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—Japan has tried the benevolent assim-
ilation game on Korea. Perbaps we will
be next.
—The ‘‘biggest’’ trout still has about
one more week of fun in getting away from
the eager fisherman.
—It is beginning to look as though the
Ohio Senators have taken Mr. Secretary
TAFT over in a boat.
—Our Methodist friends must be io fa-
vor again. They had a picnic on Wednes-
day and it didn’t rain.
—A KNOX marching club is said to be
in process of formation in Philadelphia. It
will come in good to accompany the re-
mains home after the Republican National
convention.
~——Obvionsly Ko0SEVELT] hopes to ac-
complish by clandestine methodsjwhat the
Socialists are advocating openly. That is
to say, the Fresident proposes to put cor-
porations into the bands of receivers and
that will bave precisely the same effect, so
far as operating them goes, as government
ownership.
—A cow owned by an Italian over at
Allentown ate up some shirt-waists and
skirts owned by an Italiac woman and the
latter has sued the owner to recover. If
they were the peek-a-boo shirt-waists =o
much worn that old critter will certainly
be the belle-cow in the Allentown barn
yard.
—Do you want to buy a pig in a poke
cheap. It might be worth some money
and it might not. We are of the not opia-
ion, but the fact that yon can make your
own price recommends it. If interested
see the advertising columns of this paper
for a $123.46 proposition that looks like
tairty cents in stage money.
—At the rate it maintained during Elk
week in Philadelphia the North American
will bave the *'N. A. building’ so fall of
hot air tat by the time the next conven-
tion is held in that city they will need no
air ship to fly about the city ball tower.
The *‘N. A. building’’ will do it ; provided
they ever get a rudder on it to make is
dirigible.
—There seem to be a few things that the
Governor of North Carolina wont stand for
aud one of them is the attempt of the fed-
eral anthorities to set aside the state laws
and run it to suit Washington. We are
with Governor GLENN in his stand and
hope he will be able to give the meddle-
some statesmen about the White House the
rebuke they need.
—Rabbi HIRsCcHBERG, of Milwaukee,
needs a talking to. He says ROOSEVELT
is like Moses, the great Jewish lawgiver.
Just what similarity he finds in the two
characters is hard to conjecture, unless it is
that ROOSEVELT bas been tryizg to lead
the American people into colonial acquisi-
tions that are anything bat ‘“‘promized
lands’ flowing with milk and honey.
—Thanks to Judge PRITCHARD. His
anxiety to march at the head of the Presi-
dent Imperial followers has brought the
whole force up against a snag that is like-
ly to stop the entire procession for an in-
definite time. Explanations and denials
from ROOSEVELT will now be in order, and
the country can look for an executive wind
storm that will out-doa western cyclone.
—The Japs, ever cunning, have decided
to get into politics in California in order to
protect their interests. As they represent a
very large factor in the voting strength of
that State they will surely be able to find
some party todeal with them. It won't
take them long to find ont how much more
efficient are ballots than bullets when cor-
rupt political organizations are ready to
trade in them.
-=Dr. Moritz, of the University olf
Washington, believes that Mars is peopled
by a class more advasced in civilization
than we are. Professor DOOLITTLE, of the
University of Pennsylvania, says it is ‘‘sen-
sational astronomy’’ and -there is nothing
to it. Meanwhile the public goes on about
its business, occasionally wondering wheth-
er, it Mars is peopled, there are any as
great men as HUsTON and SANDERSON up
there.
—The psychological clinic of the Uni.
versity of Pennsylvania bas been effecting
remarkable cures of stupidity in children.
What has been worked so successfully on
the youtbful brain might bave partial
success on ao older one and we recommend
that the late Governor of this Common-
wealth be taken on as a patient who might
be benefited. Every little bit helps and
PENNY proved kis stapidity so certainly
that he ought to be operated.
—“Thon Shalt Not Steal,” is the slogan
of the Democratic party in this State this
fall. How peculiarly appropriate it is for
a battle cry in Pennsylvania where for
years the public pocket book bas been as
much the prey of gang planderers as is
that of the unwary spectator in a circus
crowd for the light-fingered gentry. The
crime is just the same, but the results dil-
fer. In Pennsylvania the publio has known
for years that its pocket bas been picked
systematically and not until detective
BERRY was assigned to the case were any
of the gulprits found out. He has canght
a number with the goods on them, but
there seems to be no one to enforce proper
punishment. A professional pickpocket,
once discovered, would be hustled off to
jail in a jiffy. Why not these fellows?
Support HARMAN aad they will be. Sup-
port SHEATZ and it will all be hashed up.
VOL. 52
Report on the Investigation.
It is intimated that Senator ARTHUR C.
DEWALT may regard it necessary to file a
minority report on the findings of the com-
mission which bas been investigating the
obarges of graft in the construction and
farnishing of the new capitol. Senator
DEWALT is one of the two Democratic
members of the commission. He bas taken
an active part in the work of the commis-
sion and much of the inculpating evidence
was brought out by his keen cross-exami-
nation of the witnesses. It is neither an as-
persion upon his character nora reflection
upon his integrity to say that be was chos-
en for the service because it was hoped that
he would be passive ratber thao active in
accusation. Able and broad-minded it was
expected that he wounld be liberal in con-
stroing facts and circumstances. He was
rather mild as a member of the commission
which investigated the Insurance Depart.
ment during the extra session of the Legis-
latare in 1906.
There are no reasnas to imagine that the
estimate of the temperament of the Lebigh
county Democratic Senator was inaccurate.
He is the hig-hearted, broad-minded, capa-
ble lawyer which it implies and in the ab-
sence of substantial incriminating evidence
it is more thau likely that be would have
concarred in any report which his collea-
gues bad determined upon, however excal-
pating it might have been. Bat Senator
DEWALT is first of all a man of probity and
a lover of justice. The evideuce reveals the
grossest kind of iniquity aod fraud and it
may be acoepted as a fact that he will agree
to no report which fails to condemn the
crimes against the public which have been
perpetrated and lay a foundation for the
trial and conviction of those who participa:
ted in or were responsible for them. He
would be recreant both to himself and his
party if he failed to demand this fall meas.
are of justice or to file a mivority report
in the event that is not allowed.
No fair minded man will question the
thoroughness of the inquiry or the earnest.
ness of those who bave been conducting it
thus far. Bat the d-lays which bave
marked the recent operations of the com-
mission almost necessarily incite suspicions,
Nearly a month has elapsed since the last
meeting of the tommission for the purpose
of taking testimony and even then the
symptoms or ‘‘cupctation,’’ were too per-
ceptible. Since, the lawyers have been
spending much time oo the examination of
the testimony, and presumbly the commis-
sion will require a good deal of time to
analyze the work of the lawyers. These
delays suggest the suspicion that there isa
purpose to postpone crimival proceedings
until within a short time of the election
when the skillfal use of legal pyrotechnics
might enable the machine to couvert the
whole business into au agency for promot.
ing the renewal of ita power.
— ‘Thon Shalt Not Steal,”’ will make
an iuteresting text and with from six to
twenty thousand throats uttering the
admonition at the same time it is likely to
be beafd and heeded all aver the State.
Let the Candidates Speak.
It bas been suggested that the 1mpend-
ing campaign for the election of a State
Treasurer be made a joins affair. In other
words it has been proposed that inasmuch
as there is only one question to be settled
by the election the candidates should ap-
pear together wherever they appear at all
aud each sustain the proposition which his
candidacy implies in arguments before the
public.
It is universally agreed that the only
question involved in the campaign is the
importance of maintaining minority repre-
sentation in the Board of Public Grounds
aod Baildings, the Board of Revenue Com-
missioners and the other boards which con-
trol the revenues and expenditures of the
the Statg and to this extent at least sale-
guard ti people against a repetition of the
recent capitol scandal. The election of the
Democratic nominee, JOHN G. HARMAN,
will confirm the affirmative of this proposi-
tion and the election of JOHN O. SHEATZ
will result in the negative.
If WiLniam H. BERRY bad not heen
elected State Treasurer two years ago the
people would vever bave known of the
graft io the construction and farnishing of
the capitol. The formality of tiausferring
the property from the Building Comumis-
sion to the people bad been gone through
aud the statement officially made that the
work bad been finished within the appro-
priation of $4,000,000. It bad cost more
than three times that sum and nearly two-
thirds of the whole were stolen.
The election of SHEATZ will make all
the governing hoards unanimously Repanb-
lican and inevitably restore the evil meth.
ods which cause such iniquity. The elec-
tion of HARMAN will continue a watcher
in the government who will perfect what
Mr. BERRY has begun. Let these two
candidates appear together hefore the pab-
lio, therefore, and argue the proposition.
No better way could be fonnd to inform
the people.
STATE RIGHTS AN
A Prostitution of Power.
i m—
There is nothing surprising in the ont-
come of the filtration litigation in Phila-
delpbia. The issue between oontractor
McNicHOL and the people was not deter-
mined by the report of referee THOMPSON.
That carious pronouncement was confirm-
atory not declaratory. When former way-
or WEAVER tarved back to the machine
vomit during the municipal cawpaiga last
February, he wrote the verdict giving
judgment for the full amonut, aud costs,
to McNicHoL. The election of Jons E.
REYBURN to succeed WEAVER as the
chie! magistrate of the city, ratified and
confirmed the judgments. SAMUEL Gus.
TINE THOMPSON, in this case as on the oc-
casion when the Supreme court stuitified
itsell with the decision that the law in-
creasing the salaries of judges was valid,
was simply the polluted sewer through
which the poisonous sentiment was con-
veyed to the people.
Referee THOMPSON has made a specious
plea in confession and avoidance in bebalf
of the political pirates who have probably
generously recompensed him for his labor.
He says in the case in point, the fault lies
in the language of the Bullitt charter,
just as in the other case he protested that
the defect was in the delinquency of the
constitution. The truth is that in both
cases SAMUEL GUSTINE THOMPSON prosti-
tated bis power as the referee in order to
violate the law, sabvert justice and put
woney into the pockets of others, and in-
cidentaliy add to his own resources at the
expense of the public. In both decisions
he bas justified the confidence reposed in
him by the atrocions Republican machine.
He bas proved that he can he depended
upon for any service that the exigencies of
machine polities require.
Contractor MeNicHOL gets the fall
amount of his 8laim against the city and
referee THOMPSON bas written himself
down as a dogherry without conscience or
character. If he bad heen employed by
MoNICHOL as he probably was, indirectly,
he could hardly bave made a more adroit
defense of the iviquities of the machine
whioh have made the chief city of the
Commonwealth and the State of Peonsyl-
vania subjects of reproach to the sisterhood
of States. Referee TroMPzOX kuows, if he
koows anything at all, that the filtration
operations were simply a conspiracy to
loot the city, and his report affirming the
legality of the corrupt transaction is a dis-
grace to the legal profession. Unfortauvate-
ly there is no recourse for under an agree-
ment made by mayor WEAVER, after he
had gone back to the machine, THOMP-
| SON'S report is final.
—— HARMAN and HARMONY will be the
slogan which will carry the Demccracy of
Pennsylvania to victory this year.
The Vital Campaign Question.
Reports from Pittsburg are to the effect
tbat leading Democrats out there are pre-
paring to hold meetings in the near future
in two thousand towns or more, simulta-
neously, all of them to be addressed by
several speakers on the text ‘‘thon shalt
not steal.”” Daring the recent meeting of
the Democratic State committee in Harris-
burg Mr. W. J. BRENNAN, of Pittsburg,
made the saggestion aud it met with uni-
versal favor. The vew chairman of the
committee, Senator GRORGE M. DIME.
LING, of Clearfield, cordially approved the
proposition and it may be presomed that
the movement referred to fu the news dis-
patches on the suhjeos, the other day, bad
his official sanction and support.
The only question to be determined by
the votes of the people in November is
whether or not the oouditions which pre-
vailed in the administration of the govern-
ment at Harrishurg previous to the elec:
tion of WILLIAM H. BERRY are to be re-
stored. Mr. BERRY, who more thau any
or all other influences is responsible for
the improvement, expresses the opinion
that no man of the political faith of the
majority party, however honest and deter-
mined, conid bave had the courage and de-
termination necessary to make the ox.
posures and compass the reforms. The ex-
periences of PENNYPACKER in Pennsylva-
nia and Mayor REYBURN in Philadelphia,
ccmpletely corroborate this view. They
both enjoyed the reputation of being hon-
est and capable yet both became servile
tools of the machine.
It the Republican candidate for State
Treasurer, Mr. JOEN O. SHEATZ, were as
houest and courageous as his most partial
friends represent him to be, therefore, he
would not be able to resist the pressure of
the machine to agree to the iniquities of
the past. His election will make the Board
of Pablic Buildings and Grounds and all
the other governing boards as partisan as
they had been before the election of BERRY
and that achieved the rest will follow inev-
itably. Clearly the safety of the public
interests demand minority representation
on those boards and that result will be de-
feated by the election of SHEATZ. It is
not a partizan question but an economie
one.
D FEDERAL UNION. '&
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 26, 1907.
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One Scheme Shattered.
false pretense in behalf of Mr. SHEATZ,
the Republican candidate for State Treas-
urer, and the ambitions of the editor of the
Philadelphia NorthAmerican, have practic
ally been abandoned. The legislative rec-
ord of Mr. SHEATZ aud the reputation of
the editor were alike in the way. Mr.
SHEATZ acted with the machine all the
time during two of his three sessions in the
Legislature and most of the time during
his other session. Intelligent men can’t
be fooled under such circumstances and
the ambition of the editor of the North
American has been ‘‘sat on,” so to speak,
and completely disposed of.
Io other words, chairman ANDREWS,
who is also private secretary of Senator
PENROSE, had a ‘‘heart-to-heart talk”
with candidate SHEATZ, the other day.
Chairman ANDREWS hae a reasonably good
memory, but even an infirm mentality
would bardly have forgotten the efforts of
the editor of the Philadelphia North Amer-
ican, last year, to subjugate the machine
to his own purposes through the instru.
mentality of RoBeRT K. YOUNG, then the
nomioee of the party for Auditor General.
Mr. VAN VALKENBURG succeeded in in-
ducing Mr. YOUNG to absent bimseif from
the notification meeting and hurl defiance
at chairman ANDREWS and the machine
for a time. But the success of the con
spiracy was only temporary, and as we
predicted at the time, Mr. YOUNG subse-
quently came into line, swallowed the nec-
essary crow, aod accepted the orders of
chairman ANDREWS,
This year the crafty ANDREWS didn’s
wait until the activity of Mr. VAN VALK-
ENBERG had developed into a public scan-
dal. The moment the esteemed North
American, inferentially announced its pro-
prietorship of candidate SHEATZ and open-
ed up its campaign of false pretense in his
behalf, chairman ANDREWS ‘‘sat up and
took votice,”’ and we are informed that
Mr. SHEATZ was summoned to ‘‘the cap-
tain’s office’’ a few days ago. What trans.
pired there can only be conjectured, of
course, for gumshoe ANDREWS is not in
the habit of taking the pablic into his con-
fidence. Bat it may be confidently assum-
tbat candidate SHEATZ was told pre-
cisely ‘‘what is trump’ in the campaign
and admonished that the present purpose
of the machine is not to make VAN VALK-
ENBURG political boss of Pennsylvania.
Iucidentally it may be remarked that
the mendacity as well as the enthusiasm of
our esteemed contemporary bas been some-
what modified.
~The President is packing the courts
and there are guileless folk who imagine
that he is influenced to that expedient by
purely patriotic motives. As a matter of
fact be is proceeding in pursuance of his
dreams of empire and if be is not stopped
soon it will be too late to stop him at all.
Grave Danger Impending.
The President's absard and inordinate
lust for power threatens to develop a new
danger for the Republic. Recently the
State of North Carolina enacted a law to
regulate the pas:enger rates ou railroads
within that State. In order to prove the
President’s contention that state legisla-
tion for the regulation of such corporations
is inadequate Judge PRITCHARD, of the
United States court for that district, issued
an injnoction forbidding the enforcement
of the law. PRITCHARD, who was a Popu-
list Sevator in Cougress a few years ago,
sold himself aud betrayed his party for the
seat on the bench which be is now pollat-
ing.
Happily this extraordinary and revola-
tionary process was issued before the time
fixed by the law for hecoming effective.
The State court, of course, entirely ignored
the order and directed its regular officers to
enforce the law at the proper time. Mean-
time the President or some one else iu his
bebalt will bave an opportunity to call the
servile and sycopbantic PRITCHARD'S at-
tention to his obligations ander the con-
stitution, but shonld that be neglected
there is likely to be the gravest trouble.
ANDREW JACKSON settled forever adverse.
ly the question of the right of a State to
nullify a law. Bat precedents which are
stronger than avy man have settled with
equal definiteness the fact that the courts
can’t make laws or declare the whims of a
corrupt judge to he law.
Such a decision would have been impos-
sible under any other President than Roose-
VELT aud would never have been dreamed
of by any judge other than one appointed
by ROOSEVELT. Possibly PRITCHARD
doesn’t know any better. In the Senate
be was more a clown than a legislator and
he was catapulted on to the bench because
he was both ignorant and servile. It is
said that ROOSEVELT hopes to control the
judges in all the federal courts in the same
way and if be snoceeds it will be a sad
thing for the country.
Bad Presidents, Governors and Legisla-
tors are great evils but bad courts are in-
tolerable.
The attempt to conduct a campaigu of |
NO. 29.
The Jingoes at Work.
From the Commoner.
The Jingoes in the United States and
Japan are vig their best to stirup a war
sentiment. en a loud-mouthed Japan-
ese booster issues a challenge it is taken up
by some swaggering American and threats
are tossed forth across the ocean.
What occasion is there for war or war talk?
If any Japanese has suffered violence our
courts are open to him; no foreigner will
be denied redress for any injury be may
suffer. Japan has no complaint against us
and we bave no complaint against ber.
Why this massing of our fleet on the Pa-
cific? It is just to show Japan what we
could dv? If so it is a bombastic d y un-
worthy of ue; if it has no connection with
the Japanese question it is anpattiovie for
sensational papers to represent it as an evi-
dence of either hostility or fear. Iu both
countries the advocates of a large navy will
seize upon the incident as au exouse for
demanding more war ships, bat to just aud
peace-loving citizens the situation ought
to be a warning against the military spirit
which a large navy develops. It is popular
just now to urge shooting galleries, rifle
ranges and big battleships as peace po.
moters, but it is as absurd to expect these
things to bring peace as it would be to ex-
Po personal encounters to be decreased
y the teaching of prize fighting in the
public schools.
Man is not yet sufficiently advanced to
have power without yielding to the temp-
tation to use it. It bas been wisely re-
marked that only the burglar needs burg-
lar tools. If our nation intends to respect
the rights of other nations it does not need
“‘the t navy in the world.’’ Our re-
sources are well known ; il we are ever un-
justly attacked we can prove our power of
resistance, but the chances of attack are
very remote and nothing is more apt to
provoke an attack than the parading of
our preparedness.
The Real issue.
From the Ebensburg Freeman.
At the meeting of the Democratic State
committee at Harrisburg Wednesday Sen-
ator George M. Dimeling, of Clearfield
county, was elected chairman, succeedin
in that position Charles P. Donnelly
Philadelphia. The meeting was largely
attended, every county but two being rep-
resented, and the action taken was unani-
mous.
Mr. Dimeling is well known in Cam-
bria county, he having at one time engaged
in the lumber business in that county in
the vicinity of Ebensburg and Vintondale,
and his election as State chairman of the
Democratic party is a guarantee to the peo-
ple of Cambria county that palitical chi-
canery will not be tolerated.
It was suggested that the chairman
should tix a day in Aogust for meetings to
be held in every county in the State at
which the theme of the speakers should be,
“*Thou Shalt vot Steal.’”” The revelations
of the gross robbery of the State in the
matter of capitol fainishings afford sufli-
cient warrant for taking such action. The
people of the State should be thoroughly
aroused upon this subject. There is un-
doubtedly wn intention on the part of the
grafters and their friends to postpone defi-
vite legal proceedings until after the elec-
tion.
If the Republican candidate for State
Treasurer should win then, as we have be-
fore stated, the fact will undoubtedly be
accepted by the grafters as strong indica-
tion that the people have condoned their
offenses and care nothicg about their pun-
ishment. It should therefore be the duty
of the Democratic candidate for State
Treasurer and his supporters in all parties
to make the issne really at stake clear to
the people in the coming campaign.
Roosevelt and the Alton Deal.
From the Johnstown Daily Democrat.
The immunity bath given him by the
interstate commerce commission is not the
only thing that Mr. Harriman can laugh
about. It now transpires that President
Roosevelt, who was so enraged by Harri-
man’s unholy ‘‘Alton deal,” is the same
Theodore Roosevelt who as governor of the
state of New York did his part to make
that same unholy transaction possible.
President Roosevelt can put individuals
into the Aonaniaz club with impunity,
but he can bardly go bebind the record. In
February, 1900, a special act, known as the
McEwan bill passed the assembly and two
weeks later the state sg@ate. It was sigoed
by Governor Roosevelt on February 26.
Both in the assembly and in the senate the
bill was attacked as a gross piece of favorit-
ism, as it made the three per cent bonds of
the Chicago & Alton Railroad company a
legal investment for savings banks in New
York state. These are the bonds which in
1899 were sold to those who control the
stock of this road (Mr. Harriman and a few
others) at sixty-five cents on the dollar,
and later, after Governor Roosevelt signed
the act legalizing these bonds as a savings
bank investment, they were sold outata
large profit. Thue did Governor Roosevelt
play a conspicuous part in what is politely
termed the ‘‘Alton Reorganization’ and
rightly called the ‘‘Alton Swindle.” Of
course at the time that Governor Roosevelt
sigued this measure he and Harriman were
close friends. Since then Theodore Roose.
velt’s opinion of Mr. Harriman bas
changed, and, of course, it is only natural
that his views about the ‘‘Alton Deal”
shonld also have changed.
Consistency, thou art after all a jewel.
-——W. H. Noll, the man who gave
Whiterock to Pleasant Gap and established
there the biggest industry the place ever
bad, was in town yesterday and says the
way they are tearing out stone out there is
a caution.
SS —————
— License to set baskets for esls and
suckers, that formerly cost §6 for the sea-
son, was reduced to $1 by recent aot of
Assembly. Licenses can be procured from
the connty treasurer.
Spawls from the Keystoue. -
—The Methodists of DuBois aud vicinity
held s basket picnic last Wednesday which
was attended by fully 1,500.
—There are 10,976 school children in the
county of Franklin. Chambersburg bas the
largest number, being eradited with a total
of 1,718. f
—George W. Clay, while working for John
M. Gant, in Centre township, Perry county,
killed a blacksnake that measured eight feet
and five inches.
—Butter in pound prints is selling at 16
cents per pound in Port Royal, while butter
in tne roll sells at 14 cents. Eggs bring
16 cents per dozen.
—On one street in Danville there reside
twenty-three widows, which is giving the
superstitious folks of the town cause for con-
siderable talk and worriment.
—To Rye township, Perry county, belongs
the honor of having the first woman school
director in that county. She is Mrs. Hugh
Bell aud she was elected a few days ago to
fill a vacancy.
—~Thieves broke into a large poultry house
on the farm of Isaac 8. Long, near Myers-
town, Lebanon county, and stole 500 fine
young chickens. A similar theft was com-
mitted about a year ago.
—John Wocd, a farmer aged 78 years, was
found dead in a corn field about a mile from
Sabula, Clinton county, last Friday after-
noon. He bad eaten his dinner and had
gone into the field to hoe corn. Death result:
ed from heart disease.
—Perry E. Benson, assistant boss roller at
the Edgar Thompson Steel works, Pittsburg,
was caught by a red hot rail that curled up
and before the rolls could be stopped his
body was dragged through the rolls, inflict
ing a quick but horrible death.
—Following five days and nights of prayer
for liberal offerings $50,000 for work in the
foreign mission field was raised Sunday at
the closing session of the annual convention
of the Christian and Missionary Alliance at
Rocky springs park, near Lancaster.
—John Woods, of Catawissa, who is with-
in a few months of being 80 years of age, is
believed to be the oldest civil war veteran
who bas never drawn a pension. When dis-
charged he was examined and found to be
correct, and having been well since, be never
made application for a pension.
~Mrs, George Gensinger is dead at her
home in Wilmerding, the result of bleeding
herself too much. She was suffering from
bright’s disease and believed bleeding would
give her relief. Her physician would not
bleed her aud after he left she opened the
artery of her right arm at the elbow with a
razor aud bled to death in ten minutes.
—Last Saturday evening some unknown
person entered the residence of A. B. Kelly,
of Derry, and took a cash box containing
$352 and a number of receipts and valuable
papers, Of the money taken $300 belonged
to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, of which
Mr. Kelly is secretary. The family was
absent from the house when the robbery
took place.
—Fifty deaths resulticg from the heat and
thirty-five serious prostrations, some of
which may yet prove fatal, is the record of
Pittsburg and its suburbs for the week end-
ing with Saturday night. The maximum
temperature was 85 to S7 degrees and it has
often in previous years been hotter, but the
humidity was ucusually great, which
wrought such sad resalts.
—Clay Ingram, aged 19 years,met death at
Lewistown on Saturday by coming in contact
with a heavily charged electric wire. He
was removing a wireand had just cut the
loop and was in the act of coming down the
pole when he came iu contact with the live
wire which was charged with 2,200 volts.
He fell from the pole to the ground, a dis
tance of thirty feet and was picked up dead.
—Farmers of Lycoming county lost heavi-
ly recently by reason of the destrue-
tion caused by a bail storm. Great
fields of corn wee totally destroyed and the
oats crop was ruined. The storm lasted
twenty minutes and bhailstones as large as
hickory nuts covered the ground so thickly
in places that they could be scooped up by
the bucketful. So says the Williamsport
Sun
—David Weaverling, of Everett, Bedford
county, had a startling experience the other
day. He was seated in his Morris chair
when he felt something move about his
shoulders and face. Looking up he saw a big
snake. He quickly vacated his chair
and threw the reptile ou the floor.
Then he called his wife and together they
killed his suakeship which wae of the house
variety and was three feet long.
~They are killing rattlesnakes of various
colors in Clinton county according to the
Lock Haven Democra!. That paper tells of
Philip Schroat killing what is known asa
black rattlesnake in the waters of Bald
Eagle creek while he was in bathing, the
reptile measuring four feet and sporting nine
rattles. Daniel Lovett, residing in Caldwell,
killed a three foot long yellow rattlesnake,
which was crossing his path while he was
out walking. It had eleven rattles.
~Two wagon loads of meat intended for
the use of the soldiers at Tipton were con-
fiscated at Tyrone Saturday and carted out
and thrown upon a dump. The meat, it was
said, was unfit for the human stomach.
Pure food agents are inspecting all food pro-
ducts intended for consumption at Camp
Lindsay. A Tyrone butcher had a contract
to supply fresh meat and the pure food offi
cials, in their rounds, found that it was
deleterious and disposed of it summarily.
—An ordivary appearing trunk Igy on the
pavement in front of the store of the Nation-
al Medicine company, Lock Haven, for sev-
eral hours Monday afternoon and although
it contained a fortune in jewelry and pre-
cious stones it was unguarded and no one
paid any more attention to it then if it bad
been filled with cheap collar buttons. The
trunk in question was the property of a
wholesale jewelry house and alter the sales.
man had shown his samples he left it there
to be later delivered to bis room at a lead-
ing hotel. As a matter of fact but few knew
of its contents, but there was within its var-
ious apartments jewelry of great value and
also over $30.000 worth of diamonds and
other precious stones. It remained there un-
molested until a baggage man moved it to
its destination.