ER ———————— a —— Y P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —Those Hungarian counts seem to have very taking ways, especially when it comes to the VANDERBILT coin. —Tarr and BRYAN are getting their buttons ous early perbaps to make the other lellows look like buttin in. —Who got the “wad?” It would be quite some satisfaction to know that, even * if the trimmers are not convicted. —As a matter of fact we bave bad very little real winter this year, but what we bave bad has been of the kind of which a little goes a great way. —An sutomobile race around the world started from New York yesterday at noon and neither Bos HUNTER, Dr. KiLPAT- RICK nor WILLARD HALL are in it. —If SANDERSON bad ‘‘to put up a big wad for other people’’ the next step in the program should be to ascertain from the gentleman who the other people were. —The Hon. Mr. TAFT wade the Hon. Mr. FORAKER look like the breaking up of a hard winter out in Obio on Tuesday, yet it takes more than one State to make a presidential nominee. ‘ —The Arkansas courts bave decided that a hushand can be punished for reading let- ters addressed to his wife. This does pot apply to duns from milliners and modistes, however, though a full measare of punish- ment follows just the same. — What Mr. architect LEWIS bas bad to say about the capitol trimmings graft is startling, to say the least. If he has spok- en the troth while on the stand every ves- tige of doubt as to the guilt of the men under indictment should be wiped away. —SAMUEL H. DIEHL bas shied hie polit- joal castor into the arena and announces thas he intends to fighs for the Republican nomioation for Treasurer. With SAM and Bert TAYLOR both in the equation our Republican friends are likely to see some- thing doing. ~The Virginia State chemist who has declared all women as inferior beings, physicaliy, mentally and morally evident- ly bad never heard of the prowess of CAR- RIE NATION ; the mentality of BELVA Lock woop and the goodness of FRANCES WILLARD. —Ex-Secretary of the Treasury SHAW says he would like to see J. PIERPOINT MORGAN the next President of the United States. Inasmuch as MORGAN doesn’t need the salary and the masses do need what little chance they yet have Mr. SHAW'S hope will bardly be realized. —The Washington Post dopes it ont that HuaHES is to be nominated on the fourth ballot. The Hon. Tom TAGGART says TAFT is to be nominated on the first bal. lot ; so there you are. The chances just now look to be very much against either one of them being nominated on any bal- lot. ~The new Oklahoma Legislature is cer- tainly beginning at the bottom. Among the first laws enacted was one requiring ho- tels to use nothing but sheets nine feet long and no dishes with cracks visible to the naked eye. Next they'll he legislating for the length of the Oklahoma shirt-tail and ordering an extra handle on the “blickey."’ —The digestive powers of the hyena are said to be so extraordinary that it can swallow six large hones without crushing them. This doesn’t seem much in compar- ifon to the novice who went to play the stook markes the other day and, getting in wrong, said that he swallowed a lump in his throat as big as his head each tick down she went. —Germany is making a great ado be- cause her crown Prince has entered a tech: nical school aud has actually descended to the point where he has been seen in over- alls. Playing Crown Prince 18n’t just the safest job in the world these days and we think this one is to be congratulated that it was overalls and not a wooden overcoat he was seen in. —The mills of the gods grind slow but they grind exceeding fine. The horror of the sinking of the Gen. Slocum, the New York excursion boat that went down with a loss of one hundred lives, severall,vears ago is only a faded memory now, but on Tuesday the last appeal of the captain of the vessel failed and be must start the term of ten years imprisonment he received for negleot of duty. —Though his squat on the editorial tri- pod was of short duration there Jean {he no gainsayiog the interest our young friend WILLIAM SHOPE excited in local journal- istic fields. He was busy while hej, was at it and leaves some gems that are ‘well worth treasuring. WILL was nothing when not original and it is with a feeling that we are really going to miss something that we learn of his retirement from the News. —At last | At last ! The shoe is on the other foot. This week's issue of the Ga- zetle states it fairly and squarely by acous- ing the Democrats of ‘‘calamity bowling.’ Really it is amusing, since you all kuow that only four years ago the Gazette and ite oo-laborers were doing the ‘‘calamisy howl- ing’’ for all it was worth. Tbe only differ- ence is that at that time they were lor lear PARKER might be elected ; in other words ‘“‘howling’’ before they were hurt. Now we are ‘howling’ because we have had real experience of calamity to warrant is. VOL. 53_ The President's Last Screed. The Ananias club is being strengthened by leaps and boands. Hitherto it bas been the rule of the President to add to it by single recruits. The induction of Mr. WHITNEY, of Massachusetts, was followed by the appointment to membership of Sen- ator BAILEY, of Texas, Senator TILLMAN, of South Carolina, Mr. and Mrs. BELLAMY STORER, Mr. E. H. HARRIMAN aud others singly and separately, until the organiza. | tion bad grown to considerable proportions and oertainly comprised a respectable membership. But in his recent special message Mr. BoosgveLT added a whole group of ‘“‘malefactors of great wealth,” some ‘predatory trust’’ maoagers and a miscellaneous assortment of people who didn’t agree with him on what he calls his “policies.” On Sunday last, being ina militant mood after his customary relig- ions exercises, he added another job lot to the “‘herd,”’ which included all the Sena- tors in Congress who bave recently voted against the confirmation of his appointees. The vehicle through which the “*Terri- ble TEDDY’ conveyed to the public infor- mation of his last increase in the member- ship of the Ananias was a letter addressed to Mr. WiLuiam Duprey FOULKE, of Indiana. Mr. FOULKE 1s somewhat of a oivil service reform orank and when he heard that the President had been using the, patronage of the government to p1o- mote the presideusial aspirations of Secre- tary TA¥r, be promptly and properly visited Washington and told TEDDY all about it. Of course the result was entirely satisfactory to Mr. FouLke. The Presi dent assured him, in the most solemn way, that nothing of the sort had ever happened aod though the information was extremely gratifying, he kept quiet aboutit. Other persons bad been told things by the Presi- dent and subsequently boasted of it to their sorrow. They were at once assigned to membership in the Anavias club, and FOULKE ‘‘may be a lobster bat he ain't no clam.” He treasured his joy and ‘‘kept his trap shus.”’ Strangely enough, however, that is what the President didn’t want him to do, and there was no recourse except to write a letter. The President is ready with his type-writer and “‘took his peu in hand." “The statement that I have used the offices to nominate any presidential candi- date,’’ he wrote, ‘‘is hoth false] and wali- cious. Of course it ie. The offices can’s nominate avy candidate. They bave uo votes in the convention and it was an easy proposition for the President. ‘‘Remem- ber,”’ he added, ‘that those now making this accusation were busily engaged two months ago in asserting that I was using the offices to secare my own nomination.” The wretches. ‘‘It is the kind of accusa- tion,” he adds, “‘which for the next few months will he rife.”’ Shiver our timbers, nothing could be more dastardly. Finally the inignity is summed up in the state. ment that ‘‘thie particalar slander will he used until exploded and when exploded those who have used it will promptly in- vent another.” This letter of the President touches the climax in mock heroies. It may be tiue that the President isn’s wusiog the offices “‘0 nominate any presidential candidate,” but it is as certain as that the day follows night that he is using the offices to elect delegates to the nominating convention for Tarr. Is is equally certain that two months ago he was using the offices in the same way to elect delegates for himself and that since he was forced by commer- oial and industrial conditions to take bhim- self ont of the race he has been as viciously out of temper as the proverbial bear with a sore posterior. The Senators who bave been assigned to membership in the ANA- NIAS olab called his bloff and exposed his weakness and the screed from which we have quoted is the consequence. But he is not likely to go unanswered in this case. Unless we mistake the sigs there will be a response to this emanation and the Sena- tors won't have the hot end of the poker. Taft or Roosevelt. The enemies of the President in the Re- publican party are flattering themselves with the delusion that Secretary TAFT may be beaten for the Republican nomination for President without nominating RoosE- VELT himself. The result of the eleotion of delegates in Florida has led them into this false notion. That was the first of the Southern States to choose delegates aud it was expected that the white office holders would drive the colored voters in herds for the President's candidate. But this ex- pectation was disappointed. The two fao- tions were 80 nearly equal in the conven- tion that one, nobody knows which, bolted and two delegations were chosen. Ol coarse if the same result should fol. low in all the other Sonthern States, or cven ina oonsiderable number of them, ‘L'arr would soon he ‘put out of the run- ning.” To give him even a reasonable show of the nomination he must have the practically solid South in the convention, Pennsylvavia is for Knox, New York for STATE RIGHTS AN BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 14, 1908. Hucnes, Wisconsin for LAFOLETTE, lowe | and half a dozen other States for favorite | sons, and with the South divided and a half-hearted support from bis own State, the | President’s favorite would make a sorry | show in the balloting. But the defeas of TAFT woun’s bring wuch to Kxox HucHES | or the other faverite sons, If TAFT is not | ROOSEVELT will be nominated. | Nobody need imagine that ROOSEVELT reliuquished his long and fondly cherished | hope of another election willingly. No | passion was ever as strong in ay man as | the lust for power is in Rooseveur. If, the panic bad not come to impair his popu- larity with the masses he would have been an avowed and invincible candidate for the nomination now. But he was [frightened from that purpose by the tide of opposition which set against bim in October and con- tinned to rise until after his declaration that he was not a candidate when it switoh- ed off to Tarr. Bat ROOSEVELT is not withont power even now. He may nos be able to command an election next fall but he can control the convention in June. The Tariff Commission Scheme. There has been no incident in the public life of the country in recent years more preposterous than the effort of Senator BEVERIDGE, of Indiaua, to revise the tariff, BEVERIDGE is one of those adolescent statesmen who imagine that they have been pat on the earth to correct all ite fanits. He is a protectionist,of course, and a stand- patter at heart. But be wants a committee oreated to revise the tariff for very muck the same reason that PENNYPACKER call- ed the Legislature of 1905 into extra ses- sion to pass reform legisiation. ‘‘PENNY” thought that a bogas reform would post- pone real reform for some time and BEVER. IDGE believes that a tariff commission would prolong the existence of the present law at least a couple of years. Singularly enough all the beneficiaries of the tariff share with BEVERIDGE in this desire for a tariff commission, and for prac- tically the same reason. Each of them hopes to prolong the tenure of the present law aud oberishes ao ambition to serve on the commission. That service would give at least a vouple of years of most delight- ful junketing aod graft. The commission would, of course, go everywhere in this and other countries in search of informa: tion, at public expense, and the protected interests would pay most liberally for con- tinned favor. Altogether it is a most love- ly enterprise and it will be a bard-hearted Congress which can disappoint the splendid expectations of the Indiana ‘‘BRADLEY Headstone.”’ It isn’t often that we areable to bring ourself into accord with Speaker CANNON bat his answer to the delegation of manu- facturers who addressed him the other day in favor of legislation creating a tariff com- mission was #0 appropriate that it would be unjust to withuold commendation. “When we revise the tanfl,’’ remarked the Speaker, ‘‘we will get our facta at first hind from those concerned and vot take them second-hand from a commission.’”’ In other words the Speaker wants to be in the captain’s office when the tariff harons come up to settle and he doesn’t propose to trans. fer hie opportunities to anvone else, The Graft Conspiracy. If there were uncertainty about the col- lasion among the officials, architects and contractors concerned in the construction of the capitol at Harrisbarg, which consti. tutes criminal conspiracy, a week ago, there is none now. The testimony of STANFORD B. LEWIS, assistant to architect HusTON, has removed all doubt. The de- fendants in the case now on trial were leagued together to loot the treasury. How the plunder was divided has not been re- vealed. What proportion went to the offi. cials may never be known. Bat it is cer. tain that the peuple were robbed and that had Mr. BERRY not been elected the orim- inal operations would have been continued indefinitely. Governor PENNYPACKER, Auditor Gen- eral SNYDER and Superintendent of Pablic Buildings aud Grounds SHUMAKER deliber- ately hie v open the doo s of the State Treas- ury to SANDERSON, CassELLand PAYNE & Co. HUSTON cousented to the operations, consciously. He seems to have been a dream- er, entirely oblivions of his obligations, or a dupe of those ahout him. Bat the oth- ers keew and proceeded with keen earnest. ness in their work of spoliation. After the election of Mr. BERRY they tried to ‘“‘cov- er their traocks,”’ so to speak, but instead of mitigating, that aggravated their crimes. it shows that they would, il it had heen possible, have shifted the burden of guile upon HUSTON. The fall extent of the conspiracy will never be known. The prosecution, in so far as it is controlled by JAMES SCARLETT, is earnest and capable, hunt it was never in- tended to convict. The Governor had no intention of involving his party in sanoch a scandal when he began the investigation, Bat like the panic organized by the bank- ers, it got beyond his absolute control and the hess that he oan hope for now is that as little as possible will be revealed. If the Demooratio ticket had heen elected in 1908, however, a different result wonld have fol- lowed. Every dollar of the loot would have been traced and moss of the money re- covered and the full measare of panish- ment would have been meted out to the criminals as well. D FEDERAL UNION, | Pennypacker's Part in the Looting. The testimony of STANFORD B. LeWIS, assistant to architect HUSTON in the cap- itol building operations, on Friday of last week, revealed the relations of former Gov- ernor PENNYPACKER to the conspiracy to loot the State. When the report of the legislative investigating committee was made public six months ago we said that it was incomplete because it failed to in- culpate PENNYPACKER. When the Dau- phin county grand jury returned bills of indietment against SANDERSON, HUSTON, SHUMAKER, SNYDER and MATHUES, we said it bad fallen short of its full duty for tie reason that it had failed to include PENNYPACKER, the man of all others re- sponsible for the orimes. But the legis- lative committee, the Dauphin county grand jury and the public accepted his false pretense of imbecility or simplicity and allowed him to go free. There was no reason in the world why [any thoughtful person should bave been | deceived into the idea that PENNYPACKER | was an innocent victim of political sharp. | ers and business sharks. His intense and | absurd admiration for QUAY was in itself | ample evidence of moral obliquity. ‘‘Birds | of a feather flock together,” and the real | source of the admiration was QUAY'S achievements in orime rather than the at- tractiveness of his person or the attain- ments of his brain. A man who pays the tribute of homage to vice is himsell vicions and PENNYPACKER'S inordinate devotion to QUAY was substantial proof of an ab- sence of probity from his heart. His vanity aud ambition may bave influenced him in some measure to the evil. Bat the real forces were the bad impulses which found expression in admiration for successfal orime. There is nothing surprising, either, in the fact that HamMpron L. CARSON, PENNY- PACKER'S Attorney General, was accessory before the fact, so the conspiracy, or at least aided in the publio deception which followed the exposure. CARSON was simply sn eoho of PENNYPACKER'S imbeoility. He wae ready at any time to give the sanc- vion of his office to any iniguity or ab- surdity. It was he who officially declared, as the law officer of the Commonwealth, that dle Legislature bad the right to in- crease the compensation of judges, though the constitation in express and implicit terms forbids is. Possibly he didn’t know any better and that the mistake was of the head. Bas in that event his occupancy of the office was a false pretense and a frand aud consequently execrable. Machine Restoration Complete. The scare of 1905 may not have been en- tirely forgotten by the machine, but the gangsters have entirely recovered (rom 1s. It was a rather sad experience. It compelled DURHAM to pretend to he good and Mo- NicHOL was forced to do without city con- tracts for a year. Other disreputables held on to their jobs hut they were obliged to keep civil tongues in their heads. Worst of all it was found necessary to nominate decent candidates for some of the offices and put a man into the office of Governor, who, thongh extremely partisan, has some respect for his honor and pays some regard to bis obligations. That was a great hard- ship all around aud may cost some of the leaders their personal liberty. Bat this nightmare has been shaken ofl. When REYBURN was elected Mayor of Philadelphia last spring the signs became auspicious for a return to ‘‘the good old days of stealing.” That incident plainly indicated the collapse of the reform and It enconraged them to nominate a thorough- ly proved tool for State Treasurer last fall and his election completed the work of restoration. The machive managers are no longer afraid. They bave decided to quit pretending even. Pennsylvania is safe and certain anyway and what's the use of dissembling, tbey reason. The peo- ple of the State as well as those of Phila- delphia are ‘‘corrupt and contented.’ Feeling this way it is small wonder that the machine has determined to ‘‘baurn the bridges behind it,”’ and resume the old methods and take up the old men. Ao- cordingly at a meeting of the Pennsylva- nia Club, in Washington, the other night a resolution declaring Colonel WesLEY R. ANDREWS as the choice of the machioe tor Governor was unanimously adopted. Congressman FOCHT spoke with great elo- quence and force in favor of Colonel AN- pREWS. Congressman CasseLL, who is under indictment for looting the State, is an officer of the oluband he was very en- thosiastio for ANDREWS. In fact they wereall delighted to honor PENROSE'S seo- retary and welcome a retarn of the ma- chine to power. —— While working around a corn shred- der on Wednesday James Clark, a farmer near Houserville, got his lefs hand caught in the cog wheels with the result that his listle finger was mangled so badly is bad to be amputated. Dr. Kidder, of Boals- burg, performed the operation. a | the restoration of the plund rers to power, | PTO United Rascallty. From the Lancaster Intelligencer. ‘The confusion in she counsels of the de- fense apparent in the Dauphin conunty trials of the interesting gentlemen who built our fine state house is characteristic of the conduct of rogues, who feel she hal ter drawn, In union there is strength al- ways, and it is the union of people in places of plunder whioh give shem their success ; bus when she law reaches ous for them they usually find their union to he a rope of sand, since their interests are sev- ered by sheanxiety of each to pat the blame on his fellow, with the usual result that the whole company comes to grief. The rule of self preservation prevails among these people, who are most unlike- ly to remain bound by their agreement to staud together ; so that it customarily happens that when the commonwealth can get indictments against a gang of men who bave been rohbing it, it can reach conviction throngh their own fears, confes- sions and criminasions. Up to she time of these trials there had seemed to be a gener- al agreement among the accused to pus the blame on the architect, to whom was cheerfully assigned the responsibility for the plans, prices and calculations. Now he seems to be taking his innings in get- ting ous of the chief role and putting the state officers in the place to which they vatarally belonged in the discharge of their responsibilities. The architect had an assistant in bis work to whom the fourth of his profits seems to have been assigned, and the testimony of this assist. ant serves to pull the pair out of the top part io the performance of the programme of the state’s spoliation and to reduce them to their natural place of obedient humble servants to the officially responsible mem- hers of the combination. Our dear de- parted governor, who was among the re- sponsibles, so far is left on all bands to the safe position of the man who did not know what was going on in the work of which be had official care ; a position of vafety that is hardly compensated by its stamp of weakness. Probably when the defendants in this trial ges their inniogs the pablio will be satisfied shat she indios- ment for conspiracy stoutly binds all the defendants, and that justice will be fairly done if all are punished. An Upward Tendency. From the Pittshurg Times. When, abouta week ago, Judge Gary, chairman of the board of directors of the United States Steel Corporation, spoke in an interview of an inquiry from one of the railroads for 60,000 tons of steal rails, and the Pepnsylvauia railroad a few days later put in an order for 55,000 tons of rails, 0 was supposed that this was the sequel of the inquiry to whioh Judge Gary 1eferred. Bat immediately afterward the president of the United States Steel Corporation in a statement made by him at Qeveland, O., with regard to trade conditions, mentioned an inquiry from a western road for 60,000 tons of rails, aud the nataral conclusion is that it was the western inquiry to which Mr. Gary referred and not the Penusylva- nia’s recently completed transaction. Mr. Gary bad also spoken of inquiries from many railroads, thus indicating that there were other orders to come. The Penneyl- vania having put in a considerable order, shouldthe western road decide that it must baveth« 60,000 tone, it is certain that o:ders would flow in quickly from the many other inquirers. Example is a powerful per- suader. The darkest hour, itis said, is just before the dawn. The combination of idleness and revere winter weather pro- doced darkuess so ressive that it al- most could be felt. But the optimist be- gins to see rifts in the clouds and promises of another dawn, which ere long, doubtless all will be able to see. The items men- tioned and the news of Monday morning from Chicago that inorease of orders has made it necessary to put 5,000 more men at the South Chicago mills of she Illinois Steel Company are favorable indications. These things mean resumption, thoagh it shoold not be ex that the will he explosive in its suddenness. It is unlikely that there will nos be idle men with fam- ilies to be provided for for an indefinite. period. The cessation of activity has been too considerable for restoration to come at a gallop. Bat the tendency is toward im- vement and it may be expected to continuous. A Debt-Burdened Kingdom. Baltimore American, Portugal, with a total property valoa- tion of $2,500,000,000. is staggering ander a funded debs of $364,701,000. In con- trast Switzerland, under republican gov- ernment, and having a total valuation of $2,400.000,000, or Iapesty mately the same as Portugal, bas a nation al debt of only $19,787,000. Cousidering that Portugal bas a smaller population and far less wealth than many American states, the funded debt which the little kingdom is carrying is something ling. rannil account year was over 000. An army of 40,000 regulars is maintained, which is not much out of to the i armed force ve to population that is regard- ed as necessary in Eu bus the burden of maintaining a condition of war prepared- ness has been exceedingly onerous to Portugal and other small kingdoms. That kings are peculiarly costly luxuries is demonstrated by the faos that the adminis- trative department of Porsugal last year, including the running ex the royal family, drafted upon the national revenues to the extent of $567,000. There is no roow to question that the late king went the limit of his kingly prerogative as a spender. Ready for the Black Hand. Buffalo Evening News. Pennsylvania's determination to insti. tute a lampblack factory in connection if ei i Miah ol are Black Hands. " Spawls from the Keystone. works resumed operations yesterday. ~The Pennsy has just placed another | order for 55,000 tons of rails to be delivered : during 1908, which is encouraging news. i i ~The Schuylkill Haven Iron and Steel | i —In Norristown the license on moving picture shows has been raised from $25 to | $100 a year, the sume as regular theatres. —Somerset county has twenty-six candi- dates for nomination on the Republican tick- et for county commissioner, at the primary election on April 11. —At a dance in the large new hotel of John Mehrilo, in Taylor, near Serauton, on Saturday night a stove wes upset and the hotel was burned. Loss $3,000, —1In one day last week 1,700 toms of ice were stored in the houses at Hibernia dam, on the Brandywine, above Coatesville, and 128 men were employed, The houses hold 12,000 tows. —Rev.J. Max Loungsdorf, pastor of the United Evangelical church, of Tower City, Schaylkill county, on Sunday while eating oysters, bit on a pearl which is said to be worth $750. . —The borough council of Huntingdon has under consideration a plan in detail fora complete sewer system, of sufficient capacity for a population of 25,000, the cost of which is estimated at $30,000. : —The Hamburg Silk Mill company, of Hamburg, Berks county, has been awarded a contract to furnish the United States gov- ernment 60,000 black silk mufflers for use in the army and navy departments. —A cow owned by Stephen Hair, of Sher- mandale, Perry county, has just given birth to twin calves, She is about eight years old and has given birth to fivesets of twins, one set of triplets, and two single calves, a total of fifteen. ~The funeral directors of Central Penn~ sylvania comprising Rlair, Centre, Cambria, Bedford, Huntingdon and other centrally iocated counties will hold their annual con- vention in Altoona on the first Tuesday of May, 1908, Burglars made a good haul at the store of John Sabota, at Loyalhanna, Westmoreland county, shortly after 11 o'clock, last Thurs- day night, when they carried off seven gold watches, a lot of rings and other jewelry and the cash register iu which was about six dol- lars in change. —By defeating an amendment] to the Indian bill in the House at Washington Thursday, the Carlisle Indian School, which, with others the Secretary of the Interior sought to have abolished, will remain in Pennsylvania and continue its work of ed- ucating the Indian. —Houvsekeepers in Pittsburg had a pleas ant surprise on Saturday by a great decline in prices of foodstuffs, meats having dropped about four cents a pound, strictly fresh eggs selling at 23 cents per dozen, roller flour $1.50 per sack, and straight ten cent canned goods three cans for 25 cents, —8ix Italians were arrested at Pittsburg last Friday charged with being implicated in Biack Hand operations against BR. R. Quay and other prominent residents of Sewickley, recently, and on Saturday they were hoid for trial at court. Two gave bail in $500 but the other four, being unknown, were refused bail. : ~Joseph C. Sibley will not be a candidate for election to congress this fall from the Tweunty-eighth Pennsylvania district. He prefers to follow the course mapped out for himself when he retired from congress and spend some time in travel and recreation. He has so announced in a letter to Maj. Me-~ Dowell, clerk of the house at Washington. —Recently John Franklin, a well known resident of near Roxbury, Franklin county, celebrated his 95th birthday. He can saw wood better than some men fifty years younger. Before the railroad was built to Philadelphia he drove a mule team down the canal from Biddletown to Philadelp hia, taking five days to go and six days to re- turn. —Locked in a room of an Italian boarding house on the flat at DuBois on Thursday night, one armed with a razor and the other with a huge butcher knife Frank Ferro and Jose Brucceso fought a bloody duel which resulted in the death of Ferro and his slayer is badly gashed about the head and ina decidedly serious condition. It could not be ascertained what was the cause of the fight. —Mrs. Frank Ellsworth Wenrick, of Read- ing, who is the mother of twenty-three chil- dren, twelve of whom are living, observes the birthday aniversary of each by giving a be | Sauer kraut dinner. This keeps her busy throughout the year, as in January she has to terve two dinners, one for two children, in February one, in May two, in July two, in September two, in November ove and in December one, ~The Patriotic Order Sons of America will hold a district convention in Huntingdon on Saturday, February 220d, in the P. O. 8. of A. hall. The opening meeting will be a busi- ness session at 10:30 a. m. At the afternoon session an interesting program with subjects of discussion which will be of particular in- terest to the orders, will be rendered. A pub- lic meeting will be held in the evening and The the program will be in charge of Camp No. 321. —After an enforced idleness of more than a month 1,000 men formerly employed by the Pennsylvania Steel company,at Steelton, have been called back to work. The re-em- ployment of these men was the direct result of rush orders from New York for structural material for municipal buildings and an order for rails from the New York City Rail. way company. The number of men now employed by the plant is 2,500, about 40 per cent of the normal force. ~—Five deaths from typhoid fever have oc- curred during the last three days in the mining town of Boswell, Somerset county, the scene of the Merchant Coal company’s operations. It issaid there are now over 100 cases of the fever in the town. The conlag! thus Bean traced to the use of creek water for drinking purposes since some ac~ cident to the water company’s reservoir, it is said, and the town’s board of health has taken the matter up with the state health department.
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