BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—It is no lie and we will not deny that
we've had enough of July's hot stuff. |
—Think more of the things you are do- |
ing and less of the mercury and you will |
be surprised how rapidly you cool off.
—Already the Mexicans are tired of
their new toy. Another war is more to |
their liking and they are busy stirring |
one up. |
—Nobody bothers about asking wheth-" |
er it is hot enough for you. None but a |
damphool could imagine any doubt on |
the question.
—Next week the warring factions of
the Democracy in Pennsylvania will get
together in Harrisburg. Most power to
the arms of the best Democrats.
—Anyway no one can charge that the
present Congress is getting cold feet in|
its efforts to carry through the business |
it was called into session to enact.
—With the Elks and the Christian En-
deavorers both in convention at Atlantic
City at the same time there must have |
been a wierd mix-up of piety and pleas-
—It is beginning to look as if Govern-
or WILSON may have trouble in keeping |
himself from being President of the Unit- |
ed States; if he cares to trouble over a
Mr. EuceNe BonNNIWELL, of Philadel-
phia, vice chairman of the Keystone
party State committee, has recently been
indulging in a rather acrimonious con-
troversy with his late associate in the
conspiracy to defeat the Democratic party,
Mr. VANCE C. McCorMicK. Mr. McCor-
MICK having failed to cut a considerable
figure in the Keystone enterprise has
abandoned it and probably feels that he
| has just cause for a quarrel with BONNI-
WELL, who refused to follow his example.
Thus influenced Mr. MCCORMICK accused
Mr. BoNNIWELL of soliciting wavering
Democrats to associate with the regular
organization of their party, in the event
that they were unwilling to continue a
preposterous affiliation with the Key-
stoners, rather than join the mongrel
crowd, the leaders of which have been op-
posing Democratic candidates and meas-
BELLE
littie thing like that. | ures for nearly fifteen years. In resent-
: i t of this accusation Mr. BONNIWELL
—Most of the grain in Centre county men
is in shock, the hay is about all in so denote ur, Meco Rolex as R sige
that all that remains in the way of fall is | 1 t YPORet a ae oF Wo Dihes
the oats. Fall, think of it, only a little | Up easan Ings, 85 accusing vm
More thin two months oA; | of being a selfish and artful dodger of ob-
| ligations.
—Aviation as a hot weather sport re-' There is a fundamental rule in equity
dvd is most SOF/ck Jeack: Montay | jurisprudence which requires litigants to
when ATWOOD an al | come into court with “clean hands.” If
come down out of the sky, while on their | Mr. BONNIWELL'S political record were a
way from Atlantic City to Washington | trifle more fit for close inspection and
on account of the heat. !
—Qut of consideratton for the Presi- |
dent’s feelings Congress might defer call-
ing CHARLEY TAFT to the stand to testi-
fy as to what he knows about the Con-
troller Bay scandal until some time when |
the President is out of town.
—For the present, at least, those alarm-
ists who tell us occasionally that the sun
is cooling off and that we will all freeze
to death—if we live long enough—are
probably having just as much trouble
keeping cool as anybody else.
—Those papers which think it isall right
for such men as LORIMER and SMOOT to
occupy seats in the Senate of the United
States are, of course, busiest making a
_ fuss, because MARTINE and Davis, infin-
itely cleaner men, are there.
- ==Those Americans who paid five hun-
dred dollars in order to be permitted to
touch the chair in which King GEORGE
sat while he was being crowned ought to
analysis one might easily fall into sym-
pathy with his arraignment of Mr. Mc-
CorMiCK. Whit hesays of this false pre-
tender of politica! virtue is literally true.
With rare exceptions Mr. McCormick has
not supported Democratic candidates and
he is at present associated with “a hand-
ful of self-constituted political dictators,
mostly rich aristocrats, eager to seize the
opportunity for political domination, aris-
ing out of circumstances which he had no
partin making.” Both he and his newly
discovered political Moses, Mr. GUTHRIE,
refused to support the Democratic nom-
inee for President in 1896, 1900 and 1908,
and in the campaign for Representatives
in the Legislature which re-elected Sena-
tor Bois PEFROSE he made the absurd
excuse that some Democratic candidates
for Assembly wouldn't pledge themselves
to vote for local option, to oppose their
election.
But Mr. BONNIWELL is not so free from
taint that Democrats of Pennsylvania
should be anxious to take up his quarrel.
to have lupa good swift kick to | He was Mr. BERRY'S manager in the Al-
them. !lentown convention, participating in the
; deliberations of the committee on resolu-
—The government's crop report for ions in that body, watched its proceed-
June forcasts a decided decrease in pro- | jnog with infinite care from start to finish
ductions of all grains except corn. Hay and finally moved to make the nomina-
and potatoes will both be far under the | jo, of Mr. Grim unanimous. Besides he
average yield so we will probably have to |... an associate with Mr. GRIM on the
postpone the little matter of knocking | yicker having been nominated by the
down the high cost of living for another! Democrats of the Seventh district for
year or 50. | Congress, and in honor bound to fidelity
—So far as the outcome of the meet- to the party candidates. Notwithstand-
ing in Harrisburg next Wednesday is con- ! ing these facts, however, he joined in a
cerned the WATCHMAN has no care other | bolt which defeated the Democratic ticket
than the hope that those who have the and gave the PENROSE machine a new
party's future course in their hands will lease of power and prolonged opportunity
do nothing that will continue the strife | to plunder the people of the State. These
that now seems to have disgusted every- | errors of judgment on his part in no re-
one. To our mind the only solution of spect justify the lapses from political
the problem is the selection of a chair- honor in which Mr. McCorMiCK has so
man who has not been identified in any | frequently indulged, but they go a long
way with the present controversy. way toward tempering the indignation
o ; ‘which might otherwise be felt among
Y. a i a: ered LN | Democrats because of MCCORMICK'S wan-
needs to live on is fifty cents a day, then i ton attack upon BONNIWELL.
when a crowd of anxiously curious peo-'
ple besieged him to know how it is to be — ihe zeal with which Senator PEN-
done he took to his private yacht and | ROSE presses the reciprocity pact to a vote
: | lacks nothing but enthusiasm. The Sen-
fled the city. Yes, the man who states
that all he needs is fifty cents a day took | 3t0r understands that the passage of that
to his private yacht. If he doesn't need Measure marks the beginning of the end
more than fifty cents a day would it be | Of protective tariff in this country and
much harm if some one slicker than Og- | Y¢¢ he insists on the vote with the cer
DEN separated him from at least the | tainty that it will be passed. The power
amount that keeps that private yacht Of patronage is marvelously potent.
goin. i RE ——
—It begins to look as if Boss Mc- nesday and yesterday and among the
NICHOL is about to be eliminated from cases argued were those of Frank Mec-
political affairs in Philadelphia. One of | Farlane vs. the State College Water com-
the VARES has practically cinched the pany and the Boalsburg Water compan:
Republican nomination for Mayor and as | vs. the State College Water company.
there is a deadly feud between te} The action is one t. waste the defend-
VARes and MCNICHOL, the election of a | ant company from taking water which is
VARE to that office would put MCNICHOL | claimed by the plaintiffs.
out of the game. There are suspicions =
moreover, that when McNiNHOL goes! —Fifteen Boy Scouts from the Du-
PENROSE will go along and in that event Bois Y. M. C. A,, in charge of Physical
it may be assumed that Mayor REeYBURN | Director Hellewell, arrived in Bellefonte
will become the political manager of the | shortly after noon on Wednesday.
machine. | left DuBois on Monday, spent the first
| night in Clearfield and Tuesday night in
Cos Duchess of aroun, | camp on the Allegheny mountains. They
bought the QUAY mansion in Washington 1 M5 like to Lock Haven and are a
with the intention of making the Ameri. ee ——
can capital her future home. Welcome __ pe hot wave of the past ten days
to the unhappy girl who has discovered | has been without parallel in the weather
that it takes something more than a title records of the country both in the matter
to make a congenial husband. Thrice of intensity and duration. There is now
welcome if she comes home to be an |, mise of improvement and we sincere-
American woman and to abandon the |y pone it will be fulfilled for such heat
ois. ui phancy that has 5uch lo tinued would have made
characterized so many American girls in C ger contin wi
have been handy enough for Uncle SAM
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their struggle to have their wings singed |
in the lime light of English society.
many men crazy.
Subscribe for the WATCHMAN,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
: John W. Gates and Mr. Carnegie.
When Mr. ANDREW CARNEGIE, the co-
lossal humbug of the earth, read the tes-
timony of Mr. JouN W. GATES in relation
to the formation of the Steel trust, he
‘declared that Mr. GATES “is a played-out
gambler,” and imagined that that dispos-
ed of the question and Mr. GATES. GATES
had said in his testimony before the Con-
gressional committee that CARNEGIE had
threatened to go into the transportation
business on an extensive scale and en-
gage in a ruinous competition with exist-
ing railroads and that to avert that re-
sult the Steel trust was formed. He add-
ed that Mr. CARNEGIE had offered all his
steel, ore and railroad properties to the
trust for $180,000,000 but subsequently
took $360,000,000 for them and looked
happy. CARNEGIE indignantly denied all
that.
Since Judge GARY, Mr. CARNEGIE and
others have unctiously protested that the
Steel trust is a philanthropic enterprise
and that its organization was simply a
public beneficence Commissioner of Cor-
porations HERBERT KNOX SMITH has
made public his report on the Steel trust
and singularly enough it corroborates the
testimony of GATES rather than the evi-
dence of GARY and the statement of CAR-
NEGIE. Mr. SMITH declares that while
the trust was capitalized at $1,402,000,
000 its tangible property was only $682,-
000,000, less than half the capitalization
and that so far as its being a benevolent
institution it was organized for the pur-
pose of restricting competition and creat-
ing monopoly. This makes GATES, gam-
bler or no gambler, look quite as respect-
able a figure as CARNEGIE.
The Steel trust has somewhat altered
its purposes since its organization though
morally speaking it was quite as wrong
then as now. At the outset it contem-
plated only control of the output of steel
: products and in the 250 subsidiary com-
panies brought into its fold secured sixty
| per cent. of the total. But the producers
of the other forty per cent. were finan-
cially strong and industriously trouble-
some and the plans were shifted. The
Trust conceived the notion that if it
could secure a monopoly or near-monop-
oly of the ore resources it could crivpe | oF carving mil. is no
its adversaries and achieve its original
purpose with equal certainty. It only
achieved this result when ROOSEVELT
permitted the absorption of the Tennes-
see Coal and Iron company by violating
his oath of office.
Reimbursing : Charley : Taft.
Again the trail of scandal leads to the
White House. Controller Bay, a sort of
gateway of Alaska, was coveted by the
MORGAN and GUGGENHEIM syndicate.
These favorites of ROOSEVELT and TAFT
employed an agent named RYAN to “put
the job over.” It was a difficult under-
taking, for the interests of the public
were jealously guarded by a few subor-
dinates in the public service who have
since defeated the CUNNINGHAM claims’
robbery and forced BALLINGER out of the
cabinet. But they were overreached by
RYAN. As he got CHARLEY TAFT to ex-
plain to the President who was behind
| the enterprise, and they won out. It
will be remembered that CHARLEY paid
the freight in the last campaign.
: There is an old saying that “where
there is much smoke there must be some
fire.” Probably the President has no in-
‘ terest in the various schemes which lead
to scandals but it invariably happens that
CHARLEY TAFT gets mixed upin them. In
the Panama scandal he was a conspic-
‘uous figure. In the frauds of the Sugar
trust he was mixed up in the capacity of
counsel and in one or two other near
‘exposures he was associated with the
crooks who escaped the penalties be-
| cause of his relationship with the Presi-
dent. Now he again comes into the
lime light as the man who influenced the
- President to betray his obligations. He
, again serves the system in its plans to
| oot the public.
. Of course it is reasonable that the
' President should be anxious to reimburse
his brother for money expended in his
campaign. It cost a vast sum, upwards
of a million dollars, according to current
| estimates at the time. But there ought
' to be some other way discovered to ac-
‘ complish the result than that which ap-
| pears to have been adopted. The plan
which the Lumber trust followed in the
LORIMER case, for example, would be
| better. The Lumber trust assessed the
| other trusts and that was the end of it
, for the time. Now the Money trust of
| which MORGAN is the head and the Cop
| per trust of which GUGGENHEIM is the
| bone and sinew could well afford to pay
| CHARLEY and they ought to do it.
a
| ——Of course nobody wants to hear of
| public scandals of any sort but every-
| body will admit that a scandal which
{ hasn't the name of the President's half-
| brother associated with it would be re-
freshing to say the least.
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FONTE, PA. JULY 14, 1911.
Finding Roosevelt Out.
Mr. GEORGE H. EARLE. of Philadelphia, |
has greatly changed his estimate of the
moral standard of THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
according to a sworn statement on the
subject, given before a Congressional
committee now investigating the Sugar
trust. “I used to think THEODORE ROOSE-
VELT was the greatest man in the uni-
verse,” Mr. EARLE testified. “I voted
for him twice and stumped for him,”
continued. But when asked, subsequent-
ly, whether he had “any doubt that Mr. |
ROOSEVELT was a sincere opponent of the
immoral practices of great organizations |
of capital?” he promptly replied "I would |
rather not answer that question.” Mr. |
EARLE probably thinks it is impolite to
y denounce an ex-President. |
y it is a trifle rude to tell the
uth about some persons because of the |
: positions they have occupied.
| Legitimate Business versus Big Business.
From the Chicago Public.
Seattle,
of the coun
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but with the labor
they themselves are In other words,
the true jadusvial is
producer and parasite.
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But it is better to be impolite in expos-
ing fraud than accessory in condoning it.
Mr. EARLE would better have given his
honest opinion on the subject. He said
that ROOSEVELT had refused to aid in
the prosecution of a gigantic swindle
which worked grave injury to many citi-
zens and added that he had suppressed
relevant testimony on the subject in re-
plying to a Congressional request. Those
statements implied not only that he was
“insincere in opposing the immoral prac-
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tices of great organizations of capital,”
but that he committed a crime in shield-
ing them in such practices. What was
the use of evading the direct question
under such circumstances? i
The truth of the matter is that THEO-
DORE ROOSEVELT is not now and never
has been worthy of the ordinary cour
tesies which obtain among gentlemen.
!
80, as does Mr. Moran.”
ngly another letter from Mr.
n which he truly says: “Manufacturers
and agriculture make commerce
produce wealth; they never made
times; can lay that up to the gamb-
ler, in that profession the speculator
B
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He has been proved a falsifier so fre-
quently that nobody is now surprised at
fresh revelations of his inveracity and | Sure, £a
has been so often affiliated with frauds | [pee ro
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in raw land stands in the foreground in
Seattle. He is a parasite in every indus-
trial community, and there is only one
a
tify | speculation
and crooks in one line or another that an interest maintained in greater or less
he is no longer entitled to be regarded | degree
as free from participation in the plunder ;
which results. He bought off an investi-
gation of the Postoffice Department for
the reason that it would have exposed
being mealy mouthed about such fellows
as ROOSEVELT. The people are finding
him out.
Prosecutions for Perjury in Order.
In his testimony before the committee
investigating charges of bribery in the
election of Senator LORIMER, of Illinois,
the other day, EDWARD Hines, Congres-
sional lobbyist for the Lumber trust, flatly
contradicted several witnesses who had
preceded him. CLARENCE S. FUNK, man-
ager of the International Harvester com-
pany, WIRT H. Cook, of Duluth, Minne-
sota, and Mr. KOHLSAT, editor of the
Chicago Times—Herald, had testified con-
cerning certain sums of money used by
Mr. HINES and he denied every allega-
tion on the subject, whereupon Senator
KENYON, of Iowa, one of the investigators
remarked: "Now there ought to be some
prosecutions for perjury right here.”
That is unquestionably true. Mr. FUNK,
Mr. Cook and Mr. KOHLSAT are reputa-
ble citizens. Each in turn testified posi-
tively on the subject. Mr. FUNK alleged
that after the election of LORIMER HINES
came to him and stated that it had cost
$100,000 to “put LORIMER over,” and that
the International Harvester trust ought P
to comtribute $10,000 toward reimbursing
the man who had provided the money.
This evidence was corroborated and am- POP
plified by Mr. KoHLsSAT and Mr. Cook. If
the evidence of HINES is true, therefore,
all three of these gentlemen are guilty of
perjury. On the other hand if the testi-
mony of either of the three is true, Mr.
HINES is amenable to the penalty for that
crime.
Without any personal knowledge or di-
rect information on the subject we are
inclined to believe that HINES has sworn
falsely. He is a professional lobbyist and
a s vaggerer in politics while the others
are quiet and well behaved gentlemen,
not likely to be involved in such trans-
actions. They withheld their evidence
longer than ought to have been done, it
is true, and revealed the facts in their
possession reluctantly, which is a cause
for suspicion. But their evidence is cor-
roborative of current rumors and that of
theone supports the others while theoath |
of HINES is unsupported all together. In
any event there ought to be prosecutions
for perjury and the proceedings should
be prompt.
~The last sale of Philadelphia bonds
caused great disappointment in that the
low price indicates low credit and the
people of Philadelphia imagined that they |
might go on betraying public confidence
until the end of time without paying any
penalty. Really the credulity of the av-
erage Philadelphian forces one to think
of trusteeships every time he thinks of
the people of that city. i
by many persons having also pro-
ductive interests, than to personify it.
Land speculators as a distinct class may
not be very numerous or very wicked
anywhere; but land speculation is an
enormous and industrially destructive
everwhere... .. .... i
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The insurgent Republicans are paying
& heavy price for their devotion to prin-
ple.
Six months ago they were strong and
their strength was growing; today they
are less strong and their strength is slow-
ly but surely dwindling.
But it is a singular thing that these
passionate tariff reformers of a year or
sO ago should be the only constant
friends of protectionism in Congress to-
day.
Sven the Republican and Democratic
standpatters are sitting silent while Presi.
dent Taft drives a free trade coach and
four straight through the sacred Chinese
wail.
For as far as it goes the reciprocity
pact is a free trade measure pure and
simple.
It contains no possible recognition of
the protective policy; it is at open war
with all that protectionism has ever
meant; and it is as certain to destroy the
whole tariff fabric which has been the
very basis of Republicanism for forty
years as anything in the future can be,
The insurgents see this and there are
those charitable enough to believe that it
is in utter sincerity they are making their
bitter fight to defeat or mortally amend
the measure upon which Taft has staked
= hie political he ; "
ut we repeat, they are paying a heavy
rice for their loyalty. They are alienat-
ing the progressive forces of the country
and they are daily helping toward the
rehabilitation of the President in the
ular regard; daily and hourly th
are adding to the certainty of his renom
nation and to their own undoing; daily
and hourly they are making more cer-
tain the triumph of the Democrats next
year and through that the utter downfall
of the whole system to which they are
clinging with such ill-advised tenacity.
Trying to Locate Taft.
From the North Am?rican.
This newspaper has erred often when
it attempted to in t the motives be-
hind Mr. Taft's and acts by the
ordinarily applicable to
Cc men in of high responsibil
ty. But within the year we have found
| two usually safe rules to apply to his con-
. duct in all cases where the e is clear-
| ly between special interests and public
! We are indebted to the dead Senator
! Dolliver for Number One:
{ “President Taft is a well-meaning per-
son, entirely surrounded by men who
know what they want.”
Rule Number Two was supplied to us
“by a friend of the Taft family from Ohio,
who found us in perplexity the
Pragident's contradictory record. Said
. “Will Taft always will decide all con-
flicts between plopenty and man in favor
mii
of the Taft family ons.”
The thoughtful American public, we
believe have come generally to ac-
ceptance as truth of the keen comment
the scandal-spotted
confirms only too forcibly Rule Number
Two. For itis only by the use of these
two rules that we can present even a
plausible theory of what inspired Mr. !
Taft to father the mock reciprocity meas. i
ure.
SPAWLS 78 THE KEYSTONE.
—The Sunshine mine at South Fork has been
shut down, throwing 200 men out of employment.
Part of them have gone to work in other mines.
—In the midst of strenuous payday duties in the
office of the Carbon Steel company. at Pittsburg,
young W. Stanley Coleman shot himself and died
a suicide.
=—One Pennsylvania
Buses hg from a single tree this year.
name acob Wenderlich, his residence
Brickerville.
—Miss Katharine McCauley, of Pittsburg, has
been robbed of $224 she had saved with which to
secure her wedding outfit. So she has to begin
all over again.
—Making a grab at a chicken he wanted to
catch, A. J. Neibert, of St. Marys, struck a brok-
en bottle with his wrist, severing the arteries.
with almost fatal results,
—Taking down a milk crock from a shelf in her
kitchen, Mrs. George A. Kopp, of Craleysville,
York county, found a huge copperhead snake
coiled therein. A neighbor made an end of the
reptile with a load of shot.
—Miss Cora Blough is the eighth member of the
family of John H. Blough, near Johnstown, to be
stricken with typhoid fever. One of the sons died
and the mother and one son are still confined to
bed. The others recovered more rapidly.
—It is reported that the New York Central pro-
poses soon to abandon passenger train service
between Philipsburg and Munson, compelling
passengers to take trolley cars from Morrisdale.
There is considerable vocal protest, but no for.
mal action.
—A Lock Haven tailor, who lay down on the
floor of his side porch to get the breeze, found his
hair glued fast to a pine board by the pitch the
heat had coaxed out. His wife rescued him with
her scissors and a visit to the barber shop evened
up matters.
—Sidney Clark, a Lock Haven butcher, was
driving a steer home from Nittany valley the other
day. It decided to ford Bald Eagle creek at Flem-
ngton, and pulled Mr. Clark into the stream after
it. The man narrowly escaped drowning and the
steer went down.
—Berk McKee, aged six years, of Lock Haven,
has seventeen stitches in wounds made by the
teeth of his grandfather's pet bulldog. The ani-
mal was killed and its head sent away for exami-
nation. The boy isin a critical condition at the
Jersey Shore hospital.
~Lewis Bailey, a farmer residing near Clear-
field, had hard work to save his crops from de-
struction by storm on Friday last. On Monday
morning his barn, with all its contents, was de.
stroyed by fire. Tramps are blamed for being
careless with matches.
—Pottsville people are alarmed over the ap-
pearance of copperheads in their cellars. The rep.
tiles are said to have been driven by the intense
heat from the rockpiles they usually inhabit, to
seek the coolness and dampness of cellars and
other places in the towns.
~Philip Cuppet, aged 65 years, a resident of Ger-
mantown, was visiting friends near Indiana last
week. He went to a farm to pick cherries on Sat
urday, was overcome by the heat while on a lad.
der ten feet above ground, fell and was discovered
later lying under the tree with his neck broken.
—Early this week Highway commissioner Bige-
low, equipped with a ninety-horse power automo-
bile, started upon an 8,000 mile trip through the
State in order to familiarize himself and some of
his engineers, who accompanied him, with the
295 routes of highways provided in the Sproul
bill
—Russell Oaks, aged 45 years, was drowned in
Pine creek, at Jersey Shore. recently, He was
‘teaching his two little boys to swim when he was
—Viola Kaltreider, a 13-year-old daughter of
George Kaltreider, of Codorus township, York
county, was struck by lightning and instantly
killed last Saturday. A few hours later Charles
Seitz, aged 37 years, a tenant on the farm of Mrs.
David Stoner, Hellam township, was also killed
by a lightning bolt.
—Charles Weaver, an employee of the Standard
Steel works at Burnham, had his perspiration-
soaked shirt come in contact with live wires the
other day. He was standing on a steel girder and
fell twen'y-five feet to the floor below, fracturing
his skull and right forearm and sustaining inter-
nal injuries.
—A careless smoker lighted a cigarette at the
Lock Haven Auto company’s garage the other
day. Fumes from a pail of gasoline ignited and
one car was badly scorched. Volunteers were
fortunate in being able to conquer the blaze.
Hereafter there will be no visiting and no smok-
ing at that establishment.
—An unfortunate accident occurred in the
southern section of Clearfield county on Saturday
evening, when Miss Mary Jacobs, a well-known
young lady residing at Osceola Mills, was thrown
from a rig, in which she was driving with a
young man, and was almost instantly killed. The
horse becoming frightened at a stump, ran away
and upset the buggy.
—Burgess Brown, of Blairsville. stopped the
game of W. J, Bryan, a bogus Salvation Army
collector, in a hurry. He sent the chief of police
to escort the man to every house where he had
obtained money and to see that he returned it
He then fined the man §10 and ordered him out of
town. Mr. Bryan said he had been arrested and
fined several times, but still found collecting for
the Salvation Army “a real fat graft.”
—Twenty thousand brook trout from the gov-
ernment hatchery at Withfield, Va., have been
planted in streams contiguous to Kane. A simi-
lar number of rainbow trout have been planted
about Clarion. As the young fish sent out by the
United States government are from_three to five
inches in length, instead of the hair-like fry issued
by the State, the stocking will be worth while and
its effect will be noticeable next year, as many of
the fish will by then have reached the legal size.
—Qver around Berwick are heard many boast-
ful comments upon the feats of endurance of Jo-
seph Meyers, a veteran of the Mexican and Civiy
wars, who recently, while picking cherries, lost
his footing upon the tree and went headlong to
the ground, a distance of twenty-two feet. As.
serting the fall had not hurt him a bit, he gather
ed up the two bushels of cherries he had picked
and took them to Berwick, where he sold them.
It is said the two-war hero has never been ill a
day, has smoked, chewed andidrank all his life,
| and is as lively as a 30-year-old.
—Two men, who gave their names as Thomas
Moran and Frank McGraw, were arrested at the
point of a gun in the Adams Express office at
Coalport on June 30th, when they called to get a
package containing $400 worth of stamps which
had been taken from the postoffice;at Winburne,
Clearfield county, when it was robbed last month,
The arrests were made by Postoffice Inspector L.
E. Johnson burgess John Laid and constable
Frank Spanogle. On the night of May Ist yegg-
mon blew open the safe at Winburne postoffice
and secured $800 worth of booty, half of which
was in postage stamps of different denomina
tions, Inspector Johnson was put on the case
of Dolliver. The irrefutable history of | and traced the burglars to New York city and
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Wilmington, Del. He learned there that the
stamps had been shipped to Coalport, Clearfield
county, by express, and hurrying to that point,
was in time to intercept the alleged robbers as
they called for the package. A third man man-
aged to escape. The men were held in $1,000 bail
for trial.