BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—Both the March lion and the March
lamb bave made good.
—Bellefoute had a mad dog scaré on
Sunday but nothing more than the limb of
a tree waa bitten by the rabid animal.
—It seems to be chute-the-chutes or the
toboggan for Wall street and the wise man
looks on withous a desire to ride down.
—Senator FORAKER has decided to be a
candidate for President. Of course there
are other things necessary to bis ambition
but JOE isn’t counting them just now.
—Pennsylvania will not bave a local op-
tion law this year. That was settled in the
House at Harrisburg, on Monday, when
the CRAVEN bill was voted off the calen-
dar.
—GROVER CLEVELAND thinks tariff will
be the issue in the next presidential cam-
paign. How widely great minds diverge.
Now the Hon. T. RoosEvELT thinks that
he is going to be the issue.
~The probable reason JAMES HENRY
SMITH, who died on bis wedding tour in
Japan, was called “Silent Smith’’ was be-
cause he was worth $70,000,000. In his
case the money did the talking.
—The “‘cunctation’’ that one PENNY-
PACKER, once Governor of Pennsylvania,
seems to bave down so pat, is one of those
words that only people who can afford to
buy things at the ‘‘per cubic foot’’ rate can
afford to use.
—As a result of that war over a mule the
capital of Honduras bas fallen. Let us
hope that when they pick it up again they
will put the letters together in a way that
will spell something a little more eupho-
nious and easy to pronounce than Teguoi-
galpa.
~—“SANDERSON did not erect the build-
ing ; he merely farnished some of the trim-
mings,”’ says the Altoona Tribune. For
once our Altoona partisan is right. It was
not so last fall, however, when it was offer-
ing all manner of apologies for this very
thing.
~The visiting sub committee of the Sen-
ate appropriations committee was very
much impressed with the needs of and the
work being done by the Bellefonte hospital
and so far as their efforts can be relied upon
the hospital will receive its full amount of
$17.000 asked for.
—A friend yesterday sent us an an-
nonncement that an editor bas died some-
where and left $22,000,000. Wea don't
know who the editor was bat we are cer-
tain he didn’t run a country newspaper,
unless he might have had a state capitol to
furnish on the side.
—A commission in lunacy has been
granted to inquire into the sanity of HAR-
RY THAW, thus the long and tiresome trial
has been indefinitely interrupted and
should the commission adjudge the young
man insane the trial will be ended and he
will be sent to an asylum for the criminal
insane.
—Mr. Joux R. MurrHY, a Member of
the House of Representatives, has the
unique distinction of baving read his own
memorial services. He ia ill at his home
and the House, thinking him dead, ad-
journed out of respect on Wednesday. He
is not dead and the joke, if there is any, is
on the Legislature.
—An Altoona cobbler claims to have dis-
covered a chemical which when poured
upon coal ashes converts them into a better
and cheaper fuel than coal itself. If he re-
ally has, here is one cobbler who has cob-
bled his last cobble. Itisall off with the
awl for him. He has his last peg driven
and the wax end of Easy street is his now.
~—According to Capt. IRWIN'S report the
standard of proficiency in the Salvation
Army is so high that it is no wonder the
Army has nothing to do with the churches.
That feature of compelling all soldiers to
keep their debts paid, if incorporated in
church regulations in Bellefonte, would
soon make the poor little Army look like a
mighty host by the side of what would be
left of any of our congregations.
—O! course under the laws of the Com.
monwealth the QUAY monument commis.
sion has no legal existence, but should it
undertake to carry out the undesifble
work it was created to perform why not
kill two birds with one stone by having
the monument to MATT and then grafted
onto it a smaller one to JoE Huston. The
grafting idea appeals to us very strongly as
being just the appropriate thing.
—It the Philadelphia Record is really
anxious to know what should be done with
PENNYPACKER we feel that we are voicing
the sentiment of a great many people when
we say that a few good stiff kicks witha
frozen boot, administered with celerity,
uncontempered and without cunctation,
right in the vent of bis Prince ALBERT,
migh bring him to a sense of wonderment
as to whether be is an idiot, an ass ora
man.
——PENNYPACKER is of the opinion
that in criticising the capitol graft ‘‘celerity
should be contempered with cunctation,”
which liberally construed means that
speed should be modified by caution. The
Governor is too late with his recommenda-
tion. When the State Treasurer was work-
ing over time between the date of Mr,
BERRY'S election and the time of his in-
duction into office, in order to get the
fraudulent accounts settled before the
storm broke, his observation would have
been timely and pertinent.
President ROOSEVELT has disapproved
the findings of the court martial in the
case of Captain Lewis M. KOEHLER,
Fourth cavalry, charged with using dis-
respectful language concerning General
LEONARD Woop. The court acquitted
Captain KOEHLER and the President want-
ed him convicted. General Woop is a
presidential pet and according to the presi-
dential notion any language concerning
him that isn’t praise is disrespeotful.
Woop isn’t much of a soldier but be was
the head of the Rough Rider contingent
and allowed ROOSEVELT to run that organi-
zation in his own way. He used it to ex-
ploit his personal ambitions until he
reached the Presidency and since that he
has used the Presidency to exploit Woop.
This wouldn’t be so bad if isdidn’t involve
so much injustice to others. The Captain
KOEHLER incident is the latest in that
line.
Captain KOKHLER was in service in the
Phillippines under Major ScorT who was
post commander and civil governor of one
of the provinces. The Major had previcus-
ly been a member of General WooD's per-
sonal staff and was chummy with that pet
of the President. Bat he wasn’t as prompt
in the performance of his duty as his
subordinate thought he ought to be and the
Captain preferred obarges against him.
Thereupon the Major filed counter charges
of insabordination against the Captain and
got in first. The court martial found a
verdiot of guilt to the extent that the
Captain’s charges were ‘‘captions and un-
necessary.’’ In approving tbat sentence
General Woon declared that ‘‘Captain
KOEHLER'S conception of the standards of
conduct and uprightness, as they exist in
thearmy, were distorted to a degree not
found in the just and fairminded.” Cap-
tain KOEHLER thereupon filed exceptions
in the War Department at Washington
againss General WooD, charging him with
language unduly severe and unjust. For
that KOEHLER was again court martialed
and acquitted and the President bas dis-
approved the finding. He probably thinks
KOEHLER ought to be drawn and quartered
for lees majestie. f
That is an example of the perversion of
power rarely equalled in the military his.
tory of any country. Secretary of war
TAFT says that ‘‘Captain KOEHLER isan
officer with an excellent record for coura-
geous service in the field and for attention
to duty generally.”” But that makes no
difference to the ‘‘storm-brained’’ Caeser
in Washington who uses the partrooage of
his high office as a huckster uses his wares.
A splendid record for courage doesn’t help
a man who fails to worship at the Woon
shrine or attempts to maintain his rights
and his manhood in a just and lawful way.
It is small wonder that thoughtful men are
becoming alarmed when such outrages are
perpetrated by the man who above all
others should strive to hold the standard
of justice evenly between men of high and
low degree. :
The State Beard of Trade.
The State Board of Trade is ‘‘butting in”’
to politics in great shape, according to a
statement recently issued and ascribed to
that organization. It wants no ‘additional
burdens on manufacturing industries,’’ and
is opposed to employers’ liability bills. It
simply can’t bear the idea of making cor-
porations responsible for injuries to em-
ployees. “Why should not the employee
who injures a fellow workman through
carelessness,’ writes these conservators of
the Commonwealth, ‘‘be held with some of
the responsibility, and not throw all upon
the employer, simply because he is able to
pay.”
“The value of this observation,’’ as Cap-
tain Jack BuNsBY would say, ‘‘lies in the
application on’t.’’ In other words, the State
Board of Trade proposes to continue Penn-
sylvania in the questionable attitude of
valuing money rather than life. There is
no bill pending in the Legislatare which
makes the employer responsible for injuries
caused by the carelessness of an employee.
The MoscrIPT bill makes corporations re-
sponsible for injuries to other than em-
ployees of the corporations and the TusTIN
bill is practically similar. Under judicial
interpretations, which are a disgrace to
civilization, the contrary is the rale in this
State and the bills in question are proposed
remedies. But they are neither drastio
nor unjust.
The State Board of Trade appears to be
controlled by a lot of guineas who are try-
ing to exploit their own selfish notions at
the expense of other people. It pretends
to represent the business interests of the
State but as a matter of fact only represents
the selfishness and injustice of predatory
wealth. Most of the progressive States of
the Union have already enacted legislation
for the protection of employees by making
employers responsible for the evil effects of
their own greed and selfishness and the
sooner Pennsylvania gets in line with that
form of progressiveness the better it will
be for the State.
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 29, 1
Uncle Shelby's Tale otf Woe.
Senator CurroM, of Illinois, informed
the President the other day, according to
the Washington dispatches, that Mr. HAR-
RIMAN ought to be put into the peniten-
tiary. Senator CuLLoM is indignant about
the Alton deal in which HARRIMAN was
thep rincipal figure. The Alton i# an Il
linois enterprise of which the people were
very proud until HARRIMAN began mon-
keying with it. The stock represented act-
ual investment in cash and labor up to that
moment and was a guilt edged commodity.
It sold for nearly two hundred cents on the
dollar and paid a large dividend ou the big
price. That excited HARRIMAN'S avatice
and he bought a majority of the shares.
Having thus acquired the power be poured
water into it until its value was complete-
ly submerged and the property bas become
a subject of reproach rather than a souice
of pride to the people.
Uncle SHELBY CULLOM isn’t sensitive
when others are ‘‘getting it in the neck,”
so to speak, but when residents of Illinois
ges an elbow jolt he squeals like a pig. Mr.
HARRIMAN iu the pursuance of his pur-
pose of getting » railroad clear across the
continent, bandled the people of Illinois
just as he would treat those of Ohio or New
Jersey, it the exigencies required it. HaAR-
RIMAN is a pirate who would rob a widow
or strangle an orphan if there were a couple
of millions in it for him and Senator CUL-
LoM would have watched the process with
absolute complacency if the widow and or-
phan had lived in Indiava or Iowa. Bat
linois and your Uncle SHELBY let his in-
dignation enjoy unbridled freedom for a
time and finally took his tale of woe to
Washington and laid it before the Presi-
dent.
Uncle SHELBY informs us that he doesn’t
know what the President thought of the
matter, but so far as he is concerned, he
just spoke his mind. He told the Presi-
dent that a collossal crime had been perpe-
trated and that HARRIMAN ought to beade-
quately punished. No doubt he has accu-
rately described the incident. It would be
just like Uncle SHELBY to do what he says
he did do. It is a pity, however, that he
doesn’t understand tbe President better.
1f he did he would be able to add to his in-
teresting narrative the statement that the
President will not put Mr. HARRIMAN into
the penitentiary or any other disagreeable
place for the ample reason that Mr. HAR-
RIMAN is the most liberal contributor to
the Republican corruption fand and paid
more to procure ROOSEVELT'S election than
any other individual. ROOSEVELT knows
his friends.
——Contractor SANDERSON has not gone
to Europe as was commonly reported but is
livingat an expensive New York hotel.
Well he is just as safe there asin Enrope
for a summons can’t be served on him in
either place.
An Encouraging Statement.
State Senator ARTHUR G. DEWALT, a
member of the Capitol Investigating Com-
mission, declares that those responsible for
the graft ‘‘should be prosecuted and sent
to jail.” He adds that former Governor
PENNYPACKER will be summoned to testify
and intimates pretty strongly that it will
not be a perfunctory affair. In other words,
the ealogist of QUAY and the apologist for
criminal misfeasance in office will be com-
pelled to explain why he paved the way for
the treasury looting which Senator DEWALT
estimates at at least $5,000,000. There will
be mighty little ‘‘ounctation’” in this pro-
cess il the commission is just to itself.
The evidence already brought out in the
investigation leaves no doubt as to the col-
lusion. There is very little uncertainty
to the conspirators. Governor PENNY.
PACKER was the principal offender. Proba-
bly he imagined that he was paying a sub-
tle tribute to the memory of QUAY when
he was thus converting the administration
of the government into an agency for rob-
bing the people. QUAY’S whole life had
been a period of iniquity and the perver-
sion of power to spoliation was a form of
continuing QUAYism after QUAY bad gone,
Therefore if those responsible for the crimes
perpetrated in the conetruction of the cap-
itol are to be punished the recent Governor
should be the first to be put on the rack.
Governor PENNYPACKER introduced the
resolution which made the looting almost
a neccseary incident of the capitol construo-
tion. He deliberately deceived other bid-
ders for the work by assuring them that
separate bids would be considered when he
knew that he had made that impossible.
For these reasons il there are to be prosecu-
tions the first who ought to be brought to
the bar of the oriminal court is SAMUEL
W. PENNYPACKER, the worshipper of QUAY
and the friend of all official crooks. Sena-
tor DEWALT'S assurance that such will be
the result of the investigation is most en-
couraging and gratifying.
——]In the event that the capitol gralters
are prosecuted the appearance of PENNY-
PACKER in striped olothes will be an inter-
esting spectacle,
the Alton widow and orpban lived in Il.
Our Charity Institutions.
The commission appointed two years ago
to ‘investigate the management of Penn-
sylvania institutions for the insane,’ bas
made its report. It was tardy in beginning
and slow in completing its work bus on the
principle of “better late than never,’’ we
are prdbably estopped from complaint on
that score. As a matter of fact it is some-
thing in the nature of an accident that an
investigation was made atall. If the politic-
al convulsion which resulted in the elec-
tion of WILLIAM H. BERRY to the office of
State Treasurer had not occurred, we might
suspect the worss, but there would be no
offivial declaration thas the condition of
our charity institutions are a disgrace to
civilization.
The report of the commission justifies
the very worst suspicions which were en-
tertained on the subject. The institutions
are uneavitary, over-crowded, badly man-
aged and in some cases dishonestly con-
ducted. The members of the commission
were horrified at the spectacles which were
presented to their view. They were told
all about it during the campaign last fall
but vehemently denied every accusation.
As long ago as during the last session of
the Legislature the facts were presented in
such unmistakable terms that everybody
except the managers of the machine under-
stood. But they were entirely oblivious.
They wanted the money for the capitol
grafters. .
Strangely enough, moreover, the head of
the commission, the report of which has
horrified the public, was Speaker of the
House of Representatives two years ago
and ex-officio a member of the committee
on appropriations of that body. He was
also a member of the Boas mansion colony
and must have known of the conditions of
the institutions as well as the resources of
the treasury. But he made no effort to
remedy the evils or correct the faults in
the management of our charities. One
word from him shen would bave turned
the tide in the direction of justice and
righteousness, but he never uttered the
word. Now that the machine has no use
for the money, however, he is willing to be
right.
———Ex-Senator BURTON, of Kansas, who
has just emerged from a Missouri jail is
very bitter against the President to whose
malice he ascribes most of his misfortunes.
BURTON is not what you would call a
credible witness but some of his statements
with respect to ROOSEVELT'S perfidy are so
buttressed by ciroumstances as to command
beliel.
The Final Argument.
We wonldn’t under any circumstances
discourage an early final adjournment of
the Legislature if the work of the Legisla-
tare is completed early. There is no sub-
stantial advantage to the public in pro-
longed legislative labor. But the present
Legislature can’t afford to adjourn finally
until certain pledges are fulfilled whether
one month or #ix will be required to achieve
the result. Legislation to enforce the con-
stitution has made no progress as yet. No
ballot reform legislation other than the
Lypick-Ripp primary election bill has
been presented and other promised reforms
are moving tardily if as all.
The Legislature ought not adjourn final-
ly until such measures are enacted. And
even if those measures were enacted the
Legislature ought not to adjourn finally
until provision bas been made to give pub-
licity to a report of the investigation of the
capitol graft. A hill was introduced the
other day to appropriate sufficient funds to
make the investigation searching and com-
plete. That bill ought to be passed prompt-
ly. The work should not be retarded or
its efficiency impaired for want of funds.
Bat there is little use of a thorough inves-
tigation unless provision is made for the
publication of the report.
There is a growing suspicion that an at-
tempt will be made to defeat that result.
In other words the impression is spreading
that the Legislature will adjourn before the
investigation is finished and that conse.
quently there will be no way to make the
report public. If that is done justice will
be outraged as it has never been before. As
soon as the investigation is ended the re-
salt should be given to the world that all
may understand who is culpable and visit
adequate condemnation on the guilty. It is
not necessary for the Legislature to be in
session to achieve this result but it is nec-
essary that a way to make the result of the
inquiry public be provided by law.
~The contracts for the big batileships
authorized by the last Congress are to be
rushed. The President is probably afraid
that reason will resume sway in Congress
in which event the law authorizing the larg-
est one would be repealed.
——Judge GARY, chairman of the Steel
trust also promises to be good. The fren-
zied financiers are all dodging the retribu-
tion which is inevitable but they can’t get
away with the swag and leave a record for
integrity.
BERR
907.
Presidential
Possibilities,
From the New York Press.
One of the lists of possibilities for the
Republican nomination for president next
year going the rounds of the 18 is:
Theodore Roosevelt of New York.
Charles E. H of New York.
Elihu Root of New York.
Qetige B. Cortelyou of New York.
William H. Taft of Ohio.
Ji B. Foraker of Ohio.
Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa. :
Charles W. Fairbanks of Indiana.
Albert B. Cammins of Iowa.
Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin,
W. M. Crane of Massachusetts.
i EE rev
ttle blue , for obvious rea-
sons, showe how pine. Je the list has
been padded. These are to be stricken ous
for reasons that are selfe-vident.
Roosevelt— Because he wili not touch it.
Root— Because he could not carry New
York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
nor a single state, with the possible ex-
ception of Iowa, west of the Mississippi
ver
Cortelyou—Same reason.
Knox—Same reason.
Taft—Can’t get the delegates of his own
state nor of any other worth mentioning;
might bave a few federal officials from
territories.
Foraker—President Roosevelt's battle ax
will knock him in the head.
Fairbanks—Frozen stiff.
Caommins—Hasn's any principles except
‘‘push myself along.’
Crane—Never been introduced to the
public.
So the hoat dwindles to:
Hughes.
La Follette.
Shaw.
Shaw is a good man, but the public re-
gards him as too conservative. It will not
vote for a man who is less radical than
Roosevelt. This leaves:
Hughes.
La Folleste.
Pleuty and to spare!
Here is something worth study. It is
worth pasting up for foture reference. It
indicates a trend in Republican sentiment
of profound significance. When the most
important Republican organ in the coun-
try eliminates from the list of presidential
possibilities the name of every conserva.
tive mentioned, leaving only the names of
Hughes and La Follette, the most conspio-
tuous Republican radicals, on the roster,
the fact is ome to challenge wide and
thoughtful attention.
The Oil Kings Warning.
From the Pittsburg Sun.
Whatever the business ethics of the head
of the Standard Oil on, his private
life and personal habits and unostentatious
manner shine righe by comparison with
others of his school of finance. His world-
ly wisdom should command respect.
In discussing the present situation the
oil king among other things recently said:
There is an undercurrent that doesn't look
good. ldo notthink our people are saving the
money they should save. e Nation at the
present time is unusually prosperous, but finan-
cial reports do not show that saving has increased
in ratio with our prosperity.
Here is something for you, Mr. Man, to
ponder over. You have been enjoying an
increase of income for some time. What
are you doing with it ? Are you any better
oft ? Any happier? Any better able to meet
the next gale ? What are you doing to help
this country to deserve the prosperity that
now blesses it ?
e money sense is strongly develo
in Rockefeller. He scents danger, ped
from a cause that it is perfectly obvious to
all must bring tionhle unless measures are
taken to allay evil conditions.
Getting scared and trying te grab things
and to get in ont of the wet will only pre-
cipitate the catastrophe. The pavicisa
kind of storm that falls on the just and un-
just, hard.
It never pours when the just are in the
big majority, but it won’t always wait for
them to take their time to resume control.
Get busy !
A Legal Thrashing for Editors.
From the Baltimore News,
A new principle in jurisprudence is pre-
sented by a bill pending in the Penn-
sylvania legislatare. * * * The bill
in effect authorizes aggrieved oitizens to
whip the editor without being liable to
1 penalty. It expressly provides thas
the defendant in any suit for assault and
battery, or in any civil action for da
shall be acquitted if he can prove that
within a year the person assaulted wrote or
published any false or defamatory matter
concerning the defendant, or any member
of his family, or his fiancee. The last-
mentioned ground of immuni Sipliaizes
the feature of brain storm which the
legislation is obviously founded. It marks
an advance along the new line which bas
been opened in our jurisprudence, in that
it does not to leave effects of brain
storm to the protection of the unwritten
law when it is an affair between the editor
and the indignant subeeriber.
A Fie Commentary,
From the Spri Republican.
A member of the Pennsylvania jeglala-
tare, representing the ‘‘old gang" of Phila-
delphia, has met the repeal of the muoch-
ridiculed Paunypasices press inpzaliug law
by offering a bill which virtually substi-
tutes ay sessing for ‘press muzz-
ling. e bill provides that the of
assault aod battery shall be d
when the assault is committed because of
newspaper attacke. This is about the best
commentary to date on the character of the
Philadelphia ring.
Nobody Wants It.
From the Philadelphia Record.
When the Quay statue shall have been
completed, ready for delivery to the State,
it will be & sort of mortuary dereliot.
Governor Pennypacker’s Commission,
pointed to receive is, ‘‘died a-bornin’,’’ so
there is nobody deputed to act on behalf of
the purchaser. The original plan of set-
ting it up in the Capitol building was more
a) body suspected at the
me it was Jha guy"
Spawls from the Keystone.
—At a supper given by the Ladies Auxil-
iary of Modern Woodman of Reading a mile
of sausage and a ton of buckwheat cakes
were consumed.
—Judge Kooser, of Somerset county, has
disposed of the license applications in that
county. There were ninety-one applicants,
of which seventy-nine were granted, six re-
fused and six held over.
~The McTurk Coal company of Girard.
ville, Schuylkill county, has let the con-
tract for the erection of a monster breaker
to cost $70.000, The plant will have a capac
ity of 900 tons of coal daily.
—In the gizzard of a chicken which Mrs,
Hiram Cooper, of Andrews Bridge, Chester,
_| county, was cleaning for dinner, were found
twenty-seven pins of different sizes. Yet
the fowl was plump and fat.
_ —John Mills, who is employed in sawing
timber on the lands of Sylvester Doyle, near
Shade Gap, Huntingdon county, recently
cut a monster white oak tree from which he
sawed forty-one railroad ties.
—Schuylkill county does not appear to be
in a hurry to get its share of the goods roads
appropriation which for the next two years
is $87,939,50, as thus far application has been
made for only five miles of new road.
—The borough of Lititz, Lancaster coun
ty, bas four pretzel bakeries, employing
forty persons, and every week they turn
out over 10,000 pounde, or about five tons of
crisp, salt pretzels, which are shipped to
various points.
—A new law has just been enacted provid-
ing a salary of $2 per day for two days and
mileage at the rate of three cents per mile
for each school director who attends the an-
nual meeting of the county association of
school directors.
~The headless body of a man was found
in the Susquehanna river ten miles below
Sunbury, on Saturday, securely tied in a
sack. There were ten bullets and five knife
wounds in the body and the head was sever-
ed close to the shoulders.
—Peter Burkett, a civil war veteran, aged
76 years, of Penfield, Clearfield county, has
placed five children in the Soldiers’ Orphan
school at Jumonville, near Uniontown.
Burkett survives thirty-three children,
twenty-one of whom are alive.
—Ex-Congressman William Connell has
paid $534.34 for a strip of land four inches
wide and 150 feet deep, running along the
side of his million dollar office building in
Scranton, for the purpose of building a fire
wall to protect the fine structure.
—Thirty female employees walked out of
South Sharon tin mill on Tuesday, and as a
result a larger number of other employees
must quit work. The reason alleged for
quitting is that the girls objected to a new
foreman recently placed over them.
—Lewis Emery jr., who was the Demo-
cratic-Lincoln party nominee for governor
last fall, has brought action for alleged libel
against the publishers of the News Times,
Reporter and Courier, all newspapers of Leb-
anon. The alleged libelous matter, it is
claimed, was published during the campaign
and $10,000 damages is asked in each case.
—Joseph Erelman, of Palmer township,
Northampton county, died recently, leaving
his estate to his nephew, Andrew Erelman.
After the nephew had made an inventory of
the estate, he was rummaging on the attic
on Wednesday when he noticed a pair of old
rubber boots which attracted his attention
and investigating he found in one of them
£22,300 in bank notes.
—It is said that the term of criminal court
which has just closed in Cambria county
has established a new record in the number
of convictions for penitentiary offenses.
Twenty-one prisoners were sent to the pen,
the sentences aggregating forty-nine years
and four months. Of the number sent up
all but nine were foreiguers, and in every
case in which the guilty man is not an
American the offense is some form of person
al assault.
—Mies Daisy Mindrew, aged 23 years, a
popular and talented young lady of St.
Mary's, was found drowned in Elk creek
Saturday forenoon. The young lady disap-
peared Friday night. As she failed to return
home late that night, the fire alarm bell was
rung at 12.30 a. m. to call the people out to
assist in the search, but not until next fore-
noon was her lifeless body found in the
creek. The girl had been in poor health
for some time, and while temporary insane,
drowned herself.
—Mryrs. John F. Myers, of near Wolrich,
Clinton county, was attracted by the bark-
ing of some dogs in the mountain near her
home a few days ago, and knowing her hus-
band to be in that vicinity, started out with
a rifle to ascertain what was going on. In
going up the mountain she became aware
that there was a strange animal ahead of
her, and this quickly developed into a cata-
mount. Aiming the rifle the woman shot
and killed the animal, which measured al-
most three feet and weighed over twenty
pounds. .
—The Altoona Sand, Clay and Iron Ore
company, with a capital of $50,000, was
organized last Thursday by a num-
ber of Altoona business men. The company
is already in control of a large tract of land
at Warriorsmark which contains valuable
deposits of sand, limestone and iron ore. A
sand mill, crusher, etc., have been erected
en the ground and a siding put in from the
railroad. Operations are to be begun on
April 1. D. Ramey Peffer, of Punxsutawney,
has been chosen general manager of the
company and will have his offices in Al-
toona.
—An idea of the rapidity with which the
timber is disappearing from some sections of
Pennsylvania can be obtained from the fol-
lowing figures, which refer to the timber
cutting on the Hicks run tract, in Clearfield
county: Original size of tract, 9,000 acres;
timber cut the first two years, 3,000 acres;
still standing, 6,000 acres; amount of
timber cut, 50,000,000 feet; amount stand.
ing 200,000,000; daily capacity of saw mill,
ap- | 000,000 feet; daily shipments, fifteen car
loads; amount of timber in Hicks run yard, -
6,000,000 feet; time of operation, two years;
estimated time to cut standing timber, four
years; number of men employed, 800 to 1,~
000,