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BY PRP. GRAY MEEK.
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—(iet ont the vote.
—Don’t vote often, but be sure to vote
early.
—Don’t leave a single vote at home next
Tuesday.
—The price that was paid for ove of the
spittoons in the new State capitol would
tarnish several rooms in the Bellefonte
hospital. Think of it.
~—If elected to Congress Capt. BAR-
cLAY's affiliations would all be with the
corporations. Col. TAYLOR would be
with the masses. Vote for TAYLOR.
—A stream cau raise no higher than its
source. Neither could Mr. QUIGLEY as
your Senator surmount the taint of the
gang that made him one of its candidates.
—Take no chances on baving PENROSE
for United States Senator. Vote for DIME-
LING who bas made a public declaration
thas he is against the gang, from PENROSE
down.
Col. H. 8. TAYLOR is an educated
man, well versed in the doings of the State
and the needs of the country and would
make an able representative in Congress
from this district. Vote for him and do
justioe to yoursell and to your neighbor.
——Counsistency thou art a virtue,
HoMER L. CASTLE and Dr. SWALLOW (the
Prohibition leaders are workiog for the
election of STUART. At tue same time the
Pennsylvania Whiskey League has endors-
ed STUART and has been piling money into
his campaign funds.
—Mr. QuiGLEY would probably have
been beaten bad he not allied himsell with
the machine, but that action bas lost him
the votes of many personal friends who
would be pleased to support him were it not
for the fact that he represents the very
element in politics that they ure striving
to eliminate.
—We are waiting to hear from the hon-
est farmers of Centre county. Next Tues-
day they will have opportunity of pro-
claiming to the world what they think of a
gavg that steals millions of the dollars they
earn by the sweat of their brows only to
pour into the State Treasury as taxes to be
squandered in $500 spittoons, $800 flag
poles and $2,000,000 chandeliers.
—All Bellefouters remember how hard
everyoue worked and begged and plead for
the six nights of the Mid way that was held
in the armory in September. Every ove
felt that the earnings quite repaid the re.
markable display of ingenuity and labor;
yet have you stopped to think that all that
was made there wouldn't pay for five of the
spittocns that the gang bad to bave for the
new capitol.
— What a god - send . it would bave |
been to the sick and injured in this com-
munity if there had been one chandelier
Jess in the new capitol at Harrisburg and
enongh lese in the treasury to give our hos-
pital five or ten thousand dollare. Patients
are lying iu the halls aud in the nurse's
rooms all because the hospital is too small,
yet PENNYPACKER out a thousand dollars
off the institution's appropriation last year
so that the gang could have that much
more to waste.
—Voters should get to the polls as early
as possible on election day. It helps the
men who are burdened with the duty of
getting the vote out. A man who waits
votil the last minute to go to the polls is
often the cause of the loss of several votes.
Thinking that the election migit have slip-
ped his mind the party watcher sends some
one to hunt him up, thus reducing his
force of workers until sometimes there are
no persons available to send for others.
Vote early in the day, if it is at all possi.
ble.
~The Gazetfe thinks that because wheat
sold at 50cte. a bushel in 1895 no one should
vote for EMERY for Governor in 1906. Such
twaddle is only natural from such a source,
but we want to give you something to put
in your pipe and smoke. If Capt. BAR-
CLAY should happen to be elected to Con-
gress and the editor of the Gazefte doesn’t
get the Bellefonte postoffice in 1907; we'll
bet the salary of the postoffice against one
of those little German books that the Ga-
zette wont be tearing its tympan off for
BARCLAY in 1908.
—You are not a Democrat or Republican
this fall. You are a Reformer, casting
your ballot for civic righ ess. You
might bave warm personal friends on the
tioket but if they are not for reform the
greatest service you can render them is by
voting against them. The lesson of defeat
will teach them to be more careful of the
company they keep and hetter men for
having been driven from allegiances that
are neither for the State's good nor their
own. In their own personalities Messrs.
QUIGLEY and FRYBERGER are estimable
gentlemen, but as apologists for the gang
they are black as it is.
—Mr. CHARLES EMORY SuiTH, the
editor of the Philadelphia Press; haviog
been sued for libel by Dr. Swarrow,
doesn’s display much alarm over the predie-
amens he find shimsell in. In fact when the
attorneys for the prosecution offered some
little courtesies in order to save the distin-
guished gentleman the annoyance of the
preliminaries in soch suits he promptly
thanked them, and suggested that inas.
much as he purposes saying worse things
about the preacher than he bad already
published it might he wise for them to de-
lay action for a few days in order to save
themselves the burden of instituting a
multiplicity of suits.
VOL. 51
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General Carson's Fallare,
The most disappointing figure in the
public life of she period is HamprON L.
CARSON, Attorney General of Pennpsylva-
pia. He came to that office a trifle less
than four years ago with a fair reputation
for ability as a lawyer and an enviable
character for integrity. His first ventare’
in public affairs was in the splendid fight
against the machine in which JOEN STEW-
ART, now Justice of the Supreme court,
was the capable and courageons leader.
Subsequently he participated in the vari-
ous campaigns for civic righteousness in
Philadelphia and crowned his services in
behalf of decency in public life and consti-
tutional integrity by appearing before the
Committee on Elections in the United
States Senate in opposition to the prepos-
terous claim of QUAY toa seat in that
body by appointment of Governor STONE.
With such a recommendation to popular
esteem Attorney General CARSON might
have earned enduring fame in the office to
which he bad been called. In fact his ap-
pointment was accepted as a promise of
good from the PENNYPACKER administra-
tion. As one of the great Governors of
the Commonwealth has said, the Attorney
General is ‘‘the right arm of the execu-
tive,”” and the appointment of CARSON
indicated that PENNYPACKER intended to |
keep within the Jaw and be obedient to
the constitution. But this pleasant ex-
pectation enjoyed a brief existence. Be-
fore he had been in office many months he
revealed ‘‘the yellow streak.” His affir-
mation of the validity of the Judicial
Salary bill proved the iusincerity of his pro-
fessions of fidelity to the constitution. It
showed that he wae guided hy the ex-
igencies of the machine rather than his
conscience.
But that and the other palpable errors
might have been forgotten and forgiven if
the scandal concerning the construction of
the new capitol bad not developed. Errors
of judgment involve no turpitude but com-
plicity, even as accessory, in crime, can-
not be condoned in a pablic official. There
is no escape, however, from the conviction
that CARSON was accessory to the grafting
operations. As Attorney General he
must have koown that the Board of
Pablic Grounds and Buildings was exceed
fog its -authority aud violating the
law. Even a layman with common
sense and average reasoning power would
bave known that. Bat he sat silent during
all the period of grafting operations and
since the exposure of the crime he has used
his official position to shelter the crimi-
nals. CARSON has simply written himself
down a humbug.
The Governor's Explanation.
Governor PENNYPACKER'S defense of
the graft in he capitol building operations
leaves uo doubt of his moral turpitude
aod proves his mental delinquency. The
charges are made, he declares substantially,
by men who won an election last year by
misrepresentation, and are therefore an-
worthy of consideration. Moreover, he
adds ioferentially, even il they are true,
the people don’t have to pay the expenses.
The corporations pay the State taxes, ao-
cording to the PENNYPACKER notion, and
therefore it's none of the people's business
whether the State Treasury is looted or not.
The first proposition is false avd the other
idiotic. Together they indicate that the
absurd old egotist who was counted into
the office of Governor by fraud is both a
koaveaod a fool.
While real estate is not taxed directly
for State purposes in Pennsylvania the
owners of real estate pay a vast proportion
of the taxes for the maintenance of the
State. The corporations don’t present the
State with the several millions of dollars
they pay annually into the State Treasury.
They pay the money for the consideration
ol legislative and executive favors and
then reimburse themselves through the
medium of increased and we might say ex-
cessive charges for service. This proposi-
tion is proved by the fact that almost as
soon as the machine, with which the cor-
porations bargaived for the favors, was de-
feated in the election the corporations re-
duced the rates for their service. Passen-
ger rates on railroads bave been cut down
balf a cent a mile already.
The evidence of graft in the construction
of the capitol, already abundant, is con-
stantly multiplying. It has been practically
proven that duplicate payments were made
in some cases, that money was spent hy the
Board of Pablic Grounds and Buildings in
violation of both the coustitation and the
statate for completing the building and
that inferior and bogus materials were used
in many instances, tke charge being in all
cases for the genuine article. This is plain
criminality and every man concerned in it
is a criminal. The flippant answer of the
Governor under such circumstances is an
insult to the intelligence of the people of
the State and marks him as a venal public
official who hopes to escape the consequen-
oes of crime by impudence.
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~—Vote for TAYLOR for Congress.
Dave Lane's Amister Hope.
| DAVE LANE, of Philadelphia, expressed
the siucere desire of every machine politi-
cian in the State, the other evening, when
he said, in a public speech, ‘les us end
this talk about civie righteonsness.’”’ That
kind of talk doesn’t sound meledionsly on
the machine ear. Talk of ballot box stuf-
fing, stories of slum life and achievements
in crime are more in their line. When Mr.
LANE was 10structing his associates with
respect to their civic duties by the admoni-
tion shat an officer holder whe oouldn't
vote five times at one election would lose
his job, he was more in accord with the
prevailing sentiment among gaugsters,
““To hell with civio righteousness,” is the
prevailing view of that crowd and Mr
LAXE was loudly and enthusiastically ap-
plauded when he voiced the sentiment.
Mr. LANE and his associates in the ma-
chine are pursuing the right course, more
over, to accomplished the purpose they
| bave in mind. If EDWIN 8. STUART and
| those associated with him ou the Repabli-
can ticket are successful at the polls next
Tuesday it ie safe to predict that the talk
about civic righteonsness will he ended.
| There will be no farther effort to stamp
oat vice in the big cities of the Common:
wealth or to improve the public and politi-
cal moral of the people. Ballot reform
will be no use in that event and grafs will
be encouraged instead of! reprobated. In
other words if the machine ticket is suc-
cessful next Tuesday the old machine will
resume buisness as the old stand and civic
virtue will become a memory. DURHAM
will come home and MoNicHOL and SAL.
TER will be restored to favor and power.
We can bardly believe, however, thata
majority of the people of Pennsylvania are
in sympathy with the hope expressed hy
DAVE LANE. For fears the the politics of
of Pennsylvania was a disgrace not only to
the country but to the civilization of the
age and even the best of our citizens sal-
fered in public estimation. But a year
ago the shackles of vice and crime were
stricken off and decency began to hold np
its bead in confidence. The election of the
machine ticket would destroy this better
condition, not because STUART is venal,
bat for the reason that the machine which
is stronger than any man would be restored
methods and practices’ which were con-
demned iast year. DAVE LANE will be
disappointed.
Stuart's Strange Recommendation,
In a speech at Scranton last Saturday
evening EDWIN 8. STUART, Republican
candidate for Governor, earnestly implored
the Republican voters of that county to
bend their energies in behall of THOMAS
H. DALE, Republican candidate for Con-
gress. He even went so far as to recom-
mend that they tradeoff the State candi-
dates in order to get votes for DALE. He
woald willingly bave himself sacrificed, he
said, to secure the election of Mr. DALE
and his andience paid him the equivocal
compliment of generously applauding the
sentiment. If he is indifferent to his own
success, they let him know, they have no
cause of quarrel with him on that account,
They will lose no sleep because of his de-
feat. If he can stand it, they will try to
survive the blow.
There must be some great reason for
STUART'S solicitude for the election of Mr.
DALE. He said that it was because he
was anxious to have ROOSEVELT'S policies
supported. Bat that is obviously a sub-
terfoge. The oppeneut of Mr. DALE is
TroMAsD. McNicHoLS, District President
of the United Mine Workers of America
who has publicly declared that he is a
RoosgvVELT Democrat and will support the
President in all his cherished policies. So
far as the President is concerned, therefore,
it makes no difference which of the candi-
dates is successful. As a matter of fact it
may be said that he would be surer of sup-
port if MCNICHOLS is elected than if DALE
secures the victory because McCNICHOLS
will be controlled by no machine.
There are only two other reasons which
might bave influenced Mr. STUART to his
recommendation of sacrifice. One is that
he knows that he is doomed to defeat any-
way that the election of a Congressman in
a doubtful district would be sors of saving
part of a bad wreek. STUART is not an
overly ambitious man and probably reasons
that a nomination for Governor is quite as
high a compliment as he deserves and
therefore be might well afford to sacrifice
bimseif for a machine Congressman. The
alternative is that in common with other
members of the machine organization he
has a bitter antipathy against laber organi.
tions. W. B. Wilson the Demooratic can-
didate for Congrets in the Fifteenth dis-
triot is an officer of the same labor organi-
zation and be is being fought with equal
virulence.
——Your duty as a citizen is to vote.
No matter which way you vote go to the
polls next Tuesday and exercise your right
of franchise. There can be no question
in the minds of honest men as to how
they should vote in' Pennsylvania this fall.
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 2, 1
to power and would instantly resume the
Evidences of Graft Maltiplying.
The evidences of grafe in the new capitol
building are multiplying aud the sources
of it increasing. The latest exposare
comes through our esteemed contemporary
the Harrisburg Patriot and like everything
else which emanates from that source, it
is complete. The Patriol alleges thas on
the metallic filing cases of which two mil-
lion dollars worth were taken the State
paid Cougressman CASSELL's phantom com-
pany nine times tbe actual price of the
cases. Oar contemporary leaves nothing
to conjecture in the matter either. It
supplies complete and overwhelming proof
of its assertion.
About the time that the metallic filing
cases ware being dumped iuto the capitol
the esteemed Patriot was equipping a new
office * hed with characteristic enterprise
was ng everything of the best. The
steel filing cases in the capitol ‘‘looked
good’’ to the Patriot folks as a receptacle
for the files of the paper and it was decided
to buy ove and application was made to the
Penn construction company, the concern
which was wapplying the State capitol.
The price was given at $278, and noshing
was said about cubic feet measurements.
It ia thirteen feet long, eight feet high and
two feet deep. At $11.87 } a cubic foot
the price paid by the State it would have
cost $2,470. The order was for a single
case moreover, and the order of the State
for thousands of them.
There conld be no more convincing evi-
dence of graft than that transaction involves.
Mr. CassELL, Republican candidate for
Congress in Lancaster county, entered into
a corrupt bargain either with the archi-
tect of the capitol or with some of the
members of the Board of Public Grounds
and Buoildings and charged the State nine
times as much for the filing cases as was
asked from individual customers and every
man associated with the transaction ought
to be sent to the penitentiary. ‘‘Places of
trust for honest men and prison stripes for
grafters,”’ should be applied in this case
and after she election of EMERY and the
entire Fasion State ticket we have no doubt
there will be something doing in that line.
Senator Knox's Bad Break.
Obviously Senator KNOX has no heart in
the work tat has been forced on him by
the Republican machine. As Senator in
Congress by the grace of the machine, for
Mr. CASSATT operated on PENNYPACKER
through PENROSE, it may be assumed he
could hardly refase to do something. But
what he is doing he is doing badly if it
is to be measured hy his speech in Phila-
delphia the other night. For example, alter
condemning all that the machine has done
in years and promising that it will do no-
thing wrong in the future, the distinguish-
ed orator added: “The great reformer who
drove out the money changers did not find
it necessary to pull down the temple.”
We take it as a self-evident proposition
that ove should never quote scripture un-
less he is sure of his point. The average
man takes such things very seriously and
if the quotation happens to strengthen the
opposite to what it is used to prove, the
gravest consequences are practically certain
to follow. That this is the result of Sena-
tor KNOX'S quotation admits of no doubt.
He said that the great reformer turned ont
the money obangers bat ‘‘did wot find it
necessary to pull down the temple.” Of
course not. Bat if the money obangers
had refased to go out the chances are that
the temple would have been tumbled in
@ very unceremonious manner.
Now as a matter of fact LEwis EMERY,
and those who are associated with bim in
the landable movement to rejuvenate and
reform the Republican party of Penusyl-
vania bave not contemplated the pulling
down of the temple. All they ask is that
the grafters who bave heen desczorating the
temple get out and leave it to those who
will properly use it. If they will do that
as the money changers did on the occasion
referred to by Senator KNOX there wili be
no destruction for the reason that none
will be necessary. The evils of which the
Reformers complain will be ended and the
Lincoln party men will resume their old
places in the political contention.
What Will We Be?
It is an old saw that ‘‘politics wakes
strange bed fellowe.”’ Major H. 8. THOMP-
SON, of East Waterford, Pa., writes us as
follows :
P. Gray Mex Esq,
Dear Sir : 1f you and I both vote for Emery, | 260
which, 1 presume, we will do, will you be a Re-
publican or will I be « Democrat? I would like to
know. Respectfully
H. 8. Tuoursox.
While this does look a little like that
‘““‘How old is Aun’ puzzle and it would
probably take columns to explain it to the
satisfaction of the Major and ourselves we
want to assure him that it doesn’t concern
us at all as to whats we will be or what we
bave been. The point at issue now is that
ave are both for civio righteousness, stand-
ing on the same platform, without thought
of political principles, and fighting for the
honor of our State. More power to the
cause.
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The Ship of State.
From the Co umbia Freeman,
The worst enemies of good government
are the men who refuse to splis their tickes
Nicy Hepinines toe ae, toalhoons ous
y year, vto
what depths the State of Pennsylvania has
fallen with Repablican at the
helm, and ashamed of the past, will vote
for the furion candidates because they have
grown tired of disgraced Ring Rule, and
desire to see the ship of state once more
steered on its true course.
If you were aboard a ship at sea during
a storm, with av imcompetent pilot at the
helm, would you fora single op i Be
you not escape from danger to
eafety at your first opportunity? And if
that ship bad frequently been grounded
and wrecked upon the shoals, would you
not regard the ship’s captain and bis crew
as imoom t and unworthy the confi-
dence of aboard? And haying been
thus convinced, would you feel like en-
trusting yourself to the care of that ship's
crew a second time after having once es-
caped with your life? You would not!
When Captain Matthew Stanley Quay
went down, one fully as wily and incompe-
tent stepped into his in the person of
Boies Penrose. And again the ship of
state was nded and wrecked upon the
jagged rocks, and a gang of pirates pilfered
the wreckage of its treasure. And now
comes Stuart, second mate, after Governor
Pennypacker, who ites to ‘‘investi-
gate'’ the wreck. Promises and ‘‘investi-
fabiona™ will not excuse the disaster which
already occurred. The only safe remedy
dt band is for theship’s owners to take
the Ship of State from the control of this
unscrupulous gang and install a new and
reliable crew. .
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Mr. Stuart promises to ‘‘investigate’
the $13,000,000 state capitol steal. It bas
already been investigated thoronghly
enough to piace the responsibility where
it justly belongs. What the people
Pennsylvania now demand is that prosecu-
tion, convention, penal stripes and cold
iron bars, follow these investigations. We
do not need elect Stuart to fill Mr. Samuel
W. Dollarpacker’s place before this can be
done, Stuart in, Pennypacker out, means
the same ‘‘investigations’’ by a bunch
of Penrose Gang-controlled factors who
will have to sit and be goed. Mr. Penrose
will take care of his implements’ promises
So thelr people. Who are the people, any-
way!
~All this struggle for reform in Penu-
sylvania will avail nothing if you don’t get
out and vote for it.
Call the Counts.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
It State Treasurer Berry is not telling
the truth about the overcharges and dupli-
cations in completing and farnishing the
capitol, there is a very easy way to refate
him. That is for the auditor general to
publish the details Carsou has called for,
showing all of the expenditures of both
the commissions, the sums paid to each
contractor, and for what they were paid,
and the items under the building contract
that were snbstituted or supplemented by
similar items provided as furnishing.
It would still require an expert to de-
termine whether the price paid were rea-
sonable, but we should at least have an of.
ficial statement of what eight millions or
more was spent for, and we could then call
on Mr. Berry to point out where the ex-
penditure was wrong. No doubt he can
get a the sums paid from the treasury
k, but the officer who kept the aczounts
of the contracts, and presumably has all
the vouchers on file, is the auditor general,
and he remains silent as the grave.
If the Republican advisory committee,
so called, instead of writing silly letters
for Berry to tear to tatters would address
themselves to the really responsible of-
ficial, they could learn the truth without
waiting till after the election.
Did it Pay to Elect Berry?
¥rom the Philadelphia Press.
The closing week of the campaign, State
and city, finds the voters daily seeing the
result of the electing, by independent
votes, a single State officer a year
oe State Copia whose ig ons upon
e are chan, votes b
tens of thousands ging y
But for his election vothing would have
been known of the expenditure on the State
capitol. Bat for kis revelations the gigan-
tic graft involved in the expenditure of
$13,000,000 would have come before the
public.
The plowshare needs to be run deeper.
More needs to be nacovered. Every voter
ought to ask himself whether he is satisfied
with the result of electing Treasurer Berry,
and, if he is, on all others, State and city,
he must cast his vote 80 as to place official
power in the bands of those who wish to
purify the government of the State, and to
make it certain, both by exposure and
nishment, that graft like that of the
State capitol shall not be repeated.
As He is Known in Clearfield Conuty.
From the Clearfield Republican,
Colonel Hugh Taylor would prove an
active, useful mem of Congress. He
would be the servant of the people and
ously eafeguard the best interests of
the people on all questions. He is able,
forceful and earness. He is a great friend
of the old soldiers and likewise the wage
earners. He came up from the ranks of
Ihe sailer himself and has not fotgosten
Whe Pays?
From the: Carlisle Sentinel.
Governor Penuypacker repeats the asser-
tion shat the State taxes are not paid by
the people but by the corporations. It
entirely an untruth; the people pay the
bill. great common people, who are
the patrons of the ous, and the
consamers of the product of the farm, the
warkshop Sid the mive, are the ones who
pay the bill. .
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Cumberiand county has 14,085 registered
voters.
~The postoflice and store at Snydersville-
were robbed of several guns and a valuable
dog. :
—According to the census of Carlisle taken
by the board of health, there isan increase
of over 200 in the population over that of
last year.
~The postofiice at Jersey Shore is 100
years old, baving been established April 1st,
1806. The first postmaster was Samuel
Donnell.
—Peter Mann challenged a fellow laborer
at the Bethlehem Steel works to fence with
shovels, and is now at a hospital with part of
his face sliced off.
—Martin Moore, of East Bradford, has shot
forty-eight ground hogs this season. He
should leave at least one to see his shadow
on ground hog day. .
pledges not to pay more than six cents a
rt for milk. Dealers have announced
that the price will be eight cents after No-
vember 1st.
~The building of the immense stack for
the Railway Steel Spring company’s plant at
Latrobe is progressing. It is now about 100
feet in the air and when completed will be
200 feet high.
i —The large frame barn of Jacob Haney on
Clearfield creek near Clearfield was burned
Friday morning together with all the crops.
The horses and cattle were saved. The loss
will probably reach $2,500 and there is no in-
surance.
—Miss Annie Kline, a Lewistown, Pa.,
nurse engaged as a governess, was married to
ber employer, deserted, she asserts, by her
husband, who retained possession of a check
in his favor for $2,025 which she intrusted to
him, all within a week,
~—Four Jersey Shore dairymen were ar-
rested on Wednesday for watering their
milk. The arrests were made by agents of
the State Pare Food and Dairy Commission.
In some instances the milk was found to be
twenty per cent. water,
—A pumpkin vine on the farm of C. G.
Kline, in Penn township, Perry county, bore
twenty-four pumpkins, the largest of which
was thirty-four inches long, fifty-eight iuches
in circumference and weighed 100 pounds.
Several others weighed fifty and sixty
pounds each.
—A detachment of the state constabulary,
: —Maueh Chunk householders are signing
of | which has been located at Punxsutawney, has
been ordered to Heilwood, Indiana county,
to run down a gang of outlaws which has
recently heen terrorizing respectable citizens
by employing the methods of the ‘‘Black
Hand.” The object has been to extort
money.
—Two unsuccessful attempts were made to
burglarize the residences of two citizens of
Huntingdon recently, The homes which
thieves entered were those of J. H. Black
and of J. D. L. Lightner. The unknowns
were busily engaged when members of the
families entered the houses, but made good
their escape.
—While hunting pheasants Wednesday,
Joseph Schrader, of Pottsville, aged 22 years,
son of a prominent Reading company official,
fell 400 faet down an old mine shaft and was
brought forth alive after lying 12 hours in
the black depths. Both hips are dislocated,
and he sustained other burts which are not
believed to be of a fatal character.
—West Berwick bas an aged citizen who
has recently been looking about the Blooms-
burg almshouse to see if he might pick a
suitable wife from among the inmates, He
has likewise been advertising in some of the
Harrisburg papers for a helpmeet. As he is
70 years of age it seems likely that his pecul-
iar methods are dictated by senility.
—Because a dog bad killed a duck belong.
ing to his father, John Fulton, of Limestone,
Lycoming county, got a gun with which to
end the canine’s life. Lying it at the door
he weut into the house avd upon returning
was shot in the neck by a companion who
had appeared on the sceme and had been
handling the weapon. His life isin danger.
—Dominick Stevens, a respectable Italian
citizen of Patton, Cambria county, has re-
ceived a note demanding that he place the
sum of $500 on the steps of the Catholic
church at that place and threatening that if
he failed to do so his house would be dyna.
mited. He was badly frightened but as yet
has not put the money where requested and
bis bouse is still safe on its foundations.
—It 1s said that the secret of the mys.
terious land purchases which have been go-.
ing on for some time past in the vicinity of
Selinsgrove has finally leaked out. They
have been in the interest of the Baldwin
Locomotive works, which will locate a large
plant at that place. It is just possible that
the truth is yet hidden, but if the Baldwins
are really going to build at that place it will |
give Selinsgrove a big boom.
—J. H. K. Myers, of Lancaster, and J. C. °
Reed, of Philipsburg, were last Friday at
Philadelphia appointed receivers by Judge
Wilson of the Langdon Cambria Coal Mining
company. The action was taken on the suit .
brought by Carroll R. Williams and John R.
Snyder, counsel for the Northern Trust and
Savings company, of Lancaster, and the
trustee in bank-ruptey of the Thatcher Coal
and Coke company intervening plaintiff.
—William E. Bell,of the Altoona Road and
Gun club, left Saturday morning for Ice
mountain,eight miles north of Tyrone, with
» wagon load of provisions for Mother Camp-
bell, who lives alone on the top of that
mountain. This is the annual donation
made by hunters and campers who have
been visiting Ice mountain for some years
past. Mother Campbell is 89 years old. For
fourteen weeks during the winter season her
little home is surrounded by snow drifts and
she does not sce a living soul.
—The Superior court has upheld the decie
sion made by Judge Trexler, of Allentown,
with reference to the state fishing laws. Five
fishermen had been convicted of fishing with
a net in a private body of water, An appeal
was taken and the actof 1901 was the one
which claimed to be applicable in the case.
Judge Trexler decided that this act was un-
constitutional; that the State had control of
the private streams and therefore sustained
the summary conviction which had been se-
cured before an alderman. It is this decision
that the Superior court has sustained.