i
—Moving time and spring house-clean-
ing will be here before we know it.
—Next Tuesday will end the unrest of
the busy politician and the hopeful cavdi-
date.
— Wonder if anyone remembered to send
a pretty Valentine to the bugologist of
Swenksville on Wednesday.
—TaoMAS A. EpisoxN is going to quit
work, but not hie phonograpb. Lord biess
you, there is no such good news as that.
—A process of making rabber from wheat
baving been invented possibly the demand
on the human necks will not be so great.
—That frightful steamboat disaster in
Loog Island Sound adds another to the
horrors of 1907 that are fairly crowding
upon one avother.
~The way the two-cent passenger rate
bill passed the House looks as if there are
more kindsof railroading in Pennsylvania
than there used to be.
—Telegraphing is not ‘‘necessary’’ but
twenty per cent. advance in the charges
for the service will be felt in all walks of
life and will help materially to swell ex-
penses of living.
~The fact that there are nine million
dollars in the general fand in the State
Treasury oan only be accounted for beozuse
of the fact that BERRY detected the rascals
before they bad it all spent.
—Many a man who cusses ont a life in-
surance agent for bothering him fails to
realize that his widow and orphans may
some day waken up to find that the both-
ersome agent was their best friend after
all.
—Mr. HARRY LEHR former wine
agent and connoissenr of freak Newport
dinners, has been presented to the
Kaiser. His majesty bas now personal ac-
quaintane with all the really great men of
our country.
—A sun spot three and one-half billion
square miles in area has been discovered
by Dr. BRASHEAR,of the Alleghany observ-
atory. Along in July and August Old
Sol will still be able to make it hot enough
for us, however.
—They are having a few little govern-
mental unpleasantries in King Al's land.
The Irish want home rule and the House
of Commons wants the powers of the House
of Lords contracted. And there is likely
to be something doing.
— ROCKERFELLER has added thirty-two
million dollars to his gifts for educational
purposes. And the more the people become
educated the greater is their wonder that
they ever made laws that would permit
Joux D. to make so much money.
—With the wife of the jurors near:
death’s door with pneumonia it is possible
thas there will be a mistrial in the THAW
case. In such an event the entire scandal-
ous affair will have to be bashed over
again and paraded before the public by
sensational newspapers,
—A story comes from Maine to the ef
feos that is is so cold up there thas cow’s
tails aotually get frozen in the water
troughs and bave to be chopped off. Will
wonders never cease ? Here these Yankee
cows muss be drinking with their tails or—
shame on them- can they he the kind of
naughty cows the Philadelphia Record told
us aboas last fall.
—I¢ is the duty of every good citizen to
go out and vote next Tuesday. The local
offices are the ones of greatest personal im-
portance to you because the average citizen
feels it more il his ohildren do not have
well cond uoted schools and he does not
have good roads so drive over than he does
if they fight in Washington over the baild-
ing of a canal or changing the tariff.
—With attorneys of such eminence as
JAMES STRANAHAN and James Scamner
~ VOL. 52
Roosevelt's Usurpation.
We have information from Washington
to the effect that the trouble between the
government of Japan and the School au-
thorities of San Fravcisco bas been ad-
justed. President RooSEVELT called the
San Fravciscans to the pational capital,
according to the story, and told them that
it is their duty to yield and in fact it may
be inferred that he added such action is ab-
solately essential to the safety of the
country. He probably pictured the Jap-
anese warriors clothed in HARVEYized steel
uniforms pouncing down on us “like a
wolf on the fold,” and sweeping us into
the ocean. It ig better that all the people
of San Francisco shonld be inocculated
with moral and physical leprosy than that
the great American public should be oblit-
erated from the face of the earth, he prob-
ably asserted.
President ROOSEVELT bad about as much
right to ‘buts in’’ to this dispute between
the echool authorities of S8an Francisco and
some too-chesty Japanese consul ae he
would bave had to interfere in a consrover-
sy between the Mikado and the Kaiser.
The school anthorities of San Francisco had
ahundans reason for excluding Japs from
the schools other than those set apart for
their accommodation. The association of
the Mongolians and the whites bad the el-
feos of impairing the morals of the whites
and consequently the exclusion became a
matter of vital importance. Besides the
President has nothing to do with she local
police powers of a State. His interference
was usurpation which is a crime against
the government. The authorities of San
Francisco should have refused to confer
with him on the subjeot.
ROOSEVELT has violated the constitution
in so many ways aod perverted the powers
of his office so frequently thas such things
are po longer subjects of sarprise. Bat
that fact iv itself should admonish the peo-
ple against encouraging him in such dan-
getons folly. He has no interest in the
Japanese children in San Francisco. If
any of his own obildren were attending the
schools of shat cisy he would have resent.
ed she claim of Japan with respect to the
matter. Neitherds he influenced by ap-
prebensions gf. sronble with Japan, He
knows thas there ie no contingency so re-
mote as thitt and shit high officials ‘in J
an laogbed as his soggestion. But he
wants so establish the right of she federal
government to interfere in local affairs and
oaght to be sharply rebuked for his pre-
eamption.
——[t didn’s 0 st JOHN E. REYBURK a
‘cent to get the machine nomivation for
Mayor of Philadelphia for the reason, main.
1y, thas he was appointed to the place by
Senator McNICHOL.
Bichops and Battleships.
A number of Bishops are protesting
against turning the Jamestown expo-ition
into a paval show. Buch an exhibition
will “stir op she fever of military exocite-
ment and emulation in our people,” they
say, ‘‘at a time when that is precisely what
we should all most earnestly cooperate to
discourage.” The exposition, these pious
gentlemen believe, ought to celebrate our
achievements in peace, our progress in the
arts and sciences, and the developments of
our resources in commerce and industry.
Oar greatest achievements have been along
these lines, these Dootors of Divinity think,
and for thas reason oar military and vaval
equipment should be kept in the back-
directing the capitol probe surely all of the | ground.
facts ought to be made public unless the
Legislature hedges their work about with
restrictions that will nallify their efforts.
The two JiMs are men of strictest integrity
and shey can be counted on to reveal the
truth if they can get at it. Ab, there is
tae rab.
~The proposed act of Assembly which
provides that all sowoship bridges, thirsy-
five fees or over, shall be turned over to the
county authorities for maintenance and
reconstraotion in the fature will open up a
new field of dispute between the township
supervisors and the county commissivners,
Naturally there will be many bridges
stretched for the purpose of unloading
them on the county and right there is the
place the trouble will begin,
—The death of A. J. GrigsT yesterdav
morning removes a man who as the oriti
cal moment in Centre county’s financial
affairs injected keen business methads into
the Commissioner's office and in the short
space of six years paid off a great connty
debt and left the office with a handsome
surplus in the treasury. Mr. GRIEST was
a politician of the best type; one of the
kind who believed that public husiness
should be handled juss the same as private
enterprices. He was honest to the oore,
far pighted, practical and positive and buils
for himself an official monnmens thas will
live in this counsy as long as our pahlie
institations endure. He wasa good citizen,
i ite tallest and sruess meaning and while
bis course had practically been ran we de-
plore his death.
But what nee will the Jamestown expo-
sition be to President ROOSEVELT if this
uotion is to be adopted ? He duesn’s care
much about agriculture, or manufactures,
or commerce, except in so faras they con-
tribute to the exploitation of our naval de-
velopment. Is would be bard to ges ten
million dollar bastleships and difficuls to
maintain big.armies it factories were idle
and the soil failed to produce abundant
barvests. For these reasons the President
probably thinks that commerce and indus-
try are well enough in their way, bas for
purposes of diversion there is nothing like
a naval parade and an exposition laid on
the shore of a fine sheet of salt water with-
out an elahorase naval display would be an
insipid thing,
The eleven eminent theologians may be
sll right in their notion abous the *‘victo-
ries of peace.”” The rapid increase and
vast present volume of our exports of man-
ufactares and agricultural products are
worth celebrating by preachers and wo-
men. But to men in whose veins the red
bloo1 surges as it does in the body of our
strenuous President something more speo-
taonlar than agricultural exhibits and sa.
cred concerts are necessary. They want
battleships in manoeaver to satisfy their
martial spiris and if they can’t havea na-
val parade they don’t want anything at all.
Therefore the Bishops who are remonstrat-
ing agaist a vast naval display are jeop-
ardiziog the socoess of the exposition.
ClO WELK true soul willbe Wasly:
~
‘ington’s birthday.
Two Legisintive Snakes.
There are some exceeding venomous ser-
pents wriggling their devious ways through
the present Legislature hut probably the
most dangerous of all are those relating to
““‘Auxiliary Forest Reserves.” There are
two of these and they are twin evils. One
of them authorizes the creation of the
auxiliaries and defines the process. It
provides that the owners of timber lande
not available for cultivation may apply to
the Commissioner of Forestry to have the
land entered in the auxiliary forest reserve
and if the commissioner is inclined it may
be entered. That accomplished the forests
so entered will remain the custody of the
commissioner until the owner desires to
cut the timber, when he withdraws it, the
expense of maintenance, meantime, having
been paid by the State.
The twin iniquity provides for the
taxation of forest lands entered in and part
of the auxiliary forest reserve on a valu-
ation of not more than one dollar an acre.
Everybody kvows that the land in ques-
tion is worth from ten to twenty dollars an
acre and that it is increasing in value al-
most as rapidly as city lots. Therefore the
taxation of such lands on a valuation of a
dollar an acre works an injustice to every
holder of every other kind of property in
the neighborhood of such lands for the rea-
son thas the tax on all other property must
be iucreased in order to make up the loss
to the ‘‘duplicate’’ by practically with-
drawing vast areas from the tax lista. The
bill is unconstitational, moreover, because
it oreates an inequality in taxation and dis
oriminates in favor of one tract of wood-
land and against another.
The obvious purpose of the bill is to help
the tanning trust eapbemistically called
the Central Pepnsylvania Lumber com-
pany. Thai ‘‘conepiracy in restraint of
trade,’ bas already acquired vast tracts of
such timber lands which is is holding in
reserve for future supplies of bark for its
tanneries and timber for ite saw mille and
is endeavoring to get as much more as posai-
ble. An arrangement whioh would reduce
the taxes on such land toa valuation of a
dollar a year would be of the greatest ad-
vantage to that corporation and enable it
to extend its holdings imirsnsely. “We | cactained
bardly think the Legislature will be foolish |
enough to do this, however, but in any
event the title of the bill should beobanged
80 as to read : ‘‘An act to pus money in the
pockets of the tanning trust at she expense
of she other taxpayers of the State.”
——The attempt tosueak the game bill
which imposes a license fee upon hunters
shrough the committee and on to the cal-
endar last week was defeated through the
vigilance of Representative DERSHAM, of
Union county. Isis to be hoped shat the
good sense of the membership of the body
will guarantee the ultimate defeat of the
measare in the commistee to which it was
recommitted after the trick was discover-
ed.
The Humors of Politics.
We have frequently heard of the bumors
of politics and come of the stories of cam-
paigns are certainly fanny. Bat we call to
mind no story of the political life of Penn-
sylvania that is more ridiculous than a
sketoh of the Repubiivan candidate for
Mayor of Philadelphia which appeared in
our esteemed contemporary, the Public
Ledger, of that city, on Sanday last. It
opens with a statement of his ‘‘honorable
public service as a Representative and Sen-
ator at Harrisburg,’ and its climax is ex-
pressed in a sentence which declares that
*‘his whole public career has been marked
by independence, courage and industry.”
Mr. REYBURN'S too exuberant biogra-
rapher extols his independence, ‘‘aside
from his support of QUAY and she CAMER-
ONS for United States Seoator,”” and ad-
mits that that was the only test then of
party servility. He adds that Mr. Rey-
BURN'S popularity with his colleagues
“‘was shown by bis election as president
pro tempore as the olose of the session of
1883.” At that time he was completing
his seventh year of service in the Senate
aod ander the customs of the body a cigar
store Indian who had served in she Senate
thas long would have been similarly hon-
ored. It was neithera sign of popularity
nor fitness.
As a matter of fact REYBURN was one of
the most servile followers of the machine
who ever eat in the Senate and though he
was reputed to be immensely rich he re.
ceived listle consideration from his asso
ciates. On ove occasion during the long
session of 1883 a sinister service wae re-
quired of the chair and Amos MyLON who
was president pro tempore was importaned
to perform it. MYLON wasnoune too nice
in his notions but he refused to do what
was asked. He was induced, however, to
call REYBURN to the obair and that gen-
tleman with ruffianly bravado performed
the shansefal work, “with neatness hw
dispatch.”
—Did you ger to right Kind ota
Valentine yesterday?
Senator CLAY, of Georgia, has introduced
a resolution asking for an “‘official state-
ment of all that the United States Treasury
bas been called upoa to expend on account
of the acquirement and maintenance of its
title to the Philippines.”’ He could hardly
bave touched a more interesting subject,
Thoughtful people have long heen cogita-
ting the question with more or less anxiety.
Various and widely separated estimates
have not abated either she doubts or fears,
All that is known is that the aggregate bas
ron into hundreds of millions and thas
thas far there have been few or no returns
for the vast outlay.
Soon after the acquisition of those mias-
matic swamps and jungles we were assured
that a great commercial triumph had been
achieved and that as soon as the germ of
benevolent assimilation had developed a
little we would begin the barvess of trade
with Asia. The Pacific would be crowded
with ships it was predicted, from the car-
goes of which our peuple would make for-
tones beyond the wildest dreams of avarice,
But seagon has succeeded season ‘without
producing even the symptom of gain while
the expenditares are studiously kept from
the public view. Senator CLAY wants to
koow abont these things and the public
shares his curiosity.
Benator CLAY bas not indicated what his
purpose is in asking for shis information
but it isa safe conjecture that he is not
inflaenced entirely by curiosity. Proba-
bly his idea is to use the information for
making an estimate or devisinga plan to
get rid of the Islands. Some of our ablest
statesmen are moving towasd the view that
the property coets too much and comes to
too lissle to continue the experiment which
bas proved successful and we can conceive | 20™€
of nothing which would more certainly
promote that view than a detailed state-
ment of the expenses already incurred.
undertaking. .
«The Shah of Persia is new in the
business, having succeeded to the throne
only a few weeks ago. Bat he bas been in
the royal harness long enough to have as.
‘easy is the bead that wears a crown.” The
Assewbly of Parliament of the Empire de-
mands that he declare himself a constitu-
tional monarch which is another form of
relinquishing some of the most important
prerogatives of the job.
The Lobby in Harrisburg.
The railroad lobby has resumed business
at the old stand, according to the news
from Harrisburg. At the close of the ses-
sion of two years ago it was announced,
somewhat ostentatiously, thas she railroad
lobby bad ‘‘gone oat of busivess.’” The
subsequent discontinuance of passes con-
firmed the declaration, for a lobby without
passes would be like Hamlet with the
royal Dane eliminated. The special ses-
sion of last year passed without the slight-
est symptom of a railroad lobby, moreover,
which greatly strengthened the pretense.
Bas railroad legislation was excluded from
that session by the Governor's proclama-
tion.
The wise guys were not convinced even
by this cumulation of evidence, however.
Wait until the Legislature assembles in
regular session aod the floodgates of rail-
road legislaticn are opened, they said, more
or lees oracularly. We waited, impatient.
ly, no doubt, but certainly, and if the
goesip of the corridors is even approzituate- | 8)
ly accurate, the predictions have been ful.
filled. At all events the papers say that
the lobby has put in an appearance and the
husinees of battonholing Senators and
Representatives has been resumed. Thus
far we have heard of no passes, but as cer-
tain as effect followed cause if the lobby
bas returned the passes will be restored.
It woald have been better for the State,
better for the Legislature and better for
the .ailroads if the lobby had remained
away from Harrisburg forever. For years
the railroads have controlled the legisla
tion of the State by sinister and devious
methods with the result thas the interests
of she people have suffered immensely and
those of the corporations have not been
ocnserved proportionately. The railroads
have saved in taxes something, no doanbs,
bas they have paid in blackmail avd sala-
ries nearly as much. In other worde, the
lobhy bas cost almost as much as it has
come to in money and a great deal more in
morals.
= Relations between Haiti and Ger-
many are strained and the public will
watch with great interest the swish of the
big stick under the circumstances. Asa
power at either end of the dispute.
EE ——
A political bank at New Castle has
failed also and she depositiors will be com-
pelled to wait a long time for their money
if they get it as all. Is begins to look ae
it the Republican machine is a hoodoo to
the truth of the adage that “an. |
rule it moves slowly when there is a strong for
Ballding the Canal per Comiract.
From the Springfield Republican.
It is quite believeable shat Chiet John C.
Stevens of the Panama canal has deter-
mined to resign if she plan of letting ons
the work on contract ie ad There
would seem to be moving 1 for this
attitude. If the Oliver bid is for
example, the real Yaiser oh it the canal will
be the New York compan up
gavized and she pe York ao and
gineers and contractors associated with
company. Mr. Stevens would
more or less idle representative of pba
ernment, holding a supervisory position of
no great responsibility and involving no
particular oredis or discredit for the sucoess-
es or failures of the undertaking.
Joss of attachi
oly vid Yo ga!
Brien: Le by the goverament Ror exclu-
sive compensation, salary
better one doubtless could ah aa a
by him in private industry. Why then
might he ys Jesign lo sl {ane to the
governmen why shou resign
in all ry har y
Meantime it might be well
ministration to les the pablio
er idea of the nature of the
which bas been adopted
stand it, and on the face of blished
statements it is not nnd ble. The
Oliver bid, which is ou the point appar-
uy of being accepted, is
the cost of construction, |
$100,000 a mouth or som
by as much as the time of y
work is shortened under 10 yess.
fore, as the case is 1 ra
the contractors varies dir ly with the
coats to the Pn no risk
of loss to shem
spoul t2pelition dn in finish e
premium xbrdvag
ex isare within pr time limi
govern eroment's estimate:0f the cost of
the work has been $150. of which
$30,000,000 bas been ex It this
should prove a correct the con-
pi ander the Oliver Id gain
000,000, and, so far o the public
informed to this would
i
We hope Senator CLAY will succeed in his ald
# %
ee EH rine
og o of ng in
ob $0 secure economy i
private money
sion in the construction under the stimulus
of no profit or a loss if there is not economy
and expendition, but merely to substitute
Tipping and Law.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The anti-tipping bill presented in the
Legislature by representative Adams of
this county etrikes an answering chord in
public opinion because everyone knows
thas the tipping practioe has become a nui-
sage aud 1 0 many cases a burden. Bat as
a legislative proposition, to be considered
seriously, it contains several aspects thas
my be questioned
» the firss place is it to be considered a
public fact and a basis for legislation that
the Amerioan citizen ir 80 helpless a orea-
tare shat he mass depend on law to reform
a practice that depends solely on his wndi.
vidual action. Grant thas the tipping
babit is a nuisance and even an injurious
one; bas it is not so Jojo: lows as the equa-
iy widespread babis of bolting a hearsy
meal ino 20 minates. Shall we pass an act
requiring every man to take an hour for
his dinver? To adopt Francis Murphy's
famous saying: Every man can pass an
aoti-tipping bill for himself,
L Joie is also an inteson, constitution.
aestion whether is is within the power
e Legislature to forhid a man to take
a oh or a qoarter offered lnm by another.
Beyond that there is the further question,
Bow many juries are there that wil convict
a waiter or barher or boothlack for Cave shat
ing an extra nickle in the few t
are found ont?
How Big is $39,000,000!
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Whas does the sum of $32,000,000 mesn,
the amount which Jobn D. Rockettala has
jas given to education?
Thirty-two million dollars is more than
the value of coal mines iu the State of West
Virginia in one
Io cne-uhid of she ot property sal
ation of the wealthy new
homa.
It is equal to all She $3 50 quid
coined in sho United States up
eo Tl
voever sgined. of -
s could pay wage of a standing army’
of 200 000 men for one year.
ual to one-fourth of the net earn-
ings of all the national baoks in 1900.
Is could provide the vecewsaries oy
gly ne Juicy ang pr
» 0g,
misceilaneous artioles, haced on
capita consumption in
Is would almoast pay the public debts of
Chio go and Buffalo
It would pay the salary of the President
640 years.
——Just to keep up with the fashion
the girle employed in the Bellefonte shirs
factory wens out on a strike last Saturday
noon. They did not go out very far, only
outside the building, and at the end of one
hour all wens back to work again—she
—In several districts in Bucks county the
number of deaths last year exceeded the
number of births,
~—DuBois firemen have received a check
for $1,000. This amount will be distributed
amoug the different companies for their use
during the year.
—Rev. H. G. Clare, pastor of the Newton
Hamilton Presbyterian churches, bas ten-
dered bis resignation to these churches, and
will accept a eall to a church near Johnse
town.
—Cbharles Wright, aged 22 years, of Mauch
Chunk, while eating supper got some coffee
grounds into his windpipe. A violent fit of
coughing ensued, causing his death in greas
agony.
—Isaac Groff died at Strasburg, Lancaster
county. on Tuesday, aged 88 years. He had
been a distiller early in life and afterwards a
hotel keeper for twenty-five years, yet never
drank any liquor.
—Twenty-one of the new applications for
licenses to sell liguor in Schuylkill county
were refused. The county will bave 1,066
saloons during the ensuing year, or one for
every forty-five male adults.
—Over 7,000 nickel-in theslot gambling
machines have been driven out of Schuylkill
county by the crusade of the Law and Order
society. It is estimated that several hundred
thousand doliars were tied up in these ma~-
chines.
—In the manufacture of monster sausage
for which the Pennsylvania German country
is famous, E. C. Smith, of Chestnut Hill,
Lehigh county, bas broken all records. He
bas just produced a sausage that measures
57 feet.
~It is reported that the coal mines of the
Great Lakes Coal company, at Kaylor, Arm~
strong county, the most important in that
section of the State, have been taken over by
the United States Steel corporation. The
deal involves $1500,000.
—Sixteen hundred pounds of feathers, put
up in forty sacks, were recently shipped
from the Pennsylvania railroad station at
Newport, Perry county. They were for the
most part gathered in Sherman's valley The
gathering of feathers has become quite an
industry in Perry county.
—Peter Myers, aged 83 years, and his wife
Lucinda, aged 79 years, were buried together
at Cooperstown, Venango county, on Sun-
day. They had lived together on a farm
near Cooperstown for sixty years. The hus-
band died first and nis devoted wife follow-
ed in a few hours, the shock killing her.
—Peter K. Soffel, warden of the Allegheny
county jail at the time of the escape of the
Biddle brothers, his wife going with the
desperadoes, wus married on Wednesday
evening to Mrs. Margaret Taggart, a widow,
. | of Mount Washington. Soffel was granted »
divorce from his wife soon after her escapade.
—A petition bearing two thousand sigoa-
tures was presented to the town council of
Jersey Shore at its last meeting, praying for
a curfew law. The W.C. T. U. and the
Mothers’ and Teachers’ club are back of the
movement and are supported by the leading
men of the community. The ordinance is
almost an assured fact.
~=While undermining coal Tuesday in the
Grazier. mines of the Somerset and Cambria
Coal company, in Foustwell John Hunter,
aged about 45 years, was caught under a
heavy fall of the black diamonds and in-
stantly killed. His head was crushed. An-
other miner had been working with Mr.
Hunter, but left the room just before the
fall.
~The Automatic Electric Water Purifying
company, of Altoona, has submitted a bid to
Philadelphia city councils offering to purify
the water of the Queen Lane district for the
sum of $500,000. For this sum a pant com.
plete capable of purifying from 60,000,00 to
75,000,000 gallons of water daily, will be con
structed and started in operation. The mat- -
ter has been referred to the water committee
for action,
—Charles M. Schwab, representing the
Bethlehem Steel company, has purchas:d
the mines of the Boyertown Ore company for
a consideration said to be between $400,000
and $500,000. The rights secured by the
Bethlehem company cover mineral privileges
on 300 acres of land. The mines which are
near Boyertown, are said to be the largest of
their kind in Pennsylvania, the deposits bee
ing of bessemer magnetic ore.
—What is generally conceded to be the
prize tobacco crop raised in Clinton county
last season was an acre and one-fourth grown
by Andrew Hunt, near Washingtoa Fur-
nace. The tobacco is of the Havana seed
leaf variety and so thrifty were the plants
by reason of persistent cultivation and fer-
tilizing that the cured crop on this small
tract weighs 2,700 pounds, a yield attained
by no other grower in the county.
~-With bis right hand terribly mangled,
and tightly wedged in between the disk
wheel and the driving rod of an engine,
Jacob Fellbaum, the Youngstown carpenter,
was held a prisoner for nearly fifteen min.
utes ai the carpenter shop of the Frick Coke
company at Dorothy, Westmoreland county,
Friday night, having been unable to release
bis mangled hand, or to attract the attention
of other workmen about the plant.
—On January 13th Miss Sarah Belle Cor~
bett, of Corsica, Jefferson county, died at the
Allegheny General hospital from injuries
she had received while playing basket ball at
college in Wooster, Ohio. Mrs. Elizabeth
Corbett, the mother, grieved so much over
ber daughter's death that she died on Thurs~
day. Her pastor, Rev. F. P. Brits, of the
Corsica Presbyterian church, visited hers
few hours before her death and the sadness
of the case so excited him that shortly after
his return home he dropped on a couch and
died in a few minutes of beart failure.
~—Counting on surprising bis aged father,
Valentine Newman, who disappeared two
days after the flood of 1880, and who was
believed to have been drowned, returned to
Williamsport Wednesday night unannounced.
He found that his father bad died seven
years ago, and his only other relative, his
brother, bad moved away. But he found,
too, that his father, hoping that his son
might yet be ative, bad bequeathed haif of &
very comfortable estate to him. Newman
lefty Williamsport on the first train out sfier
the great flood, believing that the city was
ruined forever. He went to Pittsburg sad |
has spent the 18 years running on a boat be
| tween that city sud New Orleans.