bas been to nominate him.
—TAFT certainly ought to be able to
keep the lid down in Caba. He is the!
heaviest man the President bad for the as- |
signment. i
—The man who can’t find a little time to
talk politics these days must certainly be
one of the wise (?) ones who are going short
on the market.
—It was too bad that the rain came yes-
terday for the Grangers had certainly a fine
layout at their picnic and were prepared to
entertain a great crowd.
—Joe Husrtox didn’t do so bad on the
state capitol. For being its architect he
received $350,000. It is no wonder that
a great building can make a man now-a-
days.
~The one thing that HoMER CASTLE
and Dr. SWALLOW seem to have forgotten
in their campaigning is Probibition, which
really is their only excnse to be campaign-
ing at all.
—What is the use of talking abont re-
form in Pennsylvania if a reform Legisla-
ture is not to be eleoted. JOHN NOLL must
be elected if Centre intends doing her duty
in the present contest.
—~-Mayor WEAVER, of Philadelpbia,
seems very much cut up because his friend
SHROYER was defeated for nomination for
district attorney. It should be a great com-
fort to the Mayor that he was beaten by as
good a man as GIBBONY.
—The Baltimorean who mailed President
ROOSEVELT a ten pound block of ice Ie-
cently must have thought there is a danger
of TEDDY'S spoiling. Or, possibly, he sent
itas a reminder that the President should
keep cool in the Caban affair.
—It Farmer CREASY doesn’t get every
farmer vote in Centre county then our
farmers have no right to talk about reduced
taxation and equal rights. He certainly is
their champion and has given the best years
of hie life to fighting their battles.
—In the Arabic there are said to be six
hundred words for camel aod while we are
not up on Arabic just now we are willing
to bet a reformed spelling book against a
volapuk primer that five bundred and
pinety-nine of them are cuss words.
—Now that you are the regular Repabli-
can nominee for the Senate in this district
there are just two questions we would like
to ask yon Mr. QUIGLEY :
Are you for or against the machine?
If elected will you cast your vote for Boise
PENROSE in the event that he is a candi-
date for United States Senator to succeed
himseil ?
—Every day the election of EMERY
seems wore certain. The fact that the new
personal registration law will probably
be the cause of the loss of two hundred
thousand voters in the various cities of the
State and as most of these are supposed to
be gang-controlled it means that the re.
form candidates will be minus that bhandi-
cap in the contest.
~—It is really amusing how easily our
friend Harter of the Gazette gets stirred up.
In truth, that is one of the reasons we en-
joy stirring bim so much. He complains
because we do not have ‘a kindly feeling’
for him in his fight for the post-office; in
all of which be is entirely mistaken be-
cause the very best thing that could hap-
pen the Democratic party in Centre county
would be to have him get that plnm from
the Republicans.
~The new ten million dollar capitol will
be dedicated on October 4th. President
RooseEVELT will make an address and
DaMroscH’s orchestra will play. It cer-
tainly sounds great and quite in keeping
with a reat State like Pennsylvania, but
isn’t it the irony of fate that the architect
of the great building should be suffering
with a broken ueck at the very mement of
bis crowning trinmph. Yes, the brass in
Joe's neck wasn’t strong enough to stand
the straio and it broke. Poor JoE.
~The advantage of baving an hcnest
man io the State Treasurer's office has been
made mauifest again. Do you think
the public would ever have known that
the new capitol cost six million dollars
more than the amount appropriated if
Mr. BERRY bad not been in a position to
find it ont and tell the people of the State
of the enormous swindle. Had LEE Pru.
MER been in the State Treasurer’s office you
may rest assured that the whole thing
would have been smothered and the public
would have continued under the impres.
sion that the building cost only four mil.
lion.
~The nomination of Mr. HENRY CUTE
QUIGLEY for Senator by the machine Re-
publicans is equivalent to serving notice on
Judge LovE that he is a has been in Cen.
tre connty politics. While Love and the
few petty leaders he can control were un-
deniably against QUIGLEY they were afraid
to come out in the open and inasmuch as
his nomination was made possible by PEN-
ROSE'S action in sending additional oon-
ferees into the dead-locked conference there
can be no doubt as to where PENROSE
stands as between LOVE and the new leader
of the Centre county Republicans. Of
course Mr. QUIGLEY will not be elected,
but he bas demonstrated his party strength
by having bad himsell nominated single
handed, because he knows, only too well,
that he received no aid whatever from the
—Well, it is quite certain that it wou't |
be as hard te elect our next Senator as it]
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down-and-out bosses of the county.
An Unfit Candidate.
m—
RosBerr K. YOUNG, the Republican
candidate for Auditor General, has been
attorney for the capitol building commis-
sion ever since its organization. It was his
duty to admonish the commission against
the violation of the constitution aod the
laws. He was morally as well as legally
bound to prevent the expenditure of the
public money except in the manner pre-
scribed in the statute. He knew the ap-
propriation for the completion of the new
capitol was limited to $4,000,000. Unless
he is a born imbecile, moreover, he must
have known that spending the fall amount
of the appropriation for the walls and roof
of the building was a violation of the law.
Yet be permitted the capitol! building com-
mission to commit that folly, though he
too bad taken an oath to ‘‘support, obey
and defend’ the constitution.
The principal duty of the Auditor Gen-
eral is to safe-guard the public fands and
prevent the unlawful expenditure of the
moneys collected from the people. He
holds to the state government practically
the same relationship which Mr. Youne
held to the capitol building commission as
its attorney. Would any sane man, unin-
fluenced by party prejudices, select for that
office a man whose misfeasance in a similar
position had just been revealed. The
chances are that it was his delinquency in
the matter in point that recommended Mr.
YOUNG to the machine managers for the
office of Auditor General. They reasoned
that having permitted looting in one office
he would not be likely to object to it in
another. Men are judged by their actions
as well as by the company they keep and
having served the looters in one office was
a recommendation for another.
The people of Pennsylvania want to get
rid of these official misfits. Asa matter of
fact they bave come to realize that there
must be reform in the public service or
ruin becomes inevitable. As QUAY knew
PENNYPACKER and nomivated him for
Governor hecanse he could fool the public
by that expedient, so PENROSE knew
YouxG and hoped tbe public wouldn't
find him out until after the election. But
State Treasurer BERRY got on the inside,
discovered the iniquity and exposed it.
The public now understands why YOUNG,
protessiig® be a reformer, is favored by
the machine. He is one of the machine
men in disguise. DURHAM couldo’t bave
done better if he had been counsel for the
commission. MeNicHOL couldn't bave
served the machiue to better purpose.
Mr. Gompers Wrong Again,
President GOMPERS of the American
Federation of Labor is, we very much fear,
organizing another defeats. That is to say,
if current reports are accurate be is pre-
paring to repeat in Illinois his failure in
Maine. In other words having failed to
defeat Representative LITTLEFIELD in
Maine be now proposes to tackle the in-
finitely more difficult task of defeating
Josern G, CANNON in Illincis. He will
fail, of course, for various reasons, and the
enemies of labor will say, as they did after
the Maine episode, that Mr. GOMPERS’
mistake was a vindication of CANNON'S
course in opposition to labor legislation.
As a matter of fact, however, it will be
nothing of the kind.
Mr. CaxxoxN has represented his district
in Congress for thirty years. He personal-
ly kpows every voter in toe district and by
his free and easy manner with thew bas
made himself immensely popular. At the
last election be received 30,550 votes out
of a total of 49,273. His plurality over his
Democratic opponent was 15,382 and the
Prohibition and Socialist vote combined
only totaled 3,555. The hopelessness of a
fight against such odds must be obvious to
any reasoving mind. If the district were
an industrial centre, it might be different.
But it is an agricultural region and the
voters take comparatively little interest in
legislation in the special interest of labor.
Mr. GompreErs made a splendid fight
against LITTLEFIELD in Maine bot as we
said at the outset of it,it was hopeless from
the beginning. He will probably put up
an equally masterful campaign against
CANNON in Illinois with precisely the same
result. Bat if he would direct his energies
and expend his efforts to the defeat of in-
conspicuous and unimportant Republican
candidates for Congress in close districts
where the labor vote is strong he might make
certain the overthrow of the Republican
majority in the House, defeat CANNON for
speaker and guarantee just labor legisla.
tion througu the medinm of a Democratic
majority. This district is a case in point
and Mr. GoMPERES ought to take notice.
— Iu order that the competition may be
purely local the managers of the Great
Centre County Fair have decided that in
the poultry exhibit only birds grown and
owned by Centre county people will be
entered for premiums. Of dourse there
will be the usual great exhibit of poultry
from some of the large New York poultry
farms, but they will not be in competition
for the premiums.
Looting of the Treasury.
When State Treasurer BERRY announced
in a recent speech that the new State
capitol at Harrisburg had cost nearer ten
than four million dollars, be shocked the
thoughtful people of the Commonwealth.
The amount fixed by law for the comple-
tion of the building was $4,000,000. It
was felt by those who ha! examived the
structure that splendid results bad been
achieved for the money. There could bave
been no graft, it wae reasoned, for the
magnificent building was sorth every
penny of the price, and when finally the
building commission announced the cover-
ing into the treasury of a considerable bal-
ance, the pepular impulse was to shout
“‘well done, good and faithful servants.”
The statement of Mr. BERRY, however,
revealed the fact that it was a false and
fraudulent pretense.
But what Mr. BERRY said is literally
trae. Careful investigation exposes the
fact that the $4,000,000 expended by the
commission simply paid for the walls and
the roof. They are good walls and the
roof looks substantial, though there are
rumors that inferior materials have heen
used in its construction. But if the walls
had been of the best and the roof a model
of excellence, $4,000,000 was too much to
pay for them. Every member of the com-
mission must have grafted like a pirate to
use up the appropriation in the walls and
the roof. At least hall the amount must
bave been stolen and the building mis-
sioners may be set down as the monumental
public thieves of the age. They have rob-
bed or wasted to an unparalleled extent.
But the building commissioners are not
alone culpable. The Commissioners of
Public Buildings and Grounds are equally
guilty. The board was composed, at the
time of the operations,of Governor PENNY-
PACKER, Aunditor General SNYDER and
State Treasurer MATTHUES. Each of these
gentlemen had taken a solemn oath that
he would ‘‘support, obey and defend’’ the
constitution of the State. That instrument
forbids the expenditure of money ‘‘except
on appropriations made by law.” There-
fore in spending nearly $6,000,000 of the
public fonds which had not been so ap-
propriated the members of the board not
only perjured themselves but committ
the crime of robbery. That iniquity fixes
the moral standard of Governor PENNY.
PACKER. His pretense of honesty has
vanished.
Nomination of Focht
The nomination of BENJAMIN K. FocHT
for Representative in Congress by the Re-
publicans of the Seventeenth district is an
insult to the public oonscience. Mr.
FOCHT represents all that is evil in poli-
tics. As Representative iv the Legislature
be participated in every iniquity of that
period and as State Senator his record is
equally infamous. He supported the press
muzzler, the franchise grabs, the various
water-snake measures and the atrocious
ballot bill, which he badn’t brains enough
to prepare but had the assurance to adopt.
He was foremost in every legislative in-
iquity of his time.
The nomination of FOCHT is a challenge
to the decent element of the district. It is
a menace to the integrity of publio life. Of
course it never would have happened in a
district in which the political margin was
parrow. But at the last election THAD.
MaAnoN bad 9,523 plurality over 0. C.
BOWERS, a gentleman of the highest cbar-
acter, and that led to the impression, prob-
ably, that the voters of the district would
stand for anything. The nomination of
FocHT will put the conjecture to the test.
He is about the limit. If they will vote
for him they are beyond the hope of rescue
from evil.
There ought to be some way of prevent-
ing so great a misfortane to the reputation
of the State as his election necessarily in-
volves. In the Nineteenth district the op-
ponents of the machine have fused on a de-
cent Republican with practical certainty
of defeating the renegade nominee of the
organization. If elected he will probably
vote against CANNON for Speaker and op-
pose some of the iniquities of the machine.
That will be the half loaf ‘‘that is better
than no bread.”’ A similar arrangement
in the Seventeeth district would certainly
avert the shame of the election of FocHT.
It ought to be tried.
The
———Centre county farmers will be es-
pecially interested in knowing that the
coming great fair in Centre county will at-
ford an opportunity of comparing the pro-
duots of their own farms and gardens with
those of another State. The Norfolk and
Western R. R. Co. through its agricultural
and industrial agent, Mr. F. H. LaBaume,
has decided to make a display of the pro-
duots of the State of Virginia and has asked
for a large section of the exhibition build-
ing for that purpose. This will be an es-
pecially interesting display because a num-
ber of Centre county farmers have already
migrated to Virginia and their friends and
neighbors here will be glad to see how pro-
ductive the soil of their adopted State is.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
‘BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 21, 1906.
Disgrace to Columbia County.
It is said that some personal enemies of
Wai. T. CREASY in Columbia county have
brought out an independent Democratic
candidate for the Legislature in the hope
of defeating that champion of the people
for re-election to the General Assembly.
It will be remembered that before Mr.
CREASY'S nomiuvation by the Democratic
State convention he had been unanimously
nominated in Columbia county for re-
election to the Legislature. No candidate
contested with him for the nomination be-
cause every man in the county koew it
would be useless. When he was subse-
quently nominated for Auditor General
the State party leaders urged him to re-
main on the legislative ticket and he re-
luctantly consented to do so.
For years Representative CREASY bas
been contending in the Legislature for cer-
tain reforms. The trolley freight idea is
his, the two cent a mile railroad fare is his
notion and the return to the counties of
certain taxes not needed by the State and
which will relieve the pecple of heavy local
burdens is his idea. They have been op-
posed by-the Republican machine hereto-
fore but are promised in the Republican
platform now. It is the consensus of opin-
ion among Democratic leaders, however,
that the purpose is to enact inadequate
wmeascres and they have urged CREASY to
go back to the Legielatare in order to force
real reforms. Though his election as Audi-
tor General is certain he can serve in the
House until the first of May and complete
the work in that time.
Since the opening of the State campaign
Mr. CREASY has been necessarily absent
from home. Taking advantage of that
fact certain political gorillas have under-
taken to put a candidate in the field against
bim for the Legislature. It is a most
cowardly and execrable trick. If be were
home they would no more think of such a
thing than a tit-mouse would think of at-
tacking a lion. But while he is absent in
the service of the Democratic party these
poltroons hope to divert enough of votes
from him to elect the Republican candidate,
They are his personal enemies and the peo-
ple love him because he has such enemies.
Bat it is a disgrace to Columbia county
bat they exist there.
Edwin 8, Staart's Delusion.
EpwiN 8. StuarRT formal opened
his campaign in a speech in the Academy
of Music, Philadelphia, on Saturday. The
meeting was managed by the notorious
VARE brothers, who as municipal contrac-
tors have been looting the city for years.
The old ‘‘organization’’ forces were out in
the old form and one might easily have im-
agined that the machine had resumed busi-
ness at the old stand. Of course DURHAM
was absent. He is in California for health
and safety, as yet, but hopes for better
things. Bat McNicHoL was on band and
HaypPy MOORE was conspicuons and PETER
BoyD was present so that probably it was
just as well that DURHAM couldn't ‘lend
hig presence’’ to grace the occasion.
Mr. STUART'S speech was characteristic.
It was amiable in tone and promising in
the extreme. It endorsed every word of the
platform of the Republican State couven-
tion aud the candidate pretended to take
them and himself seriously. He was al-
most as solemn as PENNYPACKER who
four ;'ears ago made precisely the same
pledges and forgot them before the votes
were counted. PENNY fooled the public
because his previous record had been to
some extent in line with his promises. Bat
STUART never in his whole life bas given
a word in encouragement of reform either
in administration or legislation. He has
invariably been obedient to the machine
and everybody knows that he always will
be.
The adwinistration of PENNYPACKER is
an admonition against she election of Stu-
ART. No public official had ever been
more generous in promises of improvement
and we believe that no man ever was more
sincere. But he didn’t properly estimate
the strength of the machine or the weak-
ness of the individual. The State has
never had a Governor as subservient to the
wachine and no candidate for the office
was as determined in declaring the op-
posite purpose. Mr. STUART occupies a
precisely similar position. He imagines
that after the election his wishes will be
respected, but as a matter of fact they will
not even be considered except in so far as
they are in accord with the plans of the
machine.
-—The wany friends of Randolph
Breese in this place will be pleased to learn
that he has been appointed assistant master
mechanic of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago railroad, with headquarters at Fort
Wayne, Ohio. The appointment was en-
tirely unsolicited, being made because the
officials believed it merited and that he was
the right man for the place. This is the
same position that George L. Potter, now
third vice president of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, first filled with the P. F.
W. & C. railroad.
Quigley Nominated for State Senator.
At the Republican senatorial cenference
held in Philipsburg, last Saturday
afternoon, Henry C. Quigley Esq., of this
place, was nominated for State Senator on
the second ballot. At the conference on
Taoesday of last week it was decided to ap-
peal to the State committee for the appoint.
ment of two extra conferees, as provided
by the rules of the party, inasmuch as the
conference had been deadlocked for more
than a mooth. Consequently Harry Kel-
ler, of this place, was appointed the extra
conferee from Centre county, and W. L.
Snyder was appointed extra conferee from
Clearfield county. At Saturday’s con-
ference the first ballot stood four for Quig-
ley and four for Alexander but on the sec-
ond ballot Quigley was nominated by re.
ceiving the vote of Snyder, of Clearfield
county, and the four votes of the Centre
county conferees. His nomination was
then made unanimous.
——On Wednesday Mrs. Nora McClain,
of north Allegheny street, was just eighty-
seven years old and the fact is all the more
interesting because she is the oldest woman
in Bellefonte and still bale and hearty,
Owing to the recent death of her son
Austin the event was not celebrated but
quite a number of her neighbors called to
felicitate with her upon her anniversary,
It is hoped that the aged lady may live
many more years to enjoy such bright
birthdays.
Gangs Exclusive Property.
From the Altoona Times.
Exceedingly bad taste was displayed hy
the state capitol commission when it ex.
tended an invitation to Mr. Stuart to bea
guest on the occasion of the dedication of
the state house, while Mr. Emery was en.
tirely ignored. It serves to give the im-
pression that the capitol, instead of being
the property of the whole people of Penn-
sylvania, is reserved exclusively for the
Republicans, or that portion denominated
as gangsters. For a good many years this
class has regarded not only the offices of
the State, but the state Joperty as well, as
their exolusive prey. ey bave been in
complete control and there ie no gainsaying
that they have made the beet of it. But
since the gang bas made a profession of a
change of beart and an outward show of
righteousness and a regard for the rights of
those not embraced in its exelesive coterie
of conecienceless rascals, it should have
carried out the farce to the extent of ac-
cording Mr. Emery the same consideration
that was accorded Mr. Stuart.
ge inention is to uke the dedication
of the capitol serve the political purposes
of the machine. It Ee te op-
portunity of getting a whack at the public
treasury, for the State will bear the expense
of the celebration. Mr. Stuart will be
there and so will Penrose, McNichol, and
all the other big and little machine bosses
and hangers-on. Mr. Emery won't be
present, at least officially, for he might,
perbaps, say something that would disturb
the peace of mind of those who are engi-
neering the job. It would be very em-
barrassing il in the presence of the as-
sembled multitude, some one might inad-
vertently refer to the six millions of dol-
lars that have been concealed in the edifice,
after the statement was made that the ex-
penses had been kept within the appro-
papiation of $4,000,000.
r. Emery need not worry over the
slight. All the signs indicate that he will
have av office in the imposing pile next
year, and then be can look around to his
heart's desire. This may be Mr. Stuart's
last chance to have a look-in officially, and
he may make the most of the opportunity.
A Changed tssne.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
There is certainly something very funny
about the Maine election. In the ‘‘good
old days’’ our antiquated political parents
are ¢o fond of referring to, it was always
considered that the union would follow any
example set by Maine in elections. This
has gone out of style in these later years
yet when Maine is to vote all eyes are turn-
ed io that direction, and the balloting is
watched with great interest. In the cam-
paign that has just closed, most of the ‘big
guos’’ of the Republican party were called
on for assistance. Their eloquence and
logic were on tap for the g. o. p., and they
made the pine woods ring with their ora-
tory. There were Taft, Lodge and Can-
pon, Beveridge and a host of others. The
burden of the song of all these was that the
only issue in the campaign was the admin-
istration of President Roosevelt. The vot-
ers were told over and over that the Presi-
dent was on trial before the people and
they ought to give him a rousing endorse.
ment. The oratory ceased and the bal-
loting came on. The ballots bad not all
been counted until it was discovered there
had been a very decided slump in the Re-
publican vote, although the number of
votes cast was much larger than four years
before. The funny part of it now came to
front. It would not do to let it be said
the le had gone back on the President,
80 his friends at once discovered that pro-
hibition was the issue and not the Presi.
dent, and that it was prohibition that bad
caused the great loss to the Republicans.
Focht's Claim on the Gang.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent,
Mr. Focht's principal achievement, while
a member of the Senate, was the
ration of the present bal-
ot upon the voters of the State and re-
tention of the cause in the Quay ballot law
which permits indiscriminate assistance to
the voter under cover of which bri can
be committed in the election booth. He is,
no doubt, an ideal canlidate—for the ma-
e.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone,
~One Schuylkill valley farmer has al-
ready gathered 7,000 heads of cabbage from
his patch,
~The assessors of Perry county have con-
cluded their labors and have discovered that
there are 6,465 voters in that county.
—For the sum of $8,000 Josiah B. Hoffman
has purchased the entire village of Hillegass,
Montgomery county, excepting one double
house,
—Ex-Councilman Samuel Cocklin, of Cum-
berland county, has been sent to jail for two
years and sentenced to pay £400 fine for em-
bezzling $400 in tax money.
—Dr. J. H. Funk, of Boyertown, declares
that his peach crop, instead of being a fail-
ure, is twice as large as at first anticipated
and that it will reach 3,000 bushels.
~Charles Williams, tax collector of Gibson
township, Cameron county, was waylaid
Wednesday and robbed of £600, which he
nyo to Emporium to deposit ina
—George Daugherty, of East Liverpool,
Perry county, a student at Juniata College,
Huntingdon, fell from a freight train Sun.
day and was instantly killed. His body was
terribly mangled.
—The chestnut crop in Clinton county this
year promises to be large and will bring
hundreds of dollars into the pockets of those
who make a business of gathering them each
autumn as a means of profit,
~The Reading Coal and Iron company has
determined to clear all the mine workings
in the Heckscherville valley of water to
make available large coal deposits which
have been covered in drowned.out workings
for years.
~—While addressing a jury in the court
room at Smethport, on Saturday, Eugene
Mullen, one of McKean county's most prom-
inent citizens, was seized with a sinking
spell which terminated in bis death on Sun-
day afternoon.
—Recent sales of farms ir Montgomery
county show a remarkable depreciation in
value. One farm of eighty acres, having a
grist mill and other buildings on it, which
brought $33,000 twenty years ago, has just
been sold at public sale for $8,000.
—Mount Joy lays claim to be the home of
the oldest and heaviest twin teachers in the
State. They are Mame and Louisa Kuhns,
born fifty-three years ago, teaching in the
Mount Joy schools for thirty-six years and
weighing an aggregate of 501 pounds.
—C, Curtis Snyder, a Williamsport carpen-
ter who fell twenty feet off a roof over a
year ago, and broke bis back, has so far re-
covered that he can get around in a wheeled
chair. His limbs are paralyzed but he ex-
pects to walk with the aid of crutches. At
first it was thought he would die.
—At a special session of the Gallitzin
school board held Thursday evening it was
decided to close the schools until the ques-
tion of whether or not there were cases of
diphtheria amoung the pupils had been de-
cided. It was reported that several of the
4 scholars were ill with the disease.
—0On Wednesday last Irvin Winkleman, of
Flemington, Clinton county, left his home
on a fishing expedition. He had been miss.
ing ever since until last Saturdesy morning,
when his body was found in Bald Eagle
creek, near Mill Hall. A number of rela-
tives of the deceased live in Centre county.
~Chief of Police Cassidy, of Mt. Union,
shot and killed Edgar Smith, a negro of
Huntingdon, last Friday, in Mt. Union.
Smith was charged with threatening the life
of a citizeu, and when the officer attempted
to arrest him Smith drew a revolver, but
before be could use it Officer Cassidy shot
him. The coroner's jury exonerated Cas-
sidy.
—Residents of Cumbler's Heights, » small
village between Harrisburg and Highspire,
awoke Tuesday morning to find that 26
houses had been entered and looted between
midnight and 3.30 in the morning. The
robbers broke into cellar windows and jim-
mied their way to the upper floors, where
they secured money in every home, but in
no case over $10,
—In the baru of a hotel at St. Clairsville,
Bedford county, R. H. Willhide, a stove
agent, found a wallet containing checks for
$6,000 and 81,700 in money of all denomi-
nations, amounting, all told, to $7700. In
the hotel office be found the owner, a Hol-
lidaysburg man. Willbide turned the money
over to him, but the only reward was an in-
vitation to visit him in Hollidaysbhurg.
~The annual meeting aud reunion of the
Thirteenth Penusylvania Cavalry Associa-
tion will be held in the court house at Hunt-
ingdon, Thursday, October 18th, at 2 p. m,,
to be followed by a camp fire at the same
place in the evening. Captain P. D. Brick-
er, of Jersey Shore, Lycoming county, is
president of the association and Lewis Mec
Makin, of Philadelphia, is the secretary.
—Warren is preparing to entertain the
three hundred persons who will visit that
city October 9th to 11th for the purpose of
attending the thirty-second annual conven-
tion of the directors of the poor and charities
of Pennsylvania. Many delegates are like.
wise expected from the children’s aid socie-
ties. The meetings will be held in the court
house. Some very interesting papers will
be read.
—Coal has been siruck in the third opening
at the Broad Top Coal and Mineral compa-
ny's mines at Jacobs, in the Rock Ridge
field, Huntingdon county, after two
months’ work on the drift. Side tracks, a
tipple and scales are being placed so that
shipments can be made from the new open-
ing at once. The company is now mining
and shipping from 175 to 190 tons of coal
daily and expect to soon increase their daily
output to 250 tons.
—Papers were filed in the State Depart-
ment at Harrisburg, last Friday, merging
the Susquehanna Central, Tioga and Clinton
and the Pittsburg, Binghamton and Eastern
milroad company, and providing fer the
construction and operation of a line in Clear-
field, Clinton, Centre, Lycoming, Elk, Tio-
ga and Bradford counties, in Pennsylvania,
starting at Hyner, Clearfield county, and ex-
tending to Binghamton, New York. The cap-
ital stock of the company is $20,000,000. The
papers name F. A. Sawyer, of Canton, Pa.,
resid ent.
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