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— Winter took another fall into the lap
of spring on Monday.
—The man with the straw bat was huot-
ing the cook stove on Monday.
—The earth-quake shook the coal strike
clear out of type lor an entire week.
—The adjournment of Congress is eaid
to be far off. The Lord save the country.
—The recent freeze justifies our inquir-
ing as to the welfare of the Delaware peach
crop.
—As yet not a single sea-serpent has
been sighted off any of the Atlantic coast
resorts.
—Let us hope that the new San Fran-
o isco will bave no China-town and that she
will have a Sunday.
—All we need ie a good man to head the
ticket and reform in Pennsylvania wili
reap another nice BERRY crop in the fall.
—Some Amezicans may he leaning to-
wards Socialism, but that doesn’t
appear to be the kind of Socialism that
GORKY represents.
—MiLLETS' famous painting ‘‘The Man
with the Hoe’ was burned in the San
Francisco fire, but ‘‘the Man with the
Muck Rake’ is still saved to vs.
—WALTER WELLMAN started for the
North pole on Tuesday. He went via En-
rope and will probably come back by any
old route the rescuers choose to take.
—The new Russian constitution bas
been discovered to be a farce. It is not
st ated whether the farcical features apply
to the octopi or the individual rights of
the country.
—And now they are aconsing President
ROOSEVELT of stealing ‘‘the man with the
Muck Rake’ from JOHN BUNYAN. What
it he did. JoHN isn’t here to take outa
writ of replevin.
— After his brilliant wosk in San Fran-
cisco we will bave to forgive General FUNS-
TON for robbing one of his privates of the
glory of being first across the Pelayo river
in the Philippines.
—Mr. “PouLTRY’”’ BIGELOW'S visit to
An Interesting Promise.
In a speech at a Teflerson Day banquet
at Kansas City, the other day, Congress
man TowxE, of New York, declared that
be was ‘going back to Washington with
the avowed purpose of exposing President
RooseEvELT. He is the greatest promiser
and smallest performer since the days of
Jupas Iscariot,” continued Mr. TOWNE.
‘‘He filched his rate legislation programme
from a Democratic platform and has now
laid down on bis own bill.”’ On the same
occasion Senator STONE, of Missouri, pro-
tested against the fulsome praise of RooSE-
VELT by Democrats. The eloquent Mis-
sourian is willing to approve and even eu-
logize all that
comes from the White House or the Presi-
dent. But be objects to the absurd. habit
of calling the Presidents a great Democrat
and attributing to bim other qualities
which he doesn’t possess.
But are those distinguished orators ac-
curate in their judgment? We [requently
hear of men speaking in the name of Dem-
ocracy who oracularly pronounce the
President an able and earnest exponent of
Democratic principles because he bappens
to bave adopted and perverted some Dem-
ocratic ideas. Even Mr. TowNE in the
speech in question, goes beyond the limit
of fact when hesays that the President's
“rate legislation programme is filched from
a Democratic platform.” As a matter of
fact the idea is stolen from that source but
the programme is about as far from Demo-
cratic methods as it is possible to get.
Democracy never sanctions the confiscation
of property or the subversion of the con-
stitutional right of the citizen to manage
his own affairs. That is a symptom of Im-
perialism or Populism, but it is not Dem-
the Isthmus of Panama probably has for | ooracy
its object the discovery as to whether he or
Secretary TAFT wae lying daring their re-
cent heated interview.
—Mayor GUTHRIE is clearing up Pitts-
burg so fast that ere long MABEL GILMAN
might be able to visit the city again with-
out carrying away with her such impres-
sions as she did the last time she was there.
—The Pennsy has offered to carry all
supplies destined to California relief free of
freight charges, but that isn’t going to
make us forget the $10 bail we have to
give each time we go to buy a mileage
book.
—If the Senate wants to give us some
other kind of alcohol why don’t it out out
the denatured idea and make it all good
natured. That would be more to the point
and save the country a lot of police and
court expenses,
—San Francisco bad a desperately fright.
ful shock, but San Francisco embodies that
greatest type of energy, western American
pluck, and that is why her people have
already announced their intention of build-
ing greater and finer than ever.
—Let us see : Wasn't it this same Mr.
QUIGLEY who tried to frazzle Col.
Joux A. DALEY out of a chance to run for
t he Legislature who once did the same
trick to a gentleman by the name of ALLI-
s0oN who wanted to run for County Treas-
urer.
—RICHARD PEARSON HoBsON bas won
his fight and will represent the 6th Ala-
bama district in the next Congress. ANDY
CARNEGIE having stolen his kissing lau-
rels the hero of the Merrimac will now
have a chance to win a few in forensic
fields.
—The Mifiin county fisherman who
tried to escape punishment for catching
trout under size by asserting that the sun
had shriveled them up might find it proi-
itable to carry his wife's parasol with him
the next time he goes out for a little pisca-
torial sport.
—When the Metropolitan opera com-
pany got back to New York, after being
wrecked in the San Francisco disaster,
every member, meu and women, Kissed
Herr CONREID, their manager, Inasmuch
as there are more than a hundred persons
in the company the overly-osculated man-
ager must have felt like any earthquake
victim, himsell.
—1It is noted that the English insurance
com panies doing business in this country
are already evincing an intention of using
polioy technicalities to avoid payment in
fall of their San Fraocisco losses. While
they cannot be expected to pay any more
than the insured are entitled to recover un-
der their policies, if they do not pay that
in full there should be an end of their op-
portunity to do business at all in this
country.
~The President's aonouncement that
foreign contributions to the San Francisco
fund were not acceptable for the reason
that we can furnish all the relief that is
necessary here at bome has aroused much
condemnation in all parte of the country.
One of the most pointed rejoinders of an
exchange being that if the President feels
so squeamish about acsepting anything
from foreigners he ought to have made the
foreign publio wise before his daughter's
wedding presents began to arrive.
Nevertheless we shall watch with ab-
sorbing interest Representative TOWNE'S
exposure of the President’s false pretenses.
They are numerous and striking and de-
serve all manner of popular execration.
That he has now completely broken from
the plans of his party may result in the
fulfillment of some of the pledges which be
bas been making in season and out during
the past several years is probably true.
Bat from the beginning of his campaign to
‘regulate trusts until the present moment,
not a single substantial point has been
gained by the people. Even the triumph
over the Northern securities company was
wasted because of the failure to prosecute
those concerned in the lawlessness in the
criminal courte and every other trust pros-
ecution proved abortive because of his sym-
pathies with or friendliness for some of the
criminals,
The Stricken City.
The great calamity which devastated
San Francisco last week not only revealed
the vast recuperative power of the Ameri-
can people but the prodigious resources of
the country. The destruction of a couple
of hundred million dollar's worth of prop-
erty in two or three days is not altogether
surprising. It might have occurred in St.
Petersburg, Paris, Berlin or London. But
the collection of a relief fund of ten or
twelve millions of dcllars within a few
days would have been possible in no other
country in the world and at no other per-
iod in history.
The destruction of a great city is a dis-
aster of incalonlable proportions. In the
case in question 300,000 human beings
were cast helplessly upon the charity of
the world almost within a moment. They
were not only left without food and shel-
ter but were exposed to the dangers of pes-
tilence. Yet before the smoke of the fire
had blown off the scene of the calamity, we
hear of plans and preparations for rebuild-
ing the city and restoring the commerce of
the community. What rational mind
could have imagined such things.
While sympathizing with the stricken
people of the desolated city, we can't re.
frain from expressing admiration of the
generous impulses which bave so promptly
respond ed to the ery of distress and for
the fortitude which has enabled the suffer-
ers to shake off the effects of disaster be-
fore the full force of it is felt. It ahows
not only resourcefulness beyond the dreams
of optimism, but a courage that is sublime.
We hope that these elements of greatness
80 admirably revealed will expand the
spirit of charity already amazingly shown.
A Fit Congressional Candidate.
The Democrats all over the State will
learn with more than ordinary pleasure
that Mr. Joux C. McHENRY, of Benton,
Columbia county, is practically certain of
a upanimous nomination for Congress in
the district composed of Columbia, Mon-
tour, Northambeiland and Sullivan coun-
ties, and that his election is assured. Mr.
McHENRY is among the best of the young-
er Democrats of the State, who have chosen
to bold aloof from public life, though al-
ways deeply concerned for the prosperity
of Democracy. His candidacy is a whole-
some sign of political regeneration.
For several years Mr. McHENRY bas
been identified with the political activities
of his own section of the State in the capac-
is meritorious which |
STATE RIGHTS AN
“BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 27, 1906.
ity of a progressive private citizen. He
bus been even more prominently identided
with the business interests of the State and
is favorabiy known in the commercial life
far beyond the boundary of the Common-
wealth. His presence in Congress, there-
fore, will bave a salutary influence on the
public mind. It will serve as an assur-
ance of conservatism and safety in legisla-
tion.
The country would be the better for it
if all the capable young men trained to
business would give at least a portion of
their time to the public service. No
schooling is as effective as that of business
experience. It broadens the mind and
whets the intellect to a keen edge. For
that reason it is alwayz gratilying to learn
of such ventures in the political world as
the candidacy of Joux G. McHENRY.
We congratulate his prospective constit-
uents and wish him abundant success and
pleasure in public life.
Chairman Charles P. Donnelly.
In electing CHARLES P. DONNELLY |
as chairman, the Democratic State com-
mittee has placed the conduct of the im-
pending campaign in the hands of one of
the most sagacions, energetio and experi-
enced party leaders in the State. There is
no point in the practice of politics that he
doesn’t know Zhoroughly. No opportuni.
ty to promote the interest of the party will
be overlooked or neglected by him. Helis
earnest, alert, conrageons. Moreover he is
unselfish in the work which he bas under-
taken, not upon his own desire, but at the
urgent call of his party. Such a man,
onder the circumstances, is certain to
prove efficient.
Mr. DoNNELLY has long been conspicu-
ous in the councils of the Democratic par-
ty. A speaker of great force and a reason-
er of vast power, his voice has been heard
on the hustings and at the council board
for many years, and to excellent purpose.
But he was not chosen as the official bead
of the party because of his oratorical abili-
ty. His splendid executive talents and his
marvelous organizing power have com-
mended him to the Democratic leaders of
the State aud to the earnest men who com-
D FEDERAL UNION.
Roosevelt and Judge Humphrey.
When Judge HUMPHREY, of the United
States District court, at Chicago, banded
down his preposterous decision a short time
ago, guaranteeing the beef trust magnates
immunity from criminal prosecution, the
WarcHMAN made a few observations on
the miscarriage of juetice involved which
could bardly be construed as flattering to
that corporation-owned jarist. In this
view ol a judicial outrage we expected the
concurrence of all intelligent laymen and
fair-minded lawyers. But we own to
| something in the natur2 of a surprise, the
other day, when we discovered tbat the
most emphatic and unequivocal endorser of
our several propositions is President Roose-
VELT, who appears to have absorbed our
idea.
But after all, Judge HUMPHREY is not
entirely to blame for his palpable misinter-
pretation of the law and perversion of the
facts. He no doubt firmly believed that
he was expressing the will of the President
in declaring that while corporations are
' culpable their mauvagers are free from
' blame. That is precisely the policy which
the President adopted in the case of the
Santa Fe railroad which bad been paying
rebates to the Colorado Fuel and Iron com-
pany. PaAurL MoRrTON was vice president
and trafic manager of both corporations
and confessed that as agent of one he bad
paid the money to himself as agent of the
other. But the President promptly decid-
ed that he shounldn’s be prosecuted crime
inally for the reason that the corporations
instead of the individual are at fault.
We are glad to learn that the President
has experienced a change of heart with re-
spect to the matter. If he himself bad de-
cided in that case as he declares Judge | |
HuMPHREY ought to have decided in the
beef trusé case, PAUL MORTON would bave
passed from the office of Secretary of the
Navy into some hospitable penitentiary,
and the crime of rebating would have been
stopped forever. But Mr. MORMON wasa
friend and favorite of the President and
with him, as with other sham reformers,
it makes ‘‘a vast difference whose ox is
gored.” Weare offering no apology for
Judge HUMPHREY. What the President
pose the rank and file of the party. He. says of him and bis atrocious raling is true.
was the choice of the organization
he deserves the confidence of the people.
Mr. DONNELLY has announced that he
will be ‘‘a working chairman,” and we
may well believe that for he bas been a
worker in the ranks for years. It may
safely be predicted, moreover, that he will
be av efficient as well as an industrious
chairman, for be has the ability and zeal
to guarantee success. That being true,
the party may well be congratulated on
its auspicious opening of the campaign of
1906. The signs are all favorable and with
a capable leader and vigorous work we may
confidently expect a splendid victory at
the polls. We earnestly hope that the new
chairman will be cordially supported by
the Democrats of the State.
Excellent Actions by Some One.
It wouid be unjust and uncandid to re-
frain from expressing appreciation of the
appointment of CHARLES E. HuGHES and
ALEXANDER SIMPSON Jr., to conduct the
investigation of the coal trust. Whoever
is responsibie for it, whether President
ROOSEVELT or Attorney General Mooby,
deserves the highest commendation. We
own to a sentiment of doubt respecting the
sincerity of both of those gentlemen in
their professions of hostility to the iniqui-
ties of the trusts. In the past they have
not inspired confidence or justified faith.
Bat in the appointments in question there
is both wisdom avd honesty.
CHARLES E. HUGHES is the great law-
yer who conducted the investigation of
the insurance companies in New York, re-
cently. In that vast labor he was both
able and earnest. No influence was po-
tent to divert him from his duty or swerve
him from his obligations to the public.
Neither fear nor cajolery touched him di-
rectly or indirectly. He was offered polit-
ical preferment and professional favors of
the most enticing character, but he was un-
moved in his purpose. His steadfastness
was admirable and bonorable. It created
confidence in the legal profession and a
higher estimate of the human wind.
The appointment doesn’t guarantee the
elimination of a great evil. Mr. HuGHES
has not been vested with authority to pros-
ecute and bring to punishment the coal
trust conspirators and we are not able to
forget that equally able and honest lawyers
were named to investigate the Santa Fe
railroad’s rebating operations and the cor-
ruption in the postoffice department, yet
the crimes were condoned and the erimi-
nals praised rather than punished. But it
incites a hope of better things and justifies
expectations of improvement. Therefore
we cordially commend the action, whoever
is responsible for it.
——There is great activity in telephone
circles hereabouts at present. Both com-
panies have big gangs of linemen at work
stringing new lines in most every direction.
Bat be had an illustrious precedent to fol.
low.
An Unmeaning Platform.
Legislative candidates in the anthracite
coal regions are declaring opposition to the
State constabulary as the principal plank
in their platforms. “‘I will support a bill
which will be introduced calling for the
repeal of the state police act of 1905. We
peed no authorized rioters,’”’ is the lan.
guage employed by one of them. The in.
ference is that Captain GROOME'S ‘‘cos-
sacks’’ have been cutting up pranks of one
sors or another and promoting rather than
preventing disorder. This is a grave accu-
sation. We are not informed as to the ac-
curacy of it aud probably it implies an ex-
aggeration.
The state constabulary was a pet enter-
prise of the Republican machine and was
designed to serve a double purpose. The
main object of those who conceived it was
to create places for party pensioners. The
plan of the Republican machine was to
make the public pay the expenses of the
party organization and campaigning. In
the cities the party workers were provided
with places in the municipal service asa
recompense for their political labor. With
the idea of extending that system all over
the State, needless offices of all kinds were
created, and the state constabulary proved
a boon. It was an iniquitous scheme but
marvelously prolific. An army of well
paid, well-dressed, able-bodied and ener-
getic young fellows, located where they
could do the most good, created an effect.
ive political force.
But legislative platforms expressing op-
position to an accomplished fact are of lit-
tle use. If the Republican party is de-
feated at the coming election the law cre-
ating the force will be repealed for it is ob-
noxious to Democratic principles. Bat if
the result of she election is a restoration of
the Republican machine to power, the force
will not only be continued but increased.
The Republican managers need it in their
business and though individuals among
them may protest, they will be dragooned
into the support of that or any other party
measure.
The remedy is to defeat the party, cos-
sacks aod all.
~The civil engineers are still at work
running lines in various portions of Centre
county, principally in the Bald Eagle val-
ley aud the foothills of the Allegheny
mountains, but for just what purpose has
not yet been divolged. That a survey is
being made for a prospective railroad is be-
yond question but for what road and
whether it will mean any immediate work
of building in that direction remains to be
seen. The civil engineers in charge are as
tight as clams with their knowledge ; that
is, it they themselves even know what they
are working for.
A Timely Service Well Performed.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Senator Tillman performed a timely -=
vice when he stirred up his colleagues by
an expose of the contributions to the Re-
publican campaign fund. In the last three
presidential elections these have amounted,
respectively, to $3,800,000, 32.800, 000 and
$2,900,000. Statements giviog the names
of contributors, as well as those who bad
not contributed, were prepared at xepular
intervals during the last Sampaign SL as.
Anthony, the auditor of the Repu
National committee, and the facts appear
to have been known by Chairman Cortel-
you and President Roosevelt. Contribu-
tions by life insurance companies to the ex-
tent of $268,000 were disclosed Juting tbe the
recent investigation in New York, and
larger gifts probably remain undisclosed.
The expose did not contain anything
particularly new, but it was need
rouse to action the dormant ind on of
the Senate and awaken interest in the bills
to correct these evils, which have been
slumbering in committee since the begin-
ning of the present session
Especially emphatic was the demand of
the Senator from South Carolina for a report
on his measure to prohibit campaign con-
are | tributions by national banks, because these
institutions, being organized under a va-
tional law, are directly ander the jurispru-
dence of But the banks have
Jeoboniy not offended in nearly so great a
as the tariff-fed industrial trusts,
et ad oil monopolies, and the trans-
portation companies. These are beyond
the direct penal control of en except
in the matter of regulating interstate com-
merce, bat it would be lay within the
province of federal legislation to penalize
the use of corporate contributions in the
election of members of the house of repre-
sentatives.
If corporations created under State laws
could be reached by a federal law, mem-
bers of campaign committees soliciting or
accepting cam funds from such sources
could be dec! guilty of crimes against
the United States, and en profit
oongressm
ng by such contributions oould be pun-
abe by Torture of Jet slegtion The
Rega ty in congress will sare
ly be held answerable if it permits the ses-
sion to go by without e an effective
law to prohibit the financing of national
elections by Soporte se recipients, or ex-
pectants, of federal bounty. The party in
power could not escape lar condemna-
tion as desiring to continue its damnable
alliance with yh robber trusts:
The Crust We Live Om.
From the New York Times,
Probably most nnivstr persons who
thought at all about the ef-
fects of the unusual eru of Vesuvins,
which has not yet en on the latent
forces of the underworld over which be-
manity and human civilization so
ously swim, took the easy and com ortable
view that Vesuvius was a safety valve for
those unknown and subterranean forces.
Thie view is contrary to all that weon the
surface know of what is going on in the
deeps to which we cannot penetrate. The
seismologists, the geologists, the astrono-
mers, who area iste’’ were no
nearer than the rest of us to foreseeing that
the eruption of Vesuvius, instead of afford-
ing a vent to the internal fires of the still
liquid core of our plavet, was but the
syn, of an internal unrest which
would show itself in still other disturb.
ances. And yet we historically know that
disturbances at one point of any zone have
usually been followed by disturbances at
other points in the same zone. The des-
truction of Lisbon, the greatest disaster
in human bh resulting from the une-
gual vos ing ot : e sat of the garth, may
ve been ess ogical i m portance
than disturbances which passed unmarked.
And yet we historically know that the
earth-wave which ayes Lisbon, and
put to death 60,000 persons in six mivutes,
undulated from Iceland to Africa. We
know that the earthquake which from the
Buisan point of view was most memorably
t
Wheie Ischia smiles
O'er liquid miles,
carried its serpentine undulation into the
Indian ocean, suppressing charted islands
bere and raisiog unobarted islands there,
to the dy and discomfiture of navi-
gatos, We know that the upheaval which
epopulated Martinique by the eruption of
Mont Pelee was ex far away from
it which must
guake which, as it were, incidentally de-
stroyed Lisbon, Humboldt, after the fact,
estimated its area of operations as low
times the extent of Biers But the
is that none of the specialists ded
of these sequels before they had ny
happened. Since the test of science has
very well been defined to be pre-science,
and since none of ¢éhe consequences of these
convulsions was icted, we seem to be
warranted in saying that siesmology is far
from being a
An Old Thought Re-clothed.
From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner.
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money
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—About twenty-five # horse, ab
and a girl are the ve dogs, 2
that Jeveloped rabies in Allentow other
day und ranged the city until shot by an
officer.
—While eating bis dinner in a quarry
hole at Bangor Royal, Northampton county,
Leonard Alboney had his skull crushed by a
big stone that rolled down on him where he
sat.
—Assisting in the spring y
Bernard Salvage, chief burgess ol
Schuylkill county, in lifting a heavy /
burst a blood vessel, his death resulti
shortly after from hemorrhages.
—Born without hands, Miss Sallie Klein.
finne, of Molinsville, Berks county, runs &
sowing machine, attends to a lot of corres
pondence, kills chickens and does all kinds
of housework with the stumps of her arms.
—Thomas and John Keenan, sons of’
J. Keenan,a well-known contractor of “Johns:
town, formerly of Hollidaysburg, feil into
the swollen Stoney creek while playing oh
its banks Saturday evening and were drown.
ed.
—Merchant S. G. Beaver, of Mexico, Ju-
piata county, during the past year shipped
56,340 dozen of eggs to market for which he
paid $9,216,85, an average of almost 17 cents
per dozen. He also shipped during the same
time 6,090 pounds of live chickens.
seuted to the York county grand jury on the
charge of gambling. They composed a por-
tion of a crowd of about sixty young men
whom the constables raided while they were
shooting crap just outside the city limits.
—Last week the Lackawanna court was a
lucky one for those charged with murder.
Of the five cases listed ome pleaded guilty
in the second degree, two were tried and
found not guilty and two were declared not
guilty without the formality of a trial, none
being necessary.
—Saiers Brothers, of Lock Haven, last
Saturday completed two new kilns for the
Pennsylvania Fire Brick company at Beech
Creek. That company has now 16 kilns and
two more will be built during the summer.
A number of Bellefente people are interested
in this company.
now last February. He has suffered much
pain with them and was taken to the -
Harrisburg hospital for treatment, where it -
was found that the feet would have to be
—A boy named Batey, together with sev-
eral companions, encountered a den of
snakes along the road above Widmann's
brewery in Lockport on Sunday. They sue.
ceeded in killing seven of the reptiles, while
others escaped. One of the snakes measured
neatly four feet in length and showed fight
when the boys attacked it.
—The Raystown Water Power company,
the leading representatives of which are J.
R., W. B. and G. E. Simpson,of Huntingdon,
have purchased within the past several days,
or secured options, on two-thirds of the prop-
erties on the branch from the Corbin school
house, near Huntingdon, and extending up
the stream for some ten miles.
—Max Williams, of Marysville, whose
store two weeks ago was robbed, reports to
the police of Harrisburg that Friday night
robbers again entered his place and took
therefrom eighty-five suits of clothes. The
store, it is alieged by Williams, was literally
cleaned out by the robbers that night and
he has no suspicion as to who they were.
~The shopmen along the line of the Penn-
sylvania railroad between Philadelphia and
Pittsburg have been notified of an increase
in the working time to forty-five hoursa
week. While this is not full time by one
fall day's work for a week, itis a
great improvement over the twenty-five
hours that the men have been working since
April 2,
—Rockwoud claims to have the finest wa-
ter supply in Somerset county. The water
will be conveyed from Sand Run, which is a
pure mountain stream fed by cool springs
that do not fail in the driest seasons. Itis
caluculated that 8 dam of eight-foot breast
will submerge seventy acres of land and
impound 68,000,000 gallons of water at a
beight of 500 feet ghaye Rockwood, giving a
static pressure of 330 pounds to the square
inch, more than sufficient for fire purposes.
—@Governor Pennypacker will this week
appoint a sheriff for Blair county to suc
ceed the late Sheriff Bell, and already a
number of applications have been received
from politicians who want to serve the State.
It is said that among the applications yet to
be sent in will be one from Miss Mary
Marks, who is at present filling the position
of deputy sheriff, and whose friends will
make a strong effort to have her appointed.
Ske is the first woman to aspire to the office
in this State.
-J. C. White, a public school teacher, and
several friends, of Lebanon, while spending
an afternoon at Strack’s dam, in Lebanon
county, witnessed a battle royal between a
wounded bald eagle and a hound. The party
were taking their iunch when the eagle was
seen to descend to the water, where it soon
caught a fish in its talons. A well directed
shot by White crippled the bird, and it fell
into the water. A hound was then sent in
after it, but the bird tore the amimal’s neck
with its beak and talons. The dog was en-
tirely unable to cope with the big bird, and
swam to the shore in terror, the eagle still
lingering on. It was finally killed by the
men. The eagle is a very handsome speci-
men,and measures 63 inches from tip to tip of
its dark brown wings.
-Twenty-one young men have been pre- ’
—Ira D. Fry, of Liverpool, Perry county, -
had his feet frozen while working at Luck- -
amputated. They were taken off Wednesday.
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