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BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
—Have you picked out your fishing
stream for the fifteenth.
~The lawn mower is beginning to make
g00-goo eyes at the front yard.
—Take this tip. If your wife has been
unusually good to you recently be prepar.
ed for a bill for her new Easter bonnet.
—Congress passed two bundred and
thirty-five private pension bills oo Satur-
day; in tbat far making public office a
private snap.
—The new moon is away round to the
north, which makes it look as if the early
gardener will bave to contend with some
very cold spring weather.
—Joux D.ROCKERFELLER can’t be such
a pious old codger after all else he
wouldn't be so mortally afraid of having
to go into court and tell the truth.
—S8enator PHILANDER C. KNox didn’t
set Washington afire with his speech on
Wednesday. Every 'uan who looks wise
isn’t found with the goods on him.
—Having just decided to build a battle.
ship that will make the new Eoglish
“Dreadnaught” lock like a sneak-box, we
will be able to brag of the biggest boat, if
not of the biggest navy, afloat.
—Tt is too bad that the new Democratic
Governor of Ohio has to die before the poor
old machine ridden Buckeye State got even
the sonp in the fine menu of reform that
the Democrats had prepared for it.
—A contemporary remarks that Ger-
many has 33,504 miles of broad-gauge rail
way lines. Pennsylvania is well off in
railway lines, but judging from the $30
mileage extortion she needs some broad-
gauge operators for them.
—Having gathered into the law’s drag-
net all the little clerks in the busted Eao-
terprise National bak of Allegheny,
wouldn't 1t be the fair thing to go after
some of the bigger fish; the ones who got
the stolen money and used it to their own
profit.
— Recent experiments have demonstrat-
ed that the temperature increases just 1°
with every fifty-five feet of depth in the
earth. Now some of the bad boys can
figure out just how long a walk itisto
thie bad place if some of their pas can tell
them how hot it is in b—1.
—The public is up agaiost it sore
enough. If wehelp the miners the coal
trust threatens to advance the price of coal
$1.20 a ton and if we help the operators
the miners declare they will strike and we
won't beable to get coal at any price. It
is po wonder we don’s know where weare
at.
—The aftermath of Russia's war ex-
perience is likely to result in much good
to the Czar’s empire. His rotten army and
navy management is likely to be thrown
out and a better order of things establish.
ed. Ittooka war to make China under-
stand that wooden guns would vot kill an
enemy.
—The fact that the Iowa Legislature is
about to pase a bill requiring railroad com-
panies operating in that State to sell mile-
age books good for every member of one
family up to five looks as if the ‘‘Iowa
idea’ and the President’s notion about the
size families should be, don’t harmonize
very well.
— Liquor licenses in Ohio bave been in-
creased to $1000.00 a year with the esti-
mated result that thirty-five hundred
sal cons will decline to lift their licenses.
Even this will not help the Temperance
cause because it will merely have the ten-
dency to increase the business of those that
can stand the rate and make better places
of them.
—Secretary of Internal Affairs Isaac B.
BROWN has just taken the public into his
confidence and has told them what he
meant when he declared, last summer, for
a new deal in the Republican organization
of the State. According to Mr. BROWN'S
aonouncement yesterday the new deal
consisted chiefly in making him his own
successor in office.
— Because by a master-stroke of his keen
mind Jo BAILEY, of Texas, put to rout
all the opposition of the old Seuators and
made the President’s cherished railroad
rate bill possible as an efficient instrament,
the papers of the country are now calling
him the giant of the Senate. What peock-
sniffs. BAILEY was a brilliant man when
he was in the lower Honse and the peer of
the great pablic men of the country hut
because he was a Demoorat he was traduc-
ed aud belittied. He is still a Democrat
and now they are compelled to eat crow
"because be has shown a better legal mind
than SrooXER and KNox and even the
President, himself.
~—With that characteristic servility that
has made the Altoona Tribune —— otherwise
a most admirable inland daily——notable
among the truoculent partisan papers
of she State, it intimates that Distriot At.
torney JEROME, of New York city is mere-
ly playing to the galleries because he has
brought indictments against a number of
prominent men for misapplying trast
funds. The trust funds happen to be the
money that you bave probably coutribat-
ed to some of the great New York life in.
surance companies and the public men are
no less personages than the chairman and
treasurer of she last Republisan national
campaign. Knowing this you will under-
stand the Zvibune’s motive in saying that
Mr. JEROME is playing to the galleries.
VOL. 51
Grangers and Platforms.
Our esteemed friends, the Grangers, are
‘“‘at it again,’’ so to speak. That is to say,
in pursuance of a Jong established and con-
sistently followed custom, those farmers
who are affiliated with the Grange have
held a meeting this year, as usual, and for-
mulated a platform. Is is only just to add
that it is an admirable declaration, let us
say of policies rather thau principles, with
respect to corporations and taxation. It
would commit every candidate of every
party by platform and personal pledge to
legislation authorizing trolley lines to car-
ry [reight, to enforce jhe constitutional re-
straints against transportation companies,
which forbid coal mining or mavufactur-
ing by such corporations, to encourage the
“no pass’’ order of railroads, the equaliza-
tion of taxes and a juster distribution of
revenues between state and local govern-
ments. All of these propositions are just
and timely. Jointly or severally the
ad option of them would conserve the pub-
lic interests,
Bas what's the use? If the Republican
party maintains ite majority in the Legisla-
ture it doesn’t matter what platform prom.
ises were made or how earnestly the candi-
dates pledge themselves to this or that pol-
icy. The machine mavagers will direct
the actions of the party in the future as
they have in the past and upon questions
of grave importance to the corporations
few Senators or Representatives will have
the courage to act independently.
Take the record of the last regular ses-
sion, for example. Once or twice upon
questions of no great concern to anybody
and none at all to the railroads, there was
a revolt, as on the Judges retirement bill,
Bat whenever the interests of corporations
were involved the Republican representa-
tives of agricultural constituencies were
quite as certain, though less enthusiastic,
in obeying the order of the bosses as the
others. Probably it wasn’t an agreeable
servitude. They may have felt inclined to
assert their manhood and independenca.
But the potential lever of the Appropria-
tion committee was brought into requisi-
tion and with a few honorable exceptions
they itionally.
For these reasons our esteemed friends
can make platforms until the end of time,
and as the pastoral poet expressed it, ‘‘res-
olute till the cows come home,’’ and they
will achieve nothing so long as they vote
Republicans into the Legislature. Possi-
bly a considerable number of Republican
candidates for the General Assembly are in
fall accord with its policies expressed in
the admirable platform adopted on March
2ad at Harrisburg, and may be even a great-
er number would sign the pledges prepar-
ed for them at that meeting. It may even
be assumed that they would like to vote
them into the Legislature of the State. Bat
when the party whip begins crackiog about
their ears and the stivg of the machine lash
is felt on their legs, they will soon forget
their pledges and as the late THADDEUS
STEVENS put it, ‘throw conscience to the
dogs and help their party.’
The only way to effect the reforms indi-
cated is to defeat the Republican party.
Mr. Gomper's Mistake.
President GoMPERS, who for many years
bas been at the head of the Federation of
Labor, one of the strongest and most effi-
cient labor organizations of the country,
threatens to break into politics. Neither
he nor his associates relished the scolding
which President ROOSEVELT gave them the
other day, and the flat refusal to con.
sider the question of adopting the eight
hour rule among laborers on the Panama
canal added totheir irritability, consequent-
ly they are now talking of organizing a
labor party which is probably the one
thing of all others which will please the
Republican machine.
There is nothing so conducive to the soe:
cess of the dominant political party as the
organization of a separate party which will
attrack if not exactly satisly the public dis-
content. The late Senator QUAY had such
faith in it as an expedient to prevent grave
political dangers that he used to pay or-
gaoizers and the expense of organizing
labor, socialistic or other political parties.
It keeps voters who are soffering from mal-
administration or discontented with condi-
tions incident thereto from going over to
the other strong party and averts all danger
of their action. Its just like firing a shot
in the air.
Ouoe of the troubles with the labor or-
ganizations is that their leaders betray
them purposely or through faulty jodg-
ment. JOHN MiTeHELL, for example, has
settled two coal strikes on terms which
bound him to help the Republican party
without giving any advantage to his own
side except a little glory for himself. It
looks now as if GoMPERs is likely to make
a similar blunder, hy organizing his labor
party. If he wants to give ROOSEVELT and
his party leaders a genuine shock let bim
say that be is going to vote the Democratic
ticket and influence all others that he can
to the same course. That would mean
business,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Graft in Public Fands
We like above all things to follow Mr.
LINCOLN STEFFENS in his exposure of graft
and incidentally in his worship of the
greatest fraud of al’ the influential graft
ers, President Roosev wrt. There is no
Janguage as caustic as \bat of Mr. STEF-
FENS, no sarcasm as keen and no incon*
sistency as amusing. In his last syndicated
article, however, that of last Sanday, he is
simply charming. He must have had a
lucid interval which he wisely employed
in writing it, for he appropriately leaves
the President out of the consideration. If
he had done otherwise he would have spoil-
ed everything for in condemning the grafs-
ers and commending the man who fosters
and protects them he would have made
bimself absurd, just as he did when he de-
nounced Speaker CANNON and praised
President ROOSEVELT because CANNON and
RoosevELT had found a combination to
control legislation through the use of
patronage.
Mr. STEFFENS' latest article is on the
subject of the deposit of public funds in
favored banks for the benefit of the banks, |
regardless of the interests of the public.
He shows that it is one of the most prolific
sources of graft, though he fails to touch
the feature which involves the worst evil,
That is, Mr. STEFFENS sees io the operation
no greater evil than that it enables the
favored bankers to make money for them-
eelves out of money that doesn’t belong to
them and encourages them to debauch the
politics of the country by bribing voters in
one way or another. But he shows enoogh
and even sheds some new light on the sub-
ject because he quotes letters ol Secretary
GAGE and language of Secretary SHAW
which shows that they favored bankers be-
cause the money had been increased in the
way he reprehends. In other words, Presi
dent STILLMAN and Vice-President Hr-
BURN, of the Standard Oil bank, frankly de-
manded public fands because the bank bad
contributed to the corruption fund and got
the money.
Mr. STEFFENS completely explodes the
absurd pretense that banks can't afford to
pay a fair interest for the use of public
money, morever. This feature of bis article
is peculiarly interesting to Pennsylvanians
because of the recent discussion of the sub-
jeot during the special session of the Legis-
lature. He shows clearly that banks can
afford to pay an interest of two.and a-balf
to three per cent. to the federal, state or
county treasury direct for funds because
they do pay tbat much in campaign con-
tributions or graft for the money. During
the discussion of the subjeot in the Legis-
lature the Republican leaders unanimously
protested that an interest rate of more than
two per cent. would exclude all the strong
banks from competition for the money.
The public knows, bowever, and Mr. STEF-
FEN® supplies proof of the fact, that the
strongest banks can and will pay more and
that they do go in the form of graft.
Chatrman Andrews in Danger,
Mr. WesLEY R. ANDREWS, chairman of
the Republican State committce and Senw-
tor PENROSE'S secretary, bas undertaken
to annul one of the votes of the recent spe-
cial session of the Legislature. Mr. AN-
DREWS is in the babit of taking liberties
with things which the average man holds
to be sacred for the reason that he believes
the PENROSE machine will support him in
anything he does. He is a great favorite
of the organization and if it badn’t been
for the defeat of last fall he would have
been the unanimous nominee of the party
for Governor this year. But in annulling
an act of the Legislature he is going a step
too far and may lead to disaster.
The law which Mr. ANDREWS proposes
to distinguish by an expression of his con-
tempt for is that apportioning the State into
Representative districts. The rules of the
Republican party of the State provide that
‘‘the delegates to the State convention shall
be chosen in the manner in which candi-
dates for the General Assembly are nomi-
nated,’’ and ‘‘one delegate shall be allotted
to every legislative district for every 2000
Republican votes and an additional dele-
gate for a fraction exceeding 1000 votes,
each district to have one delegate.’ If the
election were conducted as previously
ander the new apportionment it would be
valid. But Mr. ANDREWS bas ordered
that the election be under the old appor-
tionment, which is a violation of the new
law.
Of course there is a strong probability
that Mr. ANDREWS will never be called to
account for his action. It is certain that if
the machine is as potential as it once was,
he is in no danger for any delegate or
claimant for a seat who would venture
such a lese majesty would be incontinently
kicked out. Bat as HAMLET would say,
the uncertanity is ‘‘the rub,” and if some
fellow wonld make a real fuss about the
affair, ANDREWS might be sent to jail, for
the rales of the party are laws of the land
and the order of ANDREWS is a subversion
both of the rules and the law. The ont-
come will be watched with curious interest.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
An Egquivoeal Desision.
The decision of the Federal court in Chi-
cago, Judge HUMPHREYS presiding, giving
immunity to the meas packers is as absurd
as it is surprising. The olaim for immo-
nity was based on the statement that the
packers themselves had given the inerim-
inating testimony under compulsion, and
that prosesation would violate the provis-
ions of the constitution, which absolves a
defendant from incriminating himself, But
there was no evidence that the packers
were compelled to testify against them-
selves, It was asserted that the commis-
sioner, Mr. GARFIELD, had promised im-
munity to those who would give evidence
and that the promise induced the testimo-
py. But it was voluntary, notwithstand-
ing, and there is no law, organic, statuto-
ry or common, which forbids a man from
pleading guilty.
Besides, in the case in point, the obvious
purpose of the packers in giving incrim-
| inating evidence was to trick the govern-
| ment. They justly and wisely reasoned,
! it may be assnmed, that under the law io-
terpreted by the Supreme court the other
day, they could be compelled to give the
evidence in a form which would afford
them no protection. In other words, the
prosecution had both the legal and moral
right to demand the books, contracts and
agreements of and among the packers, and
that those documents would cause a con-
viotion. Such conviction under such con-
ditions, moreover, would have been speedy
and destructive of the trust. Therefore
they were willing to be coerced for the rea-
son that 1t would guarantee immunity from
criminal piosecation and practically en-
franchise their fraudulent operations for an
indefivite period,
That 11: s is not a matter of conjecture is
amply proved by the circumstances attend-
ing the Litigation. Iu is nearly two years
now since Commissioner GARFIELD acquir-
ed the evidence and made his report con-
demning the packers. But during all this
intervening time the packers have contin-
ued their unlawful practices and pursued
their criminal methods. If the incrimi-
testimony, whether enforced or vol-
v bad been the result of contention,
the criminal methods would have been
abandoned at once. Bat so far from that
baving been done the facts are that the
trust manager drew the reins together on
the public and made their criminal opera-
tions more unbearable than ever. Judge
HUMPHREYS may imagine that his decis-
ion is according to law bus the public will
continue of the opinion that the packers
are criminals aud ought to be in prison.
Senators Too Sensitive,
Senator SPOONER, of Wisconsin, himself
a railroad lobbyist in Congress, became
very indignant the other day because Seva-
tor TILLMAN, of South Carolina, intimated
that some Senators, including Kxox, of
Pennsylvania, ‘‘are more interested in the
welfare of the railroads than they are in
the people.” It was a great outrage on
Kxox, the Wisconsin statesman protested,
and ought not to go unrebuked. *‘I made
the statement right here in the Senate
when the Senator from Pennsylvania was
present,’’ pleaded the South Carolinian,
“and he is able to defend himself.” “I
know you did,”’ responded Mr. SPOONER,
“but the fact that you made it at all, and
that it was necessary for the Senator from
Pennsylvania to deny it, shows the wicked-
ness of this whole whirlwind of accusation
and suepicion.’’
This was indeed a touching episode in
the public life of the country. Nobody on
earth could feel more keenly the appro-
brinm of being called a railroad lawyer
than Mr. SrooNER and few deserve the
epithet as little as Mr. KNoX, who protests
with heaving bosom that he never got a fee
from the Peonsylvania railroad in his life.
Obviously that is true. How could he
when all his legal practice has been in
Pittsburg where JoRN DALZELL, Represen-
tative in Congress, is counsel for that cor-
poration and never divides with anybody.
Besides Mr. CARNEGIE and other bene-
ficiaries of government kept Mr. KNOX so
busy devising schemes by which they could
fleece the government and evade the penalty
of the law that he could bardly have found
time to serve the Pennsylvania railroad,
even if he had been invited.
Nevertheless Senator TILLMAN wasn’t
far from the facts when he said tbat Sena-
tor KXOX represents the Pennsylvania rail-
road on the floor of the Senate. Probably
he doesn’t get fees direct as DALZELL is
paid or in the shape of campaign subserip-
have done and Senator PENROSE does. But
he was ‘‘catapulted’’ into the Sgnate by
the president of the Pennsylvacia railroad,
but whether the action was induced by
favors expected as Senator or results feared
as Attorney General is open to conjecture,
The truth is, however, that as Attorney
General Kxox had begun proceedings
the coal trust and Cassar had
him appointed Senator to stop the pro
ceedings. His expectation was fulfilled
but whether the books have been balanced
is a question.
MARCH 30, 1906.
tions as the late Senator QUAY is said to | old
a ——— A A RRA AS BR
~The many admirers of the writings
of WARNER H. BELL, formerly of the Al.
toona Gazette but later on the North Ameri-
can, of Philadelphia, will be pleased to learn
of his advancement to a member of the ed-
itorial force of the New York American.
Mr. BELL is a thorough newspaper man
and a versatile as well as forceful writer.
“Peace in Jolo.”
From the New York World.
The treaty with Spain which saddled us
with the Philippines was ed more than
seven years ago. Daring of thas period
we have been assured that the war by
which alone we conld gain actual possession
of our theoretical dependency was ‘‘over.”
Only last week Secretary
Sua} She Moros in particular were quite
Then came the news of the farther
‘‘pacification’’ of the Moros of Mount Dajo.
A population less than that of Waterbury,
Conn,, living in an island only a trifle
larger in area than Greater New York, in
their ignorance and in their love of liberty
to set the powez of the United States at de-
fiance. Six hundred of them, perhaps nine
bhandred, were killed in a four days’ bat-
tle. Weare told that ‘‘women and chil
dren mingled with the warriors during the
battle to such an extent that it was im-
possible to discriminate, and all were kill
ed in the fierce onslaught.’
From their own viewpoint, which we
cannot either in fairness or in policy dis-
regard, these Moros died bravely in de-
fense of their vil homes against a for-
eign aggressor. However generous our
plans for aiding them might be—how gen-
erous they really are the repeated failure
of a Philippine tariff reduction reveals—we
can never aid the dead. We can never
convince six hundred or nine hundred
corpses that our ways are better than their
ways.
Can we convince the living ? How ? And
how soon ? By more battles, by more sick-
ening effusion of blood, during another
seven years, or twice seven ? The Spanish
tried is for 300 years. The Dutch in Sama.
tra have tried it for more than thirty.
And neither the Filipinos nor the Achinese
have been convinced.
Are not Americans tiring of this costly
and demoralizing attempt at methods as
despotic as those of Ruossia to conquer and
to rule an alien and resisting race? Do we
quite enjoy a situation w leads the
president of the United States to congratu-
ate our boys in blue upon *‘upholding the
honor of the American flag’ by the un-
sparing slaughter of women and ‘children ?
Is it possible that there is no way for ns to
escape from this unfortunate entanglement
and to renounce the project of forcing our
civilization by the sword upon a brave
people with whom we have no just quarrel
and no legitimate concern ?
Where They Falled to Caich on.
From Collier's Weekly.
It is possible to be both right and suc-
cessful, and yet altogether happy. The
Administration was eminently right in
urging the passage of the Philippine Tarif!
bill. It is also successful in getting the
bill through the Honse by the superficially
handsome vote of 258 to 71. Bat the little
wormhole in the core of the apple of vie-
tory is the fact that the triumph was won
by Democratic votes. The boast of Chair-
man Payue, of the Ways and Means com-
mittee, that the Republican party would
accomplish this act of justice without ask-
ing any favors of the minority was not
falfilled. Fifty-seven sugar and tobacco
Republicans voted against the bill, and
bad the Democrats joined them, ove of the
administration's measures would bave
been beaten in a House containing a Re.
publican majority of nearly two-thirds.
And the only hope of making the measure
a law lies in the uncertain chance that the
Democratic Senators may be as liberal and
sagacious as the Representives who follow-
ed the lead of Mr. Williams. If this hope
can be realized, the Filipnos will have the
benefit of the free admission into]the United
States of all their products except rice,
sugar, and tobacco, which will have to pay
only Saag reer of the Dingley rates, and,
after April 11, 1909, there will be free
trade in everyibing, both ways—provided
our sugar tobacco men do not help the
anti-imperialiste to cut the painter before
thas time. Speaker Cannon was wise in
bringing on the first battle with the in-
surgents on the Philippine instead of the
Statehood question. He caught them at
their weakest point, both tactically and
morally. In fighting the enforced soldier-
ing of Arizona to New Mexico, the Babcock
Indians have an issue upon which they can
command both arguments and strong
allies. Had the battle begun there it
m ght have left the administration lines a
wreok.
Thinks He Owns Them.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Republican state chairman Andrews has
troubles of bis own. No doubt ont of con-
sideration for the feelings of the sixty-seven
Republican county chairmen in the State,
Who donot tare $0 be o0.8 She aseel
t eated gang organization,
be has iefused to furnish the Pittsburg
Dispatch alist of their names. But the
does not take this view. It can.
not hitog Seif to Belione sm *‘the chair-
manships are vate personal prop-
erty of certain political dictators, to be
used solely at their dictation and for the
benefit of their schemes.”
Later on the Dispatch will find that the
organization, while is has been dis-
couraged, bas not been unborsed. It is
doing business at the old stand, substantial-
iy ou the old lines.
Making It Hard for Kickers.
From the Washington Post.
It is asserted that the price of shoes will
be advanced n unless Congress removes
the duty on hides. Still, the standpatters
may figure that the people will not be able
to kick so hard if it is made impossible for
them to buy shoes.
~——Come here for good Job Work.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—During 1905 4,313,655 tons of coal were
mined in Patton district of northern Cambria
county, a record which beat all former out-
puts.
~The Standard Steel company, near Lewis-
town, pays every two weeks to itsemyloyes
over $100,000; the Logan Iron and steel com-
pany pays to its men about $10,000 in the
same period, making nearly $300,000 paid
each month by these two companies.
—A saw mill, two houses and 100,000 feet
of lumber were destroyed by fire at Lum-
ber City, six miles up the river from Car
wensville, Clearfield county, Friday after-
noon last. The property burned belonged to
Wise Bros. & Co., and the loss will be quite
heavy.
~—Auditor General Snyder has announced
the appointment of E. C. Dewey, of Clear-
field, to be auditing elerk of the department
a position which the auditor general has
created. Dewey is at present assistant cash-
ier of the State Treasury and will enter upon
bis new position on April 1st.
~—Charles Fultz, a well known citizen of
Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, is dead,
aged 69 years. He was a member of the
famous Bucktail regiment, company B,
Forty-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry, serving
his country four years and two months and *
participating in thirteen battles.
—The property of the Keystone Boiler and
Radiator works at Huntingdon, knewn as
the ear works property, was sold on Wednes-
day for £25,000 to A. W. Duff, of Pittsburg,
who represented the stockholders of the
company. It is understood the plant will be
put in operation as a foundry at least hy
Pittsburg manufacturers.
—(, W. Renart, who recently died near
Burnt Cabins, Fulton county, at the age of
48 years, weighed 355 pounds and was the
largest man in that section of Pennsylvania,
His casket was 24 inches deep, 28 inches
wide and 8 feet long. Eight stout, robust
men had all they could doin carrying the
remains and depositing them in the grave.
—Miss Sadie Kemper, 26 years old, living
near York, is dead at her home, a supposed
victim of a patent headache powder. The
young woman was complaining with head-
ache and took a patent headache remedy.
In pine hours after having taken it she
was a corpse. She was to have married
George Kerns, of Green Mount, in April.
—William Englehart, of Woodvale, is the
possessor of an egg laid by one of his black
Minorica hens which he thinks will be hard
to beat for size. The egg measures 8} inches
around the long way and 6} the other way
and weighs over four ounces, or a quarter of
apound. Mr. Englehart would like to hear
from any person that can produce a bigger
specimen,
—There is a fine herd of 107 head of cattle
at the State hospital for the insane at War-
ren. §The prodaction of milk is almost suffi-
cient to meet the demands of the situation
and thousands of dollarsare saved annually
in the careful management of the farm. One
Holstein cow has broken all previous records
and for the year the record shows she has
produced 10,000 pounds of milk. The aver:
age production for one cow for a year is not
to exceed 6,000 pounds.
—Hollidaysburg and Altoona capitalists
have perfected arrangements for the organi-
zation of a company to supply electric power
at long distances. An organization has been
effected under the name of the Bedford
Water Power and Electric company. The
power houses will be at the headwaters of
Yellow creek, at Loy’s Gap, Bedford county.
The cost of the plant is estimated at $150,000,
and the object is to furnish electric light and
power to all the surrounding towns.
—George P. Brock, former cashier of the
Doylestown Pa., National bank, was convict-
ed in the United States court of misappiyiog
the funds of the institution. Pending appli-
cations for a new trial Brock was permitted
to enter bail in the sum of $10,000. The case
had been on trial for over a week and the
jury consumed four hours and a half in ar.
riving at a verdict. Block was indicted for
embezzling, abstracting and misapplyiong
about $34,000 of the funds of the bank.
—Mrs. William Shuman died at ber home
near Elysburg recently. Her husband, be-
ing her only surviving rolative, decided to
offer the household goods for sale and seek a
home elsewhere. The sile was scheduled
for Wednesday. While taking up carpets
and collecting old articles about the premises
Tuesday night he was astonished to find a
large roll of bills of various denominations.
He continued the search and found addition
al wads of money in out of the way places
until he had $6,000.
—John Port, aged about 50 years, was
burned to death in his home in Huntingdon
early Saturday morning. He had been on a
visit to Lewistown and had returned to his
house. It is supposed that in some mauner
he overturned a lamp and thus the house
was set on fire. Neighbors who had congre-
gated at the scene did not know he was in
the building until after they entered it and
his body was found wedged between the
stair balustrade and a wardrobe. He had evi
dently been overcome by smoke and fallen,
—Tle four men suspected of implication
in the tragedy at Portage, Cambria county,
on July 31st, 1904, when Superintendent
Patrick Campbell, of the Puritan, Coal Co.,
was nearly shot to death, his driver, Charles
Hayes, killed,and about $4000 in cash stolen,
were given hearings before Alderman Lever.
good, in Johnstown, last Friday afterncon.
Marrio Immesef was discharged. Francesco
Licente was admitted to $1500 bail, and the
two other men, Giuseppe Constantine and
Francesco Impala, were held for court with
out bail.
—Twenty enterprising citizens of Rey-
poldsville have formed a suydicate and will
build a $40,000 opera house. Work will
start on the structure as soon ae the weather
permits as it is the intention to have the new
theatre ready to open with the theatrical
season mnext fall. The building will
be of brick 600x135 feet with two store
rooms in front and a 12 foot entrance to
the theatre, which will be built in the rear.
The stage will be 40x60 feet and the seating
capacity at least 1,000. Dwelling agppartments
will be built over the store rooms.