"ing. i i BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. | —You can almost see vegetation jump- —The usual epidemic of spring fever is raging. —The straw hat is gradually coming | —— — into its own. VOL. 56. i i { i i BELLE STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. FONTE, Pa, MAY 12 191), ! SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~Tony Mimona lost $1,500 in store stock and house furnishings and Joe Mills $2,000 on property at Barnesboro in a recent blaze. ~The submerged logs are to be removed from Moshannon creek, between Hawk Run and Phil- ipsburg, by a Philipsburg firm. The work will be of considerable advantage to Philipsburg. —~Two state constablar troopers arrived at Lock Haven a few days ago. They will be locat ed at Orviston, to watch for violators of fish and ~L. J. Williams, wife and six children are home. less because of a fire that destroyed their Tesi- dence near Philipsburg. A defective flue caused the blaze and only first floor furnishings were saved ~The No. 3 machine at the Lock Haven paper mill, said to have been shut down for lack of or- ders, is to be placed by a larger one. Other im- provements will be made at a cost of between $300,000 and $400,000. ~The Philipsburg Silica Sand company is the latest industry at that place. It will have a capi. the tal stock of $200,000 and will soon erect a crusher and pulverizing plant. A glass factory is said te be the ultimate object. ~Ten miles of onions have been planted by Huntingdon reformatory boys on the farm con- nected with tie institution. Seventy bushels of potatoes and other vegetables in like proportions have also been put under ground. —Nathan Vallone, of Pittston, acquires ;tempo- rary notoriety from the fact that he has just be- come the father of his twenty-fifth child. He has been twice married, his first wife having been the mother of sixteen, his second nine. —$15,000 for the Bellefonte hospitai Not Getting Along Well. Veteran Democrat Protests. | Commerce in Legislation. | The State Highway Bill isn’t enough, but half a loaf is better than no bread. | —DiAz says he will resign when peace is restored in Mexico and peace refuses | For some reason or other our friends, | po: veteran Democrat and venerable | Governor TENER confidently expresses to be restored until DIAZ resigns—so there the re-organizers, don't seem to be getting publicist, Hon. B. F. MEYERs, is unable the belief that his pet piece of legisla- you are. Seg ds ply 5 30 eompeenialy to conjecture what exsuse Soares lot 2 igtion, She Publie Ueiities bill, a be — Mexican unpleasan is most . Den ti itt hict 1 i enacted g i t i as rt 1h In fact, if divisions continue arising... ders its only opportunity to safe- there is strong opposition to the measure debt the people of 2 former border. Five of them were accidentally among hem ga Srousendly as Ses | yuand te interosts sul rumats he sie St doosint ofscoruiaiivg drafis ai incurred for constructing 4:5) Sweaty. : wv be a question if they don't need a ; ou of the pany. 8 his wewspapt, the Sous. p= tity of he Sere arovision al rg JAUREE hak als ganization committee to keep their own | yp 0 (omments upon the advice of Mr. |it- But the Governor has learned a trick EL revisional president 28 little committee together long before the | coopce W. GuTHRIE to Democrats to | OF two in the legislative game since his well. Mexico is now in a class with the Demossacy of the Sute wil ie. 49 gfect make no claim for the appointment of | inauguration, nearly four months ago and | yp Democratic party in Pennsylvania. jisown halen dn y. representatives of that party on the proposes to take advantage of all his op- | of engineers, inspectors and other . —Of all the trusts the sugar combina: Mr. GuTsrie's willingness to cowardly | Looicers boards in cities. “Mr. GUTHRIE | portunities. His newly aroused confidence | eaters. Besides this, the bill arbitrarily surrender the right of Democrats, to | ain q'to be chairman of the Democratic of the ultimate success of his plans is the name the minority registrars in the cities | gate committee. In that position he | result of an incident which has recently of the State where personal registration |. 14 pe the sentinel guarding the Demo occurred. In other words the Governor | : tion seems to be the only one without a friend in court at Washington. Accord- away manufacturing industries {rom the town, ingly, when it gets its dose it may be ex- is required, has disgusted and incensed so . | worst feature of the Ridgway board of trade is making an effort to en cratic citadel. Yet he voluntarily offers has just turned an important parliamen the scheme. asta suleref the bitter old allopathic | pany of his followers that it is difficult | 5 render all his functi to tary trade. The bill makesno provision forappoirt. set hoid of woe land in fhe Elk <ousty aca: = now to find a real Democrat among them ally, but to a declared enemy.” The lawyers in the Senate and House | ryles but all the employees are to be sub- | —in spite of the fact that Judge Brumm called —Entertaining the clergymen and the physicians at the same time Bellefonte needed but an undertaker’s convention to complete the cycle of our being brought here, being taken away and being pre- pared for the going. —Governor TENER's pre-election prom- ise to probe the Rittersville asylum scan- dal has been made good—the public won't think—by his appointment of a new com- mission on which he has placed three members of the old one. —Just now when men are eager for the little bit of work they can find wouldn't it be better for those labor organizers and strike agitators who lately flocked into Altoona to start trouble in the shops there to go home and try to earn a few dollars by hard work themselves. ~The coroner of Philadelphia seems to have constituted himself court, jury and witnesses in the McMAHON case. The acts of few Philadelphia officials are to be marveled at, but this was a little too raw for the courts of that city and the grand jury has been called upon to indict the murderer in the manner and form that the law really provides. —judged by the relative amounts ap- propriated to the two institutions it would appear that the machine has final- ly succeeded in making the Legislature believe that the University of Pennsylva- nia and not The Pennsylvania State Col- lege is the one that the State accepted the land grant from the federal govern- who will claim that he has either the| where personal registration is enjoined of Representatives have been “dead set" spirit or the Democracy about him that by law the result of the election is prac- from the beginning on putting the judicial would make him a fit person to take | ui aio determined at the registration. A salary increase on the statute book. The aduinistration. Not is adequats provision charge of the Democratic State organiza- | no" ie bermitted to register can | Governor didn't seem to warm up to this | jowest responsible and honest con- tion. They realize, and think he should | po diy be kept from voting. For that proposition in the beginning and threaten: | tractors also, that the “Keystone party” is not a | raag0n the personal registration law for ed a veto which would have been fatal to political party as contemplated in the Act | .iyiaq was so drawn that the Democrats the judicial melon cutting program. There- Te vent packing the lists with bogus names been passed, was recalled and somewhat N it isa and creating a fraudulent electorate. In |changed. But the Governor remained to caught growing out of local conditions in the SW) ereating Philadelphia and Pittsburg obdurate until the supporters of that bil vole down thie joan Smedined sub- in the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburg and | yep, that precaution has not invariably who curiously enough, were the opponents | more favorable conditions in‘the Legisla- woods near Beaver Falls. He admitted that he has no more permanency about it than |, 04 adequate. But on the whole it | of his pet, agreed to pass the pet in con- Slaisaed the many other fusion movements, to aC- | hag exercised a wholesome influence on | sideration of his approval of the judicial complish local purposes, that have come | jo tions and reduced the fraudulent salary increase. The Public Utilities bill into and gone out of existence almost | ..o i; the cities to some extent. But was thereupon rushed through the House yearly since the Machines in those cities | pyr GururiE would relinquish this re- and sent to the Senate where negotiations have become so strongly entrenched. | o¢ raining influence. He would entirely were opened up. Last Saturday the sal- They know also that in a presidential | ji inate Democrats from the registry ary increase was signed and the Governor | o_ .+.. Pittsburg Post. contest there would be no place for a Key- | poards. expressed confidence as to the other. Affairs in Mexico are nearing stone party. That at elections that would | 1, philadelphia the Keystone party is We have little fault to find with the | the t of decisiveness. The yepot decide as to the principles that were t0 | cided by former post-master Hicks, an | Public Utilities bill. As has already been from of . be enforced in the adminstration of the intense and not very conscientious Re- said in these columns itis dangerously general government, it would dissolve as | o hlican. In Pittsburg it is guided by drastic in some respects, but some cor- mist before the morning sun. They know | ¢ 0 or State Senator WiLLIAM FLYNN, a porations require drastic treatment and | ol tal. also that three-fourths of the Republican | Renublican politician who hesitates [all of them need some restraints. But | resumption of hostilities the voters who joined that organization last | oo , outrage against Democracy. the method of accomplishing this legisla- fall are Republicans still on every ques- |, Harrisburg and other cities the leader- tion is highly objectionable if not actually | to avoid complications, thus EE EE son, ship and vast majority of the Keystone perilous. There was not even the shadow end 40 the expected ohurations Juarez. matters that have no more business of an excuse for the increase of the sal- : : party are Republicans, ready to return to "|. —It has been discovered that the Legislature in‘politics than a bar-tender has in the | ypoir party allegiance the moment over- aries of the judges and a corrupt bargain fue-has field $0 90 foun rH laws of the the attention of the grand jury of Schuylkill coun- ty to the alleged fact that a recent execution was conducted contrary to law, a vast multitude be- ing present, the jurors refused to indict the sher- iff. —Berks county authorities tell us that heavy frosts killed many of the early strawberry blos® —As Mrs. Newton R. Parks, of Wysox town- ship, Bradford county, was leaving the Sayre hos- pital after being operated on for appendicitis, she met her husband coming in the front door of the institution, suffering with the same complaint and for the same purpose. pulpit. And to give to these “"Keyston- |i, oq are made to them or promises of between the executive and legislative de- | soon State so as to deprive a wife of the constitutional ers” the right to name the minority mem- | ooo given,and thus Mr. GUTHRIE'S prop! | partments of the State government is | terior are in a most chaotic condition, right to a jury trial. The Governor signed the bers of the boards of Registrars would | ogition would turn the entire election | about as reprehensible an incident as can and causes & reliveal prediction act on April 29th. Itis thought it was meant to simply be giving to the Republican ma- | rho chinery of all the cities over to prej- | be imagined. Legislation, however meri- Ei chine the power to have sole control of | ygiced and conscienceless opponents of | torious, : this most important part of our election | | too expensive. The public can have no | there would be no interference with the known farmers, was found dead on a public road. ment for and entered into a solemn com- | achinery. | Dereeraey ie i io woudl Wohger i Siok pay respect for it. py internal affairs On the way home from a barn raising he sat pact to support. ili : mn The Mexican at Wi . | down on the bank at the roadside to rest and ex” : Jt is the willingness of Mr. GUTHRIE to | crats like Hon. B. F. MEYERS should pro- declares that the i —We scarcely get settled down to enjoy | gurrender this important privilege of pro : | Taft Haranguing the Grangers. ton it : situation is y | pired. He was 60 vears old. garden, Mrs. Hannah Adams, aged 65 years, of Amesville, Clearfield county, had the misfortune to have her clothing catch fire, and before the flames could be extinguished she was so badly burned that death soon followed. —To protect its mules from cremation in case of mine fires, the Reading Coal and IronZcompany is preparing to erect concrete stables inside of al! its mines. The first of this series of fireproof stables is already in process of construction at the Knickerbocker colliery at Shenandoah. —~Twenty-four Bedford county fishermen were exaggerated tecting the ballot box as far as possible Plainly Presid full control. This statement will, of that has so incensed Democrats who were | Mr. Cannon’s Whining Lamentations. | iy) on ew To 1 Was vying te course, be taken with a large grain of formerly supporting him, until it NOW | we are very much afraid that Hon. | grangers, at the White House, the other of the United States will look on with looks as if it would soon be a necessity to Josep G. CANNON lacks the quality of a day. It may not have been exactly a additional interest as me reports re-organize the re-organizers themselves. | tr, sport. He takes delight in a reputa- “frame up” that gave him the opportunity ge LR mh along before Possibly another committee of three, E for “gameness,” and rather encour- | to make thisdisplay of moral courageand | the lapse of many days. looming up of the future. Already Fourth of July celebrations are being agitated: then will come the business men's picnic, the fair and winter again. Time flies so fast, now-a-days, that we often wonder how the author ever found enough of it to give him inspiration for that song about “The Good Old Summer Time." —Dr. JuLius FRIEDWALD declares that after extended experiments on rabbits he backed by our brilliant brigade of Con- concerning his achievements | | triotism. But it was suspicious mr— ages gossip ng oity pa y Reforme Bills in the House. gressmen, could get them out of this | .;4 adventures in draw poker and other | like such a demagogic device and it serv- trouble by abolishing Mr. GUTHRIE as a | has5rds. He assumes a dare-devil de- |ed the purpose admirably. Mr. N. P|. burg Star Independent. chairman and substituting some other |... 4 a careless disregard of con-|HoLT, who couldn't be induced to vote | The Pennsylvania House of sore-head to put on his greatly bedraggled resen- . . : : ventions. He eats tobacco and gnaws big | other than the Republican ticket under | tatives, which was on | arrested a few days ago for a gross violation of can ‘prove that good whiskey is less tox- political garments. black cigars. He quotes scripture and |any circumstances, was spokesman for | the second reading r when it ran wi fish laws about April 15th, when a dam in well to krow this, so long as we have the price of the good stuff, but it was scarce- ly necessary for the doctor to resort to bushel of fish were caught in nets. Twenty-one men paid fines and three were held for court. —Clearfield county prohibitionists are getting that what little fun the real Demo-|graquency, intermingling them with the | “The farmers,” he said, “have been the crats are having out of the re-organi- | ohvious purpose of conveying the idea | back of Republican on. Yon el the LR: hes zers condition, may not be cut-short | sot he is equally unafraid of the ulti- | could count on these people every time.” | looked like a great victory for reform rabbits for his subjects. The world is |by the untimely dissolution of that self |... destiny of the righteous and the | Then the President “cut loose.” measures in ture. The two ja the sicie ay courage of their convic- full of men who would gladly have lent | constituted body. : bills were from committee and ' their aid to the development of science: pre wicked. He can be a saint or a sinner, | He properly and even pathetically ex- | paced om the calendar with the. assist | tone br deciding sean (Cl PLU / The Capitol Park Extension. as circumstances require, and doesn’t care | pressed regret that these stalwart pro- | ance of all the Organization men in the strong ticket. George W. Rien, lo many yam —Let us wait and see how much pre- . m— | much which side of him is exposed to tectionists are about to desert the party. House and were passed on second read- secrahury.seasrer of the GOMLY : tenders Hicks, BONNIWELL, ef al do to| The Capitol Park extension bill is still | vig, “But,” he continued, “my conviction with | ing without opposition. greeted warmly —For six years Allen S. Meyers, a prominent . | florist of Blair county, kept a daily record of the number of Pennsylvania railroad locomotives that stopped in front of his greenhouses. He fixed the number at $20,500, and Wednesday entered a tres- pass suit against the company to recover damages for the destruction of flowers, foliage and plants by the smoke and soot from the loco- motives. . help Mr. HENRY BAUER defeat “My Son,” meaning the scion of the house of Mayor REYBURN, of Philadelphia, for Congress in the Second district of that city. Young Mr. REYBURN is evidently not qualified for the office in any way, while his oppo- nent is, so there will be no excuse for in- difference on the part of either Moses of slumbering in the House Committee On | But in politics he is a “hard loser.” | respect to the advantage of this treaty is | gecei the Appropriations at Harrisburg. The ma- | hat is to say he refuses to be reconciled | very deep. So far as the effect of thison Sensived by Sis Show of oF chine managers have not, as yet, made to a defeat for which he was largely re- | my political fortunes,” he added, “it ought ee up their minds concerning it. It is uni- sponsible and whines his lamentations in- not influence me and does not influence of its character was versally admitted that an énlargement of | cescantly. He blames the newspapers for | me in the slightest.” Then he ventured | the Constitution to enable the the park is needed now and in the near | oot of his own misfortunes and ascribes | an opinion that "it is contrary to nature, borrow fifty millions of dollars to be ex- future will be absolutely necesssry. It is | 4 the press mostof the evils which afflict | it is flying in the face of Providence, to pended ostensibly in the improvement of well known that the revenues are ample | ype hody politic. In this he is probably | put an artificial wall between this coun- the public roads. After all, the bills were under condi there ~The Central poor board, of Luzerne county, the Keystoners. io make Ee appropriation at this ime. | righ from his point of view. If there had | try and Canada.” Mr. Hout must have | "% 8) Iya of reformers. the | has made an agreement with the White Haven —Representive SCOTT'S bill to increase t existing tions is | been no newspapers he might never have | lost his tariff grip at this juncture. He | commi sanitorium to care for indigent tuberculosis pa- : i ] tients. The board will pay for the maintenance of patients sent to the institution by the district at the rate of $7, $9 and $10 a week, according to - the amount of care and kind of food required by the individual patient. Two patients were sent to —Hard-hearted officers arrested Miss Frances Bue while she was about to board a Pennsylvania railroad train for Chicago, in the Philadelphia sta- tion. The young lady hails from Bristol, i= 19 years old and was arrested at the instigation of her mother, who said she was running away. Miss Bue admitted that she wanted to go to Oma- ha, where she expected to meet and marry her sweetheart, and declared that she would marry ttee little or no chance for graft and the ma- | een found out. Publicity is the invet-| hadn't a leg to stand on. The difference with a fine show of friendliness chine managers are disinclined to allow erate foe of false pretense and Mr. CAN- | botween one artificial wall and another ? such an enterprise to be consummated | voy is the embodiment of that form of | was left to conjecture. without some kind of a rake off. | gaud He will never forgive anybody or After all the President wasn't taking Sing stiSide. Messrs. Walnut The value of property is increasing | anvthing that contributed to his just | much risk in assuming this high ground. rapidly at Harrisburg under the influence | 4... itiation. There may be a few farmers who still their pet measures. of inevensing population. aid ‘Siprovel In a speech on the floor of the House, | worship the fetich of protection and be-| To Put Ringsters on Record. civic conditions. If the park extension |. other day, Mr. CANNON inferentially | lieve with Mr. HOLT that the prosperity | = Tr had been completed six years ago the | tacked the President for giving support of the country depends upon tariff walls rom the Harrisburg Patriot. il But they are the back numbers in the school code when it left the hands of compared with the cost now. Two years | Tat piece of diplomacy and legislation, | fraternity. Intelligent farmers like the commission that. prepared it. Some hence another million will be added to | pa is the “en! t and laborers un- of them are in it still. have been firmly believes, tering wedge | intelligent artisans the value of the ground to be taken and | of free trade.” Mr. CANNON proves this | derstand that the economic policy Grrodic out sihte the Te the value of the material which may be | bo alleging that the Farmers’ Free List |that leads to success is that which | put jn the place of them. taken off will be considerably decreased. | py jg in the form of a recompense for | teaches us to sell in the highest market | One of the good features that is But the money in the treasury is of great- | oases incident to the reciprocity pact and | and buy in the cheapest and that no man the code is that providing that : vote of advantage So the poligea sachin the Farmers’ Free List bill is unquestion- | can be made wealthy by taxing or rob- | 2 ard of contracts of any kind where the of park The favored | 2bly 2 step in the direction of free trade. | bing him. TAFT knew as well any another | smount involved exceeds $100. bankers ace willing to pay a liberal bonus But in that as in everything else the real | that he was taking the safe side of the The propriety of keeping such 4 00rd the pay of Legislators from $1500 to $2400 passed the House on Wednesday. In the debate on it he said: "If we in- crease the pay of members of the House the State will get better Legislators.” It is rather pathetic to hear such an admis- sion from the floor that better ones are needed, but we fear that the same crowd that framed up this salary grab will be back in Harrisburg two years hence and they will not have improved to the ex- tent of the $900 additional salary they will draw if the bill is approved. —Talking of clean up days in Belle- fonte it may not be generally known but it is a fact, nevertheless, that there is one section of a residence street in Bellefonte where those who reside are so earnestly i i fee ih +H i hii f desirous of keeping their thoroughfare funds culprit newspaper. It forced proposition instead of jeopardiz- | is that school swallowed by the . Three physicians clean and attractive looking that you| The government at Washington is now | ong i8the a Tan and tia Sot . ought 10. do it, even though the law does been swallowed by Htc en mo hope of success. might pass over it for weeks and see no the penalty of similar delay in | 20 he compelled piled eperything et Fi 16 DO forties was promot- |. cpecifically require it. i ha evidence of a horse's ever having passed ground needed for government | 3 them, But the people of Harrisburg how noon on Monday he was out of danger. use. EW Years agp vast areas could | Mr. CANNON will have to endure it. ee of Dr mer and fruit from 2a ce £ i 8s was| ——Governor Tener has signed the |growers in this section state that the | ord and never will, so long as it is con- let slip from year to year until the actual | judges’ salary bill and hereafter Judge | cherry crop has been badly injured if not tolled by the Mcliionny ving lot cost as much as an acre of ground Orvis will draw a salary of six thousand | entirely destroyed by last week's cold |, embarrassing to those who vote to give cost a few earlier. The | dollars per year, payable monthly, instead | weather. Prior to that cold snap there | contracts to the Mcllhenny favorites, al- of five thousand. General Beaver, as|had been a few days warm weather, just over the street. All the litter and dirt of every kind is gathered up early in the morning and disappears as if by magic and the WATCHMAN salutes the people of south Thomas street, for all things con- sidered, it certainly is the tidiest, thriftiest looking section of modest homes in Belle- ; i : : : the homes of fonte. And the street and the homes are | cast it looks at this time and, Ee ES | come in for a very substantial increase, cherry trees and these, it is alleged, were Se al Ce A thvoueh the valley 4nd, Seashicl ot only what their occupants have made | sion bili is to be stified in the House com | his salary being raised from $7,500 to | badly frozen last week. So far as known | ward of contracts should be retained by | the men were naturalized, they were all liable to them. mittee. $12,000 per year. the other fruit has not been injured. all means. sam a | ine and the amounts totaled $200.
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