i
~The loo
to have a little more attraction for the pub-
lie as the fall days approach.
~The rain on Tuesday was not sent by
Mr. Tarr, st least bis newspapers bave
not as yet laid claim to the timely shower.
Please stop, Mi. TAFT, eloe we'll bave
the painfal duty of calling togesher our
vigilance committee to keep you off our
platform. 3 8 {
—A" g paver is of the opinion
that councilmen merit the
best.” Perbaps they do and perhaps they
don’t, but they bave a rep. for getting the
best all the same. . 3
—New York is fegturing a baby born
without a hrain. Why se proud of sucha
calamity. And this is not the original, for
Newport is fall of grown oves that
~—It is said that woman's suffrage tends
to inorease insabity. From our view point
this ie putting she cart before the bore.
Insanity really tends to inerease the strag-
gle for. woman's suffrage.
—An Atlanta paper is of the opinion
that candidate “KERN'S whiskers will
gow on the public.” Taking the predio-
literally we wounldo’t object to having
some of them grow on our head.
~The young New York bank clerk who
committed suicide because two checks for
twenty dollars each were presented against
him in a bank in which be had no account
had evidently not read of the career of a
certain BILLY MOMTGOMERY, of Pittsburg.
—An investigation of the Boston Trao-
tion Co., has resulted in the announcement
that there is not a drop of water in its
stock. This may be reassuring to the
stockholdert provided they were not in
possession of the stock when the water was
eqaeezed out of it.
— Mayor REYBURN is ont in an interview
stating that the ‘‘Staudard Oil Co. is the
greatest institution in the world.” Of
course it is. Nobody ever tried to con-
tradiot it, but the trouble is that it is so
great that ite front feet take up all the
room there is in the trough.
~The Madisonburg couple who failed in
their elopement plans after walking twen-
ty-five miles deserved to succeed. Love's
young dream has been responsible for
many pranks hot walking twenty-five
miles through the hot sun-shine of a hot
July dag most have been an experience
~that-would wear poor little Capid almost to
a frazzle.
—BRYAN'S speech of acceptance is to he
only half as long as TaFr's. Ths is
simply in conformity with conditions. Mr.
BRYAN has no legislative failures and
broken party promises to cover ap or ex-
plain away, consequently all he will have
to say will be to the point, terse and truth-
fal. His pledges will be kept and his pre-
dictions fulfilled, else we very greatly mis-
judge the temper of the American people
at this time.
—Keeping the lid down at Atlantic City
seems to hea job not to the liking of the
officials of that cosmopolitan resort. As
for selling lignor on Sunday the councils,
policemen, sheriff and jndge say it is done
and that they won't and can't stop it, be.
cause the people want the lignor and they
want their jobs, so there you are. And
they told the Jersey Excise Commission so.
We must at least give them oredit for a
measure of honesty.
—The name of Dr. LAWRENCE FLICK
ehould be revered in Pennsylvania. From
what was at first proclaimed a hair-brained
theory has grown a crusade against the
white plague that resulted in restoring to
health over five thousand tzbercaular vie-
tims in this State last year. Dr. Frick
aud White Haven are names that will ever
be indissolubly associated with the bappi-
ness aod sunshine that reigns in homes
today that would otherwise bave heen
o'ercast with gloom.
—It is time to begin to think about
county politics now and the thing you
must think about most is the candidate for
Legislature. While we can’s see how there
is anything else for a self respecting man
to do than vote for MEYER it might as well
be ad mitted right in the beginning of the
fight that TAYLOR is a dangerous element.
He is slick as a greased cat and can be de-
pended on to work any nefarious scheme
that is known to orooked politics to pull
himself through. Mr. MEYER will not re-
sort to such practices, consequently it be-
Looves all good citizens to be on their
guard against a possibility of having this
county misrepresented in the next Legis-
lature.
—The fate of Count Zeppelin's dirigible
airship, just at the moment of victory, is
likely to be the serious obstacle in the way
of successful aerial navigation. After be.
ing in the air for more than twenty-four
hours the ship was struck by lightning and
a'life-time of work and a fortune in money
were burned upin a twinkling. The fate
of this ship is the result of a perfectly
natural condition which the soience of
man will never be able to overcome, hence
the constant element of uncertainty in the
usefulness of airships and aero-planes as a
means of transit. With this feature in
mind there seems to be about as much
practical use perfacting them as there is in
bunting for the north pole,
es
‘| committee of the convention, without in-
vestigation or evidence againet them, threw |
county was clearly right in voting down a
resolution ‘‘so recognize JaMes KERR as
the vational committeeman from Pennsyl-
vania.” Mr R was never legally
tee. At Denver te delegates to the Demo.
manner after the usual notice and
‘elected Colonel Janes M. GUPPEY as the
Representative of the State on the national
committees. Subsequently the credentials
the universal primary had been
by tbe Secretary of the Commonwealth,
aod substivuted eight others, who may or
may not have been voted for at the pri-
maries. After that outrage against the
fundamental principle of popular govern.
ment, the remrant of the delegation which
voted for Mr. KERR at the first meeting,
supplemented by the eight who bad been
‘‘ostapulted’’ into the convention met,
without giving notice to the real delegates,
and elected Mr. Kerk. The national com-
mittee has seen fit to ratify this crime
against Democracy but the Democratic
State orgavization properly repudiated it
at the meeting of the State committee held
at Harrisharg Jaly 220d.
The effort to force Mr. KERR on the
Pennsylvania Democracy is superinduced
| disadvantage, be proceeds to the
PAE GREET 3 £ RE >
or what is the matter that he don’t try to
get a livile glory in that direction ? |
The President bas finally yielded to the
importunities of she friends of the cadets
who had been dismissed, from West Point
for bazing and has directed that they be
reinstated. At fires he was very determin.
ed on she subject and approved the finding
of the cours before th: Secretary of War
bad seen it, which was uoasnal. Bat
when the powerful frieuds of the young
men got hasy it was all off with Roose:
VELT. He conldu’t resist the force which
was brought against him. Every ove of the
lads bad iuflaential backers aud when they
came all together, they were too much and
too strong. There i# no use trying to turn
back the current of Niagara.
We cav imagine no offense as inexous-
able as hazing. It is the cowardly asser- :
tion of power against the weak. The aver-
age hazer would ron like a squirrel il he |
bappened to meet his viotim oo a fair field
under equal conditions. Bat because he
is supported by a Jot of other cowards
and bas bis antagonist at every conceivable |
refine:
ment of cruelty and perpetrates crimes |
which wonld make a savage ashawed of
himself. The case in point was an aggra-
hy a desire to demoralize and disrupt the
Democratic party of the State. In the case
in point the sponser for the movement was
former Representative in she Legislature,
CHARLES B. 8raTZ, who in the session of
1899 was known as a QUAY Democrat aod
bad to be seen at regular intervals to re-
rain from voting for motions and measures
calculated to destroy the Democratic or-
ganization and promote the election of
| Quay. His secret affiliation with the
QUAY interests were notorious at the time
and cost some ona a good deal of
money. Now be is probably working in
the same interest for the henefit of Senator
PexROfE. The Republican machine ander-
stands that with a united and virile Demoo-
racy and ao earnest reform element in the
Republican party the election of PENROSE
at the coming session of the Legislature can
be prevented as the election of QUAY wae
prevented in 1599. Bat SPATZ wants
PENROSE to win now, probably, as he
wanted QUAY to win on the. other occasion
and his mischievous motion in the Berks
county Democratic committee to recognize
Mr. KERR as the member of she national
committee for Peunsylvania was made to
promote that treacherous purpose,
The Democrats of Pennsylvania as repre.
sented in the party organization will ex-
baust every available expedient to get out
the full party vote for the Democratic can-
didates for national, state and conuty can-
didates. The leaders of the organization
have been unselfish aud liberal in the past
and are ready and anxious to continue
their taithfal efforts for the party. Their
ambition is to poll the largest vote for
BRYAN and KERN that has ever heen cast
for Democratic candidates. But they are
being bampered by mercenaries at every
step. One newspaper which had to be
bribed to support Mr. BERRY in 1905, is
particularly aetive in this nefarions work
and though Colonel GUFFEY supplied the
bulk of the money to pay for its services,
it is particularly venomous against him.
Men like SPATZ, of Berks county, are will
ing aide iu shies work of treachery and they
may somewhat impair the efficiency of the
Democratic organization. Bot they will
never eucoeed in stultifying the Democracy
by approving recreanoy and the sooner the
effort io this direction is stoppedjthe bet-
ter. Jo this connection it may become
necessary to zame names in the near futare
and if it comes to that some masks will fall
which will reveal unexpected faces behind
them.
a —
A ForgottenjSubject.
plastering himselt all over with glory
ba dges, for having paid out to the school
districts of the State a goodly portion of
the funds due them for the current year
and in voluble interviews is taking no
little oredit for the fact that the Allegheny
Nationa! bank announces that it will be
able to return the ball million dollars of
state deposits that was thought to be in
Jeopardy when the bank closed last spring.
In what way Mr. SHEATZ did anything to
increase the value of the collateral held by
the bank, and apon which increase is based
the assumption that the bank will eventu.
ally be able to pay out, his interview saith
not. He takes the credit, however, to him-
sell and the public is left to amuse itself
hy figaring out the how of it.
There is one thing, however, that Mr. 8.
has either forgotten or don’t seem inclined
to be interviewed about and that is his
effort to recover to the Treasury some part
of that eight million capitol steul thas his
friends got away with just prior to bis
election. His predecessor, Mr. Berry,
caught the rascalsand convicted some of
them but we don’t see that SHEATZ bas
State Treasurer SHEATZ is juss now |
vated one, moreover, even a+ such things
go. One would have thought that Roosg-
| vELT woald have been outraged hy it be- |
| yond the possibility of condonation. If
the perpetrators had been poor, he would
bave been. But they represented riob and
| inflaential families and ROOSEVELT stulti-
fies himself by reversing his own order in
their interest.
As a matter of fact ROOSEVELT'S moral
fibre won’t stand investigation, He isa
fraud and false pretense. He will engage
iu corrapt political commerce with the
most hardened grafter iu the country and
the moment he emerges from the dirty en-
vironment he will go pratiog ahont integ-
rity and hooor. At present he is held in
high esteem by men who think little and
understand less but after his administra
tion has passed into History and” come
under the seratiny of impartial and capa-
ble critios, the record of his public service
will be regarded with shame and referred to
with bamiliation. He leaves nothing in
that line to he proud of,
Chairman Hitchcock's False Hopes,
The fact has developed that chairman
HitcHcocK of the Republican national
committee hopes to prevent the success of
BRYAN electors in Georgia and North
Carolina and will make an effort to produ
a cimilar condition in Maryland and Ken-
tucky. He reasons that if he conld carry
those four States the votes of Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas and Minnesota “‘vever wonld be
missed” hy the Republicans, and all of
those States are practically certain to vote
for BRYAN. But HITCHCOCK'S expecta.
tions will be disappointed. Georgia is as
certain for BRYAN as Texas and North Car-
olina ie as safe as Mississippi.
The HITCHCOCK hopes are based upon
the HEARST movement. HEARST has
andertaken, for a consideration of some
kind, to divide the Democracy of Georgia.
The nomination of Tom WATSON by the
Popalists has made some difference down
there, for in spite of appearances, there are
many people down there who believe him
to be both capable and honest. Bat it was
felt hoth by WarsoN and the Republican
managers that the Watson deflection |
would not be sufficient so that HEARST was |
induced to nominate JOHN TEMPLE
GRAVES as the vice presidential candidate
of his personal gang of pirates. Singularly
| enough GRAVES has some personal follow-
! ing also, in Georgia, though when be ran
| for the gubernatorial nomination he was
| nearly ‘‘skuoked.””
There is as little danger of North Car-
! olina, Maryland or Kentucky going wrong
| in this election, moreover. North Corolina
was carried by a fusion between the Popu-
lists and discontented Demoorats a dozen
year ago, but that was for the reason shat
the regular Democrats had repudiated the
Demooratio ticket. There is no such in-
centive to the opposition this year, how-
ever. The Democrats are not only united
but enthusiastic in their support of BRYAN
and KERN and their majority will be up
to the average, notwithstanding the per-
sonal popularity of WATSON and GRAVES.
This is a Democratic year and the oppor-
tunity will not be wasted.
—=It is not a bit too early for Demoorate
to begin thinking about the matter of be-
ing registered. Thia year the last day todo
#0 in the country will be Wedoesday, Sept.
20d. It is so much easier to vote when
your name is upon the list all right than
to have to fill out papers, bunt witnesses
and qualify that you are a citizen as you
are compelled to do when not registered
that we wonder that anyones attention
should have to be called to the necessity
of being registered. This is one thing that
every citizen should be interested in for
his own satisfaction.
A ———— ——
spawls from the Keystone.
m——
—William Beérkéy, of Cuernarvon towi-
[| |4bip; Lancaster conuty, bas threshed four
idge TAFT appears to be trying to beat
ses® DEBS in ceusuring she courts. In
an interview given ont at Hot Springs,
Virginia, she other day, he declared thas
‘‘she greatest question now before the
American pablic is the improvement of
the administration of justice.” In other
words the Republican candidate for Presi-
dent endorses the Demooratio platform and
repudiates the platform of his own party
ou the question of the courts. The press
of his party bas been very indignant about
the Democratic attack upon the courts and
some Republican lawyers bave tried bard
to create a feeling of indignation on the
subject. Bat TAPT repadiates them and
joive in the ory.
Of course Judge TAPT is moved to this
change of heart hy the exigencies of poli-
tics. He bas discovered since his nomioa-
tion that a vast wajority of the people
believe in the partiality to rich litigants if
not the actual venality of a large number
' of Jndges. Evidence on this point has been
wultiplying and comuolating. But the
managers of the Republican party, mostly
beneficiaries of the judicial infirmities,
| refused to condemn the evil, and discover-
tog that the failure is working injury to
his political prospects, he stultifies his
party aod himself by attacking the courts
| io av interview. Hin criticism is altogether
just and equally contemptible for it is
insincere and dishooest.
Admitting that what Judge TAFT says
ahout the administration of justice is trae,
what is to be thought of him in that con-
nection in view of the fact that he was
the originator of the very evils of which he
complains. While he was on the bench,
with no ambition other than to remain
there, he was the most inexorable enemy
of the laboring men of the country. Bat
for him the writ of injunction wouald never
bave been perverted into an instrument to
oppress workingmen and if he had remain-
ed on the bench he would probably have
continued until now the prostitution of
the powers of the courts in order that cor-
porations and ‘“‘malefactors of great
wealth” might enjoy immunity from
punishment and other favors.
General Grunt and Taft
It is announced that General FREDERICK
D. GRANT was exceedingly auvxions to
participate in the ceremoniea of notifying
Judge TAFT of his nomination, last week.
The wedding of a relative of the Gen-
eral’s wife was scheduled for ahount
the same time and the General was afraid
that one of these fanctions would interfere
Wh the other. This caused him a great
deal of what former Governor PENNY-
PACKER would designate as “mental
anguish.” He wanted to give practical
evidence of his friendliness toward Tarr.
He wanted everybody to know that what-
ever other people think on the subject he
is *‘for the old flag and an appropriation.”
Oo memorial day of this year Judge
TAFT in an address disonssed some of the
incidents of the life of the father of Gen-
eral FREDERICK D. GRANT with muoh
freedom. He didn't say much about bis
victories on fields of battle or his fidelity
in periods of danger. Probabiy he took it
for granted that all those things were
known to his hearers and required no ref
erence from him. But he took good care
to exploit the old General's weaknesses
and to enlarge upon his temperamental
and other infirmities. He even went so
far as to charge that General ULyssgs.
| 8S. GRANT wav a common dronkard and a
hopeless dipsomaniac.
It General FREDERICK D. GRANT had
in bim an atom of the spirit which made
his father great he would have taken the
first opportanity to brand TAFT asa liar
and villifier. That woald have been the
manly thing for bim to do. But he pre.
fers to adopt the practices of a poltroon
and fawn like a contemptible sycopbant
upon the mao who outraged the memory
of his fasher for the reason that he imagines
be will be able to extract person-
al advantage. We had thought better of
General GRANT. We understood his
weakness bat believed that, like his father,
he would be able to rise above them. We
think #0 no longer, however.
——That our friends of the BRYAN
Leagues, who are just now promising such
gratilying results from the campaign they
promised carrying on will not weary in
well doing ic the earnest hope of every
good Demoorat in Pennsylvania. It is the
first time in years that many of them have
shown any interest whatever in the suocess
of the party and an equally long time since
a number of them voted the ticket and if
they will only “hold out to the end,” and
be sure that they get around to vote when
the time comes it will be just that maooh
clear gain for the party on election day.
——A large crowd attended the Spring
Mills Academy reunion at Spring Mills
yesterday, bus the gathering happened too
late to give an account of same in this
week's WATCHMAN,
of election stasistios. They exhens the
Hearst party to draw votes from Mr. Bryan
and give Mr. Tafe a better chance.
Why should not she reverse be the case ?
Why should not the vote for Hisgen
Graves come out of the
Mr. Bryan is the acknow leader of
le oteifadiatil mtu io the Demoecrat-
party. There is no reason to suppose
that these elements will nos support him,
and of course the more conservative ele.
ments, which have heen thought lukewarm
towaid the candidate, would not desert
bim for Hisgen. On the other hand, she
Chicago platform has been a disappoins-
ment to the progressive Republicans of
Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas and other west-
ero states. What would be more natural
then, thao for many of the radical Repub.
licans to support Hisgen and Graves ?
Twenty-four years ago Ben Butler was
the third party candidate, put in the field
and kept there by the Republican managers
in order to draw votes away from Cleve.
land. Especially in New York did the Re.
publican managers hoom Batler. The
result was that he got 17,002 votes in New
York, and Blaine lost the state by 1,047
votes. The general conviction was that
Butler's candidaoy gave Cleveland the
state and the election.
Take a more recent and a more striking
case. In 1892 the Democratic candidate
was Mr. Cleveland who was not admired
by the radical elements in the party, the
Democrats who leaned strongly toward
Populism. In order to detach them from
Cleveland the Republicans financed the
Populist campaign of Gen. Weaver. He
wae astonishingly sncoessful. He polled
1,041,467 votes. He carried Colorado,
Idaho, Kansas and Nevada, and got one |
electoral vote each from North Dakota and
Oregon, a total of twenty-two. But they
dido’t come from the Demooratio party.
Cleveland got 277 electoral votes, inolud-
ing all but one from California, the votes
of Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, five from
Michigan, one from Ohio, one from Nerth
Dakota, ten from New Jersey, thirty-six
from New York, six from West Virginia
aod twelve from Wisconsin.
Evidently the Populist vote came from
the Republican party, and pow with Mr
Bryan as the Democratic candidate it is
inooaoeivable that Democrats should turn
from him to Hisgen. It is William
Howard Taft who is menaced by the nomi-
nation of Thomas Hisgen.
and
blican party ?
The Alten and the Law. 5
Greensburg Review,
Io foreign countries, where the mon-
archial form of government exists and she
prople are given hut little voice in the
affairs of stare, the majesty of the law is
everything. The mep clothed in the law
are beld in great foar and also in esteem.
The law is rigidly enforced and the cis |
izens of these countries learn to respect she |
law. When they come to this coantry they |
| till bave the same feeling toward those |
who are clothed with authority. But they |
are very soon taught that all those eu.
trusted with the law are nos always true
to their oaths. Advantage is taken of the
ignorance of these aliens regarding oar
custome and oor laws. They are easily im-
posed apon. Some trivial offense, commit.
ted trough ignorance brings an alien be-
fore a court of justice.
The officers and the justices who are not
conscientious in their duties can easily
make these people instruments of gain unto
themselves—and sad tosay too many of
them are not aheve such practices. A |
class of officials well known to our better
officers and to the courts prey upon the
ignorance of these people and not ouly
teach them in the end, utter disregard for
all law, but rob them of their possessions.
The effect of such corruption by officers and
detectives is not benefitting the aliens nor
helping our own institutions,
!
Taft's Denanciation,
Butler Times.
Mr. Taft's denunciation of the Demoorats
for alleged knocking at the courts, coming
with his endorsement of everything Mr.
Roosevelt has ever said and done is just a
little amusing. No man in the country has
said more denunciatory things about the
courts than has Mr. Roosevelt, nor has
there been a single citizen who has ever in
a like important position given expressions
previons to the trial of a case, seeking to
influence the courts, as hae the President.
In Mr. Roosevelt, in the eyes of Mr. Taft,
this is praiseworthy, but for a Democrat to
even look slani-eyed at the deoision of a
court would be in his opinion nothing
short of anarchy.
A Warning For Taft
From the Springfield Republican. :
The Colorado situation is very promis.
ing for Taft and the Republicans, writes
Wilson to the er, and then
he adds : ‘‘They want protection on wool,
borses, hides, cattle, grain, poultry, eggs,
lead, eto.” Evidently this is by way of
warning Mr. Talt that he must not carry
his tariff revision views to the point of
meddling with the agricultural and min-
ing schedules of the existing law. Other
interests will be beard from in due time to
the same effeot.
Army or Navy, Which!
From the Philadelphia Record.
There is gratifying evidence that the
War Department in Washington is making
preparations for construoting ships for war
in the air. The question is whether this
belongs to the army or navy department,
sinoe the aeroplanes, if successful, threaten
to make war on the high seas obsolete and
to convert the naval monsters of all nations
into mere junk.
~The repairs at the plant of the Nit-
tany Iron company were completed on Sat-
urday and now everything in in readiness
to etart the furnace just as soon as the
condition of the market warrants it.
acres of oats which yieided 224 bushels, an
average of fifty-six bushels per acre.
—The last span of the ill fated Miflinville
bridge, across the Susquehanna, in Columbia
county, was swung on Wednésday. The
bridee cost a fourteen years’ legal contest,
$200,000 in money and eight lives.
—Because his sweetheart and promised
bride had died at Rrisbin, John Ceoseki, a
Pole, at 5 o'clock Friday evening fired a bul.
let into his body above the heart at his
boardiug house near Big Soldier and is now
in a very serious condition.
—Barton Pardee, of Lock Haven and Irvin
Gleason, of Gleasontown, have purchased
the famous stallion, “McKinney” from V.
‘or- | L. Shuler at Detroit, Mich. The price paid
for this horse was $35,000 and the sale has
been the main topic of conversation in racing
circles,
—Negotistions bave been closed for the
use of the Judge Meyer residence on Water
street, Lock Haven, as temporary quarters
for the Lock Haven hospital and the buiding
will soon be vacated by K. C. Bacheler and
wife. It isa very large and well equipped
building.
~Chanibersburg has its borough and
school tax duplicates ready for the recaipt of
taxes but can find no one willing to serve as
collecter of taxes. Both the collectors of the
1906 and the 1907 taxes are not through yet
with their collection and neither will nnder-
take the 1908 job.
—Thureday was the anniversary of the
burning of Chamberaburg. Forty-four years
ago rebel cavalry entered the town and set
fire to many of the buildings. Practically
the entire business district was burned. A
monument is vrected in Memorial square in
commemoration of the burning.
~—Monday as Thomas Snodgrass was driv.
inga team with a load of lumber across
Garth's private bridge over Fishing creek,
the bridge broke down and precipitated wag-
on, lumber, team and driver into the creek
below, a distance of 10 or 12 feet. Mr. Snod.
grass escaped unhurt and the horses were
but slightly bruised.
~The analysis of the water from the res-
ervoir of Hastings, made at the laboratories
of the University of Pennsylvania, shows
that the water was undoubtedly the causge of
the present epidemic of typroid fever. There
are at present fifty-four cases and there has
been one death. Four new cases were re-
ported on Tuesday and one on Wednesday.
~The railroad town of Conemaugh, near
Johnstown, with a population of 5,000 has
appealed to the Pennsylvania State Water
commission to help solve its water famine
problem. Thursday night the electric light
plant was shut down and the town was in
darkness. A disease epidemic is feared and
should fire break cut a conflagration would
result,
—Moth milleis and other insects swarmed
into the dancing pavilion at Lenape Park,
near West Chester, on Friday night in such
immense numbers that they interfered with
the duncing programme of the Brandywine
grange, Patrons of Husbandry. But at
some one’s suggestion the lights were put
out, when the pests dispersed and the dance
went on,
~The assessors’ returns for 1968 in Lan-
caster county, show 50,493 taxable residents.
The assessed valuation of the real estate is
$96,265,414 Money at iuterest subject to
taxation, $22391.699 The cleared land
sums vp 570,760 acres and the timber land
58707 acres. There are 58240 horses and
mitles valued at $1,661,360 and 32,238 head
of cattle valued at $763,872.
~—In the crusade against the illegal selling
of liquor in Huntingdon county, especially
around the county seat, another arrest has
been made. George W. Fry, of Logan town-
ship, has heen taken in hands by the local
constables on information made before Jus-
tice of the Peace Kelly and has given $500
bail for his appearance at court to answer
the charge of selling liguor to minors.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Shoemaker, who resides
near Subula, Clearfield county, was 102 years
old on Sunday, and her friends celebrated
the event by holding a big picnic in a grove
near her home on Saturday. Mrs. Shee
maker is still in vigorous health, and works
daily at her housenold duties and her gar.
den. Her grandfather lived to be 110 years
old, and she thinks she may daplicste this
stay in this world.
~—W. H. Beers, of Reade township; P. M.
Kinney, of Wilmore, and Sheriff Webster
Griffith, of Ebensbarg, sitting asa board of
arbitrators in Wilmore, ou Thursday, award.
ed the heirs of Sylvester Crum, deceased, the
sum of $3500 for obstructions washed into
the mill dam of the Wilmore grist mill by
reason of the changing of the channel of the
Little Conemaugh at the time of the
straightening of the line of the Pennsylvania
railroad from Lilly to Flynn's curve, in
1898
—All preliminary arrangements have been
completed for the third annual Labor day
celebration and picnicto be held at Agar's
park, Lock Haven, on September 7, under
the auspices of the Patriotic Order Sons of
America of Clinton county. Two games of
baseball and other amusements will be fea.
tures of the day and an address will be de-
livered by the eloquent ex district attorney
of Glearfield county and past State presi-
dent of the order, W. I. Swope, Esq., of
Clearfield.
~—While Mrs. Grossley, residing near Hy-
ner, Clinton conunty, was engaged at milking
a cow in the barnyard at her home on Wed-
nesday morning, a bull made a lunge for her
and threw her off’ a stool on which she was
sitting.
He then began to gore her when
her screams brought her husband to the res-
cue who drove the vicious animal away with
a pitchfork, after a desperate struggle. Sev.
eral of Mrs. Grossley's ribs were broken and
she was badly bruised and was unconscious
for some time.
—0n Thursday evening the last share of
stock in the block of $10,000 which it was
necessary for the residents of Derry to take,
in order to secure the Pittsbarg High Ten-
sion Insulator com
for the 1
scribed for, thus insuri
y as a new industry
ry company, was sub-
De
tha the coming of this
new industry to the town. The pottery
Blast has beets Segted and iti be Sited up
the wor| pany. e y
will start up about bar 1, and will
employ about 200 persons. :