Doworraic; Walcin ERI II - BY P. GRAY MEEK. ink Slings. —By the end of this week Mr. THAW will probably know what is to become of him. ~—While a dog growls over his dinner the dyspeptic usually does his growling after. ~The streets and crossings of Bellefonte Tuoesday were enough togive the most even tempered person a brain storm. —JIf TEDDY succeeds in getting TAFT into the Presidency maybe TAFT will give TEDDY the job of sitting on the lid. — Easter is not far off and the good old ghicken hen is getting right down to work in anticipation of the usual great demand on her resources. —Honduras and Nicaragua are said to be at war over a mule. If the mule were left to itself it would promptly kick the war clouds ont of sight. —When Dowik and the real Erniian meet up in Heaven there will likely bea show down that will start more than a gentle zephyr in the celestial atmosphere, —The College boys play at Garman’s to- night aod you can take it from us that many a Bellefonte girl will have a con- niption fit over the cleverness of the dear fellows. —The experience with water-proof cel- lars in Pittshurg recently bas been such as to lead the people of that city to believe that water, like fire, often times explodes the theories of modern builders. —The Illinois Legislature is considering a bill creating the office of state beer taster. If it passes you needn’t be surprised at an exodns of pooh-poohs, because you know most any one of them could qualify for the office. ~—MABELLE GILMAN issaid to bejbooked | for reappearance on the stage in this conn. | try. Can it be possible that there has been a slip in her steps toward being the Mrs. President of the United States Steel cor- poration. —The CARNEGIE hero medals were passed aronnd on Monday. The man who saved the stook market panic last Thurs- day not baving come forth with bis claims there wns none saved for the hero of that catastrophe. ~ —Dr. EVANS baviog given a scientific explanation of what a ‘‘brain storm”’ is the actions of the irate house-wife when she holds a rolling pin aloft and makes things fly generally will no longer suffer for want ~ of proper deseription. "ius ~The Central. Pennsylvania Methodist Conference is now being entertained in Ty- rone and knowing so well the hospitality of that town we are sare none of the preach- ers will get it where mauy of the Tyrone chickens certainly will. —Well, we had the sapling bender on Tuesday morning. Now for the robin snow, the poor man's manure and the onion snow. Whilespring is here these are old time eventualities that necessarily come to pass before the season is settled. —That Akron, Ohio, man who was de- fending a divorce suit on the ground that be is not an habitual drunkard ought to have been given time, at least, to digupa little sen-sen before they made him blow his breath in the faces of the jurors. —Philadelphia wants FRANK LEAKE for head of her filtration bureau. Mr. LEAKE is probably a very good man but the name is a bad one to apply to the water depart- ment, especiaily siace it has been leaks that have caused all the trouble down there. —Ex-Senator BURTON, of Kansas, who will be released from his six mouths term in prison today proposes to edit his news- paper in defense of his acts and show up President ROOSEVELT": pernicious activity in other people’s affaire. It will be inter- esting, no doubs. —One of the CARNEGIE hero medals should go to our new postmaster. His ex planation of how Le wanted to and couldn't dump clerk CHAMBERS is an exhibition of asinine nerve seldom seen in communities where people are supposed to have some little intelligence. —One by one the railroad presidents are dropping in for a call at the White House and, strange as it may seem, none of them have anything to say after they come out, II their silence is golden some one will be taking a ride skyward on a lot of low priced stooks some of these days. —It the North American wants to know what ought to be done for President Roosg- VELT after he gets out of office it should direct its inquiries to the railroad presi dents of the country. they won’s be ranning the finest trains the world ever saw just to please him as they once did. So far as they are concerned it will be a side-door Pullman for him when he goes traveling. ~The work of the capitol investigating | Bu committee is progressing satisfactorily and its greatest vindication is of the declaration | Saoto0-..... made last year by State Treasurer BERRY. | Carlis At that time he insisted that there was graft aud corruption in the construction of | (hester....... the building, but the machine press of the | Chex State made the most vituperative attacks iipiitisna on him and insisted that he could point to no cases. Of course he could not while | Coalport.. Hamp. CARSON was protecting the gralt- | cube ers with his unmeaning opinions as Attor- ney General, but now Ne Concord has gotten to work with an honest and de- | Consho termined corpe of lawyers all that Bemmy | Corry charged, and more too, is being found ons. Oune thing is certain be STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 52 The Taxes that One Corporation Has | Evaded or Falled to Pay. If additional facts, to those already far- nished the people, were needed to show the inequality and ucjastuness ofthe present tax | how corporations evade the payment of the moiety of taxes imposed upon them, the | following figures certainly shouid be suf- | figent : The corporation, the stock of which is largely owned and controlled by non-residents. It is permitted to do business within this State upon the payment of a two mill sax based upon the gross amount of business done within the Commonwealth. While our courts and public officials protect its prop- erty and punish those committing wrongs against it; while it has the use of our streets and pablio highways for its delivery wagous in the transportation of packages and freights that it sends to or receives from its thousands of offices scattered over the coun- try, yet it pays no local toxes to main- tain either the courts or pablic officers nor does it help in any way to make or keep in repair the public highways that it uses daily. Even for the horse and wagon that it uses to gather up and deliver its ship- ments at its different offices it claims and is allowed exemption from taxation on the ground that these are necessary to do the business upon which it pays to the State the two mills of taxes assessed against it. Nor does it pay the pitiable two mill tax upon its gross business within the State How it escapes or evades this we do not know unless it is by a false retarn of the amount done, or through the gross neglect or favoritism of state officials. The WATCHMAN has been to no little trouble and considerable expense in securing the figures given in connection herewith, and particularly in getting hold of those showing the gross amount of business done, aud the expenses of doing that business, at 210 of its principal offices within the State. fo ad dition to the points named this com pavy has in the neighborhood of 2,000 other offices in Pennsylvania the aggregate business of which will equal, if not exceed, the amounts done at places indicated. And to this ean be added all the business it receives from its thousands upon thousands of offices outside of the State that has to be carried from the State lines to its patrons within it as well as for the traflio it carries through Pennsylvania in delivering goods from one State into another. How much this would increase the total it added to the gro:s business within the State would be but conjecture on our part, but shonld certainly be sufficent to offset any claims the company might make for deductions for shipments made to points outside the State from offices within it. During the past twenty-nine years this company bas paid into the State Treasary a total of $91,958.82, or an average per year of $3,170.79. It it paid during this time the full two mill tax required by law the payments would indicate that it bad re- ported a gross business yearly of bat $1,585, - 000. How much this amount falls short of the actual ‘‘gross business’’ doue during all these years can only be guessed at but an idea can be had by comparing the following | Si figures with the average returns made hy the company : For the year 1906, according to the com- pauy's own books, at bat 210 of its offices within the State it did a gross baosiness of $8,905,955, with an office expense of §1,- 355,790. Estimating that at its almost 2,000 other offices, not included in this list, an equal amoant was done this would make a gross business of over $17,000,000 in place of $1,588,000 as a basis for its two mill tax. On the figares shown by the company’s own accounts—the tax i¢ should pay an- nually would be close to or aver $34,000 per year in place of $3,170,79. As evidence of the correctness of this statement the basiness done during 1906 and the expense of doing it at the following offices are given : : Gross Receipts. Expenses, 19 915 2 670 109 15 773 8 038 926 15 039 2719 9 838 035 12 208 1372 15 711 1746 6 152 1 685 5 BAZ 857 11 153 2 690 17 963 1822 11 788 24m a 1 2 404 18 942 3 23 7 9% 848 16 197 1 638 15 940 1 5683 22 520 33 23 753 2 501 14 118 675 26 088 3 580 7 675 691 11 083 1 807 6 612 1 245 26 31 2 876 36 303 2 826 32 511 3 089 47 973 TT 11 117 7: 5 430 m2 4 561 431 674 1 053 6 951 967 20 891 25623 4 338 0 20 990 2 946 5 038 520 16 826 2 206 6 027 598 aN sav 2073 8 241 1146 19 989 374 10 738 28m b 357 933 Aiqus Express company is a foreign i BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 22, 1907. Postoffiee. Gross Receipts. Expenses, ! Danville... 8 302 1 951 Derry... 7 35 938 Devon... 4 764 443 — 15 460 Lar Downingto 6 121 904 DuBois..... 31 2 938 5 891 70 rady... 6 046 00 Easton.......... 46 604 7 050 Ebens<burg 0 906 1339 kidred...... 4 81 “Ho Ellsworth. 7 460 a7 Emlenton.. 7 876 857 Emporium 10 466 2 928 He...... 76 428 18 5771 Everett, 9 928 1178 Esport _... R 252 786 Ford City 13 598 1341 Frankford 28 836 3 800 Franklin. 3¢ 600 3 086 Freeport... 4 003 a3 Gallitzin ... 7 150 1 000 Germantown 42 10 8 303 Gettysburg... 9 779 1 657 Green Castle, 7243 647 Greensbu 51 145 6 556 Greenville ... 14 330 1 620 Hanover... 36 736 274 Harrisburg 156 135 31 005 Havertord 4 644 065 Hazleton... ns 3 pr | Hollidaysbar, 12 195 1 576 Homestead... 17 600 278 Huft's. ......... 4 810 1208 Huntingdon.. 28 287 3 500 Indiana..... 19 916 2422 Irwin, 14 840 2025 Jeanette 98 447 2 658 Jersey Shore 4 981 058 Johnsonburg... 7 488 1 045 Johnstown... 130 373 13 175 Kane... 20 070 2 140 Kennet Squa 15 126 ad Kittanning... 25 161 2 878 Lancaster, 134 742 13 307 Lansdown 6 052 os Latrobe.... £9 662 3078 Lebanon... 20 6M 340 Leechburg.... 9 610 1815 Lewisburg... 8 366 1170 Lewistown 24 402 3 10 Ligonier... 724 1291 Litiletown 4 842 470 Lock Haven. 0 092 2 081 Loysville., 5 G30 £36 Lueyville.. 4 700 450 Ly ioix ossan 3m our cCalls Ferry. 4 167 396 McKeesport. 45 900 G 943 Malvera.... 9 518 1 852 Manayunk 15 230 178 Marietta... 16 042 2 Masontown 13 007 2 sis Mechanics 11 051 1245 Medin....... y 012 Mercer..... 6751 1 Old Mercersburg 70% 1041 Middletown. 8 847 i455 Miftiin...... 10 197 1 ne Miflinhar 5 088 5 Millersbar, 6 16% 8826 BEMOON eect rerseess 15 177 1 G41 Monongahela... 21 004 2 je Mount Joy....... 10 353 3 Mount Pleasant 0 165 1 807 Mount Union... 8 049 84 5 280 Lil] 7 Hou 803 200 1020 aa 04 173 3422 oi 715 2 07 138 y 3 Osceola Mills... Oyerbrook... Oxford...... sosaRBu: nnn recl Bion BaBe EE733%E8ESREE “wed. aT SESSEIRBEI8ZEZE Petersburg... 132 Philadelphia a15 Philipsburg. 004 Phoenixville 650 Pitcairn... 332 Pittston... 330 Poriage..... 56 Port Alleghes 8 839 Port Koyai.... o 440 £00 Pottstown, 2 17 2 500 Pottsville, Mi 3 506 Panxsutaw 14 121 1 699 Pittsvurg...... 1 431 12 185 2156 East Putsburg. 115 062 3 755 Reading... 106 656 14 161 Red Lion.. 4 870 42 Renovo..... 14 615 1 639 Reynoldsville... 9 780 1161 Riddlesburg. 307 an Rudgway....... 20 460 2 605 Saint Mary's, 18 000 1614 8t, Martins... 7 024 385% Salisburg.. 7 100 051 Scottdale, 19 181 2 S04 Scranton. 64 664 8 765 Selinsgrov 4013 508 Shamokin. 14 016 1 342 Sharon....... 43 125 # 885 Sharpsburg. A 658 360 Sheflield ... 7 982 Ht Shenandoah, 12 482 1 9% Shinpenabiirg 1 702 1 483 th For 835 Ki) Spangler. 4 #65 416 Spring Cit, 7 760 1197 Spria dale... 4 326 308 State College... 7 288 845 Steelton.... 17 657 1 907 Sunbury 18 814 3 010 Swissval 13 233 1 086 Tacoony..... 21 760 2142 Tarentum 13 000 803 Thompsonto 5 070 B85 1 idioote....... 6 928 582 Titusville......... 22 10 2 208 Toughkenamon... 3 996 084 Towanda 4623 994 T10Y..... 10 90% 1514 Tuliytow 3 896 3% Tyiune sasaee 23 952 3 a2 nion City 7 401 780 Uniontown... 60 180 5 420 Vandergrift.. 18 727 1 389 CrOnA. .cceruee 8 928 0 Vintondale 5 355 501 aren... 40 030 5 100 Watsontow 4 30 kt! ANR..vreres 4 000 361 Wayne..... 8 783 1302 Waynesboro. ..c.uiieinssecnns 29 287 1 700 West Chester 36 2:2 4 204 West Grove... 12 451 671 Wilkesbarre 64 860 11 857 Wilkinsburg... 25 511 3 550 Williamsburg 5 001 “6 Williamsport 75 750 10 261 Wilmard 217 1 083 indber........ 10 274 1 306 Weigh IaVIH Ou iierisssminsisnns 817 6s OPK cee essersmreersessasntesrsensvessans 125 526 11 193 Total 8 005955 [355790 —————— ~The many friends of John L. Given, an old Bellefonte boy and who several years ago when be followed the osoupation for a livelihood was regarded one of the brightest young newspaper men in New York city, will be interested in the fact that he has written a book, although the subject matter will not he of first in- terest to the general public. Its title is “Making a Newspaper,’ and the subject is treated in every phase from starting out to gather the news to the money making end of it. The book will appear about the end of the month from the press of Henry Holt & Co. ——The Centre and Clinton county com- missioners held a joint meeting at Beech Creek on Monday to decide on the repairs to be made on the inter-county bndge, which was considerably damaged by last week’s high water. ee Roosevelt's Sinister President ROOSEVELT means to central ize control of the 1ailroads in the federal goveroment, the Washington correspond- euts inform us. There is no authority of law for such a movement. but the Presi- dent doesn’t bother himself about such things. His own inclinations are all the law he cares for and bis impulses the only gaide he follows. It isa dangerous thing to have a Chief Magistrate of a Republic 80 constituted. President Woonrow WiL- SON, of Princeton University, says the peo- ple ‘‘anquestionably esteem Mr. CLEVE- LAND more highly than they would other- wise have done because of the imprudent willfulness which they have seen his suc- cessor display. They know now that while they love boldness and are weary of time-serving mediocrity,” President WiL- SON continues, ‘‘they would feel much safer if boldness were tempered with good jodgment and striking leadership planned along wisely calculated lines.’ President RoosEVELT finde conditions propitious for such planging into devious paths of political adventure. The pirates of the railroad world are anxious now to come under the sheltering wing of the fed- eral government, just as the buccaneers of the insurance world were anxious for the same security when outraged public opin- Purpose. | ion was hot foot after them. Senator Dry- DEN, of New Jersey, begged for the protec- tion of the administration when the Legis- latures cf the States began penalizing the crimes of himself, the McCALLS, the Mc- CurDYS and their affiliated iasurance rob- bers. It was easy to deal with CORTELYOU but impossible to make terms with Gov- ernor FOLK, of Missouri. Moreover the idea was to use CORTELYOU as a shield against Fork, and HARRIMAN and the other railroad pirates have now taken up the same scheme and the President pro- poses to work it out for them. It is the greatest conspiracy of modern times, the oollossal crime of the age. When Secretary of State Roor first inti- mated the purpose of the President, in a speech before the Pennsylvania Society of New York, it met with scant favor and temerity. He dido’t mean that the federal government would usurp the prerogatives of the state governments, he protested, un- less it happened that the state govern- ments, failed to exercise their power to the prejudice of public interests. But the President makes no such condition now. He declares positively that he will {usurp the authority and exercise it not because the state governments are delinquent hut for the reason that they are too drastic. ROOSEVELT wants to save the railroad, mag- nates from the just penalties of their crimes. They contributed the money to buy his election and owes them the favor. It will be a sad day for the American Republic when this crime against the con- stitution is consummated. Bankruptcy Impending. The appropriatlion bills already intre- session, according to a conservative Phila- delphia contemporary, aggregate $68, 134,- 000. O! this sam $25,000,000 are Jembraced in what is known as the general appropria- tion bill. The balance of the enormous total is for charities, bounties of one sort or another and other uses. The app tions are for two years, of conrse, hut will exceed the revennes by not less than $20,- 000,000. Therefore there must bea cut- ting down all along the line, but pruning will vot begin until the log roiling is over. As that most innocent of all the looters, Governor PENNYPACKER, would say, Pennsylvania is a very rich and exceeding- ly resourcefal State. Her mines are inex- haastible, her factories illimitable. But there is a limit, nevertheless, to her powers of endurance, and if profligacy is continued too long and extravagance carried too far, there will bea smashing sooner)for later and the burden of the disaster will settle apon the real estate of the people as it al- ways does and must. The corporations can defanlt and postpone obligations but the real estate can neither hide nor ron away. We are cherishing up wrath against the day of wrath. We have been wasting with a lavish hand, apparently under the dela- sion that our resources are inexhaustible. But we will find out differently if the prof- ligacy continues. The day of reckoning will come and when it arrives there must he a settlement. The laws of commerce are inexorable and we now warn the peo- ple that the danger point has been reached. We don’s know what interests must suffer to avert the impending calamity but we do know that unless the appropriations are cat down to the measure of the {revenues there will be bankruptoy. ~The Good Will fire company, of Lock Haven, last week purchased a dap- pled gray team of horses from D. H. Shive- ry, of Buffalo Ran, for $580.00. The team was taken to Look Haven on Sunday and the Good Will boys are now drilling them for use in their engine. or RN the Secretary promptly apologized for his duced in the Legislature during the present The Republican Congress. From the Commoner, Lincoln, Neb, At its short session recently olosed the Republican congress brokeall records for extravagance, and sabserviency to special interests. It appropriated nearly $1,000,000,000 of the public money. It increased the salary of senators and representatives fifsy per cent. t passed the Aldrich carrency bill which takes astep in the direetion of asset curren- cy by increasing from $3,000,000 to §9,000,- 000 theamount of national bank notes which may be retired during any one monsh and gives to the nati banks the use of government funds without interest. It tried to fasten upon the people the ship subsidy, which steal, baving passed the house by republican votes, was defeat- ed in the senate by a democratic filibuster. Here are some of the things which the republican senate either directly ignored or deliberately defeated: Tariff revision. Popular election of senators. Income tax. Inheritance tax. Cop) right law revision. Philippine tariff reversion. Citizenship for Porto Ricans. Child labor bill. Beveridge's effort to require the date upon meat products. LaFollett’s valuation bill, or anti-stock watering measr.e. LaFollette’s efforts to obtain for the peo- ple justice in the matter of the mails car- ried by the railroads. It was a great congress—great in its waste of public money and great in its willing- ness to serve the special interests, Speaker McClain Says his Say. From the Easton Argus. Speaker McClain, of the House at Harris- burg, finally pus his foot down Thursday, in an effort toputa stop to the flood of new bills which has poured into both branches of the Legislature since the opening of the session. Nearly 1,100 bills have heen in- troduced in the House and over 450 in the Senate. A majority of these measures re. main tied up in the committees to which they have been referred. Asa result the business of the body is becoming congested and the final days of the session will be blocked completely when everything comes up at the last minute. Whether McClain’s motive was any other than honest, or not, it certainly points ous a glaring defect in the methods in use in the Legislature. The action of committees in pigeon-holing legislation at the pleasure of the members and keeping the merits of t! e bill from dis- ‘oussion on the door of sh og is wrong from beginning toend. Itis in the first place a most cowardly manner of defeating any project which may find its way to the capitol for the consideration of the mem- bers. The injury the practice works is in- calenlable. McClain’s spur on the com- mittees ought to bring along out with a lot of other bills, the measures which incorpo- rate a number of the ante-election promises made by the Republicans which, since their introduction, have resposed in securi- ty in the committee rooms. The resnit of his announcement will be watched with a great deal of interest by the citizens throughout the state who look to the legis- lators for a fulfillment of their promises. Unfair Delay. From the Northumberland County Democrat. The Grangers of the State have good rea- son to be impatient on account of the de- lay in the passage of legislation at Harris. burg in which they are interested. Ten weeks of the session have passed and not a single one of the measures that were prom- ised them before the election has been en- acted into law. The farming interest has bad a representation at the State capital all winter, but its efforts have been of bat lis- tle avail. What the Grangers want is not unreason- able. They demand the removal of unjust disorimination in the taxation of ‘‘farm property and other real estate,” believing that corporate property should bear a large share of the tax burden. They want lar. ger appropriations for schools and the State to pay a larger proportion of the expense of roadbuilding and maintenance. They fa- vor a two cent per mile passenger rate by the railroads, and the right of ‘‘trolley linea to carry any and all kinds of freight in coantry districte.’’ These ure not unreasonable demands and il the action of the Legislature should com- ply with them they would be far more con- ducive to general public interests than the measures in favor of the corporations which our State lawmakers are too much disposed to enact into law, Another Discovery. From the Williamsport Sun. Among other things that are being dis- covered at Harrisburg in these days of ind- ing out, it is learned that for reporting the speeches of legislators and noting hills they introduce the state will have to pay nearly $60,000 more this year than in 1905—s ump from $2.86 a page for publiching the in one session to $12 the following session. Two years ago the contractor re- ceived $16,190.16 for printing the proced- ings of both houses in the Record and furn- ishing copies to the members. The Record for the session consisted of 5,661 which at $2.68 a page netted the contractor $16,190,60. The same number of $ $12 a page will give the contractor $67 932, an increase of $51,741.40. This amazed members who were made acquainted with the res, and a fight is expected nst these items in the general a on bill. The publication of the Record is awarded by contract every four years. Legislators say they will oppose the appro- priation when it comes upaod let Poasmas- ter Stackpole sue. They declare that the increase is beyond reason, and thas if the contractor does not compromise he will get nothing. ~The Johustown baseball team went to State College this week and will be in training there for the next two weeks or longer. ————— Spawls from the Keystone. —The oldest citizen of Williamsport is dead. His name was John Bluhm and he was 93 years of age. —During the month of February there were ten births and five deaths in the bor- ough of Jersey Shore. —The Wayne hotel at Clearfield, has been sold by Jefferson Wayne to Ed. Smith, of that place, the consideration being $5,500. Eleven licenses to marry were issued dur- ing the mouth of February by the clerk of the orphans’ court of Perry county, The total number issued since the law went into effect is 3,874. ~The county commissioners of Lehigh county, have fixed the county tax rate this year at one and vight-tenths mills on the dol- lar, which is said to be the lowest rate of any county in the State. —St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, Lock Haven, which has been undergoing ime provements for the past 6 months, will be re- opened on Sunday, March 24. THe improve- ments amount to $7,000, —A diamond ring slipped off the finger of Miss Catharine Gortner, of Shamokin, about four weeks ago, and was lost in the snow. On Monday the snow had all melted away and the ring was found in some dead grass. —The total production of coal in the Dauphin-Schuylkill district the past year was 2,204,192 tons and there were sixteen fatal accidents and sixty non-fatal, thus cost- ing eight lives for every million tons of coal mined. —All the candidates at the recent election from mayor to registry assessor, in Blooms— burg, have placed their expense statements in the hands of the clerk of courts and all report there was no expenditure for election or defeat. Dogs are reported to be chasing deer in the Farrandsville and Queens Run dristict of Clinton county. On Monday a deer was run into the river at Farrandsville and on Tues- day another one was brought down to the river at Queen's Run. —P#ter Senhosky, who was a boarder in Chester for several weeks, stole a trunk from his landlady containing $175 in gold, but he has been captured at Newark, N. J., and $300 of the money recovered. He will be taken to Chester for trial. —The Franciscus hardware store in Lewis- town was entered by thieves on Thursday morning and ten revolvers were carried off. The thieves were evidently frightened away before they did any farther depredations as nothing else was missing. ~—Saul Watts, aged 28 years, is a patient in the Williamsport hospital. Watts was out coon hunting in the mountains back of Jer- sey Mills, Lycoming county. His gun was accidentally discharged as he was going over a log and a 44-calibre bullet entered his right thigh. —Rev. W. W. Dunmire, a local Methodist minister and former newspaper publisher of Altoong, died on Saturday at the Home of a daughter in Washington, D. C,, the result’of a stroke of paralysis received last October. He was aged 60 years, and is survived by his wife and seven sons gud daughters. —Amos Maytin, of New Castle, celebrated his 109th birthday anniversary on the 13th inst., in the enjoyment of good health. He was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1798,and came to this country when a boy. He served in the Mexican and Civil wars and is believed to be the oldest living soldier in the United States. —Miss Sadie Abels, of Pittsburg, has en- tered suit against Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Graff, of that city, for $20,000 damages for malicious prosecution. Some time ago Miss Abels was arrested and locked up, being charged with stealing a pair of diamond earrings from Mis. Graff, valued at $1,200. At the trial she was acquitted, hence the suit, —Negotiations have been closed for the transfer of leases on extensive ore and min. eral land holdings in Penn, Cass, Walker and West townships, Huntingdon county, to the Colonial Iron company. The leases cover an aggregalpe of 5,000 acres, which will be devel- oved by the Colonial company for its fur- naces at Riddlesburg, Bedford county. ~The people of Wellsboro, Tioga county, have been considerably agitated by learning on Saturday that Dr. 8S. P. Hakes, local mem. ber of the State board of health, had found in Catlin Hollow, three miles distant, seven cases of small-pox in three families. The disease originated in a family that had re- ceived letters from Watkins, N. Y., where the disease is epidemic. —One of the most palatial vehicles ever seen in the eastern part of the State has just been completed by a carriage builder in Quakertown, Bucks county. It is for Joseph Welsh, a gypsy chief,and his wife,the queen. Itis richly upholstered, has several large mirrors, beveled French plate glass windows at the sides and is gayly painted in red and green, with a handsome coat of arms, pro- fuse gold striping and beautiful ornaments, —Seven young men came very near being asphyxiated on Friday night in the armory at Plymouth, Luzerne county. A church fair was being held in the building ard the youug men remained during the night to prevent articles being stolen. The gas had not been properly turned off at several jets and a stupor gradually came upon them until about midnight, when one awoke very sick and realizing what was wrong managed to arouse the others. ~While on a business trip in Huntingdon county Wednesday, W. A. Tobias, the Mack. eyville butcher, had a narrow escape from be. ing thrown into Shaver’s creek. As he was driving on a bridge on his way to Peters- burg, the current of the overflowed stream, which covered the approach almost carried the vehicle, with the occapant, into the main creek, and it was with much difficulty that the horses succeeded in pulling the bug. gy on the bridge. —Patroiman John P. Maloney, of the Wil- liamsport police fores, was shot and almost insantly killed about 8:30 o'clock last Wed- nesday night by one of two supposed tramps. The murder occurred along the Reading rail. road tracks several hundred yards east of Mosser’s tannery and the two men who figur- ed in the bloody tragedy succeeded in effect ing their escape. Mayor Foresman—within an hour after learning of the murder—offered an individual reward of $100 for information that would lead to the arrest of the murderers They have since been captured.
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