—_—
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
og lugs.
—-Possibly the reason that women 80 sel-
dom make pames for themselves is ac-
counted for by the fact of their general aux”
iety to accept that of somebody else.
—The troublesome question with the of-
fioials of the Pennsylvania 1ail-road com-
pany is to ascertain exactly who is run-
ping the business of that company just
now.
—King ALPHONSO shouldn’s ges dis-
couraged because it
have his marriage ceremony
it becomes desirable be can bave that jtwo
months’ job undone in Chicago in jabout
two days.
—Aad now the Department of Agrical-
tare has a scandal. It is asserted that the
$1,500,000 appropriated for a building has
been wasted and that Secretary WILSON
doesn’ seem to be able to make a satisfac-
tory explanation.
—The Republican organization in this
State is up in the air so completely over a
gubernatorial nominee that it might realize
on its troubles by selling them to those
New York scientists who are trying so bard
to keep balloons up in the air.
—That Jerseyman who, three weeks
ago, was bitten by a copperhead avd then
drank a quart of Jersey lightning as an anti-
dote is not yet able to decide which it was,
the suake poison or the other stuff, that
came the nearest fetching him.
—1It is wonderful what an ungquenchable
fire burns in some people's veins. Even
an open spigot from the LiNcoLN Republi-
can ice cooler turned down mayor WEAV-
£R'S back don’t seem to have cooled off hie
gubernatorial aspirations a little bit.
—Mr. Hexzy CUTE QUIGLEY is not
nearly so certain of a senatorial pomina-
tion now as be was before Mr. Joe ALEX-
ANDER, of Clearfield, got the same kind of
a bee in his bonnet. And because he is
not he bas the consolation of knowing that
he is not nearly so certain of a senatorial
licking in the end.
—We may not be able to see clearly to
the depths of the thing, but the scratches
left by the ‘Muck’ takers of the maga-
zine don’t appear to have left nearly as
deep a mark, on the political hides of the
fellows they were after, as getting down to
Mr. RoosevELT'S veracity did on the Pres-
idential epidermis.
—When Senator BURTON goes to jail, as
he is now booked to do, people don't need
to imagine that the Senate bas been puri-
fied and all its sins atoned for. There
would be few lets on the Republican side
of that body today if the justice that bas
overtaken the Kansas statesman should
oatel dll others egually guilty.
—Of course a “willful and deliberate
liar” sounds pretty bad when coming from
such a distinguished man as the Hon.
WAYNE McVEIGH, but be will have to be
more explicit if the public is to know just
which individual is meant in this case be-
cause there are so many of the “‘willol and
deliberate” sort abroad in the land now.
—It tariff is to be the issue in the com-
ing congressional contest in this district,
then we are certain our fellow townsman,
Judge LOVE, is the ideal candidate for the
Republican machine to have. He can talk
longer and say less on that subject than
any man our neighboring county of Clear-
field, which is claiming the honor, can pro=
duce.
—The necessity for a pledge by the LixN-
cOLN Republicans, to keep Mr. EMERY in
the field as a gubernatorial candidate until
the election, looks as if somebody had a
very loud suspicion that the public would
suspect they were only monkeying with
the Machine for a part of the spoils. And
that somebody wasn't very far wrong
either.
—It our Democratic friends will only
tipossess their souls in patience’ for about
four weeks they will discover that there is
no trouble in finding a candidate for Gov-
ernor whom they all want. The man who
will be nominated on the 27th of June will
be the man w=3 can be elected on the 6th
o! Nov ethber, and we know that the man
who can ‘‘be eleoted’’ is just the fellow
that every Democtat is aching to whoop-
Yer up for.
—All right, Mr. straight Republican.
You can turn up your nose at us hopeful
Demoorate just as high and as much as you
please because the cold water crowd is try-
ing to point us the way to victory; but, all
the same, you are green with envy because
nobody cares enough for your poor, old, rot-
ten machine to point it in any other direc-
tion than the one it is going. And the fel-
low is blinder than an eyeless bat who
can’t see ite finish on the road it is now on.
—The death of J. IRVIN STEEL, of the
Ashland Advocate, which occurred at his
home in Schuylkill county, on Taesday
last, takes from the list of country journal
ists in Pennsylvania one of its oldest, best
known aud most respected members. He
was a man of Ligh ideals of purpose, of un-
selfish motive and of unblemished repute.
He began his newspaper work during the
bitter days of the war, when ©) publish a
Démocratic newspaper was more dangerous
284, both for life and property, than to
carry a gon and knapsack at the front.
Bat Mr. STEEL believed he was in the
right and kept at it, and lived to see the
day when all men recognized his devotion
to the cause he considered just and ad-
nyired him because of his courage and con-
sistency in sticking to it. He will be
missed and mourned by the press of the
entire State,
spawls from the Keystone.
—H. J. Mentzer, of Franklin county, aims
to raise 10,000 ducks on his farm this year.
—The high school of Trappe, Montgom-
ery county, bad a lone girl graduate this
year.
—Berks county fruit growers say there
will be plenty of apples, pears, peaches and
cherries this season.
—1It cost a peddler $13.34 for tying the legs
of a calf and hauling the same in a wagon
Dalzell’s Biennial Absurdity.
Congressman JOHN DALZELL, of Pitts,
burg, delivered his biennial tariff speech
the other day and it was a “‘daisy.” Mr.
DALZELL goes through that performance
toward the end of the first session of
every Congress, and it is a solemn event
both to himeell and his associates on the
floor. There is little variation in the lan-
guage from time to time and none at all in
the substance. Even the gestures are the
same and when the little well-groomed,
corporation pampered Pittsburger strikes a
certain attitude everybody within the
walls of the chamber knows that there will
be something doing for a couple of hours.
He always arranges for generous applause
at regular intervals aud like professional
mourners at a funeral the applauders are
different each time. In fact that is the
most important point of difference in the
biennial speech.
This year, however, there was another
difference, immaterial, unquestionable,
but perceptible. In one proposition he
was more than usually absurd and in an-
other he drifted into an ironical tide. In
other words, he justified the greater
charge for tariff protected products in the
home market than to foreign consumers on
the ground that it guaranteed industrial
activity and gave ‘‘ns a foothold in and
ultimately, to some extent, a command of
foreign markets.” Passing from that to
the question of incidental protection, he
declared such a thing “‘bumbug and pre-
tense, an insult to all reason aod logic. If
protection be robbery,” he continued,
then the difference between real protec-
tion and protection incidental or accidental
is a difference only in degree. It is only
the difference between highway robbery
and petit larceny.”
Traly Mr. DALZELL is “‘a DANIEL come
to judgment.” Selling the products of
our furnaces, which employ few men, to
foreign purchasers at considerably less
than our own consumers are charged, en-
ables the foreign mauunfactarers a vast ad-
vantage over our own, who employ many
men, as was shown in the bids for |suction
dredges for the Panama canal recently.
Tariff for revenue, moreover, is authorized
by the constitution and ie not robbery,
highway or petit, while tariff for protec-
tion is not only not authorized by either con-
stitution or law, but is actually forbidden
by the constitution and is subversive of
every principle of justice and equity.
Nobody complains of taxes which are
necessary for the maintenance of the gov-
ernment. They are as necessary to good
order and social tranquility as air is to
lite. But taxation which takes the earn-
ings of one class to pay unearned bounties
to another is robbery of the most atrocious
type, and if Mr. DALZELL is unable to
discern the difference he is a greater don-
key than most people imagined.
grave.
An Admirable Arrangement.
The response of Congress to Secretary
TAFT'S recent communication in reference
to supplies for the Panama canal is char-
acteristic, not to say “‘Cannonical.” It
will be remembered that in competitive
bidding for a contract for two seagoing,
suction dredges, a short time ago, the dif-
ference in amounts was so great as to over-
whelm our ponderous War Minister with
surprise. In other words, a Scotch firm
doing business on the Clyde offered to far-
nish the dredges for $188,000 less than the
lowest American bidder, a firm operating
on the James river. Thereupon the Secer-
tary informed Congress of the disparity and
added that ‘‘unless Congress intervenes he
will hereafter purchase supplies for the
canal abroad.”
Congress bas intervened, however. That
is to say, Congress has notified the Seore-
tary of War to ‘‘purchase all supplies from
American producers save when in the
estimation of the President the prices are
exorbitant.”” This is a most happy solu-
tion of a vexed problem. It not only
guarantees the business of supplying the
canal Commissioners to the favored trusts
but it folfills the President's inordinate
yearning for extraordinary power. When-
ever the Commission wants a paper of
sacks or a dozen crash towels the President
will be notified, of course, and after a care-
fal scrutiny of the bargain counter adver-
tisements he will ostentatiously order them
from JouN WANAMAKER'S store or some
other equally well conducted emporinm.
Nothing could be more satisfactory.
Of course there are some cursory ob-
servers or carping critics who may say that
the President hasn't time to attend to such
trifliog affairs. But they don’t know the
President. Why, he will bave ample time
to give his personal attention to every de-
tail with respect to the matter and if the
necessity should arise he will manage to
superintend the purchase of all the thinge
which the employees may need. Nothing
of that sort is any trouble to the President
and he has plenty of time as well as abun-
dant inclination. But the arrangement
may be expensive to the Juopie for uno for-
eign dealer in tacks or towels contributed
to the cam fund and ROOSEVELT is
happy lot.
loyal to his friends.
~ BELLEFONTE, PA.,
A Similar Victory.
The result of the competition between
the government and an individual firm in
the building of battleships is not surpris-
ing in the least. The individual firm won
both in the matter of time aod expense. It
may be said that either side wanted to
win and that both would have been as well
pleased if things bad gone differently. In
other words, the naval people get so many
favors from the shipbuilders that they are
pot inclined to poach on the shipbuilding
preserve, while the shipbuilders who are
anxious for subsidies are cutting fo close as
to impair their chances. It was best for
both interests that the individual enter
prise should come out ahead, however, and
it achieved victory.
The contest was in consequence of a dil-
ference of opinion among Senators and
Representatives in Congress. One element
insisted on a government shipyard to build
government ships and the otber took the
opposite view. The result was the authori-
zation of two 16,000 ton battleships one of
which was to built in the Brooklyn Navy
yard and the other by a shipbuilding firm.
The appropriation was the same for each
and they were to begin simultaneously.
The plans were carried out to the letter
and the Newport News Shipbuilding com-
pany, which received the contract for one,
has completed its work at a cost of nearly
a quarter of a million dollars less that the
appropriation, while the navy yard ship
is still uncompleted though the appropria-
tion is exhausted and Congress has been
asked for $380,000 more to finish.
We are firmly of the opinion that the
government ought not to engage in any
business or industry in which individual
or corporate capital is willing and able to
supply all wants at just prices. Bat the
Steel trust had been holding the govern-
ment up in the price of steelplate so out-
rageously that an experiment in govern-
ment shipbuilding had become a necessity
for self-preservation. That the result was
so overwhelmingly on theside of corporate
enterprise is a misfortune though nota
sarprise. The Steel trust and the ship-
Within the very shadow of the Repaubli-
can State convention the leaders of that
party arc still in a state of confusion with
respect to the candidate for Governor. ot
the choice of the PENROSE contingent
there is no doubt.
ly cherishing the hope of owning a Gov-
ernor had selected his own secretary, WES-
LEY R. ANDREWS, to fulfill bis expecta-
Bat the eruption of a year ago
took that gentleman as completely out of
the [reckoning as if he had gone to bis
The recent railroad investigation
has as effectually eliminated Congressman
HUFF from the equation, moreover, and
the QUAY bargain bas made Colonel Wa-
TRES impossible.
Under the strain of necessity, therefore,
the machine managers have been conjuring
among the more respectable element of the
party in the bope of finding a candidate
whose name would not offend the nostrils
of decent men.
ernor CHARLES W. STONE, Federal Judge
BUFFINGTON,
EMORY Jr., and others bave been consider-
ed, but to no purpose. The insistence of
WATRES and the obtrusion of banker
TaoxpsoN, of Fayette county, into the
and they refuse to make terms. Under
the circumstances the leader's life is not a
It doesn’t make much difference, how-
ever, who is nominated by the machine
next Wednesday for the organization is
marked for slaughter. The people have
learned to pat no trust in men who are
under the influence of evil associates. No
candidate ever promised greater fidelity to
the interests of the public men than the
present Governor and no official bas ever so
sompletely disappointed public expeota-
tione. Governor STONE was bad enough
and in his bold defiance of every moral and
legal obligation he worked infinite harm
upon the official lie of the State. But he
was a model of civic virtue as compared
with PENNYPACKER, who has openly em-
.— Every Demoorat in Centre county
should attend tomorrow’s primaries. They
may not seem of such great importance
here because of the small county ticket,
but they are just as important as any ever
held. With a Governor to elect, a Con-
gressman, a State Senator and a Member of
the Legislature there is ample room for ex-
ercising the wisest discretion in the selec-
tion of the proper men. This can be done
nowhere so efficiently as at the primaries.
Therefore, turn out tomorrow and do your
duty as citizens and as Democrats.
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
JUNE 1 5 1906. dz
Chairman SHONTZ, of the Panama canal
commission, and chief engineer STEVENS
threatens to resign in the event thas Con-
gress determines upon a sea-level water
way. The consensus of opinion among
competent engineers is overwhelmingly in
favor of that type of ditch and the Senate
committee bas recommended it. Bat Mr.
SHONTZ and Mr. STEVENS have got gay, $0
to speak, and declare that the engineers
and the Senate committee must be wrong
because they bave adopted a different idea.
8HONTZ is going to Washington in the near
future to notify Congress of his purpose.
He proposes to allow no trifling in the
matter. He is going to bave his way or
there will be no canal.
We sincerely hope that Congress will
not be intimidated by this western boc-
caneer. Of coarse be is entitled to a hear-
ing and if he advances any valid reasons
for the policy he advocates, they deserve |
respectful consideration. Bat there are as
big fish in the sea as have ever been caught
and even if president SHONTZ should resign
probably the government at Washington
will still live and we are not sure that the
event would materially delay the progress
of work on the enterprise. There are oth-
er capable men in the country and at the
salary fixed for the presideot of the Com-
mission it is more than likely that oue of
them could be induced tv undertake to fill
the place.
It is a grave mistake for a man to imag-
ine that he is the whole thing. He may
be a considerable part of it, but usually it
is for the reason that he got the chance and
we are very much tempted to guarantee
Con gress that if SHONTZ resigne somchody
else quite as competent and much less con-
ceited will be ready to take his place. For
that reason we are not losing much sleep
over the report that SHoN1Z will resign in
the event that he isn’t allowed to have his
own way. Congress is responsible to the
people for the canal and if it fails Congress
rather than SHONTZ will ges the blame.
For this reason Congress should follow the
lines which guarantee success, SHONTZ or
terference in a ‘'boxing hout'’ that was
tion.
der why one part of the coussitution
or's estimation.
knows to be clearly unconstitutional.
pasty record his party bad made, he did
less entitled to two or more Senators.”
Black Moshannon.”” Coal has
drilling operations will soon be begun.
m——
The
bill exempting denaturized alcohol from
internal revenue tax to become a law.
That is to say, after examining the subject
the Standard Oil agent and Rhode Island
statesman came to the conclusion that un-
taxed aloobol of that sort wouldn't impair
the monopoly of the Standard conspiracy
in illuminating and fuel oil * and
consequently he had no objection to
the legislation. Accordingly the Senate
passed the bill the other day, with a reser-
vation. In other words, it doesn’t go into
effect for a year and ifjmore careful avaly-
sis indicates that ALDRICH ie mistaken it
can be repealed.
On the commercial principle that small
favors are thankfully received, however,
the public bas a right to rejoice over the
passage of this bill even though its opera-
tion is delayed for a year. In that time
the Standard conspiracy will have vast
opportunities to loot the public {by exor-
bitant prices on kerosene and gasolene.§But
there is in the law the basis of a hope that
there is a time limit to such chances, for
within the year there may be such changes
in the political control of Congress as to
make a repeal impossible. Conditions are
exceedingly kaleidoscopic now andjjmove-
dreams of avarice.”
influences our manufacturers,
The Senator after fond- compelled to pay, and eo
them. So we are encouraging,
come annuall
ing with fear of the
own work.
old story of tryin
two gallant 8
directions.
And the worst phase of the situation
the fact that a thorough, honest reform
the tariff,
and better conditions of
workingmen than those which
where—such a reform of oar
bring on a financial
fictitious valuation,
hundreds of millions
Former Lieutenant Gov-
ing conditions.
Where the Credit Belongs.
ex-State Senator LEWIS
From the Reading Telegram.
ing every attack
There ought to bave been no difference or state reform. Though
of opinion on the subject of that bill. It
has been pending for several years and
though every Senator and Representative
in Congress understood its merits it failed
because of the opposition of the Standard
coaspiracy. The reasons were not thus
frankly stated. The Secretary of the
Treasury, always an emissary of the con-
spiracy, said it might impair the revenues
and intimated that it would give oppor
tunities for frauds, but these were trans-
parent subterfages which deceivediinobody
except those who asserted them. The
measure has been passed, however, and we
hope the best expectations of its friends
will be fulfilled in its operation.
ently
peatedly,
spaired.
cellar for honest government,
structure
blican machine was overthrown
Philadelphia, while praise was
given to temporary ind
rovised reform
bie of credit was accorded to the
of reform,
pick admin
impossible.
From the Perry county Democrat.
Senator J. K. P. Hall, ex-chairman
the Democratic
——A few business men around town | in Europe for his health
ator for the extra session.
in town should be fully decorated and the
the work should not be left go until the
last conple days when the hurry and rush
is likely to be so great that the work can
notbe done satisfactorily. Now is the
time to begin and keep the work going. A
pumber of the most prominent business
housés have placed their order for suitable
decorations with the professional decora-
tors and others should do the same.
saying the ‘mone, is not mine,”
had not earned it on account
away. That is Democratic honesty
you. Whoever heard of a
ficial refusing to accept salary or fees ?
—
Stand Pat Statesmanship.
From the Buflalo Inquirer.
First we
into In
marine and then the Republicans
to tax us again to even up
merchant marine, voting for the
sidy bill.
——June twenty-first and the longest
day of the year is one day less than three
weeks away.
Governor PENNYPACKER excuses his in-
have been pulled off somewhere up in the
northeast corner of the State on Wednes-
day evening last hy quoting the constitu.
This will cause many people to won-
more sacred than another in the Govern-
When it was a question of greater sala.
ries for the judges, ove of which the Gover-
nor once was, and hopes to be again, he
had no hesitancy in signing a bill provid-
ing for that increase—a bill which every
man in the State, be he lawyer or layman,
Again, when he wanted an excuse for
calling his half-million dollar extra legisla
tive session, to fix up the corrupt and
under the plea of making a senatorial ap-
portionment, as required by the constitu-
tion, and then forced through a bill, to
satisfy the State Machine, which divides
one county and attaches a part of it to an-
other, when that instrument expressly de-
clares that ‘‘no county shall be divided un-
Just why Mr. PENNYPACKER should
ignore the constitution when the judges
and the politicians are interested and then
seek to enforce it when the prize-fighter
and buffer comes to the front is the ques-
tion he might find trouble in elucidating.
Some people seem to think the one
crowd is not much worse than the other.
——The Philipsburg Journal states that
‘a party from Punxsutawney assisted by
Silas Reece will in a few days begin opera-
tions with a diamond drill to make a
thorough test for coal on lands of Jobn P.
Harris and other Bellefonte parties at the
already
been found on the above lands, but to just
what extent it abounds there is not
known and it is to ascertain this fact that
Tariff Organ Explains Tariff
In addition to these
protected by
tariff bars, are taking bread out of the
mouths of European workingmen at home
by selling their products abroad at prices
far below those which our own people are
low that even
European cheap labor cannot compete with
almost
compelling, by the ‘‘standpat’’ policy, a
million of the working people of Europe to
jnside of our tariff wall,
and some of the “‘standpatters’’ are shak-
consequences of their
It is simply a repetition of the
to ride at the same time
¢ running in opposite
of
a revision on a fair protection
making fall allowance for the higher
American
obtain else-
tariff might
crash by taking the
the water, out of eome
of corporation stocks
on which dividends are paid under exist
For years th> Democratic party, resist.
of corporate interests up-
’
Ivania which has stood u consist-
Dean Te-
it never faltered and never de-
It cleared the soil and dug the
should not be afraid now to rear the super-
Nor do we forget that when recently the
n
epend and id
ents me
organization, hardly a syl-
moc-
racy for its instant and unconditional sup-
without which the triomph
istration would have been
A Representaitve of Demoeratic Homn-
esty.
State committee, who was
last winter at the
He ptly
returned the check to the State ny
ek
tor
Republican of.
tax ourselves through the tariff
the cost of everything
which is destructive of a free merchan
t
things for the
ship sab.
through Brisbin on Tuesday.
—During the past two weeks the Orbisonia
Pin Mill company put up and shipped 120,-
000 insulator pins to market.
—Lan-aster tobacco growers began plant-
ing Monday, the rain of the previous day
having put the ground in proper condition.
—Mrs. Amanda Heck, of Reading, aged 70,
committed suicide on Sunday by banging.
She was a country woman and did not like
city life.
—In his 7-acre orchard Zach Kauffman, of
York, has 1,700 cherry trees from which he
hopes to harvest 2,000 bushels of sour cher-
ries this year.
~The court of Schuylkill county has re-
voked the licenses of forty-five saloon keep-
ers of that county, chiefly because they sold
liquor on Sunday.
—The university address at the commence-
ment exercises of Bucknell university, Lew-
isburg, will be delivered by Dr. Talcott Wil-
liams, of Philadelphia.
—The announcement is made that eight
Wilkinsburg school ma’ams are about to en-
ter the matrimonial state and one of the
number becomes the bride of the principal of
the high school there.
—The borough of Bloomfield, Perry coun-
ty, has the proud distinction of being entire-
ly out of debt and with about $600 in its
treasury, without counting this year's tax,
which has not been assessed yet.
—Peter Bush, of Brush mountain, is said
to be the tallest man in this part of the
state. Mr. Bush stands 6 feet 7 inches in
his stockings and has to stoop when he pass-
es through an ordinary doorway.
—A telegram from Mahanoy City declares
that Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Swartman, who
live near that borough, are the parents of
twenty-seven children, of whom twenty-five
are living. Twenty of the number are sons
—Vicious dogs are playing havoc among '
the sheep of Lawrence county in the vicinity
of New Castle. Within the last few days
thirty-five sheep have been killed and thirty
injured by dogs, entailing an expense on the
county of about $250.
—At Carlisle, on Wednesday, George O.
Sarvis, of Harrisburg, & Reading railway
trainmaster, was sentenced to pay a fine of
$1,500 and the costs of prosecution for con-
fessed negligence which resulted in the
death of five persons.
—Dr. Martin G. Brumbaugh, of the Uni*
versity of Pennsylvania, who is one of the
greatest teachers in the country, is to be the
new superintendent of public schools in
to
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building trust were concerned in the matter | nO SHONTZ. Inconsistencies. Philadelphia, succeeding Dr. Edward
and the subsidy scheme was in the balance. From the Washington Post. Brooks, who is about to retire after long and
With such influences involved it is small Dennturized Alcohol In View. To put it palaly, the Republican party successful service.
wonder that the government lost . — bas practically barred out most of tbe pro- | —At about 8 o'clock Saturday morning
bol ashe ude In imitation of the fox in the fable, Sen- dusts of fureidn. Jobst, and at the same | Amos Nearhoof, a farmer near Dix Station,
Contusion Still Prevails. ator ALDRICH has consented to allow the | with wages a to p-.. “hey Wp . lost two valuable horses in a peculiar man-
ner. One of his boys was engaged in plow-
ing in a field along the Bald Eagle creek
when the embankment gave way, throwing
the horses into the stream and before assist-
dnce could reach them both were drowned.
—Judge Swartz, of Montgomery county,
has just handed down a decision sustaining a
verdict which awarded John B. Yerger $2,
000 for injuries sustained while standing on
the rear platform of & trolley car belonging
to the Pottstown and Reading Street Rail.
way company. The car was in collision with
another, and Yerger lost a leg.
—The new Presbyterian church at Indi-
ana was dedicated on Sunday last. The total
amount of subscriptions raised during the
day totaled $42,000. This was very gratify-
ing to the finance committee, for they need-
ed but $37,000 to clear the church indebted.
ness. None of these subscriptions were
unusually large, no one single subscription
amounting to over $600 and the smallest be-
ing $15.
~The grand jury failed to find a true bill
at Somerset against W. J. Tannery, the Pitts.
burg detective and his men, who were al
leged to have done the shooting that killed
the miners at Windber during the strike riot
in April. The information was made by the
wife of one of the miners who was killed.
Tanney and nine of his men were acting as
deputies at Windber during the strike
is
. | on the in ty of its party organization,
arena has made matters worse. ‘That ie, | ments are rapid. The potentiality of foor- | oy atm Phe live of honest | trouble.
by devious methods both of these gentle- | Poration agents in legislation may 00D | gonviction, bas been the only Party in| _ A, cttempt was made last Thursday
men have secured a considerable following end Pen
night to wreck by the use of dynamite the
little store of a Slav by the name of Kapoos-
ky, at Ramey, in which building he and his
it | family were sleeping at the time. The win-
dows and doors were blown out and part of
the stock injured, but fortunately none of
the members of the family were injured.
Kopoosky was formerly a miner, but on ac-
countof having been crippled at one time
while at work, started a small shoe store and
did some cobbling.
—Fire broke out from the mill on the
Stewart lands at Pine Glen last Friday and
raged with great fury for several days in the
old choppings where the Surveyor Run
Lumber company cut the timber a few years
ago. Fences near the woods were all burn-
ed and six head of cattle perished by being
chased to 8 wire fence and surrounded by
the fire. The Pine Glen school house was
saved after a hard fight. On Monday after-
of
braced orm bave already started decorating their places time of the extra session of the Legislature, | noon the large barn on the Meeker farm
a rms of political iniquity. for the dedication day next week. This | o® his return a few weeks ago found await- | took fire and soon all the buildings except a
is as it should be. Every business place ing him a check for $508, h salary as sen- | Loop }onse or summer kitchen were destroy-
ed.
—Anna Weaver entered a trespass suit in
Blair county court last week against the city
of Altoona, to recover $30,000 damages. She
charges the city police department with
maintaining in its lock-up & sweat-box seven
feet high, two feet wide and one foot deep,
in which a prisoner must stand erect and
cannot lie down mor turn around. Mrs.
Weaver alleges that her husband, while
sick, was imprisoned in this sweat-box, and
there suffered such physical pain as to cause
his death the following day. This suit will
test the right of a city to inflict the sweat-
box process on criminals.
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