~The foot-ball hero now sits down to
purse bis knuokied joints and bruised ten-
doves.
—Peruna and Hostester’s (bitters ought
$0 sell without much advertising in the
South these days.
~Let us hope that Judge BEAVER'S
sensible deoree bas made an effectual end
of the scandalous HARTIE case.
—Turkeys were plenty at prices ranging
from fifteen to twenty cents. The only
trouble was in getting the price.
—Ounly twenty-six more days until
a lot more of the country’s cash will
be stowed away in the Christmas stocking.
—Up to the present writing the country
newspaper men have escaped that denun-
ciation that is being so righteously heaped
upon the money hoarders.
—Next year will be leap year, but onpid
is doing well enough in Bellefonte these
days fo be able to argue that the preroga-
tive of proposal remain where it belongs.
—OQuce more the THAW trial bas been
postponed and once wore the inevitable
day when the land will be flooded with
most frightful tales of licentionsness put
off.
—There are many reasons why there
should be a business depression in the land
and the principal one is because prices of
everything bave soared away beyond rea.
80D.
—Ninety-seven per cent. of the territory
of Kentuoky is under Prohibition laws,
but we'll het that the other three per cent.
form the Mecca to which a continual pro-
cession of Colonels journey.
—The next session of the Pennsylvania
Legislature will probably pass a local op-
tion bill. If it limits the voting to coan-
ties Centre will be among the dry ones.
You can wager your last cent on that.
—Poor TEDDY ! He is certainly getting
into an awfnl mess when he bas to call
PierPONT MORGAN and WILLIAM JEN-
NINGS BRYAN to the White House, both
in the same day, to help him untangle him-
self,
—It invariably happens that the fellow
who complains most about heing orowded in
a street car is the one who is ever ready to
hang on by his eye-lashes to the already
overloaded oar rather than wait a few mo-
ments for another one.
~The NOBEL prize for literature has
been awarded to RupyArp KreniNg. Io.
asmuoch as the reading public basn’t beard
much from Kir Iately it is up to him to
get busy in order that the merit of the
award can be properly disonssed.
—The statement of the Democratic com-
mittee just filed shows that $15,265.83
were spent for the HARMAN campaign in
Pennsylvania. It was hopeless that such a
sum should overthrow a combination of
thirteen million dollar graft artists.
—If the people of Bellefonte and vicini-
ty read the city papers at all they will re-
alize that their banks bave done an hun-
dred fold more for them during the flarry
than the so-called big institutions of the
cities have done for their ounstomers.
— Recent compilations bave shown that
the government engineem have been doing
the work on the Panama caval obeaper
than it oan be done by the contractors.
Why not let the engineers finish it then.
Surely it is going to cost all we can pay.
—Look about you! Hold your head up
to breathe God's pure air, bave his glad
sunshine kiss your face and see nature dy-
ing that she may give birth to a newer and
purer life next apring for you, then say you
had nothing to he thankful for yesterday ?
—All honor and praise to the wisdom of
the ROOSEVELT policies! After running
the country into a hole they plano to get it
out by giving Wall St. thirty-six per cent.
of our money. Surely this is an exposi-
tion of the ‘‘safe and sane’’ polioy worth
oherishing.
—A newepaper in gay Paris bas figured
it oat that American girls have paid in the
aggregate nine hundred million dollars for
their noble husbands and consequent ti-
ties ; a fact that is now worth giving some
consideration on account of the harrassing
money stringenoy.
~—With the passing of Thanksgiving the
football ‘‘rooters’’ have all taken to cover
and the big army of college students will
now have nothing to do but stady while
their enthusiastic supporters content them-
selves with cogitating over how different
it might bave been.
— From the position of a man up a tree
we think that Gen. CHARLES MILLER is
swallowing the camel and straining at the
goat when he saye he won't use a coin that
does not bear the motto “In God we
Trust.” If our memory hasn’t played us
any tricks the General has bad use for the
divorce court which is condemned quite as
vigorously as the coin outrage hy the same
class of people.
~—A few years ago Mr. ROOSEVELT and
his followers were certain that BRYAN
didn’t have enough brains to keep the
country from going to the demaition bow-
wows. You observed that last Sasurday
Mr. ROOSEVELT called BRYAN in to con-
sult with him on ways and means for keep-
ing the country from going, under: Roose-
VELT policies, just where they were so very
certain it would go under BRYAN'S.
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I
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
yYoL.5:
S——
Roosevelt and Morgan.
Some months ago President ROOSEVELT
resented with a good dea! of vehemence,
a statement thas he had agreed to submit
certain portions of his annual message of
1904 to Mr. E. H. HagrimaN. Mr. Har-
RIMAN bad alleged the fact and sup
ported it with a tolerably com- |
plete chain of circumstantial evidence |
and correspondence. During the campaign |
of that year the President and his political
managers had become greatly alarmed
about the result of the vote. Governor
ODELL, who was also chairman of the New
York Republican State committee, had ex-
pressed the opinion that unless a large sum
of money were raised Mr. ROOSEVELT
would be defeated. Therenpon the Presi:
dent personally asked HARRIMAN to raise
the necessary funds. HARRIMAN indioat-
ed dissatisfaction with ROOSEVELT'S views
on the subjects of corporations and finance.
RoosevELT assured him that such fears
were groundless and pledged himself, as a
token of good faith, submit his message to
HARRIMAN before it wonld be sent to
Congress.
There was clearly an implied bargain be-
tween them on the subject and in pursa-
ance of it HARRIMAN proceeded to raise
the money. He appealed to the trust mag-
nates and frenzied financiers with the result
that the danger to ROOSEVELT's ambitions
was averted. It ie estimated that 50,000
votes were purobased for ROOSEVELT in
New York city alone and Delaware, New
Jersey and other States were ‘‘converted’’
by the mysterious infinences whioh only
those in the secret nuderstood. If the same
fidelity to the bargain bad been shown on
the other side, the public would probably
never have known of the transaction. But
alter the election ROOSEVELT repudiated
his agreement. He not only didn’t invite
Mr. HARRIMAN to scrutinize his message
bat actually incorporated in it the very
policies to which Mr. HARRIMAN objeoted.
Naturally that led to an ‘‘estrangement’’
between the gentlemen. HARRIMAN ex-
posed the deal and ROOSEVELT promptly
initiated him in the Ananias club. It was
a dramatic incident.
So far as Mr. HARRIMAN is concerned
the President bas not relented or recanted.
Butit is a tolerahly well-established fact
that he bas done with Mr. J. PIERPONT
MORGAN this year precisely what he re-
fused to do with Mr. HARRIMAN then.
That is to say, Mr. MORGAN visited the
President last week and advised him with
respect to the features of bis forthcoming
message whioh relate to trusts and finance
and that the President agreed to
Mr. MORGAN'S ideas may be in-
ferred from the fact that Mr. MORGAN im-
mediately afterward gave his unqualified
endorsement to the President's schewe of
issuing illegal interest-bearing treasury
certificates. Of course there is some dil-
ference between MORGAN and HARRIMAK,
but not much. MORGAN’s shipbuilding
trust was quite as rotten as HARRIMAN'S |
Alton deal, though it must be said that
MORGAN made partial restitution to bie
viotims when he was found out while
HARRIMAN ohdurately refused to make
sach a concession to the principles of
justice.
The Greatest of all Evils
Last week we expressed a doubt as to
the legality of the soheme which President
ROOSEVELT bas adopted for relieving the
cnrrency famine whioh has been crippling
industry for the past month. Of the ne-
cessity for some remedial action there was
uo question then as there is none now.
The industrial life of the country was in a
state of paralysis and the evil was entirely
asoribable to the insufficiency of the our-
renoy supply. But there are greater evils
than panics and graver dangers than indus-
trial stagoation. The supervision of the
fundamental principles of the government
would work irreparable harm.
WASHINGTON declared that the usarpa-
tion of power by the President was the
thing which above all others was to be
avoided if the perpetuity of the govern-
ment is to be desired. War, famine and
even pestilence may be overcome bnt the
usurpation of power plants an evil which
can neither be controlled nor endured. In
the policy of the President as expressed in
the issue of interest-hearing treasury cer-
tifioates, usurpation of power is olearly re-
vealed. The seizure of property or the re-
vocation of any law without the warrant of
Congress would he no more a usurpation.
The precedent will work ivjary for all
time.
The pretense under which the President
has acted is a clause to the DINGLEY law.
With the memory of the danger encounter-
ed in 1903 iu mind a provision was ineert-
ed in that act that in the event that the
expenditures of the government temporari-
ly exceeded the revenues such oertificates
migks be issued. But no such condition
exists now. On the contrary, the revenues
far exoeed the expenditures and the pres-
ent surplus in the treasury amounts to al-
plain violation of the law and a greater
evil than any panic or plague.
Justice Brewer and the President.
.
| certificates under such circumstances is a Democrats Will
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 29, 1907.
Attend to Basiness.
Some of our esteemed Republican con-
temporaries are worrying themselves need-
lessly over the coming Presidential nomi-
nation. The esteemed Philadelphia Press
Justice BREWER, of the United States io .qering the most excruciating pains on
Sapreme court, has excited a good deal of | this account and there are reasons to fear
criticism and some commendation by in- | that unless Colonel GUFFY, Senator HALL,
ferentially attacking the policies of Presi- | Chairman DIMELING and one or two oth-
dent ROOSEVELT. There in an unwritten | op of the Pennsylvania party leaders, de-
law of long standing in this conntry which | g1ae6 tor or against somebody ‘in the near
forbids she criticism of officials of ove of | prenre gar hysterioal contemporary will
the co-ordinate branches of the government |
by those of another and though she dis-
tinguished jurist might jostify himsell by
alleging that the President was the first to
offend, the excuse will hardly suffice. Two
wrongs don’s make one right and if the
President has committed the blunder there
was the greater reason why the Justice
should be circumspect.
Bat it is difficult to work up a high state
of indignation because Justice BREWER
has answered in kind some of President
RoosEVELT'S animad versions on the benoh.
The country has been passing through a
severe strain, recently, and even the
friends of the President can’t deny that he
is at least in some measure responsible for
the trouble. Uoder such circumstances a
man who bas grown to a ripe old age in
faithfal and efficient service to the public
bas reason to express his dissent from poli-
cies which he conscientiously believes to
be inimical to the interests to whioh his
life has heen devoted. A sense of duty
might easily require such a course from
sach a man.
Moreover the criticism of Jastioe BREW-
ER was neither very severe nor at all un-
just. He said that the President bas been
“playing hide and seek’’ with the country.
Hie reference was to the third-term propo-
sition and the acouraoy of his statement
can hardly be disputed. For more thao a
year President RGOSEVELT bas been mak-
ing a pretense ol favoring auother candi-
date for President while his purpose to
sunoceed himself if possible has been so ob-
vions that ‘‘he who runs may read.”
More than a year ago the WATCHMAN pre-
dioted that RooseveLT would strive for
another term avd though Justice BREW-
ER'S timely declaration may prevent the
success of his plans, it was needed to that
end.
A Travesty on Justice.
Nobody will be greatly surprised at the
aoquittal of Senator ELLiorT RoGERS, of
Pittsburg, on the charge of issaing forged
tax receipts for use in the election of 1906,
That bogus tax receipte were issued in that
campaign in that county is admitted by all
concerned. That some of them passed
through the hauds of Senator ROGERS has
not been denied by him or anybody elee.
But the prosecution of the case was 80
“lame and impotent,” that a conviction
was impossible. In fact it would be diffi-
cult to tell which side in the litigation was
most auxions for acquittal. It is alleged
that the Distriot Attorney offered to pay
the costs if the jury woald acquit.
The politics of Allegheny county is about
as rotten ae the morals of Pittsburg. Short-
ly after ROGERS was accused of using lorg-
ed tax receipts he threatened to prove that
the District Astoruey was elected by fraud-
ulent votes. The result was a change in! opinion of the number.
the purposes of the prosecuting officers.
Presumably a bargain was struck between
the gentlemen concerned that both should
enjoy immunity alike or go together to the
penitentiary. In any event the deiingaen-
oy of the prosecution was palpable. The
principal witness in the case couldn't be
found while the taking of testimony was
in progress. But he entered the court room
iminediately afterward and listened to the
arguraents of counsel on both sides.
The sonroe of graft and iniquisy in the
public life of the State is clearly revealed
in this incident. Manifestly the District
Astorney didn’s want to find she witness
in time to get his evidence and obviously
he was influenced to the indifference by
some mysterious power. Bat such things
are to be expected of men accused of crime
under the cironmstances. What is aston-
ishing, however, is that a court in Peon-
sylvania could allow such a sravesty on
justice. Without the aoguiescence of the
court the rest would bave been impossible.
That it actually ocourred is consequently
sufficient evidence that there was some-
thing wrong with the court.
——Tomorrow Roger A. Bayard will sev-
er his connection as local editor of the
Daily News and Bellefonte Repnblican and
tomorrow evening will leave for Tyrone
where on Monday he will enter upon his
duties as local editor of the Tyrone Herald.
“Bert"” has a nose for news aud he un-
doubtedly will make good in his new po-
sition.
——The Milton basket ball team which
came to Bellefonte last Friday evening to
play the local Y. M. C. A. aggregation,
did not prove the strong team it was
heralded to be, inasmuch as the Belle-
fonte hoys had no trouble in defeating them
most a billion dollars. The issue of the
by the score of 47 to 18.
have a couniption fis. It doesn’t matter
which side the gentlemen take with re-
spect to the merits of any suggested caodi-
date, according to the Press, but they must
take ove side or the other right away o
there is likely to be an explosion.
We are not authorized to express the
sentiments of the gentlemen named en the
subject of Presidential candidates but there
is little danger in venturing the conjecture
that the opinions and auxieties of the mor-
ibund Philadelphia Press are of absolutely | 88
no consequence to either of them. That
paper baving blown hot and cold on all
questions is without obaracter or influence
of any description. It bas become the ser-
vile instrument of the atrocious political
machine obaracterized by Secretary of
State Root as ‘‘a oriminal conspiracy
masquerading as the Republican party,”
and without sell-respeot or even a sense of
decency 1t is simply a chbatterer without
rhyme or reason.
The Democratic leaders of Peansylvavia
are amply able to take care of themselves
and to conserve the interests of their party.
They do not expeot that the Demooratio
caudidate for President will get the elec.
toral vote of this State and are not dispos-
ed to insist on selecting a candidate who
wonld be offensive to Demnorats of the
States whioh will elect Demooratic eleo-
tors. They will go to the National con-
vention in fall force and with a purpose to
do the best that is possible for the party
and if that policy doesn’t suis our Repub-
lican contemporaries, they cau go hang.
Democrats of Pennsylvania oan take care
of their own affairs and will.
A Menace of The Futare,
Ti® Adjutant General of the Army, in
his annual report, suggests the adoption of
the Earopean system of conscription as an
expedient for keeping the army up to the
numerical standard allowed by law. ‘‘Not-
withstanding the most strenuous efforts on
the part of the War Department and the
recruiting officers iv all parts of the coun-
try,” he declares, ‘‘it has been found im-
possible wholly to make good the losses oc-
curriog in the present strength of the army
to say nothing of inoreasing the strength
anthorized by law and executive order.”
What executive orders have to do with
the matter is not explained.
General AINSWORTH gives various rea-
sons for the difficulty in securing recruits,
however. Desertions continue, 5.6 per
cent. of the enlisted men having *aken that
form of escape from the service during the
last year, though the severity of punish-
ment for minor offences was considerably
ameliorated. Bat the principal source of
the trouble lies in the meagerness of the
compensation and the lack of officers. Of
course there is a lack of officers in the
The opportunities
for promotion are augmented in exact ratio
to the aggregate number and every officer
wants advancement and additional pay.
This comes merely as a suggestion now
but it will come in a vastly different form
Inter unless the spirit of militarism is
checked. There is no reason now for a
greater military force in this country than
there was before she Civil war other than
' such as has heen created by the subjoga-
tion of territory in the Philippines aud
Porto Rico and the sell-assumed responsi-
bility for the maintenance of order in
Cuba. In fact she complete pacification of
the Indians has lessened the need of sol-
diers and the constant strife for increasing
the army creates the suspicion that there
are sinister purposes concealed in it.
——8everal State College students took
the band car at the College last Thursday
pight and started on a trip to Bellefonte.
When the absence of the car was die-
covered word was telephoned to
Waddle to ditoch it and the man
in charge there opened the switch with the
result that the car and its occupants were
run into a box car stauding on a siding.
All the students were thrown off bat all
escaped without injury except one, who
sustained a number of bad cuts}{and brais-
es. He was brought to the hospital here
and had his injuries dressed and after a
night's rest was taken back to the College
by his fellow students on Friday morning.
——Now that Thanksgiving day is past
bustling matches will be on the wane until
the approach of the Holidays will make
them seasouable again ; and in the mean-
time the fellow who bas spent all his
change trying to get a tarkey for a song
will bave a chance to recuperate his pooket-
book.
I
NO. 17.
Why Harp on Bryan.
From the New Haven Union.
Mr. Biyan has passed off the political
stage and bas no more political strength by
which he might hope to im the voters
of the country, why should Republican
editors and leaders disonss his chances for
the presidential nomination, or his chances
for election to the prasidency?
There are even some Democratic news-
papers, at least they are olassed at times
ander that heading, that are today devot-
ing considerable 8 to Mr. Bryan and
holding like grim death to the opinion
that the Nebraska statesman has ceased to
be a vital factor in the presidential game.
If Mr. Bryan bas ceased to be, as they
put it, what is the use of such papers far-
ther discussing what he has ceased to he?
Why not pass on to something that is, if
you please, and ont ont that which hae
ceased to be? But no. They oan’t 310
Mr. Bryan, these solicitons, so-call
Demperatic papers and leaders. They can’t
let him enjoy himself in peace. It is Mr.
Bryan this and Mr. Bryan thas, it is first,
last and all the time Mr. Bryan.
And right back comes the same query
ain, trae as steel: If Mr. Bryan is dead
politically, if he can’t be elected president,
then in the name of all that is sensible,
why will these reputed Democratic Jejers
and leaders continne to harp on Mr.
Bryan's ability or inability to sweep the
country in a presidential contest?
Why is Mr. Bryan so prominently dis-
onssed by the Republican editors and Re:
publican leaders?
They fear him. They fear his poymatity
with the masses. They are worried.
They kuow the people of this
country today are sick and tired of the
Republican party, of the Republican lead-
ers. These G. O. P. editors sud public men
wounldn’s waste five minutes on Mr. Bryan
if they really thought he was dead politic-
ally.
Tous it onrions thas the great New York
dailies in nearly every case and the lhun-
dreds of other Republican newspapers
throughout the United States, are appre-
heneive over whether the Demoorats will
finally name Mr. Bryan for the presi-
denoy?
Wouldn't you think tbat Republican
gapen like the New York World, New
ork Sun, Times, Press and so on, includ-
ing Harsfort Courant and the Boston Her-
ald, would in their anxiety to bury the
Democratic party in the next national elec-
tion, encourage the Demooracy to name
Mr. Bryan for president if he is made of
sach poor presidential timber?
Strange that these Republican news.
papers and leaders can't wake up their
minds to pat the Democratic party on the
baok and urge it, vooiferously, to take np
Mr. Bryau for tif be is toh. tha
sure loser, as they olaim he will bein a
presidential fight!
Isn's it fanny, puzzling and inconsistent
to find these papers so earnestly advising
the Democrats what to do aboat Mr.
Bryan?
Do yon believe, citizens, we ask again,
thas Republican newspapers and leaders
are thinking and dreaming and worrying
aud talking and writing and ranting about
Mr. Bryan unless they bad good and soffi-
cieut reason to fear him and his great pop-
ularity with the people?
Undermining the Republic.
From Harper's Weekly.
Englaud is specalating upon the possi-
hility of President Roosevelt becoming
kiug of the United States. Mr. Labonchere
seriously discusses the relative advantage
and disadvantage likely to accrue from
such a change, and Mr. St. Loe Strachey,
the president’s staunchest personal support-
er, points unmistakably, though in guarded
words, in the same direction. Meanwhile,
in this country, managers of great. proper-
ties, affrighted hy the prospeot of vicious
or whimsical governmental attacks, hasten
in a practical way to invest the president
with royal prerogatives. Directors ol rail-
way and industrial corporations contem-
plating expansion throngh absorption of or
amalgamation with other companies no
longer inquire whether their proposed ac-
tion conforms with the provisions of the
statutes. They do not even seek inter-
pretation of the law by the executive. All
they ask is to be informed whether or not
{ they will be prosecated. If yes, they will
| abandon the plan; if vo, they will proceed,
secure in the possession of special privileges,
proteciel by his Majesty, and an easy mark
or future campaign contributions. Do
these gentlemen realize what they are do-
ing? Cannot they perceive that in thus
weakly izing, for temporary advan-
e, authority never hestowed by the con-
sititution, but arrogantly assumed by a
usurping and law-despising wiuvd, they
are undermining the very foundations of
the republio? Or perchance, so they get
what they want, they don’t care.
Meat vs. Polson.
From the Wall Street Journal.
A time-honored expedient for relieving a
mon stringenoy is for the government
to buy its own bonds, thus anticipating
their maturity and disbursing large sums
of money out of the treasury.
Now it is proposed to relieve the worst
stringency in a generation by exactly re-
versing that process. The government
plans to make a large issue of Panama
bonds in the hope that sums of money now
hoarded will be invested in these 8,
thus breaking up many hoarde.
This is only another illustration that
what may be poieon at one time is meat at
another.
Raffled Off Like Turkeys.
From the Harrisburg Star—Independent,
The President bas adopted a plan for
making ntments to office which is
unique, as it is based on mere luck. The
two ota Senators were as odds over ap-
pointments in their State. The Premdent
gent for them and bad them cast lots for
the several offices to be filled. Thus the
federal io Dakota were gambled off
like at a raffle. What a shook
such a must be to the tender
sensibilities of the rank-and-file of the
“‘party of great moral ideas!’
am es ———_— —
Spawls from the Key stone.
| —James Miller, of Sehultaville, Lack-
| awanna county, has a herd of sixteen cows
i that yielded 15,631 pounds of milk in one
. month, an average of almost 1,000 pounds
| per cow, or about sixteen quarts per day.
—Of sixty-five meat stores and slaughter
houses in Chester, just visited by four in-
spectors of the state live stock sanitary board,
thirty-five were found to be in a deplorable
condition. At several stores ‘“‘monkey’’
meat or “bob veal’ was sold.
—A lerrific storm of cyclonic proportions
swept over Latrobe and vicinity on Wednes -
day night, uprooting trees, carrying away
buildings and damaging telegraph poles. The
Methodist church at Bradenville was unroof-
ed. The surrounding towns report great
damage.
—One hundred years ago this month the
first shipment of anthracite coal ever made
was made from Plymouth, Luzerne county,
in a barge to Philadelphis. The one hun-
dredth anniversary of the first burning of
the hard coal is to be celebrated in Ply-
mouth next February.
—Exteonsive improvements have just been
completed at the Jason Coal company’s Hill.
side colliery, near South Philipsburg, at a
cost of about $25,000. The company will
now have a capacity for mining from 600 to
800 tons of coal per day giving employment
to upwards of 300 men.
—Harold Eugene Weller, 16 years old, who
has attended the public schools at Bellever-
non, Westmoreland county, for ten years,
and this year entered the Monessen High
school has a record showing that during all
these years he never missed a day at school
and was not even tardy at any time.
—The skeleton of an unknown man was
found at Rocky Point, Clearfield county, on
the head of Montgomery Creek, Wednesday
morning by Charles Anderson Jr., who was
bunting in the vicinity. It is believed he
was accidentally killed by hunters. He bad
a small amount of money and wore «a gold
ring with red set.
—Paper wood is being rushed in from the
Simeox and Johnsonburg Contracting Co's
operations in large quantities, loaded on the
ears at Point Lookout and shipped by freight
to the paper mill at Lock Haven. For
months large forces of men have been busy
cutting this paper wood on the mountain
Iand east and southeast of Philipsburg.
—A new hunters’ paradise is about to be
added to Clinton county's similar resorts in
the formation of the Idaho forestry game
and fish preserve. This new association
which is composed briefly of Pittsburg
sportsmen has been brought about prinei-
pally through the efforts of Game Warden E.
B. Farewell, of Lock Haven, who is among
the foremost hunters in the country.
—Thomas McCracken has catered suit
against the borough of New Alexandria,
Westmoreland county, to recover damages
in the sum of $5,000 for injuries alleged to
have been occasioned by falling into an ex-
cavation on the street on the evening of No-
vember Sth. He alleges that the excavation
was not properly protected, there having
been no red light displayed.
—John Fancher and Charles Boloio are
dying in the hospital at Johnstown, two
others are slightly hurt and two burned, as a
result of a powder explosion due to careless
ness. The men were standing about a storage
house of a mining company where powder is
kept,and Fancher and Boloio began to smoke,
when there was an explosion, and Fancher
and Boloio were neartest to it.
—During the past few days several young
men who claimed to be from Harrisburg
made an effort to work the ministers of
Chambersburg. They would go to the par-
sonage and represent themselves to be mem-
bers of certain churches in Harrisburg, They
then inform the minister that they have se-
cured work in Chambersburg and ask fora
little help until they begin their work, and
they have succeeded in working their game
with considerable success. Ministers else-
where should be on their guard.
—The strike of the 1,100 men and boys
employed at the No. 6 colliery of the Penn-
sylvania Coal company at Pittston has fora
time been settled. The strike was the result
of a general complaint against excessive
dockage and the demand that the docking
boss be discharged. A committee of five
called upon the general superintendent at
his office in Dunmore and stated their griev-
ance. The latter assured them that the mat-
ter would be settled and there would be no
season for complaint in the future. The men
went to work Monday morning.
—After a conference between the commis.
sion for the erection of the Bucktail monu-
ment at Driftwood, Pa., and the county com”
mittee having the matter in charge, Mon~
day, April 27th, 1908, has been fixed us the
date for the dedication of the monument.
Those having the matter in charge are al-
ready engaged in securing the attendance of
some “big gun,” and surprises may be look
ed for. April 27th is not ouly the com-
memoration of the departure of the old
“Bucks” for the Civil war, but is also the
date of the birth of General Grant.
—The Standard Steel works at Burn haw,
Mifflin county, organized over thirty years
ago at a capitalization of $100,000 was reor-
gavized on Wednesday under the name of
the Standard Stoel company, capitalized at
$7,000,000. William Burnham, president of
the old company will also be the head of the
new concern and there will be no changes in
the other officers. The Baldwin locomotive
works is the heaviest stockholder in the new
concern. Of the $7,000,000 capital $3,000 ,-
000 will be in stock and the remaining $4,-
000,000 in surplus. The new charter will go
into effect January 1st, 1908.
—Mrs. William E. Hollick, of Newberry,
a suburb of Williamsport, was terribly burn-
ed at her home on Saturday afternoon by the
explosion of a gas stove in her kitchen. Her
busband, who rescued her from death by
throwing a blanket around her and smother-
ing the flames, was also severely burned on
his hands and arms and Mrs. Amos Smit b,
wife of former county treasurer Smith and
mother of Mrs. Hollick, was also badly burn.
od on her hands and arms in trying to aid
ber daughter. Mrs. Hollick’s condition is
serious, she having sustained serious burns
from her waist up. Her face, arms and
shoulders are burned so badly that the flesh
may peel off,