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INK SLINGS. |
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—Another American heiress has bought
an English Lord. The Lord only knows
what'll happen to her. |
—This summer's hot spell could proba- |
bly have been better described by drop- |
ping the sp and substituting an h. |
—Texas has started a boom for WILSON |
for President. The quickest way to find |
out whose boss anywhere is to start some- |
thing.
—Let us all pray a little for our Presby-
terian friends. And let us pray, especial
ly, that their new minister may find his
lot cast in a pleasant place.
—It would only be natural, when the
lumber trust investigation gets down to
the real facts, if its members would be
found taking to the woods.
—And now it is said that a party of
New Englanders are trying to form a
button trust. Evidently working to have
something to be put into a hole.
—The New York preacher who com-
plains that women attend church mostly
“to show off hats and dresses,” should
have gone for the men who rarely attend
for any purpose.
—Signing the greatest peace treaty ever
consummated one day and urging the
fortification of the Panama canal the next
looks like one or the other of the two is
more bluff than anything else.
. Roosevelt and the Tennessee Merger.
VOL. 56.
Bryac.
Two years ago THEODORE ROOSEVELT One of the most gratifying recent
would have pursued a different course, as- developments in politics is the progress
sumed another role. His appearance as being made in the work of eliminating
a witness in the Steel trust investigation WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN from the equa-
forced him to confess either that he was ‘tion of Democratic management. For
a fool or a knave in the Tennessee mer- some years Mr. BRYAN has been making
ger incident. He eagerly admitted that himself obnoxious to self-respecting and
he was a fool. In the period of his power sincere Democrats. He has set up fidelity
he would have boastfully asserted the to himself as the standard of party loy-
other alternative. Adversity chastens the alty and arrogantly read out of the ranks
spirit and ROOSEVELT is a different man. | all who failed to acquiesce in his man.
He can no longer fool the people with his dates. In the Denver convention three
absurd pretentions, and he knows it. | years ago he ordered delegates elected
He made a feeble effort to “brazen it | by the people and certified by the Sec- and others. Guided by that report, the
out” on the occasion in question, but failed. = retary of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
He admitted that he was responsible for vania, to be thrown out of the convention able to write a scientific tariff bill which ture
the violation of law involved in the meas- and others not elected at all to be put in | will allow a “reasonable profit” to Ameri-
ure, but protested that it was for the pub- their places. But his influence over the can producers and most revenue necessi-
lic good. Judge GARY and Mr. FRICK rank and file of the party was then so
had informed him that a disastrous panic | great that resentment would have been |
was imminent, he told the committee, and | folly.
that the abrogation of the SHERMAN law | Since then he has been pursuing his |
was necessary to avert it. He was under | arrogant course with even greater bold- |
Taft and the Tariff.
If President TAFT vetoes the various
tariff bills which have been or will be en-
acted during the pending special session
of Congress, he will have 2 hard time
understood that he will assert that no
tariff legislation should be enacted until
after the tariff commission has made its
report. That “packed” body is making a
scientific study of the subject with the
view of ascertaining the difference in
labor cost of production in this country
stand-patters allege, Congress will be
ties.
The constitution authorizes Congress
to “lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts
and excises, to pay the debts and provide
for the common defense and general
—Senator LAFOLLETTE and chairman
UNDERWOOD are so far apart on the wool
sworn obligation to obey and enforce the ness. A year ago he issued a ukase in- | welfare of the United States.”
law, but perjury is of little consequence 'jecting into the party platform an irrel- | words tariff taxes may be levied and col-
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Taxation of the Food Supply.
| From the Pittsburg Post.
Dealers in and distributers of the nec-
essaries of life blame the mercantile tax
as f the principal causes of the
wri gli in 2% he Hoh
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would be a
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an earnest
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of 1axing
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One the plas
2 lowering of the asseSsulents OF gre) 6-
Smpting in food-stuffs entirely.
| When it is known that this form of
ing revenues must,
from the
bill that they can't get together in “three
shakes of a ram's tail.” Therefore Con-
gress is not likely to adjourn as soon as
was expected.
~—From the amount of gas that brother
BLAKESLIE'S numerous interviews indi-
cate is troubling the disorganizers head-
quarters it would not be surprising to
hear, any day, that they, too, would blow
up from the inside.
—The newest thought in designing
houses is said to provide for the elimi-
nation of the coal bin from the cellar.
This is probably for houses in the tropics
and others that are heated with steam
from a distant plant.
—One of our exchanges is authority
for the statement that “Washington has
got its eye on the high cost of living
again.” “Again,” just as if this result of
the work of the trusts hadn't been con-
tinuously picking our pockets three times
a day ever since Republican protection
gave them the power to do so.
—It is said that an English physician
has made the discovery that persons used
to an atmosphere rotten enough to breed
magots, are cured of, or immune from
consumption or tuberculosis. If this is
so, what a sanitorium for these diseases
Republican State headquarters or the
council chambers of Pittsburg and Phil-
adelphia would prove.
—One or two arrests for exceeding the
speed limit on Bellefonte streets would
be a wholesome lesson to thought-
less automobilists. Many of the men
who are driving our streets almost
daily at a thirty-mile clip would probably
never forgive themselves if they were to
kill or maim some pedestrian for life yet
they are courting that sad eventuality
every day.
—Anent the recent unpleasantness
over the Bell telephone at the Bellefonte
hospital the Lock Haven council is just
now pushing home a demand for two
more free telephones in its fire engine
houses by threatening to pass another |
to him. | evant issue and branding anathema upon
GARY and Frick didn't tell him where all who failed to obey his orders. Subse-
the panic was coming from. He was too quently he bolted the party ticket in his
polite to ask such eminent “malefactors own State and defeated the candidate for
of great wealth” important questions, and Governor, regularly and fairly nominated
besides, he says, he and the Secretary of Immediately after the election last fall he
the Treasury were “intimately acquainted denounced half a dozen of the successtul
with the situation.” They didn’t tell him ' candidates and declared that they should
that they had been negotiating for the not be nominated for President under
Tennessee property. They didn’t tell him ' penalty of his personal opposition and
that nine-tenths of the Tennessee stock ' consequent defeat. But in the face of all
was held as collateral by the men they . these outrages upon the principles of the
represented. They didn't tell him that the | party there was only a mild protest. The
value of the stock as collateral was im- | courage of the party seemed to be para-
paired by their friends for a purpose. lyzed.
They didn't, in fact, tell him anything Nearly always, however, there is a “last
except that a panic was impending which , straw that breaks the camel’s back.” In
they could stop if they wanted to, and | the present instance it came in the form |
that if they were permitted to absorb the | of a wanton attack upon Representative
Tennessee company, which gave them an | UNDERWOOD, chairman of the congres-
absolute monopoly of the ore suppiy, they | sional committee on ways and means.
would stop it. Theydid tell him that Mr. | Mr. UNDERWOOD was never a blind fol-
MORGAN was interested and they lied to | lower of the Nebraska orator, though he
him frankly and freely and he yielded to
their importunities as placidly as a kitten
accepts the purred invitation of the mother
cat to dinner. The Steel trust wanted
$200,000,000 worth of property for a com-
parative trifle.
They couldn't accomplish this without
the help of ROOSEVELT. If a couple of or-
dinary bankers of moderate wealth had
gone to ROOSEVELT with such a proposi-
tion he would have had them kicked out,
for it involved perjury and perfidy. But
MoRrGAN and GARY and FRICK had sup-
plied abundance of money to buy his elec-
tion, he needed their contributions to pur-
chase the election of his successor, and he
was willing to oblige them. It was an
act of recreancy which ought to have
ruined him.
Nobody but a fool could have been de-
ceived as ROOSEVELT was, if he was de-
ceived. Nobody but a knave would have
done what he did if he wasn't deceived.
It was the culmination of a conspiracy
which had been in progress for months.
In order to discredit the Tennessee stock
as collateral MORGAN and the Steel trust
magnates had commanded that all banks
always supported Mr. BRYAN. He was
growing in popularity very fast, however,
and Mr. BRYAN thought he must be set
back. Accordingly he published an inter-
view in which the personal integrity as
well as the political fidelity of the con-
gressional leader were disputed in un-
mistakuble language. It pretended to
give details of a Democratic caucus and
ascribed to Mr. UNDERWOOD language
and actions which were never uttered or
acted. It was a bogus cloth woven out of
falsehood.
When the interview came under the
notice of Mr. UNDERWOOD he was justly
indignant and at the first opportunity
rose in his place in the House of Repre-
sentatives and emphatically declared the
statements of Mr. BRYAN false and mali-
cious. Two years ago such an accusa.
tion against Mr. BRYAN, on the floor of
the House, would have been vehemently
resented by half the Democrats in the
body. But on this occasion not a word
was uttered further than a corroboration
of Mr. UNDERWOOD'S statements by Repre-
sentative KITCHIN, of North Carolina,
formerly a devoted follower of the Ne-
lected for revenue and for no other pur-
pose. If there were no questions of pub-
lic policy observed there would be noth-
ing for Congress to do, therefore, except
to fix the rate of tariff taxation and lay it
every article or commodity imported. But
all manufacturing countries agree that it
is unwise to lay a tax on raw materials
used in manufacture and consequently
such commodities should be exempt. In
fact ours is the only manufacturing coun-
try which taxes raw materials.
In view f the constitutional restraints
and the requirements of wise policy,
therefore, the only course open to Con-
gress is to levy such tariff taxes as are
necessary for revenue. There is no war-
rant for taking into consideration “rea-
sonable profits” or any other kind of
profits at either end of the transaction
and there is no way under the sun to base
tariff legislation upon scientific principles.
The Democratic majority in the present
measure which will comply with the pro-
visions of the constitution and the re-
quirements of revenue conditions and if
the President vetoes such legislation
there will be no escape from the fact that
i he acts in the interest of privilege.
——Possibly the Philadelphia preacher
| is right in denouncing the proposed mar-
| riage of Colonel JOHN JAcoB ASTOR and a
| young girl whose parents have placed
| her in the market, as "an unholy alli-
lance.” But society in some of the fash-
ionable resorts is simply training schools
| for future lives of shame and what is the
| difference who leads in the work.
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Fortification of the Canal.
The esteemed Philadelphia Record can’t
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tration in Washington isin such haste to
begin work on the fortifications of the
{ Panama canal, in view of the recent
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| peace as expressed in the treaty signed
impartially and indiscriminately upon
House is amply able to devise a tariff |
understand, it declares, why the adminis.
ordinance rescinding the old one granting | refuse it. And finally when they found
that company pole rights on the streets. | two or three important banks loaded
Lock Havennow gets four free telephones | 4 oop 0 they threatened a panic un-
and wants six. less the absorption were permitted and
the other day. The canal was to have
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braskan. Mr. BRYAN has since given the |p, ., 5" neutral highway in the advantages |
source of his misinformation and promised |
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his pay
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meat of an industrious citizenship.
will be general indorsement of
getion pp the ig STaen be
n a view to affording m
to-be-desired reliet.
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| Granting that the choice of a President
| and the determination of our national
! policy in that election are matters of the
! gravest moment, there is no good reason
: why we should be required to fill a whole
| year with contention and shouting, and
the more or less disturbing controversies
of parties and factions, winding up with
a real campaign of some three months of
| furious itics.
Here is Canada holdi a national
campaign over reciprocity in the ample
space of seven weeks from the moment
‘when it was unexpectedly sprung upon
| the people by the dissolution of Parlia-
ment. That certainly looks like a better
‘ way.
1 Our statesmen should put their heads
together and devise some plan for saving
, us from the weary length and the intol-
| erable turmoil and business disturbance
; of too frequent presidential campaigns.
Underwood and Bryan.
From the Springfield Republican,
It is obvious that the matter cannot be
allowed to remain where it is. Mr.
Underwood's explanation will suffice for
himself, but it will not at all satisfy the
: country in explanation of this singular
failure to take up the steel schedule
, when a house investigating committee is
| raking the country over for facts in dem-
onstration of the existence of an op-
pressive steel monopoly which is protect-
ed in its exactions by the tariff. Wash-
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a correction after investigation. But he
and ' conveniences of which all nations ington reports are that many of the
were to share. The fortification of it is, Democratic members are beginning to
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is too late. His bluff has been called and
—JouN W. GATES, one of the most |
spectacular figures in latter day American |
financial circles, died in Paris Wednesday
morning. The son of a poor farmer he |
ROOSEVELT consented at the expense of
perjury
Notwithstanding these facts, however,
ROOSEVELT swaggered into the witness
he is down and out. There will be no
more dictation from Lincoln, Nebraska.
——The popular enthusiasm manifest. | Pact removes all danger from that source tinue. There is a
ed in the welcome of Admiral Toco, of
i therefore, the breach of a moral obliga-
i tion which would be tolerable only in the
{face of a great danger. As the peace
the fortifications are, necessarily, an out-
was a millionaire at forty, down and out— | chair with the claim of righteousness on
pretty near—at fifty-two and fabulously | his lips. “I averted the panic,” he said.
rich at fifty-six when he died. “Square” He averted nothing but sacrificed his own
and “honest,” as the words are used ' honor and the interests of the country.
among gamblers, he was a thoroughbred, | The panic was started in order to force
a sport and a plunger. He made himself | the result which was achieved, the mer-
what he was and judgment of the suc- ger of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com-
cess of his life is not for us to pass upon. pany and the Steel trust. It was carried
the Japanese navy,is an expression of the | rage upon all other commercial coun-
savagery which is in us. ToGo is noth. tries. !
ing but a fighter, though he is a good, Our esteemed Philadelphia contempo-
fighter and a fair one. But if the great- rary misinterprets the purpose of the
est scientist in the whole world, or the ' canal fortifications. They are not intend-
man of greatest achievement in the arts ed to secure the waterway or this coun-
of peace within the limits of civilization | try from foreign attack. As a matter of
were to come among us his reception fact they will be absolutely useless for
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| see this. After the hearty demonstration
against Mr. Bryan, the sober second
| thought is saying that a party situation
| exists which cannot be permitted to con-
ry a demand
that the session be further prolonged and
that the steel schedule be taken up for a
thorough revision and reduction. But
even this would be an admission before
the country of an embarrassing
error; while a further extension of the
present session, already prolonged so far
as to tax severely the patience of the
country, will not improve the prospects
of the party in the coming presidential
election.
—Col. EpwArRD H. GREEN, the son of t
the eccentric HETTY GREEN, has just,
delivered himself concerning the foibles '
and follies of New York women in a way
as to leave no doubt that he is sensible
enough to handle the millions that his |
mother will leave him. He promised his |
| to the very verge of disaster inorder that
ROOSEVELT might set up the absurd de-
fense he has brought forward for his part
in it. But it would have gone no further. |
The investigation, however, has present-
ted ROOSEVELT in his new role. He no.
longer boasts of his outrages. He apolo-
gizes for them and offers a defense which,
mother that he would not marry until he |
would be less hearty than that which | that purpose. Any resistance of an at-
“has been extended to ToGo who has | tempt to capture the canal by a foreign
grass in the world or done anything else ' be made by war ships at the mouths of
to promote the prosperity, peace and |the ditch. There never was any danger
- happiness of mankind. Still ToGo is all | of such attempt, however, and never will
right and we cheerfully join in the cor- be. Even if the trend of public senti-
dial welcome which has been bestowed ment were in the direction of war rather
never increased the number of blades of | foe, or use it against this country, must |
Preserve Harmony.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
A straw vote of Democrats in the Con-
' gress gives a plurality for Governor Wil-
! son for President. A couple other prom-
‘inent members of their party were well
| but the Governor's nomination
and election would be a certainty if the
Democrats in the capitol could cast the
was twenty years over age, and as that
time has arrived, naturally there is specu-
lation as to whether he will marry at all.
He says: “I'll be married if the right one
comes along, but I want to marry a wom-
an and not a clothes horse.”
—President ROOSEVELT on the stand
before the Congressional investigation |
committee, admitted that he knew it was |
illegal when he permitted the United |
States Steel Co. to gobble up the]
Tennessee Coal and Iron Co. but per- |
mitted it in order to stop the panic of |
1907. While some people may think that
the end justified the means in this partic-
ular case we are of the opinion that had
the laws regarding trusts and other illegal
combinations of great money powers, |
been properly enforced, MORGAN and the |
United States Steel Co. would never have |
been in a position to make or unmake a
panic in this or any other country.
while shielding him from the charge of
| venality stamps him with the mark of
| idiocy. Yet we don't believe that RoOosE-
| VELT is an idiot. If he is mad "there is Representatives in Washington are not,
method in his madness.” He did what he ' inclined to accept the LAFOLLETTE com-
i upon him.
——The Democrats of the House of
than peace, such a fool-hardy enterprise | x was never better
would never be undertaken. Trying to we ) tial timber, at i pled
dig out the rock of Gibraltar with a tooth- | when complete harmony and
pick would be as sensible. | indications are that it will be unbroken.
aker Clark, Governor Harmon and
| did in the case in point with a full under-
standing of the moral turpitude involved
and because it was necessary to get money | “half a loaf is better than no bread,” and 8"
| the LAFOLLETTE compromise cuts the Duilding of useless battleships is inspired
tariff tax on wool in half giving the peo- DY the same motive. President TAFT'S
to buy the election of his successor.
——Mayor REYBURN, of Philadelphia,
says that RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG is in-
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it is not an attractive proposition. But
| ple the benefic of more than forty per
| cent of tax
promise on wool and as a matter of fact | The purpose of the fortifications of the |
| Panama canal is to give the Steel trust
' an opportunity to loot the treasury. The
| election to the Presidency in 1908 was
reduction. Besides it doesn’t | Purchased by funds contributed by this
capable of administering the office of | joe the question against future action. 2nd other trusts, and he is under pledge
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administered the office for four years and
only those who personally know both
gentlemen will be able to appreciate the
hugeness of this joke.
—— According to sworn testimony both
the President and the Secretary of Agri-
culture were in the conspiracy to force
Dr. WILEY out of the public service but
neither of them has the courage to act.
amendment may make the measure more
nearly what we would all like.
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——The trusted clerk who stole $50,000
ayor of that city. Mr. REYBURN has At the next session of Congress an! to shape the policies of the government °
s0 as to reimburse them. The chances
to accomplish this result are constantly
growing less and are now reduced almost
to two items, fortifications and war ships
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from the Sugar trust was simply follow- | and though TAPT will prate about peace :
ing an illustrious example. The one | until the Quaker mind is bewildered he teresting than the reception which wili
Verner Whson fave fhe confidance an
respect of the majority o people
all political pergiasions. That eo Sufidence
respect will not is any
narrow-minded and selfish assaults on any
oneof those gentlemen. The Democra
party will not allow itself to be split into
antagonistic factions. .
If there be no change in political con-
ditions during the next year the Demo-
cratic candidate for the office of President
‘of the United States will be elected. It is
‘ the duty of all Democrats to see to it that
| there be no changes within the party that
! will ruin its prospects.
—We can imagine nothing more in-
| long drawn out and uninterrupted lesson ! will always be for “the old flagand an ap- | be given to Senator BAILEY, of Texas,
taught by the Sugar trust is that it’s no propriation” for warships and fortifica- | when he returns to that State after the
harm to steal.
| tions.
| adjournment of Congress.
CCE ER SRE GR
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
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—One Lancaster county farmer has just 20d
his farm, situated on the outskirts of Mt. Joy, at
the rate of $350 an acre.
—Chemical water purifiers are to be attached to
all pipes leading to the city from the reservoirs
| which supply the Johnstown city system.
~The regiment of which the late Senator M. S.
Quay was colonel in the war—the Thirty-fourth
Pennsylvania—will hold its twenty-ninth reunion
at New Brighton on Thursday of this week.
=The American Natural Gas company has re-
cently filed leases on twenty-six tracts in West
Mahoning township, Indiana county. It is
thought that the tracts will be developed soon.
—Charles Wertz, a prominent fruit man, who
resides about six miles south of Bedford, has
eighty acres in fruit, consisting mostly of apples
and plums, although other kinds are well repre-
—Jeffrey Whiles, residing in Huntingdon coun-
ty, who has had considerable experience as a rat-
tlesnake hunter, was bitten by one on Saturday.
He hurried home and although his condition was
extremely critical for a time, his yhysician has not
given up hope of saving his life.
—“Billy” Gibbons, a Lewistown negro recently
released from penitentiary, is In jail at Lewis"
town. He had served a term for assaulting rail’
road officer Shaffer at Lewistown Junction, and
the present charge against him is assaulting
Chief of Police Yeoman, of Lewistown.
—Police are searching for Tony Cadina, em-
ployed in a section gang near DuBois, who is
charged with robbing a half-dozen of his fellow
laborers while they were at work. He was too
Siake 0 work, ult was gone aeiiem Hig friends re-
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~The Penn Central Light and Power company
is installing two 600 horse-power boilers at its
power plant at Warrior Ridge and in the near fu-
ture two additional boilers will be installed with a
2,500 kilowatt General Electric generator. The
improvements will tend to increase the capacity
of the plant.
—Grand Army day will be celebrated at Lake-
mont park. Altoona, on September 9th. Prepara-
tions are being made to care for a large crowd.
Several military companies, Sons of Veterans and
the Spanish-American war veterans will help the
old soldiers to celebrate. A sham battle and
many other diversions will amuse the crowd.
~District Attorney Small, of Columbia county*
has presented a petition to the court of that coun’
ty asking for the appointment of a commissioner
to take testimony in the investigation of charges
of alleged corruption in the granting of liquor li-
censes. Judge Evans is not implicated, but the
same cannot be said concerning his associates.
—Mrs. Catherine Dougherty, of Catasauqua,
has been arrested on the charge of wholesale
shoplifting in Allentown. She admitted her guilt
and wept bitterly while in the police station, de-
claring that she was the mother of eight children,
only four of whom are living, however, and that
poverty compelied her to steal. Her husband se-
cured her release on bail.
—Lawshe Dorr, of Clearfield, had his nose brok-
en in a peculiar manner recently. He was in his
auto when something amused him and he drop-
ped his head on the head rest to laugh. It was in
the vicinity of Snow Shoe, where roads are not
good and the machine struck a breaker. Mr.
Dorr was bounced against the top of the auto
and landed with his nose broken.
scendants. She is the mother of ten children, fif-
ty-seven grandchildren and sixteen great-grand-
children. Even at her advanced age Mrs. Davies
~There was a sad ending of a picnic party at
Huntingdon, when Mayse Wilson, aged 11 years*
of Connellsville, was drowned in Blair park.
was visiting her sister, Mrs. D. F. Fradette,
had gone with the family to the park. She
left the others to go for a drinking cup and evi-
dently had fallen down the steep bank into the
creek, where her body was found two hours later
—Early Sunday morning a Philadelphia police-
man found a woman in an unconscious state lying
She
and
had
to say that her name was Annie Hamerle, that she
was a widow, that her age was 29 years and that
she had taken a large quantity of morphine in the
hope of ending her existence because she was
tired of life.
—Joseph Krutendorfer, an erderly resident of
Ebensburg, was lost in the “California” woods,
near that place recently for almost two days. A
searching party found his bucket of berries, but
couldn't find him. Finally he emerged from the
woods on a road which he knew led to Ebensburg.
He was met by a friend in an auto and the anx-
ety of his wife was quickly ended. A number of
years agoa man was lost in the same thicket for
five days.
~The exceedingly dry weather previous to the
hay harvest almost ruined that crop on many In.
diana county farms. A White township farmer
who cut ninety-three acres of grass and who
should have had over 200 tons of hay, put in his
barn less than seventy tons. Another White
township farmer cut sixty acres and put in his
barn less than thirty tons of hay. Both these
men are known as good farmers, but the drought
knocked their calculations end-ways.
—Charles T. Derick, of Bellwood, has filed a
complaint with the state railroad commission
against the Logan Valley Trolley company, oper-
ating a line between Altoona and Tyrone, alleg-
ing discrimination. The fare between Altoona
and Bellwood, a distance of seven miles, is fifteen
cents, and between Bellwood and Tyrone, a dis-
tance of seven and four-tenth miles, it is ten
cents. Complainant thinks the charge between
Altoona and Bellwood should be cut to ten cents.
—McKean county oil producers are agitating a
project to drill a test well to the approximate
depth of 4,0000 feet. It has been a long-mooted
and much-debated question whether the lower
strata of the rocks underlying Bradford bear oil
and this agitation is intended to get the men with
money together on the proposition. The Medina
sand lies at a depth of 4,000 feet in the Tuna val-
ley and this will be tested out. It willcost a large
sum to drill such a well, but the Bradford men
are resolved to try todo it. If they should suc-
ceed, it would rejuvenate the old oil fields.
=Mrs. Charles McAdoo, one of the biggest
women in Central Pennsylvania and a sister of
assistant cashier E. C. Swartz, of the Brookville
Title and Trust company, was found dead in bed
at an early hour Thursday morning by other
members of her family. She had retired in good
death was caused by apoplexy. The deceased
was 46 years of age and is quite well-known per”
sonally about Brookville. She weighed in the
tic | neighborhood of 400 pounds at the time of death.
The deceased is survived by her husband and
several children.
—Jack O'Hara was recently killed at Jimtown,
Indiana county, by the overturning of a traction
engine he was running. In speaking of the oc”
currence the Indiana Geazetfe says: “The de-
ceased was one of the most unfortunate men ever
residing in this county. He was the victim of a
score of serious accidents, having had legs and
arms broken upon a number of occasions. He
had his back seriously injured in a mine accident;
not to speak of a number of minor accidents tha
incapacitated him from work for various periods
of time. He was thought to bear a charmed life
as his escapes on a number of occasions were lit-
tle short of miraculous.”