twenty
at the average price is $95.64. This puts a
rather high value on WESLEY JARRET'S
mare a correspondingly low one on
122Y BAUM'S red ribboner.
—It often happens that the man who
buye everything be can fiom the cheap
catalogue houses, like Sears— Roebuck &
Co., and Montgomery Ward, is the very
fellow who, when he has a little misfor-
tane in his home, is around with a paper
asking the merchants with whom be ought
to deal to help him out a little.
~The new pension bill that is before the
Legislature doesn’t please some of the old
boys. It proposes a pension of six dollars
a month to all soldiers who enlisted in
1861 and 1862 bat the provision that those
who are already receiving a pension from
the federal government or holding an office
are not eligible for this one is the thon in
the flesh of many of them.
~The master of paying twelve dollars a
page for printing the Legislative Record is
coming io for a little airing at Harrisburg
just now. At that rate the cost of the in-
dex alone was something over thirty thous.
and dollars. I: does seem a little high for
80 worthless a work, bat things are high in
Harrisbaiz. Now if it had beeo a real reo-
ord of some of the Legislators it might not
have been unwisely spent money to have
found ont what crooks some of them are.
—Trouhle ia beginning to develop at
Harrisharg already. Senator SNYDER, of
Sobuylkill, bas introduced a bill inoreas-
ing the fee for a marriage license from fifty
cents to two dollars. What a hold-up of
poor Hymen, and what ao ontrage upon
the girls. Lots of them that look good as
the present price of filty cents might re-
main on the shell forever as two dollars.
Better, far better, tax the bachelors than
attempt to secure additional revenues hy
making it next to impossible for some to
get married.
~The sinking of the steamer Republic
off Nantncket on Satarday morning was a
miracalons marine disaster. There were
seven hundred and seventy-two persons
aboard the steamer when she was rammed
by the Florida and only six of them lost
their lives. It was the first emergency of
great moment that has arisen since wire.
less telegraphy has been in practice and
though the boats in collision were in a
dense fog and twenty-six miles from land
in ten minutes alter the accident had oec-
curred the wireless telegraph calls for help
had been picked ap, both on shore and at
sea, and no less than fonr boats were away
to the resoue before the passengers on the
- illlated Republic were tally aware of their
danger. It is true that the Florida was
not orippled too badly to stand by and take
the Republic's passengers, bat it is also
trae thas she might bave been and in that
event the wireless messages would have
been the means of saving probably all the
lives, for the Republic was kept afloat un-
til alter many of she resoning vessels reach-
ed her side.
—-—The New York woman who has
brought a suit for divorce against her hus-
band ander the Thirteenth amendment to
the Coonstitntion, which forbids slavery
within the houndaries of the United States,
has institated a proceeding at once novel
aod interesting. She claims thas she is
virtaally a slave now because she has one
ohild and as her husband gets only twenty
dollars a week if any more shonld come her
bonds would be complete. While 1# is troe
that many husbands make slaves of their
wives, either by drunkenness, negligence,
indolence or the mistaken notion thas a
woman is merely a creature that should
defer at all times to the saperior (?) whims
of man, this particular woman is manifest-
ly not the right wife for the man who is
earning twenty dollars a week. If she
were the kind of a wife be ought to have
she would be the happiest little soul in the
world and each new babe would add an
additional ray of sunshine to the home.
For if she were doing her share there wonld
be no thought of slavery. Everything
would he so easy that it wonld be a pleas.
ure, We know of many couples in Belle.
fonte who have hought homes aad paid for
them and raised large families on ahoat
half the salary shat this New Yorker is ges-
ting and instead of thinking themselves
slaves the women are so fall of honest
happiness and comfort that they make the nay
home a veritable Heaven for the one who
| ship of each of the Legislative bodies as
earns the wage.
Harrisburg, Philadelphia avd Pittebarg,
through the arrogance aod diotation of the
bosses controlling the Republican organiza.
tion of the State, deliberately took to
themselves everything of hovor or value
within the gifs of the Legislature and then
sapercillionsly distributed among the
country membership the little that was
lefs. And like whipped hounds the Repre-
sentatives of country districts whiningly
licked up the crumbs that had fallen from
the political table, and will #i¢ round, dar-
ing the balance of the session, licking their
jowls in expectance of being able to snatch
a hone or two before the session ends.
If ever there was such an exhibition of
unadulterated hoggishness as that display.
ed in the organization of the present Leg-
islature it is back of the time that any liv.
ing man cao recall or point to.
Of the 257 Representatives in the Senate
and House, the two cities of Philadelphia
and Pittsburg, including the connty of Al-
legheoy, have eighty-one—or less than one-
thitd of the total membership. And to
this third the country Members allowed to
be given, —the two United States Senators,
the Speaker of she House, the ochairman-
ships and control of the most important
committees of hoth bodies, with many of the
beet and most profitable minor positions,
accepting for themselves and their constita-
evocies, outside of these two cities, three or
four olerkships, a few assistant eergeant-as-
arms and postmasters, and such namber
of pasters and folders, hoot-blacks, water-
closet watchers and spittoon oleaners as
they were allowed.
And nota manly protest from one of
them against this outrageous theft of pat-
ronage and power !
Aud to this exhibision of the greediness
of this city combine, to hog everything
within sight, is yet to be added (its ability
and determination to force upon the State
such legislation as suits its purposes and
will bess aid the bosses in coutinning their
control.
Davip H. LANE, ove of the oldest and
most reprehensible leaders of the Philade!-
phia machine, it is already heralded, has
prepared and will bring to Harrisburg for
enaotment, a new election law, a new pri-
mary election act, an act abolishing the
present poll tax, amendments to and
change, in the present registration law, and
the good Lord &ione kuows how many oih-
er measures. And every ove of them will
be in the interest of the ‘‘gang”’ —will tend
to make its power more impregnable and
its rule more intolerant.
And that these will pass and hecome
laws is almost a certainty. For what can
be expected of the two-thirds majority that
have cravenly sabmitted to being rohbed
of their rights in the organization, when
the whip is cracked to line them up for
such legislation as the hosses demand —hut
the same servility that has obaracterized
every movement they have yet made.
There will be anending and intolerable
talk about a combination of the conutry
Members. There will be a few feeble pro-
tests. There will be continued and unlim-
ited whining, and —that will be all.
To look for any good from the Legisla-
tare cf 1909 will be a useless waste of time.
There is too much of hoggichness on the
one side ; too much eervilisy on the other.
Not New With Them.
Away in the west, particularly in the
great southwest, where the lack of woods
and water are so severely felt, President
ROOSEVELT is getting great oredit for bis
recent utterances favoring the protection of
our forests and the conservation of our
water supply. Governor STUART, in his
last message, called attention to the ne-
oeasity of some Legislation or effort in this
line and his reference to the need of early
action in the matter, meets with favorable
comment from all directions. The public
ia not, however, geneially aware that two
years ago Representative AILMAN, of
Juniata county, presented in the Legisla-
tare a bill covering the very points sog-
gested by Presilent RoOSEVELT and com-
mended by Governor STUART, and that it
was never heard of after ite assignment to
the committee
Mr. AILMAN, we presume, will present
the same bill daring the present session,
and possibly pow that a Republican Presi.
dent bas suggested and a Republican Gov-
ernor commended some action on this mos:
vital question of the preservation of our
woods, that we may have a supply of water,
the proposition of an bamble Demooratio
Member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania
be given at least enongh of era-
tion by the Republican majority to be read
od Jominires, aud either approved or
The Pennsylvania Democrats,
The Democratic State committee wisely
elected Colonel James M. GUFFEY to
membership in the Democratic National
committee for Pennsylvania. We have
never believed tht there was a vacancy in
that committee. As the Denver conven-
tion Colonel GUFFEY was elected to the
office hy an overwhelming majority of the
Pennsylvania delegation and has never re-
signed or in any other way relinguished
his olaim to the seat. Bat under some
malign influence the committee admitted
to its body a man who bad never been
elected and under the parliamentary prin.
ciple that all rach bodies are judges of the
election and gnalification of its own mem-
bers, there may have been a technical
vacancy upon the death of the gentleman
so recognized and is was well enough to
fill is.
The committee was equally wise in the
srlection of State Senator ARTHUR G.
DEWALT, of Lehigh connty,as chairman to
fill the vacancy caused by the resiguation
of Hon, GEORGE M. DiMELING. In com-
mon with all Democrats intimate with ex-
isting conditions, we regres shat Senator
DIMRLING felt that he ought to resign. He
proved not only an efficient but an intel.
ligent and industrious chairman. Only
those familiar with the work of a campaign
know the arduous and difficult labor which
devolves upon a state chairman. It is not
invidious to say that no chairman in recent
years has performed this work more faith-
fully than Senator DIMELING. He was
alike vigilans, earnest, unselfish and effi.
cient. Bat it may be predicted that Sena-
tor DEWALT will be a worthy successor.
The proceedings of the meeting of Taes-
day were fitly finished hy eloguent and
appropriate addresses by national commis
teeman GUFFEY and chairman DEWALT.
Both gentlemen pleaded for harmony and
activity in the party and each pledged him-
self to the fall measure of personal endeav-
or. The Democratic situation is not hope-
less. The Demooratic mind is not in dee-
pair. As a matter of fact the vote of last
fall,notwithstanding the adverse conditions
under whioh it was cast, is most enoourag-
ing. The State committee labored as.
siduously and unselfishly for the success of
the ticket. Colonel GUFFEY was hoth gen-
erons and vigilant in behalf of the party.
Now that all the elements which make for
factionaliem have heen eliminated, there
are reasons to expeot better results in the
fatare.
The Naval Appropriation i).
The House of Representatives in Wash-
ington passed the paval appropriation bill
finally the other day. It appropriates
$135,000 000 for the vse of the navy during
the fiscal year beginning on the 1st of
July. Of this vast sam $38,719,595 is for
new ships of war. These include two hat.
tleships of the Dreadnaught type which
will cost $10,500,000 each, four torpedo
boat destroyers, four colliers, a sub-surface
hoat, whatever that is, and four schmarine
torpedo boats. This leaves something like
$97,000,000 for maintenance and equip
went, a proposition which would have ap-
palled the people even a dozen years ago.
The spirit of proflignoy appears to have
taken ahsolute control in Washington.
Money i= appropriated as if it grew on trees
and cost nothing to gather.
While the measure was pending last
Friday a motion was made to strike oat
the provision for the two battleships and
BURKE CoCcHRAN, of New York, a
political Hessian and parliamentary ad.
ventarer, turned the tide by holding up for
the contemplation ol his associates in the
House the danger of a war with Japan.
“Suppose a Japanese were lynched on the
Pacific coass,’’ he remarked, “what will
they do in Tokio then? They have no
Awerican laborers to lyneh,'’ be continued,
“‘hut they have American merchants, toor-
ists, missionaries and officials.” What
absolutely absard rabbish. If Tokio will
patiently endare such an aspersion upon
Japanese intelligence, there is nothing to
apprehend from any other ineult or ons
rage. And that preposterous nonsense, ad-
dressed to the American Congress, was not
resented. ROOSEVELT has some reason for
questioning the character of Congressmen.
The Japanese are peither savages nor
imbeciles. If a Japanese were lynched on
the Pacific coast the result would be pre-
cisely the same as if an Eoglishman, a Ger-
man or an American were similarly treat-
ed. The matter would be carefully in-
vestigated and if possible the murderer
would be punished. Anybody who doesn’t
koow that is worse than an idiot and ita
school boy in a debating society should in-
dulge in such absurd talk as that of Cocn-
RAN, he would be literally ridiculed ous of
the class. This Japanese war talk is a fig
ment of jingoism, she purpose of which is to
frighten the American people into consent
to profligacy as a means of graft. The
naval appropriation biil is an outrage upon
the people whose industry is taxed to pay
the cost of profligasy.
——Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN,
ATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
EFONTE, PA., JANUARY 29, 1909.
Bousparte's Ignorance of Law,
The childish ignorance of the law of At-
toroey General BONAPARTE was revealed
in the United States cironit court in New
York, the other day, when Judge WARD
quashed the enbpoenas which bad heen
served upon two employees of the New
York World, to give evidence in the lese
majesty case against the editor of shat
newspaper. Mr. BONAPARTE has person-
ally condnoted this case from she begin-
ning. Being a wember of the Baltimore
bar it was probably be who informed the
President of the existence of the Maryland
law of 1801, nuder which she proceedings
have been undertaken. It was certainly
BoNAPARTE who arranged the details of
the prosecution and direoted the issue of
the subpoenas.
In the opinion handed down by Judge
WARD invalidating the subpoenas, tbat
learned juries plainly conveys his doubts
as to the honesty and fairness ef the prose-
cation, the President of the United States
and his agents in the matter, Astorrey
General BoxaPArTe and United States
District Attorney STiMsoN. He says that
the District Attorney contends ‘‘shat the
protection of witnesses may safely rest on
the presumption that neither the grand
jury nor the United States Attorney will
do anything unfair or oppressive.’”” If he
had believed that statement of the United
States Attorney he would probably bave
affirmed the validity of the sabpoenas.
Bat so far from doing thas he took the op-
posite course and deolared the service in-
valid.
O! course Judge Wann bas woo the
everlasting enmity aud hatred of THEO:
DORE ROOSEVELT hy thus preventing a
contemplated outruge, not only upon the
witnesses in question but upon the defend-
ant in the proposed crusade against his lib-
erty and property. ROOSEVELT doesn’t
care for the fact that in this proceeding the
law is heing perverted to the basess pur.
pose that could possibly be imagined. It
is a matter of no concern to him that in
every step in this proceeding he has violat-
ed bis oath of office and his obligation to
the people. Iu his cankered heart and
brain he cherishes nothing except malice
aod he hoped to punish a citizen, not for
violésng any law, hut“foroflending hie |
vanity.
A Reform Aborilon.
Of all the attempts to reforns thin elections
in this State that bave been made yet, the
Uniform Primary method has proven the
most iveflective and abortive. In place of
securing an houvess expression of the hon-
est people of both parties, as to their nom-
inees, it has afforded the traders and mer-
cenaries the opportunity of placing on the
different tickets jnst snoh wen as they de-
sire.
Particularly is thie so in the greatly con-
gested districts, and those having over-
whelming majorities for either party. Both
in Pittsburg and Philadelphia at the recent
elections, Republicans voted their candi-
dates onto the Demooratio tickes in a num-
ber of distriots, and in one Pittsburg dis-
triot, where the Republican majority was
80 large that there was no hope for any de-
oent Demoorat to have a showing at the
election, and none coald be fonud who
would accept a nomination because of that
hopelessness, two trading Democrats were
put ou the Republican ticket as against
two reputable Republicans who had filed
their papers and were willing to stand as
candidates,
The present act has proven itself as the
most proficient aid to scoundrelism and
mercenaries thas bas ever been experienc
ed. If the law cannot he amended wo that its
multiplicity of weaknesses can be cured, it
would be better by lar to repeal it and go
back to the old and simple means of seleot-
ing candidates.
In shat case at least, if errors occurred or
wrongs were committed, they would not
be accomplished under the forms and pro-
tection of law.
—Prof. H. A. SURFACE, the chief bug-
ologist of the State and the big noise maker
at most of the agricultural gatherings, has
just discovered that the brown tail moth is
going to fly through the Pennsylvania as-
mosphere soon in svoch myriad millions as
to make human lite unendurable. His
warning is timely for is gives every one
time to conjure up a picture of the Profes-
sor with a new squirt gan standing on the
boundaries of the old Keystone State wait-
ing for the skirmish line of the brown-tail-
ed hordes. The Professor is the man be-
hind the gan and if his buoket runs dry of
emulsion there will be enough wind left to
blow every brown-tailed devil clear to
Mars and the swirl will probably be so
great thas the terrible ‘‘Saint Josie’ scale
will be carried away in their wake.
~The conntry members are said to have
asserted themselves at Harrisburg Toesday.
A fice time, indeed, to get together : After
all she committees have been packed with
gangsters and there is nothing left to do
hat vote on the bills these committees are
NO. 5.
Economy: Not More Taxes,
From the Johnstown Democrat.
An increase in taxation is not needed in
Penusylvania. Already the revenues ate
enormons and they must continue to grow.
What we need ina bit of honest economy
in poblic expenditures and less thieving in
connection with pablic works. The $9,-
000,000 graft in she capitol job should not
be forgotten. With that sum a Mmageifoent
honlevard from Philadelphia to r
might be built. With $9,000,000 the
sobools might he relieved as to all
needs. With $9,000,000 the state
tions which are crippled for want of
igs be placed on a thoroughly efficient
noting.
Bat that $9,000,000 has gone sud gone
for good. It will never find its way back
into the looted treasury. Just e it
went and who got it, ean only be inferred.
But the salient fact is that it is not avail.
in for puslie ver Is joo should exer-
a chastening effect on the party respon.
sible for the tremendous hid hy Ir
shonld impel that party toa course of
severe economy until a balance has been
restored and instead of planning new taxes
and larger extravagances it should devote
ita energies to the lopping off of every siue-
cure and the saving of every dollar that
now hints of gratnity.
Unfortunately Pennsylvania has hecome
more and more lavish in the expenditure of
taxes. These are almosf wholly indirect
and in aence the people do not feel
them as they would if they were taken ont
of their pockets as city and connty taxes
are taken. Bat the le have to pay the
indirect taxes nevertheless. They do not
come out of the ions. They do not
fall upon privileges and monopolies. They
are taxes that are passed along with added
profits from the apparent payer to the con-
sumer. And he is hors without koowing
precisely what hurts him.
It is therefore important that the mass of
the people of this state should protest
agaiost any proposed increase of state
taxes. They should insist rather & gen-
pru-
fi
nine economy. They should insist
dent expenditore. They should demand
and enforoe a rigid accounting for all
money appropriated. And they should
make it clear that they will not stand fora
riot of extravagance in the dishursement of
publio lands.
Mr. Roosevelt's Latest Discovery.
From the New York World.
We can well understand Mr. Roosevelt's
distrust of a judiciary that exalts the con-
stitution of the United States ahove My
Policies. So far as Mr. Roosevels is con-
cerned the case against the World has al-
ready been tried in a message to
| The crime is ‘‘a libel upon the" United
States government ;'* *‘the real offedder” is
the etor of the world. Mr. Roose.
velt has fonod him guilty, and thas ought
to settle it. Yet here comes a federal
court which deliberately refuses to sus-
tain the Bill of Rights, and takes no cogni-
zance of the fact that Mr. Roosevelt bas
tried the case, rendered a verdiot and is
impatiently waiting to impose sentence. It
is time for another message to congress
excoriating the courts for obstructing the
administration of ‘Roosevelt justice.’
Having found that the covstitation is
still in force, Mr. Roosevelt will also find
that this i= a government of law ; thas
there are courts to administer the law ;
that these coarts are a co-ordinate hranch
of the government of the United Siates,
aod that the administration nf justice is
not in his hands hat in theirs. The case
against the World is vos going to be tried
in messages to congress, or in White House
harangues, or in exeontive orders, or in
star-chamber proceedings, bus in courts of
law, hy due process of law and in accord~
ance with the constitution.
These courts will be no more tolerant of
lawlessness in office than of lawlessness ont
of office. If this is treason Mr. Roosevelt
will bave to make the most of is.
Extremity of Presidential Ive.
From the Richmond Times—Dispatch.
The government's enit against ‘‘certain
newspapers,’’ which at first seemed to be
simply the rather wild threat of an old an-
gry potentate, appears to he actually taking
shape. It is rightly regarded as an attempt-
ed assault upon the freedom of the press.
No newspaper could possibly libel the Unis
ed States. * * For the United State: gov-
ernment to undertake to defend the name
of the president-elect’s hrother or the pres-
ideut’s hrother-in law is manifestly out of
place. The circamstances give it an unde-
niable and ugly suggestion of intimidation.
So wholly foreign is such a step as this to
the intent of onr oriminal statutes that the
obliging Mr. has been sorely put
toittoend any law under which sais
could conceiveably be t. In desper-
ation, it is said, he has actually fallen back
apon an old law covering orimes commis.
ted upon governmental reservations and will
base his case ou the fact that newspapers
containing the *‘libel”’ were sold and ciren-
lated on Governor's Island, as West Poins,
and the like.
To such extremities will presidential
wrath go.
Making a New Crime,
From the New Orleans States (Dem.)
Now that the matter has been brought to
an issue it is imperative shat all the facts
should be brought ont. The people are
entitled to know the reason for the sudden
vehemence of the president alter he bad re-
mained quiet for so long, and in general
they have a right to know where every
dollar of their money has gone and for
what purpose it was expended. Every
oitizen, be he president or hod-carrier, bas
the right to protect his good name by suits
for libel against the authors of calumnious
publications, but no authorisy in our laws
can he found for the attempt to construe a
oriticism of the president aud bis friends
into an assanlt npon the government and
oriminal libel against the country. This
attempt to create a new orime by judicial
constrootinn will be watched with interest
by lovers of justioe all over the country.
pleased to report out.
~——8ubsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
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spawis from the Keystone.
~The 960 women graduates of Bryn Mawr
eollege have undertaken to raise an addition«
al endowment fund of $1,000,000, and $100,-
000 is already in sight.
~The largest order ever placed for steel
car wheels was received on Thursday by the
Carnegie Steel company, Pittsburg, from the
Chicago Street Railways company.
~The beautiful new B. F. Stevens Memo-
rial Methodist Episcopal church, in Harris-
burg, just completed at a cost of $75,000, was
dedicated on Sunday. Bishop William A.
Quayle, of Chicago, officiated.
~(iroundbogs cre reported as playing in
the sunshine on Jack's mountain, near Lew-
istown. The mild weather seems to have
been two tempting to keep them in their
holes until the 20d of February.
~The Grand Army and patriotic organiza.
tions of Greeusburg have secured William I.
Swope, Esq., district attorney of Clearfield
county, to deliver the priucipal address on
the Lincoln birthday nuniversary.
—A vew high school in Karthaus, Clear-
field county, erected at a cost of $7,655 was
dedicated on Friday with addresses by Coun-
ty Superintendent Tobias and others. The
citizens are well pleased with their new peo-
ple’s college.
—Dr. Adelia B. Wood was on Satur-
day nominated in the First ward. Erie, asa
Republican candidate for school director.
This is the first time a woman bas been
pinced in nomination in that city. Mrs,
Wood's opponent was a saloon keeper.
—Northumberland county liceuse court
set on Monday with Judges Savidge and
Auter on the bench. There were no re-
monstrances against 365 applicants, and they
were all granted license at once, among
them being six new ones. Three applicants
were refused.
~The commissioners of Tioga county in
order to secure a fund sufficient to meet all
bills, submitted for sheep killed and injured
by dogs, has decided to levy a tax of $1.50
on each male dog and $3.00 ou each female
dog owned in the county. It is proposed to
raise a fund of $4,000.
—After calling over a telephone for several
hours for her husband and getting no re-
sponse Mrs. Charles French, of Hickany,
drove to an insolated gus station in Forest
county, on Monday, and found his mangled
body on the ficor. He had been killed while
starting a gas engine.
~Considerable excitement has been arous-
ed in aod sbout Big Run, near DuBois, by
the discovery of both oil and gas quite re-
cently by drillers who are working in the
interest of a namber of Butler capitalists.
The quantities are, however, not yet suffi-
ciout to be profitable.
~The Loyalhanna Coal and Coke com-~
pany, of Westmoreland county, has beem
compelled to cut down its operations to four
days a week, because of a loss of a big order.
The Railway Steel Springs company, at La-
trobe, has also been compelled to lay off a
number of men because of a slump in busi-
ness.
~Whooping cough, which developed into
tuberculosis, has wiped out the entire family
of Jameec Morris, of Pottsville, the father,
son Samuel and daoghter Myrtle, baviny ali
died within three years. Myrtle's death
took place on Thursday. All were robust
before thoy were attacked with whooping
cough three years ago.
~The question of doing some street pav-
ing in Williamsport with wood blocks is at
present receiving attention. The blocks of
white pine, cured with a creosote prepara-
tion to make them more durable, would cost
about 60 cents a yard more than asphalt or
brick, but many property holders say they
are willing to pay the difference.
—Plans are being made by the state de-
partment of health to make thorough in-
spection of all the streams in the state. This
will be done in order to ascertain if there are
any sources of pollution. If there are, steps
will be taken to have the ahuse corrected at
once. This is in line with the department's
plan to rid all streams of pollution.
~—Although William Hoffmaster, of Read -
iug, au engineer of a Ponsylvania railroad
passengir train, was on Sunday morning
badly scalded and almost blinded by steam
that escaped because a connecting bolt on his
side of the cab became detached, be yet
bravely stood by the throttle until he
brought his eugine to the station at Potts-
town.
—The expenses of Williamsport the past
‘year exceeded the receipts, and the estimates
for the ensuing year, by maintaining the
same rate of taxation are $142,000 for re-
ceipts and $172,000 for vecessary expenses.
How to make tho receipts meet the expenses
without increasing taxation, or increasing
the city debt, is a problem councilmen are
now wrestling over.
—Alex. Hainock, who had his back broken
by a fall of coal in the Gbhem mives, near
Osceola Mills, about nineteen months ago,
died last Wednesday morning at the Cottage
State hospital, Philipsburg. The fact that
he lingered so long, taking into account the
serious character of his injury, was remark-
able. The deceased was a native of Prussia,
and was aged about 29 years.
~Curwensville’'s two banking institution
—the Citizen's National bank and the Cur-
wensville National bank—have decided to
consolidate, which will be consummated
within the next month. The capital stock
will be $100,000. Seymour Russell, president
of the latter bank, will be president of the
new institution, and Hugh Lewis, of the
former bank, will be vice president.
—A. Nevin Detrick, who was private sec-
retary to Colonel! W. F. Hill, Master of the
State Grange, has moved back from Hunting
don to his former home in Chambersburg,
where he will continue the management of
the Grange News. That publication had
been entered in the Huntingdon postoffice
and for six months past had been mailed to
its many thousands of subscribers from that
point.
~QOpeniog up a crater fifty feet in depth,
100 feet in width at points and 450 feet in
length the mountain near Summit Hill,
Schuylkill county, disappeared Sunday
night, many thousand tons of earth and
rock dropped from sight. The cavein was
caused by the earth giving way, when the
supports of coal had been burned out in the
old Spring tunnel workings, which have
been burning for over fifty years.
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