—That mule war in San Salvador is on
again.
—The capitol was moved to Oyster Bay
on Wednesday.
—The peace conference is studiously
avoiding anything that sounds like war.
—SHEATZ may be all right personally,
bat the company he keeps certainly looks
bad.
—That flood in Kentucky was not cans-
ed by TAFT jamping into the presidential
pond.
—The asylums will not be crowded thie
summer with people who have gone crazy
with the beat.
—Governor HugHEs, of New York, has
vetoed the two cent fare bill passed by the
Legislature of that State.
—Don’t worry about the Democrats.
We will have something better on the State
Treasury live than SHEATZ.
—Are we to bave another war scare
abont Jap.n, just after we blew admiral
OvaMI off eo splendidly, too.
—The government is going to smash the
bard coal trust in the State, in otherjwords
a coal breaker has been bailt in Washing-
ton.
—Ita Japanese war is to relieve us of
the Philippines, as the Washington strate-
gists declare,a little bit of war might prove
a good thing.
—The falling off in the importation of
tea and coffee into this country can be par-
tially accounted for by the increasing pop-
ularity of dutch lunches.
—The prediction, clipped from an al.
manac published in 1847, to the effect that
there is to be no settled summer weather
in 1907, seems to be making good.
—With so many predictions as to when
the world is to come to an end goiug the
round there will sarely be some bitter dis-
appointments it GABRIEL doesn’t get his
horn tuned up soon.
—The weather man has predicted ‘‘lair
and warmer'’ weather for the past three
days, but we have long since discovered
that be is one of the wise men}jwho} has a
few things to learn yet.
~The Carnegie Iustitute has rejected
the famous picture ‘‘The Bath.” In juos-
tice to Pittsburg let it be known that it
wasn’t so much the enbject as its treatment
that caused its rejection.
—The soldiers pension bill might not
have been vetoed had there not been so
many five hundred dollars cuspidors, high
priced thermoatats] and putty mahogany
fixins in the new capitol.
—WirLiaM D. TroMAs, of New York,
says bachelors ought to be heavily taxed
and if they remain obdarate should be ex-
terminated. This proposition should make
some of the lonely gentlemen we know of
in Bellefonte sit up and take notice.
—The Mabauoy City school hoard has
issued an edict against echool teachers mar-
rying during the school term. It is good
the law hasn't fixed the school term at
twelve months, else Mabanoy City might
bave some trouble teaching the youug idea
how to shoot.
—The oldest dog in the State of Maine
is one thirty-two years old owned by C. E.
Freeman, of Norway. Aocccording to the
Philadelphia North American, Mayor
REYBURN has a few in his city kennels
that look as if they wonld make this Maine
canine look like a mere pup by compari.
son.
— Attorney General JACKSON, of New
York, having decided that the oyster is a
“wild animal,” the public will generally
begin to inquire as to what makes it wild.
There is a story about the wildness of the
wild cat that might answer those really in-
terested in knowing becaunae it suits the
oyster’s case exactly.
—Orders are to be sent out from the
Treasury Department calling in the pres-
ent issue of ten thousand dollar bills,
They are to be cancelled. We give this
matter publicity so that none of our read-
ers will be caught with any of these small
Williams on their persons after they have
been declared no good.
—The President is, after all, more of a
politician than a statesman. All his bluff
and bluster about HARRIMAN'S illegal
railroad combinations bas gone to navght
in the face of party disaster at the ap-
proaching presidential election. Back-
tracking of this sort makes the President
little more than a blatherskite.
—A man who has refused to givea
promised five thousand dollars to a western
college because members of its faculty
sneer at the story of the whale swallowing
Joxam. Itisalame excuse and the doubt-
ing professors will probably turn it into ar-
guments for their theory by insisting that
it it was as hard for the whale to cough up
JONAH as itis for the gentleman to cough
up the five there is room for argument.
—In vetoing the soldier’s pension hill
Governor STUART bas put himself on a
plane of statesmanship seldom attained by
the executives of this State. I! he were
more of a politician he would not have ve-
toed it. Whatever criticism may be made
of the aot it cannot be charged that he did
it from any other than the best motives. If
anybody is to blame for the defeat of the
bill it is Senator PENROSE whose Senate
failed to provide sufficient revenue to meet
its requirements.
YO
The Republican Platform.
The insincerity of political platforms bas
long been proverbial and ever since QUAY
became the political boss of the Republican
party of Pennsylvania the platforms of its
State conventions have been notable for
their want of candor and honesty. The
platform adopted by the convention which
met in Harrisburg last week was vo ex-
ception to that bad rule. From beginning
toend itis a tissue of false pretenses.
Begiuning with falsebood that the Senators
and Representatives of that party in Con-
gress for this State ‘‘have been in sympa-
thetic accord’’ with RoosEVELT and ending
with the lie that the thoroughness with
which the capitol investigation has been
made ‘‘is commended,’ it is a humbug and
fraud.
Nothing could he much more absard than
the endorsement of ROOSEVELT and the
springing of a candidate as his successor in
opposition to his declared wishes. His
bitterest enemy could have given him no
greater offense. Bat in the asservation
that the Republican party has given the
State legislation providing for ‘‘personal |
registration ; uniform primaries ; probibi-
tion of traffic in state deposits ; abolition of
fees in all state offices ; public accounting
of political expenses of candidates and com-
mittees ; prohibition of corrupt use of
money in polities ; senatorial and repre-
sentative reapportionment ; two cent rail-
road fares; [reight privileges and eminent
domain for trolleys ; a state railroad com-
mission,’’ and other reforms, the limit of
absurdity bas been reached.
Every one of those measures was forced
on the Republican party. For nearly ten
years Kepresentative CREASY bas been
striving for most of the measures and the
Republican leaders in and out of the Legis
lature laughed at his disappointment when
the bills were stifled year after year. With
characteristic canning PENNYPACKER
recommended the bills at a special session
because with a perspicacity not possessed
by his colleagues in the orgrnization he
saw that unless the Republicans made a
pretense of reforms the people would elect
a Democratio Legislature which would en-
act real reform mensures. The legislation
was not conceived in the interest of the
people. It was intended to save the ma-
ohine from complete destruction.
The platform of the Republican party is
therefore not only false in its declarations
but it is actually dishonest in its purposes.
It aims to deceive the people. A conven-
tion which re-elected WESLEY ANDREWS,
one of the looters of the Enterprise bank
of Allegheny, to the chairmanship of the
campaign committee could not bave been
influenced by honest impulses. A conveun-
tion presided over by former Speaker WAL-
TON could not bave had just purposes in
mind. The truth is that it was the old
machine in a new disguise and its purposes
were to recover the lost power and resume
‘the traffic in the state deposits."’
Roosevelt's Change of Mind.
President ROOSEVELT has relented of hie
purpose to prosecute Mr. E. H. HARRIMAN
for his stock jobbing operations and otber
violations of the laws governing corpora-
tions. There has been no diminution of
public interest in the subject and the evi-
dence against Mr. HARRIMAN bas increas.
ed in strength. Mr. HARRIMAN bas not
changed his character as a citizen, either,
since the President denounced him as ‘‘un-
desirable,” and we have heard of no altera-
tion in his habits of life and methods of
business. But the President has covcluded
to abandon the scheme to prosecate Mr.
HARRIMAN, anyway, and it is intimated
that all suits against trusts may be aban-
doned.
Of course the reasons which have in-
fluenced this radical chaoge of plans in
Washington can only be conjectured. The
friends of the President allege that consid-
eration for the business interests of the
country was the moving cause and they
are probably inspired to that expression
from the White House. But that is hardly
a plausible notion. President RoOSEVELT
never allows consideration for business in-
terests to interfere with his political paur-
poses. The story which comes from anoth-
er direction, that his anxiety to defeat the
aspirations of Senator KNOX acconnt for
the change, is far more probable. Kxox
is a real candidate, not a third term mask,
anid ROOSEVELT wants to head him off at
once.
It is hardly worth while to consider a
third theory which is to the effect that Mr.
HARRIMAN has worked the presidential
office just as he 13 said to have boasted thas
he inflaences Legislatures, Congress and
even the courts. It will be remembered
that in his letter in which HARRIMAN was
denounced as ‘‘an undesirable citizen,’ the
President stated that HARRIMAN bad
alleged that he could boy whatever he
wanted from Legislatures, Congress and
the courts. It has been intimated that the
stock jobber may hinve enlarged his “sphere
of influence,’ and taken in the executive.
But we put no faith in such an insinuation.
He feashed ROOSEVELT by some other ap-
proach.
Pennypacker and the Frauds.
The newspapers of the State show a sus-
picions anxiety to excnipate Governor
PENXNYPACKER from blame in connection
with the graft operations in the construc-
tion of the capitol. They would have the
public believe that he was imposed upon in
some mysterinos way and beguiled into the
participation in the crimes. We can see
no reason for such au opinion. It ia possi-
ble that he received no part of the loot.
Al! obligations are not discharged in the
same kind of carrency. In the early his-
tory of Pennsylvania vast tracts of laud
were purchased with trifles which took the
fancies of the Indians. PENNYPACKER
was satisfied with flattery and promises of
futare party favors and betrayed the peo-
ple for such substantial remuneration.
But he was guilty in the fall sense of the
word. He knew the treasury was being
robbed and assented to the crime for the
reason that he imagined political advan-
tage would accrue to himself. HustoN
and SANDERSON and CASSELL wanted cash
while he wanted flattery and office. Each
thought he was getting what he desired
and if WiLLiAM H. BERRY bad not been
elected State Treasurer in 1905 their ex-
pectations would have been falfilled. In
other words if the frands had not been ex-
posed the architect and favored contractors
would have acquired wealth almost beyond
the dreams of avarice and PENNYPACKER
would have ended his evil life on the Su-
preme bench where for years he would
have been exchanging judicial decisions for
undeserved compliments.
That PENNYPACKER knew that wrongs
were being perpetrated is made plain by
bis actions immediately following the ex-
posures. While others concerned were
panio stricken he simply summoned cour-
age and cunniog to deny and explain. It
was he who wrote the plea in avoidance
signed by himsell aud Anditor General
SNYDER and organized the penny-a-mile
exdursions to fool the people. But for those
things the machine ticket would bave been
defeated last fall and some of the conspir-
ators would already be serving sentences in
the penitentiary. A wan with sufficient
cunning to devise and carry out such a
scheme is no “Simple Simon,” and if
PENNYPACKER doesn't go to the peniten-
tiary it will be because of a flagrant mis-
carriage ol justice.
Bogus Reformer Golng Buck.
It is not altogether surprising that some
of the so-called Independent Republicans
of Philadelphia are expressing their pur-
pose to vote for the Republican candidate
for State Treasurer. They were never
sincerely in favor of improvement in party
morals and official methods. They were
aspirants for office and because the machine
wouldn't gratify their ambitions they were
willing to overthrow the machine on one
condition. The condition was that the
successors of the machine in power would
give them the favors which the machine
refused. The disappointment of this ex-
pectation turned them back to the wachine
and they espouse SHEATZ hecause be is of
their type.
Every one of these pretended reformers
knows that the election of Mr. SHEATZ
will completely restore the old condition of
affairs in Pennsylvania. His reputation
for integrity is no better than that of Judge
PENNYPACKER was before his election to
the office which he defiled and disgraced.
Former Attorney General Haympron L.
CARSON was a conspicuous and courageous
reformer before he went to Harrisburg.
But yielding to the beguiling influences
of the ‘‘suave gentlemen in the other De-
partments,’’ to borrow a phrase from State
Treasurer BERRY, he became as servile an
instrament of the machine as DURHAM or
MARTIN or any of the corrupsionists who
have loot:d the treasury.
Genuine reformers will not support Mr.
BHEATZ any more than they would support
MATTHUES or HARRIS. Daring the session
of the Legislature recently ended, he serv-
ed the machine as effectively as any of his
predecessors in the chairmanship of the
Appropriations committee could bave done.
During the sessions of 1903 and 1905 he
was somewhat independent but that was
probably because he was offered no induace-
ments to be otherwise. At thejjbeginning
of the session of 1907, however, he was
ready and willing to make terms with the
bosses and agree to their plaus and pur-
poses. His nomination for State Treasurer
is not a reward for his independence then.
It is recompense for his servility this year.
The Pruner Orphanage Again.
Messsra Tobin, Hoffmen and Orr, the three
men composing the committee appointed
by the Tyrone borough council to visit
Bellefonte in the interest of the E. J.
Pruner bequest for the establishment of
an orphanage in this place for friendless
children, visited Bellefonte last Friday and
met five members of the Bellefonte council.
The Pruner will so far as it relates to the
bequest was carefully gone over as well as
carefal inquiry made into the condition of
the estate left for the above purpose,and es-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 14, 1907.
NO. 24.
pecially what assured income could be ex-
pected {rom the same. The committee was
also taken to the Pruner bome on Logan
street which was left as the building for
the orphanage. No formal action was
taken but the visiting committee requested
the borough council to appoint a commit-
tee to go to Tyrone and confer with them
80 they could formulate some plan of action
prior to the next meeting of the Tyrone
council. The Bellefonte committee will
likely be appointed at the regular meeting
of council next Monday evening.
Income and Other Taxes.
President RoosEVELT amplified some of
his policies in a speech addressed to the
National Editorial association at the James-
town exposition, the other day, and sup-
plemented them. That is, he announced
his conversion to the Democratic doctrine
of taxing incomes and the Populist heresy
of putting a federal tax on inheritances.
At the suggestion of a Democratic Presi-
dent the Democratic Congress of 18504 leg-
islated an income tax into the revenue sys-
tem of the country and the Republican ma-
jority in the Supreme court declared it un-
constitutional, the two Demooratic mem-
bers of the court dissenting. The Demo-
cratic party has always favored a State tax
on inheritances.
As a matter of fact, however, there is
less need for new subjects of taxation than
there is for equalizing taxes. ROOSEVELT
wants additional revenues aud he doesn’t
care much where the money comes from.
His object is not to lessen the burdens of
the people bat to insrease the profligacy in
expenditures. More battleships, bigger
armies, more elaborate display of prowess
on land and sea are what be yearns for.
No income tax is better than greater prof-
ligacy, just and equitable as an income tax
is. Therefore, we are unable to go along
with RoosevELT on his proposition to in-
crease the taxes without decreasing the
burdens of the people. We are opposed to
taxing anything jast for the purpose of
making the tax-payers wince.
If Mr. RooseveLr will couple the re-
duction of tariff taxes with his proposition
to {ix incomes we are ready to join in his
demand. It is estimated thata moderate
income tax, such as that in force in Eng-
land, would yield a revenue of about one
bundred million of dollars annually. That
tax would come from those who could well
afford to pay and would entail little dis-
tress. Suppose, then, that the tariff tax
on woolens and other necessaries of life, to
that aggregate, be abolished. There would
be no change in the total amount of the
revenues but a vast difference in the baor-
dens of taxation while an economical ad-
mivistration of the government would
leave an ample balance in the treasury al-
ways.
Roosevelt, Knox and the Machine.
In presenting Senator KNOX to the coun-
try as a candidate for the Presidency next
year, it may be said that the first overt act
in the war against ROOSEVELT was com-
mitted. It is utterly absurd to pretend
that the PENROSE machine was moved hy
admiration for Senator KNOX to the course
it had adopted. To hold that the managers
of that ‘‘criminal conspiracy masquerading
as the Republican party’’ were inflaenced
by gratitude for services rendered to the
country or the party is equally preposter-
ous. The alternative is, therefore, that
enmity toward the President and opposition
to hus policies and ambitions bave found
expression in that form.
For a long time the managers of the
PENROSE machine have entertained the
most intense hatred of President Roosk-
VELT. In a moment of exaltation over his
own surprising and unfortunate victory,
some time ago, Mayor REYBURN, of Phila-
delphia, denounced him as a meddler and
mischief-maker. His appointment of
ELIHU Roor to the office of premier in his
cabinet added force and effect to that gen-
tleman’s malediction on the machine and
more than anything else created the public
sentiment which compassed the election of
Mr. BERRY to the office of State Treaeurer,
which was in fact the beginning of the
machine troubles. Bat for that the machine
would still be in control of all depart-
ments of the State government and the
looting still in progress.
No thoughtlul man bas ever believed
that Judge TAFT is other than a make-be-
lieve candidate for President. Every in-
telligent observer is convinced that his
candidacy is in the interest of
ROOSEVELT'S expectation of another
election and that a seat on the Sa-
preme bench as Chief Justice is to be his
reward for the sinister service. In bring-
ing out Senator KNOX as a candidate, the
PENROSE machine has given the opponents
of RoosevELT all over the country a tangi-
ble nucleus upon which to construct a real
and forceful opposition. Before a month
has paesed, it is safe to predict, the cor-
poration interests of the whole country
will he behind the KNOX candidacy.
-—Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN,
Another Somersanit.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The Ba) al sbrapt I whieh jhe
president ein 0 regar
to the Surpass 4 non Yitisials A Who Sxte been
managing their corporations at their sweet
will, is eminently characteristic of that
eminent plisisal aeivbat, who bas found it
very agreeable to receive popular use
for his fierce assault upon these hy
whose conduct he has cansed to he inquired
into and refortel upon, and, having the
Sepotty, decides to order no | action
taken against them, nothwi ing
the counsel who have conducted the in-
quiry are understood to have that
the rascals can be sent to jail. And the
blic bave concluded that if they cannot
there is something very m amiss
with the law. Though the public has not
been permitted to read the report made to
the president, it has made up its mind
from what it bas heard of the general feat.
ures of the case that if these men cannot
be punished, the law is surely not made
for the rich.
The president has taken his back somer-
saults alter his conference with his cabinet,
which he larly consults upon these oo-
casions, when he has a reverse curve to
consider; when he seesa st t course
ahead, he plunges into it wi t any
such ceremony. This cabinet serve: as a
cushion for his reversing jomps.
The situation confounding him as pres-
ony as $hix: He has been rouning free
with the popular ovement against corpo-
ration directors ; the election is coming ou,
when the parties must be aligned ; his par-
ty has been the get-rich-quick party ; and
he finds that be must hang on to it, since
the Democratic party cannot be ousted
from its important position as the party
hostile to moncpoly and favoritism.
He found that it would be necessary to
take a reef in his anti-monopoly sails and
to call off his dogs of war from the corpo-
ration officials, who have been feathering
their nests at the cost of the corporations
and the people ; lest these men in des-
perate straits would turn their millions
against him.
It may be a prudent and politically wise
backdown, but a retreat it surely is, of the
sort of which this gay deceiver in political
acrobatics bas given so many examples, as
to entitle us to label it as itated,
and to conceive that he has never intend.
ed to hurt anyone.
The excuse given for this stoppage of the
wheels of justice is that the people must
not be further excited against the public
thieves ; as though their proper $ pusia ment
would worry them. The fact ly being
that the way to quiet the public mind is to
and so give |
punish the great wrong doers, .
assurance that our institutions are safe and
sury courts of injustice their reliable de-
enders.
Get Their Reward.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Governor Stuart yesterday vetoed four
bills which were greatly desired by the an-
thracite mine workers of the State. These
limited the day's work of hoisting engineers
employed about aotbracite mines, made it
anlawfal to employ about such mines per-
sons without employment certificates issued
upon the possession of certain qualifications;
required that no child under 16 years
should be employed in such mines for more
than sight hours a day, and made it unlaw.
ful to place any miner in charge of more
than one breast, chamber or working face
in this class of mines.
The reasons given by the governor were
in effect that the bills as drawn applied
only to a portion of the workers engaged in
coal mining io this State, and that there
shonld be no discrimination in their favor
as against others. The bills might have
been drawn in such a way as to have obvi-
ated this objection, and have been sent to
the governor by the Legislature ina form
to which he could not have taken exocep-
tion. This was not done, however, and so
the anthracite coal barons will not bave
the restrictions imposed upon them which
the miners desired.
No doubt the anthracite miners will be
very indignant because of the governor's
action, ey should vot, however, vent
all their wrath upon bim, bat should be-
stow a part of it opon the leaders of the
Legislature whose action gave him the ex-
case for his vetoes. They should also pri-
marily hold themselves responsible for this
latest disappointment of their desires. Two
years ago the anthracite miners rolled up
a large majority for William H. Berry, as
a protest against the manner in which they
had been treated by the Republican leaders.
Last year, however, very many of them
who had voted for Mr. Berry were induced
to again put faith in the promises of the
Republican machine. As a result they
gave their support to the Republican State
Saker and elected is. Now they bave their
re .
Pension Bill Vetoed.
From the Altoona Times.
Governor Stuart, in vetoing the veter-
an's pension bill by the recent legis-
lature, bas fulfilled general expectations.
In spite of the sentiment that existed fa-
vorable to it, and which was echoed per-
sonally by Governor Stua:t, the reason as-
signed for his action he regarded as an in-
sarmountable obstacle in the way of its
enforcement.
There will be considerable disappoint-
ment over the governor's veto, he will
come in fora share of censure, which he
does not merit. Criticism belongs to the
legislature which enacted a measure car-
rying a large ropriation without pro-
viding scarces from which the necessary
a be derived. sh tis
e ture was playing pol
when it the measure, and it left
Governor to bear the blame for its
ultimate defeat. There is no question that
he is consaientious in his action and would
have readily approved the measure had he
been convi that the state was able to
bear the strain upon its resources.
In some parts of Centre county farm-
ers are at work replanting their corn, the
first planting baving rotted in the ground.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The Reading grocers have the early
closing habit and in addition will take each
Wednesday afternoon off during the summer
season.
—Towanda is in darkness because the town
council says $60 per lamp for arc lights is too
much, and the electric lighting company will
not furnish the light for less,
—Burglars ransacked the residence of Mr,
John McDonough, of Carnegie, near Pitts~
burg, early on Sunday morning and after
securing $24 in cash they made coffee and ate
breakfast before leaving,
~The product of furnace No. 2, at Saxton,
during the month of May was 4,214 tons. All
the tenement houses in connection with the
property have been occupied for some time
and eight more are being erected.
—Four big black bears are keeping the
rural carriers in alarm in the western part of
Montour county. They seem much inter-
ested in the contents of the mail boxes and
in some instances have boken the same open.
—The Philipsburg police force is engaged
in the very laudable, but certainly very un.
pleasant business of running in stray cows
which are running over the streets of that
place. Iu other words the police are enfore~
ing the ordinance.
—A mining company was organized at
Shamokin on Saturday to develop Irish val-
ley, gold having been found there by several
farmers in quantities that will realize about
$36 per ton, according to the analysis of a
Philadelphia assayer,
~The body of Gertrude Rupp, of Carlisle,
was found on Saturday morning in Con-
ondoguinet creek by Irvin McCord, a boat-
man. She had left home early on Friday
evening and is supposed to have committed
suicide in a fit of despondency.
—A large barn on the farm of Hariison
Wheeland, near Williamsport, was literally
blown to pieces by a violent wind storm
which struck that part of Lycoming county
on Tuesday of last week. His dwelling house
was also badly damaged by the same storm.
—Determined to kill himself, Clarence St.
Claire drove the entire family from the house
at Allen's Mille, Clearfield county, locked
the doors, and proceeded to cut his throat
with a razor while members of the family
were endeavoring to regain admittance to
prevent him.
—By order of President Roosevelt, First
Lieutenant Edgar 8S. Stayer, of the Twenty-
third United States infantry, and ason of
Dr. A. 8. Stayer, of Altoona, has been de-
tached from the regular service and assigned
to the position of professor of military science
and tactics at Delaware college, Newark,
Del.
—The Cambria county grand jury has
recommended the building of a county hos-
pital for the insane. This is a recommen-
dation which has frequently been made by
similar bodies in that county, but in the
present instance it iv said the commissioners
arc considering the matter and are having
estimates made.
—Sixteen gold watches, about twenty rings
and $23 in cash were stolen from the store
(of I. J. Allen, Williamsport, last Friday
morning. Twelve dollars in cash were also
taken from the money drawer of the Stra-
burger liquor store, the sane morning. The
robberies were committed while a circus
parade was going over the streets of the city.
—The fifty-first session of the Pennsylvania
State Educational association will be held at
Greenshurg, Westmoreland county, July 2nd,
3rd aud 4th, 1907. Greensburg is one of the
most attractive and most progressive towns
in Pennsylvania. It is thirty-one miles east
of Pittsburg on the main line of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. Special efforts have been
made to present a program of great worth.
—Charles Robinson, of Patton, aged 18
years, on Thursday waived a hearing and
entered bail in the sum of $300 for his ap-
pearance at court to answer to the charge of
manslaughter brought against him by Joseph
Tollman. Robiuson was out riding on horse.
back when he ran down a small child be-
longing to Tollman, the child dying of its
injuries the same evening. Spectators say
that it was purely accidental.
—David A. Miiler, of Greensburg, at the
recent primary elections was pominated by
both parties as a candidate for register and
recorder through a bit of party neglect. He
was a candidate for nomination on the Re.
publican ticket and won. The Democrats
failed to put up a candidate and sixteen
friends of Miller wrote his name in the
Democratic column. He had no opposition
and is, therefore, the nominee of both
parties.
—The Rev. Dr. D. K. Freeman, pastor of
the Presbyterian church of Huntingdon, died
at that place Monday morning. He had not
been in robust health for some months, but
no immediate fatal termination was appre.
hended until a little while before the end.
Dr. Freeman was born in Blairstown, N. J,,
76 years ago and bad been pastor of the
Presbyterian church of Huntingdon for
about a quarter of a century. He was oue
of the ablest and most widely known mem.
bers of the Huntingdon presbytery.
—It will be remembered that some time
ago constable David Longhead, of Clearfield
county, shot and killed a man who was run-
ning away from him, after he had been ar-
rested for committing a misdemeanor. Long-
head was tried and convicted of manslaugh-
ter and the case was taken up to the State
Supreme court and the verdict was there sus-
tained. On Tuesday last Longhead appeared
at the office of the sheriff of Clearfield and
surrendered himself and he will be taken to
the penitentiary. His sentence is one year
and six months.
—The Williamsport Sun is responsible for
the following snake story : Mrs, George W,
Vernes, Mrs. J. V. Quiggle and a Miss
Edmondson, all of that city, were the three
ladies who, on Thursday of last week, went
fishing on Pine creek. Mrs. Quiggle became
tired and concluded to sit down along the
bank, which she did. She felt something
moving under her and thinking it was a
crooked stick which rolled, tried to remove
it. Imagine her surprise when instead of a
stick she found she was grasping a live
rattlesnake. Of course she screamed and the
other women came to her sid and the reptile
was dispatched, Then they went in search
of the proverbial second one, found it and
also put it out of business, The first reptile
had seventeon rattles and the second fifteen.