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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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INK SLINGS.
—Vote for KIMPORT for chairman and
Kurtzize the Democratic party.
—Read the Centre Democrat this week
and be convinced that its editor wants to
own a county chairman.
~The acquittal of the meat packers is
but a broad warning to everybody to
take a tighter grip on their pocket books.
—New York has found a man who
never heard of ROOSEVELT. Down here
with your eyes shut, you can find them
by scores who wish they hadn't.
—Col. RoosevELT makes proclamation
that he “stands on his Columbus speech.”
And that is just the difference between
him and others. Everybody else sat
down on it.
—Mr. CHARLES WILBUR DE LYON
NicHOLLS gives the number of fashion-
able society folk in America at 466.
Thanks Mr. NicioLrs. If that's all the
Country is still safe.
—Since the campaign for woman suff-
rage was opened in England it has be-
come a serious question, with the people
over there, as to why they were even
called the gentle sex.
—Surely the Centre Democrat is a
changeable paper. Two years ago it
was boss of the Keystone party now it
wants to be boss and own the chairman
of the Democratic party.
—Really its beginning to look as if the
country would have no base ball at all
this season. From the claims made by
the managers of the big teams they have
all won the pennants already.
—The Johnstown Democrat is of the
opinion that the question of “recall” is
gaining friends daily. Yes, brother
BAILEY, but it's mostly among the fellows
whose "hats are in the ring.”
—If you want a county chairman who
can hold the party together vote for
WALKER. If you want to keep up the
fight and break up the Democratic party
in the county vote for KIMPORT.
—I[t must have been a premonition of
the result of the TAFT—ROOSEVELT scrap,
that induced young ROOSEVELT, over a
year ago, to remark that "Dad always
wants to be the corps at a funeral.”
. —Anyway if we don't all get just what
we want at the primaries, we can at
least efoies in the fact that they will act
lo sty indce. (3k 30008 | gy
things sweet. Some of our disorganizing
friends could soon ascertain if there is
truth in this claim by trying a little on
their tempers.
—If county chairman KiMPORT wanted
to be fair why did go to Clearfield and
enter into a deal to endorse the delegates
to the National Convention from McKean
and Clearfield counties when Centre had
a candidate of her own.
—Looking at it from this distance every
indication points to the fact that the
author of "licked to a frazzle” will have
a full understanding of all that expres-
sion means when his present contest for
a third term reaches the finis.
—0f course its only a short time since
the South pole was located, but the
readers needn't be surprised to hear a
demand from the professional reformers
for an investigation of it at once. They
believe there are great frauds at all poles.
—Talk about there being no such thing
as perpetual motion. Just go into a
printing office and see how easily and
quickly the money that comes in there
moves on without effort, and you'll prob-
ably conclude you need to have another
think on that subject.
—If an operation: for appendicitis re-
moves a man's temper what an oppor-
tunity for a first class surgeon, up at the
headquarters of the fellows who have
undertaken the running of Centre coun
ty Democrats as Mr. VANCE MCCORMICK
has instructed them to do.
—Centre county Democrats are not
much in the habit of endorsing third term
candidates. Which fact should be a
pointer to our former friend KIMPORT
who is asking for a third term in order
that he may further divide and distract
the Democrats of the county.
—Last week the Centre Democrat was
urging its readers to vote for I J.
DREESE for state delegate. This week it
is telling them that Mr. DREESE is all
kinds of a humbug all because Mr.
DREESE probably grew tired pulling the
KURTZ chestnuts out of the fire.
—"The people have got even with the
Tobacco Trust at last. They have suc-
ceeded in having it fined $26.000" says an |
exchange. And doubtless the Tobacco |
Trust will now proceed to get even with |
the people by making them pay back that
fine by a raise in the price of cut plug.
—Nine out of every ten men in this |
county who voted for Mr. BERRY two
years ago, because they believed it was
the only way to defeat TENER are back
working earnestly to unite and strengthen !
the party. The other one-tenth still have
hope of dividing and eventually destroy-
ing it. And strange as it may seem the
head disorganizers hereabouts are the!
fellows for whom the Democratic plum
tree has been most vigorously shaken.
Benzonte ot oda is excellent to rn
STATE RIGHTS “AND FEDERAL UNION,
VOL. 57
_BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 5, 1912.
NO. 14.
Mr. Guthrie's Second Letter. !
In a supplemental letter to chairman
RITTER of the Democratic State Central
committee, Mr. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE
reiterates the statement contained in his
previous communication to the effect that
he will not agree to "not be a candidate
for chairman of the committee,” at the
annual meeting in July. Mr. GUTHRIE'S |
heart is set upon that job. He reads
Democratic victory in the political horizon
and imagines that the chairman of the
State Central committee will be the dis-
penser of party patronage after that
event. His heart yearns for this preroga-
tive of power. He got a taste of it a few
years ago when Colonel GUFFEY and
other Democrats elected him to the office
of mayor of Pittsburg and enjoyed it
amazingly. It gave him an opportunity
to snub the Democrats and appoint his
Republican personal friends to office and
that was solace to his soul.
Mr. GUTHRIE is equally specific and
emphatic in declaring again that A.
MITCHELL PALMER will not refrain from
being a candidate for membership of the
Democratic National committee. In his
letter of March 23rd Mr. GUTHRIE said,
that Mr. PALMER and himself could not
comply with this suggestion “without be-
traying the trust which the party com-
mitted to us.” Manifestly he imagines
that he is the annointed of the Lord and
that he and PALMER are the only Demo-
crats of sufficient ability and integrity to
lead the Democratic party. When a dis-
tinguished coal operator, a tew years ago,
asserted the opinion that he and his asso-
ciates were the trustees of the Almighty
in a labor controversy then pending,
was practically “laughed out of court.”
But he had nothing on Mr. GUTHRIE,
either in the matter of assurance or ab-
surdity.
The truth is that Mr. GUTHRIE will not
consent to eliminate himself and Mr.
PALMER, mn the interest of party unity
of enyayivasin In the light of pragtical
certainty of the election of a Democratic
President this year he wanted to seize
control of the Democratic organization
and as that was impossible by usual and
legal methods he resorted to revolutionary
processes and under a false pretense of
reorganization is attempting to wreck the
party ship. There is yet an opportunity
to save it, however, through the magnan-
imous offer of chairman RITTER. If
GUTHRIE and PALMER would take them-
selves out of the contention, as RITTER
and GUFFEY have done, the problem
would be solved.
i S—
| ——Of course it is true that patronage
| is being used to promote TAFT'S political
estate, but what right has ROOSEVELT to
complain? He is a past-master in the art
and really the inventor of the steam
roller.
The Conspirators Unmasked.
Mr. JoHN CADWALLADER JR. of Phil-
adelphia, one of the main supporters of
the GUTHRIE—PALMER conspiracy against
the Democratic party, has announced
himself in favor of the nomination of
CHAMP CLARK as the Democratic candi-
date for President. Mr. CADWALLADER is
(a wealthy and aristocratic gentleman,
| who, professing to be a Democrat, has
| never done anything for the party except
| hold office and find fault. He is opposed
| to the nomination of Woobrow WILSON,
| probably, because the regular Democratic
organization of Philadelphia favors the
New Jersey Governor, or maybe for the
reason that the common people are in-
clined to be for him.
| A. MITCHELL PALMER obtained a place
on the House Committee on Ways and
Means in consideration of an implied
promise that he would support Speaker
CLARK for the Presidential nomination.
Since he joined the conspiracy of GEORGE
W. GuTHrIE and VANCE C. McCoRMICK
to destroy the Democratic party of Penn-
sylvania he has discovered that he can
accomplish more in that direction by
professing to be for WiLsoN. But it may
be accepted as a fact that Mr. PALMER is
{in sympathy with Mr. CADWALLADER'S
| effort to create and crystalize sentiment
, in favor of the nomination of the Speaker.
It is a safer anchorage for him.
Thus we see these conspirators in their
true light. Their professions of friend-
! ship for WooprROW WILSON are as false
and fraudulent as the pretense that their
conspiracy against the Democratic party
{is for the purpose of reorganizing and
rejuvenating it. GEORGE W. GUTHRIE
has never been in sympathy with the
Democratic party since the nomination
{of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN in 1896.
| Then he bolted outright and contributed
liberally to a corruption fund which was
used not only to defeat Mr. BRYAN but
| to debauch the party and elect Republi-
cans to Congress and county offices.
Last Resort of a Detain,
In despair of success A. MITCHELL
PALMER has resorted to asking questions
of his opponent for the Democratic nomi-
nation for Congress. An old time philos-
opher once said that if you can get an
antagonist to answer questions, "you
have him on the hip.” Since that firing
questions has been the last resort of
every dispairing demagogue. Naturally,
therefore, Mr. PALMER has invoked that
expedient and the other day addressed
a letter to Mr. LENTZ containing three
questions in relation to "his attitude with
respect to the tariff policy of the Demo-
cratic House of Representatives.” As
there is some difference of opinion upon
that subject among Democrats Mr. PAL-
MER imagined that was a poser.
But it wasn't the least bit embarassing
to the capable and resourceful gentleman
who will represent that district in the
next Congress. Mr. LENTZ promptly re-
plied that he is a Democrat "and if elec-
ted will abide by the party platform and
the party caucus.” That is precisely the
answer given by Mr. PALMER to some
inquiring constituents some time ago.
Part of the district is an industrial cen-
tre and some of the voters are imbued
with the selfish idea that their personal
interests are of more importance than
the public good. Accordingly they pro-
tested that in pursuing the policy of his
party associates he was betraying their
interests. He replied that he was ful
filling the party platforn.
Mr. PALMER had another sinister idea
in his mind in asking the questions,
however. Six years ago he entered into
he | an agreement that the Congressional
nomination for the district should go,
without contest, to Carbon county, this
year. In pursuance of that agreement
Hon. J. DAvis BROADHEAD declined to
contest for a second term four years ago,
and left the field to Mr. PALMER. Now
that it is PALMER'S time to immolate
himself, however, he refuses to do so and
is trying to becloud the subject and con-
the voters by asking questions.
is subterfuge will not serve
The Democrats of that district are quite
able to understand things and they will
put Mr. PALMER into oblivion.
—The amity that prevails between
the discoverers of the South pole is proof
positive that neither of them is an Ameri-
can. If it had been an American enter-
prise there would have been a scrap be-
yond question.
The Tariff Programme.
The passage of the wool tariff bill by
the House of Representatives on Monday
practically completes the Democratic
tariff programme for the present. Since
the opening of the present session three
important tariff bills have passed the
Housc, an extraordinary achievement.
The metal bill was first disposed of and
sent over to the Senate where it still
tarries. Then the Sugar bill was taken
up and passed. It provided for tax re-
forms which would save the people of
the country more than $100,000,000 a
vear and it is also resting in some Sena-
torial pigeon hole. The wool bill, the
passage of which would decrease the cost
of living immensely, is now in the Senate
also.
The purpose of the Democratic majori-
ty of the Houseis to “let it go at that”
for the present. If the Senate concurs
in either or all the measures a bill re-
ducing the schedules on cottons will be
enacted, and the House Committee on
Ways and Means is now at work pre-
paring such legislation for action. Butit
is justly reasoned that there is no use in
wasting time in legislation certain to fail
of completion and it is believed that such
will be the result, for in the event that
the Senate passes the bills the President
is likely to veto them as he did those
enacted during the special session. The
“interests” appear to have TAFT hypno-
tized or under mortgage, which amounts
to the same thing.
The completion of the three bills which
have passed the House would work an
immense saving to the people of the
country. For nearly four years the cost
of living has been excessive and the bur-
den is constantly growing harder to bear.
The relief which those would afford
might save a vast amount of suffering
and some life. But the Republican party
is so completely under the dominance of
trusts and monopolies that its leaders are
not free agents in the matter of legisla-
tion. The continuance of the burden
even for part of a year will add millions
to the profits of the tariff barons and
they will not relinquish their source of
graft until they have to.
~The worst of it is ROOSEVELT will
not have sense enough to withdraw after
he has been “licked to a frazzle,” and it
may be necessary for somebody to jump
on the remains in order to keep them in
the coffin.
Trust Orgies Und Under Roosevelt.
Within a few days of officials of the Beef |
trust have been acquitted of criminal
violation of the SHERMAN law in Chicago
and officials of the Sugar trust have en-
joyed the same good fortune in an east-
ern court. It was practically admitted
during the trials that both were guilty.
It was shown that five or six years ago
both the Beef trust and the Sugar trust
openly defied the law whenever such ac-
tion subserved their pecuniary interests.
But in United States courts the statute of
limitations runs three years and trust
magnates are immune for crimes com-
mitted previously. Singularly enough
the evidence of criminality ran to the
three year limit and then stopped.
While the Beef trust and the Sugar
trust were indulging in their criminal or-
gies THEODORE ROOSEVELT was President
of the United States and constantly pro-
claiming from the house-tops his aver-
sion to trust operations and iniquities.
He could scarcely contain his pent-up
indignation as the tales of trust oppres-
sion, trust exactions and trust infamies
were spread upon the pages of the news-
papers each morning. He implored Con-
gress to give him more power to flay
them in his wrath and begged the public
to be patient in their long and severe
sufferings until his opportunity to punish
was presented. And a great many peo-
ple believed in the sincerity of the arch
charlatan.
The truth of the matter is that ROOSE-
VELT never tried to bring the “malefac-
tors of great wealth” to just punishment.
Whether they shared with him the prof-
its of their iniquities will probably never
be known but it is certain that they en-
joyed immunity from punishment, how-
ever glaring their offences, during the
time that he occupied the White House.
It can hardly be said that conditions are
much better now, but there is less false
pretense of opposition and that is a moral
gain. If the present administration were
as alert as it ought to be some means
| would have been discovered to trace the
operations of the Beef and Sugar trusts
to a date within the three years covered
by the statute of limitations.
—Every now and then the trail of
Senator LORIMER'S corruption leads up
to the White House and President Tarr
declares his innocence. But “where
there is much smoke there must be some
fire,” and the people would have more
pride in the President if these incidents
didn’t recur so frequently.
—In view w of the acquittal of the beef
and sugar barons Mr. PERKINS, of the
Harvester trust, will probably rest a trifle
easier. He may even come to imagine
that there isn't so much difference be-
tween TAPT and ROOSEVELT after all,
except that ROOSEVELT talks much and
TAFT prefers to travel.
——Probably if those “seven little Gov-
ernors” would recall their request that
ROOSEVELT accept the nomination that
new Populist notion might become more
popular. It is certain that it would be-
come more useful.”
——New Mexico didn't send “Bull”
ANDREWS to the United States Senate but
in the election of T. B. CATrON it did
something “equally as bad.”
Tyrone borough has been teetotal-
ly dry this week. At the recent license
court in Hollidaysburg remonstrances
were filed against every hotel in Tyrone
and a number of witnesses testified that
at a number of the hotels liquor was sold
to minors. When Judge Baldridge handed
down the list last Friday he held up
every hotel in Tyrone for further con-
sideration, consequently the lid has been
on tight this week. What the final out-
come will be can not be foretold.
——A cave-in on College avenue, State
College, one day last week, caused more
or less excitement, and some of the resi-
dents of thatborough imagined they were
living over a crater or big subterranean
cavern. But it proved to be only a fissure
in the rock and the frost coming out of
the ground and the hard rains caused the
mud and clay to drop down.
——Yesterday morning an employee
of the Steam Heating company was work-
ing on the steam line on High street, op-
posite Sourbeck's store, when he acci-
dentally knocked a hole in the big water
main. Several fire plugs on the street
had to be opened so as to lower the
water pressure sufficient to repair the
pipe.
——The man who is now compelled to
pay twenty-six dollars a ton for hay no
doubt wishes he had laid in a sufficient
supply last fall. And the indication is
that the price will advance instead of
decrease.
Only ‘one more week until the
primaries, when the fate of the anxious
office seeker will be decided.
T Today and the Tarif.
From the Philadelphia Reco Record.
After discussing in numerous speeches
various matters of governmental policy
which have only a remote, if any, bearing
upon a presidential campaign, Col. Roose-
velt has at last got around to the live
issue upon which the contest of Novem.
ber will be decided. Failing to manu.
facture an issue for national use out of
materials which belor to the
States, such as the initiative, the referen-
dum, the primary election system and
the recall of judical decisions, he is driv-
en to a declaration on the tariff.
Since only the recreancy of President
Taft in failing to carry out the Roosevelt
policies has brought the Colonel into the
field, he might expect to find tha on the
most important qu uestion before the
American people the leaders of the op-
posing Republican forces occupy radically
different itions. It a however,
that for Uncle Sam's tariff ailment Dr.
Roosevelt and Dr. Taft prescribe the
same medicine. Col. Roosevelt is in
favor of a tariff commission to point the
way to scientific revision. t Taft
has created one. Col. Roosevelt believes
that the measure of protection should be
the difference between the cost of
duction at home and abroad. Presi —
Taft has proclaimed this doctrine a
Shousand Nee, oe Colonel is in favor
of just enoug on to assure pros-
perity to the American workingman
employer, but not enough to enable
the cormorants of industry to devour the
Substante of the people. This nice 4
justment been repeatedly urged ay
President Taft in tariff messages
ever since he followed. R 2d
vet | into the White House.
The Roosevelt tariff pronouncement
roves that he has no quarrel with the
President on i the most absorbing issue of
the campa A quarrel on any other
subject is f nd irrelevant.
Ts
nomination,
possible chance of election, was in taking
an advanced position on the tariff—an
E
will elect a
November.
Goods,~$4.87 Ta Tariff, $5.13.
From the Johnstown Democrats
When a woman. purchases $10
of woolen in. $4.87 of that 516
represents the ig of the goods
the remaining $5.13 of the $10 the
amount of the tariff. In other words,
should the purchase be made in England,
where there is no tariff ca woolens, the
woman would receive the same amount
and quality of dress goods for $4.87 that
she pays $10 for in this country.
This is because of the Taft-Aldrich ad-
valorem tariff rate of 105 per cent.
When the Democrats came into power in
the House of Representatives they framed
a bill which would reduce the tax on
woolens nearly 40 cent. The Senate
passed a similar bill. President Taft
vetoed oe bill, which prevented cheaper
and better woolens to American con-
sumers. The Democratic majority of the
House now presents the bill again.
President Taft will have less excuse to
veto the bill than before. He declared
on the first occasion that a certain tariff
board had not made its report and that
to permit a reduction of the duties might
make it impossible for the woolen manu-
facturers to “protect” their workingmen.
The tariff board report justifies a down-
ward revision of the woolen schedule.
Then since the President vetoed the wool
bill there has been a strike of the téxtile
Workers at Lawrence, Mass., hy Jag
reveal beyond argument a on
contradiction that the Woolen Trust mag.
nates have been fooling and cheatin,
puklic all the time. strike of the
$6, 37 and $8 a week men, women
children in the woolen mills brought to
light the fact that while the mill owners
have been declaring they were "protect-
ing” their workers with fair ages and and
bee : % Soe, Havé
n L paying starvation wages
them almost like animals.
eh ast leg has been knocked from
under the wool tax argument, and Presi-
dent Taft has no excuse left to na
veto of the Democratic down revi-
sion wool bill. The President vetoed the
first wool bill not for the welfare of
either Sousumers or woolen mill workers,
the behest of the millionaire
Woolen Trust owners who contributed to
his cam fund. If he vetoes the
newly introduced. wool bill it will be for
the same reason, and the people will so
understand it.
Guthrie's Reorganiza tion Plan.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
And here they again, as the
said when the bull was after him, only he
putie In: the first person plural.
organizer Guthrie insists upon being
candidate for chairman of the Democratic
State committee and to promote his own
personal ambition in that direction and
the selfishness of his coterie of disor-
ganizers refuses to the invitation
of State Chairman Ritter to meet him on
“common ground.” He is quite willing
to go into_a State convention called by
him and Ritter jointly, in order in the
first place to escape a judicial determi-
nation of the question or party regularity
and to be in 2 position to continue his
disorganizing efforts in the Se iy
vention as well as the outside
work of his eens henchmen. Now
Dorraly San 4 what sort SY re.
organiza can expect from
Guthrie, McCormick & Co.
~—Just ten days more until the open-
ing of the trout fishing season and so far
the streams have been so high and water
80 muddy that fishermen have not been
able to get any idea as to the outlook.
S————
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—After being idle for several months because
of lack of orders, the Bessemer Steel plant at the
Bethlehem Steel company's works was started up
last Monday.
—A few nights ago robbers entered the Morris-
dale postoffice and took the safe several hundred
feet away toopenit. They got $1.63 in pennies
for their trouble.
At Pine Glen, Miflin county, there is a mad
dog scare and a number of dogs suspected of hav-
ing been bitten have been killed. At Huntingdon
Burgess Jacobs has ordered all dogs tied up.
~Westmoreland's new county commissioners
do not like the site chosen by their predecessors
for a county hospital for the insane and propose
to have the State board of charities pass on the
matter.
—To maintain the emergency hospital during
the recent epidemic of typhoid fever cost Coates-
ville $2500. And this was the result of gross
carelessness upon the part of officials whose duty
it was to know.
—Greenshurg’s new Federal building on Satur-
day was the scene of the distribution of 50,000
marbles put up in attractive bags, assorted ready
for the boys of the town. W. A. Johnson, of Bar-
berton, Ohio, was the giver.
—Dr. Harry Sommerville, president of Cambria
county's association of road supervisors, an-
uounces a big premium for the best road in the
county and also the township which wins shall be
visited by all the supervisors.
—Harry Censberg, a Mifflinburg merchant,
aged 45 years, was killed at the station at Milton
a few evenings ago. He became confused while
attempting to cross the track ahead of a train
and was struck by the engine.
—After neerly a year of exemption from horse
stealing, Columbia county is hunting the man
who took the best of six horses from B. E. Thom-
as’s stable, near Rohrsburg. The stolen horse
was hitched to a buggy belonging to a farm hand.
—The DuBois Hospital association has decided
to reject the offer of a hospital site and $10,000
from Mr. DuBois, and also a similar offer from
the Sisters of Charity. Some other move is likely
to be made, as the town needs better hospital fa-
cilities.
—Frank McConnaughey, a Ligonier valley
freight engineer, cut his throat and wrist with a
pen knife a few days ago, while his train was
standing for a little while. His crew found him
and took him to the Latrobe hospital. Despond-
Sey Became of his wife's insanity is blamed for
the deed.
—John H. Wingert, Joseph Spotts and Harry
Walter, the former board of Union county com-
missioners, who were heavily surcharged by the
county auditors to an amount of over $1,500 for
paying one-half of the attorney fees in the noted
Lewisburg bridge case, have employed counsel
and will take an appeal to the court for a final le-
gal ruling on the matter.
—A dwelling house on the Michael Fletcher
farm, near Clearville, Bedford county, was com-
before and $150 in cash and a number of promis-
sory notes and other valuable papers, together
with the insurance policy were burned. The
widow and son occupied the home.
—Williamsport has lost out to Clearfield in
effort to secure the meeting of the State
next December. The executive committee of
the Grange met at Harrisburg on Friday and by
a majority vote accepted the invitation of the
F
downon the track and the engine on the passen-
and | ger train took a vacation because of running into
it. Passengers were jolted, but not hurt. On the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh it was the
blowing out of a cylinder head that caused a de-
lay until another engine could be procured.
—~Monday night at Shamokin, thieves burglar
ized a freight car on the Reading railroad, break-
ing open ten boxes of shoes consigned to merch-
ant Guy S. Boone, of Loganton, scattering the
contents of the boxes all around in the car and
carrying away twenty-five pairs of men's and la-
dies’ fine shoes. The loss is about $75. A Read-
ing rz Jdroad detective is on the trailof the thieves.
~The proprietor of a pressing and dyeing estab-
lishment in Johnstown, was pressing a garment
on Thursday when suddenly he was enveloped in
flames. He had been warned every day for sev.
eral weeks of the danger of keeping so much gas-
oline about and had promised to move next day.
Only prompt work by the firemen, who used sand
to smother the burning gasoline, saved adjoining
property.
—William J, Byrnes, secretary of the Lower
Merion, Delaware county, board of education,
Saturday notified thirteen of eighty teachers in
Lower Merion township that they could hunt
other jobs until next term. It is claimed by the
teachers that politics is responsible for their dis-
missals, and their antagonists declare the move
of Secretary Byrnes will be for the best Interest
of the schools.
—Harry Edward Beck, a young tenant farmer
on the J. M. Dice farm, on Plum Run, in Dunn-
stable township, and son of the late Daniel Beck,
committed suicide Sunday morning between five
and six o'clock by hanging himself in the hay loft
of thebarn. Mr. Beck intended moving from the
Dice piace to the adjoining farm of his mother on
Wednesday, and brooded over some fancied griev-
ance in relation to his changing locations.
~One thousand dollars for a fingeris the value
set by the United States court jury, which return-
000 damages, receiving a verdict of $3,400. The
case was heard by Judge Witmer, of Sunbury.
~Taking advantage of the remaining days be-
be visited by expert agriculturists from State
each
upwards of $15,000, on which there was some in-
surance. The company announces its purpose to
rebuild at an early date,
~Senator Frank Baldwin as master in the case
of William Phelps, of Binghamton, N. Y., against
the Bayless Paper company, of Austin, Pa., Wed-
nesday filed a report in the United States court at
Scranton, which indicates that none of those who
suffered damage inthe flood caused by the col-
lapse of the mill dam last year can recover dam.
ages. The suit was on a mortgage for $8,000, and
Senator Baldwin reports that the mortgage was
foreclosed on March 21 and the property of the
company sold. This leaves the company without
anything tangible upon which to secure a judg-
ment for damages,
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