Dewnoraic Walch
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—May the good Lord send us rain.
—Everybody should be able to swim ;
especially the fellow who is in danger of
sinking.
—Remember that ARTHUR B. KIMPORT
is the man who should be elected Prothon-
otary of Centre county.
—1In 1830 the world contained only 210
miles of railroad and EpwArp H. HARRI-
MAN dido’t own it either.
—A good long, soaking rain is what this
county needs right now just a little bit
more than any thing else we know of.
—Prince WILHELM, of Sweden, is the
latest European fad to throw the sassiety
ladies of Newport into conniption fite.
—Hard times are said to be the cause of
the cancellation of orders for two thousand
automobiles. Thank Heaven, we haven't
been reduced to that extremity yet.
—Nervouns prosperity seems to be the
country’s ailment just now. Everything
is booming, but Wall St. and the public is
getting wise to its little game of cryivg
woll.
—They should give HUSTON, PENNY -
PACKER, SANDERSON, CassELL, HARRIS
and the rest of them a chance to play eeny-
meeny-minee-mo to see which one comes to
trial first.
—The Pittsburg papers are devoting so
much space to candidate Secretary TAFT
these days that it would not be mach won-
der if candidate Senator KNoX gets a little
peevish.
—In New Jersey they tax bachelors $100
per year because they have no families to
support. But JOHN BLANCHARD doesn’t
live in New Jersey so that couldn't have
scared him.
—Beilefonte appears to be in the throes
of a matrimonial epidemic. A few months
ago everything was new babies; now it is
new engagements and marriages until
none of us are really safe.
—Sooretary TAFT has announced the
platform on which he will stand in his
presidential race. Every thing that TED-
pY bas done, every thing that TEDDY
wants done seems to be the gist of it.
—ROOSEVELT'S talk about putting the
guilty rich in jail is all very fine, but the
President must soon come to realize that
the public is growing tired of talk. Any
how, actions speak louder than words.
—Ridgway is suffering with an epidemic
of typhoid, meningitis and paralysis. Any
one of the dread diseases wonld be enough
£0 with all three raging the metropolis of
Elk will bave the sympathy of all her sis-
ter towns,
—What pretext RoosEVELT could have
had for delivering a partisan political epeech
at the dedication of a monument to the
Piigrims of Cape Cod no one with a mind
less full of vagaries than his own will be
able to understand.
—OQupe of the ASTORS is said to he New
York’s favorite for the Democratic nomi-
nation of President. Even at this point of
the game the namo is decidedly better
known than that of New York's last favor-
ite son who had the same honor.
—Here it had been supposed that Gov-
ernor HUGHES was giving his time solely
to the people of the State of New York.
What an awakening to the trath of his rec-
reancy it must have been when they dis-
covered that the stork visited the executive
mansion on Monday.
—WiLLiaM Gro RUNKLE is popular
as ever. His service as District Attorney
has assured those who voted for him three
years ago that they made no mistake.
They will all do it again and more will join
them, because most everybody agrees that
WILLIAM is deserving of a second term.
—That $123.46 claim advertised on page
5 of this issue is still for sale. The press
all over the State has been helping us ad.
vertise it but up to this time no bid of
more than 25ots. has been received. We
will have to give it more space and larger
type soon in order to work it off on some
one more able to carry the burden than we
are.
—Orange county, New York, dairymen
are protesting against an order that requires
clipping the long hair off their cow's tails
in order to prevent unsanitary milk being
shipped into New York. They say the
cows need their tails to brush the flies off.
How fanny. We always imagined a cow’s
tail was only put there to slash in the face
of the milk maid.
—A business men’s picnic like that of
Tuesday is eomething any community
might be proud of. From eight to ten
thousand peopie together fora day with.
out a fight and only two drunks to be seen,
not an accident of any sort in transporta-
tion to or from the park and amusements
of an elevating character is a combination
not often met with.
—At the Iowa State fair at Des Moines
next month lectures are to be delivered on
“How to Make Iowa Girls Fit for Matri-
mony.” Around here they make them fit
by teaching them that housework isnot a
polite accomplishment aud unless they
have a drawer full of peek-a-boo shirt
, a dozen pair of tan shoes, a few
“Brown veils to cover their bats, a big rat or
two and legs strong enough to run the
streets fourteen hours out ol every twenty-
four that they certainly are not on the
soratch when the matrimonial race begins,
_VOL. 52
Not nn Jurist of Distinction.
The esteemed New York World, com-
menting upon the capitol graft scandal
declares that ‘‘in all this jobbery and rob-
bery former Governor SAMUEL W. PENNY
PACKER cuts a pitiable figure. A jurist of
dsstinction,’’ our contemporary continues,
“and a man of high personal probity, made
Governor by the old QUAY machine, his
four years’ administration will be chiefly
remembered, aside from his comical explo-
sions of personal prejudice, for the most
glaring frauds that Harrisburg bas harbor-
ed in decades.” Our esteemed New York
contemporary is gravely mistaken in sever-
al particulars. PENNYPACKER never was
‘‘a jurist of distinction.” A lawyer with-
out practice QUAY catapulted him on to
the bench where he served as a convenient
shelter for ballot box stuffers for a dozen
years or 80.
Asa judge, PENNYPACKER never did
anything that commanded public attention,
except write a magazine article absardly
eulogizing Quay. That public conapira-
tor and official plonderer was under the
condemnation of public opinion and about
to be put on trial for a constitutional
misdemeanor, the penalty forw hich he suh-
sequently escaped by pleading the statute
of limitation, and needed the boosting of
some one of respectable antecedents.
PENNYPACKER, his cousin and at the
time a judge, served the purpose. The ab-
surd fulsomeness of the sketch almost de-
feated its purpose, but some of the leading
papers published it a3 a literary curiosity,
aud as few koew PENNYPACKER and the
| people of Pennsylvania bave great rever-
| ence for the bench, it helped QUAY amaz-
| ingly.
| A couple of years afterward QUAY rec-
ompensed his cousin by ‘‘appointing’’ him
Republican candidate for Governor aud he
| was elected by fraudulent votes. That he
| thoroughly understood that fact may be in
| ferred, for he never, during his term of
| office, would consent to any ballot reform
legislation. That he bad high expeota-
tions from the office in a pecuniary sense
may likewise be assumed, for in one of his
public speeches he stated that previous
to his nomivation he was assured that
there was a possibility of making halla
million dollars out of it. That be got
pothing more than his salary, however, is
probable. After his induction into the
office he developed an ambition for a seat
on the Supreme bench and accepted the
promise of that preferment in lien of loot.
Taft's Adroit Speech.
The speech of Secretary TAFT at Colum:
bus, Ohio, ou Monday evening,
was an adroit presentation of ROOSE-
VELT'S claims for another term. He didn’t
mention the President in that connection
bat he enlogized bis policies as the only
security against socialism and anarchy.
He didn’t endorse everything ROOSEVELT
bas advocated of late. For example, he
would consent to a national inheritance
tax only as an emergency measure, and he
wouldn’t wipe State governments out of
existence. On the contrary he believes in
the preservation of the righis of the States
to the extent that he would not destroy
them by construction.
That was his adroit method of deferenti-
ating between ROOSEVELT and himself in
the matter of availability. He declares that
ROOSEVELT'S policies are essential to the
salety of the government and adds that he,
himself, doesn't favor all of them. What is
to be inferred from that? Clearly that
ROOSEVELT must be the candidate not only
to save the party but to save the country
from ruin. They differ on the tariff,ques-
tion also and in that as in other matters
Mr. TAFT believes that the President is
right. In other words he favors tariff
revision but is opposed to revising the
tanfl, like the Maine man who favored
prohibition laws but was opposed [to en-
forcing them.
We have never been deceived by Tarr's
pretended candidacy for the Presidency.
His aspirations are toward the seat of the
Chizt Justice of the Supreme court and if
fall pay, anytime within: the past year and
Bat Fuller was not obliging in that matter
and the spectacle of Monday night was the
consequence.
—— Saturday evening there was a little
fire scare out at Lingle’s foundry but for-
tauately little damage was dove. Work:
wen bad just made a casting which weigh:
ed over a ton when it exploded and the
red bot pieces of iron were thrown all
around the casting honse. Several pieces
alighting on the roof set fire to it but the
flames were extinguished by the workmen
before they succeeded in gaining mach
headway. Fortunately nobody was in-
jured by the explosion of the metal.
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The System Rather than the Man.
Admitting for the sake of argument that
the Republican candidate for State Treas-
urer is as honest as his most partial and
partisan friends claim, itis no valid reas.
on why he should be elected. It isu’tal-
together a question of personal integrity.
PENNYPACKER'S record on the bench was
quite as creditable as SHEATZ'S record in
the Legislature. Ballot box stuffers had
little to fear when arraigned in the court
over which PENNYPACKER presided and
the legistative lobbyists neversuffered much
from the votes of SHEATZ in the House of
Representatives. Besides nobody ever
questioned the personal integrity of Aud.
itor General SNYDER or State Treasurer
Marnues. But a legislative commission
has just been forced to denounce them as
participants in looting operations.
It is thesystem rather than the individoal
which determines the policy of an adminis.
tration. The men behind the throne rather
than the throne itself control the actions of
an administrative official. Governor STU-
ART is scrupulously bonest bat with oue or
two unimportant exceptions the machine |
| Democrats on the commission would not
selected his administrative agents. He bad
ideals when be went to Harrisburg. He
wanted men of the highest character about
him. He protested earnestiy and vigorous-
ly against the present Secretary of the
Commonwealth and positively declared bis
intention to appoint another. Bat the
machine wanted MCAFEE and got him.
STUART badu’t force of character enough to
resist the machine demands and SHEATZ is
amuch weaker man. The machine is ir-
resistible when it selects its own agents.
When the gralt in the construction of
the capitol was exposed by the Democratic
State Treasurer every conspicuous Republi-
can in the State, including the present
candidate for State Treasurer, protested
that the charges were slanders. The testi-
mony of nuwerons witnesses has proved
the truth of the accusations. Bat the
balf has not been told as yet. The depths
of the iniguities have not been sounded.
For thas reason an instrument of the ma-
chine, even though be be p:rsovally hon-
est, shonld not be chosen to fill the office
of State Treasurer. PENNYPACKER, SNY-
per, HARRIS and MATHUES were silenced
and any other Republican iv their places
would be equally quiescent. JOHN G.
HARMAN will serve the people, however,
as BERRY has, and he ought to be elected.
His Record Convicts Him.
The Republican candidate for State
Treasurer voted for the press muzzler dur-
ing the seesion of 1903. Representative
TroMas V. COOPER, the veteran Republi-
can leader of Delaware, denounced that
measure as the sum-total of all iniguities.
He proved that the purpose of the measure
was to promote vice and crime in public
life. It was conceived in the QUAY trial.
The machine managers reasoned that if the
newspapers could nave been silenced
QUAY'S crimes might not have been ex-
posed. Other machine politicians were in
peril of exposure and the bill was prepared
to shield them.
No man supported that measure in ig-
norance of its purpose and effect. It was
railroaded through the House in violation
of the constitution and in contempt of the
rales of the body. Honest members pro-
tested agaiust it at every stage. Yet the
machine pressed it forward and in less than
two days forced it to passage, though the
constitution requires that every bill “‘shall
be read at length three times ou three sepa-
rate days.”’ Every man who voted for it
staltified himself and alligned with the
orooks in and out of the Legislature who
were concerned in the passage of vicious
measures.
Mr. SHEATZ also voted for the bill to
take the power of filling vacancies on elec~
tion boards in Philadelphia out of the
hands of the courts and lodging it in the
Board of City Commissioners. The pur-
pose of that bill was to promote ballot box
staffing and other electoral crimes. The
conservatism that restrained the courts
was absent from the commissioners’ office
ROOSEVELT gets another term in the office | oq {here was no concealment of the aim of
of President nothing but death would pre- | yp. ooo yet the Republican candi-
vent the fulfillment of his expectations. If | 4.0. cova forit and now wants to be
Chief Justice FULLER bad resigned or |. ....q among those who favored whole
availed bimself of the right to retireon |. legislation aud opposed vicions meas-
H% ures. His own record convicts him of
a-balf TAFT wounld have succeeded bim | fraud.
and the President would bave found an- rr ———
other stalking horse to mask biscandidacy. | —— Arthur Cleveland Harper, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Harper, of this place,
was on Thureday of last week appointed
an instructor in mechanical engineering at
The Pennsylvania State College. ‘‘Budd”’
Harper, as he is more familiarly known,
gradoated from the College in the class of
1906 and during the college year of 1906-
1907 was an assisiant instructor and that
he has now heen promoted to the position
of an instruotor is evidence of the fact that
the young man is possessed of more than
the ordinary ability in his chosen profes.
sion, and thereiz uno donht of his success
in the future.
—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEPONIE Dy
The Graft Prober's Report.
The report of the capitol investigating
commission is sufficiently drastic to be
serviceable as a Republican campaign docu-
ment and amply mild to afford opportunity
for immunity for the looters. It mentions
eighteen persons who are inculpated by
the evidence as participants in frauds of
one gort or another but fails to recommend
the prosecution of any of them. Not offi-
cially hut emphatically Senator DEWALT
and Representative Ammermau were after-
ward denounced by their associates in the
investigation as ‘‘playing politics’’ because
in a supplementary report they corrected
this fault. The majority would bave pre-
ferred that most potential form of the game
of politics which is expressed in white-
wash.
That it was the intention of the machine
to make a colorless and harmless report
scarcely admits of a donbt. If there had
been no Democrats on the commission that
intention would likely have been carried
out. But under the conditions that existed
that would have been both difficult and
useless, if not actually damaging. The
only have refused to sign such a report hut
would have protested in a minority report.
With the evidence which bad been widely
published and generally read to support
the minority under such circumstances,
public opinion would have resented the
recreancy of the majority. A whitewash-
ing report would have been political folly.
As it is there will be no trial of the cul-
prits until after the election and if the Re-
publican candidate for State Treasurer is
elected there will be no punishment ever.
Possibly HusTON and SANDERSON may be
arraigned during the September session of
the Dauphin county court, and that farce
will be paraded as evidence of the purpose
of the machine to purify itself. But that
will be a false pretense as palpably fraundu-
lent as the substitution of Beaver county
glass for the Baccarat make or putty for
solid mabogany mouldings. HuUsTON and
SANDERSON are guilty but infinitely less
sc than the officials who conspired with
them to rob the treasury and dishonor the
State.
Pennypacker's Immunity Bath,
The singular thing about the reports of
the graft investigating commission is that
former Governor PENNYPACKER is not
ceusured or condemned at all. Even the
supplemental report signed by DEWALT
and AMMERMAN makes no mention of his
share in the looting operations. The
Board of Pablic Grounds aud Buildings of
which he was chairman is charged with
criminal misfeasance in both reports and
SNYDER, SHUMAKER aud MATHUES, his
associates on the hoard, are named and
avathematized in both. Bat PENNYPACK-
ER escapes without even an inferential
aspersion. What strange influence saved
him?
Whem PENNYPACKER made his state
ment before the commission in Harrisburg
he admitted that Auditor General SNYDER
bad ivformed him of the excessive pay-
ments immediately after the election of
Mr. BERRY. Yet he subsequently ap-
proved fraudulent bills to the amount of
nearly $4,000,000, and a year later sigued
a statement that there had been no exces.
sive charges or payments and that Mr.
BERRY had vilified the honest contractors
who bad looted the treasury. Other evi:
dence proved that he was familiar with the
Bacarat glass and other frauds and tbat if
he didn’t share in the plunder he got what
satisfied him as well as loot.
It is no exaggeration to say that no man
of all those concerned in the frauds was a3
guilty as PENNYPACKER. In fact he was
responsible for all of it for the reason that
without his acquiescense the looting would
bave been impossible and among those
condemned his name should bave appeared
first. When he appeared before the com-
mission iv Harrisbarg he was permitted to
testify withont taking the oath and was
permitted to testify without cross-examina-
tion. Now he is again favored with an
immunity bath in both reports and the
public is left to conjectuer as to the infla-
ence which produces the resuit.
—M. M. Musser, of State College, is the
only Ceutre countian who asa member of
the Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry during
the Civil war, was able to take advantage
of their eld colonel’s liberality in paying
| all the expenses of the surviving members
of his old command for them to attend a
reanion on the Palmer estate at Colorado
Springs, on Toesday. James T. Owens and
Hon. A. A. Stevens, of Tyrone, were also
members of the Fifteenth and they all left
Satarday wight by special train for Colo.
rado.
— Bellefonte is doomed to have an
epidemio this fall, but there is no cause to
become alarmed over the matter, as the
epidemic will be a matrimonial one, there
being at least a balf dozen waddings of
well known Bellefonte people booked for
the near future.
AUGUST 23, 190
1.
The Capitol Probers Report.
Press of the State Unanimous in Commending their
Report and Demanding that no Immunity from
Law be allowed the Thieving Contractors and
their Cohorts.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
Is would seem that the commission did
its work well so far as is went. But this is
said with reservation and in the firm belief
that the commission should have traced the
stolen money beyond those to whom it was
paid by the state.
Farther, the majority of the commission
balted at a critical point when it failed to
specifically and unmistakably w name
recommend the prosecution of all whom
the evidence according so the commission’s
own findings showed were guilty of collu-
sion and fraud.
Io this respect the Democratic members
of the commission who signed a supple-
mental report did better, but in the list of
names of men whom they say should be
proceeded against there is one im t
omission, the name of Samuel W. Penny-
The people unanimously acquit Mr.
Pennypacker of any participation of the
fruits of the stealings. But negligence
when it results in private or public injury
is a crime. Mr. Pennypacker knows this
and bas said so many times. Heds on
record to that effect in his memorandum on
the Salus-Grady libel hill.
Heisa distinguished lawyer cf far more
than ordinary ability who been at the
bar and on the bench for nearly 40 years.
He was in a position where it was his duty
and easily within bis power to Prevent a
large part of the thefts which Mr. Berry ex-
posed and the commission has proved. He
did not do it and he should be held to ac-
count.
The fact that he bas held the highest office
in the gift of the people of the common-
wealth is no reason why be should be treat-
ed with any more tenderness than Snyder,
Mathues, Harris, Hardenberg or Shumaker,
who were members or officials of the same
board as himself, a board of which he was
the higheat member and whose aots he de-
fended as long as any defence was possible.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The greed aud dishonesty of the men en-
gaged in building and farnishing the cap-
itol robbed the state of many willions of
dollars. But why was this permitted and
why did the guards fail in their doty ?
Gov. Pennypacker says that the latter were
deceived. It is conceded without reserva.
tion that the governor was deceived to the
top of his bens, and there confidence stops.
The committee charges both the Stone and
Pennypacker commissions with violating
the law. The Pennypacker board of pub-
lie grounds and buildings violated the law
in many ways, while the Stone public
building commission did wrong in allowing
the other body to interfere with its work
and add tothe construction work of the
new capitol buildings. The guards who
shonld bave protected the state were either |
asleep or had a gnilty kpowledge of the
frauds practiced. Gross negligence is the
very least of their offenses. The penalties
for negligence which Gov. Pennypacker
wished to add to the burden of newspaper
libel law may perbaps be applicable to
guards who sleep on post and to trustees
who are eo excessively oredulous and trast-
ing that they allow their ward to be robbed
outrageously by those whom they em-
ploy to serve it.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The thin sophistry with which Gov.
Pennypacker justified the commissioners of
public grounds and buildings in spending
money on the work of constroction is
brushed aside like a cobweb. This com-
mission, which at most bad authority to
furnish, violated specific acts of the legis-
lature in spending $3,000,000 on the con-
struction of the capitol. The investigators
do not believe the capitol building commis-
sion was ignorant of what was going on
while the other commission was spending
on the building itself three-fourths as much
as the building commission spent.
Iu regard to the furnishing, the state was
made to pay nearly six and a hall millions
for articles which orst a little more than a
million and a half. The work omitted by
the building commission, for which the
state was oredited with $85,000, was in-
stalled by the other commission at an ex-
pense of $1,174,000. The entire method of
administration was as careless and slovenly
as can be imagined, and 23 carloads of
furniture and supplies were certified and
paid for before they were delivered.
The criminal aspeots of the scandal are
frankly dealt with. False certificates and
fraudulent invoices were made ‘‘intention-
ally and fraudalentls’’ hy Huston, Sander-
son, Shumaker, Burd Cassel and Wetter.
Criminal prosecution of the architect and
13 officials aud contractors is recommended.
From the Pittshurg Post.
In spite of their desperate endeavors, the
political grafters who looted the state in
the baildiug of the capitol see justice and
retribution one parallel nearer them in the
plain findings of the probes. Inces:ant
bammering has frightened the machine ma-
jority of the commission from their obvious
original intention of bringing in a colorless
or white-washiog report. In the finding
laid before the governor the tools, dupes
and immediate apparent beneficiaries of the
fraud are indelibly branded. What Ps
ical penalties are further to he impose
on these will depend upon the governor's
honesty and backbone, and what further
legal and political obstacles the meu higher
up, and yet undisclosed, can interpose.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
An indictment so sweeping and drastic
bas been brought that nothing short of a
searching judicial investigation will satisfy
the demands of justice and equity. There
must be no faltering. To the courts alone
the innocent—if there be any untainted
rticipants in the capitol job—can now
ook for vindication, and the people of the
state are also looking to the same high tri-
buna! for the administration of justice, for
the punishment of the guilty and the ev-
forced restitution of ill-gotten gains.
up- |
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The Lutheran congregation at Markles-
burg, Huntingdon county, will celebrate the
one hundredth anniversary of its organiza-
tion, commencing Thursday, September 18th.
—There are fourteen cases of typhoid fever
at Woodland, Clearfield county, and among
the most serious omnes is A. E. Woolridge,
known to many people over the county,
having served in the office of county com-
missioner for a period of six years.
—Dr. J. W. McKean, of Washington, was
prosecuted before the burgess for maintain.
ing a nuisance by keeping a rooster that
crowed so early and loudly as to disturb the
aeigkbors’ slumbers. He was fined $2.50 and
directed to place the rooster where he could
not be heard.
~—Fourteen of the late Judge Woodward's
best addresses have been printed in a neat
volume of about 100 pages. Judge Woodward
was one of Wilkesbarre’s most admired citi-
zens, and be was as brainy as he was popu-
lar. He was born in Wilkesbarre in 1833,
aud was active in many organizations.
—John A. Graham, of Girard township,
Clearfield county, who is lumbering for the
Goodyear’s, in Medix Run, recently cut a
hemlock which would have produced 9,000
feet of lumber if it had been sound through.
out. But it was partly defective, yet 5,000
Jeet of good, sound lumber was gotten out
of it.
—David Patton, of 6241 Elmwood avenue,
Philadelphia, met a woman on the street on
Saturday who gave her name as Alla Roup.
He took her to a cafe for refreshments, where
she left him. Later he discovered that his
pocketbook with $185 was gone and he had
the woman arrested, but the money was not
found upon her.
—Rabbits are so plentiful in some parts of
Northumberiand county that they are be-
coming a nuisance, says the Shamokin Dis.
patch. One farmer in town Friday evening
said there were so many rabbits on his farm
this year that Le will have no early cabbage
whatever. They are also gnawing the bark
off the bottom of the trees on his farm.
—A few nights ago some malicious person
went to the reservoir of the West End Water
company, of Lock Haven, and opened the
large blow off gate, causing the loss of about
5,000,000 gallons of water and also battered
the copper screen which covers the intake
until it would allow only a small quantity
of water to pass through it into the main.
~The third annual tournament of the
Lock Haven Gun club was held on the
grounds of that club last Wednesday and
Thursday, and drew together many marks-
men and over 2,000 people to witness the
shooting. Fifty marksmen participated in
the shoot and there was some fine skill
shown. A number of prizes were awarded.
| =—Five carloads of silk passed through
Tyrone ou the way from San Francitco to
New York, Each carload was worth about
$100,000, making the five worth approximate.
ly $500,000. The silk came from the coast to
Chicago in six days, and from Chicago this
consignment was carried to New York for
Europe, over the lines of the Pennsylvania
in sixty hours.
—While eating peanuts,a 2-year-old daugh-
ter of M. M. Sensenig, of Terre Hill, Lau.
caster county, got a kernel in her windpipe,
on Tuesday, almost strangling her. Efforts
to remove it were unaviling, and in the
evening she was taken to the Lancaster Gene
eral hospital, where the windpipe was open-
ed and the kerne! removed, but the child was
so much exhausted that she died on Wed-
nesday.
| —The Kirks, of Clearfield county, held a
reunion Tuesday, August 20th, in R. H.
Kirk's grove, near Troutville. The reunion
was held in honor of Brady 8. Kirk and fam-
ily, of Burr Oak, Kausas, who are visiting
in that section. The Kirk family is one of
tha oldest in Clearfield county, having come
to that region in the early years of the past
century. Dr. M. A. Kirk, of this place, isa
member of that family.
—A Pennsylvania passenger train struck a
man and killed him on Tuesday night near
Fulton, Northampton county. The train
was stopped and the crew went to gather up
the remains, when about fifty foreigners
pounced upon them and threatened to kill
them. The conductor tried to explain the
situation, but it was useless, and the crew
hurriedly jumped the train amid a volley of
stones and escaped uninjured.
—H. B. Ahrens & Sons, of Lewistown, have
received the contract to build two miles of
state road in Brady township, Huntingdon
county, between Mill Creek and Metz's mill,
which will cost $17,000, They expect to have
it completed by the middle of November.
Another is to be built in Smithfield town.
ship, between the present state road in Por-
ter township, and that adjoining the refor-
matory, for $7,411.30, by the Maryland com-
pany, of Philadelphia.
—A traveler stepped to the ticket window
at Lewistown Jauction, on Wednesday, and
presented a ticket to the ticket agent, calling
for pussage from Lewistown Junction to
Harrisburg, and asking him if it was still
valid. Upon examination the ticket agent
found that the ticket bad been sold August
21st, 1902, since which time 12,880 tickets
have been sold to passengers goiug from
Lewistown Junction to Harrisburg. The
ticket was pronounced good.
—James Kelly, aged 42 years, married, of
Pittsburg, met a horrible death by being
ground and mangled in a separator of a brick
making machine at the Booth & Flinn brick
yards on Buch's Hill, Wednesday. He was
shoveling loose earth on a belt which carried
it to a hopper used to grind and separate it.
During the absence of other employes, in
some mauner unknown he was caught on
the belt and carried to the hopper, where the
machinery mangled and killed him. Other
employes discovered his body and he was re-
moved to the morgue.
—Because she refused to wed a man 70
years of age, who had been pictured to. her
as a young man, Rose Cimbitte, freshly ar-
rived in Carbondale from the sunny land
beyond the Alps, alleges that two of her fel-
low countrymen threatened to cutoff her
ears. John Genezetta is the “man in the
case,’ and it was said that be paid her pas-
sage from the old country on condition that
she marry him. Rosie's brother paid the
money back and bought her liberty, but two
friends of the disappointed suitor made
threats. They were beld in bail before
Alderman Atkinson.