— BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —A terrible plague is said to he smiting the turkeys of the land. It is probably hamaochuoogeritis. —The snow in the mountains during the fires two days of the hunting season was disastrous to the deer. —Bellefonte youth have the roller skat- ing craze good and proper. They have it standing up bat they bave it worse sitting down. —Its a poor day for the legal profession in that they can’t convict u trust of some- thing. The Sugar trust bas been conviet- ed of rebating. —1I1 they succeed in dissolving the Stand- ard oil trast poor old JoHN D. will geta rest that be can't possibly bave as long as it is in operation. : —PEARY is trying to get back from bis trip in search of the pole. Of comse he is pot bringing the pole with him because it hasn't been located yet. —The President has promised citizen- ship to the people of Puerto Rico. Well and good if they have a full knowledge of what citizenship means. —The change in the weather yesterday morning was very timely. The unusually warm period we bad bad for a week] was the direct cause of much sickness. —It is beginning to look as if Alle gheny will have to marry Pittsburg wheth- er she wants to or not. The pre-nuptial sorimmage was ended by the courts on Tuesday. —The cost of living has increased from eighteen to thirty-nine per cent. within the past year. No where bave we heard of wages being increased more than ten per cent. —Is DurHAM is home again. He couldn’t stay away from his dear old State any longer after the pressing invitation that was sent him to come back on No- vember 6th. —Next week the foot ball season will end and many a gridiron hero will discover for the first time this fall that it was ‘‘book larnin’’’ he was sent to College to get ac- quainted with. —RICHARD CROKER'S belief that Hearsts defeat in New York wasa pro” vidential occurrence must be founded on the personal experience RICHARD bad bim- self in New York some years ago. — Bellefonte councils are debating overa new street lighting contract. That these de- bates have been profitable to the borough is “ ghiown by the gradual shading of the pr per are light per year from 105 down to $66. - —8oc Mrs. SAGE's millions are to go to "= the poor who are ‘‘too proud to ask for assistance.”’ Of course our pride precludes our speaking for ourselves, so won't some kind friend please drop the old lady a live concerning us. —Maritime statistics reveal the fact that three and one-hall million people are al- ways at sen. Political statistics showed that in Pennsylvania, alone on the even- ing of November 5th, there were six mil- lion and more people at sea. — President ROOSEVELT has bad a look at the “‘big ditch’ and is so tickled with it that be would like to bave one of his boys at work on it. TEDDY is probably think- ing that a job there would keep the hoy at work until old age overtakes him. —Sigoor CARUSO the grand opera singer who has been arrested for annoying wom- en in the monkey house in Cential Park, New York, displayed W fine sense of the eternal fitness of things when be selected such a place for his moukey-business. —Criticism of the local authorities in the matter of recent murder cases in Centre county should be withheld until the conu- ty has had time to show its bhavd. There can be no doubt of well planned efforts to apprehend the culprits but they would cer- tainly fail of their purpose if they were made public and that is probably the very reason that the average citizen thinks there is nothing being done. - —It is easy for a great corporation to raise the wages of its employees voluu- tarily because it has the advantage of rais- ing its charges voluntarily. The Pennsyl- vania railroad company increased the wages of its men ten per cent and now announces that it will advance the freight rates a like amount. Of course the shippers are the people who are making the advance aud not the railroad company. ~—There is considerable discussion Jahout the wisdom of the President's order dis- charging from the army companies of color- ed troops thas participated in the murder outrages at Brownsville, Texas. Because the soldiers would not reveal the identity of the guilty the President summanly ordered the dismissal of all. With busa superficial knowledge of the facts we com- mend the action of the President. A sol- dier, whether white or black, is a peace officer, not a warandivg murderer or one whom a false sense of honor prompts to protect and conceal those who donot have a proper conception of a soldier’s duty and obaraoter. When a man wears the unilorm of the United States government his con. duct at all times should be such as to make the private citizen feel tbat in him there is a friend and a protector and not one to be onrta. - The President would bave 8ismise. companies just as promptly bad Shex been white en Just + heir De had nothing to do with it and all this effors to create sentiment on the nd thas they were colored men without a pull or friends is the veriest tommy-ros. VOL. 51 "STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. NOVEMBER 28, 1906. Standard O11 Litigation. We would not haild expectancy tco high in reference to the Standard Oil litigation. The proceedings were inaugurated, all right, the other day, and Attorvey General Moony promptly took the public, includ- ing the defendant, into bis confidence and revealed all his plans. He showed, more- over, that he has plenty of evidence to sop- port his accusations and that if Mr. RoCK- ERFELLER and those of his associates against whom the proceedings are directed, are wise men, they will head for the tall tim- ber. They are far from secure in their per- eons, property and liberty if Moopy car- ries out his program. But we have heen so frequently disap- pointed in snob things that it is utterly im- possible to work up anything like entbu- sinsm in respect to them. We recall the coal trust prosecution, for example. In that case Attorney General KNoX bad made great preparations not only for trial but convie- tion. Bus juss at the pyschological moment Senator QUAY died, President CASSATT ap- pointed KNOX to fill the vacancy and the prosecution of the coal trast Was offforevey and a day. KNOX knew thisas perfectly wel) as did RoosevVELT and everybody else and he was disposed to decline the appoint: ment. ROOSEVELT wouldn't tolerate such devotion to duty and literally pushed KNOX out of the cabinet and into the Senate. Attoroey Geueral Moony bas worked bard ard assiduoosly in preparing a case against the Standard Oil company, aud be- ing an able man we have vo doubt that he bas an excellent chance of achieving bis purpose, just as KNOX would have; put an end to the coal trust if be bad remained in the cabinet a few weeks longer. But the trouble is that MooDy will be withdrawn from the Standard Oil case just as KNOX was withdrawn from the coal trust prose- cation and with precisely the same result. When Moopy goes out there will be noone remaining in who knows anything about the case and it will collapse jost as the pro- ceedings agaivst the coal trust case when KxoX was taken out of it. It could hard- ly have been otherwise. A lawyer must know his case. | the President for the failure whish scems inevitable any more than we would blame him for the failure to prosecute the coal trust after KNOX was taken out. It is true that KxoX would not have gone out if the President hadn't urged him to that course, In the pending case he is taking the only lawyer who knows the case out of it, but he can bardly help that. It was necessary to fill the vacavey on the Sopreme court bench and Moopy is the only man, of course, (?) between the oceans who meas- ures up to the high judicial standard. Therefore there is no alternative. He must be appointed no watter what else happens. Plenty to he Thanktal For. There are a good many things to he thankful for this year even though the result of the election was disappointing to some of us. There is the retirement of General CHARLES H.GROSVENOR to private life after twenty ‘years in Congress. Gros. venor is one of those men who feel proud of their immoralities. Like Speaker Canuon he delights in political spoil=.c- He has no time for civil service or uvther kinds of reform and ridicules anything which makes for an improvement in political morals, His obscurity is, therefore, a public bene. faction. There is reason for thankfulness, more. over, in the probability of the early retire- ment from pablic life of SENATOR PLATT, of NEW YORK. For years he bas heen in Congress the agent of the express compautes and retarding the passage of wholesome legislation in the interest of the people. It was he who prevented the passage of the parcels post measure in several Congresses, | thus compelling the prople to pay tribute to the express mogopolies. He will soon be cast upun the political serap heap to remain there as lobg as his boldly cumbers the earth. Last but not least, we will soon be rid of that most intolerable of all public nui- sances, SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER, who having been catapulted into a conspicuous place by the Inte Senator QUAY bas been a source of shame to the people of the State ever since. His term of office is rapidly drawing to a close and his administiation will soon he nothing but a bad dream. The people of Peunsyisania may well rejoice in these facts and iu congratulating our neigh- bors of Ohio and New York on their deliv. erence from GROSVENOR avd PLATT we can felicitate ourselves on the passing of PENNYPACKER. Regarding Next Spring's Primaries. Regarding the holding of the primaries the latter part of January for the February election the Centre couuty commissioners bave decided that they sball be held uoder the old law, just as they bave heen the past four or five years. The new primary election law contains the proviso that the above can be done in the event that the “Ol course we'bave no idea of blaming (2) proper nreparations for holding the pri- |. maries under the new law cannot b= made, and the county commissioners have decided to take advantage of that prosiso, so the voters of Centre county will make their nominations for the February election on the last Satnrday in Janoary as usuval. In addition to theahove the Attorney Gen- eral has not yet passed on the constitution. ality of the new act, an opinion that shonld he had hefore the acs is regarded as the law. Who is Responsible ? Possibly it woald be well for that class of people who are trying to place the hlame for the result of the Jate election upon this man or that to look at results about his own home, and ascertain who is responsi ble for these, before making np jhis mind defiaitely as to the political delinquent so greatly meriting the censure of the pub- lic. Whatever reasons there may be for the failure of the reform forces, they cannot be laid at the door of any individeal, nor of any particolar section of the State. Since the returns are all in, and a comparison of the vote of 1906 can he made with that graft by deolaring that the accounts are all cast for Mr. BERRY in 1905, itis plain to any one that the failure to elect Mr. Ex- ERY, and the balavce of the fusion ticket, is attributable to that class of Democrats and Reformers who valued a days work more than they did the rights of franchige, aud who deliberately, we may say orimin- ally, remain! away [rom the polls, and allowed the old Machine and their gang of thieves at its hack, to rcore a vie. tory. And this class of people you «ill find in every section of the State. Of the sixty- seven counties of this Commonwealth not a half dozen of them shows up with a fall vote, and in fally one-balf of them the vote is from ten to twenty per cent. short, in both city aud country districts. Why this ia so is the matter for politic: al critics and chronic complainers to deter: mine before placing the responsibility upon any one. Here in oor own county there was a falling off in the Democratic vote of over 800, and uo one who knows anythi gfe of conditions with Cant WoakEAhink ota. tributing this result to either treachery on the part of leaders, or factional intiunevces, such as are suggested by those who would hold others responsible for their own short- comings. Charges and counter charges, crimination and re-crimination, now that it is over, will dono good and the man who puts in his time trying to discredit the efforts ol others, who possibly did their doty, could much better employ his spare moments seeing his Democratic neighbor, who failed to cast his ballot, aud ascertain what is the matter with him. He is the fellow that brought about our defeat. He is the one that the Machine can now thank for its new lease of life. He is the one above all others, responsible for the seeming endorse. ment of the most giganticsteal that ever dis- graced any State, and to whose door can be laid the covering up of the robbery com- mitted by the party in power in the erec- tion of the State’s New Capitol building. He is the fellow to go after. It Will be Spurtons Reform. That some of the reforms promised in the Republican platform will be fulfilled is quite probahle but too much caunot be taken for granted even at that. In other words it is more than likely that the reform legistation which will be enacted during the coming session will he of the dubious variety, such av that enacted during the special session held at the beginning of the present year. The Republican machine is not willing to relinquish all its opportu- nities for graft and though it will of neces: sity make a pretense of meeting the public dewand for improvement, in so far as pos- sible the pretense will be falsified by the facts. Before the election, for example, it was universally believed that passenger rates on railroads wonld be limited to two cents a mile by law. Upon that point the Repub- lican platform is positive. But since the election a report bas become current that the Pennsylvania railroad will resist such a measaze or at least put upon it conditions which will to some extent qualify its efficiency. The railroad wants a Joop-hole and is may be safely predicted that it will get what it wants. The money dumped into the campaign fund four or five days before the election was not exactly in the shape of wiatuity. It was more in the form of an investment. The rate bill is not the only reform measure that will contain a joker, either. The Republican machine has recovered from the panic into which it was thrown by the election of State Treasurer BERRY a year ago, and before the Legislative session is half over it will be doing business at the old stand and in the old way. There will be uno establishment like the Boas man- gion, probably. That feeble imitation of the ‘House of Mirth”’ at Al Was an idea of DurEAM’S and dido’t fulfill ex- ations. Bat the wachine will in Harrisburg and they will direct ‘the work of the Legislature quite as effectively as ever before. Grafting Growing Bold. The capitol graftersare growing bold in their confidence of immunity. PAYSE & Co., for example, replying to the questions of the Attorney General intimates pretty strongly that it’s nobody’s business but their own while HusTON, the architect, declares that there was no extravagance in the farnishing but simply ‘‘richness of de- sign.”” The question to which the contrac- tor objects relates to sub-contracts and the amount paid to sub-contractors, He posi- tively declines to answer and admitting that he was paid for some of the work per- formed by Congressman CASSELL’S Penn Construction company declares that he re- taived the money because he had lost on some similar feature of the work. Of course there is a reason for this re tarning confidence and it may easily be conjectured. The Auditor General who will pasa finally on these accounts is RoBERT K. Youso, who was solicitor for the Capitol Building Commission, permitted their regu- larities even if be didn’t participate in the profits. It will be an easy matter for Mr. YOUNG to quiet gossip on the subject of satisfactory and even if PAYNE & Co., and CASSELL'S conatruction company were paid for the same pieces of furniture or the same work the Auditor General's “0. K.” will settle the question finally aod forever. There is no appeal from his settlement and it will not jeopardize his liberty. Asa matter of fact the people of Penusyl- vania not only deserved to be robbed but to be insulted afterward. In the face of the most overwhelming prool of graft they have not only restored the grafters to power but have entrenched them hy electing one of those responsible for the graft to andit the accounts. That is the most absurd thing of all and it is small wonder that the con- tractors are growing bold, They are secure in the possession of the gralt and the Astor- ney General will be propertly disciplined if be fires too many embarrassing questions at em, The State belongs to thesaints I they are the saints, The people have ¢d them into power and opportunity for vo —————————— A Little Premature. The WATHCMAN is always glad to give fall credit for any and every good act of those who represent the public service, but it don’t believe in going ‘‘off balf-cock’’ at every promise that is given or every pro- fession that is made. For this reason, and unlike many of its contemporaries, it prefers to wait and see just how much in earnest Attorney General Carson is in un. covering the thievery that characterized the building of the new State Capitol be- fore it plasters him over with commenda- tions for doing that which is but his plain duty to do, and which up until after the election he hesitated and refused to under- take. Mr. CARSON may be in dead earnest now, but writing a few letters to the fellows who he suspects, or would bave the public suspect, of beinge the guilty ones don’t prove it by a long shot. Until he goes after the officials whom the State entrusted to oversee and have charge of the job, the men who were its agents, vepresentatives and trustees in this mat. ter, we can have noidea other than that his efforts now are hut the veriess pretense, and that results will prove them so. When the individuals comprising the State Cap- ito! Building Commission and the public officials con<tituting the Board of Pablic Building« and Grounds are called to ae- count, there will be basis for the helief that there is to he an investigation that means to get to the bottom of things. Until theo, it will be well to wait. For the Bellefonte Hospital. As mentioned in this paper last week a committee composed of Dis. R. G. H. Hayes, George F. Harris, M. J. Locke and Mr. F. W. Crider went to Harrisburg on Thursday to see the Board of Pablic Chari. ties regarding the necessities of a larger hospital in Bellefonte. The gentlemen met the members of the Board and explained the existing circumstances, that the pres- ent hospital building was entirely too small for the community which it seeks to serve, and that the facilities were inadequate to proper treatment of patients. At first the members of the Board were not disposed to look upon the petition of she Bellefonte committee very favorably. In fact they candidly made the statement that they were not disposed to take any action in the matter until the people of Bellefonte and Centre county showed a disposition to help in the maintenance of the hospital and to- ward the erection of a new building. How- ever, when the committee explained to the Board what the people of Bellefonte and Centre county had done, not only toward Juphorting the institation but toward a fund for a new building, the members ex- perienced a change of heart themselves in and not only work done at the Bell pathy with the sufficient to ‘their recent errors. te hospital but | Republican Radicalism, From the Johnstown Democrat. The Republicans now appear to be thor oughly radicalized. If things keep diftr- in their present directions the Democratic party may be forced to become the pacty ng vested interests. Its leaders may vet be heard orying out to the wild-eyed Repablican statesmen : ‘‘Let well enongh alone.” It is pow the general belief at Washington that the Presidens will io upon some sort of legislation during the next session of Congress calounlated to di- minish swollen fortunes. The inheritance tax is the plan now most talked of. It would be quite like President velt to make a grand-stand play an inheritance tax. Such a measure would not prevent large fortunes—it would simply prevent r being passed on to the next generation. An inheritance tax would not carb any of the present economio i but wonld simply make it im e for the business pirates to pass on all of his ill- gotten gold to his heirs. In fact, av inberi- tance tax would encourage rather than dis- ovhraje 3he ) Dasitiesn pirate. Tue. public would not be inclined to pay mi - tion to its Rockrfellers Tl on tax were in force. It would be ”m to give sach men rope on the theory it was no he io, Jistar ie 1obbef since a $ part w e gathered together would revert to the State on his death. 3 However, it seems quite like! the President wants an inh Congress will pass it fer hi~.. Thros the country the state leaders have the position, since election, that way for the Republican party top is to stick to the ent. This the case financial hlood-letting as a cure for financial dropsy is quite likely to be Goose th t Washington wh assembles. . Another Crazy Religious Sect. From the Altoona Times, A crazy religions sect has broken out in Maine, the tenets of which are almost as ridiculous aod disgusting as those of the “Holly Rollers,” & fanatical excrescence that blossomed forth in the northwestern rt ‘ol the country several months ago. e employment of physicians and the use of medicines are proscribed, ollowers of the cult are Kd Like a fable diet of the coarsest kind. Like other fantastical religions, supreme authority is invested in a ‘‘propbet,”’ who, in this ivatance, seems to be a cleveradventurer, named Sandford, who is now to be living like a tempor- al king in tal waters, sp bly the money wrung from a pes. The colony is said to be in a woefal state of destitution, and a number of deaths of children bave occurred recently, attributa- ble to starvation. Leading citizens of Maine have petitioned the state authorities to intervene in behalf of the children. An investigation is demanded of the charge that they are systematically maltreated and forced to become cognizant of im- moralities that are too loathsome to men- tion. It is plainly the daty of the anthor- ities to take action if the charges made are substantiated. Recognizing freedom of religious doctrine as the fundamental right of American citizenship, it is well that it shonld be observed rigorously, fantastic and ahsurd though these heliefs may be. Bat when children are soffering aod dying by the blind adherence of their parents to the preaching of a charlatan the duty of the State is quite plain. Adults can follow their own inclinations, but they have not the right to entail needless suffering which goes so far as to imperil the lives or reason of their offspring. Can only Walt and Learn. From the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph (Ind) The fruits of the recent victory which reinvigorated the Boss System in Pennsyl- vavia will now drop ripe, matured aud mellow, into the basket of experience. For example: ‘*Representative-elect Charles N. Bramm will covtrol all the Federal pa“ trooage in Schuylkill connty.”’ Thizis the dictum of Senator Penrose just sent forth. It is, therefore, tie first assertion of his newly confirmed authority as Boss of Fed- eral place and favor in this Commonwealth, and an attestation of bis right to rule. And while it definitely puts out of bhuoisness William 8. Leib, who was lifted from the Sub-Treasurership by Roosevelt—for which there was general thanksgiving—it never- theless confrontsthe people with the fact that Penrose remains secure in the position as Chief Boss, recognized by the powers at Washington as having the last word in Federal appointments. The question re- maining is one which concerns the people of this State most. Will he be recognized as the power behind the Gubernatorial chair, the inspirer of Gubernatorial politics and, the actual purveyor of Gubernatorial fa vors ? He has prevailed over Washington. Can be prevail over Oak Lane ? No Reason for Cuban Annexation. ‘From the Pittsburg Post. Those who favor the annexation of Cuba are just now declaring that the poople of the island are really unfis to govern them- selves and that the best of them realize the fact and are anxious for permanent Amer- can control. The fact that for more than four yeas the Cabaus were e and prospetane under their own government is the answer to this argument. It is trae that an wulartunate situation develop. ed lass summer, but there is reason to be- lieve that the experience resulting there- from will be valuable in the future and that when the Cubans are again given con trol of their own affairs they will profit by as there is no good reason for a Sk gi ll 0 : ent con- trol. If an exatio i840 come it want be fn pursuance early expressed wishes of the Cuban people. ——-The lass of the Pennsylvavia rail APPIO- | road excursions to Harrisburg to see the - thirteen million doilar capitol will be 1un js | to-morrow, and ‘then there will ‘be no special trains. —In the New Bloomfield, Perry county, - markets butter is selling at 20 cents a pound and eggs at 20 cents a dozen, . —Harry Shearer, a young man living at Pine, was seriously injured at the cross- ing at Aughenbaughs on Saturday evening. —The vestry of St. John's Episcopal church, York, will establish ‘a free library with the 9,000 volumes bequeathed to it by the Rev. Charles James Wood. —It is stated on good authority that Lock Haven is to have a large new machine shop, which will be situated slong the Bald Eagle Valley railroad, near the city limits. —At the close of last week there were 655 teachers in Fayette county. The number is increasing all the time with the opening of new schools and will soon reach the 700 mark. —So0 much illegal fishing has been done lately between Sunbury and Harrisburg that the state game warden department bas placed an extra foree of wardens along the Susque- hanna river. ~The “attaches of the Pennsylvania fish commission are now engaged in buying trout eggs for the State from the private fisheries located near Allentown. The work is in charge of N. R. Buller superintendent of the Wayne hatchery. ~The United Mine Workers of Cannons burg have let the contract for the counstiuc- tion of a two-story brick building to be used as headquarters at a cost of $10,000. It will be the first building owned by a Washington county miners’ association. —Brigadier General Wiley wants a Jaw passed by the Legislature for compulsory voting. In case a citizen neglects to exercise the right of suffrage be shall be fined $5 or $10. He thinks it would add to the interest of the individuals in elections. —Daniel Hunt, of Centreville, 57 years old, while hurrying to one of the state capitol excursion trains at Montandon, Saturday morning, stumbled over a semaphore wire, fell and struck bis head on the iron rail. He was picked up unconscious and itis feared that his skull is fractured. —Fire of unknown origin started Sunday in Bear Valley shaft colliery, at Shamokin, g owned by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company. A number of mine fire experts from the district have been or- dered to the scene. Eight hundred men and boys are employed at the colliery. —Peter Klingensmith, who died at Del- mont on Saturday, had a remarkable record for attendance at church. In the fifty years that he was a member and elder of the Del- mont Presbyterian church he was absent only three times from church services. He was superintendent of the Sunday school for forty-five years. —Coroner William Armstrong, of Clinton county, was notified by telephone Sunday by a jlstice of the peace at Cross Fork that the dead body of a man had been found in the forests near there, Itis not known at this time just how he met his death, but an in- vestigation will be made by the authorities at Cross Fork. mn —~Congressman-elect William B. Wilson, of Blossburg, was ably assisted in his recent campaign by bis daughter, Grace, who has been her father's secretary for five years,and who is now only 20 yeas old. She carried on the correspondence of Mr. Wilson, ac- companied him on lis campaign tours and arranged his itinerary. -.For the first time in the history of Hazle- ton a property owner appearcd before the assessors to ask that the valuation of his real estate be raised. The man was the veteran Alderman Laubach, who made improvements to his home during the summer and was anxious that they be assessed. The assessors were taken by surprise. —The funeral of Mrs. Anon Gaskell, a negress, reputed to be the heaviest woman in Delaware county, took place on Wednesday. She weighed 500 pounds. Ir required seven able-bodied men to assist the undertaker in placing the body in the casket, and it was necessary to remove the window jambs to get the easket into the parlor. —State Zoologist Surface Las just received from Dr. H. D. Moore, of New Lexington Somerset county, a rare specimen of a Penns’ sylvania animal known as thej woods rat. The woods rat is a native of the higher,rocky and mountainous regions of Pennsyivania and is very rare. For four years the State zoologist has been trying to procure a speci | men. —Dr. Jacob L. Zeigler, of Mount Joy, the oldest living graduate of Jefferson Medical Collegeof Philadelphiaithe oldest practicing physician in Lancaster county, and with very few if any exceptions the oldest doctor in Pennsylvania, will celebrate his Sith birthday anniversary next Saturday. He has been practicing medicine in Mount Joy for sixty-three years, and is still actively en- gaged. —The Braddock Monument association, which has charge of a project to erect a memorial on the site of the battle of Brad- dock’s field, in 1755, has optioned a large plot of ground in the down-town section of Braddock on which to have a shaft erected. The grounds will be purchased by popular subscription and will be used as a; public park. Congress will be asked to appropriate money for the memorial. —A bear broke into the barn’ yard at the old Bloom stand, formerly the Ben Bloom place, along the Curwensville pike, and slaughtered fwenty sheep. The ‘incident was discussed generally and surprise express- ed that a bear would wantonly destroy more sheep than were required to satisfy bis im- mediate appetite. Most of the sheep's backs were broken and bruin is the only native animal capabic of delivering a blow that would accomplish this result. —Morrisdale, Clearfield county, was visited by a disastrous fire Saturday morning about 2 o'clock, resulting in the destruction of two dwelling houses owned by Peter Moyer, of Kylertown. The fire is supposed to have caught from a defective flue and had gained such headway before being discovered that very little could he done looking to the sav- ing of the buildings. One of the buildings was occupied by Mrs. M. J. Morton, who lost all of her household effects. The other building was occupied by the families of J. W. Campbell and Mrs. Walter Japp, who saved practically all of their personal effects. Rw OF
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