—Things have grown so quiet that the
usual talk about bow it bappened has
about died oat.
—NAT GooDWIN is married again, but
as it is his third veosare it looks like an-
other case of on again, off again, HOOLIGAN.
—Philadelphia, without a stuffed ballot
bex, would be about the surest sign of the
approach of the millennium as any we can
imagine.
—0ld Gen. PROSPERITY may be on the
march again but his lieutenant LITTLE
RED RoosTER hasn’t as yet put the hens of
the land on fall time. Its eggs we need.
~The drought is taking on most serious
form in Scostdale where the Baptists can’t
find enough water for an immersion and
have to go to Coanelleville for thas sacred
rite. .
—The man with his cellar [all of coal,
several barrels of potatoes and a few fat
hogs to butcher after Thanksgiving, doesn’t
bave much concern abous when winter is
going to set in. .
~-If the Republicans were to chop up
“‘she big stick’’ and make a bonfire of it in
the White House grounds on the night of
TArFr's inaoguration prospects would be
better for four years of peace.
—The cabinet makers are all working
over time these days but when the psycho-
logical moment arrives TEDDY will an-
nounce who will be TAFT's advisers and
there will be an end of the dreams of many.
—In her divorce suit Mrs. HOWARD
GOULD states that a lady in her standing
oan barely exist on seventy thousand a
year. Her standing wight be all right,
but HowARD don’t seem willing to stand
for is.
—The big bats our sisters are wearing
these days bear about the same relation to
the tidy little affairs now out of vogue that
they used to wear that the sloppy, stringy
Eoglish sparrow’s nest bears to that of the
wren.
—According to President-elect TAFT the
tariff is to be revised and postal savings
banks are to be established. How is Pres
ident elect TAFT to have any say about the
tariff when ‘‘Uncle’” JoE CANNON is in the
House.
—The way they settle political disputes
in Tennessee is decisive, to say the least,
but up here in Centre county both sides
need their men too badly to put them clear
out as they did Senator CARMACK on
Monday.
—As Senator Dick remarked in Wash-
ington, on Wednesday, those who think
FORAKER is down and out in Ohio are reck-
oning without knowledge of the kind of
man FORAKKR is or of the kind of friends
he has in the Buckeye State.
—It is rather late to talk ahout it but
how weak was the opposition charge that
“‘the Democracy is the party of promises.”
For the lan’ sakes! What else could it be.
‘We haven’t had a chance to do anything
else for the past sixteen years.
—The Rev. FRExCH E. OLIVER, the
evangelist, thinks BRYAN should become a
preacher and states that ‘‘the BRYAN of
the twentieth century would equal the
PAUL of the first century. ‘‘Perhaps he
would and perhaps he wonidn’s, but even
if he did he would not be given oredit for
his work nor his greatness,
—Fortaue telling has become so popular
with Bellefonte women that the local olair-
voyant is heing worked nearly to death.
Armies of ladies sneak to the little house
along the mountain almost as if they were
guilty of committing orime and then sneak
away again buoyant or despondent accord-
ing as she has told them that they are to
grow rich aud beautiful or remain single,
homely and poor.
— While chairman HARRY KELLER and
adviser J. THOMAS MITCHELL were busy
fixing ap who should get the places that
fall from the newly elected county officials
Cominisionsers-elect WOODRING and Zin:
MERMAN got together and actually selected
their own attorney, olerk and janitor, Of
course they thought they had a right to do
this, but the leaders think they did it so
the talk that is being passed around in
Temple Court these days isn't the kind to
be found in the Sunday school library
books.
~The new hoard of County Commis-
sioners did a commendable thing in ap-
pointing CLEMENT DALE Esq., their attor-
pey. For years Mr. DALE has been a con-
sistent worker io his party and though he
has long sought political preferment of
some kind be was never given a nomina-
tion for any office unless it was when his
chances for election were practically hope-
less, and vaturally resulted in his being
beaten. Hence the County Commissioners
were justified in makiog him their attor-
ney as a slight reward for his constancy at
all times.
—The action of the President in slight.
ing President SAMUEL GOMPERS, of the
American Federation of Labor, in his list
of invitations to labor leaders to confer on
needed legislation is not unexpected though
it confirms the opinion that THRODORE
ROOSEVELT i* about the varrowest, most
vindictive man who has ever occapied the
presidential office. According to his ac-
tions we judge that he regardsall who are
not for him as being against him and forth-
with starts out to punish them even at the
cost of bedraggliog his high office in the
mire of personal venom and epite wor
VOL. 5
EH
A Doubtful Endorsement.
Since the fuss and fury, the claims
and counterclaims of the recent elec-
tion hase subsided sufficiently to get at
the real facts, is is found that the Demoo-
raoy, in place of being ‘blotted from the
face of the esrth,’” as was proclaimed by
the Republican papers last week, comes out
of the fight stronger and in better position
for future contests than it bas been for six-
teen years.
In addition to the States comprising the
“Solid South,” in every one of which it
either maintained or increased ite former
strength, the Democracy elected the Gov-
ernors, and will control the State adminis.
trations in Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, North
Dakota, Minnesota, Colorado and Nevada,
adding six to the number it has heretofore
claimed and making twenty-two in all—or
within one of being one-half of all the
States in the Union.
The figures showing the total vote cast
in all of the different States are not yet ac-
cessible but from those that we bave the
loss shown for the Republicans, as compar.
ed with the last presidential election, is so
great that another viotory (?) of the same
kind would wipe out the Republican party
in every one of the forty-six States com-
prising this government, with the excep-
tion of eight.
In Pennsylvania, ROOSEVELT'S majority
of four years ago is ont down over 200,000.
The total vote for Mr. TAFT is over 100,-
000 less, and the Democratic vote over 50,
000 greater than they were in 1904. In
Obio Mr. TAFT's majority is 215,000 less
than was Mr. Roosgverr's. In Indiana
is is 80,000 less ; in Illinois is is 120,000
less ; in Minnesota 60,000 less ; in Iowa
50,000 less ; in Wisconsin 40,000 less, and
80 on over the entire country.
In not a single State in the Union did
the Republican party hold its own, or poll
as many votes as it did four yeas ago.
And what does this mean ?
Simply that the policies of that party,
known as the ROOSEVELT policies, and
which Mr. TAFT bas promised, and is
pledged to continue, have lost to it thejsup-
port of over a million of voters ; have lost
to it the control of hall a dozen of States
that heretofore have been reliably Republi.
oan ; bave lost to it the overwhelming ma-
jorities it has bad to boast of for the past
four years ; and have lost to it the confi-
dence that millions of voters had thas it
was impregoable and beyond the power of
the Democracy to weaken its bold upon or
endanger its control of the government.
Sarely such a victory (?) is not one that
thinkiogimen woald find much in to re.
joice over, nor is it one tbat shoanld dis-
courage those who are trying to rescue the
government from the rule of the trusts and
the power of predatory weaith.
Promises to Divide.
The Hon. SERENE E. PAYNE, chairman
of the House committee on Ways and
Means, annouces that hearings on the sub-
ject of tariff revision will be begun at once
with a view of discovering what changes
may be made in the DINGLEY schedales
without interfering with the progress of re-
turning prosperity. JOHN DALZELL, the
agent in the House of Representatives in
Washington of the Steel trust, adds that
the only changes in the DINGLEY sched-
ules which will be made daring the extra
session of the Sixty-first Congress will be
such as will serve to correct existing incon-
gruities, These gentlemen compose the
directing force in the present and the next
Congress.
Thue the campaign pledges of the Repub-
lican party are to be set aside in the ioter-
ent of the predatory corporations and
the monopolistic srusts. TAFT will fulfill
his promise to call the Sixty-first Congress
into special session soon after his inangu-
ration ‘‘for the purpose of revising the tar-
iff.”” Bat there will be no revision in the
interest of the people. There will be no
reduction in the schedules which will work
a reduction in the price of hiankets, shoes
or other necessaries of life to the people.
The trust lobbyists in Congress will take
care of that and TAFT will complain as
ROOSEVELT has done that Congress is ob-
durate and intractable.
As a matter of fact there was never any
intention of revising the tariff in the inter.
est of the people. When the Republican
National convention which nominated TAFT
declared that in the revision of the sariff ac-
count should be taken ‘‘of the fair profits
of the American manufacturers,” the
scheme to fool the people was planned.
The tariff mougers put up the money to
elect the Republican candidates and the
gommerce is as obvious now as it was when
MARK HANNA made an open bargain
with the shipbui'ders’ trust to guarantee a
subsidy in resurn for corruption fands.
Republican promises are delusions and
whether made by HANNA or HITCHCOCK
they are intended to deceive.
~The curfew whistle is now blowing
at eight o’clook instead of 845 and the
borough police have been instructed to see
| that the law is strictly observed.
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Don't Count Too Much On It
The great blow that Republican news-
papers bave been making about the return
of prosperity, in the eveus of the election
of Mr. TAFT is already bearing its fruit.
Every incoming steamer is loaded with the
cheap labor of Enrope and reports from the
old world give promise of a greater influx,
of those who come here free of all tariff tax-
ation to compete with the honest labor of
this country, than has been known for
many, Many years.
Is may be that some of the now idle far-
paces, abandoned factories and silent mills,
will be put into operation at an early day,
but the resumption that is promised with
such gosto and paraded with so much ef-
fort, on the part of those who have never
hesitated to deceive the public if a politic-
al point could be made, is neither so gen-
eral nor so near. Hereahouts we have idle
industries that give no show of getting
busy ; we have smokeless furnace stacks
and unworked ore mines that are as quiet
as the cemetery. Machine shops without
orders, and Lariness stagnation as complete
and general as it was six months ago, and
no word of hope to the unemployed labor-
er that work will be given him. Anditis
80 elsewhere. It is the few maoufactories
that are starting up. The many are still
idle.
And yet the olatter about a geveral re-
sumption goes on and cheap European la-
bor is induced to flock to this country in
such crowds that even should there be a
demand for putting a goodly portion of our
manulactories into operation, the labor
market will be so overstocked that itis
doubtful if American workmen will be
mach better off thav they are at the pres-
ent time. Some may secure work but it
will he in competition with that foreign la-
bor that is induced and encouraged to
come here by the magnified reports that are
given out daily by the newspaper press of
the country. And those who do get upon
a pay-roll are very likely to find a greatly
reduced wage rate and a continuation of
the excessively high price for every neoces-
gary of life that has been ruling for over a
year past.
It is best that the workingmen should
look conditions in the face as they already
exist. The disappointment will be less to
them when they Sad that there is no such
a boom in business and in work as some of
the newspapers would make believe.
The millenium for laboring people is not
yet here, notwithstanding the fact that
TAFT has heen elected and Republican offi-
cials can feed at the public crib for the
comiug four years.
A Problem tor the Postoffice Depart
ment,
With an empty treasury in Washington
{and a deficit that, had it come under a
Democratic administration, would have
been heralded a: the bankruptoy of the
Government, those in charge of the looted
money bags of the treasury, are now seem-
ingly greatly disturbed as to the whys and
wherefores of the condition they find them-
selves up against.
Since 1905 the Postoffioe Department has
shown a shortage each year, ranoing into
the millions, until the annoal deficit now is
greater than the entire expense of that de-
partment was yearly up to 1850. How
these enormous expenditares are to be re-
duced, or the income increased, is what is
worrying those who are charged with its
administration. To cut down the service,
or to increase the rate of postage would he
dangerous experiments to make, and might
be the foundation for objections that would
grow into serious opposition to Mr. TAF?'s
administration. And yet it is only throagh
one or the other of these methods that a
remedy can be found.
It is possible that some reliel could he
had by a redaction of the padded pay-rolls
and the elimination from the postal service
of the thousands upon thousands of useless
officials who draw their monthly stipend
trom the Treasury, without any return in
service. Bat that would be going tack
upon the fellows who are depended upon to
howl for the administration and Republi-
can rule, and of course could not he enter-
tained. So that the matter falls back to
the original propostion of a decrease in the
serviee given the pablio, an increase in the
postal rates, or an unlimited interest bear-
ing debt fastened upon the people that in a
few years will egual in amount the annual
army or pension expenditures of the coun-
try, and which now exceed that of many of
the governments of Earope.
Some people may think it is a blessed
thing to have a Republican adm inistration
to take care of governmental problems, but
moat of them will waken up eventually to
learn that the ‘‘costliness’ of such rale, is
away above the value of the blessings it
brings.
——Muskrats are go plentiful in the
dam and old canal at Cartin that one man
at that place has captured one hundred of
them io the last few weeks. As muskrat
pelts are worth twenty-five cents each, his
catoh will net him twenty-five dollars; and
he is not through yet.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 13, 1908.
An Outrageous Proposition.
The esteemed New York World has
inaugurated an interesting and euergetic
campaign for Presidents RooseveLr for
United States Senator for New York to
succeed Senator PLATT. It says that in
suggesting Mr. RoosSEVELT [or she office
“it withdraws no word or sylable of the
criticism which it bas made of his adminis-
tration, of his policies, of his methods and
of the manner in which be has discharged
the duties of his high office.” It adds
that ‘‘he lacks balance ; he lacks poise ;
he lacks dignity ; he lacks a sense of pro-
portion ; he lacks a sense of hisSresponsi-
bilities ; he lacks judgment ; he lacks all
the elements except energy and determi-
nation that go to make up an administra-
tor of the first rank.”’ Not satisfied fwith
that our esteemed contemporay continues :
**His jingoiem ; hia demagogio tendency to
appeal to passion and class hatred ; his
intemperate, intolerant, violent speech ;
his excessive restlessness ; bis excessive
vanity ; his excessive ambition * * *
help to disqualify him for an office which
| demands more of the spirit of the judge
| than the spirit of the crusader.”
| Nevertheless our New York contempor-
| ary would commission this delinquent to
| represent the imperial State of New York
| in the Senate of the United States for the
| reason thas with all these faults and weak-
nesses he couldn’t do a great deal of harm
because he would be ‘‘only one member of
a body whioh clings with great tenacity to
its rules and its prerogatives.” He would
be obliged to ‘“‘conform to the traditions of
the greatest deliberative body in the
world,” our esteemed contemporary adds,
and covsequently his genius for evil would
be beld in restraint. Aod why would our
esteemed contemporary load up such a
hazard ? Because the dignity of the office
is shockingly lowered when a President of
the United States at the end of his term is
shrast into private life to shift for a living
for himse!f and family as best he can.
“The circumstances which forced GRANT
to go into a hank, CLEVELAND to become
the trustee of an insurance company and
HARRISON to practice law are abhorrent to
our contemporary and therefore he would
make a Senator of ROOSEVELT.
** As President of the United States THE-
ODORE ROOSEVELT violated the coustitn-
tion which he bad taken a solemn oath to
‘preserve, protect and defend.”” He usurp-
ed powers which belonged to other de-
partments of the government aud tried by
every available expedient to subvert the
government and convert the Republic into
a military oligarchy. He maligned wen
and women and deliberately falsified to
injure the reputation of men who are cit-
izens of the Republic. He conspired with
disreputable politicians to promote selfish
interests to the prejudice of the common
gaod and he used the authority of the
commander-in-chief of the army to ad-
vance camp followers over the heads of
veterans who had eared the gratitude of
the people by faithfa! and hazardous serv-
ice in the army. Such a man is entitled
to no consideration upon the expiration
of au office acquired by the help of an
assassin and the dignity of such a man
wouldn’s be lowered if he became dealer
in a faro bank or bar keeper ina dive,
Oar New York contemporary iusults the
public conscience in proposing him for
Senator.
——The majority of Centre county nim-
rods who expect to hant deer this season
will make their pilgrimage to the woods
tomorrow to be on the ground for the legal
opening of the season Monday morning.
Owing to the fact that deer have been re-
ported very scarce in the mountains the
number of hunters will hardly be as great
this year as usual, but withal that, there
will be enoagh in the woods to make it
dangerous for both deer and mau, unless
great caution is observed in regard to the
latter. The Panthers will leave early to-
morrow morning over the Central Railroad
of Pennsylvania for their hunting grounds
in the Socootac region and this year
they will make a strong effort to ges one or
more deer. In this connection we repeat
our request of last week, that hunters send
to the WATCHMAN a list of all deer killed
during the season, aud by whom.
——The squad of state constabulary de-
tailed for duty at Philipsburg arrived in
thas town last Saturday and had their first
call of duty on Monday. A lot of hides
bad recently been stolen from a dealer in
Osceola Mills and two foreigners who lived
in Philipsburg were suspected. Three of
the troopers made a search of the quarters
ocoupied by the foreigners and when they
displayed their badge and search warrant
the men grabbed both and started to run.
They were caught and put under arrest
but not before both of them were some-
what cut and battered up. They were
given a hearing the vexs day and Sued five
dollars each and costs.
— Wednesday's rain was sufficient to
put out the forest fires that bave been rag-
ing on the mountains the past week.
RE ——
NO. 45.
Out oi ihe Ashes of Defeat will
Come a Constitutional Democracy,
rm oo tement of Governor Elect Marshall, of
*‘It seems to be the fate of great reform-
ers like Mr. Bryan to live in history rather
thao in office. Disheartening as is the re.
suls in the Republic, the increased vote of
Demuooratio principles in many of the
States leads me to hope that the money—
mad magnates will yield to treatment
rather than die the death which loevitably
overtakes all those who grow arrogant.
“The business interests will surely see
that our party 1% not the enemy of vested
rights. We strike only at vested wrongs.
I bope they may be peaceably wiped ous,
for Ifear il they are not they will be
forcibly. These evils would have been
cheerfully eliminated ander Mr. Bryan. I
hope they will be under Mr. Tals, though
grudgingly.
“The light has been worth the making.
There are now no discordant elements in
oar party. Factions have heen blended in
the white heat of persecution and a spirit
of mutual trust restored, which augurs well
for the arising of a constituti demoo-
racy out of the ashes of defeat.
“No such Joi tian warfare was ever
waged as in Indiana, and yet we bavea
partial victory, made ble only by
direct appeals to men of all parties who
believe that the people and not the offices
should rule.
“In Indiava it is not to he made a par-
tisan victory by my using patronage to re-
ward at the expense of the interests of the
people. If I know how, I am going to give
the State an old-fashioned constitutional
administration, which means equal rights
tor all and special privileges to none.
“If you will only keep up the cry
“‘Back to the fathers !”’ we will get there
some day, and the sooner the better ; for
while business and money are good fora
people, principle is the one enduring
necessity of good government.”
Sowing the Wind.
From the Pittsburg Post.
As a part of the bargain and conspiracy
between certain business interests and Re-
publican politicians, the artificial, or at
east artifically timed, resumption of indus-
try after the election has hegun. There
is open connection made in Republican
papers between this opening and the elec-
tion results of Tuesday. Do our friends
the enemy realize what a crop of dragons’
teeth they are thus sowing and what a
war-like brood this orop is likely to be?
What is the difference, in thus teach-
ing enterprise to look to the Government
for help, between the socialism of Debs
and she paternalism of the Roosevelt-Taft
administration, aided aud. .abstted hy
business conspiracy ? Many of these indas-
tries so ostentationsly resuming now
would doubtless have done the same had
Bryan won out. About the time the Re-
publicans ges the oountry trained to the
idea that they alone can give prosperity to
the land, they will be required to show
why they should not keep it up indefinite-
ly and prevent it from those fluctuations
which human experience shows are all but
inevitable.
The starving unemployed whose under-
standing has been warped by the fallacions
fall dinnerpail argument may not be as
wonderfully patient as they have been re.
cently. Socialism is sowing the seeds of
discontent which may long lie dormans,
but which on favorable occasions will
spring up quickly and spread fast and far.
If the present benefits of protection, con-
fined to the wealthy few, are distributed,
il the laborer and the consumer find the
favor now reserved to the manulccturer
alone, we shall have stability and content
ment, but the tariff will then he Demo-
cratic and for revenue, rather than Repuh-
lican and protective.
A Very Far off Contingency.
From the Washington Herald,
“The Democratic purty is left ina chaotic con-
dition. Ont of the wreckage a new party may be
formed. Ifit was Mr. Hearst's plan to hasten
this consummation, he surely did hisshare of the
work during the campaign, Many Democrats
are likely to reach the conclusion that the time
has arrived to jump from the derelictto the new
sran t oatied the Independence party." —Washing-
n hy
Chaotic, yes ; beaten to a ‘‘lrazzle,’’ yes;
but going wad, not yet.
When Massachusetts tarns Populist,
New York city goes dry, Pennsylvania de-
mands free trade, Chicago practices sell-
effacement, Kansas farnishes free whiskey
to the farmers, *‘Uncle Joe’’ quits standing
pat, the American flag is bauled down in
the Philippines, and the Republicans nomi-
nate John D. Rockefeller or E. H. Harri-
man for President —then, and not till then,
will yon see Democrats jumping from the
present ‘‘dereliot’’ to the ‘‘new craft called
the Independence party.”
And yes William Randolph Hearst may
—and doubtless will—continne in his
unique, unpleasant way to be a powerful
factor in American life and help mightily
to shape, for good or ill, she political des-
tinies of this land.
As for the Democratic party, chaotic and
*“frazzled’’ as it is to-day, its hour and its
man will some time come, and when they
come a clear-cut, burning issue that goes
straight to the honest American heart and
appeals to the intelligence and the con-
science of the American mind—one issue,
not many—will quickly transform that
derelict of to-day into a proud, invinocible
craft of another day—and under the same
baoner.
—The action of the County Commission-
ers-elect in selecting their attorney, jani-
tor and olerk so early may have saved them
a lot of trouble with an army of possible
applicants, but Chairman HARRY KEL-
LER, Captain General J. THOMAS MITCH-
ELL and Chiel Pasher QUIGLEY are sore as
boils because they weren's even consulted.
——Help the Logan Fire company by
going to see Clifton Mallory in David Gar-
riok at the opera house next Tuesday even-
ing. The play in itself ia well worth eee-
ing and Mr. Mallory has the reputation of
giving a very good portrayal of it.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Eleven cases of trachoma have been dis
covered in Butler and considerable fear is
ectertained that the dread eye disease may
spread throughout the city. All the victims
are foreigners.
—A corporation was organized in Couders
port, Potter county, last Thursday, with a
capital of $100,000 for the purpose of building
a new glass plant. It 1s proposed to start up
on March 1st, 1900
—The mayor of Wilkesbarre and thirty.
two councilmen have entered bail for court
trial on the charge of maintaining a nuisance.
The alleged nuisance consists in not keeping
the streets of that city in repair.
—As the direct result of the crusade against
illicit liquor traffic in Schuylkill county by
the Schuylkill Law and Order society, the
court on Monday revoted seven saloon keep-
ers’ licenses, for various violations of the
law.
—The Hawke Bros., contractors, of Lowis-
town, began work on Thursday with a large
force of men on the trenches for the pipe line
for the Salitillo water works. The concrete
reservoir has had a force of men on for some
time and it will soon be complete.
—A foreigner who was taken to the Latrobe
hospital nearly lost his life as a result of his
stubborness, It took all the powers of per-
suasion his relatives and the mine superin~
tendent possessed to get him to consent to the
amputation of a horribly mangled limb.
—S8ix members of Clay Hill ladies’ aid so-
ciety, in Franklin county, met at Henry
Barr's on last Monday at 9 o'clock and husk-
ed corn until 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
They husked 150 bushels. This was done
because Mr. Barr was disabled recently ina
serious accident.
—Fifteen skilled workmen are now em-
gaged at placing two carloads of machinery
and equipment in the Derry pottery build
jng, for the High Tension Insulator com=
pany. The new industry will be started in
about three weeksand will give employment
to a number of men.
—After coutinuing for five weeks, the
evangelistic meetings in the rink at Latrobe,
conducted by Davis and Mills, were brought
to a close on Sunday night with a meeting of
2,000 people. It is stated that over 500 per
sons made a confession of faith during the
progress of the meetings.
—The Lehigh Valley collieries Nos. 1, 2
3, 4 and 5, Susquehanna Coal company,
William Penn and North American and Mc-
Turk’s washeries, were again compelled to
suspend operations on Saturday, on account
of the scarcity of water, throwing 9,000 men
and boys out of employment.
—Burgess Oler, of Everett, has received a
communication from the Elk Tanning com.
pany, saying that the Tecumseh tannery,
destroyed by fire some months ago, will not
be rebuilt at present. This will be a
serious loss to Everett, as the tannery gave
employment to upwards of two hundred
men.
—Rev. I. L. Kephart, D. D., editor of the
Religious Telescope, Dayton, O., the official
organ of the United Brethren church, who
died from a cancerous affection of the stom-
ach on October 28th, at his home in the lat-
ter city, was born in Decatur towush
Philipsburg.
—The people of Johnstown are suffering
from a widespread epidemic known as buck-
wheat itech, caused by eating too heartily
and too frequently of the toothsome buck=-
wheat cakes. The itch starts with the skin
becoming sensitive and easily irritated and
the feeling is very annoying. Huntingdon
people are similarly afflicted.
—Services in memory of Ira D. Sankey,
the noted singing evangelist, who was born
and reared in New Castle, were beld in the
First Methodist Episcopal church in that
city on Sunday, under the auspices of the
Young Men's Christian Association for which
Mr. Sankey erected a home there eighteen
years ago at a cost of $40,000.
~— After a long litigation in the Schuylkill
county courts a valuable estate has been so
efiten up with expenses that now, when a
settlement has been reached, there is little
for distribution. It is the T. R. Haupt estate
at Frackville. The receipts and expenditures
filed with the register foot up over $80,000,
leaving but $6,000 to distribute.
~The Standard Steel works company at
Burnham, Mifflin county, on Monday started
in on (uli time in the tire mill and machine
shop. This is the first time in forty-nine
weeks that any of the departments has been
rauning on full time. At the plant of the
Logan Iron and Steel works, the twelve-inch
mill was placed in operation on Monday, after
a prolonged idleness.
—Mrs. William Yearick, of Mill Hall»
Clinton county, was found lying cold in
death at her home about noon on Friday by
her grandson, Dean Bennett, who was re-
turning from work and went into the house.
Mrs. Yearick was alone in her home for some
time and just how long she lay dead is not
known. Deceased is survived by her hus.
band, one daughter and one son.
—A crowd of boys from Huckleberry,
Westmoreland county. who attended church
at Hillview on Sunday night were stopped
on their way Lowe by two masked men who
demanded their money and valuables. The
boys gave fight and managed to get the bet.
ter of the highwaymen. William Adams,
one of the boys, was used up considerably in
the scrimmage. The desperadoes finally
made off in the darkness.
—A leaky lantern started a fire ina barn
where a husking bee was in progress on
Thursday evening and consumed the barn
aud contents on the farm tilled by Michael
Lavery, three miles east of DaBois. A large
gathering of young people was in the strue-
ture at the time, but so fast did the flames
spread through the hay and inflammable
stuff in the stable that nothing could be done.
Two adjoining barns and three sheds filled
with hey were also destroyed.
—J. C. Murphy, who was convicted in the
Westmoreland county criminal court some
time ago on A charge of violating the elec-
tion laws of the state was ou Saturday given
a sentence of two years in the work house
and will have to pay a fine of $1 and the
costs of prosecution. Murphy was the judge
of elections for the Port Roya! district at the
primary election last spring and was also the
return judge. The returns as presented to
the commissioners showed that many more
voles than had actually been cast were on
the return sheet.
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