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—As a dog exterminator the Bellefonte
automohile is a dandy.
—It is beginning to look asifa number
of people believe that HENRY Cure will be
an easy one to defeat for the Senate.
—The Democrats of Centre county will
bold their last primary election under the
present system on Saturday, June 20d.
—The trouble at Washington seems to
be that there are not enough ROOSEVELT
brains to cope with such a brilliant trio as
BAILEY, TILLMAN and RAYNER.
—In eighteen years JoHX D. RoCKE-
FELLER bas received $113,500,000 income
from bis Standard oil holdings. And to
think, be has a weak stomach, at that.
—Between the President, former Senator
CHANDLER and Senators BAILEY and
TILLMAN there is a liar somewhere and
the bog seems to be very near the White
House.
—1In the light of recent events in Wash-
ington the wnthor of the famous “Muck
Rake’ speech must bave been merely giv-
ing away some of the secrets of his fellow
Muck rakes.
— Research has disclosed that the origi-
nal chaffeurs were a class of French robbers.
How fitting the name for men who now
run aatomobiles at from two to four dol-
lars per hour.
—The Hon. Roperr M. FosTER and
former Senator WM. C. HEINLE bave both
announced as candidates for the Sepate in
shis county. Clearfield will probably pre-
sent GRORGE M. DIMELING.
—The papers announce that Union coun-
| LODGE and the President flatly declared it
ty bas grown so good that there are no | + tals.
cases for the regular sitting of the quarter
gessions court to dispose of. Has BENNY
FocHT reformed everybody down there ?
—The limit to the court reviews was the
stumbling block in the rate-bill legisla-
tion, but there has been no limit to the
pames the men who were pushing the
measure have been calling each other since
they agreed to disagree.
—Out in Kansas the Democrats have
fired their State chairman because he wears
a silk bat and frock coat. In Pennsylva.
nia, its different. Here we need the kind
that can afford such eartorial luxuries. It
takes money to make the political mare go.
—Each man, woman and child in this
country is entitled to $32.22, that is, under
the per capita proportion. Have you yours?
If you have, are you satisfied with it?
You ought to be, for if you take any more
some one else will be without their full
share.
—All England seems to bave been star-
tled with the Earl of Weymso's statement |
made in the House of Lords on
the effect that *‘the country is practically
without an army.’ It is the old case of
English obtuseness. The Boers knew this
years ago.
—The woman who sued her busband for
divorce because she found ont from the
gtabs in his cheque book that he had paid
$2 for ribbons for his typewriter would
probably have fallen dead on the epot had
she discovered that he was buying hoes for
the woman who took care of his flower
beds.
—ROBERT PITCAIRN, assistant to the
president of the Pennsylvania railroad com-
pany didn’t want his in stock. He asked
for $5,000.00 in cash, and got it. Bob was
probably thinking that cash wouldn't tell
as maoy tales as stock, buy then he wasn’t
thinking that he would be called upon to
tell a few tales himsell.
—The saggestion made in Congress Wed-
nesday that when our new $6,000,000 sea-
terror is completed the President and his
cabinet should man ic and challenge the
new English “‘Dreadnaught’’ to a battle to
the finish, isa good one. Perbaps if an
experiment of this kind were tried once in
a while the jingoes would not be eo gay
about spending the public money for need-
less battleships.
—CARL SCHURZ is dead. Among Amer-
ica's foremost men be was a leader. As
publicist, statesman and patriot his life
was like an open book from the moment he
landed as an immigrant on our shores in
48 until the day of bis death. His wasa
career of upbuilding for bumanity, made
forceful by a personal character that was
at all times pure and clean. In his death
the country bas lost a man who command-
ed the respect of the wide world.
—While Mayor WEAVER, of Philadel-
phia, would make an admirable candidate.
for Governor there is no reason why Demo-
crate should go into conniption fits becanse
he has been suggested. Years before May-
or WEAVER was heard of the Democrats
stood for the kind of reform that he be-
came conecions of only two years ago and
we have scores of men who would givetbe
State such an administration as h
to r no other reason.
Veracity in High Life.
The developments of the rate bill debate
in the United States Senate bave raised a
question of veracity between the President
and the Hon. WiLLiAM E. CHANDLER, of
New Hampshire, the issue of which will be
watched with carious interest. Of course
everybody will hope that the result will
be in favor of the President, for nobody
wants to see the Chief Magistrate, the offi-
cial head of the government, proved a liar.
But it must not be forgotten that Mr.
CHANDLER has also occupied an important
place in the official life of the country. He
was Secretary of the Navy for a full term
and Senator in Congress for many years, so
that however the matter is determined the
public life of the country will be aspersed,
more or less.
Daring the debate on the ALLISON
amendment, so-called, Senator TILLMAN
alleged that Senator CHANDLER had assur-
ed Sepator BAILEY and himsell thas the
President ‘‘bad come to a complete disa-
greement with the railroad lawyers in the
Senate’’ and named Senators KNOX, SPOON-
ER and FORAKER, and Senator BAILEY
corroborated the statement. This was tel-
ephoned to the President by Senator
Since that event Senator
TILLMAN has made public a written
statement of Senator CHANDLER contain-
ing the assertion and consequently the
question of veracity is between the Presi-
dent and the gentleman from New Hamp-
shire and one or the other of them must
bear the odium of the falsehood whether
the statement is falze, or otherwise.
Happily we are not responsible for the
character either of the President or the ex-
Senator or greatly concerned about the rep-
utation of those gentlemen, personally. We
would necessarily share with all other cit-
jzens influenced by proper civic pride in
the humiliation that must follow the fast-
ening of such a vice on the President. But
we can’t forget that on one or two occasions
Secretary LOEB has been obliged to strain
his conscience severely in order to let the
President out of an ugly hole and conse-
quently it is unsafe to be too positive of
his veracity. But on the other hand,
CHANDLER is bardly up to the standard
words, the
shire is nog
Commissioner Martin's Conceri,
Insarance Gommissioner DAVID MARTIN
is much pertgrbed with apprehensions that
the next ature of this State may not
support Pregfident ROOSEVELT with that
cordiality whieh is becoming in the parlia-
ment of a gre§s Republican State.. For that
reason he is véry anxious that a “deal” be
consumiua tween the LINCOLN X Repub-
licans and thé;remnant of the QUAY ma-
chine. Senator PENROSE and Governor
PENNYPACKER share in bis dread and
DAVE LANE & md SAM SALTER are quite as
much conce; Consequently the Gov-
ernor, the Sei oF; the Insurance” Conimis-
sioner and DAVE LANE held a conference
in the Senator’s office the other day for the
purpose of promoting harmony, but with
what result has not been revealed.
Measuring the probabilities of the future
by the events of the past it is not easy, to
see how the proposed ‘‘deal” between, the
parties in question would materially. ad- | |
vance the purpose which Commissioner
MARTIN expresses. Admitting, for the
sake of argument or by way ol illustration;
that it would guarantee a Republican ma-
jority in the next Legislature, it: doesn’t
necessarily follow that the policies of Pres-
ident ROOSEVELT would be supported or
evcouraged. ‘The last Legislature was
overwhelmingly Republican, for example,
yet Representative CREASY'S resolution in-
structing the Pennsylvania Senators in
Congress and requesting our Representa.
tives to support the President's railroad
rate legislation was defeated, and with very
few exceptions, every Republican in the
body voted against it. a
Commissioner MARTIN may as well be
honest with the public aud candi with |;
himself and admit that be doesn’t care a
farthing whether the next Legislature is fa-
vorable to the President or not. ‘He. wants
a barmony deal for the spoils that may be
gathered from a Republican viotory and
Mr. MARTIN is not a
atimentalist. He is for or against the
impossible for Mayor WEAVER and on [President and the Republican party or the
them our preference is DAVID T. Wareox, | C|
of Pittsburg.
—A Howard merchant is responsible tr 8c
a rather shocking advertisement that ap- ty
peared in the Hustler of that place last | yc
week. After itemizing a number of
ticles tbat are being sold at mark-do a 1
prices the following
the m lest reader :
Drawers, all Down ! It thing
iy
in the store
the merchant to stop selling ‘charge an
admission of 10 cents for it must
beat the Eden Magee if the pants; overalls
and drawers are all down. f uo ¢
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Overalls ad | Th
are really as advertised we ‘would advise : 1
stian religion, for that matter, necord-
in gly as one attitude or the other _ would — —— md ne,
Youthute lo soma] parse; 8 ha beaver until it antiod the White House,
) wall ballot Safe ys es when it was promptly and properly contra-
Lh wa EE whiche dicted. The outcome will be awaited with
Ti Xr par- ony inte
or in whatever interest promises him'the odio uy in .-
t advantage. Sy. | ——A ood in is very much needed at
ere is no . " Tau this time, but though we bad every prom-
: y i ise of it this week the fall was quite limited
peel ¥ 1 $
i Tar 0 the Prsbytarihg oh Dee, P. S.—Alter the above was pat in type old
to hold in the court Vos on
20th is causidg some of the o Ad
ens” to brush up their orthogra:
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The Logical Candidate,
The esteemed Philadelphia Record ven-
tures the opinion that ‘‘Colonel WATRES,
of Lackawanna, who wants the job, is the
logical candidate of the Republican organ-
ization of Pennsylvania for Governor.”
There is both reason and justice in the prop-
osition. Colonel WATRES has been a most
subservient and an exceedingly useful ser-
vitor of the machine for some years and he
ought to be rewarded. That nomination
is the recompense for which he yearns and
it could be given to bim this year without
the least prejudice to the interests of the
people. That is to eay, he is absolutely
certain to be defeated for election and con-
sequently will bave no opportunity to car-
ry his huckstering proclivities into the
public life of the Commonwealth.
We are constrained, moreover, to coin-
cide with the notions of our esteemed Phil-
adelphia contemporary upon the platform
which should be placed under the candi-
date in the event that Colonel WATRES is
nominated. ‘‘He should be nominated,’
the esteemed Record asserts, ‘upon a plat-
form declaring in favor of the proposed
QUAY monument.’”’ Nothing could be
more appropriate. The QUAY monument
is not a conception of the WATRES brain,
probably, for the WATRES brain is not pro-
lific of ideas, good or bad. But it was
made possible by the participation of Wa-
TRES in the political commerce, or myste-
rious influence, which ‘‘changed a majori-
ty of the convention into a minority over
night,” and nominated the preposterous
PENXNYPACKER instead of the then bucea-
neerish ELKIN for Governor four years ago.
Besides QUAY promised the nomipation
to WATRES this year and though QUAY is
dead the machive of which he was the
architect, build:r and manager still lives,
a somewhat precarious life, no doubt, but
a life nevertheless. As the death of the
head of a corporation doesn’t abrogate its
contracts or absolve it of obligations in-
curred during his lile, the QuAY machine
is morally and legally bound to nominate
WATRES, il be wants to be nominated un-
der existing circumstances, and the public
which is concerned in the maintenance of
commercial integrity, even to the extent of
honor among thieves, is under obligations
to the esteemed Record for reminding the
hicle for the expression of public sentiment
on the QUAY ‘monument is likewise peed-
ed.
Absurd Rory C Contraiict
It was hardly atomary for he White
House authorities to deny the absuid state-
ment telegraphed from Washington to
some of the machine ne Dew ipesk of She
State to the effect at'P
VELT has in mind the conversion’ okithe
dedicationof the new State capitol into a
political meeting. The dedication ceremo-
nies bave been fixed for October 6th, and
the President has engaged to speak on the
occasion. Bat it will be a purely civie
event'and a political épeech ould be no
more permissible there than ‘at la charity
bazaar or Sanday school convention. He
the York fair enroute to Harrisburg, but a
political speech there would be equally in-
appropriate.
President ROOSEVELT has done some cu-
rions things since his entrance into ocon-
spicnous. lite. Three’ years ago he took the
stump like a an ordinary ro-stormer to in-
fluence the vote 1n several western States
and made speeches that were so startling
that be bad to be forced to go home. On
one occasion, at least, during his sojourn
at Oyster Bay, since his elevation to the
Presidency, he talked politics at a picnic of
school children, to the amazement of the
managers and the public. But it can bard-
ly be imagined that he would so violate
not only the proprieties but}'every rule of
common decency by speaking in heball of
the ‘‘criminal combination masquerading
as Republicans’ in this State, on thejocoa-
sion of the dedication of the State capitol.
Probably this absurd aspersion on the
character of the President was. by
the managers of the machine as ‘‘a good
enough MoRrGAN until after the election.”
That is to say, it is known that last week
the machine managers were employing
every available expedient to influence the
LINCOLN, ‘Republicans to unite}with them
on a sort ot - semi-respectable} and§jpartly
Sorrdptticket, and it was believed that
such a lie would belp the frand along.
Thus influenced by hope the absurd story
8}
Jupiter Plavius fooled us by pouring down
a good shower on Wednesday evening.
‘QUAY machine of its obvions duty. A ve: |’
may consent to tarry for a brief period at |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 18, 1906.
No Ovonsion for Alarm.
Bhose ctcimed contemporaries, mostly
Relpfotioan, which are more or less afraid
Chairman DoXNELLY, of the Demo-
— State committee, will neglect some
opportunity to upper-cut, or under-jab, or
side-swipe the remnant of the QUAY ma-
chine this year, may compose their per-
turbed spirits. Chairman DONNELLY bas
all the ability, sagacity and vigilance with
which they invest him in their insincere
eulogies. He has had the experience and
has the energy and pertinacity of which | situation.
they speak so freely. They will discover,
moreover, as those that know him believe,
that he has the will and purpose to make
the best of his opportunities for the Dem-
ocracy and that his management of the
campaign will be fully as snocessfal as was
that of Chairman HALL, whose excellent
management won for the people of the
State the glorious victory of last fall, and
who left the party in a better organized | 1%
condition, more hopeful and barmonious
than it has been for many, many years.
But the chairman of the state committee
can’t do it all bimself. The Demceratic
and so-called Independent papers which
are so generous in proffering advice to
Chairman DONNELLY, have an important
part to perform in the work of the political
regeneration of Pennsylvania which is now
being inaugurated under his leadership.
Fooling the public into the support of po-
litical ‘‘decoy-ducks’ for the purpose of
electing Republicans to Congress, and in-
cidentally restoring the machine to power,
is no pars of the program, however. The
effective plan is to ‘‘hew to the line, let
the chips fall where they may.”” In other
words assail the machine from top to bot-
tom, regardlese of the result to candidates.
Chairman DONNELLY will do his part
and we believe will do 1t well. He is not
where he is to further selfish interests,
punish enemies or reward friends. Bat he
has important interests to take care of, sa-
cred obligations to faldll and splendid pur-
poses to achieve. With the honest and
earnest help of the press and the people, he
will succeed and when the Ides of Novem-
ber mark the close of the campaign will be
enabled to proclaim a substantial and endaur-
ig victory for the people, IF OTHERS ARE
: : AND VIGILANT AS HE. We
ve no objections to the advice or to the
rentoms tml. Is Jo ofl if shee
are also wokks to faith.
Acco modating General Carson.
Attorney General CARSON has decided
that the constitation of Pennsylvania is
‘unconstitutional on the apportionment
questicn. That is to say, in his reply to
the application for a mandamus to compel
the Secretary of the Commonwealth to file
the certificate of nomination of John KE-
HOE, of Mahonoy City, as a candidate for
State Sevator. in the thirtieth senatorial
district, Mr. Ci X declares that the new
apportionment is’ constitutional notwith-
standing the fact that it violates the ex.
press provision of the constitution relating
to apportionment of the State into sena-
‘torial districts.
The new apportionment bill divides Lan-
caster county, making a district of one part
and attaching the other part to the county
of Lebanon to form another district. Now,
as a matter of fact, the constitution forbids
such a division of a county. ‘No county
shall be divided unless entitled to two or
more tors,” is the exact language of
the oe — law, and Lancaster coun-
ty is not entitled to ‘‘two or more Sena-
tors.”” In fact it has less population than
Berks county, which has only one Senator,
and falls 34,590 short of the population of
Lackawanna county, which gets only one
Senator.
But Attorney General CARsoX is equal
to any emergency and can be depended up-
on to decide anything that the Governor
or the Quay machine requires. A couple
of years ago he decided that the law in.
creasing the compensationlol Judges in
commission was constitutional and though
the decision was subsequently] affirmed by
a recreant and fortunately retiring Justice
‘of the Supreme court, no self-respecting
Judge has drawn the added salary. But
CARSON ¢ 't mind. His master wanted
the d ‘and got it just as he would
have au official declaration that the
moon is made of green cheese, if he had
asked for it.
——Qounoil, the Street committee or
whoever has the matter in charge will have
to move a little faster than they have the
past two weeks if they expect to have the
High street bridge replanked in time for
the big crowds on the day of the dedication
of the soldier's monument. It is now over
three weeks since it was decided to fix up
the bridge and all the progress that has
been made eo far is a big pile of plank in
‘the middle of the street. Now il only the
Coleville band had begun their summer
evening concerts they might utilize the
plank pile for a bandstand.
——College and High school commence-
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN,
ments will soon be the order of the day.
States iceman, th
will puandiniby a polioen quiet. SVN
‘work of
NO 20.
A Bad Man to Feol With,
From the Pittsburg Dispatch ( Rep.)
When Senator Aldrich unloaded the Hep-
Pues of dianedit Ta ie
ng the Pres.
ident by placing is in e of a radical
Democrat the joke was keenly relished in
corporate circles. Subsequent develop-
ments have proved that the Senator from
South Carolina is a bad man to fool with.
He is more than able to hold bis own in
any contest of wits and his shrewdness in
baving former Senator Chandler reduce to
writing the negotiations between the White
House and himself produces an awkward
Since the President recailed Tillman's
invitation to the dinner to Prince Henry
the Senator bas steadfastly kept hia vow
pot to cross the threshold of the White
House during the present administration.
This compelled the President, il he wished
to consult with the Senator in charge of
the Administration measure, to use an in-
termediary, Mr. Chandler. Bus Mr. Till-
Joan | finds it a good rule in politics, asin
Yuta, lo to take nothing for granted. He
es or Chana veo the the
men ng Mr er’s report ©
President’s advice sent to Tillman. Mr.
Chandler permits * this publication, thus
corroborating the statements and as they
agree with the news of the ons
published at the time the exhibit is im-
pressive,
Where Mr. Aldrich is likely to find his
joke turned upon himself is in the
ure of Senatorial manipulation uncovered
in the muddle.
Flourishing the Big Stick.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Once more the Big Stick is in evidence.
The Secretaries of War and State have both
taken it npon themselves to announce to
Panama that they will tolerate no revola-
tions nor election disturbances which
“might hinder the work on the canal.’ It
might ‘“‘be took jocose, as we say in Lare-
do,”” were Panama to reply that she
thought she would bave time to engineer
several revolutions and elections before the
United States started building the canal.
Bus of course the work of canal digging is
‘‘oonstructively’’ proceeding, even though
the actual construction is not being done.
This is something after the fashion in
which Congress can vote itself real mileage
on the strength of a constructive recess.
Anyhow, Gov. Magoon bas been notified
that the United [Staten 8 8 ready so step in
at any stage e pr ngs al
Panama into line if she does not oi
and hold her coming election y
The situation is interesting. It will at
least show whether a peaceable election
can be held in South America. Zien, Sout peo:
(it cannot. “ne
ence against it x nh the lack of
a precedent. Possibly with the United
The Why of It
From the Williamsport Sun.
The organs of the corrupt and criminal
combination predict that State Treasurer
Berry will find nothing out of the way in
the treasury and that when he lifts the lid
be will discover everything in ghipshape
order. Of course the wish is father to the
thought with these machine organs. If, as
they declare, Treasurer Berry will find the
condition of the treasury satisfactory Mr.
Barty aud the people who elected him will
be well pl , tor no honest man wishes
to have a return to the conditions which
existed in the treasury under the regime of
the corrupt and criminal combination.
And again, if State Treasurer Berry shall
be unable to make any unpleasant discov-
eries it will not be because things connect-
ed with the State treasury have been con-
ducted in an honest and legal manner in
the past quarter of a century, but because
since the election of Mr. Berry the gralters
have worked night and day to remove
all traces of their orooked work. This
sting the treasury in shape for
the new incumbent began shortly alter the
election and should have been thorough
enough to destroy all evidences of machine
management.
No Enlargement of That Army.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The Coal Trust frankly proclaims its ad-
miration of the Pennypacker Cossac In
a formal address to the ¢ public it pays high
tribute to this roving band. of armed men
paid for by the State to i the pri-
vate interests of railway and afte monopo-
Tithe a Yoyo fon th he
ple at upon t el array
of ex-benevolent assimilators with the same
unreserved approval that the trust itself so
freely avows.
Bat it will take something more than a
Coal Trust endorsement to convince the
general public that the Pennypacker Cos-
sack’s are the State’s chief glory. There is
not the same enthusiasm among the plain
Fala over the Russianization of Pennsyl.
that we find th bg
we am She moBOpe
combines which
i business. And the Republican allies
and servants of the ons will
their hands full in the next Legisiatore
carry ous their ambitious plan to have the
Soak forces made even more formidable
u now.
A Little Late In Lock the Door,
From the Springfield Republican.
Mr. Roosevelt's 8 on that no m
oil or coal lande on the public Sowa,
there are any left, should pe
came late in the history of hg a
States. We are all alienated, so to #
“Is ie time to close the barn door, Jona
‘Yes, father, but the horse is stolen.” Up
in Canada, the country is still yo
enough to save a few of the valuable
ural di ts from private monopolistic
ownership. It was pointed out in these
columns several weeks dao that the On
rio government had decided to keep
manently the rich mineral lands near
balt under government ownership and
trol. The Canadians are singly profit
by other folks’ experience
p pilot where sa ern
nat: | so, however, the baby
Spawls from the Keystone.
~Clearfield has twelve cases of scarlet
fever. :
—At Easton Mrs. Theodore Miller, aged
55 yedrs, while burning waste paper in ber
back yard, was burned to death.
—Some eastern Pennsylvania corn fields
have been so kadly damaged by beavy rains
that they will have to be replanted.
~Mrs. John Rinker, of Lower Saucon, 98
years old, spent a day in tbe garden, plant-
ing onions and sowing lettuce seed.
~The will of George Kessler, of Philadel-
phia, leaves about $11,000 to various Meth o-
dist Episcopal boards or institutions.
—Mr. and Mrs. George M.Hill, of Muncy,
have just discarded the cook stove they
started housekeeping with fifty years ago.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has purchased a part of the land in the
vicinity of Mt. Union belonging to Dr. VW.
T. Scheaffer for $48,000.
—President Mitchell, of the United Mine
Workers, was last week offered the presi-
dency of a grange bank, at Benton, Pa., at
a salary of $10,000 a year. He declined the
offer with thanks.
—()., G. Fleck’s farm in Sinking valley
was invaded Monday night by dogs belong-
ing to the foreign colony. at Elk Run, and
his entire flock of twenty-five sheep was
killed by the canines.
—Bond of $5,000 was accepted at Somerset
on Monday for each of the seven men
charged with murder in connection with the
riot at Windber on April 16th, when three
men and a boy were killed.
—Mrs. Minnie Rowe, accused of poisoning
her husband, William Rowe, who died under
suspicious circumstances last October, was
liberated at Lewistown, Mifflin county, Tues.
day evening by the grand jury who ignored
the bill on accountn of iusflicient evidence.
—A gas vein was struck at Waterford,
Juniata county, last week, the gas being
strong enough to blow the materials from
the well and its escape can be heard for
some distance away. The well is now over
2,000 feet deep and will be carried still
deeper.
— Rev. Charles James Wood, aged 52, rec-
tor of St John’s Protestant Episcopal church
at York, and regarded as one of the most
prominent ministers in the Episcopal priest.
hood, died suddenly last week. He is
survived only by his aged mother, Mrs.
Charles L. (Davis) Wood.
—Abram Whistler, a farmer living near
Newburg, Cumberland county, was hauling
a hive of bees to his home Monday when a
sudden jolt of the wagon knocked the top off
the hive. The hundreds of bees thus re-
leased attacked Whistler and stung him so
severely that be died shortly afterward.
~—A big lumber yard at Tuscarora, a few
miles esst of Mifliin, cavght fire Sunday
morning and before being extinguished the
flames did considerable damage. It is located
near the Pennsylvania railroad and caused
a delay in the running of the passenger
trains both east and west. Ties along the
railroad caught fire.
~Thomss Berry, aged 20 years, was fatally
stabbed by his chum, Clark Davberman,
aged 17 years. Thursday near Mill Hall,
Clinton county. Berry's own penknife was
the weapon used. He lived an bourand:
a half aftex the shooting and before his death
made the statement that his death wound «
was due to an accident, as they were only
in fun.
—After being buried in a garden for nearly
20 years, a gold wedding ring was turned
up by a plow in West Pikeland township, a
few days ago, and bas been returned to its
owner, Mrs. C. V. Llewellyn of Phoenix.
ville, Pa. The ring was of the plain band
variety, and on its inner circumference had
engraved the name of Mrs. Llewellyn, who
had moved away from the West Pikeland
farm nearly 15 years ago.
—The Laurel Oil and Gas company of
Indiana, Pa., has just brought in its first oil
well and made a strike on its large ‘holdings
near Sepulpa, Indian Territory. This first’
well produces 400 barrels a day. The com
pany has 1960 acres leased in a most promis:
ing oil field. The members of the Laurel
Oil and Gas company are Judge John P.
Elkin, Harry and Joseph Clark, Harry and
Richard Wilson, of Indiana; John C. Ewing;
of Tyrone; Hon. James Kerr, of Clearfield;
Warren Thomas, of Johnstown. fin
—The part of the Clearfield Novelty
Works destroyed by fire last week will be
rebuilt as soon as possible. The building’
will be one story high with a floor space
| containing as many square feet as did the
one destroyed by fire which was three stories
high. It will be fire proof throughout, solid
brick walls, cement floors and steel roof, and,
will be fitted throughout with mode
machinery. The new building and equip-
ments will cost £50,000. The insurance on
the old building and machinery amounted .
to £12,500.
—Miss Bertha Fagiey, who sued W. H.
Goodfellow for breaking bis promise ‘to!
marry her, was on Saturday awarded thi
sum of $4,100 by the arhitrators at Alt on
The sum which her counsel, H. :
Graffius, claimed that she was entitled
under the agreement of Go Yi
her $25 a month for the bala
was $11,100. H wa i" Hop
ancy of life was 37 years and u h
a month agreement that is the sum | be
would have reached had she consented to
accept the offer. The plaintiff will take an
appeal from the degision of of the arbitrators.
—As a Beech Creel eda cur 5!
near Lock Haven on , Engineer E.*
| 3. Morrison ng Fireman Hoover almost
simultaneously discovered a little Sn
parently about th years old standin
| directly on the or The engineer very
promptly reversed his. a ne and Fi n
Hoover lost no ling fheoWsE
the cab wi to the engine :
in preparation
for picking the babe up. Bel he could do.
stehpon, opiside bp.
rail and the fireman called to her to lie
down, realizing t that this was her, only salva:
" | tion. She promptly ng flat on’
| her face. The engine pi — aay
by only a couple ‘of inches and the. entite
train passed over her,the 1ittié%irl emerging
; afterward un harmed. :
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