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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
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going up in a flying machine. '
—BRYAN says *‘The people shall rule”
aod everyone should twro in to help
BRYAN see to it thas they do rule.
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~The State is out of bounty money snd
| That an effort will be made to force a
buys ”" ia oe, vig Wick nd | remporary hoom in the industrial life of
teh a7e Ol 0’ @ paying Jeb, | the country is becoming obvious. Mr.
until next year.
| HARRIMAN, who raised a vast corruption
—The only way that appears possible 10 14,3 a4 she solicitation of Ro0SEVELT four
down the Sunday drinking at Atlantic | years ago, appears to have been reconciled
City is the good old way the Sunday drink- and is getting ready to “lend a band”
ers have of doing it. | again. That is to say be bas been placing
—The Republicans of West Virginia are | orders for freight cars in vast quantities,
fighting like Kilkenoy cats and the Dem- | in the expectation that other roads will
ocrats are so harmonious that something is follow, and together they will he able to
likely to happen in November. | oreate a revival in business. That itis
—It was mighty fortunate that Mr, | only a question of confidence they fully
BRYAN was not so overcome by surprise | understand. There is plenty of money, |
at his notification that he could not find | abundant crops, the inclination to do busi- |
words to express his appreciation. ness and the most favorable conditions.
—Potatoes, the poor man’s meat, are | Bat she industrial life of the country had
next to a failure in this county and many | Pee® ilked to exhaustion and the with-
a man with a family is already wondering drawal of confidence completed the col-
what he will do when winter sets in. | lapse. The panic was inevitable.
Pimples, ‘hives, ‘mosquito ites, in | Manifessly the industrial trusts have
grown toenails, sour milk and pipp are all | Sule vermmy Withshe Sepuitiou miosis
blamed ou dog days and that is owe of the turned the tide four years ago are enlisted
reasons, at least, we will be glad to oe | During the first half of shat cam-
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VOL. 53
It Is Up to the People.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 14, 1
The Paramount Issue,
The silliest complaint that bas been
made against Mr. BRYAN thos far in this
campaign is that he is inconsistent becanse
in 1896 he declared that the coinage ques-
tion was the paramount issue while now
he is of opinion that the most important
question i= ‘‘shall the people rule?”’ Asa
matter of fact there is nothing inconsistent
in that. Twelve years ago the coinage
question was< not only present but urgent.
Iv fact there was no issue which touched
the interests of the people so closely. But
that question has been settled by circom-
stances. New and abundant discoveries of
gold, enlargement of the use of credits
through the mediam of checks and drafts
disposed of it finally and forever,
Fifty years ago the dominant issue in
the polities of the conutry was slavery.
Advocates of abolition, sapporters of ex-
pansion into the terntories and conserva.
tives who ivsisted on tolerating the evil
hecause they knew of no lawful means of |
{ History Offers a Lesson,
The lass attempt of a President to diotate
the candidate of his party for Governor of
New York cost the Republican party a
national defeat and gave the country one
of its best Presidents. Presidens ARTHUR
wae a candidate to succeed himself in 1884
and as a preliminary step undertook to
force a member of his cabinet into the office
of Governor of the then pivotal State, in
1882. He sncceeded in securing the nomi.
nation for him and the Democrats nominat-
ed GROVER CLEVELAND as the opposing
candidate. At the election whioh followed
Mr. CLEVELAND bad an overwhelming
majority. Two years later CLEVELAND
was nominated for President and ARTHUR
failed of that result and CLEVELAND was |
| elected.
In this bit of political history there is
concealed a useful lesson for President
RooSEVELT. That incident was not exact-
ly aualagous to present conditions. In
other words President ROOSEVELT isjnot a
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abating it kept the conotry io constant | candidate himself except by proxy. But
and almoat feverich agitation. The very | ARTHUR wasn’t a caodidate either, alter
their end, asta. i
. paign ROOSEVELT was badly beaten. But
the “male-
factors of great wealth.” The candidate
promised to he obedient and the insurance
magna tes, the railroad magnates and the
industrial trost magoates opened the
what we stand for this fall.
of the issues.
parts of the country.
necessary, thus early in the campaign, for
the Republican managers to be publishing |
estimates of what they expect to carry a
Republican State like Ohio by, it certainly
looks as though some one was getting |
are to have eleotric light and steam heat |
and specially cooked food. In a few |
mon ths the papers will probably he teem. |
ing with startling stories of how the poor
patients in that institution are crowded |
into rooms and halls like herring in a box. |
However, the hogs will enjoy the com-
forte.
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—And now it has come to light that Mr, |
HISGEN is a fiddier and since we heard it
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we have been thinking a.great deal -about {GFE “This iW'¥hE hoften whidh
a fine distinction a friend once drew be- |
tween a fiddler and a violiniet. He said : |
“A violinist is an artist and a fiddler is a |
damn nuisauce.”” And we are con-
strained to remark that that is about Mr. |
HISGEN'S position in this campaign.
—Ol coarse it is. Telegrams sent to the |
daily papere from Oyster Bay, on Tuesday, |
said “Sagamore Hill is given over to the |
business of the TAFT campaign * * * and
the real headquarters of the fight is Oyster
From the very first we have in- 8R0 they elected WiLLiAM B. WiLsox, a
sisted that TAFT is nothing more than a | Dew man in the politios of the State. Iu
Bay."
stalking horse for ROOSEVELT and here is
the proof almost from his own lips. It is
really ROOSEVELT, not Tarr, who is the
Republican nominee, |
—Now it is announced that ROOSEVELT
won't take part in the New York fight.
Ot course he won't, on the surface, but yon
can bet your hottom dollar that he will do
everything in his power, underbandedly,
to compass HUGHES’ defeat for nomination.
HuGHEs bas made a good Governor for
the Empire State, but he won't take
orders, even from TEDDY, and TEDDY has
no love for a man whose opinion does not
bend to that of the Czar of the White
House.
—The election of J. C. MEYER to repre
sent this county in the Assembly should be
a furegone conclusion. If on no other
ground than that of qualification he is so
far superior to Mr. TAYLOR as to leave no
doubt in any one’s mind as to the right
thing to do. Mr. MEYER is one of the
foremost lawyers, trained in debate and
forensic effort, while Mr. TAYLOR can lay
claim to no equipment, unless it might be
a lingo so unique and origlaal as not to be
understood in Harrishurg. Centre county
will need an able Representative in the
next session and the fortunes of politics
could not have afforded a hetter chance to
get one thao by placing Mr. MEYER on the
ticket.
~The Johnstown Democrat mildly calls
the WATCHMAN to task for not rocogniz-
ing the Hon. JAMES KERR as the national
committeeman from Penosylvania. The
Johnstown Democrat is the paper of Col.
WARREN WORTH BAILEY and we know
the Colonel #0 well that argument is futile.
In fact it would be ahout as easy to con-
vince him that Mr. KERR is not she pa.
tional committeeman as it would to make
us believe that he is, so there yon are,
But as between the and Warca-
MAN the Democrat has not heen a consist.
ent supporter of Democracy while the
WATCHMAN bas, hence we trust our es-
teemed contemporary will find the heart to
overlook this deviation the way it
from
would ha 840 stpesial) since
of the opin tha or ey th
—It is high time to reform a tariff that an agreement was made with
keeps the price of everything going up and |
gives wages a set-back, by stopping them |
entirely, just when they are in danger of |
. Retting proportionately high. !
—Read BRYAN'S speech of acceptance floodgates to a flow of gold. Precisely the
on the second pace of this iesne if you |
want to know what Democracy means and |
No Democrat | vELT cheated his associates in the couspir-
is well informed unless be is acquainted |
with the view that our great leader takes |
—BRYAN is growing in strength in al] | Stand.
When it becomes |
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scared. | yond the actual cost of his living and find
~The pig pens at the Danville asylom
{enslave them. A man with a hongry
family and no fonds to feed the children |
their own bands.
| mind by the character of its representa-
nion
for the party.
same agreement has been made this year
hat it will not have the same effect. Roose-
aoy and fooled the people. He may de-
ceive the magnates again but he can’t
hoodwink the public. The voters under-
They know the ocanses of the
trouble and will not be deceived by fioti-
cious signs of improvement which will dis-
appear as soon as the reasons for them have
passed.
Youn cau’t systematically rob a man for a
long continued period of all he earns bhe-
him financially strong at the end of the
time. This is what the Republican party
has heen doing for a dozen years and for
the parpose of impoverishing him. A man
who is poor is necessarily docile and the
Republican machine wanted to make men
docile in order that their employers conid
will not strike, however severely he is op-
pressed. Overtaxation and profligacy in
expenditures are certain to create the ol
on the people of the United States fora
dozen years and will continue to oppress
them until the Repahlican party is defeat-
ed. The people bave their destinies in
The Fifteenth Congress District.
The people of the Fifteenth Coungression-
al district of this State have the path of
duty plainly blazed for them. Two years
other fields of endeavor he bad proved his
courage and capability and though the po-
litical complexion of the district is vastly
against the party with which he is assooi-
ated, he was elected. Tt issafe to say that
no fair-minded man of any party has since
regretted the result. Mr. WiLsoN has'nos
only been a capable and conscientions Rep-
resentative of the people but he bas heen
an efficient one. We hazard the opinion
that no Congressman has ever achieved
more for the people of that distriot.
A commnuvity is measared in the public
tives. An intelligent, industrious ard cap-
pable representative is acoepted a= a type
of the people he represents. The statement
that WiLLiaym B. WiLsoN made a favora-
ble impression on his associates in Congress
will hardly be challenged. From the be-
gioning of his service he took high rank.
After his splendid abilisy as a debater and
his character for courage and integrity had
been revealed, his influence on the floor
was vastly enhanced. He was accepted as
anthority on labor questions and his con-
stituents got the benefit of bis increasing
power even in a body in which his party
was in a hopeless minority.
The next House is practicaily certain to
be Democratic and WrLLiaym B. WiLson,
if re-elected, will he among the most infla-
ential men on the floor. The Fifteenth
distriot is composed of the best people in
the State. Clinton, Potter, Lycoming and
Tioga counties are among the foremost in
progress and intelligence. Sach a constit-
uency should be represented in Congress by
a strong man. People of that character
shonid bave a voice as well as a vote in
framing tae legislation of the country. By
re-electing Mr. WILSON they are assured
of shat distinction. He can be neither oa-
joled nor coerced from the path of duty.
He knows and acts and it is to be hoped
that he will he returned hy an increased
majority. Cor
Br ’”z-=ir ’
~——DMany farmers in Centre county re-
port a total lai’ure of their potato crops and
“| ed. the eleotion of Ms. Buy as. --jastifigd
instead of baving some to sell, as usual,
they will bave to bay for their own use.
papers which now accnse Mr. BRYAN of
inconsistency because he declines to waste :
energy in discussing a dead issue, led in
the controversies of that time on that sub.
ject. Bat the slavery question is dead as a
door nail. It bas been dead longer than the
coinage question hat it is no deader on |
that account and nobody thinks of accus- |
ing our contemporaries of inconsistency
becanse they no longer iusist on disputing
over slavery.
But there are reasons for the present
discussion of the question as to whether or
not the people rule. For three years
President ROOSEVELT has been ringing the
changes on that proposition with the re-
sult that the people, or these of them who
think, are thoroughly alarmed over it. It
has been charged and practically proved
that predatory corporations and plundering
trusts have usurped the powers of the
courts and are dictating the policies of ex-
ecatives. [If this state of affairs continues,
the governwent of the people cannot en-
dare and it is the patriotic duty of every
man who loves his conntry to inguire,
Under the circumstances Mr. BRYAN is
neither inconsistent nor premature,
An Enemy of Bryan.
In both his previous campaigns the es-
teemed Philadelphia Record openly oppos-
its course by denouncing as’ rank heresies
the views he expressed on the ourreney
and coinage questions. We did not concar
in the opinions of our esteemed Philadel-
phia contemporary then and do not yet.
Bat we recognize the right of every man
aud journal to his or ite own views with
the fall privilege of expressing them, in
an open and manly way. Oar contempor-
ary is not equally liberal, but that is it's
affair. Is denies the right of choice be-
fore the nomination as well as alter and
stultifies itself by its course.
It looks to us as if the Record is again
opposing the election of Mr. BRYAN,
though this time it is proceeding covertly
instead of openly. That is to say it inem-
ploying all its mental and physical energy
in an effort to disrupt the Democratic party
of the Sate througl the mediam of build.
ing up a faction. This is less honorable
aud more reprehensible thau its course in
the previous campaigns. It is an absardly
false pretense as well as dishonest, It has
a tendency to mislead men who are earnest
bat credulous. [tis cowardly and con-
temptible, moreover. Au open enemy is
less dangeroas than a false friend.
The Record probably reasons that no
matter what it does or says the electoral
vote of Pennsylvania will go to the Repub-
lican ticket and that for that reason the
present is a suitable time to create trouble
iu the Democratio party. Bat in pursuing
that course it sacrifices Democratic candi-
dates for Congress, the General Assembly
and local offices. It knows, if it knows
anything, that with a united and militant
Democracy we are practically certain to
gain one or two Congressmen, as many
State Senators and several members of the
Legielature. Bat divided into factions we
are likely to lose rather than gain.
Be Prepared.
There is no one—at least no one worthy
of citizenship- who will not desire to vote
at the coming election. The privilege of
doing so, of having a voice in selecting
those who are to administer the affairs of
the government, is one of the highest and
most important that can fall to the lot of
any mortal being. It is not only a privi-
lege but it is a daty, and a duty that we
should all discharge. To vote, however,
requires some preparation. First yon must
be registered, and this cannot be done after
the second day of September. So you bad
better see about it now when you think of
it. If you put it off, the master may slip
your memory, and the time goby for this
preparation. The time to do a thing is
and, ¢gonomic condition of the American |
when it should be done, and the time to be
. registered is Now. Don’s pus this off.
the nominating convention, and in other
partionlars the conditions are alike. That
is the President baving made a member of
his cabinet the nominee of his party for
President is now preparing to prevent the
nomination of a fit and popular candidate
for Governor for the reason that he has not
heen entirely submissive in the past.
Governor HUGHES is to he disciplined be-
cause he couldo’t agree that ROOSEVELT'S
caprices are above the fandamental law.
The people of shis country will not long
submit to the dictates of a boss. They are
willing to follow a wise and reasonable
leadership to almost any extent, but
ROOSEVELT is neither wise nor reasonable.
He was imperious in his demand for the
nomination of Tarr and encouraged
government officials to participate in
political contentions to promote the result.
That is not leadership. ‘It is corrupt boss-
ism and deserves the severest rebuke, for it
is impairing rather than expressing the
will of the people. In 1884 the action was
resented by the defeat of the Republican
party. In 1908 it will be similarly re.
buked.
Roosevelt's Latest Idivey.
President ROOSEVELT has appointed a
commission ‘‘to make suggestions for the
bringing about of a better social, sanitary
farms.” His excuse! for this is that the
farmers are a wretched and belpless lot and
he proposes to suggest legislation for their
comfort and convenience. He wants them
to regard him as ‘‘the great father,” as the
uncivilized Indians do now, and he starts
the agitation at this time to induce the farm-
ers to vote for TAFT as an evidence of
their appreciation of his fatherly interest
io them. At least that is the ostensible
reason, the one he gives to the public.
It is not the real reason, however.
ROOSEVELT'S insatiate thirat for power is
what moves him to appoins his absard com-
mission. The farmer is the only element
in the life of the country which he has not
undertaken to regulate and he never could
devise an excuse before for butting into
their affairs. He has paralyzed the manu-
facturing industries of the country by his
impudent interference in their conduct,
bat the agricultural interests were moving
along in spite of him. That immonity
from his mischievous meddling annoyed
him and he has finally hit apon a scheme
which will enable him to attack the farm-
er. His first step is to put the aspersion
of imbecility upon them. :
It the farmers are sensible they will kick
RooSEVELT'S impudent commissioners
away from their doors the moment they | Yea
appear. In this State at least the farmers
are not only prosperous hut they are of the
highest order of intelligence and thorough-
ly capable of taking care of themselves.
Their wives are well dressed and their sons
aod daoghters accomplished and content.
ed. What is the use in interfering with
such a condition of affairs? If the Presi-
dent will attend to his own business and
family affaire the farmers of the country
will be able to do quite as well. We are
tired of impudent meddling.
Mr. Bryan's Speech of Acceptance.
To Mr. Beyax's speech of acceptance,
published in full on the second page of thie
issue of she WATCHMAN, the attention of
the reader is particularly directed. We
wan$ every man, woman and obhild who
gets hold of a copy of the paper to read it.
It will do them good. It will enlighten
them. It ought to interest them and,
above all, it should convince them of the
peed of a change. To fair minded Repab-
licans especially it is recommended. After
it bas been read and thought over carefui-
ly, the next thing to be done by them is
to make up their minds about voting, and
it the indisputable truths he asserts ; if
the acknowledged condition he refers to ;
if the honesty, the ability and the earnest.
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administration, aud to havea friend of the
people, as Mr. BRYAN has proven to be,
oonduct the affairs of the Government for a
while, then they are heyond political hope.
The Foolish Joy of the Wicked.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer,
The eagerness with which our Republi.
can contemporaries give prominence to the
repeated reports that financial problems are
bothering the managers of the Democratic
presidential campaigo, can hardly produce
a favorable impression upon their more
intelligent and open-minded readers. We
| bave heen making some progress towards
| platocracy, or the rule of money power,
but hardly enough to make this attitnde
quite safe or politic ; hardly enough to
warrant a gleeful astisnde of trinmph over
| evidence that an opposing party lacks
| funds. For that is a lack which may be
generally viewed as decidedly more credita-
- ble than otherwise, under the circumstan-
ces, and a lack to be more than made ap hy
some of the things that money cannot buy.
It is all very well to talk of ‘‘the sinews
of war’ as a prime essential to the prope:
management of a campaign, bas it is not
well to brag about them, or to comment
upon a lack of them, as though they sup-
plied the place of a right cause, or of coar-
age and determination, or of strong leader-
ship and claims upon popular support.
Sach an attitude cannot fail to mark
plainly for all observers the party of sinis-
ter aud menacing predatory wealth ; the
party that would rule by the help of con-
tributions from interests who will only
give that help with satisfactory guarantees
that they will get value for it in the ad
ministration of the government in “their
own interest, rather than in the interest of
the people.
It is undoubtly true that the opening of
the campaign finds the Republican party
management evidently quite as ease as to
finances. It is aleo true that the Republi.
oan platform is silent ahout the publica.
tion of the names of large contributors to
its fand, although the Republican ecandi-
date has given assurance that they will be |
published ‘‘after the election,’ while the |
Democratio platform and candidate prom. |
ise publication before the election.
These ciroumstances leave no doubt as to
which party has the support of shat ele-
ment of money power which seeks control
of government. i
This situation presents nc reason at all
for Demooratic despondency or misgivings; |
but, on the contrary, the greatest encour-
agement, for there can be no doubt that
truer and stronger sinews of war will re.
spond to an awakening sense of peril to
popular governmens—that money in prop-
erly limited, but ample volume for every
right use, will be forthcoming, hut that
the need of it will diminish, if it does not
altogether disappear, hefore she passing
over from the side of the money power to
the side of the sovereign people, of many
thousands of votes moved by an intelligent
Tbe glee of our lriepds;-thesenamy,
Democratic poverty and their own strange
Iy ample wealth must go far to awaken |
this intelligent perception of the nature of |
the support commarded by Mr. Roosevelt's |
proxy, notwithetanding Mr. Roosevelt's |
parade of antagonism to such influences. |
Constitutions! Amendments.
From the Altoona Times,
At the November election the vorers of
Pennsylvania will have an opportunity to
vote for or against several proposed amend-
ments to the state constitution that are of
the utmost im, noe and demand the
earnest consi of every citizen.
These amendments were approved at the
Inst session of the legislatare, and are sub-
mitted to the electorate prior to final con-
sideration by the next general assembly.
One of these amendments, and possibly
the most important, in that it will affect a
great economy and make elections less
eleotion entirely. If it is approved and |
becomes a pars of the fandamentsl law, in |
the even numbered years in November the
state and county officers shall he chosen,
aad in the odd years the municipal elec-
tions shall be held in November also. Of |
coarse, the presidental elections will ocour
in the even numbered years. Offices the
terms of which are three years are made
four years, while those that are now five
years are increased to six years. Election
officers who are chosen for one year, under
the present plan, would then serve for two
rs.
As to the state officers, the auditor
geveral, who is now elected for three
years, would serve four years, and the
state treasurer's term would be inoreased
from five to six years, and all county of-
fices, ocuncilmen and school directors
would serve four years. The change would
wipe oat the February election, reduce the
primaries from two to one each year and
provide for only one registration.
The second rec proposed amend.
ments provid municipalities may
contract inde! esd to the amount of 10
cent. of their total assessed valuation.
present coustitutional limitation is 7
per cent,
The third of the pro amendments
consolidates the courts in Philadelphia and
Allegheny counties, so that there shall be
but one court each.
There is little objection to any of the
amendments except possibly the one
aunthoriziog an increase of city debts.
There are some scruples against relaxing
this restraint. The other two amendments
are, however, fairly certain of popular ap- |
proval,
May Be the Same Boat.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
It is the fond hope of high protectionist
editors that Southern manufacturers will
not feel kindly toward Mr. Bryan because
they may want to be entered in the privi.
leged class which bas been enabled by high
tariff taxes to oreate a monopoly of the
home market. Bat many manucfacturers
have come to the conclusion that exorbitant
‘riff duties injure their business and have
ness of the man does not convince them
that it would be well to have a change of
thern manufacturers bly bave
similar views. yi
frequent, purposes to abolish she spring |!
tioned Congress to reduce such duties. |
spawis from the Keystone.
—The chemical works at Nant.y Glo,
Cambria county, the leading industry of the
town, were destroyed by fire last Thursday
night, entailing a loss of over $5,000.
—J. I. Holly, a railway mail clerk, was
arrested at Harrisburg on a charge of rob.
bing the mail, after having been caught by
a decoy letter. He is held under $1,000 bail
to appear before court.
+ =There are 830 inmates at present in the
Huntingdon reformatory, the greatest num-
ber since the institution was opened. On
Saturday roasting ears were given them for
dinner and it tock 3,000 ears of corn.
—A theatrical entertainment given in
Ebensburg on Thursday night for the benefit
of the fever stricken town of Hastings netted
over $150 and in addition to that citizens
have made contributions amounting to about
£600.
—An inspection of the potato crop on
twenty farms in the southern part of York
county indicates that the yield will only be
about thirty-five per cent., or little more
than one-third a full crop, owing to the late
drought.
—After traveling for a month and cover-
ing nearly fifty miles, the greater portion of
the flock of turkeys which left the barnyard
of David Narrigan, of Mount Hope, Wash-
ington county, was recovered in Beaver
county, on Saturday.
—Salvadore Di Sandola, a banker, 60 years
of age, of Hazleton, who had the custody of
about $50,000 of the savings Sof foreigners,
has disappeared leaving little if anything for
his creditors, his property being mortgaged
to almost its full value,
—A popular subscription fund tofraise the
amount necessary to conduct the public
schools in Huntingdon nine months instead
of eight has been proposed and borough
engineer J. Murray Africa says he) will head
such a fund with a contribution of $50.
—A company has been organized in Johns.
town for the establishment of an iron foun-
dry, which will add another important in.
dustry to the city’s activities. A building
40 by 120 feet is to be erected andJemploy-
ment will be given to quite a number of men.
—~George B. Beck, of Reading, a native of
Mifflin county, has agreed to furnish a ward
room in the Lewistown hospital in 8 com-
plete and up-to-date manner. He has or.
dered four beds of the most approved; pattern
and other necessary furniture to compiete
the room.
—Early Friday morning the safelin the
office of the Bellwood grist mill, near Bell.
wood, was dynamited, and Jchecks and cash
to the amount of $400 stolen. All the furni-
ture in the office was wrecked.] The robbery
is supposed to have been committed by
traveling men.
—After one hundred and ten ballots were
taken by the school directors of Altoona,
Prof. H. H. Baish, of Altoona. was elected
superintendent of the school of that =ity on
Friday night to succeed Prof. H. J. Wight-
man, resigned, The salary was reduced
from $2,400 to $2,000 per year.
~Dirt is now flying ou the construction of
the five-mile stretch of new state road that
will complete the macadamized highway
from Alexandria to Huntingdon, work hav-
ing been started in earnest Wednesday at the
end of the bridge across the river by con-
tractor John McMenamy, of Philadelphia.
—Wm. H. Stanke, as trustee of the Saxton
peroeption of thedanger of our institutions, , Furnace company, a bankrupt, has brought
- suit ngninet the Lehigh Valley Railroad com.
pany to recover $18.000 and against the P.
R. R. Co. to recover 30 975, the value a re
tain shipments of iron ore which it -
tended the commission firm of Drake, Ba
tow & Co. transferred to the Saxton Furnace
company.
—According to the statistics compiled by
Secretary Frank H. Singer, of the Johns-
town board of health, fifty-two children
under the age of 7 years died during the
month of July of cholera infantum and other
infantile ailments. This is the largest num-
ber of deaths for children under that age in
any one month in the history of the city. The
largest proportion of these deaths was among
foreigners. The total number of deaths was
eighty-two. -
~The bean stalk which plays
prominent
,apart in the fairy tale of Jack the Giant
Killer has a rival in Lewistown. ' Not only
is the loeal vine growing fast, but it contains
beans as well. This immense plant is found
in the yard of F. M. Wetzel. The vine has
already reached a height of eighteen and a
half feet and is still growing at the rate of
three and a half inches every day. Mr.
Wetzel estimates that more than three sud a
hxlf bushels of beans will beJtaken from ‘the
vine.
—John Cohic, a Slavish miner, is despair.
ingly digging in a mine heading offthe No. 1
mine of the South Fork Coal Mining com-*
pany at Johnstown in an effort to find about
$1,000, which he placed there several months
ago for safe keeping. The other day he had
occasion to use a part of his savings and went
to the place where he had left the money.
The marker whith he had placed was gone.
Frantic, the man commenced to dig. This
was the early part of last week. When dis.
covered the man had nothing to eat, nor had
he slept for two days.
—~"“Well, I guess the best way to settle this
matter is to say goodbye.”
Philip Kain, of DuBois, formerly of Indiana
county, in alderman John P. Anthony's
office, in Lock Haven, on Thursday after-
noon, while an effort was being made to com-
promise a claim for $14 held against him for
board by Mrs. Hugh McLeod. Suiting his
action to the words, Kain, who was under
arrest, dashed out the door of the alderman’s
office, with constable Ellis Myers after him,
and after one of the most exciting {chases in
the long career of the constable Kain was
captured in a cellar.
—Last Wednesday afternoon Oscar Hamil-
ton, a t band on the Ebensburg and
Black Lick railroad, found the dead body of
Burley Makin, of Ebensburg, aged 17 years,
lying @ a spring near the railing, about
two miles east of Ebensburg. Young Makin
had gone out on Tuesday to huut ground
hogs and the supposition is that he had gone
to the 30 Ket 3 Aside ad while +
another hunter saw him raise his
for a woodchuck
the shooting is unknown.
Thus spoke