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Ink Slings. ?
—Mr. RAISULI seems to be about all
there is to Morocco these days.
—Back to the soup for yours will be the
greeting the ice cream cove will give the
oyster when he appears on Sunday.
—“Will SHUMAKER Tell ?’’ bas the State
going now at about the same pace thas
“How Old i+ ANN?" bad it several years
ago.
—In this country 132 out of every 100,000 |
inbabitants are in jail all the time." After |
we get to the bottom of the capitol sandal
the proportion will probably be inecraased.
—There is some consolation in .the
thought that when the President hurls his |
anathemas at ‘‘certain malefactors of great
wealth” we know he is not talking about
us.
—The frequency with which coal wag:
pass along the streets these days is a f&:
minder that the moth balls will soon have
to stir out of their cosy nest in our winter |
flavnels.
—It is reported that JOHN D. lost a mil-
lion a minate while stocks were going
down last week. Perbaps he did, but
there weren't enough minutes to take the
Oil King South very far.
—Less than eight thonsaud people own
all the land in Gt. Britain. We don't
know how many owners there are in the
States but the Hon. TEDDY R. talks and
acts as if there were only one.
—The Youngstown, Ohio, man who put
$500 in a phonograph for sale keeping and
found it gone when he went to get it later
might bave known that a talking machine
conldn’t keep such a treasure secret long. |
—A man has been put in jail over in
New York for stealing three tomatoes val-
ued at only three cents. My, il such a lit-
tle thief bas to go to jail where in the
world will we send our capitol thieves
when we convict them ?
—Pennsylvania will vever be purged
until the hope of graft is forever denied the
gang. The only way to make this possi.
ble is to keep the State Treasury out of its
hands. Vote for HARMAN aud the gang
will have another prosecutor like BERRY
has been.
~The fall election is approaching faster
than you imagine. It is time for all per-
sons interested in having the very best of-
ficials for Centre county, to say a word for
ArTAUR B. KiMrorr. He bas been Pro.
thonotary for one term and the county has
never bad a better one.
— Washington county farmers are said to
have driven hordes of rats into the river by
beating drums. Ordinarily they will be
regarded as descendants of the Pied Piper,
of Hamlin, until! the President takes no-
tice and puts them in his natare faker class
or gives the aathor of the story a seat in
his ANANIAS club.
—W. G. RUNKLE, our nominee for Dis
trict Attorney, has heen uniformly coorte-
ous and considerate of those baviog busi.
ness for the county's attorney. He has
prosecuted the public's business with dis.
patoh and economy so that he has nothing
to fear in asking for a re-election to the of-
fice he has so creditably filled.
—Those Bayard, Iowa, women who tar-
red and feathered six town drunkards went
the limit of unique punishment for habitu-
al offenders but the results could not have
been otherwise than salutary. Wouldn't
there be a nice flock of birds hovering
around the ice house should the same doze
be handed out to a hunoh in Bellefonte
—Though a millionaire Mr, STUYVE-
SANT FISH seems to be somewhat of a
knocker. One blow from his powerful
right put the president of the Illinois Cen-
tral R. R. ont of business at a meeting of
the directors of that road in New York, on
Wednesday. Verily, the railroads and rail-
road managers are having more than their
share of trouble.
—The dispatch and intelligence with
which eight circus elephants cleaved up a
wreck on the Baltimore and Obio on Mon-
day, saving the life of an engineer, opens
up a new field of possibilities for railroad
wrecking crews. Inasmuch as the pachy-
derms live to be hundreds of years old com-
panies owning and using them would be
required to charge off very little for depre-
ciation each year.
—J13 SCARLET, the Danville attorney
who conducted the capitol probe, could
probably have fixed himself for life finan-
cially had he not gone so couscientionsly
into everything. The gang woun!d have
given bim anything he asked, no doubt,
but “SCARLET is not that kind of a man
and he has made a name in the State that
will be honored long after the time when
earthly riches would avail him anything.
—What will it avail Penusyivania if
JonN O. SHEATZ ia pat in charge of the
State Treasury ? Granting, for the sake of
argument, that he is not in sympathy with
the crowd that has looted it he is, at least,
in political sympathy with them and is
friendly with their friends. While he
might vot conspire with them it is reason-
ably certain that as an official he would be
merely passive in the effort to ancover
their crimes. He would not be active. An
active, determined Strate Treasurer is the
kind the St tv follow up BERRY'S
initiative. will pet without fear or
is whut can be expect.
AN. Itis idle to think
; wenld make spoh aw of-
| convention to put some restraint on the
how honest he may be
personally.
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VOL. 52
The Crowning Legislative Iniguity.
No hill ever introduced into the Legis-
lature was as palpably in the interest of
crime as that which divested the courts of
Philadelphia of the right to fill vacancies
on election hoards and lodged that power
in the board of city commissioners. There
have been various iniquitons measures con-
sidered in the General Assembly of Penn-
sylvania. At one time the body became
so notoriously corrupt that public zenti-
ment forced the creation of a constitutional
bedy. Siuvee that legislation bas been con-
sidered and even enacted to promote traffic
in the virtue of women and encourage vice
io men. The PUmL bill was a specimen of
this sort.
Pollution of the ballot box is the high-
est crime, with the exception of high trea.
son, in the criminal catalogue. Oue of the
great statesmen aud earnest patriots of the
country has said that it is treason for the
reason that it subverts the principles of the
government and poisons the fountain of
authority. Ballot box stuffing is the in-
flac neing canse of all graft and corruption
in office. The great cost of such sinister
service can he met only by a ‘‘rake-off,”’
through excessive fees, fraudulent con-
tracts or stolen franchises. All these sys.
tems draw unjustly from the pockets of the
people. Besides they debauch public mor:
als and pervert popular government.
Thete was no concealment of the purpose
of the bill to deprive the courts of Phila.
delphia of the authority to fill vacancies on
election boards and hestow it upon the city
commissioners. The courts were slow in
responding to the demands of the machine
that they obey the mandates of the hosses.
With men like BippLE, BEITLER, FIN-
LETTER and ARNOLD onthe bench there
seemed little hope of prostituting it to the
base uses of eourvy politics for a long time.
Meantime the machine coveted unrestrain-
ed power in debauching the ballot. To ae-
complish this vicions desire, the measure
in question was devised. JAKE WiLD-
MORE and HuGH Brack could be depend.
ed upon. :
When the hill was introduced into the
Legislature the machine whip was prompt.
ly summoned to service. The enormity of
the proposition revoitgd svery decent and
honest member of tEghody. Many earnest
Republicans protested against the prostitu.
tion of power. But Quay and PENROSE
aud DURHAM were insistent. The, felt
that such desperate measures were neces-
sary to their continuance in power and the
perpetuity of their ligense to loot. They
realized that unless such expedients were
invoked there was nasecurity for the ballot
box stoffer or safety in impersonating
voters. They couldn't even hope for es-
cape from punishment for themselves much
longer unless such adaw were enacted.
Among the ardent gppporters of this ciim-
inal expedient in thé House of Represen-
tatives was JOHN O. 8HEATZ. The notori-
ous SALUS of press mpzzler fame and the
equally malodorous SHERS, of Philadel
phia, were the sponsors for the measure.
No one of the slightest pretense to political
integrity would speak for it, even its au-
thor dodging an inguiry and leaving to
SHERN the disreputable duty of defending
it. Mr. SHEATZ was able to stomach it,
however. In company with RIPP, SALUS,
PUHL and SHERN, enial machine serv.
itors, be shouted hi# approval of the pre-
liminary to more exfeusive bailot frauds.
In fact dming bis firet session in the Legis-
lature he was alway& on the wrong side.
Later he found it adeantageons to straddle.
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Taft's Egreglous Blunder.
Secretary TAFT is making a picturesque
donkey of himsel! os bis western trip pre-
liminary to “girdlipg the globe.” The |
whole business is an electioneering enter-
prise in the interes§, of ROOSEVELT'S re-
nomivation and TAFT is waking it ridica-
lous by his political jabbering. His first
speech at Columbus, Ohio, was rather
adroit, though his palpable effort to ‘‘run
with the bare and hunt with the hounds”
on the tariff question was disingenious.
His second speech, at Louisville, Ken
tocky, was an absurd attemps to placate
the negroes and please the white folks of
the Soath. Bat he touched the limit of
absurdity in his Oklahoma speech in which
lie adopted the scolding babit of his prin-
cipal. .
Secretary TAFT is disappointed with the
political conditions; of Oklaboma. Like
other leaders of his party be expected that
the people of that territory would be dra-
gooned into electing g Republican Legisla-
ture which would two Republicans to
the United States te. He has discov-
ered that there is no hope of such a result
and wants to prevent the election of any
Senators.” The only feans of accomplish.
ing that is to defeat be constitution adopt-
ed by the conventio'and the Secretary of
War bectered the vgbers on that point to
the limit of endurabce. He threatened,
cajoled and offered bfibes in turn but the
indioations are that His only recompense is
the contempt of those addressed.
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| on any subject in return for political ac-
tractive attribute but since that can have
trafsm of
The Secretary of War has no right to
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STATE RIGHTS AND
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
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promise legislation by Congress of any sort
That is nothing more nor less than
a form of bribery and a mau who will re-
sort to it is more likely to Jand in the pen-
itentiary than in the presidential office.
The public had some respect for Judge
TAFT until he developed this very unat-
little more than contempt. The people of
Oklaboma know what they want aud can
neither be coerced nor fooled into self-stul-
tification. The copstitution which they
have framed is admirable in may respects
and fairly good in all. If they adopt it the
President will not dare interfere.
Cortelyon’'s New Political Scheme.
Secretary of the Treasury CORTELYOU
announces a new and novel method of re-
lieving the country of the financial strin-
gency which is already present and the
greater scarcity of carrency which is im-
pending. He will distribute the treasury
surplus in the banks of the country, he de-
clares, and make money as abundant as
‘‘leaves in Vallambrosia.’’ The Secretary
will not place the fands in the big banks
of the financial centres. Both of his pred.
ecessors in office did that and it provoked
adverse criticism rather than fulsome praise.
It served its purpuse, however, which was
to raise campaign funds, but that was all.
In fact it did quite as much harm as good
to the party.
CORTELYOU is more expert in the work
of raising corruption funds. As chairman
of the Republican National committee
during the presidential campaign he very
nearly demonstrated the possibility of get-
ting ‘‘hlood out of a turnip.” In other
words, he extracted fauds from the vaults
of trusts and corporations, the managers of
which were not actually friendly to the
purpose for which he intended to use the
fande, aud compelled actual enemies of his
candidate to pay other peoples’ money for
the promotion of interests to which they
were ahsolately hostile, "It is not surpris-
ing that so consommate a collector would
bave new ideas to put in operation in the
work which is so important.
Bat while the novelty of Mr. CORTEL-
You's scheme must be admitted, the al-|
PHY bequeerioned. The old
system of relieving the financial stringency,
real or imaginary, served the purpose. But
the big banks in the financial centres are
not as friendly to the President as they
usad to be. It is not that they are actval-
ly afraid of bim for they know they can
get him when it is necessary. Butas a
high officer of the Pennsylvania railroad
once said of the late Senator Quay, “‘heis
too expeunsive.’’ Therefore CORTELYOU has
determined to deal with the emall' banks
direct, as QUAY always did, and bis new
scheme is in pursuance of that plan. He
will farm the public money.
Delaying the Prosecution.
There are no signs of a movement to
begin criminal proceedings in the courts of
Dauphin county against those inculpated
in the grafting operations at the State cap-
itol, at the September session. The report
of the commission was made to the Gov-
ernor three weeks ago and declared un-
equivocally that conspiracy and fraud
been revealed. The supplemental report
sigued by Senator DEWALT and Represen-
tative AMMERMAN recommended criminal
proceedings at the earliest possible mo.
ment. The Dauphin county criminal
court sits on Monday, September 23rd, for |
the fall term. Unless the cases are tried |
at that term they cannot he heard until
after the election. They may not be tried
at all,
While the Legislature was in session the
minority members insisted that in the event
of adjournment before the completion of
the work of the investigating commission,
provision be made for the publication of
the report. In folfillment of an implied
agreement to that effect a resolution was
adopted that the report be made to the
Governor with an understanding that it be
immediately made public. The regular re-
poit signed by all the members of the com"
mission and the supplement signed by
Messrs. DEWALT and AMMERMAN were
presented to the Governor, but only parts
of them bave been given to the public. It
is eid that the salient features of the sup-
plemental report have been concealed. :
The obvious purpose of this juggling the
subject is to pervert the work'o! the com-
mission to the service of the machine. The
real facts are concealed in the reports, and
the measure of culpability as well as the
persons implicated, left to conjecture.
Meantime the machine managers will claim’
that it is the intention to prosecute and
punish the perpetrators of the crimes. Bat.
they don’t prosecute and they can’t punish;
until after the election, avd if the resuit is
favorable to the machine candidate there
will be neither prosecution nor punishment.
The experience in Philadelphia is substan.
tial evidence of this fact. The machine is
completely restored to power and plonder
there. :
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phia. iis
t the old method of awarding manio
ipal doutracts bas been resumed in Phils
delpliia, is no longer a matter of do
The dther day bids for work lor the city
the a¥uount of nearly a million and a quar
ter of dollars were opened. There were
three bidders, JOHN M. MACK, JAMES P.
McNicHoL and another. The other was
bowled out, as he himself declared, by a
clerical error in transcribing bis bid. The
competition was, therefore, between Mc-
NicHOL and MACK. According to every
account of the figures MACK was the lower
bidder. The differences on different con-
ditiose ran from four thousand and odd
dollars to $22,000. No matter which grade
of controllers was used MACK was entitled
to the award.
But be didn’t get it. After an uuneces-
sary and suspicious delay the award was
made to McNicHOL. How this resalt was
reached is a matter of conjecture. The
exact figures of the two bids are : For low-
priced controllers, McNicHoL §1,108,470.-
50 and Mack $1,102,050.00, she difference
in favor of Mack heing $7,420.50. For
medium priced controilers, MCNICHOL,
$1,132,510,50 and Mack §1,110,450.00,
difference in favor of Mack $22,060.50.
For high priced controllers McNIcHOL $1,-
158,310.50 aud Mack $1,153,650 leaving
a difference in favor of MACK of $4,660.50.
Under every rule of justice, therefore, the
coutract ought to have been awarded
promptly to MACK. Bat the director who
had the disposition of the matter, lett the
decision in abeyance, took a trip to Atlan-
tic City and upon his return announced the
award to McNicHOL.
Everybody knows who McNICHOL is. In
secret association with DURHAM he bad
been looting the city for years until an at-
tempt to steal the gas works, a couple of
years ago, aroused public resentment to
such a pitch that all the pirates were oblig-
ed to seek safety in seclusion. Last Feb-
ruary, however, JOHN F. REYBURN, an
eminently respectable gentleman, was
elected Mayor. Daring the canvass for
that result REYBURN made liberal promis-
ea of reform and McNICHOL declared that
he would never apply for another munci-
| pal covgsact. Thus deceived the people
‘ReYBURN and McNICHOL bas re-
sumed business at the old stand and
adopted the old methods.
It the machine candidate for State Treas-
urer is elected in November the same re-
sults will follow in the State. The old
pirates will be restored to power and tbe
looting resumed as before.
Roosevelt's Last Blafl
In his Provincetown speech last week
President ROOSEVELT, with characteristic
cant and proverbial disregard of the truth,
declared, ‘it is idle to ask we not to prose-
cute criminals, rich or poor.” It is idle to
“| ask him to prosecute criminals who can
serve the party by immunity. Three years
'| ago ROOSEVELT made a great pretense of
prosecuting rebaters on the Santa Fe rail-
road. He employed eminent counsel at
vast expense to the public to investigate
the charges. The lawyers proceeded as if
the President were in earnest. They devel-
oped tbe facts aud forced PAUL MORTON to
the confession that he, as vice president of
the Santa Fe railroad, had rebated to the
Colorado Fuel aud Iron company, of which
he was also sige president.
Jupsos HARMAN, of Cincinnati, of the
eminent counsel referred to, made the ree
port of the investigation. He said that the
rebating had not only been proved but that
the responsibility bad beeu fixed. PavuL
MORTON, he showed, who was traffic man-
ager of the Santa Fe was also shipping
manager of the Colorado Fael and Iron
company, and tbat he had used the rail-
road of which he was aun officer to benefit
the manufacturing company of which he
was al0 an officer, #0 that hotb the crime
aud the selfish purpose were revealed.
Judge HARMAN recommended the criminal
prosecution of MORTON, who bad meantime
hecome a member of ROOSEVELT’S cabinet,
with the idea of waking au example of a
confessed ‘‘malefactor of great wealth,”
but ROOSEVELT refused and insisted that
a nominal fine of the stockholders of the
road conserved the interests of justice.
The truth is that ROOSEVELT isan all!
around faker. He is mow protesting hie
determination to prosecute rebaters in the
.| ctiminal courts becanse he feels confident’
that his owu personal friends will be able | &
to escape by pleading the statutes of limita-
tion. They bave bad sufficient notice of
his purpose to make the bloff avd though’
the Standard Oil company and other ‘“‘in-
iquitous trusts’ were liberal contributors
to the corruptich fund which bought his
vast majority, be made vo personal prom-
ises to them. Like PENNYPACKER of this
State he is a frand and bumbug and like
that old moral degenerate, be depends upon
popular credulity to make bis binff good.
It is hardly probable that he will succeed
much longer.
—Picnic days : are these. Let us hope
-! that picnic waysare always as beauntifal.
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Mr. Tafs that
ernment ‘has served us well
| bund: rs bas not
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heals ie pie "ih Seg
r. elt, whi T
leit ota fact that over thee ry
noisy people, thereto Roo
offiebolders, Buve for at. Joust i
past denon : tatives igi@on-
+ and in a ta never
led to dé the of Mr. WB's
sponsor in i “Election of setily
the people is not enough for him,’ -
Mr. Taft. ¢ Mr. Br
ues
Jreached election of senators by the
or easily twenty years past. And l#
up from these two propositions Mr. BF!
denounces any on Joutkeer
million electors should be asked to Ifgis-
late directly. He believes in the reféren-
dom in subdivisions of a state be
thinks that as applied to nati fTafys it
is entirely impracticable. He believes
furthermore that the people shoul@deave
such matters to the decision of theirf@pre
sentatives skilled in the science of législa-
tion. How thoroughly skilled in pe,
how thoroughly devoted to the peopl
the men sent to congress from Mr. 's
home city of Cincinnati, the men sent {rom
Chicago, and the men sent from St. Louis
or from any other great city ? Is it to
trust them than to the people ? Is thisa
government by the people and for the peo-
ple, or by professional politics for them-
selves ? Mr. Taft goes ahead to say ;
*“Think of the bility of securing a
vote of 14,000, of electors on the 4,000
items of a tariff bill.”” Well, think of it,
bat let us look back over history and think
of the time when the Democratic party
elected a congress of representatives of the
people on a tariff reduction platform and
instead nothing except a re of the
Te ih ay bill. PD bink of
the times in the Republican party
bas asked for support, as Taft is now ask-
ing for it, on a promise of tariff revision
after the election. Pol history iu this
country justifies rather appeal to the
people than the confidence. which Mr. Taft
oui ask us to repose in elected represent.
atives.
Better Dusiness Assnred,
From the Pittsburg Post.
Reports from all sections of the country
as to the sentiments of men who are promi-
nent in all branches of busivess indicate
that there are no good grounds for taking
pessimistic views as to the business out-
look. These reports also clearly show that
the overwhelming sentiment o! the zesple
is in favor of the rigid enforcement
laws against tions and men of
wealth ed in their persistent viola-
tion. The efforts of these men to cause
panicky conditions because they are being
required to obey the laws have been fully
discounted by the people generally. The
latter thoroughly understand the situation,
aud they decline to sympathize with the
law-breakers or to be frightened by them
into committing indiscretions which are
not warranted by the actual business con-
ditions.
Financiers of the greatest experience and
highest reputation declare that the present
scarcity of money is world-wide aud not
confined to the United States, and that
therefore the enactment and enforcement
of laws in this country preventing dishou-
esty by corporations and men of wealth
cannot be held responsible for this scarcity.
They also assert that the present situation
in the money market isa thing, as it
will serve to check speculative enterprise
and to place business generally on a sound-
er basis.
It is plain also to sensible p-raons that if
the big corporations are compelled to do
business in strict accordance with law and
our maulti-millionaires can no longer do as
they pleaseand hold themselves above the
Iaw, the result must soon be to inspire the
people generally with greater confidence in
the leading business enterprises of the
country. Consequently wher the Wall
street crowd bave been compelled to bow
to the inevitable and the affairs of our big
corporations generally have come to be ad-
justed to the vew condition of things, we
may look for a greater and more surely
fonnded prosperity than ever belore.
Stuart up Against it.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
It is now ten days since the Capitol In-
vestigating Commission made its final re-
port recommending the criminal and eivil
prosecution of all the guilty. The Com-
mission named several men as guilty.
What action has the Governor or the At-
toruey General taken since they received
the report of the Commission to prevent
the men accused by the Commission from
escaping to foreigv countries from which
they could not be brought back or from
placing all their tangible property beyond
the hope of recovery by the State ? Mean-
time the statue of limitations is runoing
‘and soon the crimivals will be immune un-
‘less prosecutions are begun.
It is true that it is said bills of indict-
ment are being prepared, but it is not cus-
tomary to postpone the arrest of an acc
criminal until after be is indicted. Why
should it be doue in the case of the Capitol
rafters ? Are they entitled to more tender
consideration than the petty and poverty.
stricken thief who gets away with a pair of
shoes or a piece of lead pipe ?
One “Busted Trust.
From the Phiianeiphia Record. :
The Standard Oil company keeps on
dauntlessly payiog dividends. So far this
year it has paid a share, same as last
ear. So long as it holds secure the tax-
ng power inherent in its control of the oil
supply it can pay ite fines and its divi.
dens and maintain ite accustomed se-
renity.
— September 4th ie a most important
day to every Democrat. It is the last day
upon which he can register.
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Spawls from the Keystone.
—Iu order that the people may be well in*
formed as to our game and fish laws, 100,000
copies of these laws will be ready for distri-
bution in a few days.
—Mrs. Jemima Rahm, the oldest resident
of Huutingdon, and perhaps in the county,
who is 93 years of age, took her first trolley
ride a few days ago. The lady highly en
Jjoyed ber trip.
~—William Erney, a hackster, living near
New Cumberland, Cumberland county, was
held up early Tuesday morning on the high-
way, by two men riding in an automobile,
and robbed of $41.
—The Barnesboro Siar printed its last
issue on its job press. Its troubles have been
numerous since the big fire, but its new p:
has arrived and by and by it will assume
its usual proportions.
~The seventeenth child, a son, was born
Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott Marsder, of Norris
of | town, on Tuesday. Of the seventeen chil-
dren, there are thirteen living, six boys and
seven girls, and ali at home. The father is
a court tipstaff,
—Fully 2,00 firemen were in live in the
parade of the firemen's convention at Clear-
field on Friday. The honors were carried
off by the Ponxsutawney department, which
took three first prizes. The Jersey Shore
company, took two.
—A 3-weeks-old baby was left on the
doorstep of the residence of J. Woods Mussi-
na, jr., of Williamsport, on Friday evening.
It was well provided with food and dlothing,
but there was no clew to its identity, It was
taken to the city hospital.
—A roll of bills eight inches thick and
containing several thousand dollars, and a
large bag of silver, were found on Saturday
night in the house of Fortunate Calabra, the
alleged king of the Black Hand society, at
West Berwick, by the state constabulary.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Boyer, aged 36 years,
wife of a negro laborer living at Muddy
Creek Forks, York county, who has always
been a very black woman, is turning white.
Her face is already quite white and much of
her body is also. Her changed condition is
causing much attraction.
—While out for berries recently F. A. Gast
left bis purse lie on a rock at Crab Apple
Orchard, Union county, and it lay there
for a week and nobody was curious enough
to look for it. He went for berries about a
week later and found it just where he had
left it.
—~Shortly after 2 o'clock Friday afternoon,
Clair Holtzinger, aged about 14 years, mes-
senger boy at the Postal Telegraph office, in
Tyrone, met instant death in the elevator
shaft at the First National bank building.
The boy attempted to get out while the
elevator was moving upward, aud his skull
and body were badly crushed.
—Howard Figart, of Altoona, av elevator
boy, values his toes at $25,000, the highest
price on record. Figart was iu charge of an
elevator in the Altoona Trust company
block, when the car started unexpectedly,
and his right foot was caught in the door, all
the toes being cut off. He sued the Trust
company Thursday for $25,000 damages.
—Solzadori Seiasisi, an Italian employed
in the fire clay mines at Monument, was so
‘badly injured last week that death cnsued
two hours later, Seiasisi was coming down
from the mines on a traiv of loaded clay cars
and in shifting the cars on the switchback
ran off the track, throwing the unfortunate
man under the wheels, which crushed in
his chest. He lived until 7 o'clock.
—Mrs. Anua C. Sprout, of Williamsport,
through her attorneys, 8. T. McCormick and
John E. Cupp, has brought suit against Fred
M. Lamade to recover $5000 damages for
injuries sustained at the Lycoming opera
house on March 4th, 1905, when a large iron
slide used in connection with an apparatus
for projecting calcium lights fell from the
gallery and struck her on the head.
—The peach season has opened in Cum-
berland county, not on a large scale, but on
one that is sufficient to tell that big prices
will be obtained for the fruit this year.
While the high prices are altogether to the
liking of the peach grower, and he appre-
ciates them, he is comfronted with the un
pleasant fact that his crop will be ouly
about halt the amount shipped in 1906.
—Rev. F. L Bergstresser Sunday tendered
his resignation as pastor of the first Luth-
eran church of Tyrone, and announced that
the final sermon of his pastorate will be
preached Sunday, September 8th. Rev. Mr.
Bergstresser is the dean of the Tyrone
clergy. baving been pastor of the First
Lutheran congregation for more than fifteen
years, during which time the cosy parsonage
and handsome new church have been built.
—Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Mullen, of Wood-
land, Pa, are home from their wedding trip,
which had been deferred thrity-five years,
Their journey was to Buffalo and Niagara
Falls. They both declared they enjoyed
the trip as much as if they bad taken it after
their wedding. Mr. Mullen is a farmer of
the old school. The bride and bridegroom
of thirty-five years are both in robust health
and were heartily congratulated on their
return by their neighbors.
~—Annie Bair,aged 14 years, was kidnapped
from the campmeeting of the Church of
Holiness in Clement's park, near Sunbury,
Monday night, aud no trace of her has since
been found. She was sitting on a camp stool
in front of her uncle's tent at about 9
o'clock, when two strange men approached
her, They threw a black hood over her
head before she could cry for help, and car-
cied her swiftly from the camp. No clue
has been found as to her fate.
—While traveling along the ridge road,
near Prospect Rock, Mifflin county, in a
heavy electrical and bail storm, at a late
hour Saturday night, the wheel horse in a
team owned by Frank McCallips, a farmer
esiding in Ferguson valley, was struck by
lightning. The animal was completely
disemboweled. The owner and the other
animal escaped injury, but George Price, who
was walking alongside, with one hand rest-
ing.on the wagon, was struck and his hand
and arm seriously burnéd. His lower limbs
were paralyzed so badly from shock that it
was necessary to remove him from the sceue
in an ambnlance. The bolt had evidently
followed the steel teace chains of the bar
ness on the dead animal, avd tbe bindings
of the wagon on which Mr. Price’s band
vested.