ramp cal
iy mined Amerionn will assume such
a position.
service that would have
scales of Missouri justice
men ean be 2
in the fate of CHESTER B. oni the
New York bank clerk who tried to get
away with $96,000 of the bank’s cash.
Already he is in a felon’s cell and a life
that had much promise and possibly more
of an honest fortune than the sum he tried
to steal has been wrecked.
—The visit of one of the state factory
inspectors to Bellefonte this week has re-
sulted in orders that fire escapes be placed
on fifteen buildings in this town ; some of
them so ridiculonsly unnecessary that it
looks as though the law were designed
more to swell the business of fire escape
manufacturers than auything else.
—The fact that railroad contractors in
this country excavate twice as many cubic
yards of rock and dirt in a day, with the’
same olass of diggers, as is being doue on
the Panama caual isn’t surprising at all.
The one is a government job, the others
corporation ; yet TEDDY can’t see that be
ought to set his own house in order before
he gets the ‘‘big stick’’ after others.
~The action of council in voting to ac-
cept the PRUNER orphanage in the face of
the wishes to the contrary of the majority
of the taxpayers of the town was as con-
demnahle as the act of the Burgess in ve-
toing the resolution was commendable.
Councilmen are elécted by the people to
represent the people and nct their personal
fanaticisms, petty jealousies or spites.
— ioe President FAIRBANKS is reported
as baviog dashed from the botel veranda
‘and rescued a lady from drowning in Yel-
lowstone lake on Tuesday. There is no
doubt of this story’s having been arranged
for presidential ad purposes for
the hotel is too far from the lake for even a
pair ol legs as long as the Vice President's
to cover the distance in time to save any
one who has fallen in. KxNox will bave
to get some one to steal his diamonds now.
—1f the Pennsylvania Railroad company
has actually begun a crusade against the
giggling girls and ‘“‘masher’” boys who
crowd its station platform in this place
upon the arrival of the afternoon and even-
ig trains it bas undertaken a service to
the traveling public, as well as Bellefonte
citizens, that will be greatly appreciated.
The practice has grown to such proportions
that travelers get to and from the cars only
with the greatest difficulty and ssliould be
broken up effectually.
' —Col. HAYES GRIER, of Columbia, has
fallen under the ban of the North Ameri-
s unwarranted abuse because asa val-
hold alti be be called en his com-
to vote against SHEATZ for State
because of the part he played in
defeating the eoldier’s pension bill. Col.
GRIER'S war record is better than anything
the North American can produce and his
; bis comrades will certainly bear
ight than the villilying answer of
ded more by expediency than
jepessesiative of ello Joussalisn is
Civil war as ‘comrades.’
efficient and courageous service in vattle
and bivouac conveys the privilege it is bis
undeniably. That he is the secretary of
indisputable. He bas
What Mr. GRIER said that bas so deeply
and peedlessly incensed tbiz mercenary
SHEATZ wos chairman, incrensed the | a
propriations for pensions for soldiers of
the Civil war to an aggregate beyond the
revenue resources of the State to meet. The
bill as it passed the Senate appropriated
$1,000,000 which the House Committee
increased to $5,754,375. This is a matter
of record. It may be added that Mr.
SHEATZ personally ‘‘electioneered’ the
House Committee to make the iucrease,
while be must bave known, il he
knows auything, that that was] beyond
the resources of the State. That is the
sum and substance of Mr. GRIER'S accusa-
sion and it is completely supported by the
facts. The journal of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the minutes of the Com-
mittee on Appropriations agree on the
point and confirm the statement of Mr.
GRIER.
On the other band the paper referred to
states that “it would bave been easy for
Mr. Sheatz and his colleagues to have pass-
ed along a bob-tailed measure without
providing fonds for the pensions,’ and
adds that *‘SHEATZ was urged by some of
the gangsters to do it, as that would leave
it so defective as to make an executive
veto al certain.” This assertion is
not supported by any testimony and is so
absurdly improbable that it may be dis-
missed as a deliberate falsebood. SHEATZ
vever made careful estimates of the re-
sources of the State in connection with
any pending appropriation bill. He
appeared to be anxious only that
the a tions be large for that
polioy him popular with his col-
leagues the House and created the
legislative lobby which overwhelmed the
Repub State convention and secured
his nomination, notwithetanding the best
judgment.of the party leaders was adverse
to such a result unless the country contin.
gent asked for is.
This | mendacions sheet farther
falsely states that SHEATZ busied himself
made no effort, so far as the
to pass any of the revenue bills, | to
He never opened bis wouth in support of
any of them and carefal observers of the
proceedings express doubts as to whether
he voted for some of them. The truth is
that during the session of the Legislature
he ap to have bad no purpose except
the on of his own ambitions, aud te
ashieve results he ‘‘sold bimsell
body and soul to the machine,’ to borrow
that body, The mercenary editor of the
the title of ‘boss of the Republican ma-
chine,” Has a right to support Mr. SHEATZ
in pu of bis bargain. But he bas ni
right to wialignantly assail a citizen an
soldier fof exercising
with to another candidate.
the Fifth’ Reserve amasiation is Equally te |
I fe fei 5.2 sald
Declaration of Independence needed
influences to. vitalize or im-
to support it, is bad convulsed the
o civilized world. Is aroused ‘the
rit of liberty in France almost as prompt.
: 4 guite as effectively as it stirred the
jtism of the American colonies. Even
‘the ¢ British parliament its echo was beard
its effect felt. It was the masterful
osion of the pent-up wrath of a people | 4
0 iad suffered wrongs for years, and if;
» had been no muskets to its
bor aud those who sustained bim in the
vertheless have become
liberty throughout the.
of the human mind,
the human tongue, since.
be b ‘of time has exercised as
| great an influence on the affairs of men as
* | the Declaration of Independence.
It was hardly to be
- | PExNYPACKER would
nificance of the. oul wade
ence. A man who estis
equal of CLAY and WEBSTER and is
ent in the political :
bighest type of
He is an able law-
bonorable gevsie
| that wed
ie is.. Belore 8 musket bad been | be
No pasty have made a better bom.
ination. Recently Wrtiiam H. BERRY,
the present admirable State Treasurer, | who would probably have ‘died io the |
stated that it required all the courage and | itentiary if he badn't pleaded the statute
Acterwiaania that be oonid command to | of limitation to escape just punishment for
bed Lo liatssledeet 3
ing aud axious to canonize vioe by ¢
ing & monament to the memory of] a
few alin
became im upou his induction into | es out of which that immortal instrument
the office. They exbausted every effort to | evolved. But in view of his manifest men-
induce him to ‘‘go along’ with their | tal delinquencies, not to refer to his obvi.
gohemes. He said that the election ofa
ous moral shortcomings, it i= about time
that be should be quietly dropped into the
depths of oblivion.
place in which he is so fit to abide and pro-
test that his constant appearance on public
successor of the same sound fibre is essen-
tial to complete the reforms he has be-
gun. The Democratio convention selected
such a candidate in the person of JouN G.
HarMAX. He oan neither be coerced nor
revenue bills to provide funds | ¢
the langunge of another bogus reformer in | !
untrathial North American who aspires to oy
the same privilege
occasions is an insumit to the public con-
beguiled to acquiescence in anything which | gojence.
bas not the approval of his keen and active
conscience. He abhors corruption and will
fight it incessantly aud uncompromisingly.
It was the concensas of opiuion among
the leading Democrats that legal learning
is almost as requisite as probity and cour-
e in the impending battle for civic
righteousness in Pennsylvania. JOHN G.
HARMAN is spendidly gifted in all these
essentials. Few of the lawyers of the
State stand higher in mentaland moral
equipment. No lawyer of his age is his
superior in learning and ability. He will
not only know how to trace So mption but
be will have the courage to assail If he
is elected the treasury looters will not only
be prosecuted. They will be adequately
panished.
————————
Roosevelt's Costly Ambition.
President ROOSEVELT'S latest absurd en-
terpriee may cost the country an expensive
war bas it is necessary to the fuldliment of
his political ambitions. In other words, the
proposed movement of the entire naval
force from the Atlantic to the Pacific may
provoke a declaration ot war from Japan.
Bat it will practically ‘guarantee the re-
nomination of ROOSEVELT as the Republi.
can candidate for President and he wants
to compass that result at any cost in lite
and treasure to the country. ROOSEVELT
will allow nothing to stand between him-
self and his ambitions. SHAKESPEARE'S
moss atrocious character, RICHARD III,
could have gone no farther than he is will-
ing to ventare for another term.
There is no possible exounse for the naval
templated and Sven
Stott ts Going for the Present.
According to current reports, JOHN E.
S710TT, secretary of the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings, is to be dropped
out of the public life of this State. Storr
bas been kaown for years as the ‘‘handy
man’’ of the QUAY—PENROSE machine.
He went to Harrisburg in 1834 as a mes-
senger in the Treasury. He speedily de-
veloped qualities which make a man inval-
unable to those who are operating unlawful
schemes. He was promoted rapidly, there-
fore, and at the time of the political erup-
tion which landed Hon. WiLniay H. BER-
RY into the office of State Treasurer, STOTT
held the important office of Cashier of the
Treasury and Secretary of the Board of
Pablic Grounds and Buildings.
At the time of the transfer of the office
from MATHEUS to BERRY, the most stren-
uous efforts were made to induce the in-
coming treasurer to retain Storr. Every |!
Republican of any influence appealed to
Mt. BERRY in behalf of Storr. The im-
portunities only excited suspicion, how-
ever, and Mr. BERRY determined to dismiss
him. As the reorganization of the Board
of Pablic Grounds and Buildings, a few
days later, Mr. BERRY was asked to vote
mous. He again refased, though Governor
PENNYPACKER and ‘Auditor General S¥Y-
gave him an appointment in the "Auditor
General's office, 50 as to supplement the
other place.
i Of course everybody wondered why so
‘power in this country.
say, the mischiet makers in Tokio are
Seon Tribe Doi with. ents for their
contention by the 8 wii Sita
u Orde: at Freon
tasy may phon fret on Se
ill not only aiitiobs in Siedaure bu ht
a vast number of lives and which is
to Sud igh a bumilistios if not dst”
2 8
tion. k . _- y
the wonder continued until he appeared as
a witness before the commission investi-
them | gating the capitol gratt. Then “the facts
were revealed. He knew so much and told
80 little that conjecture ran riot for a time
™ | and both the Auditor General and the Gov-
i . to admit thet his presence in
ipo is no longer tolerable. Stott
i a useful mav only to those who are en.
| gaged in intrigue and for the present, at
least, there is nothing doing in that line in
Harris ‘ The machine managers are
* | not witbont hope, however, and if the Re-
publican candidate for State Treasurer is
elected ni 1it may safely be pre
Yuh Svors, wil be restored to favor and
ut Ha
Haniel ; x
: re | a ope a oe
Fae v Desa w Agen!
{its workings. He is in touch with nove of | with a thorn. The injury was very painful,
A big gas gusher has just been |
on the ‘Addison ‘Whisner farm, five
from Clarion, which is spouting gas at |
| rate of 2,000,000 cubic feet & day.
~The government has acquired 200 deren
ined for Nukioual pick purvate 3 Suliyl
burg. The land is adjacent to
grove, in part of the first day's fight. -
| —Although in the heat of midsummer, the
city of Chester has several citizens who are
looking so far into the future as to
their candidacy for mayor next February.
‘| —The residence of William Irwin, in: Du-
Bois, was entered by thieves recently and
| robbed of $20 and the contents of a child's
bank. The silverware was not disturbed.
Bl, | The largest number of empty coal barges
® | over moored along the Pittsburg wharves
was to be seen on Sunday, when over 300,
F | representing a cost of $250,000, were clustered
an. | there.
—Extremely heavy rains have caused the
cellar of the $300,000 court house in Potts-
ville to sink three feet in some places. It is
J | feared the court house has been undermined
| for coal and may collapse. - ~ .
,| —Great damage was done to tobacco, corn Sis
I+ | and other crops in the eastern part of Lan- =
caster county, on Sunday, by a cloud burst : 4
Ihighduded every stream, deluged low- ae
: Washed, the soil away on sloping ii
fields. ye *
—Bids for the pew $100,000 Pine Street
Methodist church in Williamsport have been
| opened and tabulated, and the contract will
| likely be awarded in a few days. Work will
be pushed as rapidly as possible after the
contract is let.
—Beginning Monday an increase of twenty-
five per cent. was made in the wages of em~
ployees of the Macbeth-Evans Glass com-
pany, of Pittsburg. The advance restores
dhe the wages to what they had been prior to,
both na- January 1st, 1807.
than work. | —While Mrs, George Berk, of Yoe, York
IV wll ht he pale once and | county, waswshutting her young chickens
for all uuderted thas this talk of war is | into coops on Saturday evening a large hawk
animated bt a tawdry, venal treachery, | attacked her and badly lacerated her face
34s makes Ade with its beak and claws. It is feared she
i Seman _| will lose the sight of one eye. '
« Told * —On Saturday Harry Correll,a motorman, !
Who : The Truth. +t | aged 28 years, was suddenly stricken blind
%. | as heplaced bis bands on the power haudls,
2=% | to start a West Penn street car at Fifth ave-
te lod | BUe and Locust street, McKeesport. His £
y and sudden blindness is a mystery. ~
au of onderts —The waving of a red table cover by. a
kuowl- | wind in the parlor of the Jefferson, ‘bo
grasp of details, | Phoenixville, on Saturday so enraged a bull
by that he rushed through
nd overthrew the table and
RR
wh CE a A
é
sm sn ae LA 58
0 | that was Sort
the.
and w the Buests into a panic.
everything iu tea | -—While Mrs. Henry Horn, of York, was
organization of { which he | plucking roses a few daysago fora friend,
. He knows next to nothing of | she jagged the index fluger of her hand
ite operations. He doesn’t know an y
of ite ramifications. Even its Sapitaa
‘a matter of g aay work’ “3 Has
2
ation and later the baad began swelling, blood
iv | Re developed and on Tuesday she
concerned and n’t know what in great agony. oy
dends it has been paying. He tells this ~The commissioners of Iudiana county i
under oath. He frankly pleads the eame | have accepted the bid of the A. D. Orner
degree of igoorance of all that the Standard | Architectural and Wool Working company,
Oil company bas been doing that Penny. of DuBois, for the erection of the new county
— a —
We cau imagine no | P
packer, Soyder, Mathues and the rest
leaded in connection with the $9,000,000
capitol graft. Mr. Rockefeller bas been
innocent of any knowledge of rebating or
other illegal practices. He has known
nothing of the business or other details of
the greatest of all trusts. Yet he is the
same man who has been lauded to the
skies for more than a quarter of a century
as the financial and organizing gevius of
the age. He is the same man who has been
held up as the highest type of the sucoess-
ful man whose success has heen due to pa-
tient industry, to thrift and oconsumate
skill and knowledge. Now which view of
Mr. Rockefeller is correct? Shall we believe
the oil kiug hime)! or shall we believe
those who have made him subject to un-
stinted Lulogy?
Jail Them!
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Washington is now reported to be mov-
in against come more of the trusts, the big
trust being the head now offered to
br block. This is very well; but wesug-
gest that the people would be better pleas-
poor home, on the Allison farm near Indiana
town. The Orner bid was $121,800, being
the lowest of eight propositions made by as
many contractors.
—During the month of June there were
144 marriage licenses issued at the prothono-
tary's office in Hollidaysburg, surpassing all
previoug records. The eldest June bride
this year was 57 the youngest 16. The ma-
jority of them were in their twenties. Thus
far this year the prothonotary bas issued 507
marriage licenses.
—While Miss Florence Metherill, of
Bloomsburg, was riding on a merry-go-round,
Saturday, William Strausser threw a small
water snake at her to frighten her. She
was frightened so badly that she fell from
the machine and ianded oun her head. Sev-
eral physicians worked over her for several
hours before restoring her to consciousness.
—Last Thursday evening Peter Grifiin, of
Lock Haven, a member of the police force
of that city, dropped dead in the corridor of
the jail there. The cause of death was Leart
———
POE pic me
ed to see a. ive movement to put | disease, probably brought on by over-exer-
in jail the fasoals who have been already | tion. He had made an arrest for drunken-
uncovered than to find th Qvernment. ness and had considerable trouble in getting
for STOTT and make his election unani- |
DER kept him in the place, and SNYDER :
meagre salacy by the ‘compensation of the b
great an interest was taken in StorT, and fh
marching on to catob abr s of plun-
deters, ton, the first lot still roaming abont
thont indictment; since this raises snspi
TR the government is perbaps not
diag to_bring the scamps to justice.
is Harriman, who ought to be in
jolly over a man should be, but hin
whom the hand of 3he law seems "oe
presently e President was
on his trail, which now grows cold. Some-
thing seems to have dropped in lo slay the
energy of the prosecution. And ma we | pl
believe that the oe of “tl
the tobacco
5 Petia | bat
[¢ is s simply a com: |
manufacture
brim
It's not Bato, ju.
w makes it so.
" of there
There is no
.
wl BP
——On Wednesday R. B. Taylor seoriwe].
ed a new Kelley ten ton steam road roller |
and is now in shape to go right ahead with
the building of the new state road between
Bellefonte and Milesburg, work on which
was commenced this week.
by the state highway commissioner as in-
spector on the job.
—In jus
“one month, or
the new scalp law went into |
‘commissioners have paid | 5
ss of thirty-nine foxes,
is and ninety-eight |
Coghil hare ed as serious. nr
biners who bavs
tobacco trust
ae ie 8
red to'|
minal, save as’ al
was in the Harri- |
As the road ol
must be built within sixty days the work
will bave to be pushed quite rapidly, | leg
Samuel H. Diehl was last week appointed |
since June |
his prisoner to the jaii. Mr. Griffin was 50
i. | years old and unmarried.
—While Mrs. Horace Stiger, of Mill Hal, A
| Clinton county, was cooking dinner one day
last week, ‘a package of sulphur, which had
been lying on the shelf back of the stove, fell
down and caught fire. She picked +
burning paper up with the Iutastion of . +
throwjus it into the fire when the stu ex- 1
oded and she ‘was terribly burned about %
ne head and face. Her condition is did 1
iw go ¥ aptive “iy
Mrs. “Anna McCloy, the mother of |
A. G. Saxman, of Latrobe, is 93 years
age, and last Monday morning liad a re-
SOY iasidble experietice. She got out of bed oe
making ber way to the bath room -
gt het balance Hd’ félt down a
ty stairs. The noise of the fall
[ Mr. Siz, who went on ‘a tour
add found
i
Li E. Riley, the wil esharre fish
me warden, charged with catching
der legal size, and sentenced to
; in jail, must Berve his’ sen-
Ailes us arfested several weeks ago
aby lary on the
e Merchants’
, 130 trqut under the
ng before
for
ley
when Tg
fight
iy
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