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
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3
Osceola Mills...
Oyerbrook...
Oxford......
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EE733%E8ESREE
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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.