—Vote for RUNKLE.
—Vote for KIMPORT.
—Vote for HARMAN.
—It ever shere was fair weather there
has been fair weather for the fair.
—Vote for HARMAN if you want to
know how dishonest some of your state of-
ficials have been.
— ARTHUR KIMPORT is the man for Pre-
thonotary. He knows the people and be
koows how to serve them.
—The fair of 1907 is almost a thing of
the past. Thanksgiving and Christmas will
be here before you know it.
—For once the Centre county fair bas
bad everything in its favor. The orowd
yesterday was a record breaker.
~The capitol grafters are not to be tried
until January 27th, meanwhile if SHEATZ
is elected they never will he tried.
— Now that the fair is about over let us
settle down to thinking about electing
HARMAN, K1MpoRrT and RUNKLE.
— ARTHUR KIMPORT is our present Pro-
thonotary. The county bas never bad a
better one and he should be re-elected.
—If you waut a Districts Attorney vote
for WiLLiaM GroH RUNKLE. If you
want a policeman vote for CHAMBERS.
—The repulsive HARTIE'S are getting|be-
fore the public again ; s sure sign that
there is to be a big THAW before spring.
—There is only one thing for a man who
really wants to see honest government in
Pennsylvania to do and thas is : Vote for
HARMAN.
—JosE GUITERAS has just diedlfat the
age of 117 years. Excessive cigarette
smoking is supposed to have precipitated
his death.
—1It is quite evident that the burgess is
one of those kind of men who, whenijhis
mind is once made wp that he is righs,
sticks to is.
—Don’t forges that it is a District At-
toruey, not a county policeman wej are to
eleot next month, therefore vote for{ Wu.
GRrOH RUNKLE.
~And the orowd bebaved itself. Dranks
and fights were couspicnous by their ab-
sence. Centre county crowds ave certainly
improving in deportment.
—The Gazette having abandoned Colonel
CHAMBERS' war record as a means ofjmak-
ing a county policeman out of him the
Colonel will have to fight it out for bim-
sell.
—It seems strange that TEDDY should
go away off to Louisiana to hunt bears
when there are so many in Wall St. Bat
on Wall St. TEPDY has an itching to bag
the balls.
~—There are fourteen bankers at present
under sentence in the Kansas penitentiary;
a fact which we mention merely to make
ourselves feel that newspaper work isn’t so
bad after all.
—Herr CONRIED, the opera director, is
to be pitied. CARUSO, his leading ftenor,
made a monkey of himself and the poor man
worried so shat he has a oase of nerves
now. Awfal, isn’t it?
—The Penosylvania and the Nittany
Valley are having their own troubles over
the Nittany Iron Company's yards. It
seems to be one of those oases of the big
one eating up the little one.
—The estimate that the entire popula-
tion of the earth could stand in an area of
eighty square miles was probably based on
men of the FAIRBANKS type rather than
those of the TAFT rotandity.
~The trains alone brought thirty-five
hundred people into the town yesterday.
You can imagine what that did for our
merchants. It isa great business maker
and should be made a greater.
—Candidate SHEATZ will get the old
soldier vote--nit. He is the fellow who
squandered all the State's money and
thereby made it necessary for the Gov-
ernor to vote their pension bill.
~The hottest region on earth being
along the Persian gall wouldn't thas bea
good place to banish the capitol trimmers
to since we haven't any means of sending
them to the real hottest place known of.
—Detroit baving won the peanant after
the greatest base ball battle on record the
fans of the National game will be palling
ulsters up around # eir ears and sitting on
the bleachers beside foot ball games until
the snow falls.
~The speed trials of the Lusitania the
new great trans-Atlantio steamer will prob-
ably wind ap like the eighteen hour trains
between New York and Chicago. Too
much speed inoreases the chances of acci-
dent and loss of lives.
—There is hope. young man. A thous-
and marriageable girls were importedjinto
the country last week. We fancy that if
some Bellefonte ladies were in charge of
the immigration burean in New York the
cargo would have been deported instanter.
~Surely it is not such an awful thing
to consider giving one of the many state
offices to a Democrat ; especially when that
Democrat will serve honest Republicans
who are as auxious as any one else to
know that the State's affairs are heing
conducted without grafs. Vote for Han-
MAN.
#
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
YoL. 52
BON
A ——————
Only Way two Achieve the Resumit.
For some time after DAVE MARTIN suc-
ceeded IZ. DURHAM as Insurance Commis-
sioner ISRAEL STONE and three others not |
employed in she Department and render-
ing no service to the State, were carried on
the pay roll. DAVE MARTIN is still In-
surance Commissioner and enjoys the
friendship and confidence of Governor
StTuarT. Samuen W. MCCULLOCH testis
fied, during the investigation of the Insur-
ance Department more than a year and a-
half ago, that be swelled bis compensation
whenever he ‘needed the money,” by ad-
diug an expense account, without the war-
rant of law, and he is Depusy Insurance
Commissioner yet and apparently in the
confidence of the Governor. Dozens of
other grafters continue to bold office, not
withetanding the exposure of their misfeas-
ances.
What right has the administration to ask
the public to accept ite assurances that the
capitol building grafters will be prosecuted
after the eleotion or any other time, in the
face of such facts, if the party it represents
is restored to complete control of the
State government ? It is true that the in-
vestigation, forced by State Treasurer
BERRY, was only completed about three
months ago and that it mighs have been
difficult to prepare the cases, based on she
report of that inquiry, before the election.
Bus there was enough evidenoe to institute
proceedings a year ago and the facts counid
bave been developed in the criminal coart
as well, or better, than by the investiga.
tion. Besides the report incriminating the
Insuravce Department grafters was made
more than a year and a half ago.
The truth of the matter is thas if it is
poseible to discover a means of escape from
it there will be ne prosecution of the graft.
ers at all. Governor STUART reluctantly
agreed to the investigation because during
the campaign last fall he declared that in
the event of his election there would be an
investigation and after his election he
couldn’s avoid it. Bat during she cam-
paign he declared that there had been no
grafting avd his anxiety now is not to vin-
dicate justice hy punishing the criminals,
but to justify his own statement that no
crimes had been committed. If the people
of the State want the grafters punished
and grafting stepped they will elect JOHN
G. HARMAN to the office of State Treas-
arer. There is no other way to achieve
the result.
Issues of the Campaign,
Colovel WesLEY R. ANDREWS, chaire
man of the Republican machine State Com-
mittee, has semi-officially announced that
the issue in the pending campaign for
State Treasurer is the tariff. ‘‘This is the
lass oppuertanisy,’’ he declared ina news-
paper interview, the other day, ‘‘for the
Republicans of Pennsylvania to declare
themselves for or against a revision of the
tariff before the Republican Natioual con-
vention. By po means is this issue alone
political ; it is vital to the commercial and
industrial prosperity of Pennsylvania. It
affente,”’ he solemnly continued, ‘‘the
wage-earner, the farmer, the business man,
every unit of industry whioh in the aggre-
gate has given to the people of the State
unexampled prosperity.’
It in a safe bet that chairman ANDREWS
doesn’t know the difference between an
advalorem tariff tax levy and a flying ma-
chine but he knows that a campaign for
State Treasurer or any other office in this
State on issues that are relevant will result
in the overwhelming defeat of the machine
ticket. He knows also, a knowledge ao-
quired by experience, that it is necessary
to raise she sariff issue in order to ‘‘fry the
fat” out of the tariff pensioners, to employ
a phrase coined hy the late Senator QUAY,
and that with the tariff issue raieed the
predatory barons will give up as freely as
burglars for immunity to contine their re-
prisals. But issues in politics are made by
conditions rather than by the choice of in-
dividuals and existing conditions don’t ad-
mit of making an issue of the tariff.
The intelligent people of Pennsylvania
understand the significance of the election
of the Republican machine candidate for
State Treasurer this year aod a vast ma-
jority of shem will vote to prevent such a
result. The election of Mayor REYBURN,
of Philadelphia, who ran as a reformer, re-
stored the machine to power in that city,
for in every form of evil REYBURN bas the
late ASHBRIDGE ‘‘skinned a mile,” and
the election of SHEATZ will have she same
effect in the State. Io other words the de-
feat of the machine candidate for State
Treasurer will have no effect perceptible or
imaginary on the tariff, but it will pas the
atrocious machine out of the public life of
the Commonwealth forever. Chairman
ANDREWS may as well understand this
first aa last,
——At the avnual meeting of the Centre
Baptiet association beld at Johnstown on
Wednesday Sod Thkarsday of last week
8. 8. Miles, of Port Matilda, was eleoted
treasurer of she association for the ensuing
year.
Penrose and Sheats.
The Philadelphia correspondent of the
esteemed Pittsburg Dispatch gives the
public the interesting information that
Senator PENROSE is watching she fight’
for State Treasurer ‘‘with interest,” and
that be *‘will remain in Philadelphia until
after the election.’”” The correspondent
“‘had a balf-hour’s talk with the Senator,”
he informs us, ‘‘during which the State
fight was touched upon.” That 1# putting
it in mild form, to say the least, hat the
subsequent announcement is illuminating.
‘‘More attention,” he guilelessly adds,
‘“‘was given, (presumably by PENROSE,)
‘‘s0 the approaching contest for United
States Senator, in whioh PENROSE must
defend bis title against all comers.”
Senator PENROSE nominated SHEATZ
not because he cared for SHEATZ a little
bit but for the reason that he is vassly in-
terested in PENROSE. He controlled the
convention absolutely. He could bave
nominated ToM, Dick or HARRY or that
mythical legal hambog, Mr. Joux DoE.
But he nominated SHEATZ because he
thought the nomination of that foxy
follower of the machine would fool the
people and help PENROSE. For shat rea-
son the Senator is watching the fight
anxiously, we might say prayerfully, be-
cause he knows that if SHEATZ is defeated
he will be relegated to the furthest back
seat in obsourisy. It wouldn't impair the
dominanoy of the Republican party in the
State in the least. Bat it would absolutely
and inevitably extingoish the QUAY-PEN-
ROSE machine, and it is that atrocity
rather than the principles of she Repab-
lican party that interests PENROSE.
SHEATZ is a pawn in the political chess
game now in progress in Pennsylvania. Of
itself a pawn is utterly inconsequential in
the game o f chess. But a pawn may be so
disposed as to protects the head of a knight,
the safety of a queen or the crown ofa
king. In the political game in progress
the pawn, SHEATZ, is being used to goard
she toga of a Senator, PENROSE. If SHEATZ
is defeated the machine will be overwhelm-
ed and PENROSE finally obliterated from
the political equation in Peonsylvaoia. It
is small wonder, therefore, that ‘‘ PENROSE
is watohing the fight with interest.”’ Those
who hope to resoae the State from the
party brigands of whom PENROSE ie the
chief ought to be equally interested and
alert.
Rooseveit's Political Plans,
That President RoOsSEVELT hopes to
break up the political solidity of the South
is obvions. For thirty years Republican
Presidents bave been striving for that re-
sult but their failures have had vo deterrent
influence on ROOSEVELT. More practical
and less scrupulous than bis predecessors
he has appealed to sheir cupidity rather
than their reason. The outcome of his
effort, therefore, will be watohed with our-
ious interest. It will determine the moral
fibre of the Southern people as well as
measure their oredulity. if shey will
sacrifice principle for sell the strenuous
Rough Rider willachieve his purpose.
RoosEVELT'S plan of attack in the South
is the improvememt of the Mississippi river
and other Sonthern waterways. For ball a
century or more the people of she Missis-
sippi valley have been asking for congres-
sional appropriations to improve sheir
rivers. There are many reasons so support
their importunities and only one against
them. The improvement of the Mississippi
river, for example, would vastly increase
the sanitary oondition of she territory
through which is flows and add to the ma-
terial prosperity of she people of a much
greater area. But the cost would be enor-
mons. Nothing less than a billion dollars
would perform the work whioh the Presi-
dent promises.
Of course the conutry will never consent
toso vast an undertaking. The bardens
of the insular policies of the government
and the construction of the Isthmian canal
will keep the public nose to the grindstone
for a hundred years and ordinary business
wisdom forbids additional expenses of that
sort. But the President doesn’t hesitate
on that account to promise the enterprise
and if she people of she South are credulous
enough to believe in impossibilities the
smashing operation may be inauguarated.
We don'ts believe, however, that a oconsid-
erable number of voters, (North or South,
will be fooled.
——With the big Centre county fair to
attract the crowds during the day; the
Theatorium in Petrikes hall and the Wil-
liam C. Wild Stock company at Garman's
there has surely been enough doing this
week to farnish eusertaioment for all,
And as to the latter, if yon have not seen
any of their shows go to the opera house
tonight and tomorrow night and see the
closing performances.
~——Now that the big Centre County fair
is about over the season for dissipation is at
an end and the only things we have to look
forward to is the approching winter, and
hunting season with its big hunting stories.
The candidate of the machine for State
Treasurer is smarting under the just eriti-
cism of his work in the Legislature. The
review of bis record as a Representative in
the General Assembly, recently made pub-
lio by the Demooratio State Committee, ao-
oused him of voting for the iniguitouns
Kiogston water bill during the session of
1903. Mr. SHEATZ writes to the Philadel-
phia Record that he voted against the Sas-
guehanna Canal bill and the filtration bill.
Nobody acoused him of voting otherwise,
Those were bad bills, unquestionably, bas
no worse than othere for which Mr. SHEATZ
voted. His letter to the Record is simply
a plea in confession and avoidance.
What the committee charged is that Mr,
SHEATZ voted for the Kingston bill and
be is so recorded on page 2435 of the Leg-
islative Record for the session of 1903. He
also voted for she bill authorizing railroad
corporations to acquire and control the
watersheds of the State and other measures
which were known at the time as the
Watersnakes of the session. The Sasque-
hanna canal bill was not in that class of
legislation. The purpose of shat bill was
simply to abrogate the charter of a canal
company and make it impossible in future
for shat corporation to compete with the
Pennsylvania railroad as a common carrier.
Mr. SHEATZ has corroborated rather than
contradicted the statement of the Demo-
cratic State committee with respect to his
attitude toward the watersnakes.
The truth of the matter is that Mr.
BHEATZ is conducting a campaign of falee
pretense. In other words, be is posing
helore she public as a Legislative reformer
whereas he was one of the moss servile leg-
islative roosters who ever served in thas
body. He was nominated by the Philadel-
phia machine to humiliate Hoo. J. CLAUDE
BEDFORD who refused to take the orders
of she machine. If he had not been obedi-
eut and serviceable to the machine he
would not have been renominated after his
firat session and the fact that be wae not
only continued iu the seat but constantly
gained in the favor of she machine is abun-
dant evidence that he was satisfactory to
the bosses.
Sheatz and Harman Contrasted.
“The friends of the machine candidate for
State I'reasurer, JOHN O. SHEATZ ask the
people to support him on she ground, as
stated by au esteemed contemporary, that
“he would prove a most vigilant and inflex-
ble guardian of she public finances.” It
would be diffiouls to imagine anything
more absurd than that. Evea if be hadn't
supported every profligate enterprise of
the machine during his three terms in the
House of Representatives, his record as
chairman of the House committee on Ap-
propriations daring the last session would
completely refute that claim.
Daring the session of 1907 appropriations
were made to the aggregate of $92,000,000
in round figures while it is known to every
intelligent citizen who has given thought
to the subject that the revenues for the
period will amount to very little more
than half shat total. Is is not unjass to say
that Mr. SHEATZ was responsible for these
excessive appropriations. As chairman of
the Appropriations committee of the House
he could have put an instant stop to that
form of legalized looting. But be indulg-
ed every interests of the bosses as against
the State and proved that he is not only
not vigilant bus that he is either careless
or indifferent to the interests of the peo-
ple.
Mr. SHEATZ'S record in she Legislature
stands in marked oontrast with that of
JOHN G. HARMAN, his opponent in the
fighs, who is the nominee of the people.
Mr. HARMAN not only voted against all
the iniquities which were passed during
the session of 1905 but he was as vigilant
and oapable in debate as he was inflexible
in purpose. He was always the champion
of the right in debate and on roll-call, and
never faltered in grasping the vicious
measures and squelshing them in so lar as
that was possible. On the contrary Mr.
SHEATZ was always with the machine
when he was needed and he has nearly
always voted to strengthen the position of
the machine. If the people do not desire
the methods of she machine continued they
will elect Mr. HARMAN.
~—TUp to this time hunters have been
very much discouraged with the game crop.
Squirrel are exceedingly scarce and itis
yet a little too early to make pheasant
hunting good. For this reason they are
all naturally looking forward to the open-
ing of the rabbit season next Tuesday
when they anticipate better luck than
heretofore.
——Bellelonte was in semi-darkness on
Wednesday evening owing to the fact that
the Bellefonte Eleotrio company was put-
ting in a new steam connection from their
boilers to the engines and did not get the
job completed until 6.30 o'clock in the
evening, so thas electric light users were
in darkness until that time.
From the Pittsburg Sun.
The last cam in this State rang
with agonized blican cries So
stand by Roosevelt. This year the faithfal
are told instead to stand by the sacred sar.
iff. Sheatz, she candidate for
Treasurer, sl the President in the
face when in obedience to Penrose’s orders
as a member of the Legisiatare of 1905 he
voted to reconsider and expunge resolutions
indorsing the President’s course in work-
ing for rate regulation and other popular
reforms. This is why the party keynote
must be changed this Sa Roosevelt
a8 popular as ever, but didn’s stand
by him when he could and should. He
obeyed Penrose instead. So the old re-
liable tariff bogey is dusted off and set vp
for the faithfal. ts
Another Republican cry we won't hear
much of this campaign is one that natural-
ly accompanies the tariff yamp. ‘‘Les
well enough alone” won’t do in this State
thie year for those who are straining and
striving to get the State treasury back into
their clutches again. Not a breath of com-
ples can be uttered against William H.
1ry’s work while in office. He has faith-
fally disobarged his responsibilities and
dusies of treasurer in a contrast most mark-
ed when compared with what his immedi
ate predecessors, Republicans, praitted to
be done. Berry in letter spirit bas
been a servant of the people, a faithfal,
efficient guardian of their interests. He
has served them only too well and hence
became a stumbling block of Penroseism
and graft. If well enough is ever to be les
alone, the good work of this worthy son
and exponent of Demovoracy would demand
that he aod it, rather than the interests
they have detected and exposed, should
have the say about his successor.
The more the record and teotics of Sheatz
and the party of Penrose behind him are
considered the more preposterous their
claim to recognition is. e tariff isne is
being raised because Mr. Sheatz is not in
sympathy with Roosevelt as against bis
own boss. Mr. Sheatz's record as the
obairman of the committee on appropria-
tions in the last Legislature shows him wo
be unfit for the Treasurer's responsibilities.
To les well enovgh alone is just what the
gang can’t stand for when they are on the
outside.
The Only Tariff Issue,
From the Pittsburg Post.
That the machine leaders are worried
over the outlook in this State is evideuvced
oy the fact that Republican State Chair-
man Aodrews 18 out with a screed to the
effect that if John O. Sheatz should vot be
alected Sinle treasurer, tag tarif will be in
anger. Every sane man in Peensglvanie
knows thas the industrial tariff is not av
issue in this election in this State. The
only tariff thas is an issue in this campaign
in this Staie is that which has been levied
upon its people for the last foriy years by
the corrupt machine whose candidate Mr.
Sheatz is. In the master of the building
aud furnishing of the State capitol alone
that machine levied a tariff of as least $6,-
000,000.
As Mr. Berry recently showed, this same
machine is souday evy{og a heavy tariff
annually in the shape of high salaries paid
to hundreds of its followers nominally
holding State tions, but who have
their work ormed by substitutes for
one-third or one-fourth the amount paid by
the State. In many other ways the ma-
chine has been and still is levying a heavy
tariff on the people of the State. The
presence of Mr. Berry in the State Treas-
arer’s office has saved the Jeople a consider-
able amount of this tariff levied by the ma-
chine, but should the latter regain control
of that office it will soon recoup this money
and Joo poe Sorsthiee burdens on she people
of the
The election of Mr. Berry two vears ago,
as is well known, had a great effect in re-
ducing this machine tariff, but it had abso-
lately none upon tariff duties levied hy the
national government, which are the same
to-day as shey were in 1905.
Mr. Sheatz’s defeat and Mr. Harman's
election would bave exactly the same effect
ae did the defeat of Plummer and the elec-
tion of Berry. The industrial tariff will in
no way be affected by the resultof the
coming election, but the tariff levied by
the corrupt State machine on the people of
Peonrsylvania will be either inoreased or
lowers as the machine candidate wins or
oses.
Wants Faston
of all
From the Newburg Register.
There may be some who call themselves
Democrats, who will bear watohi but a
true Dewoorat ie not a traitor. It is time
that party quarrels ceased, and
who profess to be Democrats should stand
BY sbeiz party, The day is not far distant,
it is not already here, when the plunder
ed tarifiridden people, robbed of thier earn-
ings by the trusts while she Republican
ooks on approvingly and stretches
h ite band for a share of the spoils, will
look to the Demooratic party for relief. Is
is therefore, the duty of every Democrat,
Jacksonian, Jeffersonian and otherwise, to
remain steadfast and true and present a
solid front to the enemy.
~——It was bard luok for the eight bun.
dred students who went from State Col-
lege to Williamsport last Satarday to see
the State—Carlisle Indian game, as well as
the many Bellefonters who accompanied
them that the State team was defeated by
the score of 18 to 5,but the game of football
is very much like politics, never decided
until the game is played and then the best
man geverally wins.
——The Centre county medical society
held its regular meeting on Tuesday in the
court house. Drs. W. 8B. Tryon, of this
place, snd Peter Hoffer Dale, of Centre
Hall, were taken in as members while Dr.
R. J. G. Allison, of Centre Hall, waa chos-
en presiding officer for the ensuing year.
Democrats,
nt —
Spawls from the Keystone,
~The Castanea Brick and Tile company of
Lock Haven has a complement of machinery
capable of turning out 1,000,000 brick s
month, but lack of kilnsat present limits
the output to 550,000,
—Daring the past three months the bounty
paid in Huntingdon county for the scalps of
wild animals amounted to $1,245. The
scalps produced were, wild cats 16, foxes
383, weasels 327 and minks 78.
—Eight carloads of apples averaging 600
bushels each have been shipped thus far from
New Bloomfield, Perry county, to Pittsburg.
The prices paid the farmers ranged from
forty-five io fifty cents per bushel,
~The twenty-fourth annual meeting of
the Central Peunsylvania conference, Wom-
an's Home missionary society of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, will be held at Clear-
field on October 15t5. 16th and 17th.
—A block of stone from the famous quar.
ries of Daradatha, near Jerusalem, in Pales-
tine, arrived in Danville on Saturday. It
will be dressed and used as the corner stone
of the Masonic temple in course of erection
at Sunbury.
—One death and seven lying seriously ill
in a family of eight is the terrible record of
is | typhoid in the home of Charles Miller, of
Paxinos. The father is the only one who
has escaped the dread disease, and he is al.
most crazed with grief.
—Albert Kulp, a clerk and driver for
Pardee & Co., at Lattimer, Luzerne county,
was arrested on Thursday for the theft of
merchandise. He has confessed that his
robberies were conducted for a year anda
haif and that he took about $15,000 worth of
goods and cash, He sold the goods to farm-
ers and others in the surrounding section.
—After having rounded out 50 years in the
service of the Pennsylvania Railroad com.
pany, Thomas I. Wallace, of Harrisburg, was
placed on the retired list Wednesday, having
reached the age limit of 70 years. Mr. Wal.
lace isa brother of the late Senator William
A. Wallace, and was at the head of the
freight department of the middle division
for many years.
—Thos. Bertram aged 20 years,of Altoona,
Pa., received injuries during a football game
Sunday that caused his death. Bertram,
who is a member of the Altoona Athletic
team, was playing against the Portage team
when he was kicked in the head during a
scrimmage. His death it is said will resuit
in prosecutions against those who played
Sunday football.
—Eight hundred tons of limestone were
loosened at one shot in the first blast that
opened up the new lime and sandstone quar~
ry of the Colonial Iron company, on the
lands of Charles G. Brown E:q., of Hunt.
ingden, at McConellstown, near the Hunt-
ingdon and Broad Top railroad, on Thurs.
day. The new opening will employ 8 nom.
ber of workmen and will enliven the staid
old town.
—W. O. Knapp, formerly of Salona, and J.
H. Hively, of Williamsport, have secured the
contract to deliver to a mill at Deemer, Miss.,
for the Deemer Manufacturing company,
500,000,000 feet of logs. It is expected that it
will tuke 15 years to complete the job. Mr.
Koapp for several years has been employed
{Ly the New York and Pennsylvania com-
pany on wood operations and isan exper.
fenced woodsman.
~—While riding on a load of logs near Ger-
mania station, the other day Adelbert E.
Hayes, well known in Potter connty, met
with a horrible accident, which cost him his
life. The load upon which he was riding
tipped over, and he fell under the logs. For
two hours he was buried underneath the
great heavy timber and only one man was
with bim to remove them. The unfortunate
victim lived until the last log was taken off
his body and then gave up the struggle.
—H. Schriewind, of New York city, and
Heinrich Kierx, of Sunbury, spent Wednes.
day in Lewistown to look over the town to
ascertain conditions favorable to the estab.
lishment of a large silk mill there. They
were shown about the town and also about
Burnham, Yeagertown and Reedsville and
various available sites were examined. The
gentlemen departed favorably impressed
with the outlook. The plant proposed will
start with about 600 employes and a donation
of five to ten acres of ground is one of the
conditions to secure it. Both the gentlemen
are interested in the silk mill in Savbury.
~The town of Patton has secured a new
industry. The Levy brothers, who have
silk mills in New York, Connecticut and
Pennsylvania, will build one at Patton 200
by 400 feet. At the start 100 hands will be
employed, 75 per cent. of them to be girls.
The first investment will represent an out.
lay of $50,000 and plans and specifications for
the building have aiready been prepared by
a New York architect. The mill will re-
quire about one hundred horse power. The
contract for the erection of all the buildings
will be let at once and it is expected that
ground will be broken for the same within
ten days.
—A passenger coach with the roof afire
and running at full speed was an unusual
spectacle on the Middle division Thursday
afternoon. The coach was attached to train
No. 43. The train was passing west through
the tunnel at Spruce Creek when it is sup-
posed that a spark from the engine alighted
on the coach, setting it afire. The flaming
coach was not noticed until the train bad
run some distance, when a passenger directed
the attention of trainmen to the flames. The
train was not stopped until Tyrone was
reached, when the fire was extinguished
without much difficulty. The damage to
the car was little.
—Oun September 21st a man giving his
name as Harry Brown, hired a team of grey
horses from A. C. Gates, of Galeton, Potter
county. A few days later Mr. Gates started
in pursuit of the team. tracking them to
Lock Haven and from there to Tyrone. Mr.
Gates received news of the team at Tyrone
from J. R. Condo, superintendent of the Ty-
rone division of the Altoona and Logan Val-
ley electric railway company, who had seen
the team from a trolley car passing Blair
Furnace. Mr. Gates proceeded to Altoona
and from there traced the team to Cumber-
land, Md., and from there to Gorman, W.
Va., where be overtook the man and the
team,