Ink Slings.
become of the Delaware
— What has
peach crop?
—If the back-bone of winter is really
broken let us threaten to break the back-
bone of the man who tries to set it again.
—The sun has gotten into thee. 0. Ww.
class, which means the advertisements that
appear in the country papers only every
other week.
—Uagele JoE CANNON seems) to think
there is a chance for him also. He is get-
ting out of the road for no one ; especially
FAIRBANKS.
~The House has reported out a bill ap-
propriating twenty-five thousand dollars
for a statue of Governor CURTIN for the
capitol grounds.
—Former State Treasurer HARRIS didn’$
even make good enough in the capitol in-
vestigation to get a verdict of ‘‘not guilty
bat pay the costs.”
~The Jamestown exposition has heen
opened, bus there is nothing there to get to
expo. So far as exhibits are concerned
they are like Jamestown, only a name.
—There has been no move yet to order
the fleet at Jamestown up to Oyster Bay
for the delight of the little RoOOSEVELTS.
That will probably be promulgated later.
— After all is might be a good thing]that
so much of the ‘‘real bronze’’ in the capi-
tol is really cast iron. As it is there] will
be less incentive for the thieves to steal it.
—The United States is coining, annual-
ly, about three hundred jillion dollars in
gold. Are you getting yours? You are
not if you are not advertising or reading
the papers.
~The tombstone makers of New York
are striking for an eight hour day, while
the grim reaper death keeps right on mow-
ing them down, one each second, in every
twenty-four hours in the day. .
—It is announced that ROCKERFELLER
is to give filsy million to the cause of con-
verting the Chinese. He probably [figures
that after they are made to see ‘‘the light”
they will buy some of it from him.
~The drank who kicked a hole in one
of the plate glass windows in Doll’s bakery
Tuesday afternoon becanse he saw some-
thing in there that didn’t look good to
him, must bave seen a reflection of him-
self.
—Speaker MCCLAIN bas been making a
very good speaker and be should be con-
tent to stand on that record. There is dan-
ger of his ruining his reputation as a speak-
er by trying to become a booster on the
side.
—The fact that a Johus Hopkins pro-
fessor has knowledge of a whale that could
swallow a man knocks another pin from
under the skeptics who are trying to;make
us believe that there is nothing in that
JONAH story.
—Senator FRED GODCHARLES, of the
Northumberland district, who lined up
with the machine for the defeat of the Mc-
Corp bill, is finding out a few things about
himself now that will probably do bim
good to know.
~—~ANDREW CARNEGIE has given a diplo-
docus to France and one to Germany.
Where ANDY procured two of them we
don’t know because, fc. several years, we
bave heen laboring under the impression
that the only known onejwas found at
Schwenksville, this State.
—The proposition to nominate Joux B.
LARKIN, of Pittsburg, for State Treasurer
to succeed Mr. BERRY should meet with
the approval of all who are anxious to have
the office filled by a fearless and honest
man. LARKIN is just such a man as BER-
RY and would continue the latter's graft
exposure if eleoted.
—While GEORGE GRAY BARNARD
walks the streets of Paris, penniless and a
bankrupt, because of the real art he was
creasing for his native State, Huston and
SANDERSON are probably driving automo-
biles from one swell cafe to another in or-
der to find places to squander the vast
sums they received for plans that were
stolen and farnishings that are shams.
—How does it come that all this gush
about a third term for ROOSEVELT is being
sent out by the ROOSEVELT news bureaus.
If he really isn’t after a third term let him
stop cackling so much himself and the peo-
ple will call a man to the presidency when
the time comes. The history of the gov
ernment doesn’t reveal any dearth of pres.
idential timber at any time, past or pres-
ent.
—A oivil service law covering state of-
fices in Pennsylvania will not be popular
with machine Republicans, consequently
will not be passed. The machine has no
use for a system that would retain one set
of eflisient office holders permauently.
Wiis it wanis is a chance to have them
wrod for le ute favors as well as the op-
portanity to Kick cut all the fellows who
don’e buve rune goods to deliver as each
eleciuion, "
== 1f she report he tine that PENROSE bas
fuierested the railroads in his re-election to
the Senate thea it is uexs to a ceitainty
that PENROSE will socceed himself as the
misrepresentalive of this State in the up-
per branch of Congress. While the rail-
roads do not wield the influence they once
did in Penueylvania politics they can yet
bring potent enough influence to change
sentiment very materially and it they ral-
ly to PENROSE’S support he will probably
be re-elected without muoh of a struggle.
VOL. 52
Roosevelt's Bad Example
President RooseveLT has semi-officially
announced his intention to take a hand in
the politics of New York. He wants to
make Governor HUGHES of that State the
candidate of his party for Vice President
and reasons that making a success of his
gubernatorial administration iz an essential
to that result. Therefore ke proposes to
enforce the Governor’s policies on the lead-
ers of his party. Wise or otherwise they
are to be accepted without question.
Recalcitrancy will be resented and opposi-
tion penalized. This isthe latest dictum
from Washington and it is in dead earnest.
The presidential office has not hitherto
been degraded toso low a level but this
fact might be overlooked under ordinary
circumstances. It is agreed that the Presi.
dent has a right to exercise his duties of
citizenship and ROOSEVELT being a citizen
of New York is entitled to the privilege of
participating in the contests in the State.
But he should exercise that right as other
men do or at least in lawful manner. In
other words, the President bas no more
right to use the patronage of the govern-
ment to compass political results than other
men have to employ ‘‘valaable things’ to
achieve the same end.
The President's programme fails to con-
form to this obvious requirement, however.
That is to say, according to well authenti-
cated reports from Washington, the Presi-
dent has announced that all federal offi-
cials must actively support Governor
HucHEs io all bis undertakings or lose
their jobs. In fact he demanded the res-
igoation of Revenue Collector SANDERS, of
Genesee, the other day because former Con-
gressman WADSWORTH, who procured his
appointment, is opposing some of the plans
of the Governor, and announced that every
other federal officer similarly situated
would be treated in the same way.
There ia only one way to cbaracterize
sach conduct. Under the law influencing
political results by trading in official pat-
ronage is bribery and therefore the action
of the President is criminal and the fact
that it is the President aggravates rather
than mitigates the turpitude of the offense.
One of the essential duties of put lic officials
is to set a. good example to the people.
When they disobey the law others lose
that respect for it which is necessary to
good government and thus ROOSEVELT is
settingla dangerous example to the people
of the conntry.
Olney the Next Member.
RicHARD OLNEY, of Massachusettes, is
likely to be the next new member of the
President’s Ananias club. Mr. OLNEY is
a very illastrious lawyer and a highly re-
spected citizen. He bas served the public
with great distinction and ample satisfac-
tion as Attorney General of the United
States and Secretary of State. His name
bas frequently been discussed as among the
most eligible presidential candidates and
his legal opinions command the highest
respect on both sides of the Atlantic ocean.
But he said things, the other day, in a
speech before the American Society of In-
ternational Law, which are certain to bring
him within the radius of the presidential
reprobation.
Mr. OLNEY’S theme was the ‘‘Develop-
ment of International Law as a Science.”
Avy one will admit that that is a grave
subject and yet few persons will deny that
Mr. OLNEY is splendidly capable of discus-
sing it. Incidentally it brought him to the
consideration of the Monroe Doctrive, dur-
ing which he excoriated that absurd inter-
pretation of that doctrine which makes the
government of the United States ‘‘an inter-
national policeman for the American con-
tinent or a debt collecting agency for the
benefit of foreign creditor States and their
citizens.” He showed the evil conse-
quences of such contingencies both to our
own government and the people of the oth-
er countries concerned.
Mr. OLNEY was equally unsparing in
his condemnation of that crowning atrocity
of the present administration which robbed
Colombia of that portion of her territory
that now comprises the Isthmian canal
zone. He didn’t refer to the fact that a
revolution had been organized and sup-
ported by the government of the United
States to promote that unholy transaction
but he declared substantially that it had
stolen the territory in question. ‘‘There
was no pretense that that Republic bad
ever parted with its territory voluntarily,”
he said, but “the territory was practically
appropriated.” If that doesn’t entitle him
to membership in the club nothing can.
~The Eastern Dealer, an implement
magazine, in its issue of April 18th devotes
three pages to an article on the dairy in-
terests at The Pennsylvania State College.
It is one of the most comprehensive stories
of that department of the College that has
ever appeared io print.
——An Italian fight in the neighborhood
of the Brown Row, on Sunday night, re-
sulted in two of the foreigners being arrest-
ed and looked up.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
Our New Attorney General.
The Attorney General assures the publie, |
according to popular gossip, that the capitol |
looters will be punished to the fall meas- |
ure of the law. We expected as much from |
Attorney General Topp. He bas not been
a politician, and he bas had no interest,
direct or indirect, in the graft. His pred- |
ecessor in office was equally free from com-
plicity in political chicanery when he went |
to Harrisburg. Bat unfortunately for him
he was associated with a Governor who was
under obligations to the machine and he
yielded both conscience and manhood to
make good with his chiel. The history of
the State reveals no more lamentable in-
cident than the prostitution of Attorney
General CARSON to the base purposes of
Quay’s “Cousin Say.”
Attorney General Topp is a distingaish-
ed lawyer who came into the public life of
the Commonwealth without political back-
ing. He was known to the bar, not only
of Philadelphia, but of the State, as a
“lawyer's lawyer.” That is to say, he
koew the law better than most lawyers but
wasn’t himself known to the public. We
can conceive of no hetter recommendation
for the office to which be was called. We
can imagine no other Republican Governor
than EDWIN 8. STUART who would have
called him to the office under those condi-
tions. Bat his announcement that the
grafters, high and low, will be punished,
more than justifies the wisdom of his selec-
tion. It proves that the right man isin
the right place.
But Attorney General Topp will have
plenty of work to do if he fulfills his
promise with respect to the grafters. There
is plenty of criminal business to be looked
alter, if the testimony taken before the
probing commission is anything like acoun-
rate. Collusion between HUSTON, SAN-
DERSON, PAYNE and CASSELL has already
been shown and if PENNYPACKER is not
inoulpated as an accessory before and after
the fact he will have to show us. But we
believe that Attorney General TopD is
equal to the emergency. No lawyer has
had a greater task before bim and
we know of no lawyer who has greater
capacity to meet his obligations. Bat
meantime we are awaiting results aod
promises.
Reason Has Returned.
The RoosEVELT hysteria which revealed
itself in the Legislatore at Harrisburg, a
couple of weeks ago, seems to have spent
its force. On Monday evening last a resolu-
tion declaring for his re-nomination was
overwhelmingly defeated. On a previous
occasion an almost similar resolution was
unavimously adopted. Since then, it may
be assumed, Senator PENROSE has been
giving the boys a few lessons in discipline.
He bas been telling them what's what and
who's who. Ro0sSEVELT favors the Senator
when he has to but not cheerfully and
PENROSE wants a different sort of man
nominated next year.
We have nosympathy with the political
plavs and purposes of Senator PENROSE.
He has contributed largely to the corrnp-
tion of the public life of the State. But at
his best ROOSEVELT is a more dangerous
man than PENROSE at his worst. The
President absolutely disregards every prin-
ciple of law and justice. He has takena
solemn oath to ‘‘support,obey and defend"’
the constitution but he violates it when-
ever exigencies require it. He is guided
entirely by bis own passions and fancies,
and he maligns men whenever they disa-
gree with him. Sach a man is not fit for
any important office or public service.
The re-election of ROOSEVELT would
mark the beginniog of the end of the Re-
public. The election of any man of his
choice would involve daoger though we
don't believe that there is another who
would pursne his policies. Bus the re-
election of ROOSEVELT would be giving
public sanction to the most reckless viola-
tions of law and order. Oars iea govern-
ment by law rather than of men and when
we so far depart from the traditions of the
fathers as to endorse lawlessness the gov-
ernment of the people aud for the people
will soon perish. We congratulate the
people that reason has returned to the Leg-
islatare.
——The Chemical Lime and Stone com-
pany is losing no time in an endeavor to
get its plant up and in operation as soon as
possible. A large force of men are now at
work there. The quarry is being stripped
and opened ready for the taking out of
good limestone. An immense stone wall
has been erected along the hill fronting
the railroad on which will rest the ha tery
of kilns it is proposed to erect, and wk
on which will be pushed as fast as po-s ble.
One nice thing the Chemical company has
on its property is a big spring of almost ics
cold water, and which is located on a hill
at an elevation of perhaps filty feet above
where their plant will be located. A pipe’
line basalready been laid and she compa-
ny will have an ample water supply for
manufacturing as well as drinking pur-
poses.
One Curions Fact Revealed.
———
Carefal analysis of the testimony taken
by the graft probers at Harrisburg reveals
one curious fact. It is that the loot went
in the main to the ELKIN faction of the
party and it is not improbable that some
of the zeal shown in the investigation is
ascribable to that fact. The Capitol Com-
mission was a creation of the Stone admin-
istration. The architect and contactor
SANDERSON and CASSELL, who got most of
the plunder are ELKIN partisans and all
those who have thusfar been inculpated
with the single exception of PENNYPACKER
are ELKIN supporters. In view of these
facts it is easy to see why PENROSE views
the progress of the injury with compla-
oency.
We are not deluded with the absurd no-
tion that the looting would have been less
if the other fellows bad been in charge of
it. No sane man will imagine fora mo-
ment that PENNYPACKER would bave been
less indulgent if DURHAM and McNicHoOL
had been plundering the State as they were
plundering the city of Philadelphia at the
same time. But as a matter of fact they
were not plundering the State while Hus.
TON, SANDERSON and CASSELL were. It
may have heen by agreement that one fac-
tion bad the State and the other the city to
loot. Bat in any event it is the ELKIN
crowd that is under fire at present and the
other crowd gets advantage out of the ex-
posure.
While the PENROSE plunderers in Phila-
delphia were under scrutiny a little more
than a year ago nobody enjoyed the squirm.
ing more than the followers of ELKIN,
Former Governor STONE became exceeding.
ly sarcastic in commenting upon tha expos-
ures. It may be assumed that PENROSE
is quite as bappy over the: developments
now being made which inculpate the ELKIN
retainers as STONE was when it was PEN-
ROSE'S friends who were threatened. Mean-
time honest men of all parties have oppor-
tunity to reflect that the leaders of both
factions of the Republican party are cor-
rapt and safety for public interests will be
found in voting them out of power.
Frank Harris Testifies,
_ Former State Treasurer FRANK G. HAR-
‘RIS, of Clearfield, testified before the cap-
itol probers last week and made some
startling admissions. He got no part of
the graft himself, he protested, and didn’t
know that the treasury was being looted
until the investigation began. But he con-
tributed to the operation very considerably,
according to his own statements. In other
words, he signed anything and approved
every suggestion made by architect Hus-
TON without taking the trouble to inquire
whether it was right or wrong. There may
be an absence of turpitude in such action
but it is certainly criminal carelessness.
Mr. HARRIS admitted before the com-
mission that be signed orders involving the
expenditure of aboat $16,000,000 for far-
nishing and decorating the capitol and
adorning the capital park. He is a
lawyer by profession and must koow
that the constitution forbids the expendi-
ture of money except upon apptopriation
by the Legislature. He certainly knew
that the Legislature bad made no appro-
priation for farnishing or adorning the cap-
itol or building a wall around the park.
Even if those things had been done honest-
ly and economically they wounld bave been
unlawful and reprehensible. But HARRIS
made no objection to them ov that account
though he was onder sworn obligation to
support, obey and defend the constitution.
The State was saved a useless expendi-
ture of $3,000,000, according to HARRIS,
because the people of Harrisburg “‘kicked”’
against enclosing the capitol park with an
immense granite wall. But HARRIS and
his associates on the Board of Pablie
Grounds and Buildings bad authorized
such an enclosure. It would have been as
atrocious as it would bave been absurd,
and we thank the people of Harrisburg for
their timely aud effective kick. Bas what
are we to say of the public officials who
were willing to allow such a thing for no
other reason than that it multiplied the op-
portunities for graft and loot ?
——8im Hazzard, of Snow Shoe town-
ship, brought quite a menagerie to Belle-
fonte on Tuesday. It was composed of a
wild cas, a possum and a skank, hut they
all were barmlest ne trey had been killed
by Mr. Hazzwnl's uneriing aim many
months ago and were sunply mounted ani.
mals. He brovgit the odlectivn in for
George Kuiscly to dicp'ay in the Kuively
Rios, pool room hat Jame RB. Hughes se-
cared the wmoants a« the starter 0° 4 mae
seni at the Bellefonte Acadiay,
That “‘Banyerd and Famvard Cir.
ens" that is to be given by wembers of the
Y. M. C. A. next week promises to be one
of the best amateur rural plays ever given
by any local talent in Bellefonte, Yon
don’t want to miss is.
~——Some one has asked what silence is?
Juet at this time it seems to he the
Republican papers on ‘“‘BERRY’S failare to
life thas lid.”
RE
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From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The capitol building is being at last fully
uncovered, and we have every reason to ex-
pect that we will get the true story of the
general concoction and subsequent execu-
tion of a scheme to build the capitol for
the loot that would be init. The
develops asa brazen plot for the robbery
of the state and its carrying out under the
noses of its officials, some of whom olaim to
have been, and probably were, the blind
tools of the conspirators. ‘
Here is Former State Treasurer Harris
declaring that he never made a ‘‘red cent”
out of what he admits was the free hand he
gave those who robbed the state under his
band. He did not know, he says, what
was going on, or what he was doing when
he agreed to the expenditures for the cap-
itol, of whose sum total he had no con.
ception.
Maybe he says true. What he says is
just what Gov. Penny er says. He
thought it was all right, and that she men
who asked for his signature were good men;
who knew what should he done, and whose
counsel could be relied on.
No one doubts that Governor Penny-
packer was an honest fool in the matter,
who was deluded by his conceit in his pow-
er to tell a hawk a bandsaw, and an
honest man from a thie. A man who
paseed Quay as worthy of a monument, be-
cause he was his friend and benefactor,
might well be ex to approve these
capitol thieves, who were his friends,
in whom there was guile. Harve Harris
was as stupid; anyway, he had the gover-
nor’s example to follow, and doubtless the
advice that he took came from influential
political counselors, whom he would hardly
venture to disobey.
This has been the whole fauls of his po-
litical administration, which bas put in
control smart scamps,’who were able to se-
cureand control their tools. There has
been no independence in administrators,
hy independent men could be chosen to
office.
See in this county how at the last election
the people elected to the wan
who was then as the holder of a
Eo, To, PL St
og, which, by far the or part is
admitted to have been without value re-
ceived. This man wes nomipated and
preseed for election by the Republican ma-
chine, and elected by the people in the face
of this knowledge. The rottenness goes
even down to the people.
The Lydick Bill.
From the Harrisburg Star—Independent.
Speaker McClain bas come out openly in
advocacy of the Lydick uniform primary
bill, vest pocket seores ballos, ex
ression of choice of candidates for United
tates Senatorg, and all. This is equiva-
lent to notice to the Penrose factionists that
the Elkin forces are keeping an eye on
them. But to what purpose?
The McCord bill might have served the
purpose, although the Lydick bill, which
contains a provision for the casting of bal-
lots for preference for United States Sena-
tor is said to be superior to the bill which
the Penrose Senators were ordered to de-
feat. Can the Speaker influence any of the
Senators—or rather enough Senators to
make certain the passage of the Lydick bill
without changes that will make it useless
or unconstitutional or both ? It is to be
doubted. .
If several Senators who voted against the
McCord bill or absented themselves can be
induced to vote for the Lydiek bill the
Penrosians can be defeated. If their con-
stituents cannot persuade them to support
the measure, then it would seem that the
Speaker would be unable to influence them.
But whatever be done, there will certainly
be an alignment of the Republican factions
for and against the measure. Moreover,
there will be a square deal, which means
that there will be ‘‘no dealing from under
the table,’’ if the Speaker can have his way.
The fatare of the Lydick bill will be fall
of interest.
Two Cents a Mile Pays.
From the Bloomsburg Democratic Sentinel.
The returns in Ohio, of railroad passen-
ger receipts, where the two cent rate fares
have been in operation a year, as well as on
lines in New York and other places, show
the reduction in rates has stimulated travel,
and benefitted instead of injuring the roads
in their passenger Juseiply, Another con-
vincing proof of the profit in low fares has
just been afforded by the report for last
year of the Long Island railroad, which is
owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad
company. Io 1905 the road put up fares,
and as a uence there was consider-
able falling in the passenger traffic,
many of the commuters using the trolley
roads. Last year the fares were reduced to
an average rate of 1 522 cents per mile. As
a result, the report says, ‘‘the number of
re carried increased SANA
per cent.; the passenger mileage in-
creased 60,440,339, or 22 per cent., and the
passenger train mileage increased 617,394,
or 16 4 pur dust, The large Tasteae in
passenger business isparticularly gratifying,
in view of the fact that the previous year’s
report showed a decrease in passengers car-
ried as compared with 1904. Daring the
year additional industries were located on
the le and the prospect of future rapid
development of intustiial enterprise along
te road 14 very promising.’ Reports like
this may welt make the wmilroad people
paiese before they deus to contest the new
two oent lure law in ths «tate after it be-
ovmes [lworive, >
I Sr ASIN A.
An Era ofl Sinan,
From t*e Chicag » Cironicle,
Sensational preachers bawl blaskhemies
from the pulpit or wnite balderdash for
sel ow nearpapers. Demagogue iti-
cians vooiferate from lecture BYE pl
at banquets. Wild-eyed reformers shout
bedlamite denunciations at everybody and
everything. All of them draw audi-
ences. It is an age of nnreason. od
bas bad these periods of aberration before
and doubtless will have them again. It is
this reflection alone which prevents sane
people from despairing at the present del-
uge of slush.
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—~Nolicds are ‘being i
Telephone company that th
dence telephones in Will
creased from eighteen to
a Fear, the advance to be
first,
—The entire family of"Henry Faulk—hus-
band, wife and six children—iesiding at
Lehigh Taunery, Luzerne county, were
stricken with typhoid fever at one time. The
father is dead and three of the children are
in a critical condition.
—After tilling the soil for over a quarter
of a century and making it yield abundant
crops, David K. Rauffman, a well known
farmer of Riverside, Berks county, retired
from business, well off in wordly goods and
with all-abouunding health.
—Over 1,000 members of the Fraternal
Order of Eagles were present at the dedica-
tion of the new Eagles home at Mahanoy
City last Tuesday. The new building cost
about £30,000. President Roosevelt, a mem-
ber of that fraternity, sent a letter of regret.
—The other afternoon a Huntingdon dray-
man was delivering a washing machine to its
owner, when he stopped his team at a street
corner and went into a house on an errand.
When he came cut the washing machine had
disappeared and no trace of it has been
found.
—The members of the Masonic fraternity
in Sunbury propose building a new home
and the contract has been awarded to G. W.
Keefer, of that place, at his bid of $22,195.
The structure is to be of brick, three stories
high and contain all the improvements which
80 to make a first class building.
—Muhlenberg college, a Lutheran institu.
tion at Allentown, has secured $137,000 to.
wards its new building fund of $200,000.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to give $20,
000 provided the whole amount is raised, and
$10,000 is pledged by citizens of Allentown,
80 that $33,000 must yet be raised.
—On Saturday the largest mortgage in ten
years was put on record at the court house
at Harrisburg to secure the $25,000,000 bond
of the American Union Telephone company,
which controls most of the independent lines
in the State. Similar papers will be filed in
all other counties where the company does
business.
—However successful clairvoyants are in
other counties of the state, in Tioga there is
something wrong about the altitude or ozone
that gets on the lens and confuses the opera-
tor. Recently a medium “‘located” a $10,000
oil well in the Gaines field. The drill has
gone down 5,000 feet, but the well is still dry
as the Red Sea when the children of Israel
passed over.
—Gas excitement at Reynoldsville was re-
vived Tuesday afternoon of last week, when
Driller Pentz shot the well which the local
company had pushed to a depth of 3,040 feet.
The shot was at 960 feet, the point where the
first gas was struck, and it was a tremendous
success. Forty-two quarts of glycerine were
used. The well is now regarded asa very
good gasser.
—By an arrangement made with the dis-
trict attorney's office the attorneys for David
Laughhead, convicted of manslaughter at the
December term of Clearfield court and sen-
tenced to 18 months inthe western peniten-
tiary, the appeal to the Supreme court was
last week postponed to October next. In the
meantime Laughhead contines to act as con~
stable of Bigler township.
~The Central Penusylvania Lumber com-
pany has broken ground for the foundation
of a large saw mill at Sheflield, Pa., which
will have a daily output of 175,000 feet of
lumber. The mill will be constructed of re-
enforced concrete, and is to be completed by
November 1st of the present year. It will
contain two band saws and a resaw. The
motive power will be electricity.
—Geo. W. Gearhart, a former resident of
Clearfield, and a brother of Hon. Peter Gear
hart, one of Clearfield county's representa.
tives in the Legislature, was killed a few days
ago by a vicious bull on his farm in Fresno,
California. He was aged 61 years,and leaves
two sons and one daughter, together with
three brothers, Levi, of Huntingdon, and
Peter and James, both of Clearfield county.
—Emanuel Hummel, who has been night
watchman for sixteen years at the Blooms.
burg silk mill, has resigned, as he says he is
broken down in health by the task. Every
night the rounds he had to travel measured
twelves miles in length, much of, which was
up and down stairs and in the sixteen years
he has walked 40,000 miles. He always bad
a dog as a companion and has worn out three
dogs.
—William A. Bond has pleaded guilty in
the York county court to stealing seven
horses, three buggies, besides saddles and
harness, in the lower end of the county, and
will also turn state's evidence against Wilbur
Wright, a companion in crime. Bond, how-
ever, falls short of the record of Levi Bupp,
of the same county, who is serving a fifteen
years’ sentence, having pleaded guilty last
fall to thirteen indictments for horse steal-
ing.
—At a meeting of the board of directors of
the Newton Hamilton campmeeting associa-
tion held on the 16th inst., it was decided to
open camp this year on the eighth of Au-
gust. A fine program is being arranged and
some of the most prominent ministers of the
atate have been secured to deliver addresses.
A number of improvements were decided
upon, and when completed the grounds will
be prettier and more inviting than ever be.
fore.
~The dedication of the new public library
of Juniata college, Huntingdon, was a notable
event last Friday. Addresses were made by
Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh, superintendent of the
Philadelphia schools; De. N. C. Schaeffer,
state superintendent of public instruction;
state librarian T. L. Montgomery, and ex-
Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker. The
new library building was erected at a cost of
about $30,000, of which Andrew Carnegie
subscribed $28,000.
~—Fire of unknown origin Somes: de-
stroyed the Hotel Campbell, at Athens, Brad
ford county, between 1:30 and 3 o'clock Fri-
day morning. Elmer J. Kendall, aged 50
a former employee of the American
ridge company, who lost a leg while work-
ing in the shops n few months ago, was
smothered to death and there were several
narrow escapes. James Cravette and Henry
Juue, boarders, were so seri burned that
their Jotavery is doubtful. Proprietor Bon-
ney, wife two daughters, also had a nar-
row escape and were painfully burned.