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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
—And, the next day it snowed !
~The April primaries are the Dext cen-
tre of political interest.
—The voice of the people is very uncer-
tain in its tones whe it speaks on election
day.
—Get shead of those westerners if you
can. Out in Illinois they are baling snow | =
as a substitute for ice for summer use.
—1It is an interesting faci that most of
the States that have become Prohibition
are and always have been Demooratic.
—TAFT ie gathering in the delegations
all the while the HuaHEs—KNOX—CAN-
NOX boomers are building air castles.
—They must be growing tired of Gov.
FoRrT over in New Jersey already. You
know they are plaoning to run him for
Viee President.
~The way Wall St. has been bhammer-
ing the GouLD stooks looks ss if BoNt DE
CASTELAINE were not the only ope alter
the GouLp millions.
—The trouble with ‘‘Brother” James
RiNg, “Aunt’’ CLEMENTINA DALE and
“Quiet” DarIve WAITE seems $0 be that
they are just too blamed good for politics.
—PENNYPACKER still clings to the idea
that the capitol job was a great achieve-
mens. Of course it was. The State is
only trying to find out who was the great-
est achiever.
—It is an ill wind that blows no one
good oan be applied to the present business
depression. It has resulted in decreasing
the rate of immigration into this country
about filty per cent.
—Anyway “Uncle” JoE CANNON
conldn’t be any older for President than
“Unpole” GassowAY DAvis would bave
been for Vice President and he might come
as near gesting there.
—80 our ‘Uncle’ SAMMY PENNYPACK-
ER bas admitted that he was deceived.
This possibly accounts for those penny-a-
mile excursions to see the palace of graft
that he fathered so proudly.
—The convention ball in Denver is de-
signed to seat twelve thousand five hun-
dred people. Why worry about the seat-
ing? Most of the delegates will be on
their feet all the time any way.
—With seven Democrats, one Republi-
can and one Prohibitionist in council the
tables seem completely tarned on the time
when the late HENRY BROCKERHOFF was
the only Democrat in that body.
—While the sleighing just now is splen-
did, ae a result of Wednesday's snow, few
people are much elated over the latest fall
of “the beautiful.” The man behind the
shovel being the least demounstrative of
all.
—1f CAL HARPER goes alter insurance
like be went after that councilmanio office
in the North ward there ought to be one
company in the land whose busivess shows
po decrease during the past few months of
unpleasantuess.
—Seven men all speaking different lan-
guages and no one of them able to under-
stand the other, were playing cards in an
Altoona hotel Monday evening. They all
knew the game and, we presume, counld
say ‘‘that’s good’ and ooderstand what it
meant.
—Aboat the limit of governmental inter-
ference is reached when the President un-
dertakes to tell corporations that they may
or may not reduce wages. BRYAN'S idea
of government control of railroads doesn’t
begin to go as far as this chronic interfer-
ing President we have.
—The Ohio school teacher who admits
tacking a pupil’s tongue to a ohair because
he told a lie Las the old punishment of
washing the yourgster’s mouth with soft-
soap faded into the class of obastisements
that calls a slap on the wrist ora kick
on the ankle too severe.
—San Francisco is putting her unem-
ployed to the task of catching the rats in
the city. This may sound like the silliest
kind of ocoupation but when you stop to
think what a pest the rodents can become
the move appears a good oue, besides fur-
pishing employment for hundreds of men
and boys.
—The Oil City Blizzard observes that
“Senator KNOX hae a way of saying things
in such a way thas people can understand
him.” This evidently applies only to
Pennsylvania people as there is no indioa-
tion that the people of any other State un-
derstood the Senator when he said he would
like to be nominated for Presideat.
—The Hon. W. M. ALLISON, of Spring
Mills, is the latest horse that rumor says is
being groomed to beat the redoubtable
Brrr TAYLOR for the legislative nomina-
tion. First looked upon as a joke BERT'S
candidacy has assumed such seriousness
that more than one of the would-be ticket
makers is sitting up nights trying to fig-
ure out how it can be stopped.
—If the President wants to do something
to help the condition of the country let
“him turn his attention to Congress where
remedial legislation could be enacted.
Everyone is becoming disgusted with this
polioy of all wind and no work. If he
were to devote ball the time to Congress
that he does to TAFr's candidacy some-
thing helpful could possibly be accomplish.
ed, or it he were to actually punish some
of his “malefactors of great wealth" in-
| of making accusations without back-
g them up there would not be such a fer-
of uncertainty.
paid
Some of our esteemed Republican oon-
temporaries are wore or less worried over
Mr. J. PiERPONT MORGAN'S soxiety with
respect to the pending financial legislation
in Congress. Mr. MORGAN wants the AL-
DRICH bill enacted into law in its present
form and is apprenhensive that his party in
Congress will not have courage to gratify
bim. Primarily itis his own bill. Its
purpose is to deliver the commercial and
industrial interests of the country into the
hands of Wall Street. It is not ic any re-
speot a financial reform. It represents the
sentiment of the carpet bagger in the South
who urged another of his kind to remain
for the reason that there were ‘‘two years
of geod stealing’’ in that section yes. In
other words if the bill should pass Wall
Street would have its own way until the
pext Congress, anyway, and meantime
MORGAN could ges all be wants.
Influenced by this anxiety Mr. MORGAN
went to Washington, lass Sunday, so as to
personally conduct the campaign for the
passage of the measure. He occupied a
seat in the gallery of the Senate when it
was started on its way, and listened to Mr.
ALDRICH'S speech. Subsequently he visit-
ed the White House and likely forced
President RoosEVELT into line for its sup-
port. But there are some timerous men on
the floor who are not to be trusted entirely,
and there are others who are to be
feared. The Democrats are a unit
against the measure and suoh Republicans
as LAFOLETTE are likely to join with them
in the opposition. Of course if the stal-
warts are faithful to their obligations that
won't make much difference. The major-
ity iseafe. But Mr. MORGAN takes no
chances. He keeps his eye on the work.
He wants to know who is the reoreant in
the event that his expeotations are disap-
pointed.
Bat this is precisely what makes our
esteemed Republican contemporaries wor-
ry. They would be entirely content to
bave MORGAN run the machine if he
would remain under cover. There area
good many people in the country who are
not so complaisant in the master. In fact
it may said that a considerable majority of
the voters of tbecoantry would prefer leg-
islation in the interest of the people rather
than Wall street. The presence of Mr.
MORGAN operates as a sort of irritant on
their minds and brings before the obse-
quious machine mavagers a distorbing
fear, whioh is expressed in their present
worriment. But they can compose their
perturbed spirits, The ALDRICH bill will
pass the Senate, substantially in its pres-
ent form, bat it will fail in the House.
The party will keep faith with MORGAN
in part and that will satisfy him. He is
good for another contribution to the cor-
raption land, anyway.
Imperialism to the Limit
President RooSEVELT has discovered a
new way of defying the constitution. He
perposes to disregard that provision of the
fundamental law which vests in the Senate
power to ‘‘advise and consent’ to the
appointment of public officials. This an-
thority is conveyed in paragraph two, sec:
tion two of article two of the constitution,
and paragraph three of the section and
article. For present purposes it is only
necessary to quote paragraph three which
reads: ‘The President shall have power to
fill up all vacancies that may happen dar-
ing the recess of the Senate, by granting
commissions which shall expire at the end
of their next seseion.”” When sach com-
mission expires the term is ended.
But it appears that the President doesn’t
propose to let such little things bother
him. During the recess between the First
and Second sessions of the Fifty-ninth Con-
gress, he appointed WILLIAM NORTHROP
postmaster at Pensacola, Florida. When
Congress reassembled the Senate refused to
confirm the appointment and under the
| constitation and the law he ought to have
vacated. But he didn’ do anything of
the sort. He simply continued to discharge
the duties of the office and draw his salary
as if be bad a legal right to the office.
Since the beginning of the present session,
Senator TALIAFERRO, of Florida, bas been
in. vestigating the onse. He asked Postmas-
ter General MEYER about it the other day.
That gentleman, who is in fall sympathy
with the imperialistio notious of his strenu-
ous ohief, didn't mince words in his reply.
He said that “ander the regulations he has
the authority to continue NORTHRUP in
office until his successor has been appoint
ed.” By the same line of reasoning the
President may possibly say that he doesn’t
bave to make another appointment until
he “gets good and ready,” and thuea
mandatory provision of the constitution is
subverted by a simple: regulation of the
Postoffice Department whioh can be made
by the Postmaster General in the “star
chamber” of the Department. This is car-
rying imperialism to the limit, beyond
question.
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——There was no question about it
snowing the next day this time.
That the substantial and intelligent He-
brews of the country are coming to a dil-
ferent and better fiame of mind with re
spect to the policies of President Roosg-
VELT may be inferred from the scholarly
and eloquent address of Rabbi HirscH, de-
livered at the Fouuder’s Day celebration
of Temple University, Philadelphia, last
Saturday. Of course the Rev. Mr. Rus-
skLL H. CONWELL, president of the insti-
tution, ‘“‘slopped over’ in eunlogizing
RoosgvELT. Like some other professed
christians who imagine that Christ wore
spurts and carried a sword in a glove of
steel, he admires the ‘‘big stick.” But
Rabbi HIRSCH expressed a widely differ-
ent sentiment. He admonished the pubiio
against the dangers of such sentiments.
“Practically we have followed the theo.
ry of the German philosopher, NIETZCHE,"”’
the distinguished Hebrew orator and priest
declared. ‘“The overman in his schemes is
really a law unto himself,” be continued.
“Feeling our abounding strength, we
thought ourselves absolved from all moral
restraint. Success and that which could
be expressed in the tokens of the market,
the mind, the mill, became the Moloch to
which we pay homage. Bigness grew to
be the obession of our mind. We looked
for quantity and having found it, we rev-
elled in its glory. Expansion became the
passion of our ambition. As in the life of
other nations, so in ours, this predisposi-
tion to confound bigness with greatness en-
gendered the imperialistic mood. We
dreamed of world conquest. The most
palpable symptom of the distemper is the
demoralizing of commerce and industry.”
Rabbi HirscH deserves additional com-
mendation for his rebuke of that vativism
which demands that ‘America should close
its ports more strictly and more cruelly
than the law now provides against immi-
gration.” That is another of the heresies
which have grown oat of the imperialism
of the “‘big stick.’ But it is a matter of
secondary consideration. The other is a
vital and present menace. It must be mes
first courageously and now. When it is
disposed of the other evil can be assailed in
leisurely but uncompromising antagonism,
The imperialism that aspires to “world
conquest’’ is the impending evil and it
must be completely and everlastingly eradi-
cated from the public mind before safety
can be assured.
The Taft Campaign.
The campaign of force and fraud in the
interest of Secretary TAFT, with a residu-
ary ROOSEVELT claim attached, is now in
progress. FRANK H. HITCHOCK, late First
Assistant Postmaster General, has resigned
his office to become manager of this contin-
gent. He would have preferred a service
in the interest of CorTELYOU. The Secre-
tary of the Treasury comes nearer to his
moral standard thao Tarr. He is a past
master in fat frying, a bigh priest in the
art of ‘‘dragooning.” But CORTELYOU is
out of it, absolutely. His clandestine el-
fort to buy and steal ‘the nomination bas
been abandoned and HITCHCOCK bas gone
to TAFT mainly because the TAFT legatee,
ROOSEVELT, bas them all ‘‘skioned” in
political chicanery, and there is a chance for
ROOSEVELT yet.
The enlistment of HITCHCOCK in the
TAFT forces is disoreditable to TAFT. It im-
plies a willingoess on his part to descend
to the lowest depths of political iniquity
to secure the nomination for himself or
Roosevkrr. Upon any other standard of
political campaigning HITCHCOCK could be
of no advantage to him. He can buy or
dragoon negro delegates and do nothing
else. SAMUEL SALTER, of Philadelphia,
was an expert ballos box stuffer, but was
no use in any other line of party service.
His association with a political movement
was, therefore, a reproach. It implied a
campaign of fraud. FRANK HITCHCOCK'S
indentity with a political movement has
precisely the same significance.
The rumors which come from Washing-
ton and find currency in political centres
everywhere indicate that the TAFT candi-
daoy has degenerated into a conspiracy in
behalf of the renomination of ROOSEVELT.
The association of HITCHCOCK with it
strengthens this suspicion. TAFT, with
bis judicial temperament and high ideas of
honor, would hardly want victory at the
expense of integrity. But ROOSEVELT
wouldn’t mind such a sacrifice. Drunk
with ambition and delirious with lust for
power, he would accept any service as
readily as he “maced’ the corporations
four years ago. It may be set down, there-
fore, that HITCHCOCK is uot concerned for
TAFT but proposes to bunco both TAFT
and the public in the interest of ‘RoosE-
VELT'S greed for another election.
——Have you contributed anything as
yet toward helping the poor in and around
Bellefonte ? If yon have not, don’s be at
all modest in making your donation,
whether it be of money, of clothing or of
provisions. The committee who bave the
matter in charge will see that everything
given is rightly placed.
STATE RIGHTS AND
FEDERAL UNION.
hisassociate couspirators in the capitol
graft case has been revealed. It will be
shown that HUSTON was an *‘artistio fool,”
aod that his folly and the faults of the cou-
tractors enabled SANDERSON and CASSELL
to take anything they wanted and permit
ted SNYDER and MATHUES fo aoquiesoe
without responsibility. It has even been
suggested that SANDERSON might bave
taken much more than he did. Is is al
leged that he converted himself into some
sort of a philanthropists to the end that
HusTON'S passion for artistic grandeur
might be promoted without absolutely
baukrapting the treasury. Io other words
SANDERSON might have measured in any
namber of feet with the furmiture.
Possibly there is some truth in the state
ment of HusTox's mania. Io fact he must
bave bad something the matter with bis
mind, for thus far there bas been no proof
of veoality on his part. But instead of
exculpating the accused conspirators, that
fact strengthens the evidence against them.
It shows that they conspired to take ad
vantage of HUSTON'S incompetency, for if
SNYDER bad audited the bills and MaTH-
UES had exercised discretion in payment,
the State couldn’s have be:n robbed
even it HusToN had been *‘ as mad asa
March bare.” But they not only encourag-
ed SANDERSON and CAsSgLL to rob bat
actually took advantage of HuUSTON'S
weakness to open the doors for the opera:
tion.
It may be true aiso that the contract was
go indefinite that SANDERSON and Cas-
SELL could have multiplied the number of
feet in the articles they farnished. But
they wouldn’s bave got as much money if
they had adopted thas course. In other
words it SANDERSON aud CASSELL had
charged for linear feet, surface feet and
oabio feet, as they deolare they might have
done, the money would have run out and
the exposure of the fraud would bave
coma sooner. As it was Mr. BERRY was
obliged to dig and delve for mouths before
he could trace the evil aud meantime they
were looting the treasury to beats the hand.
As & matter of fact it looks to us if the de-
feuoe is ranning on wrong lines.
Senator Flinn's Dream Ended.
Former State Senator WILLIAM FLINN,
of Pittsharg, who rather ostentationsly pro-
jected himself in to the public but unoffi-
cial life of the Commonwealth, a few weeks
ago, has taken himself out again. He had
announced in megaphone volume of sound
aod big head-lines in the newspapers, that
he was about to become a state leader for
reform. Arrogant in his more or less
tainted wealth, he imagined that the peo-
ple of the State would accept bim at his
own estimate. He has been rudely awak-
ened from this beautiful pipe dream.
The people of Pennsylvania remembered
Mr. FLINN'S too dubious record in the
Legislatare and justly accepted his proola-
mation of reform leadership as a misinter-
pretation of the public conscience or an ine
sult to popular intelligence. They recalled
thie stories of brass and boodle which invari-
ably clustered about his operations as Rep-
resentative or Senator in the Legislature
and inferentially, if not directly admonish-
ed him that his ‘“‘place of honor is the pri-
vate station.” In obedience to this whole-
some suggestion Senator FLINN has with-
drawn from the leadership of State reform.
Heavens koows that PENROSE is bad
enough and yet the brief incursion of
FLINN into leadership served the good par-
pose of pointing out that there is worse.
The PENROSE machine bas sounded mar-
velous depths of infamy but the FLINN
movement suggested that there are even
lower levels in the pit of iniquity. He may,
as he declares he will, continue his activi-
fies in the politics of Allegheny county for
under his management it has become pu-
trid. Bus his proposition to become a state
leader is an outrage on public conscience.
We would commend to Senator FLINN
the lament of another over ambitions and
under worthy aspirant for public honors
who in the anguish of his disappointment
oried :
“If so soon to be done for,
What was [ begun for
——Congressman Charles F. Barclay bas
named Thales Stewart Boyd, of Clearfield,
as a candidate for the appointment as ca-
det from this congressional district to the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, with Hugh
E. Wells, of Bradford ; Lee Williamson
Fels, of Emporiam, and John L. Douglass,
of Bradford, as first, second and third al-
ternates. The examination for the prinei-
pal will be beld in Williamsport on April
21st and for the alternates at Warren on
the same date.
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——The Clearfield High schogl basket
ball team will be in Bellefonte this (Fri
day) evening and will play the Bellefonte
Academy five in the Y. M. C. A. gymna-
sium. All lovers of sport will want to see
this game as it promises to be an unusaally
fast one. The usual price of admission
will be barged.
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, 1908.
The line of defence of SANDERSON and | From the Pittsburg Sun. .
platform-makers this
summer will doubtless try to atone for
in Con-
tions. Ex-
udge D. Cady Herrick, of New York, sub-
for the
Points on Platform Making.
The Republican
the empty record to sheir
by fall cawpaign d
Demooratio platform. The fewer the planks
the better, he says, He would eliminate
all sectional or similarly doubtful issues,
leaving them, as in she Democratic theory
of the Government, to the States.
There is vast importance in his sugges-
tion to limit platform utterances to the ab-
The People have been
confused with the multiplicity of detail
and utter absence of proportion of the sug-
gestions that have been projected from the
Holmes once uttered the dictum that the
solately essential.
Nation which shortens its sword |
its boundaries. The same principle bolds
which can
compass its plan of action under the fewest
heads and stateits policies in the least
number of words is going to start into the
campaign with a tremendous tactical ad-
geod in politics. That pars
vantage.
of power and charity. The times are ri
ards.
One of the Penalties.
From the Altoona Times.
greater pars of the yearin d
floods.
not been so prod
the suffering might bave
minimized.
of the country arid regions
to recover which to fertility an
havoc.
The question of reforestration is one that
the United States is face to face with and
will be compelled to wolve satisfactory for
ite own preservation. Some little work has
heen done in the direction of supplying
the wanton waste, but unless farther de-
vastation ia prevented the stories that come
from Pittsburg and other distriots will be
maltiplied alarmingly.
Democratic Harmony.
From the Lock Haven Democrat,
The nearest approach to harmony where
it is most needed in she Demooratic party
bas been exhibited by the unterrified De-
meoraoy of New Jersey. The leaders of
ali factions joined together in a banquet at
the new auditorium in Newark in honor of
State Chairman Robert S. Hudspeth who
made the fight in the last campaign. Aside
from the tribute to she chairman the object
of the gathering of the 400 leaders of the
party from all sections of the state was to
get together for the redemption of New
ersey. Success attended shese efforts for
the names of Bryan, Harmon, Johuson,
ed and cheered with apparent impartiality.
all the speeches.
As New Jersey, like New York, is nec-
ting for the sup of any ticket that ma
he kit Cog brocdy of success thot
will encourage Democrats everywhere. If
the discordant elements can unite in New
Jersey there oun be no good reason for dis-
cord elsewhere.
Where the Burden Falls.
From the Sacramento Bee.
The truth is every day becoming more
widely recognized that real taxpayer is
the tenant, not the landlord, for the latter
recovers his taxes in the form of rent. In
like mauner the consumer pays the taxes
collected from the merchant, who recovers
taxes as those who are either not assessed
at all or whose is small. It is the
millionaire class who are she least taxed in
to their income and the benefits
they receive from government. The greater
part of their wealth is concealed from the
fee nd ey Ts
one way or 4 n
of the taxes they . In New York, for
instance, it is not the wealth of the Astors
that bears the strain of taxation, but the
earnings of their tenants, who pay real
estate taxes in the guise of rent.
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May be Fan Ahead.
From the Philadelphia Press.
oraio politios.
In masters of business news and all de-
partments of activity, save the Roosevelt
school of politics, the value of time, the
necessity of thoroughly, thoughtfully di-
gesting, of condensing and concentrating
every statement of party faith or public
policy is recognized. Brevity is not merely
a virtnre but a necessity and an evidence
for the reassertion in few words of the
broad, unchanging principles of Demoora-
tio belief and the marking out of a concise
political program that will take us back to
these ancient, safe, constitutional staid.
The folly of the present generation and
its ancestors is being emphasized by the
reports of floods that are causing immense
damage in varions parts of the United
States. This destruction of property is an
annual occurence, and people residing con-
siguous to large bodies of water spend the
of the
inevitable danger and waste that is certain
to come with the spring break-up and
While under any condition thie
danger might not be entirely eliminated,
yet it is nevertheless a fact that bad we
igal with our forest timber
been greatly
The danger of deforestation is two-fold.
In the first place, we are making of large
seotions
productiveness will require the expendi-
ture of vast sums of money in irrigation.
The second danger lies in the certainty of
destructive floods with annual thaws and
heavy precipitation. Timbered lands would
impede the rush of water and the earth
would have opportunity to absorb much
that pow rushes into river chaunels that
soon overflow their banks and spread
Gray, Culberson and Daniel were mention -
Harmony avd victory were the keynote of
eswary to success in the coming campaign
this hopeful outlook for all Democrats noi-
Spawls from the Keystone.
—The first case of spotted fever in wil-
liamsport in thirty-five years on Saturdsy
caused the death of 14 year old Harold
Stroup.
—For the month ending February 12th
there were 235 pupils absent fromthe tchools
in Williamsport on account of sickness, re-
ducing the percentage of attendance consid-
erably.
~The postoffice at Faunce, Clearfield coun-
ty, will be discontinued after February 15th,
and patrons of the office will be served by
rural free delivery from Olanta. The change
gives general satisfaction.
—Miss Mary Ryan, a trained purse resid-
ing in Philadelphia went to Athens, Bradford
county, on Saturday to wait on her sick
mother, but just as the train approached the
station she died suddenly of heart failure.
—The dwelling house on the Newton
Hamilton camp ground was totally destroy-
ed by fire on Friday night. The building
was of frame, and valued probably at about
$800, on which there was a partial insurance.
—A meeting that will mean much for the
good roads movement in Lycoming county
will be held at the court house in Williams-
port on February 20 when the County Asso-
cition of Roed Supervisors will be in session.
—For the second time this winter several
women fainted in York on Thursday in the
rush of several hundred needy ones striving
to secure some provisions given out by the
York Benevolent society. There were 815
loaves of bread distributed, besides other pro.
visions.
~The people of Reedsville, Mifflin county,
have became so interested in a series of meet-
ings held in the Presbyterian church econ.
ducted by the Rev. Mr. Boston, the evan-
gelist of Huntingdon presbytery, that the
Liotels and pool rooms are closed during the
hours of the meetings.
—Joseph Shade, a well known hunter and
trapper, who resides along Sugar ron, on
Wednesday last was roaming about on the
mountain in the Scootac region when
he noticed a large wild caton a ledge of
rocks, some distance from the path he was
following. Taking steady aim he killed the
beast with one shot from his rifle.
—Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust has
ordered thirty four suits brought in Alle-
gheny county for illegal sales of oleo, and
has given notice that no cases be settled:
This is being done so that the records of the
convictions will stand on the dockets of the
court Fora second conviction there is a
fine of $500 to $1,000 and imprisonment from
six months to one year.
—The annual report of inspector Josiah
Evans for the sixth bituminous district of
Pennsylvania, shows during 1907, 12,000,000
tons of coal were mined in Cambria county.
There were employed in the district 10.261
men and there were only 26 fatal accidents.
No explosions were reported. The district
embraces parts of Cambria, Westmoreland,
Somerset and Indiana counties.
—At the Latrobe steam laundry while an
employe was engaged at ironing on Monday
afternoon, a fine diamond ring was found at-
tached to a lady's night robe with a safety
pin. It bad passed through the heavy
wheels of the washer, the wringer and steam
dryer without being at all injured. The
owner was notified and was very glad to
Jearn of the find. The ring had cost £600.
—While Peter Nonnemacher and Jacob
Theobold were in a manhole in Honesdale
on Thursday, repairing a leak in a gas pipe,
Nonnemacher was overcome by the escaping
gas, when Theobold dragged him to the en-
trance and shouting for help pushed him
through the opening, then fell, overcome by
the gas himself. When he was taken out he
was unconscious and never revived. Nonne-
macher recovered.
—The big refactories of the Harbison-
Walker company at Mt. Union, Huntingdon
county, are making preparations for an in-
creased business during the coming spring
and the outlook in the brick market for their
product is more than encouraging. They
will start to increase their capacity and made
improvements for a larger trade and in about
two weeks they expect to run in full force
employing upwards of 600 men.
—The greatest conflagration in the history
of Renovo, Clinton county, occurred early on
Friday morning, which started in the large
furniture and undertaking establishment of
Billings & Co., destroying it and five other
business houses, on Erie avenue, between
Fifth and Sixth streets. Several other build.
ings were also damaged. The total loss is
estimated at $50,000. The fire was started
by burglars who were in the furniture store.
—Robbers broke into the ticket office of
the Pennsylvania railroad at Renovo early
Sunday evening and rifled the cash box of
about $200 in money. Nothing else of value
is reported as missing. No further partic.
ulars of the affair were obtainable as the
officers were very reticent concerning it.
Detectives, however, are on the lookout for
two suspicious’ characters who were seen in
the vicinity of the station early in the even-
ing.
—The grand jury of Clearfield county in
its report last week makes a recommendation
that sheriff Allen be allowed more than
twenty-five cents per day board for each
prisoner in the institution. The jury report
says that twenty-five cents is inadequate in
view of the great increase in the cost of food
stuffs, and that that sum js less than is al
lowed the sheriffs of many other counties in
this section. Sheriff Allen for some months
past charged the county forty cents a day
per prisoner, but the county auditors would
not allow the increase.
—On Tuesday of last week as Jobn Johan.
son, of Lock Haven, was leading & young
stallion owned by D. L. Miller, the horse
became vicious and began rearing and kick-
ing. He got Johnson's hand in his mouth
and bit it severely and then tried to cut him
down so that he was obliged to let go when
the horse kicked him on the back of the
head and knocked him down. He kept on
pawing at Johnson and would no doubt have
killed him had not Charles Herr, & railroad
man, come to the rescue. Herr was also
kicked on the forehead and a deep gash was
ijpflicted. The horse then ran along the
street until he met a baker wagon when he
attacked that horse and kicked it so
badly that it bad to be killed. The
horse was finally subdued and taken to his
stable.
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