Lemont,
Jacob Markle is slowly getting weaker.
William Hoy and Robert Brennan are both
on the mend from their fall.
Miss Rebecca Snyder is visiting among
friends in these parts this week.
Samuel Ralston was out to the election,
although bis health is very poor.
The United Brethren protracted meeting
will open Wednesday night a week.
The farmers are slowly cribbing the corn
crop, which is the poorest in many years.
John Bathgate is improving very slowly
but is badly used up with four ribs broken.
The vote polled in College township was |
light, there being only ome hundred and
seventy-four.
Peter Shultz put in his appearance, Tues-
day, he having not missed many elections
since be cast his first vote and he is now 85
years of age.
Mrs. Rebecea Fogleman and children and
Mrs. Harvey Shuey and children weut to
Filmore Monday to visit at the home of Mrs,
John Fogleman Sr.
Clarence A. Houtz came up from Madison.
burg, Friday, and purchased two tracts of
land and intends making sale of his farm
stock and machinery in the near future and
will then move up to these parts again.
The Hallow e’en was quite an affair in
these parts. A few of the boys got burt but,
by the way the highways were obstructed it
is a wonder that there were not more people
hart. It is a nuisance and should be gotten
rid of.
On Saturday. Nov. 20d, Aunt Rosie Wil-
liams, as she is called by everybody, cele:
brated her eighty-seventh birthday, and
amid a copious downpour of rain, twenty.
two of her friends weuded their way to the
home of her son-in-law, G. R. Roan, with
baskets full of good things and when the
noon hour came everyone did justice to the
viands, after which they repaired to the par-
lor and sang many of the good old time
hymns. Rev. C. W. Sweeny, a nephew of
hers, from Everett, delivered a very touch-
ing address, followed by an earnest prayer,
invoking the good blessing on the aged lady
and all present. Thus the day was made
bright, though it was dreary without, after
which all bade Mrs. Rosanna Williams good-
bye, wishing her many more happy birth-
days.
Spring Mills.
C. P. Long shipped from this station with -
in the past three weeks 8,300 bushels of ap-
ples.
Miss Sue Wood, sister of J. W. Wood, of
the Spring Mills hotel, is rapidly recovering
from the serious mishap she met with sev-
eral weeks ago by breaking ber ankle. Miss
Wood is“from Reading.
Sunday last was a reminder that winter is
not far off. Stormy and cold all day, high
winds, a continuation of Saturday's blasts
down the valley. No particular damage 1s
reported with the exception of a few fences |
that were somewhat scattered.
Last week Rebecca, daughter of John My-
ers, of Allison's planing mill, a child of
eight or nine years of age, while passing
through a doorway, carrying a small crock,
stumbled and fell, the crock cutting a severe
gash iu her chin. Dr. Braucht was obliged
to close the wound with several stitches.
Hallowe'en was celebrated here in about
the usual ridiculous manner. Removing
gates to out of the way places, piling lumber
on porches, pulling down hitching posts and
similar nonsense, of course done by half
grown boys. The young girls amused them.
selves by throwing corn against windows,
doors and on pedestrians.
On Thursday night last, at about one
o'clock, an attempt was made to enter the
residence of Miss Lizzie Stover, with the in.
tent of robbery. She heard them trying the
lower windows and doors, so she quietly
arose and discharged a revolver out of the
window at the robber, but unfortunately
missed him, and he succeeded in making his
escape in the darkness.
The western approach to the footway of
the iron bridge over Penns creek is in a dis
graceful condition, ankle deep in mud. Do
the supervisors intend leaving 1t in this
scandalous condition? The bridge is now
epen to travel, and the approach to the foot -
way on the west is simply a disgrace. Do
the supervisors think that the people will
submit quietly to this kind of folly.
A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday, October 30.
Four Washington firemen were in-
jured in a collision between truck No.
$ of the District fire department and
& south-bound 14th street car.
Walter Scott Hale, national com-
mander-in-chief of the Spanish War
Veterans, and his staff were received
by President Roosevelt at the White
House.
Because he falled to carry out an
errand of vengeance, Vito Greinaldi,
a member of the Black Hand society,
was stabbed to death by members of
his own band on Knoll street, Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
Thursday, October 31.
The annual convention of the Penn-
sylvania Dairy Union will be held at
Wilkes-Barre, January 14 to 16.
Mrs. Charles Nahlen, who had been
despondent over her husband's death,
12 years ago was found dead in a gas-
filled reom at her home in
In a collision near
Va., between a trolley
ear, James Harris was
others, all employes of
company, were injured.
A premature explosion of dynamite
occurred at Venice, Pa., 16 miles from
|
ously injured.
Friday, November 1.
BE. G. McNair, convicted of wife mur.
der, committed suicide by hanging in
jail at Houston, Tex.
Jewels valued at $3000, according
to police reports, have been stolen
from the home of Paul Bayne, a New
York banker.
HIS TITLES WERE “JUMPED”
Washington, Nov. 2.—A bill will be
introduced soon after congress meets
next December to reimburse the heirs-
atlaw of General George Washington
for the loss of several tracts of land
located in Hamilton and Clermont
counties, O. which were owned by
General Washington. The estimated
value of the land is $305,100. The
tracts comprise 3061 acres bordering
on the Miami and the Little Miami
rivers. Of this acreage 129 acres are
located in Hamilton county, outside
of Cincinnati, and the remainder is
situated in the adjoining county.
On Tuesday at Fairfax Court
House, Va., Colonel Robert E. Lee was
appointed administrator for the um-
distributed assets of the estate. Cap-
tain Nelson W. Evans, of Portsmouth,
0., who is one of the attorneys for
Colonel Lee, is in Washington, and in
discussing the case he said:
“Im 1785 General Washington own-
ed two warrants for land in the vicin-
ity referred to. One he had purchased
from John Rootes, a veteran of the
French and Indian War, and the other
from Thomas Cope. The Virginia leg-
islature converted them into what was
called Continental warrants, and Gen-
eral Washington engaged Major John
O. Bannon to locate them in 1787.
The surveys were sent to Richmond,
where the governor issued patents te
the general. In 1806, seven years after
Washington's death, the surveys were
virtually “jumped.” General Joha
Neveil received warrants for 1905
acres for his services in the Revolu-
tionary War, and Henry Massie, the
founder of the city of Portsmouth,
bought the warrants for th> balance.
General Nevell had his land patented
by the federal government om April
80, 1807, and Massie procured patents
for his in January, 1808.
“But it happened that on March 3,
1807, prior to the issue of those pat-
ents, congress passed an act giving
Washington's executors three years to
perfect the title to the lands, and it
was while they were thus engaged
that Nevell and Massie got the pat-
ents. Subsequently John Kerr, a sen-
ator from Ohlo, purchased the land
and afterward sold it at a good profit.
“The axecutors of the general's will
were Justice Bushrod, of Washington,
his nephew, and Lawrence Lewis, a
son of Bettie Lawis, Washington's sis-
ter, who married Nellie Custis, and it
was upon their petition that congress
passed the law In question. But, as [
sald, the law was of no avail. because
the patents were obtained soon after-
ward by the others.
“Since then—that is, for ahout 100
years—nothing has been done by the
Washington heirs to be reimbursed
for what surely was once part of the
general's estate. We have arrived at
the value of the land through esti-
mates made by various experts, and
there are 50 men who will testify, if
necessary, that the timber on it was
worth what congress will be asked to
appropriate.
“The living heirs number more than
a score, and reside in this city, Lex-
ington, Va.: Jefferson county, W. Va.,
and other places. (Colonel Lee, the
administrator, is the great-great-great-
grandson of Martha Washington and
the great-grandson of George Wash-
ington Parke Custis, who once
owned Arlington, just outside of
Washington.”
PICKANINNY TURNING WHITE
Nurse Thinks It's the Scrubbing She's
Given the Colored Child.
York, Pa., Nov. 4.—local physicians
are interested In the strange case of a
5-year-old negro child at the Christian
home in this city, who is apparently
becoming white. There is not a trace
of any disease to which the remarkable
condition can be attributed.
The child was from negro parents,
and when brought to the home a
month ago was quite black.
The first intimation of its change in
color came to the matron through a
nurse girl, who laughingly said she
thought her scrubbing of the child
was removing the dusky shade from
its skin.
Murder at a Christening.
Greenburg, Pa, Nov. 4—A christen-
ing and a wedding, attended by over
100 Hungerians in the mining town
of Marguerite, near here, resulted in
a riot lasting six hours, which finally
culminated in the murder of John
Lah, a winer. Coroner Charles A.
Wynn, without holding an inquest, is-
sued warrants for 16 of the guests,
and a detail of Troop A, State Con-
stabulary, made the arrests.
Offer Cotton As Security.
Barnesville, Ga.,, Nov. 5.—President
R. F. Duckworth, of the Georgia Farm.
ers’ Union, addressed a letter to the
secretary of the treasury asking for
authority to issue certificates to the
amount of $100,000,000 to be guaran-
teed by $200,000,000 worth of cotton,
to aid the southern farmers in carry:
ing out their holdings movement.
John Mitchell improving.
La Balle, Ill, Nov. .—John Mitchell,
president of the United Mine Work-
ers of Ameriea, who has undergome
several surgical operations, was re-
ported to be gradually improving. Hos-
pital physicians said that unless un-
expected complications arise the pa-
tient is out of danger.
Think Girl Second Patti.
Milwaukee, Nov. 3.—~With a velee of
five full octaves, Vilma Bchaefer, 19
years old, daughter of & Wisconsin sa-
loonkeeper, is creating & sensation.
She is said to be able to sustain with
esse the high F, which Adalina Patti
merely touched for a secomd aftor
reaching it by a succession of triile,
and then to ascend purely to the F¥
one octave above Patti's, and to he
G above it.
SABINET ACTED ADVERSELY
Washington, Nov. 5.—Regret, indig-
nation and exasperation are variously
sxpressed in responsible quarters in
the treasury department and else
where that the requests that have
been made to the president to call an
extra session of congress to remedy
existing financial disturbances should
have been given such wide, wand ap-
parently inspired, publicity. Inquiry
in half a dozen trustworthy sources
brought to light the following facts in
regard to the publication, and appar-
ently established the central and sa
lient point of inquiry that the publi-
cation did not emanate from the White
House.
It is the strongly held assumption
here that the publication of these facts
was due to the persons or interests
who have been urging the president to
call an extra session. Mr. Loeb sald
that he had been careful not to say
one word about the financial situation,
and he knew that the president had
not authorized any statement directly
or indirectly. In responsible treasury
offices, particularly, the strongest re-
gret is expressed that publicity should
have been given at this time to the
requests that have been made for an
extra session.
It was learned that these requests
have been made; that they were con-
sidered at last Friday's cabinet meet.
ing, and that, without much discus-
sion, as a cabinet officer said, the re
quest “was settled adversely emphati-
eally.” It is felt here at the treasury
department that too much importance
has been attached to the publicity
glven the requests and that the gen-
eral effect has been harmful.
There is no present thought of an
extra session, and there will be none,
in the minds of the president and the
advisors whose words he is heeding,
at this juncture, unless there is an
absolute reversal of their present atti-
tude and state of mind.
Neither will the president make
any statement, if his present mood
holds, intended to reassure public sen-
timent. It Is strongly felt here that
public confidence will be less affected
by no statement at all than by even
the most reassuring words that could
come from any administration source.
“Conditions are wholly different
from what they were in 1893" said a
treasury official. “Then we could put
our finger on the difficulty. Everybody
sald if eongress will meet and repeal
the Sherman purchasing act the trou-
ble will stop and we will be all right.
They had something definite to point
their finger at as the cause of the
then existing trouble. Today this is not
true. Nobody can point out any fed-
eral law and say: ‘This is the cause
of the trouble. Repeal this law and
we will be all right’ The president
cannot call congress In extra session
to repeal the Sherman anti-trust law
or to remedy in a day or week any
evils of our existing finance laws. Even
the best financiers differ as to the de-
fects in our currency system and the
best way to remedy them.” =~
TENNESSEE COAL & IRON
Bteel Corporation Secures Control of
Big Concern.
New York, Nov. 5. — The United
States Steel Corporation has secured
a controlling interest in the Tennessee
Coal, Iron & Rallroad company. The
deal is traceable to the ecomference
held at the home of J. Pierpont Mor
gan Saturday and Sunday. It is under
stood that the price paid is a lttle
above $85 a share. The holdings of a
pool controlling some 70 per cent. of
the stock of the Tennessee Coal &
Iron company were transferred in the
sale.
This sale cannot fail to ¢ , much to
relieve the present financial strin-
gency, as large amounts of the stock
of the Tennesgee Coal & Irom com-
pany are now held as collateral for
loans by the local banks. The taking
up of these loans by the new owners
of the stock will add materially to the
cash resources of the financial insti
tutions.
PENNSY WILL CUT EXPENSES
To Make Only Necessary Expendl
tures In 1908.
Philadelphia, Nov. 2.—The directors
of the Pennsylvania Railroad company
declared the regular semi-annual divi-
dend of 3% per cent. on the stock,
payable on November 80 to stockhold-
ers of record on November 4.
Report of the earnings of the lines
east of Pittsburg and Erie for Septem-
ber show a gross increase of over $1,
000,000, but a net decrease of $467,000.
The lines west of Pittsburg and Brie
for September show both gross and
net increases.
The following official statement was
given out at the company’s offices:
“In answer to an inquiry about the
President MeCrea said that in view
of the unsatisfactory outlook for rais-
J a io
dgment, necessary and prudent for
the Pennsylvania Railroad company
to continue fits policy of not begin-
ning any new work or committing the
company to any capital requirements
gress on the Hast river tunnels,
erection of steel for the new terminal
building, and work affecting the city’s
streets and avenues will not be ma-
tially retarded by the slower ex-
| penditure.”
$t. Paul Discharges 1000 Men.
Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 2.—Roswell
P. Miller, chairman eof the board of
directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul road, issued an order dis-
charging 1000 employes of the locomo-
tive and car building departments in
the shops here.
Portsmouth, Va., Bank Quits.
Portsmouth, Va., Nov. 2.—The Peo-
ples’ bank, the smallest bank here, did
not open its doors. The directors have
issued a statement saying that the
step was taken because of inability to
realize cash upon securities held by
the bank. An attempt is being made
to get help so that the bank may re-
open. The capital stock is only $80,000.
FLYER WRECKED
Jersey Central Express Ran Into Mine
Cave-in Near Pittston, Pa.
Scranton, Pa., Nov. 4.—One man way
killed and two others were seriously
injured by the wrecking of the Quaker
City flyer on the Jersey Central rail-
road about half a mile north of Pitts-
ton. The train was passing the Butler
colliery, when it ran into a mine eave
in, which occurred just as the train
was passing.
Henry Carey, the engineer, of Scran-
ton. was killed.
The injured: Thomas Cannom, of
Ashley, baggage master, leg crushed
and thought to be injured intermally,
and Charles Fine, of Scrantom, fire
man, badly scalded and in state hos-
pital in this city.
There were about 20 people om the
train, none of the passengers, how-
ever, being injured.
The train had just passed through
Pittston and was speeding along by
the Butler colliery, when the engine
suddenly plunged into a big hole, prae-
tically disappearing from sight. The
baggage ear crashed In after it, and
the smoker, which was the next ear
on the train, half overturned.
The accident happened without a
minute's warning. Indeed, it is claim-
ed that the cave-in occurred just as
the train hove in sight, and neither
the engineer, fireman nor any of the
passengers had time to jump.
ROBBED EXPRESS COMPANY
Six Men Charged With Stealing Pack-
ages Worth Over $30,000.
New York, Nov. 5.—8ix men were
arraigned in police court, charged with
robberies from the Adams Express
company, which, it is alleged, will ag-
gregate between $30,000 and $60,000.
The prisoners are Charles MeCarthy
and Max Pope, employes of the com-
pany, and Jacob Levy, Wolf Levy,
James Zuckerman and Henry Mosko-
witz. It is charged that whem Me-
Carthy or Pope came into possession
in the course of their duties of pack-
ages addressed to persons outside of
New York city they pasted another
address over the one on the package,
sending the package to one of the
other four. it is said that parcels
worth $6000 addressed to the four
were found at the main depot of the |
express company. j
WILL RESUME WORK
Dam at McCall's Ferry to Be Complet-
ed After Financial Flurry.
New York, Nov. 5—Work on the
mammoth dam at McCall's Ferry, on
the Susquehanna river, near York, Pa.,
which was suspended Saturday, throw-
ing nearly 2000 men out of work, will
be resumed when the financial situa-
tion permits the company to negotiate
further loans, according to H. PF.
Dimock, president of the McCall's
Ferry Power company, who denied
the report that the company had been
forced to suspend construction be-
cause its funds had been tied up in
the Knickerbocker Trust company. Mr,
Dimock said that he believed that the
company would be able to furnish
some power in Baltimore this coming
year. :
Will Build War Airship.
St. Louis, Mo,, Nov. b.—J. C. Mars,
of the American Airship & Balloon
company, of New York, arrived in St.
Louis from Washington to select a
site for the aerodrome the company
will use for the construction of air
craft, and in which the first war air
ship ever built for the United States
government will be erected. The con-
tract for the airship was closed In
Washington, General Allen, of the war
department, acting for the govern-
ment. The airship will cost the gov-
ernment $10,000, and will be modelled
after the Beachey, shown here in the
recent aeronautic contest.
By the premature explosion of a
heavy charge of dynamite in a stone
quarry at Butler, Pa, 11 men were
severely injured, one probably fatally.
Hugh B. Ely, superintendent of the
insurance department of the Pennsy!-
vania Railroad company for the last
25 years, died at his home in Beverly,
N. J.
Saturday, November 2.
The Isthmian canal commission has
awarded to the Marion Steam Shovel
company, of Marion, O., the contract
for supplying 12 steam shovels at $18,
180 each, a total of $158,160.
W. Angell, of Ithaca, Mich.,
:
than an hour.
Monday, November 4.
Tallapocsa county, Ala, has voted
out liquor by an overwhelming ma
Richard Moyer, of Fogelsville, Le
high county, Pa. has raised potatoes
which measure 10 inches in length.
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AND FOR SALE.—The Nittany Iron
Company, having reserved from its sale of
its Gatesbu:g and Taylor ore properties,
15 ACRES OF LAND
situated along the Zion pike, at Gatesburg, offers
the same for sale at a very low price. Every fool
of this land is In excellent condition for cultiva-
and contains a A
GOOD HOUSE, ORCHARD AND WELL.
W. A. Moors
62-44-41. President.
OTICE.—The
og township Road
Tax duplicate for the year 1907 bee
placed in my hands for collection, prompt pay-
ment is required.
At JNO. G. DUBBS, col.
PPLICATION FOR CHARTER.--
Notice is hereby given that ai plication
will be made to the Governor and the Water Sup-
ply Commission of the State of Pennsylvania, on
the 12th day of December 1907, under the Act of
Assembly, entitled “An Act to provide for the
incorporation and Iation of certain corpora.
tions,” approved A 29th, 1874, and the supple-
ments thereto, for charter of an inten cor.
on to be called “Nittany water Company,”
he character and object of which is the supply
of water to the public in the Township of Spring,
in and near the village of Pleasant Bap, rt
county, Pa., and for these Jutposce Iv have, pos-
d enjoy all the rights, benefits and priv-
fleges of Act of Assembly and the supple.
ments thereto.
HUGH 8. TAYLOR,
W. HARRISON WALKER,
52-44-3t Solicitors,
EGAL NOTICE.—Notice is hereby
given that the following account will be
presented to the Court for confirmation on Wed-
Resday, Daesmber, 4th, 1907, snd unless excep-
tions be filed thereto on or before the second day
of the Term the same will be confirmed.
The third and partial account of the Common-
we alth Trust company, of Harrisburg, Pa., trus.
aver, for the benefit of the
creditors.
A. B. KIMPORT Prothonotary.
Oct ober 20th, 1907. Misa
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Kline farm, k
place, 2 miles east of
ville road, Sunisining 33 acres,
ber and orchard, with briek
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This office offers to the highest bidder an um
paid balance against the estate of the late Gover
nor D. HE. HASTINGS, amounting te
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Jodgment has been obtained. The elaim is an
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charged, nor is there any plea that the work wits
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while the justness and correctness of this clal
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any smount from a quarter to a half-million of
dollars: yet the administrators—who are also i
heirs and beneficiaries,—have refused paymen
simply because they could plead the limitati
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dinary “dead beat” and ‘‘debt jumpers,’ whp
seek t ei of the law pay
ment of jus ons.
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