BY P. GRAY MEEK. HE BET a, : INK SLINGS. ' —Let us hope that one circus doesn’t make a summer, so far as Bellefonte is concerned. —“The Thih Blue Line” appears more pathetically thin with each recurring Memorial day. —This week last year was just as beautiful, though a trifle warmer than this week has been. —The catastrophe on the St. Lawrence suggests that ships, like people, oughtn’t to keep going when they can’t see whither they go. —It wasn’t a bad band they picked up for the Memorial day parade, at that. And why, when so good a one is gotten together is it gotten apart instanter? —From the way the country looks now the hay will be made before the corn is worked the last time. Clover is in blossom and wheat is shooting into head. —A few years ago the North American essayed to run the Democratic party of Pennsylvania. Now the Ledger seems to be the inspired mouth piece of our organization. —It would be much nicer to have a platform built so that you would be eager to scramble up onto it, than one you stand on merely because, after all, you think the fundamental principles of Democracy best. —The distilleries of Peoria, Ill, in thirteen years, have paid the government enough revenue to build the Panama canal. Think of it! And the booze they made would probably float the biggest ship that will ever go through the canal. —Secretary BRYAN is evidently not in sympathy with the watchful part of President WILSON’s policy of “watchful waiting” with regard to Mexico, else the Ypiranga would never have succeeded in landing that cargo of arms for HUERTA. —OQur candidate for Senator expects to be very busy with his campaign, but not too busy to put his “O. K.” on all the applications for places at the public pie counter. MITCH wants to be sure that none of usdisreputable “bi-partisans” get our lunch hooks in. —A. A. DALE Esq. was the Memorial day orator at DuBois. We hope there were enough of the Clearfield county Republicans present at the service to appreciate what kind of a man they might have had to rally to for the Senate ‘had the machine not ordered otherwise." —No one imagined Auditor General POWELL to be the man of varied accom- plishments he evidently thinks himself to be. He feigns to know more about the business of every industry having rela- tions with his Department than men who have spent a life-time in their manage- ment. > —The thirty-four thousand young women in this country who are studying nursing may some day become a wonder- ful blessing or a wonderful burden to it. A nurse is a nurse only when she is of real helpful service in the household into which she is called. When she is any- thing else she is a nuisance. —We have a suspicion that Pennsyl- vanians would promptly have rallied to the WATCHMAN’S motto of “State Rights and Federal Union” had ROOSEVELT really undertaken to throw the federal army into the anthracite coal fields in defiance of the courts and Harrisburg, as he said he had planned to do. —Now whom do you suppose the Johnstown Democrat is taking a crack at when it concludes a swan song for “Uncle JOHN” ROTHERMEL in these words: “However, he could not have got away with the investigation which he carried to such eminent success had he been ad- dicted to golf or to social diversions.” —There is an old post card maxim to the effect that if booze interferes with your business cut out the business. The same logic might be applied to the con- templated action of the Presbyterian church in barring members who belong to clubs that have “side-boards.” If the church interferes with your clubs—You finish it. We won't. —Now that the WRIGHTS have proven that Dr. LANGLEY really did know what he was about when he was supposed to be “dippy” over a flying machine, some thirteen or fourteen years ago, might it not be well for them to go back a bit further and satisfy the world as to the flying ability of the machine that made DARIUS GREEN the subject of so much jingle. —The meeting of the Democratic State Committee at Harrisburg, yesterday, did for the party what its state conventions have formerly done. It is a question as to whether this form of representation is as representative as was the old conven- tion form. In those days the gatherings at Harrisburg represented all elements of the party and they were in the nature of a general pow-wow and interchange of opinions. Under the new system but one committeeman froma county is dele- gated to pass, finally, upon the pronounce- ment of party principles and matters of like importance and there cannot be the same incentive for a general gather ing of Democrats as there was under the old system. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 59. Palmer’s Indiscrete Statement. iri, Now that the Hon. A. MITCHELL PAL- MER is the nominee of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania for Senator in Con- gress, it is the duty of every Democrat in the Commonwealth to give him hearty and earnest support. He was not the choice of all the Democrats but at the primary he received a majority of the votes cast and as majority rule is a fun- damental tenet of Democratic doctrine, he is the candidate of the party. The WATCHMAN takes this early opportunity, the first since the result has been official. ly declared, to assure him, his colleagues on the ticket and the public, that it will strive with all its force and energy to compass the success of the entire ticket. But Mr. PALMER appears to be trying to make it as hard.as possible for .con- | sistent, conscientious and self-respecting Democrats to give him that cordial and earnest support which is essential to suc- cess in the coming contest. In Washing- ton, the other day, he gave out an in- terview in which he expressed a spirit of bossism which is literally intolerable. In the Philadelphia Ledger of last Friday a Washington dispatch states PALMER “said that until after the elec- tion he would relinquish the distribution of federal patronage in Pennsylvania to State Chairman ROLAND S. MORRIS. After chairman MORRIS selects the can- didates for appointment, Mr. PALMER will give them his formal approval and recommend them to the President.” Why should chairman MORRIS select the candidate for appointment to federal offices in Centre, Clearfield, Schuylkill or any other county? In the present Con- gress there are ten Democrats in the Pennsylvania delegation besides Mr. PAL- MER and each of them ought to have the | same power in theselection of appointees as Mr. PALMER. In any event Messrs. DONOHUE, LOGUE, DIFFENDERFER, CASEY, LEE, ROTHERMEL, LESHER, DERSHAM BAILEY, BRODBECK, and CARR should have a voice in selections for their own districts while ' citizens of the several counties are = entitled to seme consid- eration. 'No Senator in Congress for this or any other State has ever before under- taken such a mastery over the patronage of the administration as is expressed in that statenient. : The Democratic party has never toler- ated bosses. Democratic voters have never yielded to the mandates of the party dictator. And the party and voter will not change in habits of thought and action. Every appointment that ROLAND S. MORRIS makes in any county outside of the one in which he lives before the November election will cost A. MITCHELL PALMER and his associates on the Demo- cratic ticket scores or more of votes and it ought to be so. Mr. MORRIS is neither known to. nor a representative of the Democrats of Pennsylvania and his as- | suming the character of boss office broker is an impudent assurance which will and ought to be resented. Under Mr. CLEVELAND the official patronage belonging to the party was distributed upon petition of the Demo- cratic people of the locality or district to which the office belonged and to those whom these same Democratic people be- | lieved best entitled thereto. Then there was no-dictator nor one man business about the job. 2 —It seems that WILLIAM ROCKE- FELLER’S vocal glands get paralysis every time that multimillionaire is summoned to testify as to his operation in high finance. A good stiff punch in the neck, figuratively speaking, with the iron fist of the law,might make those too sensitive glands more useful to humanity. ——CARRANZA appears to be anxious, now that he has found out he doesn’t count for much, to be represented at the medi- ation at Niagara Falls. Probably it would be as well to admit him’but work will go on in any event. —If the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, by its examination of MORGAN & Co0’s books,is able to find out where the | in any way they liked. He abrogated ap entirely different reason though one ' ¢ missing $12,000,000 went to its labors will | not have been in vain. ——Whether ROOSEVELT’S river runs up hill or down is of little consequence but measuring the man by his last public’ statement it is certain that his“punch”is diminishing in force. —Of course there will be a lot of dis- puting as to responsibility for the disas- trous shipwreck off the Canadian coast, but the truth must be ascertained in the end. ——1If King ALFONSO has the least symp- tom of hospitality in his system he will stage a bull fight for the Colonel during his sojourn in the capital of Spain. ——It begins to look as if the threat of rebellion in Ulster was only a bluff. that Mr. — BELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 5, 1914. ! Roosevelt’s Treasonable Enterprise. | I Colonel ROOSEVELT'S sworn statement to the effect that in 1902, during the Anthracite coal strike, he had in con- templation a project to send an army into Pennsylvania and seize the coal mines, is clearly an appeal to the. social- ists, the anarchists and the lawless of all descriptions, for support of his future ambitions. His only confidant in the enterprise was the late Senator QUAY ‘and his plan was to subordinate all civil authority to a military despotism. He had already issued instructions to the general chosen to conduct the operations to disregard courts and pay attention to no orders or processes except those com- | ing from himself. It was a daring and ‘ dastardly form of treason. ' We are sometimes lost in amazement | when analyzing the methods introduced into Mexico by PERFIRIO DIAZ, late mili- | tary despot of that Republic. His justi- fication was the pretense and assertion , that the vast majority of the people of . that unfortunate country were illiterate and hopelessly benighted savages, in- ' capable of self government and constant- ly in need of a strong repressive force. Admitting such estimates as just, how- ever, thoughtful men refused to condone the usurpation and injustice of Diaz. But what must be said of a man who held in mind a purpose to debase the American government into a similar satrappy? It is almost inconceivable. Yet ROOSEVELT swears that it is true and there is no one to contradict. ernment has there been a more glaring conspiracy to plunge a people into anarchy. The late Senator QUAY was a spoilsman and a plotter, but it may be assumed that he balked at this treason- able enterprise for Governor STONE de- Never in the history of civilized gov- Mr. Bryan Surprised. ! — |" The Hon. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN cording to the news dispatches, when he found out that a couple of German ships had gone into the port of Puerto Mexico and discharged their cargoes of arms for the use of the HUERTA government. Mr. BRYAN had imagined that he had made arrangements with somebody to have | these ships return to the German port whence they came and there unload. They arrived at Vera Cruz the day the Anerican marines landed there and were warned off. Within the shadow of an impending war it didn't seem to our naval officers expedient to allow arms to be supplied to our prospective enemy. Mr. BRYAN then assumed control of the matter. © Mr. BRYAN is a great diplomat, no doubt, and an able statesman, but ap- parently addicted to somnolency. He must have been taking a nap during the proceedings of the Baltimore convention when the provision approving a generous subsidy to the Ship trust was written into the Democratic National platform. | He was certainly in a prolonged embrace of Morpheus while those German ships laden with munitions of war were float- | ing around the coast of Mexico searching for a place to land or else he would have prevented the landing. Possibly, how- ever, he was absorbed in the study of the Chautauqua programs during the period and forgot the menace which he is being paid to avert. Our distinguished Secretary of State is a masterful warrior on the bloodless battlefields of politics. His antypathies are intense and he can fight a private citizen no longer able to contribute freely ' to his individual campaigns with great i valor. He is a whole host on the stump was greatly surprised, the other day, ac- | clares that the plot was never brought in a mimic war between party factions in to his attention. ROOSEVELT states that, a State of which he is not a resident. But QUAY was to induce STONE to ask ROOSE- when it comes to a test of mental VELT to intervene in order to make the | strength and agility among men of af- subsequent operations possible. Obvi- | fairs, the stolid German or the crafty ously QUAY didn’t perform his part, | Mexican greaser can tie him in knots. If however. He would. g wireasury, im the course of events the Niagara Falls trade on information obtained as a Sena- | mediation fails and American soldiers are tor or perpetrate any ordinary political | compelled to fight their way to the crime. But he balked at treason. Only | Mexican capital, his incompetency or : thousands. i perifidy. —Secretary BRYAN has also learned | ——Another term of court has ended that the cargo of arms and ammunition ' and the case of Gamble, Gheen & Co. vs. discharged from German ships at Puerto ; the Borough of Bellefonte, has not been Mexico were manufactured in the United | brought to trial. And in the meantime States. This fact is only important in A 10W water or no water that much-talked- that it gives assurance that in the event | Of splash board calmly _eposes on the the guns are aimed at American soldiers, | breast of the dam, but as long as the | they will be effective. { usual summer stench from Spring creek {does not outrage the nostrils of the borough officials, what does it matter? Our One Political Prediction. Big Business and Commerce. We are not in the habit of predicting future political events. It is a hazardous | enterprise. Guessing the weather or bet- | ing to depress industry and commerce, ting on stock values is easier. But we | ger admits of doubt. These Cap- inee for President of the United States in 1916 if he is then living. He per-| on the public which will amount in the sonally despises the vast majority of | aggregate to hundreds of millions of dol- that body of the electorate which calls lars. Then. they hope by continued itself regular Republican. He has ap- | calamity howling to restore the Republi- plied to most of the leaders of that or-! can party to power and renew their ganization the most opprobrious epithets ' Jicense to loot through fhe medium of and condemned the rank and file as party | tariff taxation. Both of these nefarious reprobates and political criminals. But | projects ought to be defeated. A fair he wants their nomination for President share of the burdens of government and will get it. | ought to be put upon the shoulders of The regular Republican party is con- | those who are able to bear them. trolled absolutely by predatory corpora- | The other day a committee of Phila- | tions, selfish monopolies and sordid | delphia business men visited the Presi- j rusts. Those sinister interests want a) dent in Washington for the purpose of {man in the office of President of the discussing the business conditions with | United States whom they can use. JOHN him. They told him that industrial life | PIERPONT MORGAN would never have is languishing and commercial life stag- { attained half the power he wielded dur- | nant because the low rates of the UNDER- ing the years of his accendency in Wall | woop tariff law are flooding the country Street, if THEODORE ROOSEVELT had not | with low priced products of pauper labor { been his servile tool. All his lesser sat- | abroad. In 1909 industrial life languish- ellites from MELLEN, late of the New ed and commerial life stagnated though ' Haven railroad, to PERKINS of the Har- ' the practically prohibitive Dingley tariff | vester trust, are for him now as they '|aw was then in operation. The same , have always been. They could use him men were then engineering a panic for the railroads may levy an additional tax laws of Congress and prostituted powers that was equally selfish. The election of of administration to serve them as’ president WiLsoN checked their opera- against the people. | tion after five years of business paraly- ROOSEVELT’S pronunciamentary, issued sis. on the eve of his departure for Spain, !| If the country is being flooded with the the other day, was simply a proclamation low priced products of foreign labor the of his purpose to seize the regular Repub- fact might easily be converted into a lican nomination for President in 1916. blessing to the people. Low priced goods He knows and everybody else knows that means decreased cost of living unless that party can do nothing without vast manipulated markets defeat the laws of supplies of money and its only source of trade. Unhappily while these Captains revenue is the trusts and monopolies. | of Industry are complaining of stagnant ROOSEVLT has called MELLEN and PERKINS commerce they are manipulating the and their kind inevery section of the markets so as to deprive the people of country to come forward and buy the the advantage which low prices and place he covets for him and we predict wholesome competition would insure. they will do what he wants. They need They are stifling trade in order to justify him as he needs them and the dynamic their calamity predictions and hope force of predatary desire will bring them thereby to restore the Republican party together in one final effort -to loot the 'to power and resume their dastardly public. operations of looting the public. THEODORE ROOSEVELT was equal to such failures will provide means for killing ! That so-called “big business” is striv- . are disposed to take chances upon one tains bf Industry are influenced to this prediction. It is that THEODORE ROOSE- | course by two objects. They want to: VELT will be the regular Republican nom- , foree an increase in freight rates so that NO. 28. Our Mexican Problem. From Collier's Weekly. : Huerta’s house of sand is crumbling day by day. The capture of Tampico gave the itutionalists an important port on the Gulf of Mexico, completed their conquest of the north, drove Huer- ta’s defense back on the line of Mexico City, and deprived him of ‘important sources of revenue. There are no signs that any foreign power is coming to his aid, and the fall of his regime seems to involve little more than arranging an exit which will be safe and not too dis- graceful. Now the reconstruction work must begin. If the United States, acting as the first friend of the Constitutional- ists, can supply the plans and practical methods for such a system of public in- struction as has been put into force in the Philippine Islands, then Mexican civilization may in time be made over and faced toward the future. It is es- exploitation of the peons be “stopped. This will involve some such ‘purchase and redistribution of the land as has been accomplished in Ireland and New | franchise tax policy and rigid require- | ments as to conditions of employment. | These measures will not appease the | blood-and-iron fanatics, but the United | States can do more for Mexico by carry- ing them to successful establishment than by leaving a trail of death and | glory from Chihuahua to Campeche. | Tyrannies rise only to fall, and the life of a nation must be based on justice. Is our idealism equal to the task? War’s Costly Sequel. From the Newark News. It would be well for those warlike souls who insist that it is the duty of the United States to intervene in Mexico to spend a few moments in counting the cost; not only in the immediate expendi- ture of blood and treasure, in loss of life and the diversion of thousands from channels of productive employment, but in the burden of pensions that must be borne for years to come. In the 48 years that have elapsed since the close of the Civil war the nation has spent, and spent gladly and ungrudgingly four and a quarter billion dollars on ac- count of pensions growing out of that struggle. The Spanish-American war was not much of a war as wars. go, but the annual pension list arising from it is ‘now $29,000,000, and is likely io wecome larger. : ; War with Mexico would mean a tre- mendously augmented pension roll, and as experience with Civil war pensions has proved, 50 years hence the people of the United, States would still be paying mil- lions of dollars every year on account of a conflict which would be as much an- cient history to most of those then living as is che last Mexican war to men of the present day. It is a tremendous burden to place upon posterity and can be justified only by unescapable necessity. Roosevelt and the Tariff. . From the Philadelphia Record. | It was not to be expected that Mr. Roosevelt would be pleased with any- thing the President has effected; he would be as likely to express his disap- i proval of anything done by Mr. Taft, were he President. But as Mr. Roose- velt was a low-tariff man until his am- bitions led him to adjust his opinions to suit those of the Republican party, we ought to get a just estimate of the pres- . ent tariff from him, which we do not. He says the reduction of the tariff has not helped matters a particle, and not the slightest progress has been made in solving the Trust problem. Of course : this is not true, whether one approves of the measures now in process of prepara- ! tion or not. There is undoubted pro- | gress. Mr. Roosevelt is confident that . only the Progressive tenets “will secure ! good results instead of fine phrases.” But | the only Progressive tenet on the subject i is that Mr. Roosevelt should be Presi- { dent and should have ample power to deal with each business concern by itself. | His own judgment or discretion is the |only rule of administration that Mr. Roosevelt has formulated. Not Cowards, are They? ! From the Milwaukee Journal. - i What has become of the Wilson Demo- i cratic leaders in Wisconsin? Where are | the gallant men who led the Democrats i of Wisconsin to victory a year ago when | the choice was between Wilson and an | old-style Bourbon Democrat who would {have filled the office as President as well {as and not unlike a Tory Republican? i Are the Democrats to let the election in { this State go by default to men who | while calling themselves Democrats differ little, if any, from Tory Republicans? The Wilson Democratic leaders in Wis- onsin are not cowards, aré they? The | Wilson Democratic press of Wisconsin is | not afraid to stand up for its great leader upon whom the present and future of its party rests, is it? At Niagara. From the Chicago Tribune. Formally they are dealing not with the i active agents of Mexican revolution, but ' with the weakening resistance to it. They are dealing with the passing order and | not with the coming. The success of the { Niagara conference depends upon the decision of Mexicans who have declined to be represented at it. To —. J. B Put the Can in Candidate. i From the New York World. There is life in the old guard yet. Be- cause an Ohio newspaper tauntingly re- ferred to Joseph B. Foraker as politically dead he has angrily announced himself as a candidate for the United States Senate. sential, however, that the old merciless | Zealand. The concessionaire problem is. one of great diplomatic delicacy, but may be approached by means of a just’ SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —The mill of the Buffalo Flour Mill company, of Milton, was totally destroyed by fire on Deco- ration ‘day, entailing-a loss of $7,500. How the fire started is unknown. . —Mrs. J. Gilso, of Westmoreland City, dropped dead Wednesday afternoon after running a quar- ter of a mile to get out of a storm. She was 25 years old and. is survived by her husband and one child. —James Green, a trackwalker, of Williams- port, befriended a man on Saturday night and gave him a night's lodging in his shanty. When he arose Sunday morning he found the man gone and with him $12 and a gold watch. —Johnstown’s new Y. M.C. A. building erect- ed at a cost of approximately $250,000, was for- mally dedicated Sunday afternoon, the principal address being delivered by Dr. Edwin E. Sparks, president of Pennsylvania State College. —A strange woman appeared in Williamsport the other day and worked a swindling game on the banks at that place, securing $100. She used the name of a well known physician of Williams- port and after getting the money left the city. -=Dr. George D. Nutt, an eminent surgeon of Williamsport, and dean of the Williamsport med- ical fraternity, died at that place on Saturday morning at the age of 67 years. He was known as one of the State’s most successful and skillful surgeons. ; —William Carmichael, of Lockport, on Thurs- day discovered the body of an unknown man ly. ing on a small island in the Conemaugh river. The man wore a heavy sweater and two shirts, and it is believed that he died sometime during the winter months. —When the trustees of Lafayette College hold their next stated meeting on June 16 a sub-com- mittee, named a few weeks ago, is expected to submit a preliminary report offering candidates for the presidency of the institution to succeed Dr. E. D. Warfield.’ : —Mrs. Frances Pacifico, of Big Run, was shot on Saturday night by Pasquale Badia, an Italian, who was under the influence of liqucr. While drunk he had a desire to kill some body and told a friend so on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Pacifico died soon after in the hospital at Punxsutawney. —Mrs. Clarke B. Else and her sister Esther Sloatman, were drowned in the Susquehanna river at Williamsport, when the canoe in which they were upset. They sank immediately and ef- forts to rescue them proved unsuccessful. The bodies were recovered near the place where they went down. 1 —Harry Smith, of Johnstown, while working on a new building, fell forty feet into a pool of water one foot and a half deep. Monday after- noon. Besides bruisesto the shoulder and arm, he had a gash cut in his head which required one stitch. His escape from other injuries is regard- ed as miraculous. —Charles E. Tedrow. 52 years of age, was struck by lightning and instantly killed on the public road between Rockwood and New Centre- ville, Somerset county, on Friday afternoon. He had been working on the road and sought shel- ter under a giant locust tree, which was split sev- eral feet by the force of the bolt. —Refused a marriage license recently at the clerk’s office at Greensburg because he was 75 years old and believed to be unable to support a wife, Theodore Merlong was found dead at his home in Smithton, Westmoreland county. Grief over the refusal to permit him to wed is believed to have caused the old man’s death. —Caterpillars are now at their worst in Loyal- sock and Eldred townships, Lycoming county, trees along the road being loaded with the pests. No one seems to be paying any attention to them or is making any attempt at extermination. In another week the trees now carrying nests by the dozen will be stripped bare of foliage. —When rescuers tried to save Dominick Kauts, who had been struck by a train near Johnstown, and whose life-blood was oozing away, on Sun- day morning, a trackwalker tried to prevent them. The people, however, took the bleeding man to the hospital after he lay onthe track for twenty minutes. He died soon afterwaxd. —With the initial expenditure of $75,000 Harry McCreary, one of Indiana’s progressive citizens and business men, has started work on the erec- tion of a rubber plant in that town that will give employment to a large number of skilled work- men and place Indiana on the map as one of the large rubber factory centres in the country. —Curwensville, Clearfield county, is without a first-class hotel, the doors of the Park and the Central having closed Monday. Following the refusal of a renewal of the liquor licenses, the proprietors Monday refused to serve any meals and the hotel buildings will be used for other purposes. The Park hotel has been conducted by Dorsey Griffith. —E. L. Erhard, of East Wheatfield township, Indiana county, has sold two tracts of coal, com- prising 176 acres, to the Kiskiminetas Coal com- pany, which has purchased other mineral rights in that locality within the last few months and now controls in the neighborhood of 1,000 acres of coal. The consideration is said to have been in the neighborhood of $8,700. —Mrs. Annie Hengst, of Hollidaysburg, who recently masqueraded in men’s clothing, turned highwayman and attempted, with drawn revol- ver, to make Henry Ebaugh, cashier of the Pitts- burgh Supply store, stand and deliver his cash box, was sentenced Monday by the Blair county court to undergo four months’ jail imprisonment. The explanations assigned for the woman’s con- duct were that her mind had become (eranged by drugs and sensational moving pictures. —The Board of Trade of Scranton has an- nounced the successful organization of a new plan of civic development by which “the Scran- ton million dollar investment company’ has been formed. This company will invest in manufac- tories which go to Scranton. Subscriptions of $145,000 more than the million of stock wanted has been subscribed, the local banks took $200,- 000. The officers of the board of trade say they could have sold $2,000,000 of stock without diffi- culty. * |—*"Yellow” Lydick, a notorious Indiana char- acter, broke into a hotel in that town and after fortifying himself with strong drink left, taking with him a number of bottles and jugs. Becom- ing sleepy he decided to make a bed and instead of getting into an occupied house he broke a window leading to the basement of the county jail. The sheriff wakened by the noise, on going to the basement found Lydick asleep and he will be tried at the June term of court on several charges. —The Blairsville College for Women, one of the most prosperous institutions in the State a half century ago, has been sold at assignees sale for $11,000. The purchasers were the bondhold- ers, local men, having had the welfare of the in- stitution at heart for a number of years. The bondholders held claims of over $20,000 against the college, which was responsible for the low price at which it was sold. The total indebted- ness of the college is $33,000. The college was founded in 1851. —Through the efforts of Constable W. W. Pet- tingill, a Lock Haven hotel man a few days ago secured $25 on an old board bill, which he had given up getting. The dead beat was a travel- ing man from Lewisburg, who at the time tender- ed a check in payment; the check proved to be worthless. Promises were made by the traveling man to settle the bill, but he never made good. The matter was placed in the hands of Consta- ble Pettingill, who went to Lewisburg and placed the fellow under arrest. He then managed to scrape up the $25 and $9.84 in costs.
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