BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—
Ink Slings.
—R. U. an Elk?
—You should attend the HARMAN and
BERRY meeting Wednesday night.
—A lot of Bellefonters who never bad
them before got big horns put on them
Wednesday night.
—Vote for Krmport for Prothonotary,
you want the best man you can get for the
office and be is 18.
—The rapidity with which Bellefonte
girls have been marrying lately leaves no
room to question their attractiveness.
—Senator DEWALT was a member of the
capitol scandal investigation commission.
He krows a thing or two abouts it. Goto
the court house Wednesday evening and
hear him.
—Let's get down to the business of roll-
ing up a big majority for HARMAN in Cen-
tre county. itis an off year, but Centre
county is for honest government and is,
therefor, for HARMAN.
—The prices of stocks are certainly on
the toboggan. This doesn’s interest the
public nearly as much as she prices of ne-
cessities, and just she public's luck, the
latter are on the elevator.
—80 the Southern Pacific bas been re-
bating a little has it. Well, well. If it
bad bad PAuL MORTON for its president
perhaps the finding out of ite gilt would
be the end of its punishment.
—Forty thousand kegs of powder blow-
ing up at one time was enough to make a
wreck of a larger town than Fontanet,
Indiana, =o that Foutanet is no more and
thirty-five of ber citizens are gone also.
—South Africa spends a million dollars
a year for musical instruments. That isn’t
a circumstance, however, to what Eogland
bas heen paying for the music of the Boer
guns that she heard down there a few years
ago.
—The hunting season for rabbit opened
on Taesday but up to this time hre'r rah.
bit has shown a marked disposition to sit
by hiz own fire side and not to ventare out
where dogs and guns innumerable await his
coming.
—The government chemist having a side
of beef that has been in cold storage for
fourteen years is afraid to eat it. He
should send it over to the Smithsonian in-
stitute and exhibit it ander the name of
FAIRBANKS,
~New York bas a SAM SALTER, ex-
cept that his name ie MIKE. He is a bal-
lot hox stuffer and is going to be arrested
which shows how foolish it is for a ballot
box stuffing SALTER to live any where else
than in Philadelphia.
| —Yoar Uncle SAMUEL has become the
gate keeper at the Jamestown exposition,
He wants to get bis money back, but the
Jamestown show didn’t adopt the motto
of our Bellefonte merchant, who advertise.
es, “Your money hack for the asking.”
—~Earthquakes are visiting us again.
The instruments at Washington recorded
one about 9 o'clock Wednesday morning,
bat up to this time no one has been able to
find out where it was. [It certainly wasn’t
bear falling in Louisiana under the fire of
the President.
—If you really want to know how dis-
honest things have been in Harrisburg go
to the court bouse Wednesday evening and
hear what Mr. BERRY has to tell. He can
be relied npon to give you the whole troth
because it has been largely due to his ef-
forte that the truth of the scandal is known
at all.
—There z:e many reasons why RUNKLE
should be re-elected to the office of District
Attorney ; the principal one being that he
is the best man for the place. He is the
more conservative of the two men and not
nearly as likely to be involving the county
in needless litigation and expense as his
opponent. Mr. CHAMBERS is only out for
the office for what there is in it. That is
his game, no he will need watching.
~The Usited States has two hundred
and sixty thousand school buildings, with
eighteen million scholars. Notwithstand-
ing the liberal appropriations for ednca-
tional purposes every community has its
quota of illiterate children; beingjiallowed
to grow up without the ability to either
read or write. It is lamentable, but one
of those conditions that neither the law
nor public sentiment seems able to circum-
vent.
—80 the Hon. BILLY MULDOON, ex-
champion wrestler and all around fistio
sport is to be called to Washington to or-
ganize a new dapartment of health. With
ROOSEVELT away on every pretext, TAFT
and ROOT en roufe somewhere most of the
time it looks to us as though work could
hardly be making such inroads on those
worthies as would warrant the pablie in
keeping up a health department for them.
Now if it were for the poor department
clerks it would be a horse of another color.
~The Nittany Valley—Nittany Iron Co.
—P. R. R. controversy is still on and the
question of the rights of each party is be-
ing more muddied with each turn of the
tide. Sapt. GARDNER thinks be’s on top,
the Nittany farnace is still making iron
and the Pennsy is doing the hauling, Judge
MCCLURE is standing pat and she lawyers
are all in the air over the situation. The
public is interested only in so far as the
squabble may effect the operation of the
furoace. It is to be hoped that nothing
str ———
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 52
an Crooks tor Sheats,
The Pittsburg Republican machine crooks
have also decided upon an armistice, so to
speak, until after the election. The prose-
i
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5
Humbug as well us Fraud
Hastily considering the statement of
Joux O. SHEATz, machine Repalican can-
didate for State Treasurer, that he had
cutioo of Senator ELLIOT ROGERS for issuing | 0.4 againes she bill to repeal the charter
fraudulent tax receipts last fall and the
contest of the election of District Attorney
GOEHRING will be in abeyance for awhile,
therefore. Former Senator
FLINN and malti-millionaire GEORGE
OLIVER bave also decided to postpone
hostilities in their impending fight for con-
trol of the local organization in Pittsburg
until the same convenient season and curi- | 0 right to seize the streams of the State |
ously enough, Governor STUART has made
up his mind to postpone she organization
WILLIAM |
of the Sasquehanna caval company, The
WATCHMAN expressed the opinion, last |
week, thas be, nevertheless, had supported
the ‘‘watersnakes’” of that session. In
others words we declared that she Susque-
hanna canal bill was not among the most
atrocious of the measares which were de-
signed to bestow upon a los of politicians
for water powers and control the water-
sheds of the Commonwealth for mercenary
of the Railroad Commission until after the | purposes. Accepting his statement with
election.
Whatever differences there are among
these politicians they have a ‘ ‘community
of interest’’ in the approaching election.
GOEHRING acouses ROGERS of felony and
RoGERS swallows his pride and postpones
his resentment in the interest of SHEATZ.
Again RoGERs declares that GOEHRING
was elected by fraudulent votes and bas no
valid title to the office and GOEHRING
wears the insult oncomplainingly iv order
to help SHEATZ. FLINN who bas made mil-
lions of dollars out of municipal contracts
obtained by favoritism if not by frand has |
“an irrepressible confliot’’ with OLIVER,
who bas acquired millions of dollars from
unearned tariff bounties. But they mutu-
ally agree to postpone the settlement of
fear that present hostilities would jeopar-
dize the election of SHEATZ.
SHEATZ, it appears, is an object of solici-
sade among all the crooks and corruption-
ists. His defeat might permanently stop |
the golden flow which makes profligates of
some and criminals of others in Pittsburg,
and by mutnal consent they ‘‘bury the
batchet’’ for a time. If SHEATZ is elected
the gnarrel can be renewed between RoG-
ERs and GOEHRING and FLINN and OLI-
VER with absolute assurance that which-
ever wine there will be plunder to divide
and spoils of war to distribute. The ma
chine will then be restored to power, abso-
lately, and as one carpet hag statesman in
the South said taapother, a few years ago,
“there will be many years of good stealing
in Penosylvania yet."
Sheatz Lucked Moral Courage.
According to the testimony of the Phila-
delpbia North American Representative
SHEATZ left Philadelphia on March 16th,
1903, fully determined to vote against the
Susquehanna canal bill, which passed the
House finally on March 17th. The es-
teemed North American says : ‘‘It should
be stated farther that Mr. SHEATZ took
special pains to vote right on the Susque-
hanna ‘snake.’ While in Phiiladelpbia
the day before the bili came up he inquired
of the North American when it was to be
called. Upou learning that the vote would
be taken on the following day, he canceled
an important hdsiness engagement, and
went to Harrisburg specially to do his
daty and vote against the measure.”
But when he reached Harrisburg he came
aoder the inflaence of Insurance Commis-
sioner DURHAM and the other machine
managers and VOTED FOR THE BILL.
No doubt when he left Philadelphia he in-
tended to vote against it. On March 11th
when it was defeated he did vote against
it which would indicate that he was aware
of its vicious character. But the power of
the machine was too great for him to re-
sist. He hadn’s the moral conrage to say
‘get thee behind me Satan.”” He lacked
that quality of probity which opposes
wrong under all circumstances. The force
of the machine overwhelmed him. He
yielded ani then by acquiescence in an
error made the false pretense of a courage
that he didn’t possess.
Yet some of the bogas reformers in the
State say now that if SHEATZ is elected
State Treasurer he will be able to resist
the machine in matters of infinitely greater
consequence to the managers of that ‘‘orim-
inal conspiracy’’ than the Susquehanna
canal bill. They pretend to think that he
would stand as Mr. BERRY has stood
against gralt notwithstanding the vast in-
terests of she machine in manipulating the
treasury and public contracts. Nothing
could be more absurd. He would do pre-
cicely as be did in March, 1903. That is
he would serve the machine in she treasury
a® be did in the Legislature avd his elec-
tion will restore the system as certain as
day follows nighs.
~——On Monday afternoon E. B. 0’Reiley
and Paul Brosins, of Look Haven, bat both
well known by many people of this place,
were driving slong the river road in that
city in the former's automobile when the
machine swerved from the road and before
the steering apparatus could be controlled
bad planged down over a high embank-
mens. O’Reiley was thrown out and es-
caped with afew cuts and bruises but
Brosins stuck to the machine and when it
finally lauded it was on top of him. He
sustained a broken shoulder and some bad
will arise to canse ite suspension.
bruises bat vo fatal injuries.
| aud Mr. SHEATZ voted against it.
| machine wanted she bill snd after securing
their disputes until after the election for |
respect to his vote on that bill, therefore,
we held that be wae not absolved from the
charge made against him.
Since that we have had sime to investi-
gate bis denial with respecs to the Susque-
hanna canal bill and find thas he voted for
that measure which he himself denounces
as a legislative atrocity. On March 17th,
1903, the measure in question was consider-
ed on fioal passage and Mr. SHEATZ voted
in the affirmative. The proceedings are
BELL EON a
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Homesty Not the Greatest Quality.
JouN OscAR SHEATZ was as honest the
day be voted for the Kingston water bill
as be is today and sbas vote worked no im-
pairment of his personal integrisy, it may
be said. Bat if the bill had been enacted
into law is wonld have evabled a lot of po-
litical pirates and frenzied financiers to en-
rich themselves to the prejudice of public
interests and at the cxpense of the people.
It may even be said that Mr. SHEATZ
didn’t want to vote for that bill. He didn’t
want to vote for the Susquebanna canal
bill, either, but he hadn’t the moral
strength to resist the importanities of the
machine managers. He yielded because
be lacked the courage which she public
service requires at present.
Few people believe that Governor PEN-
NYPACKER is personally dishonest. That
inotdivately vain old man wouldn’t wroog
an individual out of a penny, probably, if
| the incident would gain bim a million dol-
lare. Nobody questions the personal in-
tegrity of Dr. WILLIAM P. SNYDER, re-
published on page 1691 of she Legislative
Record of that year and on page 1051 of the
journal of the House of Representatives
for that session. On a previous occasion,
March 11, is was defeated on final passage
a reconsideration of the vote by which 1%
was defeated, procured its passage with
the assistance of his vote.
Therefore he is not only guilty of voting
for a bill which he bimself declares vicious
but stands convicted of the graver offense
of lying about it afterward. The bill was
strongly opposed by the reform element in
the Legislature and the single vote against
it attracted a good deal of favorable com-
ment in she Philadelphia ve vspapers. In
some way Mr. SHEATZ managed to put the
reporters under th: impression that it was
be who had thus defied she machive mana-
gers and he was praised generously. Asa
matter of faos, however, shat was a false
pretense. The negative vote was cast by
Mr. FRANCIS, of Pittsburg, who fiad been
elected on the citizens’ ticket and Mr.
SHEATZ, who served the machine, usorped
the honor that belonged to another.
Holding up Employes.
It appears that Mr. Joux 8. NEIL, chief
olerk in the State Department of Highways,
has been ‘*holding up’ employes and con-
tractors of the department for voluntary
contributions to the campaign corruption
faud. The incident bas oreated a good
deal of comment in official circles, it is
said, and Mr. SHEATZ has been moved to a
declaration that he doesn’s approve of such
things. The machine does approve, how-
ever, and that being the caseit doesn’t
matter much whats SHEATZ thinks, Gum-
shoe ANDREWS regulates those things for
the gang and the rest simply acquiesce. If
SHEATZ were in office at present he would
probably have some of his subordinates
working the employes of the Treasury.
As a matter of fact every employe on the
Hill outside of those in the Treasury de-
partment bave already been put under
tribute to the extent of three per cent. of
his salary. It is called a voluntary ocon-
tribution in the other departments as well
a8 in the Highway department, but that is
a polite fiction. To quote from one of the
olerks in the State department, they are
obliged to pay or lose their jobe and they
usually pay. In addition to the three per
cent. they are aleo obliged to pay their ex-
penses in going to vote and altogether it is
a tolerably onerons burden on them. Be-
sides it is a violation of the law and an
infraction of the spirit of good government.
Bat there is nothing surprising in the
revelation with respeot to the Highway
department. From the beginning thas de-
partment has been boneycombed with cor-
raption. Before it had been in existence a
year a conspiracy had been formed among
the clerks to sell information to contractors
aod it has been said shat no contract has
ever been awarded by the department un-
til after bribe money bad been paid $0
somebody. It is also generally understood
that contractors are required to buy road
rollers from a certain manufacturer who
allows a rakeoff on every purchase. All
in all the Highway department is a crime
against the State and ought to be reorgan-
ized and completely fumigated.
——Bellefonters who went out to the
glass works meadow, last Saturday, to see
the Bellefonte Academy and the Williams-
port High school teams play foot ball got
their money's worth, as the game was eo
close thas she score stood 6 to 5 in favor of
the visitors. Aud at that, it really should
bave been an 0 to 0 score as hoth teams
made their touchdowns on a fluke. This
afternoon the Dickinson Seminary eleven
will be here and play the Bellefonte Aocad-
emy on the meadow grounds. You are
all invited out and also asked to take a
quarter with you to pay for seeing she
game.
Bus the |
cently Auditor General of Pennsylvania.
He would cat off his band rather than rob
an individual of a dollar. Bas be is under
indictment now, and with a vast volume
of evidence against him, for conspiracy to
| loot the treasury of the State, nos for his
own advantage bat for the benefit of oth-
ers. Asa watter of fact the question of
personal honesty has little to do with qual-
ilyiog a man for office.
A well organized political machive is
stronger than any man and no man who is
under obligations to such a machine for
any favor can resist it if he is in office.
PENNYPACKER has exemplified this fact in
many ways and Dr. SNYDER bas proved i$
dozens of times. In the Legislatare JOHN
0. SHEATZ demoustrated it in his vote for
the Susquehanna canal bill and the vie
tims of QUAYism who fill suicide’s graves
are grim reminders of the fact. If it had
been a Democratic machine WiLLiaM H.
BERRY, splendid as his courage and mag-
pificent as his integrity are, could not have
achieved what he did. As it was his cour-
age was taxed to the limit, though he bad
no party interests to subserve or personal
friends to shield. Therefore the election
of JouX G. HARMAN is uvecessary to the
completion of she reform he begun and we
say that without prejudice to his opponent.
Scandal too Fresh,
The
Governor STUART is unwilling to favor
former Governor PENNYPACKER with an
honorary appointment ‘‘while the capitol
scandal is so fresh,” the public is informed
through the newspapers. The position
which Mr. PENNYPACKER covets is a seat
on the Valley Forge Commission. Such a
place woald give that absurdly vain old
man plenty of opportunities to indulge in
the platitudes with which he is so free.
Moreover it is a high honor even for av ex-
Governor. The Commission is composed
of gentlemen widely known for their phil
anthropies and distinguished for civio vir-
tues. Membership ou the board is a sort
of patent of nobility.
It may easily be imagined that if the
capitol scandal were not ‘‘so fresh,” Gov-
ernor STUART would bave been delighted
toname his predecessor in office to that
seat. PENNYPACKER served the machine
with rare fidelity when ke bad the oppor-
tunity. He found much satisfaction in
honoring the memory of QUAY and obey-
ing the mandates of that arch-couspirator’s
snocessor. He entered with great zeal and
earnestness into all the schemes to loot the
treasury for the benefit of the gang and it
would only be ‘‘in the natare of things’ it
he should be taken care of now that he is
unable to take care of himself. But ‘‘the
capitol scandal is too fresh.” Some defer-
ence must be paid to publio opinion.
It the election were over and SHEATZ
eleoted the freshuess of the capitol scandal
would make no difference. Before the
recent mayoralty election in Philadelphia
the machive of that city was quite ciroum-
spect, also. People were asked to support
REYBURN in order to honor ROOSEVELT.
MoNioHOL promised to withdraw from
municipal contracts and DURHAM and
MARTIN and DAVE LANE resigned their
membership in the Republican city com-
mittee. After the election, however, RoosE-
VELT was flatly repudiated, McoNICHOL re-
entered the contracting business and DUR-
nAM, MARTIN and LANE retorned to the
city committee. PENNYPACKER shouldn't
lose hope.
——On Mcnday a letter was received at
this office enclosing one dollar which the
writer said was for ‘another year’s sub-
scription to the WATCHMAN.” But the
sender farled to give either his postoffice or
bis name, and the postmark on the envelope
was very indistinct. The ouly thing possi-
ble to make out was ‘‘Hall,”” so that the
letter came either from Mill Hall, Oak
Hall, Linden Hall or Centre Hall, though
we are inclined to think from Mill Hall ;
and if any subscriber down there or at any
of the ‘““Hall’s" sent the letter he will
please send in his name so we can give him
the proper oreait.
PS
OCTOBER 18, 1907.
NO. 41.
A Machine Asset.
From the Pittsburg Post.
In his speech at Punxsutawney on Satur-
day John G. Harman gave as one of several
excellent reasons why a Demoorat should
be retaived in the office of State Treasurer
the fact that the obief clerk of the State
highway department was endeavoring to
secare campaign coutributions for the Re-
publican State committee from contractors
doing business with thas department. The
money thos secured will, of course, be
used for the purpose of helping the candi-
dacy of John O. Sheatz, the machine candi-
date for State Treasurer. The contractors
who respond to the appeal will not be per-
mitted to lose any money. They will be
taken care of by the highway department
and the people of the State will have to
foot the bill, including the amount of the
campaign contributions in the end.
The State highway department it was
publicly charged a year ago, was run in ac-
cord with the wishes of Senator Penrose.
The chief of the department admitted in a
letter that he was unable to appoint any-
body to a position in she department with-
out the approval of the senator. It is
known also shat the machine leaders
largely dictate what work is to be done by
the department and how it is to be earried
on. e contracts for this work also
largely go by the favor of the machine.
The department is, in fact, run, as was the
State treasury under the old regime, as an
asset of the State machine. That it is so
regarded is proved by this letter of the
chief clerk of the department, aj ling
for funds to aid in the election of the ma-
chine’s candidate for State Treasurer, John
0. Sheatz,
Playing with Fire.
From Harper's Weekly.
The notion is spreading that the fleet is
going to the Pacific for any bus peaceful
purposes, and that the statement that the
trip 1s only for practice is a mere pretense,
Sowe people will naturally think that the
administration has inside information, and
that a Japanese attack upon the Philip-
pines is nearer than we common people
know. Others will see in the movement
an exhibition of the president's talent for
forcing an issue. All who kuow Mr. Roose-
velt will recall his frequent assurance,
usually made in conversation with diplo-
mate, thas foreign nations realize that he is
a friend of peace because he is ready to
fight for is. In view of the sentiment
which he represented and illustrated by
the article in the Z¥mes, the proposed ex-
pedition assumes wicked proportions. It
in a distinct menace $0 peace, the pressive.
tion of which may come to depend upon
the honorable intentions of the Japanese
government, which doubtless knows that
the American people are not in favor of
war with it or with any other power ; and
that most Americans who agree with or
who are convinced by the writer in the
Times regard the whale affair with dissatis-
faction, if not with apprehension. In the
mean time it would he well for the Ameri-
can people, if any power of indignant pro-
test remains to them, to assert themselves,
and to refuse tu be led into a war, or into
the appearance of expecting war.
Casste Chadwick and High
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Cassie Chadwick, former high priestess
of frenzied finance and probably the most
stopendous woman swindler in the history
of the world, died in the Columbus peni-
tentiary the other day. Her crime, for
which she wae serving a long term of fm
prisonment, was that she borrowed vast
sums of money on bogus checks and ocertif-
joates and muloted many of America's
richest men. Her operations caused bank
failures and wrecked many business houses
of repute. IfCassie Chadwick had ovly
organized a corporation and retained 51
per cent of the stock, selling the other 49
per cent at fauoy figures, and then have so
manipulated the books of the corporation
as ly to take huge sums of money
without giving an equivalent in value, ac:
cording to present day wethods, sie
wonld be as wealthy a woman as she ever
was and free from prison taint. The un-
happy moral which many Americans are
drawing from the death of Mrs. Chad wick
and from the recent exposures in the field
of high finance, is not that robbery is to be
abhorred so much as you are not to make a
mistake in the way you do your robbing.
Mrs. Chadwick no lessons in the art
of robbery from our financiers. If she bad,
she would probably now he alive and riob.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Alter the Standard Oil shall be thorough-
ly exposed and ite dissolution as an ‘“‘uo-
desirable citizen’ or a ‘‘malefactor of great
wealth’ decreed by a federal court, all
properties now owned by that company
will remain the properties of the individ-
uals who now constitute that company.
What good is the dissolution going to do?
What is the practical result at which the
administration aims? Here is a concern
that bas not watered its stock. It has pur.
sued exactly the te course. Its en-
tire stock of a face value of less than a hun-
dred millions is worth a good deal over four
bundred millions, and has been worth
pearly double that. The president wants
the issue of securities by interstate incor-
porations to be regulated by the federal
government ; but would he compel the cor-
poration to increase its capital, and if he
did, could he prevent the shares from be-
ing owned inst as the present shares are?
What can his federal regulation do that
state regulation cannot do?
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——Don’t forget that the Bellefonte
Academy —Dickinson Seminary football
game will take place on the glass works
meadow this afternoon. There ie no doubt
but that it will be a great contest and
worth seeing. Go ont and encourage
the Academy boys. The price of admission
will be but twenty-five cents and be sure
and take your money along. Don’t sponge
on the Academy team management.
i ——
ry ——
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Forty-nine pounds of pennies were col-
lected on Wednesday in the different penny-
in-the-slot weighing machines in Latrobe,
as the monthly tribute for’ weighing the
people of t! ity.
—Joseph K&lbach bas just left Reading for
Europe to pt to get the long sought
tor Spang ane of $34,000,000, for the
Spang “heify’”” who number about 400 in that
county. This is the third time an attorney
has been delegated to go on this mission,
—Sunday morning a terrible accident oc-
curred st the farth of Clarence Kepbart, in
Bececaria township. near Coalport, Clearfield
county. in which his youngest son aged 3
years, 6 months, was burned to a crisp, and
his barn end contents totally destroyed.
~—1It has been discovered that six veins of
coal varying from two to four and one-half
feet in thickness and of good quality are on
the lands owned by the Karthaus Fire Brick
company. The deposit is estimated at several
millions of tons, increasing the assets of the
company very materially.
~The state board of grounds and build-
ings, at Harrisburg, Wednesday awarded to
the York Bridge company at its bid of $54,
045, the contract for the construction ofa
bridge across the Susquehanna river at
Jersey Shore, a portion of which fell into the
river due to the collapse of the abutment.
—Farmers in vicinity of Bellevernon, Pa.,
have been robbed of their crops and cattle on
a wholesale plan. Thieves in automobiles
and large wagons have carried away tons
of produce and of butchering cattle freely.
As a result the agriculturists have organized
a vigilance committee to patrol the roadways
at night.
—Rev. Francis T. Eastment, rector of 8t.
Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, of Phil-
ipsburg, has heen appointed by Bishop
Darlington, of the diocese of Harrisburg to
act as diocesan secretary at the Pan-Aungli-
can council to be held in London this com-
ing summer. A great honor this to the
preacher and the place.
—A citizens’ committee, of Newberry, a
suburb of Williamsport, bas succeeded in se-
curing two physicians to locate there, and
practice their profession at the rates former
ly charged by the resident physicians. This
has been done because the resident physi-
cians decided some time ago to advance their
rates fifty per cent.
—8oon after Prof. Milton Weatherby com-
mitted suicide in Pittsburg Wednesday be-
cause of financial worry it was learned that
he was eligible for a $2,000 city job. The
profesor had taken an examination for sec-
retary of the civil service commission, and
was rated so high that he might have receiv:
ed the appointment bad be lived.
—James Thompson,a young man employed
by the Superior Coal & Coke company at its
plant eaat of Latrobe, had a miraculous
escape from death late Thursday afternoon,
when he came in contact with an electric
wire iu the mine, carrying s voltage of 1,000.
As it was he had his head and face badly
burned and suffered acutely from the shock.
—Harry Butler, who was shot recently by
Walter Rock,at Tomsontown Franklin conn.
ty, the latter thinking him to be a burglar,
died of his injuries in the Chambersburg
hospital on Thursday night. Batler was an
employe at the Frick company works in
Waynesboro. He was 27 years old and is
survived by his wife aud several small chil=
dren.
—Auto scorching in Cambrix’s eounty seat
is rather expensive sport, as recently a Clear.
field man who made a flying spin throngh
the town had to pay $30 for his run, and two
men from Johnstown ran a race which cost
them $17.19 each. Two other Johnstown
men will also be compelled to pay a penalty
for fast running but the amount has not yet
been fixed. i
~The members of the Clearfield council at
a meeting on Mondny night passed an ordis
nance granting a franchise to E. J. Brennan
& Co., of Ridgway, for the furnishing of
natural gas in that place. It is said the gas,
which will be piped from wells in Elk coun-
ty, will be furnished at a'saving to the peo-
ple of Clearfield of $1 per thousand feet com=
pared with the price of the manufactured
product now in use.
—A. H. Short, an employe of Shearer &
company, lumber dealers, of which
firm ex-Sheriff Torrence Shearer of Lock
Haven, is a member, dropped dead while at
work near Trout Run, Lycoming county, on
Monday. The man had labored all day and
did not complain of feeling ill. He was about
to quit work for the day and was on top of
a pile of lumber when he suddenly fell back
ward from it to the ground and expired. He
was aged about 57 years and is survived by
his wife and three children.
—J. H. Barton and four compauions set
eel racks in Pine creek, near Blackwell, one
night last week. When they took the racks
up they landed 1,800 eels, weighing from one
to five pounds each. Such » haul has never
been made before in northern Pennsylvania.
It is estimated by those who saw the catch
that they would average two pounds each,
the haul lacking only 400 pounds of being
two tons. The same night it is estimated
that 3,000 eels were taken {rom Pine creek,
between Blackwells and Slate Runa distance
of eleven miles.
—Samuel Matter, a well-known trapper
and hunter, recently trapped a large bear on
the Sugar Valley mountain and decided to
take Mr. Bruin home alive. After consider-
able difficulty he succeeded in securing the
bear in such a manner that he thought he
would be safe from attack and be able to
lead the animal to the intended destination.
During the trip, however, bruin managed to
get into close quarters with the hunter snd
before the latter could get out of its reach
the animal bit him on the leg, inflicting &
painful wound.
—Fifty-nine dogs fell victims to the rifle
of Pete Brenizer, of Latrobe, on Wednesday.
The dogs killed were in Unity township, Mr.
Brenizer having spent the day in and around
Beatty station. They were of all kinds and
descriptions, ranging from the valuable
Shepherd to the worthless mongrel. All
were killed because their owners had failed
to muzzle them in compliance with the
quarantine which is now in force in Mt,
Pleasant township alone, Mr. Brenizer and
his assistants have killed 242 dogs within the
past week. The majority of them belonged
to foreigners, residing in the mining towns.
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