean that
the Colonels are going to stop drinking
but merely that they have grown tired of go
much red tape iu doing it.
~Toe young fellow who married the
widow YERKES, before the grass bad begun
to grow on her late hasband’s grave may
bave made an ass of himself, but he made
a few millions on the side.
—1f the President is really so keen for a
good engineer for that per Panama canal of
his why doesn't he go up to Mars and get
bave been fassi
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—Sinee the Legislature is to quit on Feb-
raary 15th avd only ove of the bills it was
called together to aot upon has been dis-
posed of we rise to ask : 1f it were so soon
to be done for what in the world was it
ever begun for?
~The western convicts who won a $25,-
000 prize for guessing the exact number of
people who attended the St. Louis exposi-
tion ought to have guessed again befere he
decided to give balf of it to his lawyer for
representicg his claim.
—It we ever hope to get square with this
insurance graft we had better adopt the
idea thas is advanced in one of the latest
songs, this is : Let the insurance com-
panies pay ns while we're living and we'll
pay them while we're dead.
—Latest reports that come from New
York are to the effect that Tammany and
Mayor McCLELLAN have broken and that
WiLLie HeARrsT will be the tiger's candi-
date for Governor next fall. Politics do
make strange bed fellows, sure enough.
~The group of bad men who were de-
ported from Manila sometime ago and ex-
pressed a desire to be shipped to Philadel-
phia evidently lefs before the news of last
fall's election in the Quaker city reached
our new section of territorial expansion,
—According to the latest reapportion-
ment of the State Centreand Clearfield are
to make a senatorial district and Elk,
Cameron, Forest and Clinton will be put
together. Centre and Clearfield will be
anybody's distriet. A good Demoorat or &
good Republican wonld stand like chances
of carrying it.
—ANNA GOULD is not entitled to much
sympathy in her marital troubles with
BoN1 DE CASTELLANE, the French toy
husband her millions bought a few years
ago. We will all give ber credit with
having inberited some of the GouLp good
sense, after all, if she only sticks to her
avowed purpose of divorcing the libertine.
There is considerable talk of the Hon.
HarRY CURTIN’S becoming an aspirant for
congressional honors. If he should decide
to enter the contest there wonld be some-
thing doing among the Republicans of the
county for the next few months for HARRY
has some friends who are workers and he
played the political game so well that he
represented a Democratic county in the
Assembly in 1895. :
~The big dailies that can find nothing
more about Miss ROOSEVELT and her prom-
ised husband to talk about and have gotten
down to descriptions of her poodle dog and
the way the tom cats frighten it, must be
very nearly at the end of their string on the
ROOSEVELT subject. Bat come to think of
it, they haven’t told us yet the kind ofa
post Miss AvnicE’s poodle has, or how often
ting facts on politic
VOL. 51
Work of the Extra Session,
The record of the special session of the
Legislature completely jostified our esti-
mate at the outset. When the cali was
promulgated we said that the purpose was
neither just nor worthy. It was inspired,
not by the desire for improved political
morals or better government, but iv the
hope that a false pretense of reform might
restore the machine to power. There never
was an intention to enact reform legisla-
tion, however. The Governor bad no such
purpose in mind. The subjects chosen for
consideration is overwhelming evidence of
that fact and the way in which the meas-
ures have been treated is cumulative
prool.
The first subject named is the matter of
consolidation of Pittsbuig and Allegheny
City. That may be important from a
local standpoint but it wasn’t urgent. It
might have been left for the regular ses.
sion without the impairment of any inter-
est or principle.
Another subject was the repeal of the
Philadelphia ‘‘ripper”’ enacted at the last
regular session. There was certainly no
urgency for that. The ‘‘ripper’’ didn’t be.
come operative until the spring of 1907
and it could and would bave been repealed
very early in the regular session of that
year. It provided no excuse for the extra
session which will cost the people ball a
million dollars.
The reapportionment of the State into
Senatorial and Representative districts as
required by the constitution is important
but the banditti from Philadelphia and
Pittsburg who compose the vast proportion
of the present Legislature refused to per-
form that duty during the regalar session
and they only consents to it now because
they imagine that behind a relorm mask
they may commit outrages which would
be intolerable in the open. And they are
proceeding on that vicious idea. That is
$0 say, they are forcing to passage bills so
outrageous that even the boldest buocca-
veer in the bunch blushes as he votes for
them.
For example the Senatorial apportion-
ment bill which has passed the Senate and
is scheduled for covcurrence in the House,
1 conditions there are
400,000 Democrats in the State againet
600,000 Republicans. Justly measared,
however, it may be wafely clained that
there are 450,000 Democrats in Pennsylva-
nia and the fraudulent voter eliminated, not
more than 500,000 Republicans. Acoept-
ing the worst estimate, therefore, it will
be seen that a ratio for a Democratic
Senator is 100,000 and that for a Republi-
can Senator a fraction over 13,000. Can
any man not entirely destitute of honesty
and honor justify such an iniquity?
The apportionment of Representative
distriots is equally atrocions. The cousti-
tution requires that ‘‘every city contain.
ing a population equal to a ratio shall elect
separately its proportion of the representa-
tives allotted to the county in which it is
located. Every city entitled to more than
four Representatives, and every county
having more than 100,000 shall be divide
ed into districts of compact and contignouns
territory.” ’
How has this constitutional mandate
heen observed by the bogus reformers in
the present Legislature? Exclusive of
Philadelphia. and Allegheny counties
there are fourteen counties ‘baving
a population of over 100,000.” OI these
nine contain cities of ‘‘population equal
to a rmatio.” Bat the Republican ma-
jority in the Legislature simply divid-
ed Lehigh and Yotk counties because the
division of those counties a%orded an op-
portunity to get Repablican representation
from Democratic districts.
The personal registration has been per-
verted quite as decidedly. That is it
provides for registration under conditions
that will enable the Republican machines
of Philadelphia and Pittsburg to pad the
lists in the future as freely as in the past.
In other words, in moss of the registry dis-
tricts in those cities the Democrats will
be without representation on the registry
boards and the facilities for putting on
bogus names will be as abundant as be-
fore.
Ot all the other measures the same can be
eaid. That is the trend of the legislation.
It is partisan and vicious and the public
will get no return for the vast expense of
the session.
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A Fraud from Beginning to End.
It must be plain to the most obtuse ob-
server, that PENXYPACKER'S hall million
dollar extra Legislature was called more
for the purpose of deceiving the pec ple than
to secure reform. So far it bas done noth.
ing in the vay of reformation. Its pro-
posed apportionment bills are grossest
frauds designed only to aid the Republican
party. Its uniform primary election law
is so cumbersome and expensive that no
reasonable person can endorse is. Its sug-
gestions for new treasury laws are more to
he uses it.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
——
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEB. 9, 1906.
from the newly elected State Treasurer the
power of reforming things in that office,
than taey are to secure better methods and
surer safeguards for the people’s money.
Every movement so far on the part of the
Republican majority bas tended solely and
alone to benefitting the Republican party.
And PENNYPACKER endorses it all.
From beginning to end this ball million
dollar session can be written down a fraud.
Beef Trust Exacting the Bond.
Those members of the Beef trust who
bave heen indicted for violation of the
anti-discrimination law are threatening to
call Attorney General Moopy to testify in
their defense. They are not in much
danger of any penalty for the offenses
agaiost the law which they practically con-
fess. But they are sensitive souls and
don’t feel guite like being anathematized
as criminals. That is precisely the posi-
tion they ocoupy, of course, hat they as-
sumed the part for the good of the party
aod now want to be released from the
predicament. It may be necessary to call
Moony to accomplish that result and we
are now assured that in soch an event he
will be called.
During the Presidential campaign it was
necessary to create the impression thas
RoosSEVELT bad been “doing things’ in
the way of restraining trusts. He had heen
blathering aboas it for so lone aud pretend-
ing so vehemently, shat people who bad
gomption began to think it was all a joke.
Thereupon the administration got busy
snd dispatched young Mr. GARFIELD to
Chicago to get a few victims. He went to
the trust magoates and assured them that
the Grand Old Party wonld go ‘‘to the
demnition bowwows’’ unless he succeeded,
Mr. ARMOUR wouldn't suffer the party to
lose for anything and fiually agreed to
allow a few of his young men tell enough
of the secrets to guarantee a true bill
against the packers, provided, of course,
that they were assured of immuuity against
panishwent.
This was a novel proposition to put up
to the agent of the government by a band
of malefactors but it had to be mes. Young
Mr. GARFIELD was entirely willing. He
But the pack 0's ‘trust him and
insisted that some one ‘higher up” give
thepledge. Then Moony bad to ‘‘go up
agaiust it,”’ and be gave the guarantee.
Now the question of maintaining ‘honor
among thieves’ is up and he i= inclined to
demur. Bus the packers insist on the fal-
fillment of the bond and threaten to sum-
mon him as a witness and compel bim to
“acknowledge the corn’ or perjure him-
self. The public awaits the issue with
interest.
Hypocrisy of Legisiative Leaders.
as,
The insincerity of the pretense of reform
is shown in every measure which has heen
scheduled for passage during the extra ses-
sion of the Legislature. The apportion-
ment bills are outrageously unfair. In-
stead of providing for a vigorous minority
in the legislative bodies and giving the
nearly ball of the voters who are of Demo--
cratic faith a just representation, the aim
appears to bave been to reduce the Demo-
oratic membership in each House to the
minimum. But the full measure of hypoc-
risy is shown in the bill ‘to regulate the
deposits of State fonds to prescribe the
method of selecting State depositories, to
limit the amount of State deposits,” ete.
The bill which was introduced by Rep-
resentative JACKSON, of Armstrong county,
and is said to bave been drawn by Attor-
ney General CARSON provides for a flat
rate of interest of 2 per cent and authorizes
the “State Treasurer with the approval of
the Revenue Commissioners and the Bank-
ing Commissioner or a majority of them,”
to select the depostories. The Revenue
Commisssoners are the Auditor General,
the Secretary of the Commonwealth and
the State Treasurer. For the present,
therefore, the depositories would be seleot-
ed by Auditor General SNYDER, Secretary
of the Commonwealth MCAFEE and Bank-
ing Commissioner BERKEY. The State
Treasurer would be in the minority and
bave little influence in the matter. The
refusal to determine the question by com-
petition, as an amendment offered by Mz.
CREASY provided, shows that the pur-
pose is to continue the favoritism which
bas been so demoralizing in the past.
Competition would bave completely
eliminated favoritism from the transaction.
For example, ample security for the fonds
baving been guaranteed, the awarding of
deposits to the highest bidder would have
given all banks able to give the security
equal chance for the money. There could
bave heen no risk in such an operation for
unless ample and approved security were
provided the bid would not bave been
received. But with the seoutity, the high.
est bidder would have obtained the deposit,
whether friend or foe of the officials charg-
ed with the award. There was no reason
for del the amendment unless it was
to allow the majority of the Commission.
cover up the wrongs of the past and to take
ers toawaid the money to favorites.
A Bogus Investigation.
Tbe insurance investigation as Harrisburg
bas developed she outlines of a eclossal
scandal and it may be said that it was
never intended to reveal anything more.
Excessive fees have been collected, vast
sums of money misappropriated and phan- ot
tom employes paid salaries, according to
the evidence, without performing service.
Bat these are trifling evils compared with
the real orimes that have been committed
and are being carefully concealed by the
investigators. We do not accuse the Demo-
cratic members of the committee with
culpability in the matter, however. Sena-
tors DEWALT and DANNER and Represen-
tatives AMMERMAN and MoNEELY have
been vigilant and earnest in the inquiry.
Bat the committee wae created to shield
rather than expose irregularities and that
purpose will be accomplished. /
The testimony of the Deputy Insurance
Commissioner shows that money was paid
out freely without the warrant of law and
that seversl names were carried on the pay-
roll of men not connected with the de-
partment. The Auditor General testified
that warrants ordered by the insurance
department were issued without question.
The actuary swore that he had divided his
enormous fees with wbe Insurance Com-
missioner in severa! cases and with the
son-in-law of the In«nrance Commissioner
in at least one in«tance. Phantom em-
ployes admitted under oath tha: they had
drawn salaries without performing any
public daties and yet itis sal- to prediot
that nothing will come of the investigation,
The scope of the inqniry has een limited
A Traitor in Camp.
From Harper's Weekly.
An officer of the army was one day re-
ferring in a humorous vein to the large
body of ** ! produced by
Tried to Whip the Editor.
From the Kansas City Jourpal.
Down ig Jaan county, darkest Atkan-
sas, they do up brown, says Bent
Murdock. An eattor De a member of
the Legislature a ‘‘lop-eared liar,” and the
member wens into the office so lick the
editor. After a minute's conversation the
editor man threw the *‘] liar’ out
of the window on to a roof, which
was and the wan fell
through to the ow, lighting on a
sleeping d dog rose up and bit
the man uo, Then the “‘lop-
eared liar’’ kicked the dog. At this mo-
ment the owner of 3he dog, heating a com-
motion, rushed around corner, very
mad. Is is nos safe to kick an ird coun-
ty dog, so the owner of the dog kis the
“ red liar’’ off the porch inko a con-
venient horse bh. About this time
the member of the slature concluded
by the resolution so as to prevent any prac- | hom
tical results.
Do the Republican manageis in the Leg-
islature imagine that they can deceive the
public by such transparent subterfages as
these ? The resolution for an investigation
offered by Representative AMMERMAN
would have opened up the subject to a
complete and searching inquiry soch as
that which was recently held in New York.
The people are not much concerned about
which of two or three gralters got the bulk
of the plander and nobody cares whether
CLAYTON ERB or Commissioner DURHAM
fou (Seantoril rial dis. | would have probably: been willing to \
oan ork i. FRE peti on “ums to Ke Jdusgrance policy. holders. But there isa
good deal of interest in she question of
what fees were illegal and to what uses the
plunder was put. Such an inqniry would
bave been a public advantage but it was
prevented when the PuUSEY resolution
was adopted instead of that offered by Mr.
AMMERMAN, :
Dailzell's Status in Congress.
Probably the inquiry with respect to the
pooling operations of the Pennsylvania
railroad initiated in Congress the other day
was inspired by revenge. The Pennsylva-
nia railroad inaugurated the movement
agaiust passes for Congressmen and other
politicians and the spirit of reprisal is a
potent force in the human heart. Bat even
if that be true we can see no juss cause for
quarrel with the results. Revenge is nota
lofty impulse and it would be more credit-
able if reforms were predicated on a higher
plane. Bat looking a gift horse in the
mouth is a questionable process and if the
enterprise works public improvement is is
bardly the right thing to cast aspersions on
the parposes which pat it in motion.
There bas been for some years & well set-
tled suspicion that the Pennsylvania rail
road, the Pennsylvania compacy, the Bal.
timore & Ohio, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the
Norfolk & Western and the Northern Cen--
tral railroads have been operating in collu-
sion, in violation of law. The more in-
ereduions observers have gone so far as to
imagine that the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad bas passed under the control of
the Penusylvania. Suoh combinations are
naturally, we might say even essentially,
in restrains of trade and consequently, in
the legal phrase, ‘contrary to public poli-
cy’ as well as subversive of the anti-dis-
crimination law. The destruction of such
a combination is, therefore, not only a
present duty but a patriotic obligation.
In view of these facts we were pained,
on reading the proceedings in Congress
which culminated in a resolution condem-
natory of this conspiracy, to find that the
leading, and as many people think, the
only brainy member of the Pennsylvania
delegation in Congress, the principal ob-
struotionist against this manifestly reform
movement, JoHN DALZELL, who ocon-
pies the seat of a member, and is nominal.
ly credited with representing a Pittsburg
constituency, exerted all his power to pre-
vent the movement. We have heretofore
expressed our opinion of DALZELL.
He represents no part of the people of
Pennsylvania.
He is simply the hired counsel of cor-
porations and trusts and his presence in the
Honse is an outrage on the conscience of
the public.
—Everything comes to bim who waits
said the ice-man when he looked at his
pond Tuesday morning. :
that was a lop-eared idiot and went
e. :
One Good Bill at Least.
From the Milton Record,
The pare politics bill introduced by
Senator Calpin, of Lackawanna county, is
just such a law ae is needed in this and
every other State. The use of money at
both primary and general elections hes
become a menace to popular government.
The fitness of a candidate to fill a tion
and his claims for the support of peo-
count for little against the fellow who
ispenses the “‘hoodle.” But the candi.
dase is not the only pernicions factor in
Spawils from the Keystone,
—There are tumors of a second garmen
factory to be started in Philipsburg in the
near future.
—The State recently bought ten thousand
acres of land in Clinton county to add to its
forest preserve.
~The thirty-eighth annual convention of
the young Men’s Christian Association of
Pennsylvania, will be held at Washington,
Pa., February 22 25.
—Beginning this week the Clinton county
commissioners have decided to be in session
but two days & week, Wednesday and Thurs-
day, with the exception of court week.
~The Pennsylvania Railroad will erect a
four-story brick and steel shop building, at
Altoona, to cost $300,000. It will be ocen-
pied by the frame, casting, tin and electrieal
departments.
—Lewis G. Carland, a bar clerk at the
Columbia hotel, Altoona, died at the hos-
pital Saturday afternoon, of hemorrhages,
caused by the bursting of a blood vessel in
the head while sneezing.
—Last weck was the banner week for re-
cruits at the naval station at Erie, twenty-
six young men enteriug the service. Many
more made application but were unable to
meet the requirements.
—Governor Pennypacker has granted a
respite to James Selerno, of Williamsport,
who was to have been hanged yesterday for
i | the murder of his stepdaughter. in order
that the authorities may inquire into his
sanity.
—Frank A. Hersh, of Altoons, who recent-
ly bought the A. G. Morris property on Lin-
coln and Cameron avenues, has gold that
portion on Cameron avenue, 62 x 252 feet
and double frame dwelling, to Dr. G. W.
Burket, of Tyrone.
—Attorney H, H. Myers, of Ebensburg,
Saturday bought in the plant of the Gallitzin
Times which was put up in bankruptcy sale.
Mr. Myers, it is understood, was acting for
J. Bert Denny. and other creditors of the
paper. The price paid was $775.
~The mild weather in January started
the sap in the sugar maple trees, and David
Keim, of Elk Lick township, Somerset coun-
ty, took time by the forelock by opening his
sugar camp, and succeeded in gathering
about 200 barrels of sugar water.
~The Wellsboro Advogaie says that Mrs,
Ida M. White, the only female rural de-
livery carrier in Tioga county, has resigned
ber position and announced that she was
married to Nathan Heysham of Nelson, at
Tuscarora, N. Y., December 16 last.
—Destructive forest fires are raging on
Broad mountain, northwest of New Castle,
Schuylkill county. Much valuable yellow
pine used for the tar pitch industry has al
ready been destroyed, and it is feared that
the huckieberry bushes will be burned out
entirely.
~—Io a fire that consumed a shack in which
foreign laborers made their home, at Enola,
twe men lost nearly $1,000 a night or two
age. One man, with visions of a happy re-
turn home, had saved $700, and another had
the case. The voters themselves ac-
started bis fortunes for a similar
cepting money for their vote or Sh ¥ purpose
becotne a | ri to the. sohery and re | With $160. a
‘equally culpable. If this bill should pass| —Iron and steel mills ut Coatsville turned
and in 3a law it will ak Sie passing out 331,552 tons in 1005. The Worth Broth-
; wa ticiae and heeler, n
: ign & 3 ers company leads with 171,552 tons, while
bar’l will not be needed to run a campaign
and a big bank account will not be an
essential qualification in ‘determining a
‘candidate’s availability.
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The Ship Subsidy Scheme.
From the New York Herald,
The kernel of the entire question of a
mercantile marine lies in the simple fact
that, Anericans fii be found to work
on at OW wages as are ac-
cepted by foreigners. In other words,
foreigners are doing the work of carrying
ocean freights cheaper than it can be done
by Americans, and the latter cannot and
will not compete with them. There is
some American capital invested in ship-
ping, but a foreign Bu flies over such in-
vestments. Ev y wants American
shi , of trying to tax the
to pay men to go into the business
uoder existing unprofitable conditions why
not try the experiment of removing these
conditions ? Leave a8 free to buy
Shige where it pleases and as free in the
hiring of the labor to work ships as it is 10
the hiring of labor to build or work rail-
Toude, and the Ameriean flag will soon dos
ocean.
Doubts His Honesty.
From the Wilkesbarre Record. :
There is not wanting the suspicion that
the scheming Penrose aims to get control of
the delegates by having them instructed
for so eminent and independent a man as
Justice Stewart and then
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Jast Like a Novel.
From the New York Tribune.
In order to secure some token by which
to remember a great aunt to whom she had
the output of the Lukens Iron and Steel
: | com any was 160,000 tons. Both plants are
being enlarged and Coatsville is often refer-
red to as the xe Pitsburg of the East.”
—Tu order to age his father alive, Edward
Good, of Pittsburg, missing connections at
Tyrone hirad a special Bald Eagle train Fri-
day night, made a fast run to Williamsport
reaching there at daybreak Saturday. The
exhiliaration due to the arrival of his son
caused the sick man to rally and the doctors
say he will recover. :
—While walking through his orchard a
day or two ago,Jacob G, Shaefler, of Ephrata
township, Lancaster county, was surprised
to find apples hanging on'a number of trees,
The fruit was in good condition and had a
fine ‘bouquet’. flavor. The absence of con-
tinued freezing weather saved the apples
from the usnal full fate.
~Aunouncement has been wade of the
fact that the Cambria Steel company will
shortly commence the erection at Gallitzin
of 100 coke ovens. These ovens will be con-
structed north of the town and will give em-
ployment to a large number of men. Resi:
dents of Gallitzin are highly elated at the
prospect of securing this industry.
—The libel suits brought against Rev. Dr.
Lawrence M. Colfelt, of Philadelphia, editor
of the Pennsylvania Hawkeye, a semi-weekly
paper published at Bedford, and Joseph F.
Biddle, editor of the Everett “Press,” by
Associate Judge William Diehl were sottled *
in court at Bedford, last week. The suits
were the out-growth of the politieal came
paigu. y
—Newberry fishermen ure endeavoring to.
bring about the stocking of trout streams
‘this spring. They have sent in the names of
the streams which they wish to be stocked
and have asked the state fish authorities for
cans of fry which will be distributed. Among
the streams to be stocked are the tributaries
of Lycoming creek, the branches of Hoag"
land’s run, Pleasant stream, Wolf run and
Gray's run.
—Dauiel B. Zimmerman, the well known
Somerset conl operator, has just closed at
deal for 25,000 acres of coal lands in Fayette
and Westmoreland counties, lying in the
Indian Creek and Donegal valleys. A rail
road will soon be built up Indian Creek val-
ley and will likely connect the new
Pittsburg, Westmoreiend and Somerset rail.
road. Mr. Zimmerman's new coal fields are
separated from the famous Jefferson coal *
field owned by Attorney Wm. H. Ruppel
‘only by the Laurel Hill axis, *
—Charles Ward, a civil war veteran 70
years old, and his wife, aged 65, who have
traveled in » one-horse wagon overland ‘all
the way from Butte, Mont., about 1600 miles =
says a Uniontown, Pa., dispatch, spent the |
night in Uniontown and continued on their 3
way to Harrisburg, where they will visit
her | their son. They left Butte October 13th. §
Mr. Ward was formerly a veterinary ‘sar’
geon aud his wife a schoo! teacher. THEF
worst misfortune on this trip was at Bards.
town, where a lantern exploded and the
© ntire top of the wagon and $18, nearly all
the money they had, went up in smoke. ., ,