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spuwis from the Keystone.
—There are 32.227 taxables in Cumbsis
county snd the total valuation of propexiy:
is $3955.65 Tne property valuation eff
Johunstowa is $16 702,440
—Rich deposits of giass sand and fire clay
bhuve been discovered pear Coral, in Centre
township, ludiana county, and it is said thet
the same may be developed by a numberof
capitalists who have sccured an option on
the same.
—Between May 5th and Jaly 31st, Harry
Stock, of Rush township, Dauphin county,
killed sixty-five foxes aud fifty six minks,
and the county commissioners have just paid.
| him $186 bounty, under the provisions off
the new law,
| =—Frank Barton and John Burkhart, twe
Fim thé Sonumtiwe Demossal i prisoners awaiting trial for petty mis—
. | demeanor, escaped from the Clinton county
: : |
Recently two distingnisbed Republicans {Jarl on Saturday afterncon. Burkhart was
bave taken their stand for “Government by ©
; . . | ptured shortly after the escape but Bax—
| Injubetion.”” Mr. Tats, both in his Colam- | =~" Co Lo
—Canf@lidates are getting as busy as bay
fever noses. Their day is drawing nigh.
—A vote for ARTHUR Kimport for Pro-
thonotary will be a vote for a thoroughly
capable deserving public official.
—A hopefal sign for the grod of Peon-
sylvania politics is JOE SIBLEY'S announce-
ment that he intends to stay retired.
—It is not a reflection on the art of the
beauty doctor to remark that her best cus-
tomers | The answer of the Reading companies to
sults. gieiibe ones who abow Sie" Jeues res the accusations of the government with re-
| spect to the coal trust, is an extraordinary,
—WILLIAM GROH RUNKLE is an aspir- | not to say a startling paper. It might
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RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. .
A., SEPTEMBER 6, 1607.
_VOL. 52
Roosevelt is to Expensive.
NO. 35.
i Government by Injanction.
Governor Stuart a Fake Reformer.
ar—
Ri i
tree. He is all politics and one of the most |
intensely partisan speeches be ever made Z
was a Memorial Day address in which | Ou esteernt f+iend, the mein, appears
politios was ahont as appropriate as a dog to be overwoiking Governor STUART'S
reputation for probity aud patriotism. We
fight is at a Sunday school pisvie. His ave uo doabt of Governor STUART'S pers
ant to succeed himself as District Attorney
of Centre county. He has been a good one. |
Why not vote for him again ?
—This year the American farmer bas
earned one billion dollars more thau last.
The lightning rod agents and Bobemian
oats venders will please take notice.
—Here’s hoping that Steel common will
go to par, if thereby CHARLES M. ScHwWAB |
will be made able to begin that million
dollar industrial school at State College at
once.
—The Pittsburg Post says ‘‘the reopen-
ing of the schools will be welcomed by the
children who are tired of play.”” What
strange children they must bave in Pitts.
burg.
—1I¢ is a little early yet to begin to trace
typhoid fever to the oyster, but he will
come in for his share of the blame before
the season advances much farther. This
you can gamble on.
—Judge PARKER having avnounced that
he would not consider another nomination
for President we presume that he is fully
convinced of the hopelessness of trying to
lead a party that won't follow a leader to
victory. :
—Old ex-Queen LiL, of Hawaii, is to
marry a three hundred pound Prince from
Tahiti. According to the news annouunce-
ments the Prince must be short on every-
thing but avoirdupois, as nothing else is
mentioned.
—Only a few days more remain for the
Summer girl. If she has not already done
80 not a moment should be lost in the effort
to land some one who will relieve her poor
old dad of the burden of footing millinery
and lingerie bills.
—The President is to deliver six speech-
es during the present month. This means
six different spasms for Uncle Sau, for re-
ally man is about worn out adjust |
ing bh $0 each new whim of a very peSTiNG nl
whimsical ident.
—It MARK HANNA really did buy the
support of the coal railroads for the Repub-
lican ticket and Mr. BAER comes to trial
for declaring that he did who is goiog to
tell the court's officer where he will be able
to serve a summons on MARK ?
—Jim McNicHoOL having formally an-
nounced the candidacy of Boies PEN-
ROSE to succeed himsell in the United
States Senate we presume there is already
a chorus of Hail, Hail the Gang All Hears
among the thugs and ballot box stuffers of
Philadelphia.
A government chemist is out with the
theory that one hundred years will be the
average age of an old man before many
generations have passed. Perhaps it will,
but not if the breakfast foods of the pres-
ent day are expected to contribute to the
longevity.
—A river will not rise any higher than
its source nor would JoHN O. SHEATZ be
any better in the State Treasurer's office
than the gang that wants to put him there.
Take no chances. Vote for HARMAN and
be sure that the lid will be kept off until
the scandal is fully revealed.
~The collapse of the great cantilever
bridge at Quebec with its attendant loss of
eighty lives is another admonition against
the precipitate haste with which we strive
to do things nowadays and the colossal
proportions of our undertakings. Noth-
ing is too big for American nerve and
American brains to undertake, but does it
pay? We were just as bappy and just as
prosperous before we got to going so fast so
what is the need of sapping at our energies
until we are nervous, physical wrecks
merely for the honor of being leaders in all
things ?
~The Michigan woman who started to
paddle her boy in the region of his hip
pocket with a shingle little dreamed that
the pocket was loaded. It was, however,
with a dynamite cap and the first whack
caused an explosion that will probably
cause the death of the boy and surely did
result in the separation of the lady from
two of her fingers. Mothers should take
warning. In order to avoid such disas-
trous results they might kick their boys on
the ankie or bat them over the head ;
places where pockets full of dynamite caps
are not likely to be encountered.
~The Rev. Dr. C. W. BLODGETT,
Methodist, of Pittsburg, will probably find
the Sunday schools and Epworth Leagues,
at least, backing his efforts to bave the
church rules so amended as to take the cir-
cus and the theatre off the list of places
that must not be attended. It seems to us
that there would be less of hypocrisy in
churches the fewer the restrictions requir-
ed for membership. The really true chris.
tian would settle all those things for him-
self and the church would not have to bear
the stigma of putting its seal on those who
are merely its members and not christians,
, § uamea ati.
well be characterized as ‘‘a plea in con-
fes<ion and avoidance,” for it practically
admits everything that is charged and at-
tempts to justify the conspiracy on the
ground that it was forced by the exigencies
of the Republican party and approved hy
the then President of the United States
and the present President, then the caudi-
date of the Republican party for Vice
President. It inferentially alleges that
the chairman of the Republican National
Committee in 1900, bribed the coal mine
owneis to increase the wages of their em-
ployees in order to guarantee the election
of McKINLEY and ROOSEVELT, and that
the candidates and their agent consented
to the reimbursement of the mine owners
by an increase in the price of coal, ina
manner which was clearly in conflict with
the laws of the land.
We have little sympathy for the mine
owners who now assert that they were
cheated in their corrupt bargain with the
late Senator HANNA. Probably if HANNA
hadn’t died and if MCKINLEY had escaped
from the attack of an aseassin the condi
tions of the illegal agreement would bave
been fulfilled, for since BLAINE'Ss time
ROOSEVELT is the only man conspicuous
in the public life of the country who won't
stay bought alter the price has been
paid. But the agreement was a erime
in itself and [in no respect justifies
the conspiracy which followed. The Read-
ing companies frankly state that they
bargained with HANNA to perform a cor-
rapt act and in purenance of toe bargain
performed it. Of course HANNA was
quite as guilty as those whom be bribed.
Bat there was no difference between them
in the degree of turpitude and the Reading
companies plead ‘‘the baby act’’ when
they ask immunity from puoishment be-
cause they were cheated. They cat a poor
figure as “‘injured innocents.”
which bas long pre-
vailed throughout the country, however,
and one which has heen denied, directly
by RoosevELT. That is to say, it alleges,
in a manper which proves the fact that
the coal strike of 1900 was settled on terms
which involved the purchase of votes for
the Republican ticket at the expense of
the consumers of soal throughout the coun-
try. In other words the chairman of the
Republican Nationa! committee entered
into a conspiracy with the coal mine own-
ers to elect the Republican candidates, the
consideration being immunity from pun-
ishment for a crime against the public. So
long as Senator HANNA lived, moreover,
the bargain was kept on the part of the
government, for when Senator KNOX as
Attorney General undertook to prosecute
the trust’ he was called off by the Presi-
dent and induced to accept the Senator-
ship for Pennsylvania by appointment.
The truth is that the election of THEO-
DORE ROOSEVET to the office of Vice Presi-
dent, and incidentally bis advancement to
the higher office, was steeped in iniquity.
Ithas already been proved beyond the
shadow of doubt that Senator HANNA
bargained with the Mormon church for the
electoral vote of Utah, agreeing to give
that polygamous organization a eeat in
the United States Senate and that REED
SM00T, a MORMON elder, is the result of
that infemous agreement. It was also
agreed that the fight against polygamy
should§be discontinued and in pursuance
of that purpose HANNA purchased the Salt
Lake Herald, the ablest and most uncom-
promising antagoniss of the evil in Utah,
and converted it into an advocate of
polygamy under the editorship of PERRY
HEATH. Now we have the evidence of
another conspiracy, equally inimical to
public interest and morals. It is about
time that the people discover that Roosk-
VELT is too expensive a luxury.
Teddy's Speech Making Dash,
President RoosEVELT, according to dis.
patches from Oyster Bay, published the
other day, is preparing eix speeches to be
delivered during ‘‘a dash through the mid-
dle West and South,” about the last of
September. The President never journeys
as other men do. He always ‘‘dashes’
frompoins to point and as he passes like a
oyolone over the country, he emits lan-
guage that serves the purpose of speeches.
The ‘‘dash’’ which he contemplates for the
near future will begin at Canton, Ohio,
where a monument to the late President
MoKINLEY is to be dedicated. His next
stop will be at Keokuk, Iowa, and thence
he will go by river steamboat to St. Louis,
Cairo and Memphis, Returning by train
he will speak at Nashville and Chattanooga.
The dispatoh announces that his speech
at Canton ‘“‘will be of a memorial char-
acter,’ and necessarily non-political, but
the author of that statement is probably
taking liberties with his;subject. Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT can no more make a non.
e Reading companies | 48.08"
political speech than a fish can climb a
speech at Canton will probably be in some
part an eulogy of his deceased predecessor
in office, but in the main it will bea par-
tisan diatribe in which the merits of Me-
KixLEY will be asoribed entirely to his
haviug adopted the policies of the Republi-
can party in his youth.
Bat ROOSEVELT bas the speech babit and
the public must submit to the infliction of
bis views on it in that way whenever be is
“igeized’’ with the impulse. Congress
coald have stopped it by refusing to appio-
priate money to pay the expenses of his
periodical ‘‘dashes.”” Bat Congress didn’t
do that when it had the opportunity, and
though the acceptance of the emolument
was a violation of the constitution, there is
no escape from it now. The daily news-
papers will print the speeches whether
they are interesting or not and there you
are. TEDDY is winding hiwsell up on
both sides and when he does that, like a
striking clook he goes off when the time ar-
rives. Happily in this case the country is
warned in advance and people can take to
the woods.
The Matter of Reapousibliity.
The machine made and machine man-
aged candidate of the Republican party for
State Treasurer would be amusing if he
were not so egregiously absurd. For ex-
ample, in the two speeches he has made
thus far since his nomination, one at Wil-
liams’ Grove and the other in Lehigh coun-
ty, he has said that ‘‘a party is not respon-
gible for the wrong-doers that slyly creep
within her ranks and the men who willul-
ly disgrace and betray their own glorious
State.”’ Then who is responsible for the
grafters who bave composed the office-hold-
ing class in the Republican party for a
quarter of a century ? Can it be possible
that the Democrats, or the Prohibition-
ists, or the Socialists are to blame? There
rtainly some canse for the effect.
‘The rank and file of the Republican par-
ty is made up of honest and patriotic men,
no doubt, bat under the rule of the QUAY-
PENROSE-DURHAM-McNiIcHOL machine,
men of that character are not chosen to of-
fice and if they do happen to “slip in,”
they are not permitted to stay long. This
fact was demonstrated numistakably in the
case of Mr. SHEATZ'S immediate predeces-
sor in office. In 1900 Mr. J. CLAUDE
BEDFORD announced bis candidacy for
Representative in the Legislature for the
24th district of Philadelphia. He was an
able young lawyer and a geutleman of the
bighest character. The machine permit-
ted him to be nominated and he was elect-
ed. But one term ended his legislative ca-
reer. He went to Harrisburg and scrupu-
lously, zealously and ably represented the
people. He was admonished daring the
session, that unless he obeyed the machine
he wouldn’t be renominated. But that
made no difference to him. He performed
his daty as hie conscience guided him and
when the time arrived for nominating his
successor he wae defeated by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
The man who was selected to thus ba-
miliate Mr. BEDFORD was Joux O.
SHEATZ. The gang wanted a man who
would serve them instead of the people and
SHEATZ bad no trouble in getting a renom-
ination. He occasionally dodged the vote
and at rare intervals voted against bad leg-
islation. But it was only when his vote
in the affirmative was not needed, for
whenever it was essential to the success of
a vicious measure it was cast for the in-
iquity. The rank and file of the R:publi-
can party may not be responsible for these
incidents but the Republican machine is
and the machine controls the party.
SHEATZ is now the nominee for State
Treasurer because he served the machine as
a Kepresentative in the Legislature and if
he is elected will serve it with equal zeal
in the higher office.
Bell Telephone Night Rates Abolished.
Giving as a reason that the excess of
night messages so congested their lines
as to render service inefficient the Bell
telephone company abolished its night toll
rates beginning at midnight Monday night.
This order affects messages to Philadel-
phia, Chester, York, Carlisle. Chambers-
burg, Huntingdon, Johnstown, Pittsburg
and Erie, as well as all towns in that cir-
oumjacent territory as well as points out-
side the State.
Bat this revoking of their night rates by
the Bell company will not in any way effect
the present night rate service of the Penn-
sylvania telephone company and patrons
of the same can continue to talk to such
places as Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading,
Allentown, Pottsville, Scranton, Wilkes-
barre, Clearfield, Altcona, Renovo, Wil-
liamsport, Emporium and all cities and
towns within the radius of the above nam-
ed at the usual night rates.
" ——Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year,
occurs next Monday, September 9th,
sonal integrity and are willing to admit
| that he wouldn't stuff a ballot hox while a
| policeman of the opposite party was look-
ing. But his record before his election to
| the office of Governor and his performances
| since that event will hardly supply ma-
| terials with which to build an ahsolately
! perfect character. In other words, as
| Mayor of Philadelphia during the period
| that the potorions MARTIN-DURHAM
machine was in process of oreation, be
hardly attained the Spartan standard and
as Governor he has achieved little beyond
promises,
Iu the organization of his administration
the only improvement which STUART made
was the substitution of M. HAMPTON
Topp for HAMPTON L. CARSON as Attor-
ney General and the value of this improve-
ment is a matter of conjecture. CARSON
was strociously bad and TopD's lawenta-
bly derelict. CARSON was either an ignor-
amos or a knave and Topp is either lazy
or indifferent to his sworn obligations. So
far as public interests go, therefore, the
difference between them is immaterial
while in all other departments the PEN-
ROSE servitors selected by PENNYPACKER
are continued in office, and the QUAY
methods and the machine iniquities are
running along undisturbed.
For example, when the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings were selecting a
secretary to succeed the notorious STOTT,
who by the way is still a clerk in the office
of the Auditor General, Governor STUART
and Auditor General YOUNG insisted on
appointing a eervile tool of the ma-
chine so that the only difference be-
tween the new secretary and the old one
is that the new one haso’t been found ons.
When the corrupt Lancaster county ma-
chine demanded that a worthy glass’
public be deprived of his commission,
Soil ox Suan ‘6béyed the order and
whe “exigencies of the machine reqaire
that the prosecution of the capitol giafters,
STUART yields with out even a protest.
The truth is that STUART is
no better than PENNYPACKER aud
will serve the machine in office gnite
as willingly and efficiently. He promised
to prosecute the grafters during the can-
vass for his election and he is making a
pretense of fulfilling that pledge some
time. Bot when be made the promise he
hoped that a way to evade it would be
discovered and he is delaying now in the
expectation that the election of SHEATZ
will open up that way. If SHEATZ is
elected the Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings will again he unanimously Re-
publican and the looting avd plandering
will be resumed with an added energy to
make up for the time lost during the
period of BERRY'S term of office.
as
i
A Scurvy False Pretense.
Mr. SHEATZ, the Republican machine
candidate for State Treasurer, is ostenta-
tiously vehement in denouncing the capi-
tal grafters. ‘‘There is no punishment too
severe for them,’’ he declared in bis speech
at Emaus on Saturday, and in his Williams’
Grove speech he was even more explicit.
But he was speakingin a Pickwickian
sense. He knows that his election means
no punishment rather than severe punish-
mens. He understands that PENROSE
never would have consented to his nomioa-
tion if he favored the punishment of the
looters and that Gumshee ANDREWS
would betray him if he bad the slightest no-
tion that he favors the punishment of those
pets of the machine.
Joux O. SHEATZ is literally the product
of the PENROSE machine. A more servile
tool of the machine bas never occupied a
seat in the Legislature. He was permitted
to dodge the vote on some bills which the
machine favored and to vote against others.
But such indulgence was only allowed
when there was no doubt of a safe major-
ity. On the ‘press mugzler,”’ and the bill
to take the authority of filling vacancies on
the election boarde out of the hands of the
courts and lodging it in the County Com-
missioners, he voted with the gang and on
the Kingston water snake and other noto-
riously vicious measures he lined up 1
Rip and CALL and SALUS and SHERN.
nomination for State Treasurer is his reo.
ompense for euch servile work.
Mr. SHEATZ is also fond of referring to
his work in increasing the appropration
for the public schools from $11,000,000 to
$15, 000,000. Asa matter of fact he had
very little ¢o do with that and during his
two previous sessions in the Legislature
made no suggestion of an increase in the
school appropriation. The country mem-
bers, led by WiLLiAM T. CREASY, have
been urging an increase of the school fund
for several years but got neither sympathy
nor support from the city men. Last fall
the matter was made an issue in the cam-
| bus and Oklaboma speeches, defends fb.
| Senator Beveridge in his debate with Mr. |
| Bryan takes up the cudgels in its support,
' Both these statesmen seem to the
| Democratic attack on ‘‘goverument by in-
junction’ as av assault upon our entire
| system of equity jurisprudence. This in an
| attempt 49 prove to much. There is a
'cleard on between the equitable
| which xisted for centuries and that
other use which bas grown up in this age
of the Trust aud is used by the ocorpora-
tions as a club to beat labor into submis-
sion to its every dictate. There is a differ-
ence between restraining things and ac-
tions which have no basis in justice and
restraining actions which have never been
forbidden by either moral or legal statues.
Mr. Taf: even admite that the use of the
injunction bas been abused, but with Mr.
Beveridge he contends that we should
remedy these abuses, not destroy its nse.
Everyone will agree with him in thie.
The term ‘‘government by injunction’ has
a limited application to the use of she in-
junction in labor disturbances : and when
one finds that its abuee in labor disputes
is almost co-extensive with its use—what
then ? The right to assemble, the right to
~The ovens of the new sand works at
Tatesville, Bedford county, are fast approach.
ing completion. A- new side track is being:
laid from the Huntingdon and Broad Top
road to the plant and the company is getting
ready to make shipments.
—John Rohrer, of Esst Lampeter town
ship, Lancaster county, had a yield of 336
bushels of very fine pes from an acre of
ground this season, and ou the farm of Lud-
wig T. Custer, r Adamstown, the same
county, one produced 600 bushels.
—C. A. Feitz, a butcher of Sharpsburg, &
suburb of Pittsburg; while waiting on some
lady customers was seized with a borrible
mania and cut two deep gashes in his throat
with a sharp knife. The customers roa
screaming from the shop and he soon fell ens
bausted from the loss of blood. He is nek
expected to recover.
applied for a license to marry at Harrisburg.
She was Hannah M. Rothrock, of Steelton,
petition, the right of free speech have
joined and thus a bold attempt has been
wade to disarm organized labor of the ove |
weapon that remains for its defence.
themselves like flint against the use, or
rather the abuse, of the equitable right to
enjoin ? Is it any wonder that in our latest
and moss up-to date constitation, shat of |
Oklahoma, an attempt is made to break |
the practice by which a judge at once con-
executive aud sends innocent men to jail |
withont a trial by jory ?
One can appreciate Low Mr. Tals would |
defend government by injunction, because |
be was one of the first jndges to abuse this
right. He has probably uot forgotten bis |
famous injunction decisions in the varions
lahor cases brought hefore him when he
was appointed a judge in Ohio and gi
governor, Joseph Benson Foraker. It is
only natural that in the arguments of the |
present a stetasman should advance some
justification for his past record. For Taf:
to defend “government by injunction’
would he for Taft. the aspirant for the
presidency, to condemn Taft the judge.
Sheatz and the Pension Bill
From an *Old Soldier” in Philadelphia Record. |
Candidate Sheatz seems to be busy try- |
ing to square himself with the cid soldiers. |
*I am proud of the old scldier,” he ex- |
claimed in his Williams Grove speech.
*‘Rather than have the veterans think I op-
posed the Pension bill, I would forfeit
every vote in the State.” |
If candidate Sheatz and she other leaders |
of the House at Harrisburg had op)
the Pension bill openly, the old soldiers |
would have greater respect for them. The !
by Senator Cochran,
ground admirably. Is provided for bonor-
ably discharged Penusylvanians who en-
listed and served in Pennsylvania regi-
ments and other Pennsylvania commande,
and bad ever since been, and would con-
tinue to be residents of the State.
During the progress of thé Civil War
each State was required to furnish certain
quotas of men. Every enlistment counted,
no matter where the man bailed from. Bat
some States offered greater enlistment
bounties than Pennsylvania. A Pennsyl-
vanian who enlisted in another State prac-
tically removed to that State, so far as his
State affiliations were concerned. The
State where he enlisted received credit for
bim and he was a loss to Pennsylvania.
Senator Cochran’s bill only intended to
provide for those who were true and loyal
to their own State. Why should the citi-
zens of Pennsylvania be taxed to pay a
State pension to a man who had never
served in a Pennsylvania command ?
Hence the number who could bave e
beneficiaries under the original bill was
limited ; and the on named in
it was deemed i
This was the bill shat came down to the
House with the unanimous approval of the
Senate. The leaders of the House, wanted
no State Jeotioh law just yet. But the
course of the bill must be carefully pilot
ed. They must not queer the old soldier
vote. It was left to Chairman Sheatz, of
the A ion Committee, to make its
impossible. Then the leaders who
the bill in tow threw the door wide
ng This was taffy for the old soldier.
e House amendment included every
Pennsylvanian who had been a soldier, ir-
respective of where he head served. e
enlarged scope of the House bill increased
ppriation threefold, and it was
y left unprovided for by the Com-
e on App gions. This was the
sed in the Governor's hands to kill
Are we to believe that it wasa
ise to Candidate Sheatz when it was
ed ?
TREE
0
Let Attorney General Todd Act
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Governor has been put in possesion
og VIE oul sation of evidence of wroogdo-
ing 8 Sowaright thievery.
e commissioners have done their duty
and the next must be taken by As-
torney General Todd.
——Tonight and tomorrow night will be
the last occasions on which you can see the
Herald Square Stock company at Gar
vever been forbidden by law. Bat they |
bave been constantly enjoined by judges ; accompanied by their parents who gave con—
and laboring men who violated no statue |
or moral law bave been arrested upon sus- |
picion and thrown into jail without a trial |
by 2
ven the right to strike has been ev-|
i brought about by the long continued drought~
Init!
any wonder that laboring men bave set Jane article around that section and manx
stitutes himself into legisiature, cours and |
original bill had been carefully prepared |
who covered the!
aged 15 years. Tue groom James E. Colbert,
also of Steelton, is 20 years old. Both were
sent to their marriage.
~The big paper mills of the New York’
and Penna. Co., at Johnsonburg, have heem
shut down on account of searcity of water
The manufacture of paper requires am
ahiindance of pure water, which is a rathex
other sections just now.
~The Milton dairymen have given notice
that on September 1st they will raise the
price of milk and skim milk one cent &
quart. New milk will sei! for seven cents
quart or four cents a pint and skim milk for
! four vents. The price of cream will remain
at 16 eents. They give the increased price
of feed as the reason for the raise.
—Charles Martin, a well known young
man of the Seventh ward, Johnstown, load
his left arm Friday in a somewhat pecnliaz
manner, He was engaged in au friendly
i
. hare tussle with a comrade in the DeFreshan,
his first start in political life by the RD tule factury, andy
when he felt again
moving saw. His arm was so badly man
gled that amputation Was necessary.
—James Connelly, a miner, of Avella,
Washington county, who remonstrated
against poker playing, was on last Friday
night seized by ‘some of the players, who
tied him down and then poured turpentine
| over hisbody and in his eyes and nostrils
and then left him go. Connelly, frantic with
pain, roamed about all night, sufferingin
tensely.
—On July 26th Miss Mabel Romick, of
Egypt, Lehigh county, died of a brokem
heart, it is said, because Alfred L. Keefer, to
whom she had been engaged to be married,
had jilted her. And uow the girl's father,
| Henry L. K. Romick, has entered suit fox
£10,000 damages agninst Keefer, because of
the refusal to marry his daughter, causing
her death,
—The {recent mysterious visit to Selins-
grove of William E. Meehan, state commis
sioner of fisheries, is explained. It is said
that information bad been given the state
authorities 'that several men prominent im
Jackson township,Snyder county, had seined
92 bass from Penn's creek, two miles north
of that place. It will cost the offenders ab
least;$1,000 to settle.
—With the fall assessments which will be
started on Monday, September 9th, 1907, the
assessors of the county will get the first ad-.
vantage of the new law which provides fox
the increase in their salaries. Heretofore
the salary was $2 per day but under a law
passed’by the last Legislature the legal rate
is now $2.50 per day. This will go into ef
fect with the fall assessment.
—Mrs. Aunie Yoscanage, of Freeland,
Luzerne county, has been arrested and held
for trial for cruelly maltreating her 9 years
old son, Willie. Because of some childish
act of disobedience she first attempted to
hang Lim, then threatened to stab hin and
finally thrust his bands into burning coals
in a cook{stove until both hands and fore—
armsjwere thoroughly roasted.
were made from the works of the Lock
Haven Fire Brick company last week, their
destination being Japan. They were what
is known to the trade as ‘“‘shape’’ brick, being
manufactured for a special purpose. This
firm has a representative in New York city
and about one-half of the output is shipped
to foreign countries,including the Philippines
and Cuba.
—TLast Wednesday morning a horrible ac~
cident occurred at the Summit, near Saxton,
Bedford county, on the line of the Hunt
ingdon and Broad Top railroad. Howard
Greenland, an employe of the railroad, was.
freight train up the grade, when he fell off
and in front of the locomotive. He was in-
stantly killed. He was 28 years old, a ress.
dent of Saxton and unmarried.
—John Albright, a well known farmer off
Mt. Pleasant township, Westmoreland conn»
ty, went to the barn Wednesday morning to
do his morning work, When he did not re
turn for breakfasi members of the family .
went to the barn to learn what detained him:
and were horrified to find him dead, hears
disease having cut short what promised feo
be a long life. Mr, Albright was about fifty
and yet the Republican majority re- 's. Th
unotant] ed to the demands of nan e company bas been giving
Es onaTE indalglt a all week and will be just as
rather sourvy false pzetense in matter, | entertaining tonight.
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years old and is survived by his wife and:
family, :
—On Saturday the youngest bride in the...
history of the Dauphin county court records: .
—A shipment of six car loads of fire brick
riding the pusher, which was helping & .
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