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.
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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.
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~The Schuylkill Haven Iron and Steel
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—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.