BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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: Ink Slings.
—It was a very short summer we bad.
~The household motto these days is :
Clean up.
—Chicago bas gone Republican. Not so
much Republican as anti-HEArsT.
—SANDERSON certainly didn’t give those
capitol clocks to the State on ‘“‘tick.”’
~-Centre Hall seems determined to hold
her position in the centre of the stage of
excitement.
~—We are waiting to see what position
the Hon (?) SAM SALTER gets under the
new deal in Philadelphia.
—They are serving rotten meat to the
workmen on the Panama canal. Can it be
possible! And poor old uncle RusseLL
ALGER is sleeping "neath the sod.
—The Jamestown exposition police are
to be called the POWHATAN guards and
there will probably be a PoconoxTAs and
a JoHN SMITH for every POWHATAN.
~ ‘Tod COOPER failed in his attempt to
put the Legislative Record out of busivess.
More's the pity. Both the Record and
Tox bad better look ous for Dr. OSLER.
~—PENNYPACKER seems anxious to testi.
fy before the capitol probes, but if the old
dummy didn’t know what was going on at
the time what can he have to tell about
now ?
—A German professor declares that the
numerous sun spots have put the earth in
a very restless condition. Buck-wheat
cakes or strawberries have the same effect
on most mortals.
—The Braddock miner who ate fifty eggs
in two and one-balt minutes on Monday
must have felt like an omelette or decided-
ly scrambled for a few days following his
gastronomical feat.
—Judged from what the President says
he wrote to Mr. HARRIMAN and what Mr.
HARRIMAN says he received from the
President the letters must bave been open-
ed and changed en route.
~The girl who doesn’t have one of those
dear little sugar loaf hats these days must
have abont as many seoret spasms of cov-
etousness as the Bellefonte physician who
doesn’t have an antomobile.
—It PENROSE can do it the McCorp
bill, which legalizes the election of United
States Senators by popular vote, will be
killed. The Boss don’t want to put his
chance of re-election up to the people.
—It didn’t take a financier to get rich
farnishing the capitol at Harrisburg when
all that bad to be done was bhny desks at
forty dollars each and charge the State
eight hundred and sixty-four for them.
~—According to the President E. H. HAR-
RIMAN is not only a rascal but a modern
ANANIAS. We presume that the Presi.
dent is still of the opinion that Mrs. Ber.
LAMY STORER is the Mrs. ANANTAS of the
present.
—8Secretary CORTELYOU knows his hus-
iness perhaps, but it is very fanny finan-
ciering that makes our government issue
fifty million in new bonds when there are
two bundred and fifty million dollars lying
idle in the treasury.
—President ROOSEVELT has discovered a
diabolical plot to rob him of the presiden-
tial electors of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and
he is correspondingly hot under the collar.
The sarprise in this to the public lies in
the fact that everyone thonght RoosEVELT
wasn’t after a third term.
—It is very probable that the fellows
who are snggesting now that BERRY should
be elected Governor as an acknowledge-
ment of his great service to the State will
have forgotten BERRY entirely by the time
another gubernatorial election comes
around. Such is the fleeting memory of
gratitude.
—Mayor REYBURN, who has just suc-
ceeded Mayor WEAVER, of Philadelphia,
has installed all of the gang in office again
despite the pre-election promise of an hon-
est administration. The gang and honesty
are so incompatible that we fear Philadel-
phia is to have another of the Say Asm
BRIDGE administrations.
—Everybody is filled with righteous in-
digoation at the way our State was robbed
in building the new capitol, but we have
not heard a single expression as to whet
we are going to do about it. It is all right
to discover and expose the thieves, but if
we can’t get the money back would we not
bave been happier bad we known nothing
abont it.
—BooKER T. WASHINGTON'S latest bit
of advice to his race runs like this : *‘Don’s
be taking five dollar buggy rides on six
dollars a week ; don’t put a five dollar hat
on a five cent head.”” We stop right here
to listen to the chorans of Amens! to the
latter admonition. There wonld be lots of
them in Bellefonte had their husbands the
sand to express themselves,
—A Chicago bank has discharged a olerk
because he got married on a salary of Jess
than a thousand dollars a year. The ac-
tion is just about the same as deciding that
under such conditions there is nothing left
for the young man to do but steal. Apd
in the face of all this wisdom we are ready
to bet that the wealth that founded that
very bank came originally from men who
bad married on far less than a thousand a
year.
Roosevelt and Harriman.
If any man in the public life of the conn-
try bas ever been pilloried as a hypocrite
and a fraud, that wan is THEODORE RoosSE-
VELT. Ina letter written by Epwarp H.
HARRIMAN to BSIDNEY WEBSTER the
sinister relationship between ROOSEVELT
and the Wall street pirates is fully reveal-
ed. “My being made at all prominent in
the political situation,” writes Mr. HaRr-
RIMAN, “is entirely due to President
ROOSEVELT and because of my taking an
active part in the autumn of 1904 at his
urgent request and his taking ad vantage of |
conditions then created to further his own |
interests. About a week before the elec-
tion in the autumn of 1904,” Mr. HARRI-
MAN, continues, ‘‘when it looked certain
that the State would go Democratic and
was dounbtful as to ROOSEVELT himeell, he,
the President, sent me a request to go to
Washington and confer upon the political
conditions in New York State. I complied
and be told me he understood the cam-
paign could not be successfully carried on
without sufficient money and asked if I
would help them in raising the necessary
funds, as the national committee, under the
control of Chairman CorTELYOU, had
utterly failed of obtaining them.”
Of course Mr. HARRIMAN consented to
perform this sinister service. Men who
are contemplating burglary are always
obliging to the officers of the law and
HARRIMAN wanted to putthe President
under obligations to him. The unpopular-
ity of Senator DEPEW stood in the way
somewhat but the President promised to
get him out of the way by appointing him
Ambassador to France, so that HARRIMAN
undertook the work at once. He subscribed
$50,000 himself and got others to contrib-
ute to the full amouns. ‘‘The checks were
given to treasurer BLIss, who took them
to Chairman CORTELYOU," continues Mr.
HARRIMAN. “If there were any amorg
them of life insuravce companies, or other
like organizations of coarse CORTELYOU
must bave informed the President.” The
irony in that expression is worth its weight
in gold. It is inferentially au accusation
that the President was cognizant of the
looting of the insurance companies and ap-
proved it. He is pot so particular about
moralities where his own interests are in-
volved as they were when he found his po-
litical ambitions in jeopardy. There was
on stench to the tainted money which was
used to promote his election.
Ol course President ROOSEVELT denies
this statement of facts. He had no alterna-
tive except to resign the great office which
he has covered with shame. But he has
not hesitated to falsify in other instances
when such a course seemed necessary and it
would be surprising if he should not do so
in the present exigency when the necessity
ie greater than ever before. The chances
are that he will coerce others into corrob-
orating his statement, moreover. The
Presideat has a vast power over the busi-
ness interests of the country and will not
hesitate to exercise it to the full measure
of his possibilities to discredit Mr. HARRI-
MAN. But the story is too well supported
by circumstantial evidence and probability
to be disposed of in that way. There are
too many known incidents embodied in
the narrative to be blown out of sight by a
breath. A man who is constantly denying
and never proves his contention can’t con-
viet others who enjoy reputations for verac-
ity by a simple denial. That is what
ROOSEVELT has attempted to do in a dozen
cases and if he bhasn’t already exhausted
the patience of the public it is inexbausti-
ble.
Some Wholesome Truths.
Senator Jorn E.Fox,of Dauphin county,
gave his associates in that body some inter-
esting truths, the other day, with respect
to the State Highway Department. Sen-
ator FOX is a stalwart Republican and an
adberent of the organization. But he is
a distinguished lawyer and a carefal ob-
server of events and baving ascertained the
delinguencies of the Highway Depart-
ment he had the conscience and courage to
denounce it. It is rotten to the core
aud Senator Fox frankly declared that in
his judgment there should be a complete
reorganization of the Department before
any more money is appropriated for its use.
This State needs good roads more than
most things. The prosperity of the farmer
depends largely on the condition of the
highways over which he carries his prod-
ucts to market. The consumers of the
products of the soil are equally concerned
in the construction and maintenance of
good roads. But both the producer and
consumer can better afford to sacrifice the
advantages of improvements than they can
to have the public life of the Common-
wealth polluted by the presence of such an
iniquity as the Highway Department has
been from the very beginning. It was
oreated for political uses and has never
served any other purpose.
While Senator Fox was literally acourate
in his protest against the present Highway
Department go far as he went, he didn’t go
the full length in the matter. He ought
ST
to have said that the plan upon which the
present Highway Department is predicated
is fundamentally wrong. It subverts one
of the vital principles of ovr government
for it destroys home rule. The Highway
Department intervenes between the people
ofa community and their local affairs
which would he a dangerous thing even
if it« work were well and economically per-
formed instead of being badly and profli-
gately done. The Senator ought to take
another fall ont of the iniquity.
Hunting for a Scape Goat.
Thas tbe conspirators in the capitol
grafting operations have determined to find
a scape goat is practically certain. Archi-
tect HUSTON, in a recent interview, put
the responsibility on Governor PENNY.
PACKER while former Superintendent of
Public Grounds and Buildings SHUMAKER,
with equal postiveness lays the blame on
Huston. He was the Machiavelian, Mr.
SHUMAKER declares, who ‘‘pulled the
wool’’ over PENNYPACKER'S eyes and
made that ‘‘bugologist” like a chunk of
soft putty in the hands of the gang. Pre-
sumably some of the others will give their
interpretations of the matter, later on.
PENNYPACKER has declived to makea
reply to Huston, already, but he may
think better of it when he discovers that it
is necessary to ‘‘save his own bacon.”
Meantime the aggregate of graft is grow-
ing to prodigious proportions though noth-
ing bas been revealed to indicate what be-
came of the money. It has been observed
that SANDERSON is a very rich man now,
whereas before the event he was only
moderately well off. But nobody imag-
ines that he got all the rake-off. It isan
inflexible rule of such men that partici-
pants in grafting operations shall ‘‘under-
stand addition, division and silence.”
HusTox's fees amounted to upwards of
balf a million dollars and the chances are
that he would bave to be satisfied with
that sani. CasseLrn, who furnished the
metal cases, did tolerably well but was
hardly allowed more than a million of
‘‘velvet.”” Assuming that SANDERSON,
CasseLL and HustoN divided three mil-
lions, what became of the rest?
The default of the Enterprise National
bank of Allegheny entailed an extraordi-
nary demand for funds on the machine but
Treasurer BERRY states that he can discov-
er no sign that the rake-off was used for
the purpose of meeting this exigency. That
being trae the inference is plain that some-
body, other than those named, must have
participated in the loot. Nobody suspested
until the fact was brouzht out in a judicial
inquiry that DURHAM was getting a slice
of the enormous profits on the contracts
for the Philadelphia filter plant. Yet it
ie now an established and even an admis-
ted fact and why might there not have been
some such silent partner or partners in the
capitol graft. The alternative is to assume
that PENNYPACKER got a share.
Harriman Has the Best
of it.
The assertion of HARRIMAN and the de-
nial of Roosevelt creates a question of ve-
racity which can’t be decided off-hand, as
the President observed with respect to
another matter, the other day. There
used to be a tradition that ‘‘the King can
do uo wrong’ and a popular belief that the
President of the United States can’t tell a
lie. But both these notions have been
radely bumped lately aod so far as the
President is concerned the reverse is begin-
ning to be the popular idea.
A couple of years ago a distinguished oit-
izen of Massachusetts reported a conversa-
tion with the President which RoosevELT
subsequently denied most vehemently.
Thereupon half a dozen others present at
the time corroborated the statement of the
gentleman from the Bay State and the
country was bumilated because the Presi-
dent was proved a falsifier. A year ago
ROOSEVELT denounced Senators TILLMAN
and BAILEY as liars because of an assertion
of theirs and they proved their point by
eubstantial oral and doonmentary evidence.
Later the President ungallantly charged
Mrs. BELLAMY STORER with falsification
and that accomplished woman proved that
the lie had come from him.
Under the circumstances, therefore, there
is no presumption of veracity on either
side and theactual facts must determine.
ROOSEVELT admits most of the assertions
of HARRIMAN and proves the others. For
example, the intimacy betweeh them in
1904 is revealed in the President’s letters
while a letter which he himsel? has given
to the public shows that a few weeks be-
fore the election of that year, ROOSEVELT
promised to consult HARRIMAN about cer-
tain features of his message. The infer-
ence is plain and no fair-minded man will
hesitate to decide the question of veracity
in favor of HARRIMAN.
——On Mouday, April first, the Ameri-
can Lime and Stone company increased the
wages of its laboring men, those who are
not on contract work, from $1.40 to $1.50
per day. The inorease was entirely vol-
untary on the part of the company, henoe
the more appreciated by the men benefitted.
ATE RIGHTS AND F
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL
EDERAL UNI
Roosevelt and Foraker.
President ROOSEVELT has ‘‘declared
iwar’’ on Senator FORAKER, of Ohio. The
Senator was indiscreet enough, a few days
ago, to offer the opportunity,and the Presi-
dent has availed himself of it. The chauces
are that the result will be disastrous to
FoRAKER. It can bardly be said that this
is entirely regretable. FORAKER is not the
sort of a man aboat whom popular inter-
est centres. He is selfish, secretive and in
triumph far from magnanimous. In fact it
may be said that the nearest he has ap-
proached to being right since the beginning
of his public career, is in his opposition to
the President. That expresses a protest
against usurpation of authority and the
arrogance of office which is ominous of evil.
Bat FORAKER has little chance of suc-
cess in a fight with the President. There
is not now in the public life in the country,
and probably never has been, a man as
adroit in political chicanery as RooseverLT,
and few as consoienceless. He is restrain-
ed by neither law nor fear. A few years
ago in this State when QUAY was in politio-
al! danger ROOSEVELT openly allowed him
to use the patronage of the government to
buy votes in the convention which nomi-
nated PENNYPACKER. When a congres-
sional investigation was threatened into the
affairs of the Postoffice Department, Roosg-
VELT appeared in the lobby trading offices
for votes against the proposition because
the investigation would have revealed that
the expenses of his junket were paid by
overcharges for carrying mails,
When FORAKER goes up against such an
antagonist he will learn political tricks
that he never dreamed of before. Under
other circumstances the elimination of
FOoRAKER would be a sabjeot for popular
felicitation. It would indicate the removal
of a pestiferous partisan whose highest am-
bition is personal trinmph and whose best
impulses are influenced by bigotry. Bat
when his defeat involves the trinmph of a
more dangerous man, it eannot be contem-
plated with complacency. On the contrary
it then becomes a subject of grave concern.
There is some reason for hope in the fact
that Secretary TAFT rather than Roosg-
VELT will be the beneficiary of the battle.
But when TAFT lends himself to the sin-
ister schemes of ROOSEVELT one can't be
sure of him.
Roosevelt and Wall Street.
The President has practically determin-
ed,according to the Washington dispatches,
to keep his hands and his mouth out of the
Wall street muddle. It will be remember-
ed that the railroad magnates have recent-
ly undergone a great change of mind with
respect to federal regulation of railroads.
For a couple of years they had been fight-
ing the proposition with considerable vehe-
mence and a lot of assiduity. The reason
of it was, no doubt, that the States, the
only authority which has a legal right to
regulate, showed little inclination to assert
their power and were giving the roads free
rein. Under such circumstances the idea
of federal regulation was obnoxious to the
maguates,
A year ago things took a turn. Ohio led
the way by passing a two-cent a miie pas-
senger rate, aud Indiana and several other
States followed. The railroad magnates
didn’t seem to mind, however, until Penn-
sylvania and New York took the matter
up and then it occnrred to them that they
would better have congressional legislation
than the more drastic state legislation.
Meantime an investigation into the meth-
ods of the magnates revealed such a rotten
condition of affairs that owners of the shares
loss confidence and a slamp ensued. To
check this the pirates appealed to the Presi-
dent to do something that would restore
confidence. They knew that he couldn't
do anything but the promise would proba-
bly delay the State action aud give them
time to think.
The President has practically decided nos
to intervene, however. He proposes to let
the frenzied financiers bear the conse-
quences of their own immoralities. He is
wise in this. He couldn’s do anything,
anyway, and what was the use in inviting
the humiliation which inevitable failure
must have entailed ? So he says he will let
Wall street take care of itself. He doesn’t
love Wall street very well, he intimates,
and probably be is right. Bat as a matter
of fact he is more responsible for the dis-
trust of Wall street than he would like to
admis. If he had interfered less with other
people’s affairs before there would be less
need for interference now.
——The Lock Haven Democrat on Sat-
urday came out in a new dress, just in time
to celebrate Easter, and now looks as spic
and span as a girl of sweet sixteen. The
Democrat is a good paper, oue that the peo-
ple of Lock Haven should appreciate fully,
and it’s always a welcome exchange on our
table.
——Sunday was not one of the moss
auspicious days for a display of fine feath-
ers and Easter hats, and yet some Belle-
9, 1909. .
fonte women were brave enough to defy
the weather and appear in gaudy attire.
A
What Is Being Shown up at Hare
risburg.
The Purpose of the Press Muzzler and the Real
Pennypacker Graft in everything and everywhere.
The benefits of Berry's Election. The Quay
Statue Ete.
(Special Correspondence.)
Harrisburg, Pa., April 4, 1907.
In the disclosures of graft made by the
capitol investigating committee, the source
of the ‘‘press muzzler” is easily traced.
That Peunypacker wanted to silence the
press in order to shield himself can hardly
be doubted, for his responsibility for, if not
his culpability i, the crimes of the conspi-
rators has been clearly revealed. The in-
fluencing reason for the prodigious and
long continued venality in the official life
of Russia is the absolute impotence of the
press. Courageous, capable and independ-
ent journalism is a perfect security againet
corruption in public life. When the con-
spiracy which looted the treasury of Penn-
sylvania was in the process of formation the
greatest fear of those concerned was the
newspapers. Pennypacker undertook to re-
move this danger by muzzling the press.
The failure of bis purpose has resulted in
the exposure of the crimes. If the press.
could bave been silenced William H. Berry
would not have been elected State Treasur-
erand in the absence of that result the
grafting operations would #till be in pro-
gress and the machine, entrenched in power
in uninterrupted control of the official life
of the Commonwealth.
A good many of our esteemed newspapers
delude themselves or deceive their patrons
by declaring that Pennypacker was honest
but an innocent viotim of the wen
about him. In the greatest of his novels
the late Charles Dickens created a charac-
ter, the helpless victim of vicious and de-
signing associates, who, these journals
would incarnate in the person of Penny-
ker. But Pennypacker is no more like
r. Strong than Architect Huston resem-
bles Uriah Heap. He is weak becanse of
an extraordinary vanity bot not on ao-
count of a confiding nature. On the con-
trary there is no more canning or resource-
ful figure in the public life of the Common.
wealth at present as there has been none
in the past. When the exposure of gral
was first made the other conspirators,
overwhelmed with consternation, ‘‘stam-
peded But not so with Pennypacker. He
aced the accusation with a positive denial
usd ade the failronda accessaries Jo the
crime by organizing the penny-a-mile ex-
cursions to fool the public by he splendor
of the “Palace of Graft.” thousands
who availed themselves of that opportunity
to deceive their own eyes cooldn’t tell
whether the glass in the e was made in
Reais ox Seaver county. Not one in a
0 of the most in people
can tell by carsory inspeol edifference
between veneered white pine polished ma-
hogavy. Pennypacker knew thie and work-
ed his understanding overtime. If the
fraud could have been revealed the ont-
raged public conscience would have
ecourged the conspirators and obliterated
their party. Bat it wasn’t and counldn’t
be and Pennypacker’s genius for deception
carried the Republican party to victory in
the face of the most colossal frauds of
modern history,
AMAZING EVIDENCE OF GRAFT.
As the Jvantigation of the capitol graft
proceeds the evidence becomes more amaz-
ing. Last week several new sensations
were brought out. The brother-in-law of
the favored contractor, Sanderson, testified
that Architect Huston knew that Beaver
county glass had been substituted for bace-
arab glass. The specifications required
bacarat glass and the bills rendered were for
bacarat glass. Bat the material furnished
was Beaver county glass and the fraud was
perpetrated with the knowledge and assent
of Huston. The State was robbed of a vast
sam by the transaction and the contractor
proportionately enriched. Yet Penny pack-
er protests that there was no frand and
Huston declares that there was no collusion.
yey must imagine that the people are all
vols.
That there was collusion between the
contractors and the architect is made clear,
moreover, by the relations shown between
Sanderson and Payne. Payne didn’t get
as large a percentage of profits as Sanderson,
but his rakeoff was very great. For exam-
ple he got fifteen cents s fool for the ce-
ment floors while the evidence shows that
he paid only five cents a foot for them. In
his case, however, the culpability is not so
much in the overcharges. It is in the fact
that ke was cognizacs of and a participant
in the vast overcharges of Sanderson. Asa
matter of fact in some particulars at least,
Payne was the agent for Sanderson and in
all cases he exercised a supervisory power
over the employees of Sanderson. That re-
lationship occuld hardly have been in the
absence of a partnership.
GRAFT IN SMALL MATTERS.
The testimony taken at the last session
of the commission was more amusing than
serious. That is it treated of the trifles
about the boilding. But it proved that
the spirit of graft run through the
tion from beginning to end. The boot.
black’s stand in the Senate cloak room,
for instance, cost Sanderson $125.00 and
the State was $1,619.20, the profis
being at the rate of 1195 per cent. On the
barber's case the poor fellow was only able
to make 902 per cent., which indicates a
bard-hearted sub contractor. The clothes
trees and umbrella stands yielded profits of
a fraction less than 500 per cens., which
could be regarded in no other light than
down-right cruelty if it were nos for the
fact that Sandssson had no money invested
at all and the profit was on air. The same
is true of the vast profitson the ohande-
Fers. Erother-in-law Salom testified that
not a cent of money had been by .
body for the stock of the vania
Bronze Ce., which sapplied the chandeliers
5 the i posi and the shareholders
dividends amounting in the Sggregate to
1 pete, on an investment ate-
y nothing.
But the startling feature of all this is
that if William H. Berry bad not been
eleoted State Treasurer in 1905 the public
would never have known of this colossal
fraud. It was the intention of oconspira-
89% | tors of the three local breweries got
Spawls from the Keystone.
—There were 446 liquor licenses issued in
Barks county, and the license fees amounted
to over $150,000,
—Mary Champluvier, a waitress employed
at the Parker House in Tunkhannock, Wy-
oming county, has fallen heir to an estate of
from $75,000 to $100,000 left her by an uncle
who recently died in France.
—Two swans were recently shot and
killed near Westover, Clearfield county, and
hearing of this Game Warden Rishel imme-
diately got busy and had the men who killed
the birds arrested and fined. Ten dollars
was paid for cach bird.
—The discovery was made lact Saturday
morning at the residence of Joseph Selinger,
at Salladasburg, Lycoming county, that dur.
ing the night a thief had effected an en-
trance and got away with $400 in cash which
was taken from a tin box which had been
placed in a bureau drawer.
—The old car shops at Huntingdon were
put in operation on April first by the Pitts-
burg industrial Iron Works company, a new
company which recently became the owner
of the property. Itis understood that about
150 men have been given employment and
these are mostly skilled mechanics.
~—Options in the sum of $50,000 on lands in
Juniata and Penn townships, Huntingdon
county, have been taken up by Messrs. J. RB.
and W. Simpson for the Raystown Water
Power company. A gang of men has been
at work for some days past putting down test
holes to get a location for the first dam.
—The last legislature having failed to
make provision for the payment of any fees
to health registrars for their services under
an act passed by that body, the health reg-
istrars of Schuylkill county have decided to
apply to the present legislature to provide
for the payment of salaries or fees now long
overdue.
—Samuel Shellenberger, a young plumber,
of York, was terribly burned on Sunday
morning in a club house on Diamond island,
in the Susquehanna river, by an explosion of
gasoline while he was trying to start a fire in
a gasoline stove. Only by the prompt action
of two friends, who smothered the flames,
was his life saved.
—A short time before Easter the Ladies’
Aid society of the Lock Haven hospital
made a request for contributions in the
shape of eggs for that institution, the same
to be in the shape of an Easter gift. The
response was most generous and on Saturday
it was announced that a total of 2,200 eggs,
or 183} dozen, had been contributed.
—On Saturday Charles M. Newton, a gro-
cer, of Jackson Run, Warren county, came
into possession of a one dollar bill which told
a story of the disastrous slump in Wall
street, as these words were written across
the back of it: ‘The last of $17,600 lost in
Wall street in Union Pacific, Reading, St.
Paul, Northern Pacific and a few others.”
—Miss Sallie Rambo, who for many years
lived the life of a recluse at Swedesburg,
Montgomery county, died recently at the ad
vanced age of 98 years. On Wednesday
while making an appraisement of her effects
hier friends were surprised by finding in the
dark recess of a closet a moldy package, in’
which there was a roll of $1,400 in bank
notes. : pe Lc
—On Saturday Judge Bell, of Blair county,
granted ninety-five licenses, refused seven
and held six over for further consideration.
He also notified the landlords in Altoona
and Hollidaysburg that they would have to
close their bars and sell no drinks after elev-
en o'clock and at all other hotels in the
county the bars must close tight at ten
o'clock.
—Taking a ladder from a nearby yard a
thief raised it to one of the upper windows
of the residence of J. P. Stevenson, consult-
ing engineer of the Standard Steel works, at
Lewistown, got inside and proceeded to ran-
sack the rooms. When be left he took with
him two gold watches, a scarf pin, three
rings set with diamonds and two purses con-
taining small sums of money.
—There resides in Greenfield township,
Blair county, a family in which five genera-
tions are domiciled under the one roof. The
head of the house is Frederick Dively. and
with him live bis grandmother, Mrs. Barba.
ra Lingenfelter, his mother, Mrs. Rachel
Dively, a married daughter, with several
small children. The ages of this group run
from 93 years down to less than one year.
—W. F. Jacoby has disposed of his coal in.
terests at Smoke Run and McCartney to
Clark Bros.,, Coal Mining company. They
have four operations, Falcon, Nos. 1, 2,3,
and 4, two at McCartney and two at Smoke
Run. The daily capacity of these operations
is about 800 tons and 350 miners are given
steady employment. E. C. Howe succeeds
Mr. Miller in the office work at Smoke Run.
—George R. Miller, of Spring Creek, War-
ren county, awoke on Thursday morning at
1 o'clock and glancing into the room of his
son Charley, aged 18 years, he noticed the
bed was vacant. Knowing the boy is a sleep
walker, the father arose to look for him and
finally found him in the horse stable, partly
dressed, and engaged in harnessing the
horses to go to plow, having dreamed that he
was to do that.
—Tne champion egg eater of Fayette coun-
ty is W. K. Knuckles, a miner, who ate 42
raw eggs at one sitting. In the store of W.
E. Gans at Gans station, Knuckles was com-
menting on his capacity for eggs and the
merchant offered to provide the eggs.
Knuckles had lined his interior with 42 of
them when Gans pulled the basket away,
declaring Knuckles would kill himself.
Knuckles indignantly asserted he could
eat two dozen more without hesitating. He
has offered to bet that he can eat 100 eggs
without stopping.
—The breweries at Washington Pa., are all
closed and the people are out of beer. The
trouble is the result of a threatened strike by
the brewery workers who belong to the Uni¢-
ed Brewery Workers’ association. B
the workmen had time to strike the proj
and decided to close. The work:
notified on Saturday when they wer
that their services were no longer demanded,
as the breweries would not open on Monday.
Several days ago the brewery workers asked
for an eight hour day and more pay; These
demands the brewers say, they cangiot accede
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