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BY PP. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
~Thank the Lord ! Good oid Virginoy
is still Demoeratie.
—The election is over now. Let as get
back to football and the coming JEFFRIES.
Jornsox fight.
~—If, as one of our exchanges deolares,
CANNON bas really *‘outflanked Tarr ;"”
he must have done it by an all night
march,
After all Judge GAYNOR, of New York,
seems to have been the most abused and
the moss voted for candidate in Taesday’s
oonfliots.
~—We think we bave the situation pretty
acourately sized up when we say that it
will take something more thao reformers
to reform Philadelphia. :
—Catting a Republican majority of sixty
thousand down to eight, in two years,doesn’s
look as it the Massachusetts Demooraoy ie
showing any sigus of giving up the ghost.
' The Pennsylvaniz bravch of the Na-
tional Society of Mothers is meeting in
Wilkesbarre this week and we'll bet their
kids are having she time of their lives at
home.
~The result of Tuesday’s conflict shows
all too well how completely the thugs and
ballot box stuffers in Philadelphia aod
Allegheny counties control all she rest of
the State.
—The National Geographic society has
decided that PEARY was sotuslly at the
pole. Inasmuch as Mr. PEARY hasn't
denied the allegation he will have to rest
under the aconsation.
~The Hon. C. LaRue MuNsoN, of
Williamsport, can run some when he gets
etarted ; can’t he ? And now that he is
in such fine fesile he should keep in train.
ing for the next gubernatorial race.
—We can telegraph and telephone with-
ous wires, we can fly in the air withont
balloons and we ride in carriages without
horses, hut we haven’s yes figured out a
way to win elections witlions votes.
—After all it is probably better, since
one side has to be lioked, that the Demo-
orats ges it. We have gotten it so often
that we know how to take it so much more
gracelally than our Republican friends.
‘==Think of it ! It won't be three weeks
until Thanksgiving is bere ; then a month
more and those Christmas presents will
have to be bought, before TA¥Tr's pros.
perity bas brought us moaoh to buy them
with.
«If the hookworm is what makes the
poor whites in the South so indolent we
are of the opinion that a little quiet re-
search in and about Bellefonte might re-
sals in the discovery of some of them right
in our midst.
—-Wasn't it nice in the dear Republican
telling the BRYAN Democrats of Centre
county just what they ought to do to
Munson. And didn’t they follow the ad-
vice it gave just like —— the old woman
kept tavern out west.
~—When Tom JouNsoN didn't need the
office they elected him mayor of Cleveland
four times. After he dissipated his fortune
in his efforts to get a three oens car fare for
the "people of that oity, and needed the
office, they defeated him. That's gratitude
for you.
— Ballets seem so have been flying faster
than ballots in she Kentucky elections on
Tuoesday. Bat so far as results are con-
cerned the bullets did not succeed in ma-
terially reducing the number of ballots that
will be necessary for the next election in
the Blue Grass State.
—8ix votes will elect or defeat a candi-
date for asscoiate judge in Snyder county
and as there was a discrepancy in the count
made by the two clerks in one of the pre
cinots down there amounting to just six:
voles you can imagine the kind of a sorap
that is already etarted. >
~The papers of Philadelphia that were
80 wonderfally worried lest there would be
dishonesty at she polls in New York city
bave had very little to say about the de-
oenoy and admitted honesty of the New
York fight and less to say of the notorious.
ly outrageous conduct at the pollsin their
own oily.
~The Trenton wife-beater whose sen-
tence to jail was changed to a sentence to
80 bome and live with bis mother-in-law
has our sympatby. The court only chang-
ed it after a talk with the mother-in-law
and she must bave convioced the judge
that a year in jail wouldn’t be in it with
lite with ber as punishment,
~It Muxsox didn’t do anything else his
run has already inspired a movement
amoung the old time Democrats of the State
to get together for the purpose of rebabil-
itating the party. It would be a splendid
move and if carried ous along the lines of
the recent Saratoga conference of New York
Democrats might succeed in giving Penn-
sylvania again an active opposition to Re-
publican gang control.
~The trade name of a ceriain Australian
brandy is “the hoomerang.” Now a
boomerang is a curved stick thas can be
thrown in such a way that after flyiog quite
a distance it will come back to the thrower.
Therefor if this partionlar brandy is named
appropriately we presume that it is the
kind that goes right down and comes right
up again, Manifestly, it is not the kind
that you could expeot to “‘stiok” the next
morning,
bi.
VOL. 54
We are not greatly alarmed over the
menace of a Central back in this country
in the near future. Senator ALDRICH bas
retained from an extended trip through
Earope, at public expense, and appears to
be “‘big”’ with the notion of shat sort of a
financial machine to grind the substance
out of the people. He has converted Presi-
dent TAFT to his idea, is is said, bat that
doesn’t sigoily mooh, The Republican
majority of the present Congress is com-
misted to another sors of banking expedi-
ent, and there will be po Republican
majority in avother Congress in the near
fatare. The betrayal of faith doring the
special session bas fixed the fate of the
Repablican party, so far as Congress is
concerned
Mr. ALDRICH'S idea is that the Central
bank shall be vested with the exclusive
power of issuing and distributing ourrenoy.
Under bis plan the local national banks
could issue no currency bus might obtain
from the Central bank such circulation ae
the managers of the central orgavization
deemed advisable to loan them. In the
evens of ourrenocy stringenoy or famine,
under such circumstances, the local
banks would have to ‘‘be good” in
order to get any currency at all and prob-
ably agree to divide their deposits with
the Central bank, when such a course was
deemed expedient, in order to ges the priv-
ilege of existing. The local bankers are
not likely to stumble headlong into sush an
arrangement,
President TAPT has informed the ocoun-
try that S:uator ALDRICH contemplates a
trip through the middle west in order to
explain bis plan to the bankers and others
of that section. This is probably another
soheme to saddle the expenses of a cam-
paigo tonr upon the people. Bat isis
bardly worth while. The people of the
middle wes: are tolerably intelligent folk
and are fairly well acquainted with the
history of their own country. They will
recall the trouble which President AN-
DREW JACKSON once bad with a Central
bank and the diffioulty he encountered
when he came to getting rid of it altimate-
ly. Burns cbildren dread fire and the
American people don’s hanker alter a Cen-
tral bank. :
Governor Stuart's Standing.
Governor STUART has some claim to
the popular favor in whioh hs is
held. He haso’s ‘‘electioneered” the
Sopreme cours as one of his recent prede-
oessors in office ie said to have done and he
didn’t acquiesce in the looting of the State
Treasury after the fashion that PENNY-
PACKER contributed to the operation of
the capitol gralters. Bat his virtues are of
the negative variety, at best, and proba-
bly il party exigencies required is, he
would go as far as any of the others in the
matter of serving the machine. In any
event he has always been ready to go the
fall length required of him, and probably
if it involved the blunders of STONE and
PENNYPACKER, be would bave made the
sacrifices.
For example, during the campaign
whioh has just closed the Republican or-
ganization of New York asked the Repub-
lican Governor of that State to make a
speech or write an open letter in behalf of
the admirable candidate of his party for
Mayor of that great oity. The office of
Mayer of New York is one of great power
and dignity. The Republican candidate
for the office was one of the very foremost
oitizens of that municipality. Bat Gov-
ernor HUGHES declined to participate in
the campaign for the election of a Mayor of
New York city for the reason that as Gov-
ernor of the State of New York bis partioi-
pation in a municipal campaign woanld be,
in a measure at least, compromising the
digoity of his great office.
The campaign lor the election of a Dis-
triot Attorney of Philadelphia wae simply
a trial of strength between the good and
bad citizenship of the community. On
one side was arrayed ‘‘a oriminal combina-
tion masquerading as the Republican par.
ty,”” to borrow the language of Senator
Roor, of New York, aod on the other the
forces of political morality and decent oiti-
zenship. On the first call from the orim-
ioal side, however, Governor STUART has-
tened to the scene of action and dragged
the robes of his high office through the
mize of politisal iniquity. Let us in view
of these facts, hear no more about the high
character of Governor STUART.
— Baseball magnates in the several
towns in whioh the teams comprising the
C:ntral Pennsylvania league were located
are already discussing the probabilities of
another league next season, aod on what
basis is should be conducted. Bellefonte
baseball people are also very much inter-
ested and from the feeling here now will
be sure to bave a team next season, and a
new field to play on. The main feature in
the discussion of she conduct of next yesr's
league is a rule to confine the teams to
purely local or home players. While in
some ways this woald confine the sport to
within certain limite is would npatarally
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
give towns like Renovo and Jersey Shore
an advaotage, owing to the large number
of young men employed in the railroad
shops there. Probably a better way would
be to fix a salary limis same as other leagues
do and shen no team could go beyond that
mark in seouring players, unless the play-
ers themselves elected to work for small
pay. The Bellefonte baseball magnates
expeot to hold a meeting in the near lature
when not only all the above questions will
be settled so far as the local olab is concern-
ed bat action will be taken regarding the
acquisition of new grounds on east Bishop
street, which will he much more desirable
than the present Hughes field.
Cannon Defles His Enemies,
Speaker CANNON ie not the least dis-
turbed by the insurrectionary talk of the
so-oalled congressional independents. He
listens to their matterings of discontent,
laughs at the statements that TAFT is on
the side of the insurgents and finally defies
bis enemies to do their worst. Uncle Jor
is a cunning bird, and old. He has been
through a good many campaigns and gone
op sgainet jelly-fish politicians in various
ways and places. He bas President Tarr
measured with the greatest acouracy. He
knows tbat when the oruoial test comes the
President will yisld to him in everything.
As ROOSEVELT kowtowed to ALDRICH in
the famous contest over the HEPBURN rate
bill Tarr will bow to CANNON on all
things.
Oo the Mississippi river junket the
Speaker revealed himself completely, the
other day. There was a bunch of insurgent
Republican Congressmen on board the hoat
with the Speaker and after listening to the
President for several days they came to
imagine that they could have fun with the
congressional autocrat. Accordingly they
presented him with a caricatured gavel, the
obvions purpose being to convey the idea
that his power is ended and shat hereafter
be will be a sort of a toy Speaker. It is
drawing is mild to say, however, that they
were disappointed in the result. Instead
of assuring them that he would be good, be
declared that he is a despot becanse he con-
trols she majority in the House.
Io other words Speaker CANNON under”
stands shat the Republicans in Congress
are influenced entirely by the official
patronage aud that as Speaker he controls
that patronage absolutely. President Tarr
may imagine at intervals that he can sub.
doe the congressional machine, but the
Speaker and his coterie of friends in the
House will soon disabuse his mind of that
delusion. Daring the extra session the
President did attempt to assert himsell but
when be got word that his traveling ex.
pense fund would be oat off, he soon chang-
ed his tone. TAPT is the easiest mark for
men of the CANNON type that they have
ever encountered and before the first half
of the next session ie finished the country
will understand.
The Lesson of the Election.
The result of the election is disappoint-
ing to those who hoped for political re-
geveration and official improvement in
Pennsylvania. The successful ticket was
probably the worst ever presented to the
voters by either party at any time. The
candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court
bad nothing to recommend him to public
favor. He bad served the machine blindly
and that was his only strength and recom-
mendation. The candidates for Auditor
General and State Treasurer had no greater
olaim for popular support. They had par-
ticipated in every legislative iniquity and
political vice during a somewhat prolonged
career in the State Senate and at all times
held the interests of the people in oon-
tempt.
On the other hand the Demooratio candi-
dates are men of exceptional meris. C.
LARUE MUNsoN is a lawyer of greas ability,
large experience and high character. His
vote, moreover, indicates an unusual tieas-
ure of popularity. Georar W. Kipp, the
candidate for State Treasurer, is a bavker
and business man of the most eminent re-
spectability and obaraoter, and J. Woop
CLARK, the nominee for Auditor General,
was an ideal candidate. Yes except in the
oase of Mr. MUNSON the average Republi-
san majority is maintained shroughous the
State. Practically no voters were inflaenced
by conscience or considerations of justice to
support the fitter men for important public
service.
There is listle comfort in the fact that
the successful candidates received less than
a majority of the vote and that upon a fall
poll a higher standard of civic virtue might
have been revealed. That ie, at best, a con-
jeotare of doutbful accuracy. Upon a full
vote the majority might have been inoreas-
ed but is is doubtful if the civic spirit of a
man who fails to vote is any better than
that of one who casts bis ballos for the less
fit candidate. The lesson of the election,
therefore, is that the people of Pennsylvania
are still joined to their political idols and
that is makes little difference how abhor-
rent they are in obaracter or appearance,
Conscience may assert iteell later.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 5, 1909.
“gr Might Have Been.”
At the Presidential election of 1908 Mr.
BRYAN polled, in roond numbers, 450,-
000 votes in Pennsylvania. As the elec-
tion for State Treasurer in 1905, 127,000
LINCOLN party men voted for WILLIAM
H. BERRY. Ninety per cent. of the Bry-
AN vote last year would be 405,000 and fil-
ty per cent, of the LINCOLN party vote
cast for Mr. BERRY four years ago would
inorease thas total to 468,500. The official
returns of the election of Tuesday are not
accessible, as this writing, but the reports
are sufficiently complete to state that the
total vote of Sisson and SroBek will fall
considerably short of those figures and that
of Vox MoscHZISKER is vearly 100,000
below them.
The Democratic State Committee urged
upon the Demoorats of the State the im-
portance of getting out the vote and pre-
dicted that ninesy per cent. of the BRYAN
vote would guarantee a substantial and
glorious victory. The committee was as-
sured of she activity of the LINCOLN party
leaders and felt onnfidens tbat filsy per
cent. of that element of the electorate, as
measured by the BERRY vote, could be de-
pended upon. We believe that this expeo-
tation bas been fulfilled literally. In oth-
er words ao analysis of the retorns convin-
oes ug that the independents Republicans
in large proportion voted for the Demoocrat-
io candidates. The results in Schuylkill,
Luzerne and other counties prove this.
The defeat of the Demooratic ticket is
ascribable, therefore, to the lethargy and
indifference of she Demooratio voters. It
isnot an overwhelming disaster as its
worst, for the elestion of Democratio judg-
es in Chester, Berks, Fayette, Luzerne and
Westmoreland counties, sort ofl ‘‘tempers
the wind to the shorn lamb,” while the
probable election of a Damooratio judge in
Armstrong indicates political virility there.
But we might have had a substantial and
enduring victory if the Demoorats of the
State bad performed their fell duty and
polled the ninety per cent. of their strength
as the State committee urged from the
openipg to the olose of the campaign.
ot sn Attractive Spectacle.
Ee ——
President TAFT is on the last last lap of
his unprecedented junket aoross the con-
tinent and around the country. He has
traveled nearly 13,000 miles and made
nearly 300 speeches. At the outstart in
Boston he stated that his principal object
was to put his digestion and vocal chords
ton test of endurance. Incidentally he
put the patience of the publio to a greater
strain. Once daring his journey his voice
gave ont but we bave not heard thas his
appetite failed at all. Bots whether the
results in those respects were satisfactory
or not, it is certain that the expense of
his trip, which is paid out of the public
treasury, is more than it is worth.
But President TAFT seems entirely cone
tent with himself and his janket, acocord-
ing to his speeches. At Jackson, Missis-
sippi, for example, he said that ‘‘we never,
in all our history, were as homogeneous a
people, as closely allied in all our hopes
and ambitions,and in all our pride of coun-
try and patriotism, as we are today.”
Plainly he attributes all these happy con-
ditions to his own junket. Palpably he
imagines that the sight of his person and
the sound of his voice is & panacea for all
the national ills to which the body politio
has been suffering or might be afflicted.
Whatever TAFT may be wanting in be is
not too modest.
The truth is, however, that the country
is enjoying ite present state of placidity
and contentment, not because of Tarr's
jaoket but in spite of it. It was undertak-
en in the first place, in viclation of the
constitution. That instrument deolares
that the President shall receive for his
services a compensation to be fixed by law
and no other emoloment. An act of Con-
gress granting the President a traveling
fund in addition to his regular compensa.
tion is invalid and in accepting it the
President not only violates she organio law
bat his oath of office. The spectacle of the
Chief Magistrate of the country thus in.
volving himself in crime is not attractive.
~The Bellefonte Daily, published by
F. 8. Dunham from the Hustler office, How-
ard, made ite appearance on Monday. It
is a five colamn folio and while it yet bears
the earmarks of the verions contingencies
met with in starting a new publication it
is hoped that it may grow in importance
as 8 newspaper as well as a money maker
to ite projector. R. Bower Holter, of Pine
street, formerly of the Daily News, is the
head of the Bellefonte news gathering bu-
rean,
——The State College Transportation
sompany have both their large automobiles
now in repair and while they may not run
them on their former schedule time they
will run one or both of them when there is
crowd or demand enough to justify patting
them in operation. The bad roads between
Bellefonte and the College is reason enough
for not running the machines regaiarly.
volt in the party.
Taft's than it is Cannon's and the sacrifice
of Canoon could not redeem the guilt
ish ia pany wow seeks to saddle upon
m.
Bat sa Speaker Cannon is cast to
Pigorts's Lwebly Bu that be is Soran
limb from limb and bones lefs to bleach
in the sands of the political arena.
will sncceed him io his present
power? Will is be any of the
olameriog for his lite? Will bis
of a different Shee Will be stand for dif-
ferens ideas? Will he represent different in-
terests? Will be oonduot the business of
the house along different lines?
There is not the slightest probability of
any thing of the sort. Speaker Cannon
has heen powerfal and be remains power-
ful only because be has typified she spirit
of modern Republicanism. He interprets
Republicanism to itself. He is the incarna
tion of Republican ideals. In him and in
his iron rule we see materialized the
thought and the aspiration of the party
which serves the interests and rejoices in
its departare from the old standards of
freedom and equality. And were be today
voluntarily to lay down the scepter he has
80 long wielded it would make no differ-
ence in the trend of his party. Is woald
keep right on in the same path toward the
imperial goal; his successor would be of the
same mould; be would rely u the same
methods; be would consuls the same ora-
cles; he would serve the same interests; he
would fight as Canuon bas fought to enlarge
the boundaries o! privilege and to limis the
liberties of the individual. p
Mr. Caunon has shown his only weakness
in imporsuning the ent for an eun-
dorsement such as Mr. Taft sratolionnly :
acorded Senator Aldrich. The speaker
selon i thie Bate Teiasd Scuaor yore
worthy of presidential recognition, be him-
self was equally entitled to a nod from the
throne. Bat Mr. Taft does not care to in-
vite another storm. He does not care to
give Cummins and Bristow and LaFollette
another club with which to attack the ad-
ministration. And instead of according the
speaker a clean bill of health be manifests
a dispositio~ to disavow him and to cass
him forth from the imperial presence and
the imperial favor.
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What are We Coming To.
From the Omaha Bee.
What in the name of God and common
sense are we coming to in this country ?
A President of the United States cannot
meet the citizens of this peacefal Republio
unless he is surrounded by a crowd of im-
portant bodyguard protectors, who see a
bomb protecting from every wislow and
suspect dynamite in every hand. The ap-
pearanoe of these men in Sacramento, trot-
ting along at the side of the President's
carriage, was a sight sufficient to arouse the
righteous indignation of every stalwart
American. [t was an insult to the people.
President Taft would be 1n no more dan-
ger today if every secrets service man were
under the waters. They could not save
him in oase of a plot against bim. And she
obnoxious and offensive publicity of their
actions can have no osher effect than an in-
vitation to some weak brain to attempt
thas which they claim they are trying to
prevent by sheir covspicuousness.
It surely is Sisgusting to see the Presi.
dent of the United States followed around
and hemmed in everywhere by armed men
as though he were the czar of Russia ; as
though behind every telegraph pole lark-
ed an anarchist, while every tree sheltered
a nihilist.
I is hai guouph to Rusiraiae iin Souge
try in so as receptions toa te
President are concerned. og
Bus bow infamous it is when the govern-
meuot of the United States not only permits,
but commends and itsell perpetrates, the
Rassianization of the country by the un-
juet, arbitrary, illegal and infamous im-
ment of men who have committed no
wrong, and by the shameless throttling of
free speech.
Bellefonte's Fine Gife.
From the Williamsport San.
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late Governor Andrew G. Curtin of a ool-
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Spawls from the Keystone.
—1It will take six years to finish the cute
ting of the timber of the Wnitmer Steel
company near Philipsburg.
— In order to be allowed to keep on work-
ing the 60,000 boys and girls employed in the
State will be required to secure new certifi-
cates before January 1.
— Pennsylvania railroad officials are now
investigating the new signal of the World
Signal company, of Philipsburg. This new
signal is attracting the attention of railroad
people everywhere, .
“~Hundreds of skunks were released by
some unknown person on the skunk farm of
Frank Strausser, near Reading. This is the
second time that the animals bave been put
at liberty aud the loss is considerable.
—Ex-County Commissioner Augustus L.
Merrill, of Lock Haven, has received his
commission as census supervisor for the
Eleventh district. including Clinton, Tioga,
Potter and Lycoming counties, or the Fif-
teenth congressional district.
—About 150 wen will be given employ.
ment when the new Cramer stone quarry is
opened this week. The plant has heen
equipped with modern machinery. The
stone is of a fine grade and is almost unlimit.
ed iu quantity. The company owns about
100 acres in that section.
—Before an immense throng, the corner
stone of the new Jersey Shore Young Men's
Christian Association building was laid with
appropriate ceremonies. Dr. Edwin Erle
Sparks, president of State College, delivered
the principal address. Dr. Denny, of the
. | Ohio State University, also spoke.
~Daring the moath of October seventy-
three oil wells were drilled in Butler county.
Eleven of these were dry. The total new
production for the month was 302 barrels.
The pipe line report for the month will show
three big new wells. One was of 200, one of
twenty. five barrels preduction.
—There are 789 inmates in the Hunting.
don reformatory, The last consecutive
number is 6,949. Fourteen boys arrived from
Philadelphia at one time several days ago
and all seemed in the best of spirits. They
appeared to enjoy their last cigarettes and
chews of tobacco immensely. The crowd
filled every available inch in the wagon that
conveyed them to prison,
~Over 1,000 cars have passed over the
Cresson division of the Pennsylvania rail.
road in the past two weeks for use on the
Indiana and other branches of the Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittsburg. The Cambria Steel
company at Johnstown filled the order and
the cars cost the railroad company $800,000.
About fifty of the new cars pass through
Indiana every night bound for northern
points. They are loaded.
~-QOne million dollars will be spent by the
Allegheny Steel company to improve its
plants at Tarentum and Brackenridge. Half
of the amount will be used immediately and
the remainder ata later date. When the
work is done the force of men will have to
be enlarged. When the concern tock over:
the plants of the Relinuce Tube company
and the Inter-State Steel company its capital
stock was increased to $2,500,000.
~Iu examiolug the land offsred by Am-
drew Carnegie, near Cresson, for the estab.
lishment of a tuberculosis sacitorium by the
State, it is found that the place is well suited
tosuch a purpose. There is enough sand
and rock that the necessary buildings can be
erected. The water is abundant and appears
to be of good quality. Samples of it are now
being tested. Itis understood thata come
plete report on the grounds will be presented
to Governor Stuart. The attorney general's
department will be called upon to pass upon
the report to determine the legality of the
psoceedings. :
—Tied to a tree in the dense woods, stripe
ped of his clothes, which were then ripped,
and robbed of $157 which had been cleverly
concealed in his vest, and then cut loose and
left alone, by a well dressed stranger, was
the fate of Giovanni Angelici, a section hand
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. He
works at Rockwood aud was on his way
there on the night of the robbery, walking
along the Somerset and Cambria branch
tracks. He met the stranger and complained
that he was thirsty. The man told him that
he knew where they could get both eatings.
and drink if he would accompany him. This
the Italian consented to do and when the
stranger got his vietim in a thick part of the
woods he attacked him and committed the
robbery. When he was done he cut the
Italian’s bonds and disappeared.
—@Goods to the value of $150 were takem
from the store of City Treasurer F. E. Har-
der, at Lock Haven, by Raymond Crotzer,
alins Bowers, who says that his home is in
Maryland, sud a young man named Klinger,
whose home is in Lock Haven. The robbery
was committed during a thunder storm and
although the neighbors heard the crash of
glass, it was in the early evening and they
thought nothing of it. The robbery was
kept quiet until the thieves were run down.
It is thought that the fellows were inspired
to their deed by reading wild west literature
as Crotzer styles himself “Texas Jack.” The
young men, who are 18 years of age, were
given a hearing and held for court. They
made known that they would like to be tried
at once and inside a half hour the judge had
sentenced them to the Huntingdon reformas
tory for an indefinite period.
~— Approximately $27.000,000.00 have been
paid out by the Pennsylvania railroad em
ployes relief funds in the past twenty-three
years. This fact is brought out in a report
issued to day by the company, which also
shows that in the month of September
the benefits amounted to $147,014.96.
The velief department of the lines east
of Pittsburg and Erie in the month of Sep-
tember paid to its members the sum of $103,~
923 36 in benefits, representing $35,736.05 to
the families of members who died and $68,~
187.31 to members incapacitated for work.
for | The total payments on the lines east of Pitts.
burg and Erie since the relief fund was es=
tablished have amounted to $19 638,746 91.
In September, the relief department of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg and
Erie paid out a total of $43.091.60, of which
$16,875 00 were for the families of members
_ | who died, and $26,216 60 for members unable
to work. The sum of $7,304,912. 11 represents
the total payments of the relief department
of the lines west since it was established in