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-——It was quite popular to pay water tax-
es in Bollefonte Friday morning.
~The blossoms are coming out fast, hoth
on the trees and fishermen’s noses.
—The coal strike is beginning to strike
some of the industries around bere that are
dependent on that fuel.
—That Paiis revolation that was pre-
dicted for the first of May seems to bave
been of the merry-go-round sort.
—~Our old friend Col. JOAN A. DALEY
bas only one more day in which to hustle
for the nomination the bosses don’t want
him to have.
—Those insky and iscovitz names up
about Mt. Carmel is probably what excit-
ed PEXNYPACKER'S Cossacks to the firing
point on Tuesday.
—What would an earthquake do toa
completed Panama canal ? And the Pava-
ma route crosses the established zone of
earthquake disturbances.
—1t is announced now that Congress
will adjourn about the middle of June.
Since it can’t be done any sooner the pub-
lie will accept that date with thankfulness.
—DowIE marched back into Zion on
Monday, but not into his own, as be ex-
pected, as the Zionites have evidently tired
of playing the ‘woolly horse’’ in DowIE'S
greats advertising act.
~The May-day episode in Paris proved
to be a little more than a passing Parisian
passion. If there hadn't been so many
soldiers it is probable that anarchy would
bave run riot in the city.
—Roller skating is the craze again, bot,
like the fit the amusement crazy public
lived. The only skating fad that holds on
always is the kind that’s found in the rye
fields.
—A Salfordville rooster is reported as
having crowed itself to death. If this thing
is going to become the fad among all roosters
you can look for a dead one in Mr. HENRY
CUTE QUIGLEY'S political coop about next
Wednesday morning.
—Governor Hock, of Kansas, bas taken
rank with HopsoN and CARNEGIE as a
kisser, but he seems to be in danger of bav-
ing osculated himself out of office. It is
merely a case of not having had the right
kind of goods else the lady would not have
peached.
~-~Machine politics in Pittsburg must be
pretty near to the end of the string when
the two leading machine papers must com-
hine forces in order to make one that will
be etrovg enough to weather the reform
gole that has- been sweeping that city for |
some years past.
—Some one has suggested that since the
automobiles stir up all the dust on our
streets they should be taxed to pay for
street sprinklers. The suggestion is a
good ore, but while we are at it; since
they also raise all of the stink why not tax
them to buy lavender water to do the
sprinkling with.
—State Treasurer BERRY will bave his
first peep into the State's strong-box next
Monday, when he will be sworn in. Itis
to be hoped that he will find everything
right, but if he does, we'll bet dollars to
buttons there will be plenty of entries in
fresh ink that have been necessary in the
work of making good.
—If Gen. FATHER SHERMAN hasn't any-
thing else to do than ride over the route of
his distinguished father’s historic march to
the sen, the commander of the army bad
better find some barracks fences for him to
whitewash. We have been healing at those
old sores for forty-one years and just why
this nonsensical act of opening them up
again was ever conceived we cannot un-
derstand.
—The Eoglish army is at logger-heads
with the navy as to which branch of the
service will have the right to buy and di-
rect air ships in time of war. Why fight
over such a question until the practicabili-
ty of air ships is established. The English
fighting men bave had nothing to do since
those South African farmers had them on
the run so, we suppose, they must work
off their bellicoseness some way.
—Professor SERVISS says that the San
Francisco earthquake was due to the weight
of the polar ice caps. While the Profes-
sor’s opinion is worthy that consideration
that we are forced to give the statements of
an eminent scientist he has left us just
about as much in the dark as we were be-
fore he volunteered this profound informa-
tion ; because some of us have never
weighed the polar ice caps, therefore we
don’t know how much weight it takes to
make a real, first-class earthquake.
—About the most sensible thing we have
noted for some time, and an act that will
bave a tendency to strengthen publicieon-
fidence iu labor unions, was the action
taken by the San Francisco brick-layer’s
union to work over hours, to keep wages
down to the old scale and to work with
non-union men in the effort to rebuild the
city. While it might be said that the ex-
treme necessities of the case brought about |
such action—and it probably did—yet a
precedent has been established that will be
of good service to unions and public every-
where. In this connection we want yon to
mark the wide contrast between this San
Francisco union and that Minnesota union
that wanted to prevent the carrying of sup-
plies to th: sufferers by any but union
An Evil and a Remedy.
The bill to exempt depaturized aloohol
from the prohibitive internal revenue tax
appears to bave fallen under the diepleas-
ure of the Standard Oil couvspiracy. It
passed the House of Representatives final.
ly, the other day, and was referred to a
committee of which Senator ALDRICH, of
Rhode Island, is chairman. Senator AL-
DRICH'S daughter is married to Jonx D.
ROCKERFELLER’S son apd the two fathers
and fathers-in-law have common, if not
equal interest, in the preservation of the
business of the Standard conspiracy. As
the principal part of the business is a mo-
nopoly of the products used in the rural
districts for illumination and floid fuel,
and as denaturized alcohol could be made
cheaper and better for both purposes under
favorable conditions, the proposed legisla-
tion is more or less inimical to the inter-
ests of the Standard Oil conspiracy.
There is no valid reason for defeating
the proposed legislation. Instead of im-
pairing the revenues it increases them.
No taxes are paid on denaturized alcohol
because there is none manufactured, the
internal revenue tax being prohibitive.
The manufacture of it, however, would
vastly increase the consumption of grain
Bike 16 > ails Be 001 | aleohal, which is the principal ingredient
of it some time ago, i
in the manufacture of denatarized alcohol,
and the treasury would gain $1.10 on every
additional gallon of grain alcohol consum-
ed. If there were nc other reasons for the
passage of the bill that would be ample.
Bat that is the least important of many.
Among the others they are giving the far-
mers better and cheaper illuminants and
fuel and providing markets for the wastes
of the farm, thus enhancing the product-
iveness of the soil and increasing the re-
wards of agricultural labor.
In the absence of reasons, however, Sen-
ator ALDRICH is proceeding without rea-
sons and by a process which requires nei-
ther reasons nor explauations. He is simply
holding the bill up’'in committee in spite
of protests and regardless of consequences.
He is the agent of the Standard Oil con-
spiracy in the Senate as Mr. Prater, of
New York, is of the express companies,
and KNOX, of Penvsylvania, FORAKER, of
Ohio, and o are of the railroads.
a matter of Tack,“every favored industry
has its agents in Congress now just as is
has salesmen on the road and bookkeepers
in the counting room, and the interests of
the people suffer while those of the cor-
porations are conserved.
It is the logical consequence of special
privilege and the remedy is the utter and
enduring defeat of the Republican: party,
which has created such conditions.
Foolish Talk of Principles.
During a debate in the Hounse of Repre-
sentatives in Washington, the other day,
Representative HEPBURN, of Iowa, re-
marked in a somewhat derisive tone that
the Democratic party now has a tripple
leadership of BRYAN, HEARST aud Com-
pany, which provoked Representative
GAINES, of Tennessee, to add : ‘‘No ; we
have ROOSEVELT with us.” Straogely
enough, Congressmen indulge in such ab-
surd badinage. Like boys who taunt each
other with epithets and accusations, these
statesmen say silly things on the spur of
the moment, and ove can kardly imagine
conditions which would justify the rub.
bish uttered by HEPBURN on the occasion
in question. Bat that of GAINES was in-
finitely niore silly.
We can bardly conceive of a measure of
mental paralysis that leads to an interpre-
tation of RoosgvELT's periodical ravings
a8 expressions of the spirit of Democracy.
The Democratic party bas on two or three
occasions declared in favor of the railroad
rate regulation and has always antagonized
the corporate excesses which are the logic-
al results of special privileges. But the
idea of confiscating private property, or
usurping the rights of the individoal to
enjoy the fruits of his own industry, is as
repulsive to Democratic principles as it is
subversive of popular rights. Asa matter
of fact there i= nothing in ROOSEVELY'S
public record that in any respect resembles
the theories of JEFFERSON or the princi:
ples of Democracy.
ROOSEVELT is as chimerical as a college
profligate and now and then utters a senti-
ment which might be appropriated either
by a Populist or a Socialist, but he is nev-
er Democratic. © He cherishes ideas which
in force would lead inevitably to an em-
pire, and covet§ power as a spoiled child
yearns for toys. But that doesn’t imply
that he is a Democrat. On the contrary,
it proves conclusively that he is not and
never can be, unless by a miracle equal to
d changing his spots. We
to hear no more of such
ttered by Representative
pessee, the other day.
tion given by HEPBURN
at.
1 session of court called
11 not be held, all jurors,
ving been notified not to
As
Men don’t frequently find money in mil-
lion dollar lots but Representative CREASY,
of Columbia county, announces in the
March number of the Pennsylvania Grange
News that be has jost experienced that
form of good fortune. It is money, more-
over, that doesn’t rightfully belong to any-
body, so that it will not be necessary to
pay it over and consequently our esteemed
friend, the “Farmer,” with characteristic
unselfishness and generosity, proposes to
give it to the public to be used in improv.
ing the township roads of the State. There
are 100,000 miles of euch roads and the
cost of maintenance is a matter of $4,500,-
000. Mr. CREASY’S contribution will not
cover the cost, therefore, but it will miti-
gate the burden of local taxation in some
measure.
‘““Farmer’”’ CREAsY's ‘‘find’’ consists
mainly in a subject of taxation which for
some inscrutible reason bas escaped the
lynx eyes of the assessor thus far. Gas
companies have never paid a cent toward
the expenses of government in this State
though they have milked the people with
singular assiduity, while electric light
companies, their competitors in business,
are taxed on capiial stock, bonded indebt-
edness and gross earnings. Mr. CREASY
estimates that similar and equal taxation
of gas companies would yield a revenue of
$675,000 a year and an additional tax on
automobiles within the limit of reason
would add $50,000 to the fund, bringing
the total up to $725,000. The $225,000
which are annually wasted on the State
Constabulary and $50,000, which might
easily be spared from the too generous ap-
propriation to the State Board of Health,
would round out the snug sum of a mil-
lion.
We have said that the reasons for ex.
empting gas companies from taxation are
inscrasible but that is not literally true.
All the big gas companies in Pennsylvania
and most of the smaller ones are owned by
the Standard Oil company, the alert lobby
of which has exercised a potential as well
as sinister influence on legislative and ju-
dioial actions. The proposition of Repre-
sentative CREASY wili meet a stubborn op-
position from that source, therefore, but if
an aroused public conscience will give the
plan the support it deserves, it is certain to
succeed in spite of the adverse influence
which even so active a criminal conspiracy
is able to organize. The other features of
Mr. CREASY'S scheme are equally feasible
avd sensible.
A Credualous Contemporary.
The credulity of some of our Republican
contemporaries is surpassing strange. For
example, the esteemed Philadelphia Press
tells its readers, in a recent issue, that ‘‘the
Republican State convention to be held in
Harrisburg on the 6th of June, will be
different from past conventions. Is will
be unbossed, uncontrolled, unrestricted.”
If we could imagine that our Philadelphia
contemporary believed that we would im-
mediately urge a commission to examine
into its sanity. Bot we know that it is
not 30 foolish. The fact that ‘members of
Congress are to be clected and the com-
plexion of the House of Representatives is
to be decided,’ is ‘‘the African in the
woodpile.” :
The Republican State convention will be
bassed, controlled and restricted this year
quite as completely as any of its predeces-
sors were and the esteemed Philadelphia
Press understands that facs just as well as
Senator PENROSE or ‘‘gumehoe’’ ANDREWS,
It may be bossed in a way that will result
in the nomination of a candidate for Gov-
ernor who is apparently respectable and
meas urably unassailable, as was the caee
when mysterious influences were invoked
to nominate PENNYPACKER four years
ago. Bat it will be bossed just the same
and the nominee, if elected, which Heaven
forbid, will be as completely dominated by
the machine as PENNYPACKER bas heen
daring his term in the office.
The esteemed Philadelphia Press would
like to see better political conditions in
this State, we actually think. It has done
valiant and effective work for civic im-
provement in Philadelphia, and lass fall it
obeyed conscience sufficiently to throw the
weight of its considerable influence against
‘‘the lonely misfit nominee of a discredited
organization’’ for State Treasurer. But
the fear of losing Congress has quieted
its conscience and seared its sense of right
to the extent that indicates a willingness
not only to accept anything that the con-.
vention offers but to any work of decep-
tion that may be necessary to put nohodies
in Congress, who will vote as they are
told.
—The people of Columbia, 8. C., are de-
manding separate elevators for the negro.
Of course this applies only to things mun-
dane, for, we imagine, when it comes to
the long elevator journey that all of them
hope to take some day they will be so glad
to be in it themselves that they won’t no-
tice who is doing the crowding ; whether it
be white or black saints.
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
The obvious purpose of the administra.
tion at Harrisburg to sustain the Senatori-
al apportionment bill passed during the
special session of the Legislature, right or
wrong, was revealed in the Dauphin ¢onn-
ty court last week, when the Schuylkill
county case was taken up for hearing. In
other words, though the certificate of the
nomination of a Senatorial candidate bad
been received by an official of the State
Department, it had not been filed as the
law provides, for the reason, as the Secre-
tary declared, that there is no vacancy for
the office under the new apportionment
bill.
That might seem to be a justifiable piece
of sharp practice by a quarter sessions’
demagogue but bardly measures up to the
dignity of a ruling of a department of the
state government. The petitioners koew
quite as well as the Secretary of the Com-
monwealth understood, that there is no
Senatorial vacancy in Schuylkill county
under the new apportionment. But they
allege that the measure is invalid because
unconstitutional, and the proceedings in
the Dauphin county court were inaugurat-
ed to determine the question. Therefore
if the Secretary of the Commonwealth
koew that the process adopted was nos the
proper one to achieve the result, he should
have given timely notice of the fact to the
attorneys for the petitioners,
That the apportionment is nneonstitu-
tional admits of no doubt. It specifically
tution which declares unequivocally that
“no county shall be divided unless entitled
to two or more Senators,” whereas Lan-
caster county is divided. Ol course the
Secretary of the Commonwealth had a
right to assume that the law is valid until
the courts declare the contrary. Bat he
has no moral right to prevent or even ham-
per legal proceedings to test the mooted
question and therefore should have noti-
fied counsel for the petitioners that the
nomination papers had not been filed and
that consequently there was nothing for
the court to hear on the day fixed for the
hearing.
Bat such a decent disposition of the mat-
)
Not Analogous Ideas.
We can imagine nothing more preposter-
ous than the idea expressed by some of our
esteemed contemporaries that President
RoosEVELT'S remarkable proposition to
limit fortunes or confiscate property in ex-
cess of a certain amount, is in any respect
analogous to the Democratic policy of tax-
ing incomes. There is nothing farther
from the fact. Taxing incomes is a legiti-
mate function of government. It is a just
and expedient method of equalizing the
burdens of citizenship. Confiscating prop-
erty is a form of piracy, for however vast a
fortune may be it is the property of the
owner and subject to his disposal. .
The gist of the President’s proposition is
contained in she phrase, “‘a tax so framed
as to put it out of the power of the owner
of one of these enormous fortunes to band
on more than a certain amount to any one
individual.” That would be a tax on in.
heritances rather than on incomes, in any
event, and to achieve the purpose it would
involve the confiscation of all bequests
abo -e a fixed amount. Under the consti.
tution taxes must be uniform and a pro-
cess which would cut off from a bequest all
above a certain sum would be something
other than taxation. No sane Democrat
ever advocated such a spoliatory system to
our knowledge.
The truth is that the President’s scheme
is socialistic rather than Democratic. It is
the idea of EvGENE DEBS, and not that of
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. It is con-
fiscation and not taxation, and those of our
contemporaries which bave mixed matters
up in a way to misrepresent the facts, owe
an apology to the memory of JEFFERSON,
and the vast body of Democratic voters in
this great country. Sowing the seeds of
heresy is no trifling matter and they have
done that beyond question, It remains
for them to make the amends honorable, so
to speak, and the sooner it.is done the bet-
ter.
~——Clearfield Republicans have come to
the front with a boom for Tmomas H.
MURRAY Esq., for the Republican nomi.
nation for Governor. And that the boom
may be pushed along ata rapid rate to as
good a finish as possible a committee of
seventeen has been appointed to manage
the campaign in his behalf. There iz no
denying the fact that Mr. MURRAY is an
able man and very likely would make a
good Governor, but he is a pillar in the
Methodist church and has always had the
reputation of being an exceptionally con-
soientious man, and for this reason alone
he is likely too honest for the PENROSE —
DurHAM—MoNIcHOL machine to permit
of his nomination.
~— April is now a back number.
violates one of the mandates of the consti- | from
; most
o would bave the. Sigh | peso yea bide tie twp 1. Tn dhe
Deputy Attorngy G To of 1905, ing to of-|
in a dramatic gallery play. ficial the exports from the coun-
and a correction to their own consciences | §
As Good as His Party.
From the Lincoln (Neb.) Commoner.
A monument to the late Matthew 8.
Quay, for so many years the Republican
leader of Pennsylvania, is to be erected at
Harrisburg. A writer in the Philadelphia
Ledger ( Republican) suggests for the pro.
posed monument the following inscription :
The peerless leader and sagacious statesman,
He never made a TPouch nor formulated a
A
But
He understood better than any man since
Art of in ar ad Ba d
of getting cash for cam s and votes -
8 8 for an election. wil
There was no “interest” he did not favor.
To the laborer, he offered work.
To the millionaire, more millions.
To the Stlecholder ee and more offices.
0 mannfacturer, protection.
To the philanthropist, state funds for charity,
Te the eriminal, immunity from the law.
He thus bound the whole to him, and
established a political the pride
and glory of our State.
To illustrate their admiration of his charac-
ter, and as an example for the youth of
Pennsylvania, a grateful Common-
wealth has erected this monument
on the spot where grew that
plum tree he loved
so well,
A very interesting inseri
It was offered in criticism
of Quay, yet the Philadelphia Ledger over-
looks the fact that m that is said in
this ‘‘tribute’’ to the famous Pennsylvania
politician may be said of the political par-
u which the Ledger bas so faithfully serv-
ion, indeed.
the methods
‘The Republican party und “‘the
art v of gost; cash for campaiges.’’ It has
fa pr interests, “the
fall dinner pail’ to the laborer, more bil-
lions to the billiooaires and more shelter
to the tariff barons. It has given immauni-
ty to several distinguished men of
crimes, and under the pretense of end-
ing the national honor’’ has ‘built up, and
continues to défend, a that takes
frou the many jo order Jo sutidh the few,
oppresses the masses in er to pam-
per the classes ; and with all of its wicked.
ness and folly it continues to pose as ‘the
y ¢"".Quay was a fisting repre-
“of such a . Surely those
who were the ben es of his skillful
services should not look lightly upon his
memory.
Where Prosperity Exists Without a
Republican Party.
From the New York Tribune. ch
Those who still doubt the | y' of
South American republics to n a high
degree of prsperity will do well to observe
the existing condisions of A the
second of those States in size and import.
ance. The year just ended was by far the
3 its roa the
t
In
try were—excluding specie—$247,110,000
gold. At the same time the im by
way of the custom houses were $155,651,-
460. Doubtless there were many millions
more of imports, for smuggling is rife in
Argentina, hut at any rate the importe fell
far below exports, leaving a handsome bal.
ance of trade on the right side. The sum
of exports will perhaps be better appreoi-
ated when we recall that Argentina has a
population of only 5,250,000, so that, if a
ding volame of exports was main-
taived throughout the year, it amounted to
more than $62 a head of the population.
We Pride ourselves on the vast exports of
the United States, but at most they are
never more than $18 a head, or considera-
bly less than one-third as much as those of
Argentina.
e directions and tendencies of Argen-
Sua Sormgte Are slo el worth Satie;
mports to Argentina from great n
increased only 5} per cent.; from Italy,
only 8 percent. ; from France, 20 per cent. ;
from Germany, 20 per cent,, and from the
United States, 30 per cent. At the same
time exports to the United Kingdom in-
creased 25 per cent. ;to Italy, 80 per cent. ;
to France, 18 per cent. ; to Germany, 16
per cent., and to the United States, 40 per
cent.
Effective Legislation Needed.
From the Pittsburg San.
The absolute dis of the railroad
tions for laws interfering with their
profits is shown in their action in the com-
Pilation of the new passenger rate sheets.
t was the open boast of those concerned
in compiling these schedules that the Ohio
law makiog a rate of two cents a mile ob-
ligatory upon the railroads ‘‘did not cut
much ice.”” In the estimati
iffs on through business the Ohio rate was
absolutely disregarded. This attitude of
the railways corporations is in keeping
with their usual procedare ; therefore the
people need not be that sucha
Or Satan by the es Sr Ih oie
e lines
or interstate ness in the Ohio territory.
Bat just this disregard for law, this ignor-
of the rights of is what is
g
g
Legislature it may
the complacency of the railroad will re.
ceive a shaking up. It certainly will if
the e are alive to the Sppetiuaity,
and to the farther fact that it is high time
that there be effective legislation to carb
the arrogance and prevent the encroach-
ments of the great carrying companies.
He is Needed Where He Is.
From the Greensburg Argus,
In luk} tow a sion aida for
governor it is quite natu e oppo-
nents of the machine should favorably can-
vass the popular name of our excellent
Site Sreasures-elect There is vo doubt
¢ Mr. Berry would prove a strong can-
didate with the prestige of success which
he enjoys, but for the fact that when the
people of Pennsylvania elect a citizen toa
ble office they expect him to fill it
instead of making it at once a
stone for another position. The far
watohdog shonld be permitted to remain
where the people of the State united in
placing him.
of the tar- |.
@ The,
O_O Se em ——
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Contractor Hughes has about 150 men
‘employed at present in making the new
Btate rosd in Cooper township, Clearfield
county.
—The Standard Steel car company of But-
ler, has been awarded the contract for the
construction of the trucks to be used on the
large trolley cars of the Butler and Pittsburg
line.
—It is said that the Pennyslvania railroad
company will continue its planting of trees
for crossties by setting out 800,000 this year.
Nearly 200,000 trees were planted last year
along the Philadelphia and Middle divisions.
~An Altoona dispatch says that the Penn-
sylvania railroad bas ordered the employees
of the maintenance of way department to
work ten hours a day instead of nine. This
gives au additional hour to about 12,000 men.
~The district attorney of Allegheny coun-
ty declares that he means to proceed against
the vice syndicate said to exist in Pittsburg,
as soon as sufficient evidence has been ob-
tained. Five councilmen are said to be in-
volved.
—The Hyde-Murphy company, of Ridg-
way, have just completed plans fora hand-
some new school building to be erected by
them at Osceola. The entire building is to
be of brick and will cost when completed
£50,000. .
—A few days ago while Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Whitsel, of Six Mile run, Bedford
county, were absent from their homes, thieves
entered and secured cash to the amount of
$307 and a valuable watch belonging to one
of the servants,
—Dr, George Edward Reed, president of
Dickinson college, Carlisle, has just cele-
brated the seventeenth anniversary of his
accession to the presidential chair. The
class of 1906 presented him with seventeen
fine American Beauty roses in a handsome
vase in honor of the event.
~Five tons of eggs were recently shipped
out of Three Springs, Huntingdon county,
to markets on the Mne of the Pennsylvania
railroad. Three Springs is one of the best
shipping points along the line of the East
Broadtop railroad for all kinds of country
produce. Seven to nine eggs will weigh a
pound.
_ —Just as a base ball game for the benefit of
the San Francisco sufferers was about to
‘commence the grandstand on the Riverside
grounds at Sayre, Pa. collapsed Friday after-
noon, and, although but one was seriously
injured, everyone of the three hundred on
the stand was hurt, most of them being
women,
—The Governor has signed the charter for
the New Era Pablishing company, incor
porated with a capital of $10,000 to conduct
a general newspaper and job printing busi-
ness in Huntingdon. The incorporators are
all Huntingdon men and are : W. H.
Samuel Steel, treasurer; D. 8. Drake, J. G.
Dell, C. C. Johnson, E. M. Krugand J. I.
Johnson.
» A dressmaker of Williamsport is the loser
of about $765 in cash and a quantity of valu-
able diamonds, as the result of a clever game
in which she was the victim. She went to
Atlantic City to meet a German architect.
whom she had become acquainted with
through a matrimonial bureau and after he
had secured from her the valuables named
the erstwhile lover left her in New York.
~The division encampment of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania will be held at Gettys.
burg on July 2ist-28th. General Stewart
said that the details of the encampment
would not be arranged until after the loea-
tion of the camps of the three brigades have
been selected. This will be the last en-
campment of the Pennypacker administra+
tion and the Governor will spend the entire
week with the troops.
—The Bigler campmeeting association suf
fered almost a total loss of its property by
fire Friday morning. The fire is supposed
to have originated by a spark from a passing
locomotive. The property destroyed in-
cludes the tabernacle, restaurant, boarding
house and thirty-one cottages. The only
building saved was the ticket office. The
loss will be quite heavy, as there was no in-
surance on the property.
—A landslide of unusual proportion was
that which just occurred on the north side
of Green mountain, near the road from
Shumantewn to Ringtown. A slice of the
hillside 30 feet wide and 10 feet deep, and
extending nearly from the top to the bottom
of the mountain, became loose and slid down
1ato the valley. The slide was accompanied
by a loud roar which terrified all inhabitants
of that section. Those who witnessed the
startling spectacle say that the water shot up
in the air higher than the tops of the highest
trees.
—Tbe Wilmore Coal company, the real
estate holding organization of the Berwind-
White Coal mining company, has awarded a
contract to the Windber Lumber company
for the erection of fifty more large double
bouses at No. 40 mine, near Windber, in ad-
dition to the fifty already bailt, which will
be occupied by Berwind-White miners.
Work was commenced last week and they
will be ready for occupancy early in the fall.
The new dwellings are better finished, with
cellars and better in every way than the
average miners’ home.
~The farm the Adam Heckman
homestead near the Mt. Bethel church in
Nittany valley, was totally destroyed by fire
Wednesday of last week and the barn was
saved only by hard work. The fire started
from an overheated flue, as the women were
ironing and had a hot fire. The high wind
blew burning cinders into the barn anda
number of times the hay in the mows was
on fire but the bucket brigade made good
use of water and wet blankets and they suc-
ceeded in saving the structure. The house
was occupied by John Heckman.
—Fred Dubler, the 12 year old son of Fred
Dubler, Sr., of Beech Creek, meta horrible
fate at Farrandsville Saturday. The lad was
spending the day with his grandmother, who
sent him on an errand. He was delayed at
a crossing by an eastbound freight train. As
the caboose passed the Buffalo flyer engineer
on the next track saw a human re step in
front of his locomotive. In a second the
wheels bad cut the boy in twain. The body
was not identified until Sunday.alter a search
had been made for the missing borg