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Ink Slings.
— Make some sacrifice during Lent hut
don’t let your umbrella keep it.
—Japan is lo king for a snap this time.
She is thinking of declaring war on China.
—Senator KNOX bas not withdrawn from
the Presidential tace. That is not peces-
sary.
—The anarchist who defies all law
should be disposed of as summarily as
possible.
— Base ball bate are begiuning to take
up part of the show windows of sporting
goods stores,
—1It there were more SHIPPYS io the
country there would be fewer avarchists
and the pity is that there are not more.
—There can be no government without
law. Anarchists defy all laws consequent-
ly have no rights any government should
protect.
—Wendesday's sky and sooshine bad a
decided look of spring but the snow and
joe underfoot made it dangerous to take
too many glances at it.
—March is certainly not a lion but it
came in giving about as good an imitation
of roaring, bustling and spitting as any
lion we have ever seen.
—Mirs. MARY HARRIS ARMOR thinks
that the United States will be dry in ten
years, bat think of the good time some of
the boys can have while those ten years are
passing.
—A bill has been introdaced in Con-
gress appropriating seventy-five thousand
dollars for a new public building in Ty-
sone. Apd to think Tyrove is getting
ahead of us.
—1In Baltimore a war among undertakers
has resulted in advertising funerals at bar-
gain prices. However, these are a kind of
bargain sale that there won’t be any over-
haste in attending.
—Jt Bishop OLMSTEAD really thinks “it
is not so wicked for clergymen to kiss the
sisters’’ is he willing to even up by giving
the brothers a little osculatory chance at
the Mrs, clergymen.
—When the President wrote to the chief
executive of Peru and alloded to us a8
“‘my people” he ought to have starred to a
foot-note in which HARRIMAN, HAYWOOD
and Mrs. STORER were excepted.
—Professor MCCONNELL says that love
is electricity. Perhaps that is the reason
that the young couples are nsually able to
get along without a light in the front par-
lor after the old folks have gone to bed.
—Williamsport is happy because her tax
rate is to he redoced from 20 to 13 mills,
but Williamsport is hotter than she is hap-
py because the assessed valuation hae been
increased sufficiently to make up the dif-
ference.
—The investigation of the United States
treasury is revealing the kind of seounrities
that Secretory CORTELYOU acceptedto help
Wall St. out of the pinch. Indications
point to the uncovering of a great assort-
ment of ‘“‘cats and dogs.”
—On Wednesday nearly two million
pounds of fish were offered for sale in New
York in preparation for the Lenten period.
In March a year ago a much larger sale—
and they were all snckers—took place in
the same city—on Wall street.
—One of the reasons given by Mrs. A,
Harr McKee in her suit for divorce
against her husband is that “he wore his
socks for a month at a time and then threw
the remains away.’ This sounds rather
fishy for we don’t believe there would be
any remains.
—1If the lawyers for the defense are able
to make a mistrial ont of that capitol graft
case hecause of the flasco over a suspected
juror there will probably be an end of the
whole thing. It will drag along then in-
definitely untii the gang gets entrenched
again and then—— Well, it will be forgot.
ten.
—The frightful holocaust at Cleveland
on Wednesday in which one hundred and
sixty-five school children were burned to
death and scores were mortally injured is
another of the many tragedies that have
been crowding so rapidly into 1908. The
cause is easily explained now that it is too
late, but it proves that often the most tri-
fling thing brings about the greatest disas-
ter.
—1If the future work of the Hon. DomI-
INIc JUDGE, the new president of the
Bellefonte council, gives as general satisfac-
tion as his committee appointments there
will be cause for rejoicing on all sides. It
is seldom that all the members of council
are satisfied with the work given them at
the annoal reorganization meeting, but
this time every one seems to have been as-
signed to the duty most congenial %o him
and there is consequent good feeling.
—The promptuness and good grace with
which the WATCHMAN subscribers are re-
plying to the call to have all accounts set-
tled up by April 1st in accordance with
the recent ruling of the United State's Posi
Office Department is not only a matter of
greater personal gratification to the pub-
lisher, but it proclaims the personnel of the
readers of this paper. We always did bave
faith in them and, this decidedly unusual
response proves, beyond question that the
WATCHMAN'a' list is made up of bonest
people who have the means to pay for what
they get and this should be a reminder to
advertisers who want to place their wares
before people who can buy them.
VOL. 53
Dalzelt’'s Annuai Tarif Sprech.
Senator Knox baving set forth his mer-
its for the presidency, JOHN DALZELL
made his perennial glorification of the tar-
iff, incidentally instructing the House on
the grander of the graft as a means of per-
petnating Democratic institutions, the oth-
er day. The address of DALZELL challeng-
es attention solely for the curious contra
diction it reveals hetween the two clashing
segments of the Republican party. THEO-
DORE Ro0SEVELT having found many of
the historical traditions of the Democracy
available for his purpose, has set shem
firmly in the platform of the coming Re-
publican convention. He has found that
his party has lived as long as it was safe to
vensare in open defiance of she first princi-
pies of civic decency. That it is no longer
safe to make official rapine the controlling
condition of party sacoess. That the mass
es who have hitherto looked with compla-
cency upon QUAYism are dangerously near
revolt ; that suoh spectacles as the capitol
pillage in Harrisburg, the perversion of
governments employ into opportunity for
private graft, must for the time being come
to a pause.
DALZELL on the contrary, sees nothing
in she past of the party that needs mend-
ing. It bas brought prosperity. It has
made she favored rich beyond the wildest
dreams of avarice. It has made the money
barons the law makers of the land. He as-
sumes the old QUAY attitude. Whatever
is is righs, since it is done in the name of
the Republican party. The ‘prosperity’
that she Republican hierarchies machinat-
ed with the administration of MCKINLEY
as revealed in the long roll of turpitodes
exposed in the insurance scandals, the
railway exactions, the official conspiracies
in government departments, were, he con-
tends, in the interest of the Republican
party and, therefore, working ivcidentally
for the well being of the country. That is
to say, she Republican party, like the King,
can do no wrong.
The collapse of the money system, the
annihilation of public confidence, the uni:
versal disruption of industries, the beggar:
ing of the masses, Mr. DALZELL conceives
tw be an evidence of the wise statesman-
snip and irresistible necessity of the con-
tinuance of bie party in power. Tbe tariff
which despoils two-thirds of the masses to
entich the “nefarious rich,’’ against whom
ROOSEVELT is now waging the antics of
pretended opposition, DALZELL holds to
be the backbone of the country’s prosperi-
ty. A means to the end of the perpetua-
tion of the conditions that ROOSEVELT 18
vooiferously demanding av end of. There
could be no clearer measure of the coufliot
now tearing the vitals of the Republican
party than a comparison of the utterances
of the Pittshurg politician and the Repub-
lican execative. If ROOSEVELT tells the
trath the Republican party is existing
iu the iniquity of a shameless grafe. If
DALZELL tells she ruth, the Republican
party ie pleased with its record and means
to continue it, and in one particalar he has
the advautage of she chief of bis party ; he
bas the logical argument.
The Republican party baving enriched
the “*nefarious’’ bands who coutrol the or-
ganization by means of the tariff, cannot
reform, for the instant it admits that the
tariff is the ‘‘mother of trusts,’’ the masses
would turn in wrath against the banded
planderers who have enabled the ROCKER-
FELLERS, the CARNEGIES, the ‘‘nelarious
rich" in short, to take toll of the masses
for their own speoial gains.
The Schuylkill Jadicial Contest,
The proceedings io Schuylkill county to
jnvalidate the -election of Judge H. O.
BECHTEL bave Been running very close to
she line of absurdity. The main poiot of
the prosecution was an allegation that the
expenditure of $900 in postage within a
period of four months was necessarily
fraudulent; notwithstanding the fact that
the opposition had expended for the same
purpose an exagtly similar amount within
the period of ten days. We are not sur-
prised at this revelation, however. The
editor of the WATCHMAN bas known the
expenditure of five times a8 much in one
week, in the same way, and the affair
would bear the olosest scrutiny of the most
unsympathetio cours, if it were just.
The counsel for she plaintiff in the case
wae equally absurd, moreover, in asking
for judgment against the defendans on the
ground that some of the expenditures in
the campaign might ‘‘open the door to the
most flagrant misuse of money at the eleo-
tions,” in the future. But the elections
of the future were not subjects of inguisi-
tion at the time. The court investigating
she election of Judge BECHTEL had to do
with that incident and no other. The peo-
ple must look out for the future and if the
existing laws dre not adequate to prevent
that ‘“‘most flagrant misuse of money at
elections,” in. the lutare, it is up to the
Legislature to enact new statutes or |
strengthen the old ones.
As a matter of fact, it looks from this
distance as if the proceedings against Judge
BECHTEL were in the natare of harrassing
litigation. The campaign which resalved |
| jb bis elevation to the bench was some-
| what strenuous, but so far as the public
bas information, was entirely open and
fair. Both sides invoked all avsilable
means, within the law, to promote success,
and the result ought to have been accepted
without complaint. Fraudulent elections
ought to be universally and unequivocally
reprobated, but officials fairly elected
onght to be exempts from such harrassing
| contests that sometimes cost vast sums to
| the officials and the public and promote
rather shau prevent corruption.
The Great Crime in Kentucky.
The election of a Republican Senator to
Congress in Kentuoky is the greatest crime
which has been perpetrated in that State
since the assassination of Governor-elect
GOEBEL, a trifl: more than eight years ago.
Aud the inflaences which brought one of
these events about differ little from those
which led up to the other. The Republi
cans of that State have been ‘‘trading”
with every element which makes for ex-
cesses and iniquity. GOEBEL was murder-
ed because it was believed that his inangu-
ration would for all time make an end of
Republican success in the State. BRrAD-
LEY was elected the other day for the rea:
son that it was known that his defeat
would everlastingly end trading operations,
The four Democrats who voted for BRAD-
LEY are traitors to every principle of polit-
ical honor and civic decency. They imagin-
ed that his election would have a tendency
to check the Prohibition sentiment in Ken-
tocky. The nomiuee of the Demoorats,
while nota Probibitioniss, sympathized
with that movement, His opponents were
ready to offer encouragement and make
promises to the other side of that question
and the four JupAsEs cared more for the
liquor interests thau for the sublime prin-
ciples of Democracy. That ie the secret of
the misoarriage of jostioe in Kentucky. It
represents a sacrifice of principle for the
promotion of a narrow and altogether sel-
fish interest.
It may be that Governor BECKHAM was
pot an ideal candidate for Unived States
Senator. Possibly bis nomination was
forced on the party by a machine organized
by himself during bis eight years in the
office of Governor. But thoge facts do not
justify the perfily which resulted in the
election of his Republican antagonist. In
the end BrCoKHAM offered to withdraw
and put in his place any Demoorat who
could command the support of a united
party. Nothing could be fairer than that
and the refasal to accept it shows that the
four recreants are fundamentally wrong.
They wanted to elect the Repablicav be-
oause that party had entered into an alli-
ance with the lignor traffio,
———
Probably a Mistrial,
The indications are that the trial of the
graft cases in Harrisburg will miscarry, not
#0 much because of the arrest of a suspeot
on the charge of embracery, bat for the rea-
son that after that event the District At-
torney adopted the wrong course. The ar-
rest of HUMPHREYS on insufficient evidence
was, of course, a blauder of the inexcusahle
sort. Until every link in the chain had
been forged and welded together. there
ought to have been no overt aot. Bat the
grave mistake baving been made, it oaght
to have ended there. That was not the re-
sult, however. The District Attorney snm-
moned the jaror involved into a private
conferences, and thus violated every prin-
ciple of an open and public trial.
If the District Attorney wanted to make
an investigation of the suspicious ciroum-
stances he ought to have done it in open
court. The presiding jodge was the man
to determine whether or not the prisoner
should be released and the suspicion against
the joror removed. Neither the District
Attorney nor the eminent lawyers for the
Commonwealth .were - invested with this
important prerogative and if the adurpation
of the power results in a mistrial, those re-
sponsible for it’ must assume the blame.
The mistake may have been of the head,
but that is neither here nor there. It was,
nevertheless, one of those blunders which
first NAPOLEON declared to he worse than
crimes. rd + 3
Is is safe to prediot that a mistrial of the
present case will work immunity for all the
conspirators, No subsequent attempt to
bring them to justice will come: anything
as near to success. Until that incident
there was hardly a doabt of the counviotion
of SANDERSON and SHUMAKER. ~The evi-
dence against SNYDER aod MATHUES was
substantial, if not actually conglusive. Bat
in bringing about this result the. prosecu-
tion was compelled to exbaust all, its re-
sources. The case of the Commonwealth
is from now on an open book and the alert
and skilltal counsel of the defendants will
read it as they run. From tbe beginning
we have had an apprehension of such an
issue of the trial. :
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«——Tn a return game at Clearfield Fri
day night the Bellefonte Acadéity basket
ball" team again defeated * the: Clearfield
“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL
BELLEFONTE, PA, MARCH 6.
UNION.
An Iuteresting Quarrel.
Representative LILLY, of Connecticut,
protests that he doesn’s intend to “let ap”
on his charges of fraud in the matter of
sub-marine war ships. The charges are,
substantially, that ove of the corporations
which manufactures the sub-marine ships
has been too active in the lobby and in-
duced the Naval Committee of the House
to provide for too many sub-marines and
nat enough battleships in the naval appro-
priation bill. The Depariment, which hae
evidently not heen taken into the sub-
marine econfilence, recommended four
battleships aod four -sub-marives. The
bill provides tor swo battleships and. eight
sabmarines. Mr, LILLY resents this as an
insolt to the President who favored the
Department's recommendation, and an in-
justice to the builders of battleships. Tuoi.
dentally he adds that probably it shows
too much favor to the sub marines.
As a matter of fact hie accuvation im-
plies a lamentable measure of venality in
the Committee on Naval Affairs of the
Honse. Mr. LiLLy declares that he is
able to prove thas the builders of the sub-
marines have promised to share the profits
of the operations with certain members of
Congress who are influential in determio-
ing the actions of the committee on Naval
Affairs. This is a very grave indictment.
To the earlier history of Congress it would
have created a profound sensation. Thirty
years ago every member of that committee
would have promptly and insistently de-
manded an investigation for purposes of
vindication. But nothing like that has
happened in the present instance. On the
contrary all the energies of the authorities
from the Naval Committee to the White
House have been striving to suppress the
subject.
How long will the people of the United
States tolerate these iniguitiea in the name
of partisanship ? The response of Speaker
CAKNON, the Secretary of the Navy and
the President, to this accusation is a plain-
tive petition to the author of itto “*be
good.” There is nothing to be gained by
exposures, they all say, and what's the use
kicking up a row ? Of course the President
wants battleships instead of sub-marines
bewiuse bis friends build battleships, and
besides it sounds bigger to say we have
ordered battleships rather than eub-ma-
rines. We don't need either, at the pre: |
sent time bat there is need for such indus-
trial activites as will encourage liberal
contributions to the corruption fund for
the comin: presidential campaign and for
that purpose battleships have sub-marines
“gkioned a mile.”” Nevertheless we hope
the investigation will go on.
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cine er, '
Charity Dinner Service.
On Saturday last 10,000 bougry ie:
burg people were fed by the Salvation Ar
my from the proceeds of a charity collec:
tion. A vastly greater number were in
1905;
inheritance Tax for the Present.
From the Commoner.
Aside from the remedies which areaimed
at specific causes, there are some which are
wow intended to deal with conditions as
they pow exist. The inheritance tax,
for instance, bas been das a meaus
of compelling the holders of excessive
wealth to turn over a pars of it to the gov-
ernment at death. There can be no doubt
of the right of the state governments to
regnlate, as they will, the descent of prop-
urty, and maoy of the states now collect
an inheritance tax. It is probable thas the
sapreme court would uphold a federal in-
heritence tax, although since the adverse
decision on the income tax it is hazardous
to say in advance just what the position of
the court might be upon a question of tax-
ation. But while a federal inheritance tax
ia jostified by existing conditions, it can
bardly be defended as a permanent policy.
It is advanced as a means of reaching for-
tanes already swollen, but it is wiser to
prevens swollen fortanes thao to prevent
them to be accumulated and then seize
upon a percentage as a penalty. It the
federal government will cease to grant
privileges to favored individoals, and con-
tens itself with the equal protection of all,
there will be few fortunes large enough to
constitute a menace.
An income tax has also been suggested
as a means of reaching fortunes abvormal-
ly large. While a graduated income tax
would bave this effect, an income tax can
be defeated as a ent part of our
fisoal system. As both onr import daties
and our internal revenue taxes are collecs-
ed on consumption, and, therefore, bear
most heavily upon the poor, we need an
income tsx to equalize the burdens of
government and to compel wealth to bear
its share,
Upon a careful consideration of the sub-
jeot one must be convinced that the remedy
for swollen fortuuves is to be found in a re-
tarn so the Jeffersonian dootrine ; equal
rights to all and special privileges to none
Where we find unearned fortunes, we find
that in nearly every case they rest upon
favors grauted by the government, and in
t00 many instances the injustice has been
aggravated by inequaltities in the tax law,
80 that the very ones who owe their great
wealth to the generosity of the government
shirk their taxes and shift to the shoulders
of others the burdens which they them-
selves shonld bear. :
Now that public attention has heen
turned to the ethics of money making, it
is to he hoped that the awakening will re-
salt in the inauguration of suoh thorough
reform that all citizens will be pnt upon
the same footing and treated with equal
consideration in the oreation of wealth and
in the payment of the taxes neceitary to
support the national government.
——
Distrust Halts Business.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
It was stated yesterday in Congress that
the United States treasury that day held
over one thousand willions of dollars in
gold : and yet the country’s business has
been shiown into distress by the lack of
money. Evidently the government holds
that which should free the business of the
country from embarrassment through
money shortage. Clearly it seems to be
the fact that a proper accommodation of
the country’s wealth to the country’s busi-
pess needs is all that ia needed to restore
aud continne its business prosperity ; and
itis the duty of Congress tn determine |
what is needed to secure this much desired
need of similar beneficence, but the appeal | cud + * y's
of the Salvationists to the benevolence of | The conatry 'a orops have heen abundant,
the commercial and civic organizations
yielded less than safficient to meet all the
obligations and the good intentionists had to
be content with doing the ‘best that was,
possible. The thousands who met the ap-
proach of the Sunday morning with] hun-
gry stomachs had the’ sympathy ‘of the
christian workers who had ‘done their best
to alleviate the safférings ‘incident to the
pangs of hanger, bis sympatby, ndmirable
as it is, is inadequate to such emergencies.
In appealing to the Speaker of the House
of Representatives in Washington, and the
chairman of the committee on Ways and,
Means of that body, the other day; forfa re- |
vision of the tariff, Mr. VAN CLEVE, presi-
dent of the National Association of Man-
ufactarers, who was carefdal to say,§'‘We
are not agitators or reformers. We are!
mostly Republicavs and all protection-
ists,’’ he added : “It is estimated by com-
petent authorities that the grafe overs
charge and wrong dove the American pob-
Jio beoanse of the present taziff reaches §3,-
000,000 a working day.’’ That is tan un-
derestimate, bat let it go. It means that
$000,000;000 a year are abstracted from
the earning of the Amerioan people for no
other purpose than to augment the unearn-
ed bounties of the beneficiaries of the sys-
tem.
It this vast sum of money had been left
in the pookets of the earners there would
be no necessity now for cbarityjtables or
soup housss to feed men willing to work
bat unable to secure employment. More-
over this robbery is the real cause of the
pauio though no doubt the effect of it was
and an immense sam i= coming into the
conutry ae the balance between ite exports
aud imports. Apparently the ennditions
greatly favor the conntry’s prosperity.
nly it must be prosperous ; yet just
as oertainly its business'is balted ; ite
manufactures find no buyers and the wheels:
of its mills ocase to go around. Demand,
has ceased in many q re apparently
‘entirely through lack of confidence ; which
has been checked hy the’ difficalty thrown
pround the getting of money and credit,
which cannot “be unduly oarce or unwar-
ranted, but which has gorite to be go eon-
‘sidered through apprehewsion cansed by
‘the great call for it. It seems to be but a
case of distrust accompanying excessive de-
‘mand, . casas
It ie not possible to “helieve that this
atate of mind ‘will long cbutinue, and we
may surely expect to have our business
running along at normal dpeed before long.
In fact, just as voon as confitlence is restored
by the pregnant facts showing that it
should be.
1
Démocracy's Power.
From the Pittsburg Post... i
Daring these skirmish days , before the
battle, Damocrats at times may feel des-
pondent becanse a seemifig quietude might
indicate apathy. The mere inte: e of
jibes and jokes between thé pickets in
nothing. ‘The air of coming viotory as’
sumed by Republicans ‘deceives nobody.
The silent courses of thought: are running,
and it is believed the outgome will bea
splendid Demooratic trinmph. i
The party needs no multiplicity of deo-
larations to entangle, or befuddle. Ni
necessity demands © profession about overs
cutie eaviépréjoch that wild imagination
might veor e vagary that dream.
er might indulge. ére is to-day pro-
ceeding in the political mind of this coun;
aggravated by the speculations of Wall
street and the inflammatoryjepeecbes trom
the White House. Bus il the earnioge of
the people had been accessible for the use
of the people ot the crucial moment, they
might have laughed at the panio whether it
came from Wall street or the White House.
It is the poverty of the peoplejwhich makes
panics damaging and the tarifl taxes keep
the people poor.
——Feproary continued cold and disa-
greable to the end and March came. in
High school team by the score of 35% 17.
as of old, against invali oachment
the Federal Government ‘upon the
and that it will ‘stop ‘the burdening ©
and firm front againetcentrali
very lion-like.
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~ Let Democracy i will siaud, temperature for the month, 56 degrees ou the ,
4{11¢h ; mipimom temperature for month,
the mass to enrich the few. With plain’
zed powér'|It
‘and bounty-fed, wealth; - Democracy can! i
‘m
Spawls from the Keystone.
~The license court of Clearfield county
granted two hotel licenses less this year than
were granted Inst year.
—Forty -eight car repairers who have been
off duty for a month were put to work at the
New York Central railroad shop at Jersey
Shore on Monday.
—The new system of calling trainmen in
Altoons by telephone has now been com-
pleted and all are now summoned in this
manner. 480 phones of the newest pattern
have heeu installed.
—Remonstrances against thirty applicants
for liquor licenses in Lycoming county were
filed at the ‘prothonotary’s office in Wil-
liamsport on Saturday morning. by H.T.
Ames Esq., acting as attorney for the re-
monstrants.
—Frank Scott, of Orbisonia, Huntingdon
county, has invented and patented a door
for stores and all kinds of buildings that is
entirely automatic and opens and closes
when approached from either side, entirely
out of the way.
—State Fish Commissioner Meehan has re-
vived an old law and rule of his department
that sawdust shall be cousidered as poison
when thrown into the waters of streams con-
taining fish. The wardens have received
new instructions on the subject.
—The district attorney of Berks county
has announced that no prosecutions will be
brought against Deputy Factor Tuspector
Beehtol, or Mrs. Monroe, as recommended
by the jury of inquest in the Boyertown
theatre disaster, because the laws are too de-
fective to sustain any charges.
—Theodore Adamouski, the Barnesboro
tailor, in whose store the recent fire started
that resulted in the destruction of $00,000
worth of property and the burning to death
of Mrs. Luxenburg, has been arrested on
the charge of arson and murder and now
languishes in the jail at Ebensburg.
—State Trooper Tacker, of company A,
who was married to Miss Elizabeth C. Horst-
kamp, of Mammoth, Westmoreland county,
on Thursday, was dismissed from the service
of the state police Friday by the captain, be.
cause of his having violated the order issued
some time ago forbidding state troopers to
marry.
—The tax levy in Williamsport for the
next fiscal year, beginning next April, will
be reduced seven mills, from twenty to thir-
teen mills. This great reduction is possible
owing to the fact that at the triennial assess—
ment the assessors increased the total valu-
ation from $10,000,000 to approximately $14,-
000.000.
—Mrs. Lyvdie A. White, aged 80 years, &
real “Daughter of the Revolution,” and the
youngest of them all, died at her home in
Lancaster on Thursday, after a few days’
illness. Her father, George Leonard, served
under General Washington and participated
in the battles of Germantown, Princeton and
Brandywine.
—Many more railroad ties are delivered on
the Huntingdou supervisor's division, No. 7,
extendiug from Granville to west of Hunt.
ingdon, than any other supervisor's division
| or the entire Pennsylvania system. More
| than 300,000 were purchased through the
| Huntingdon office in 1907, amounting to
{ nearly $200,000. !
—The greatest gathering of Welsh people
ever held in this conntry was the Eisteddfo
Fawr, or musical contest, in Scranton on
Saturday. More than 25,000 were in attend.
ance ut the two sessions in the armory. The
guest of honor was Governor Hughes, of
New York, whose father was a former pastor
of the Welsh Baptist chareh in West Scran-
ton.
—The Lycoming fair grounds will soon be
a thing of the past and only a fence will
mark the spot. It is the intention of the
owners to remove all of the buildings, and
Charles Hickson, of Williamsport, has al.
rerdy begun to tear down the stables and
other small buildings. It is likely that the
grounds will be divided iuto building lots
after all of the timbers are removed. be
—The Williamsport woollen mills have
been incorporated with a capital stock of
$50,000 and are planning improv uts a
alterations which will, it is thought, doubl
the capacity of the plant. Messrs. H. E. an
J. C. Holgler, who have been operating the
lant, will hold a large share of the stock of
the new company, the former occupying the
position of manager. Some of the stock will
be offered to public.
—It is sunquneed again that the Pitts
burg, Binghamton and (Fastern railroad is
under the wing of the Pennsylvania railroad
company, this fact {becoming further mahi-
fest the other day when the “Panny,” alogg
the Northern Central, posted notices to thi
effect that crews were wanted'for construc:
tion trains on the new road. These trains
will be put to work soon at Cedar Ledge near
Towanda, aud at Binghamton.
—In & family quarrel ‘late Monday Jobn
Cukry, living south of Bristow, shot and
his wife and the wife of his brother
and then fled. Officers and a passe of citizens)
are in pursait. Carry fired nine loads of
buckshot into his wife's bedy. Curry’s broth-
er and the latter's wife witnessed the: mur-
der. Gury later turned his gun upon - his
brother's wife, shooting and killing her also.
Fipaliy, he attempted ‘to.shoot the brother,
but the latter escaped. stip mw!
| =Willinm'S. Donley, who was convicted ’
by the Clititon- county court Javuary 25th
for assaulting and murdering his 9 year old’
niece, Mardy" Donley; at Renovo on the night
of Octobbr 20th, (and “who on February 1st
wag sentefh by Judge Hall to be hanged,
died" in" tHe JAi1 at’ Lock ‘Haven Saturdiy’
a prooess of straining {alse from the | evenidg at 7:45. + His mother and the’
ee the lasting from’ ye emeral, the | death witch woo wil “him whén ‘the'end’
immediate good from the -delusive vision. | came. Donley’ died of athrvation, baving’
For months the attempt has progressed $0 | eaten very littl after bis cofiviction.
install a new oult of government, to usurp | « 0 0 0 3 431 1p
uofamiliar fanotions by offidiale not so em:!| —E; C. Lorgots, the Jegather agent sb
powered. The brazen program has been! Joh wo, reports for, the moth. of
conducted of: divetting the people from | February the total.snowfal was fifty inches,
their proximate burdens by undue preach=| w with the accom ng rain and sleet,
ment about lesser ills. , a to 6.56 inches of rain ; maximum.
9
zero on 8 .; average: for-
26.6” degreed ; Tain or snow, gn,
1 was gre
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