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ink Slings.
—Jog FOLK is still keeping in the lime-
light as THE man from Missouri.
—There is little sunshine in Russia these
days. The Czar continues to reign.
—Will the New York Sun please tell us
now which horse it was playing for the
Governor stakes : HEARST or JEROME?
—There are so many climbers that
the EMERY band wagon is sure to be
crowded to overflowing by November.
—Fifty naval vessels and fifteen thous-
and soldiers ought to make quite a lot of
fan for KERMET and QUENTIN at Oyster
Bay.
—1It has been only eight years and a few
days since we wet the Philippines, and
took them in. My, how much longer it
seems.
—Treat the firemen royally when they
come nxt week. Remember that our boys
go avisiting occasionally and naturally ex-
pect the glad band.
—Whatever else may be said (f PEXNY-
PACKER we'll bet a bean shooter to a
Krupp gun that he dies bis political death
five months hence with his bootsjon.
~The mad Mullah sallied forth on a lit-
tle excursion on Monday and after killing
one hundred keepers captured ten thousand
camels. He must bave bad a hump on.
~Those faces on the capitol doors at
Harrisburg should be of brass. Then they
wouald be so much nearer the types of
Pennsylvanians they are supposed to rep-
resent.
—What will be in the telegram of con-
dolence that LEE PLUMMER will probably
send EDWIN 8S. STUART on the night of
November 6th. Wonder if it willibe mere-
ly: Igot mine Ep.
—We would like to know whether
“Boss’’ PENROSE has put that little mat-
ter of being for him for the U. 8. Senate up
to candidates QUIGLEY, of Centre, and
ALEXANDER, of Clearfield.
—The Clearfield Republican aod Public
Spirit are so busy crying ‘‘stop thiel’”’ at
oneanother these days that the public may
expect the county to be carried off, as us-
ual, by the sawe old thieves in November.
—Since HOMER L. CASTLE bas found
out that Mr. EMERY 18 a bad man he
ought to be so grateful to the Democrats
for not having gratified that dearest of am-
bitions of his to be Lieutenant Governor.
~The HARTJE case cost $160,000. We
are not likely to have any HARTIE affairs
in this county because we haven't got the
price in the first place and we don’t have
avy men as mean as AUGUSTUS HARTIE in
the second.
CSI are gradaally being discovered. A
German scientist bas jost published a pa-
per in which be proves that criminals all
have large ears and ‘‘the larger the ears
the lower the mentality.’”” What a shock !
Our ears have always been so large.
—CARRIE NATION is real mad at Mr.
Secretary LoEB for having bad ber ejected
from the White house. She says she is
going to sue him for damages ranging from
$5,000 to $300,000. Now the question is:
Were she to set on LOEB would she hatch-
et.
—The Department of Agriculture at
Harrisburg is planning to begin more ex-
tended work in ponltry lines, all of which
will probably bring joy to the hearts of
some of the old political roosters in the
State shat will be out of a job in Novem-
ber.
—All these people who are being killed
in automobile accidents or drowned in sea-
shore excursions on Sunday were prebably
real good little boys aud girls. We'll bet
they always went to Sunday school at least
three Sundays before the aznual Christmas
treat.
—With the clams and crabs at the sea-
shore begetting ptomaine poisoning, and
all the candy being condemued because of
the glucose and wineral dyes used in its
manufacture this bas certainly turned out
to be a bard-luck season for the summer
girl.
~The Chicago man who turned up the
other day, after an unexplained absence of
thirty years, presented bis wile with five
thousand dollars. He said be made it in
the Philippines. Here is the one case on
record to show that our new possessions
are not a losing venture.
—The new ‘‘Cascaret’’ poster that is be-
ing displayed ou the bill boards and blank
walls ie rather risque largely because of the
absence of lingerie but we can’t see much
use of making the fuss about it that some
communities are. Why should a peek-a-
boo skirt be any worse than a peek-a-boo
shirt waist.
—This Mr. AvcusTus WEBER, of Ches-
ter, who is in print just now with nearly a
column of advice about growing hair basn’t
aoything new. He is telling the old story
of how luxuriant bair can be secured by
always having it cut on the first Friday of
the fall moon. If you don’t believe it isa
fake come and look at ours, after years of
first Friday, full moon cutting.
—Why is this thusness ? The Canadian
government has placed a tariff on Ameri.
can trust products to prevent their being
sold in Canada cheaper than they are here.
Where are the fellows who keep howling
that American products are not sold cheap-
or abroad than they are at home? And
where are the fellows who tell you that
the foreigner pays your tariff tax.
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VOL. 51
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Penrose’'s Parposes and Methods,
Senator PENROSE has not only revealed
his purposes but he has exposed his meth-
ods with respect to the Senatorial succes-
sion upon the expiration of his term of of-
fice. He is a candidate for re-election and
allegiance to him is to be the test of fitness
of candidates for nomination for State Sen-
ator in the twenty-five districts in which
elections will be held this year. In other
words, every candidate for the Republican
nomination for State Senator must pledge
himself in advance to support PENROSE for
United States Senator and failing to do
that be will be defeated for the nomina-
tion if the PENROSE adherents bave the
strength to compass that result.
ALGERNON 8. ROBERTS is a candidate to
succeed himself in the senatorial seat of
the General Assembly for Montgomery
county. Mr. ROBERTS is a stalwart Re-
pablican, but wealthy enough to imagine
that he ought to be invited rather than or-
dered to do the things that the machine
wants done. The other day au emissary
of PENROSE waited upon him avd asked
for an expression of his views on the sub-
ject of re-electing the Senator. He declin-
ed to make a declaration and tried to
evade the question hy stating that be
wouldn’t announce himself for or against
any aspirant for that office until after the
election. PENROSE'S agent became very
indigoant at this and threatened to defeat
RoBERTS for the nomination, and to pun-
ish some of his friends.
We have no idea that Senator ROBERTS
was influenced te thie determination on ac-
count of his reprehension of the methods
of the machine. He is not what might be
called “finuiky’’ on such things. He did
not support the PURL bill during the last
regular session and voted against one or
two of the other measures which stunk.
Bat he didn’t regard them as political and
if he bad been shown that they would pro-
mote the interest of the party be would
have been ‘fer 'm’’ if they had been ten
times as bad. He was for the press muz-
zler and every other strictly partisan in-
iquity that was introduced and narrowly
escaped a public rebuke because of his per-
sistence in nrgiong the late Senator PATTON,
of this district, to vote for the muzzler.
We are not disposed to the mo-
re vila
quire 100 closely as to the reasons which
influenced Senator ROBERTS to refuse to
pledge himself to vote for the re-election of
PENROSE. It is a safe guess, however, that
if be is re-elected he will vote for that ma-
chine candidate, notwithstanding the stu-
pid blander of sending an incompetent, in-
stead of a diplomat to sound him. Heisa
corporation man and if Mr. Cassarr, in-
stead of some ward healer, bad appealed to
him, things would have looked different.
At the proper time the fit sort of au emis.
sary will be sent and meantime it is . safe
bet tht PENROSE won't oppose him either
for the nomination or election. :
Still we are glad the incident occurred.
It hasn't altered our opinion of ROBERTS,
but it has given the public an idea of what
sort of a campaign is to be expected and
what to look for from Republican candi-
dates for State Seuator, in the eveut that
they are elected.
——
The Fall Measure of Victory.
There is no question of the election of
Lewis EMERY Jr., and all his associates
on the Democratic ticket. The conditions
are vastly more favorable this year than last
when State Treasurer BERRY received
more than 75,000 majority. The strongest
element in the opposition then was the sup-
position tbat the machine was invincible,
Everybody knew of the changing condi-
tions but imagined that a change in the re-
sult from that of previous years was impos-
sible. Tens of thousands of uncertain vot-
ers, those that are known ae floaters, were
held to the line hy that delusion. This
year it is entirely absent. The presump-
tion of victory is on the other side.
Bat the election of the Democratic State
ticket will be less than half the battle. It
is equally important to carry the Legisla-
tare. For nearly a score of years well-
meaning and sincere men have been com-
plaining of the inadequacy of the constitu.
tion of the State. The fault is not in the
instrument. It is in the failure to enforce
it. This is io part av administrative ne-
glect. Bat the principal fault was in the
Legislature. The legislation to give force
and effect to the coustitution bas never
heen enacted. The corporation power was
too strorg to be overcome. It isthe duty
of the people, therefore, to elect a Legisla-
ture this year that will correct these faults,
The Republican machive bas pledged
itself to the passage of certain measures of
legislation which it bas been opposing for
years. It is “‘a promise to the ear to be
broken to the hope.’’ QUAY [requently
promised reforms but never fulfilled the
promises. After the danger that inspired
them bad passed, they were forgotten.
QUAY’S successors in the management of
the machine have adopted his methods.
Their promises are made to be broken.
The only way, therefore, to secure the leg-
islation to make the constitution effective
and work the other reforms which are
needed is to elect to the Senate and House
of Representatives men who are opposed to
the machine, in other words the Demoecrat-
ic candidates.
Republican Injustice to Labor.
Under the sanction of the administration
the Panama Canal commissioners bave de-
termined to employ Chinese coolies in the
construction work of that enterprise. The
excuee for this is that other types of labor
are unobtainable. It bas been asserted that
white men are unable to endure the coli-
mate. Colored men of this country will
not undertake the work and Jamaican
negroes are too indolent. It was necessary
to get the work done, the commissioners
add, and Chinese coolies were the only al-
ternative. President SAMUEL GOMPERS, of
the American Federation of Labor, remon-
strated, but to no purpose. Other labor
organizations protested unavailingly. The
President feels that he is strong enough to
stand against all opposition.
The pretense that it is impossible to get
labor other than Chinese coolies in the
canal zone isabsurd. If labor conditions
there were made as favorable as public
opinion compels them to be made here,
there would be no such difficulty to en-
counter. Not long ago the President
ostentationsly ordered that the eight hour
law be obeyed in all work for the govern-
ment. Bat in the caval zone where climat-
ic conditions make sbhrt shots essential
to life he permits the contractors to ivsist
on long hours. Other conditions are equally
inimical to labor in the zone. Wages are
not high enough considering the bazard of
the service. The President and his pets,
the canal commissioners, show too much
consideration for the contractors and not
enough for the workingmen.
President ROOSEVELT imagines thas he
can fool all the people all the time. In
another words, be thinks that a false pre-
tense of consideration for the interests of
labor at home will close the eyes of work-
ingmen to flagrant disregard for labor in-
terests some distance away. In this be is
mistaken. Workingmen are too intelligent
to be deceived by such a subterfuge and too
just to sanction wrong to others because
is
tory will not serve as an excuse either. It
is legally and morally territory of the
United States and in introducing coolie
labor both the Chinese exclusion law and
the eight-hour labor law are violated. But
the greatest evil is the injustice to labor.
Those Faces on the Doors.
“The mountain labored and brought
forth a mouse.’’ That is to say, the capi-
tol building commission met on Monday
and said nothing about the ‘‘strange faces’’
on the bronze doors. Only a few weeks
ago indignation was boiling and bubbling
out of the nostrils of former Governor
STONE on account of these faces. He de-
clared that his own would come off even if
he bad to file it off with his own toil-bard-
ened bands. In a subsequent interview
he promised to make things warm for the
architect, the contractor and all others who
could possibly be interested at the then ap-
proaching meeting of the commission. Bat
the meeting has been held and the ex-
Governor ‘‘piped as meekly as a sucking
dove.”
What inflaence has worked this marvel-
ous change in the temper of the ex-Gov-
ernor? Who has hypnotized him ? When
QUAY was living some of his admirers be-
lieved that there was some power in his
eye that subdued opposition and it bas
been said that many an impulse was re-
pressed by the sinister effect of a squint
out of that curiously formed eye. But
QUAY has ‘“‘gone before,’ so to speak, and
we know of no one gifted with that strange
power. PENNYPACKER'S leer tumbles
butterflies helplessly at his feet aod even
subdues the savage passions of the tumble
bog. But we can’t imagine that it would
have such an effect on the mind of STONE.
DURHAM is forceful at short range bat
could bardly assume the character of a
basalisk at a distance of 3,000 miles. Yet
something has happened.
Softly now. ‘‘It was the cat,” or possi-
bly it might bave been Justice Jonx P.
ELgIN. That distinguished jurist who
openly served notice on the public that he
would take politics with him on the bench
and bad his vote padded by several thous-
and bogus ballots as a reward for his can-
dor, bas a sarprising influence over STONE
and a deep attachment for the other crooks
who compose Architect HusTON’S group of
beauties, and be may have whispered
something soothing into the ear of jhis for-
mer chief and present philosopher that has
reconciled him not only to the brass faces
on the bronze doors but to association with
them in the capacity of door ornaments.
———Hon. James Wolfendon, of Lamar,
passed through Bellefonte Wednesday noon
on his way home from Altoona, making
the WATCHMAN officefa very brief call
while here between trains.
Some Signs of Reform.
It is gratifying to learn that the Presi.
dent ‘* bas become very much interested in
the reports of the bad meat supplied the
New York and Norfolk navy yarde and
has written to Secretary BONAPARTE to in- | tariff,
quireabons it.”’ It is one of the encour-
aging signs of reform. Similar indications
of a changed heart may have been noticed
elsewhere. Senator PENROSE, for exam-
ple, has become a strong advocate of better
methods in politics and public life. Former
insurance commissioner DURHAM is so
impressed with the importance of reform
that he declines to come home for fear that
his presence might in some way encourage
the municipal boodlers. Even Senator
Jim McNiIcHOL is protesting that public
work should be performed in the best
methods and contractors held to the striot-
est account in cases of delinquency, and
DAVE LANE tries to look like a saint.
President ROOSEVELT wasn’t always so
deeply concerned about tbe wholesomeness
of the meat fed to the soldiers and sailors
of the army aod navy. Duyring the Span-
ish war Major General NELSON A. MILES
filed a protest against the embalmed beet
which the Chicago meat trust was sending
to the army stationed in the; miasmatic
swamps of Caba. The President, who was
then an officer in the army, rather encour-
aged this action on the part of the com-
manding officer. Bat after, through the
friendly offices of an assass’'n, ROOSEVELT
became President, he seems to have chang-
ed the lenses through which he viewed the
matter. General MILES being nothing bus
a brave and brask soldier failed to discov-
erany reason for changing his mind on the
sabject, and persisted in his complaint
against the trust. The result was that he
was sharply rebuked by orders of the Pres-
ident, and inferentially told to mind hie
own business and let that of the meat trust
and the War Department alone.
Weare glad, beyond description, thas |
the President has come to take a different
view of the subject even though it may be
only a transient spasm of reform. Within
the nearly three months between this time
and the election much good may be achiev
ed if the President adheres to the policy
expressed in his orderjto the Secretary of
the Navy trom which we have quoted. But
we have no idea that it is an enduring
change of mind any more than we believe
that the expressions of reform which have
been coming at frequent intervals from
Senator PENROSE are sincere expressions of
a contrite heart, or that Iz DURHAM, DAVE
Lax and Jin McNicHoL have become
advocates of civio righteousness. It is sim-
ply a case of ‘‘good enongh MORGAN until
alter the election,’”’ which will be abandon-
ed when is ceases toserve the purpose of a
campaign ery.
Mr. Castle is a Victim.
Ol course nobody will ever know what
sinister influences worked on the mind of
HoMER L. CASTLE to entice him into the
service of the atrocious machine which be
bas always despised and denounced. At
the time of the Democratic State con-
vention it is known that he was anxious
for the nomination for Lieutenant Govern-
or on the ticket with Mr. EMERY. It is
believed that up until the moment that
the re-assembled LINCOLN convention put
JERE 8. BLACK on the ticket of that par-
ty Mr. CASTLE yet cherished the hope of
getting that nomination. Nevertheless
within a few weeks he consents to a course
which can’t possibly give him honor or
fame but promises a little help to the PEN-
ROSE pirates.
Dr. SwaLLow is & vindictive [man but
we bave never heard him acoused of venal-
ity. Yet in the campaign of 1808 Le per-
sisted in a hopeless candidacy for Governor
when he must have known that the only
effect of his running would be the defeat
of GEORGE A. JENKs and the election of
WiLLiaM A. StoNE. Mr. JENKS is the
very personification of the Christian states-
man. A man of the purest and most sim-
ple life he was without a fault in his bab-
its and reputation. Governor STONE wasn’t
exactly that type of a man. We make no
acousations against his honesty or his bab-
its. Bat be was different from JENKS in
every respect. He is almost the opposite
of the God-fearing countryman.
How Dr. SWALLOW reconciled his con-
gcience to the part he took in fthat cam-
paign we have never been able to find out.
What recompense he received for the po-
tential service to the machine has never
been explained. Itis true that his arch-
enemy, Captain JouN C. DELANEY, was
cast out of the public life of the Common-
wealth immediately after the inauguration
of Governor STONE, but that would hardly
compensate SWALLOW. It is not impossi.
ble, however, that the same influences
which kept SWALLOW in the field then
have inveigled CASTLE in this time and
that the reward, whatever it may be, hon-
orable or otherwise, will go to SwaLLow
rather than to CasTLE. In other words,
CASTLE is a viotim,
——=Sabsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
From the Philadelphia Racord.
According to the ‘‘stand-patters’’ the
great increase in the trade of the
United States is due for the most to
the wonder-worki of the Dingley
an sevision of the
reduced its daties on the ** 4
of the mother conntry without any
ment to its own commerce
It is to be observed that (without Trusts
to develop them) the industries of Canada
are in ; that its
lively imm on is chiefly drawn {rom
the United and that it has a 8
of canal iransportation that is rapidly in-
Steading Jie Silnmerce. While $ Caanda
ex millions u canals,
Sol country hae a. sunk $70,000,000
in the Phil Phiges without Do
e prospect of return. no
spoliatory tariff and no Trusts ; and neith-
er its ‘‘stand- '’ nor ite Jingoes nor
its Nativists (for it has its of all
these) are able, all combined, to interfere
with its liberal commercial and industrial
licy. Thus, free from obstructions that
there gv wd ry en:
no ng the the
march of Canada to its place in the front
rank of the world’s oe though bound
by nominal ties to the mother country.
Cranks Want Cranks Barred.
From the Pittsburg Post.
That model community which a notori-
ous novelist is izing new: New York,
has evolved a ra of rales and regula-
tions that seal its fate, were it not doomed.
Bat deep regret is felt that this fantastic
scheme may not last, for one provision of
membership is precious. No cranks are
allowed a residence. It requires only a
slight reasoning to show that this inevi-
tably will result in alluring nobody not a
orank to the idyllic settlement. That is
why regret is experienced. If by this mag-
netic attraction all the cranks, who deny
their crankism, could be impounded, out.
side communities might well afford to con-
tribute to its maintenance. Leper colonies
have been proposed, and the acquestration
of anarchists on some remote island. The
tion of cranks would sully surpass
either. Anybody reading the rules of this
dreamland will readily detect that they
have not been concocted by cranks, that is
by selfacknowledged cranks, but jast the
same, none of them would be able to get
past the secret service operatives at Saga-
rzore Hill.
One Clear Issue.
From the Pittsburg Sun.
The issue iv this State is one of good
government against bad. It is to determiue
whether the corrupt oligarchy, backed by
lawless public service corporations and
tainted with partisan misrale, shall be
hurled from power or not. Those who fail
to support the State and Legislative tickets
will be guilty of giving aid aod comfort to
the gang that has made Pennsylvania the
byword among the States for political cor-
ruption and misrule. There is no middle
course.
The Prohibitionist who votes his own
ticket this year and who carries out Cas-
tle’s wishes by attempting to defeat Em-
ery is doing that which will forever alienate
his party and its Jriagiplts from the con-
sideration of the forces who are now seek-
iog good State aud local government.
Once let this he secured, and all that is
best for the people in Probibition will more
easily follow. .
He Will Have to be Osslerized.
From the DuBois Express.
In spite of the fact that “Uncle Joe”
Cannon will be seventy-two in 1908 he is
Jersistent)y mentioned as a possible candi.
ate for the Presidency. Some peopleseem
BE a Shiasd wo aan Joog. 28 Hh
t no as r.
Cannon is able to take in i and
smoke rank cigars.
What it Takes to See the President
Fiom the Johnstown Democrat.
Of course that woman who tried to see
the President is mad. They said that
about Mrs. Minor Morris in excusing the
White House assault upon that venerable
lady. Anybody is crazy who tries to see
the President unless he has proper trust or
tion or machine credentials and
ro a0 to the presidential flunkeye.
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——The strzet commissioner has been
busy this week hauling cinders on
Allegheny street, going up jail hill, and
pow if we don’t have any of those very
bard rains before the cinder becomes
packed solid, the improvement will hea
good one.
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Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
mmm,
_ Spawls from the Key tone.
—Capitalists in Pottstown will organize a
company to furnish gas as lo v as 65 cents per
1,000 feet to large consumers. The maximum
price will be $1.05 per 1,000. The rate now is
$1.60.
—An epidemic of typhoid fever has broken
out in Harrisburg and an impure water sup-
piy is assigned as the cause of it. The new
filter plant does not appear to filter effec-
tively.
—Ounly 230 owners of dogs in Hazleton
have thus far paid the $1 license fee exacted
annually by councils, although it is esti-
mated that there are more than 1,000 canines
in the town.
—The heavy rains of the past week have
so raised the waters of the rivers that logs
and rafts are moving out of Clearfield creek.
Five rafts left there on Friday last for the
eastern market.
—Mayor Knies, of Hazleton, laid the first
brick on the extension of street paving, and
which will cost £50,000. The ceremony took
place in the presence of city officials, coun-
cilmen and citizens.
~The people of Bedford are going to in-
dulge in a union picnic on Thursday, Au-
gust 30th, Thisis a sort of old home day,
inaugurated several years ago and which has
of | become quite popular.
_ —Factory Inspector Delaney issued in-
structions to deputies to order the dismissal
of all children under 14 years of age em-
ployed in industrial establishments and to
prosecute employers.
~—Several weeks ago a little son of Mr. and
Mrs. George P. Eck, of Williamsport, swal.
lowed a tack, which lodged in one of the
lungs. Since that time the sufferings of the
little one were intense and it died on Wed-
nesday.
—The Perry county Red Men will hold a
reunion in Duncannon on Saturday, Sep
tember 15th. Prominent members of the
order of Philadelphia and Harrisburg will
be present to make addresses. There will
be a big parade in the afternoon. i
~The residents of DuBois have been
warned by the burgess of that town to boil
the water before using the same. This pre-
caution has been deemed necessary for the
reason that a case of typhoid fever has
developed in close proximity to the Ander-
son Creek reservoir.
~The council of Huntingdon, by a ma-
jority of one, bas defeated the resolution
that the chief of police and his assistants be
bas | instructed to see that the laws regulating the
observance of Sunday are enforced. There
was an animated discussion over the maiter
before final action was taken.
—Some time during Friday night burglars
entered the store of E. J. Sheal & Sons, at
Cresson, and departed with goods worth over
$100. The goods taken consisted of suits of
clothes, shoes, etc. The borough of Cresson
has no night policemen, and this is the
fourth robbery within a few weeks.
—Ira J. Dayton, one of the prominent
business men of Williamsport, died in the
hospital in that city Friday evening. He
was the head of the J. E. Dayton company,
manufacturers of shoes, and was regarded as,
one of the most progressive of the city’s
business men. His wife and two children
survive him. '
—A young man named Barrell, while pick-
ing berries near Farrandsville, Clinton coun-
ty, Monday, with a companion, ran acrossa.
den of snakes. They immediately proceeded
to work and when the round up was con-
cluded they had five reptiles. Four were
blacksnakes one measuring over six feet, and
one a copperhead.
—F. W. Ely, of Williamsport, now baving
a drug store at Clearfield, was robbed the
other night. Thieves broke into his store
and took papers, notes and checks valued at
$3,800 from his safe. Two men suspected of
the crime have been arrested. One of them
told where Mr. Ely’s valuables could be
found and they were recovered.
—The Lincoln party of Bedford county
held a convention in Bedford Saturday aud
indorsed the following ticket: Congress,
Joseph E. Thropp; State Senator, William
H. Koontz; Legislature, E. 8. Doty; director
of the poor, J. B. Cessna; jury commissioner,
A. A. Diehl. The ticket is the same as that
named by the Democratic connty conven.
tion last week. !
—An organization, under tke name of the
Larrys Creek Fish and Game club, com-
posed of 25 prominent Williamsport citizens
has been formed. A tract of land comprising
2,300 acres and located near Salladasburg has
been secured, aud will be converted into a
fish and game preserve. The land abounds in
game and is finely located. It is proposed to
stock the grounds with deer, and smaller
game; as a further attraction a $3,000 club
house will be built.
—While Ernest Sauers,a prosperous farmer
of Dry Hill, near Connellsville, was attend.
ing prayer meeting Wednesday evening, a
gang of boys entered his home and stole
$1,600. Thomas McGill, George Beatty,
Harry Holliday, Ray Baldwin and John and
Willie Sauers, nephews of farmer Sauers,
have been arrested on suspicion. Their ages
range from 15 to 20 years. The thieves evi-
dently knew that the farmer had drawn
$2,000 from a Connellsville bank a few days
ago to buy a new home.
—The borough of Wilmore has granted to
the Johnstown, Ebensburg and Northern
railroad, which is being promoted by J. C.
Hillebrand, ‘of Johustown, a franchise
through its streets. There is no compensa-
tion provided except that the road will pave
between its tracks and one foot on each side
and maintain six lights, one at each street
crossing and one at & bridge. Itis said Mr.
Hillebrand bas stated that be will offer the
city of Johnstown the sum of $100,000 for a
franchise through certain ow the streets.
—Elmer Garverick, aged 23 years, on Sun.
day was brought from the city poor house
to the home of relatives in Williamsport and
will be sent to Mount Ciemens, Michigan, in
the hope that mud baths will cure his pecul
jar ailment, ossification of the joints, it be-
ing impossible for him to move. Noted
specialists have failed to check the progress
of the disease and mud baths will be tried as
a last resort. Garverick sits night and day
ina wheel chairand requires constant at.
tention. For twelve months before he died
his father was similarly affected.
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