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Bellefonte, Pa., September 14, 1906.
Democrats Polled Largest Vote 1m
History of the State.
C. E LITTLEFIELD RE-ELECTED
Portland, Me., Sept. 11.—Governor
William T. Cobb, of Rockland, Repub-
lican, standing on a plf¥form devoted
almost exclusively to a continuance of
the prohibitory law of the state, was
re-elected by a plurality of less than
8000, with but few exceptions the
Spalient margin of votes ever given a
ublican governor in the state of
Maine.
Cyrus W. Davis, of Waterville, the
Democratic candidate for governor,
polled one of the largest votes in the
history of the party in this state. His
§ssue in the campaign was the re-sub-
mission of the liquor question which
was incorporated in the state legisla-
ture four years ago.
More interesting from a certain
standpoint was the re-election of Con-
gressman Charles E. Littlefield, Repub-
lican, of the Second district, by a great-
1y reduced plurality. Congressman Lit-
tlefield’s candidacy was the subject of
bitter opposition on the part of Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, who asked for his
defeat on the grounds that he had
voted against certain labor measures &t
the lase session of congress.
The issue batween Gompers and Lit-
tlefield was taken up by the Republi-
can congressional committee, and for
three weeks the district has been the
scene of a hard fight, in which Secre-
tary of War William H. Taft, Senator
Lodge and Senator Beveridge and sev-
eral congressmen were pitted against
the head of the American Federation of
Labor.
Mr. Littlefield’s plurality is estimated
at about 1000. Congressman Edwin C.
Burleigh, of Augusta, Republican, was
re-elected in the Third district by an
estimated plurality of 2000, and 3
gressman Llewellyn Powers, of Houl-
ton, Republican, in the Fourth district,
by a plurality estimated at 2000. The
re-election of Congressman Ames L.
Allen, of Alfred, in the First district,
§s claimed by the Republican leaders.
The legislature will be Republican by
a safe margin.
GRADE CROSSING HORROR
Three Killed and Twenty Injured
When Train Hit Trolley Car.
Philadelphia, Sept. 8.—Three men
were killed and a score of others in-
jured in a grade crossing accident at
25th street and Passyunk avenue, near
the Atlantic Refining company’s plant.
A trolley car containing about 50 pas-
sengers, all men returning from work
at the oil refinery, was struck by a
train of empty tank cars on the Penn-
sylvania railroad. Owen Sweeney,
aged 25 years, was ground to pieces
under the wheels of a tank car, and
Julius Bewar, aged 60, and an un-
known man died later at a hospital.
Twenty others were conveyed to var
fous hospitals, but ncne of these is
believed to be seriously injured.
A shifting engine was backing the
train, and the motorman of the trolley
car thought he could cross the railroad
tracks before the tank cars reached
the point. The last tank car struck
the trolley car full in the side, over
turning it and forcing it 15 feet along
the railroad track.
JUMPED FROM BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Unknown Man Successfully Makes
Daring Leap of 135 Feet.
New York, Sept. 11.—An unknown
man, a passenger on a trolley car on
the Brooklyn bridge, left the car when
the central span of the bridge was
reached and jumped to the river be-
low. A tug stopped and picked up
the bridge jumper.
Persons who had observed the man’s
act and his rescue said that he struck
the water feet first and that when he
reappeared he seemed none the worse
for his leap of 135 feet and swam with
strong stroke to the tug which picked
him up. :
From the man's actions and the fact
that he signalled to some friends on
the bridge after his rescue the ob-
servers were inclined to think the
man was a professional bridge jumper.
The tug steamed away after the res-
cue.
GOVERNOR STOKES ILL
Chief Executive of New Jersey Taken
Sick On a Train.
Trenton, N. J., Sept. 10.—Governor
Stokes, while on his way to Trenton
from his home in Millville, was taken
{ll on a train. The governor with much
difficulty reached his apartments in this
city, although without assistance. Dr.
H. P. Norton, who was summoned,
stated afterwards that the governor
was unwell and that he would require
several days of absolute rest. The gov-
ernor’s condition is not regarded as
serious.
Mayor of Erie Dead.
Erie, Pa., Sept. 11.—Mayor R. J.
Saitsman, of Erie, died at Cambridge
Springs. He suffered a stroke of par-
alysis last week in the dining room of
a hotel at the springs, since which
time his life had been slowly ebbing
away.
Boozer Leaves Prison a Free Man.
‘Wilmington, Del, Sept. 11.—John
Boozer, colored, alias Charles Thorne.
who two years ago was convicted of
the murder of George D. Farra, in De-
Some Theories
And a Bear Trap
By C. B. LEWIS
Rokk hd
Copyright, 1908, by M. M. Cunningham
Uncle Peter Scott, farmer on the out-
skirts of the village of Hillside, had
lost his geod wife, and his daughter
Jennie kept house for him. He had got
to be fifty years old and finicky, while
she had got to be twenty and was
called one of the nicest girls in Adams
county.
Tom Barlow, the youngest of the vil-
lage merchants, agreed with all others.
He had driven out to see Jennie on half
a dozen occasions on Sunday after-
noons, and it was whispered around
that a marriage would come of it. The
father had scratched his head and said
nothing, but in his own mind hé had
regarded it as a good match.
All was going well when an interrup-
tion suddenly occurred. Mr. Barlow
dealt in hoes, rakes and shovels as well
as in dry goods and groceries. Uncle
Peter bought a hoe of him and started
into the cornfield one morning to make
the dirt fly. The hoe pleased him, the
alr was balmy and the corn was knee
high and still growing. He was hum-
ming to himself and wondering how
long before he would lose Jennie when
he pulled over a sod with his hoe and
caught sight of a big fat mole under-
neath,
The life or death of that mole bad
little to do with the future prosperity
of Adams county, but Uncle Peter
jumped in with intent to slaughter. He
made three or four blows with the hoe
and finally one tremendous blow. The
mole was immolated, but at the same
time the handle of the hoe was broken
and the old man fell forward and
plosved his nose into the ground. He
got up mad. He was mad at the mole,
the hoe and himself, and he jumped up
and down and used cuss words,
One does not remain mad at himself
very long. He finds some one else to
blame for the whole thing. In this
case Uncle Peter put the calamity on
the shoulders of Mr. Barlow. He had
sold him a hoe handle that was weak
in the back—sold it with intent to de-
fraud and deceive. Uncle Peter had
gold short tons of hay more than once.
but when any one cheated him he look-
ed upon it as a wrong to all humanity.
He was near the roadside fence when
he massacred the mole, and he had
just got the dirt out of his mouth after
the fall when a man he knew came
driving along in his buggy.
He naturally asked what was the
matter, and the old man cut loose. He
called the merchant a cheat, fraud and
swindler and vowed by the whiskers
of his ancestors that he would never,
never buy aught more of him. He
wanted his words repeated, and they
were,
When the father went up to the
house after another hoe and the daugh-
ter asked what was the matter he had
more to say about the merchant and
something particular to say to her. He
made more fuss about that broken hoe
handle than the county commissioners
bad In building a bridge over Goose
creek, and he ended off with:
“Now, you gal, listen to me. If that
swindler ever sets foot on my land
ag’'in I'll e-r-u-s-h him as I would a-a-a
mouse!”
Jennie argued and protested and
tried to soothe, but the father was ob-
durate. He told her of the message
he had sent to town, and she wrote a
few lines of excuse to Mr. Barlow and
sent them by a passing boy. That aft-
ernoon several persons had several
theories to advance to themselves.
Uncle Peter held to his anger. His
theory was that Mr. Barlow would
drive out in the evening and try to get
speech with Jennie and seek to excuse
his disgraceful conduct in selling for
25 cents a hoe not worth a dime,
Jennie's theory was that the mer-
chant would drive out with half a doz-
en hoes In his buggy and tell her fa-
ther to take them all, but she feared
the result. The old man was mad ali
through, and it always took him at
least a week to get over one of his fits.
Old Mrs. Davis, who lived just across
the road, heard something about the
broken hoe, and her theory was that
there would be a row of some sort and
that she would be there to hear and
to see.
The merchant didn’t have any par-
ticular theory. He simply made up his
mind to drive out to Uncle Peter's and
tell him to come in and help himself
to hoes, rakes and shovels without
stint.
Nothing further of moment happened
during the day. It was after supper
when Uncle Peter was milking the
the last twenty years,
new theory. Her father
tended that some one should walk into
that trap. It must be the man
sold him the deceptive hoe that he
laying for. Old Mrs. Davis kept
eye on the Scott homestead
sundown and dark, and, though no
tragedy took place, she turned to her
husband and said:
“Andrew, something is goin' to hap-
pen. I feel it in my bones. I've got
a theory that there's goin’ to be awful
doin's across the road tonight.”
bed. That was his chance, He jump-
ed down on the grass and ran for his
cember, 1897, was pardoned by GOv-| bear trap and set It just inside the gate
pardon board.
Lea on the recommendation of . and ten minutes later was winding up
the elock with an innocent expression
y countenance calculated to deceive
the cat.
“Now, why did father linger be-
Lind?" asked Jennie of herself as she
went upstairs, and, poking ber head
out of a front window, she saw him
engaged in some nefarious business on
the path—something that she investi-
gated fifteen minates later and
dragged to one side on the lawn.
The merchant had been detained. He
bad also forgotten that farmers re-
tired to their beds when the hens went
to roost. It was 10 o'clock when he
came driving out. Jennie heard him
coming and walked down the road to
meet him. Knowing her father as she
did, she knew that a present of a
dozen new hoes that night would not
suffice to soothe his injured feelings.
It would be best to notify Mr. Barlow
of this fact and tura him back and say
good night.
At about the hour mentioned above
Uncle Peter roused up out of a doze
with a new theory. It was to the ef-
fect that some lightning rod men
might come along in the night and
seek to arouse the house for lodgings
and step into that waiting bear trap,
He was about to get up when he re
membered that a man of lightning had
cheated him out of $10 five years be-
fore, and he therefore decided not to
budge. He had just come to this de-
cision when old Mrs. Davis said:
“Andrew, I'm goin’ to get up and go
over to Scott's.”
“What fur?’ he dreamily asked.
“I've got u theory that Uncle Peter
has hung himselt in the wood shed.”
“Nonsense!”
“Don't say ‘nonsense’ to me. I never
had a theory yet that didn't turn out
right. I'm goin’ right over there, and
if you hear me yell out you'll know
what has happened.”
She partly dressed and left the house,
Jennie and Mr. Barlow and the horse
and buggy were not so far away that
she could not have made them out had
she been less occupied with her theory,
but as it was they escaped her notice.
The wood shed to every well regulated
house is in the rear. It was so in the
case of the Scott home. To reach it
old Mrs. Davis had to leave the straight
path, and she hadn't made above ten
steps when there was a scream and a
long drawn yell to freeze the blood of
all hearers. Uncle Peter heard it as he
was beginning to dream of broken hoe
handles and fat moles, and he jumped
out of bed.
Old Mr. Davis heard it as he dozed
and wondered about theories, and out
of bed he came with his hair trying to
stand on end. Jennie and Mr. Barlow
heard it and started forward with ex-
clamations of alarm, and thus it hap-
pened that the four reached old Mrs,
Davis at about the same time. She
had been caught in the bear trap, of
course. In leaving the path she had
stepped fairly into it, and as the jaws
came together she felt, as she said
afterward, that the last day had come
and she was ready to sail away.
There was an exciting time for the
next ten minutes. The poor old woman
was frightened half to death, and a
good deal bruised by the teeth of the
trap, and while she was being carried
across the road her husband was an-
nouncing his determination to have sat-
isfaction under the law. Uncle Peter
realized that his theory had failed, and
Jennie and Mr. Barlow had been dis
covered conspiring, as it were. It
wasn't until the victim had been put
to bed, her hurts attended to by a doc
tor and her husband calmed down by
a promise that the right thing should
be done that Uncle Peter turned on the
young folks and demanded:
“well, what you got to say about all
this?"
“Nothing, father,” answered Jennie.
“Nothing, Mr. Scott,” added the mer-
chant.
“Wall, I dunno as I have, either,” ob-
served the mole killer, as he jogged into
the house and left the others at the
gate to talk things over.
One of the Family.
“Are you the editor that takes In
the society news?” inquired the caller,
an undersized man, with a timid, ap-
pealing look on his face.
“Yes, sir,” replied the young man at
the desk. “I can take in any kind of
news. What have you?"
“Why, it's this way,” said the caller,
lowering his voice: “My wife gave a
swell party last night, and I'm willing
to pay to have this report of the affair
put in your paper.”
“We don't charge anything for pub-
lishing society notes,” observed the
young man at the desk, taking the
proffered manuscript and looking it
over.
“That's all right,” was the reply.
“You don’t understand. I wrote this
up myself, and I put in a line or two
that says, ‘Mr. Halfstick assisted his
distinguished wife in receiving the
guests.’ That's the way I want it to
go In, and I don’t care if it costs $5 a
line. I want my friends to know, by
George, that I still belong to the fam-
fly!”
Not Soon Enough.
A man who is now one of the leading
members of the Stock Exchange was
rather wild in his youth, which is not
an exclusive characteristic of this
member of the Stock Exchange. But
this man was a favorite with his moth-
er and generally called on her to help
him out of his scrapes, and she usually
responded freely, even lavishly. On
one occasion, however, when his de-
‘mands had been especially frequent
‘and extravagant, it was with consider-
able trepidation that, on discovering
himself “the morning after” in a dis-
tant city and picked as clean as a new
fledged sparrow, he penned the follow-
ing heart moving appeal, to be sent
C. OD:
“Send $50 and save disgrace.”
His worst fears were realized when,
an hour later, he received the reply
from his mother, “Too Ilate.”—New
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Burlington Engineers May Strike.
Chicago, Sept. 11.—A - serious labor |
situation, affecting the entire Burling- |
ton railroad system, developed follow- |
ing the adoption of a new and radical |
rule by the company. Engineers obliged |
to wear eye glasses by fhe new rule!
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as a last resort.
Dropped Dead Returning From Church
Johnstown, Pa, Sept. 10.—Rev. Dr.
Owen James, pastor of the First Bap-
tist church of this city, died sud-
denly while on his way home from ser-
vices. Dr. James was ordained a min-
ister in 1879. He was pastor following
that, of the North church, in Washing:
ton, D. C.; the First Baptist church, in
Scranton, Pa.; Hatboro, near Philadel-
phia; Hollidaysburg, Titusville and:
Johnstown. From 1895 until 1898 he
was president of Roger Williams Uni-
versity in Nashville, Tenn. The re-
mains will be taken to Scranton for
interment Wednesday.
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Robbed Woman of $51,790.
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gave their names as Frank Kiss, a rug
dealer, and Samuel Rosenfield, a com-
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28. According to the complaint, $48,000
of the money that the prisoners are
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