Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, September 28, 1906, Image 1

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    sBY 2. GRAY MEEK.
be ink Slings.
“ -—Mr. QUIGLEY can’t be Senator this
time. Machine men need not apply.
—At last we have a candidate for State
Seoator. He is a good one. Now to elect
him.
—~We are all ready to benevolently as-
similate the Cubans. The army is afoot
and the pavy is under steam.
—1t all this talk about typhoid fever in
oysters isn’t stopped soon the months with
1 in will lose balf their prestige.
—Vote lor JorN NoLy for Assembly and
be sure that you are helping along the
cause of purer government in Penusylva-
nia all you are able to.
—The reason you haven't beard avy-
thing about the frost being on the pump-
kin from the rural newspapers is because
they know that all the frost is on STUART.
— Notwithstanding the note of alarm
that typhoid lurks in the loscious bivalve
it will be perfectly safe to eat the stew that
is set before vou at the average church
festival.
—ExMERY and BERRY will be in Belle
fonte on the night of October 108b. It will
be a great raliy for reform and reformers
from all parts of the county should be here
y to hear them.
—Jsn't that Atlanta race riot good for a
little space in some of the partisan north-
ern papers that bave already forgotten the
frightful one at Youngstown, Ohio, only a
few months ago.
—Under the new foot-ball rules this
season the play is to be more open. This
is to give the spectators a better opportu.
nity to see who gets siugged and which one
of the warriors does the trick.
—-A singular coincidence is recorded in
the fact that the elepbant on which Lord
and Lady CURZON rode in the Delhi dur-
bar, in India, died in that city on the very
day that Lady CURZON died in London.
—Spain bas six hundred thousand per-
sons with bandles to their names, or ove to
every thirty-eight of inhabitants. We
don’t know exactly how many Colonels
there are in Kentucky, but we never heard
of a Kentuckian who isn’t one.
—At last Cassie CHADWICK bas given
up hope of evading punishment on a tech-
nicality and has settled down to serve out
her ten years’ sentence. How sad that a
woman who was such a good one at land-
ing suckers shonld have to he penned up.
—The Chinese coolies who are to work
on Uncle SAM’s hig ditch across the Isth-
mus are to receive the munificent sum of
eight cents aday. Now when it comes to
equal rights among wen doesn’t this make
our Uncle SAMUEL look something like
thirty-cents.
—Poor Mayor JoHN WEAVER, of Phila-
delphia, is baving his own troubles. Now
they are talking about impeaching him be-
cause he is said to have tried to use his po-
lice in a loea! political contest in which he
was interested. Verily, the gang makes
the way of the honest official very trouble-
some.
—A local minister settled the ‘‘tainted
money’ question quite to the satisfaction
of his hearers on Sunday morning when
he declared that he had no objection to
tainted money because he believed that it
had been in the devil's hands long enough
aod the sooner it got to working for the
Lord the better.
—The Secretary of Agriculture has ruled
that packers dare no longer put the picture
of a pig on a can of old beef and call it
pork. The people of Pennsylvania will
promulgate an order on November 6th that
will show the machine that it can no long-
er put the stamp of respectability on its
gold-bricks and call them pure.
—State Treasurer BERRY made the most
startling and most interesting political
speech ever heard in Bellefonte, when he
was here on his own campaigning tour last
fall. He is helping more reformers into a
position where they can help him so be
ln will come to Bellefonte with Mr. EMERY
and his party for the great reform rally on
the night of Octobtr 10th.
—We don’t know what director of pub-
. lic salety POTTER, of Philadelphia, did that
urged him to resign, but certain it is that
he knows how to talk when out of office.
Listen, this is what he says : ““The resig-
pation of a director or so is not a campaign
jssme. Don't let us get side tracked on
that. Let us keep our eyes dead ahead on
the November election and the triumph of
reform at the ballot box.”
i —The Republican gang is sendiog out
! thousands of Dr. SwALLOW’s paper, The
Church Forum,all over the State. Itis a pret-
ty state of affairs when ‘‘a corrupt and erim-
inal combination masquerading as Repub-
licans" can use a Methodist organ to keep
themselves in power. Good Methodist,
everywhere, will repudiate and condemn
this latest scandal into which Dr. SwWaL-
LOW brazenly attempts to drag the church.
—Uncvle JoE WHEELER was a gallant
soldier hut he counldn’t stand the bombard-
ment of kisses he was subjected to on low-
er Broadway, New York, Monday night.
The old warrior is said to have sighed
aloud after three successive beauties had
fondly clung to his neck, imagining (?) him
to he some one else, but he swore aloud
right afterward when be discovered that
bis wallet and a four hundred dollar dia-
mond bad disappeared with the osculating
“angels.”
Spawis from the Keystone.
—Ou Friday evening last the Renovo
Evening News entered upon its twenty-fourth
volume.
—Columbia county farmers report that the
buckwheat crop there will be only about one-
third of what it should be.
—The public schools of South Latrobe
have been ordered closed by the county
medical inspector because of the prevalence
of diphtheria.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
“VOL. 51 BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER
Mr. Gomper's Plain Duty.
1
Various Kinds
the other band if Lewis EMERY Jr, is of Evils.
elected there will be such a renovation in
the other departments as occurred in the
State Treasury following the election of
BErrY. Probably STUART doesn’t mean
to deceive the public by his promises of
reform. Bat everybody koows that he
will not be able to carry out his pledges.
The esteemed Philadelphia Record shares
our opinion that President GOMPERS is
misdirecting his energies in bis campaign
against Speaker CANNON. ‘‘GOMPERS
cannot defeat Speaker CANNON," the Rec-
ord says. ‘‘He might make a successful
contest,” it adds, ‘‘against the more vul-
perable DEEMER,’’ meaning the Republi-
ean candidate for Congress in the Fifteenth
district of this State. At the last election
Caxxox bad 15,000 majority, aud his dis-
Some of those fair custodians of the hon-
or and integrity of she country, the Dangh-
tere of the American Revolution, are giv-
ing themselves unnecessary trouble about
the flag and some of the songs which ap-
peal to partiotic emotions. The other day
the Quaker City Chapter of this amiable
and altogether lovely organization devoted
a whole session to the discussion of the
subject and according to an esteemed Phil-
adelpbia contemporary, “is thinking of
The System at Harrisburg.
Republicans are in the babit of saying
that State Treasurer BERRY found poth-
ing wroog in the office when be entered
28, 1906.
triot is not what is called an industrial
section. DEEMER bad 5,619 and his is
one of the agricuitural districts of Penn-
sylvania, though it contains a mining sec-
tion and the Democratic candidate is an
official of the mine workers organization.
The esteemed Record is accurate in its
judgment. DEEMER is volnerable and the
energy and intelligence which Mr. Goue-
ERS put into the fight against Representa-
tive LITTLEFIELD, of Maine, invested in a
campaign against him would certainly
compass his defeat. The same is true of
the Fourteenth, Nineteeth and Twenty-
first districts of this State. Ordinarily Re-
publican by safe margins, the ROOSEVELT
tidal wave of two years ago ran up the ma-
jorities to 4,479, 4,098 and 4,882, respect-
ively. But the changed conditions and
the machine proclivities of the Represen-
tatives then chosen have made the defeat
of the Republican candidates not only pos-
gible hut probable, and with Mr. Gop.
ERs’ help absolutely certain. The Six-
teenth and Twentieth districts are nomi-
pally Democratic and the Federation of La-
bor could easily make them ovewbelming-
ly so this year.
Thus with ball the labor which Mr.
GOMPERS will expend in an effort to de-
feat Speaker CANNON, which will not suc-
ceed, he might make certain the defeat of
five candidates in this State, all of whom,
it elected, will vose for CANNON for Speak-
er. In thie district, for instance, Mr.
BERRY had 4,046 majority for State Treas-
urer. Taking from that aggregate the 2,-
319 Prohibition votes he has still 1,727 to
the good which may be counted as the
vote of the Democratic candidate if it is
polled. The Labor vote added to this
would increase the total beyond the BER-
RY majority and guarantee a vote against
CANNON for Speaker and in favor of a
Speaker who would promote rather than
stifle just labor legislation. The result in
other districts under similar conditions
would be precisely the same.
Even on the floor Speaker CANNON isa
dangerous man. His vast experience, his
considerable ability and his absolute in-
difference to moral obligations give him a
power that is possessed by few. But with
a Speaker not in sympathy with his par-
poses and a aules committee guided by
principles of justice, Speaker CANNON
could accomplish little. As the paid agent
of monopolies and other corporate interests
be has been able to prevents the considera-
tion of labor legislation absolutely. For
that reason it is clearly the interest of la-
bor to keep him out of the chair. It being
impossible to keep him out of the body the
only course open is to prevent the election
of Congressmen who will vote for Speaker.
Every Repablican in the Pennsylvania
delegation will vote for him.
entering upon a full-fledged crusade for the
purpose of instilling into the hearts of
loyal but phlegmatic Americans greater
enthusiasm than at present prevails when
the band plays ‘America.’ One of the
members wants a greater measure of ‘‘rev-
erence among the school children for the
flag and the National anthem,” and an-
other ‘“‘sweet sister’’ insisted that ‘‘Ameri-
can men and women should learn to etand
up when ‘The Star Spangled bauper’ is
sung or played.” |
We own to the impossibility of finding
language sufficiently strong to express our
approbation of this movement. We bave
been tossing sleeplessly in our downey bed
throogh long and weary nights worrying
over the abatement of enthusiam and the
decadence of patriotism throughout the
length and breadth of this land of liberty
upon his duties. The funds were all safe,
they add,and pot a penny had been stolen.
The recent revelations in regard to the
building of the capitol serve as an ample
answer to that false claim. As a matter
of fact there had been in practice for many
years a system of graft that under the
sanction of Jaw robbed the treasury of
bundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
It was robbery in a small way but in the
aggregate it amounted to vast sums. It
was a constant leakage at hundreds of
places.
Here is ap example. Since Mr. BERRY
bas become a member of the Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings a contract
for several thousand feet of granolythic
pavement for walks in and about the capi-
tol park was to be given out. The lowest
bid was fifty-six cents a foot. Mr. BERRY
said it was exorbitant and added that he
bad had such pavement laid about his
property at home for eighteen cents a foot.
But, he was informed, it was proposed to
make the concrete in this walk eighteen
inches thick, and in view of that fact the
price was moderate, whereupon, he allow-
ed the award to be made. Subsequently
when the pavement was being laid be ex-
amined the work and found that the con-
crete was only three inches thick and pro-
tested to the contractor. ‘‘There is noth-
ing in the contract requiring eighteen
inches of concrete,’ the contractor replied
and there was no recourse.
Another case in point. At a recent ses-
gion of the Board a bill was presented for
$875 for a flag pole for the capitol baild-
ing. Mr. BERRY protested that the price
was exorbitant and was told that it bad to
be brought all the way from Oregon and
three cars were required to carry it. Even
at that he declared it was excessive and the
Governor asked him how much it ought to
cost. He said he didn’t know exactly but |
could find out in a short time. Then he
called up CrAMP'S shipyard by phone,
made the inquiry and got a reply that it
could be put in place fo $175. That bill
has not been paid.
These are small items, of course, but
they represent the system at the State
capital and in the aggregate amount to
vast sume.
tirely dispair. BYRON assures us that
heroes are attainable by pushing the but.
ton and we felt certain that in the moment
of exigency some sublime influence would
assert itself just as the fair Daughters of
the Revolution propose to do, and rescue
us from the impending danger. Therefore
the enthusiasm of our welcome to the pro-
posed ‘‘full-fledged crusade” may be im-
agined but not described. It isan oasis of
patriotism in a desert of disloyalty.
It has occurred to us at times, however,
and it may occur to those accomplished
“‘Daughters of the American Revolution,’
that there are greater evils infecting the
body politic than the absence of enthusiasm
over the flag and the patri otic songs. There
is graft, for example, and the fathers of
some of these charming ‘‘daughters’ are
into it up to their eyes. Then there are
bribery, ballot polintion, perjury and
various forms of misfeasance in office and
the Daughters of the American Revolution
r to be entirely oblivious of their
presence, though as a matter of fact they
are the underlying causes of indifference to
the flag and want of enthusiasm over the
songs in question. The fountain of most
of these evils is in Philadel phia, moreover,
where the fair daughters are most distress-
ed about the absence of enthusiasm over
the songs and respect for the flag. Proba-
bly the fair daughters might correct those
evils.
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My. Young's Perfidy.
Weaver Reveals the Cloven Foot.
Recent incidents have revealed the real
character of JoHN WEAVER, Mayor of
Philadelphia. His pretense of reform bas
been proven false. The man who treacher-
ously betrayed the public in order to give
SALTER immunity from the penalty of
ballot box stuffing, couldn’t be anything
other than a fraud. Why be broke away
from the machine may never be known.
Mutual interests may keep the lips of
DugrHAM and McNICHOL sealed on that
subject for all time. For two years iv the
office of Mayor he had heen a shelter to
eriminale. The white slave traffic and other
infamous vices bad prospered under bis
sanction. The looting of the treasury was
unrestrained and the protests of the pub-
lic disregarded. Crime was encouraged
and criminals protected within the shadow
of his office.
His sudden conversion was the wonder
of the moment. Conjecture as to the cause
of it wae freely indulged but no explana-
tion given. Meantime be accepted the
plaudits of the public and revelled in the
luxury of popular admiration. He was
cheered on the streets as the hero of some
great achievement. He walked in the air,
figuratively speaking, and touched ‘‘only
the high places’ in his exultation. At the
time we cautioned the hero worshippers
against excessive enthusiasm. You can’t
“‘make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear,”’ and
we couldn’t eee how it was possible that a
District Attorney who had fixed a jory in
order to secure the escape of a criminal
could become a genuine reformer over
night. The thing bad a fishy flavor.
What caused Mayor WEAVER to abandon
his machine associates in crime may never
be known, as we havesaid. But it is easy
to guess what he expected to get out of
it alter he discovered the effect on the pub-
lic mind. He soon discerned visions of
exaulted office. He at once set himself to
scheming for the Governorship. He tried
to get the LINCOLN pasty nomination and
after failing in that attempted to get the
nomination of any other party in order to
effect a fusion. But hic hopes failed of
fraition and he turned his attention to the
The surreptitious disbursements in the
construction of the state capitol have in-
creased from six to nine million dollars
under the closer scrutiny of State Treasurer
BERRY. The total cost of the building is
now up to $13,000,000 and still climbing.
The probabilities are that in the end
$15,000,000 will have been expended under
an appropriation of $4,000,000.
Every dollar of this illegal expenditure
must have been made with the sanction of
RoperT K. YOUNG,counsel for the build-
ing commission. He was paid a generous
salary and his business was to bold the
eontractor and the architect to the plans
and specifications upon which the contract
was let. We all remember the beautiful
design of the building which was pablish-
ed. It contained marble stairways, fine
ceilings, strone walls, marble floors, carved
window frames and everything belonging
to a modern building of the best type. Mr.
YOUNG'S oath of office required him to hold
the contractor to every condition set down
in the plans.
How bas he discharged that duty ? The
walls were built and the roof put on at the
expense of the building commission out of
$4,000,000 appropriated for the construction
of a capitol building and everything else
was paid for unlawfully out of money in
the treasury not appropriated atall. In
violation of his oath Mr. YOUNG consented
to this looting for it would not have been
Stuart's Faise Promise.
Mr. EDWIN 8. STUART is making some
very harmless speeches wherever be can
get an audience to listen to them through-
out the State, bat they don’t stand for
much. He says be will adopt all the re-
forms promised in the Republican platform
but QUAY said such things frequently.
Four years ago Judge PENNYPACKER as-
sured the public in almost every county
in the State that he would inaugurate all
the reforms that the people demanded.
Bat he has done nothing in the shape of
reform. As a matter of fact his administra-
tion has been the worst in the bistory of
the State. The unlawful expenditures for
the construction of the capitol must have
been made with bis assent.
Everybody knows that in the event of
Mr. STUART'S election there will be no
reforms. Such a result of the vote will be
justly interpreted as an endorsement of the
past as it will certainly work a restoration
of the machine to power. We concede Mr.
STUART is persovally honest. He would
not, if he could, participate in graft or
other forms of crime. But be wouldn't even
attempt to restrain the machine managers in
their predatory operations. He isn’t strong
enough to go up against such a proposition.
While he was Mayor of Philadelphia the
machive was organized. His placidity re-
vealed the possibilities in the line of
graft and it has been a protected industry
ever since.
The only way to eliminate the evils of
government in this State isto complete
the work begun last year by the election
of W. H. BERRY to the office of State
source of graft for the machine, the foun-
tain of gold from which the plunder flow-
ed. It was to reward Mr. YousG for
perfidy that PENROSE consented to the de-
mand of VANVALEENBURG for his nomi-
nation.
Will the people ratify this award of rec-
reancy by electing YOUNG to an office
which will give him vast opportunities to
repeat the crimes. As Auditor General be
could maintain a source of graft which
would yield wealth beyond the dreams of
avarice. He bas shown his willioguess to
serve the machine in this way and PEN-
ROSE was ready to enlarge his field of opera-
tions. But will the people agree to it?
Treasurer. If STUART is elected DURHAM | work of controlling the nomination of the
will come back and resume his residence | City Party. ointed in this *| ——Tomorrow the Hebrew residents of
in the Boas mansion at Harrisburg next | ion be is enden to destroy the re- | poy sons will celebrate the Jewish day of
hn Tue sesh. willie yestiored | Lory worement. "Hotya fund au bay
atonement, Yom Kipper, consequently
fu fuled to Yule now wants to ruin the
their stores will all be closed.
movement.
and the iniquities of the past resumed. On
possible if he had protested. It was the | tion
An Important Issue.
From the Reading Telegram.
The issue raised by Candidate Emery in
is very im-
, it will sweep
It is notorious that the poor man, in
town or county, pays every penny of fax
ueeze out of him. He
to watch at the State
his speech at Punxeuta
portant. Properly ex
the State. y expla
that the law can
has no lobbyist
capitol and to kill
hie barden.
valuable exonerations.
intended to
has no
of concealing from the assessor the full val-
ue of all that he owns. He pa the Husk,
Not so with the big .
e
they pay a tax on their capital stock. But
when it comes to paying taxes on real es-
property
tote S owned by them, on
y necessary to their
have a thousand waye for
tions
ery gave some interesting
more.
region he should tell how
acres of the finest hard coal, owned or leas-
ed by ramifications of the coal trust, are
carried on the assessment books as idle
land, although the home of the humble
miner is put down at fall rates. Nor do
we imagine that he would bave to
far away as Potteville or Scranton to find
aud home of freedom. But we didn’t en- | &
laring instances af inequality.
be possible to get at Harrishurg a
Legisla-
ture and a Governor who will try honestly
to be fair and Square ; who will not let the
ted by the paid attorneys
tax laws bed
of the protected corporations.
A Contemptible Business.
From the Clarion Democrat.
It seems very singular to many jeople
to
moved by honorable principles and motives
and to be inspired only by considerations
of justice and equity, will place himself in
she position of a tool of a corrupt political
in te injustice and greed,
ving circulation to stories
ve been completely de-
His information un-
dounbtedly comes from the same source
(remote
the oil
producers by the throat and was sa
that Mr. Castle, a man who
e and
by continually
which 1
nied ph
ted.
from which it emanated years
and recent) when Standard Oil
their life. Because Lewis Emery,
other men of
up against the tyrrany and
Standard Oil octopus and
plishi
carred
and every other way. The thin
Bd been saying are the same things the
Standard Oil company has been saying for
years, and yet the people have gone on
trusting Lewis Emery Jr., because they
know he is a» incorruptible patriot and
performs. Castle has
lent himself to the shooting of the bullets
made by the Standard, but 1t will be of no
what he promises he
avail. What a business for Castle to
The People Startled.
From the Easton Argus.
State Treasurer Berr
zens of the State a week or two
in his speech at Erie be announ
burg would be
propriation of
will be nearer $12,000,000 is nothing
of shocking. Mr. Berry
Berry.
Bryan and Sallivan.
From the Chicago Public.
Mr. Bryan did a good
37 puaciples i does
other Democratic
ter, for all the other
the Democratic
machine have title to their
From the Washington Post.
He has no pull to gain him
In his Punxsutawney speech Mr.
examples. Be-
fore the campaign ends he should give
When he gets into the anthracite
thousands
ng
It is, concededly, a very difficult matter
to equalize taxes. The ablest Expatis dif-
fer in methods. Bat at any rate it should
courage and back bone, stood
every fair
and legal means to prevent it from accom-
its destructive purposes, they in-
e enmity of the Standard compa-
ny, which has been trying ever since to
crush them financially, morally, socially
startled the citi.
that the
cost of the new capitol building at Harris-
tly in excess of the ap-
,000. His later an-
nouncement to the effect that this cost
has not finished
looking into the details of the affair and
pfomises to make public his findings.
iscovery is timely and when the voters of
the State learn to what extent the machine
representatives took liberty with the bal-
ance in the State Treasury ‘‘not otherwise
appropriated’ there will be a still greater
determination to turn them out of office
and install a regime headed by men like
Lewis Emery Jr., and State Treasurer
job when he held
up Roger C. Sullivan to the national gaze
as a type of the man whose presence officila-
ly in the Democratic party stultifies par-
the party barm. He
not well have done this with any
official of similar charac-
~They have them pretty bad in Cham-
bersburg. An eel has been discovered in the
drain pipe of a refrigerator. It was alive
and was about a foot long.
—The Sevres china pottery at Derry has
closed down for an indefinite period and 250
people are out of employment. Present
market conditions are given as the cause.
—The Latrobe merchants at a recent meet.
ing voted against the proposition to close
their stores early in the evening. The vote
stood 15 to 12, but the Bulletin says the meet-
ing was not largely attended.
—@G. B. Oatman, of Scalp Level, claims to
have the champion big tomato stock of the
present season. Mr. Oatman has in bis gar-
den a stock that measures twelve feet seven
inches across. There are fifty-seven toma-
toes on the stock.
add to
robe, is in a serious condition resulting from
her having been bitten by copperhead snake.
The reptile was hidden beneath some kind-
ling in the coal house and bit her on the
right hand as she was picking up the wood.
—Philip Cassidy, chief of police of Mt.
Union, who was in jail at Lewistown charg-
ed with the unjustifiable killing of Edgar
Smith, colored, near Mt. Union on the night
of September 13th, has been released on §2,-
500 bail on habeas corpus proceedings before
Judge Weads.
—Doleful reports come from Berks, Mont-
of | gomery and other eastern counties concern.
ing the melancholy fate which has befallen
the majority of young turkeys this year and
the consequent inevitable shortness of the
coming Thanksgiving day crop. The shrewd
venders are beginning to work this little
game quite early in the campaign.
—The continuance of the ancient custom
of providing a bhounteous dinner for the
guests at a funeral resulted in the destruc.
tion of the dwelling of Miles Schaefer. at
Pleasantville, Berks county, while the fam.
ily were on the way to the grave, carrying
the body of Mrs. Schaeffer. The fierce kitchen
fire and a defective flue did the work.
Em-
go as
—Adams county has filed five applications
with the state highway department for state
aid in road improvement, the aggregate be-
ing 33,180 feet. The total amount of money
available for road building purposes in Adams
county until June 1st, 1907, is $10,478,13.
The total cost of roads constructed amounts
to about $11,304.31, leaving a balance of $32,
074.82.
—After missing eggs from her hennery for
months, Miss Minnie Bare, of Smithfield,
caught the thief in the act. Saturday she
went to the coop to gather the eggs and upon
reaching her hand into the nest she grasped
a five-foot blacksnake. She emitted a yell
that attracted all the hands from a cornfield.
Fred Brown severed the reptile’s head with
a corn cutter.
—Huntingdon is to have a skating rink, in
fact it is being built now, which will be 75x
126 feet in size, with a gallery extending the
full length and a thirty foot stage at ove
end. Itis expected to be capable of holding
1,500 people and it is hoped that it will be
completed in time tc hold the county con-
vention of the public school teachers, which
is to be held October 28th.
—Orders announcing the following appoint-
ments on the state police force were an.
pounced on Monday. First sergeant Geo.
F. Lumb to be lieutenant, vice lieutenant
William L. Swarm, resigned. Sergeant Jesse
8. Garwood to be lieutenant, vice lieutenant
Charles P. Smith, promoted. Lieut. Lumb
is assigned for duty to Troop B, Wyoming,
and Lieut. Garwood, to Troop C, Reading.
—QContractor Overdorf, of Johnstown, is
rushing his work on St. Mary's Polish
Catholic church, on Church street, Gallitzin,
and expects to finish before Christmas. The
structure, which is of brick, will cost $36,000
and have a seating capacity of 600. There
will be three altars costing $2,000. A pipe
organ costing $3,000 will be installed and
three chimes will summon the people to
worship.
—The reunion of the Knights of the Golden
Eagle held at Clearfield on Wednesday of
last week was a big success. There were 500
in line, including five excellent bands of
music, the Glen Ritchey, the Houtzdale, the
Reynoldsville, Fifth Regiment and the Clear-
field Volunteer bands. One of the finest fea,
tures of the parade was the Glen Richey tem.
ple of thirty ladies, all clad in white and
carrying white parasols.
—Raymond White, aged about 9 years, son
of contractor Charles W. White, of Beech
Creek, Clinton county, has again broken his
arm. He attends school in Blanchard and
Tuesday was jumping over & fence post
along with other boys, when he failed to get
over altogether with the result that he fell
heavily to the ground and broke his left
arm. For three successive years he has had
the misfortune to break one of his arms, the
right arm once and left one twice.
—At Spring Hill, Bradford county, a large
barn was struck by lightning the other day
and consumed with all its contents except
two horses and a buggy. The owner and his
wife were absent from home, but their 12.
year-old son telephoned for help and did
what he could. That night he was taken
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Not Until After Election.
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From the Charleston News and Courier.
Just as soon as the election is over, we
purpose to organize a ‘‘kind words”
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—— Don't forget that ‘The Queen
Aaena’’ will be the attraction at Garman’s
tonight. The attraction is well spoken of
and should prove very interesting and
entertaining to all lovers of trained ani-
mals. Regular prices will prevail.
fright produced the lamentable condition
into which he fell.
—In a duel at Lewistown with razors as
the chosen weapons Saturday night both
principals came near losing their lives. Jim
Jones, a colored min, saw John Marshall
coming along in company with Mrs. Jones.
The irate husband immediately pulled his
razor and went to work. At the first swipe
Marshall lost an ear and after this the cut-
ting became general until both men dropped
from loss of blood. A trail of blood marked
the pavements to the jail, and both men are
said to be in a precarious condition.
club,
of the
—Mrs. Harry Kirk, residing near Lat