EE .
Beuer fat
8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
—The President's big stick is splashing
in the Mississippi this week. The father
of waters is certainly not afraid of it.
— President ROOSEVELT might well be-
ware since Senator FORAXER if out with
an interview endorsing his sentiments.
—The Johnstown preacher who denies
the existence of a personal devil evidently
has never been introduced to old Jobn
Barleycorn.
—With TAFT electioneering in Japan
and Root electiopeering in Mexico big re-
turns from the rural districts may be look-
ed for at the next election.
—1It isn’t the number of counts that the
capitol gralters are being indicted on that
counts so much as the manner in which
they will be prosecuted and when.
—The Pennsylvania railroad is said to
be earning a million dollars a day and, to
think; the country editors of Pennsylvania
are helping to make it up. Ien’t is awful.
—Taesday morning brought the first
frost in this section. It was probably pre-
cipitated by Col. CHAMBER'S strenuous
campaign to bave himself elected county
policeman.
—Governor STUART has announced that
when he is through being Governor it is
back to private life for him. It is evident
that the bunch he bas to deal with in Har-
risbarg isn’t to his liking.
—The two cent car fare law is now in
effect. It will be interesting to watob how
rich become the fellows who were bowling
that the railroad companies were robbing
them by extortionate fares.
—The poor Vice President! He should
bave known better than to go up agaiust
those Methodists with a cocktail breath.
He would have done better with a splatter
of soft-boiled egg on his chin.
—Now Blair county comes to the front
with a capitol scandal. The story is to
the effect that the court house at Holli-
daysburg cost far more than it is worth and
that the grafting of those in charge is re-
sponsible.
—The flounder is said to deposit about
seven billion eggs in a year. If crossing
flounders with chicken hens would bring
anything vear like proportionate results a
trial might make some poultry raiser frich
enough to make JOHN D. envious.
—The big meteor that flashed through
the heavens above Bellefonte a few even-
ings ago struck the earth near Harrisburg
and set fire to a forest. What a well aimed
judgment it would have been and whas an
awtal panicit would bave oreated bad-it-
struck shat greats palace of graft.
—Miss JEANES would bar athletic sports
from Swarthmore and have the old Quaker
institution flood the country with narrow-
chested, sallow visaged, torpid livered
boys who would spend more iu regaining
their health—if such were even possible—
than her entire bequest amounts to.
—It is the system that the voters of
Pennsylvania are after. Mr. SHEATZ may
be a perfectly honest man bus surrounded
and advised and under party obligation to
a crowd of grafters he canuot hew straight
to the line, therefore he should not be
elected to the office of State Treasurer.
—The new Rochelle doctor who was
caught in she aot of robbing a house must
belong to a school that doesn’t bave a fee
bill. He lacked finesse, too. Ordinarily
dootors pull off a job of robhing you while
you are looking at them. The good ones
don’s have to wait until the dark of night
and then force an entrance into your house.
—1It you think it is wise to keep the lid
down now that it has been raised justa
listle vote for SHEATZ. If you would like
to clear up this capitol scandal and know
all there is in it vote for HARMAN. It al-
ways was a bad policy to swap horses in
the middle of the stream therefor a minority
party man should be kept ina position
where hecan follow up the work BERRY
has begun. >
—The President might have brought
great credit to himself bad he merely re-
peated McKINLEY'S last speech at Buffalo
when he was orating at the dedication of
the MoKINLEY monument at Canton on
Monday. But KooSeVELT is not MoKiIN-
LEY and therein lies the difference between
a man who really had his country’s weal at
heart and one who only thinks of self ag-
grandizement and personal power.
—Col. CHAMBERS has been pretty well
taken care of, it seems to us. For years he
has been holding fat paying party offices so
that his claim isn’t very strong. Is looks
bad too, for a man who so recently aspired
to the exalted office of Deputy Attorney
General of Pennsylvania to fall down
to the District Astorneyship of Centre
county. The only explanation is found in
the fact that the Colonel wants anything he
can get,
—There is no disposition on the part of
the voters to make a change in the office of
Prothonotary. ARTHUR KiMPORTEbas been
so faithful, competent and courteous
that his services are too valuable to dis-
pense with jnst at this time. He has care-
fally conducted the office through a term
that has not been profitable and duriog a
period when he bas suffered many per-
sonal losses so that everyone feels that he
should be re-elected with as little expense
as possible to him. Are you doing what
you can to that end ?
VOL. 52
Diiagquent : in Business aI.
Too little attention has been given to the
point raised by Mayor GUTHRIE in his in-
augural address as president of tha great
Democratic meeting beld in Pittsburg last
Saturday evening. Mayor GUTHRIE called
attention to the discrepancy between the
appropriations made during the last ses-
gion of the Legislature and the revenues of
the period covered by the appropriations.
Soon after the adjournment of the Legisia-
ture and before JOHN O. SHEATZ bad been
nominated for State Treasurer, the
WATCHMAN raised the same point. The
appropriation of money far in excess of the
revenues is a crime against the Common-
wealth for in the absence of a check upon
the legislation it would involve bankrupt
oy.
Mr. JouN O. SHEATZ, the Republican
nominee for State Treasurer, was chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations of the
House of Representatives. He ought to
have been, in fact, the ‘‘watch dog of the
Treasury,” as he was, ostensibly, the fis.
cal agent of the State in the Legislature.
We have already shown that when tbe late
SAMUEL J. RANDALL was chairman of the
House Committee on Appropriations in
Congress, though the revenues amonnted
to $750,000,000 be kept the expenditures
to within a couple of millions of that fig-
ure. Baus while the revenues of Pennsyl-
vania aggregate less than thirty millions
anrually, SHEATZ, as chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations of the House
in the Legislature, permitted the appro-
priations to nearly double the revenues.
The office of State Treasurer is essential
ly a business berth. The incumbent should
be a thorough business man as well asa
capable and courageous citizen. A man
who, as chairman of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of tbe House of Representa
tives in the Legislature, will permis the
making of appropriations vastly in excess
of the revenues has neither the husiness in-
telligence nor the courage to fill that office.
It PLumMMER had been elected last year
there would have heen no exposure or dis-
continuance of the capitol graft. If SHEATZ
in elected this fall there will be neither
prosecution nor punishment of the perpe-
trators. The old conditions will be re-
‘stored andl the old methods resumed. As
Mayor GUTHRIE declares the remedy is in
“turning the rascals ont.”
Penrose Needen't ‘Worry.
Senator PENROSE need give himself no
concern about reports that Governor StU-
ART will compete with bim for the Sena-
torial seat or anything else. Governor
STUART koows hie place. He may bave
his faults but be has the quality, not to
mention virtue of staying boughs. He
became Governor not to hurt PENROSE but
to help bim.
The Republican machine was in bard
lines last year. It had been overwhelm-
ingly defeated the year before and largely
through the actions of men who are Re-
publicans but temporarily working under
woral impulses. Of course they were
alarmed at what they bad done when they
found it out, and relenting, wanted to get
back into the fellowship of the grafters.
PENROSE pointed the way. They could
vote for Stuart. He is unquestionably
the most lady like pirate in the bunch and
PENROSE pominated him for Governor
under the implied conditions that STUART
would help nominate PENROSE for Sena-
tor.
The programme has been carried out to
the letter thus far and STUART will not
break faith with his patron and partner.
He is not a Rough Rider but neither is he
a mollycoddle. Heis for PENROSE for
RKenator first, last and all she time. He be-
lieves that the tariff is sacred and that
PENROSE is the prophet of protection.
First and Fundamental Mistake.
A couple of our esteemed Philadelphia
contemporaries have formed a mutual ad-
miration society because they simultaneous-
ly discoveied that ‘‘the good roads move-
ment in this State made a mistake,” and
cordially agree both as to the nature of the
mistake and how it came to he made. The
turnpikes, these oracles declare, ought to
have been tackled ‘first of all.”
Possibly some good might have come out
of that policy if it bad been adopted by
the Highway Department, bat it is con-
jeotural. It is almost uviversally admitted
that ‘‘you can’t make a silk purse out of a
sow’s ear,” and it is bardly less difficult to
make good work out of a movement that is
fundamentally wrong in its inception and
organization. The Highway Department
wasn’t created to build roads, good or bad,
It was intended as an asylum for politio-
al grafters and it bas never been anything
else.
From the day that the Highway Depart-
ment was organized it bas been a seething
pool of corruption. The work is us.
vally directed by political dependents who
become parasites on the commnoity. The
paramount mistake of the good roads
movement was in the organization of a
corrupt department.
“STATE RIGHTS A
The Repetition of History.
As our Harnsbarg correspondent clearly
shows in his letter of this week the orim-
inals of the Insurance Department of the
State have not yet been prosecuted.
an investigation which occurred iu January
and February of 1906 it was shown that
the Insurance Commissioner had padded
the pay rolls of the department and oar-
ried as employees men who bad never been
at the department or performed any rerv-
joe for the State. This was a criminal vi-
It was converting a
department of the State government into
olation of the law.
an agency for paying anearned bounties
political dependents out of the revenues
the Commonwealth and should bave been
severely punished.
As a matter of fact, however, there have
been no prosecutions or punishmen
During the last gubernatorial campaign
candidate STUART emphatically declared
that in the event of his election he would
capitol grafters and all other
prosecute the
criminals who had been guilty of looti
the treasury.
So far as she grafters in con-
ND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 4, 1907.
New Light on the Grafilng.
In bis Pittsburg speech on Saturday
evening last State Treasurer BERRY reveal-
ed some hitherto unpublished facts con-
cerning the capitol graft which presents
that criminal conspiracy in a new light.
He showed, as we have long suspected,
that the arch criminal in the affair is
neither SANDERSON nor HUSTON hus SAM-
UEL W. PENNYPACKER. That hypoorite
deliberately deceived his associates in the
conspiracy and tried to deceive Mr. BER-
RY. When he protested that a fake esti-
mate of furniture for use in the Senate and
House of Representatives was exorbitant
the Governor declared that there was a
contract which must be complied with. As
a matter of fact, though, there wasjno con-
tract.
PENNYPACKER being a lawyer must
have known that there was no contract
though he protested there was even after
bie statement bad been disputed. In as-
serting that there was a contract he must
ng | have had she purpose of looting the treas-
ary in mind, moreover. These facts being
In
to
of
nection with the construction and furnish. | established here is no escape from the oth-
ing of the capitol are concerned, he
keeping up a false pretense of fulfilling his 8 conspiracy to rob the treasury.
is still | er fact that PENNYPACKER was conducting
It only
pledge. But he has been in office for near- | remains to discover what influenced him
ly nine months and has not attempted
to | to engage in the orime. Probably it was
NO. 39.
Sr——
Oh, Pennsylvania, How Leong?
From the Johnstown Democrst.
There is to be no prosecution of the capi-
tol grafters until December, if then. This
is informstion which comes from an official
cource. It means that the truth is to be
kept from she voters until alter the Novem-
ber election. If Sheatz is elected State
Treasurer it means that the truth will be
kept from them for all time. If Sheatz is
elected the grafters will be white-washed.
It is the talk shat is in the air at Harrisburg.
It is the talk in all potitical ciroles. The
game of fooling the people is on. And they
will be fooled if they fail to elect Harman
to succeed Berry. The election of Harman
will force the prosecution of the gralters.
The election of Sheatz will mean immunity
for them. Already in prospect of this the
gralters are shaking bands with themselves,
They are feeling so good over the situation
that they are keeping themselves before the
public all the time as anxious to appear in
court and face the music. They are over
anxious to get in court. They are appealing
too strongly for that privilege. It suggests
the probability that they are fully advised
this very hour that it already bas been de-
oreed that they shall go free if the Gang
wine out.
What else could bappen it the Gang wins
out? Who ever heard of the Gang in Penn-
sylvania doing anything against the Gang?
Are not the capitol grafters bright and shin-
ing members of the Gang? Is not the Gang
whooping it up to beat the band for Sheatz?
Who put Sheatz on the ticket bus the Gang
Do you suppose for one moment that the
Gang would bust a bame in an effort to
prosecute any of the insurance grafters to make up deficits for which QUAY was
though their onlpability is just as plain
and the evidence of their oriminality bas
been available ever since February, 1906.
A tree is jandged by its fraits, acoording
to the adage, and a man is estimated by
his actions. There is every bit as much
reason why the insurance grafters should
elect Sheatz if it had the slighest fear of
him? And the Gaog is bursting a hame in
an effort to elect Sheatz. It is tremend-
ously in earnest in its sapport of him.
This is the trath of the matter. There is
no gesting away from it. The Gaug wants
Sheatz. The Gang needs Sheatz in its
business. It would not have Sheatz on its
sioket if it did not need him.
responsible and thus shield his reputation
from the odium which necessarily attaches
toa felon. He may have valued QUAY'S
reputation higher than his own honor.
In any event, however, PENNYPACKER
ought to be brought to punishment with
bis associates in the predatory operations.
be punished as that the proper penalt
should be imposed upon the capitol con-
the insurance
grafters have been permitted to escape pun-
ishment for the reason that the authorities,
including the Governor, believe that they
In the event that
SHEATZ is elected State Treasurer, the same
policy will be pursued with respect to the
capitol grafters. The Governor will delude
himself with the notion that the people
struction grafters. Bat
have been forgotten.
don’t care and the prosecations will
abandoned.
Grave Trouble in Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia preachers and a few}
other residents of that ‘‘dirty smear upon
the map of the United States,” are more
less agitated at present over what may
justly characterized as an educational dil-
emma. That is to say, it bas been discov-
ered that the school facilities of the oity
are delinquent aud the school authorities
demand an appropriation of $5,000,000
remedy the evil.
ture. It is a pitiable picture.
The rotten machine councils of the city,
taking advantage of the opportunity for
loot which is concealed in these facts have
proposed a loan, not of five but ten million
dollars. To the casual observer this fact
would fill the friends of the schools with
But as a master of fact the rotten
machine councils don’t propose to use the
delight.
money for schools. The proposition ie
employ three-quarters of
plaus of the rotten machine counoils.
We would like very much to work up
soinething in the nature of sympathy for
the disappointed preachers and others over
their present educational dilemma, but it
is utterly impossible. We can’t help but
remember that the pulpit and other friends
of education in Philadelphia are largely
depraved political
morals which have developed the rotten
machine councils. They never protested
against the well equipped and liberally en-
dowed schools which were maintained by
the ‘‘Captaine of Industry’’ there, some
years ago, in which the art of ballot box
staffing was systematically taught and
they are now reaping the whirlwind from
responsible for the
that sowing.
——Excursion tiokets to the fair will
sold on all railroads.
west on the Bald Eagle Valley will wait
the Grounds until after the races each day.
The evening train on the Bellefonte Cen-
tral will be held the same way. On Thurs-
day and Friday a special train will be run
over the Lewisburg and Tyrone as far
Coburn, leaving Bellefonte at 7 o'clock
each evening. Oo all other lines and
all other directions there are ample rail-
bringing the
crowds in the morning and getting them
home in the evening, after seeing the fall
road accommodations for
day's program.
——Will Keichline, the machinist, has
purchased a second-baud fifteen horsepower
Mitchell car.
Several thousand ohil-
dren of school age are unable to attend
school, she statement alleges, because the
school buildings are inadequate and noth-
ing less than the sum mentioned will sap-
ply the needs of the present and pear fu-
the whole
amount for parks, boulevards, street im-
provements and other things and give only
one quarter for school purposes. There
are fewer opportunities for grafs in school
appropriations than any other kind and
the friends of the schools including the
preachers are roaring lustily agaivst the
The evening train
It is not fair that SHUMAKER should be
taken from a sick bed and SNYDER brought
into a sourt of justice, if PENNYPACKER 18
given an immunity bath. They are all
guilty, no doubt. Each of them contrib-
uted in some measure to the robbery that
has been already proved and is practically
confessed. But PENNYPACKER was the
chief offender for he used his reputation as
a lawyer to deceive the laymen associated
with him with respect to the legal aspects
of the affair. The investigating committee
bas exempted him but the Attorney Gen-
eral may yes bring bim to justice.
LP ueharg Rogues in a Quarrel.
“When rogues fall ont, honest menjcome
by their own.” Io the light of that prov-
erb there ought to be something doing in
Pistsburg, in the near future, of interest to
the Democrats of Pennsylvania. Some
weeks ago the District Attorney of Alle-
gheny county bad Senator RoGERS and a
lot of his Republican friends indicted for
issuing and using bogus tax receipts last
fall. Is was said shat there was a large
pumber of those fraudulent receipts aud
that if they had vot been issued and used
RoGERS would bave been defeated for State
Senator. The evidence against the accused
was overwhelming, it was said.
Now we are informed, throagh the press
of Pisisburg, that Senator ROGERS pro-
poses to retaliate on the District Astorney
and with shat object in view bas gathered
evidence that will prove that 8,000 and odd
trandulent votes were cast for him last fall,
making considerably more than the dif*
ference between his vote and that for his
Democratic competitor for the office, Mr.
TuompsoN. It is added that Senator
ROGERS intends to use the information he
bas thus acquired in contesting the eleo-
tion of Distriot Attorney GOEHRING and
we most earnestly hope that he will carry
out the threat. The politics of Allegheny
county need such a fumigation.
The probabilities are, however, that each
of these eminent machine Republicans is
only fooling with the proposition. ROGERS
attempted to bave GOEHRING impeached
on account of his habits and GOEHRING got
the drop on him, as the Rough Riders say,
by the indictment for issuing bogus tax
receipts. Having accomplished thas coup
GOEHRING grew careless and ROGERS cov-
ered him with a fraudulent voting how-
itzer. Now they will probably get togesh-
er and agree to mutually drop the subject
and leave both the crooks in undisturbed
possession of the offices they have stolen.
Meantime the public has been let into a
secret which may be used to excellent ad-
vantage in the future.
ies
be
or
be
to
to
———1In all the years of your residence in
Centre county yon have beard of the fa-
mous **Eagle’s Nest” up Spring oreek; the
mass of Jagged rocks that tower away above
the stream. In years gone by you have
supposed that eagles made their nest there.
Legends have tanght you that, but such a
thing as real live eagles brooding there
pow has never entered your mind.
Imagine your surprise when you will
be shown real, live eagles that
were captured in this very ‘‘Eagles Nest"
only a short time ago. They will be exhi-
bited by sheir captor before he ships them
to the Zoological gardens in Philadelphia.
You can scarcely believe it, of course, but
you can see them as the fair next week.
-—-September is now a thing of the
past and October, with ite sere and yellow
leat, is here.
be
at
A
campaign since the foundi
For years and years the Gang bas fooled
the people. For years and years it has lied
to them. For years and years it has rob-
bed and outraged them. For years and
years the Gang, being caught with the stol-
en goods, has found somebody like Gov.
Stuart to come to the rescue by declaring
that the ‘Republican party of Pennaylvania
stands for honesty decency in public
affairs and politics.” For years and years
the Gang, being deteoted making way with
plunder, has found some oue like Sheatz to
come forward with the assurance that “‘any
man who stands for anything less than hon:
esty and decency in public affairs and poli-
fiey not a Republican and ie not
ons as these are always the of
of th ;
dynasty. They are being enp al
dq
of the Gang. They have been of to Gai
o
the state now for the same old purpose-to
save the Gang.
How long, O, Pennsylvania, how long
shall is be said that you are ‘‘a goverment
by knaves at the expense of fools’?
Presidential Battle.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The
The president is off on his trip and we
are shortly to bear from him. Taft has
gove ahead and we are already hearing
from bim. This political partoership is
opening up its batteries. Governor Hughes
is also at it, being [fairly afield with his
presidential boom.
That smart old politician, Senator Platt,
business. He certainly is makiog bis mark
with selfish or patriotic purpose.
The political pl
tial field is going ahead at a lively pace on
the Republican side, while the Demooratio
in dormant under the Bryan blanket. The
nestion there seems to be whesher Mr.
yan intends to contest the field. There
seems to be plenty
party that would set him back with Roose-
velt on a stool overlooking the presidential
contest from an eminence and
bless and advise the elect.
Mr. Bryan has not definitely retired,
aod Mr. Roosevelt says he has ; nor has he
anointed a successor, as Roosevelt has. He
is quite as able to do it, probably, if he
will. Quite probably he can declare the
pominee if he deelines to be is. The se-
lection of the nominee is likely to bea
very Up potas element in the coming con-
test, e
personal exactions will be
soag; Parties are lower than they bave
been for many years.
There are two govornors who may be
fairly held to be the strongest stuff for the
respective party candidacies, with the
party principals elevated to seats of glory
on the retired pedestals to which they are
invited. These governors are those of New
York and Missouri, and a contest with
them at the head of the hosts would re-
mind one of she old days of the Palladinm.
The political skies are clearing and the
battle lines are forming apace.
Football Oct. 5th.
A great football event will be witnessed
in Williamsport on Saturday, Ootober 5th,
1907, when State College and Carlisle In.
diane will line up for another battle on the
Seminary field. Assurances have been
given that this will be one of the liveliest
games ever played between these colleges
and that 18 will positively be played toa
finish. The State College boys are well
kuown to be strong players, and the merits
of the Indians are well established. Both
teams are bard at work getting into sha
for this game, which will undoubtedly
fiercely contested. Last year State won by
a score of 6 to 0, and count on repeating
the performance this year. The Indian
team is said to be one of the st that
has come from the Carlisle school in recent
years. Both teams will be at their best
and those who witness the struggle between
them will be well entertained. The game
will be called at 2.30 p. m., and low rates
will be given by all railroads leading to
Williamsport.
—Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
J
to the Republican a
of New York, who is exhausted physically
aod politically, but whose head atill works |
to some effect, says Hughes is looming as a
politician and shat he is an artist in the
in it, whether he is pursuing the business
oughing of the presiden-
sentiments in she
ready to
Spawls from the Keystone.
~The horses and some of the animals of
Bufialo Bill's Wild West show will again be
wintered on several Chester county farms
pear Sadsburyville.
—The Snyder county jail, which had been
vacant for several mouths, has again a ten-
aut in the person of Charles Riege, charged
with horse-stealing.
—Collegeville, Montgomery county, is at
present served by five milkmen and the
competition is so great that milk has drop
ped from 6 to 4 cents per quart.
~The third annual reunion of the Patriot.
ie Order Sous of America of Perry county
will be beld in Newport, October 5. The
indications are that the reunion will be a
very interesting affair.
—Last Friday night burglars forced an
entrance into the residence of D. J. Carson,
of DuBois, and carried away over $100
worth of solid silver-ware and a few cents in
small change. No plated ware was taken.
—Thirty-five dollars and fifty cents in
bounties for one day's work in the woods is
the record made by Trapper John Swope,
of Huntingdon, last Friday. His catch was
made up of two wild cais, ten foxes, three
weasels and eighteen polecats.
—Mrs. Annie Halenbrak Ross, who died a
few days ago in Lock Haven, has bequeath-
ed $20,000 to the Lock Haven hospital, the
fund to be known as the “Franklin M. Ross
Endowment,” aod her handsome property
on west Main street, as a public library.
—Fifteen charters have been taken out at
Harrisburg recently for the purpose of util-
izing the current of the Juniata river and its
tributaries to be generated by water power
companies which are constructing or arrang-
ing to construct huge dams and power
plants in the streams.
~The dairymen of Schuylkill county re:
cently formed a union and have raised the
price of milk from 8 to 10 cents per quart,
but in several sections of the county the in-
crease is resented by the formation of a citi-
zen’s league that imports milk from other
sections at a lower price.
—The two inmates of the Huntingdon re-
formatory who escaped last Thursday noon,
wero captured late in the afternoon, at Mec-
Veytown, but escaped again at the railroad
station through a window while waiting for
a train. One was recaptured Friday after-
noon at McVeytown and the other at Den-
holurt
—Francis Sarp, a Latrobe fruit dealer, has
asked the authorities for protection from the
Black Haud, asserting he received letters
directing him to place $500 in the muzzle of
a canoon in the G. A. R. park. Death was
threatened if Sarp failed to obey. But Sarp
says through the Latrobe Bulletin that the
report is a falsehood.
~The fall inspection of the main line of
the Pennsylvania railroad, east of Pittsburg
and Erie, will take place on Monday and
Tuesday, October 7 aud 8. The various
supervisors are getting the roadbed in shape
for the eyes of the experts and the contest
for the different prizes promises to be as
| spirited as ever. :
‘=H. P. Reynolds, of Marklesburg, Hunt~
ingdon county, proprietor of the stock farms
“| in Tod township, has just returned home
from Salisbury, N. C., where he sold four
German coach stallions for $13,800. Two of
them brought $3,000 each, one $3,400 and
another $3,200. A Percheron was shipped to
Lexington, Ky., on Wednesday.
—Oue of the most daring robberies com*
mitted in Greensburg for some time was per-
petrated between midnight Saturday and
Sunday morning at the City restaurant. A
back window was broken open and the
burglars went into the place, where the por
prietors were known to have secreted their
money, and took it. They secured $23.50.
—*Do you think it would hurt if I should
shoot you?” asked Andrew Sabol, aged 13
years, of Frank McFadden, 15 years old, as
he leveled a flobert rifle at Frank, in the
woods near South Bethlehem, on Thursday,
while they were hunting. Just then the
gun was discharged and McFadden fell with
a bullet in his neck and he died in a short
time.
—Last Thursday evening a large cooking
stove in the home of C. P. Harmon, in
Waynesboro, Franklin county, was blown up
and broken into fragments. Mrs. Harmon
had kindled a fire a short time before and to
make it burn more briskly had poured on
some coal oil. Fortunately she had gone out
of the kitchen before the explosion took
place.
—Northumberland county will have three
hangings in due time unless the pardon
board intervenes, three murderers having
been convicted of first degree murder within
five months, two of whom were found guilty
at last week's term of court and the last be-
ing Staney Marcavitch, aged 19 years, who
was found guilty on circumstantial evidence
Friday night.
—A movement having for its object the
establishment of separate schools for
the colored children of Williams-
port, in charge of teachers of their
own race, is under way and the matter will
probably be brought before the board of edu-
cation at the next meeting of that body.
The movement is not only supported by a
number of directors, but has been beartily
endorsed by some of the most prominent
colored people of the city.
—Because William F. Mosser, late of West.
over, failed to leave a will the state of Penu-
sylvania will be enriched by $20,000 or $30,
000, or in other words, 5 per cent. of his es.
tate. Estimates vary as to the wealth of
the deceased but some people say that he
was probably worth $1,000,000. Others place
it between $400,000 and $500,000. It is gen*
erally believed, however, that the estate is
worth fully $1,000,000. A portion Zof the
holdings are in other states.
—Joe DePhilippi, the Italian baker of Du-
Bois, has recovered his long lost son, Tony,
who was reported to have been
found starved to death in a box
car at Youngstown, Ohio, bat which
story Joe persisted in discrediting. The boy
was found at Buffalo by Mrs. Charles Mike,
who was in that city some time ago buying
goods. The father went to Buffalo and found
his son working for a firm of merchants.
He accompanied his father home. 8