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8Y RP. GRAY
Tule Slings.
—They are having fine Knights in Phil.
adelphia this week.
—Oue thing nice about a circus is that
when it is in town no one thinks of bard
times or business depression.
—The man who invented a machine with
which to cat bie own hair must be a rela-
tive of some of Belleloote’s philanthro-
pists.
—The QUAY statue is still in statu quo.
If it were infected with the swallpox or
yellow fever most men could not be more
afraid of is than they are.
—They locked a man up in Washington,
a few days ago, because he wanted a mil
lion dollars. He was evidently vot a trust
lobbyist. The amount he sought was too
small.
—Earthquakes have heen shaking up
some parts of the United States agaiv bus
up to this writing Mr. PATTEN hae not been
shaken ons of his nice listle corner in
wheat.
—Since #0 many of the Democrats iu the
Senate have given evidence of not kuowing
what they are it would sound good tu hear
DAVE HILL repeat his old declaration just
onoe again.
—A westerner has discovered that whis-
key can be made non-intoxicating. What
a waste of time. No one would buy that
secret; for take the jag out of whiskey and
thedrinker would prefer buttermilk.
—JoB CARNEY, of Spokane, Washing-
ton, picked a pocket and got seventy cents
and five years in the penitentiary. He
might just as well have gotten more mon-
ey, but that was probably all his victim
bad.
—Part of official Washington is throw-
ing a fit because the new government of
Coba is epending more than its income.
The fact that Uncle Sad is getting into
the hole at the rate of nearly a million a
day ie too small a matter for them to see,
of course.
—It has been found that a common
horse-fly cau stand an electric current that
would kill a horse. Why the comparison
ol resistance between the horse fly and the
horse. Every one knows, who knows any-
thing at all about them, that a horse-fly
can make a horse fly a good deal more than
electricity anyway.
—I¢ was a mean, nasty story to stars and
we don’t blame our friend RoBErT F.
HUNTER for getting mad because a covet
ous individual circulated a statement to
the effect that he and WILLARD HALL and
Toner HuGG are to bave an automobile
race from the First National bank building
over to the Trust Co.
—Free lumber was killed in the Senate
on Monday afternoon. That the tariff is
being more and more regarded as a local is-
sue was proven by the vote of seventeen
Democratic Senators who voted with Re.
pablicans to save the tariff on is. They
represent States in which there are still
large lumber interests.
—That President TAFT wants to play
goll and does not want to go to war is eeen
in his request to bave thirty-six mil.
lion dollars lopped off the budget for the
army maintenance for 1911. That's right,
Mr. President, we would all much prefer
to see this country using golf sticks than
brandishing the big stick.
—Conduotor WiLsox E. BARNETT wae
awarded $2000 damages by the Blair conn-
ty court for having bis leg crushed in a
Pennsylvania railroad accident. He bad
drawn over $400 from the relief fund of
the company. When on the stand he swore
he conld neither read nor write and that
his nape bad been secured by frand to the
relief clause waiving his right to action for
damages. This decision may change the
relief system of all railroad corporations.
—That circuses do not attract as general.
ly as they once did is becoming more evi-
dent each time a big show comes to town.
There was a day when every train coming
into Bellefonte on circus day would have
been crowded, but such is not the case any
more. The crowds are mostly local. This
change is probably accounted for hy the
fact that circus acts now form part of the
programs of big picnics, fairs and vaade-
ville shows so that they are not the novel
attraction they onee were, to the country
people especially.
~The United States Supreme court bas
hauded down an opinion to the effect that
express compacies may oarry liquor into
counties or districts in a State that bas vot-
ed for local option. This is a serious blow
at practical local option for under the cloak
of interstate commerce liquor and beer may
be shipped into ‘‘dry”’ districts and being
shipped to individuals in quantity is is
highly probable that the receiver will use
it in quantity, thus really working more
harm than would be the case if he had a
place to get it in moderation.
—Aeronaut LEO STEVENS, who made as.
sensions every day for a week at Heola
Park, some years ago, has developed into a
soientist. He is now busy assisting Prof.
Davip B. Topp, of Amherst, in preparing
for a flight ten miles high into the heavens
from which altitude they think they can
successfully get a signal to the people of
Mare—if there are any people there. It
they should happen to get converse with
the Martians we would suggest that they
tell them that as soon as inter-planetary
transportation facilities are completed
RocKERFPELLER and MORGAN will be up
to look it over.
Sia
SOL. os
Lane's Estimate of Quay.
“Dave” LANE, chairman of the Phila-
delphia City Reputlican committee and
secretary of the QUAY monument commis-
sion shares with former Governor SAMUEL
W. PENNYPACKER in that curicus gen-
tleman’s estimate of the late Seuvator
QuAY'S ability and merit. *‘I believe that
measared by his achievements be was
greater than Cray or WEBSTER,” Mr,
LANE declared, oracalarly, in an interview
the other day. ‘‘He was a wonderful con-
structive statesmau,’’ continued Mr. LANE.
“It was QUAY who turned the WiLsON
free trade measure into a protective meas:
ure,’ headded. Manifestly be bad in mind
the ocoasion in which, with a pile of bound
Congressional Records as high as his head,
Senator QUAY threatened to talk until the
end of the session unless certain conces-
sions were given to the predatory ocorpora-
tions of which he was the paid lobbyist on
the floor of the Senate.
That was the ouly occasion on which he
attempted to influence or alter legislation.
. We dislike to recall the infamous record
of MATTHEW STANLEY Quay. The
amiable adage, ‘‘say nothing but good of
the dead,” is particularly kind to his odor-
ous memory and if his fool friends would
let him quietly sink into oblivion the pub-
lic mighs, in the course of time, forget his
iniguities. But one after another of them
come forward at irregalar intervals and
compel a protest, in the interests of de-
cenoy, against the false representation of
his record in publio life. There was some
excuse for PENNYPACKER. Weak-miuded
and vain, be bardly knows the difference
between right and wrong and QUAY bad
been so good to him that his infatuation
was hardly blamable. MoNICHOL knows
so little about public morals that it is
scarcely worth while to take bim seriously
either. But ‘DAVE’ LANE knows as well
as any man living that QUAY was a moral
monster and that the attempt to canonize
him is for the deliberate porpose of justi-
tying political crime and official iuiguity.
QUAY served in the Penneylvania Legis-
lature a couple of terms when he was a
young man bat the record reveals no act or
word of his that even pretended to conserve
the public good.
He served as Secretary of she Common-
wealth eight years but introduced no sys-
tem that improved the methods or reform-
ed the practices of that department of the
State government. While in that office he
was ex-officio commissioner of the sinking
fund and that fand was short $100,000
when he quis.
He served as State Treasurer one year
and within that time was charged with
looting the Treasury of a vast sum.
He served as Senator in Congress for
twelve years aod in all that time never in-
troduced an important measure of legisla.
tion or made a speech that contribnted in
the least measure to the honor of the Com-
monwealth or the welfare of the people of
the State or country. Constructive states.
manship, as we understand it, acheives
something more than this. It bailds op
something more useful than a corrupt polit-
ical machine.
Senator QUAY was the agent of the
Standard Oil company aud the lobbyist of
other predatory corporations in Harrisburg
and Washington for many years and sacri-
ficed the interests of the people ruthlessly
in order to serve the purposes of the oor-
porations which paid him for sinister serv-
ices.
He served as chairman of the Republican
national committee during one presidential
campaign aud taught the practical politi-
ciaus how to *‘fry the fat’’ out of the tariff
pensioners and use the proceeds of the crim-
inal operation in debanching the ballot.
But he so completely outraged the moral
sense of his party that be was repudiated
immediately after the election by the Presi-
dent chosen as the resalt of his campaign
mavagement and though a candidate for re-
election he was defeated by an overwhelm-
ing majority. He was also chairman of the
Republican State committee for a brief
period. He bought the election with mon-
ey supplied by the Standard Oil company
for a selfish and sinister purpose.
Bat the surprising thing in the absurd
interview of Mr. LANE is bis reference to
the WiILsoN bill of 1894. It has been the
custom of Republicans to attribute the
panic of 1893 to thas ‘‘free trade’’ act and
now Mr. LANE tells us that it was changed
into a protective measure by Senator Quay.
As a matter of fact QUAY bad no more to
do with that piece of legislation than Mr.
LANE bad with oreating the Allegheny
mountains. Senator GORMAN, of Mary-
land, perpetrated that crime against the
people though he may have used QUAY as
a convenient and willing instrument of the
corporations to threaten a dead-loock in the
event that certain concessions were not
made. Bat even in that instance and upon
that occasion he was not an imposing figure,
He simply personated the highwayman who
mes the traveler with ‘‘your money or your
lite,”” and made bimsell a laughing stock
for the entire country. Such a man de-
| serves no monument unless from a people
who have descended into such depthe of
depravity that they desire to canonize crime
and vice.
Unjustifiable Tariff Taxation.
Senator CULBERTSON, of Texas, expressed
the true principles, policies and traditions
of the Democratic party, the other day when
be declared tbat ‘‘noder whatever grant of
federal power it is sought to be justified,
a tariff which compels the great hody of
the consumers of the conntry to pay more
tribute to those from whom they purchase,
is a gross and palpable prostitution of leg-
islative power.” JEFFERSON expressed
the same principle when he asserted that
*‘after making provision for an economical
and efficient administration of the govern
ment, it should not take from the mouth
of labor the bread it bas earned.” The
DINGLEY bill bas, according to au estimate
of Mr. VAN CLEAVE, recently president of
the National Association of Manufacturers,
perpetrated this wiong to the extentola
million dollars every day.
Senator CULBERTSON'S speech was a great
effort. He revealed most clearly the
falsity of the pretense that the ALDRICH
bill now pending in the Senate and
practically certain to be jammed through
before long isnot a revision downward or
in any respect tariff reform. ‘‘The average
existing ad valorem rate on all articles,’
he said, ‘‘is 44.88 per cent. In 1906 tariff
taxes actoally paid on 91 groups of articles
were 100 per cent. or over. It has been
estimated by leading Republicans and
protectionists,’’ he continued, ‘‘that ander
the DINGLEY act the people pay to the pro-
tected interests annnally a mere tribute or
subsidy of $500,000,000. This is practical.
ly divided among she trnsts, she Sogar
trust receiving $20,000,000, the Oil trust
$20,000,000 and the Steel trast $0,000,000
yearly. Notwithstanding the exorbitant
rate now imposed the pending bill carries
a higher one, an average rate of 46.45 per
cent. over the DINGLEY rate.
Nogood citizen objects to the payment
of a just share of the expenses of she gov-
ernment and to the extent that taxes are
necessary for economical and efficient
administration they should be cheerfully
paid. Bat the DiNGLEY bill, according to
the estimate of Mr. VAN CLEAVE, takes [rom
the earnings of labor a million dollars a day
which doesn't go as revenue into the na-
tional treasury at all but is paid into the
treasuries of the trusts as unearned boun-
ties, and according to the Republican
whom Senator CULBERTSON quotes, even a
larger tribute. This is robbery of the
people to enrich the trusts and itis on-
questionably the gravest orime that bas
ever been perpetrated in the name of gov-
ernment. It can be justified in no possible
way.
Taft for Paternalism.
That President TAFT means to pursue
the ROOSEVELT policy of paternalism was
revealed in his reply to a committee of the
United States civil service retirement asso-
ciation, the other day. The objeot of the
association is to devise means to take care
of superannuated employees of the govern-
ment. President TAFT assured the mem-
bers of the committee of his cordial co.
operation in their work. “‘Iam strongly
in favor of the merit system of appointment
in all government positions,’’ he declared,
aud added : ‘‘A necessary concomitant of
that system, however—a logical accom-
paviment—is a provision for those who
have become too old to render proper eere-
ioe to the government.”
No labor in this country is more gener-
ously rewarded than that of the employees
of the government at Washington. Clerks
in the departments get from $1500 to $3000
a year and perform routine duties which
occupy their time from six to eight hours a
day. Skilled laborers receive less than
this amount for much harder and more
difficult work and school teachers, men and
women employed in stores, clerks of law-
vers, designers and others would be elated
at the offer of such compensation as the men
and women in the public service receive
regalarly. Bat a proposition to pension
mechanics, school teachers, railroad clerks
or skilled or common laborers of any kind
would be condemed as absurd.
If employees of the government are un-
able to take care of themselves in their old
age it is their own fault. They attempt to
form a sort of official class or aristocracy
which involves them in expenses that are
neither necessary nor desirable in the pub-
lio life of the country and waste their wages
in vanities of one kind or another. Of
coarse that is their own affair for having
earned their wages they have a right to
spend it as they like. But the fact that
they do spend is creates no valid olaim up-
on the bounty of the public and the pen-
sioning of them will simply take away the
self-relinnce and the frugality whioh ie
among the chief merits of American citizen-
ship.
~The High school commencement this
week marked the olosing of the Bellefonte
publio schools and the hundreds of pupils
will now have a three month’s holiday.
it Can't Sacceed.
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There is nothing in which honesty or
fair dealing is more necessary to success |
than in basiness enterprises. No matter of
what nature they may he ‘the same law
governs. The public muss have confidence
that is is to be treated fairly, whether the
enterprise be local or general iu its obar-
acter, permanent or transient in its nature.
Reputation follows as close as a shadow so
that a large business established here today
cannot escape the record is has made be-
couse it is somewhere else tomorrow. The
wails, the telephones, the telegraph and the
press have made it practically impossible
for the traveling rascal to continue loog in
business without beivg fonud ont.
CoLE Bros. circus was in Bellefonte on
Wednesday and it was a five show of its
class ; quite worth the time spent in wit
nesting is.
While she circus was fine and should win
ou its legitimate attractions we certainly
can’t see bow it can afford she stigma of
baving a gang of short charge artists operat-
ing under the big canvas. One of the re.
served seas sellers successfully worked the
“big bill” frame up on several unsuspeot-
ing persons. He asked his dupe whether
he could give him big bills for smaller ones
of which he professed to have too many.
Being met with an offer to exchange he
worked the game both ways: Either by
not giving the equivalent in small bills or
by calling the dupe back alter the exchange
was wade and sayiog : ‘‘Here I wanted a
larger bill than you gave me so give me
back my small ones.” When the dupe
banded back the change he bad received
the crook gave him a less bill than the one
originally exchanged. Of course the suo.
cess of the play depended on whether the
dape examined bis money carefully, bas in
the case we have in mind he did not and
received a one dollar bill for a five he had
given up.
Oue of the ticket sellers at the side show
tried to short change your uncle DUDLEY
and when he found himself detected was
very prompt and affable io making good.
In the side show they were running two
‘“‘strong’’ games ; the spindle and ‘‘ten
pins’ one of the worst known to the craft,
and the Lord only kuowshow many more
they would bave framed up bad enough
suckers been found.
CoLk BRros., have a good show and they
might make a lot of money this way for a
season or 80 bus they will never enjoy a
good reputation as cirous men or work up
to the class of Riugling Bros., as long as
they wink at the operations of the gang of
‘‘strong’’ game men that are working under
the canvas that bears their name.
No Occasion for Alarm.
The opponents of the iniquitous ALD-
RICH tariff bill, especially those of Repub-
lican antecedents, are beginning to reveal
signs of weakness. Under she direction of
ALDRICH the tariff beneficiaries thronghont
the country are sending out complaints of
delay and manafacturing interests are
spreading the report that the return
of industrial prosperity is retardedjfon ac:
count of delay in passing that bill. If com-
meroial activity does not return, they free-
ly say, it is because of the uncertainty of
the nitimate action of Congress on the
tariff, aud some of the Seuators who bave
been endeavoring to get a just revision of
the tariff are showing signs of being atraid
to meet this accusation.
It has some effect on the very oredu-
lous.
But that is an atterly absurd promise.
The passage of the ALDRICH bill will not
bave a particle of healthful influence upon
the industrial and commercial interests of
the country. The pavic of 1907 was at-
tributable in the main to the exhausted
condition of she industrial life of the coun-
try. The wage earners had been robbed so
persistently and for so long a time that
they were literally exhausted and upon the
first sign of a currency famine they col-
lapsed. So far from the ALDRICH bill
remedying this evil it will aggravate it.
Instead of taking a million dollars a day
out of the pockets of the earners it will in-
orease the robbery a considerable percent-
age. No opponent of that iniquity need be
afraid to mees the people.
The evidence that the delay in the pas-
sage of the ALDRICH bill has no influence
on the industrial life of the country is ap-
parent on every side. Is was announced in
the metropolitan papers the other day that
the industrial establishments of New Eog-
land are being overwhelmed with orders.
On the same day a dispatch dated Pitts.
burg, in the same papers, declared that all
signs of industrial paralysis had disappear-
ed from that centre. Information from the
west indicates an industrial revival there
and the south is booming according to the
press dispatobes. This important change
for the better is not on account of passage
of the AvprrcH bill. It is becanse there
are signs that the next Congress will give
the country real tariff revision.
~—Wheat has passed the $1.35 mark and
floar is sailing skyward, as well. Asa re-
sult of it all dough is *‘dough,’ indeed.
L UNION : — ——— a——
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 28, 1909. _
NO ee
The Democratic Platform.
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch,
Of 172 Democrats in the house, 102 have
spoken or vosed for high protection in the
interests of some small class in their home
districts. Soch action being manifestly
out of tune with the epirit of their party
doctrines and party platforms, their ad-
versaries have prodded them into attempts
to explain it. Their defenses have taken
various lines, the most common of which
may be ~et down thas :
1. That this will be a protection ocoun-
try for the nexs few years, and thas Demo-
crats should bave their fair sbare of the
swag.
2. That the particular tax which they
favor, unlike similar taxes emanating from
Republicans, will lay no burden upon the
consumer.
3. That she particular tax which they
favor,nnlike similar taxes which they have
anathewatized as ‘‘robber protection,’ is
purely a revenue tax.
4. That, though their last gd plat-
form seemed to declare specifically against
the particular tax whioh they favor, it really
did oot mean that, but something else.
The struggle of Demootatio representa.
tives agaiust the charge of apostasy had
bitberto rested on propositions about like
these. But the Senate debate on Wed-
nesday carried she lines much farther for.
ward. The Payne bill bad ont the Dingley
rate on lumber from $2 to $1 & thousand
feet, keeping certain grades on the datiable
list at all only tbrough the insistence of
Demoorats from lumber districts: Senator
Simmons, of North Carolina, a member of
the committee which reported the platform
resolutions as the last Democratic conven-
tion, demands shat the tariff on lumber be
pat back to $2. The debate thus precipi-
tated elicited two brand new hypotheses
from Democratic Senators :
5. That a platform prepared ‘‘by a few
western men’’ has no right to single out a
certain tax and expect to bind Democrats
to oppose it.
6. That platforms are written and
brought in at night, when everybody i+
Sired, and nobody cares anything about
them.
This last shonght emanated from Senator
Bacon, of Georgia. It seems to leave down
all the bars, .
in the Same Boat.
From the Harrisburg Star—Independent,
A dispatch from Washington says that a
contemplated increase of $7,000,000 in the
Cuban budget, with a total appropriation
of $33,000,000, *‘oreates an unfavorable im-
ession in Washington, where few i
0 - De
official oircles is that there bas
spawls from the Keystone.
—S8ixtcen thousand pickere! were received
in Huntingdon the other day and placed in
several streams of the county.
—Daniel Ohlinger, Berks county's veteran
woodchopper, since New Year has cut 1,210
cords of wood, made 1,780 fence posts and
2,270 rails. He is 63 years old.
—The Cambria county jail at Ebeusburg
now has the highest number of prisoners in
its history, 198 persons being confined there-
in. A contract for the enlargement of the
Jail, which is greatly overcrowded. will be
let in June.
~The H. C. Frick company has fired up
1,000 more coke ovens in Connelsville region,
having but very few of its 20,000 unlighted.
The steel trust is out after coke and there is
more business in sight than for eighteen
months past.
—Forest fires are doing considerable dam.
nage in the northern part of Cambria county.
Despite recent rains the underbrush in the
wooded tracts is dry and inflammable and the
fire wardens are having great difficulty keep-
ing the fires under control.
—The board of trustees of Blairsville col-
lege for women has extended a call to Dr.
Magnus P. Ihiseng, principal of Penn Hall,
Wilson college, Chambersburg, Pa., to be-
come the president of that institution and
the call has been accepted and he will enter
upon his duties July 1.
~The Clearfield Water company has plan~-
ned to spend thousands of dollars in the con~
struction of two reservoirs. The larger one
will be built within 80C feet of the dam on
Moose Creek and have a capacity of 16,000,
000 gallons. The other reservoir will have
a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons,
~—Boarding himself James J. Stein has for
twenty-five years been the sole occupant of a
twelve room house, near Seisholtsville,
which he erected in the hope of it being a
favorite spot for summer boarders, because of
its clcse proximity to a fine spring of water
which he discovered in the woods.
—Milton Meyers, of Lewistown, who was
arrested a month ago on the charge of being
implicated in the murder of auaged store
keeper in Somerset county, aad was held in
the Somerset county jail since the arrest, has
been released, the grand jury having failed
to find a true bill against the young man.
—Drowned by the noise of a passing
freight train an explosion of nitro glycerine
wrecked thesafe inthe Coal Valley post.
office near McKeesport and was not heard.
The robbers got away with stamps valved at
$500, but in their haste overlooked $72 in
cash which they had laid on top of the safe.
—Edward Edwards, of Jeannette, who
went to visit his son in Virginia early in
March, left that state apparently for his
home and has never been heard of since.
Mrs. Edwards is mystified and his friends
regard Mr. Edwards’ disappearance as mys-
terious. Edwards was at one time postmas-
ter of Jeannette.
—Business is apparently picking up im
Lancaster, all the rolling mills and the pipe
mill of the Susquehanna Iron company have
ing resumed operations and some of them
are running on double turn. Fires have also
been lighted in the mill of the Jansen Steel
decided tendency toward extravagance
the anthorization of expenditures of public
money.” Because of the treaty between
the two countries, ‘‘the Washington Ad-
ministration is watching the developments
in the island with much concern.”
This concern of official Washington is
very refreshing, to speak mildly. The Ca-
ban government could bardly do better
than imitate the government of the United
States in everything. In this country
there was no concern expressed by the Ad.
ministration with regard to reckless appro-
priation: by the Congress. Or, to give the
exact trath, is was slapped on the wrist
and told thas it shonidn’t spend so much
money unless it wanted to. In spite of re-
peated warnings that the revenues were
less than the expenditures, and that the
difference was growing greater daily, the
Congress appropriated $1,044,401,857.12 at
its session last winter. This was an in-
crease of $36,004,313.56 as compared with
the appropriations by the the first session
of that Congress.
It would seem that the Washington gov-
ernment should have heen more concerned
with domestic affairs than with those of
Cuba, which thus far has been able to take
care of itself and expeots to obtain all need-
ed revenues withous increasing taxation.
The deficit in the United States treasury
has been increasing. Last year it was
about sixty millions of dollars. This year
it will be a hundred millions. In spite of
warnings the Congress deliberately went
abead and appropriated more money than
ever hefore, in a mad riot of prodigality.
It is not proposed b> the Congress to im.
prove conditions by reducing appropria-
tions, but to increase taxation by the en-
aotment of a new tariff law. Shouldn’t
the Washington government be concerned
abaat Se United States rather than about
False Economy.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Praise unhounded has been given to
President Taft because of his announced
intention to enjoin the strictest economy
upon the executive departments of the
Government. His pronouncement that
federal outlaye must be pruned to fit the
annual income bps been taken a* a precur-
sor of better things in governmental poli-
cies. Many persons believe the fever of
wanton extravagaoce bas run its course,
and that all branches of the Government
will now work in harmony to repair the
damage by the recklessness of
the preceding administration.
However may be, there is nothing
lly evcouragiag
in the naval pro.
gram for 1911, lately outlined by Secretary
eyer. True, it does propose a reduction
of itares of abont $10,000,000. But
in what fashion? Is there to be a lopping
off of the chief expense of this depariment
—the aonual construction of new war ves-
sels? Snch a thing never entered the astute
brain of the secretary. We must keep u
with the international Dreadnaught-build-
ing proseasion. We must have at least
two new engines of destruction every year.
The armor: trust muet be taken care
of. But business must come to a standstill
in the enlargement and improvement of the
navy yards. I doesn’t matter thas these
are inadequate to take care of the war ves-
sels now afloat. The polioy is short-sight-
ed. Cut off the building of one or both
Dreadnanghts at $10,000,000 each. That
is the most sensible way to economize in
this department.
Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
i‘fand Iron company and employees have been
imported from Middletown and other places.
—A circular letter has been received by
the county commissioners from Auditor
General Young's department stating that the
$40,000 appropriation to cover deficiciencies
in the noxious animai bounty act will be
exhausted by claims already filed. Notice is
given that no appropriation or bounties will
be available for thet wo fiscal years beginning
June 1. Tho act, which was passed in 1907
cost the state $50,000 in addition to the de-
ficiciencies.
— Attorney James B. O'Connor, of Johns
town, on Tuesday flied the papers in two
darange suits at Ebensburg. One is for §25,~
000 damages against the Pennsylvania,
Beech Creek and Eastern Coal and Coke
company on behalf of 8 boy maimed at the
defendant's Marstellar plant, in Cambria
county. The other is an action for $10,000
damages against the Johnstown Passenger
Railway company, Joseph Smith and wife
being the plaintifls.
— Business seems to be picking up in some
parts of Cambria county. To morrow the
Clearfield Coal aud Coke company will fire
up 100 new coke ovens which have been con.
structed recently. The big demand for the
fuel by the iron and steel industry will
enable the company to dispose of iis ouipit.
The new ovens are equipped with the im.
proved washer and crusher and the company
expects to turn out coke equal toany manu-
factured in the United States.
—After making all preparations to retire
to her room at the residence of Dr.
0. J. Stricker, at Portage, where she
was employed as a domestic, Miss
Lizzie Reiland, 21 years old, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Reiland, of Spring Hill,
near Portage, committed suicide at 9 o'clock
Sunday evening by firing a bullet from a 32
calibre revolver into her right temple. No
plausable reason is given for the deed, but
it is believed that an unhappy love affair
led to the tragedy.
—After remaining out all night the jury in
the Schrecongost murder case at Clearfield at
9 o'clock Satarday morning brought in a
verdict of “murder in the second degree.”
Everyone who knew the details of the trage-
dy expected that Schrecongost would be
found guilty and many expected a first de~
gree verdict, The prisoner gave no sign
when he heard the verdict and is calmly
awaiting sentence. The crime for which the
man was tried was the killing of his wife on
the street of DuBois on the 220d of last
December.
—With seven gold watches, two silver
watches, six scarf pine, a gold bracelet, a
new fountain pen, a pair of new plyers and a
Pl new pocketbook, in their possession, Albert
R. Beale, of . Dunbar, and a friend, who ree
fused to give his name, were arrested in Al-
toons Mouday evening, and locked up at the
police station, while Altoona and Pittsburg
police are working on the case, Beale and
his companion are about 24 years of age and
when taken into custody they refused to
talk. On Beale was found a number of lets
ters which gave the police some valuable in-
formation and the Pittsburg police have been
notified to in whether 4 Jewsisy
store in that vicinity has been The
men were caught getting offan eastbound
freight train,