Ink Slings.
—1It is soon time to hear from the Dela-
ware peach crop.
—Next Toesday it will be the wearin’
of the green for most of us.
—The grass at Hecla park is beginning
to take on a decided picnic hue.
—Yesterday and she day before were
mighty producers of the sprivg fever germ.
— After tomorrow if you want to run for
office in Pennsylvania you will have to
wait until the next time.
—The first whale for a year was sighted
off the Long Island coast on Wednesday.
It was probably looking for JoNAH LOEB.
~The robins and the blue-birds are sing-
ing in the trees, while the travelers on the
country roads are in snow-drifts to the
knees,
—It costs money to maintain our Con-
gress and it is like sending good money
after bad, because we are getting nothing
in return.
—Petriken Hall is likely to become quite
a popular domicile for young couples who
agree with the President on that one pet
theory of his.
—Maryland, Mississippi and West Vir-
ginia bave thrown up embankments against
the Prohibition wave that has been sweep-
ing over the South. They have evidently
heard that story about how longja camel
can go without a drink.
—Mayor SCHMIDTZ, of San Francisco, is
out of prison under $345,000 bail, after
ten mouth’s incarceration. The fact that
he was able to raise such a bond makes it
look as if his term had really been as
profitable as his prosecutors declare.
~—Mrs. HARRY THAW hassued for an
annulment of her marriage to the slayer of
STANFORD WHITE on the ground that be
was ineane when they were married. Thus
the last chapter in one of the most tragio
incidents in modern times is drawing toa
welcome close.
—From the demands those world gird-
ling automobiles are making on the horses
of the western States to pull them out of
the snow-drifts and mud holes we can see
the work that is cat out for the polar bear
and Esquimaux dogs when the girdlers get
up into Alaska and Siberia.
—A orazy man shouted that the devil
was on his way to catch all the sinners in a
church in Mexico on Saturday and in the
panio to ges out of the structure three per-
sons were killed. They must have been a
bad lot indeed to be afraid to have the
devil catoh them in a church.
~The President’s latest public address
was before the mother’s Congress in Wash-
ington on Tuesday. The burden of his
talk was more babies. On a salary of fifty
thousand dollars & year the baby question
may not prove so serious, but from the
standpoins of the man who is working for
one dollar and a half a day, and only half-
time at that—the stork is not the most wel-
come bird that flies.
—It is a great deal easier to make a panio
than to recoup from the effects of one.
That is the reason that the business{inter-
ests of the country are dormant and
likely to remain so for the greater part of
this year. All forms of fever are the same
in their effects and the financial fever that
reached its orisis last October will require
a long period of convalescence before it
leaves the industrial system entirely.
—The Isthmian canal 18 to cost us three
bundred million dollars and the expert
engineer who was first in charge of the gov-
ernment work there has jost published a
statement in which he shows that neither
commercially nor strategically will it bea
very great bevefit to this country. In ad-
dition to this rather pessimistic view he
says it will be thirty-six years after the
completion of the canal before it will be
earning two per cent on the investment.
—Did it ever occur to you that the
manufacturers of cutlery have overlooked
an opportunity to place a novelty on the
market in which there might be millions.
How really sensible and practical it wonld
be for them to manufacture a small shovel
to go along with the knife and fork. This
would be a great utensil for the fellow who
can’t pile enough food on his fork as well
as relieve the many who shovel in with
their knives of the constant danger of out.
ting the corners of their months.
—It, as it is ramored, there is a disposi-
tion to pave Allegheny street, from PAR-
RISH'S drug store to Bishop street, why
would it not be well for the street commist-
tee of council to apply AT ONCE for a eec-
tion of state road extending from the new
road near MoCoy's, through the borough
to the east Bishop street line. This would
save at least one-third of the costof pav-
ing, for when passing through boroughs with
state road the State has signified its willing-
ness to pave instead of laying macadam.
—The first of April is drawing near and
there are still many sabsoribers on our liss
who have made no arrangement for having
their paper continued alter that date. The
policy of the publisher ‘has always been to
treat everyone fajrly and courteously so if
it don’t suit those who are in arrears to
pay all of the bill in cash at this time some
satisfactory arrangement can be made.
Come in, or write, do the best yon can if
your subsoription is more than a, year back
and we feel sure some adjustment .can be,
made that will inure you Ehe paper 'as
well as ‘compl, with the raling of the' Pst.
office Department Le.
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VOL. 53
Bogus lavestiganilon Indicated.
The language of the resolution submitted | 4 tke him. TAFT would probably like |.
to the House of Representatives by JOHN | 5 appear independent hus he anderstands | b
DALZELL, on behalf of the Committee on
Rales of that body lass Friday, refeals the
sinister purpose of she Republican leaders.
The palpable intention of the author of the
resolution was not to investigate the boat
company of New Jersey, against which
charges bad heen made by Representative
LILLY, of Conoecticat, but to warn all
members of Congress that exposares and
investigations are unpopular aud those, who
have the temerity press them will suffer
in sheir legislative estates. Asa matter of
fact the resolution and she report accom-
pauying it are susceptible of no other in-
terpretation,
“Whereas” the resolution states
“Mr. GEORGE L LILLY, a Representative
from the State of Connections, on bis re-
sponsibility as a member of this House,
before the Committee on Rules, has among
other things, stated in sabstance that the
Electric Boat company, of New Jersey, and
their predecessors, the Holland Boat com-
pany, have been engaged in efforts to exert
corrupting inflaences on certain members of
Congress in their legislative capacities, and
bave, in fact, exersed such corrupting in-
flaence.’’ It will be noticed thas the note
of disapproval is against Mr. LILLY rather
thao the culpable corporation and to em-
phasize the reprobation of Mr. LILLY he
was not named as a member of the com-
mistee to investigate.
It is small wonder that Mr. LILLY is
discouraged over the outlook for the in-
vestigation. ‘‘He declares that he is beaten
at the stars,’’ according to the Washington
correspondent of a Philadelphia contem-
porary, ‘‘and the whitewash for the Eleotrio
Boat company has already been prepared.’
That is undoubtedly true. The Republican
managers understand that a successful in-
vestigation on the eve of the presidential
election would be fatal to the party and the
plan is to prevent it. According to all
parliamentary precedents LILLY shonld
have been made obairmao of she commis:
tee to investigate. But it was known that
he would investigate in earnest and he
was left off the committee.
The Republican Legisintive Struggle,
The WATCHMAN has learned from a
semi-authoritative source that all efforts to
persuade the Hon. Wx. M. ALLISON, of
Spring Mills, to become an aspirant for the
Republican nomination for Legislature
have failed. That gentleman finds his busi.
ness engagements $00 pressing to enter the
political field at thie time, though two years
hence, it wight be possible that he will
enter the contest for Congress. The effort
to draw Mr. ALLISON into the legislative
fight was designed to oripple the candidacy
of BERT TAYLOR, who seems to be ranuing
right away with the Republican nomina-
tion, much to the discomfit of the party
leaders who have had reason to question
BERT'S regularity in past campaigus.
The failare to make a stalking horse of
Mr. ALLISON leaves Messrs. FOSTER,
FisHER and EVEY as the only opponents
of the Bellefonte candidate. Of this trio
Mr. Foster is probably she stronger,
thoagh it is a question as to whether, if all
shonld unite on him, he will be strong
enough to overcome the powerlal organizs-
tion that is building up back of TAYLOR'S
candidacy. There was some talk of trying
toget Mr. C. P. LoNG, the well known
Spring Mills merchant, to enter the con-
test, bat if it ever amounted to more than
talk the situation evidently didn’t appeal
to Mr. LoNGg. He has been ous of politics
for some years past, attending striotly to
business, with the result that having found
bis way onto ‘‘Easy Street’’ the political
game is not as attraciive as is once was to
him. We would not be surprised, bhow-
ever, to hear of Mr. LONG'S getting back
into the harness within a very few years
because, as you all know, politics is bard to
drop once a taste for it bas been cultivated.
Whatever the catoome of she straggle is
is a Republican mess, not ours. It is
amusing to witness how completely a man
whom the moss of them don’s want domi-
nates the situation.
Taft Admits His Servility.
Some friend of Secretary TAFT having
recently etated that in the event of his
election to the Presidency he would be
independent of ROOSEVELT and other
malign influences, the Secretary of War
promptly repudiates the statement. He
will not be independent of RONSEVELT, he
declares. The ROOSEVELT policies will be
his policies and they will be administrated
under the ROOSEVELT supervision. This
is a startling announcements, bat there was
reason for it. , It was a precantionary
measure adopted to keep ROOSEVELT in
line for TAFT.
When the so called predatory trust mag-
nates were threatening to organize a’ for-
midable opposition go TAFT the President
notified them in ont terms, ‘‘you’ll have
to take TAFT or and the projedt melt-
ed like snow und@a mid-summer sun.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 13, 1908.
i
| They don’t want ROOSEVELT and yet they |
| know if be says the word they will have
that if he so declares himself ROOSEVELT |
| will demaud the nomination for himself |
| and get it. ROOSEVELT hay them all no- |
der a stafe of terror.
This is the results of a servility to power |
that is increasing with frighsfal rapidisy.
At no other period in the history of the
government could a President force the
selection of his own choice on his paity.
the selection of a Governor of New York
and brought disaster to himsell and his
| party. Buk ROOSEVELT waves the big |
stick as the wand of a magician and every-
body obeys. It i«a sign of the coming of
of the end.
Pennypacker and the Capitol Graft.
Governor PENNYPACKER by Lyman D.
GILBERT, counsel for former Auditor Gen-
eral SNYDER in the graft oase at Harris.
burg, last week, is exciting a gond deal of
speculative comment. ‘No one has a right
| to challenge his integrity and never bas
there been an attempt to do so,”’ he said,
and added, ‘‘he was the Governor and he
had been a judge. ‘‘He makes or appoints
judges to declare the law. He is the source
and spring of the vast power which is ecall-
ed the power of governmens, * * * ¥
You've seen him aod you've heard him
talk, and there is no man more tenacious
io his opinions, more self contained, more
self-reliant than Governor PENNYPACKER.
He is one of the most honest, fearless men
in the State.”
To the average mind which bas followed
the affairs of this Commonwealth since
PENNYPACKER wrote his marvelous enlogy
of QUAY, extoling him as the superior of
WessTeER and CLAY, this falsome praise
appears like madness. Bat it is she mad-
ness which is regulated by method. The
plain purpose of it was to show what the
WATCHMAN has repeatedly asserted, thas
PENNYPACKER was the real oulprit aod
that Auditor General SNYDER and State
Treasurer MATHUES were influenced by his
legal interpretation to violate the law.
SNYDER was nota lawyer and might easily
have heen deceived hy the reputation of
PENNYPACKER for legal learning and per-
sonal integrity. MATHUES badn’t that ex-
ouse but is is not improbable that he, too,
was deceived by PENNYPACKER.
The inference to be drawn from this in-
cident is that PENNYPACKER ought to
have been indioted with the others. Obvi-
ously he was the principal er. It
may be that his office shields him from the
legal consequences of his wmisfeasance, but
he ought to have been included in she in-
dictmens, nevertheless, and thas been pus
upon she necessity of exculpating himself.
In that event Mr. GILBERT would have
been estopped from putting the ‘responsi-
bility of the crimes of SNYDER aud MATH- |
immune. Not a dollar of the graft could
bave been taken if he bad been faithful to.
his obligations. Not a shadow of she
scandal could have been possible without
bis acquiessenoe. Therefore the language
of Mr. GILBERT is pertinent.
The Coming Congressional Election.
Two years ago the Democrats of Peonayl--
vania elected seven out of the thirty-two
Pepresentatives in Congress which compose
the delegation. That was a gain of six over
the previous election of Congressmen and
was a rather gratilyiog result under the
circumstances. The country was prosperous
beyond measure. The people were, gen-
erally speaking, contented. The only
cloud on the Republican horizon was the
capitol graft scandal and that was denied
with such earnestness and unanimity, thas
the voters were deceived. Vast numbers
were mad: believe that the party had been
maligned apd voted the ticket out of re-
sentment.
This year the party ought to hold every
district won two years ago and add four to
the total number. The districts have been
unfairly formed with the view of giving
advantage to the Republicans, but even
with that a dozen ont of the total is only
a fair proportion for the minority party
and under present conditions the Demoo-
racy ought to get what is coming to it. The
laboring men of the State can hardly he
deceived again into the delusion that ex-
cessive tariff schedules guarantee indastri-
al activity. The issue this year ought to
be on the level.
Two years ago WiLniaM B. WiLson
carried one of the strongest Republican
distriots in the State and Georar W. Kirp
was eleoted in another. Boih these gentle-
men made their fights on individaal merit
and industry. Both have ‘‘made good’ in
and will stand for re-election,
with the chances, according to present in-
dications, vastly in their favor. Equally
candidates and equally energetic
effort will give us five more distriots at the
coming election and the mi 0"
should see in time that the nities
are not wasted by the selfish ambitions of
The wonderfnl panegyric pronounced on |
UES upon his shoulders which appear to be.
| of their favorites.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Causes of the Panic.
The labored effors to deceive the publio
to the belief that commercial prosperity
as been restored, is not meeting with
success. The facts are too palpable.
Traveling «alesmen make a different report.
They find business growing worse instead
| of better. Merchants in the country are
afraid to bay with their customary free-
| dom. They apprehend that the day of
reckoning may find them with heavy
| stocks and low bank balances, and to em-
. | ploy the language of oue of the ‘‘commer-
| President ARTHUR attempted to dictate | y ag
cial tourists,” they ‘‘order only what they
have to have.” Manulaoturing establish.
ments are idle because there is no demand
for their products and the railroads bave
| unemployed motive power because mer-
| chants and manufacturers are cautious.
that dread period ‘when wealth aconmau- |
lates and men decay.” It is the beginning | i, uo sontinuance as in its beginning.
! Previous panios have had natural causes.
In this respect this panic is as unusual
Failure of crops has hitherto been the in-
flaencing reason for panies. With meagre
reward for their labor farmers are unable
to renew machinery and implements and
industrial paraiysis follows, for after all
agrionlsare is the principal source of wealth
in this country. But this panic came on
the heels of a phenomenally abundant
barvess. It broke into the midat of an
extraordinary period of industrial activity.
As Senator BAILEY, of Texas, declared the
other day in a speech, it may bave been in
part the result of over extension of bank
oredits or is may have been the too free
ase of the President's tongue. Bat it
came and still remains.
It is probably right to strengthen credit
by hopeful opinions but it isa not right to
deceive she pablio by misrepresenting the
facts, and shat is what a good many news-
papers are doing. As a matter of fact the
indastrial life of the country is at a very
low ebband it may be predicted that it
will continue to suffer as long as the peo-
ple are burdened to feed a profligate gov.
ernment. The country is rich in products
and almost illimitable in resources. But
18 is not rich enough to endure she robbery
of a billion dollars a year from its earnings.
That is what is bas been doing for nearly
a dozen years and the panic is simply the
sige of exhaustion. No matter what finan-
vial Bystem is in operation such economic
folly will bring commercial distress and
the remedy is in change of policies.
Chandler Admonishes Taft.
Former United States Senator WILLIAM
E. CHANDLER, of New Hampshire, is in
print with an admonition whioh the friends
of Secretary of War TAFT would do weil
to head. He is in favor of the ROOSEVELT
policies, he declares, and bas no personal
objections to Mr. TAFT. ‘But I am in-
digonaat,”” he continues with the methods
which are being used in bis behalf, ‘‘and
defeat as the polls if they are nos
wr Ido not believe,” he adds, ‘‘that
a caudidate forced upon the party by the
existing lederal office holders, big and little
- the controlling influence, will be eleot-
ed.” .
In this view Mr. CHANDLER is absolute-
‘ly right. The American people will not
stand for the domination of officialdom.
Pablic officers have the same right as other
citizens to the exercise of the privileges of
citizenship, bus they have no right to use
| the patronage of the government to either
bribe or coerce the people into the support
It is a oriminal misuse
of power and a patriotic people will resent
it. Isis a perversion of authority which
must lead to the demoralization of the
public service of the country and that is
the certain and swift course to the destruc
tion of the government.
Yet the TAFT people are doing such
things. From the President down they are
employing malign agencies to get delegates
for TAFT by fair means or foul. In the
South they are dragooning negroes and
mortaging the offidés for years ahead. In
fact they are resorting to all the expedients
known to political chicanery in order to get
a majority of the delegates for TAFT and
are not making much progress at thas. The
South will appear in the convention with
contesting delegations sufficiently strong to
prevent the nomination dn the first ballot
and as the orgavization is unfriendly the
committee on contested seats will do things
that may be surprising.
—— While the WATCHMAN as a rule
never extolls the virtare of any candidate
for the nomination for an office until after
such nomination is made on the - grounds
that every man should fight his own fight
within the party, yet we call the attention
of WATCAMAN readers and 8 in
ER'S idaoy for Congress, and so, be-
speak for him the moss liberal support of
every Demoorat in she county. Mr.
Mi ER Ao
whole congress id_he only
consented to tot the nom atte
repeated urging to do so in order fo fill cut
the ticket. He is a young lawyer who has |
already displayed considerable “ability and
is hous] sgshes of Jatee to Sout ifile so.
y to the front. He has riken to
) in | pei " mainly.
th ‘hi own vim ard persev Ane e and
‘unfit men. The primaries are approaching
and that is the time to aos. “
» » -
Bh
Pe
where he stands
he is deserving of loyal’ support. *
general 10 the tact of W. HARRISON WALK- | stand
NO. 11.
Will Teddy Keep His Hands Of.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The news from the Orient suggests that
it is about time for our war-like presiden-
tial promoter of peace to get busy. Having
won the Nobel peace prize by his activities
in bringing Russia aud Japan together in
the negotiation of the treaty of Portsmouth,
when they had both foughs to a stand still
and neither wanted to ory ‘‘enoogh,’’ our
master of the hig stick suddenly found
himsel! acoredited with rare and undreamt-
of powers of pacification.
And why not? His idea has ever been
that hoth the dogs of war and the dove of
peace may be best managed by treading
softly and carrying the big stick. He has
the biggest sort of a stick at command just
now in the naval force now in the Pacific.
Almost the whole of our navy is now in
that ocean, and the main strength of it is
on or near our own Pacific coast and wish-
in effective reach of the Far East. Not
only the great fleet of battleships, soon to
arrive at Magdalena Bay, Lower Calilor-
uia, bat also a powerful flees of eight swift
and new armored cruisers aod three other
good battieships are there available, while
a dozen destroyers and half as many oruis-
ers are to join in the projected San Fran-
cisco naval demonstration.
It is true that we, as a people, are not
hunting trouble, and that the president
himsell, in asking for naval and military
appropriations, has admitted that we are
Bok ruady for is, Bub ip this naval foroe he
all the materials for a very picturesque
bluff of belligereney, and it would be quite
in character if he should make it; warning
Japan that if she does not deal gently with
China, we may mix in. Let us hope that
the bluff, it made, will nos be called.
Plummer and Penrose.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The revolt of J. Lee Plummer, of Blair
county, against Senator Penrose is signifi-
cant as an indication of what is going on
in this State. It may be taken for granted
that Plummer would not have cus loose
from the Penrose Machine and ses up for
himself as an independent candidate for the
Legislature had he not witnessed the evi-
dences of a reaction against Machine rule
not only in Blair county, but throughous
the Commonwealth. In the feeling shat ie
aroused against Penrose among the Repub-
lican masses of Pennsylvania be can be re-
turned to the Senate only by gross betrayal
of the constituencies.
To prevent this there shonld be a
thorough organization against the Machine
in every county in whioh is is attempting
to send its tools to the Legislatare. The
work of fortifying the Osganization has
been begun already in Chester by
Larry Eyre and his confederates, “
pose to give the opponents of Penrose one
member and take the other three. Bat
they intend in fact to take all four, as the
odd member will go into caucus to vote
againet Penrose and obey the caucus decree
should is he in his favor. In Philadelphia
it may be possible, with energetic organiza-
tion of the City Party and the other ele-
ments of opposition, to snatoh at least a
dozen mem from Penrose. Bot with-
out such organization and effort the pros-
peos is that there will be no break in the
ranks of the legislative bandisti from this
city. Apart from the question of Senator
Penrose’s re-election, Philadelphia owes it
to her own honor not to inflict such &
scourge upon th: rest of the State.
Johnson in the Field,
From the Hartford Times,
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, bas
made is olear that he is no factinnist, but
his friends in Minnesota, acting, it must he
assumed, with his consent, have also made
it clear that they propose to stand up in
the Denver convention and be counted for
him, and against any other candidate.
This action of the Minnesota Demooratio
committee in declaring by a large majority
in favor of presenting she Governor's name
at Denver was taken in defiance of rather
violent objections on she pars of the agents
and su ters of W. J. Bryan. This ac-
tion will give satisfaction to the Demoorats
in other States who do not wish to see the
Populists ran off with the Demooratic or-
ganization for a third time. It is quite
possible that two-thirds of the Demooratio
delegates from New Eogland will vote for
the Minnesota man when the balloting
begins in the Denver convention. The vote
of New York and Pennsylvania will be
oast in the same way.
It now some of the Southern Democrats
who are tired and sick of Populism will go
to the convention and vote their real senti-
ments, more than ove third of the whole
number of delegates will be opposed to the
pomination of Bryan, and it cannot he ac-
complished. It is at the present time far
from being certain that the Democratic
campaign of 1908 is to be a repetition of the
campaigns of 1896 and 1900.
A Musleading Promise.
From the Pittsburg Sun.
Until compelled by the rising tide of
blio indignation at the failare of the
blican party to give any heed to'ita
oft-repeated promises to reform the tariff
Roosevelt was once a revisionist. lar
tradition accepts as a fact that there slum.
bers somewhere in the White House ar-
chives a presidential message on this very
topic that was never sent. What accom-
plished the difficult feat of smothering
this olarion call until all but its attempt
was lostoan only be conjectured. Bat
smothered it was, and all other efforts
likewise until sow, by the mighe ® We
patters, who are postponing to
them ) day of reckoning, to a special ses-
sion after the next regular session, thus
putting the matter up toa new h
The oheief interest to the country in the
situation lies in this : The men who are
making the promises are making them not’
for themselves, but for others, over whom
they may not have control, and for whom
they oertainly have no warrant to speak.
The promise, legally, morally and any
other way, is absolutely valueless and
therefore can be made only to deceive and
by the men and’ the parey which have al.
ready violated their pledges in this regard.
Ja
there was no specific date set. Theodore |
A —————— ee —
Spawlis from the Keystone.
—Bright new counterfeit silver half dol-
lars, dated 1907, which were extensively cir-
culated in Pittsburg a week ago, have now
put in an appearance at Indiana.
~The Harbison-Walker brick plant at
Mount Union, Huntingdon county, is claim-
ed to be the largest in the world of its kind,
having a capacity for daily output of from
150,000 to 180,000.
—8Seven Points, in the lower end of Nor-
thumberland county, is excited over a gold
find in that vicinity. Gold was discovered
at a depth of ten feet below the surface, at
twenty feet silver was found.
~The Farmers’ league, of Lancaster coun ~
ty, has sent an appeal to the unemployed to
seek work on the farms in the state. Ap-
peals were addressed to the bureau of labor
and immigration at Washington.
—Ncarly a million tons of ice from twelve
to sixteen inches thick and very solid and
clear, are stored in the various great ice
houses in the Pocono mountains, Monroe
county, to supply the Philadelphia and New
York markets.
—Lieutenant Charles Fenerstein, who has
command of troop B, of the State constabu-
lary stationed at Wyoming, is urging the
purchase of a high power automobile for the
use of the foree. During last year the troop-
ers traveled 136,383 miles and made 1,905 ar-
rests,
—H. 8. Corhey, Greenshurg’s veteran un-
dertaker, who has been in business fifty-four
years, has during that time buried 8,064
corpses. He is in his seventy-second year
and is still the active head of the establish-
ment in which his five sons are associated
with him.
—Miss Stewart, the treasurer of the Mer-
cer hospital, who refused to allow the books
of the institution to be audited, has been
given time until March 14th, by Auditor
General Young, to produce them at the cap-
itol, and if she persists in refusing she will
be sent to jail,
~The rumors afloat for some time that the
plants of the Pressed Steel Car company at
McKees Rocks, and Northside, Pittsburg,
employing several thousand men would be
closed indefinitely, were officially denied on
Saturday, there being no intention to close
them even temporarily.
—0On account of the prevalence of diphthe-
ria in Conemaugh the board of health has
decided to have all the schools, churches and
nickelodeoms closed, so as to prevent, if pos-
sible, a further spreading of the disease
Twelve bomes are now quarantined and
there were two deaths since Wednesday.
~The Saxton Vitrified Brick company, of
Saxton, Bedford county, a few days ago
closed a contract with the Richmond Clay
Product company, of Reading, to farnish a
million or more paving brick this year. The
contract really is good for all the paving
brick the works can turn out in the year,
even if the output be five million.
~On Friday night two colored men stole
about 400 chickens from the hennery of Mrs.
Margaret White near Bryn Mawr, Montgom-
ery couuty. Thomas White, a son, came
home from the town as they were loading
them on their wagon, snd when they were
questi about it they said they had
bought them from his mother, so they were
allowed to continue their thieving.
~As a result of evidence given by Law
and Order Society men frem Philadelphia
the licenses of thirty-six saloons in Wil-
linmsport have been held up so that each
one could be determined by the court. The
detectives testified that in all they found
gambling machines, women were being given
drinks in some of them, and that liquors
were sold to men visibly intoxicated.
—Last Monday A. G. Beck who is head
sawyer on the Bickford mill, at Mill Hall,
while driving to his home at Tylersville,
spied three deer on the road between Lamar
Gap and Cherry Ran. The pretty animals
had been to the creek to drink and as Mr.
Beck drove up, they came up on the road
and trotted along in front of his team for a
distance of forty or fifty rods when they
took to the mountain.
—Mrs. Sylvester Laper, 50 years old, cre-
mated herself in the barn of William Hill,
near Cochranton, Monday. Itis believed
that che was mentally deranged. She went
into the barn alone, started a fire, and,
screaming wildly, she dashed into and out
of the flames until she fell dead. Two
horses, several hogs and a quantity of grain
and farming implements, as well as the
building, were burned.
~—John Bender, a farmer of Reedsville,
Mifflin county, was killed Monday afternoon
at 5:30 o'clock by the barn on his farm col-
Japsing by the weight of the snow which
had collected on the roof of the bnilding.
The barn was an old land-mark, having
stood for the past fifty years. Mr. Bender
was feeding tue cattle at the time the struc-
ture fell. He was living yot when taken
out of the wreckage, but died a short time
afterwards.
—Forty-seven prisoners were taken to
jail at Greensburg at one time early Friday
morning by a posse of railroad officers who
rounded them up in coke ovens and camps
in and about Loyalhanna and Bradenville,
For weeks numerous cars containing mere
chandise shipped to merchants in Latrobe,
Greensburg and intermediate points have
been forced open and great quantities of
stuff’ stolen, which led to their arrest. They
were tramps of different nationalities.
—8Several residents of Blairsville are re-
ported to have been victimized by sharpers
recently. Frank Christian, who recently
embarked in the wholesale grocery business
to get the Italian trade, gave an order to a
traveling salesman for $500 worth of goods,
paying $250 in cash and giving his note for
the balance. A few days ago he received no-
tice from a New York distillery company
saying they held bis order for fifteen barrels
of whiskey and as soon as he makes pay-
ment of the note the whiskey will be ship
ped. Christian says he ordered ne whiskey,
‘and has sent an attorney to New York to in-
vestigate the matter. A farmer named Clark
Dunlap was approached by a stranger who
said he had an $30 buggy at Derry that
he would sell for $40, aud, also a lot of gro
ceries that;he would seil for $10, away under
value. The farmer bit and in turn was bit-
tet, as he'is unable to locate buggy or gro-
cerids. ' Two'other farmers were done upon
foed propositions. © ’
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