bid
Hit
home as any fraternal ‘_‘ oe,
— Anyways the Academy boys oan own
the town just as often as they bring back
victories like that over the Indiana Normal
school on Monday.
~—What fired Minister CRANE is likely
to say about Mr. Seoretary Knox will be
in langnage not commonly need in diplo-
matio correspondence.
—Thas Harlem pastor who says that old
age begin at forty-five ought to come up
$0 Bellefonte and take a litble tramp with
Missioner CRITTENDEN.
~—Mr. CHARLES R. CRAXE is probably
thinking shat il bis job was so soon to be
done for he would like to know what in
the world it was ever began for.
~—Keep Amendment 7 in mind. Vote
against it. Don’t fail in this, whether you
are a Demoorat or Republican. Ibis just
as vicious for one as for the other,
—JoHN D. ROCKERFELLER declares shat
people talk too much. Likely he would
prefer to bave them spend all their time
reading by the light ot a coal oil lamp.
— Apple batter bilin’ is in vogue in the
rural districts just now and the last of is
will scarcely be made until the poor pigs
will come in for their share of being ground
up.
—Mr. BRYax's daughter, Mr. Rute
Leavitt, is a candidate for Congress in
the first Colorado district. Can it be that
she is going to take up where her father
lets off.
—While it is not altogether likely to oc-
our there wonld be very general eatisfac-
tion if Mr. STANLEY KRTCHEL were fo
knook that Mr. JACK JOHNSON into a
oocked bat.
~Mr. TAFT ought to have known better
than to etart on that trip while Pittsburg
and Detroit are playing the world’s series.
Why no one has time to even think of
where he might be.
~As usual the people who know least
about it talk the moss and say there is to
be no fair in Centre county next year.
‘Wait and see, It will be bigger and bes.
ter thao this year's excellent showing.
—It would be all right to use polar bears
to draw the sledges for a polar expedition
euch as that Danish explorer contemplates,
bus if he gets into a real pinch there won't
be as much of a tail hold as he would bave
with dogs.
~Summer was chased out of the lap of
fall on Taesday all right enough. Sach
weather as we bad been having was so mild
and balmy that the freeze and snow flakes
of Wednesday morning sent a ohill to the
very marrow of the low shoes.
—The Rochester Post--Express remarks
thas Dr. Cook has the air of a man who
holds four of a kind before the draw.
While is doesn’t eay so we presume it in-
tends ite readers to uoderstand, as well,
that commander PEARY 18 our flushing.
—The QUAY statue has at last found a
place in the rotunda of the capitol. While
it is a disgrace to the people of Pennsylva-
nia is is proper that it should be there as a
burning reminder that the State was once
controlled by the original of the effigy just
as it is now controlled by PENROSE.
—The Baltimore Sun has concluded that
‘she time has indeed come when the Dem-
ocratio party should get together to resome
the conntry from spoliation by the Repub-
licans.” Indeed the time basn't just
come ; it bas been bere for some time but
the trouble is that everytime there is a
good chance to get together a lew papers
like the Sun don’t seem to see il that way.
—CHARLES W. Mogrsg, the oconvioted
New York banker, who was out on bail
pending the fioal verdiot on hie sentence of
fitteen years imprisonment for bank wreok-
ing, succeeded in paying back six million
of his seven million indebtedness. He was
out of jail only during the summer and
some people will think that a fellow who
can make money that fast had better be
kept in jail all the time.
~The fight for Mayor of the oity of New
York is becoming intensely interesting.
TAMMANYites, Democrats, Republicans
and Independent Leaguers are so mized up
#0 in support of the various nomioees that
one soarcely kuoows whioh is which. In
any event the nominees are good men,
though Justice GAYNOR appears as the
best qualified of the lot for the mayoralty
of the country’s largest city.
~The people of this community espeoi-
- ally should be impressed by the caudidaoy
of Mr. LARUE MUNSON, of Williamsport,
for Sapreme Coart Justice. He represents
the central pars of the Biate, is so favora.
bly known bere and so eminently fitted for
the benoh that it seems to us that the vote
‘should be almost unanimous for him. Wil
liamsport views Mr. MUNSON a8 ber most
"eminent citizen ; foremost in every move-
and brilliant as a lawyer.
That oity gives his candidacy unqualified
endorsement. Let us accept it.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Three years ago when Governor STUART
‘was confrouted with she exposure of graft
| in the construction and furnishing of the
State capitol, he expressed she belie! that
there was no foundation in fsos for the
charges bot added that if they proved to
‘be true he would see thas the perpetrators
of the orimes should be punished. The
truth of the charges was proved more than
two years ago bat there has been no pun-
ishmens. Four of the conspirators were
convicted more than two years ago but
pone of them has heen sent to jail. Gov-
venor STUART is not personally dishonest.
Probably he would prefer that the penalty
of the law should be meted ont. Bat he
is not strong enough to force the ma-
obine.
So long as there are Republican officers
in control at Harrieburg there will be no
penalties enforced against the capitol graft-
ers. Auditor General YOUNG and State
Treasurer SHEATZ approach as wvearly to
the line of iutegrity as public men usoally
ges and if party reputation aod political
power wonld not be menaced by enforcing
the law against the grafters, they would
be punished promptly. But becanse such
enforcement of the law might jeopardize
the party, YOUNG and SHEATZ hold their
tongues and will continue to do eo until
the end of time. If the people of Pennsyl-
vania would learn the full extent of the
robberies and see the perpetrators punish-
ed, they mast pus others than Republicans
on the Board of Pabiio Grounds and Baild-
ings.
There is no meoase to the Republionn
majority in this State in the eleotion of
the Demooratio nominees for Auditor Gen-
eral aud State Treasurer. The party will
have the usual majority next year if is
nominates is candidates. Bat there isn
grave menace to the property and personal
interests of the people in she election of
the Republican nominees, Sissox and
BSrongr, who are obedient servants of the
machine. They used all she influence they
could command to prevent she exposure of
grall in the building and equipment of the
capitol and have done all they could since
to prevent the punishment of the orimin-
als, Il the people are just to themselves
these Republican candidates will bede-
feated.
Defeat Amendment No. 7.
The iniquity of the proposed oonstita-
tional amendment, marked No. 7, on the
official ballot, which would take from the
people of all the oities in the Common-
wealth the right to name election officers
and lodge the power of appointing such
officers in the Legislature, is beginning to
be understood by the people. So bold an
attempt to ueurp the rights of the people
has never heen attempted. Itisa direct
blow at the fundamental principles of our
system of government. If that amendmeni
is adopted elestions in cities will become
farces. The power to elect all municipal
officers in oities and to control all elections
might as well be vested in the Republican
machine.
Obviously the machine bas some desper-
ate scheme in oconteraplation. Otherwise
they would not bave nominated A. F. Sis-
SON for Auditor General and J. A. STOBER
for State Treasurer and supplemented that
aot of folly by a proposition to take from
she voters their most sacred avd significant
right. If she Philadelphia election boarde
bad not been willing it would bave been
impossible to poll 80,000 fraudulent votes
in thas city at any eiection, as the Phila-
delphia Press declares bas been done.
Under the personal registration law it is
difficult to ges election boards willing to
permit such frauds. The purpose of the
proposed constitutional amendment is to
guarantee eleotion boarde in the future,
the members of which will consent to bal-
lot frauds.
With corrupt elections thas assured and
servile slaves of ihe machine like Sisson
and BTOBER in control of the Board of Pab-
lio Grounds and Buildings at Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania would probably enter upon
an era of political corruption sud indulge
in an orgie of official venality unparalleled
in history, Amendment No.7 adopted,
the Legislature could easily oreate a som-
mission composed of professional ballos
box stuffers to appoint election officers in
all the cities and thus disfranchise the peo-
ple of all parts of the State so far as the
choice of public officials are concerved.
Every voter who believes in just govern-
ment should vote against this infamous
soheme.
~The Penusylvania railroad company
bas inangurated a vigorous and determined
crusade against train jumping aod track
walking along its lines. Nine bundred
and fifteen persons lost their lives because
they were trespassiog on Shai company’s
property during the year 1907. No figares
are available for last year, bas. as is is al-
together probable tbat she list of fatalities
was even greater than in 1907 is is litsle
wonder shat the Pennsylvania company
bas decided to break up the oustom, if
| possible. We notice, nearly every day, to
sist on his doing. The property of shat
corporation ie ite private property and any
one trespassing on it is amenable to the
law and if the corporation chooses to invoke
the law for the pablio safety is shoald be
commended rather than condemned.
An Unjust Comparison.
We oan conoeive of nothing more unjust
thao comparing the Demooratic organiza:
tion of New York with the Republican or.
ganization ol Philadelphia. Some of our
contemporaries who coughs to be better in-
informed, make this blaoder. They mean
well enoagh, probably, and it is possible
thas they believe what they say oo the
subject. Butas a matter of fact there is
no analogy between them. In saying this
we are neither apologizing for nor endors-
ing those who are at the head of the TaM-
MANY organization. Probably with the
same opportunities they might be as bad as
the contractors’ combine of Philadelphia.
Bat they have not the opportunities aod
the elections in New York are comparative-
ly honest.
In New York State the Legislatare is
iovariably Republican and she leaders of
shat party in Alabany are always striving
to restrain TAMMANY by legislation. In
Pennsylvania the Legislatare is always
Republican and the leaders of that party
are constantly endeavoring to assist the
Philadelphia machine in ite iniguities by
legislation. It there were mo other dil-
ferences in conditions that wonld be suffi
cient to convince any reasonable mind Shas
a comparison suoh as has been frequently
made is unjust to the New York oganiza-
tion. Bat there are other differences. In
New York the vast army of federal offi-
cials are againes the dominant local organ-
ization. In Philadelphia the same force
is with the local organization. 3
Just now these misinformed oritica of §
TAMMANY organization fod much’
ure in expressing the hope that the dis-
tinguished and deserving candidate of she
Democracy of New York for she office of
Mayor will he defeated because Mr. MUR-
PHY and Mr. MCCARREN assented to his
somination. Bat Shey are entirely will.
ing and even anxious that the Republican
candidate for the same office may succeed,
though TiMoTHY WoouDRUFF and HER-
BERT PARSONS, as consummate political
sooundrels as ever escaped the penitentiary,
are respousible for bis nomination. MUR-
PHY and McCarren dido’s waut Judge
GAYNOR, a militant reformer, and WoobD-
RUFF and PARSONS wouldn't have any one
else than bis opponeut.
Atding and Abetting Crime.
In the face of their recorde in the Legis-
latare it is surprising that either 81880N or
STOBER were nominated by any oonven-
tion of any party. Both of them seived
two ters in the Sate Senate and oeither
of them ever, in thas long period of eight
years, voted for any measure opposed by the
machine or against any bill favored by that
predatory organization. Both of them
dodged votes occasionally, SI8s0N, especial.
ly having become proficient in that parlia-
mentary $riok, daring his last term of
office, and S70BER indulging in it coccasion-
ally. Bas neither of them dodged when
their votes were necessary to the machine.
They were alwaye alert and vigilant in the
interest of the bosses.
The nomination of such a ticket was an
outrage upon the public conscience and an
insult to popular intelligence. The party
managers must bave known the iniquities
of their candidates would be exposed.
They must have understood that the jour-
nal of the Senate would reveal the recrean-
oy of both men. That being true the in-
ference is that they imagined a majority of
the people wouldn’s care. Io other words
their immunity from punishment has led
them into the mistaken belief that the
average citizen of Penneylvania is indil-
ferent to civio righteousness and approves
of official venalisy. Or possibly they bave
come to think the majority of the people
ate corrapt and preler public officials of
that type.
If Lee PLUMMER had been elected State
Treasurer in 1905 the grafting in the con-
struction and farnishing of the State capi:
tol never would have been exposed or
checked. If 81330X and STOBER are eleot-
ed Auditor General and State Treasurer,
respeotively, the boodling will be resamed.
They bave neither inclination vor the cour-
age to antagonize their masters, the mana-
gers of the State machine, by preventing
the looting of the treasury. They will con-
stitute the majority of the Board of Public
Grounds and buildings and no matter who
is Governor, they will have control. Vo-
ting for them, ES to
Jroecting vig, Itis
As the time that Governor PENN YPACK-
BR refused to appoint RoseaT Vox MoscH-
ZISKER to the bench, at the solicitation
of Ispamt W. Durmam, James P. Mc-
Nicaor and DAVE LANE, the “old man”
was particalarly anxious to oblige his po-
lisioal friends. He was then aspiring to a
seat on the Sapreme court beooh and fond-
ly hoping that he might round oot his
somewhat varied career by service iu that
august body. Bathe wouldn't stalsify
himsel! by appointing a palpably unfis
man as Jndge of a court even So gratily
his friends or promote bis own moss cher-
ished ambition. That was the subject upon
which Governor PENNYPACKER always ap-
peared in his best form. He was justly
and properly jealous of the reputation of
the judiciary of Penosylvania. That was
literally ‘‘she apole of his eye.”’
The Republican machine owed ROBERT
Von MoscHziSKER for some sinister serv-
ioe and ite managers didn’t share Govern
or PENNYPACKER'S veneration for the
bench. A corrupt Jadge was no more ab-
horrent to their sense of propriety than an
hovest legislator. In fact they prelerred
judges who could be managed and manipn-
lated and when she Distriot Attorney of
Philadelphia, and his assistants, obliged
them by permitting a packed jury to acquit
BAMUEL SALTER, they could see no barm.
in rewarding them with seats on the bench.
Presomably Jox WgeaAveg's ambitions
inolined in another direction. He aspired,
first, to the Mayoralisy, aod afterward to
she office of Governor, and if he hadn’s
subsequently quarrelled with the bosses he
might bave heen gratified. But his assis-
tants were satisfied with judioal seats.
Under these circumstances we submit to
she thinking pablic she proposition shat a
man whom SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER
estimated so be unfit for the benoh ought
pot $0 be pat in shat position merely as a
reward for services to the machine. Obvious.
ly if he wae not fis for the Common Pleas
benob five or six years ago be is nos fis for
the Supreme bench now. He has done
nothing during the interim to add to hie
judicial equipment. In fact he has done
nothing since to challenge attention exoept
that the law She alacy
of jodges in commission is a
notwithstanding the language of the coo.
stitution specifically prohibited is. If the
reputation of the Supreme court is to be
maintained such men must not be ‘‘cata-
pulted’’ into seats upon it.
Most Significant Iucident.
The meeting to be held in Pottaville, to-
nigh, is easily the mos significant imci-
dent of the present campaign. Independ-
ent meetings bave been held in Philadel-
phia bat those participating in them were
influenced by local considerations. Those
who will sake part in the Postaville meet-
ing to-night, bowever, are inspired bya
broader purpose. They aim to rescoe the
State from the ocorrupsionists who are asill
holding QUAY up as an exemplar of politic
al virtue and to preserve she court of last
resort from the political pirates who would
prostitate it to tbe basest uses. It is like-
ly to matk the beginning of she end of
political iniquity in this State for the pres-
ent at least.
Isie to be a non-partisan meeting, of
course, bat is will serve a political purpose.
The speakers who will be heard are men
whose reputation for militant integrity is
a guarantee of good faith. Winnram H
BERRY, who exposed the gralt in the con
struction and farnishing of the State cap-
itol, and Hexry C. NILES, late chairman
of the LINCOLN party of Pennsylvania, are
gentlemen of the same type and semper-
ament. They do not agree on all things
for Mr BERRY is of Demooratio antecedents
and Mr. NILES a believer in the fuoda-
mental principles of the Republican party.
Bat they are alike in their abhorrence of
political venality and official reoreancy
and they are in unison in the present cam-
paigo.
There never was a time in she bistory
of Pennsylvania when there was greater
need for men of the type of BERRY and | Was ouly
NILES to get together in she interest of
common honesty and official decency. The
Republican party never before flouted pub-
lio opinion as it did in nominating ite
present ticket. QUAY’S cunning and ocan-
tion saved it from a similar bluoder a few
years ago when he frankly informed an
aspirant for a high office that the party
couldn’t carry such a burden as his repu-
tation. The reputations of 81s80N,STOBER
and Vox MoscHzisKgR are infinitely
worse than that of the servile tool whose
ambition was thus spufl«d out and the |"
movement to be begun in Pottaville to-
night is to save the State from the shame
of their election.
——Taesday was Columbus day aud a
legal holiday. It was oaly observed in
Bellefonte by the postoffice keeping holi- | 4
day hours. In the evening the Kuights of
Columbus held a reception aod dance in
their ball in the Reynolds block which
waa very largely attended.
st LS As
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 15. 1909. _
From the Lorain (0.) News.
Toe *iofaus indassry'’ _argnmen: t for the
perpetuation of 8 ystems whereby a
small per are permis
centage of the people
ted to wax Jad nats sided fie oxpane
of the great wass, has been
thread bare, it shonid occas
thas Senator Oilver of Pen
thrown off the ‘‘infans is ut "” mask
aod declared for protection |
This is at least honest, which the ‘‘infaas
iudassry’’ ples wasn’s, Aud is raises fairly
bi ph squarely this issue: Are she American
willing to tax shemeelves indefinite-
y to support any iodassey?
Jass now shey are being given some im-
pressive objecs lessons in Siaee
the Payne-Aldrioh-Tafs bill became a law
the cost of many necessities bas inoreased
tothe consumer. Prices are already way
ous of piopurtion to she average lucome
and she 1voreased cost of living pats the
problem of how to make hoth euds mees
the uwsolvable of many families. The new
tariff bill bas proven to be fall of ‘jokers’
and io many oases where reductions were
confidently counted upon increases
bave resulted. For tnsiavce, the people
were looking forward to a considerable re-
duootion in the price of shoes, the resuls of
fice hides. The shoemen dash their hopes
to the und and tell them that she iu-
crease in the value of other artioles used io
shoemaking will offses the free hides and
puabsbLy necessitate as actual increase in
shoe
The bousewile learns also of an increase
of 75 oenie a dozen in she wholesale price
of broome, which in most cases means an
increase of 10 cents each iv the price.
And the meas trust comes in
of she spoils of she tariff
course. Ribs and loins are q
increase of § to 2 cents a pound w
which means a similar increase
a
ed Su Wht jul
w e, a
Sites to four cents a pound b
ibe only redress the consumers have is
to go withoutshoes, without brooms, with-
ous meas, and without she handred and
one other things that the pew tariff bill
bas pus io the ‘cost more’ class.
Bat most of these things, of course, they
mast bave if they live in degenoy,
nothing of comfort. So their Ee
extorted to benefit the trusts in whose in-
terests the Payne-Aldrioh-Talt bill was
framed and .
And this is she condition that Senator
Oliver would oate, withous farther
exouse or pal . What do the Ameri.
cau people think of the sion? Will
they stand for it? Propost
A —————
From the Sunday Call, Easton, Pa.
On another of this issue of the
“Sunday Call" op will find a bill
by Caps. Theodore P. Ryuder, of Miles:
burg, Ceutre county, Pa. ., for the equaliza-
tion of the pensions now paid by she Unis-
ed States government to she soldiers and
sailors who served in the Union army and
navy daring the Civil war. Captain Ryo.
der is a veteran soldier, but would not be
benefisted personally it his bill should be.
ocowe a law.
Captain Rynder has given the subject of
ions no little attention and study. He
far better qualified than moss e to
speak upon the master. While we confess
our inability to ea Spe the spur of the
moment whether il is the best thas
could be framed to meet the demand for
increased aid on she part of the fasts agiog
soldiers of almost half a centary ago, we
want to say that we heartily endorse any
sion thas will keep he old soldiers
out of want in the few years that the sur.
vivors can hope to remain in the laod of the
living. The Union soldiers are fast paying
the last debt of nature and in a few years
at the farthest the armies that answered
the call for troops from the pen of Lincoln
will beat rest. Let us pot begradge the
survivors as thie day the financial sa
som will keep them iu comfort while they
ve
Every old soldier and every organization
yu veteran soldiers will confer an especial
on Captain Rynder by consideriog the
a his [proposed bill aod by send-
ing him at Milesburg, Pa., whawoever en-
dorsement they may adopt
EE —
The Fight Now On.
From the New York Independent.
Before the revolutionary war broke ous,
privilege and popalar rights were arrayed
against each other in the ool , Privi-
haa privileged people
was no un
had thei det sen i and
scoured it. Bas privilege was only scotohed
not killed. [t dominated the
thinking, the distinotion between private
and state oreated privil super-
to all state control, is the that is
now on. gone
before, the people in the jong run will win
t.
———
Merely a Willing Witness,
From the Washington Herald.
Mr. Taft's statement that the present
tariff law ie ‘‘she best the country has ever
had?" reveals him more in the lightofa
willing than a convioting witness for the
—— .
—t is looking very sear and yellow ab
Detroit just now.
——Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.
TEV e
Tis is tre m the Keyuso —
~Oat in Butler county eight divorce ap-
~-Cole Bros’ circus winter quarters ab
Erie were destroyed by fire <t a loss of $30,
000. There was several thoussnd dollars
worth of advertising matter burned.
—Improvements will be made at the
Franklin open hearth plast of the Cambria
Stesl company, near Johnstown, that will
increase the output ten thousand tons
mouthly.
—Rev. H. K. Bower, of York, has been
called by the Baptists in Philipsburg to suc~
ceed Rev. U. H. Bigby who has gouve to Laa-
caster. The choice of Mr. Bower was upani-
mous. He has secepted.
—Over $33,000 was earned by huckleberry
pickers in the vicinity of Mabanoy City
during the season just closed. This amount
represents more than 400,000 qusits, picked
simost entirely by women and children.
—Tom Nagle, of Patton, boasts the largest
yield of pumpkins from a single vine of which
he has ever heard. The vine bore twelve
: | pumpkins, all perfect specimens, the ag-
gregate weight amounting te 302 pounds.
—There is said to be little besis to the story
that Spangler has thirty- five cases of typhoid
fever. The fever's breaking out in tho town
has been blamed on the water, but the com-
pletion of a new reservoir on Brown’s rum
is expected to settle this question.
~Judge James M. Shull sitting at Holli~
daysburg last week sentenced Charles Sny-
der, of Roaring Springs, to thirty years in
the penitentiary for horse stealing, Soyder
stole the horse from the barn of Blair Sell
and drove him to Johnstown, where he sold
him for $25.
~John F. Short, of Clearfield, has an-
nounced that he will be a candidate for State
Seoetor on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Short
has been one of the leading Democrats in
Clearfield county for years and will put up a
stirring fight for the position now bel? by
George M. Dimeling.
~The Hollidaysburg and Bedford railroad,
a connecting link between Altoons and the
Bedford county capital, loug planned and
often postponed during the past few years,
will be completed at last, the contract for
the construction of the road having been let
a day or twoago. Work will start at once.
—W. Boyd Bratton, of Lewistown, aud his
brother, E. E. Bratton, of Philadelphia,
doing business under the name of the Brat-
ton company, have been awarded by the State
the contract for the construction of a sewer
age disposal plant at Reading. The plant is
to bea large one and it will require the
greater part of the year to complete it.
—More fire clay snd coal has been discov:
ered at Hyner, Clinton county, where de. -
posits were found only recently. Imac Har-
vey has discovered an eight foot vein of hard
clay and a six foot vein of coal of excellent
quality. The deposits are pear a lumber
road which connects with the Pennsylvania
lines. Large brick works may be bailt.
— Philipsburg is to be the next meeting
place of the Centre Baptist
meeting at Saltillo, Huntiugdon county, last
week was quite successful. This association
: ‘covers twenty
seven churches and is one of twenty-five
Baptist societies in the State. Over 100 dele”
gates were present at the seventy ninth ane
nual meeting.
—Numerous counterfieit five doliar bills
have made their appearance in Williamsport
during the past few daye and a warning bas
been issued to be on the lookout for them.
The bills counterfeited are known as United
States notes, bearing date 1907 and coutain.
ing in the lower left hand corner a likeness
of Andrew Jackson. They are said to be ex-
cellent imitations of the original and difficult
to detect.
—Rosalind Williams, a young white girl,
made affidavit that Thomas Willis, a negro
who was to die at Wilkesbarre Thursday for
the murder of Cameron Cool, is innecent.
She says she was present when the marder
occurred and according to her testimony
Robert Vallee, her lover, is the man who
committed the crime. As soon as he heard
the news Willis’ attorney went to Harris.
burg to get a respite.
—Mr. Weaver, of Scalp Level, has been
taking options from farmers in the Jenner
coal field, of Somerset county, on the E bed
PPOrs | of coal overlying the Kahn interest. In
some cases it is said the options for E bed
and surface amount to $125 an acre. This is
the bed which the Kennerly drills proved to
be as valuable as the previous market price
of any of the other seams already sold. The
options, it is thought, are being obtained for
the Kuhn interests.
—Officiuls of the Pennsylvania low grade
division. Buffalo and Sasquebanna, the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg and the
Lake Shore roads are seriously considering a
proposition made to them by John E. Du-
Bots, a prominent citizen of DuBois, and a
gon of the man for whom the town was
named. DuBois has offered the four rail.
roads five acres of ground on the boulevard
in DuBois for a union passenger station. The
site is in the most central section of the town
and is less than half a mile from the present
station of the roads.
—Cambria connty’s newest town, Kington,
is to get ten new houses. When these are
completed the town will boast fifty residences
and two stores. A fine new school buildieg
hae been finished and ground was broken
last week for a three story hotel. The Hast-
ing Coal and Coke company is responsible
for the town, as its works are situated there,
The mines are running full time and men
are being hired as fast as they apply. The
new town is located on the Spangler bianch
of the Pennsylvania railroad between
Barnesbero and Cherrytree.
—With flames eating their way so close to
the bed of two children that the hair of one
was singed, the family of L. D. Herritt, a
Jersey Shore lumber dealer, had a narrow
escape from death. The parents and six
children were asleep when the fire was rag-
ing snd were wakened by neighbors after
the second floor was full of smoke. After
rescuing the children Mr. Herritt was caught
on the second floor with the stairs burning
and the floor crackling. He jumped and
escaped uninjured. There was oot time to
save anything, and the family all escaped in
their night clothes. Crossed wires are blam-~
ed as the cause.
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