BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
~The day of the boss is not over in Pean-
sylvania. The Republican state ticket
proves that.
~—For the past few days people in this
section haven’s bad much concern about the
price of ice.
—Young Mr. ROCKERFELLER may oor.
per the rubber market, but the rubber-
necks? Never!
—1f the President can work the ‘‘muck
rake’ hard enough Mormon Sxo0T 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. .
— Alter scaring our Jingoes into building
a ten million dollar battleship England has
decided not to build ber 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 as to who
can beat PENROSE’'S man STUART.
—1It begins to look as if the Democrats
will have to come to the rescue of Pennsyl-
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 eleoted as a regular Re-
publican to represent that State in the Sen-
ate.
—The BRYAN sentiment seems to be
growing. Won'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 conduc of the cadet battalion from 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 an-
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 popalar it isn’t a surprise that college
commencement orations are noticeably
chary of holding up the ‘‘captains of indus-
try’’ as exampies 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 fifteen cents an
bour. 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 bave
a perfect understanding as to whai 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 ges the offices.
~The consoling featare to the grafters in
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 sure of a comfortable
living without farther work.
—All honor to the young orator of the
graduating class of The Pennsylvania State
College who had the courage to say just
what he thought about the political corrup-
tion of Pennsylvania. He bewed 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
PENNYPACKER and what a machine craven
he has made. Now PENROSE attempts to
staff them with the same sort of flap-doo-
dle in Stuart. All of the fools are not
dead, but that PENNYPACKER 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 oslique 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 bas 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,
Roosevelt and the Beef Trust,
The most absurd incident of the beef
trust exposure is the false claim of the
President and his friends that be 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, however, neither the
President nor his friends have 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 cf
the United States was on duty in
Caba General Newsox A. MiLes called
public attention to the infamies of the beef
trust packing houses. The troops were
suffering from the effectz of ptomaine pois-
oning and an examination of the beef ra-
tions revealed the fact that embalming fla-
ids bad been used as preservatives and that
the meats were reeking with poisons. He
had 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. RoOsSE-
VELT knew all about it at the time for he
was then a line officer in the field and pre-
pared a ‘Round Robin” so 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 eulogies when they are appro-
priate. But in the matter in mind cen-
sure is infinitely more appropriate than
laudation. The beef trust bas held him
as an abject slave to its evil parpose 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 beld his work in utter contempt.
Js 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 eilk 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 bard hearted
employer baving 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 epir-
ited and splendidly caparisoned chargers
and looked the very spirit of war. As they
filed up in front 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 that the 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 vaior of the ‘‘cossacks’’
in the region of conjecture, of course, bus
it has preserved the recalcitrant maidens to
their families and friends unless there were
ou pide behind the troopers sheoting shafts
from the bow of matrimony with the un-
erring aim for which they are noted. The
‘‘cossacks’’ in their gay, not to say gaudy
uniforms, are said to be marvelously at-
tractive to susceptible female hearts and
girls are impressionable and romantic.
Therefore, it may be safely said that Pex-
NYPACKER'S soldiers have fulfilled the
best expectations of their friends and saved
the State irom a great danger, if not a cost-
ly war.
——George Kiernan, of Pittsburg, a
master of dramatic art, will givea compli-
mentary recital of the Old Homestead tc
members of the Y. M. C. A. and the W. C.
T. U. in Petriken hall this evening.
An Incomplete Platform.
The Republican State platform is plati-
todinouns and comprehensive but incem-
plete. That is to say, it tonches upon a
vast number 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
milroads tc 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 needed 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 monament 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 cauonize bim iva
monument would have the effect of encour-
aging that sort of political immorality.
They knew that the law authorizing the
monument to QUAY was obtained by force
and fraud and that the Senate having fail-
ed to confirm the monument commission
there is no legal right to erect such a mon.
ument. Yet there is not a line in the
platform on the subject.
The LixcoLx 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’ 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 the conscience of
the Commonwealth will be perpetrated in
spite of public sentiment and political mor-
als. For that reason the platform is de-
fective. It ought 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 bands of DAVE LANE
and DAVE MARTIN that brought Epwix
8. 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
mau. 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 have relished the
best, but can endure the worst. The best
they ever bad 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 be 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 acoom-
plished he can elect ‘NED STUART or
“‘SaM’’ SALTER with equal facility.
~The Bellefonte school board met on
Tuesday evening and organized fer the en-
suing year by electing W. H. Crissman,
president; James K. Barnhart, 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, Fortuey,
Mingle, Barnhart and John P. Harris voted
for Mingle.
Quay’s § % in Bronze.
We are to bave a ‘counterfeit 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, aod bas favored us more than we
dared hope for. That is to say, he has not
only bad QuAY'’s 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-
fal 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
has been enjoying since the beginning of | 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 Leen
given the places.
We protest, moreover, against the tend.
ency of popular indignation to fasten it-
self on Architect HustoN for the curious
liberty that bas been taken with the prop-
erty of the State. The chances are that
Mr. HustoN bad little or nothing to do
with it. Obviously it was the work of
Governor PENNYPACKER. That insanely
vain old humbug doubtless imagined that
the people would bedelighted to perpetaate
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-
isfactory 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-
tciot 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 an 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 juet and
fair, bad not been effected.
It is to be koped that other congression-
al, sznatorial and judicial districts, which
comprise more than one county, will make
similar arrangements. Of course the party
rales 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 big enongh.
~——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. At a reunion in Lancaster in
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 would 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 his
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. .
T 15, 1906.
NO 24.
A Radical Change is Impending.
From the Coming People.
Outward changes, economical and polit-
ical, more or less marked, are always going
on in the forms and organization of socfety.
But today one can make a specially strong
argument that great and radical “hate
are impending. No one can believe t
existing conditions will continue in a world
where all things move and obange. Waste,
extravagance, pg cotraption, fierce
mercantile rivalries, colossal monopoliza-
tion of wealth and of the industrial plants
of the world, masses of dreary ne
these are natural subjects for profound. pa-
Hicks od Dumas Jougetn, Bat the old
socia vdustrial , the com-
itive or wage system, pi oR 8 of
Jelitives down beneath its load ? ig
The question is quite fair whether any
system is just that permits individuals to
roll up immense fortunes as the result of
Tm Se 2
values about a great city, ts oth-
er individuals to any unlimited
money power, as men once inherited duch-
ies and kingdoms, while millions of work-
ingmen, with small wages, live close tothe
danger line of debt, or even of cold. and
starvation, and are liable to be thrown ont
employment for months at a time.
When in the face of natural wealth, nev-
er eo abundant, and forces of production
augmented indefinitely by science and in-
vention, so many almost fail to reap any
benefit the resources which surely be-
long to the race, it must at least be con-
fessed that oor t system, both of pro-
Sustion gl of istribution, is nat intelli
¥ or humanely managed. results
ot present an ideal democracy, a broth-
erhood of man.
Berry Pays Promptly,
From the Bloomsburg Democratic Sentinel.
The school districts of Penusylvauia are
for the first time in years getting their
share of the $5,500,000 school appropria-
tion as soon as they file their annual 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-
au of things. bet ;
tate Treasurer 'y e a pledge in
his campaign that the atetriots would be
paid as soon as the Approptistioh fell due,
and he is keeping his word. The Sppeo.
Jiation for this year became available
onday, and Mr. Berry has already
off hy districts, which include Reading,
Haris urg, Bradford and South Bethle-
em.
Warrants aggregating $200,000 were sent
to these distriots this week. Berry is anx-
ious to ap promptly, and he hopes to
finish the job before the school term be.
gins next September.
Kentucky Not » Land #e¥iags.
From the New Orleans Times-Demoerat.
The julep blooms perpetually in the
Blue Grass State ; the very air tars
spioy with aromas swept from green-fring-
ed and fra; goblets ; the ambered liqu
is ever gurgling up through the straw and
rippling rhythmically over tbe cilla of the
esophagus until the cheeks 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 golden sunset where the tousled billo
of the sky skirt the timber line. Yet with-
al Kentucky is not a land of jage. Si
of the Julep are not swinish in Roc pn
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-
lowieg anecdote which R. W. Alexander
8: a
An old colored man stole a pig and after
getting bome with the animal knelt to
pray before retiring. His wife heard him
praying to the Lord to forgive him for
stealing the pig. Sbe went to sleep with
uncle Eph still praying. Later in the night
she woke up and saw her husband still
kneeling in prayer. At daybreak his sup-
icasians 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
midge The Philadelphia crew was mus-
on the foredeck exactly as in the old
days. First Mate McNichol! sounded the
trumpet 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—
named bim. The whole crew, forgetting
the Mack-erel sky, joined in. The passen-
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 applause swept over the
country when the labor unions of San
Francisco, 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
overtime. Now comes one of the
building owners of the city with the
ment that the unions are so
must contract his operations great!
are demanding $7 a day for bricklayers
$5 lor the helpers. On such terms, sa
this man, the city will be a long time
the rebuilding.
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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 bad the wide-open liberty to
select Stuart.
spawis from the Keystone,
~The beavy 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 Berm
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.
Gortner 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. Ir 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
& tree at Sconnellstown, Chester county,
were struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
—The Williamsport councils and the of
ficials 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 their appearance
at court.
—John J. Grady has sold the Ardmore
house, on the Lancaster pike, in Montgom-
ery county, at a profit of £35000. Some
years ago he bought the place for $10,000 and
sold it on Saturday to a resident of Baiti-
more for $75,000
—On Saturday lightning struck the barn
ot 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 are building in Louisiana the
largest sawmill in the country, Itis intend.
ed to cut 150,000,000 feet 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 had been the assistant cashes
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 electriestorm visited Punxsu-
tawney Saturday afternoon. Two young
men were struck by lightning and were
killed while two others were seriously hurt.
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.
rond agent. A number of barns were
struck and several houses had chimneys
knocked off.