—The day of the boss is not over in Penn-
sylvania. The Republican state ticket
proves that.
—For the past few days peopie in this
section baven’s bad much concern about the
price of ice.
—Young Mr. ROCKERFELLER may oor;
per the rubber markes, but the rubber-
necks? Never!
—1f the President can work the ‘‘muck
rake” hard enough Mormon S300T will re-
main in the United States Senate.
~—Every time a certain individual in
Bellefoute falls off the water wagon there is
a terrible dust kicked up in the lower end
of town. .
— After scaring our Jingoes into building
a ten million dollar battleship England has
decided not to build her much talked of
“Dreadnaught.”
—With the Democrats of Pennsylvania
it should not be so much of a question as to
who is nominated for Governor ae to who
can beat PENROSE'S man STUART.
—1T¢ begins to look as if the Democrats
will have to come to the rescue of Pentsyl-
vania again. We are always playing good
angel and then—getting snow water.
—ADDICKS last light flickered out in
Delaware on Wednesday when Col. HEN-
RY A. DUPONT was elected as a regular Re-
publican to represent that State in the Sen-
ate.
—The BRYAN sentiment seems to be
growing. Wou’t BRYAN and BAILEY or
BAILEY and BRYAN make a great ticket?
Actors say there is much luck in allitera-
tions.
—Bellefonte is justly proud of last Fri
day's demonstration and the greatest feel
ing of pride was aroused by the appearance
and conduct of the cadet battalion {rom our
own Pennsylvania State College.
—Greater Pittshurg is no longer a dream
of hope. The people of Pittsburg and Al-
legheny voted to unite on Tuesday and on-
Jess the courts break down their determi.
pation they will be all one in the future.
—Some scientists declare that the earth
bas a hundred million years to live yet. It
is next to a certainty that no one will be
bothered with any of them coming around
saying : “I told you so!” when that time
comes.
—Since the investigation business be-
came popular it isn’t a surprise that college
commencement orations are noticeably
chary of holding up the ‘‘captains of indus-
try’! as examples for young men starting
out in life.
—Now is the time when the college grad-
uate who had dreams of a five thousand
dollar job goes to work at filteen cents an
hour. And his education has not been in
vain if he understands that that is the best
thing for him.
—The election of Dr. MARTIN G. BRUM-
BAUGH as superintendent of the public
schools of Philadelphia, at a salary of §7,-
500 per annum, eliminates him as a possi-
bility for president of The Pennsylva-
nia State College.
—Before we fuse on anything let us have
a perfect understanding as to what we are
to get out of it. The Democrats are al-
ways being sought to play the role of re-
deemers of Pennsylvania then the other fel-
lows get the offices.
—The consoling featare to the graftersin
the Pennsylvania railroad company’s em-
ploy, is that even if they do lose their jobs
as a result of the investigation they have
grafted enough to be sare of a comfortable
living without farther work.
—All honor to the young orator of the
graduating class of The Pennsylvania State
College who bad the courage to say just
what he thought about the political corrup-
tion of Pennsylvania. He hewed to the
line, clear and fearless, unmindfal of where
the chips fell.
—The handsome doors of the new State
Capitol building, which were uncovered
for the first time on Monday, are said to
bear a bas relief of QUAY's head. An in-
vestigation is needed here to discover who
perpetrated such an outrage on the already
outraged people of Pennsylvania.
—There is a whole volume of thought in
the fact that while the monument to the
memory of those who had died that the
negro might be free was being dedicated
last Friday several negroes were pounding
almost to his death a white man and that
within half a square of the monument.
—In order to make the people of Penn-
sylvania believe that they are not being
bossed and were voting for an eminently
respectable candidate QUAY gave them
PEXNYPACKER and what a machine craven
he has made. Now PENROSE attempts to
stuff them with the same sort of flap-doo-
dle in STUART. All of the fools are not
dead, but that PEXNYPACKER trick came
so near killing them that they won't jump
again at STUART.
—Most of the hub-bub that is being
raised in Pennsylvania against the so-called
‘dictation of GUFFEY"’ can easily be traced
to a selfish, jealous, egotistical clique of
would-be leaders who are long on advice
and short on paying party bills. Some of
them were at the head once and it has tak-
en years to build the party structure back
to where it was when they began tearing it
down. At best they are only Democrats
when it suits their personal purposes.
VOL. 51
Roosevelt and the Beef Trust,
The most absurd incident of the beet
trust exposure is the false claim of the
President and his friends that he has
achieved a great work for the people. They
arrogate to themselves every virtue from
sublime courage to extraordinary vigilance.
As a matter of fact, bowever, neither the
President nor his friends bave accomplish-
ed anything. For years they have been
concealing the iniquities of those charnal
houses and would have continued to do so,
it may be asserted, if a magazine writer
hadn’t threatened to expose the fact that
he himself had placed all the evidence of
the filth and beastliness in the hands of the
President.
Six years ago when the army of
the United States was on duty in
Cuba General NewsoNx A. Mires called
public attention to the infamies of the beef
trust packing houses. The troops were
suffering from the effects of ptomaine pois-
oning and an examination of the beef ra-
tions revealed tbe fact that embalming fla-
ids had been used as preservatives and that
the meats were reeking with poisons. He
bad nearly a ship load of the wretched stuff
dumped into the sea and with characteris-
tic vehemence made vigorous protest to the
government against the outrage. RoOOSE-
VELT knew all about it at the time for he
was then a line officer in the field and pre-
pared a ‘Round Robin” to support the
pro test. Instead of appreciating the serv-
ice to the country, however, the authori-
ties at Washington began a systematic
course of humiliating the veteran soldier
and after ROOSEVELT became President
these outrages were multiplied and magni-
fied.
We have no objection to praise of the
President when it is deserved and cheerful
ly join in enlogies when they are appro-
priate. But in the matter in mind cen-
sure is infinitely more appropriate than
laudation. The beef trust has held him
as an abject slave to its evil purpose for
more than four years and that in the light
of full knowledge and understanding of
their iniquities. He made a false pretense
of an investigation two years ago and sent
a willing instrument of corporations, Mr.
GARFIELD, later, to compound their crime.
But the beef trust magnates knew their
man and held his work in aster contempt.
Es hand has been forced at last, however,
and his exposure is reluctantly made and
deserves no praise.
The “Cossacks’' Vindicated.
The State ‘‘cossacks’’ responded to a call
to duty, the other day, with commendable
alacrity and again vindicated the wisdom
of the Governor in creating this force. The
occasion was a strike at the silk mill at
Fregland, Luzerne county. Twenty or
more young girls, operatives in the mill in
question, had threatened to strike because
their demand for an increase of wages
amounting to a few cents a day bad been
refused. Immediately the State constabu-
lary was notified and a squad numbering
twenty or thirty was dispatched to the
scene of impending carnage. On their ar-
rival they discovered that there was no
need for their services, the hard hearted
employer having relented so far as to al-
low the increase to nineteen of the twenty
amazons.
It was a narrow escape for the girls and
a great day for the ‘‘cossacks.” They
were armed to the teeth, mounted on spir-
ited and splendidly caparisoned chargers
and looked the very spirit of war. As they
filed up in frons of the mill, their horses
champing their bits and obviously eager
for the fray, they presented a formidable
appearance and a martial aspect. But
their expectations of carnage were disap-
pointed. Instead of a bloody welcome
which might have been expected from a
masked battery of desperate women, the.
manager of the mill came to them with the
information thatthe strike had been set-
tled, the differences adjusted and harmony
and contentment established.
It was a great disappointment, no doubt,
for it was an opportunity to display valor
lost.
It is just as well, however, that the inci-
dent was thus peacefully closed. It leaves
the question of the valor of the ‘‘cossacks’’
in the region of conjecture, of course, but
it bas preserved the recalcitrant maidens to
their families and friends unless there were
cu pide behind the troopers shooting shafts
from the bow of matrimony with the un-
erring aim for which they are noted. The
‘‘eossacke’’ in their gay, not to say gandy
uniforms, are said to be marvelously at-
tractive to susceptible female bearts and
girls are impressionable and romantic.
Therefore, it may be safely said that PExN-
NYPACKER'S soldiers have fulfilled the
best expectations of their friends and saved
the State from a great danger, if not a cost-
ly war.
——George Kiernan, of Pittsburg, a
master of dramatic art, will givea compii-
mentary recital of the Old Homestead to
members of the Y. M. C. A. and the W. C.
T. U. in Petriken hall this evening.
3
An Incomplete Platform.
The Republican State platform is plati-
todinousand comprehensive but incem-
plete. That is to say, it touches upon a
vast nomber of subjects andl makes onerous
promises of reform in manifestly hypoerit-
ical periods. But it fails to refer to one
matter of vast importance. It pledges the
party to legislation authorizing trolley
mailroads to carry freight, a proposition
which it ridiculed only during the last
regular session. It declares for a two cent
a mile rate for passenger service, which it
rejected less than two years ago. It gives
assurance of the return to local treasuries
certain revenues which are not peeded by
the State, though measures for that pur-
pose were defeated in both the regular and
extra sessions.
But it doesn’t say a word about the
QUAY monument. Those who made the
platform know that a monument to QUAY
is paying tribute to vice. They understand
that the erection of a monument to QUAY
is equivalent to a recommendation to the
youth to pursue evil rather than righteous
lives. In other words, they knew that
QUAY represented graft and venality in
public life and that to cavonize him ina
monument would bave the effect of encour-
aging that sort of political immorality.
They knew that the law authorizing the
monument to QUAY was cbtained by force
and fraud and that the Senate baviog fail
ed to confirm the monument commission
there is no legal right to erect such a mon-
ument. Yes there is not a line in the
platform on the subject.
The LixcoLy Republicans spoke plainly
with respect to this contemplated outrage.
They freely and accurately expressed the
sentiment of the people when they declar-
ed that no monument of QUAY should be
erected in the Capitol park at Harrisburg
at all or anywhere else at public expense.
In view of that fact, the regular Republi-
cans couldn’t have forgotten the subject.
In other words, the failure to pledge the
party against it was not an oversight. It
was an evasion that means that in the
event of the election of the Republican
ticket the crime against tbe conscience of
the Commonwealth will be perpetrated in
spite of publio sentiment and political mor-
als. For that reason the platform is de-
fective. It onght to have spoken on that
subject.
The Plan of the Two Daves.
The two DAVES have every reason to be
proud of the work of the Republican State
convention. It may have been the voice of
PENROSE that was beard in the delibera-
tions, but it was the hands of DAVE LANE
and DAVE MARTIN that brought EpwiIN
8B. STUART into the reckoning. Public
sentiment demanded a respectable man as
the candidate and PENROSE went about
casting drag nets for weeks to catch the
man. He sounded several and almost se-
cared justice STUART. He wants to be re-
elected Senator and doesn’t care who is
Governor. He was even willing to take
Lew EMERY in his desperation. Not so
with the two Daves, however. They
wanted the assurance of graft and dug up
the amiable and easy Mr. STUART.
The DAVES are not novices in the tricks
of politics. They bave enjoyed the fat at
times and taken the lean. They have rel-
ished the oyster and gnawed the shell.
Soldiers of fortune they bave relished the
best, but can endure the worst. The best
they ever had was the period during which
“NED” STUART was Mayor of Philadelphia
and they want more of it. To satisly that
desire they invented STUART as a guberna-
torial possibility and presented him to
PENROSE. To that dispairing statesman,
it was like finding money. It promised
the respectability which he needed and the
graft which the two DAVES must have.
Therefore, their mutual interests being
conserved, they joined hands for STUART.
Bat it is not likely that they imagined
the public is credulons enough to accept
the result as a reform victory. They
would hardly bave the temerity to claim
that. What they do think is that Mr,
STUART'S amiability and respectability
will influence the reformers to ‘‘let up” on
the fight and permit them to conduct elec-
tions in the old way. DAVE LANE longs
to be able to call the office holders together
and tell them, as he did on a former occa-
sion, that each one of them must vote five
times or lose his job. He wants to be able
to parade his political immorality in the
open as he formerly did and that accom.
plished he can elect ‘‘NED' STUART or
‘Say’ SALTER with equal facility.
~The Bellefonte school board met on
Tuesday evening and organized for the en-
suing year by electing W. H. Crissman,
president; James K. Barnbart, secretary;
and A. C. Mingle, treasurer. The only
contest was on treasurer. Hard P. Harris
was nominated against Mr. Mingle and re-
ceived the votes of Crissman, Quigley, Park-
er and himself. Messrs. Heinle, Fortney,
Mingle, Barnhart and John P. Harris voted
for Mingle.
Quay’s § in Bronze.
We are to have I present.
ment of QUAY in the new capitol at Har-
risburg, whether the monument is erected
or not, it seems. Mr. HUSTON, architect
of the building, has attended to the little
matter, and bas favored us more than we
dared hope for. That is to say, he has not
only bad QUAY'Ss face set on the big bronze
doors of the main entrance but set it in the
company of congenial spirits. Governor
PENNYPACKER, Senator PENROSE and sev-
eral others have been equally favored,
though there was no authority of law for
such a decoration of the costly and beauti-
ful structure.
We are not referring to this matter for
the purpose of complaining that QUAY,
PENNYPACKER and PENROSE have been so
distinguished. On the contrary, we are
disposed to think that it was the proper
thing for Architect HustoN to do. He
probably imagined that he owed the trio of
statesmen considerable for the fat job he
bas been enjoying since the beginning of
the work. Our cause of complaint has
another source and in an entirely different
direction. Instead of surrounding QUAY,
PENNYAACKER and PENROSE with the
face of the owner of the mine from which
the copper was taken, that of the sculptor
and Mr. HUSTON’S assistant, the faces of
Iz. DURHAM, SAM SALTER, DAVE LANE,
and a few of the protectors of the protected
dives in Philadelphia, shunld have heen
given the places.
We protest, moreover, against the tend-
enoy of popular indignation to fasten it-
self on Architect HusToN for the curious
liberty that has been taken with the prop-
erty of the State. The chances are that
Mr. HusTtoN had little or nothing to do
with it. Obviously it was the work of
Governor PENNYPACKER. That insanely
vain old hambug doubtless imagined that
the people would be delighted to perpetuate
the memory of his goat-like features and 1n
violation not only of every principle of pro-
priety but in contempt of every sense of
public decency, he probably forced the
architect to perpetrate the outrage.
An Amicable Agreement.
The agreement between the Democrats of
the several counties composing the twenty-
sixth congressional district of the State, up-
on a system of rotation which will be sat-
istactory to all, will afford security against
the repetition of the blunder of two years
ago which resulted in the election of a Re-
publican to Congress in a district that is
safely Democratic. In other words, an
amicable agreement has been reached
which will give to each county in the dis-
trict its just share of the representation and
80 long as the counties play fair with each
other that will guarantee immunity from
dead-locks.
This is the happy solution of a vexed
problem. It is within the limit of reason
to say that dead-locks in conferences have
caused more losses in representation to the
Democracy than any other single thing.
Fraudulent votes have been au important
factor in Republican victories during the
last dozen years, but that vice carried to
its most extreme conclusion would never
have lost the twenty-sixth district to the
party. Disagreements in conferences have
achieved that result several times, how-
ever, and probably would again if the
agreement in question, which is just and
fair, bad not been effected.
It is to be hoped that other congression-
al, senatorial and judicial districts, which
comprise more than one county, will make
similar arrangements. Of course the party
rules now provide a means of opening such
dead-locks. Bat resorting to such means
invariably create antipathies which are
never reconciled and the party strength is
impaired whether the successful candidate
is elected or not. The temper of some of
those concerned in the judicial contest in
the district composed of Columbia and
Montour counties, is threatening grave
trouble, but we hope it will be averted.
The majority isn’t hig enough.
——One of the prominent visitors in
Bellefonte last Friday for the dedication
was Owen Jones, of Philadelphia, a mem-
ber of the Pennsylvania Reserves, and who
carried the old Reserves flag in the parade
in the morning ; the same flag which float-
ed over General Crawford’s headquarters at
Gettysburg.
1888 ex-Governor Curtin spoke at the grave
of the lamented General Reynolds and in
his address expressed the hope that when
he died some member of the old Reserve
corps weald place a red flower on his grave.
In October, 1894, when all the State
mourned at the bier of the ‘Old War Gov-
ernor,”’ and thousands assembled here to
pay their last tribute of respect to hie
memory, Mr. Jones came from Philadel-
phia and placed the red flower on the new-
made grave. He is also chairman of the
committee that every year at Memorial
day sends the beautiful emblem of the Re-
serve corps here as a decoration on Cartin’s
grave. :
At a reunion in Lancaster in | p
A Radical Change ts Impending.
From the Coming People,
Outward changes, economical and polit-
ical, more or less marked, are al avg polis
on in the forms and organization of society.
Bat today one can make a specially strong
argument that great and radical Sanger
are impending. No one can believe t
existing conditions will continue in a world
where all things move and change. Waste,
extravagance, jpolitioal cotraption, fierce
mercantile rivalries, colossal mon
tion of wealth and of she indostrial plants
of the world, masses of d
these are natural subjects for ound, pa-
triotic and humane concern. Is not the cold
social and industrial machinery, the com-
petitive or wage system, ng signs of
breaking down beneath its load ?
The question is quite fair whether any
system is just that permits individuals to
roll up immense fortunes as the result of
lucky speculations, or of the rite of land
values about a great city, that permits oth-
er individuals to inherit almost unlimited
money power, as men once inherited duch-
ies and kingdoms, while millions of work-
ingmen, with small wages, live close to the
danger line of debt, or even of cold and
starvation, and are liable to be thrown out
of employment for months at a time,
When in the face of natural wealth, nev-
er go abundant, and forces of production
augmented indefinitely by science and in-
vention, so many almost fail to reap any
benefit from the resources which surely be-
long to the race, it must at least be con-
fessed that our Jresent system, both of pro-
duction and of distribution, is not intelli-
tly or humanely managed. Its results
0 not present an ideal democracy, a broth-
erhood of man.
Berry Pays Promptly,
From the Bloomsburg Democratic Sentinel.
The school districts of Pennsylvauia are
for the first time in years getting their
share of the $5,500,000 school appropria-
tion as soon as they file their annoval re-
ports. These districts have been accnstom-
ed to having to wait so long for their mon-
ey that the great majority of them have
not yet adjusted themselves to the new or-
der of things.
State Treasurer Berry gave
his campaign that the alstrio
paid as soon as the appropriation fell due,
and he is keeping his word. The appro-
Biation for this year became available last
onday, and Mr. Berry has already paid
off fitty districts, which include Reading,
Hauils urg, Bradford and South Bethle-
em.
Warrants aggregating $200,000 were sent
59 these districts this ak Bany. is anx-
ous to pay up promptly, e hopes to
finish 3 ob before the school term be-
gins next September.
a pledge in
te would be
Kentucky Not a Laud ey, age.
From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The julep blooms perpetually in the
Blue Grass State ; the very air is sweetand
spioy with aromas swept from green-fring-
ed and lapped goblets ; the ambered liquid
is ever gurgling up through the straw and
rippling rhythmically over tbe cilla of the
esophagus until the cheeke blossom *‘like
a rose in the snow” and the old earth rolls
out into one grand, endless and verdured
wold, gorgeous in tint and tracement,
flecked with flowers and threaded with sil-
ver streams meandering musically toward
a gelden sunset where the tousled billo
of the sky skirt the timber line. Yet with-
al Kentucky is not a land of jags. Sippers
of the Julep, are not swinish in m or
manner. ey drink as gentlemen and as
thoroughbreds.
A Story With a Moral,
From the Tarboro (N, C.) Southerner.
Possibly Mr. Roosevelt and some of his
friends can discover the moral of the fol-
lowing anecdote which R. W. Alexander
tells : .
An old colored man stole a pig and after
getting home with the animal koelt to
pray before retiring. His wife heard him
praying to the Lord to forgive him for
stealing the pig. She went to sleep with
uncle Eph still praying. Later in the night
she woke up and saw ber husband still
kneeling in prayer. At daybreak his sup-
Phieasione bad not ceased. ‘Eph, why
on’t you come to bed ?’’ asked his wife.
‘‘Let me 'lone, 'Riah ;de mo’ I tries to
’splain to de Lord how I come to steal dat
pig, de wosser I gits mixed.”
How It was Done,
From the Philadelphia Press.
Captain Penrose held his post on the
bridge. The Philadelphia crew was mus-
tered on the foredeck exactly as in the old
days. First Mate McNichol sounded the
trampet and put Second Mate Martin in
charge. Then First Mate McNichol moved
that the crew name the Governor, and
Third Mate Lane—the orator of the crew—
vamed bim. The whole crew, forgetting
the Mack-erel sky, joined in. The passen-
gers from the country were ordered below
ecks, and as if to make the course of the
Lincolnites entirely clear Wesley Andrews
was placed in the pilot house for the whole
voyage !
Promise and Performance.
From the Springfield Republican.
Quite a wave of applaime swept over the
country when the labor unions of San
, soon after the destruction of the
city, resolved to take no advantage of the
situation, but to work on the same terms
as before and on more liberal terms for
overtime. Now comes one of the large
building owners of the city with the atate-
ment that the unions are so exacting he
must contract his operations greatly. “They
are demanding $7 a day for bricklayers and
$5 for the helpers. On such terms, says
this man, the city will be a long time in
the rebuilding.
It was Wide Open.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.)
Senator Penrose announced M that
the Republican convention would at
perfect liberty to make its selection. It
was, too. It had the wide-open liberty to
select Stuart.
spawis from the Keystone,
~The heavy rains which fell in Bedford
county Thursday mooning last did consider.
abie damage to crops.
—Johustown is making good progress with
its paid fire department. Company No. 1
has been organized and has got down to
practice,
—Renovo council has under cousideration
the proposition to pave its streets. The
question, however, has as yet not been de-
finitely settled. +
—At a family reunion in Upper Bern
township, Berks county, Mrs. Israel Miller,
86 years old, gave each of her seven child«
ren $135 in cash.
—On last Monday evening the school board
of Renovo re-elected Professor Oder C.
Gortuoer principal of its schools. His salary
was fixed at $1,000.
—The agony is over at Mifflintown, Juniata
county. Ata meeting of the school baard
held last Monday evening all the old teach.
ers were re-elected.
—Bechtelsville, Berks county, turns out
the champion egg. It was laid by a hen be.
longing to one Elam Moyer and contained
five perfectly formed yolks.
—The San Jose scale is doing much damage
in Monroe county and State Orchard Inspec
tor J. K. Owens urges the farmers to organ-
ize to fight the pest scientifically.
—Union county’s chestnut crop is threat.
ened with total destruction by the ssven-
teen year locusts, unless the birds become
unusually active and eat the insect pests.
—And now they are after the real estate
men in Lycoming county who are doing
business without paying a license. In case of
failure to havea license the penalty is $300
—Rev. Robert Howard Taylor was installs
ed as pastor of the Oxford, Chester county,
Presbyterian church. He is the thirteenth
pastor in the church, which was established
in 1754.
—State Treasurer Berry has dropped Miss
M. Olive Barnett, a cousin of former Treas-
urer James Barnett, from the treasury pay
roll and appointed in her place Samuel Weil,
of Allentown.
~~Mrs. Susan B. Gross celebrated the nine
ty-fourth anniversary of her birth at
Admire, York county, on Sunday. She has
nine children, twenty-five grandchildren
and thirteen great-grandchildren.
~James McAndrews, 7 years old, while
pretending to walk a tight rope along the
pickets of a fence at Mahanoy City, Schuyl-
kill county, fell with his neck between the
pickets and was strangled to death.
—John Carry, 40 years of age, and his son,
Harry, 11 years old, of West Chester, who
had taken refuge from a thunderstorm under
a tree at Sconnellstown, Chester county,
were struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
—The Williamsport councils and the of
ficialz of the Pennsylvania Railroad com-
pany have reached an agreement whereby a
subway is to be put in at the Campbell street
crossing. The company will pay $10,000 of
the cost.
—One of the men wounded in the riot at
Ernest is dead. Asa result five membersof
the State police were arrested and taken
to Indiana, charged with murder. They
are out on $15,000 bail for thelr appearance
at court.
~John J. Grady has sold the Ardmore
house, on the Lancaster pike, in Montgom-
ery county, at a profit of $35,000. Some
years ago he bought the place for $40,000 and
sold it on Saturday to a resident of Balti-
more for $75,000
—On Saturday lightning struck the barn
of George White, near Galeton, killed a cow
he was milking which fell on him and
pinned him fast. His wife released him and
together they extinguished the fire before
it done much damage.
—The statement is made thata Potter
county farmer and his wife who were driv-
ing to Coudersport last Saturday morning
were held prisoners in the highway for two
hours by a panther, which circled round,
but did not attack them.
—The Good years, of Potter county, Pa.,
are probadly the biggest lumberman in the
world. They ars building in Lenisiana the
largest sawmill in the conntry, Itis intend-
ed to cut 150,000,000 fect of lumber a year,
or nearly 500,000 feet a day.
—On Tuesday morning last the washer,
crusher and tipple of the Wharton Coal and
Coak company at Coral, Indiana county, was
destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is
not known. The loss is placed at $125,000.
About 250 men are thrown out of employ-
ment.
—The Democrats of Columbia county have
declared for John G. Harman for judge. As
Montour voted for Grant Herring there will
be a deadlock in conference aud it is ex-
pected the bitter feeling engendered will
result in the election of Judge Evans, the
present incumbent.
—The fifteenth annual reunion of the
Fifty-fifth regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer
Infantry, wus held in Altoona Friday after-
noon aud evening. Strange as it may seem
there were just fifty-five of the survivors in
attendance and that they enjoyed the as
semblage goes without saying.
~—Harvey M. Berkey. cashier of the First
National bank of Somerset, has resigned
that position to give his attention to the
practice of law. He had been the bank’s
cashier for nearly fifteen years. Edward K.
Gallagher, who bad been the assistant cashe
ier, was elected to the vacancy.
—A cloud of locusts have settled down
upon Monument and the people of that
place are wondering where they all come
from. Wherever you go or turn you will
find them. In the mines, in the works, the
houses, barns, fences in the road, the woods
—locusts, locusts, everywhere.
—A severe electricstorm visited Punxsu-
tawney Saturday afternoon. Two young
men were struck by lightning and were
killed while two others were seriously hart.
The names of the dead are Bert Weiss, aged
20, and Clyde Blose, aged 1S. Both were
standing in the vicinity of barns when
struck. The injured are Laird Blose, aged
12, and Clyde Frampton, Pennsylvania rail-
road agent. A number of barns were
struck and several houses had chimneys
knocked off,