BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
--Burglars are burgling in Bellefonte.
Bett er beware.
—The telegraph operator's strike is a
plain case of trying to raise wages on
“sick.”
—The best way to help things along is
to help. Talk does little, acts are the
counters.
—There are only eleven hundred mil.
lionaires in France and BoNI DE CASTEL-
LANE is no longer among the number.
—Just now there are more men concern-
ed about what the Athletics and Detroit
are doing than they are about where they
will land when their life’s race is over.
Since liquor can be consumed at high
altitudes without danger of intoxication
will some one please explain why so many
mountain top resorts hold their popularity.
—ROOSEVELT having decided to keep
his hands off the telegraph strike notice is
served to the world that a trust buster and a
strike breaker are entirely different things.
— ‘Empty wagons make most noise’’ is
an old Danish proverb that is decidedly
applicable to a few individuals in this town
who do more of talking than anything
else,
~The retirement of Major General JOHN
PETER SHINDLE GoBIN from the head of
the National Guard of the State removes
something more than a name from the serv.
vice.
—Wouldno’s it be a blessing if the teleg-
rapher’s strike would only continue over
the time when the HARTJE scandal and the
second THAW trial are to be sent out over
the country.
—Notwithstanding the claims of some
scientifically inclined men that peanuts
are more nourishing than steaks we really
prefer the steak—at any other time than
a picnio or a circus.
~A cucumber, that is supposed to be
ninety-five per cent water, can give the
ordinary man a dose of colly-wobbles very
like a block of stock that bas more or
less water in it is doing these days.
—From the fanatical rate at which things
ars going uow it looks as though the govern-
ment will keep on trying to bust trusts
until it busts most of the things that
makes the government so prosperons.
—A Bellefonte viotim sized up the stock
market sitoation of a country specunlator
thos tersely. ‘‘The other fellows do the
shufiling, deal the cards and then telegraph
‘you lose’ before you have bad evena
chance to see anything."
~The two gentlemen who lost a wheel
off thelf automobile Sonday vighi wod Lad
to sit for four hours gazing at the stars un-
til help arrived were heard for three miles
up the valley dolorously singing “We're
here because we're here.’
—Prolessor STARR is a great anthropolo-
gist, but few people will think bim a great
prophet when they learn he is of the opin-
ion that Japan could lick us in a war. Of
course it depends to some extent on whose
duoog hill the fight would be pulled off.
—Telegraphioc service is more or less of a
“ necessity for the public, so is bread and
butter for the men who do the telegraph-
ing. In the event of a struggle the publio
could probably do without messages longer
than the operators could do without food.
—The two certified checks aggregating
forty-eight thousand dollars that laid in a
Pittsburg hotel mail box for seven years
were just as good when found as they were
when lost, but we veuture the assertion
that they looked ten times as good to the
owner.
—About ten weeks distant is the No-
vember election but judging from the pace
at which Col. CHAMBERS iz electioneering
one would imagine it to be not more than
ten minutes off. It will take some hust-
ling on the Colonel’s part il he even ex-
peats to get ‘‘a look in.”
-——The famous Coleville band gave the
firss of their usual summer concerts in front
of the WATCHMAN office last Thursday
evening and it was greatly appreciated by
all who heard it ; while it was the hope of
everybody that arrangements would be
made to have the concerts weekly.
—A Hindoo Prince is a candidate for a
position on Cornell’s foos-ball team next
fall. Ordinarily a Hindoo Prince isn’s the
loveliest thing in the world to look upon,
, but emagine, if you van, what this one will
look like about the time be is finishing a
season of the great American College game.
—The fish near the Union brewery at
Aliquippa, Pa., are said to drink the stale
beer that is dumped into the river there to
such extent that they frequently become
‘‘soused.” This isa good tish story bas
we would sooner believe the fish’s claim to
temperate habits than that of the fishermen
who caught them and started the slander-
ous story.
—ARTHUR KIMPORT bas wade a Protbon-
otary such as the county caunot hope to im-
prove upon. He is entitled to a second
term aud will get it. He should not be
put to the expense of a costly campaign lor
many reasons ; principally because his of-
fice has not been uear up to its usval
amount of business during bis term and it
would he well for people of the county to
interest themselves in his beball with a
“view to making his election a certainty
with a minimom expense.
_VOL. 52
Good Work of Dewalt and Ammerman,
The people of Pennsylvania are under
everlasting obligations to Senator DEWALT
and Representative AMMERMAN, the Dem-
ocratic members of the capitol investigat-
ing commission for their courageous and
consistent demand for a report which
meant something other than a white-wash
of the treasury looters. Representative
DEARDON was expected to co-operate with
them. For several years he bas been a
valiant fighter for honest government and
improved political morals. In 1905 be al-
ligned himself as a member of the City
Party with the forces in Philadelphia
which stood for integrity in public life.
But to the Democratic members of the
commission belong the credit for the initia-
tive in what proved to be a better conten.
tion.
Both wings of the Republican party were
concerned in a suppression of the facts.
The ELKIN followers are more numerous
in the guilty crowd but there are enough
of the PENROSE adherents involved in the
criminal transactions to make them apx-
ious for concealment. The Democratic
members of the body had neither personal
vor sinister interest in such a miscarriage
of justice. If there are any Democrats in-
volved, they reasoned, they bave forfeited
all claim to consideration. They bavedi-
vorced themselves from the party by their
evil associations aud must take the conse-
quences. Besides the first duty of a Dem-
ocratic Representative is to the people
rather than to individaals.
It is not certain that the work of the in-
vestigating commission will result in the
punishment of the grafters. It can hardly
be predicted at this time that it will even-
tuate in an enduring improvement in the
public life of the Commonwealth. If the
machine candidate for State Treasurer
shoald be elected in November the prose-
cautions would probably be dropped and
the old methods of administration resum-
ed. Is is bardly probable that the people
of Pennsylvania will vote for such a result.
It is not likely that there is such a lack of
intelligence among the voters. But the
machine will try bard to compass such a
resuit and the people ought to be vigilant
and steadfast in opposing it.
False Capwaign Promises
The Republican machine candidate for
State Treasurer declared in a speech de.
livered in Berks county the other day,
that, in the event of his election, he will
strive for the reforms which the people de-
mand. That was a campaign ‘‘promise to
the ear to be broken to the hope.” He
knows, if he knows anything at all, that
the environment, in the event of his elec-
tion, will make that impossible. To stand
in with bis party be must do as the leaders
do.
That is an unwritten law of politics.
It is an inevitable consequence of party
custom and training.
No party which bad fallen into abuses
ever reformed itself, while it remained in
power. So long as it continues to succeed
at the polls, its leaders will pretend to be-
lieve that its methods and measures are
approved by public opinion, and will pur.
sue the policies and practices thus popular-
ly endorsed. Goversor STUART is exem-
plitying this fact every day. He is keep-
ing up a semblance of improvement. Bat
a2 a matter of fact he bas made noimprove-
ment whatever in the personnel or policies
of his recent predecessors in office. Storr
is still secretary of the Board of Pablic
Grounds and Buildings. :
QUAY was the most prolific promiser in
the public life of the State daring his leader-
ship of the Republican machine. In the
campaign of 1901 he personally took the
stump aod pledged his sacred honor to the
enactment of legislation in the interest of
ballot reform, which would be satisfactory
to the Democrats. But baving deceived
the people be repadiated the pledge.
PENNYPACKER was profuse in bis promises
before the election aud notorious in his
iniguities afterward. Probably both would
have done better if they could. They were
neither better nor worse than their party.
The present candidate is uo better or
stronger than the others.
——There is now no doubt of the merger
of the Bald Eagle Valley railroad with the
Pennsylvavia system, as the Philadelphia
Record is authority for the statement that
already more thau two thirds of the oat-
standivg stock of the Bald Eagle has been
deposited with the treasurer of the Peun-
sylvania under the conditions of the offer
recently made. And as the time limit does
Dot expire until September 15th there
is plenty of time for the depositivg of the
balance of the stock.
—_—
——The Centre conuty Christian En-
deavor society couvention will this year be
held at Howard ou Wednesday and Thurs-
day, September 4th and 5th. Qaite an
exhaustive program has been prepared
which provides for the pressuce of quite a
number of prominent and well known
speakers. The public is urged to attend
the gathering.
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The Most Guilty of the Lot
It is strange, indeed, if there iz no law
which will reach and panish former Gov-
ernor PENNYPACKER for bis share in the
looting of the treasury in connection with
the coustruction of the capitol. He en-
courages the idea that he was deceived by
architect HusTOoN and others and that if
he badu’t been he would bave vigilantly
guarded the treasure of the people. A
couple of years ago he would bave scorned
the false pretense of ‘‘the simple life.”” He
prided himself on his cunning and justly,
too. Infact when the exposure was made
by Mr. BERRY in October, 1906, he alone,
of all the machine politicians, ‘‘held his
bead.” The rest of them stampeded hut
he stood and made av adroit defense.
It is not a harsh statement to say that
PENNYPACKER is the most guilty of all
the looters concerned in that joh. He
didn’t get money, probably, but he got
what was to him far more precious. That
is be got promises of judicial nomiuation
and election and for that consideration he
prostituted himsel! anderstandingly to the
service of the machine. This is made clear
by bis actions after the election of Mr.
BERRY two years ago. Frightened by that
result the Auditor General informed him
of the excessive payments. Bat instead of
prosecuting the criminals he approved
additional bills to the total of more than
$3,000,000, the materials for some of which
were not delivered for more than a year
afterward.
Alter the induction of Mr. BERRY into
the office of State Treasurer every meeting
of the Boa:d of Pablic Grounds and Build-
ings was torned intoa debating society.
Mr. BERRY contended with all the force
and eloquence he could command that the
bills were excessive but made no impression
on the mind of the Governor. In at least
one instant he produced proof of his asser-
tion, but in that as iu all other instances
the bill was approved aud paid. There
was no deception at all. Is was the delib-
erate action of a oconscienceless public
official who had traded official prerogavives
for the promise of a seat oun the Supreme
bench. Unless he goes to prison there will
be a miscarriage of justice.
Victory Certain With Proper Effort.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania bave a
splendid opportunity to achieve a great
victory this year. A complete, or nearly
complete poll of the Democratic vote last
fall would bave elected Mr. EMERY and
his associates on the ticket by a majority
of 100,000. One of the excuses given for
the failure of a complete poll last fall is
that the candidate at the head of the tick-
et was not a Democrat. It wasa poor ex-
cnse for the candidate stood for decent gov-
ernment honestly administered and that is
the essence of Democracy. Besides all the
other candidates on the ticket were Demo-
crats of the best type.
This year we have a candidate who isa
Democrat both in principle and practice.
Hon. JouN G. HARMAN is not only au in-
telligent student of political principles hat
he is a devoted follower of the Jeiler-
soniau school. Probably there is little
party advantage to be obtained by the elec-
tion of a Democrat to that office. Bat there
is a vast opportunity to benefit the public
interests by the election of Mr. HARMAN.
It will continue the reform work begun by
Mr. BERRY and make the restoration of
the machine to complete control in Penn-
sylvania an impossibility fer many years.
JoEN HARMAN can be defeated only
through the delinquency of the Democrats
of the State. If they are faithful to him
and to themselves Mr. HARMAN will be
elected by a greater majority than that of
Mr. BERRY $wo years ago. There are some
interests which weze for Mr. BERRY two
years ago aud which are not for Mr. Hag-
MAN this year. Tbey have been converted
by that ‘mysterious agency’’ which obang-
ed a majority of the Republican State con-
vention into a minority ‘‘over night.”’ But
there are potent forces with us now which
bad not been aroused then and it is safe to
predict a splendid viotory for HARMAN.
—=0n Wednesday morning Edward
Basle, a brakeman on a freight train on
the Bald Eagle Valley railroad, was sitting
ou the station platform at Howard, while
the eugineer was shifting cars and when he
was looking another way a string of cars
was shunted on the siding and runnicg
along the station knooked Bushe off and
crushed his body between the platform and
the cars. The young man was taken to
the Lock Haven hospital where it was
found that his hip bone was fractured, both
arms painfully scraped and braised and his
shoulder injured. His injuries, however,
are nat necessarily fatal.
———On Tuesday the venerable Thomas
Waddle, of Jersey Shore, celebrated his
eighty-eightb birthday anniversary, and is
still in vigorous health. Mr. Waddle is
well known in Bellefonte, as he is a na-
tive of Centre county, having been born at
what at that time was known as Rock
Forge, up Spring oreek.
“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. 2
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BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 16, 190%.
A Bad Legislative Record.
There are fool friends of the Republican
machine candidate for State Trersarer who
continue to refer to his legislative record.
As a matter of fact there are few members
of the Legislature whose records are as bad
as that of Mr. SHEATZ. He may have oo-
casionally voted against a bad law and in
favor of a good one. But the Hon. SAM
R1prP can claim credit for that much. The
worst legislative roosters stumble on to
the right side of a subject at intervals and
that is abont the best that can be said for
Mr. SuEATZ. Ouvee iu a long while the
machine mavagers bad him voted on the
side of reform. Probably it made him of
greater service to them.
Mr. SHEATZ'S service in the Legislature
began with the opening of the session of
1003. He bad been elected as a Repabli-
can and acted as such, swallowing every.
thing that came along as freely as Dr,
FAHEY or any of the other servile instru-
ments of the hoss. He voted for the
atrocious ‘‘press-muzzler,’”’ introduced in
the Senate by GRADY and in the House by
SALvs. He voted for the bill taking the
authority to fill vacancies on election
boards in Failadelphia out of the hands of
the courts and lodging it in the Board of
Commissioners. Worse than that, how-
ever, he voted for the infawous Kingston
water dam hill a measure which was so
palpably rotten that PENNYPACKER balk-
ed on it and served notice that if it came
to him he would strangle it witha veto.
Duriug the session of 1905 the machine
candidate's record was little, il any, bes.
ter. The symptoms of political revolution
were already perceptible in Philadelphia
and Mr. SHEATZ, who is a trimmer, began
adjusting his eails to the conditions. He
introduced a personal registration bill with
av apology aud gave it a timid support.
But he could never be depended upon for
any action which required conscience or
courage and he voted with the machine as
regularly as any other Representative of
the iniquitous machine could have dove.
The truth of the matter is that he is a hypo-
crite as well as a humbug.
Roosevelt's Insincerlty Exposed.
Nev wor FORAKER, of Ohio, has perti-
ryst’walled public attention to the fact
that the Standard Oil company was prose-
cuted to the immense penalty imposed by
Judge LANDIS under the ELKIN anti-dis-
crimination law, which President Roosg-
VELT has persistently declared to be inad-
equate. The States of North Carolina and
Alabama bave brought a powerful and ar-
rogant railroad corporation to terms under
State laws which President ROOSEVELT
has repeatedly declared inadequate. It
looks very much as if ROOSEVELT doesn’t
know.
These facts confirm the growing belief
that lust for power rather than concern for
the public bas influenced President Roosk-
VELT to his efforts for control of railroade.
The control of those corporations would af-
ford an immense leverage in the manipala-
tion of politios, and if the President's hopes
had been fulfilled the road to the nomina-
tion for a third term would have been vast-
ly improved. It would hardly have been
necessary to use Secretary TAFT as a
“stalking horse’’ iu that count. RoosE-
VELT could have come out in the open.
The Standard Oil company has been
brought to something like just punishment
under a law which was on the statute
books before the absurd ROOSEVELT agita-
tion was predicated on the hypothesis that
the State's Legislatures were incapable of
dealing with corporation questions. Both
ROOSEVELT'S theory and the basis of it are
discredited by these incidents aud RoOSE-
VELT'S sincerity may be justly questioned
because he persists in the false pretense, It
is power and cell-aggrandizement that he
wants.
——Probably the biggest crop of bay
harvested in Centre county this year is thas
by the McCoy & Linn Iron company. Up
to the beginning of this week they had
either housed or put on stacks over one
hundred four-horse loads of hay and at
that time they had apwards of seventy-five
loads yet to harvest, the most of which bas
been cut and stacked by this time. While
the yield of grass per acre was not as large
as on some farms in the county the total
yield is undoubtedly the largest in the
county, as it will be close to two hundred
tons.
——The telegraph operator’s strike has
even affected Bellefonte. When the call
was sent out to union operators on Taes-
day to go out William Picken, manager of
the Western Union office in this place, left
his key aud walked out. An operator was
sent here from Tyrone at noon that day
but be left the same evening, and Wed-
nesday another man was sent here. Wheth-
er he will stay or not remains to be seen.
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—— -By«the small margin of fifteen votes
Miss Ella Alters won the silver set given
away by the Rinehart Medicine company,
at their free show last Saturday evening, in
the ‘‘most popular girl in town’ contest,
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chine.
Report of the Investigation Committee. Trying to
Save the Friends of Both Sides. The Great Need
of Minority Representation. Sheatz Election
Means the Restoration of tha Machine.
Special Correspondence,
Harrisburg, Pa., August 1807.
It may be confidently predicted that the
investigation of the tol graft scandal
will result inthe trial and possibly the
punishment of two or three of the looters.
Architect Easton and former Superioten-
dent of Pablic Grounds and Buildings,
James M. Shumaker, will be sacrificed to
the popular demand for re on. Con-
tractor Sanderson may be added to this list
ithe can be caught. But he is ont of the
jurisdiction of the courts and will probably
stay out. Huston may take a header for
some secure asylum also, and that woold
leave only Shumaker, of those the machine
is willing to throw overboard. He can’t
get away because he is sick.
That there are to be any prosecutions,
however, is attributable to the minority
representation on the probing commission.
It is clear now that the majority of that
body intended to make a white washing
report. Senator Fisher had a double inter-
est in that sort of a tment. He
wanted to save the Republican party from
the injury that is inevitable from a com-
plete exposure, on one hand, and he desired
to save the followers of his friend Justice
Elkiv from just punishment on the other.
Senator Sisson has recently been highly
favored by the Machine and naturally
wanted to prove his gratitude, and she
other Republican members of the Commis-
sion were willing to ‘‘go along.”
DEMOCRATS DEMANDED JUST REPORT.
But the Democratic members of the Com-
mission wounldn’t stand for that kind of a
travesty on jnstice. Senator Dewalt and
Representative Ammerman promptly and
emphatically declared that the Commission
should do its duty or else they would pre-
sent a minority report. They know that
Pennypacker is as guilty as she others and
that there is ample evidence to convict
Payne & Company of forgery as well as
frand. Therefore 3ey insisted on incunlpa-
ting those men with others. Of course
they can’t go further than the report.
Alter that it will be up to the Governor
and the Attorney General, who will pron:
ably allow the ‘‘high muck a-mucks’’ to es-
cape, even if the others are sacrificed.
It the le badn’t elected a Democrat
to the office of State Treasurer, two years
ago, nothing would have been known of
the capitol graft. If there had been no
Democrats on the Legislative Commission
charged with the investigation of the sear
dal, no one would have been punished fc.
the crimes. In this statement I am
aspersing the character of James Scarlet, t
distinguished Danville lawyer who bas
conducted the investigation. I have the
utmost confidence in his integrity and the
highest respect for his ability. But the
song of the machine Siren, promising
favors of the most substantial form, is
sweet melody to his ears and—well thivgs
are different now.
VALUE OF MINORITY REPRESENTATION.
When the late Senator Buckalew was
urging the adoption of the principal of mi-
nority representation as a feature of the
Coustitution of the State, he didn’t pretend
to think that one Commissioner of the mi
nority party would control the hoard or
that the minority Auditor would bave
things his own way. He simply said that
minority representation in these fiscal de-
partments would serve as a check against
the excesses as well as the cupidity of the
majority. In that idea he was singularly
prophetic. The minority official is a sort
of watch-dog on his associates. He may
be influenced by no higher impulse than to
prevent the other party from getting un-
due advantage, but at that he is conserving
the interests of the public.
Sup Berry bad been defeated for
State Treasurer two years ago and his ma-
chine antagonist, J. Lee Plummer, elected.
Plummer is no better and no worse than
Samuel W. Pennypagcer, William P. Soy-
der or William E. Matthues. They had
perpetrated the frand upon the public of
certifying to the completion of the State
capitol within the appropriation and he
would have continued the falsehood. The
vine or ten million dollars already stolen
would bave been irretrievably lost and
other millions to an indefinite aggregate
would have been added to the waste. It
there bad been no Democrats on the inves-
tigating Commission there would bave
been no punishment for these colossal
crimes or restitution.
GOOD CHARACTER INADEQUATE.
No man will question the personal intex-
rity of Senator Fisher. Senator Sission
enjoys the confidence of the community
in which he lives and R ntatives Fair
and Shields are held by ir neighbors as
models of good citizenship. Yet for the
purposes of political expediency, according
to evidence which comes from the seat of
the Commission, hey were willing, and
even anxious, to e sucha report of
their prolonged and arduous research, as
would have made the investigation a farce.
In other words without even the suspicion
of moral tarpitude these excellent gentle-
men would bave become accessory, after
the fact to oue of the greatest crimes of
the age in order to promote the interests of
the party at the expense of the public.
Their purpose has been defeated, it may
be enid, thoangh at this writing the text of
their re bas not been made pablic.
But we have assurances that they have
Qelded to the importaunities of the minor-
ty and consented to recommend the prose.
cution of the malefactors. That they
haven't come to this conclusion cheerfully
may easily be believed. Kind hearted men
are reluctant to give their friends over to
justice however palpable their guilt and a
Proper report involves such abuegation on
their part. Bat they had no alternative.
The minority members of the Commission
refused to compromise and under the oir-
carustances a whitewashing report would
have done their party more harm than
good. It wonld ve Gastrored all pre-
tense of improved party morals.
(Continued on page fourth.)
Spawis from the Keystone.
—8ixty-one deaths and 102 births are the
figures given out for Johnstown during July
by its board of health.
~A diamond ring worth $50 was found in
a4 can of Pacific coast salmon by James
Brady, of McKeesport.
—Harry Groh, of Monocacy, Berks coun*
ty, caught a carp twenty-seven inches long
that weighed sixteen pounds.
—The eightieth annual picnic of the
“Dutch folks” of Snyder and Juniata coun-
ties was held near Selinsgrove ou Saturday,
with about 5,000 persons in attendance.
—Williamsport has an Italian bakery
which turns out 700 loaves of bread a day.
It is supplied to the Italians in the city and
also those engaged on various jobs outside
the city.
—Frank R. Jones, of Slatington, who had
his band crushed two weeks ago in the
South Bethlehem Steel works, died of lock-
jaw on Thursday, aged 23 years.
—A Pottstown syndicate of capitalists who
leased the old iron ore mines in Warwick
township, Chester county, are taking out
100 tous of ore daily and will increase the
output to 1,000 tons.
~The rolling mill of the American Car
and Foundry company, at Berwick, which
bas been idle for a number of weeks, will
resume work next Tuesday. Eight hundred
men will be employed.
—Miss Alice Moyer, of Reading, who had
sued David W. Brunner for $5,000 damages
for alleged breach of promise of marriage,
was on Thursday awarded $50 by the arbi-
trators who heard the case.
— Farmer” William T. Creasy was re-
lieved of his pocketbook containing £18 in
cash and some papers of value by a pick-
pocket, while attending the Granger's pic-
nic at Bloomsburg on Thursday.
~—In a raid on an alleged den of counter
feiters, near Smith, Fayette county, on Sat-
urday, five men were arrested and a large
number of spurious coins and a number of
moulds and other equipments were found.
—Orders have been issued by the coke
companies throughout the Connellsville and
Masonville regions forbidding all labor on
Sundays, except what is absolutely neces:
sary. The order affects about 5,000 persons.
—John Hoar, a night cabman, of York, fell
out of a doorway at his home on Thursday
morning avd fractured a rib. Within the
last five years Hoar has had twenty'seven
accidents, several of which nearly cost him
his life.
—The Penusylvania Railroal company has
decided to open a school of telegraphy in
Bedford and will charge a small tuition,
which will be refunded when the pupil be-
comes proficient in the work and acceptsa
position with the company.
—Phenomenal catches of bass are reported
from Monroe county. The biggest caught
weighed five pounds and measured nineteen
inches in length. Another party of three
men caught seventeen, several of which
weighed three pounds each.
—A new contract for lighting the streets
has been made between the horough of
Gallitzin and the electric light company of
** “t place. The contract is in force ou Oc-
*1. Itis for twenty-five lights at $60
aunum, The old coutract wus for cevons
teen lights at $80.
—The first step towards ending the silk
weavers’ strike in the Lackawanna region
was made on Saturday, when a proposition
to work about nine and one-half hours per
day with a half holiday Saturday afternoon,
made by the Harvey Silk company, was ac-
cepted by the strikers.
~On Wednesday Louis A. Wells, a stal-
wart colored mau, fell fifty feet from a
smoke stack at the Warwick furnaces, near
Pottstown, landing bead first ona pile of
iron ore. Fellow workmen expected to find
him dead, but were amazed to see him con-
scious with only a few cuts and bruises.
—Mr. aud Mrs. Samuel Ketner, of Mt.
Union, are the parents of a little baby, per-
fect in form, with this addition, that it has
two thumbs on one hand. Each has a nail
and they are shaped so that they can clinch
at the ends and will enable the child to hold
an article in its two thumbs instead of its
thumb and finger.
~The Berwind -Whita Coal company is
preparing to open up another mine in the
vicinity of Windber, which will start the
development of a 500-acre tract of coal land.
It is expected the plant will be in operation
within a year, greatly increasing the output
of that corporation and giving employment
to a vast army of meu.
—A fireman's convention at Kittanning
last week caused all the saloon keepers to
lay in an extra stock of liquids expecting
to do a big business. But the firemen held
their business sessions aud had their parade,
but drank very little, leaving a big lot of
the stuff in the hands of the saloon keepers,
to their great disappointment.
—Mrs. Thomas H. Murray, of Clearfield,
died suddenly Wednesday afternoon at her
home in that place. Mrs. Murray bad just
roturned from a visit to the church, where
she was taken ill, and hurrying home, ex-
pired soon after. She was aged about 60
years, was a woman of rare attainments and
was quite well known in Bellefonte.
—A special! election was recently held in
| Indiana for the purpose of deciding wheth-
+&r the school board should have authority
to isspe bonds to the amount of $100,000 for
the purpose of erecting a new school build-
ing sud making some extensive repairs to
the others. The people decided that they
were in favor of education by a majority of
203.
~Harry M. Ulrich, aged 15 years, sen of
Mrs. Mary C. Ulrich, of Nesbit, Lycoming
county, is dead, the result of an accident
which occurred Sunday afternoon. He was
in a lumber camp near the town and was in.
specting a gun, which was in the hands of
Clark McWilliams. The weapon was acci-
dentally discharged, the load entering
Ulrich’s left side, tearing & ghastly hole in
the chest and abdomen. A physician was
summoned but the wound was ofa fatal
character, and all that could be done was
to relieve the boy's sufferings as much as
possible. Death relieved him about four
hours after the uccident happened. The lad
had been the victim of a similar accident
about two years ago.