sy PP. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—It isn’t so nice to be the ice man in
Toledo.
—Mr. HEARST has announced that he is
not a candidate. He hasn't denied that he
is a trouble maker, however.
~The EMERY tide ie setting in so strong
that already bets are being made that he
will carry Pennsylvania by 150,000.
—Mayor JouX WEAVER, of Philadel-
phia, bas volunteered to take the stump
for EMERY and the entire fasion ticket.
—The Fourth of July is over but the
grass bas not started to grow on the graves
of its victims, who numbered hundreds.
—The Republicans of the South were, of
course, tickled to death when Secretary
TAFT told them they were ‘time servers.”
—King EDWARD is to quit horse racing,
but for Heaven's sake don’t let us bear
that he has also decided to stop rolling up
his pants.
— Wasn't it nice in young Mr. WAL.
DORF A:TOR not to let us huild any false
hopes about his becomivg a citizen of the
United States.
—Secretary SHAW bas asonounced that
we don’t have enough five dollar bills. Of
course he don’t. Nobody ever heard us
say we did, either.
—Since BoNT CASTELLANE hit the to-
boggan France hae felt herself falling be-
bind in sensations so the DREYFUSS case
bas been hauled up for another airing.
—The end of the bituminous miner's
troubles will be good news to Snow Shoe
and Philipsburg both of which places have
suffered serions business depression for
months.
—Secretary WiLsox says the Chicago
packing houses ‘‘are] clean from block to
oan. Secretary ALGER once said the oon-
tents of the cans were not embalmed,
didn’s he?
It they continue bunting for “‘the only
man who can beat BRYAN" the other side
will soon have so many presidential candi-
dates in the field that they will never be
able to make a choice.
—The HARTJES may not haveas much
money as the THAWS and the COREYS, |-
bat they are making just as many people
in Pittsburg sit up and take notice that all
is not gold that glitters.
—Epwix 8. STuarT has finally consent-
ed to lead the machine's forlorn hopes
in Pennsylvania. What a martyr to the
cause of ‘a corrupt and criminal combina.
tion masquerading as Republicans.”
—Now Pittsburg and New York are
threatening to wash their dirty social lin-
eus Io the public gaze. Such expositions
of moral rottenness are outrageous and
should not be tolerated for a moment.
—Secretary TAFT bas started to ‘‘break
the Solid South’’ and WALTER WELLMAN
has started in a balloon to find the north
pole. What fool missions. We thought
Simple SiMoxs lived only in nursery
rhymes.
—Presideut CassATT, of the Pennsyiva-
nia railroad, says that all the petty officers
must dispose of the stock they hold in cor-
poratious operating in sections under their
jurisdiction. He hasn't issued an order
yet compelling bimselt to dispose of his
Pennsylvania steel holdings.
—The reconvened LINCOLN party conven-
tion on Tuesday, nominated the entire fu-
sion ticket named by the Democrats. Now
if the Prohibitionists are really sincere in
their desire to give Pennsylvania a clean
administration there ie nothing left for
them to do, but the same thing.
—Mr. BRYAN'S apiary bas been assessed
at $585. A pretty snug value for a few
soaps of bees, but then Mr. BRYAN bas
been raising the kind of bees that bave
King and Queen bees skinned a mile. His
are presidential bees, and be has a fine
specimen right in his bonnet now.
—Natarally enough President RoOSE-
vELT has found it impossible to be present
at the BRYAN reception and welcome
home, to be held at New York. Itis just
possible that if they both live the Presi-
dent will be welcoming Mr. BRYAN on
another occasion two years hence.
—The draonken gypsy who undertook to
shoot the roof out of the borough lock-up
found a policeman with a billy waiting for
him when he had made the hole large
enough to start to escape through. Now
the question will be asked : Where was
the policeman while the shooting was in
progress ?
—The CARNEGIE and BETHLEHEM plate
mills got a real jolt on Tuesday when the
new government contract for armor plate
was given to the Midvale plant at Phila
delpbia. It was the first time such a thing
has ever happened and you may rest assur-
ed that it would not have been so this
time bad there been a presidential cam-
paign a little nearer at hand.
—It what the Philadelphia Public Ledger
says is trae Mr. A. E. VAN VALEENBURG,
JoHN WANAMAKER's former political
FRIDAY and present president of the North
American Pablishing company, hasn’t
enough shoulders on which to balance all
the water he would like to carry. He tried
to boss—and succeeded in a measure—the
nominations of the regular Republicans,
the Lincolnites aod the Democrats, but
his work has made of itself a boomerang.
He doesn’t know which crowd to support
now, because he fears he might accidental-
ly tie up to the one he can use the least.
What's the Use!
We can imagine nothing more absurd
than the talk of purifying the Republican
organization by ‘‘dumping’’. Chairman AN-
DREWS. As a matter of fact ANDREWS is
no worse than any of the others. The death
of QuAY didn’t make a particle of differ-
ence in the political morals of the machine.
When DurHAM “‘left his country for his
country’s good,” we failed to notice any
surging waves of political morality sweep
over the State. The death of QUAY re-
moved the head but not the heart of the
combination. The absence of DURHAM
deprives the machiue of a strong helper but
doesn’t paralyze its body. The place of a
soldier killed in battle is filled before his
comrades realize that he is no longer among
them.
WesLEY R. ANDREWS impersonated the
jniquity of an odious machine. But he
isn’t all or nearly all of the machine or the
iniquity. He is what his party bas made
him. Because of his capacity for intrigue
he has been chosen for years to perform for
Epwix 8. Stuart, RoBerr 8. MURPHY,
Roser K. Youse, HENRY Houck and
others the things which they were afraid to
perform themselves or were not trusted
with the authority to perform. Possibly
Mr. STUART wouldn't personally stuff a
ballot box. But he bas freely given AX"
DREWS money to pay SALTER and others
to stuf! the ballot boxes when be knew ex-
actly whatthe money was used for. ‘‘BoB”’
Youxc and ‘‘Bop" MURPRY are neither
better nor worse than ANDREWS, and HEN-
RY Houck is a fit companion for the oth-
ers. :
Under the circumstances what is the use
of making a ‘‘Jonah’ out of ANDREWS.
Throwing him overboard, a prey to the
whales and sharks of the political sea,
won’t save the ship. It will humiliate
ANDREWS, probably, and fool a few ol the
crednlons who want to be fooled, but it
won't deceive many or ‘bring mach.’ Most
people will understand and appreciate the
sitoation. If the reverses of last year had
pot occurred ANDREWS would have been
the candidate for Governor, and STUART,
MurpHY, YOUNG and HoUCK would have
supported him though be would have been
as bad then as he ismow. Therefore what's
the uss-of bypooiisy aad false es of
political morality? “That hos’ eyes is
sot.” '
Kot a Just Comparison.
We protest against the comparison of
THEODORE ROOSEVELT to WILLIAM JEN-
NINGS BRYAN. The President has appro-
priated some of Mr. BRYAN'S policies and
is doing things which six years ago Mr.
BRYAN said were essential and Mr. RoOSE-
VELT with equal emphasis declared ruin-
ous. But there is no similarity of charac-
ter or tempernment. BRYAN is an earnest,
thonghtful, conscientious, truthful wan,
while ROOSEVELT is exactly the antithesis.
He appears to have neither conscience, mor-
al courage nor consistency of purpose. He
steals another's ideas as a burglar takes
property. [He falsifies whenever it serves
his purpose. As Senator BAILEY declared,
he is olay and very common olay at that.
A muck raker of the worst type, he con-
demns muck raking. After deliberately
asking Congress to confiscate fortunes he
declares that any one who decries wealth is
a demagogue. He entered into a solemn
agreement to enact a rate bill without pro-
vision for a court review and then joined
with the railroad lawyers in the Senate to
force a provision for a court review into the
measure. He ibsisted on the adoption of
the BEVERIDGE amendment for meat in-
spection and subsequently urged his friends
in Congress to oppose that amendment. In
fact he is a demagogue without pride of
opinion, consistency of purpose or even
moral honesty. He would sacrifice every
principle of right and justice to feed his
inordinate vanity.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN is a man of
different mould. We don’t all agree with
him in all things, but that makes ne dil-
ference in his treatment of men and meas-
ures. Earnest and honest in his own views
he is tolerant of the opinions of others bus
pureaes his own ideas to the end. He is
able, sincere and manly. His word is ea-
ored and his obligations are fulfilled to the
letter ‘‘though the heavens fall.”’ He ap-
propriates to his own use neither the prop-
erty nor the ideas of others. He is an hon-
est, fair and manly man and liking ROOSE-
VELT to him is ao outrage upon him and
a crime against decency. There is no simi.
larity, near or remote. ‘‘BAT'’ MASTERSON
is more of the ROOSEVELT sort.
—— When the inscription tablet on the
Curtin statue was put in place it was dis-
covered that a mistake had been made in
the time Curtin served in Congress, which
was given as ‘‘1881.1885," whereas it
should have been ‘'1881.1887." [Last
week an employee of the Van Amringe
company came to Bellefonte, cus the figure
5 out the bronze place and countersunk a
figure 7 in its place, doing the work so
neatly that it bas the appearance of being | Central railroad, will be run only on Sat-
cast in the original plate.
| owns a large interest in the Pennsylvania
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
The Notification DHMeeting.
The Republican notification meeting at
the residence of EDWIN 8, STUART, nomi-
nee of the party for Governor, on Saturday,
was of all recent events the most grotesque.
In order to give it the appearance of free-
dom from machine domination most of the
party leaders were kept away. Senator
PENROSE was absent, and DAVE MARTIX,
DAVE LAXE and Senator McNICHOL who
took 80 conspicuous a part in the nominat-
ing convention were purposely left out of
the list of guests. In fact only two of the
Philadelphia delegates to the convention
were invited and they were so inconspi-
cuous in the political life of the community
that their presence couldn’t do any harm.
But the absence of the machine managers
from the meeting was no less hypocritical
than the things which actually happened.
For example the spokesman on the part of
the convention was congressman MARTIN
Bob. Young's Strange Action.
The failure of RoBerT K. YOUNG, the
Republican candidate for Auditor General,
to attend the notification meeting on Sat-
urday is not a matter of grave consequence.
It doesn’t mean; as some superficial observ.
ers appear to imagine, that Mr. YOUNG'S
conscience has revolted against the iniqui-
ties of the machine. Mr. Youxa's con-
science isn’t of that inflexible sort that re-
fuses to yield a trifle to accommodate con-
tingencies. On the contrary it is an ex-
ceedingly accommodating affair which per-
mits him to take all he can get or accept
whatever is offered to him. It was on ac-
count of that conscience that be was somi-
pated by the Republican convention at the
instance of Senator PENROSE under an
agreement with Mr. VANVALKENBURG.
No doubt Mr. YouNe wanted to force
the dismissal of Chairman ANDREWS in the
most summary manner. Between Mr. AN-
pREWS and Mr. VANVALKENBURG there
is an irreconcilable quarrel and in putting
ANDREWS at the head of the campaign com-
mittee Senator PENROSE violated his agree-
ment with VANVALKENBURG as interpre-
ted by Mr. VANVALKENBUEG. Mr
Youxa's present mission is to make VAN-
VALKENBURG potential in politics and the
refusal of PENROSE and STUART to humil-
iste ANDREWS was no doubt a great
disappointment and may have irflaenced
him to run away from the notification
meeting. But it won't move bim to de-
cline the nomination. So far from that it
may beset down as a certainty that he
will accept the nomination just as soon as
he is personally notified of it.
The incident may develop into some im-
portance later on, beyond question, but
thus far it is without significance. Mr.
Youxa is looking after the main chance,
and may bave conceived the notion that he
will stand a better chance of election alone
than in company with his colleagues on the
ticket. His friend VANVALKENBURG has
little if any interest in the other candidates
and would finely slaughter them to pro-
mote the interests of Young. Bat it is not
safe to draw conclusions from those facts
either. VANVALKENBURG bates AN-
DREWS and it is not certain that he
wouldn't be willing to sacrifice the entire
outfit, including Mr. Youliu, to-amdisly Lis
antipathy against ANDREWS. It isa con-
dition that will justify watching.
was praise of the President for his magnifi-
cers and successful efforts in the investiga.
tion, publicity and correction of evils aris-
ing from the improper and unlawful exer.
cise of corporate power.”’ Mr. OLMSTED
bas made a vast fortune in helping the cor
porations to exercise ‘‘improper and unlaw-
fal’ powers and if he thought STUART as
Governor would interfere with corporate
lawlessnes he would support a yellow dog
for the office rather than him.
pool of hypooracy that was anything but
creditable to him. ‘‘He declared that he
(nesn’t desire an election that has any oth-
er meaning than the triumph of the princi-
ples of good government.” Does he im-
sgine that the people are verdant enough
to be fooled by such platitudes? His
nomination was for the purpose of prevent.
ing ‘‘the triumph of the principles of good
government,’’ and if he doesn’ know it he
is too stupid to fill that or any other office.
Four years ago Judge PENNYPACKER was
nominated for the same reason. His repu-
tation for integrity and intelligence was
quite as good as STUART'S. But he bas
yond the iniquities of hie predecessors and
will leave it at the expiration of his term
deposed and dishonored.
——
An Absent Eulogy.
Io his notification address to HENRY
Houck the Republican candidate for Sec-
retary of Internal affairs, on Saturday,
Congressman OLMSTED eaid ‘‘his untiring
zeal, indomitable energy, persevering in-
dustry, true nobility of character and un-
failing wit and humor would insure his ac.
tive, faithful, impartial and successful per-
formance of the duties of the exceedingly
important office of Secretary of Internal
Affairs.” What a travesty on truth and
decency and manhood. In thus fulsomely
ealogizing such a worn out party hack, Mr.
OLMSTED insulted the intelligence of the
State.
HENRY HouCK was nominated for the
office of Secretary of Internal Affairs be-
cause he is the most servile instrument of
the machine within the limits of the broad
Commonwealth. The convention refused
to nominate Major Isaac B. BRowx for
re-election for the reason that be has con-
ducted the office in that way. He has been
faithful, efficient, courageous and intelli-
gent in the performance of his duty. He
aspired to a re-election because it has been
the custom to give the incumbent two
terms. But he was deleated for the nomi-
pation because the machine could neither
coerce or cajole him into doing evil and
they want a man in that office who can be
thus controlled.
And if there were a shadow of a chance
of election they have chosen wisely in the
selection of HENRY Houck. He has al-
‘ways been ready for any service of the ma-
chine and would not hesitate to perpetrate
any trick to serve the corporations. Hap-
pily there is no danger of his election, how-
ever. The people have determined to elim-
inate the odious machine from the polit
ical life of the State. The work began last
year and the reform expressed in the eleo-
tion of WiLLiay H. BERRY last fall will
be continued and completed this year by
the overwhelming defeat of the entire Re-
pablican ticket.
President Cassatt's Order.
President CAsSATT, of the Pennsylvania
railroad, bas issued av order directing ‘‘all
officers and employees’ of that company to
dispose of their holdings in coal corpora
tions along the line of the road. The or-
der is in pursuance of a recommendation of
the committee of the board of directors ap-
pointed some time ago to investigate char-
ges that by reason of such ownership there
has been discrimination in the service of
the company. Is is not admitted that such
discrimination did exist, bus Mr. Cassatt
wants the corporation of which he is the
executive head, to be like Cwmser’s wile,
“‘above suspicion.’
There can be little doubt of the wisdom
of the order so far as it applies to officers of
the corporation who have power or oppor”
tunity to exercise discrimination. It might
be equally just in so far as it concerns offi-
cers or employees of the corporation who
acquired their ownership in a questionable
manner. Probably there would have been
po injustice in requiring them to return
their shares to the original donors on the
same terms that they were obtained. Bat
we can’t see why men who purchased
property on a business basis, with money
honestly earned, should not be allowed to
retain it, il it doesn’t improperly influence
them.
Besides there are other abuses which
were revealed during the recent investiga-
tion. It was shown that Mr. CAssATT
steel company and that as president of the
railroad company he buys large quantities
of supplies from the steel company at ex.
orbitant prices. Nothing was said in the
order concerning the ownership of such
property though obviously it affords great
opportunity for evil. The excess of ten
dollars a ton on, say five million dollars
worth of steel rails, would take a good deal
of money out of the pockets of the share-
holders and it is surprising that it should
be forgotten.
~The State College Alumni association
of Central Pennsylvania was organized at
Harrisburg Wednesday night. A. Wert,
103, of Carlisle, was elected president, and
Norman G. Miller, '04, assistant state
economic zoologist, secretary and treasurer.
Steps were taken to have the new associa.
tion secure a voice in the selection of a
successor to Dr. George W. Atherton,
president of State College.
~The annual Baileyville picnic will
be held in the park at that place on Satur-
day, August 4th, at which time and place
the surviving members of Company E, 45th
regiment, will hold their forty-fifth annual
reunion. Gen. Beaver and other promi-
nent speakers will be present. All old
soldiers are invited to attend.
——The Philipsburg shirt factory resum-
ed operations in its new location, last
Thursday morning, with a force of forty
girls. It is the intention of the owners fo
gradually increase the number of employees
to one hundred and fifty or two hundred;
unless they meet with the same difficulty
now experienced in Bellefonte by both the
shirt factory and the Penunsylvahia match
company, an inability to secure the help
desired.
— -Don’t forget that beginning nes
Monday the middle of the day train to
State College and return, on the Bellefonte
urdays. —Sabseribe for the WATCHMAN.
RRA
>a
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 13, 1906.
Mr. STUART also took a plunge into the agi
NO 27.
Sensible Hot Shot from a Veteran Re-
publican.
Joux A. DaLey, Esq., of Curtin town,
ship, who is in a better position to know
what political bossism means than any oth-
er man in the county, bas been telling his
fellow Republicans a few things through
the columns of the Howard Hustler.
In
none of his articles, however, has he stated
the case as tersely nor driven straighter to
the point than in the ove of June 23rd,
which be concludes
trenchant paragraphs :
that it is better to suffer tem-
than to build up and forever
political ol the sole aim
ee 3 Yotisicat oligarehy | its cohorts
at the expense of the mass of honest and
We
porary fopat
maintain a
patriotic members of the organization.
Ring and boss rule must go sooner or
later and this year is just as opportune as
any other to forever wipe off the face of the
earth any one and every one who is in any
way tainted with boss rule,
ber next.
When the Burden Will Fall.
From the Johnstown Democ Tat.
The nation stands face to face with
a Two Billion Dollar Congress. It has not
been twenty years since it was startled by
the fact of a Billion Dollar ; and
80 telling was the effect on the lar im-
nation that at the ensuing election the
from -
fo Jowet and 3o era of comparative econ
ly the pesple did pot long
ey speedi Sogo the occa-
they eoreed and
in a few short years the party that bad giv-
en us the Billion Dollar Congress was re-
power.
How it has used this power is revealed
iture which
t un
remember,
sion for the change
stored to
in a growing
blio ex
now moants well toward
mark.
these a
den is
eventually. Itis itsell felt even
now in an enhanced cost of living that is
almost without edent and is wholly
without The honse-
wife who finds it is more diffi.
cult to make ten dollars go as far as six
dollars formerly went in keeping up her
home can find the explanation iu the fact
that we bave progressed in
a Billion to a Two Billion
Whom the gods would destroy they first
there is comfort in
bly it has been the
destruction that
make mad. Perha)
this thought.
madness which presages
has carried the Roosevelt administration to
the lengths it has gone in wasting the peo-
ple’s substance. ere has been no honest
to be he sd pri
0 be no thong! morrow. No
tion is asked as to the man who is oe,
ling bills in the end. The bur-
ders of lea higher er phi She .
er t t
fs baniehed. vag
econom
prostituted the office to an extent far be- | “G bust dale imeltitels
with the following
government of local, State lg
E. OLMSTED, of Harrisburg, whose theme | fairs, : or satigel Wt
The writer is not alone in this determi-
nation, he knows hundreds in Centre coun-
ty who fe¢l the same way, and who will act
the same way at the fall election in Novem-
e Two Billion
seems
prodigaliry from
effort to eubserve the ends of economy.
Riotous and reckless
the whole tendency
rofligacy has marked
the administration.
It has poured scores and hundreds of mil-
lions into military and naval ize-
ment whose end is likely to be troubled
and the necessity
lions. Very little
expenditures has been for any usefnl
of pouring out more mil-
of the vast increase in
ur-
pose. The great bulk of it has gone into
war ships and other forms of armament,
into martial development, into ev
except productive and useful channels.
And the poor man
burden slips back at
ders of those least able to
dollar of the Two Billions must be paid by
the toiler.
He may vot see the
stream as it flows from him into the great
vortex which extravagance
ys the
Ripe, one
it. Every
bat
runs nevertheless and nevertheless it must
drain him dry.
Rooseveltism Comes High.
From the Reading Telegram.
Exclusive of the Panama Canal a
golden
it
ppro-
on, the increase of Uncle S8am’s ex-
itures in 1904 over 1903 was $35,496,
; in 1805 over 1904, $40,336,233; in
1906 over 1905, $17,903,836, an aggregate
all expenses in Pana-
in three years.
increase, excl
ma. of §93,767,
The total expenditures of the years 1903,
Panama not
00h
1904, 1905 and 1906, with
counted, were $2,866,
421,089. The total
itares of the years 1898, 1899, 1900
1901, she four full ; of McKinl
were $2,430,319,390.
expenditures for the four years of Roose-
velt exceeded those of the four years
McKinley, although he conducted the
Spanish war, by $434,104,699.
Rooseveltism certainly comes high.
ere Too
of
Why Fayette Will be for Emery.
From the Uniontown Genius of Liberty.
blicans will likel
Fayette county
give Lewis Emery a
county in November.
nity put upon Mr. Thompson, the deceit,
majority in thi
needless indig-
the Jyivg and the ery, encom.
passed his defeat in the Republican con-
vention of June 6th, the insult to the lead-
ing Republican of the county, call for the
re from the Republicans
of
this county and no doubtit will be duly
From Life.
When you look down from a high
sensations
How the Tariff Feels.
administered. Under the
lace
in the
do you have queer, creepy
hm En te de
Hey?
tariff is beginning to have.
It will bave them worse
is up much too high, either for comfor
for safety. Make room and let it climb
iin A
eb —— TT — A Ao
spawis from the Keystone.
—A mile of roadway is being constructed
in Chester county as an experiment. The
builders claim that it will be dustiess and
water proof. The cost is to be $1,200.
~—Miss Frances Myers, of Harrisburg,
mourns the loss of diamonds valued at §1,-
500. It is thought a second story man who
had been run out of Williamsport the day
before did the job.
—The Ribblett saw mill, located near
Cambria Furnace, in West Taylor township,
Cambria county, was destroyed by fire early
Friday morning, entailing a loss of about
£1,800, with no insurance.
—During the month of June the clerk of
the orphans’ court of Perry county issued
sixteen marriage licenses. The youngest
bride and groom were eighteen years of age.
Since the law went into effect the number of
licenses issued in Perry county totals 3,773.
—A small dog went mad in one of the de.
partment stores of Harrisburg on Saturday
and a big excitement was the result. The
dog bit no one and the trouble was brought
to an end by a stranger grabbing the dog by
the back of the neck, throwing him into a
box and sitting on the lid.
—Judgment for $40,000 has been entered
in the Blair county court in favor of Charles
L. Greek, an Altoona contractor, against the
Pennsylvania Railroad company, which cor-
poration Greek sued for illegal car discrim-
ination. The company failed to file an affi.
davit of defence within the required limit.
—Alexander W. Irwin, of Altoona, has se.
cured a patent for an air brake coupler
which he claims will save thousands of dol.
lars to the railroads that adopt it. Mr. Ir.
win is an air brake inspector in the Altoona
yards and is quite familiar with the subject
of air brakes and the trouble which he be-
lieves his device will obviate.
—Seven large hogs belonging to Policeman
Cyrus Shiedy, of Lewistown, which were be-
ing fattened for an early butchering, have
died within the past few days, all of which
showed symptoms of cholera. James Clinger
also lost several hogs with symptoms of the
same disease. Precaution is being taken to
prevent the spread of an epidemic of cholera.
—In all probability the days of Company
H, National Guard of Pennsylvania, located
at Johnstown, are numbered. The company
isa part of the Fifth regiment. Adjutant
General Stewart has notified Captain Peter
Litzell that as the citizens of Johnstown
show no disposition to aid in the support of
the company he has about decided to place
it elsewhere.
—Bishop Berry, of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, has appointed the Rev. V. T.
Rue, of Miflinburg, to the pastoratejiof the
church at Waynesboro rendered vacant by
the death of his brother, Rev. Dr. John W.
Rue. Rev. C. W. Karns, of Coalport, goes to
Mifflinburg, and Rev. W. A. Lepley, of Mar.
ket street, Williamsport, to Coalport. Tbe
Market street appointment will be filled by
a supply.
—The damage suit instituted against the
Pennsylvania Railroad company by M. C.
Waltz, of Cresson, may be taken to the Su.
preme court of the State, as Attorney H. W.
Storey, counsel for the Pennsylvania rail
road, has appealed to the highest tribunal.
asking that the finding of the Superior court,
in which a Cambria ¢ounty jury affirmed a
verdict of $1,446.50 in damages be set aside.
Mr. Waltz's son was killed on the platform
at Cresson.
—Recently contractors who are engaged in
the work of excavating and filling along the
Pennsylvania railroad tracks between New
Florence and Seward, made a ghastly find.
They exhumed two human skeletons, sup-
posed to be the remains of victims of the
great Johnstown flood. The skeletons were
in a good state of preservation. They were,
of course, beyond identification. They were
reinterred near where they were found and
the grave was marked.
—William F, Tate, conductor on one of
the Goodyear lumber company’s log trains
in the Hammersley cutting in Clinton coun-
ty, was killed while loading logs Tuesday of
last week. The car had been loaded, and as
one log had rolled down against the bunkers
he was in the act of hooking that one to re-
move it. when two other logs came rolling
down from the bank and pinioned him
against the loaded car. He was extricated
as soon as possible, bat his injuries proved
fatal.
—Wednesday while Mrs. James Buck, of
Cresson, was assisting at the dinner given in
the theatre by the ladies of St. Aloysius
church, some one entered her house and ran-
sacked the upper floor, taking $75 and an
opal ring. The house, which is near the
theatre, was left open for the accommodation
of the ladies who were conducting the affair
and some time during the afternoon between
two and five the burglary was committed,
The money was in a jewel box ina dresser
drawer. A gold watch and several pins that
were lying on the dresser were not touched.
—The entire mining property of the Cres-
son and Clearfield Coal and Coke company,
comprising 7,200 acres of valuable coal lands
in Blair and Cambria counties, was purchas-
ed last Friday by J. Blair Kennerly, of Phil.
adelphia. By the sale of this large coal
tract the Widener-Dolan-Cochran syndicate
retires from active operation. There are
three mines in operation on the property
and they bave a total production of 2,500
tons daily. Because of the strike prevailing
among the miners of the Central Pennsylva-
nia bituminous district the mines were idle
until a few weeks ago, when an amicable
adjustment was made with the representa-
tives of the miners and the striking miners
returned to work.
—Not in years have rattlesnakes been so
plentiful in Clinton county as this season,
says the Lock Haven Express. They are ess
pecially prolific in the region of Hyner’s
Run, and some monsters have been slaugh-
tered. A woodsman employed in the J. L.
Reitz lumber camp, located on Pine
creek fork of Hynmer run, four miles
from the Susquehanna river, relates a story
that seems almost incredible, yet he vouches
for its truthfulness. He states that in his
camp sixty rattlesnakes have been killed
thus far this season and it is no unusual
thing to slaughter a half dozen in a single
day. As high asseventeen rattles have been
found on a single snake, which will give a ;
idea as to the size of some of the venomod
reptiles.
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