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8Yy P. SRAY MEEK,
Ink Slings.
—Summer on Tuesday, winter on Wed-
nesday. Thas it goes, with a frog in the
throat and a drip on the nose.
—Congress will convene next week. Then
look out for the parting shot of the mighty
marksman whose next orack will be at the
African lions.
—If there is anything in that early bird
story THAD HAMILTON is going to be the
one that gets the tax collectorship worm.
He is after it and ought to make a good
one.
—The gun that “‘ien’s loaded’ is invari-
ably the one that goes off and, we pre-
sume, that after all that will turn ous to
be the only known reason why the Mari-
sna, “‘the model mine of the world” blew
up with such frightful results.
~The nicest Christmas present that you
could give a resident of the county or one
who bas gone to locate afar is to send the
WATCHMAN to their addresc for a year. It
is far better than a letter each week and
tells them news that you never think of
writing.
—Stop and thiok! What is the end to
be if the government is to continue to run
behind a million dollars a month? The
debt will eventually become unbearable
and that eventuality, in itself, shounid be
enough to make the spenders at Washing:
ton think a little of the future, at least.
' —Ititis true that Col. W. FrEp Rev-
NOLDS is being groomed to sucoeed the
Hon CHARLES F. BARCLAY in Congress
we again tender the unsought and entirely
voluntary advice, that we offered at the
time be was led intocontesting Mr. EM-
ERY'S seat in the Republican national con-
weofion: Look well before you leap.
—According to the latest diplomatic
stroke of the State Department we are now
in league with Eogland and Japan for the
mutual protection of our Asiatic colonies.
That is to say ; England and Japan bave
agree to help keep the rest of the world
quiet while Uocle Sam's millions are
poured into thot Philippine sink hole.
~Fellows who have nothing better to do
than shatter our idols are trying to make
us believe now that Pour REVERE did not
make that famous ride on the 14th of April
in "75, because it was nonecessary. There's
8 lot of wise men in the land, but the
fanny. pack of it is few of them begin to air
"their wisdom nntil those who would be
able to shake it are goue.
Os . —Some “of the good people of this vi-
ity ‘sure that we bave done some-
| e oar Creator for they refer
send ohn upon you and spread a
plague among your cattle.”’ It looks like
there was something in it, bus while we
koow we are all bad enough, yes, just off
bacd, we are unable to think of anything
worse than the ordinary shat we have done
lately.
—The rumor that Congressman BURTON,
ol Ohio, is to be made President-elect
TArr's Secretary of the Treasury
may turn out to be more than a
ramor. If it does there are some people
who will imagine that he has been given a
cabinet portfolio in order to take him ont
of the way of Mr. TAFT,S brother
CHARLES, who wants to be United States
Senator from Ohio. In fact the appoint.
ment would convince most any one that
that is the game.
—Aside from the distingnished position
he occupied asa citizen of Bellefonte Col.
James P. CoBURN will be greatly missed
in the councils of his party. From the
time of the organization of the Republican
party be had been staunch, loyal and un-
compromising in its support and gained
considerable reputation as a ready orator
in its conventions and meetings. While
every one knows we bad nothing in com-
mon with that side of his life, yet a gentle-
mau aod friend we found bim always and
his going leaves one less of the good old
crowd that fought and forgot when politics
were warm fn Centre county.
—A general order of the President put-
ting nearly all of the fourth olass post.
masters under civil service may be very
gratifying to some incumbents, but to
others it will not mean much. As a matter
of fact the free rural delivery of mails has
extended eo far and centralized the bus-
iness of the offices so much that the aver-
age fourth class postmaster bas a job that
there is little, if anything in. Add to the
requirements of holding such an appoint-
ment the necessity of passing a civil service
examination to secure it and the fourth
olass post office will become something that
certain people won't be bothered with and
others won't have the intellectual attain.
ments to secure.
—It is amusing, to say the least, to read
what the men whom ANDY CARNEGIE
made have to say about ‘‘the old man’s"
visws on the tariff. Most of them would
still be hanging over draltsmen’s tables or
swinging balf-empty dinner pails as their
sides if it had not been that ‘‘the old man”’
was pleased to point the way for them to
millions. He knowa this and the world
knows it, but if they are too set up with
their own importance now to understand
it themselves they needn’s trouble
about airing their superior knowledge
about the tariff because it is something thas
“the old man’’ has probably helped them
to learn bus that he bas discarded as falla-
cious and not worthy further consideration.
_VOL. 58
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
Mr. MeClain's Gre Great Weakness,
Mr. FRANK B. McCrLALY, who is putting
forth every effort in his power to become
the next Speaker of the House at Harris-
burg, is finding it a diffionls proposition to
maintain a show of independence and at
the same time secure the confidence and
support of the bosses. Mr. MCCLAIN tried
this before. He knows the failure he made
of it, and knowing this should have the
courage to make his fight one that the boss-
es would fear and would be glad to avoid.
Prior to the session of 1905 Mr. MeCLAIN
announced himself as a candidate for
Speaker for that Session. He had, two
years earlier, allied himself with the EL-
KIN faction as against Quay. He was ac
cepted and supported by what was known
as the reform Republicans, but was badly
defeated by the bosses who demanded the
election of HENRY F. Warton. His de-
feat, it was hoped by his friends, would so
closely align him with the reform forces
that his influence and efforts could be re.
lied upon to oppose the schemes and designs
of the ring that bad surped him down. In
this, however, they were bitterly dieap-
pointed.
While that session opened the way for
Mr. McCLAIN to make a reputation for
himself by simply taking she lead of those
who had supported him and secured his op-
position to the vicious and notorious legis-
lation that was proposed and enacted, he
willingly became the tool of the Machine
that had turned him down and aided it to
force upon the people legislation so rank
and rotten that an extra session of the Leg-
islature bad to be called, within a year, to
change or repeal a greater portion of it.
Had he asserted his manhood, and while
standing by his party, actively and earnest-
ly demanded the defeat of the obnoxious
and ontrageons legislation, the ring Ma-
chine under the ruling of the creature it
bad put in the Speaker's chair, enacted
into law that year, there is little doubs
that Mr. McCLAIN would now be she Gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania, in place of a sup-
pliant for re-election to the position this
same Machine gave him, two years later,
in return for his abject submission to their
demands daring the notorious session of
1905.
Is was then Sed during that cession of
the Legislature that Mr. McCLAIN lost his
grip on the political situation in Pennsyl-
vania. One year later the bosses needed
come one with a record for regularity and
a reputation as a reformer as a candidate
for Governor. MCCLAIN bad the former
but bad failed at the opportune time to
earn the latter, and the nomination was
handed over to an unknown but respecta-
ble citizen of Philadelphia, who has allow-
ed the bosses to have their way, politically
and otherwise, and has attempted to eatis-
fy the ‘‘reformers’’ with the ‘‘respectabili-
ty'’ of his administration.
It is the fact that Mr. MCCLAIN now so
vooiferonsly proclaims bis ‘‘regularity®
and at the same time announces hia deter-
mination to abide by whatever decision
the Machine, through its henchmen it has
elected may make, that weakens his chauces
and practically leaves him without effect.
ive support. Those who are opposed to
the Machine fear a repetition of the acts of
1905. Those who are with it, feel that if
the bosses want or need him, they can have
his services whether he is Speaker or not.
This paper would be glad to see him
elected to the position. He made a repu-
table and fair presiding officer during the
last session of the Legislature, and no
doubt would again. Bat he will need to
show more sand, to exhibit more independ-
ence, and prove a greater menace to the
purposes of the gang that is in opposition
to him thao be has yet done, if he is to sunc-
ceed himself in the Speaker's chair.
Can Guess Why With Their Eyes Shut.
Surprise in some quarters is manifested
over the faot that Mr. James Munvey-
HILL, a rattling good Democrat of West.
moreland county, is canvassing among the
Republican members of the Legislature in
the interest of JoHN F. Cox for Speaker.
There need be no surprise about this. Mr.
MULVEYHILL knows what be is doing. He
always does. He knows that & Democrat
can’t be elected to this position, and when
that is impossible there is no farther pol-
itics in is for him. When there is no pol-
ities in a thing, then Jiu is for the inter-
ests he represents and as those interests are
not for Local Option, Sumptuary Statutes,
Prohibition, and the like, the forces that
stand for these ideas ought to be able to’
guess the first time why he is for Cox.
Others can do so with their eyes shat.
——We have always nnderstood that the
constitution of the State of New York—
like thas of Pennsyivania—made it a daoty
and a prerogative of the Legislature of the
State to choose and elect its United States
Senators. Io this we must have been mis-
taken. From recent actions abont the
White House and the way New Yorkers
seem to look at it, this job is evidently one
for the President to attend to. It is
needless to add thas he’s going to do it or
bust a belly-band in the attempt.
Must Pay 1h the Piper.
When President ROOSEVELT retires [rom
the presidential chair at noon on she 4th of
March nexs, he will go out of office with
the well earned reputation of having con-
duooted the moss costly, the most extrava-
gant and the moss reckiess ad ministratico,
in the expenditure of pablic moneys, ever
known iu this or any other government.
Beginning with a reserve in the treasury of
over two hundred millions, and baving
daring each year of his administration al-
most doubled the income formerly enjoyed,
with abundant harvests, uoparallelled
prosperity and everything calculated to in-
crease the government wealth and add to
its financial strengeh, he will vacate the
high office he holds with a treasury defioit
of over one hundred millions, the annual
expenses more than doubled and the coun-
try in a condition thas extra taxation will
have to be resorted to to meet the ordinary
and every day expenditures for governmen-
tal affairs.
It i av old ‘‘saw”’ that ‘‘he who dances
must pay the piper.’’ Asa people we have
been dancing to every fool tane that Mr.
ROOSEVELT has piped for seven years past.
We have squandered bandreds of millions
upon battle ships shat it is now discovered
are protected by imperfect armor plate and
can be distanced, in speed, by the vessels of
any nation on the globe. We have purohas-
ed islands from those who had no title to
them for the sole purpose of having an ex-
cuse for maintaining a useless and expens-
ive standing army, aod keeping up an in-
terminable war scare. We bave multiplied
officials until $he government pay-rolls ex-
ceed in amount the entire governmental ex-
penditures of fifty years ago, and we bave
added in one way or another to the ordina-
ry outlays for administrative purposes un-
til the increased expenditures now amount
to more than double the original, and we
are still, and it is probable will be compell-
ed to continue for all time, davcing to
these extravagant tones.
That the ordinary income from revenue,
tariff and other sorts of taxation, relied up-
on to keep governmental offices going, is
not sufficient to meet the annual pecessa-
ry expenditures in made oertain by the
monthly deficiencies that are reported by
the treasury department, avd which now
aggregate over $100,000,000. How these
will be met is one of the problems for those
whose duty it is to solve them. In the end,
however, the people must pay them. This
is certain. It ie the only thing oertain in
the whole range of governmental affairs.
When pay time comes—which must be
soon—the public will nuderstand the bene-
fits of RoosgvELTism. Isis when''paying
the piper’ that they will discover how cost-
ly has been their dance.
Pennsylvania's Officials at Last,
The cold and undispated figures of the
recent election so far as the vote on Presi-
dent here in Penuosylvania goes, are not
nearly #o bad or disconragiog, for the Dem-
ocracy, a8 most people thought the morn-
ing after. .Then nine-tenths of us felt as if
we had the worst lickin’ of our lives. Now
it is shown that ‘‘in any off year’ the vote
polled by the Democrats would have given
us a glorious victory. As it was, the Dem-
oorats polled 110,795 votes more and the
Republicans 95,170 less than they did as
the presidential eleotion four years ago.
The total official vote as returned to the of-
fice of the Secretary of the Commonwealth
for 1904 and 1908 being as follows :
1004
Ba
De! rr .
Gilhaus, Socialist Labor... 1,822
Hisgen, Independent......ccoeievinnnninnien “ 108
When you look at the results just as
they are, this far away from the noise and
clamor, the surprise and disappointment
of election day, they are anything but dis-
couraging to the Democracy of Pennsylva-
nia. A gain of 110,795 for the Democracy
and a loss of 95,170 to Republicaniem is
anything but a victory for the party in
power to boast of.
— [t's only when yoa can get an op-
portunity to measure closely that you get
the exact size of the thing. The Baltimore
Sun bas for many years paraded around
with chest extended as if it were the great-
est, most important and most influential
power in all of the State of Maryland. Is
claimed to be Democratic. It supported
PARKER in 1904, with all the ability it
possessed and he received a single one of its
eight electoral votes. At the last election
it renounced its Democracy, repudiated
and bitterly opposed BRYAN, and seven of
the eight electoral votes of that State were
secured for him, With this measurement
it is easy to know the exact size of the Sun's
inflaence. And itdon’t seem to be over-
whelmingly large, does it?
— December, the last month of the
year, is now here and Christmas will be
with us before we are aware of it.
DECEMBER 4, 1908.
Promises Unfailfilled,
And vow it is announced that she 150,000
ton steel;rail order, which we were told
two days after the election was to be given
the steel mills about Pittsburg at once, has
not yet heen placed and that the probabil.
ities now are shat no sach order will be
given until after the Holidays, if then.
Much of the evidence of returning prosper-
ity that was so positively announced and
80 persistently paraded, at that time, has
proven to be of the same kind. Some few
industries have started up, others are hop
ing that they will soon be able to stars, but | gett:
on the whole, the general betterment of
business conditions has been so little that
these alter election promises and expeota-
tions only prove how effectively and cruel-
ly the people have been and can be faked.
Why these boastful and magnified re-
ports about she return of prosperity were
#0 generally made and so loudly heralded
it is difficult to conceive. The election was
over and no votes could be made in that
way. The Republican party had won and
there was no need to lie to the people shen.
The cupboard of the working man was
empty, bus these stories furnished nothing
to fill them. The people knew and felt
thas a panic was upon them, and tales of
this kind, while they give promise of bes-
tering conditions, in no substantial way
changed conditions for the better for any
one,
Why then were these stories cironlated ?
What was the object of these Aladin tales
of the wonderful prospects and promises
that came with the election of Mr. TAFT?
The answer is for those who are behind
them to figure ous, and we fear that an
honest cenclusion will neither be compli-
mentary to the newspaper press, in the
minds of those who have been so bitterly
disappointed, nor will it add to the respect
the public has for ite knowledge of what
is going on, or its truthfulness in telling it.
It Will Save Disappointment.
Within the past few days conditions
about Washington are taking on such an
appearance that great hope ic given thas | Allow
some kind of tariff revision will come, not-
withstanding the efforts of the stand-pat- | sax
ters to prevent it. How much of a oha
wili ve made, or along what lines +i
ebaoges will come no one would pretend to
predict. Until more is known than the
mere promise now held out, it will bardly
justily a man in buying » farm because of
an expectation thas the tariff revision that
is looked for will be such as to enable him
to purchase American manufactured imple-
ments at home as cheaply as they are sold
to the English farmer ; nor to inorease his
family because the price of blankets
and clothing and shoes will be cat down.
While he is watching and hoping for these
things to come, through a general reduc.
tion of duties, it will be just as. well for
him to keep homping himself and strug-
gling to the extent of his ability to pay the
extra prices the present tariff imposes upon
him. These extra taxes are on everything
he uses now, and they will be there for
some time to come.
Under any circumstances its a long time
between a political promise and its realiza
tion, and there is no probability that shere
will be any exception in this case. Conse-
quently is will be just as well for us all to
continue at our jobs as if nothing is ex
pected. If tariff revision comes, and it is
in the interest of the masses, so much the
better. If nothing bat a chavge comes,
that bepefits none but a few—as is most
probable—the disappointment will be so
much the less.
Don’t count on much for she people so
long as yon have to look to a Republican
Congress and a Republican administration
for it.
Official Vote on Judges.
The official vote for Superior Court
Judge in this State bas just been announe-
ed to the Secretary of State and is as fol-
lows :
Porter, R.cccscisssssssissccissnnsnnssenn sessnnnes 646,370
OO |
These figures show that 99,459 Repub-
ficans who voted for TAFT failed to cast
their ballot for the State, distriot and coun-
ty tickets and that 82,909 Democrats dis-
franchised themselves, excepts for BRYAN.
Sarely an election law that will lose to the
local candidates almost two handred thous-
sand votes, because of its intricacies and
size, and the difficulty of marking correot-
ly, is not the kind of a ballot that will se-
cure an honest and fair expression of the
voters or that will jastily any party io de-
manding its continuance.
~——This is the last week in which can-
didates, successful and unsuccessful, who
were voted for at the late election, will
have in which to file the account of their
election expenses, and at this writing not
over a balf dozen have done so. The law
is specific in this regard and states very
plainly that any man who is elected to ol-
fice and fails to file an account of his ex-
penses cannot legally hold the office to
which he was elected. The law also re-
quires the defeated candidates to file an ao-
i
_NO. 48.
Mr. Adams As a Thief.
From the Boston Traveler.
Charles Francis Adams, ina letter to
Congressman MoCall, sarcassically calls
himself a tariff thief wish a license Searing
the broad seal of the United States, and
known as the “‘Dingley tarifl,”’ to steal.
Hesays: *“Istole under is yesterday ; I
am stealing under it to day ; I propose %o
steal uoder is to morrow. The govern,
ment bas forced me into the position, and
I both do and shall take full sivas of
it. Iam, therefore, a tariff thief, witha
license to steal. And—whas are you going
to do abous it ?"’
The committee on ways and means is
getting largely the protected manufao-
turers’ side of the case ; the consumers are
widely scattered and disorganized ; the
rank and file of them are workingmen and
people of limited means, who do not feel
the direct pinch of the taxes from the
tariff, and to whom the question of how
the government gets the money to pay ite
bilis is largely 8 mystery. Workingmen
cannot afford to pay car fares and expense
to Washington to protest agaivss the pres-
ent tariff rates, although the large part of
it comes from their pockets in the long
run.
It is the little driblets that make up the
tariff graft. If a corporation can squeeze
five cents each from every individual in
the United States it means $4,000,000 or 5
per cent on an $80,000,000 capitalization,
which is not to be sneezed at. The excess
ie the cost of food, clothes, eto., by
every family in the United States use
of the tariff is estimated to be $100 a yeur,
which is five cents multiplicd 2000
When McKinley came into office in 1896,
the per capita cost of running the nation
was $6.18 which under Roosevelt has in-
creased to $8.86. When you say it quickly
this $2.68 increase seems small, but it
produces $200,000,000 extra to be spent at
Washington.
The American Damping Policy.
From the Toronto Globe,
One of the strongest influences tending
to force tariff reform te the front in the
United States is the practice of the proteot-
ed industries, which sell at the normal
profite allowed by competition abroad and
evy the full protection of the tariff on the
consumers at home. If a tariff affords a
manuofacturer any protection at home it
must enable him to get more than the nor-
mal price for his goods. He cannot do this
ablead, but mast sell at the normal profis
lowed by hk The American
nails to she adjaceut factories on Li ver-
pool. The nails were shipped to Liver-
pool and brought back under the clause in
the American tariff permitting the free re-
turn of American products in original pack-
ages. The freight charge for two ship-
ments across the Atlantio was less than the
overcharge the tariff allowed the pail man-
ulactarers to levy at home. This sitnation
is highly amusiog to an onlooker. The
spectacle of au intelligent people carrying
nails twice across the Atlantic and finding
it more profitable than carrying them
across the street reveals with what little
wisdom a nation may be governed. But
the most amusing feature was tbe attitude
of the manufacturers, who thought they
bad really suffered a gross injustice. This
shows how easy it is to regard privileges,
however unwarranted, as rights.
Our Impreunious Office Holders.
From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
It will be a relief to the publio from the
distressed state of mind which it bas
labored under since Son-in-law Longworth
imparted to it some years ago the des
ate sofferings existing among our under-
pia foreign Ministers to learn indirectly
rom the list of Republican campaign con-
tributors that this painful condition no
longer exists. It is eafficient to say that
the list discloses the names of eleven
representatives, five Ambas-
sadors, five Ministers and one Governor,
who contributed in all $23,250 from their
humble store. The names and amounts
on this new roll of patriotism follow.
Whitelaw Retdy London......ccsimn serersens... $10,000
sory Watts, Sart
Dem J. Hin Berlin...
Charles S. Francis, I 1,000
Thomas J. O'Brein TORY Sucesssvrmmessermen "500
Edwin V. Morgan, AVA Acernse
Herbert G. Squ uires, AMA eereesress ——
William G. Collier, Madrid..cce...
Charles P, y L8DOD..ccocrerssrrrsnsssessnsene.. 1000
Charles E. raves, Stockholm...
Charles E. Magoon, LE a.
Total $23,250
While these modest sums do not indicate
that the tide of Republican prosperity has
reached our foreign outposts fully as yet, it
at least shows that those who occupy them
ae no longer in danger of immediate inani-
tion.
Mr. Taft's Purpose.
From the New York American, Nov. 23.
Mr. Hitohoook emerges from the Presi-
dential campaign with extraordinary lau-
rels and prestige of remarkable eucoess.
He is now generally regarded as one of the
abless, if not the ablest, political organizers
in the Republican party.
His plans and methods, sometimes ques-
tioned and oriticised, have been so abund-
autly vindicated by results thas he is now
firmly established as an oracle and author-
ity in the management of political cam-
ne,
To have made such a man the first ap.
pointee in the Cabinet of the new Presi.
dent, and to have located him in the Poat
Office Department, suggests the otherwise
evident fact that Mr. Taft proposes to con-
trol his party as well as the Presidency.
The Post office Department is the Presi-
dent Factory of the Government.
Real Cruel.
From the Louisville Courier Journal.
“There must be a real revision of the
tariff,’ says the Chicago Evening Post.
Don’t make a fellow laugh when "bis lips
are oracked.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—It cost the county of Cambria $8,000 to
fight forest fires during the recent period of
blazes.
—While eating raw oysters the other day,
| George G. Gross, of Reading, found a pearl,
. which a jeweler valued at $50.
—A large oil portrait of Rev. Dr. W. P.
Eveland, the popular president of William.
sport Dickinson Seminary, was unveiled on
Thanksgiving day.
—Eggs have reached forty-two cents per
dozen in Pottstown and even at that price
the supply is so sm. 1 that <calers must limit
their sales to customers.
—Rev. Hugh Strain, pastor of the M. E.
church on the Lumber eity charge, has
broken down physically and for the time
being at least will have to give up his minis-
terial work.
—Jesse 8. Pfoutz, of Sandy Ridge, this
county, aged 18 years, was run over by a
freight trsin, trom which be tried to alight,
and died on Tuesday evening at the Cottage
hospital at Philipsburg.
~The Pittsburg Westmoreland Coal vom-
pany will erect a coking plant near its Acme
mine, ten miles from Monongahela. Con-
tracts have been let for 200 ovens and other
improvements whizh will cost about $500,000-
~—W. C. Teats, a Clinton county hunter,
paid dearly for his ignorance of the law that
forbids the sale of a deer or any part there.
of. He ran into a game warden while en-
deavoring to dispose of a hide and was fined
$100,
—The barn of Audrew Henderson, near
Penbrook, Dauphin county, was burned on
Sunday, and afterwsrds the remains of a
man were found in it. Itis believed that a
tramp had entered the barn to sleep snd had
set it on fire,
—John Novak, a miner, died at the State
hospital at Hazleton, en Sunday, after suffer-
ing for five weeks from a broken back, sus-
tained while at work. During his confine.
raent his family moved away and their
whereabouts is not known.
—For many years it has been firmly be-
lieved that coal exists on the mountains east
of McCounellsburg, in Fulton county, and
the Magsam brothers have begun to develop
the outcroppings on their land. The show-
ings point strongly to anthracite coal.
—(eorge Griffey, a strong colored man
who works ona farm in Porter township,
Lycoming county, had a desperate battle with
a 400-pound hog be was trying to kill. Be-
fore he accomplished his purpose his right
havd was bitten through and he is suffering
greatly.
—Hugh Brown, whose big hotel in Ebens.
burg was burned a few weeks ago, has order-
ed plans drawn for a modern three-story
brick hotel building which is to be erected
on the site of the old structure next summer.
The building is to be fitted up in a modern
manner.
~W. Frank Quickel, of York, was arrested
at his home on Sunday charged with the
theft of platinum pins from his employer,
y | the New York Dental Supply company. He
ucted his thieving for about three years
believed stole about $12,000 worth
Combria county Bave announced the project
of establishing a public hospital at Portage
for the accommodation of men who meet ia-
jury in the populous mining regions between
Johnstown and Gallitzin. In the district
that would be reached by the new hospital
there are about 6,000 miners.
—Two large barns owned hy Jacob Sheas-
ley, a farmer and dairyman, near Fravklin.
were burned sn Thursday eatailing a loss of
$18,000. Neighboring farmers were aroused
by telephone and arrived in time to help to
save seventy-five cattle and ten horses. M.
A. Mangrove, aged 50 years, who ran a quar-
ter of a mile to the fire, dropped dead, after
carrying out a set of harness.
William Montgomery, former cashier of
the Allegheny National bank, of Pittsburg,
was placed in the western penitentiary on
Saturday to begin the serving of a 15-year
sentence for misapplying the funds of the in-
stitution by which he was employed. He
made his first public statement!Saturday and
said he never took a dollar from] the bank
= | for his own use or the use offhis friends.
—John Hildebrand and Elmer }Kline, of
Stony Gap, Lycoming county, went to the
woods to hunt on Thursday, and at noon
while Hildebrand was seated Zeating his
lunch, - Kline, who was about fifty yards
away, mistook his companion’s head and
shoulders, as seen through the bushes, fora
wild turkey, and fired both barrels of his
shot gun. One load tore through Hilde-
brand's shoulder, and a ball pierced his lung.
h3 He was taken to the Williamsport hospital,
but is not expected to recover.
—An important merger was effected re
00 cently whereby the United Gas and Electric
company and the Irondale Electric Light
company, of Bloomsburg, the Standard Gas
company, of Danville, the Berwick Electric
Light company of Berwick,andjthe Columbia
and Montour and Danville and Bloomsburg
Electric Railway company werejmerged into
one corporation. It will go into effect in the
near future and power will be obtained from
the Harwood Power plant at Harwood, Pa.
The personnel of the new corporation is not
announced.
—Associate Judge Forest Swyers, of Mifflin
county, had a narrow escape from death on
Thursday when a rifie ball crashed through
a window at his home at Yeagertown. The
judge had been reading at the window,
which is in the sitting room of his residence,
until shortly before the noon hour, when
feeling somewhat fatigued, he decided to lie
down upon the couch, Scarcely had he done
so than a rifle ball shattered the window,
burying itself in the wall opposite. It is not
thought that the shot was fired with mali-
cious intent.
—Mrs. Mary Konik, aged 64 years, a Gesr-
man lady residing at Beulah, near Ramey,
Friday morning crawled under some coal
cars standing on a siding at Eureka mine,
No. 7, to pick up some loose pieces of coal
lying on the track. While in this position
an engine backed up against the cars to do
some shifting. and unfortunately she was
caught under the wheels, very badly mang-
ling one of her legs. She was taken to the
State hospital, Philipsburg, where it
was found necessary to amputate the leg.
She is getting along very nicely according to
the latest report.