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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
ink Slings.
—Kingstoa, Jamaica, had an earthquake
that wasn't caused by a powder mill ex-
plosion.
—The President bas come down the tree
in the Brownsville episode, bat he basn’t
explained why he went up.
—CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS drew a sal-
ary of $320 per annum aod that is all ke
got for discovering us but fame.
—What the country Members received
in the way of appointments at Harrisburg
wasn’t enough to take care of many of their
constituents.
—0ld man Winter seems to have found
his way back to his busivess office. Dur-
ing the fore part of the week it looked very
much as though he had vamoosed.
—Au English wind mill at Reigate has
been turned inte a church. If environ-
ment has anything to do with it here will
be a congregation that will get long enoogh
sermons.
~—1It is just three days since the depart-
are of SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER from
Harrisburg and it will scarcely be three
days more until Pennsylvania wili bave
forgotten that he ever was.
—Wouder how the Hon. Bon MURPHY,
ofl Johnstown, feels surrounded by that
pressed leather frieze iu the reception room
of bis suite in the capitol. It is certainly
a fine nest for such a fine looking bird.
—Many a lazy fellow who could be lay-
ing up something against a rainy day finds
it much more to his liking to spend his
time argaing out how long this wave of
prosperity is going to sweep over the coun-
try.
~The small turnout of people from a
distance to the inaogural ceremonies of
Governor STUART was probably not so
much due to a lack of desire to attend on
the part of she faithful as it was to a lack
of free transportation.
—In Utah the Legislatare is going to
passa law permitting candidates for cer-
tificates as dentists to practice on the
conviots in the state prisons. It is not
clear whether the plan is to secare better
dentists or fewer convicts.
—The banking power of the banks of the
United States is only six billion dollars
less thau she combined power of all the
banks of all foreign countries, yet every
time one of the directors of the Bank of
Englavd blows his nose Wall street begins
to doctor for a case of grip.
—The spring elections are only a little
over a month off and it is important that
good men aspire to the offices to be filled.
Don’t give your support to anyone, but re-
member that the meu you are to elect will
fill offices which effect you more directly
than any others within your gifs.
—The Pennsylvania State editorial aseo-
ciation on Monday resoluted to demand
the repeal of the press-muzzler law, but
unfortunately for the efficacy of the reso-
lation many of the editors who joined in
its passage had previously supported Legis-
lators who will nos vote lor the repeal.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad probably
thinks of issuing that two million lot of
bounds and stock in order to let the news.
paper people of the State in. We haven't
had much interest in the old concern since
Jan 1ss, 1906, and perhaps this is to bea
nice chance to invest some of the money we
have so kindly loaned to delinquents.
—The Hon. ANDY CARNEGIE repoited
more personal property for taxation than
any of the others of New York’s multi mil-
lionaires. This does not mean that ANDY
reported absolutely all of his. It is men-
tioned merely to show that while no one
knows how much honesty is involved AN-
DY is that much more honest than the
rest.
—The people interested in the welfare of
the Bellefonte hospital are not alarmed be-
cause the Board of Public Charities bas
recommended that its hi-ennial appropria-
sion of five thousand dollars for mainte-
oance he reduced to four. It will be put up
+40 the Legislature good and strong and if
returns are not forthcoming then we will
‘be disappointed.
—The nerve of Senator D. 8. WALTON
«in wantiog to be president pro tem of the
Senate session of 1909, is not a very re-
markable exhibition. He was president of
the basted Farmers and Drovers National
‘bank of Wayneshurg and any man who
«gould do what he did to shat institution
would have nerve enongh to waus to take
-8t. Peter's place at the gate.
—Under the sheep law now in effect in
this State an owner receives six dollars for
each sheep killed by a dog, while the costs
for deciding that the sheep is dead run
from six to eight dollars. Wouldn't it be
better to have the wool pulled over the
eyes of justice occasionally and pay for a
few sheep that have not been killed than to
spend so much on the red tape of proving
is.
—Governor-elect STUART'S inacgural
sounded allright but the first action of the
- Legislature looked bad. Every one of the
. reform Republicans voted with the machine
- Members to force Treasurer BERRY to pay
that fifsy thousand dollar warrant to archi.
tect HustoN. Mr. BERRY had refused
. payment with the hope of precipitating a
suit that would carry the scandal into
court where a proper investigation could
be made, bat it is evident that even the re-
+ formers don't want that kind of an investi-
_VOL. 52
Senator Tillman's Speech.
_—
We own to feelings of satisfaction over
the speech of Senator TILLMAN, of South
Carolina, on Satorday. TILLMAN is not
always wise and sometimes he is too radical
in his opinions to be effective. But he is
honest, invariably, and candid, and on the
occasion in question those merits of his dis-
course were supplemented by accuracy. He
declared that the President's order dis-
missing the negro troops for participation
in a murderous riot at Brownsville, Texas,
was a usurpation of aathority and a crime
as atrocious as lynching. The troops were
guilty of a grave crime, he said, and de-
served punishment. Bat the law provides
a punishment as well as a method, and in
imposing sentence outside of the law and
by other than the lawful wethod, the Presi-
dent committed a grave offence.
The negro troops were guilty of the high.
est crime against the community in which
their murderous assault occurred. The
proper course to pursue under the circum-
stances was to give the civil authorities
ample opportunity to apprehend and punish
the wretches. Under precisely similar
circumstances that course was pursued in
Ohio when white soldiers were involved.
But the President wouldn't consent to it
in the case of the black soldiers while he
proceeded to punish guilty and innocent
alike in violation of the constitution, the
law and every principle of justice. No tri-
bunal has a right to panish innocent men
hecanse others have committed a crime.
No mau has a right to punish even guilty
men nnless they bave been convicted by
due process of law. President ROOSEVELT
has done both of these things.
Bat be has done moreand worse. Ever
since his elevation to the Presidency he
has been encouraging the negroes toa frame
of mind which Senator TILLMAN declares
leads inevitably to racial conflict. He has
incited the negro troops in the army to
envy and vengeance. Having accomplish
ed this result he disposed the troops so as
to give them the fullest opportunity for
vengeance. For example, he knew that the
men v;bo perpetrated the outrage at Browns-
ville were ruffianly. They had heen guilty
of similar offences at northern posts and
yet were sent to that southern station
where race prejudices w he certain to
incite them to violence. As a matter of
fact the affair looks like a conspiracy to
reach precisely the climax expressed in the
shooting up of the town and the subsequent
usurpation of authority by the President.
Promises Without the Right Ring.
Governor STUART continues to make re-
form promises ‘‘to the ear,’’ though there
is danger that he will break them to the
hope. In his inaugural address on Tues-
day he professes great anxiety to pursue
the investigation of graft in the construc-
tion of the capitol. He declares that he is
in favor of full exposure and fit pumsh-
ment at any cost to the treasury. He even
recommends aun appropriation and the em-
ployment of special counsel. That sounds
fine to the casual listener. But it lacks the
ring of the true metal. It jingles, in other
words, like a coin with a hole in it.
The only way to get a searching and
sufficient investigation of the capitol graft
is in the courts. A legislative inquiry will
not do and an investigation by a commis-
gion will prove equally disappointing. The
transparent subterfuge of Attorney General
CARSON is the best evidence in the world
of this, He has gone to the pains of ask-
ing a great many questions, the answers to
which have been evasive or contemptuous.
Bat they have apparently satisfied CaRr-
SON, who is now putting questions and an-
swers in the form of a report to the Gov-
ernor. The Governor will probably refer
it to the Legislature and the whole matter
will be treated as a vindication.
If the new Governor and those associated
with him in the administration of the State
government are in earnest they bave a
splendid opportunity now to inaugurate a
real investigation. Demand was made at
the State Treasury the other day for pay-
ment of what the State Treasurer regards
a fraudulent claim. Payment was refused
and it is expected that mandamus proceed-
ings will be begun soon. But there is time
enough yet to organize a successful fight for
the defense of the treasury. If the) Legis-
lature will appropriate $20,000 to employ
couneel and procure evidence twenty times
that much will be saved aud if the new
Governor will say the word the money wiil
be appropriated.
Both on Good Committees,
The Senator from this distiict—Hon.
GEO. M. DIMELING, and the Member from
this county—Hon. JOHN NoLL, have no
reason to complain of failure to be proper.
ly and oreditably recognized in the forma-
tion of the committees. Both have been
placed on some of the moss importans com-
mittees, and each one will have an oppor-
tunity, as they will bave the disposition,
to care for the interests of their constituents
in the best manner possible. In the Senate
Mr. DIMELING has been placed on the com-
mittees of Agricultare, Forestry, Game
BELLEFONTE,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
| and Fish, Pablic Buildings and Grounds,
Law ard order, Finance and Inland Navi-
gation, and Mr. Noll in the House, is a
Member of the Appropriaticn, Elections,
Geological Survey, Library and Federal
Relations.
We congratulate these gentlemen on the
auspicious start they are making, and feel
assured that the interests of the people of
Clearfield and Centre will be watched and
carefully guarded while in their charge.
A Disappointing Appointment.
The first official act of Governor STUART,
if an act performed before his inanguration
can be so designated, is not indicative of
reform along a line npon which improve, |
ment was specifically promised. The ap-’
pointment of M. HayMprox Topp, of Phil- |
adelphia, to the office of Attorney General»
on the other hand, implies an adhesion to
the old policy of corporate dominance in
the State. Mr. Topp is all that could be
desired in ability and character. In com-
plimentary phrase it is said of him thai he
is “‘a lawyer's lawyer.” In other words,
he is so well grounded in the principles of
| law that other lawyers come to him in mo-
| ments of doubt and perplexity. No high-
er tribute could be paid to his legal at-
' tainments,
| Bat Mr. TopD is essentially a corpora-
tion lawyer. He is what might be justly
characterized as an equity expert. Daring
the long period of his professional experi-
ence he has devoted his considerable men-
tal energies to the mastery of, not so much
the science of law, as the infirmities of the
statates. It is no disparagement either to
his mental or moral equiptaent that this is
trne. Mr. Topp had no aspirations for
public life. His ambitions were all in the
direction of professional encocess and cor-
poration practice is the certain and short
line to achievement in that direction. Cor-
porations seek lawyers who are able and
adroit in equity courts and equity practice
trains the mind to favor corporate inter-
ests.
In the appointment of Mi. ToDD to the
office of Attorney General, therefore, it
may be said that Governor STUART has
disappointed the expectations of those who
imagived that the interests of the peaple
rather than those of the corporations will
be conserved by the new administration.
Possibly the new Attorney General will
hold the balance evenly between the two
interests and while conserving she rights of
corporations will not subvert those of the
people. But it is certain that thoughtful
and observant citizens would have felt safer
for the future if a man less obligated to cor-
porations and more familiar with the gen-
eral principles and practices of the law were
Attorney General. Constant use of corpor-
ation lenzes ultimately give a corporate
tinge to things.
Why are Our Senators Silent.
Why is Senator PENROSE silent when the
President is accusel of usurpation and
what does Senator KNOX mean by urging
LonGE, of Massachusetts, to withdraw his
resolution declaring that the President was
within his constitutional limitations in dis.
missing the colored troops? Are we to
understand that the Pennsylvania Senators
are among the opponents of the President
in the controversy now in progress? Itcan
hardly be. The charge is of the gravest
character. If it is sustained it may result
in impeachment proceedings and the dis-
grace of RoosEVELT. PENROSE will hard-
ly contribute, even negatively, to sucha
peril. KXNoX couldn't possibly be a party
to snch a thing.
Ooly a few weeks ago PENROSE was
shrieking bysterically to the voters of
Pennsylvania to support the President and
KNOX made two or three speeches during
the campaign to the same purposes. The
only menace under which ROOSEVELT rest-
ed at the time was that a real friend of his,
personal as well as political, appeared like-
ly to be elected Governor of the State.
ROOSEVELT wouldn't have suffered in con-
sequence of the incident though the Repub
lican machine would probably have been
fatally damaged. But PENROSE and KNox
sounded the alarm that the President was
being threatened with all sorts of enmities
and opposition and urged voters to come to
his rescue. Now that he is in real danger,
however, they are silent. .
We helieve that the conduct of the Presi.
dent in relation to the negro troops is in-
defensible, It was a usurpation that in-
volves the gravest danger and may work
disastrous consequences. Bat PENROSE
ought to make some effort to shield bim
and KNOX is equally bound to come to his
defence. They pretended to be his friend
last fall even after the incident which has
brought him under ori ticism and stirred up
the prejudices of others under the false pre-
tense that he was in danger. But now
that he is in danger, now that determined
and able men like Senator FORAKER open-
ly accuse him of high crimes and mis-
demeanors, for the usurpation amounts to
that, they are silent.
~—This has been another week of rain,
mud, snow and general disagreeableness.
PA., JANUARY 18, 1907.
Stuart Rebukes Pennypacker.
The striking feature of Governor StU-
ART’S inaugural address is the palpable se-
bake of the practice of bis predecessor in
office, the absurd PENNYPACKER. ‘‘Pre-
eminently,’’ declares the new Governor,
“I desire to call attention to the condition
of the hospitals for the care of the indigent
insane. To my mind the care of these un-
fortunates is the first doty of the State
whose wards they are. This obligation is
a sacred one and not only rests upon the
grounds of common humanity, but arises
because it is utterly impossible for the in-
digent insane to receive, elsewhere, the
treatment which they ought to have and
which the State should furnish to them.
We have uot kept pace,” he continaes,
“in the last ten years with the rapid in-
crease ir the number of cases of this ohar-
acter and as a consequence the state insti-
tations for the insane are much overcrowd-
ed.”
Two years ago precisely the same condi-
tions existed and the machine Legislatare
reluctantly obeyed the public demand for |
improvement by appropriating money, in |
part, if not sufficient, to remedy the evil. |
But Governor PENNYPACKER vetoed every
such appropriation for the ostensible rea-
gon that the funds in the treasary were in-
sufficient whereas, as a matter of fact, there
was abundance of money in the treasury to
meet every requirement of that kind.
What Governor PENNYPACKER really
meant, however, was that the measure of
the cupidity of his graftiog friends had
not been: accurately taken and the indi-
gent insane and other helpless wards of the
State should wait aod suffer until the last
desire of the gralters was satisfied. It was
to rebuke this iniguity that Governor STU-
ART spoke as he did with reference to the
delinquencies in charity work for the past
ten years.
The money that ought to have gone to
improve the conditions of the insane was
stolen out of the treasury to feed the rapao-
ity of the gralters concerned in the con-
struction of the new capitol. The condi-
tions of the treasury would not permit of
sanitary plambing or additional space in
the Danville Insane asylum, where help-
less patients were huddled together like
pigs in a sty. Dat there were plenty of
funds to buy mabogany chairs by she foot
and bronze chandeliers by the pound at an
aggregate cost unparallelled in the history
of architecture. That was PENNYPACK-
ER'S method of compensating his friends
for flattery. As QUAY discharged bis obli-
gations by placing public patronage where
it would do the most good PENNYPACKER
paid his political debts by opening the
treasury to those who served him.
Cortelyon’'s Nomination.
The nomination of GEORGE B. CORTEL-
YOU to be Secretary of the Treasury con-
tinues to create trouble. The latest aspect
of the affair is a difference between the Na-
tional Cisy bank of New York, which is
opposed to the confirmation, and J. PIER-
PONT MORGAN & Co., who favors him. The
National City bank is the Standard oil
financial institution and is said to have
been receiving all the treasury favors for
ten years or more. MORGAN & Co., have
not been favored with advance information
or even deposits under the administration
of Lyman J. GAGE and LESLIE M. SHAW.
They think it is about time that they should
have an inning.
There are a good many people opposed to
CoORTELYOU for that office for other reasons
than those which influence the Standard
oil crowd. As chairman of the Republi-
can National committee during the recent
presidential contest Mr. CORTELYOU put
himself under obligations to certain finan-
ciers for sinister services and it is widely be-
lieved that his nomination for the office was
for the purpose of giving him an opportunity
to reimburse them. But that is an old
fashioned notion which won’t cut much
ice. If CoRTELYOU'S nomination is re-
jected it will be for other reasons than thas.
There is another nigger in the woodpile.
We are of the opinion that CORTELYOU
will be confirmed in the near fatare but
predict that it will be after an understand.
ing has been reached with the managers of
the National City bank. The nomination
has heen referred to the Finance committee
of the Senate of which Senator ALDRICH is
chairman. ALDRICH is related to the
Standard cil company by marriage. That
is to say, his daughter is the wife of Mr.
ROCKEFELLER’ son and incidentally the
Senator is the agent of the Standard in the
Senate. The party can’t afford to lose
CORTELYOU so that it is safe to guess that
the problem will be solved by an agree-
ment between the candidate and the con-
firming power.
——Twins were born to an Austrian
woman, living near the Bellefonte furnace,
last Saturday afternoon. One of the babies
died within an hour but this fact did not
deter the father and his fellow countrymen
from enjoying the usual christening feast
of good shings to eat and drink. The dead
the State on the ground
of the State's finances
Pittsburg Post.
J] W. Peunypacker on Tuesday
fin Yis work as Governor of Pennsylva-
via, office be yielded the same day
to his successor, Edwin 8. Stuart. The re-
cord of his administration can now be
easily summed up. Many who ardently
supported his election bave been much dis-
appointed in his guberuatorial career and
there will be few regrets expressed in any
quarter over its termination. Governor
Penny packer entered upon his term with
the reputation of heing ly honest,
and he finishes it without any allegation
having heen made of his having been gail-
ty of corrupt ices. He undoubtedly
prevented considerable evil legislation be-
ing enacted by making known in advance
his intention to vote such measures as he
perceived to be dangerous. Unfortunately
he permitted some measures to go upon the
statute books which he might well have
disapproved.
The great weakness of Governor Penny-
packer was his singular and absolute blind-
ness to the real character of State political
leaders to whom he owed his selection for
the governorship and to the evils of the
machine built up aod fostered by the or-
ganization of which they were the direc
tors. In his eyes these men could do no
wrong, although history has already con-
demved them. He could see po evils in
the government of Pennsylvania worthy of
mention. But in spite of this he was com-
lied to call an extra session of the Legis-
ture to enact measures to remedy many
evils. Although all parties in the Com-
monwealth bave declared the need for far-
ther reform legislation by this Legislature,
Governor Pennypacker’s last message made
no plea for such reforms. The piece of leg-
islation in which he took the most interest
Juving his Seri was the Ja whieh he Sond.
y hoped would prevent newspapers
t! e State telling the truth about the polit.
ical leaders he worshiped, and which sig-
ally failed of its purpose.
e greatest blot upon Governor Penny-
packer’s administration will be his action
in og with the Juruitbing of ee
new tol. ough repu to be a
lawyer and judge of ability, yet in this
matter he seems to bave shown the utmoss
ignorance or disregard of the law. He sanc-
tioned the payment of millions of dollars
without understanding the manner in
which the bills were made up or how the
work charged for in them was performed.
From all the evideuce it seems that the
State lost by his blindness and incapacity
in this master probably $06,000,000, for
which it has received no value. Aud while
he permitted this extravagance to go on he
at the same time cut down the appropria-
tions for the insane avd the charities of
e condition
such action
necessary. It is doubtful if a Governor
who was personally corrupt could have
cost the State more than bas Governor
Penny er’s blindness to the fanlts and
the es of the machine leaders and
their friends.
In his appointments to office Governor
Peuny er did both well and ill. Some
of his appointments were excellent. But
it must he remembered also that he put or
retained in office men like Israel W. Dar-
ham, David Martin and John A. Berkey
and that he pesmitten the insurance and
banking and highway departments to be
ran by politicians for political rather than
buisness purposes. Governor Pennypacker
was unsuited by nature and training to
properly administer the duties of his office
daring the critical period of the last four
years. Had be been clearer sighted and de-
termined to do his utmoss to improve the
government of the State he could have ac-
complished much for the good of its people.
But bad he the necessary qual-
ities for such work he would never have
been selected by the machine leaders as
their candidate for Governor. Whether his
successor, however, will do any better than
he did remains to be seen.
Architect Huston’s Explanation.’
From the Altoona Times,
Architect Huston, in a statement sent to
Attorney General Carson, denies that
$9,000,000 were expended for trimmings
for the state capitol, but gives facts and
figures tending to show that of the $13,000,
000 spent upon the building over $7,000,
000 went for construction. The architect
is a very simple-minded man if he believes
this explanation will help the case of the
board of public buildings and grounds
any.
There was no authority for expending
$7,000,000 on the construction of ae cap-
itol, no matter what the authority may
have been for expending enormous sums
upon the furnishiogs. The only appropria-
tion made for construction was $4,000,000.
The ure, apparently with the inten-
tion of the expenditures well with-
in this ion, explicitly provided
in the a tion bills of 1905 and 1906
that no part of the money appropriated for
furnishings and repairs should be used to
complete the new capitol.
How, then, can the expenditure of over
$3,000,000 for the purpose which the Legis-
lature prohibited be explained? What ex-
case can the public buildings and grounds
committee offer for oversteppiog its anthor-
ity? Sarely no exigency could arise that
could make the will of a few men para-
mount to expliot legislative enactment.
Guggenhelm's Wealth,
From the Chicago Public.
One of the friendly descri of Simon
Guggenheim, who is slated for Republican
senator from Colorado—a description that
we find in the Denver correspondence of
the Cincinnati Eoquirer—praises him for
having ‘‘gct his wealth from nature's store-
house.” That would be praise indeed, if
it were true. Bat the fact seems 10be; yt
that Mr. Guggenheim got his wealth
nature's , but that he got the
storehouse. With that ‘‘cinch’’ upon their
industry the miners gave him the wealth.
"This is another touch of winter and
child was buried Sunday afternoon in the
Catholic cemetery.
the ice men are beginning to sit up and
take notice.
Spawls from the Keystone,
i ~The Eichard Coal and Coke company, of
| Connellsville, has purchased 208 acres of
| eoking coal lands in Stickel hollow, Fayette
i county, from James Clark, for $375,000, Two
| hundred coke ovens will be constructed.
| —There are three sisters in Chester county
| whose ages sum up 273 years. They are Mrs.
| Elizabeth Rambo, of West Chester, aged 93
| years; Aun Cloud, of East Gorben township,
{aged 91 and Mrs. Hannah Iliff, of West
ma | Chester, aged 89.
~The license court opened Monday in
Schuylkill county, and there are 448 apoli-
cations for new stands. The law and order
society has remounstrances against all these
and it expeets to knock out about three-
fourths of them.
—Last Saturday Abraham Francis, aged
81 years, and Mrs. Anna Snowden, aged 87
years, were married at York, but their hon-
eymoon was cut short, as on Thursday a
warrant was served on Francis charging
him with being a bigamist.
—8. M. McCormick Esq., of Lock Haven,
city clerk snd a leading member of the Clin-
ton county bar, was found unconscious in
his bathroom last Thursday at his home in
the above city and died in a few minutes,
Heart disease was'the cause.
~The annual report of the controller of
Lavcaster county shows the snug sum of
$141,609.32 in the county treasury. Appro-
priatione for the ensuing year to the amount
of $428,500 are suggested. The county tax
rate is two and one half mills.
—The Ninth internal revenue district of
this State leads all others in the United
States in the number of cigars made in 1906,
having produced 763,702,018 during the year.
One half of these were made in Lancaster
county. The output required 14,766,543
pounds of tobacco.
~The Rockhill Iron and Coal company
has purchased the Grove quarry farm in
Blacklog valley, Huntingdon county. This
is the farm on which is located the quarry
from which the limestone is obtained for the
Rockhill furnace and the supply is said to be
almost inexhaustible.
~Mrs. Frank Uratio and little grandson
five years old occupied the same sleeping
room upstairs in their Franklin street home
in DuBois Wednesday night, when the house
caught fire on the first floor and all efforts to
save them from a horrible fate were futile
and upavailing. It was a most heartrending
affair,
~The movement to build a hospital in the
Panther valley of the anthracite coal region
between Tamaqua and Lansford is assured.
L. A. Riley, president of the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation company, will farnish a site
of six acres and makes a contribution of
$1,000 besides and the employees of the com-
pany, numbering 5,000, have pledged $12,
000. The cost is to be $50,000.
—Thieves entered the house of Mrs. W.
W. Daugherty, of Satishurg, Indians county,
recently, and stole two overcoats of her
brother, J. A. Richards, agent at the Penn-
sylvania railroad station. In the hurry to
get away through a window Mrs. Daugher~
ty’s coat and furs were dropped, the latter
on the porch and the former in the window.
A hat of Mr. Richards was also dropped in
the back yard.
—Mary Carris, aged 16 years, was discov-
ered in the home of Mrs. Peter Milmore,
McKeesport. She fought desperately to es-
cape, but Mrs. Milmore is a powerful woman
and held her confined in a room until the
police arrived. After her arrest she com-
fessed that she had been a burglar for
months. She stole jewelry to the value of
nearly $2,000 from another McKeespolt
home the day before.
—A number of persons about Hatboro,
Montgomery county, having been robbed of
their best poultry, Samuel Nice, who had
suffered losses several times, placed a bur.
glar alarm in his poultry house with a bell
in his bedroom. Friday night the bell rang,
when Nice hurried out with a shot gun and
succeeded in capturing William Pope witha
dozen fine chickens in his possession. He
has been committed for trial.
—Richard Foote, of Altoona, had a narrow
escape from being burned in the Miller hotel
at Lewistown on Saturday night. He had
retired for the night and was awakened by
the cries of fire, which was burning in the
room adjoining, the flames having already
eaten their way through to his room. Clad
in his night clothes he escaped to the street,
bat the fire was checked before it had spread
much and he returned to bed in another
room.
—Coming home from school, two children
of George M. Mellott, a farmer in Belfast
township, Fulton county, found their home
deserted and the doors left open. Anxiously
they searched through every room for their
father, and, failing to find him, went to the
barn, where they discovered his corpse on
the floor. One of the terrified children stood
guard while the other ran after the nearest
doctor. The latter said that Mellott must
bave died of heart disease several hours be-
fore.
—(ieorge Scott, of Philipsburg, general
manager of Irish Bros. extensive bituminous
coal operations, was at Portage Friday, tak-
ing with him money to pay the employees at
Puritan mine, near that place. While he
was making an inspection of the mine he
left two thousand dollars of the money in
charge of the engineer and fireman, who
locked it in a tool box. A few minutes after
Mr. Scott had left the engine room a suppos-
ed miner rushed in and said Mr. Scott want-
ed to see the engineer and fireman iv the
mine. When they returned from what
proved to be a fool's errand the tool box was
open and the money gone.
—The mystery concerning the disappear-
ance of Rev. John Van Horn, 8 well known
Presbyterian clergyman of Sugar Hill, a
small town near DuBois, was ended Wednes-
day night, when he appeared at a hotel at
Falls Creek and after registering his name
retired to his room and fired a bullet
through his brain, dying instantly. Mr,
Van Horn had been missing since last Mon-
day, and although the police of all the
neighboring towns were searching for him
no trace was found until he showed up Wed-
nesday night. It was thought that he was
mentally unbalanced and while in this con.
dition killed himself. He left a farewell
letter to his wife but gives no reason for the
taking of his life.