8Y PP. GRAY MEEK.
—Public baths are great things for a
community, but private ones are better for
individuals.
~The Tyrone base ball club now seems
able to do quite bandily what is could
never do in the days of the old Mountain
league.
—There is everything to be prood of in
the tickets the Demoorats have named for
the support of the voters of Penosylvania
in November.
—What “Uncle” Jog Caxxox will do
to the insmigents in making up the new
House committees is a foregone conclusion.
Is will be plenty.
—The new LINCOLN cents are in circala-
tion. They are gnite artistic bat it re
quires just as many to make a dollar as
of the old Indian heads.
~The next hig evens for Centre county
will be the business men’s picnic in two
weeks, then the Granger's pionio, the fair
and- winter. My, how time flies.
—Already the new LINCOLN peony bas
met its critics. They object to the fact
that the desiguer, VicroR D. BRENNER,
bas placed bis initials on it. The public
however, don’t care a cent about it.
—It is estimated that ten million words
are on record as having been used in the
tariff debate in Washington. Fire million
are likely ALDRICH and the balance
PAYNE ; for they are all there is to is.
~The Jackson cocktail is a new drink
in Missoori. Three parts cider and one
Jamaica ginger. It is said that two drinks
will make a hen pecked bushband as biga
bully as RooseveLT. Here is the panacea
for a few of them in Bellefoute.
—With a hospital, a new court house
and a pew public school building large
enough for winter quarters for a cirens, all
under way at the same time there ought to
be plenty of work to keep Bellefonte build-
ere going until the enow-flakes fly.
—Tae burning of the Nittany Country
club bas effaced not only a delightful pleas-
ure resort, bat one of the old country seats
tbat was famous for ite hospitality in the
early part of the last century and the home
of one of the families prominent in the ear-
ly history of Centre county.
—Manager MITCH CUNNINGHAM is feel.
ing very well, thank you. His team won
8 greas game at Jersey Shore, on Wednes-
day, and as RopGer BRrouse and HEN
KLINE have consented to become mascots
for the rest of the season there is nothing
more to it than the pennant for Bellefonte.
~The county road supervisors were in
town in force yesterday and much interest.
od in the good roads meeting. Bat some
of the members of the Bellefonte Motor
olub are puzzled to know whether there
was anythiog hidden in the expressions of
a few of them, who, when leaving, said :
‘“Thank-you-mam."’
—HARRY THAW'S feelings these daye
must be sadly mixed up; first he saved
his neck by making it appear that he was
insane, now he is just as busy proving that
be is not. The learned alienists who are
passing on his case seem to be about as
mixed as HARRY is so the casual reader
oan scarcely be criticised for thinking the
whole pack of them “‘on the bug.”
~The Philadelphia Pablio Ledger is au-
thority for the statement that the police-
men of that city are to be assessed thirty
dollars each for the machine's campaign
expenses in November. This will mean a
fand of abous seventy-one thousand dol-
lars alone. The Philadelphia machine
must anticipate some trouble with ite tick-
etin the fall. A needless alarm, to be
sure.
—The Historical Society of Pittsburg to
which has been assigned the duty of seleot-
ing names for four hundred streets, is, like
most bodies of that sort, so deep in the
past that it bas overlooked the present. As
a result of absent minded abstraction—if
there is such a thing—the greater city is
likely to have streets named alter prize
fighters, base hall [favorites and, we pre-
sume, the blonde dollies who have led so
many of the wealthy Pittsburgers astray.
—The action of the Democratic State
convention yesterday in nominating C.
LARUE Muxsox Eeq., of Williamspors, for
Justice of the Supreme Court ; ex-Congress-
man Geo. W. Kipp, of Bradford county,
for State Treasurer, and J. Woop CLARK,
of Indiana, for Auditor General, cannot
bus inspire confidence and hope in she par-
ty. The men are all eo eminent for their
integrity and fitness aud eo far superior in
equipments to the candidates PENROSE has
pamed in opposition to them that there
should be no doubt of their receiving the
support of every conscientious voter.
WiLsox, of the Tioga—
Lycoming distriot, says that the reduction
of the duty on coal from sixty-seven to for-
ty-five cents the ton is really an increase.
He ought to know because he has been a
coal worker all bie life and the facts bear
bim out. Under the DINGLEY law the
‘slack’ which is abous one-third of the
product ds admitted free, while the new
rate of forty-five cents covers both coal and
tglack.” In addition to this after March
31st, 1910, twenty-five per cent. advalor-
em is to be added, which will make the
pew rate considerably higher than she old.
This is sevision downwards, with a ven-
geanoe. >
Taft a Miserable Weakiing.
The flankies of the press and the syoco-
phants about Washington bave been giving
themselves great paine, lately, in trying to
make it appear that President TAFT bas
shown great courage and revealed vast
stability of character, in hie fight for tariff
revision downward. As a master of fact
President TAFT has revealed nothing in
relation to the tariff question except a
stupendous ignorance of the subject and a
complete and contemptible servility to the
machine politiciavs of bis party. He was
pledged, unequivocally, to tariff revision
downward, and a man of honor would bave
taifilled thas obligation at any cost. Bat
TAFT permitted Senator ALDRICH to
wheedle him about like a piece of putty in
the hands of a glazier and forced him to
sooept a revision whiob upon every essen-
tial of lite is a vast inorease on the DING-
LEY schedules.
Probably President TAFT's weakness
lies in his ignorance of she subject. Aec-
oustomed to the loxuries of a perpetual
and high-salaried public official, Mr. TAFT
bas given his mind to culinary studies
and like all over-fed creatures he has neg-
lected the intellectual development which
qualifies men to master the sciences of
government and the intricacies of state
oralt. A three hundred pound body is not
usually fretted by an active mind and AL.
DRICH found TAFT an easy victim to the
confusing consequences of juggled figures.
The President's final and absurd demand
for free hides as the nitimatam of bis tariff
reform aspirations, is the best evidence in
the world of this fact. Free hides with the
trifling concession made on coarse and
cheap shoes are of about as much value to
the country as sprinkling a Bellefonte
lawn would be toward moistening the
wheat of Minnesota.
The tariff campaign in Washington, dur-
ing the special session of Congress, has
simply revealed the deliquencies of Presi.
dent TaFT's character. NERO fiddled while
Rome burned and TAFT played gol! while
the agents and emissaries of the trusts and
predatory coporations in Congress were
fastening the thongs of slavery about the
wrists and ankles of the people. It may be
and probably is true, that be didn’t know
any better, but NERO was drunk or elee he
might have acted differently under the
circumstances. In any event TAFT bas
proved a reoreant as well as a weakling
and there is no excuse for his failure to
keep faith with the people. If he bad in-
sitted on tariff revision downward all the
money of the Standard Oil company and
the Steel trust would not have prevented
the achievement of that resuls.
An Inconsistent Contemporary.
The esteemed Philadelphia Bulletin
wisely observes that ‘‘whatever assists
men to secure homes of sheir own in which
they may dwell with their families in sell-
respecting independence, is an aid to good
citizenship.” Unquestionably that is true.
But how can one who realizes this obvious
economic fact reconcile himself to the sup.
port of the iniquitous tariff bill which bas
just been enacted in the House of Repre-
sentives in Washington and is practically
certain to pass the Senate within a few days
That measure does all that is possible to
prevent men from securing homes, “in
which shey may dwell with their families
in selfrespecting independence.’
The so-called PAYNE—ALDRICH tariff
bill levies a tax of from one and a quarter
to three dollars on every thousand feet of
lumber used in the construction of a bome.
It puts a prohibitive tax on glass used in
the windows of a home, on the nails used
in assembling the lumber and on the tin or
other material used in the roof. It taxes
the pots and pane, the china, cutlery, the
carpets and furniture and in fact every
single thing necessary to the securing and
maintaining such a home and it does these
atrocious things, nes for the purpose of ges-
ting revenue to support the governments,
but in order to multiply the profits and in-
crease the unearned wealth of favorites.
Thegencouragement of home building is
the highest daty of citizenship. A ocom-
munity in which the greater proportion of
the inhabitants own their homes not only
enjoys “‘sell-respecting independence,”
but the highest measure of contentment
and happiness. Baus the policy of the Re-
publican party is, and always has been, to
discourage rather than encourage such a
condition of affairs, and we regret to say
that our esteemed Philadelphia contempor-
ary has invariably given its moral and
material support to the iniquities of the
tariff system. Building aeeociations bave
accomplished much toward home building
but putting building materials on the free
list would achieve more in five years than
each institutions eould accomplish in twen-
ty.
——Philipsburgers are making great
preparation for their Old Home week, and
are holding meetings two and three times
a week. They estimate the expenses of
the week at a little over three
dollars. A good program will be arranged
, w
for every day in the week with plenty of
musio by bands from other towns.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 6, 1909.
Duty of Democratic Senators. The Democratic Ticket.
The Democratic State convention gave
the people of Pennsylvania a seperb ticket.
As one of the orators of the conven-
tion eaid in reference to ome candi-
date, each of the nominees represents the
highest type of American citizenship and
the falless measure of civio virtue. The
nominee for Justice of the Supreme court,
CYRUS LARUE MUNSON, is the most wide-
ly known of the three becanse he bas been
conspicuous in his profession for many
years as lecturer in the Law Department
of Yale University and author of widely
deed legal text books. Bat GEORGE WasH-
ixarox Kipp and J. Woop CLARK are
favorably known to a wide oirole of voters
and contribute materially to the strength
of the ticket. :
Political organizations are useful only in
80 far as they conserve the public interests.
In the nomination of a ticket of the bigh-
est merit the political organization fulfills
its greatest obligation. In the nomination
of its ticket thie year, the Republican or-
ganization did not asain thie full measure
of usefalness. Its candidates were chosen
pot because of fitness, the compliments
were bestowed, not in reward of paublio
service, but for the reason that sinister re-
salts had been achieved by their efforts in
bebalfof an atrocious political machine.
The Demooratio convention was influenced
by no such coneiderations. Its candidates
represent political morality and oivie
righteousness.
Four years ago in what might justly be
designated as a paroxism of political virtae
the people of Pennsylvania revolted against
the political machine which bad been loot-
ing the Commonwealth and temporarily
overthrew is. Bus the reform was only of
transient character and}is is no exaggeration
$0 say that the political iniquities of to-day
are vastly greater than they were then. In
the nomination of Muxsox, Kipp and
CLARK the Demooracy of the State have
offered the people an opportunity to again
throw off she yoke of the political corrup-
tionists and with euch men in office it may
safely he predicted tbat the reform will be
enduring. The people of Pennsylvania
ought to avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity.
An esteemed metropolitan contemporary
gravely announces, in a Washington die-
patoh, that the Demooratio Senators will
debate the tariff bill when the conference
report is presented in thas body. “A de-
cision to this effect was reached today at
a shors conference of the minority which
was called by Senator CULBERTSON,” the
dispatoh states. ‘‘Tbe principal speech-
es will be made by Senators DANIEL and
BAILEY,” the correspondent continues,
‘but many other Demcoratic members are
expeoted to take part in the discussion.”
Is would be difficult to imagine a condi.
tion which would justify the Demoocratio
Senators in remaining silent when the con-
ference report is presented. That report is
not only as CHAMP CLARK declared in the
House, “‘the most stupendous fake in the
history of mankind,” but it is a colossal
fraud and false pretense. The Demooratio
Senators, representing the Democratic peo-
ple of the country are morally bound, not
only to protest againet the perpetration of
such a fraud bus to expose to the deceived
and betrayed public the iniquities of the
measure. Failure in this will be recre-
anoy.
But spokesmen of the party might have
been ohosen with wiser discrimination,
than the dispatoh in question indicates.
Both Senator BAILEY and Senator DAN-
IEL contributed to the perpetration of the
frand against which they are now prepar-
ing to protest. If the Democratic Senators
bad consistently opposed every feature of
the AupmicH bill it would never bave
been sent to conference im the form it
reached that body and would not bave
been reported in she form in which it was
accepted in the House the other day and is
practically certain to be accepted by the
Senate sooner or later.
There are no two men in the Senate who
understand more clearly than Senators
DANIEL and BAILY that the measure is an
outrage. Bus they both voted for certain
provisions contained in the conference re-
port for the reason that they imagined that
their constituents would derive some bene-
fis from the looting operations which it
provides for. As a matter of fact the rea-
son given for the purpose of Senators DAN-
125 and BAILEY is that they are displeased
“‘gyer the failure of the conference to re-
tain cotton bagging on the free list.”
Our State Platform,
The platform adopted by the Democratic
State Convention held in Harrishurg on
Wednesday, leaves little to conjecture and
nothing to uncertainty. The Republican
party is arraigned for its sine of omission
and commission and the responsibility for
the failure to enforce the XII article of the
constitution 18 unequivocally fixed. The
question of taxation is discussed with
equal candor and conciseness and the de-
mand for a cessation of the grafs incident to
vast treasury surplusses will meet with
cordiai approval by all thoughtful men.
The demand for ballot reform legislation
should likewise meet with the enthusiastic
endorsement of the publio. Our present
ballot system encourages rather than con-
demns ballot frauds and offers temptation
to the desperate political knave to false
registration, frandulens voting and bogus
returns, Such legislation can only be
hoped for after the party responsible for
the frauds and ifiguities has been driven
from power. The ensuing election will af-
ford opportunity to begin this work.
Upon the tariff, the pension and other
relevant issues the platlorm is olear and
positive. The tariff law recently passed by
the House and likely to be concurred in by
the Senate before this issue of the WATCH-
MAN reaches its destination is condemned
in unsparing terms. It is ‘framed for the
benefit of special interests and against those
who purchase the necessaries of lite.” The
proposition to appoint a tariff commission
offers a certain method of remedying the
evil and though not encouraged by party
traditions nevertheless has the merit of
expediency.
——Col. H. 8. Taylor and staff, com-
pany B, the hospital corps, and the bugle
corps returned about eight o'clock last
Saturday morning from the annual camp
ofl the Second brigade at Somerset and
pone of the soldiers were any too jubilant
over the good time they had had. In fact a
vumber of them bad no hesitation in de-
clariog that that was the last encampment
they would ever attend. While the place
was all right in a general way for the en-
campment the water was very poor and as
| = results the soldiers came home sick. The
encampment, however, was considered a
success in every way, the conduct of the
soldiers and visitors being more exemplary
than is customary. The only unfortunate
affair so far as the Centre county ocontin-
gent was concerned was that a number of
the members of the bugle corps refused to
g0 out on a hike and the result was that
eleven of them were discharged from the
service, but it is probable that they will be
reinstated.
——The second annual reanion of the
Tressler family will be held at the Belle
fonte fair grounds on the 13th of August.
Friends and relatives are all invited.
Corruption in Schuykill County.
The patriotic orders in Bohuylkill county
will make considerable progress toward
justifying themselves if they will succeed
in minimizing ballot frauds in that peigh-
borhood. We have hitherto referred, re-
gretfully, to the amazing prevalence of
corruption in the politics of Schuylkill
county. For years it bas been notorious
aod honest men in all sections of the State
bave blushed with shame at the details of
such criminality. Bas we hardly expeot-
ed the patriotic orders to undertake the
correction of the evil. The corrupt politi-
cians responsible for the frands bave been
80 much in the habit of using those orders
to promote their selfish purposes that no-
body expeoted anything else, of late.
Judge BRUMM who appears $o be the
central figure both in the movement to
eliminate frande from the elections and in
the effort to enlist the patriotic orders in
the work of excision has not always been
» champion of honest or even clean poli
tics. In fact there are those who question
his sincerity in the present instance, though
we believe that in that they are unjust to
bim. Isis bad manners as well as bad
polioy to ‘‘look a gift horse in the mouth,”
and Judge BRUMM should be encouraged
in his work against this evil of our day and
generation. Whether he ie influenced by
one conssderation or another, be will be
serving the public well if he extirpates
ballot frauds in his county.
The late Mayor ASHBRIDGE,of Philadel.
phis, was one of the products of the pa-
triotic orders. But for the activity of
those scoieties in his behall, he never
would bave attained the cdious conspicuity
in politics which he acquired. Bas if those
societies, conceived no doubt in the spirit
of patriotism and maintained for whole.
some purposes, are willing and able to at-
tack the hydra-headed monster, ballot
frauds in Schuylkill county, they will de-
serve the good opinion of the electorate of
the State and popufar forgiveness for the
ASHBRIDGE episode. Meantime they are
entitled to the benefits of any doubts which
may arise in relation to their purposes in
the present.
eee]
~— Residents of Halfmoon sownship,
west of Siormstown, have at last succeeded
in securing an extension of the free rural
delivery service on the star route from Port
Matilda to Stormetown, giving them mail
four times a day direct from Port Matilda.
The route starts at the Centennial school
house on the main road and runs from
there to Miller's corner, thence to Shaner’s
corner themce to Way’s corner, on the
main road, serving about sixteen families.
bee
—You miss a good thing it yeu don’t
take the WaToEMAN.
the
able that it
World, where land monopoly is a more evi-
dent evil, long before the movement in
this country gaine any formidable stvength.
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NO. 31.
Ballot and a Second Choice.
From the Pittsburg Sua.
The investigation into the naiform pri.
mary laws of this Swate by a commistee
from New York brought out strong, if in-
direct, arguments against the big ballot
and to give voters at a primary or even at
election an opportunity of expressing a seo-
v4 a in gm heari oo yesterd 3
was ngs a;
that one mau might be selected by the rh
A Little
forward, and tbat where phabetical
order is followed with the candidates 20
cent. of the vote would be cass for the
rat man by citizens too ignorant or lazy
to know what they were doing, or why.
Insuch a field, too, under the present
rale, the chances are that a man who is the
choice of bus a considerable mivorisy will
wie. Had each voter the power to name a
second as well as a first choice for each of-
fice, then a majority could be required to
pominate or elect, no matter how many
men were ranning. As bas been shown,
the failure of any one of a group of candi-
dates for the same place to get a clear ma-
jority would result in the throwing ous of
the low man and the redistribution of his
votes as the second choices on his ballots
ified. This process would continue an-
some candidate had a clear majority.
Whenever there are fewer pames on the
ballot, that is, whenever the minor offices
that the people pay po attention to now
are made appointive and responsibility is
oleatly fixed, voters will give more atten-
tion to what they vote for.
Opponents of the primary tem are
fighting the same losing fight % the op-
ponents of the Australian ballot did and
- $se same ici . They are the same
pe of men y.
And in most oases it is their manipula.
tion of conventions that is forcing the pri-
JuaLy syste now just as it was their no-
blushing frauds at the ballos box and pur-
ohase of votes when
the goods were being delivered that brought
the Australian ballot on their heads.
The Tarif Bul.
From the Johastown Democrat.
The cowardice of hal! a dozen insurgent
Republicans and the utter hypocrisy of two
Louisiana Democrats made possible the
passage of tbe Aldriok-Payne-Talt tariff bill
mobpstrosity in the house Saturday night.
Without their votes the bill would have
failed and the sponsors for it disgraced. As
it was the measure wens through by the
skin of its teeth, the vote being 195 for to
183 against ite adoption. The hybrid now
goes to the senate and what ite fate will be
there remains to be seen. It is probable,
however, that it will safely pass thas bod
through the treachery of 10 oi
insurgent Republicans, just as it passed the
house by the aid of cowards and traitors.
Up to the last hour of the fight on the
bill it seemed to be doomed to defeat and
that wounld have been its fate only for the
Jower of the president, who cajoled revolt-
vg Republicans into supporting the meas-
are by the Spplicasion of the party whip
and the making of promises of a flattering
patare. That only two Democrats were
finally found in the wind-up in eappors of
the blunder is not only a greateurprise but
a cause for much congratulation. Even
the Pennsylvania Democrats remained
loyal, and thas is saying a great deal in
view of the fact that Pennsylvania Demo-
orats have not been in the habit of oppos-
ing high protective tariffs. Oo the con-
trary they have generally been found on
the side of the Big Interests.
But whatever may be she final fate of the
vicious conception of the tariff gang, this
much may be said by way of encourage.
ment. e large Republican vote against
the bill shows that there is a growing sensi.
ment against high tariffs and the time may
not be far distant when there will bean up-
rising in this country which will mean the
overthrow of the i ous principle. The
campaign of education is on and it will not
cease until the fetich of protection is de-
stroyed.
Berry and Henry George.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The single taxers assured themselves of a
ringing blast upon Hen 's old ba.
gle horn when yg fw 'ormer State Treas-
urer William H. y to deliver thas ad-
dress in Philadelphia. Many will be sar-
prised to find that the redoubtable paraly-
zer of the state oapitol is an enthu-
siastio supporter of the teachings of Henry
George, but the discovery will hardly be
80 su ng on further consideration, as
our former stage treasurer ie a man of the
enthusiastic and feaeless type that might
be expeoted to champion such a cause if
convinced of its reasonableness.
There is a very general impression that
the Henry George ideas of taxation of land
value to ad that would discourage
the holding of unused land are ideas too
revolati for present use, but will be
pus to trial by another and remote genera-
tion, but we are reminded that we live in
an age of impetuous
ress.
Nevertheless there is itl cause for un-
easiness here those who mistrust
among
experi together
. In th in Eon
——1In the personal column of last
week’s WATCHMAN wae an item telling of
a visit to his old haunts in this county of
Mr. Baker, of DesMoines, Iowa, and we
referred to him as *‘Joseph W. Baker,”
when it should bave been ‘‘Samuel W.
Baker;" a very ludicrous error considering
the fact that Mr. Baker is net only an old
and esteemed friend whom we knew long
ere he went west, but that his name has
appeared a dosen times in the WATCHMAN
in the past few months in convection with
his very intesesting letters.
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——The Bellefonte lodge of Rebekah
held a festival at Axe Mans last Friday
evesing.
could be sure that
spawis from the Keystone.
—0u Labor Day, at Osceola, the Red Men
of Centre and Clearfield counties are arrang-
ing to hold a reunion. A fine program is
being prepared.
—Iu the Pennsylvania's classification yards
st Northumberland five hundred men bave
gone to work at night, for the first time
since the bard times began.
—John Roumanis, of Lewistown, has fifty
times paid the fine of $6.87 for infringement
of the blue laws. He is prosecuted regularly
every week. and smilingly pays his money,
which altogether has amounted to $347.50.
—-An epidemic of scarlet fever is on im
Braddock. There have been ten deaths im
the last twelve days and fifty-two cases have
been reported. Forty seven of the cases are
in the First ward where the population is
made up mostly of Slavs.
~—Eight- year old Minnie Dresher,of Beth-
lehem, felt something protruding from her
palate and pulled it out. She found that it
was a pin which it is thought she swallowed
8 year ago and which has been traveling
through her system ever since.
~Work has begun on a new reservoir of
the Johnstown water company at Mineral
Point. It will be almost 100 feet deep at the
breast and will catch the waters of one of the
best streams in that vicinity. Work on the
big dam will probably be completed by next
year.
~(perators are enthusiastic over the new
oil and gas fields near Harmony, Batler
county. A new sixty-barrel-a-day well was
struck on the Brewster farm on Monday and
on Saturday a new gas well giving out 5,000,
000 feet of gas a day was struck. This is the
second gas well of the same pressure struck
by the Wellesley company in two weeks.
~The eighteen members of the state com.
stabulary stationed at Lyndora, near Butler,
during the strike of the employees of the
Standard Steel Car company, have returned
to the barracks at Punxsutawney. The out-
put at the plant, thirty-five cars a day, now
equals that of before the strike, which was
declared on July 16th. Many men and boys
are applying for work.
—Two residents of Somerfield, Somerset
county, Jerry Hunter and Solly Lancaster,
recently performed a surgical operation on a
cow that is as odd as it is uncommon. They
amputated a leg of the bovine, which had
been hurt, and skillfully placed a wooden
substitute in its place. The cow is getting
better and no doubt looks queer enough to
Le featured in a side show.
—Asking for $10,000 damages, the Thomp-
gon Ice company, of Williamsport, has
brought suit against the Keystone Glue com-
pany for the alleged pollution of the Susque-
hanna river, from which the company
harvests its ice. I. is ulleged thatthe ice
cowpany’s product is so tainted by refuse
from the glue company’s plant that it is unfit
for many domestic purposes.
~The Gallitzin council acted on an ordi
nance which provides for a mile of firebrick
paving. Property owners are in favor of the
improvement, and will staud for two-thirds
of the $20,000 cost. Bonds to the amount of
$8,000 will be issued, but part of this money
will be used for the betterment of the sewer-
age system. The council has not yet acted
on the natural gas ordinance.
~The good road movement in Cambria
county has progressed so far that the exact
roads that are to be improved are now
known. Engineers are at work and the only
thing that remains to be settled is the action
of the grand jury on a bond issue. The high«
ways in question are those connecting Ebevss
burg and Cherrytree, Barnesboro and Carrol -
lown, Ebensburg and Blandburg.
—A test train of 108 cars, starting from
Clearfieid aud going beyond Lock Haven,
was hauled over the New York Central road.
This was the largest train ever hauled on
the road and though at times the locomotive
was strained to its utmost, never once was
there any danger of it's stopping. J. W.
Johnson was the engineer and the officials
are very much pleased with the success of
the trial.
—Max Morgan, of Philadelphia, was escort
ing two young ladies, Rebecca and Ana
Abrams. home when the party was sur-
rounded by six men, three negroes and three
Italians, who demanded money. The thugs
would have made short work of Morgan but
the young women beat off the assailants by
blows from parasols and by the vigorous use
of hatpins. Morgan bad over $200 on his
person, noae of which was stolen.
~The city of Pittsburg is going to
acquire the Peabody property in Home"
wood for the site of a new asphalt plant by
condemnation proceedings. The site fs said
to be the best located in the city for the pro-
posed plant and the owner says he will be
willing to abide by the award made under
the proceedings. Mayor George Guthrie
contemplated the purchase of the same site
for $175.000 but the sale was never covsum-
mated.
~The postofice at McElbattan, Clintea
county, was entered and robbed of between
$15 and $20 in cash. Frank Rall, the post-
master, runs a general store and cousiders
himself lucky to have escaped so easily. Two
strange men were seen In the vicinity in the
evening and they were seen the next morn-
ing near the station where they are thought
to have boarded a freight. About half of
the money teken was from receipts of the
postofiice.
~The Natural Fuel company, parent com-
pany of the Johustown natural gas inter.
ests, has just effected a compromise with H.
W. Storey Esq., who had been awarded $25,.
000 by the arbitrators in Allegheny county
about a year ago. It is said the company
pays Mr. Storey a handsome sum. Mr.
Storey secured the Johnstown franchise upon
the payment to the city of $10,000 down,
$1,000 a year and the agreement to limit the
price of natural gas to 35 cents per thousand
feet.
~—Justice John P. Elkin and T. L. Eyre
were sued by the Denver Engineering works
company and judgment was directed in favor
of the plaintiff company for $12,536 83. The
action was based on a elaim for mining equip.
hed the Ferrenates Consolidated
ment furnished the "on tl 0 Gefendants
ving Jumpan “ine mines are im
Mexico and Justice Elkin that the case
to w to hold and himself
BE ble for contracted former
owners of . An will be
Ser Of sod the defendants
are ent of their case.