#0 far as he stays on the square.
us the ids of Mash approach We fuse |
of the ice man who would not when he
‘oould fill his ioe house—grows longer.
_ . —There are eight thousand actors and
igh tthousand lawyers iz New York aod
probably fifty per cent. of them would
make better motor-men
~The proposed new Code for the public
schools of the State has a few snakes in it
that the friends of The Pennsylvania State
College should lose no time in killing.
~The election is over. Forget it. If any-
one said unkind thiogs to you or abous you
forgive him and forget them. Take it
from us, you will be happier in the end.
— After their experience yesterday morn-
ing the state constabulary doubtless know
the difference between going up against a
horde of foreign coal miners and five hun-
dred State College students.
—Vioe-president FAIRBANKS is going to
take a trip around the world. Every man
to his taste so we will not be surprised to
find Alaska, Greenland and Siberia figuring
conspicuously in his itinerary.
—Seven boroughs in Allegheny county
voted ‘‘dry’’ on Tuesday. According to
the ‘“‘floater’s’’ idea of it the principal
borough in Centre county was very dry on
Taesday without a vote being taken.
~The film of a soap bubble is estimated
as being about two millionths of an inch in
thickness. It would not do for a man with a
soap babble skin to ran for a local office in
the community in which be was born and
raised.
~The Grand Dake VALDIMIE of Russia,
died suddenly on Wednesday. Thus
Providence has removed one more of the
obstacles in the way of a more peaceful
spirit among the oppressed people of that
monarchy.
—The President says a lock canal ie
better than a sea lave! one for the Panama
proposition. So it will probably be a lock
enterprise in every way except in gettiog
rid of the three handred and sixty million
dollars it is estimated to cost.
~The Legislators having saved the State
from disaster on Tuesday are now resting
up preparatory to resuming their arduous
task next week of making commissions to
do the work the dear people are foolish
enough to think they were elected to do,
is being urged to appropriate
fitty thousand dollars for war balloons.
What for? We are not going to war with
anybody and TEDDY will be in Africa and
TAFT too ponderous to take up into the air
on a government vessel ; so why spend the
money ?
— Representative CROW, of Kansas, has
introduced a bill in the Legislatare of that
State placing a tax of twenty-five dollars a
year on all nnmarried men over forty-five
years old. Thus Kansas goes on record as
marking the age at which a man becomes a
bachelor.
—We notice that PETER KECH celebrated
the hundreth anniversary of his birth by
voting *‘the straight Republican ticket" in
Bloomsburg on Tuesday. Aside from our
telioitations with PETER on his remarkable
longevity we are surprised that anyone
could live to be one hundred without
knowing better.
—Poor old GEROMINO, tke famous war
chief of the Apaches, has gone to the happy
hunting ground. II reports be true
GEROMINO proved an exception—at least
in the later years of his life—to the old
saying that ‘‘the only good Indian is the
dead Indian,” for three years ago he be-
came converted to ohristianity. He was
eighty-six years old and bad bad eight
wives. Thiok of this and you will not
wonder that he was such a tough old
warrior in bis youth.
~The election in Bellefonte on Tuesday
was comparatively clean. The respective
party chairmen bad entered into an agree-
ment to try in £0 far as it was within their
means to put an end to the purchase of
votes, either with booze or boodle. The
result was most gratifying to the workers
in both parties, bat a sorry disappointment
to the “‘foaters’’ who missed their usual
big business day more than most people
bave any idea ol.
They floated here, they floated there
They floated all around
No smell nor sign of boose or coin
Was even to be found.
—To say the least the election in Belle-
fonte, on Tuesday, had a very peculiar
outoome ; being mixed up about as badly
in its results as any we have knowledge of.
The only direction in which there appears
to bave been any oconsistenoy in the de-
termination of the voter was in the defeat
of councilmen HAMILTON snd WAGNER for
re-election. Both are eminently good men
and personal causes for their defeat are out
of the question ; becanse they bave served
faithfully and given offense to none. Can
it be that the voters thought this a good
opportunity to send a warning to connoil
against being too hasty with that new
eleotrio lighting and power proposition. It
is the first obance the voter has had to be
heard from sinoe the projected in
councils and while we do not know that
this was made a factor in Taesday's eleo-
tion, we weald not be surprised to learn
that it was.
“STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 54
What Does 1 It Mean!
In the proposed new new School code, with
which the Legislatare is now wrestling,
we fiod the following provisions which,
without farther light on the sabject, looks
amazingly like an effort so oripple, by a
chaoge in the management, possibly io ite
purpose and probably in its usefulness,
the great college now so successfully con-
ducted in this county. A college in which
the State has millions of dollars invested
and which ranks second to none in this
broad country.
Seotion 901 of this new measure provides
for the appointment, by the Governor, of a
“State Board of Edacation to coosist of
six members, ‘‘three of whom shall be suc-
cessful educators of high standing conneo-
ted with the public school system of the
Commonwealth,’’ in addition to the}'‘Sa-
perintendent of Public Instruction, who
shall be ex-officio a member of said board
and president thereol.”” Among the du.
ties and powers of this board, as set] forth
in section 996, in addition to bossiug every-
thing pertaining to the common and high
schools of the State, is
—*to require reports from and to SU-
PERVISE the educational ‘‘work in institu.
tions wholly or partly supported by the State.
which are not supervised by she publie
school aathorities.’’
As the State Normal schools are consid-
ered and recognized as part of the publio
school system and are specifically placed,
by this act, nnder the Board of Education,
this section can apply only to The Penn-
sylvania State College, the Uciversity of
Pennsylvania and she University of Pitte.
burg—the only institutions of learning out-
side of the Normal and public schools that
are ‘wholly or partly sapported by the
State.”
Then we turn to section 2001 and find
the following :
Section 2001. There shall be established and
maintained by the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
nia two Colleges of Education to be respectively
located at and made a part of tna University of
Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburg, for
the purpose of liberally educating and technical
ly training persons to be high school and normal
school teachers, principals and superintendents
of schools, supervisors of the various schoo!
grades, teachers and supervisors of special
suaxcugs, and experts for service in such addi-
tional higher rosrrions in the public school
system of this wealth as may be created
from time to
Section 2002. The control of the financial axp
ALL OTHER APPAIRS OF EACH OF THE SAID CoLLEGES OF
Eovcariox, suans be permanently vested in a Board
of Managers, to consist OF THE TRUSTEES OF TRE
UNIVERSITY OF WHICH THE COLLEGE IS A PART, tO-
gether with the State Board of Education.
Section 2003. There shall be established and
maintained in each of the said colleges, courses
of study in the theory practice and development
of educational thought, including adequate pro-
vision for observing and practicing the art of
teaching, together with such adlitional courses as
the said Board of Managers may from time to time
prescribe. Provided, however, That these cours-
es of oived shall be of a higher order than those
fort hie State Normal Schools of this
Ie wil be neat that in the case of the
two institutions, which it is proposed reo-
ognizing as the State's *‘Colleges of Edaca-
tion,’ the supervision of the financial, eda-
cational, and all other affairs of these ool-
leges shall be ‘‘permanensiy vested in a
board of managers to consist of the trustees
of these institutions,” along with the
Board of Education. Inasmuch as the
boards of trustees of each of the institu-
tions named far outnumber the ‘‘Board of
Education’ it can readily be understood
how their management and supervision
will still remain under their own control,
potwithstanding the fact that they are
partly or wholly supported by the State.
And to cap the climax of this attempted
public favoritism, section 2005 provides
that the ‘‘tuition of any stadent regularly
admitted to either of said onlleges of edu-
cation, who is a regular graduate of a Penn-
sylvania State Normal shall be paid by the
State.” Thas in addition to the vast ap-
propriations made to these colleges she
State would be compelled to pay tu-
ition for every Normal student npon their
rolls,
The unfairness of thia to the one great
institution the State now owns and con-
trols, is in the fact thas it is required to
give free instruction iv every branch taught
to all students entering, for any course,
while these favored private intstitutions
would be receiving full pay from the Com-
monwealth for all students qualified to en-
ter them.
Bat even this proposed financial favorit-
ism does not equal the wrong it would per-
petrate upon the State College by the prop-
osition to place the supervision of its edu-
cational work in the bands of those more
particularly interested in the work of the
Normal and pablio schools of the State.
For that is what the provision ofl section
901 means if it meavs anything. The Su.
perintendent of Pablic Instruction and
she three successful educators connected
with the publio school system, would com-
prise a majority of the Board of Edueca-
tion, and would dictate the courses, direct
the work and manage all the educational
matters connected with the college.
How long under such circumstances
would the high standard now prevailing
and maintained by this great institution,
continue ?
How soi notil its diplomas would be
on a level in public estimation, and iv a
business way, with those of the Normal
and ordinary High school ?
The
Gigantic Fraud in the Public
Lands Department
Secretary GARFIELD, of the Interior De-
partment, seems to be having a busy time
trying to recover public lands stolen, by
corporations, companies and individoeal
land thieves, daring the past eight years.
If Mr. GARFIELD is correct, over one hun-
dred million dollars worth of the most val-
uable lands belonging to the government
have passed into the hands of corporation
companies and individual speculators, with-
out auy return to the government, and are
now held in such manner and through such
titles, that the recovery of this property to
the people can only be secured through
costly and interminable litigation.
Snits have already been brought for the
restoration of 350,000 acres, the value of
which is placed at $15,000,000. Attorneys
and government officials are investigating
the titles to $49,500,000 worth of
coal and other mineral lands throughout
the west, that have, in some manner or
other passed from the government owner-
ship without remuneration or in the regu-
lar way. Sixteen million’s worth of other
public lands, up in Alaska, are said to be
claimed by companies, corporations and in-
dividuals, and all through the far western
States, tract after tract belonging to the
government, is being timbered, mined or
is occupied and claimed by companies or
persons, who, it is alleged, have secured
such tisles as they claim to have to them,
either through the favor of government of-
ficials, or frands practiced npon the de-
partments.
How many attorneys, how many years of
litigation, what an array of detectives or
how great thie cost will be, to seoure to the
people this vast amoant of stolen property,
no one oan tell, nor is it possible to make
even an Approximate estimate.
When it is remembered that the interior
department has its land, ite timber and its
mineral,agents and supervisors in every seo-
tion of the country in whioh public lands
oan he found ; when it is known that of
the twenty-three millions of dollars yearly
expended for secret servioe agents, a good-
ly portion of it was to pay men for patrol-
ing and watching the more valuable eeo-
tions of she public domain, and in addition
that millions upon millions have gone
as attorney fees to protect and preserve
these same lands, the wonder as to how
or why they were loat to us, will be all
the greater.
To think of the army of timber watchers,
land agents, mineral protectors we have
paid to watch this public property ; of the
amount we bave expended on deteotives
to watch these public officials, and the fees
that have been given lawyers for profes-
sional service in keeping detectives and
watohers straight, and then to wakeon up to
the fact that all public land, that is of
value or worth taking oare of, has been
stolen and is now the property of others,
ouly as we can wrest it from them through
costly litigation, leaves but one conclusion
—and that is, that the negligence, careless.
ness or rascality of those in charge of this
government property has been such as
should bring about the removal and pun-
ishment of every mother's son of them at
once. |
There is no use of trying to exouse, ex-
onorate or explain in this matter. The
government has paid an ample force to
oversee and protect its interest iu its pub-
lic lands. The men who are responsible
for the theiving and wrongs perpetrated,
and which it is now proposed shall be
righted through costly and endless litiga-
tion, are the Repablican officials—who
have failed to attend to the duties for which
they were appointed.
Aud the party primarily responsible for
all is the Republican party. It appointed
men to places who were anworthy of trast.
It paid an army of office holders for work
that was not done. It squandered millions
on detectives who detected nothing. Is
hired lawyers to give advice and help pro-
tect its interests whose only work was to
draw exoessive fees and shut their eyes to
the robbery that was going on.
What would the honest citizen do with
a representative who had permitted him to
be fleeced, as has the Republican party ai-
lowed the American people to be, in this
public land basiness ?
«Most of the weather of the past two
weeks has been very spring-like, in fact
more like April weather than February,
aud various Bellefonters are predioting that
winter is about over because they have seen
angle worms and snails crawling on the
ground and there are some who declare
they have heard blue birds singing ; and
the final sign was told us on Monday morn-
ing by Mike Hazel who said a neighbor of
his the latter part of last week caught an
eel thirty-two inches ia length just above
his home in Spring creek. This isa very
unusual thing as eels do not run in winter
time and when is
Nt yen Yiey Sue uh given
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 19, 1909.
Sound Without Siguificance,
At the dinner of the Illinois Society in
New York, the other day, Judge GARY,
chairman of the hoard of she Steel trust,
reminded those abous him of the daties of
men such as they to the communities in
which they live. He said thas what are call-
ed personal interests mast give way at times
to the larger interests of the community. He
added thas it is the duty of sach men to
give cordial sapport to the government and
show n disposition to meet public seunti- |
ment *‘instead of a policy of cunning eva-
sions or circumventions of the law and a |
defiance of law and public opinion until |
the walls of the penitentiary loom into
sight.”
This is the same gentleman who, in com-
pany with HENRY C. FRICK, visited the |
White House in Oct. 1907, and influenced |
President ROOSEVELT to promise that the
viclation of the law by the absorption of
the Tenvessee Coal and Iron company by
the Steel trust would not be interfered with
by the government. It was a conspiracy of
the worst type. Those concerned were
fully aware thas the law was being violated.
They admitted to the President that such
a merger was forbidden by law and that if
she law was enforced the purpose would be
defeated. This was not only a cunning
evasion of the law bus it was essentially “a
defiance of pablic opinion’’ which ought to
bave brought the walle of the penitentiary
into view.
“Of coarse ROOSEVELT consented to thiz
violation of the law not for the parposz of
saviog an important trost company from
impending failure, as he alleged in a letter
to Attorney General BONAPARTE, but to
pat the Steel trust magnates under obliga.
tions to him so thas he could hold them up
for campaign subsoriptions a year later. At
that time ROOSEVELT expected to he the
candidate of his party for President last
year. For nearly three months later FRANK
HITCHCOCK, then assistant Postmaster
General, was canvassing the negroes of the
south in his interest, and he wanted to be
certain of a campaign fand. Bat the panic
made his nomination impossible so that
TAFT instead of himsell got the benefit of
the conspiracy.
We sincerely hope that Judge GARY will
flactice the busivess policies be preaches,
but have little faith. Sach talk from such
men is intended to placate public senti-
went or divers popular suspicion. Bat the
conspirators go on [rom ove outrage to
another in seizing oontrol of the forces of
natare and the utilities which should be | Possi
under the control of the ; people or at least
managed in the interest of the people.
Judge GARY aod his associates in the Steel
trust made buodreds of millions by the
operation in question and fettered the in-
dustrial life of the country for ages to come.
In view of that record his honied words are
without significance.
Stuart Will Not Intervene.
The esteemed Harrisburg Patriot is earn-
estly urging Governor STUART to intervene
with the purpose of compelling the pab-
lisher of the Legislative Record to disgorge
the grat he has been enjoying during the
last couple of years. STUART has the repn-
tation of being an honest man and is justly
entitled to that distinotion, our contempor-
ary reascns, and he will suffer in popular
estimation if scandals are permitted to
grow out of his administration. That is
unquestionably true bat Governor STUART
will not bother himself shont it. Conscious
of his own integrity he will pursue the
even tenor of his way and trust to his past
record to vindicate himself.
The conspiracy which resulted in giviog
a contract for the Legislative Record at $12
a page was the most reprehensible frand
whioh has been perpetrated by the polisio-
al machine in recent years. The grafting
in the capitol construction involved larger
sams of money hut the moral turpitude
was no greater. The previous contract bad
heen at less than $4 a page. That wasa
small sam and probably oo low. It is
reasonably certain, however, that the
original bid of the contractor was only a
trifle more than thas. But when discovered
that there was no competitive bidder he
ohaoged the figures. It may be fortunate,
however, that he didn’t make the amount
greater. He could have pulled off any
amonaot.
Bat the Governor will not iutervene.
When he was Mayor of Philadelphia cor-
ruption ran rampant ail about bim and he
made no protest. Is was daring that period
that the combine which has since developed
into the present machine was organized.
He might easily have prevented most of
that if inclined. Bus he was content so
long as the finger of suspicion was not
pointed at him personally. The city was
being robbed every day. The loot was being
divided among those about him but no
part of it got into his possession and that
was all he cared for. He will be equally | oo
complacent in the present instance. The
graft can go on as long as there is a dollar
in the treasury and be will offer no dbjte-
tion. :
ae]
~——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
The attention shas is paid she Coaestita-
tion of the country by Republican officials
is shown in the sorry sight that President-
elect Tarr and United States Senator
KNo0X have made of themselves in trying
to make a cabinets for the vew administra-
tion. Here is a case in which a former
Judge of the United States cours, a former
Governor of the Philippine Islands, a man
who has cocupied many other high and im.
portant positions in the governments of his
country, and bas bus recently bees chosen
to she highest office in the gift of she peo
ple, who didu’t know the coustitational re-
quirements for those who were to act as
his advisors. And enother in which a
United States Senator, noted for his abili-
ty as a lawyer, aud paraded as a statesman
with lew saperiors, who was unaware of
his own disqualification for a cabinet po-
sition in consequence of the position he
holds.
It is but fair to these men to say that
they dido’t know the requirements of the
constitution, for to think otherwise would
be to consider them willful violaters of the
instrament that both have sworn to obey
and defend.
And il they didn’t know, whas a com-
wentary their ignorance is on the consider-
ation given the fundamental law by those
chosen to see that its requirements are car-
ried ont and its provisions enforced.
Fix it up as you may, however, this ex-
hibition of a want of kvowledge of oconsti-
tational demands, or this willingness to
violate them is neither re-assuriog to the
people nor does it give promise of a con-
servative, faithful, and constitutional ad-
ministration of the affairs of this govern.
ment.
The Coustitution and the
Knox Case
There is not such an excess of devotion
to the Constitution that we care to animad-
vert sharply on members of the House,
Democrats and Repablicans, who opposed
the enactment of the bill redacing the
salary of the Secretary of State so that Sen.
ator Knox could accept the office. Bas is
may at least be oh without offense that
voey Ssplayed superfluous scrupulosity.
constitutional inbibition was aimed
at an entirely possible form of Congression-
al graft. It was not wildly improbabl
that Senators or
prooure the increase of salaries of offices to
which they aspired, and, having made the
positions thoroughly ble to them-
selves, should then use influence with
the President to obtain the SPURS;
That process of sell-seekiog is made im-
ble by constitationa! a
It is sod that the bill introduced by
Senator Hale is a device for getting around
the Constitation. So is is, bus the vice
which she inhibition was aimed at does not
exist. Il Congress thought it did it could
have 4 the bars up ; is did nos think so
and it the bars down. All that the
st aimed at is preserved by the
very fact that an enabling act was neces.
sary in the case of Senator Knox. If Con-
gress thought that he had procured the in-
crease of the salary of the Br of State,
especially it he red it in rh hope of
heuelivfiag thereby, , it was ol ene
power gress So prevent og
hy his excessive enterprise. If
outs nothing of the kind it was entirely
proper for it to get around a technical ob-
stacle by a technical removal.
It isn’t long since a large minority of the
House—nearly a majority—voted itself
mileage for a trip home never made daring
a recess that never existed. Aod nowa
large minority of the House has voted on
constitutions glovuds against Senator
Knox's assumption of the office of Seore-
tary of State. Members of the House of
Representatives who were ready to swal-
low a camel complain pithy about
swallowing a goat.
Coercion Miscued,
From the Pittsburg Post.
Were it nos shat the President's term of
office is about to expire, some good mighs
come of the report of the Senate committee
ona , which has been investi-
gating she secret service. This committee
be found thas the harrowing charge made
by Mr. Roosevels, that Cougress was afraid
being sleathed, and hance limited the
operation of the secret rervice, ‘‘was abso.
lutely wrong and erroneous, and never
ought to havebeen made.’’ It has been found
that the fand<at hand are ample for the
purpose, thas an army of 3,000 men are em-
ployed on inspection work, with powers
ut the secret service men, and
that more has actnally been done for the
sn of erime sinoe the congressional
limitation has been in force than avy other
bad done its part in
viding the Nation with a body of
detectives, and the President has
nothing to complain of. No doubt
will be some persons unkind pi og to
declare thas he made the original to
force Congress to authorize one big,
detective bureau for the Nation’s chief of
detectives. Mr. Roosevelt likes to force
people to do his will.
The Pay Goes On.
From the Philadelphia Press,
Some of sha Legislatures did aos adjourn
for the Lincoln centennary. The Penusyl-
vania re was more how-
3 it not only for the day,
AE Mp pegs 7
TT ——————————
~The regular term of Febroary court
will begin next Monday. There are mo
very importans cases for trial in the guar-
ter sessions court.
spawls from the Heystone,
—A seventeen foot vein of coal has beem
discovered twelve miles south of Bradford,
at Crawford Junction. A test of the vein is
now being made.
~—Michael Howarth, of Mahanoy Plane,
Schuylkill county, was on Monday struck
by a coal car and the sudden blow caused
him to bite off three inches of his tongue.
~It is charged that a number of justices of
the peace of Northumberland county settle
criminal cases that should be returned te
court,and a rigid investigation isito he made.
~—James H. Hamer of Mifflintown, has just
sold the balance of his apple crop for 1908.
The entire crop amounted to sbout 1,500
bushels, probably the largest in Juniata
county.
—The boroughs of Highspire, Dauphin
county, and Athens, Bradford county, have
been placed under quarantine for rabies, by
State Veterinarian Pearson, who has ordered
all dogs to be muzzled or penned up.
—A recent reduction of ten per cent in the
wages of the employes at the Kittanning,
Plate Glass company’s plant, in Kittanning,
caused 160 polishers, grinders and others ve
strike on Saturday. The workslare closed.
~—John M. Brady, a lineman employed by
the American Union Telephone company, in
Williamsport, fell thirty feet from a tele-
phone pole at a street corner on Monday,
sustaining severe injuries, but it is not
thought that they will be serious.
— Members of Sealp Level and Paint Bor-
ough Fire company have atranged for a cele-
bration of Washington's birthday anniver-
sary, by the raising of a new 800-pound bell
into a tower that is to be constructed at onee.
A literary and musical programme and big
supper will follow.
~The pocketbook with $200 in} it, which
Dairyman J. C. Stewart, of near Latrobe,
lost last Friday morning was found by
Thomas A. Bridge, of Latrobe, the same
morning and ss soon as he learned whose it
was, returned it to the owner. He was well
rewarded for his honesty.
—One of the largest castings ever poured
at the plant of the American Steel foundries,
in Chester, was turned out Thursday for the
stem of the battleship Florida, now under
construction at the Brooklyn navy yard.
The casting is thirty feet long, eighteen feet
wide and weighs over 60,000 pounds.
—The employes of the Taylor & McCoy
Coke company at Gallitzin went on a strike
last Thursday, because of the company’s re-
fusal to grant the coke drawers an increase
from 77 cents to $1 per oven for drawing
extra charged ovens, which the company
says it must do because of the dullness of the
market.
—Excitement in drilling for oil is running
at « high pitch at present in and about Del-
mont, Westmoreland county. From the
town southwestwardly about a mile on the
McWilliams farm there are twenty two wells
drilling, or rigs in course of construction,
and on adjoining farms there are also quite
a large number.
—In a suit for $2,500 damageslibrought by
Mrs. William Fairman against the borough
of Punxsutawney because of a change of
grade in front of her property, the jury at
1 Brookville last week gave n verdict of $1,-
201. The grade of the street was lowered in
1907, when a piece of highway was made
under the new state law.
—Frank Achenbach, of Mill Hall, Clinton
county, engineer at the plant of the Watson
town Brick and Tile company, while in the
performance of his duties last Friday, had
his hand caught in the machinery and se
badly crushed that the thumb bad to be am-
putated, and the amputation of three of the
fingers may also be necessary.
—1In the absence of the family of G. G.
Burkhart, of Williamsport, on Sunday even-
ing the house was entered and a watch,
revolver, some cartridges and fourteen cents
were stolen. When Mr. Burkhart returned
and discovered the theft he at once suspeet-
ed who the thief was, informed the police
and in a short time the man was found with
the articles in his possession.
~The investigation intolthe charges made
last week before the Clearfield county court,
that the grand jury had been corruptly in-
fluenced in ignoring a number of riot indiet-
ments from Carwensvillle, was made as di-
rected by court, with the resuit that the
grand juay it was believed, bad treated all
bills fairly and in a conscientious manner
and there was no evidence of any miscon-
duct on the part of any of the jurors.
—The last trestle along the main line of
tha Huatingdon and Broad Topjrailroad has
now been done away with and with the
completion and putting into service of a big
ninety-foot steel bridge, the company has
finished a work that bas been in progress
for several years—thus ridding the road of
the antiquated and daugerous timber tres-
tles. The new bridge that went into service
on Sunday is on the north side of the river
near Saxton.
—Qhief of the fire department Edward W.
Frontz ad fifty-eight members of the Good-
will Hose company, of Lock Haven, who had
been accused by Mayor Stevenson of having
maintained a “pig's ear” in the basement of
the hose company’s building, were Thursday
evening expelled from the service of the city
by action of councils. This action caused
the greatest excitement and inaugurated im
connection with the municipal campaign the
warmest kind of a fight.
—J. T. Clark, of Chambersburg, worked a
slick game upon George C. Gilbert, the
clothier, on Saturday night that secured for
him for a time, three suits of clothes, a dress
suit case and a hat, valued at $60. He had
given the order by telephone, representing
himself to be C. W. Davidson, a reputable
citizen, and then went to the store saying
that he was Mr. Davidson's nephew for
whom the outfit ordered by Mr. Davidson
alysis, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F.
P. VanValkenburg, in Milwaukee, Wis.,
aged 74 years. Mrs. Swoope was a highly
canltured woman, and contributed a number
of poems and other articles to the Century,
and other magazines. g
ter she is survived by two
and William
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