RT ———.
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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—Earthquakes ate not unuscal. They
are unpleasant.
—Tomorrow the ground hog will set our
minds at ease as to what it is to be, for the
next six months,
STAT
E RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
—It is a harmless corporation that isn't
being introduced to the stern requirements
of the law these days.
—The skating rink is really a place of
very innocent amusement yet why do so
many people sit down on it?
—The primaries are over. Now let the
best man win. Iucidentally, you will find
him on the Democratic ticket.
—One of the most economical overseers
of the poor Bellefonte bas ever had is what
Mr. HOWLEY has been. His record proves
that,
—Giraffes and aot eaters have tongues
nearly two feet in length, but all of the
long-tongued species are not giraffes or ant
eaters.
—‘'Salome’’ t.'2 new opera that has been
introduced in New York couldn't be ex-
pected to be other than bad ; having had
sach an anthor as OSCAR WILDE.
—There has just passed into history one
January without the January thaw. Of
course there was plenty of thawing weath-
er, but at that time there was nothing to
thaw.
~Mr. swelled-head SWETTENHAM has
resigned as Governor-general! of Jamaica.
And the victims of the earthquake that
devastated a portion of that island have
not, as yet, petitioned him to reconsider.
—If anybody knows of anything that
hasn’t been soggested as needing some law
at Harrisburg will they kindly commani-
cate with the one or two Legislators there
who have failed to introduce a bill up to
this time.
~——All the men put in nomination by
the Democrats at their primaries last Sat-
urday evening are worthy of yonr support,
and it will be no tronble to elect them if
Democrats do their duty and torn out on
election day.
~—1I¢ is all right to talk about what BERT
TAYLOR and SNYDER TATE are doing but
we want to tell you right here that ‘‘old
man SPEER’ is the fellow who is cutting
the ice in Bellefonte now and he is going
to be elected Treacurer.
—That jawing match that the President
entered into with Senator FORAKER at the
Gridiron club banquet, in Washington,
Satarday night, neither contributed to the
dignity of the Chief Executive of the land
nor the edification of the public.
—It is highly probable, thongh by no
means certain, that the professional stock
market manipulators are trying to scare
the country into a state of business paral-
yeis in order to hold up the adverse legis-
lation that is threatening in so many of the
States.
— Reports from all parts of the State
where the new primary law was followed
are to the effect that the results were not
as satisfactory as anticipated. For some
unaccountable reason there was not nearly
as large an attendavee as under the old
system.
—To think of it! GEORGE BURNHAM
Jr., the convicted counsel general for the
Matual Reserve Life Insurauce Co., is
now the printer's devil in the prison at
Sing Sing. Probably if he hadn’s played
the devil with the business that was firs
entrusted to him be wouldn't be playing it
now.
—Mr. HANKS, a college chum of Presi.
ident RoosevELT at Harvard, is working
for the Interstate-Commerce commission at
one thousand dollars per year. Inasmuch
ashe isa millionaire and lives in hotel
apartments that cost him four hundred
dollars per month it looks like there “isa
nigger in the wood pile’ somewhere.
—That fight between a bull and a bal-
falo in Texas on Sunday was so repulsive
that it bas stirred up po end of righteons
indignation that such brutal sports shonld
still appeal to civilized man. However
great that excitement may be the fight be-
tween the bulls and the bears in Wall
street bas wore people spending sleepless
nights,
—Because peopledon’t like the idea of
being banded a lemon it is actually assert-
ed that the trade in that fruit has fallen off
awmaziogly since the slang expression has
been built ona lemon foundation. If
there is a lemon trust—and if there is not
somehody, somewhere, has been dereliot—
here is a chance to mules the public for de-
stroying its business.
_VOL. 52
Hollow Mockeries Indeed.
The credulity which permits certain of
our esteemed contemporaries to hope for re-
form from the present Legislature and
the state administration is past under-
standing. Nothing has been done or said
by any of the leaders outside of Governor
STUART himself to indicate the least change
in purposes and the reform promises of Mr.
STUART are contradicted by the character
of the men whom he has called into his of-
ficial family. So far as the legislative
leaders are concerned what better evidence
of their purpose to resume the old wethods
could be imagined than their attitude to-
ward General GopiN? There can be no
question of his fitness for the promotion
that was conferred upon him by Governor
PENNYPACKER. Bat for the reason that
some years ago he denounced the iniquities
of the machine his confirmation has been
held up and is likely to be defeated.
For nearly forty years General GoBIN
has been an officer in the National Guard.
Daring the war of the Rebellion he took
his primary lessons in military affairs on
the battlefield and emerged from that
great practical school as a Colonel. Soon
afterward he entered the National Guard
as a line officer and advanced by quick
and earned promotions to the ravk of
Brigadier General in which grade he served
faithfully and well for fifteen years.
Seven or eight years agobe was entitled
both by service and capability to the com:
wiseion as Major General but was prevent.
ed from receiviog that reward for his ser-
vices by political exigencies. QUAY need-
ed votes in the Legislature which were se-
cured by the appointment of CHARLES
MILLER, a creature of the Standard Oil
company. Bat when that gentleman re-
sigoed a year or so ago QUAY bad no
political interests and GoBIN was nominat-
ed for the office.
For years the National Guard bad been
suffering from dry rot. The appointment
of GOBIN to the office of Major General
instantly put life into it. Tbe avnual en-
campments were changed from worthless
ontings to practical training schools in
military tactics and practices. The men
were edncated in the actual duties of sol-
diers and trained to march, bivouac and
and take care of themselves as they would
be obliged to do if in actual military serv-
ice. The result was most satisfactory.
The National Guard was converted into an
efficient force ready for any emergency aud
the men took pride in their work as they
improved in fitness. Bat all this advan.
tage is to be lost now, it seems, because
General GOBIN, a few years ago, refused
to “‘go along’ with the iniquities of the
machine. Pretenses of reform in the face
of such facts are hollow mockeries indeed.
~The THAW trial is costing vast
sums of money but young THAW always
was an expensive luxury.
An Inquiry Easily Answered.
The other day a Congressman of inquir-
ing mind but obviously not given much to
thought, introduced a resolution *‘calling
upon the Secretary of Commerce and Lubor
to investigate the high prices now prevail.
ing in lumber.” Even some of the Con-
gressmen have come to understand that the
‘high prices now prevailing in lamber”
are working infinite harm. They limit
home building to a minimom and dimin-
ish she fraits of thrifs. Men who are well
employed and inclined to provide their
families with homes are prevented from
fulfilling that laudable ambition by the ex-
orbitant prices of materials. The result is
an impairment of prosperity. At least it
works an unju<t discrimination in the di-
vision of the prosperity which prevails.
The Secretary of Commerce and Labor
won’t have far to look for the causes of the
evil of which the Congressman complains.
The cause of ¢! e high prices of lumber is
the tariff tax on lumber which esables the
lumber troet to add $2 a thousand feet to
every consignment of lamber it sells and it
handles practically all the lumber of com-
merce. The repeal of that iniquitous tariff
tax would bring the price of lumber down
to a fair level and cause such a stimulus to
the building trade as would work a vast
improvement in all brauches of industrial
life. This is not a matter of conjecture.
It is a palpable fact patent toany reasoning
mind. The tax is too greata barden to be
endared at all except by persons who are
absolutely obliged to build.
That burdensome and mischievous tax
ought to be repealed for another substan.
tial reason, moreover. It forces the denu-
dation of our rapidly disappearing forests.
One of the prime absurdities of the present
administration is the fact that while we are
spending immense sams of money for the
preservation of forests we are at the same
time forcing the destruction of our forests
in order to put money in the pockets of the
millionaires who control the lumber truss.
Bat for that tax the vast timber lands of
Canada would be open to our use and
would afford ample material for our build
ing operations until our own forests had
had time to renew themselves.
~Io the light of evidence recently pro-
cured in the Presbyterian church in this
place it must be confessed that a large por-
tion of that congregation is suffering with
partial paralysis of the arm. While the
apparent affection has not cansed enough
interest to encourage an investigation it is
none-the-less singular that so many people
of this particalar denomination should be
afflicted in the same way. The trouble
would probably never bave been revealed
bad «ot a certain sin-cure dootor very un-
expectedly found is out. With a charch
tuli of people he asked all those who were
‘christians to hold up a hand. It was pa-
thetic ; the tortures some went throogh to
raise a hand even as high as the shoulder
‘and maoy of them could not get one even
that bigh. The result was the discovery
of a form of Preshyterian paralysis that
-only the faith cure will relieve.
Mr. Carmegile's Quack Notions.
Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE has a new pana-
cea for the evil effects of fortunes that are
too great and is babbling over it in his
vsual absurd way. There should bea tax
of practically confiscating proportions on
inheritances, he says. Big fortunes are
earned, not by the individuals who happen
to possess them, be declares, but by the
communities in which they were acquired.
Therefore, Mr. CARNEGIE reasons, the in-
dividoals who never owned the properties
ought to be permitted to enjoy them to the
full measure of possibilities until they die
and then the work of disintegration should
set in io the interest of justice, morality
and homanity. At least more than half
should be given to the public.
To Mr. CARNEGIE av income tax is ab-
horrent. It would create ‘‘a nation of
liars,” he imagines, and besides that, he
adds, the tax official to whom the taxed
millioraires applied to swear off his taxes
might be a bank officer and when the man
subsequently applied to him for a discount
might say, you have sworn that yon are
not worth as much as people think and
consequently the hank can’t accommodate
you. That would be a great hardship, Mr.
CARNEGIE thinks, and entirely unoecessa-
ry. He would prefer that the temptation
to commis perjury should be kept away
from his platoeratic friends and therefore
recommends that no attempt to tax their
vast wealth be made until after they are
dead.
Mr. CARNEGIE is an arrant humbug if
not av egregious false pretender. Even
millionaires can be kept from swearing
falsely by stringent laws providing for the
punishment of perjury. As a matter of
fact, there ought to be both income aud in-
beritance taxes and while the income tax
might properly go to the Federal govern-
ment the inheritance tax belongs to the
State for the reason referred to by Mr. Car-
NEGIE that vast fortunes are created by
the community rather than by the individ-
ual. Ap income tax would enable the
public to share in the enjoyment of the for-
tune at present and the inberitance tax
would contribute to the community at the
death of the icdividual who happened to
control it.
But neither income nor inheritance taxes
will prevent the accumulation of perni-
ciously large fortunes so long as special
privileges are bestowed on certain individ-
uals by the goverument and those thus fa-
voted are subsequently allowed to use
them to acquire fortunes by sinister, if not
criminal, processes. For example, Mr.
CARNEGIE made millions upou millions of
dollars upon inventions of other men pro-
tected by government patents and supple-
mented by tanfl legislation. He made
other millions upon millions by overcharg-
ing the government for supplies of which
be bad a monopoly through government fa-
vor. If such things were made impossible
by law there would be no fortunes of soffi-
cient magnitude to make trouble, and for.
tunes that don’t make trouble are not
barmfal.
The Philadelphia Machine.
The Philadelphia primary elections re-
vealed the temper of the machine. There
is no reform to be expeoted if the candi-
dates nominated by the gang are successful
at the polls. The candidates represent the
most vicions elements in politics. JoHN
E. REYBURN, the nominee for Mayor, has
been a servile follower of the machine for
nearly a quarter of a century. There bas
been nothing too rank for him. He may
nos participate in the orgies but he acquies-
ces in them. He is a moral nonentity if not
a pervert. He is selfish, sordid and grasp.
ing. He is without human sympathies or
patriotio impulses.
The candida e for Receiver of Taxes is
the man who was taken from the ticket ia
1905 for the purpose of famigating the pol.
itios of the city. When the reform spirit
spread over the city such men as Huan
Brack touk to the tall timber. Their
presence in the lime light was offvnsive to
the public conscience. Even some of the
leaders realized that it was wise to keep
them oat of view, and in ohedience to that
bealthfal pablie opinion Mi. BLACK, who
had been nominated for City Commissioner,
was compelled to reign from the ticket.
The moral sense of the community was
shocked by his candidacy.
But the gangis not afraid to put him
forward now though they resorted toa
cheap subterfuge to disguise their plans,
That is they pretended to have a difference
among themselves as to candidates and hope
to make the public believe that there was
a real contest. Bat there was nothing far-
ther from the facts. The coutention was a
false pretense. No member of the gang
ever desired the nomination of any candi:
date other than REYBURN and Brack. If
it bad been necessary to their success
DAVE LANE and DAVE MARTIN would
bave worked with MCNICHOL and for their
nowination. Bat the people are not de-
ceived. Unless the city is ** corrupt and
contented’ the machine ticket will be
overwhelmingly defeated.
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 1, 1907.
Berry's Overwhelming Answer.
State Treasurer BERRY'S answer to for-
mer Astorney General CARSON'S absurd
defense of the capitol grafeers is the moss
complete exposure of a false pretense ever
brought to public notice. Carsox, who
pretends to be a lawyer and professes to be
a mao of honor, declared that hecause no
evidence of criminality had been shown by
the State Treasurer the accused were inno-
cent or at least beyond the reath of meas-
ures to compel restitation or inflict punish-
ment. Mr. BERRY shows that in the room
of the capitol building which serves as the
State Treasurer’s private office there are
800 square feet of wainscoting which out-
side of the contractor's profit conlda’t have
cost over §1.000. Bat the charge for wain-
scoting that room was $15,000, and it was
paid.
Aw a matter of fact, in the correspond-
ence which Mr. CARSON bad with the con-
tractors and others who bad relations with
the job, he revealed the fact that there was
graft in almost every transaction. In ex-
calpating the grafters in his final report,
therefore, Mr. CARSON indicates a deliber-
ate purpose to shield the grafters from the
just consequences of their crimes. This
makes him a party to the crimes, an acoces-
sory after the fact, and quite ns amenable
to the law as any of the principals in the
transactions. In fact he is the more dan-
gerous criminal because he understood the
enormity of the crimes and for the reason
that be bad been employed by the State to
prevent such outrages from any source and
especially from other employees of the
State.
State Treasurer BERRY didn’t offer any
expert testimony to support the charges of
graft for the reason that he has not been
supplied with fands to pay the expenses of
procuring such evidence. Bat he is ready
to offer such evidence if the means are pro-
vided. In other words, if the lature
or the Attorney General will authorize him
to employ experts and make a thorough
examination he will do so and there will
be no misunderstanding the consequences.
He will prove beyond the shadow of a
doahi not only a conspiracy in which the
y Governor had guilty knowledge it be didn’s
actually participate in the spoils, and that
Mr. CARSON subsequently perverted the
facts in order to shield the guilty from just
and deserved punishment.
~——The expenses of registration for the
spring election in Pittsburg were very high,
seven dollars a vote, according to the pub-
lished reports. Bat everything is high in
Pittsburg except morals and they are very
low.
A Centre Shot,
The legislative committee of the State
Grange, of which Hon. W. T. CrEAsY is
the alert and capable chairman, made a
centre shot at its meeting in Harrisburg,
the other day, when it demanded legisla-
tion for the improvement of the Highway
Department. “Complaints are made
against the great expeuse of building state
roads,’’ the committee declares in a reso-
lation, ‘and to satisfy these we believe
thas the State Highway Department should
be supervisory in its character, as is the
School Department, and that each county
should have a competent engineer, who,
together with the Connty Commissioners,
should have the control of making these
roads.”’
The committee was considerate enough
to refrain from reference to graft though
it it bad been inclined it might have proved
that the Department to which it refers is
the most noisome sink of inignity which
has ever disgraced the name of the State.
Before it was in existence two yeas there
was organized within the staff of the ohief
a coterie of grafters who publicly adversis-
ed to sell the secrets of the Department to
contractors and when the facts were
brought to the attention of the head of the
Department he intimated that he couldn’s
see mach wrong io is though in deference
to public opinion he would order that the
syndicate be dissolved and the secrets of
the Department kept secret.
It has been alleged that from the organi-
zation of the Department until the present
time there bas never been a contract
awarded for road building that bas not
yielded a ‘‘rake off’’ to some one or some
group of employees of the Department.
From $200 for a small piece of road to
$2.000 for a large contract the Department
or sume of its employees exacts in every
ivstance and whether the ‘‘corruption
money" is handed up to the eource of ap-
pointments or not is the only thing that is
left to conjecture. Batin any eveot it is
a must scandalons condition of affairs and
if the Legislature is just to the people it
will not appropriate a dollar to the De-
partment until is is completely reform-
ed.
~The machine revealed its claws in
ordering the investigation of capitol grafs.
It kept the master under control so that
the whitewash may be put on without
protest. Bat it will hardly fool the peo-
ple by such tricks.
eNO: 8.
That Subsidy Bill.
From the New York World,
President Roosevels has not only convin-
ced himself that the other great commer-
cial vations of the world are in a conspir-
acy to subsidize their steamship lines, but
he says that higher wages and greater cost
of maintenance of American crews make
competition almost impowihle. It has nos
80 proved as least in the Pacific, where Hill
and Harriman lines already in operation be-
tween Seattie and San Franesco and the
Orient are promised the full benefits of the
subsidy bill. Toere is alrea'y an Ameri-
can line to Samoa, New Zealand and Aus-
tralia. Several years ago congress fixed a
time when the carrying trade between the
Philippines and the United States should
be restricted to American bottoms, bus so
few American owners were attracted to the
business that it had to extend the time
limis barring foreign ships. The extra in
ducement of a subsidy is now to be hung
up before their eyes in the hope that it
may permit the enforcement of the coast-
wise trade laws,
As for the encouragement of oar ship-
yards, which President Roosevelt desires,
why not read what his owo commissioner
of navigation has to say in his last report?
For example, there is printed on page
115 a conparison of the prices of steel ship
plates in the United States and Great
Britain. In October, 1900, the price in
the United States was $2464 a ton, a
agnainss $38.88 iv Great Britian. In April,
1901, the American price was fixed at
$35 84. With the exception of the six
months from September, 1904, to Febroary
1905, inclasive, this price bas heen main-
tained without change. The Brisish price
during this period bas fallen as low as
$26.15, aud except for a period of three
wonths in 1901 it has never equalled the
American price. During most of the time
there has been a difference of from $5 to
$8 a ton in favor of the English ship-build:
er, and the Steel Trust has successfully
met British competition at these prices
while paving the freight from Pittsburg.
Is Mr. Roosevelt sure that the first step
in the direction of an “‘adquate’’ ship sub.
sidy does not lie in a revision of the Diog-
ley sched ales?
S—
The Roosevelt Third Term Boom.
From the New York American.
We are not writing for those with a ten-
dency to revert to the monarchial form of
government, who feel thas nniversal suf-
frage and government by the people 1epre-
tent a hasty mistake.
We write for those who would do over
again the work that was done in 1776, and
to them we xubmis these questious: >
Is not every argnmens advanced in the
platform of the ‘Third Term Roosevelt
League’ an argument in favor of the per-
manent presidency of Mr. Roosevelt and
a reflection upon the capacity of the people
to govern themselves?
Does not a movement of this kind threat
en our republican form of government more
than that government is threatened by
Trusts or any other modern menace?
Assuming Mr. Roosevelt to contain all
that his admirers see in him, is it the fact
that he is the only honest mau, able man,
energetic man in America whom the peo-
ple could elect to the office of President?
If Mr. Roosevelt is the only man in the
United States honest, able and fit to become
President of the United States, have we not
reached a condition in our pational life
which proves our form of government a
failare? Does it not hecome clear that Mr.
Roosevelt should be continually elected
and that our form of government, having
proved itself faulty, should be modified or
abandoned?
EE AS—————
Ship Sabskdy Methods.
From the New York Press (Rep.)
It is to be observed that while the ship
subsidy grafters ‘*pack’’ a house committee
to get their measure reported out, the de-
termining work is done hy members who
have either heen kicked out of Congress by
their constituents or retired for other rea-
sons, their terms ending with the present
short session. Bat, while this sors of dark-
lantern job can be performed in gesting
out of the committee what the country
does not want, the measure can never pass
the whole house without the votes of mem-
hers whose careers are not already ended.
If those votes are forthcoming the public
will vee that a large addition is made to
the mortuary list headed by Grosvenor,
who, with others whose terms soon end,
has succeeded in skinning the measure
through committee after packing it to per-
mit the perpetration of the job,
A —————
International Amenties.
——
From the Chicago Public.
Two vations, England and the United
States, bave been wroughs up toa high
pitch of excitement (in the newspapers),
and the rest of the world is paralyzed
with the sensation, because an American
admiral was asked by the British colonial
governor of Jamaica to withdraw armed
troops that he bad landed without aathor-
ity. The sarcasm of the governor's letter
was truly enough in bad taste for interna-
tional corespondence; but, on the other
band, bis irritation was not wholly with-
out cause. Sappose Canadian were
to cross suspension bridge without Ameri-
can permission, be the occasion what it
might be, is it inconceivable thas the gov.
ernor of New York might become belliger-
enily sarcastio, or the ent of the
United States get ont his big stiok?
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Stineman's Distinguished Colleague.
From the Philadelphia North American.
Senator Stineman of Cambria convulsed
the senate a few days ago by referring in a
speech to Sevator Algeruon B. Roberts as
“my ecolleagne, Mr. Angora Roberts, the
senator from Montgomery county.” With
the exception of probably two or three of
his colleagues, Mr. Stineman is the wealth-
fest member of the Senate. He made his
money in coal mining as South Fork after
the Johnstown flood. He was the first Re-
publican elected sheriff of Cambria county.
Alyn ie had ii 8 roa fot office he
served one term 8 tafuanza
tac
tives, from which he was prom to the
senate.
Spawis from the Keystone.
—The nineteen puddle furnaces in the
new addition to the Oley street mill of the
Reading Iron company, in Reading, are to
i be put on double turn.
=A broken gas main in Lebanon on Mon-
day night endangered the lives of about half
a dozen families, as gas filled their houses
while they were sleeping. Some of the in-
mates were quite sick.
—Owing to a defective flue the Methodist
Episcopal parsonage in Mifflinburg, Union
county, one of the finest residences in the
town, was badly damaged by fire on Sunday
morning. Loss, $4,000; covered by insurance,
~The Sandbach hotel and stables, in
Wellsboro, were gutted by fire on Sunday
morning, entailing a loss of over $11,000,
The intense cold caused great suffering
among the firemen, who resembled men of
ice in a short time.
—Lancaster county, noted for its immense
yield of tobacco, is famous also for its fine
livestock reared. At present the local papers
are reporting the heavy hogs slaughtered,
very many of which weigh from 400 to 600
pounds, dressed, and some much heavier.
~Charles W. Schuler, former treasurer of
Bethlehem council, Junior Order United
American Mechanics, who was charged with
having stolen $3,800 of the funds of the coun-
cil, and ran away to escape arrest, has re.
turned and given himself up to the authori.
ties.
—Mrs. Elmer Shultz, of Raven Creek,
Columbia county, had a tooth extracted last
Friday. The cavity bled freely and all ef-
forts to stop it were without avail until Sat.
urday night. The loss of blood was so great
that Mrs. Shultz became unconscious and
several times it was thought she was dead.
—On Saturday a stranger found two in-
fernal machines on the street in Homestead.
They were dynamite cartridges connected
with wires and a battery. Several weeks
ago four boys found one of these devices and
all were injured by its explosion. Why they
should be thus scattered on the streets isa
mystery.
—A valuable paint deposit which has the
elasticity and smoothness of white lead, bas
recently been discovered near Marshlands,
Tioga county, which promises to be an ex.
tensive bed. A vein just struck at several
places is more than half a mile long, forty
rods wide in some places and fifteen or more
feet in thickness.
—8ix hundred pounds of dynamite ex-
ploded at the Rock Hill stone crushing plant,
near Perkasie, Bucks county, while the dyna -
mite was being thawed out by steam. Build ~
ings in the neighborhood rocked and consid-
erable glass was broken. A hole fifteen feet
deep and ten feet wide was torn in the earth.
Two Hungarians were slightly injured.
—If war were declared by the United
States Westmoreland county could furnish
21,354 citizens for military duty. The coun-
ty commissioners Thursday completed the
military roll for the boroughs and townships.
The boroughs have 11,559 eligible for soldier
duty and the townships 9,795. Greensburg
leads all boroughs and townships with 1,696.
—The weighing house at the Harbison
Walker works, at Mt. Union, was destroyed
by fire on Monday of last week. The weath-
er being very cold, the weighman had made
a hot fire, and during his temporary absence
the building caught fire, being very small it
was entirely consumed in a few minutes. A
number of coats and dinner buckets belong-
ing to workmen were destroyed.
—John W. Bubb, who left Danville in 1861,
at the age of 18 years, a poor boy. returned
to his early bome for the first time, last
week, a brigadiers general of the United
States army. ‘During the Civil wur he partie:
ipated in a number of very important bat-
tles and was a prisoner in Libby prison, Belle
Isle and Salisbury for nine months. He has
sinco been in the regular service all the time,
—Edward Northeraft, night foreman at
the Queen's Run fire brick works, in Clinton
county, fell from a car last Friday morning
at the works and was severely injured. Mr.
Northeraft bad climbed to the platform of
the car, which was standing on the trestle
work, to be unloaded, and in taking a step
to get to the top of the car his foot slipped
and he fell to the trestle work and then to
the ground, a distance of fifteen feet.
—Lester Hackett and a companion from
Lewistown Junction, had a narrow escape .
from instant death one night last week
whiie driving iu the middle of the tracks of
the Lewistown and Reedsville Electric rail-
way, near the Logan Steel works, and were
run down by a car running at a high rate of
speed. The horse was killed and the carriage
smashed. Hackett sustained a broken jaw
and severe lacerations of the head and face,
while his compavion escaped with a few
bruises,
—William H. Busick, aged 18, of Broad
Top township, Bedford county, was con-
victed in the Bedford county court last Wed-
nesday night of manslaughter. District At-
torney Humphrey D. Tate conducted the
trial for the Commonwealth and Coungress—
man Reynolds and ex judge Jacob H. Lon-
genecker defended Busick. Busick shot
Hartman Oneal at a dance last August and
Oneal died in two days. The cause of the
quarrel which led to the shooting was an
insult to a woman.
—Coustable D. P. Lawhead, of Woodward
township, Clearfield county, convicted at the
December term of court of voluntary man.
slaughter, was last Thursday afternoon sen-
tenced by Judge Smith to a term of one year
and & half in the penitentiary. The prisoner
was then released under a bond of $5000,
pending an appeal to the superior court.
Lawhead shot and killed Lodis Cardollo, a
Slav, who worked at Hawk Run, October
220d, 1906, after the man had been placed
under arrest and started to run away.
—Several days ago while plowing on the
Graham farm, near Guffey station in North
Huntingdon township, Westmoreland coun-
ty, Joseph C. Funk unearthed a skeleton,
supposed to be the remains of an Indian who
had been buried there more than 100 years
ago. The plow struck a large stone and was
partly dislodged. After some effort Mr.
Funk succeeded in removing it. Underneath
it was a small sepuichre several feet square
where the skeleton was found ina sitting
position and is in a good state of preserva-
tion. Mr. Funk took the skeleton home and
the head he placed on his book case as an
ornamant,