—With potatoes selling at two dollars
and forty cents the bushel the high cost
of living has almost made a new record.
—~Qats cutting is in progress in many
parts of the county, but the oats and po-
tatoes are crops that this section will do
little blowing about.
new CARusos. Look out for some grand
operatic monkey business in the fall.
—Texas only escaped State-wide pro-
hibition by a margin of a few votes. We
always thought the Lone Star State dry
enough without its voting to make itself
drier yet.
—Any way, while Bellefonte never
could acknowledge that Tyrone had much
of a ball team she certainiy bows low to
the splendid band that Supt. JOHNSTON
has given her sister town.
——Whether Texas has gone “wet” or
“dry” is of little consequence but a good
many people would like to hear that Sen-
ator BAILEY of that State had been over-
whelmed in one or the other.
—With the mercury knocking the top
out of the thermometer one week and the
bottom the next the weather man is fur-
nishing as many ups and downs to life
as the average human can stand.
—While the bees of Pennsylvania lost
ten per cent in value during the past ten
years the mules gained one hundred and
twenty and the statistics were gathered
before that meeting in Harrisburg last
week
—As a fool killer Niagara Falls is not
always a success. BOBBY LEACH, a forty-
nine year old Canadian, went over the
falls and through the rapids, in a barrel
on Tuesday, escaping with only a few
scratches.
—If any good comes of the Reciprocity
agreement blame it on the Democrats.
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STATE RIGHTS AN
A Sentiment That Failed to Materialize!
Since their attempted theft of the name,
authority and power of the Democratic
State committee at its special meeting
last March, the little coterie of conspira-
tors in that outrage has been constant in
their effort to justify their actions by the
continuous declarations that they had
the “overwhelming sentiment” of the
Democracy of the State at their back, and
that they were only doing what the great
mass of Democratic voters demanded
should be done.
This “overwhelming sentiment," this
“universal demand,” of Democrats has |
been the only excuse the factionists at the
head of the movement, have given for the
effort they are making to divide and dis-
organize the Democracy.
That this “sentiment”—this “demand”
for a change, so loudly and so per-'
sistently vaunted, is not the voice of |
the Democracy of the State, is shown
very plainly and very positively by a
comparison of the vote of the coun-
ties alleged to demand this change and
the others that opposed or by division
failed to express an opinion on it one
way or another.
But we presume that Mr. GUTHRIE and
his factional following will keep on blow-
ing about the “sentiment” they represent, |
notwithstanding the fact that the coun-
ties which gave, at the recent meeting of
the State committee, undisputed endorse-
ment of their questionable work, repre-
sent but a little over one-third of the
Democratic vote of the State as shown by
They passed it when the Republicans re- | the following figures:
fused to doit. If any bad comes of it] 1° 1% OWING NEUIR. ot Presiden
blame it on TAFT. He asked the Demo-
crats to do it for him.
—The discovery of fifty-five million
bacteria in a half spoon full of Boston
ice cream might lead some foolish people
to think it dangerous to eat Boston
beans. Far from it. Bacteria would be
shot to pieces after their first diet on
Boston bzked beans.
—According to evangelist BILLY SUN-
DAY it cost $620 to save a soul in Indian-
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tigl election, J00B.........ux aus sisseesesanesseee 448 782
otal Democratic vote polled in counties
siving undispied endorsement to Dis-
organ 3 BCHBINIEE..... cic ennveisriraiasns 1
Majority against Guthrie Disorganizers 249 643
In proof of above figures the reader is
referred to the official returns as given in
Smull’s Hand Book for 1908 and to the
results in the following counties taken
from the same source:
: Good May be Achieved.
| The division in the Democratic party
‘of Pennsylvania is to be regretted of
| course, but it should not be made an ex-
cuse for recreancy upon the part of indi-
‘vidual members of the party. There
would be greater hope of achievement
| unquestionably, if the organization were
united and the executive work committed
to a single and capable administrator. But
| notwithstanding the adverse conditions
: much effective party work may be per-
formed by Democrats throughout the
' State if they will address themselves to
it with zeal and intelligence. The Demo-
cratic State headquarters are open at
| Harrisburg, as they have always been,
and chairman RITTER is ready and will
attend to the duties of his office prompt-
ly.
of Democrats throughout the State is to
'see that energetic and efficient party
officers are chosen at the primaries on
September 30. In this county the chair-
man of the county committee will be
elected at that time and all the can-
didates for election and registration
officers will be nominated. In most of
' the other counties ward and precinct
committeemen will be chosen on that day
and the importance of selecting fit men
can hardly be overestimated. The names
of all party offices to be filled at that
primary must be certified to the county
commissoners by the chairman of the
county committee on or before the ninth
| Saturday preceding the primary and that
| is tomorrow. There is no time to lose.
It is neither invidious nor apologetic |
to say that the inefficient condition into
which the Democratic organization has
| fallen, is ascribable almost entirely to the
| lethargy or unfitness of local party offi- |
Icials. We are violating no confidence
| in saying that in many counties the State
| Central committee has been unable, for |
| years, to get any communications from
| the county chairmen other than letters
98 demanding money. In the last campaign,
apolis and $75 in Atlanta. Such a dis- | Blair
parity can be explained only by the in- | Caron
ference that Atlantans are more recep-
tive to the spirit of Christ than the peo-
ple of Indianapolis and in such a case
v
i
their cheapness speaks volumes for their | Da
goodness.
15; 6000
——The Pittsburg Post speaks of “the | Green
rising sun of Democracy brightening the
horizon.” Certainly a rosy view to take |
of the situation. Hopeful in any event. |
But we fear the Post issuffering underan | io Mr, GurHRIE'S factional friends
optical delusion. What it sees is the
: = | claim, and can properly claim, as endors-
roary-bore(y)-alis of PALMER'S enthu- | ing his efforts to take charge of the party
siasm reflected from the GUTHRIE ice | , oonization. The other counties of the
bergs. State, polling a majority of 249,643 votes,
—PENROSE voted for Reciprocity; OLI- | showed by their action either such opposi-
TOL... innsiicis iis snsrenisessinis 199 139
The counties above named are those
VER voted against it. Those who are in-
terested might be able to dope out from
this that all the Congressmen who ever |
represented this district put together
wouldn't be able to swing a post-master
appointment against a Senator who is
i
against Reciprocity yet votes for it be-
cause the dispenser of patronage favors it. |
—Remember that the Democratic par-.
ty will never really re-organize until its
individual members do the work them-
tion to his pretensions or such division of
sentiment that all his pleading, all his ef-
forts and all his professions, failed to in"
duce them to give him their endorsement.
In fact from the day of the March
meeting of the committee, until the 19th
of July, some one was scouring the State
in the interest of Mr. GUTHRIE, promiss
ing the patronage of the Democratic Con-
| gressmen to men looking for places in
selves. The opportunity to do that is ap- |
proaching and we would advise you to
think well over the list of candidates for
office, as well as make a choice for a
chairman of the party in the county who
will be up and at the work as if he had
some heart in it.
——I[t is admitted that the original,
agreement among the steel manufact-
urers, in which Mr. CARNEGIE was the
main guy, was a criminal conspiracy:
The present Steel trust is simply an am-
plification of the original combine and
Washington; pledging the support of the
GUTHRIE backers to candidates looking
for Democratic nominations; denouncing
the men charged with the work of the
regular State committee; magnifying the
importance of those at the head of this
conspiracy; even promising, as was done |
in Luzerne county, that a candidate for
Congress having a contest on hand
should be seated, if his friends would
{ turn in for Mr. GUTHRIE; and resorting
to every means in the power of men to se-
cure an endorsement for him. Yet in
‘spite of all that was done for him and
necessarily it is operating in violation of |
the law. Thus two facts are proved by
a single demonstration. The first is
that Mr. CARNEGIE is a hypocrite and the
other that Judge GARY is a liar.
—It is rather encouraging to hear
that GEORGE W. PERKINS is to be brought
into the criminal courts, but there would
be real comfort in the announcement
that Mr. PERKINS’ master in criminal op- ways follow the new leaders? We fear
not. It is long on shouting “Stop Thief!”
: and short on following anything or any
. person not exploiting its own peculiar no- |
‘tions. The Democrat most bitterly as- |
sailed Congressman WILSON, one of “the
'new leaders,” all the way through his!
It fought the Demo- |
cratic Congressional nominee in its own!
erations may be called to account in the
same way. J. PIERPONT MORGAN is the
chief offender in all these criminal high
finances and it is folly to waste time in
prosecuting the little fish while the!
whales are accessible and amenable.
—The manner in which Governor HAR-
MON's presidential aspirations are being
exploited is exciting most unfavorable
comment. At Harrisburg and at Lincoln,
Nebraska, recently portraits and placards
of the Ohio Governor appeared as mys-
have been no reason for failure to back up
personally a boom for such a worthy
man there seemed to be no one to father
the appearance of the cards in question.
greatly at both places upon HARMON.
e unstinted use of money his friends
had at their command, he failed, by the
figures above shown, or is short 25,252
votes of having the support of even half
the Democratic electors of the State.
“The Democrats of the S tate will y fol-
low their new leaders, PALMER and E.
Make no mistakes about that. The yl
done with the t: kers.
varia Democracy is
Henceforth it will be p ve and not re-
acticnary.’"— Johnston A
So much for the Pennsylvania Democ®
racy, but will the esteemed Democrat al-
campaign last fall.
district and our great regret now is that
44 :
for example, one county chairman de-
manded from the State committee a con-
tribution which equalled about two dol-
lars a piece for each Democratic voter
in the county. Another demanded near-
ly one-fifth of the entire fund of the
State committee to pay the expenses of
a single meeting in a town of less than
It is needless to say that both of these
demands had to be refused and that both
of these chairmen were among the loud-
est clamorers for reorganization, upon
terms which implied a rebuke of the
chairmgn of the State Central commit-
tee. In fact one of them announced his
resignation forthwith and refused to act
further in the campaign. The other is
still in service and was conspicuous in the
Board of Trade mee:ing of the disorgani-
zers, at Harrisburg, on the 19th instant.
The recent chairman of the State Central
committee and his predecessors in office |
for a dozen years past had been ready’
and willing to extend all the financial help
in their power to the local organizations,
but, unfortunately were often without
the means to satisfy these demands. Asa
matter of fact a number of county chair-
men have come to regard the office as a
source of graft. These are the ones who
represent counties having the most inef-
ficient local organization and the ones
‘loudest in their demands for re-organiza-
tion.
At the coming September primary the
' Democratic party may be rescued from
these mercenaries if the Democratic
voters are vigilant and energetic. Itis a
shame that the great Democratic party
should be prostituted to such base pur-
poses, but that it has been is a fact. If
the money which these political pirates
“demanded had been supplied, there would
have been no revolt. But because it
' wasn't supplied the diappointed merce-
| naries pretended to be outraged by the
| actions of the leaders and followed the
| rich men, who had not been faithful, in
| the hope of obtaining largess from their
| new masters.
The honest and faithful Democrats
may save the party from the conse-
quences at the coming primary.
——President TAFT was just but not
magnanimous is giving the Democrats
credit for the passage of the Canadian
agreement. But it is not the Democrats
in Congress who are entitled to the praise.
It is the Democratic voters of the coun-
try who elected a Democratic majority
in Congress and scared TAFT out of his
| boots and into a panic. ?
PA, JULY 20.010
The most pressing present obligation
we don't have a copy of its file at hand -
—Attorney General
to reprint some of the caustic remarks it
D FEDERAL UNION.
l.
For Whom It Now Speaks.
| The Pittsburg Post, at one time looked
| upon and regarded as a thoroughly relia- |
' ble Democratic paper, since overtaken |
| by financial reverses some months ago |
' has been in the clutches, and at the com- |
It has placed at its head, as receiver, a
Mr. NEvIN, noted throughout western |
Pennsylvania for his hostility to any one |
or anything known to be Democratic, who |
takes great pride in referring to the forty- |
one members of the Democratic State Com- |
mittee who met under the regular call on |
the 19th inst., and elected Hon. WALTER |
E. RITTER chairman of that committee,
as the “puny opposition” “that has taken
itself out of the party fold” “and who |
pretend to set up an organization on the |
| outside.”
“Setting up an organization on the out-
side” is good when applied to those con-
stituting the only legitimate and legally
constituted Democratic State committee,
and who now hold undisputed title toand
have at their use and disposal not only
the rooms and headquarters but cvery
particle of property, lists, correspondence,
books, accounts, records, documents, min-
utes, seal, certificates, data, furniture,
etc., belonging to the State organization,
and which the State chairman is com-
pelled to have to establish and maintain
the regularity of his organization or the
legality of his acts.
We presume it would matter little in the
opinion, nor would it change the purpose
the Post has had marked out for it by the
Republican influences that now dictate its
policy, to know that the forty-one mem-
bers of the State committee, it refers to
, as the "puny opposition,” represent coun-
mand, of one of the banks of that clty. |
| ties that polled at the last presidential | ha
election 193,930 Democratic votes, while
the counties that have joined hands with
| the faction of malcontents, of which Mr-
GUTHRIE has made himself the nominal
head, polled but a little over one-third
| of the total Democratic vote of the State,
! or 25252 votes less than half the party
vote returned.
But the fact that the lar organiza-
tion, in addition to being the only organi-
zationgnade in accord with the rules and
wo of the party, and consequently
the only legal Democratic State committee,
has as its supporters a large majority |
of the Democratic voters of the State, as
shown in another article in this issue of
the WATCHMAN, makes no difference to
the Post or its kind. They are not seek-
ing light. They are not disseminating
the truth. Their purpose is to keep the
Democratic party divided—to widen the
distance between those who have alwa
been Democrats, and who, unfortunately,
now find differences difficult to adjust.
It is not in the interest ot the Demo-
cratic party that the Posi is work-
ing. It is at the instance of Republican
influences that have their clutches upon
it that it speaks, and for the benefit of
the Republican party that it magnifies the
efforts that Mr. GUTHRIE and his coterie of
political disorganizers .are making to dis-
rupt the Democracy for the sole purpose |
‘of building up a faction for which they
| can act as mouth pieces and bosses.
Democrats should remember into whose
hands the Pos? has fallen, and they will
not be surprised at the aid it is ng to
give to the Republican party.
Penrose as a Prophet.
Senator PENROSE predicted, early in the
present session, that the Canadian reci-
procity bill would pass in the course of
time, and now his friends are investing
him with prophetic powers. Recently he
has predicted that no other legislation
! will be enacted during the session, and that |
if the farmer's free list bill, the wool
tariff bill and the statehood bills are |
ned
| insurgents. Bt vow
The Reciprocity Bill.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
being confi
pasiainent, ow long it will be an issue
tint body of evuree ie problenation)
probabilities are
with at an earl
t Taft owes
measure in this
crats. They fought for it from the very
Bg pn t direction. They
tasa n
Put 25 3 Step Jn the ew
Democratic doctrine
urious to the welfare of the
ve approved it in its entirety in
lief that if once the people can
Ee er
c m o
gil i i = the world. They
ve HECpISd it 25% Hagan. They
have it only as an entering
wedge for freer trade with all nations.
a great many insurgent apers
convinced that have been put out of | ,
business for all. tever
may be their fate it is generally agreed
that they made a pitiable exhipition of
themselves. A were a
the pitch of protection. They seem to
have out-Aldiched Aldrich in their blind
devotion to the su; tion.
for a teous cause. For however few
are the benefits assured the e in the
Taft reciprocity argeement cause
eless was a rigliteous one. The
Taft reciprocity scheme. It is a mere
drop in the bucket, but itis a drop. It
means Shapinging and that was immense-
ly worth while striving for.
mi A 1h
Democrats in Other States.
From the Pittsburg Post.
The great pivotal State of New York is
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~The first ton of aluminum ever received in
Lock Haven was unloaded there last week by the
firm that makes cooking utensils in that town.
—Railroad engineers are busy making surveys
in Brushvalley township, Indiana county, and ru-
mors are rife of a new line to open up valuable
coal lands,
—Henry C. Frick has given $10,000 toward the
erection of a new buildinjfor the Young Men's
Christian association of Scottdale. Its total cost
will be $50,000.
~The Kittanning Plate Glass company’s plant,
which had been shut down for two months, re-
sumed operations Monday. Five hundred men
are employed.
—John French, of Creekside, indiana county,
shipped 112 half-bushel baskets of currants to
Pittsburg and still had 100 quarts to dispose of to
nearby customers.
~The advent of twins at the home of John Mc-
Nutt, of Heshbon, Indiana county, makes a rec
ord for that hamlet. Half its homes—ten in num
ber—have twins in the family.
—Tony Ferror, who boasts that he has stolen
3,500 chickens in his time and who has spent the
greater part of his life in prison, has been arrested
in Jehnsonburg, charged with the same offense-
—Daniel Banks, Jonas Bredbener and Lloyd
Banks, of Bloomsburg, killed a big rattlesnake
from which they secured 28 rattles, and, accord-
ing to those who know, the snake must have
been 31 years old.
—George H. Stewart, who owns more than half
a hundred farms in Franklin and Cumberland
counties, has just added to the big list three other
farms in Franklin county, all containing home-
steads of old famalies.
—Coal has been found on Terrace mountain,
the
feel its near Marklesburg. A Lock Haven company has
leased 4,800 acres of land and expects to cut 50,"
000 cords of paper wood. A railroad is being
built to reach the tract.
—Peter Kufskie, wanted for murdering Alonzo
Smith at Renovo, last Tuesday evening grew
weary of wandering over the mountains, crept
into an automobile shed and was handcuffed by
1 officers as he lay there asleep.
—"Hillside,” at Canton, Bradford county, once
the home of Fanny Davenport, the actress, who
spent her summers there, has been purchased by
Mr. and Mrs. Casper Wies, the midget vaudeville
actors, who will make their home there.
—QOscar Thurston, aged 48 years, a well-known
resident of Clearfield, was killed by a train be"
tween Clearfield and Curwensville one night last
week. His mangled remains were found and
dentified. He was a good citizen and his untime-
1y death is greatly mourned.
—Dr. A.J. Kerling and Lewis Simons, of Goulds-
boro, near Scranton, declare that while they were
driving from Gouldsboro to Clifton three bears
“ | came into the road ahead of their horses, took a
careful scrutiny of the party on the highway and
* | then scampered off into the woods.
—The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company
has begun condemnation proceedings in the
Somerset county court to construct a big reser-
voir on Laurel run. The Markleton sanitorium
is supplied from the stream and other owners are
said to be likely to fight the project.
—A well-dressed young woman entered the
jewelry store of I. A. Deysher, Reading, and was
shown some diamonds. She selected one, paid
on account, and told the clerk te hold it until a
sertain hour; then she slipped from the place
with another diamond valued at $100.
—Patton borough council has issued an edict
that all cows must be kept tied or penned up at
night. Any caught prowling around will be lock
ed up. Council has decided to enforce the cow
ordinance because of a number of complaints
regarded as safe to the Democrats in the
i I, al
ew Jersey, whic a hs a AR TERRI
from the fold, has rallied under the mag- | Philip Dusch, aged 8 years, of Luthersburg
netic leadership of Woodrow Wilson, and
is again safe and sound as the bearer of
a Democratic standard. Ohio, long a hot
who had been working among bees! for many
years, while standing at his bee hives recently,
uttered a cry of pain and fell to the ground. He
was carried to the house and died before a doctor
bed of Republican misrule and oppres-
sion, has stood loyally by Judson Har- | could reach him. He had been stung on the
mon, and is practically lost to the old! point of the jaw. but the quick action of the poi-
party. The States of the great northwest i son is considered remarkable.
are cutting the bonds that have held them | =A double tragedy was enacted near Columbia’
to the regulars’ and Democratic strength : Saturday morning, when the waters of the Sus-
is ascending with the speed of a rocket. quehanna river claimed the lives of Superintend-
Many of the hitherto solid Republican | on; Ww. L. Cooper, of the Bedford division of the
States in the east and middle west are | pennsylvania railroad, and his twenty-three-year-
straining at their moorings, while armies | ;14 on, W. L. Cooper Jr. Father and son were
ot voters everywhere are turning in the ing when the frail craft upset and neither of
direction of the Democratic party as the | bop Qing nen 1% A anc nefthero
agency to guide them to the desired re
forms and to lift the burden that has
—John H. Miller, assistant postmaster at War-
: borne them down. . ren, Pa., has served continuously in that position
This is the enlightening spectacle that for thirty-three years. He began work in the
i
presents itself to the Democrats of the
summer of 1878, and was retained as assistant
good old State of Pennsylvania. With when the Warren postmastership went to the
the rising sun of Democracy illuminating | Democrats and back again. Mr. Miller is believ-
the horizon can the party in this State af- | ed to be one of the oldest assistant postmasters
voters here willing that personal animos-
ities should guarantee a repetition of the
old-time “machine majority” which is al-
ways "pointed to with pride” by the un-
scrupulous and corrupt who have
| ford to ignore the advantage? Are the | in the United States in length of se rvice.
~It is said that Mrs. Samuel Binder, of Emaus,
Lehigh county, was awakened by a loud clap of
thunder from a dream in which she saw her two
sons killed by lightning. The terrified mother
a tight clutch on the State's throat ? Are rushed to the room occupied by her sons and
there any real Democrats in Pennsylvania |
who fail to take cognizance of the gloat-
ing of the people's enemies in their hope
for a division of Democratic strength. i
persuaded them to rise and accompany her down
stairs. A minute later a bolt of lightning tore
through the house setting their bed on fire.
—Several large sales of coal acreage, Pittsburg
vein, were closed at Waynesburg, Greene county,
| Somebody Tying Himself in a Knot. last week, aggregating nearly $200.00. Ellis G.
| Eyer, of Altoona, purchased 509 acres in Aleppo
From the Pittsburg Su. | township, ata consideration of about $50,000. This
Destitute of any sense of the sacred ob- |
coal was bought from several investors in Cam-
passed, President TAFT will veto them. | ligations of an oath, devoid of all honor bria and Bedford counties, who, five vears ago:
One swallow doesn’t make a summer and
one guess hardly entitles a man to the
rank of prophet. Moreover, the second
guess is a double-ender and there is a’
‘ warrant for one end of it. In other words |
President TAFT has practically declared |
| his intention to veto some of the other
measures.
+ In commenting upon the of the
reciprocity bill, the other day, the Pres:-
. dent thanked the ts for vo
for it without burdening it with amend-
; ments which might have compelled him
| to disapprove it. Early in the session he
: stated that he would not approve any legis-
lation at this session other than the Cana-
. dian Feciprocity bill In view of these facts
: Senator isn’t taking much hazard
in his prediction. If TAFT his word
PENROSE wins hisbet. The only question
in doubt, therefore, is the astness
of TAFT. LAFOLLETTE alleges that he
will not dare veto the farmer's free list
bill. Our own judgment runs in the same |
; direction and to the same t. i
If Senator PENROSE say unequiv-
; ocally that the Senate will not pass the
. other pending measures, there will be |
, some chance to take his measureas a leg. {
| islative prophet. Such a prediction would ,
+ imply the belief that Senator LAFOLLETTE
WICKERSHAM | and his
associate insu ts haven't the
' made when the same GUTHRIE, who is | denies the charges that have been made moral courage to vote for genuine tariff
terious as if by magic. While there could |
now the “lilly-white” leader, refused to | against him by the delegate in Congress |
permit his name to be used as apresiden- | for Alaska and adds a few opprobrious
reform. puting the rugulat session they
ke and voted for downward tariff re-
and they say they are still of that
tial elector because BRYAN was the nomi- | epithets as expressive views of the dele- mind. The stalwarts, on the
nee of the party. Yes, dear Democrat, | gate. But others have denied with equal |
_ you and GUTHRIE and PALMER, are very vehemence in the beginning and paid the |
The very mystery about them reacted .
much alike:
Democrats. end.
other
ress doubts on this subject and the
difference of opinion is interesting. Mean- |
: : | time the friends of i
A trio of not even near penalty of the offences charged in the | should curb their enthusiasm. Betting
| on a sure thing isn't prophecy.
Senator
and principle, some one is brazenly lying
to the senatorial committee probing the
case of Lorimer. This brass-faced inso- |
lence calls for summary action, a pro- |
ceeding separate from the Lorimer issue.
Too long has perjured testimony flaunted |
its way unpunished through our temples |
of justice. The perjury in the Lorimer
case is about as conspicuous as could be |
example could not fail to exert i
rent influence. The Tesfectable Pharisee |
will be less inclined to lie a blue streak |
when once thoroughly Sonvincel that it |
prison stripes.
So far as concerns the unlawful elec-
tion of Lorimer by the bribery of Illinois
legislators, that fact is established by the |
confession of men who got the bribes.
This alone is ample warrant for the com-
mittee to find against Lorimer. er |
disclosures regarding the $100,000 slush
fund have directed inquiry as to thesource |
of the bribe money, and exposure along
this line would serve the ends of justice
most of ali were action taken to prose-
paid only $40 an acre for the tract. In the sale
just closed at $100 an acre, they more than doubled
their investment.
—Experts declare the finest wheat fields in Ve-
nango county is on the Crystal Springs farm,
near Oil City. There are twenty acres in the
grain and it is estimated that the yield will aver-
per acre in the seeding. The ground was a field
from which the second growth of timber had been
removed and this was its first crop. The crop
was harvested in two days, only one team and
driver doing the job.
~During a severe electrical storm Friday morn-
ing lightning struck the house of Joseph Witman
at Cressona, near Pottsville, and entered 2 room
where three women were sleeping in one bed.
The bed was picked up and carried a distance of
ten feet without damaging it or injuring the
women. A dog sleeping under the bed was in.
stantly killed. The roof was torn from the house
and the weatherboards on one side were ripped
off. The women, who found themselves sleeping
cute the contributors to the slush fund. |; ihe opnosite end of the room from where the
TT | bed had been standing when they retired, were
No Respecter of Persons.
From the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
On Saturday the Gazette remarked that
i
overcome by nervous shock and required the at-
tendance of a physician.
—Harry H. Swainbank, a druggist, of Wilkes.
wet weather wouldn't interfere with the =bacre, has been left $50,000 by the mother of the
| building of the street car line, and im- | girl he loved and who died just before the time
| mediately the weather began to interfere. | set for their wedding. Some years ago he fell in
| It was a low down trick on the part of love with Miss Mattie Frutchie, an attractive
i the elements. | girl of Wilkesbarre, and a year or so later became
{ - . engaged to her. When she died a short time be.
| With the Accent on Addition. fore the time fixed dios Khe Wweddis he was bruise
| rem— hearted. In his 0! consolation
| From the Louisville Courier-Journal. : consoling Mrs. Lousia F. Frutchie, the stricken
The Washington Star says Mr. Lorimer | mother of the girl he loved, and she was so af-
' has displayed great energy. Yes, and fected by his devotion to her daughter that her
! nerve, gall, efirontery, cheek and one will, which has just been opened, left her entire
* thing or other in addition. ' estate, worth $50,000, to him.
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