BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—We heard from Oklahoma and Snow
Shoe on Wednesday aod the pews from
both places was pleasing.
—Centre county saved a lot of money
when the latest murderer took the adminis-
tration of justice iuto bis own bands.
—Sparking in the sylvan retreats will
soon he ended for the season of 1907, both
for the automobile and the boy and the
girl.
—The talk of training a team of polar
bears to draw a sledge to the North Pole
sounds like some one was getting ready for
a race with WALTER WELLMAN'S air ship.
—From all reports Gen. LARRY RED-
DING was the Moses who led the benight.
ed citizens of the new Boro of Snow Shoe
into the possession of a splendid array of
officials.
—The Republican party baving spent
forty years in framing laws for building up
the trusts shouldn't be expected to go
about the business of tearing them down
with any appearance of hopefulness.
—The five hundred thousand Democrats
in Pennsylvania are really not asking for
very much when they seek to bave only
one representative in the State’s govern.
ment at Harrisburg. Give HARMAN a life.
—The adoption of the new constitution
by the voters of Oklahoma on Tuesday is
notice to Mr. ROOSEVELT that the people
of that Commonwealth know quite as
much about their needs for home govern-
ment a# he thinks he does.
—It seems like the irony of fate that
after having hlinded so many innocent (?)
old men Cassie CHADWICK, the famons
adventuress and confidence woman who is
now serving time in an Ohio penitentiary,
should be going blind herself,
—How foolish of Max1y Gorgy. Had
he married his affinity immediately upoo
his arrival in this country he might bave
been a great man—of his kind—by this
time. [It is too late now for him to try to
atone for the insalt he attempted to give |
American morals.
—What if the Standard did make a
half billion dollars in profits in eight years,
whose bnginess is it? Ail that the public
has anv business to know about is whether
the Standard is conducting its business |
within legal requirements. There is noth. |
ing else in the case.
~Jndging from what he has been giving
them the weather man must imagine that
the Grangers at Centre Hall are all ducks,
In truth they were kept busy ducking
the rain on yesterday aud the day
before. Tt was more like Centre county
fair weather than that for a Granger pic-
nie.
--New York has the reputation of ear-
rying more bed bugs in its public convey-
ances than any other city in the world, |
Here is an honor Gotham is not likely to
be rohbed of. No special policeman need
be detailed to keep the souvenir hunting
tourist from oarrying away specimens,
though he probably does get many without
his knowledge.
—Somebody has been caught lying again,
Last week there was a vehement denial of
the assertion that the President had injeot-
ed himself into the fight for Mayor of the
city of Cleveland. On Wednesday Con-
gressman BURTON, who is the Republican
aspirant for the office, published a letter
from the President dated August 30th,
from Oyster Bay, in which he advises BUgr-
TON to go in and make the fight.
—What a thrilling produotion LiNcoLs
J. CARTER sould make out of the arrest of
the capitol grafters in Pennsylvania and
what a fake 1t will be. The cloud of dust
that is now being thrown in the public nye
to blind it against JOHN O. SHEATZ'S ma-
chine affiliations will all have been settled
by this time next year—il SHEATZ is eleot-
ed—and there will be no grafters in prison
nor any money returned to the State.
—The burgess having vetoed one ordi-
nance providing for the acceptance of the
PRUNER orphanage council bas passed
another for his consideration. The bur-
gese will scarcely backtrack in the matter
of disposing of this second instrument since
he knows that a majority of the tax pay-
ing interests of the town petitioned ocounn-
oil to reject the proposition. In the face
of such a petition it looks very much as
though the councilmen favorable to ao:
ceptance have some sinister or ulterior mo-
tive they are serving.
~The Gazette is certainly bard pwessed
for argument when it has to resorts to such
flimsy material as it is using against Dist.
rict Attorney W. G. RUNKLE. When the
people of Centre county elected Mr. RUN-
KLE three years ago he was chosen asa pros-
eouting attorney not as a policeman or de-
teotive. It isnot his business to make ar-
rests or pursue offenders at all. As a mat-
ter of fact he merely should prosecute after
eriminals have been revealed to him by the
proper officers of the law, namely, the
sheriff, his deputies, constables or police-
men, If they do not perform their duty,
do not apprehend offenders, the District
Attorney is not at fault, no matter who
may be District Astorney, and when NED
CHAMBERS promises that he will rid the
county of offenders he is attempting to
for
| Chairman ANDREWS usually exacte obedi-
feed she public a lot of “‘guff,”
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VOL. 52
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL
BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 20, 1907.
NO. 37.
The Capitol Graft Farce.
“The mountain labored avd brought
forth a mounse.”’ In other words warrants
have been issued for fourteen of the
capitol grafters after a year of denial and
evasion, not for the purpose of prosecutivg |
and punishing the goilty bat in order to
fool the public. Presumably they will be
indicted at the September session of the
Dauphin county court and in the event of
the election of Mr. SHEATZ, that will be
the end of the incident.
Mark how amicably the matter has heen
arrived. SANDERSON and HustON, who
have been fugitives from justice from the
beginning of the investigation and would
have continued to evade service of the
law as long as there was danger, conven
iently appear at the office of the Attorney
General in Harrisburg, just as SAM SALTER
surrendered to the authorities of Philadel-
phia a few years ago, alter arrangements
for his acquittal had been completed.
Obviously this affair has degenerated
into a farce. The volantary surrender of
the accused and the indictment will be
heralded to the publio as proof that the
criminals are to be prosecuted by the Re-
publican officials. But the prosecution is
contingent upon the result of the election.
It HARMAN is chosen to take Mr. BER-
RY’S place in the state government they
will he punished aud if SHEATZ succeeds
BERRY they will go free.
This is not official but it’s absolutely
true.
Sheatz Will Decline,
SE.
Mr. SHEATZ, the machine candidate for
State Treasurer, will probably not accept
the challenge of Mr. HARMAN to discuss
the issues of the campaign in joint debate.
He has already practically declared that
fact in a telegram dated the 12th instant
in which be said he would answer more at
length by maii. .More than a week bas |
since elapsed avd the communication’
not been posted. Chairman ANDREWS in-
ferentially convevs the information that
the challenge will be declived, moreover.
He states shat il his advice is asked he will
recommend such a course, and his advice
has probably been asked and adopted.
ence from all except Senator PENROSE.
Candidase SHEATZ and his master,chair-
wan ANDREWS, ate wise in their day and
generation. Mr. SHEATZ would cat a
sorry figure in a joint debate with Mr.
He’MAN under any conditions. Such an
event under existing conditions wonld
wake a spectacle of him that could hardly
fail to wake a dog laogh. With the ex-
perience of the last year te: sustain his con-
tention, Mr. HARMAN would so complete-
ly overwhelm his competitor that he
would become a pitiable object. He could
prove by recent history that Mr. BERRY'S
presence on the Board of Pablic Grounds
and Buildings hae already saved the State
millions of money and vastly improved
the political morals and official methods.
Mr. SHEATZ wight as well withdraw
from the contest as to acoeps the challenge.
It would not only reveal his own intel-
lestual poverty but it would prove the
absolute rottenness of the Republican ma-
chine. That is what Mr. SHEATZ ocan’s
afford to do. The refusal to accept is bad
enough. It leaves the question of the
reasons a matter of conjecture. Bat if he
should accept there would be nothing of
uncertainty in the matter. Mr, HARMAN
would not only show that there ought to
be minority representation in the Board
but shat he is the man particularly adapted
for the work. We regret exceedingly that
SHEATZ will decline. The debate would
have heen worth thousands of votes to
HARMAN.
Absurd Opinion ef a Quack,
Dr. EpMUND J. JAMES, of the University
of Illinois, expressed the opinion in a
speech at the Jamestown exposition a few
days ago, that the constitution of the Unit-
ed States is antiquated and should he re-
placed hy a more modern instrument.
Many of its provisions are entirely dis-
regarded, Dr. JAMES declares, and an
organic law which is not obeyed literally
is not worthy of obedience as all. That is
crazy talk from a crazy locality. Obhvi-
ously the doctor is willing to advertise
himself and his institution at the expense
of his reputation for sanity. No man in
his right mind would taik such nonsense.
The constitution of the United States is
as adequate today as it was the day it was
completed and at the time that it commapd-
ed the highest praise from the most com-
petent authority, The present trouble is
not with the couvstitution but with those
who interpret and administer is. They are
all sworn to “‘support, obey and defend?’
stitution. From the President down the
fandamental law is broken every day, hut
that isn’s the fanlt of the law. It is the
crime of the men responsible for the viola-
tion.
It is to he hoped that Dr. JAMES’ work
in the University with which be is con-
neoted bas no relation to the department
of civil government or the civic duties of
citizenship, for he revealed in his James-
town speech a woeful incapacity to teach
such subjects. If he wants to participate
in the education of the youth of the coun-
try in the duties of citizenship he will teach
them to respect their oaths and obey the
fundamental law of the land rather than
juseily their perjury on the ground that
the instrument they are sworn to support
is not worthy. As a matter of fact Dr.
JAMES is probably a quack.
An Iuteresting Bit of Information.
The Philadelphia City Party ‘‘shows
sign of life,” according to an esteemed con-
temporary of that city.
estiog bit of wformation. The Philadel-
pbia City Party was organized in 1905 as a
protest against the iniquities of the ma-
chive. [Is represented the civie virtue in
the Repnblican party of she city and con-
tributed largely, toward the overthrow of
But having accomplished that result it
went into a state of como, #0 to speak.
That is to say, it ceased its activities be-
cause the selfish element in its composition
was unable to get office. We bad come to
the conclusion that it was dead.
The machiue baving resumed business
in Philadelphia, it is natural that the City
Party should wake np. McNicHOL, DUR-
HAM aud MARTIN are again in the saddle
and the City Party bad to do something.
In its awakened energy it will miss some
of the support which it bad in the hegin-
ning. Some of the newspapers which ‘were
behind it two years ago have gone over to
the enemy. The force of public plunder
was too great for their power of resistance
like the dog, ‘‘resurved so their vomit.”
Every camp follower aud mercenary in the
the enemy. Bus thege instill a vast army
| of unselfish and honest men who will vote
for a continuance of the improvement be-
gun with the election of Mr. BERRY two
years ago, and the signs of life in thas con-
tingent are most enconraging.
The City Party man who goes with the
machine this year is a recreant, if not
worse. The fight begun in 1905 bas not
been finished and only traitors bave aban-
doned it. SHEATZ is a8 much a machine
man as PLUMMER and his election now
will destroy the good effect of the defeat of
PLUMMER two years ago. Mr. BERRY ex-
posed the graft and loot and stopped is for
the present. But he hasn’t eradicated it.
The election of a machine Mayor in Phila-
delphia bas restored the machine to power
there and it was never so arrogant before.
The election of SHEATZ will have the same
effect in the State and the City Party men
who are putting life in that organization
are promoting the canse of civic righteons-
ness.
Working for Membership.
Congressman LILLY, of Connecticas, is
electioneering for membership in the
Avanias club. He is a memher of the
House committee on Naval Affairs and a
olose student of that department of the
government. Ina previous issue we re-
terred to bis criticism of the costly and ab-
«nrd naval junket to the Pacific coast. Re-
cently he has issued a sweeping denuncia-
tion of what he calls ‘‘the grafters’’ of the
department. ‘tr I'bad the supreme law-
making power in this country,’”’ he de-
clares, “the only crime punishable with
death would he that of grafting. Marder,”
he continued, ‘‘wonld redeive secondary
consideration.”
Who is the chief grafter in the Navy De-
partment ? Grafting, as it is commonly
interpreted, means the appropriation of
public property to private use. For ex-
ample an officiai who is authorized to pur-
chase materials for public useand draws
out of the operationa portion or percentage
for his own use is a grafter. A man who
is charged with the care and custody of
public property and emplcys it for his
personal useis equally a grafter. In fact
the conversion of public property to pri-
vate use is grafting and Congressman LILLY
declares it isa more heinous crime than
murder. In some cases it partakes of the
nature of treason
President ROOSEVELT uses two and
sometimes three of the ships of the navy
for the private use of his family. Congress
appropriated a laige sam of ouey recent-
ly to pay his traveling expenses and though
the constitation forbids the acceptance of
any emoluments other than the salary
provided by law, ROOSEVELT has regularly
drawn this appropriation to the fall limit.
Bat in Siduian ho Jot he has used ne
vesse navy for private parposes
that is grafting, pure and simple. There-
fore when Congressman LILLY the
grafters as the greatest oriminals ar-
the instrument but so far from doing that
ye
maigne President ROOSEVELT as the chief
offender.
they violate their oaths and defy the con-
This 1+ an inter.
the machine in the election of that year.
avd the North American and the Press have |
ranks two years ago, has aleo gone over to
A Misled Contemporary. |
| The esteemed Philadelphia Press wants
| the public to accept the statements of the
| Republican wachine candidate for State
Treasurer just as if they had already been
verified. Our esteemed contemporary is,
itsel!, exceedingly credulous or stupid and
| would like to get others into the same
“andesirable’’ class. Bat it will hardly
suaceed under existing conditions. In the
| Legislature Mr. SHEATZ was the willing or
| forced instrument of the machine. He
! voted for the QUAY monument and most
of the other iniqaities of the session of
| 1905 aud he served the machine in every-
| thing during the session of 1907. Yet the
: esteemed Press wants everybody to support
| him on his record in she Legislature.
| Daring the campaign for Mayor of Phil-
| adelphia last spring our esteemed contem-
| porary accepted the assurances of Mr. REY-
BURN that be is vot only a reformer of the
most pronounc:d type, but that he is also
the uncompromising friend of President
RoosEVELT. Mr. REYBURN was scarcely
warm in h® seat when he publicly de-
nouuced ROOSEVELT as a humbug and held
reform up to popular contempt. REYBURN
was quite as respectable a figure in the
| public life of Philadelphia as the Republi
can machine candidate for State Treasurer.
In fact he bad proved himself, both in the
State Legislature and in Congress, a much
more courageous and independent mau,
But almost as soon as he was established
in office, he threw off the mask and be-
came the most wanton spoilsman who has
ever been elected to important office by the
people
SHEATZ will be quite as servile, in the
event of his election, as REYBURN. In
fact, the incentives for him to serve the
machine are greater than those which mis-
| led REYBURN as wayor of Philadelphia,
for REYBURN is much more capable. In
| the event that SHEATZ should become
| State Treasurer, that would be as far as he
| conld hope to go. As a matter of fact it is
| far beyond his capabilities and he would
| have nothing to hope for beyond the pos.
sibilities of profit from the office. On the
other hand REYBURN is a man of immense
wealth aud vast intellectual resources and
might aspire to any office. Therefor, in
the light of the experience with REYBURN,
the Philadelphia Press has no right to ask
for popular confidence in BHEATZ.
Machine men are all alike. They are
trained to obey the masters of the organi-
zation. If REYBURN had been recalcitrant
during his service in the Legislature and
Congress, he wouldn't have bad ‘‘a look
in’ for the office of Mayor. Il SHEATZ
hadn't served the machine io the Legisla-
ture he wouldn't have been thought of for
State Treasurer. His predecessor in the
Legislature, Hon. J. CLAUDE BEDFORD,
though morally and mentally vastly his
superior, was bowled out after a single
term because he served the people rather
than the machine. If SHEATZ had been
equally faithful to the public his tenure in
office would have been quite as brief. Bus
be served the machine rather than the peo-
ple and his nomination for State Treasurer
is the recompense of recreavoy. Y
The esteemed Philadelphia Press proba.
bly knows hetter but it has a grievauoe
against ROOSEVELT for throwing CHARLES
EMORY SMITH out of his cabinet almost as
8000 a8 it was possible to do so. SHEATZ
is against ROOSEVELT and his election
would be a rebuke to the Presidents and
his policies. Our esteemed contemporary,
CHARLES EMORY SMITH, has abandant
reasons for hating ROOSEVELT, aleo, and
the earnest support of SHEATZ by that pa-
per is the result of that enmity. If
SHEATZ is elected ROOSEVELT'S candidate
won't get a vote from Pennsylvania in the
next Republican National convention.
Sheatz and Reyburn,
Mayor REYBURN, of Philadelphia, an-
nounces that ‘‘all the martyrs of 1905”
are to he restored to office. By the ‘“‘mar-
tyrs of 1905’’ he means those who were
thrown oat of office after the political con-
vulsion of shat year in that city. An ex-
traordinarily bold attempt had been made
to steal the gas plant there and bestow it
upon some friends of the machine afid the
public conscience revolted at the atrocity.
As a result of the incident some of the
machine officials were summarily discharg-
ed from office. The meaning of Mr. REY-
BURN'S announcement may be easily con-
jectured in view of that facs.
The election of the eminently respecta-
ble machine Mayor in Philadelphia bas
already restored most of she machive
emissaries so office and the Mayor assares
the others that their time is coming, law
or no law. Io other words, notwithstand-
ing the civil service regulations which pro-
tect fit men in office and prevent unfit men
from getting place, Mayor REYBURN will
get rid of oue and secure the appoint.
ment of the other sort. Loyalty to the or-
ganization is the standard by which Mayor
REYBURN measures public service and the
organization, according to his notion, is
the machine.
The polioy which Mayor REYBURN an-
nounces is precisely what is to be expected
in the State in the event that SHEATZ,
the machine candidate, is elected
to the office of State Treasurer.
He was nomivated by the machine to
serve the machine. Primarily the machine
cares nothing for SHEATZ. Any other man
of the same characteristios would doas
well. Bot SHEATZ was the available man
at the time aud was chosen because his
false pretense of reform would help PEN-
ROSE and huis no machine Republican in-
terest. If elected he will help the machine
and in either event be will heip PENROSE,
Taft on a Sensational Tour of the
World.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
Secretary Taft is off for she Philippives
aud all aronud the world, and with him
£0 newspaper men and photographers, who
will chronicle and illustrate all his doings,
sayings and seeings, so that we may expect
to have heavy doses of Taft at brief inter.
vals for a long time to come ; and bave
cause to be thankful thas the world may
now be girdled so rapidly.
Nobody who will tell appears to bave
any clear notion why the secretary of war
is taking this trip, noless weight he given
to the ready sogeestion that it relieves him
of the embarrassment of direct connection
with Roosevelt performances and policies,
and permits the more definite formation
of the issues of the approaching presiden-
tial campaign, so that he can postpone
taking any decided stand upon doubtful
points. That would bein keeping with
his newly conferred title of “The Great
Postponer,”’ bus is bardly seems to furnish
reason enough for so long a jouniney, and
ove may be pardoned for suspecting that
some grand stand play in the way of diplo-
macy 18 billed for *‘Billy’”’ Tals, in order
that he may pose ahroad as the ponderous
personal embodiment of our world power,
and so tickle the vanity of the American
people that they will straightway bail him
as fit successor of ‘‘Teddv’’ and the inter-
preter of the new imperialism. Teddy
and Billy bave no doubs fixed it up be-
$weeu thew, and we will bave the sensa-
tion at the proper time with all necessary
red fire and brass band accompaniment.
The transfer of our big battleship fleet
to the Pacific and the assembling on the
Pacifio coast of another fleet of eight] ar-
mored and as many protected ornisers,
have a new significance in the light of this
possibility of a brilliant diplomatic pro-
gramme for the booming of Tals for the
presidency, for thongh that weighty
gentleman treads softly, he is the secretary
of war, and the navy will be so placed as
to help him carry the big stick.
The secretary is to «top at Yokahoma,
Japan and then at Shanghai, Hong Kong
and Manila, formally Spehing the new
Philippine assembly, which “i open
just as well without him, although that
formality is gravely stated as the excuose
for the whole journey.
From Manila the Roosevelt candidate
goes to Viadivostok, and as there have
been vague rumors of negotiations for the
lrase from Rossia of a barbor near that
oity to he fortified and used by our navy
as a coaliog station, it may he that the
suspected grand stand play will take place
at that point and will assume the shape of
a Russian alliance against Japan for the
preservation of peace by the menace of
combined action in war.
From Vladivostok the secretary is to
journey in great state across Aria to Mos.
cow and Ss. Petersburg, braving the
bombs of the bumptions Nihilists and hob-
nobbing with the czar. Let us hope that
he will escape in good time to he lionized
in European capitgls before returning ina
blaze of glory to our Atlantic shores.
Meanwhile that department of the gov-
ernment over which he is supposed to pre-
side may be ex to have its usoal
share of troubles in the building of the
Panama canal, the tranquil government of
Cuba and the continual, though litile talk-
ed of, warfare with the Pulajanes and
other desperadoes in the Philippines. The
work of se war deparsment goes on, Taft
or no Taft.
A Tellinle Exhibit,
From the Pittsburg Post.
Naturally the capitol grafters aud their
friends never forgive State Treasurer Berry
for baving exposed the [former's ateal of
$6,000,000 of the public funds. Their or-
gous from the moment he first made bis
charges, thirteen months ago, uutil the
primeny moment have never ceased from
ying about and reviling him. A year ago
they declared shat his charges were false,
that there had been no grafting in the mat-
ter of the capitol building and furnishing,
and tbey supplemented this by making
wholly false assertions concerning Mr.
Berry himesell.
The overwhelming evidence produced to
support the truth of Mr. Berry’s charges
compelled these organs to admit that the
State had been robbed of at least. six mil-
lions of dollars. Nevertheless they have
steallily refused to give Mr. Berry avy
credit for the exposure, which every sen-
sible and honest man in the State knows
would never have heen made bad be not
been elected State Treasarer.
These same organs are now telling the
ple of she State that the men exposed
y Mr. Berry are sure to be punished. As
the same time they have shown their real
feeliog by again letting loose their venom
upon Mr. Berry. They now charge that,
although he refused to pay Sanderson $108,-
000 aud Huston $104,000, he did at various
times pay a number of small bills for capi-
tol furnishings amonoting to the enor-
mous sam of $23 967, which he should
have held up. And then the organs go
into fits and declare what a bad wan and a
urious reformer this man Berry is, and
‘hat it would be a calamity to the State if
be should be sncoeeded hy a man like him.
self, John G. Harman, instead of she can-
didate of the machine for Whore sutcgts Ye
tol gralfters are prayiog, n 0.
Soil Surely the organs which make
this silly attack u Mr. Berry must
think the people of naylvania are fools,
indeed. In thue assailing Mr. Berry they
bave not only exhibited their animosity
toward the man who exposed the capitol
thieves, but also the hollowness of their
own pretensions in declaring that those
thieves will be puniehed.
Spawls from the Keystone.
~Two wildeats gave the camperson the
Newton Hamilton camp meeting grounds a
scare Sunday night. One of the animals was
shot and the other made its escape,
—Early on Thursday morning 100.000 tons
of rock fell into a quarry near Sunbury.
Forty men were employed there and had the
fall occurred a few hours later they would
all likely have been killed.
~The fox hunters of Washington and
Greene counties have organized for the pro-
tection of foxes in that section of the State.
Resolutions have been adopted condemning
the scalp law, which provides for a bounty
on fox scalps.
—At the conclusion of the morning serv-
ice in the United Brethren church in Greens.
burg on Sunday morning it was decided ata
congregational meeting to build a new chureh
on the site of the present structure, at a cost
of about $40,000,
—Nearly 500 relatives and friends of Mrs.
Sallie Shirey met on Saturday at her home
at Monoecacy Hill, near Birdshoro, Berks
county, to celebrate her 95th birthday an-
niversary. Mrs. Shirey is yet quite active
and ber faculties are well preserved.
—The board of presiding elders of the Cen-
tral Pennsylvania conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church decided not ‘o allow
the removal of Rev. Mr. Hickman from
Duncannon to the First Metho ist Episcopal
church of Bloomsburg to fill a vacancy.
—Rohert W. Herbert, a well known news-
paper man of Greensburg, has been appointed
assistant general agent of the state board of
charities. His salary will be 82.000 a year,
and his duties will consist of trips of in-
spection of the various institutions main -
tained by the State.
—The county commissioners of Cambria
county on Monday decided to have an addi-
tion built to the county jail at Ebensburg to
cost $50,000. An enlargement of the jail is
necessary ss the present jail has accommoda-
tions for aboug sixty prisoners, while the
number housed there now is upwards of 150,
Work will be hegun as soon as the plans can
be prepared. .
~=Members of the Mt. Mosia: lodge, No.
300,0f Huntingdon Masons, have begun prep:
arations to celebrate their fiftieth anniver-
sary, which will occur on the twenty-sixth
of the coming month of October—the half
century mark of their constitution. The
order is planning to have their lodge rooms
renovated before this celebration takes place
at probably a cost of $1,000,
—Considerable interest has been aroused
at Shy Beaver, Huntingdon county, and
vicinity,by the discovery of coal on the Isaac
Weaver farm. Two fine workable veins
hve been uncovered in the excavations for
the new railroad at that place. Mine experts
have visited the place and declare that the
deposit is a good variety of bituminous coal,
As it lies near the surface the mining ex-
penses will not be great,
—Jesse Claybaugh, the Huntingdon young
man who had both of his legs cut off ina
railroad accident in the Walls yard, Pitts.
burg, on Friday morning, died on Friday
afternoon about 4 o'clock at the Allegheny
general hospital. The remains were taken
to the home of his father, John Claybaugh,
in Huntingdon, on Saturday,and the funeral
was held Sunday afternoon at 2o'clock. De-
ceased was 28 years of age.
—There is no dount now that the tin plate
mills at New Kensington, Westmoreland
connty, will be closed down this week and
about 1,000 workmen will be thrown out of
employment. The day the plants will cease
working has not been announced, but it will
probably be as soon as the present supply of
steel bars is consumed. It is claimed that
the shut down is merely for repairs and after
two or three weeks the plant will be started
again,
~The Latrobe brick company is now en-
joying a season of unprecedented property.
Thirty thousand bricks are being turned out
every day in the week and the demand for
them is greater than the supply. Within the
past day or two the company secured the
contract for furnishing 1.500,000 bricks for
the new building which is to be erected at
St. Joseph's academy, Greensburg. This
single order will keep the plant running for
nearly a month,
~The negro to whom is charged the
dastardly assault on Mrs. Clarence Hartman,
at her home near Linden, Lycoming county,
1ast Wednesday morning, is in the custody of
Sheriff William Riddle. in the county jail.
He was captured Saturday forenoon near
Liberty, by constable Freer aud the Rev.
Harry A. McKelvey, after au exciting chase.
The fellow is very ugly, brutal looking, and
gave the name of Edward Stewart, 32 years
of age, a native of Virginia, having been born
near Leesburg.
—Fire was put ander the tank at the Gray
glass house at DuBois on Saturday after.
noon. The fire had been out for several
weeks, but the men were employed on the
improvements and euvlargements that are
being made, the factory at this time being
one of the largest skylight and plate giass
factories in the United States. In addition
to increasing the eapacity of the plant, the
Gray factory is enlarging the scope of its
work and it will soon be in a position to
make colored eathedral glass,
—At a special meeting of the school board
of Jersey Shore, held on Friday evening to
hear parents’ reasons for not sending their
children of compulsory schools age to school,
the parents of the children appeared. The
excuses given were not considered urgent
reasons for depriving children of an eduea-
tion, and the board ordered the parents pres-
ent to send their children to school within
the next few days or prosecutions wil! fol-
low. It was decided to prosecute at once the
parents who had been notified and who fail-
ed to appear at the meetiug. Reasonable
excuses will be accepted.
—To have returned after forty-six years’
absence to his boyhood home, which he left
as a raw recruit in answer to the call for sol-
diers, aud come back an ex-Governor, was
the experience of Edward Schofield, of Wis
consin, at DuBois last Sunday. He was born
on a farm near West Liberty, several miles
out of the town, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Issac Schofield, He went to the war only a
stripling of youth, and at its close he went
into the northwest to live, met with success
until he rose to be Governor of the State.
He came east last week to attend a reunion
of his regiment at Kittanning, and after-
wards came on to his hold hous.
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