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“BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings,
—1It takes more than an act of Assembly
and acourt of justice to make a Greater
Pittsburg. It is up to the people out there
now.
—Here's hoping that Governor STUART'S
eyes will be opened to the fact that there
is only ove State College in Pennsylvania
after all.
—Four hours of hard thinking is said to
exhaust the ordinary individual as much
as ten hours of manual labor, yet how
many people prefer the thinking parts.
—It Mr. BRYAN could only he persnad-
ed that the Democracy will call him, if it
wants him, a lot of embarrassing situations
might be avoided between now and next
fall.
—JouN D. ROCKEFELLER has made
public the fact that he doesn’t own any
government bonds at all. What a relief !
We were under the impression that he
owned everything.
—Judging from the way State’s football
team has heen playing lately it is highly
probable that the remaining board-walks
in that borough will be left to serve other
purposes than that of jollification bon-fires,
—The South has gone dry to save the
men. The North applauds accordingly.
But let the South lynch a fiend to save
the women. Then listen to the North
howl. To say the least it isn’t gallantry.
—Mme TETRAZAZZINI is to receive two
hundred and forty thousand dollars for an
opera season in this country. There is
some satisfaction that the price of butter
and eggs and potatoes is going up along
with that of dago opera singers.
—11 it was so soon to be done for what
in the world was it ever begun for. Two
weeks ago the Cambria iron works at
Johnstown discharged fifteen hundred men
because tome one shot a panic hogy-man up
into the industrial skies. Wednesday all
of them were ordered back to work.
—Judge GRAY would be good enough
for us as a presidential candidate. Surely
the good, sound sense he displayed at the
time he settled the great anthracite coal
strike in this State should appeal to the
people who have come tu our way of think-
ing that you can’t make Presidents out of
anything nowadays.
—Now is the time when every small
town in the county should arrange to have
some kind of an entertainment for the hen-
efit of the hospital. There ought tojbe at
least ten such bepefits aggregating five hun.
dred dollars for the new bailding which is
just abont completed with about that som
short in ite payments.
—The New York man who drew two
thousand dollars from a bank and had it
sewed up in the hem of one of his wife's
old skirte whioh was hid away doubtless
thought it was safer there than¥in the
bank. The baok is still doing business,
however, while the man has a force of de-
geotives at work hunting the thief who
stole the skirt the very same day he hid it.
—The Dochess of MARLBOROUGH has
just vieited the Tombs in New York
and, after expressing the opinion that the
New York prisons are cleaner and better
than the English ones, she stated that she
found HARRY THAW quite unattractive.
The judgment of the Conntess is scarcely
germaine. Had it not heen fora certain
Duke she picked out as being quite at
sractive we would have paid more respect
to her verdiot of THAW.
—The President is going to tell just who
did it in his forth coming message to Con-
gress. It is expected that this will be the
only case on record showing that some-
thing was done without TEDDY'S having a
band in it. We refer to the so called pan-
jo. Of course you all know that TEDDY
made the big bay and grain crops in this
county, but up to the time of going to
press we hadn’t heard of his claiming cred-
it for the potato rot and the soft corn.
—The Pittsburg banks have just un-
earthed a scheme of a large baud of crooks
operating all over the country whereby
they were attempting to get an acourate
list of all the persons who have withdrawn
their money from the banks. Had the
plan, which was cleverly worked, {not been
found out there might have been no end of
robberies and murders of those who bad
taken their money to their homes under the
mistaken idea that it is safer there than in
the banks.
—t seems to us just a trifle premature
to boom Captain BarcLAY for a second
term in Congress before he has served bis
first. While there is no doubt of his being
a very nice gentleman, nice gentlemen
don’t necessarily mean useful or able Con-
gressmen ; hesides, there are some explava-
tions that the Captain will bave to make
concerning the Bellefonte postoffice before
be finde many of the Republicaus over this
way falling over themselves in an effort to
push him into a second term.
—Dancing on Sunday on the United
States naval vessels, as was theJoase at
League Island last Sunday, might well
cause the christian people of the land to
think that there might have been sowe ul-
terior motive in removing the motto : ‘‘In
God we Truss,” from our new coins. In
times of peace if our jackies can’t be given
enough time for social pleasures on week
days some of the expensive maneuvers and
spectacular parades to gratify the personal
vanity of the President bad better be ont
out, in order that they may he shown that
the government, at jot, regards the Sab-
bath day as holy and will keep it sacred.
SE SERA BET
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 52
Outrage Upon Cheistian Sentiment.
Whether the sentiment “In God We
Trast” shall remain on the coins of the
country is of less consequence than that it
shall be eliminated by an imperial fat.
The phrase was adopted at a critical period
in the history of the country and was uni-
versally approved by the moral sentiment
of the people. It added wvothing to the
value of the coin and made no difference in
the purchasing power of a day's wages.
But it expressed a Christian thought and a
wholesome idea aod after having been so
acoepted for a period of more than a genera-
tion it ought not to have been eliminated
without an expression of popular opinion
on the subject. The mere fact that Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT entertained some absurd
notions respecting it was not a sufficient
reason for making the change.
The people of the United States are es-
sentially a Christian people. During the
period between 1861 and 165 their faith
in the principles of Christian civilization
was put to a severe test. Reverses on the
field of battle in a conflict which involved
the perpetuity of the government created
doubts. The expression of confidence in
the justice of God on the onins was the sign
of the triumph of piety. If no better rea-
sons existed for continuing the sentiment
on the coins that one fact should have heen
sufficient. At least it should have proved
potent until after mature deliberation and
frank and free discussion a majority of the
people had decided the question adversely.
No man has the right toolandestinely alter
the form or face of the.coins.
The excuse given by President ROOSE-
vELT for makiag this radical change in the
coinage of the country is puerile. He says
that during a heated political campaign
the sentiment was ridiculed and that for
that reason it ought to have been abolish-
ed. When Christ was on earth working in
His way for the salvation of the human
race not only He bat all His efforts were
ridiculed and flonted by a lot of men who
imagined that they knew more than the
Divine. President RoosevELT has follow-
ed the example of the sooffers of that time
and with less reasnn for they enjoyed the
legal right to do what they did while he
usurped an authority which no other Presi.
dent would have diewymed of claiming. His
action was an unmitigated outrage against
the religions sentiment of the people.
most any levy on such transactions as that
| of the Alton, for in that case he created |
the stock himself and kept all the proceeds
of the sale. But that was an exceptional
affair.
It is a trifle singular that the legislative
mind invariably rans in the direction of
taxation. If Mr. HEPBURN really meant,
as his suggestion would imply,to put a stop
to that sort of inimical speculation, he
would probably bave euggested the orimi-
pal prosecution of those concerned in that
traffic. As President WiLsoN, of Prince-
ton University, said in a recent speech
putting one man in jail will do more to
check certain forms of evil than fiving a
thousand corporations.
The New Currency Issue.
Whatever may be the outcome of the
order of the President to issue $100,000,-
000 of interest bearing treasury certificates
besides $50,000,000 of Panama honds there
will be grave doubts as to its legality. The
neoessity for such an expansion of the cir-
culating medium in the minds of many
people, prinoipally bankers, was obvious.
Bueiness bad become stagnant on account
of the scarcity of ourrenoy. A panic was
threatened for the reason that it was im-
possible to- get sufficient funds to perform |
the usual duties of commerce. Under such |
oiroumstances the government audoubtedly |
bas the right to intervene within the law
toafford relief. But it is certain that the |
President has no right to act outside of the |
law. He is amenable to the law just as |
others are.
In 1903 when President CLEVELAND
sold bonds to relieve financial distress he
was denounced in che bitterest terms by
the Republican newspapers of the coun-
try. They protested that it was a orime to
issue bouds in time of peace and that the
condition of the treasary had nothing to
do with the case. At that time the treas-
ury was actually empty. The HARRISON
administration bad not only drained it but
had mortgaged the revenues of the fature
to meet current expenses. President CLEVE-
LAND endeavored to afford relicf by sell-
ing bonds under the anthority of law. Is
looks as if President ROOSEVELT were is-
suing treasury certificates without the au-
thority of law.
The people of the conntry don’t want a
panic. Past experience has taught them
that such financial disturbances are inimi-
cal to public interests. But there is greater
danger in executive usurpation than io
financial distress. In the emergency of
war the law conveys to the President the
right to issue interest bearing certificates.
Bat be has no such authority in times of
peace and the exercise of a power not pro-
vided by law may entail greater evils than
a panic could inflict. We have a two.
sided question to consider. The President
way have done harm rather than good by
hie exercise of extra-constitutional power.
We shall await the resalt with interest and
concern.
Trend of Public Opinien.
The admission of Oklahoma as a State in
the Federal Union is a distinos gain to the
fundawental principles of the government.
While the question was pending the Presi-
dent ‘‘butted in’’ with the purpose of in-
flnencing the actions of the people. He
wanted to compel a Republican viotory in
the new State. Bat so far from yielding
to his demands the people resented his
interference. They elected a Democratic
Governor, a majority of Democratic Con-
gressmen and a Demooratio Legislature
whiob will in tarn elect two Democratic
Senators in Congress. It was a clean sweep
of Democracy against imperialism.
The 1esalt of the recent election in
Oklahoma is mote significant than the
election of a Democratic Governor would
imply. It means something wore than a
temporary trinmph of the Democratic
party in the new State. It clearly reveals
a revaleion of matured public judgment
againet the trend toward imperialism
throughout the country which is expressed
in everything which President ROOSEVELT
does. In fact the new Governer of the new
State declared, practically, in his inanga-
ral, that the Demooratic majority in the
State wasa sign of the reversal of the
ROOSEVELT notion of centralization.
The American people are essentially
conservative. Immediately after the Span-
ish war the spirit ol jiugoism rav through
tue country. But it bas already exbaasted
its potency. We no looger hear of creating
military organization in the public schools
to teach militant patriotism. The present
aspiration of she citizenship is to teach the
value of industrial and commercial suprem-
acy and that is what she fathers of the
Republic aimed to promote. A dozen
years from now, unless the signs are mis-
leading, there will he no demande from
the White House for increased facilities of
the army and pavy. What the people
will want is an increase in the rewards of
labor.
Bogus Rotormer Squenling.
A lot of Philadelphia bogus reformers
are raising a great ‘hoe and ory’’ because
it has been discovered that she majority in
tavor of the $10,000,000 loan, voted on at
the recent election, was made up of frand-
ulent'votes. These ‘‘milk-sop’’ politicians
who recently returned to the service of the
atrocious machine were opposed to the
loan. They protested, justly, uo doubs,
that the money is to be squandered in the
interest of the municipal contractors who
have been despoiling the city for years,
and complain because it is likely to cost
them something in the way of increased |
taxes. They are not likely to get mach
sympathy, however.
We have no doubt tbat all that bas been
said about fraudulent votes in favor of the |
loan bill is true and probably the half!
hasn't been told. Bat it is a sale guess
that for every fraudulent vote cast for the
loan bill another was cast for JOHN O.
SHEATZ for State Treasurer. The machine
is never satisfied with hall a bite. It
wants the whole thing and it was just as
easy to put a [raudulent vote into the bal-
lot box for the entire Republican ticket as
for the loan bill and the chances are that
the fraud included all. The machine was
as anxious to elect SHEATZ as it was to
pass the loan bill. The twin purposes
went together at every stage of the game.
The newspapers representing these bogus
reformers are anxious to create the impres-
sion that the vote on the Treasuryship was
honest while that on the loan bill was
fraudulent. Nothiug could be more pre-
posterous. The loan hill never would bave
been endorsed if the reformers badn’t been
#0 auxious to eleot SHEATZ that they were
willing to condone any electoral crime to
accomplish it and the reformers having
thas proved recreant to their professions of
reform we hope that their worst apprehen-
gions with respect to the increase of taxes
Not the Best Remedy.
Representative HEPBURN, of Iowa, offers
a new preventive of panios, if not a pavacia
for those evils. He would put a federal
tax on all sales of stooks and bonds on
“‘margins.”’ Sach sales for instant deliv-
ery would escape the tax for the reason
that presumably they are sold in a legiti-
mate business way and purchased as an in-
vestment. As an evidence of good faith
Mr. HEPBURN would allow a day or two
will be fulfilled.
for the transfer of sisle to the property.
There might he some merit in this prop- They deserve all they will get.
osition. It is certain that if the tax were
high enough and the law strictly enforced,
it would stop that form of speculative activ-
~The weather man must have been
working over time this week in his en-
deavor to make it as disagreeable as possi-
ity. Of course HARRIMAN could pay al- ble.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 22, 1907.
A Tale of Two Panles
1¢ is not so long since the beginning of
the panic of 1893 that a majority of the
people now in active life may not contrast
the tone of the Republican press, the lead-
ing financiers and the manufacturing barons
of that time and now. Theo the Republi
can newspapers with almost complete
unanimity encouraged the panic, if that term
is permissible. That is to say they pub-
lished inflammatory descriptions of the peril
in which the country stood and need every
expedient to undermine confidence and
oreate distrust. The financiers of the
‘“frenzied’’ variety supported the lugubri-
ons “‘tales of woe’ by every possible means
of exciting alarm.
Now they are pursuing an entirely dif-
ferent line of action. The newspapers
which then howled calamity in hysterical
terms are now nrging confidence and pa-
tienoe and the frenzied financiers are taking
all sorts of hazards by offering their own
and other people's credit through the
medium of clearing house certificates to
bolster up confidence and avert danger.
MORGAN, ROCKEFELLER, STILLMAN,HAR-
RIMAN and dozens of others;who werejthen
secretly helping along the panicky distrust
are now ‘moving heaven and earth” to
allay and abate it. They are offering not
only their advice but pecuniary assistance
to any of the fivancial ‘lame ducks’’ whose
failure might impair confidence.
We make no complaint against the pres-
ent astitude of those agencies. We wel-
come the help of all in the present emer-
genoy to avert a really serious state jof af-
fairs. A panic such as would have been
inevitable if relief had not come promptly
is a national calamity and all alike would
bave suffered from it. But we can’t re-
train from calling attention to the differ-
ence hetween the actions of the Republican
newspapers and financiers then and now.
The Democratic papers and business men
might have made a panic certain within a
few weeks if they had pursued the course
adopted by the others in 1893, but they
had too muoh patriotism and too little
partisanship to do so.
ry
The Kind of a Man Who Won't Win,
If the Philadelphia papers, that are al-
ways gorged with advice for the Democra-
oy before a convention aud always ‘‘fer-
ninst it" after its ticket is named, want
to see this State declare for the nomination
of Mr. BRYAN for the Presidency, they are
pursuing exactly the course best calculated
to bring that end about. The belittling of
the Nebraska statesinan aud the laudation
of those claiming to be Democrats, who
opposed the party nomiuees in 1896 and
again in 1900, can have but one result in
Pennsylvania ; aud that will be an over-
whelming aud positive declaration for Mr.
Bryan and the election of a delegation
that will be not only in hearty sympathy
with that declaration but with his candi
daoy as weil.
It may he that Pennsylvania will speak
for some candidate other than Mr. BRYAN
but it won’t be for one who openly fought
the Democratic ticket when it bad an op-
portunity to win, nor for a man who failed
tostand by his party and ite principles
when trusts and corporations bad joined
hands with its enemies for the control of
the Federal Government.
The Then and the Now of It
Keep your ear as closely to the ground
as yon cau you can’t hear a word about
“fiat money’ now. Only a few years age,
when Mr. BRYAN was raoning for the
Presidency, every banker and broker, and
money changer and trust backer, in the
country was ‘‘cock sure” that rnin and
financial disaster followed in the wake of
any circulating medium not based on gold.
But how different at this time! Clearing
house certificates, corporation due bills,
manufacturers scrip, store-keepers shin
plasters, and in fact any old kind of a
promise to pay seems good enough now when
the Republican party is to be helped out
of its money panic. As the late Mr.
Joseras would have remarked : ‘‘Jimmin-
ity" what a contemplation for the advocates
of a single standard currency in the then
and the now of it ?"’
—— La Bellefonte, the second number of
Edmund G. Joseph's little paper has reach
ed our desk. Instead of a four column
folio it is now issued as a two columu quar-
to and is just as full of interesting reading
matter as a nut is of kernel. The paper is
now being issned from the Democrat office,
Lock Haven.
—— William Eby, of this place, evident-
ly believes in taking time by the forelook
as he already is in the field as a candidate
for the legislative nomination on the Re-
publican ticket next year. Ol course when
the right time comes it is hardly likely he
will be alone in the race.
——A# their big fair in Look Haven last
week the Hope Hose company aud the City
band realized about four hundred dollars
net each; the entire proceeds being be-
tween twelve and fifteen hundred dollars.
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The Great Panjandram of Presiden-
tial Enfalitbility.
Mrs. “Bob White in Philadelphia North Amer-
fran,
Presidential Iofallibility is a new doc-
trinein the United States, but that is no
reason why it should be laughed at. Many
good things were new in their time. The
audacious scoffers who refase to look upon
the White House as the ceunser of knowl-
edge upon all possible subjects should be
called by several short and ugly names.
Did they ever charge up San Juan Hill be-
hind the colored troops and reach the
summit in time to discharge a revolver at
the backs of several of the flying foe and
diotate sell-landatory dispatches to the
press ? Did they ever pluuge their knives
deep into the bosom of the sacred oata-
moant in fal! view of the bandy camera ?
Did they ever stop the revolving car wheels
upon thousands of miles of track, draw the
fires of scores of furnaces, choke the our-
rents of irade, disorder the operations
finance, close the banks and the workshops
and give notice to open the soup kitchens
and increase the accommodations in the
poorhouse ? Until they have done all these
Sviuge let them preserve a becoming si-
ence.
Why should uot ‘‘the Great Pavjandrum
with the little round button at the top’
be proud of its work ? Why should our
oninage bear a motto declaring trust in
God when we have a great Panjandrum to
trast in ?
President HER iwler &loved the mints and
opened the mills. hy should not his
successor olose the mille and open the
mints ? President MoKinley didn’t bave a
little round button at the top ?
That little round button should he re-
8 . If it declares that trust in God is
blashemy, blashemy it is !
Boe Fm i hep
est thing in Washington, aud he replied :
“Mr. bas discovered the Ten Com-
mandements.” That was when our great
petigntutio instructure and universal rego-
ator had just begun his platitudinous
preachments. Admitting Roosevelt dis-
covered the Ten Commandments, has he
not made other discoveries, among them
that tho best mother for a deserted bird
nest is an elephant ; that decapitation is a
sure cure for toothache ; that the way to
determine what laws should be obeyed and
what should be disobeyed is whether or not
‘‘I approve of them."
“There is no warrant in law for putting
the motto ‘In God We Trust’ on the coin,
therefore it nught to come off, Still I
would bave allowed it to remain on bad I
approved of it. Bas as I dido’s approve of
is, I ordered it off.” :
Here we have a thoughtless sell revela-
tion that throws light on much that bas
pozzled patriots and dismayed statesmen.
Oar Universal and Infallible Arbiter of
Law, Medicine, Business, Finance, Poetry,
Philosophy, Architecture, Religions, Mor-
als, Science, Procreation, Natural History,
Engineering, Commerce, Art, Sport, War,
Peace, Literature, Education, Blashemy
and Falsehood has, after all a consistent
standard.
He is not erratio, impulsive, wayward,
bot-headed. short sighted, obstinate, sell-
willed avd reckless, as many have imagio-
ed. Io that little round button at the top
there isa fixed idea which guides all his
actions : “What I approve is right ; what
I disapprove is wrong.”
“The Ten Commandments are right be-
cause I approve of them (except the Ninth,
perhaps !). The motto ou the coins is
wrong because I disapprove of it. Paul
Morton is all right because I approve of
bim. Harriman is all wrong because I
disapprove of him.”
Now, isn’t that perfectly simple and
easy ? Isn't it lovely to have all trouble
off our hands, all doubts and difficnlties
solved ? What's the use of Congress ?
What's she use of statesman, bankers, law-
yers, dootors, engineers, architects. bishops,
manufacturers, railroad presidents, what's
the use of anyhody ? Just r fer every
question to the little round button at the
top of the Great Panjandrum.
If you're a merchant and bankruptey is
perionsly near ; if you're a baker and
cannot get funds to accommodate custom-
ers ; if you'rea manufacturer and must
shut down your works ; if you're a me-
chanic and cannot find employment, why
worry ? The Great Panjandrum still draws
his salary from a generous nation, and the
little round hatton still holds ite fixed :dea.
Presidential Infallibility may he a new
doctrine, bat it has its advantages.
Optimistically yours,
Mgrs. Bop WHITE.
Taft's Race Around the World.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The mystery and the wonder deepen as
to the record-making journey around the
world now being performed by our seore-
wary of war.
Having arrived at Vladivostok from Ma-
vila, he prudently remains afloat, guarded
by his equadron of United Statas warships,
until his special train is ready to start on
the long journey across Asia and Europe,
and he cables his regrets to the kings and
potentates who are eager to entertain him,
explainiog that ‘‘important business"
compels him to return at once to America.
Thus does he hurl himself, like a pon-
derous projectile, from the Pacific shores of
Asia to the Baltic coast of Europe, and
then on again, by the quickest possible
route, to New York.
Not the German kaiser or the president
of France, not even King Edward, who is
almost as heavy, in his way, as Mr. Taft
himself, can allure him to pause for rest or
refreshment. Oualy the czar of Roseia, a
ruler with sroubles of his own, is
to be accorded an interview with our
mig globe trotting secretary of war,
we may be pardoned for wondering
what it is all about. 4
What is the very important business re-
ferred to? Why this wild baste to
home early in December ? Why this
ular care for a conference with the aato-
orat of Russia, and with no other big gun
or figare-head of foreign power ? Why the
journey to Japan and Manila, and why all
this sell-important dounble- quick parade
Spawls from the Keystone,
— Allen Wickel, of Allentown, while eat.
ing oysters in a cafe, on Saturday found
three fine pearls, which have been appraised
at $40.
—Instead of paying its employes with
sctip or checks the Bethlehem Steel com-
pany on Saturday passed out to its 5,000
workmen about $200,000 in coin of the
realm.
—For a short time the large iron and steel
mills at Coatesville were running irregularly
owing to a lack of orders, but they have
again resumed in full, there being orders
to keep the mills busy.
~The milk dealers in Bloomsburg were on
Thursday forced to give up their plan of
selling milk at seven cents, as the town peo-
ple refused to pay the price. Many turned
to the condensed milk and others bought
ouly haif the usual quantity.
~The United States postoffice department
refused an application for a free delivery
route in the vicinity of Draketown, Somer-
set county, on account of the rough roads
over which the mail carrier would have to
pass. This should be an eye opener to all
road supervisors.
—Henry Dietrich, a farmer of Quakake
valley, Schuylkill county, incinerated forty
young hogs. The hogs were bought from a
carload that bad been shipped from the west
a week ago. They were infected with pneu-
monia and all had died soon after being
placed in the pens.
—Ethel and Esther Dortin, aged three and
two years respectively, were burned to
of | death in a fire that destroyed their home at
Soldiers, a mining town south of DuBois
Thursday afternoon. The little girls were
alone in the house, their mother having gone
to a neighbor's home.
—While a jar of yeast was being carried
across the room at the home of W. B. Har
vey, near Buckhorn, Columbia county, a
few days ago, it exploded and broke a lamp
causing a fire, and Mr. Harvey and his
brother, Vincent, were .everely burned
while extinguishing the flames.
—The bay sbed and contents on the farm
of John B. Campbell, in Warriorsmark val-
ley, near Hamers mill, were totally destroy-
ed by fire Friday evening. Origin unknown.
In addition to a large amount of bay, the
shed also contained a lot of farm machinery,
all of which except two pieces was insured.
—On Saturday afternoon at Howards sid-
ing, near Emporium, a freight train was
standing at a water tank, when another
train ran into it,the engine crushing through
the caboose. Three men, Thomas Welsh,
Casper Frye and a Mr. McCleary, who were
in the caboose, were killed. Ove was flung
upon the head light of the engine.
~The state fish department has just for-
warded to Lew Peters another consignment
of frog spawn from the state hatchery,
which consists of 45 000 tadpoles, which have
been placed in his frog ponds at Granville,
Mifliu county. The ponds now contain
about 10,000 young frogs which will be ripe
for the market in from two to three years.
—William 8. Donley, of renovo, who was
‘arrested last week on the charge of murder-
ing his 9.year-old niece, Mary Donley, on
October 30, was given a hearing on Wednes-
day in the Clinton connty jail, and after
hearing several witnesses was held commit-
ted on the charge. It is stated that he made
a confession that he committed the horrible
crime.
—Upon suggestion of a majority of the
citizens affected the borough couneil of
Chambersburg has passed an ordinance ex-
tendiug the limits of the municipality. The
new territory will give the place an area
nearly wice as large as the present and add
2,000 persons to the present population of
11,500. The annexed property is valued at
$1,000,000.
—The wholesale liquor dealers and hotel
proprietors of Clearfield county held their
second meeting at the Dimeling,in Clearfield
on Wednesday, at which there was
an unusually large attendance and the pro -
ceedings were behind closed doors and very
sacred. One of the wholesalers, who, itis
alleged, will soon be a millionaire out of the
business, is quoted as saying that this meet.
ing was called to get ready to eater politics
at the April primaries,
—The iron work and other material is be-
ing placed on the ground to be used shortly
in the construction of a substantial foot
bridge over the main line tracts at the west
ern line of Tyrone station. The bridge will
be quite lengthy and will extend from a
point near the McClintock & Musser cand y
manufactory and the Wilson chemical works
and other improvements along the Bald
Engle ridge, to a pvint a short distance west
from the baggage room.
—At & meeting of John 8. Bittner Post G.
A. R., held in Jersey Shore, on Monday
pight, $500 was voted to be appropriated to
the soldiers’ monument fund. It is the in~
tention of this association of old veterans to
put forth every effort to raise a sufficient
sum of money to meet a like sum which the
county commissioners have indicated that
they will contribute, so that the sum total,
say $10,000 will be available to erect a
suitable monument which will be placed
in the public square at Jersey Shore.
—Abeut 200 foreigners boarded east bound
trains at Greensburg on Wednesday evening
for New York city, from which point they
will embark for their native lands. They
were mostly Slavs, but there were many
Italians, Hungarians, Croats and other
nationalities represented. Because of a
slackening up of work in the coke fields
some of these foreigners had been put on
short time about the coal works and they
coneiuded to spend the winter in their na-
tive land. They took with them about
$20,000 in money.
—That trapping is not a lost art has been
demonstrated during the last two months by
J. P. Swope, the Huntingdon county hunter
who is equalling the records made by the
woodsmen when the country was young.
During September and October Swope made
his gun and his traps yield bim a revenue of
$778. During October he killed 85 foxes, 9
wildeats, 8 minks, 122 skunks, a total of 382
animals, for which he was paid $442.25 in
bounties. In September Swope's work netted
him $335.25 making the total of $777.50 for
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of
cents each.