r=
— The two Bradford couples who danced
ten hours without stopping soucht a pew
field in which to acquire fame for foolish-
ness,
—A New York scientist says flies don’
bite. A scientist, ia he? We have an
Irish friend who would call hima d
liar.
~J. PIERPOINT MORGAN has eailed for
bome. Everybody will bave to get down
to work when the owner of everything gets
back on the job.
—Oar baseball team is getting some
olass to it now, but it is really too had that
it had to be taken out of amateur ranks in
order to secnre it.
—The government reports eay the corn
orop is to be the greatest ever and up to
the present moment, we believe, it has not
been sworn on President TAFT.
~—That was a mo welcome rain Wednes.
day afternoon. Don’t complain because
there was nos more of it. The Being that
gends the rains knows best when and how
much we should have.
—Aotion on the disposition of the Quay
statue has heen deferred again. Like Bax-
QUO's ghost it is always appearing before
the Board of Public Grounds and Baild-
ious and has them ecared to a frazzle.
~There is no question as to whether we
need a new school building. The question
to he decided on Aogust 17th is as to
whether the directors shoold not bave lcck-
ed the stable before the horse was stolen.
—Some of the Metropolitan papers are
fussiog just now because a London woman
has paid fire hoodred and twenty-five dol-
lars for a cat. Why so, plenty of men
have considered them cheap at double the
price.
~The Daily News has been suspended.
It wasn’t mach of a paper, but it is very
much missed all the eame and now thas it
has gone to the shades of journalistio rest
those who condemned it most sing its
praises londest.
—Mre. K. CRAWFORD BuzzZARD, of Kit-
tanning, climbed to the top of a tree in or-
der to escape the service of a divorce sub-
poena which sheriff FRICK bad for ber.
What a stunt for a woman, but then being
a buzzard she bpaturally took to the tree
tops. .
~The WRIGHT brothers and their aero
plane are getting into the white elephant
olass at Ft. Me er. So many things bap-
pen to preclude the flights of the m-chine
that the government officials have become
disgusted and the spectators bave dwindled
to about one a day.
—As Dr. ELLIOTT says: ‘Matrimony is
the best occupation for woman.”” Bas the
Doctor is a theorist and as so many women
prefer the cash register, the typewriter, the
telephone board, eto., to the wash tub and
the cook stove we are constrained to be-
lieve them the more practical.
— During the mouth of June the Sena.
tors of the United States consumed nine-
teen thousand two hundred lemons in their
drinks while on duty. If like begets like
this will probably account for the big lem-
on they are to band Uncle SAM in a few
days in the form of a tariff bill.
—Bishop WiLLray M. BELL may well
talk of a revolution as a possible means of
getting a division of the wealth that he
says ‘‘is centered in a few individuals,”
but should his incendiary remarks be tak-
en seriously by the masses you can bet
your lile the Bishop would be in some com-
fortable place eating obicken and expeos-
ing all the women in the church to wait
upon him while the other fellows would be
doing the fighting.
—More power to Rev. B. T. CALLEN, of
Pottstown ! He spoke the truth when he
said ‘‘there is a vast difference in the prom-
ses made by men belore election and what
they do afterward.” He was sermonizing
on the broken promises of the party in
power on the tariff bill. While the minis.
ter said exactly what he thought to bejtrue
be will probably be invited to leave his
present charge within the year, because he
happens to be a Methodist.
~The capitol “‘trimmers’’ are one step
pearer the prison doors” On Wednesday
the Superior court sustained their convic-
tion hy refusing to grant the appeal for a
new trial. SANDERSON and MATHUES
have both died since their conviction and
only two of the convicted men remain to
face the sentence of two years that was im-
posed by the Dauphin countyjeourt. They
are ex-Auditor General WILLIAM P. SxY-
DER and JAMES H. SHOEMAKER, ex-su-
perintendent of grounds and buildings.
They have one more chance in an appeal to
the Supreme court.
~—CHARLES E. DORWORTH presented a
new Bellefonte Republican yesterday morn-
ing. The first edition under the new man-
agement promises well. Of course it will
take time to effect the changes he hopes to
make bat if the first number is an indica-
tion of what future ones may be expected
to be it will not be long until the old Re-
publican organ will be looking and speak-
ing again with a character and force t!at
will give it rank with the good weekly pa-
pers of the State. It has the editorial abil.
ity now, so that all it needs isa more effi.
cient equipment and the proper energy.
We believe Mr. DORWORTH will give it
both and we welcome the clean, friendly
competition it brings into the field of Cen.
tre county journalism.
The purpose of the Republican party to
perpetuate the iniquisies of the tariff are
quite as olearly revealed in the personnel
of the oonfersnce committee as in the
schedules of the ALDRICH bill. The Sen-
ate members of the committee, so far as
the majority party is concerned, are com-
posed entirely of ‘‘stand-pasters,’”’ while
the House representatives are of preoisely
the same sors. Under the circumstances
the order made by Senator ALDRICH at the
first session of the committee for the Demo-
orats to withdraw from the conference was
entirely logical. It is the first sime in the
history of Congress that sooh a thing has
occurred, but is ie the fires time in the hie-
tory of the government that legislation of
the sors has been cast exclusively on par-
tisan lines.
In the selection of the House members of
the committee the greatest ontrage was
perpetrated. In the Senate the Republican
members of the finance committee were
pamed in the order of their service. Sena-
tor ALDRICH has that body so completely
under his control that it wasn’t necessary
to violate the proprieties in that respeot.
Bat in the House the older members of the
committee on Ways and Means were com-
pelled to give way to newer men on the
body for the reason that the older mem.
bers could not be cajoled or soersed into
acquiescence in the machine plans. Repre-
sentative MoCALL, of Massachusetts, was
pamed, it is true, notwithstanding his pre-
deliotion toward tariff reform, bus with
ForDNEY, of Michigan, DarzeLy, of
Pennsylvania, and CALDERHEAD, of Kan-
sas, besides Chairman PAYNE, as his col-
leagues, it didn't matter much what Mo-
CALL wanted.
The conference hegan by excluding the
Democratic members of the body from ite
sessions. The purpose of that extraordinary
action is obvicus. Sesator ALDRICH pro-
poses that the dirty linen of the Republi-
oans shall be washed in privacy and that
any protests against the tariff iniquities
which may be made by Republicans shall
be held in seoreoy at least. When any dil-
ferences which they may have bave been
threshed ont is secrecy and any suggestions
in thie interest of the people bave been brash.
ed aside under star-chamber conditions, the
Democratic members of the committee will
be permitted to register their formal pro.
test against the atrocity, but that is as far
at they will be permitted to go. ALDRICH
doesn’s buns with a brass band or give his
opponents ivside information oconeerning
his plans.
Salus for Senator.
Toe indications clearly point to she se-
lection of Representative SAMUEL W. Sa.
LUS as the successor of the late ISRAEL W,
DURHAM in the State Senate. SALUS was
the putative author of the ‘‘press muzzler”
enacted during the session of 1903. Of
course he didun’s write the bill, or even con
ceive the idea expressed in it. The late
Senator QUAY was the real author of that
legislative atrocity and, we may add, ab-
surdity. But SALUS was the only man in
the House of Representatives, sufficiently
servile and wantiog in self-respect, to aot
as foster-father for the bill and the pelitio-
al pirates have felt since that they are un-
der some obligations to him.
We refer to this circumstance, at this
time, not for the purpose of pointing mor-
ale or adorning tales. Itsimply indicates
the utter depravity of the Republican ma.
chine. In the whole history of the world
there has never been 3 time when even the
bardest criminals and toughest malefactors
didn’t reveal a sense of shame. Barglars
conceal their criminal impulses as much as
possible and even pirates make pretense of
decency when they can. Bat in the selec.
tion of SAMUEL W. SALUS for the honor of
a seat in the Pennsylvania State Senate,
the Republican machine simply makes
public proolamation that it is withont
shame, destitute of self respect and proud
of its iniquity.
The Legislatures of 1903 and 1905 were
80 openly abandoned to vice that a polit.
ical revolation ensued after the adjourn.
ment of the last of them. In all the im-
moralities of those sessions SAMUEL W,
SALUS was conspicuous. He was conspio-
nouns in nothing eise, however. He initi-
ated no meritorious legislation. He pro-
moted no juss public service. He was sim-
ply the servile instrument of a piratical
crew to loot the State and debaunoch the
public. The proposition to make him a
State Senator is an outrage upon the con-
science of the Commonwealth and a crime
against the morals of the people. Such
things ought to be impossible and would
be if the public mind were properly guid.
ed.
———A meeting of the execative com.
mittee of the Centre—Clinton counties
Business Men’s Picnio association will be
held at the Clinton Country Club house at
Mill Hall, at four o'clock this (Friday)
alternoon, for the purpose of making pre.
liminary arrapgements for the annual basi.
ness men's pionio at Hecla park this year.
STATE RIGHTS AN
_ BELLEFONTE, PA. JULY 16, 1909.
Promoting a Fiction.
The preposterous fiction that the problem
of an income tax may be solved by an
amendment to the federal constitution bas
been encouraged by the sanction of Con-
gress. That is to say she House of Repre-
sentatives, on Monday, concurred in the
resolution of she Senate to submit an
amendment to the constitution of the Uni-
ted States, for the ratification of the States,
authorizing Congress to enact an income
tax law. The resolution which bad passed
the Senate unanimously, was agreed to in
the House by a practically unanimous vote,
only fourteen members having declared in
the negative. It will be necessary to get
the votes of three fourths of all the State
Legislatnires to make the resolution effeot-
ive and the chances are a hundred to one
that that will never be achieved.
The resolution in question was a trans-
parent enbterfuge in the beginning. Dar.
ing the recent presidential campaign Presi-
dent TAPT himsell declared both in his
speech of acceptance and on the stump, that
no chauge in the fundamental law was neo-
essary to creates valid and effective income
tax law. The Supreme court bad Swice
passed on the question and taken opposite
sides and the adverse decision bad been ob-
tained by ‘‘electioneering’’ the court and
inducing justice SHIRAS, of Pennsylvania,
to change his opinion. Speaking as a law-
yer and juries, therefore, Mr. TAFT bad no
trouble in reaching the conclusion that
Congress had a right to enact such legisla
tion. But subsequently, viewing the sub-
jeot from the standpoint of an instrument
of the trusts, he adopted the opposite at-
titnde.
But it may be set down as a certainty
that the resolution will no¥ be ratified by
three-fourths of the Stati, as required by
the constitution. The predatory interests
are opposed to an income tax for the reason
that it would in some measure, at least,
equalize the burdens of government be-
tween the rich and the poor. Those inter-
ests control enough Legislatures to prevent
the ratification of the amendment. Take
that of Pennsylvania, for example. It is
wishin the lines of conservatism to say that
four-fifths of the people of this State are in
favor of an income tax. But Senator PEN-
ROSE and the corporations he represents
would promptly and inevitably defeat the
ratification of a constitutional amendment
anthorizing such legislation and there are
sufficient other States,similarly sontrolled,
to decide the question.
Trouble in Philadelphia.
The evidences of fraud in the Repaubli-
oan primaries in Philadelphia continue to
distarb the minds of the Republican man-
agers, not only of that city, but of the
State. It is now realized thas the effort to
suppress the facts was a grave mistake bus
it is too late to remedy the error. That
Mr. GIBBONEY was defrauded of a vast
number of votes is freely admitted and
that he was cheated out of the Republican
nomination, is widely believed. Bat the
District Attorney who was the beneficiary
of the oriminal operations, doesn’t dare of-
fer a public remonstrance. If he did so
the machine would defeat him. The gang
will tolerate no concessions to decency.
The revival of the proposition to lease
the water works of Philadelphia is another
source of trouble and anxiety to the ma-
chine managers. That sach a thing is con-
templated can’t be denied or even disguis-
ed. It was among the schemes which
were defeated by the political revolution
of 1805 that resulted in the election of
WinLray H. BERRY to the office of State
Treasurer. But it wasn’t intended for dis-
cussion at this time. In fact Senator Mo-
NicHOL declared, the other day, that it
was brought into public notice at this time
by some enemy of the Republican party.
No friend of the srzanization, he protests,
would talk about such things on the eve of
an important election.
Possibly that is true but it is equally
certain that it is a part of the present plans
of the machine of which he is the nominal
bead. The profligacy of the municipal
government has made i$ necessary to adopt
some extraordinary means of increasing the
revenues and leasing the water works is
one of the alternatives, the others being an
inorease of the tax rate or the borrowing of
more money, which is practically impossi-
ble. The plans of the machine can be de-
feated by the defeat of the Republican par-
ty as they were in 1905, and in no other
way and the voters of Philadelphia bave
the matter in their own hands.
~The date for the dedication of the
monument in the national cemetery as Cold
Harbor, to all Pennsylvania soldiers who
fought in the battle of Cold Harbor June
1st to 3rd, 1863, has been changed from
September 15th to Ootober 20th. The State
will provide free transportation for all
Pennsylvania veterans. Full information
can be obtained by writing to Josiah His.
song, Point, Bedford county, Pa.
——Philipsburg autoists organized a
motor club on Tuesday evening.
D FEDERAL UNION.
Creating a False Hope.
There could hardly be anything more
sbsurd than predicting that President
k might veto the tariff bill for the rea-
that it revises the tariff apward instead
downward, as she Repablican platform
the President, personally, promised.
0 aod industries of the country re-
quire a considerable decrease in the tariff
ethedules and it is equally probable that
when he gave thas pledge to the people, he
meant to fulfill is. Bus TAFT comes
nearer beinga ‘‘patty man’ than any
figure which bas been conspicuous in the
public life of this country from the begin-
ping of the goveroment. He has no more
backbone than a jellyfish.
It Tarr had bad either courage or con-
#oience he would never bave been chosen
RoOSEVELT for the succession and io
ihe absence of such endorsement he would
never have been thought of for the office
any one, with the probable exception of
meell. RoOSEVELT'S first choice for the
smocession was .Enigv Root, then
Secretary of State and now Senator for New
York. Bus Roor refused to endorse some
of bis official caprices and be then surned
$0 TAFT who was willing to swear that the
moon was made of green cheese if ROOSE-
VELT would asserts the proposition. This
mental servility involved the violation of
ie oath of office but that made no dil-
prence to TAFT. He is as tractable in
morals as he ie in politics.
President TAFT will sign any tariff bill
or any otber piece of legislation which has
tbe endorsement of the Republican Congres.
sional machine. He may not believe in
the policies or purposes expressed in some
of the measures which will come to him for
approval, bat that will make no difference.
Because of that fact he was selected by
ROOSEVELT to succeed him io the
office and bad as RooSEVELT was TAFT is
worse for this reason. ROOSEVELT bad the
courage to assert himsel! under oertain
conditions, even though his judgment was
faulty. TAFT is simply a servant of the
machine.
An Incomsistent Statement.
+ An expert employed by Senator ALD-
RICH to fool the pablio by juggling figures
with respect to the tariff, asserts, and the
Senator supports the assertion that the
rates of the WiLsoN tariff bill were little,
if any, lower than those of the DINGLEY
law, and that the schedules of the ALD-
RICH bill are two per cent. lower than
those of the DINGLEY law. Io other words
the obvious purpose of the Senator is shown
that the platform pledge of the Republican
party to revise the tariff downward, not
only has been fulfilled, but that a lower
level than that provided for in the WrLsoN
bill has been reached.
Of course there is no foundation in fact
for such a statement. The schedules of the
ALDRICH bill are vastly higher than those
of the DINGLEY law and the sobedules of
the DINGLEY law are very much higher
than those of the WiLsox bill. It ie true
that apon a few of the luxuries of life and
apon some unimportant and little used
artioles of commerce the WILSON bill levied
high rates of duties. Like all other legis-
lation of that sort it was the fruit of com-
promise. Bat upon raw materials it levied
no taxes and upon the necessaries of life as
little as possible, consistent with revenue
requirements.
But suppose for a moment the statement
is true. How then is Sevator ALDRICH to
reconcile his present action with his pre-
vious statements that the WirLsox tariff
bill was a free trade measure which par-
alyzed the industrial life of the country
and precipitated the panic of 1903. Cer:
tainly those Republican patriots do not de:
sire to involve the country in ruin. Yet
it low tariff schedules work that result and
the ALDRICH rates are lower than those of
the Wirsox bill, nothing else can be hoped
for after the passage aud approval of the
pending measure. Bat there ie nothing in
the statement of ALDRICH'S expert.
——The special water committee have
practically completed their award of con-
tracts for the building and equipment of
the new municipal electric plant and most
of the oontracts have been drawn up and
signed, so that there is now every assur-
ance thas the plant will be built at as early
a date as possible ; bat at that it will be
several months before it will be completed.
—— Former residents of Centre and Clear-
field county now living in Cambria county
joined in the festivities of an Old Home
Day celebration at Sunset park, Barnesboro,
yesterday. On the committee on invitations
were such well known men as W. H. Sand-
ford, J. R. Musser, J. T. Slinger,
land Deringer and J. E. Kauffelt.
~The wheat market will not lie still,
as wag, evidenced in the jump in the price
of July wheat on Wednesday from $1.20
t0 $1.27 ; a price that makes the farmers
wish they bad this year’s orop ready to
market.
Advertise in the WATCHMAN.
doubt the Presidens believes that the sesy
Wood- | Be
From the Pittsburg Sun.
Speaker Cannon has disregarded
dent in appointing membars
conference committee and
order to assure a thoroughly
sult. When the conferees
of the committee. .
There was mach bot talk in the House
yesterday over the unparallelled encrosch-
ment by the Senate upon prerogasives of
the popular branch iu the framiog of a
revenue bill. A substantial Republican
miuority youl against ocoalerence and
swear they will vote against any report
that does not ize the constitution,
the honse principles and the epirit of the
Chicago platform. ‘
But these insurgents of she Middle West
are undergojog a terrific strain. Toe
‘‘maguificent discipline’ of she Republi.
can party is being exerted on them to the
Seno. Tee pany lash eng.
arty regularity is being a to.
Most # alpen of the
sitnation is the Aldrich with
Taft as soon as the latter returned so Wash-
ington from the Champlain ceremonies.
Talt’s words in the past are what the in.
surgents are clinging to, even the
Aldrich familiarity at the White House
bodes them ill.
Undoabtedly if the constituents of these
insurgents, all who waot a fairer tariff
deal than the Senate and House stand-
patters are going to give, will at once
write Tals, write their congressman their
wishes in the matter, great aud hop
pressure will thereby be exerted where it
will do tlie most "
Vastly more than the echedales is at
stake. Partyitm is in the balance. Should
the Cannon-Aldrich arm work suo-
ceed now is will take a much harder fight
the next time to break is up.
If Taft will only stand by his word in-
stead of with Aldrich ! He basa lot of
party destiny in his hands ; what is he
going to do with it ?
ET ——
Where Will Extravagance Cease?
From the Boston Traveler.
The tariff is enacted with oyunical indif-
ference to the necessities of the people on
the excuse that income must be provided
to meet the governments expenses, and all
sorts of extravagant schemes are embarked
upon to make the exaction of the tariff ex-
cansable. !
No soheme involving immense national
expenditare is too extravagant for politi.
cians : the irrigation of weber toad, he
drainage of southern territories ; the canali-
zation of rivers upon which but little traffio
floats ; public buildings for little towns
and villages that mighs sait cities ; the
multiplication of bureaus and employes for
meddling with en and industry,
aud bandreds of other unnecessary and
useless ventures are called for ; and the
man who finally pays all the bills, the
man with the dinner pat, appears to be as
dumb ae be is negligible.
When will this riot of extravagance
cease ? There must be a time close at band
when the back of the American camel will
refuse any additional load, and habits of
thrift aud economy appear to be bard to
learn. It is about time the plain, workaday
American woke up ; his rulers are olosing
the markets of the world to him ; the party
in power and its industrial parasites are
eating him up at home ; our national re-
sources are being wasted, and it will not
be long bafore the richest land in the
world will be destroyed by the folly and
extra oe of its government and the
dumbness and etapidity of its workers.
Let us wake up and read the riot aot to
oug rulers. Government as administered
by the Republican party and aided and
abetted by a degenerate Democratic party
is as wasteful and baneful as a Fourth of
July celebration ; and its elements seem to
be about the same—noise, folly, extiava-
gance, horn-tooting and utter disregard for
She rights, comfort and wishes of the pa.
tion.
Name Good Candidates.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
The time for the meeting of the Demo-
cratic State convention and the nomination
of candidates for state offices in PPpasition
to those selected by the Penrose- MoNichol-
Vare Organization draws nearer but as yet
no pames of probable or possible candi.
dates have been mentioned.
It should be easy to find in the party
meu of high reputation aod character who
would consent to accept nominations
against Von Mosobzisker for Supreme
Court Justice ; Stober for State Treasurer
and Sission for Auditor General. If good
men be nominated they shouid be able to
place the Organization and its supporters
in the pesision of a minority party in Penn-
sylvania. It was Presidennt Taft who de.
olared tbat the Republican majority in the
was putting the party at large
into seconnd by reason of the inigui.
tous revision of the tariff. The inner circle
of the party in this State has affronted the
people with its selection of candidates, and
the Tals asseveration applies here, with re.
gard to second Place.
It those candidates be placed in the of
fices for which they have been nomivated
their election will he a glorious victory for
the Machine which the people turned out
of an important fiscal office four years ago
and which in consequence was compelled
to nominate reputable candidates for State
offices in subsequent campaigns until this
year. There will be a return to the die.
graceful conditions thatshamed the Com-
monwealth prior to the election of Mr.
Try.
As the “‘Pablic Ledger,” of Philadel.
phia, said several weeks ago, the Demoora-
tio party can eerve the people of the State
by preventing a return to gang _ rule in the
government. The electors of the majority
party are ready for revolt and rebellion
against the gang and its nominees. They
will enppoit good cacdidates. Here is the
Demooratic opportunity.
~—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
spawls from the Keystone.
~~There were sixty-eight deaths in Jobns~
town during the mouth of June.
—Northbampton borough is to have two
new silk mills, each employing £00 operas
tives.
— There are at the present time 750 ime
mates in the Huntingdon reformatory. The
last conzecutive number is 6.809.
—A new trolley line is being surveyed be-
tween Slippery Rock and Grove City. They
line is estimated to cost $220,000.
—Columbia county farmers complain that
their potato crops will be ruined if the
drought continues aucther week.
~The Federal Cigar company, of Lancas-
ter, which suspended operations six months
ago, will resuwe August 1 with 900 hands.
—The Pittsburg-Buffalo company has
closed the deal for 60,000 acres of coal lands
in the Ten-Mile creek fleld, Washington
county.
—Sunbury women would like to haves
talk with a stylishly costumed, smooth-
tongued woman, who separated them from
$300 last week by working the old-time dress
pattern swindle.
—Charles T. Philips, aged 25 years, of Ty.
rone, was sent to the Pasteur iustitute, in
Philadelphia, on Saturday night as a result
of being bitten by a mad dog in that place
on Thursday, of last week.
-Mike Hippler, while on his way to the
jail at Clearfield on the charge of wife-beat~
ing, made good his escape, was recaptured at
Pittsburg and taken to Clearfield by Cen
stable Tucker, the man whom be eluded.
—A large number of citizens of DuBois
wet recently and formed an organization,
the object of which is to enforce the laws of
this. Commonwealth. The curfew law is
one that will come under their resolution.
— Fierce forest fires causing thousands of
dollars loss near Shamokin, were conquered
by a detachmeat of the state police and em
ployes of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron company, after raging seventy-two
hours.
—In order to further husband the water
supply, the mayer of Johnstown, Alex Wil*
son, bas been notified by the water depart-
ment that the sprinkling of streets, except
in the central part of the city, must be dis-
continued.
—It is said that Pittsburg and Philadel
phia capital is interested in a project for the
construction of a third- rail line from Hazle-
ton to Pottsville. A party of capitalists is
reported to have the proposed route sarvey-
ed some time next week.
~Miss Goldie White, of Lewistown, may
not recover from the effects of a senseless
prank played on her by a young man escort?
They were at a carnival and the lad forced
8 quantity of coafetti into the young wo-
man’s mouth. causing her to have a choking
fit, followed by hysterics.
—On Saturday afternoon four young Lock
Haven men started on a canoe trip from
their home town to Baltimore, a distauce of
about 245 miles. The travelers are Tim
Hanna, Edward Brown, Lester Pathberger
and Dick Schroat. They expect to reach
| their destination by Friday.
~—Fourteen cows that had tuberculosis
were killed in Beading. They were dis-
covered in the herd of a Berks county far-
mer, fourteen proving affected out of seven-
teen. Three other herds are said to have
the same disease and Dr. Otto G. Noack will
make a thorough investigation.
—F. Blair Isenberg and James 8. Woods
of Huntingdon, and George C. Wilson, of
Tyrone, have disposed of their stock, and
retired as directors and officers of the Juni-
ata Valley Electric Street Railroad company,
of Huntingdon. It cannot be learned wheth-
er there is any signification to the deal.
—Conemaugh and Franklin, two boroughs
near Johnstown, are threatened with a wa-
ter famine, their reservoir being nearly dry.
A new well bas been drilled and with this,
as soon as the pumping machinery is fixed
up, the towns are beped to be supplied.
Otherwise there will be a water famine.
—The local police have been asked to
watch for Joseph Gon, a foreigner at Johns-
town. Gon is described as being 26 years
old, 5 feet 9 incheg tall, weighs 170 pounds
aud wore a biue suit, black soft hat, light
blue shirt collar attached, and has a reddish
mustache, the ends of which are turned up.
~The new Penneylvania railroad creosot-
ing plant was opened in Mt. Union on Fri-
day and it exceeded all expectations. It
was found to have just just double the capac.
ity that was expected of it. Each tie was
expected to be ready in five hours bat it was
found that only two were needed for the
treatment. The ohject of this treating is to
iengthen the life of railroad ties.
—Robert Billet, of Lamar, was on his way
to the market at Lock Haven and bavinga
heavy load of produce, stopped to allow his
horse to rest. An individual approached
him and said “I want your money.’ Billet
pretended not to hear and the would be
highwayman came a little closer and repeat.
ed bis demand. Billet let his fist fly at the
fellow, remarking. “All right,” and then
whipping up his horse drove rapidly from
the scene, the victor.
~—Miss Sadie Forsythe, who married Wil-
liam Eatly yesterday at Washington, on
Friday morning was awakened by some one
shouting to her that her flance wished to see
her. Dressing, she went down stairs and
was pounced upon, bound and gagged by
two men. Hustling her into a buggy, ber
unknown assailants took her three miles
away from home and placed her besides
road. There she was found, and a search
was instituted for the culprits.
--After more than twenty years of adven*
ture during which he wandered as far as
Honolulu and supported himself principally
by sign painting aud paper hanging the Rev.
John Taggart, a Methodist minister, who
was thought to have been drowned in the
Johnstown flood in 1859 returned to his
home in Bloomsburg on Monday. Taggart
found that his wife during his absence had
mrrried John Van Horn and has a 7 year old
son and 15 year old daughter but that Van
Horn is in the Columbia county jail serving
a sentence for a statutory offense. Mrs. Van
Horn was overjoyed to see her former hus-
band and Taggart will remove the family to
another city. He gives as the reason for his
long absence the ‘gossip of the townspeople
and ill- health.”