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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
ink Slings.
—Thank Heavens, the coal strike has
come just a little too late to be the cause
of another little boost in the price of steam
heat.
—Treasurer-elect BERRY wants fusion
with the Independents on a nominee for
Governor. WILLIAM knows how he got
there.
—The time is uear at band when the
rolled-up sleeves fad will begin to cheat
the laundryman out of his price for wash-
ing cuffs.
—How heartless TEDDY is! To throw
that barpooned muck-rake into poor old
Joux D. jostat a time when he is feeling
so badly.
—The sympathy of the civilized world
will go ont to the citizens of California
who have been injured by the awlul earth.
quake disaster of Wednesday morning.
—Between war depleted Russia, famine
stricken Japan and Vesuvius devastated
Italy we ought to get our share of the im-
migrant business during the early sum-
mer.
—“The Man With the Muck Rake”
probably won’s last as long as ‘‘the Man
With the Hoe,”’ but jast at this season of
the year there is a chance for both of them
to get busy.
—The London woman who killed her-
self by tight lacing will not be missed
much. If she bad eo little sense as to do
such a thing she had too little to fill any
useful sphere in this life.
—DOWIE has the other bosses who bave
been run to cover lately skinned a mile.
He is to be kicked out just the same as they
were, but he is also to get a million, whereas
most of the others bave bad to ‘‘give np.”
—Statistics prove that brain-workeis are
loog-lived bat that shouldn't necessarily
delude the editors of some papers and the
teachers of some schools and some lawyers
we know of into thinking they will be
hanging on here after many others are
gone.
—CHARLES P. DONNELLY, of Philadel
phia, is the new chairman of the Pennsyl-
vania Democracy. He bas the ability and
experience to make a good one if he exer-
cises both the qualities Le displayed so
mar kedly in the Philade!phia campaign
last fall,
—A Youngstown, Ohio, man who is
suing for divorce from his wife gives as one
of his reasons that ‘‘she is too slow.” As
he also recites in his bill that she stuck
him several times with a table fork we pre-
sume that he liked that little pastime of
hers and she didn’t do it fast enough.
~The ramor that ARCHIE ALLISON is an
aspirant for the Bellefonte postoffice hae no
foundation. ARCHIE knows he would have
no show because the plans have all been
made : Judge LovE is to go to Congress
and then he is to make our friend HARTER
postmaster. This is official, because ToM
made the plan himself.
—The Daughters of the Revolution are
again in National Congress in Washington
and, as usual, are keeping up ancestral
reputations by stirring op another big
fight. It is a nice little question to con-
jure with as to whether such a hody of
women by any other name would always
be at Joggerheads over somethivg.
—With Tox PLATT'S announced inten-
tion of retirement at the end of his present
term in the Senate comes TEDDY'S wish
that he could get into that body after
PLATT is through. My what a time they
would have in the upper branch of Con-
gress with “Pitchfork BEN’ and “Muck
Rake TEDDY both doing business on the
strenuous side.
—Again Governor FOLK gets through
with the leaders of that Springfield mob
it is probable that lynching parties won't
be as popular as they once were in Mis-
souri. Of course there are crimes that
nothing but a lynching seems to expiate,
bat that neither justifies nor makes lynch-
ings anything else than a dangerous infrac-
tion of the laws.
—~80 Maxim GORKY, the great Russian
patriot, is traveling with ‘‘a lady’’—not
his wile! And MAXIM was probably one
of the loudest claquers against the Russian
army because it was found that many of
its officers were paying more attention to
the ladiesaround Muokden and Port Arthur
than they were to strengthening the de.
fenses of the places.
~The Philadelphia Public Ledger thinks
it ‘a queer notion that the biggest ship in
the navy shonld be named after a wee
State that supports a single Senator.’
What a poor argument. Everyone knows
that to even get that one Senator the ‘wee
State’’ goes through things more akin to
real war-fare than all the other States in
the Union put together would have to go
through iu chosing a million Senators.
—When the Democrats, in 1894, passed
the WiLsox income tax a Republican Sa
preme court declared it uncovstitutional
aod Republicans in general eplit their
throats crying that it was sooialistie, in.
quisitorial, eto. Since the Republican
Presi dent of these same United Etates has
declared, in a public speech, “I feel that
we shall ultimately have to consider the
adoption of some such scheme as that of a
progressive tax on all fortunes beyond a
certain amount’’ what do these ranters of
twelve years ago have to say? The first
thing they know ROOSEVELT will be tak.
ing Bryax and HEARST into his cabinet.
Those wno imagine that President
ROOSEVELT is yearning for the tranquility
of private life are likely to have their im-
pressions rudely disturbed unless the alert
Washington correspondents are gravely
mistaken. In other words, according toa
Washington dispatch, published a few days
ago, the President contemplates an exten-
sive toar of the country daring the coming
summer and it is a sale conjecture that if
he makes such a trip daring the summer
of 1906 he will be a candidate for re-elec-
tion to the Presidency in 1908. This is the
plain logic of events. One is the natural,
not to say the inevitable, corrollary of the
other.
A presidential tour of the country is an
enterprise of vast expense. We have the
best authority for the statement that Pres-
ident ROOSEVELT'S trip to the Yellowstone
Park two years ago cost the Pennsylvania
railroad $50,000 besides the expenses of the
other roads over which his magnificent
train passed free of the ordinary ‘‘wheel
charges.” There is a tradition that all men
are liberal with other people’s money and
it is possible that that excursion cost more,
because the railroad company was paying
the bills, than it wonld under other cir-
cumstances. Bat whether that be trae or
not it is certain that a junket across the
continent upon the scale of magnidcence of
that of two years ago would cost more than
any prudent man would be willing to
spend unless he had an expectation of a re-
turn of some kind.
From their inception these presidential
tours of the country bave been vothing
more nor less than electioneering devices.
Ol late years it may be said that they have
been without expense to the party iuost
directly interested and that if the expense
had devolved on soch party they might
have been on a less elaborate scale. The
new railroad regulation against the courte-
sy of free transportation to public officials
if enforced will of necessity put the ex-
pense of the contemplated trip on the
President’s private parse and therefore it
is a safe guess that if the luxury is indnlg-
ed in it will be made an electioneering en-
terprise,
—
Not so Grossly Unjast,
Oar highly respected contemporary, the
Philadelphia Record, is giving itsell need-
less worry over the dangers to carrying cor-
porations in the amendment to the rate hill
proposed by Senator BAILEY, of Texas. It
would be moss iniquitous, our Philadel-
phia contemporary declares, to deny to one
class of suitors, emer carriers, ‘‘the
right that is enjoyed by all others in the
courts of the United States.” This is really
touching, but we regret that it is impossi-
ble for us to bring oursell into syampathy
with the proposition. We can’t divest our
self from the impression that the particular
class of suitors ih question have brought
the trouble upon themselves,
If any man ootside of the walls of an
asylum should assert the claim that mur-
derers are entitled to the enjoyment of lib-
erty of person because it is guaranteed by
the constitution to every American citizen,
he would likely be laughed at for his
pains. By the commission of the crime
the murderer becomes au outlaw and is
justly confined in’ a cell until trial by a
properly constituted jury. These common
carriers have similarly outraged every prin-
ciple of justice and as Senator BAILEY sug-
gest they deserve to be denied the legal
rights of other suitors until by the regu-
lar process of judicial inquiry they have
established the eh which is inherent to
suitors as a rule. |
The common
adelphia contem
ly have outraged
ers for whom our Phil-
ry pleads so plaintive.
e people eo long and so
oruelly that they deserve to stand before
the public as pi . If they get the right
to hold up rates established by the Inter-
state Commerce commission, pendivg a ju-
dicial inquiry, they will hold it up until
the shipper, having first exbausted his
patience and his purse, has subsequently
worried himself into his grave.
According to the public prints there isa
case of the kind now in the Philadelphia
Federal court which was begun jeventeen
years ago and is still far from a finish, In
view of such facts why shouldn't some re-
straints be considered ?
——The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, of Baltimore, are circulating a four-
page pamphlet explanatory of and showing
what it purports to be the great good of a
Carfew law in a number of cities and towns
in the United States. While there is hard-
ly any doubt bat that good can be done hy
such a law in possibly most every city and
town in the country, the best Curfew that
could be put in force anywhere wonld be a
little more of the proper discipline by par-
ents and there would be no need of any
other law. 2
——Housecleaning is now the order of
the day and the head of more than one
bounsehold in Bellefonte has the consequent
good reason to take his lunch down town.
"STATE RIGHTS AN
Republicans are Alarmed.
The Republicans in Congress are greatly
alarmed, according to newspaper corres:
pondents, over what they call Speaker
Caxxox's indiscreet declaration on the
tariff. It will be remembered that ‘Uncle
Joe'’ asserted, a few days ago, that there
will be no tariff revision as long as the Re-
publicans continue to control legislation
and that those Republicans or others who
favored tariff revision might go to the
Democrats, the dogs or the devil for con-
solation. A good many Republicans now
in the House, it appears, have secured their
election by promising tariff revision and
feel that if the statement of the Speaker is
taken seriously, there will be nc possible
chance of a re-election.
“Uncle Jog,” it may be observed,
doesn’t share in the idea tbat his candor
may prove harmful to the party. On the
contrary he seems to be entirely satisfied
with himself. He reasons, with the late
Mr. BARNUM, that the people like to be
humbugged, and that the old, old story
the Republican party means to do whates-
er the people want will fool them this
year, as it has deceived them so frequently
in the past. Therefore he inferentially
recommends them to pay no attention to
what be has said but to go right ahead, as
vsoal, and promise anything. Withont
pride of opinion or qualms of conscience,
the Speaker is ready for anything and
feels, justly or otherwise, that his declara-
tion will guarantee a fat campaign fand
which will prove potent anyway.
Some other Republicans of the House,
men who bave adopted a different code of
political ethics, are not disposed to tamely
submit to this false position, us they call
it, however, and Mr. PERKINS, of New
York, made public protest in a speech the
other day. ‘‘No one regards the schedules
of the present law as sacred'’’ he said,
which is probably trne. But a lot of fel-
lows, besides the Speaker, regard their ob-
ligations to the tariff pensioners as sacred
and may depended upon to fulfill the
Speaker's pledge as long as their party is
in control of the House organization. The
only certain remedy is, as ‘Uncle Joe”
suggested, to vote for Demooratic candi-
dates for Congress.
The testimony in the REED SMooT case
is all in and the arguments on both sides
have been heard, but the end of the affair
is not yet in sight. Printed briefs are yet
to be presented to the committee and as the
attorneys have other things to attend to it
is impossible to say when they will be able
to give the matter attention. Meanwhile
the Mormon Apostle continues to occupy
the seat in ‘‘the greatest legislative body in
the world,” and exercise all the preroga-
tives of a Senator of the United States.
More than hall his term has passed aud
though he has probably been more or less
uneasy at times his right to act has never
been impaired.
We don’t refer to this fact complaining:
ly. That is to say, we are not protesting
against the right of the people of a State to
select whom they like for Senator in Con-
gress. The constitution of the United
States declares that no man shall be denied
‘the right to hold office or exercise any ofl
er function of citizenship on account of re.
ligious beliels or practices. Polygamy is
forbidden by law and if SMoor is a polyg-
amist he has no right to a seat in the Sen-
ate. But he denies that he is a polygamist
and so far as we have been able to
discover the charge has never been proved
againet him. But whether it has been
proven or not he still occupies the seat.
A few years ago a Mormon was elected to
the House of Representatives by the people
of Utah. He protested that he was nota
polygamist and it was never proved that he
was. But he was voted out of the body
with a rapidity that was surprising. He
hardly got time to make an ordinary de-
fence of his constitational right and that
of his constituents. Oar complaint now,
therefore, is that one Mormon is treated
considerately while the other got no show.
The reason was in the first case that the
defendant was a Democrat and the other
that be is a Republican. The morals of
a good many of our statesmen are regalate
ed by politics.
—At a meeting of the Democratic state
central committee held in Harrisburg on
Wednesday CHARLES P. DONNELLY, of
Philadel phia, was elected chairman for the
ensuing year, J. K. P, Hany, of Ridgway,
declining to accept another term. Wednes-
day, June 27¢h, was selected as the date
for holding the state convention and Har-
risburg the place. Following his election
Chairman DONNELLY re-appointed P.
GRAY MEEK, of Bellefonte, as secretary.
——You don't want to forget that sop-
per to be given by the Ladies Aid society
of the Methodist church, in the lecture
room, Thursday evening, April 26th. Tbe
Methodist women are noted for their good
sappers and the forthcoming one will be
equal to all the others,
The Reed Smoot Case, "©
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 20, 1906.
The Rate Question at Home.
The well meaning gentlemen who met in
Harrisburg the other day for the purpose
of inangurating a movement against a ocer-
tain form of extortion practiced by the
railroads deserve both encouragement and
success. It would be impossible to imag-
ine a meaner advantage of a helpless vic-
tim than is involved in the $10 deposit re-
quired with the purchase of the 1000 mile
ticket. That being trne a movement look-
ing toward the correction of the evil is in
the nature of a public beneficence. Itisa
step in the direction of justice for the weak
against the strong, It is a movement in
the interest of the traveling, not to say
the suffering, public of Pennsylvania.
But we very much doubt the efficacy of
the plan adopted at the Harrisburg meet-
ing the other day. It was a very creditable
body that assembled and protested both
orally and in writing, and the formation of
| a State Board of Trade was a wise thing to
| do. But the adoption of resolutions pro-
| testing against the outrage is not likely
| ‘40 get them much.” The railroads will
| probably not pay much attention to *‘their
efforts to secure a revocation’’ of the order
or be worried a great deal over their well-
meant endeavor to secure ‘‘a two-cent pas-
senger rate in Pennsylvania.” The ap-
proval of the work already done will bard-
ly spread alarm among the offending cor:
porations, either.
There is some substance iv the last res-
olution of the series adopted at the meet-
ing, however. It pledges the participants
in the meeting to use their best efforts ‘‘to
secure thi election of members to the Gen-
eral Asscuinly who will pledge themselves
to support a uniform passenger rate of two
cents & mle in Pennsylvania.’ 1f they had
declared fur the election of members who
will support such a measure is would have
been more to the point. There are men in
the pres nt Legislatore who would make
any pledge that might be asked of them to
secure votes, who, after their election
would pay no attention to the , The
should be against cage ore
pledge or no pledge.
a A——
Tax on Industrial Alcohol.
There is but one reason against the pend-
ing apt of Congress for the removal of the
hol, and that is the Standard Oil company.
The measure would have the most benef-
icent effect upon the industrial life of the
country. It would add vastly to the com-
fort and cenveniences of the people of all
conditions in the agricultural distriots. It
would largely increase the productive ca-
pacity of the soil and multiply the pecun-
iary rewards of the farmers. Bat it would
create a competitor for the Standard Oil
company and therefore all the resources of
that criminal conspiracy are mustered
against the measure.
Denaturized alcohol is a mixture of grain
and wood alcohol by chemical process. It
is snitable for fael, illumination and other
mechanical uses. It can be produced at a
price considerably less than is charged for
kerosene or gasoline, while for purposes of
illumination it is much superior to the
former and for fuel infinitely better than
the latter. Bat it threatens the Standard
Oil monopoly and for that reason the re-
sourceful lobby of that monstrous organi-
zation bas eet up an opposition to its pas-
sage. The country will watch the result
with curious interest. The people are anx-
ions to know which of their representatives
in Congress are owned by the Standard Oil
company.
No other industrial country in the world
taxes this element of prosperity. No other
progressive government on earth would be
so unjust to the people. Bat we tax it
doubly. That is to say we put upon it a
prohibitive tariff tax and an internal reve-
nue tax equally high. The Standard Onl
company’s products, kerosene and gasoline
are subject to no tax burdens and wood
alco hol, a useful bus offensive fluid is free
from taxation. Bat the product of much
greater use and advantage is taxed so
heavily as to make its manufacture for
commercial purposes practically impoesi-
that the pending bill will be passed.
——The public at large could glean a
lot of comfort from that circular letter sent
to the retail dealers the past week from
the large coal operators in which they stat-
ed that they had an ample stock of coal on
hand to carry them through a long strike,
and that they wonld only sell to those
dealers who would agree not to put the
price up on the consumer, if the retail
dealers were only snpplied by the opera-
tors. But not an order for coal has been
filled so far as the Bellefonte dealers are
concerned,
———With the closing of the ore mines at
Scotia and the abolishing of two trains on
the Belletonte Central railroad Centre
county is feeling the coal strike toa cer-
tain extent. The American Lime and
Stone company has so far been able to
secure all the coal they need and expect to
continue doing so.
ble. There is ground for hope, however, | person
NE:
Where the Credit Belongs.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Perbaps the highest achievement won by
a senator in this generation was that scor-
ed by Mr. Bailey, of Texas, Tuesday in his
masterly speech on the rate bill which won
over Senator Hale, of Maine, and practical-
ly saved the day for Theodore Roosevelt.
It was a trinmph of the very first order, a
triumph of intellect and reason, a triumph
of Legal learning and statesmanly compre-
hension, a trinmph that borrowed nothing
from agy extraneous source and that was
acknowledged even by those whom it in
effect laid low.
The Democratic party may well feel
proud of this giant from the plains of Tex-
as. He hae shown himself to be not merely
equal to the Knoxes and the Spoonera; he
is plainly their superior in his of
great constitutional questions, in his abili-
ty to drive home an argument, in his on-
derstanding of the genius of American in-
stitutions and in his unflinching probity of
thought. Had there been no Bailey on the
Democratic side to meet the issues raised
by the Republican conservatives, the Pres-
ident must infallibly have been beaten in
his effort to secure effective railway rate
regulations.
The credit for rate regulation will doubt-
less be claimed when it is secured by Mr.
Roosevelt and the Republicans, bus is real-
ly belongs to Senator Bailey and to the
Democrats who bave followed his lead and
to those Republicaus who have been con-
strained by reason and other influences to
accept his view of the powers of Congress
and the limitations of the inferior courts.
There is now little doubt that the rate bill
will pass and that it will include the
Bailey anti-injunction amendment; and
thas it will become what is never could
have been if it had been left to the devices
of the President and his friends—a real
check on the capacity and favoritism of the
common carriers,
Coming Sare.
From Leslie's Weekly.
a Fuileonda are iiadvad in their
t against the two-cents-a-mile passenger
rate which has just gone into effect in Ohio.
They bad better submit to this reduction
gracefully rather than to invite farther leg-
islation of a more drastic kind. The Vir-
ginia Lagitiatare has enacted a similar law,
ud 0 bi fie biowiotyuf ted in he New
ork Legislature pr a cent Ar
hall rate on the more prosperous roads. It
is idle for railway ions to
in Obio, that they catinot
operate their ines profitably on 4 wo-sens
basis. No one wil
believe them, for the
Jacks point the ther :
of revenue. The people of the count,
in no mood to stand further exactions in
the interests of the railroad monopolists.
With the fact known to all that a few
men practically own and control all the
railroads of the country and have grown
enormously rich in the business, it is a
poor time to talk about resisting a slight
reduction in rates. It is pretty certain
if rate-control legislation fails at Wash.
ington there will follow an outbreak of
State activity for the regulation of freight
as well as passenger rates after the Wis-
cousin style.
Exactly So.
From the Readivg Telegram.
The story is now put forth that Senator
Penrose, in order to avoid any appearance
of hossing, will not he present at the Re-
publican state convention but will go oat
West on a hunting trip at the time.
That would be very gracious on Pen.
rose’s part, especially as his private sec.
retary is state chairman and would have all
the machinery as well in band with Pen-
rose in Idaho or Timbootoo as if Penrose
were on deck at the Lochiel or the Boas
Mansion.
Because the Republicans of Pennsylvania
have bad the wool pulled over their eyes
many times by a machine show of reform
in extremity, it does not fallow that they
are going to be fooled again; certainly not
this year.
Anyhow, it matters little whom the ma-
chine shall name; the next Governor of
Pennsylvania is going to be a Democrat.
Would Prove an Effective Remedy.
From the Springfield Republican.
Why may not a corporation be im n-
ed to all intents and pu as well as an
individual ? Is the question thrown out in
a Chicago communication to the Green Bag,
a legal publication of Boston. In imprison:
ing a man, the state merely takes away his
liberty, his earning power and his material
ambitions for the time of his sentence. If,
then, an offending on were olosed
ap for a certain pesiod of Sime, or its earn-
ngs were appropria y the State,
would in effect undergo a punishment sim-
ilar to that inflicted by imprisonment of a
Araon. 3 is 0 ling use on, but
not many “im ments Sorporatione
would be required to make law-breaking
very infrequent where now it is impudent:
ly common.
The Motes In Our Own Eyes,
From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner.
By growing righteously indignant over
Belgiam’s course in the Free State a
lotof eminent imperialists in the United
States to forget all about this Re-
public’s course in the Philippines.
——A free-for-all fight occurred among
some Italiaus at a christening up Buffalo
Run, Sunday afternoon, in which clubs
and knives were quite freely nsed and some
foreign blood was spilled. Sheriff Kline
was telephoned for and with policeman
George Jodon went up to the soene, ar-
rested three kes, bronght them down and
lodged the trio in jail.
——The amateur gardeners will soon be
dividing honors with the trout fishermen
in swapping stories as to how their garden
things are coming along.
parties, who co
Spawls from ihe Keystone,
—Lock Haven people were served with ar-
tificial ice for the first time Saturday by Lu-
cas Bros., of Castanea.
—The pupils of the Lock Haven, Mill Hall
and Flemington schools last week -ontrib-
uted 1,855 eggs to the Lock Haven hospital.
—Some unknown miscreant recently broke
into the barn of Al. DeForest, along the
Ridge near Huntingdon, and poisoned four
horses, their lives boing saved with difficul-
ty.
—A tree on the farm of Mrs. Bankin, in
Fravklin county, bas a girth measurement,
five feet above ground, of twenty-two feet,
six inches, and is ninety feet high. It isof
the red oak variety.
—A suit has been entered by Hollidays-
burg borough against the Postal Cable Tele-
graph company to recover four years arrears
of the pole license tax. This company has
hitherto paid the tax under protest.
~Mrs. John Earon, who is visiting at the
home of a son in Beech Creek township,
Clinton county, slipped and fell on a frosty
boardwalk the other morning. As a result
she broke both bones of her right wrist.
~The warehouse of Barnes & Tucker, at
Barnesboro, Cambria county, was entered re-
cently by some unknown persons and a
quantity of groceries and other goods taken.
The slaughter house of the same firm was
robbed of a quantity of meat.
~James Gardner, of Blacklick, one day
last week sold to Corrigan, McKimmey &
Co., of Cieveland, O., seventy-two acres of
land and the coal lying underneath, located
just west of the Indiana branch of the Penn-
sylvania railroad at Blacklick, for $34,000.
~The many friends of Charles A. Greer,
editor of the Altoona Times, learned with
pleasure that Treasurer-elect W. H. Berry
has named Mr, Greer to be his bond clerk.
The position pays $2,500 a year, and the ap-
pointment is for the entire term of two years.
—Alderman David Kinch, of Altoona, has a
watch which has been carried by some mem-
ber of the Kinch family for the past 119
years. The watch was purchased by the Al.
derman’s grandfather, in Lancaster. In
1853 the time-piece was turned over to him
and he has used it ever since.
—Sheriff G. Thomas Bell, of Blair county,
died Sunday afternoon at his home in Logan
township, the farm where he was born and
whereon he had resided all his life. He was
aged 60 years, 10 months, and 5 days. Cir-
rhosis of the liver, from which he suffered for
several months, was the cause of death.
—Sheriff Seanor, of Westmoreland county,
was good to the prisoners in the jail Sunday
and they all had plenty of Easter eggs. On
Saturday thirty dozen of Easter eggs were
purchased by the chef at Hotel Seanor and
Sunday were served to the prisoners. There
are 130 registered in the jail at the present
time so that each man had all the eggs
could eat. A
~The Philipsburg Journal says that C. M.
as | Waple, who recently purchased the valuable
lot on the northwest corner of Second. and
an option on the same to Clearfield and yet of
hy
aged 18 years,
daughter of Henry Quinn, of West township,
Huntingdon county, has hydrophobia, and
ber condition is such that she has to be
bound, She cannot recover. The origin of
the disease dates back to a year ago when
there were mad dogs in that neighborhood.
The supposition is that she was scratched by
a cat infected with the disease.
~The new bridge of the Middle division of
the Pennsylvania railroad at Granville,
crossing the Juniata river was put into ser-
vice Saturday. The putting of this bridge
into service on the division eliminates a
curve on the main line of the Pennsylvania
railroad which has been the source of annoy-
ance in the handling of heavy freight trains,
as at that point they most frequently stalled.
—Driving along a road near Jersey Shore
Saturday Joseph Klopp was instantly killed
by a severe jolt of his wagon, dislocating the
vertebrae of his neck. His team continued
along the road fora distance, finally stopping
beneath a culvert, where a following driver,
finding the road blocked, went to see what
was the matter, and discovered Klopp still
on his seat, with his head hanging upon his
breast,
~The commissioners of Huntingdoa coun-
ty have instituted proceedings against A. L.
Couch, A, L. Carothers and W. B. Wilson,
former commissioners, for payment for the
new bridge just completed across Spring
creek, near Pague station on the East Broad
Top railroad. The present board claims that
the former board exceeded its authority
when it accepted the bridge, and also erred
in building the new bridge on the site of the
former.
~The Mann Edge Tool company at Mill
Hall have commenced operations in their
new plant in the rolling and welding depart-
ment and the several other processes will fol-
low in their regular order. Skilled work-
men, who had become scattered since the
suspension of operations in September, 05,
are returning and reporting for work at the
new plant. In a week or two the shops will
be filled with the old workmen and the hum
of this popular industry will be a welcome
sound,
—The dwelling house and its contents, the
property of V. B, Wertz, on Dry Ridge, some
four miles west of Mann's Choice, Bedford
county, together with an old store building
which was used as a warehouse, the old ho-
tel stables and several other smaller build-
ings, were destroyed uy fire on Tuesday af-
ternoon of last week. The loss was covered
by insurance. The house was one of the old- .
est located along what is still known as the
Glade pike, having been erected simost 100
years ago. .
—It is rather early in the season for snake
stories, but A. P. White, of Lock Haven, had
an adventure last Friday afternoon that he
will not soon forget. He was on his way
home from the lands of Walter Agar in the
Bald Eagle mountains near Lock Haven and
while coming down the mountain ran into a
nest of assorted kinds of snakes. Although
considerably startled Mr. White got busy at
once and in a short time dispatched seven
good sized snakes. At least as many more
got away from him,
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