BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—The season for ‘brain storms’ in New
York is approaching.
—Like “Faraway Moses’’ it appears that
the Alton is to have an immunity bath
whether it needs it or not.
—Vote for HARMAN and keep the light
turned on. Don’t douse the glim just
when you have had the first glimpse into
your Harrisburg offices.
—The people of Centre county will go to
the fair, though it is a twenty-five cent
fair, whether the courts decide that they
can have a two cent fare or not.
—The two cent mileage law baving been
declared unconstitutional the taxjpayers of
Pennsylvania realize thas they spent a lot
of good money for bad legislation.
—The Washington Post remarks that
“‘no man can kick himself into the Presi-
denoy.”” It doesn’t say anything about the
possibility of a man being kicked out.
—There are automobiles that run seven-
ty-two miles an hour but it seems to us
thas eternity is certain enough without re-
sorting to such speedy conveyances to get
there.
—When BENJAMIN FRANKLIN tramped
into Philadelphia he bad a roll under each
arm. It wasn’t ‘‘dough’’ however. Brains
not ‘‘dough’’ have kept FRANKLIN'S mem-
ory green.
—Son-in-law LONGWORTH thinks fath-
er-in-law ROOSEVELT will accept a third
term if the entire country joins in a demand
for it. We can bear the concourse of con-
verging clamor already —nit.
—A certain New York girl who is to
marry a Greek poet is spoken of as wearing
‘‘a loose cincture around her embonpoint.”’
We don’t know whether it is near ‘‘Mc-
GARVEY'’S point” or not, but it sounds all
right.
-~That VanCouver riot in which the
British Columbians made short work of go
many Japs wiil necessitate a few little ex-
planations on the part of Joux Burt. Un-
less he makes them may be the Mikapo
will be bristling up to his Evglish patron.
—If THEODORE ROOSEVELT helps the
franchise grabbing street car magnates of
Cleveland, Obio, to appropriate the rights
of that city, by lending himsell to the
crowd of corruptionists like he did in this
State last fall, he is no longer worthy the
respect of any self respecting citizen.
—The Democrats of the county are be-
. ginning to get busy and well they might
for a better ticket has never been present.
ed than the one they are soliciting su
for now. HARMAN oarerdite “port
State affairs and KiMPORT and RUNKLE ef-
ficiency and probity in the coanty offices.
—The announcement that all of Leba-
non county's legislative and senatorial can-
didates purpose running on a straight out
anti-PENROSE platlorm is quite an early
jolt to the boss. It will not he the only
one, however, Candidates who have an
ear to the ground can’t mistake the feeling
of the public.
—The battinski policy of the White
House bas led it to meddling in the matter
of electing a mayor for the city of Cleveland.
ROOSEVELT evidently hasn’t heard that
they are to hold a special election in the
newly erected borough of Snow Shoe next
week else he might be planninga trip up
there to speechily a little.
—The Johnstown baseball club closes
the season $12,000 in debt. Tyrone and
Philipshurg baven's cooled down enough
yet to figure out how they stand. The
small town with a high priced base ball
team never realizes the paoe it is going un-
til settlement day comes. Bellefonte was
in the class once hence we speak feelingly.
—The only difference between Mr.
EARLE, the eccentric New Yorker who hae
induced bis wife to vive up her matrimoni-
al contract with him, so that he may take
up his “affinity’’ and some married men
elsewhere is that EARLE has proclaimed to
the world that be has found an ‘‘affinity”’
while the others are trying to keep the
world from finding out thas they have done
the same thing.
—WALTER WELLMAN has abandoned
his air ship expedition to the pole. If
WALTER wants to die really as badly as he
thought he did when he conceived the no-
tion of flying arctioward in a balloon he
can yes be accommodated hy entering one
of the auto races in Pittsburg. The latter
will have the advantage, too, of more of
the funeral accessories than he could com-
mand away up among those icebergs.
—It may be true that ANDREW CARNE-
GIE has not voted once in the last twenty-
five years— which is to his discredit as a
citizen—but the money from his overgrown
tariff-pampered infant industry has bought
thousands of votes to keep the men in office
who will provide the legislative pap for
the infant. After all there really isn’t
much need of voting when one is in the po-
sition to buy all that are in the market.
—HARMAN'S campaign opened brilliant-
ly at Bloomsburg Wednesday night, bust it
is likely that the challenge he issued to
SHEATZ to discuss the issues of the cam.
paign wil! not be accepted. Granting that
SHEATZ is a perfectly honest mau there is
only one side to the argument that the
minority party should bave some represen-
tation in the capitol offices ; especially on
the Board of Public Baildings and Grounds,
where opportunities are afforded for such
gigantio steals as Mr. BERRY uncovered.
igak Jf es ‘proved igh
VOL. 52
The speech of Hon. JoHN G. HARMAN
accepting the nomination of the Democratic
party for State Treasurer, delivered at
Bloomsburg on Wednesday evening, sounds |
the true note of political regeneration in |
“this plundered Commonwealth.” The
occasion was inspiring. |
i
Io the presence of |
an andiepce which in proportions bas rare- |
ly been equaled and in earnestness and |
enthusiasm never excelled, the speaker was |
natarally at bis best and bis eloquence |
made a profound impression. The other
speakers were fit associates of the splendid |
young champion of civic improvement.
WiLLiam H. BERRY, who has wrought so |
courageously and achieved so much for
Pennsylvania, excelled himself in force and |
facts and JERE S. BLacK aod Frep T. |
IKELER sustained their high reputations
for forensic power.
Mr. HARMAN was the central figure and
he held to the issues of the campaign with
fidelity. “The resuls to be attained by
this election,’”’ he declared at the outset,
“‘is more than a matter of mere party suec-
cess. It will determine,” he added,
“‘whether we shall continue to keep the
State Treasury out of politics and beyond
the reach of the political brigands who for
years exploited it for their personal ad-
vantage and gain, or whether we shall re-
store the conditions which made possible
our disgrace in the most monumental steal
of modern history.” There are other ques-
tions of vital importance but this is easily
the paramount issue. The colossal and
long continued system of loot must be com-
pletely eradicated or else the fruits of in-
tustry will be absorbed in the payment of
unearned and unlawful bounties to the cor-
ruptionists.
Mr. HARMAN is not without a remedy,
either, or the courage to assert it. “I
firmly believe,” he declared, ‘‘the solution
lies in putting into practical effect that
‘plank in our platform calling for minority
representation on the Board of Pablic
Grounds and Buildings.” With a unavi-
mous partisan board the restraining influ,
ence whioh is essential to honest adminis-
tration is absent and corruption is certain
tion and Mr. HARMAN'S faith in it isso
firm that he has challenged the Republi-
oan candidate to discuss it on the hustings.
The election of Mr. HARMAN will continue
the minority representation hegun with the
indaotion of W. H. BERRY into the office
and resaltiog in the forced reforms and the
humiliating exposures of the last year.
The election of his antagonist,on the other
hand, will restore the partisan unavimity
| in the hoard which made the abuses possi.
ble and consequently the question is not
only relevant but vital in the campaign.
In fact it is the centre around which all
other questions revolve, for however honest
a mau may be he bas neither the strength
nor the enduravce to maintain a constant
fight against a majority composed of his
own party. Mr. SHEATZ may promise
generously and mean well bus if his eleo-
tion restores Republican nnanimity in the
Board of Public Buildings and Grounds
the old conditions will be resumed and
there will be no punishment of the crim-
inals who have been exposed. HARMAN’'S
election will have the opposite result. The
minority will be continued, the reforms
maintained and malefactors, wealthy or
poor, will be prosecuted and punished.
Roosevelt's Naval Folly.
Congressman LILLY, of Connecticot, is
not enamored of the Presideni’s naval en-
terprise as expressed in the proposed traus-
fer of all, or nearly all, of our warships to
the Pacific coast. It is a dangerous experi-
ment, he declares, for the reason tbat
there are not sufficient navy yards, naval
stations and dry docks on that coast to
keep the ships in repair. ‘It requires
twelve navy yards and naval stations on
the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, eight
which are first class,’’ he states, ‘‘to k
the fleet in repair,’’ whereas on the Pacific
coast thereare only two navy yards, one
of whioh is inaccessible because of the
shallowness of the water in she approach.
Former Lieutenant NIX0N, of the navy,
makes even a more serious objection to
the enterprise. Mr. LILLY vastly under-
estimates the expense for he fixes it at
$1,000,000 whereas the coal alone willjcost
more than that sum, but if be exaggerated
the oost his objection would be trifling
compared to the evil consequences which
Lieutenant NIXON suggests. It wight
provoke a war, he says inferentially, Jand
thoogh there would be no danger of defeat
in such a contingency a victory would cost
immense amounts besides crippling our
navy 80 that it would necessarily be infer-
ior to the British navy for years to come,
which is in accord with the British polioy.
Auother objection which might have oc-
curred to both gentlemen is the absurdity
of the enterprise. Covgressman LiLLy
intimates something of this objection
when he says ‘‘the whole thing reminds
me of the King of France who with ten
‘sion and the restoration Mr. SHEATZ hed
thousand men marohed up the hill and
STATE RIGHTS AN
4 i
Harman's Speech of Acceptance. | then marched down again.” *'A fool and |
his money are soon parted,’”’ and this ex-
pensive folly is about the nearest approach
to insave profligacy that has been witness.
ed in this or any other country since the
memorable occasion when Alexander the
Great cried because ‘‘there were no other
world« to conquer.”
spend the public money as rapidly as possi-
ble and be could hardly find a better
means to achieve the result.
Sheatz and Penrose,
There was uo necessity for the statement
which filtration contractor MeNicHOL, of
| Philadelphia, made the other day with
respect to the relationship between the
candidacy of JonN O. SHEATZ, for State
Treasurer, aud that of Bois PENROSE, for
United States Senator. Mr. MeNICHOL,
who is a State Senator and machine boss in
Philadelphia, announced inferentially that.
the SHEATZ campaign is simply a prelim-
inary skirmish to the more important
contest of PENROSE for the Senatorship.
Every man, woman und child of ordinary
intelligence bas known this from the be-
ginning. SHEATZ was nominated because
is was believed that his candidacy would
help PENROSE. Under other circumstances
| he would bardly bave been thought of,
wuch less voted for.
That there has heen no change in the
purposes of the Republisan machine since
the convulsion which resulted in the elee-
tion of Mr. BERRY two years ago is abun-
dantly proved by the presence of MCNICHOL
at the bead of the organization. When
that event occurred the machine managers
determined to ‘‘assume a virtue,”’ and
McoNicaon withdrew from the Philadel.
phia Republican committee as well as from
participation in the public work of the
city. Bat the moment that the Republi.
oan victory of last year reassured the panic
stricken bosses MoNICcHOL emerged from
his seclusion and when Joux E Rey-
BURN became mayor of Philadelphia, he
resumed his former political and basiness
relations and is again not ouly the political
boss but the favored contractor.
Daring the interval between the conval-
false impression that he had reformed. For
that reason he appeared to PENROSE as an
available candidate to lead the preliminary
fight for the Senator's re election. Bat the
choice was not made for the benefit of
SHEATZ thougb, no doubt, it was hoped
that it might incidentally have that effect.
The real reason for his selection was that it
was believed his nomination would help
PENROSE and the gaugsters associated with
him in the political conspiracy organized
to loot the city and the State. MoNicHOL
is accurate, therefore, in his statement that
the SHEATZ campaign is the preliminary
skirmish for the PENROSE battle.
Bankers Denounce Berkey.
The Bankers’ Association of Pennsyl-
vania, in a session held at Pittsburg, last
week, practically memorialized Governor
STUART to remove Banking Commissioner
BERKEY from office. A decision recently
made by Mr. BERKEY to the effect that
National banks are not competent, under
the law of May 8th, 1907, to aot as reserve
agents for trust companies and other bank-
ing ioetitutions sahject to the regulation
of the State Department of Banks, is the
ostensible reason for the hostility expressed
at the Pistsburg meeting of the Bankers’
Association. But all around incompetenoy,
general unfitness for the work and a most
extraordinary absenteeism and neglect of
official duties, may be set down as the real
cause of complaivs.
Under the spur of the bankers’ memorial
Governor STUART may, between this time
aud the election, ask for the resignation of
Mr. BERKEY or remove him from office.
But it is safe to say that in the absence of
such an incentive, the Banking Commis-
sioner would have been secure in hie tenure
until the expiration of the term of his ap-
pointment, though it is practically certain
that the Governor was familiar with his
incompetency, unfitness, absenteeism and
neglect of official obligations. In fact all
of these delinquencies were brought to
Governor STUART'S attention soon after
his induction into office but because BERK-
EY is an efficient as well as an effective
Republican politician, they were entirely
and completely disregarded.
We call attention to this fact now for the
reason that in the interest of the candidacy
for State Treasurer of JoHN O. BHEATZ
Governor STUART is being ostentatiously
paraded as a particularly shining light of
reform. As a matter of fact, however, he
is not a reformer at all but is a partisan
quite as intense and altogether as obliging
as his curious predecessor in office, Govern-
or PENNYPACKER. In all his appoint-
ments, with one or two exceptions, he has
served the machine with a fidelity which is
astonishing in view of recent disclosures
and pledges made during the campaign of
last fall. If SHEATZ should be elected
State Treasurer next fall the Board of
Public Baildiogs and Grounds will again
be unanimously Republican and the graft
and looting will be resumed.
ROOSEVELT wants to |
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE PA, SP EMBER 15, 200,
It Is Different Now.
The startling statement of the Reading
railroad to the effect that in the campaign
of 1900 it and other ‘‘predatory trusts’
bad entered into a criminal conspiracy
with the iate Senator HANNA, of Ohio, to
compass the election of THEODORE ROOSE-
VELT to the office of Vice President, has
| now heen supplemented by a well authen-
ticated statement that ROOSEVELT'S elec-
tion to the Presidency io 1904 was pro-
cared by the bribery of voters with money
contributed by other ‘‘predatory trusts’’ in
violation of law and tc the prejudice of
political morals. In both cases it is assert-
ed with posisiveness, and supported by
evidence, that ROOSEVELT was pot only
cognizavs of the crimes but that he bad
encouraged, if not actually urged, the
perpetration of them.
On October 29th, 1904, Judge]ALTON B*
PARKER, the Democratic candidate for
President, declared in a public speech that
“‘the trusts are farnishing the money with
| which they hope to control the election.”
, On November 4th, President ROOSEV ELT
issned from the White House a statement
i in which he said that ‘‘the statements made
| by Mr. PARKER are unqualifiedly and
| atrociously false.” Some months ago
Epwarp H. HARRIMAN affirmed the ac-
ouraucy of a letter previously written by
bimeelf in which the accusation of Judge
PARKER was completely joorroborated and
the President denounced him as a falsilyer.
The New York World's statement vot only
sustains Judge PARKER bat it corroborates
Mr. HARRIMAN and proves ROOSEVELT a
malignaot and daogerons falsifier aswell
as a deliberate vilifier.
Commenting upon the Reading state-
ment a week ago, the WATCHMAN]! sug-
gested that ROOSEVELT ‘is too expensive a
luxury.” In the light of this new develop.
ment we repeat that suggestion. His ele-
vation has not only cost the people im-
mensely in political morals and vastly in
money, the high price of coal during the
nearly eight years since the settlement of
she strike of 1900 being asoribable to HAN-
NA'S conspiranoy with the coal trusts, but
$ bas entailed the humiliation of baving
the President of the United States frequent.
"ly bofivicted of déliberate and mischievous
falsehood. Until the elevation of RoosE-
VELT to the office no President was ever
even accused of lying and the high charac-
ter of those who bad occupied the office was
a subject of just pride. Buu it is different
Dow.
Cowardly and Dishonest Policy.
Secretary of War TAFT, who appears to
be on an electioneering tour at public ex-
pense, took advantage of the indulgent
spirit of the West, the other evening, to
make what he called an answer to WiL-
LIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Some time ago
Mr. BRYAN criticised a speech of the Sec-
retary in an amiable spirit. For a couple
of years or more TAFT has been advocating
tariff revision and in a speech delivered at
Columbus, Ohio, at the beginning of his
campaign tour, he reiterated that purpose
but added that no revision should be at-
tempted or thought of until after the next
presidential election. Appropos of this
incident Mr. BRYAN subsequently referred
to the ponderous war minister as ‘‘the
great postponer.’’
Judge TAFT who is the ‘‘decoy duck’
for President RooSEVELT, is ‘‘onto his job’
80 to speak. He is in favor of tariff revi-
sion as ROOSEVELT is but understands that
in the event of either of them being nomi-
pated for the Presidency next year there
will be urgent peed for a vast corruption
fund and there is no where to look for is
except in the strong boxes of the tariff
pampered trusts. TAFT knows that if tar-
iff revision is delayed until after the elec-
tion the ‘‘malefactors of great wealth’ can
be fooled again and will give up the neces-
sary funds to finance any old kind of a
campaigo of corruption. Mr. BRYAN is of
a different type and fitly characterized the
false pretense expressed in TAFT'S proposi-
tion. He said TAFT was a great postponer
but meant that he is an ‘‘artfal dodger.”
The other day TAFT answered this good
‘patured criticism after the fashion of the
average virago in a fish market. In other
words he declared that Mr. BRYAN is also
a postponer for the reason that though be
believes in bi-metalism he has said that it
is not a present issue and therefore may be
left ont of consideration for the present.
Mr. BRYAN will probably ‘own the soft
impeachment,” for the reason that what he
says on the sabject is literally true. The
question of the free coinage of silver is no
more an issue at this time than that of
slavery and Mr. BRYAN may well postpone
the discussion of it until it becomes rel.
evant again. Bat the tariff question is
present and pertinent and TAFT'S proposi-
tion was cowardly and dishonest.
~The Philadelphia w« man who cat her
husband off with five dollars in her will
added insult to injary by terming him “‘a
curiosity’’ in the document. If he was re-
ally much of “a curiosity’ he ought to
have been worth more than five to the
lady.
NO. 36.
The Banking Commisioner.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The appointinent of a country politician,
without any eXpstisnce in king or
any kindred irs, to the ble
office of State Commissioner of Banking
was ove of the scandals of Governor Penny~
packer’s administration. The retention of
this absurd person in a position for which
he has shown his incapacity is now scandal-
izing the administration of Governor Sta-
art. The State Banker’s Association has ap-
pointed a committee to wait upon the Gov-
ernor and urge upon him the importance
of putting a competent into Ber-
key's place. This is a master which con-
cerns not only the bankers but the whole
Commonwealth.
It is not necessary to discuss now the
partionlar order which excited the especial
indignation of the bankers. If it had not
as some of them believed it to have, a sinis-
ter motive, it indicated an inexcusable ig-
norance. The mere fact that while the
representative organization of all the bank- |
ing interests of the State held its annual
convention—which the Treasurer of the
United States thought it worth while to at-
tend, making it the occasion of an import-
ant address—the State Commissioner of
Bavking remained secluded on his Somer-
set County farm, is suflicient evidence that
Mr. Berkey is without intelligent interest
in the great subject officially committed to
him, or that he cannot meet with baukers
on their own ground.
The duties and responsibilities of the
Commissioner of Banking are delicate and
important in a bigh degree. If be bas not
the knowledge and experience, the charac.
ter and judgment Joguisiée to enable him
to falfill them with discretion, be becomes
a hindrance rather than a help to financial
security and a menace rather than a pro-
tection to the public. Mr. Berkey bas
shown that he bas not these qualifications,
and the fact that he is useful to Senator
Penrose in Somerset county is an insuffi-
cient excuse for his continuance in office.
It may be urged that the business of the
office is always done by the deputy, and
that the Commissioner, while he remains
out of reach in Somerset county, is doing
vo barm. From this point view it
would be wiser to abolish the office al-
together. The banks would get along as
well, il not better, and depositors and
others would be at least as secure, since
they would not be trusting to an incompe-
tent supervision. The office is not super-
flnous, bat it ought to be filled by a man
of sound discretion, who would fitly rep-
resent the great authority of the Common-
wealth. Berkey has created a sitoation
which Governor Stuart will be compelled
courageously to face. gaa adi
Tarlff Revision versus Labor.
From the Philadelphia Record,
In the stage which the question of revis-
ing the tariff has reached, the only import-
ant reservation made by Republican advo-
cates of revision is that in the adjustment
of schedules American workingmen shall
not be exposed to competition with the
cheap labor of Europe and Asia. This is
repeated in various forms of speech by Sec-
retary Taft and all other Republican advo-
cates of revision, as if it were of vital con-
cern. Yes, when terms are olearly defined,
it is seen that the wages of labor constitute
bardly a perceptible factor in the problem
of tariff reduction.
Upon the great bulk of manufactured
exports, amounting to upward of $700,000,
000 in value last year, the wages paid for
labor were much bigher than anywhere
else in the industrial world. This is true
of locomotives, stationary engines and ma-
chivery, manufactures of iron and steel of
nearly every desoription, cars and carriages,
agricnltural implements, scientific instru.
ments and appliances, builders hardware,
sawsand tools, furniture, sewing machines,
typewriters and an infinite variety of pro-
ducts of American industrial skill. These
exports are profitably sold in the open
markets of the world in competition with
its cheapest labor and under conditions of
absolute free trade. The question recurs
then as to what possible need of protection
they can: have against the competition of
cheap [foreign lal in the home market.
This is a conundrum that it would le
a member of the Boston Home Market
club to solve.
The obief explanation of the immense
and constantly growing volame of ex
of manufactures is that cheap, ill-paid and
ill-ted foreign labor 1s ineapable of Somipel
ing with the labor of American working-
men. It bas been demecustrated so often
hy innumerable faots that it should require
no argument to prove that ill-paid labor is
least productive and therefore most costly.
A New York View of It
From the New York Herald.
Taft against the field means Taft plus
Roocaevelt against the field. But it means
Cannon against Taft, Haghes against Tals,
Foraker against Taft, Cortelyou against
Taft, Knox against Taft, La Folletteagainst
Taft, Fairbanks against Tals, Crane against
Taft, and Cummins and Shaw agains Taft.
Thus it means a combination of favorite
sons against the secretary of war in seven
t states, all of them now with Repub-
ican governors—New York, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Wiscon-
sin and Iowa. Back of that it means a t
for every delegate in the southern
where an anti-Taft pi nda is ander
way. The strategy of the Taft opposition
is to keep him from getting any delegates
in the following states :
New York, 78 ; Pennaylvania, 68 ; Mas-
sachusetts, 22 ; Illinois, 54 ; Indiana, 30 ;
Wisconsin, 26 ; Iowa, 26 ; total, 304.
——The new agricultural building at
State College is almost completed and will
be ready for ocoupancy at the opening of
the college next week; although it will not
be formally dedicated until November
220d, when big preparations will be made
to have the dedication ceremonies in oon-
nection with she celebration of ‘‘Pennsyl-
vania Day.”
A
—Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—A double length steel freight ear carry-
ing an immense iron casting, passed over the
Bald E Valley railroad on Sunday.
—Alexatider Reeder, a gardener whose
truck farm is ‘located near Lock Haven, ex-
pects to harvest a second crop of strawber-
ries in a few days.
—Robbers raided Harry McClow's cafe, in
Shamokin, early on Saturday morning, who
stole $500 worth of silverware and damaged
slot machines and confectionery to the value
of $200,
—The state department of mining is about
to conduct an investigation iu the anthracite
coal region for the purpose of getting out of
the mines upwards of 7,000 boys who it is es-
timated are under the age required by the
child labor act.
—By a statement issued by cashier A. W.
Buck, of the First National bank of Ebens-
burg, it is shown that the total earnings of
that institution for the last six months were
$35,000, or 70 per cent. of the capital stock
of the bank, which pays a dividend of 24 per
cent. a year,
—The monument to President Buchanan
is to be put up this fall at Buchanan's birth.
place, near Foltz, Franklin county, the work
to begin at once and to be completed by De-
cember 1st. It will have a base 36x36 feet
and will be 26 feet in height and contain a
handsome tablet.
—Roy Beale and G. C. Cramer, arrested
some time ago on the charge of robbing the
Mifflin station, Pennsylvania railroad, in
April, were tried in Juniata county last week
and the former given one year in the peni-
tentiary. Cramer was released under a sus-
pended sentence,
—The Concordville hotel, one of the old-
est public houses in Delaware county, was
destroyed by fire on last Friday. The hotel
was erected during the revolutionary war,
from buildings ransacked by the British
army. It was sold recently for $17,000 and
the transfer was to be made on Saturday.
—As the Reading flyer sped past Myers-
town, Lebanon county, last Friday morn-
ing, the forward truck of the engine tender
Jumped the tracks and bounded over the
roadbed for 300 yards to a switch, where the
wheels marvelously regained the tracks,
averting what might have been a very bad
wreck.
—The telegraph office at Bald Eagle sta=
tion was recently closed and the telegraph
office at the new tower one mile east of Bald
Eagle siation was opened. B. LL. Frantz has
been telegraph operator at Bald Eagle sta-
tion for a little over ten years, and as the
telegraph office has been closed, he will re-
main as agent and postmaster.
—Through the efforts of the Williamsport
board of trade a new armory has been se-
cured for that city, the state armory board
having so decided on Thursday. The build-
ing when completed will cost from $30,000
to $100,000 and have accommodation for four
military companies, besides it may be used
for holding conventions, fairs, etc.
—In the case of Mrs. Emily Anderson, of
patton, who sued that borough to recover
$& =O for juiuries inflicted by the breaking
«a defEtuve boardwalk fu that place swine
months ago, which was tried in the Cambria
county court last week, the jury awarded
Mrs. Anderson $300 and her husband $200
damages. A new trial may be granted.
—Snperintendent 8. H. Miller, of the
Bubl club, of Sharon, on Saturday purchased
the Jacob Miller farm, containing 150 acres,
located north of Sharon, for $45,000. It is
to be constructed into a pleasure park and it
is understood that Frank H. Buhl, multi.
millionaire, who gave Sharon its $250,000
club house, is back of the park movement.
~=On Tharsday a young man ongaged a
room at the home of Mrs. Mary Wylie, in
Reading, who went upstairs to prepase it for
him, when he rifled a sideboard and took
from it about $100 worth of jewelry. Later,
from the description given of him, the same
fellow engaged a room from Mrs. Elijah
Rambo, and soon afterward disappeared,
carrying with him about $50 worth of jew.
elry.
—Rev. M. C. Flegal, pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church at Glen Hope, Clear
field county, has severed his connection
there to accept the presidency of the Ed-
wardsville seminary at Edwardsville, Alaba-
ma. Rev. Mr. Flegal is a product of Clear-
field county, and bas attained a very high
esteem by all who know him, All wish him
unbounded success in his new field of
work.
—The Blair county Grange fair will be
held at Dell Delight park, Hollidaysburg,
on September 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th and
it promises to be one of the best that has
been held in that section of the state for
several years. The Pennsylvania Railroad
company will run excursions from all points
in that vicinity to the fair and it is expected
that the attendance, if the weather is good,
will be large.
—H. Packer Troxell, line foreman for the
Pennsylvania Telephone company at Wil-
liamsport, and who is known in Bellefonte,
fell forty feet from a pole in that city re-
cently yet miraculously escaped death. It
is believed he was shocked by an alternat-
ing current from an electric wire, but he fell
on soft ground, so that no bones were brok -
en. He was unconscious, however, and it
took some time to restore him.
~The annual convention of the Luther
League of Peunsylvania will be held in the
city of Allentown Tuesday and Wednesday,
September 24th and 25th. As these dates
will be near the opening of Muhlenberg col-
lege, the largest attendance in the history of
the state organization is expected. The
various committees are at work to make this,
the fourteenth annual gathering of Luther
Leaguers, one of the most interesting and
profitable of any yet held.
~—August 15th a new law went into effect,
reducing from $6 to $1 per year the fee for
a fish basket. The reduction has had the
effect of very largely increasing the number
of licenses, 312 certificates having been is-
sued since the law became operative, against
only 105 last year. Holders of such licenses
have the right to construct baskets to take
cel, catfish, carp, suckers and mullets from
August 15th to December 1st each year.
Numerous baskets do not comply with the
legal requirements and two owners have
been fined $20 each duringithe past week.