RTE
Demon atc
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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—RuTH bas been coming for a loug time,
but she got bere last night.
—Scientists have not been so busy find-
ing spots on the sun the Jast few days.
—1It is hot enough, dear knows, but the
political pct in Centre county hasn’t started
to boil yet.
—Old Sol is taking a good many people
‘over in a boat’’ these hot days and many
of the unfortunates will never get back.
—New York bas organized a society for
the spread of good manners ; the base ball
grounds in that city being immune, of
course.
—0ld Sol. will probable give the citizen
goldiers at Tipton about as hot an engage-
ment as they will care to participate in for
some time.
—The Hon. GROVER CLEVELAND basn’t
been heard from for so long that it is high
time for him to propound some ponderous
philosophy for public perusal.
—The Hague committee has voted in
favor of the inviolability of private prop-
erty at sea. Of course votes don’t count
much in war times when bullets are fly-
ing.
—Ope million dollars tumbled over in
the mint a day or so ago and an employee
who was near suffered a broken leg as a re-
sult of the wad bistiog bim. Now if “‘mo-
ney talks” why didn’t it tell him to get
out of the way.
—In some counties it is said that the
rabbit produces seven families in a year.
How'd you like to be a rabbit. Seems to
us this even under sach a strain it would
be pleasanter being a rabbit than a camel
and gofvg nine days without drink.
—The Elks are having a great time in
Philadelphia. Everything is wide open,
the city is frolic mad and the Elk with
the biggest horn has turned out to bea
Pennsylvanian-—at least JOHN K. TENER,
of Charleroi, was elected grand exalted
ruler.
~There is trouble in Chicago where a
woman can't get ber piano out of an apart-
ment honse because the hall ways are all
too narrow. Now the thing to be explain-
ed is whether the piano was put in before
the house was built or whether it was ove
of those swell front effects that kept on
swelling.
—Col. WATTERSON'S dark horse for the
Presidency has turned out to he Governor
Jon ssoN, of Minnesota, an able man and
an ardent Democrat ; twice elected Gover-
nor of a Republican State. The Colonel
certainly has bis horse at the wire early
enough. The only concern he need bave
now is the danger of his being left there.
—Mr. EDWARD H. HARRIMAN, railroad
president and financier, may be as rascally
as he is painted and, perhaps, the Presi.
dent has cause for giving him a card to the
Ananias club, but with all that he seems
to bave brains erough to keep abont as
many of the wise men of the country guess-
ing at the same time as any other character
who bas been before the public in years.
—It isa fact worthy of sober thought
that within a week after that factory in-
spector visited Bellefonte and ordered fire
escapes put on so many buildings that do
not need them a representative of a fire
escape manufactory appeared to offer bis
services. In these days of queer doings in
Pennsylvania such a prompt transition
from cause to effect excites the suspicion
of even credulous people.
—Col. WARREN WORTH BAILEY’S
Johnstown Democrat is fighting the plas.
form of the party in the State becanse it
isn’t spiked down with all of his theoretical
propositions. Unfortunately for the Col-
onel’s peace of mind all persons can’t be
brought to see just as be does and until his
brain becomes the lens through which all
the Democrats of the State will read their
lessons you can count ou the Democrat hav.
ing its hammer working over time.
—The men who sneer at scientists be.
cause they seldom get rich, preferring to
work away in their laboratories with the
concern for money entirely out of mind,
seldom stop to think that bere is the class
that contributes, with the artist, the edu.
cator and the preacher, more to the world’s
happiness, contentment and good than all
other agencies combined. The research
work of the scientist has cut the mortal.
ity rate in one disease alone, diphtheria,
from fifty to ten per cent.,yet who gave the
matter a moments thought during all the
long, weary, solitary hours of patient ex-
perimentation when the diphtheria germ
was being sought for and the toxin to kill
it being compounded.
—The election of Senator GEORGE
DIMELING to the position of chairman of
the Democratic state central committee
will be most reassuring to the party in the
State and the country Democracy especial-
ly. Senator DIMELING is the representa-
tive of this districtat Harrisburg and is
one of the younger Democrats who bas
won his spurs by dint of brilliant vie.
tories. He is a brainy, aggressive, per-
sistent campaigner whose course is never
in doubt and whose aim is Democratic
success. For that reason he will inspire
the cooperation of all workers for reform
in the State and effect the solidarity of the
party in a most peculiar way. We con-
gratulate the party on its choice of a new
chairman.
VOL. 52
Restoring the Machine.
—
The Mayor of Philadelphia bas appoint.
ed ex-State Senator JOHN C. GRADY to the
pew and important office of Director of the
Department of Wharves, Docks and Ferries.
The office was created during the last ses-
sion of the Legislature for the purpose of
removing from the office of Harbor Mas-
tera man who imagined that be was a
servant of the people rather than a slave of
the machine. During the brief period, a
year or so ago, in which it looked as if the
conscience of Philadelphia was aroused and
active, Governor PENNYPACKER nominat-
ed Janes PoLLock for the office of Harbor
Master. He set about to reorganize the
office in the interest of the people and
aotoally converted it into an agency for
the promotion of commerce instead ofa
bureau for manufactoring fraudulent votes.
Under the apprehension that Governor
STUART might renew the commission of
Mr. POLLOCK the Legislature abolished the
office and created the new department,
conveying to the Mayor the power of se-
lecting the incumbent.
The office is one of vast power and in-
finite importance to the maritime and com-
mercial interests of the city and State. It
ought to be occupied by a man of the high-
est ability, the most unquestioned probity
aud the widest experience in business and
maritime affairs. In view of this obvious
fact public sentiment recommended Mr.
CHARLES H.CrAMP, head of the great
shipbuilding firm which bears his name,
and one or two others equally well equip-
ped for the service. But Mayor REYBURN
didn’t want that type of a man. Daring
the campaign for his election he freely and
faithfully promised to carry out the reform
policies which his predecessor Mayor
WEAVER, had inaugurated and maintain.
ed for a while. But a scurvy politician
bimself he threw off the reform mask as
soon as he was inangurated and restored
the methods of the machine. His appoint.
ment of GRADY is as bad as it could possi-
bly be. If he bad appointed prostituted
aud perjured MALONEY, PENNYPACKER'S
first choice and intimate friend, be could
have done no worse.
Joux C. GRADY served in the State Sen-
ate from 1377 until 1905, a period of
twenty-eight years. Daring that period be
acquired the reputation of being the most
conscienceless pirate who ever entered the
body. As chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations for many years he laid
every obarity in the State under tribute
to his capidity avd his predatory practices
were notorions. No man of intelligence
would trust him with an opportunity to
graft and bis constantly increasing avarice
made him so dangerous to party prosperity
that even McNicHOL and DURHAM were
compelled to ‘turn him down.” Bat he
is precisely the sort of man who suits May-
or REYBURN aud if the Republican candi-
date for State Treasurer is elected next fall
the same type of men will be called to the
public service in Harrisburg. This is pot
an imaginary picture of evil. [tis the
absolute aud actual trath. SHEATZ is pre-
cisely like REYBURN and if elected will
serve the machine with equal fidelity and
effectiveness,
Our New State Chalrman,
The Democracy of Pennsylvania is liter.
ally “putting its best [foot forward’ this
year. The unavimous nomination of JOHN
HARMAN by the recent State couveution
bas been followed by an equally wise
choice of a State Committee chairman on
Wednesday. State Senator GEORGE M.
DIMELING will make an ideal campaign
manager. He will pat into the work all
the elements which command success.
Senator DIMRLING'S political career has
been singularly brilliant. He was elected
Treasurer of Clearfield: county, in which be
was born and bred, at a very early age.
He was chairman of the Democratic conn.
ty committee when Judge ALrisox O.
SMITH carried the election by an over-
whelming majority aod that result was
largely attributable to his ability as a
campaigner. His election to the State
Senate last fall was a proof alike to his
personal popularity and skill in manage’
ment. His nomination, at the close of hie
first session, as the candidate of his party
for president pro tem. of the body wasa
compliment as rare as it was well bestowed.
It is seldom that such a distinction is con-
ferred on a new Senator.
The selection of Senator DIMELING to
the chairmanship of the State commttiee,
therefore, was an expression of the highest
measure of political wisdom and sagacity.
It will inspire contidence alike in the To.
tegrity and the capability of the organiza-
tion. It is potice to the public that the
party has been restored to a condition of
sanity and sipecerity. Chairmau DiMe-
LING will neither default nor blunder. If
the party fails of victory it won't be his
fault.
—In one baul several nights ago two
Bellefonte fishermen caught 103 eels up
Spring creek which weighed one hundred
pounds.
rere
A Mistaken Contemporary.
The esteemed Johnstown Democrat ig do-
ing its best,and to some extent succeeding,
in an effort to organize a general attack on
the Democratic platform adopted by the
recent state convention. Of course Mr.
BAILEY, the able and erudite editor of
our esteemed Johnstown contemporary,
understands that there is nothing to be
gained by creating a controversy on that
subject at this time and probably realizes
that it will be impossible to enlist any
Democratic newspapers on either side of
sach a quarrel. Bot Mr. BAILEY so
yearns for notoriety that he is willing to
sacrifice the interests of the party to which
be professes allegiance in order to secure
for himself and his paper the faint praise
of public notice even at the hands ofa
traditional enemy.
Mr. BAILEY, who is always choking on
gnats and swallowing camels, bas managed
to pick up a grievance against the Demo-
cratic platform because it contains the
statement that *‘by wise legislation, rigidly
and impartially enforced against such
combinations, (the trusts,) their evil ten-
dencies can he prevented without needless
destruction to the capital upon which
labor must depend for employment and
compensation.’’ Obviously the purpose of
the author of that sentence was to show
that capital and lahorare mutually beoe-
fisted by co-operation and not that either
would cease to exist if the help of the
other were withdrawn. Bat Mr. BAILEY
for the purpose of making mischiel and
getting the notice of Republican papers
misinterprets it absolutely if not malicions-
iy.
The Democratic platform adopted at the
Harrisburg convention of June 27 declares
unequivocally and emphatically ‘‘the
dominant issue before the people of this
Commonwealth to be whether dishonesty
in pablic places shall cease or be continued;
whether graft shall be sustained or re-
buked.!’ As that is the actual issue and
the only question that can be (fully and
finally determined by the votes of the
people in the coming election, it seems to
ns that hair-splitting upon the interpreta-
tion of non-essentials in the platform is
worse than folly.
esteemed Democrat more or less conspicu-
cus mention in the Philadelphia Press and
other organs of the machine but it won't
promote the settlement of the dominant
question on the right side.
Sheatz and the Pension Bill
The fool friends of JouN O. SHEATZ who
tried to make him appear a friend of the
soldiers’ pension bill during the recent ses-
sion of the Legislature, bave performed a
poor service to him. They bave simply
called public attention to bis insincerity in
that matter and his dishonesty in other
things.
As a matter of fact the moment the pen-
sion bill passed the State Sevate Mr.
SHEATZ began scheming to defeat it. He
used every conceivable expedient to create
publicsentiment against it. He misrepre-
sented the amount of money which would
be required to give it force and effect with
the idea of getting it stifled in committee
aod failing in that proceeded to ‘‘over-
load’ it, as Mr. W. HAYES GRIER, of Co-
lambia expresses it.
In opposing the soldiers’ pension bill,
moreover, Mr. SHEATZ was not influenced
by the apprehension that proper state
charitable institutions would suffer in the
event that it was enacted into law. His
anxiety was not for snch concerns. What
he wanted to make sare of was the uncon-
stitational appropriations for local and in
most cases private charitable enterprises in
Philadelphia. He knew that his personal
popularity depended upon the liberality of
his committee to such institutions.
There is an old adge which runs, ‘‘least
said, soonest mended.” It Mr. SHEATZ'S
tool friends had not nodertaken to misrep-
resent his record on that subject it might
have escaped the scrutiny whieh is certain
to reveal him as the active enemy of the
veterans of the Civil war. The ranks of
those heroes are thinning rapidly and
SHEATZ and other politicians of his kind
scarcely think it worth while to be gen-
erons where there is little prospect of party
service in return.
SHEATZ increased the appropriation for
pensions because he believed that was the
surest way to kill it. He knew there were
not sufficient revenues to pay the pensions
without cutting the private charities and he
worked for an increase of the appropriation
withouat increasing the revenues. His ac
tion bears no interpretation other than that
he wanted to kill the pension bill.
—W. H. Stonebraker, proprietor of a
pool room and cigar store at Julian, was
given a hearing before justice of the peace
J. M. Keichline, last Thursday, on the
charge of violating the act of assembly
which prohibits the loafing in pool rooms
of boys under eighteen years of age. Mrs,
Josephine Alexander was the prosecutrix.
Stonebraker appealed the case for trial in
court.
It may serve to get the
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 19, 1907.
—
Teddy Up Against It
It can bardly be said tbat the report of
the Interstate Commerce Commi-sion on
the operations of Mr. HARRIMAN with re-
spect to certain railroad mergers is a clear
interpretation of the law, but it is sale to
say that it puts President ROOSEVELT
squarely ‘‘up against’’ the alternatives of
“fishing or cutting bait.”” For three or
four years ROOSEVELT has been making
thinking people weary by bie vocilerous
denunciations of trusts and threats to
squelch them. But his talk was ‘‘sound
and fary, signilying votbing,’’ according
to the records. In other worde, he bas
neither suppressed nor seriously regu-
lated any trust in the broad land though
bis boasting has kept capital in a state of
terror all the time.
The report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission in the HARRIMAN cage will
compel him to ‘put up or shut up,’’ how-
ever. Iishows that HARRIMAN’'S opera-
tions were not only contrary to law but
inimical to public interests and leaving the
President to the choice of policies, clearly
offers to prove the worst that has been said
against the great railroad juggler. There-
fore if the President fails to compel erimi-
nal proceedings against this plutocratic
violator of the law he convicts bimsell of
an attempt to deceive the people. A Presi-
dent like any other man must make good
in this practical age or confess to the fraud-
ulent purpose which influenced bim to
the false pretense. There is no middle
ground to occupy.
The WATCHMAN is neither a prophet
nor the son of a prophet but it predicts
that ROOSEVELT will not take the step
which is necessary to a just punishment of
HARRIMAN. Not long ago he quarreled
with HARRIMAN and called him a lot of
ugly names. But it wasn’t because he had
violated the laws It was for the reason
that HARRIMAN refused to make farther
contributions of his ‘‘tainted money’ to
the corruption fund of the Republican
party. ROOSEVELT professes a high stand-
ard of morality and is as free asa ‘‘sew-
ing society’’ virago to give advice on pub-
lic morals. But he is as ready to bribe
men with public patronage or other peo-
ple - money as any other scarvy politi-
cian.
An Awspicions Campaign.
We can call to mind no political event
which aroused popular approval as spon-
taneously and enthusiastically as the nomi-
nation of JOEN G. HARMAN by the recent
Democratic State convention. From one
end of the State to the other the hope of
the party has been changed to confidence
and the indications are that without wait-
ing for the formal notification of the nomi-
nee, which has become a custom io all
parties, the active work of the campaign
will be begun at once. Every Democrat
in the State is ready and avxions for the
fray. There will be no laggards this year
anywhere.
There is nothing surprising in this con-
dition of affairs, however. The candidate
is the sort of man to inspire enthusiasm.
Youug, ardent, able and earnest he will
himself pluuge into the contest with the
vigor which commands success. Gifted
with all the elements which attract popu-
lar admiration be will go to the -people
directly and lexd them to victory. No
other man in the State is vo well equipped
for such a campaign. Sach substantial and
convincing arguments could be offered in
support of no other citizen. His record is
the embodiment of all the issues of the
campaign. He has worked for the highest
standards of political morality and will
accept no other.
In the Legislature 3r. HARMAN was the
tireless, capable and energetic champion of
reform. Happily his antagonist in the
contest bas a record, also, which may be
used for comparison. But while he was
occasionally right, Mr. HARMAN was al-
ways to be depended upon. He waited
for the assent of no man to align himself
on the side of the people. Mr. SHEATZ,
on the other hand, was not a free agent.
Even when he introduced the personal
registration law he made an apology. ‘‘By
request,”’ he appended to the measure,
which was equivalent to a declaration that
be had no interest in it.
~— A former Bellefonter who has been
here this week on a visit said to the writer
the other evening : ‘What in the world
does the borough council mean to allow
that miserahle pavement to remain in front
of the soldiers’ monument. Why don’t
they put down a ball decent one, anyway,
and fix up the street in front of it.” And
come to think of is be wasn’t far wrong,
especially with regard to the street. And
speaking farther, the monument is proving
to be just what was predicted by this paper
before it was built, a loafing place,as every
evening the curb facing the diamond is
lined up with men and boys. Ol course it
don’t hurt the monument any, but then it
don’s add very much to its appearance,
either.
wo LR
NO. 28.
the Soldiers Pension.
and
How He Connived to Insure its Defeat. by the Disa-
greement of the Senate and House and Falling In
this Advised its Veto by the Governor. He Op-
posed the Increase of Revenue and Bargained with
the Machine whose Candidate He now is.
Special Correspondence:
Harrisburg, Pa., July 18, 1907.
The palpable purpose of the blican
machine is to make a SApaIgh of false pre-
tense and bluff Sheatz Shoup es a reform.
er. The Philadelphia North American bas
undertaken to this mendacious en-
terprise and will probably spare neither
pains nor price in compassing the result.
Fortunately, however, the public is nding
out the true character of that newspaper.
Under the claim of striviog for civic im.
provement it has prostitated its opportuni-
ties, perverted facts and mutilated com-
munications. The news sent by correspon-
dents is altered in the office to misrepresent
the facts and deceive the public. A pus
cation which thas outrages the eth of
journalism is unworthy of public confi-
dence.
In pursuance of this plan of false repre-
sentation the North American in a recent
issue editorially declares that Mr. John O.
Sheatz, the machine Republican candidate
for State Treasurer, ‘‘did more real, intelli-
gent work than any other man to make the
nsion bill effective.’” As a matter of
t when the pension bill came to the
House Committee of which he was Chair-
wan, he took a copy of it to Philadelphia
and employed every possible expedient to
crystalize public sentiment against its pas.
sage. He even induced ine Republi-
cans to make absurdly large estimates of
the amount of money that would be re-
quired to carry its provisions into effect
and suceeded in getting statements as high
as fifteen million dollars.
The claim that Mr. Sheatz was influenced
to increase the amount of the appropriation
from one to six million dollars by the busi-
ness instinct that the lesser sum would be
inadequate is preposterous in view of the
record of the Appropriations committee.
It made appropriations aggregating abont
$92,000,000 when the revenues under the
most favorable conditions would bardly
reach $52,000,000. In other words, in the
work of the committee of which he was
Chairman and in which he was the potent
force, there was an entire absence of busi-
ness intelligence and not even a symptom
of business instinct. The committee was
simply used as an electioneering agency to
romote the nomination of John O. Sheatz
or State Treasurer.
MR. SHEATZ AND THE PENSION BILL.
The history of the Soldier’s pension bill
aod the relations of Mr. Sheatz to that
measure may be easily and briefly som.
marized. It was introduced into the Sen-
ate by J. Henry Cochran, who may bave
nuder-estimated the amount of the appro-
priation necessary. It the Senate
without amendment or alteration and went
to the House Committee on Appropriations
of which Mr. Sheatz was chairman. Mr.
Sheatz made po public protest against it.
He probably thought that the amount
named was too small for it was his policy to
make all appropriations as big as possible.
Bat privassly be talked against it and pro-
posed the increase, not to compel the Gov-
ernor to veto it exactly, but in the expec-
tation that the Senate woun!d vot concur
and it would thus be defeated.
The bill was from the beginning a thorn
in the Republican machine flesh. ‘‘It puts
the party in a hole,’ those gralters lament-
ed, ‘but we can’t afford to defeat it.’ If
it passes, they continued, additional reve.
nues or cutting other appropriations will be
necessary. corporations didn’t want
additional taxes and nobody wanted to cut
the other Appiopeing one. he alternative
was to ‘‘load down’’ the pension hill so as
to force a disagreement between the Houses
or compel an executive veto. Mr. Sheatz
mavaged the processes. He wounld bave
preferred the disagreement method of
strangling the bill but was compelled to be
content with the veto form of execution.
Both processes were dishonest and disrepu-
table. Bat they were characteristic.
After tife adjournment of the Legislature
Mr. Sheatz came bere toconfer with the
Governor with Jespecy to cutting or killing
appropriation bills. The bungling com-
mittee had appropriation bills aggre-
gating $92,000,000 and the revenues would
scarcely reach $52,000,000. There was a
difference of $40,000,000 to be reconciled
X one method or the other. What did
r. Sheatz suggest? Did he propose tocut
down the unconstitutional and consequent.
y invalid appropriations to private institu.
tions in Philadelphia? Not on your life.
He promptly recommended the veto of the
Soldier's pension bill and tbat was done.
Therefore every veteran of the Civil war
and every friend of those veterans basa
just grievance against John O. Sheatz.
HIS RELATION TO REVENUE BILLS.
The North American, in pussuance far.
ther of its sgheme of false pretense, alleges
that Mr. Sheatz laid the fact that the reve-
pues were insufficient to meet the require.
ments of the jon bill ‘before the mem.
bers of the House and the people at large
in such a way as to create the sentiment
which impelled the introduction in the
House of measures to raise the money need-
ed to pay the pensions.’”’ That is absolute-
i and unequivocally false. Nearly all
the revenue bills were introduced by Mr.
Creasy and other Democratic Representa-
tives and were not even introda by the
pension bill. The purpose was to increase
the revenues of the State in order that
greater sams might be tarned back for
the local ases.
Most of the revenue bills which passed
the House during the recent session bad
been introduced during the sessions of 1903
aud 1905 and so far from Mr. Sheatz belp-
ing them along he voted against them.
During the session of 1907 he didn’t intro-
duce a single revenue bill, didn’t open his
mouth to speak in favor of any revenue
bill and didn’t even vote for the more im-
portant of those measures. The machine
to which he had bargained away his body
and soul was 0) to all the revenue
bills and while he maintained an attitude
of ‘masterful inactivity,’ it is sale to say
that he was against the increase of revenue
[Continued on 4th page.]
Spawls from the Keystone,
—The annual convention of the National
Postmasters’ Association will be held at Erie
on July 220d.
—By a resolution of the School Board of
Stroudsburg teachers must sign a contract
not to marry during the school term.
—James F. Dixon & Bro., of Blairsville,
bave been awarded the contract for paving a
number of streets of Greensburg. They are
required to furnish a $75,000 bond.
—The second case of small-pox within two
weeks was discovered in Oil City on Satur-
day, near the centre of the city. The patient
is Clyde Keith, a railroad conductor.
—Thirty new houses are to be erected at
Newberry, Lycoming county, by the New-
berry Improvement company. The contract
lias been awarded to Hoover & Miller, of
Williamsport.
—A band of gypsies near Franklin buried
one of their tribe in the woods after slaying
a lamb and burying it beside the body of the
dead gypsy. The grave was covered with
pottery anc vases.
—A number of farmers in Bucks county
were at work in their harvest fields on Sun.
day on the plea that they are forced to keep
at work to get their crops housed, owing to
the scarcity of help.
—William Ganoe, gon of Rev. W. V. Ga~
noe, pastor of the Methodist church, Car-
wensville, has been commissioned second
lieutenant in a regiment that will sail this
month for the Philippines. He was recently
graduated from West Point Military acade-
my.
—The Franklin county commissioners will
not, it is said, this year, enforce the new dog
law, requiring tags to be placed on the col-
lars of dogs for which tax bas been paid.
The dog tax already levied is not sufficient
to pay for the tags and the losses for sheep
killed by dogs.
—To secure timber for building the Mec-
Call's Ferry dam in the Susquehanna river
all the islands above the dam for miles are
being stripped of their trees. These islands
will be submerged when the dam is complet-
ed. Itis figured that the water will back up
as far as Safe Harbor, a distance of at least 12
miles.
—Dr. Benjamin M. Holbrook, a wealthy
and prominent physician of Coatesville,
Chester county, has been arrested on a
charge of breaking into the Pennsylvania
railroad ticket office and stealing tickets.
The authorities believe that he has commit.
ted probably one hundred robberies during
the past winter and spring.
—An old-fashioned stage still makes a
daily trip from Towanda, Bradford county,
to Rome, 10 miles away. With its cow bells
tinkling to the tune of the horses’ hoofs,
with boxes and bales piled high on the rear,
and even the top, and six or eight passengers
crowded in the seats, away it goes over the
roads, carrying its precious freight as safely
as the modern steam car. :
—In the thunder storm of Saturday night,
B. F. Grove, of Penn township, Huntingdon
county, had forty-seven sheep that were
huddled under a tree together, killed by a
single stroke of lightning. The loss was
about five hundred dollars. About two years
age two cows were killed by lightning under
the same tree and a strange coincidence of
both losses is that neither time did the tree
show any effects of the flash.
—Patrick Gilday, president of the District
No. 2, United Mine Workers, is one of the
two delegates from the organization chosen
to attend the mining congress in London, so
it bas been planned to give bim a dinner at
his home in Morrisdale, July 20th. Presi.
dent John Mitchell, Secretary and Treasurer
W. B. Wilson, the officers of District No. 2
and the prominent leaders in the miners’
union will be invited. Gilday will sail
August 1st.
~The Huntingdon trolley live, running
from the depot to Juniata College, has
rounded out the first month of operation.
With but two cars running over the line 30,~
000 persons were carried, an average of 1000
per day. The line is to be extended through
the Kishacoquillas Valley to Reedsville,
Mifflin county, and the power will be fur.
pished from electricity produced by the
water power of one of the branches of the
Juniata river.
~—Shamokin comes to the front with an
entirely original story. Two young eagles
were hatched out under a hen. Two months
ago Roman Ukleski, of Shamokin, received
from his brother in Germany two eagle's
eggs. He placed them under a hen and
awaited results, Tuesday night the eggs,
having ripened, bore forth fruit, and two
tiny little eagles are being cared for by the
proud mother hen. There will be further
doings when the lords of the air attain their
full growth.
—Charles Shuman, son of Liveryman
Mahlon Shuman, of Jersey Shore, is confined
to his home with serious illness. Last Sat-
urday a week he was out in a field of corn
and was seated on a cultivator when he fell
off, having been seized with a convulsion.
Men in the field went to his assistance and
he was taken to his home. Up until last
Friday he had seventeen convulsions in all,
and on Wednesday was stricken with paral.
ysis, His case is one which is a puzzle to the
attending physicians.
~The Lutheran Reunion of Central Penn-
syivania will be held at Lakemont Park, on
July 25th. Two programs are being arrang-
ed for this great Lutheran Day—one in the
afternoon at 2 o'clock, and the other one in
the evening at 8 o'clock. Speakers of note
and wide popularity have been secured for
the occasion. A chorus of over 100 children
under; the efficient leadership of A. E. Davis,
of Altoona, are being drilled to furnish the
music, assisted by an orchestra of 5 pieces.
A band of 24 pieces will dispense enlivening
music during the entire day.
—For many years Simon Lecrone, North
Grant street, Waynesboro, Pa., has not
missed a day in the harvest fleld and this
sammer was no exception. Although he is
eighty.seven years old be went into the
wheat field of Dairyman B. R. Barlup Satur.
day and wotwithstanding his advanced years
he swung the cradle with an ease and
strength that were typical of a man of two-
score rather than four-score and seven. Mr,
Lecrone represented the county in the Leg-
islature in the session of 1875-76 and has
been frequently honored by the people of his
section of the county by election to township
offices.