8Y P. GRAY MEEK.
Tul Sitegs.
i
—Vote for KIMPORT.
—The best man for Prothonotary is
ARTHUR KiMporT. There is no guestion
about it. Vote for KIMPORT.
—Remember that HENRY W ETZEL is a
candidate for county surveyor. He is a
good one and deserves your support. i
—1If yon want to inaugurate a term of |
persecution in Centre county chose E. R
CHaMBERS for your prosecuting attorney.
—Mr. CHAMBERS is too vindictive 40 be
a fair and sqoare District Attorney. With
him io shat office he would harrass his per-
sonal enemies as if they were public crim-
inals.
~Don’t let any other engagement keep
you away from the polls on Tuesday. It
is the duty of every honest man to be there
to vote his convictions and we hope youn are
one of shem.
—In five days more the election will be
bere. Are you considering what your duty
is toward reforming the government of
Pennsylvania. Don’t fail to vote. The
course is plain for every honest person.
—The doings in Bellefonte at night lately
have reminded one of frontier days. Mon-
day night there was a mild attempt at
shooting up the town, but aside from a few
shattered street lights no serious barm was
done.
——Elect CHAMBERS District attorney
and the Philadelphia Inguirer wili be out
next Wednesday morning with great head
lines telling of the PENROSE victory in
Centre county so successfully managed by
Love and HARTER.
—Everybody knows E. R. CHAMBERS
well enough to know what he would do if
put io the District Attorney’ office. He
is after the coin and the bills that would
be piled up on the county would be enor-
mous. Don’t take any chances with such
a man.
—Mr. CHAMBERS has been deputy reve-
nue collector and an Auditor General's at-
torney for so many years that you have al-
most forgotten that he has been anything
else than an office holder. Now he wants
to be your Distriot Attorney. Don’t you
think thas the Colonel wants a good bit?
—There is not a man who voted for
BERRY who bas been sorry for it. In truth
every honest person is proud of the part he
played in puttiog that sterling character
into she State Treasurer's office. Don't
leave the work half done. Make the job
complete by sending HARMAN to finish hie
work.
—QOut in Omaba and Chicago the big
packers have reduced the price of meat in
bulk and promise a still farther cut but
80 far as Bellefonte is concerned we bave
not yet heard the Bellefonte butchers ory-
ing themselves hoarse announcing that
‘“‘aassage’’ is any cheaper now than it wae
betore.
—Don’t imagine that the election of
KiMpPORT is a foregone conclusion. He
will need all the votes he can get to make
his election a certainty. Remember that is
will cost you only a little effors to go out
to vote for him and if he should happen to
be a few votes short and yours would be
one of them you would feel very badly
abous it.
—It might be well for you to stop and
think before voting for CHAMBERS for Dis-
trict Attorney. He has bad so many years
at the publio crib that be would imagine
he onght to make as much out of that of-
fice as he has out of his other pablic jobs.
The watoh dog of the treasury would have
to sleep with both eyes open if CHAMBERS
were Distriot Attorney.
— Every citizen of Centre county owes it
to the Commonwealth to go out and vote
next Taesday. It is a grave orisis that con-
fronts the taxpayer. Shall the reform that
Mr. BERRY bas inaugurated continue or
are you ready to take a chauce on putting
the machine back in a position to rob you
again? There is no polities in is. It isa
pure case of protecting your own pocket
book and you should look after it person-
ally.
—JIf you bad a man looking after your
financial affairs who would rob you to en-
rioh his friends would you ever trust him
again. That is what the machine did to
you in managing your treasury at Harris
barg. This same machine is begging yon
for a chance to try it again. Are you going
to give it the chance. If not go to the polls
next Tuesday and vote for HARMAN. He
is the one man who is running in whom the
machine bas no friend.
—Don’t let anything koep vou away
from the election next Tuesday. It is ‘‘an
off year” and so little enthusiasm that a
short vote might result in the defeat of |
ARTHUR KIMPORT for Prothonotary. Don’t
let such a thing happen if you can help it.
Go yourself and ges your neighbor to go.
It might not mean much to you personally,
but it means a great deal to this young
man who deserves your support and who
has already suffered losses that are irre.
parable.
~—Look out for a last card to be sprung
by Col. CHAMBERS. In all probability he
will have a great story to tell you about a
mysterious death up in Taylor township.
The play will be to reflect discredit on Dis-
triot Attorney RUNKLE. Don’t believe the
story if is is told you as there is nothing to
it. Is isonly a proof positive that the
Colonel is entirely too ‘‘nosey’’ to be Dis.
triot Attorney of Centre county and those
who know him best know how true this
| purchased for him had probably moved
statement is.
.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 52
Stuart and Young not Reformers
ings and the several fiscal boards, is that
Auditor General YouNG and Governor | gognainted with the business of the office
STUART being reformers, there is no danger |
in the administration of public affairs,even | yy records that come within his jurisdiction
it SHEATZ should prove recreant after the | ghas the people have ever had. There is
eléotion. As a master of fact, however, we |
bave no evidence that either YOUNG or |
STUART is a reformer. STUART has con-|
tinued all the crooks which were drawn to- |
gether under the QUAY regime and YOUNG |
retains STOTT, the notorious ‘‘lence’’ of the |
PENNYPACKER Board of Public Grounds |
and Buildings io his office,notwithstandiog |
that public sentiments forced him out of the
secretaryship which he disgraced.
Governor STUART is not a reformer. He
bas made a false pretense of a desire to pun. |
ish the capitol grafters bus more thao a
year has elapsed since the exposure of their
crimes and over 9 months have passed since
the inauguration of Mr. STUART. Bat the
grafters have not been brought to justice
and we can discover no signs which indicate
that they ever will be. They have been
indioted for political effect but show no
signs of a fear of conviction for they volan- |
tarily relinquished every technical ad-
vantage which they might have secured. |
Besides Governor STUART has made no at- |
tempt to punish the insurance grafters
whose crimes were exposed more than eigh-
teen months ago. In {act most of those in- |
volved in that scandal are still in office.
The truth of the matter is, and every in-
telligent man in the Commonwealth uvoder-
stands it, that the election of SHEATZ will
not only restore the machine to complete
control of the state government bus it will
result in a complete resumption of the grafs-
ing operations. Daring the reconstruction
period in the Scuth there were hordes of |
corrupt carpet baggers in control. At ove
time an eruption of public conscience
frightened them so badly that some of them
ran away from the danger. One, a trifle
more courageous than the others, remain-
ed, and later wrote to one of the fugitives,
*'come back. Ther are two years of good
stealing here yet.”” That is precisely the
condition in Penosylvania today. The
machine managers believe that the oppor-
tunities for graft have not been exhausted
and want to resume at the earliest oppor-
tunity.
Pennypacker's Foolish Talk.
The fool-killer being on vacation last
week former Governor PENNYPACKER
took advantage of the opportanity to give
an account of his stewardship, as he ex-
presses it. That is to say he told a olub of
which he has been president all about his
nomination for and election to the office of
Governor and the way in which he ad-
ministered the duties. Of course it was
fanny. That absurd old idiot is always
funny when he wants to be serious and the
narrative to which we refer surpasses any of
its predecessors in its exuberauce of folly.
Bat it is humiliating, too, that a man who
bas heen so singularly honored by an in-
telligent people should make such a speo-
tacle of himself.
Mr. PENNYPACKER'S harangue, for there
is po other name that fits it, is mainly an
exhibition of a stapendous personal vanity
and a panegyric on the late Senator QUAY.
He expresses the belief that he was chosen
as the Republican candidate for Governor,
ata oritical period of the history of his
party, because the managers of the party
were anxious to secure a man eminently
fit for the office. After that he could say
nothing that would surprise any one and
when be adds that ‘‘the death of QUAY
was like the fall of a dynasty,” and “Ido
not believe in reforms,” the intelligent
observer will accept such expressions as the
silly vaporings of a diseased mind. There
is only one alternative.
It is hardly fair, either, to assume that
PENNYPACKER is the silly and simple
idiot which such expressions imply. In
some incidents of his public life there is
revealed the lowest measure of canning.
For example the vanity which he admits
influenced him to accept the nomination
for Governor which QUAY had manifestly
him 0 covet the honor and instead of
going into open and honorable competition
for it he wrote a fulsome enlogy on QUAY
and accepted the office as a recompense for
his time and trouble. There was no
charaoteristio of the simple life in that any
more than there waa in his consent to the
looting of the treasury by a gang from
which he expeoted fature favors. :
E——————
Prothonotary import Deserves Re.
election.
During bis term of office WiLniam F.
SMITH, of Millheim, was regarded one of
the most popular prothonotaries who every
filled that office and now the attorneys at
the Centre county bar as well as the general
public eay that there could not be a more
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVE
The only reason given why it is not nec- |
essary $0 continue minority representation | his office he knows no party hat treats Re-
on the Board of Pablic Gronnd« and Baild- |
The Responsibility Fixed.
and that is the greatest reason of all why he
should be re-elected.
Though he is a Democrat in polities in | That Senator PENROSE received $15,000
| of the capitol grafs is now admitted.
publican and Democrat alike, so far as | “But,” declares chairman ANDREWS, “it
business is concerned. He is thoroughly | W8s used for campaign parposes. There
| were several donbtful Congressional dis-
| triots in the State in 1904,” continued the
| foxy chairman, ‘and the money was need-
' ed to carry them.” It came from a con-
| tractor who was robbing the treasury of
and is one of the aafest keepers of the coun-
not a lawyer at the Centre county bar
MBER 1, 1907.
| county, irrespective of party,
obliging, accommodating and painstaking
official than just ARTHUR B. KIMPORT;
who can do aught but speak iv the highest |
‘only a small
will make no | He eave the money because the or-
terms of his efficiency and the voters of the
mistake in again voting him into office.
Sheats Falsifics Again.
Mr. Joux O. SHEATZ, the Republican
machine candidate for State Treasurer, re-
vealed his mendacity anew in a speech de-
livered at Uniontown the other night. He
charged inferentially that State Treasurer
BERRY paid for his bond by favors from
the office. On the following day Mr.
BERRY in a speech characterized the state-
ment as a falsehood and demanded a re-
traction. No truthful man would have
made such an acousation unless it was
justified by the facts and any honorable
man having made it in mistake or through |
misivformation, would have promptly cor-
rected it the moment she truth was asoer-
tained. But SHEATZ declared the false-
hood and refuses to retract it.
We have previously referred to his falsi-
fication of his record in the Legislature on
the Susquehanna canal bill. In that mat-
ter he lied deliberately and maliciously
and though his attention has been publicly
called to the official records of the General
Assembly, be remains silent, in the hope,
probably, that the exposare of his infamy
will vot affect the public mind. Bat das-
tardly as that episode ie it is not 80 bad as
this later plunge into the dirty pool of
mendacity. In this case he has borne false
witness against a fellow citizen. He has
malicionsly traduced a man of the highest
character who has performed distinguished
service for the people of Pennsylvania.
Lying of that sort is probably the most
despicable of all human vices. No honest
or honorable man ever haa or ever will be
guilty of shat contemptible offence. In
courts of justice the evidence of a liar is
not allowed to inflaence the result of liti-
gation. From the foundation of buman
society the liar hae been ostraciced from
association with honorable men. Yet this
miserable falsifier asks the people of Penn-
sylvania to decorate him with a badge of
confidence notwithstanding the fact that
he bas been proved a wretched liar. It is
an insalt to the intelligence of the people
and an outrage upon the conscience of the
State. Decent men condemn rather than
reward liars,
Complete Rebuke of Hypocrisy.
Easily the most interesting incident of
the campaign was the reply of Hon. W. T.
CREASY, of Columbia county, last week, to
an invitation of a few self-styled indepen-
dent Republicans to join with them in an
effort to induce the real independent Re-
publicans to support JOHN O. SHEATZ for
State Treasurer. It was interesting for two
reasons. It revealed the absolute want of
principle among certain men who had been
mistakenly accepted as leaders by the
LiNcoLN Republicans of the two last cam-
paigns, and it proved the entire absence of
intelligence from she minds of those who so
addressed Mr. CREASY. Apparently they
didn’t know that he is a Demoorat,and one
of the polarized variety.
The letter to Mr. CREASY was signed by
MauroN N. KLINE and a man named
Foss, both of Philadelphia. It recited that
Mr. SHEATZ had been nominated by the
reformers ; that his record -in the Legisla-
tare was substantial proof of his conscience
and courage; that his election would be an
endorsement of ROOSEVELT'S policies and
finally thas it would promote the overthrow
of PENROSE. There were a lot of other
misrepresentations and absurdities em-
bodied in this remarkable paper but it is
bardly worth while to enumerate them.
The purpose of those concerned to get back
into fellowship if not partnership with the
PENROSE machine is so obvious that it can
hardly be misunderstood.
Mr. CREASY’S reply was characteristic
of the sturdy and oourageous ‘‘farmer.’’
He takes the statements in their order and
riddles them from begioning to end. He
shows that the only hope PENROSE bas of
continuing in office lies in the election of
SHEATZ. He proves that SHEATZ was
nominated by a convention absolutely
dominated by PENROSE and, inferentially,
that it was the result of an agreement be-
tween PENROSE and SHEATZ to promote
PENROSE'S re-election. Fioally Mr.
Creasy, who served in the Legislature
with SEEATZ for four sessions, demonstrates
that SHEATZ was one of the most servile
followers of the machine in the Legislature
during that time. It was a most complete
rebuke of hypocrisy.
—Get out every vote possible next Tues-
day.
| opportunity so loos.
| sumed that the organization demanded it
upwards of a million and amounted to
per centage of his graft,
ganization bad favored him with the
In fact it may he as-
for the reason that Seuator PENROSE be
lieved that a division of spoils was just.
Accepting Mr. ANDREWS’ explavation of
the matter, the incident fastens upon the
Republican party, as it is at present con-
duoted, complete responsibility for the capi-
tol graft. It is the babit of apologists for
that colossal crime to say that the party
cannot be held to account for the actions
of a few individuals, As a matter of fact
that is begging the question at best, for in
representatives of the party and morally as
well as legally the principal is accountable
for the actions of the agent. Admitting
therefore, that under certain conditions the
party might escape responsibility, when
the party shares the spoils the responsi.
bility follows inevitably.
If Congressman CASSELL had pot looted
the treasury he wounldu’t have been able
an amount of money for campaign or other
purposes. If PENROSE hadn’s known that
CasseLL was looting the treasury he
wouldo’t bave dreamed of asking for such
a sum of money. As a matter of fact the
records of she investigation show that
PENROSE exacted from CASSELL not only
that excessive contribution but another
sum nearly equal ino amount. When the
Secretary of the ‘‘Homeless 26" the organi-
zation which was lobbying for reduced
railroad rates, demanded $10,000 from
PENROSE for silence with respect to certain
dew. uy the gras, daring the campaign
of last year, PENROSE made CASSELL put
up the money. Obviously the whole busi.
ness was a partnership affair.
—The Gazette wants to know if you
will “let well enough alone.” That is
exactly what we want to know. The Ga-
zette tells you to *‘let well enough alone.”
That means that it wants you to vote for
HARMAN and continue a minority repre-
sentation in Harrisburg. It means that it
wante you to vote for KIMPORT and RUN-
KLE and ‘‘let well enough alone’ in the
offices they are now filling so acceptably.
Get Cut the Vote.
The work of the campaign,so far as argu-
mentation goes, is practically ended. Noth-
ing remains but to get ont the vote. This
is really the mosi important duty of a party
organization in any campaign. In one like
that which is just drawing to a olose it is
probably the most difficult. There has
been no excitement to arouse enthusiasm.
In fact the campaign has been a quiet but
earnest appeal to the conscience and in-
telligence of the people to continue an im-
provement which has made some progress
but is still far from completion. The cam-
paigo bas been a ‘‘still hunt" in the inter-
est of civic righteousness.
There remain only two days, therefore,
to perform the most important and arduons
work of the campaign. But if all the latent
energy of the manhood of Pennsylvania is
invested in the work, it will be achieved.
Nothing more can be done in the cities.
The last days of registration completed that
work in such communities. But in the
country districts much may be accomplish-
ed. The friends of good government have
little to fear trom the diminished registra.
tion in the cities. The lose from that source
will be to the machine candidate. A fall
vote in the boroughs and townships will
determine the result of the contest on the
right side.
There ought nos to be a single Democratio
vote lost in Centre county and there will nos
be if the party workers are vigilant and
energetio. It will be worth the time and
trouble thai it costs, moreover, to get out a
fall Democratic vote. If BERRY hadn’t
been elected two years ago $20,000,000
would have been stolen in addition to the
loot which was taken. That would amount
to more than a day’s wages to every prop-
erty owner in the State. If HARMAN is
defeated next Tuesday the looting will be
resumed in May and not only the twenty
but other millions will be taken. Centre
county Democrats should do their duty.
at the Centre county bar for twenty-two
years, says the Gazette. Since that Is so
isn’t it strange that the Colonel should be
after the little office of District Attorney ?
There is something wrong, somewhere,
You couldn’s find another lawyer in this
county who has been practising that long
who would take the office as a gift.
a government by party the officials are the | the
to present Senator PENROSE with so large he,
NO. 438.
The Big Stick or the Big Store?
From the New York Evening Post.
Now, we have steadily ex the
view that a certain measare blame at-
taches to Mr. Roosevelt. He, too, bas
been sensational in his methods of dealing
with vast questions which require, above
all things dispassionate and sober treatinent
He has been too excised, too sweeping, $00
ill-advised in she speeches he bas delivered
within the few weeks. At a time
when he should bave displayed great re-
serve and self-control, he been far too
talkative and im Furthermore,
as the head of a party which has guaran-
teed unruffled rity to the country,
the President cannot bus be involved.
Washington dispatches this morning repre-
sent him as determined to do everything
possible to afford relief to the situation,
since he does not want his Administration
to be “dimmed’’ by financial distarbance.
All this is inevitable, and is admitted ;
but when men go further and assert that
Mr. Roosevelt is accountable for what has
occurred in this city during the past week
the thing becomes a howling absurdity.
It was not Mr. Roosevelt who attempted
to corner United Copper. It was not be
NBO obi 000 of a chain of Banks,
purely for ve purposes. It was
not his name that had long stood as the
symbol of all that is and abhorrent
to sound and honest bonkers. No ; it was
Heinges, the Morses, the Thomases
nse of the machinery of
oredis, t on its dieorder. Imprudent
as the P ent may have been in his pub-
lic utterances, he might have talked till
doomsday withont cansinga thousand
part of the trouble which these highway-
men of finance precipitated in a single
e have not refrained, and shall not re-
frain, from criticising the President. Bat
though mistaken, is at least honest,
He is not trying to line his pookets with
filohed money. He is not seeking to im-
pose upon the public by glittering hubbles
of financial es which are certain so
collapse aud bring ruin to all concerned.
Nor was it the President who laid his band
upon one set of fiduciary institations after
aoker to putvers them 30 nelarious ends.
e cannot ge ev ng to the
Stick when there has all the while lly
work the Big Grab. The President must
acoept his fair share of blame ; the news
papers mast shoulder theirs ; bus the true
and damning responsibility rests with the
men whose greed and ouoniog and shame-
less plots to uver-reach the publio have
oreated the fear lest more of our fi)
may prove to be as rotten as theiis.
Capitol Loot in the Campaign Fand.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It was to the interess of she Capitol graft-
ers who looted the State Treasury with the
connivance of the acoredited agents of the
Republican Organization to contribute
liberally to the Republican campaign found.
They contributed. The sum total of the
license fees they thus paid for the privilege
of plundering the people of their heart's
content will probably never be known ;
but circumstances have compelled State
Chairman Andrews to admit that one of
the favored Capitol contractors gave up
$15,000. It was little enough in propor-
tion to the swag the donor made off with i
yet it helped the Party of Ideas to arouse
the necessary election-day enthusiasm for
the dear old flag.
The perpetuation of Organization rule is
now a more vital matter than ever of the
Capitol thieves. Upon it will depend the
vigor or otherwise of their prosecution. It
is hardly to be imagined under the circum-
stanoss that they have drawn taut their
purse strings and refased to vote another
dividend npon their booty in the intersst of
the Sheatz campaign. Ope and all they
want to see Harman beaten and a member
of the Organization firmly installed in the
Treasuryship, and they believe that money
will doit. They have the money. [sit
thinkable that they would be niggardly
when their personal liberty is at stake ?
John Oscar Sheatz probably does not
troubie himself with the sordid details of
campaign finance. Osherwise he might
satisfy public curiosity by informing vs
how much of the money stolen from the
people of Pennsylvania during the con-
straotion of the State Capitol bas been
turned over to the Organization committee
to defray the ‘‘legitimate expenses’ of
the Penrose candidate for State Treasurer.
Some Evidence Suppressed.
From the Pittsburg Post.
That the Stuart-Sheatz braud of holier-
than-the-machine Republicavs is in sym-
pathy and collusion with the gavg element
of the party is ihenensingly evident. The
whole conduct of the graft prosecution in-
dioates this, and the story in this issue of
“The Post” of certain facts of the investi-
gation being su clinches the case.
The majority of the le of this State
firmly believe that m of this money
taken from the treasury on these grossly
fraudulent and extortionate contracts was
used to help the machine out of the hole it
had made in the State funds through re-
lations with pet political banks and manip-
ulation of the nunwiedly and unnecessary
wyrplus.
1f Sheatz and Stuart are not in sympathy
with the , if thay do not connt on the
t Ip defeat Harman, this evidence
would not have been surpressed as it has
been. The decent element of the
continue half corrupt and half
is now trying to do. Stnart’s tactics of
su on are calculated to help and save
party. In thos
the worst elements of his
-
Spawis from the Keystone.
After being idle for more than a year,
DuPont & Co.’s powder mills, near Tamaqua,
resumed operations last week.
~It is now stated that the Waynesburg
Farmers’ and Drovers, Natiotal bank, which
failed last December, will not be reopened,
—=A. G. Morris has purchased the plant of
the Tyrone Foundry and Machine company,
located = short distance east of Tyrone, for
$23,500.
—A large white goat, believed to be of the
Bocky Mountain species, was shot in Bed-
ford county the other day by Albert Koontz,
of Johnstown.
—G. W. Beard & Co., of Reading, bave
been awarded the contract to build ao addi-
tion to the state hospital at Hazleton ata
cost of over $60,000.
—Mrs. Sarab Rider, of Unityville, Colum-
bia county, aged 101 years and the mother of
eighteen children, was painfully injured by
a fall a few days ago.
—A. W. Cowder, of Bradford township,
Clearfield county, put out nine and ome .
fourth acres of buckwheat and has threshed
from it a total of 366 bushels. .
—Fifteen persons have announced them-
selves as candidates for county treasurer in
Jeflerson county, and there will be about as
many for county commissioner. :
—Harold Wilson, a 15 year-old son of,
Audrew Wilson, of Hyner, Clinton county, .
is the champion bear-bunter in that section,
having shot six bears within ten days. “
~The girl workers of the New Century
Silk mill at Lansdale, Montgomery county,
after a strike of twenty weeks, have won
concessions and resumed work yesterday.
—A syndicate of Cleveland, Ohio, which
has purchased from Independence-Avells
Coal company, 1,050 acres of coal lands in
Independence township, Washington coun-
ty, at $600 an acre.
—John K. Grotz celebrated his 97ch birth-
day anniversary.quietly on Wednesday at
his home in Bloomsburg, where he had spent
sll of his ninety-seven years. He isin full
possession of all his faculties and walks out
daily.
—Malignant typhoid fever broke out in
th | the family of John Boyle, at Worthington,
ten days ago and two children died within
two days, while a third is seriously ill. The
father, who went away to hunt work several
days before, cannot be located.
—From a iist of filty applicants, eight of
whom preached trial servions the congrega~
tion of the First Presbyterian church of
Jersey Shore on Thursday evening voted to
extend a eall to the Rev. P. H. Hershey, of
Galeton, Fa., to fill the pastorate of that
church.
~The village of Falls Creek, near DuBois,
is having a scourge of the measles at this
time and it is reported by the physicians and
school teachers of the village that there are
150 cases in the town. The public schools
have been greatly interfered with on ac-
count of the disease.
—Right car loads of apples were shipped
m Mifflin station, Juniata county, on
We lust week. while on Tuesday
five more were shipped, all bound west.
The fruit growers received about 50 cents
per bushel delivered in the cars.’ About 800
bushels are loaded in a car.
—8ix residences in DuBois were entered
by burglars lust Wednesday night. The
most valuable articles taken were a shot gun,
four silver spoons and about £5 in money
from # child's bank at the the home of Ever:
ett Prothero, and a fine violin, valued at
$150, from the home of C. W. Rodgers.
—Miss Roberta Logul, a servant girl of
Braddock, was arrested on Thursday for
having made ugly faces and stuck out her
tongue at members of the police lorce. At
the hearing before the acting burgess she
wus fined at the rate of acenta face and
three cents for her tongue motions, which,
with costs, amounted to $7.35.
—Farmers through out northern Cambria
county who optioned their hay to an Altoona
dealer at $12 a ton are “kicking them
selves” now that an agent of the Pennsylva-
pia, Beech Creek and Eastern Coal and Coke
company has been around offering them
$14. The hay crop throughout that sec-
tion this year was large and of good quality.
—Mrs. Anuie Thomas, who killed her two
little daughters by strangling them at the
Cambria connty alms house recently, was
exawined by a commission ‘appointed to in-
vestigate her condition of mind last week,
and was pronounced insane. During the in-
vestigation she stated that she also tried to
kill her two boys, but they wouldn't go with
her.
—George Deeter, aged 14 years, dressed
in a blue serge suit, was inducedjby some evil
influence to leave the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Deeter,of Carwensville,
Clearfield county, on Tuesday evening,
October 22, and run away. His parents are
almost distracted at his leaving home and
they ask the public to report his where
abouts or return the boy to them.
—A riot was started in front of the Adams
Express office at Butler on Saturday night,
while $5,000 worth of liquor was being dis-
pensed to C. O. D. customers, and four men
were seriously slashed with knives. The
participants were all foreigners, who had
given large orders for liquors as it was to be
the last time that the express company
would earry any such C. O. D. packages.
—The borough council of DuBois on Tues-
day evening awarded a five years contract
to John E. DuBois for lighting the streets
with 100 arc lights of 1200-candle power
each, at the rate of $45 per light per year,
and any above 100 to cost $40 each. The bor-
ough has now eighty-three arc lights and
fifteen gas lights costing in the whole $6,195
a year. So that by the new lease over $1,600
per year will be saved.
—From orders issued by the Pennsylvania
railroad officials, the Altoona shops will be
busy all winter and between 400 and 500 ad-
ditional men will be employed for work in
the machine shops. At a meeting of the fore-
men of the various departments of machine
shops, Master Mechanic I. B. Thomas an-
nounced that the output of the shops must
be largely increased in the immediate future.
The foremen were instructed to hirellmany
new men, both laborers and skilled mechan.
ies, and in all about 400 to 500 new men are
wanted at once for work in the machine
shops.