Berita
BY RP. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings.
~The Athletics have succeeded in keep-
ing within striking distance of the pen-
pans, bat their sroable seems to be av in-
ability to strike when the iron is hot.
~—The so-called Insurgent Senators
will bave ample opportunities after the 13,-
000 mile trip is completed to say what they
think of TaFr, and don’t imagine they will
overlook any developments along those
lines.
—It is beyond argument that should
Greek be dropped from the carricaulum of
American colleges, as is proposed by Har-
vard, there would be more peace to the
ashes of that old Athenian historian XEXO-
PHON.
—The Rev. Joux THOMAS, of Liverpool,
gays he staid io Chicago a week and could
find nothing wrong. Possibly his eyesight
was bad, possibly he wasn’t looking for it
at all or possibly the Rev. Joux didn’t
look good to is.
~The Spokave gardener who bas suo-
oeeded in producing a lemon-cacumber bas
done something worth while. Now you
can band a fellow a lemon and at the same
time almost guarantee him a case of the
“‘oolly-wobbles."’
—Perbaps it would be better to with.
hold the publication of the Cook and
PEARY proofs as to how they reached the
pole until vexs July or August. Then the
temperature would be such as to make the
reading more attractive.
~There are upwards of five thousand
millionaires in the United States; conse-
quently we know that there are at least
that number of people who can really af.
ford so huy buster at forty cents a pound
and potatoes at a dollar twenty the bush-
el.
—No claimant having appeared for it
the Pennsylvania Railroad company has
placed the QUAY statue in storage in Har-
risburg. Ol course it is not cold storage,
but merely a place where all the junk that
accumulates around a freight station is
placed until some disposition is made of is.
—Poor ABRUZZI! Dispairing of ever ges-
ting the ELKINS girl he bas asked for a
commission in the Italian navy and gone
to sea for an entire year. Oo the deck of
his flagship he will sis and listen to what
the wild waves are saying and it is not al-
together probable that any of them will
call bim to ges a slice of Dad's Wess Vir.
ginia coal lands.
—Ex-Governor HANLEY, of Indiana,
spoke in the Presbyterian church here,
Sanday afternoon, in the interest of the
anti-ealoon league. It was a brillians, ar-
gumentative and logical presentation of the |
subjeot of local option, as viewed by those
in favor of 1t. Governor HANLEY had a
complete grasp of the situation when he
referred to Pennsylvania's debauched and
corrupt condition and we quite agree with
his deduotion that moch of the debaunch-
ery and corruption Las come from the
liquor interests, bat as long as there are
men who can be debauched and corrupted
the liquor interests will be in control and
as long as they are in control there will be
no chance for local option in Pennsylva.
nia.
—President TAFT is lollowing very close-
ly in the practices of his distingaished
predecessor. While Cougress was in ses-
sion and he was in position to force it to
make laws in accordance with his plattorm
promises he did not. Now that Congress
is adjourned he is touring the country tell
ing the people what he intends to have the
next Congress do. We were going to say
that the people are wise to this ‘‘woolly-
horse’ game now, bat judged from past
experience we reckon such a statement
would scarcely be warranted by the faots.
For RoosEvVELT fooled them with the same
promises, TAFT followed him and worked
the same game suceessfully so, alter all,
there is no reason to think that he won't
catch them again this trip.
— Philipsburg is now convalescent alter
her big ‘Old Home Week.”! The confetti
and other litter of a temporary jambouree
are probably the only visible reminders
that are left of the geod time every one
bad, bat memories of meeting old friends,
the harrowing experiences of the commit
tees that bad a thousand and one things to
do at the same time and the worry of pay-
ing for ‘‘the dead horse’’ will furnish plen-
ty of subject for discussion during the long
winter evenings that are fast approaching.
Is paid ! Of course it did. Anything that
carries humanity out of the hamdrum of
lite fora short period pays. Is sends all
back to their work recreated in spirit, at
least, and with a deeper and broader un.
derstanding of what living means.
~The death of Governor JOHN A. JOHN-
80N, of Minnesota, is lamentable ; not only
because one of the best types of American-
ized citizenship has been removed, bus be-
cause hie fotare would undoubtedly have
made for the canse of good and uprightoess
in our public life. He was a Demoorat, a
man of the most bumble origin and was
serving his third term as she ohief execn-
tive of the State that had chosen him and
at the same time gave overwhelming ma-
jorities to opposition candidates for other
offices within ite gifs. Governor JorNsoON
was just beginning to take his place in na-
tional affairs and it is altogether probable
that bad the Democracy taken advantage
ol its opportanity at Denver the nation
would bave been mourning a President in.
stead of a man who seemed destined for
the exalted honor.
VOL. 54
There is a wide-spread and deep-seated
public interest in the electioneering tour of
the President of the United States. Presi.
dent TAFT is an interesting figure. Always
good natured his giant proportion forms an
imposing sight. An adept phrase-maker his
speeches are ivteresting, moreover. Ho is
inaccurate, of course, and lamentably in-
sincere as well as careless as to facts. Bat
he says pleasant things in an attractive
way and flasters the civic pride of a com-
munity while he is feeding she personal
vanity of the people who compose it. If he
were less lax in his public morals he would
be a charming feature of the official life of
the country.
Bat the electioneering tour of the Presi-
dens is not an incident of which thoughtful
citizens of keen conscience may be proud.
It involves not only a plain violation of
the constitution of the United States bat,
incidentally, the violation of the President's
oath of office. In other words this junket
which the President declares is a test of his
digestive powers is paid for ont of a fand
to which be has no more legal right than a
burglar bas of the proceeds of his crime.
The constitution, Article 1, Section 1, par-
agraph 7, reads : ‘‘The President shall, at
stated times, receive for his services, a com-
pensation which, shall neither be inoreas-
ed nor diminished during the period for
which be shall bave been elected, and he
shall not receive within that period any
other emolument from she United States
or any of them. The President upon as-
suming office solemnly swore that be
would, to the best of his ability, ‘‘preserve,
protect and defend she constitution.”
Webster's dictionary defines the word
“Emolament,’’ as ‘‘the profis arising from
office, employment or labor ; gain, com-
pensation, advantage, perquisites, fees or
salary.” The compensation fixed by Con-
gress for the services of the President is
$75,000 a year. Up until the close of the
Civil war it wae $25,000 a year. Alter the
election of Grant and previous to his ip.
auguration the amount was increased 40
$50,000, which continued to be she presi
dential salary until the expiration of she
term of THEODORE ROOSEVELT, though,
notwithstanding she constitutional inhibi-
tion he was given an emolument of $25,
000 a year to cover traveling expenses. Re-
alizing that this perquisite was in violation
of the oonstitution, Congress, belore
TAFT'S inauguration, increased the salary
to the compensation and emoluments given
to ROOSEVELT combined and specifically
declared that no expense tund would be al-
lowed. Subsequently, however, Congress
“loosened up’’ snd passed a bill allowing
the emolament.
LINCOLN, GRANT or HARRISON would
no more have accepted this ‘‘grafe’’ than
they would bave broken into the treasury
and rifled the vaults. It is as gravea
crime as that committed by any successful
bank burglar and even more reprehensible
because it involves the violation of the
oath which pledged the President to ‘‘pre-
serve, protect and defend the constitution.”
Webster defines perjury as ‘‘lalse swear-
ing.” That is to say one who swears that
be will doa certain thing and (fails is a
perjurer, and in accepting this emolument
President TAFT bas not fulfilled his sworn
obligation to “preserve, protect and defend
the constitutien.”” For these reasons this
clectioneering tour is a source of shame.
~The Schuylkill county jurist, who
assured those present when there was a
noise as if the rool was falling, that “‘the
temple of justice is not going to fall,” must
he an incorrible humorist. MARK TWAIN
wou ld hardly venture so far into the arena
of exaggeration as to call the Schuylkill
county court house a temple of justice.
Postal Service Delinguencles.
There is abundant reason for institating
seforms in the postoffice department at
Washington. The deficit for the year which
ended on the 30th of June amounted to
$20,000,000, which is the largest in the
history of the service. But Postmaster
General HITCHCOCK is not proceeding
along the right lines to remedy this evil.
Instead of curtailing expenses where it is
possible, he is increasing the cost of the
servioe to the people. Even if this course
should achieve the result he pretends to de-
sire it will nod be a relief to the public, for
what is gained in the matter of reducing
the deficit is lost in the increased charge
for the service. It comes out of the pockets
of the people in either event.
Bas after all the deficit in the postoffice
department is not so much a matter to re”
gret as the impairment of the service. ‘he
postal service was not organized as a reve-
nue providing expedient so much as it was
intended to accommodate the public. It
is desirable, of course, that it be made as
nearly self-sustaining as possible, but the
perfection of the service is of paramount
consideration. In other words the people
of this country are willing to bear the bar-
den of expense for a perfect postal service,
economically administered, but they are
pot willing to maintain a poor service as
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 24, 1909.
any cost. Postmaster General HITCHCOCK
seems to be giving us poor service at an in-
creased expense.
We are led to these observations by inoci-
dents which bave recently come within our
own notice. Some time ago a lester mailed
at Harrisburg, at 12 o'clock noon, and ad-
dressed to a business concern in Philadel-
phia, though is contained a special delivery
stamp, badn’s reached ite destination at 8
o'clock thas evening. Another letter mailed
at Harrisburg at 10 o'clock a. m., wasn’t
delivered until 8 o'clock the next morning.
It must bave reached Philadelphia by 3
o'clock, p. m. of the day it was mailed and
there are certainly two deliveries within
the business section of the city alter that
time. Thess delinquencies in the service
are what need correction.
President Taft's Carious Apology.
President TArT's apology for the AL.
DRICH tariff bill is a mixture of sophistry,
immorality and mendacity. It is a confes-
sion thas party eolidarity ie, in bis mind,
of greater consequence than relieving the
people of burdens, and that party obliga.
sions are more binding upon Senators and
Representatives in Congress than the inter-
ests of the people. Even R0OSEVELT, who
acknowledged no obligation to the people,
and respected no law, never went as far as
that. No President has ever, hitherto,
openly advised official recreanoy. A Penn:
sylvavia politician ouce recommended to
his adherents to ‘‘throw conscience to the
devil and stick to the party,” and DAVE
LANE, on an occasion, told the Philadel-
phia officials to stuff the ballot boxes or
give up their places. Bat TAFT ie the first
President to go eo far.
Bold and reckless as he was, however,
President TAFT made a poor apology for
that vicious piece of legislation. Mani-
festly with the purpose of confusing some
and deceiving others, he quoted figures lib-
erally, but not candidly. For example he
cites the metal schedule and adds the val.
ue of the product and the number of items
upon which reductions in rates bave been
made. His obvious object was to show
that decreases have been more numerous
than increases and that the amount con-
sumed of articles upon which tariff taxes
have been is greater than shat
upon which the tax bias been increased. He
negleots to explain, however, that there are
practically no imports of the articles npon
whioh the rate has heen decreased while
there might be considerable commerce in
the articles upon which the rate has been
increased.
Among the artioles which he cites as hav-
ing been decreased is wheat, for example.
Everybody knows that there is never any
perceptible importation of wheat and that
even if there were an inclination to im-
port wheat the rate is still probibitory.
The same is true ol nearly every article
enomerated by him upon which the tax has
been reduced. Either they are articles
which are not imported at all or else the
redoced rate is probibitory and yet the
President bas plainly set out to deceive the
people into the belief that the tariff revie-
fon of the extra session was downward and
that the ALDRICH law is the best piece of
tariff legislation ever enacted in this coun-
try. Unless the people are more cred-
ulous than they are believed to be thie
fraud upon them will turn public senti-
ment against the author of it.
—— Daring the past week or ten daye
quite a number of foreigners have arrived
in Bellefonte, and it is quite evident that
the word has been sent out by their coun-
trymen here that the two furnaces here
will be pat io operation in the near futare.
~The cordial welcome which Govern.
or JoHNsON extended to President Tarr,
upon his arrival in Minnesota, was a good
imitation of the traditional ‘‘heaping coals
of fire on his head,’’ in view of the distem-
pered Boston speech of the President.
ET ———
—]{ S1880N and STOBER were now
Auditor General and State Treasurer, re-
spectively, DAVE LANE wouldn't be com-
pelled to hunt a place for the QUAY statue.
There is no place too good for is, according
to their ideas.
~ While the contest between the Ath-
letios and Detroite, for the hase ball pen-
pant, remaine unsettled, the average boy
will not be able to discern any great im-
portance in the diecovery of the North
Pole.
—It will be tough on the lions and
rhinos of Africa if ROOSEVELT finde out
what Tarr did to PINCHOT with respect to
the Ballinger controversy while he is
lingering in the jungle.
a —
Wireless telegraphy bas its draw-
hacks too. It enables fellows like PEARY
to chatter even when they are in midocean.
I ———
~It will cost the country $25,000 to
find out how President Tarr’s digestion
compares with that of a billy goat.
~—You miss a good thing if you don’t
take the WATCHMAN.
The Machine Confident.
The nomioation of A. E. Sissox and J.
A. STOBER by the Republican State con-
vention of this year was imply an expres.
sion of she confidence of the machine man-
agers that the events of four years ago bave
been forgotten by the State. The Legiela-
tive session of 1905 was simply a saturnalia
of corruption, an orgie of vice. It calmi-
pated in an attempt to bestow the Phila
delpbia gas works on a few favorites and
the results was the political eruption which
placed WiLLiax H. BERRY, a Demooras,
in the office of State Treswurer. If that
bad not ocourred J. LEE PLUMMER would
bave been elected Treasurer, WESLEY R.
ANDREWS, Senatory PENBOSE'S secretary,
would bave succeeded PENNYPACKER as
Governor and the grafting on the hill
would never bave been interrupted.
Following that revolt and the incidental
exposure of corruption, the mavagers ‘‘as-
sumed a virtue,”’ aod promised reform
The Legislature of 1905 was assembled in
extraordinary session and most of the vio-
fous laws of the regular session were re-
pealed. DURHAM withdrew from political
activity and McNicHOL declared that he
would never ask for another municipal
contract. In 1906 EpwiIN 8. STUART,
8 gentleman of faultless reputation, bas
subservient to the organization, was nomi-
nated for Governor. A year later JOHN O.
SHEATZ, who had shown considerable in-
dependence of the machine was nomivated
for State Treasurer, because the bosses felt
that the people would nos elect meu ider-
tified with the iniquities of the recent pass.
Bus the machine hae recovered from its
panic.
In pursuance of ite faith in the oredality
of the people she machine this year return-
ed to its old methods like the hog to ite
wallow and the dog to ite vomis. The
candidates have been chosen thie year not
on account of their respectability but for
the reason of their complete servility.
SissoN and STOBER have been the most
obedient tools of the machine during all
their service in the Senate. Every ini.
quity desired by the bosses bas been
supported by them. STOBER never even
pretended to bave an opinion of his own
mn any question onder consideration.
¢ was simply regarded as a sevatorial
joke whom nobody took seriously. But
his fidelity to the machine and bis absolute
disregard of obligations to the people won
for him the favor of the machine managers
aod when they believed it was safe they
nominated him for an office in which they
need a servile tool.
McNichol in a Trap.
Senator McNICHOL has been caught ‘‘with
the goods on him.” That is to say the
Philadelphia machine manager has been
trapped into the public exposure of an at-
temps to bribe voters who are opposed to
the machine candidate for District Attor-
ney of Philadelphia to vote for bim. Tbe
Senator’s friends say shat was not a manly
operation. They protest that is isn's
quite right to pretend in order togeta
man #o do things contrary to law. Proba-
bly they are right, ethically, in this view
of the snbject. But in this case the pro-
oess is justified by the old adage, ‘‘seta
thief to catch a thief.”
Senator McNICHOL bas been violating
the ballot laws all his life. If he were
properly punished for all the crimes against
the electoral system of which he is probably
guilty he would be serving a life term in
the peritentiary to-day. Bat thas far be has
mauvaged to escape punishment altogether,
not entirely for the reason that he operated
skillfully but because the prosecuting offi-
cers have been in sympathy with his work.
That is probably why he is so anxious now
to secure the election of the machine can.
didate for District Attorney. If the other
fellow is successful is will probably be the
penitentiary for ‘“Savny Jia.”
According to the Philadelphia papers fhe
law bas a cinch on bim this time. He
personally, and io the presence of witness
es promised to pay one man a considerable
sum of money and give another an office be
coveted, if they would transfer their alle
giance from GIBBONEY to ROTAX for Die-
trios Attorney. If this is true he can
easily be convicted. He bas sworn bim-
self ous of other scrapes but there were no
witnesses to corroborate the accusers in
those cases. This time the evidence is | P
abundant and specific. If he is not prompt-
ly prosecuted and punished, it will be be-
cause the officers of the law are reoreant,
and the courts of Philadelphia rotten.
~—1It is estimated that thirty thousand
people ail told attended Philipsburg’s Old
Home week exercises last week and those
who bad the affair in charge are to be con-
gratulated on the way it was bandled, both
socially and financially. With a fand of
only $1,700 cash to begin the week with
the management oleared up enough during
the week to pay every cent of expense in-
ourred for the celebration, which was over
$4,000. It is also estimated that from
eight to ten thousand dollars were spent
among Philipshurg merchants and hotels.
—
Throws Down the Gauntlet.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Presidans Tats throws down the ganotiet
to the western insargents and dares shem to
pick it up. Wishous a reservation be bold.
y accepts Aldriob and bis tariff and be de-
olates that those Republicans who voted
against the measure which be declares to
be the hest ever framed have taken them-
selves out of the party. He casts in bis lot
definitely and finally with Aldrich, Payne,
Cannon, Fordoey, Dalzell and the whole
standpat ountfis.
There is no mistaking what the presi-
dent means. He declares war on La
Follette, Neleon, Clapp, Bristow, Bever-
idge, Dolliver, Cammins and other insar-
gents. He appeals over their heads in
their own states to the people they olaim
to ¢. He bids the people 50 choose
this Be whom they will gerve. And evi.
dently he counts much on the greatness
and power of his office. He trusts much to
the glamour wish which is surrounds him ;
and as the leader of bis party and as the
dispenser of its immense patronage be feels
assured that they will oboose him ratber
than their senators and representatives,
It is t00 early to determine the effect of
this sensational appeal. We believe it to be
unprecedented in the anvals of American
politics. We cannot recall another instance
of a presidens entering a state and attack.
ing the senators and representatives thereof
before their constitaents. It sets a prece-
dent shat is fraught with enormous possi
bilities—and should anything of this sort
be attempted by any potentate in Earope
it would mean a revolution.
Of course the position of Mr. Taft differs
from thas of any European potentate. He
is not only she head of the government ; he
is aleo the bead of his party. Bast hitherto
presidents have not ventured on a course
80 daring. They have exercised the func:
tious of party leadership without going to
the extreme length of invading the home
preserves of senators and representatives
for the purpose of whipping them into line
with bis policies or interests through a
direct apyes) to their constituents.
It will be worth while waiting until the
senators and the representatives can be
heard from. They are not likely to say
anythiog just now. They could nos make
themselves beard in the din which the
royal progress excites. Bat the presiden-
tial train will pass in due time. The tu.
mult and the shouting will subside ; cap-
tains and kings will depart ;and there will
be a moment of sober thought. Whas di.
rection it will take cau only be conjeotur.
ed. It may run as the president would
bave is. Sentiment may undergo a revul.
sion. Tbe people at the president's eall
may turn and rend the eevators and repre-
sentatives whom he bas branded as traitors
snd deserters. And then again. his attack
on these men may serve oniy $0 inflame
party passions and to widen the factional
each. In our judgment the only thing
that will save the day to Mr. Tals, should
it be saved, will be the power of his pa-
tronage, the glamor of his high office.
These factors are not to be despied. Bat
even patronage and the royal favor bave
sometimes failed to save a kiogly head
from the block.
Whe Knows!
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The prison horrors at Pittsburg continue
to claim attention.
As there is no smoke withoat some com-
bustion, althoogh there be no flames in
evidence, and as Pennsylvania prison man-
agement has long been decidedly smoky,
the recent announcement that the federal
risoners woald all be removed from the
estern penitentiary was a burst of flame
that caused little surprise. It was bardly
remarkable that the convicted bank wreok-
ers there confined should be credited with
contriving, through influential friends, a
sudden awakening of the federal authori-
ties to conditions long jrevalas:, It is
conceded that they are above the average
of criminal intelligence, and they might be
supposed to have some effective, though
fartive, ontside pull.
It is a good thing that bad prison man-
agement should be even thames ex , bat
when it appears that the bank lootere are
the first convicts selected for transter, when
rumor has it that the chief of them is soon
to be pardoned, and when the fact is re-
oalled that the sentences of the others have
been commuted ; when facts thus accumu-
late an im on develops that we are
getting a little too much of » good thing.
All this is in suggestive reminder of the
political associations of that group of bank-
ers. Are there nervous outsiders who
would rather bave them in the far away
Lavenworth prison? Are there strong
enough, though unmentionable considera-
tions urging pardon ? Who knows ?
Embezzlement of Power.
From the Philadephia Record.
Mr. Bryan, with his accustomed felicity
and vigor of speech, has applied the apt
phrase of ‘‘embezzlers of power” to .
er Cannon and his partisan adberents in
oon , who have violated their pledge
to the country. Embezzlement of power—
that is just what it is to steal into office
and use the power thus obtained to commit
a great breach of political trost. Ibis far
worse in its consequences than the offence
of the private individoal who by oily
romizes and pledges gains the confidence
of his neighhora-and converts their goods or
movoey to hie own vee.
The private embezzler when convicted
suffersa term of imprisonment. For the
public embezzlers o! power who solemnly
promised to reduce the burden of taxes,
and then converted tariff legislation into a
dismal farce, the only ty is removal
by the people from the trusts they have
wantonly betrayed.
—— Despite the fact that the Bellefonte
Academy quartette was ubable to appear
at the Bellefonte baseball aseociation’s ben-
efit at the Scenic last Friday evening on
account of the illness of oneof the hoje,
the association made out fairly well at
that, their net receipts being twenty-six
dollars. An Academy student
amusing song of etndent life and Wi
Doll sang his famous Dutoh song.
an
liam
spawls from the Keystone.
—Iu two weeks Johnstown will be without
water unless it rains. Wildcat reservoir was
turned into the system yesterday with a
view of increasing the volume.
—Thomas McGlynn bas struck a four food
vein of good coal near Clearfield. Mr. Me-
Glyou had a good deal of trouble finding the
vein but he knew it was there and was de-~
termined to find it if it took all Lis money.
—8tella Jones, of Glenwoed, is a prisoner
in Pittsburg, charged with the embezzlement
of $4,000 from the Obio and Pittsburg Milk
compavy, by which she was employed as a
bookkeeper and cashier. Her family is above
reproach,
—Beginuing on Monday October, 18th, and
continuing for four days, the grand encsmp~
ment of Patriarchs Militant will be held at
Lock Haven. Tne Odd Fellows of that town
are making active preparations for the en~
tertainment of their guests.
—The Armour Packing company, which is
looking for a site on which to erect a $60,000
car icing plant, has decided it is said to baild
either at Cresson or Tyrone. The Altoona
plant is too old to permit of re-building and
the company cannot get a permanent lease
on the old location.
—The purchasers of the Pittsburg, Johns-
town, Ebensburg and Eastern railroad in
Clearfleld county, which was sold st re-
ceiver's sale last April, met in Lancaster last
week and reorganized as the Philipsburg and
Johnstown railroad company, the} capital
being fixed at $300,000,
—Elizabethtown, Allegheny county, has
been selected as the site for that proposed
new two million dollar Masonic home to be
erected by the Grand Lodge of Masons. This
is the home for which Centre county Masons
offered the Moses Thompson estate at Centre
Furnace as a suitable location.
—Plans for the J. C. Blair memorial hos-
pital at Hontingdon have been placed in the
bands of & number of contractors for bids.
There will be two private wards to be sliotted
to societies, lodges or corporations if they
desire them. The old buildings on the site
of the proposed stracture are being removed
—With assets of hardly $10,000 and liabili.
ties of at least three times that amount, the
Blairsville infirmary, founded by the late Dr.
I. P. Kliugensmith, has been forced into
bankruptcy proceedings. None but first
mortgage creditors will receive a cent, it is
feared. D. M. Kier has been appointed
trustee.
~Philipsburg now has a lodge of Elks.
Lewis K Genkinger.district deputy grand ex-
aited ruler, Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks, instituted Philipsburg lodge No.
1173 in the Odd Fellows hall. He was as-
sisted by officers from Tyrone and Clearfield.
There were about forty visiting Elks from
nearby towns,
Miss Phoebe Johus lost her life by fall-
ing from the second story of the Lloyd house
at Philipsburg last week. The girl felt sick
and went out on a balcony on the secoud floor
and leaned on the railing. The banister gave
away and she was precipitated to the ground.
Her veck was broken by the fall. The girl
was the daughter of David Jobuns, of Smoke
Run.
—Almost every place yom. kin the
Juniata river around Newton Hamilton you
see little bass, two to six inches in length,
The last two years have been very favorable
for spawning and the fish are so well pro-
tected by law now that in a couple of years
there wiil be enough of them to bring back
the old reputation of the Juniata riveras a
good place for sport.
~=Five hundred dollars have been voted by
the board of trade of Scranton to obtain com-
petent legal advice about the rights of prop-
erty owners whose places have been ruined
by mine cave ins. There was much loss in
the recent cave-ins in Scranton and West
Pittston. Cue writer says that the property
owners cannot get damages for injury dome
on the earth's surface by the falling down of
underminings.
—Following the release under $2,000 bail
of Mrs. Margaret Byers who had been ar-
rested on the charge of burning twelve barns
in Bucks county comes the news of more fires.
Three other places have been the marks of
an unknown incendiary. Two of the build-
ings were burned and in the hay mow of the
other was found a lighted candle standing
on a piece of oil saturated cardboard aud at
the bottom of the candle were a number of
matches. In about three hours the machine
would have gone off and the barn would
have been doomed.
—At a meeting held inJSaxtonjon Friday
afternoon by the federated railroad uunioms,
the Huntingdon and Broad Top Raiiread
strike was officially declared off and the
trainmen were compelled; to acknowledge
that they bad been defeated. On July 13th
the strike was ordered on and about 85 per
cent. of the tra’nmen of the road left their
jobs. During the months since meetings
have been held in Hustingdon, Saxton and
other places but the Broad Top Company,not
employing strike breakers, putjmen iv the
positions vacated and as far as tuey were
concerned there was no strike.
—Cokeville, once a town with 2000 in-
habitants and which was suddenly depopu-
lated, may exist again. The town was al-
most the property of the Isabella company
nine years ago and one day the superinten-
dent of the company got orders to cease;mine
ing coal. The 700 miners were called to the
office and given their pay. Why the works
closed down has never been made public.
The United States Steel corporation is re~
ported now to have bought the mines and
ovens for its American sheet steel depart-
ment and work may be started at once.
There are nearly 600 coke ovens in the
place.
~The Bituminous coal operators’ associa.
tion of the Central Pennsyl ania district met
at Philadelphia last week and decided to
strengthen the organization and prepare to
fight for a lower wage rate when that quess
tion comes up for adjustment next spring.
Mine operators in Armstrong, Clarion, Elk
and Blair counties will be added to the asse.
ciation, which already contains the principal
soft coal operators of Clearfieid, Jefferson.
Bedford, Cambria, Indiana and Huntingdon
counties. Members of the organization com,
mittee appointed include Rembrandt Peale
W. J. Faux, Murray Courtright, George
Steinman, J. G. Betts, D. Dawson Coleman
aad Charles W. Mills,