BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
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Ini Sling.
—A sale a sane Fourth of July would be
about as interesting as a quilting party for
mutes,
~The elements do not appear to favor
the Central Pennsylvania base ball league
se the two last scheduled games were
knocked ous by rain.
~The Senate has begun night work on
the tariff. The result can kardiy be ex-
pected to be other than part of the pesti-
lence that walketh in darkness.
—Mrs. RussELL SAGE is giving away
her fortune as the rate of twenty-five thous-
and dollars a day. Ouoly a lage one
would stand sach lavish distribution.
—GEORGE ADE, the novelist and play-
wright, bas been madea trustee of PUR-
puE University. Probably on the princi-
ple thas bis fame will aid the institution.
—Mrs. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT has re-
turned from her tour of encouragement of
the Sufragettes. Is remains for she Perry
County Democrat to enlighten us as to
whether she succeeded in getting what the
men bave.
—1It seems to ue that the Senate bas no
business bothering about where Senator
PENROSE is after Senate hours. That is
Senator PRNROSE’S business and probably
bothers him enough without others trying
to batt in.
—~Knowing so well how to do such
things it was not much of a surprise that
the two Republican factions in Philadel.
phia indulged in ballot box stuffing and
repeating against each other at the prima.
ries on Saturday.
~The Board of Public Buildings and
Grounds adjourned their meeting in Har-
risburg on Wednesday without even con-
gidering the QUAY statue resolution. The
poor old monument is baving its meta:
morphosis into a white elepbans, sure
enough.
—Breathitt county, Kentucky, bas
another fend. The departure of the male
members of the HARGIS family for realme
uakoown was thought to bave ended the
intermittent savagery of that community,
but the trail has been taken up by others
and the blood that is to mark it is already
being spilled.
~The Centre county friends of Dr.
LEONARD PEARSON, state veterinarian,
will hear with profound sorrow of the acci-
dens that he and bis aged mother mes with
night before lass. Both were 30 nearly ae-
phyxiated by illuminating gas that Mrs.
PEARSON'S recovery is doubtful and the
Doctor is in an extremely critical condi-
tion.
~The death of Col. ALEXANDER K.
McCLURE removes the most distinguished
editorial product of Pennsylvania. His so-
tivities in newspaper work covered the
greatest crises in the history of the State
and his superb mental equipment enabled
him to be of inestimable service to the
public through his able discussions of the
questions uppermost. Fortunately his
writings are lefs, because he had peculiar
and most intimate acquaintance with the
affairs of State in the early days and his
memoirs may be regarded as a rich heritage
of coming generations of Pennsylvanians,
—Whether it has been fear of burgess
Bower's dollar fine or just a proper effory
on the part of the public to do better we
don’s know but we do know thas fhe side-
walks in Bellefonte have looked far olean-
er since those ‘‘ansi-spitting’’ notices were
put ap than they did before. We} do hope
the burgess will see to it that the ordi.
nance is not lefs to Ispse into a state of in-
noounus desunetude as har been the case
with the curfew. It is such a good, whole.
some and altogether pleasing move that
the burgess and his police may well take
the trouble to see that it is continued.
—A rather interesting argument was in-
jeoted into the new school house building
discussion by a gentleman, a few days ago.
He stated that when the North ward build-
ing that is now being torn down, was built
in the early seventies, it was regarded as
being ample for Bellefonte’s needs for
many years to come. At that time the
borough bad a population of 2655 souls.
Since that time the new South ward build-
ing has doubled the school facilities of the
borough while the population has increas:
ed only 1561 residents or a total of 4216.
Therefore he argued that the contemplated
enlargement of the North ward building to
nearly twice ite former size is certainly
not warranted by the increase in the nom-
ber of school children from Bellefonte.
Faots are facts and here is a thought worth
considering.
—The contemplated plan to have a street
carnival company in Bellefonte for she
week of July 4th bae stirred up considera-
ble opposition. While the good or bad ef-
fects of such an affair are largely matters
of personal opinion, and no one cares par-
ticularly whether one ie beld or whether is
is not, the situation in this case is a good
bit like the old Preshyterian doctrine of
being damuved if you do and damned if
you don’t. If the carnival were to be ge-
cured the public would have to “whack”
up to the promoters to help get it. So
those who are opposed to it are whacking
up to the promoters to keep it away. You
see the promoters get all they care for out
of the deal while tbe public get satisfac.
tion along the line of the doctrine quoted
above: They pay if the carnival comes or
they pay it it don’t.
The Washington correspondent of she
esteemed Philadelphia Record is somewhat
optimistic with respect to the political fu-
tare. That is to say he discerns signs of
disintegration in the Republican party as a
result of the rather bitter fight over the
question of revising the tariff and cites the
language of former Senator SPOONER, of
Wisconsin, in support of bis opinion.
““The situation of the Republican party in
Congress,’ Mr. SPOONER declares, ‘‘is the
worst I have ever known it. The feeling
that bas developed over tariff revision be-
tween the two wings of the party,’’ he con-
tinued, ‘‘is more bitter than any that
arose over the railroad rate and other leg-
islation under the ROOSEVELT regime."’
No doubt that is a fairly accarate state-
ment of conditions in Washington as they
appear to Senator SPOONER. The quarrel
between Senator ALDRICH on one side and
the progressives led by DOLLIVER, of
Iowa, and BEVERIDGE, of Indiana, on the
other, is irreconcilable. It may even be
said that President TAFT desires a revision
of the tariff on lines which would give
some promise of relief to the people. But
through recreancy among the Democrats
and venality among the Republican lead-
ers, the advantage to the Democratic par-
ty and tbe country is practically certain to
be lost. In other words, notwithstanding
the bitter quarrel among the Republicans
and the obvious purpose of ALDRICH and
bis followers to sacrifice the people, the
ALDRICH program will be carried out avd
the party will lose few if any votes on ac-
count of it.
The Republican leaders in Congress are
simply the special agents of the predatory
trast and monopolistic corporations. AL.
DRICH makes no concealment of his pur.
pose to serve those enemies of the public
and makes little effort to make his corrupt
commerce with the recieant Democrats
who are assistiog bim in bis conspiracy.
But hecause of this Democratic recreancy
the advantage which onght $0 come to the
people is lost. Possibly there will be an
awakening of the public conscience or an
expression of thas spirit of manbood which
resents injustice, but we own to a feeling
of doubt. There have been so many offen-
ces overlooked and so many orimes against
the people condoned shat hope is almost
gone.
A Fortune Well Spent.
After all RUSSELL SAGE'S saccess in
gathering together the great wealth that
was his at the time of his death was not a
bad thing for the country. It was secured
mostly from men who tried to get rich by
gambling in stocks, and who, had they
succeeded would in all probability bave
squandered most of their winnings at
European watering places or for their own
personal pleasure, iu place of giving is for
the creditable purposes to which Mr.
SAGE'S wealth is going.
Mrs. SAGE, who waa given the care and
the distribution of the $65,000,000 fortune
left by him bas, in the three short}years
she bas bad charge of it, given over $25,-
000,000 for educational purposes, religious
advancement and for the amelioration of
buoman misery. A continuation of this
same blessed spirit of charity —this effort
to do good —will give back in a few years
into the hands of the people the entire
wealth accumulated by ber husband. And
after it is where it will relieve suffering
hamanity, aid the poor, educate the people
and assist in spreading the teachings of
Christ, who will dare say that RussgLL
SAGE's lile was a failure, or that his suo-
cess was not a blessing to his countrymen
aod his country ?
Mrs. SAGE's good work is erecting a
great and lasting monument to both her
own and her busband’s memory.
Mast Grin and Bear.
From the statements made by the press
and the general results of the primaries
down iv Schuylkill, that county has shown
its ability and willingoc is to prove a olose
second in rottenness and general rascality
to poor old depraved and despised Philadel-
phia.
It should have been enough to us, as
Pennsylvanians, to bear the disgrace of hav-
ing onr largest aod most important city
listed and pointed to as the most debauch-
ed and corrupt municipality on the face of
the globe. Bat it seems our cup of this
“‘hells broth’ is not yet fall. The virus
that has eaten out the honesty, the man-
hood and the self respest ol the citizens of
that city seems to bave laid hold on the
people of outside counties and the good
T.ord alone knows bow long its run may be
or how wide its course may extend.
That anything can be done to stay it, we
have little hope. That the people want it
ended, we have little belief. Itis a Repub.
lican disease and the voters of Pennayl-
vania seem content to bave it run its course.
Whether the end be an office or the peni-
tentiary for those spreading the inocula.
tion we can only wait and see.
~——fubsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 11, 1909.
There is something like s rifs in the
Pennsylvania political cloud in the result
ol she primary elections in Philadelphia
last Saturday. The reform candidate for
District Attorney came very near defeat
ing the Republican machine candidate for
the Repablican nomination for thas office
and actually polled more votes thau the
Repubiican candidate received. In other
words Mr. CLARENCE GIBBONEY, formerly
the capable manager of the Law and Order
society, who was nominated by the Demo-
orats and the WiLLriam PENN parties, re-
ceived enough votes for the Republican
nomination to raise his aggregate to a fig-
are higher than the total vote of the regu-
lar Republican candidate.
Is doesn’t necessarily follow shat the
candidate of the Democratic and WILLIAM
PENN parties will receive more votes in
November than the Republican machine
candidate but the primary certainly justi.
fies the hope of that results. As an esteem-
ed Philadelphia contemporary states, the
vote of the machine candidate was made up
largely of the criminal classes and the of-
fice holders and there may be some of the
former which failed to ges to the polls for
the primary election who will be on hand
at the general election. Bat is is certain
that there are thousands of decent oitizens
io Philadelphia who didn’s vote at the pri.
maries but may be brought out to the gen.
eral election if proper energy is pat into
the campaign.
The election of a militans reform District
Attorney in Philadelphia would have a sur-
prising result on the politics of the State,
for is would have the effect of minimizing
the fraudulent vote in the city and the
fraudulent vote represents a large propor-
tion of the total. In that city the dens of
vice and the saloons are almost noanimons-
ly eleotioneering headquarters of the Re.
publican machine under the shelter of the
prosecuting official. If Mr. GIBBONEY
sbould be elected this demoralizing infla.
ence in the politics of the city would cease
avd the seventy or eighty thousaud votes
would be lost to the Republicans. In the
last gubernatorial election thas number
loss to the party would have ohauged: the
results.
The Republican Siate Convention.
Information to the effect that Senator
PENROSE aud chairman ANDREWS of the
Republican State committee have already
arranged all the details of the State oon-
vention of shat party which is to be held
in Harrisburg next week, comes from
Washington. Congressman OLMSTED, of
Harrisbarg, will introduce the platform,
which bas heen prepared by PENROSE and
ANDREWS. The cfficials of the convention
have been chosen, also, but those on she
inside refuse to indicate which of the obe-
dient machine followers are to be favored
with those complimentary assignments. It
is known, however, that chairman AN.
DREWS will be re-elected.
The managers are somewhat troubled,
moreover, with the matter 6! the nowioa-
tion for Justice of the Supreme coors. It
had been practically determined $o ‘‘cata-
pult” jadge Von MoscHIZKER, of Phila.
delphia, into that place, but there has been
such a volome of protest that the leaders
have become somewhat alarmed. Von
MOSCHIZKER is one of the judges who sat
in the Dauphin county court when the
constitutionality of she judical salary
was pfased upon and the more conserva:
tive party managers hesitate abons naming
a man for the Supreme bench who has de-
clared the constitution unconstitutional.
It may be said this would have bad no
inflaence on the mind of PENROSE if they
had been the only objections to Vox Mos.
CRIZKER. That decision was rendered
with the concurrence of the Senator and he
never repudiates his own action. Bat it
has been ascertained that Vox Mosomiz-
KER'S spovsor bas been State Senator
CLARENCE WOLF who is largely responsi-
ble for the recent misfortuues of the Phila.
delphia Republican machine. The people
of Philadelphia are in anything other than
an amiable mood and it is gravely feared
thas with Vox MosSCHIZKER as the nomi-
nee for the Supreme bench a revolution of
great proportions might ensue.
~The Philadelphia Record furnishes
the following, which will be news to most
Centre county people. The paper Mr.
DORWORTH is supposed to have secured is
the Republican of this place, for which it is
known he bas been negotiating during the
| past year:
CHARLES E. DORWORTH, for several
years political reporter of The Philadel.
phia Press, will become editor of his own
paper at Bellefonte this month. Mr. Dokg-
WORTH comes from Centra county, bat his
active newspaper career has been spent in
Philadelphia and Pittsburg. He was one
of the staff of the old Pittsburg T¥mes, one
of the most famous aggregations of news.
paper men ever gotten together in that
city. He then entered the services of The
Press.
It is understood that Mr. DORWORTH
will put in an entire new printing outfit,
both in the newspaper and job depart.
ments, and expects to make the Republican
equal in appearance, as well as in news, to
any of the papers published in this sown.
Judicial Elections.
We cannot refrain from expressing out
satisfaction over the result of the primary
vote for Judge in Luzerne county. For-
mer chairman of the Democratio State com-
mittee, JoaN M. GARMAN, Esq., was not
ouly nominated for thas office by the Demo-
orats by an overwhelming majority bas he
defeated the slated candidate of the Re-
publicans for the Republican nomination.
This makes his election absolutely certain
for he will be on she regular ticket of both
parties. Osher candidates can be voted for
of course, but the operation will involve a0
much trouble that it is vot likely to be in-
dalged in to any great extent.
We ate very mach in favor of non-parti-
sav judges aud would like to see politios
completely eliminated from judical contests.
But we fiod that non-partisan judges are
almost exclusively Democratic judges, and
in nine cases ous of ten Republican
i are partisans on or off the bench.
e believe that in she event of his elestion,
sow practicaily oertaic, JOHN M. GARMAY
il be a non-partisan judge. Off t.e
oh be is au earnest Democrat. Ras he
8 first of all a lawyer and a good lawyer is
invariably a jast judge.
“It is gratityiog, moreover, to learn that
in Chester county the Hon. JosgrH HEMP.
HILL came within 26 votes of being
placed upon the Republican ticket in ad-
dition to securing the unanimous nomina-
tion of his own party, which makes his eleo-
tion positively certain. Judge HEMPHILL
is just completing his second term of ten
years and his career on the betioh has been
ao illustrious one. The Democrats of Berks
bave made the election of two Judges cer.
tain, so that we are certain to hold our own
in the Judioal elections of this State this
year. 8
Duties of Supervisors.
By ao act of Aseembly approved by
the Governor the 13th day of May,
1909, she supervisors of the highways in
the various townships io the State are re-
quired within six months after the passage
of the act to measare all public roads in
their respective townships. Suob meas-
urement shall be made either by the use of
8 gyclometer or otherwise as the hoard may
direct, and the supervisor sball report the
number of miles of road in each township
to the state highway commissioner.
Another law still in force but one so
universally dieregarded as to lead many to
think it obsolete is that requiring supervis-
ors to erect and maintain at every cross.
roads a sign board pointing the direction
and distance to the nexi town or towns. A
penalty is also attached for failure to keep
such signboards up and io good condition.
Another law of considerable importance
to all drivers of vehioles is that requiring
supervisors during she months of April,
May and June, and September and Ooto-
ber of each year, to go over the roads and
rake or clean off al! the loose stone there-
on. This law is partially observed in only
two or three townships in the county, not-
withstanding that a more than nominal
fine is attached for failure to obey the law.
The above are three duties devolving
upon supervisors that should not be ne-
gleoted and such officials in Centre county
who do nos know the law thereon, or
knowing it, disregard it wiltally, would do
well to give due attention to the matter,
as the better roads movement is one that
is being given more attention every day
aod citizens of the county directly inter-
ested will sooner or later demand that
every law regarding the same be striotly
fulfilled.
I.
Value of Good Roads.
Centre connty has lostanother opportun-
ity $0, land a good thing in the rejection
of the site offered on the Moses Thompson
estate for the proposed three million dollar
Masonic home and school, and while the
committee on location gave no reason for
the rejection it would not be surprising to
learn thas they were influenced in their
decision because of the deplorable condi-
tion of the road they were compelled to
travel over from several miles south of
Bellefonte through Lemons to reach Cen-
tre Faroace. It is a fact that on the day
the committee was taken up several of the
gentlemea could not help but remark on
the bad condition of the roads.
This should be a lesson to the supervis-
ors, and more especially the land-owners,
to insist on the keeping up of the roads.
Another instance : A real estate man in
Bellefonte bas a farm in the vicinity of Le-
mont for sale aud a month or so ago he se-
cured a good prospective purchaser but
when the man went to look at the farm
and found the old pike in the condition it
was he declared at once that he would
never purchase a property where the roads
were allowed to remain in such a wretched
condition. The above are two strong ar-
guments in favor of good roads and why
the farmers and real estate owners of the
county can't appreciate the value to them-
selves of better roads is a perplexing ques-
tion.
~—Subsoribe for the WATCHMAN.
Mr. Bryan Speaks Out,
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Mr. Bryan is at least making his ati.
sade toward those Deatoorate oo be-
trayed sheir party in congress ear.
He is leaving no doubt as to the estimate
in which be holds their action nor does he
leave anything to doubt as to whas these
traitors deserve as the hands of their out-
raged constituents. Y odigh
In the ourreus issue of the Commoner he
with the Republicans in maintaining or ad-
vancing protective duties. ‘‘Demooratio
voters,’’ be says, ‘‘cannot begin too soon
to select candidates for - “+. Let
those Democrats who believe in and
district and out a De ho can-
not be t or frightened. trusts
bave stealthily secured control of some of
the who were elected as Demo-
orate and they will have the influence of
the trusts in securing a re-nomination. The
trusts can very well afford to put up the
campaign funds if they can control the con-
an afta the election. oo Steel
- nstance, could put a miliion
dollars into the congressional cam
paign
without missing it it is only one of
many trusts) ;and a would
supply a buodred cand $10,000
apiece, or two hundred with
$5,000 apiece. When you see that a con-
Sressiitial candidate has money to yapend,
nd out where he is getting it. e it
for granted thas he cannot get money4rom
a predatory corporation without a promise,
expressed or implied, and that be will pay
the tion back ous of the pockets of
the people.”
These are very plain words, bus they are
not too plain nor are prematurely
uttered. If they lack it is that
they are not aimed directly at the perfid-
joe Duositin in house an senate us
ve been with .
bor Of Fee ir I0 Witt fhe PAiited hat.
Bl a iety single Moe
might with entire propriety em
out and dul Yhews ap to the scorn and
reprobasion r oo 8.
Bat Mr. Bryan chooses to JH rire of
the feelings of she traitors. He chooses to
make his indictment general instead of
specific and he leaves to oon-
atituencies themselves the task of fitting
the shoe to the proper feet.
ET —
The People Are Unheard.
Mark Sullivan in Collier's.
Upward march the tariff rates, Wash-
ES Sona Ji I pi acs
the powerfal. Senator -Aldrioh tells she
Dal truth when he says that ninety-nine
of a hundred of those who appear before the
finance committee ask for higher rates.
(The consumer is at home busy with the
plow.) Senators and representatives are
immersed in a high protection atmosphere.
Every listening moment he is the censre of
a pressure thas ories ‘‘Raise the rates.’
‘‘You vote for high rates on my steel, and
I'll vote for high rates on your lumber”
and so two rates are raised. Every day of
delay means greater and greater heights.
Every day of speech making on the senate
floor is a day of battonholing in she capi-
tol corridors. Senator Reyburn, of Idaho,
said the other day tbat he does not con-
sider the Republican party pledged to re-
vision downward, merely to rsadjustment
—and ‘‘readjustment’’ isa enphemism for
revision upward. That is the present
epirit of the Republican senate organiza-
tion. The bill that comes to President
Taft for signature will in all probability
be higher than the Dingley bill. In the
recollection of his campaign promises, the
President will face the first real test of his
moral courage.
‘A Tax On Tea.
From the Pittsburg Post.
Since Aldrich and hie cohorts are ever
ready to hearken to the wail of the protec-
tion-seeker, there is danger that the tea
lobby in Washington may succeed. The
Piopusition is, of course, ridicnlous, and,
ike many another that has been disclosed
during the present session of Congress,
would not get a hearing if presented $o the
intelligence of the voter.
Climate and conditions in this country
are wholiy unfavorable to tea-raising. At
the presents time the bulk of the tea raised
in this country is prodaced in South Caro-
lina ‘averages a little more than 10,000
8 yearly, these results having been
reached after a history of 25 years in the
business
But the consumption of tea in the Unis.
ed States amounts to about 100,000,000
pounds annually. Isn't is absurd so think
of taxing 90,000,000 of people to benefit an
industry that never can amount to any-
thing in this country ? What bave the
few holders of tea-growing lands in South
Carolina done shat they should demand
this ribute from the American Pecple, and
against protests to Congress not only
individoal consumers, bus also of whole-
eale, jobbing and retail associations in all
parts of the country ?
The proposed duty wonld amount to a
tax of virtaaily 10 cents a pound on a pro-
duct for which the poor consumer now
pa Cl or 30 ceats a pound. Is it reason:
able
Labor Injunction Expanding.
From the Chicago Public.
The American courts in the Philippines
bave let out another reef in labor injunc-
tions. A etrike of street car employes
being in progress in Manila, the strikers
called a series of mass meetings to assem.
ble on the 30th. Bat the mass m
were prohibited by a labor injunction.
Note the progress of labor injunctions.
First we had injunctions against violence
in strikes ; these destroyed the American
right of jury trial for crime in connection
with the labor movement. Then we had
injunctions against boycott publications ;
these invaded the American b Pineiplo ofa
free press in connection with the labor
movement. And now we have an injuno-
Spawls from the Keystone. oo
~Itis reported that the Carnegie Steel
company will expend over $2,000,000 in the _
erection of a new blast furpace and four
open-hearth furnaces at Sharon. i
—Counterfeit balf dollars are in circula«
tion in Sunbury. This fact became known
Friday morning, when several were detected
at the First National Bank by Teller Daniel
Bloom.
—Weasels played havoc in the hennery of
Jacob Milliner, a farmer residing on the
outskirts of Coatesville. The beast killed
190 fine young fowls before he could get to
the barn.
—Miss Eleanor Stewart, who was secre-
tary treasurer of the Mercer hospital, bas
been in jail at Mercer since May 26 because
she refuses to obey the decree of the court to
produce the books of the bospital.
—With the safe containing $500 open,
burglars who effected an entrance into the
store of R. 8. Swayne, of Berwick, in attempt.
ing to open the iron receptacle, locked the
combination and failed to get the money.
—The Keystone furnace at Reading, which
bas gone out of blast, will build an entire
new stack. This will be ready by October 1.
During the fifteen months the furnace was
in operation 1t produced 93,000 tons of pig
iron,
~It is very evident that a gang of horse
thieves is operating in Butler, Clarion, Ven-
ango and Armstrong counties. Within four
months six horses have been stolen from
Joseph Schall, of Crooked Creek, Armstrong
county.
~Six hundred residents of Delaware coun-
ty are recovering from measels, which in the
past three weeks have been raging. Haver-
ford township, where the majority of the
cases broke out, is usually considered the
most healthy locality in Delaware county.
—Seaman Brothers, of Uniontown, have
closed a deal for the purchase of 300 acres of
coal land in Jackson township, Greene coun«
ty, under option agreements made several
months ago. The purchase price was about
$75,000. Adjacent acreage is under option.
—Robert Perry Blackburn, of Williams-
port, has been appointed division command -
er of Knights Templar by Grand Eminent
Commander Abram Hess, of Pennsylvania.
This division comprises Baldwin II com-
mandery of Williamsport and the Lock’
Haven, Bellefonte and Philipsburg come
manderies. The appointment of Blackburn
is an bomor of considerable importance
among the Knights Templar. ?
—Thomas W. Johns, convicted of murder.
ing his wite and the latter's aunt, Mrs.
Charles Cobaugh, was sentenced to death by.
Judge F. J. O'Connor at Ebeusburg on Wed=
nesday. The prisoner exhibited no emotion
and when asked if he had anything to say
why sentence should uot be pronounced he
replied in the negative. The murder was
committed in Conemaugh September 21,
1908. Johns and his wife bad been separate
ed.
—A motor car employed in the dep
ried were all
terribly injured. One of the
men was not expected to survive until the
help of a physician could reach them, two
others were thought to be fatally hurt and
the remaiving two sustained very serious
injuries.
—Residents of Sunbury are excited
through the circulation of a rumor that the
Pennsylvania Railroad company plans to
move its shops from the Erie & Baltimore
terminal of their divisions and concentrating
its working force at Sunbury. Such a chance
would mean the employment of thousands
of men in Sunbury shops. The fact that the
Pennsylvania company some years ago pur:
chased a large tract of land near Sunbury
leads the people of that city to believe that
the project is now ahout to be realized.
—In the discrimination suit brought by
the Chestnut Hill Coal company, whose op -
erations are on the Amesville branch, back
of Madera, against the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company, ou trial at Clearfield last
week, the jury on Saturday rendered a ver-
diet of $12,000 damages in favor of the plain.
tiff company, constituted of William and
John Minds. This is the second trial of the
same suit, the pisintiffs in the first having
been awarded $14,700 damages, and on mo
tion of the defendants a new trial was grant
ed.
—Next week Philipsburg will be the cen-
tre of interest for the Christain Endeavorers
of Allegheny conference, U. B. church.
Their twentieth annual convention will be
held in the First U. B. church, June 15-17,
and a very interesting and profitable time is
looked for. There will be present about 150
ministers and delegates from different parts
of the State, and the U. B's are now busy ar-
ranging for their entertainment. The young
people's societies of other churches, together
with the general public, are invited to attend
and get the good of the convention.
—Asseszors and constables in Pennsylvania
will receive increased fees under an act of
assembly passed at the resent session. Con-
stables will receive $2.50 instead of $1.50 for
attendance at court and making returns
thereto, and fifteen cents each for serving
notices of election upon electicn officers-
They had been receiving ten cents.
The county assessors, by reason of the sign-
ing by Gov. Stuart of a bill passed by the
Legislature, will hereafter receive $2.50 per
day instead of §2, the former pay. By the
new law the assessors come under state
Jurisdiction instead of that of the counties.
—Jesse Laubach, of Bald Eagle township,
Clinton county, bas received a post card from
F. Essic Allison, of Nebraska, Forest county,
Pa., with his photograph on it. He will be
remembered by the older people 8s Doc Alli -
son. Although Mr. Allison is 82 years old,
by his picture he bids fair to live an addi-
tional number of years, and has the honor of
being president of the Allison family reunion
association. He is the last and only living
son of a Revolutionary soldier in Pennsylva+
nia. His brother, Ssmuel L. Allison, the
father of Mrs. Laubach, was in the war of
1812. These men are brothers of Mrs. Mary
Ann Bishel, of Clintondale. The late Sena.
tor William B. Allison, of Iowa, was a neph-
ew. The Allison family has many connee-
tion against Bling hich aseails
the. A Sretionn privoipte of th
tions in Centre county.