Deworraiic atcha BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —Soon we will have seven joyous days of Chautauqua. —After all, there aren’t many nicer places than right here in Centre county. ——What the Republican politicians really need at this time is some sort of a pest that will destroy the wheat crop. ——Judging by the record of absentees it looks as if most of the Congressmen had joined the “army of the unemployed”. —Sunday was the longest day of the year. Already daylight is gradually be- coming less. For those who love sum- mer this is a melancholy truth. —An exchange remarks that “new bathing suits are attracting attention at the shore.” Really! Is it the suit or what it doesn’t cover that is attracting the attention. —When the store keepers and others in Hoxie, Kansas, have to close up their places of business and go into the har- vest fields to help the farmers out it doesn’t look like there is a very great army of unemployed in that section. —VILLA has started in the march to capture the city of Mexico. As VILLA usually accomplishes that which he sets out to do those A. B.C. mediators had | better do something P. D. Q. or what will happen will begin with H. and end! with L. —The “rorie-borie-alice,”” or some- thing-else, was very brilliant in the north- western skies Wednesday evening. It : was probably the reflection of the flush ! of victory on BoB FOSTER’S face as he! whispered: “I told you so” to somebody : at State College. —Some of the calamity howlers here- abouts might find work at Whiterock quarries if they are not too much oc- cupied trying to make people believe that there is no work to be found. Men from that operation are now in the west- | ern part of the State hunting labor. —Two weeks of a summer vacation are not going to build up what you have | been tearing down at for the other fifty weeks. Especially will this be so if the two weeks you are planning to take are not given over to complete relaxation from every care that is now resting upon you. —A great many reasons are being ad- vanced now in support of the newest ~ clamor to have three-cent pieces minted again. Isita sign of improvement that no one has suggested that with the three- cent pisée again in circulation. we would soon have three-cent beers? Or are all the fellows who are hoping for that event- uality merely sawing wood. —The ups and downs of politics are truly strange. It was county: chairman | ARTHUR KIMPORT who turned the Centre county Democracy over to Messrs. PAL- MER and McCorMICK. That act gave the Hon. ROBERT FOSTER, the political soldier of fortune, the opportunity to march into the postoffice at State College right over ARTHUR'S cousin, SAMUEL KiMPORT who, rumor says, wasa very! popular aspirant for the place. —All the merchants, lawyers, printers, bankers and other business men of Hoxie, Kan., have closed their shops and gone to the harvest fields to help the nearby farmers to garner their harvests. Hoxie is a prosperous agricultural town, made so by the surrounding farms, and its business men are only storing up more coin for their own tills by turning out to save the crops from spoiling in the fi:lds for want of sufficient help to garner them. —It is predicted now that on the after- noon of July 3rd the Interstate Commerce Commission will hand down a decision in “the rate case” that will be, at least, partially favorable to the railroads. Such a determination of the long drawn out case would certainly act as a stimulus to business, for with greater freight revenues assured the railroad companies will at once place suspended orders for equipment and activity in the steel and iron industries will be materially quick- ened. While public sentiment has been exploited to the limit to affect the deci- sion we trust that for the integrity of the Commission it will be found to have had no effect upon the decision to be rendered. —The suspense is over at State Col- lege. The Hon. ROBERT FOSTER has been named postmaster for a term of four years. While it was very generally stat- ed that Mr. FOSTER was not the popular choice, even those who are most dis- pleased with his success will unhesitat- ingly admit that he has the qualificaticn to make a very competent official. And, after all, the appointment is only de- served recompense for the service he has performed, within the past two years, for those who are handing out the federal patronage. Certainly to the victors be- long the spoils and the Hon. ROBERT has succeeded most signally in exploiting the Democratic voters of State College in each one of the three contests that have taken place within the party ‘since the new bosses have assumed control. Whether the vote was secured through his influence or by other causes makes no difference the victories were to his credit because he was the open and above : treasonable enterprise. board leader in that district. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 59. NO. 26. The People are Behind Wilson. | Certain business men having organized a sort of “Round Rubin” to knock against the policies of the administration, Presi- | dent WILSON very promptly and with some emphasis, called them down. There- upon they immediately organized a sort of “endless chain,” to accuse the Presi- dent of denying the right of petition. “By order of the President,” says the es- teemed Greensburg Tribune, ‘“the busi- ness man ‘back home’ is not allowed to write to his Congressman telling him what legislation would be best for the country.” President WILSON has put no embargo upon the rights, liberties or correspon- dence of the business man “back home” or anywhere else so long as he remains within the law. But conspiracy is a crime and when it takes the form of a | purpose to paralyze business in order to discredit the administration it becomes a | crime of the highest turpitude. No busi- ness man “back home,” so far as our in- formation goes, has engaged in such a But certain sin- ister influences have been put in motion by agents of predatory monopolies to compass this result and President WIL- SON has exposed them. Industrial and commercial life has been in a state of depression all over the world for some months and certain so- called “Captains of Industry’ are trying to use the fact, so far as it relates to this : country,to force the President to abandon certain policies which he and other lead- ers of his party believe to be in the in- terest of the people. When the President discovered that this unpatriotic scheme had taken the form of a conspiracy, he denounced it with becoming emphasis and directness. But he has asked nobody to refrain from writing letters or other- wise telling Congresmen what legislation they want. - What is commonly called “Big Busi- ness” in this country had fallen into the bad habit of controlling both Congress and the President in official affairs. When legislation inimical to their selfish inter- ests was introduced Mr. MORGAN, Mr. of the Money trust or the Steel trust would go down to Washington and call it off. They regarded the right to ex- ploit business in their own interest as securely vested in them. President WiL- SON has given them another guess and the people will support him in it. ——Auditor General POWELL, who with- holds from the Highway Department the funds necessary to build roads, is highly indignant because the Highway Depart- ment doesn’t proceed with road building. ! Roosevelt’s Political Plans. It may be true that Colonel ROOSEVELT | stated in a recent interview that he will | not run for Governor of New York this year but whether he runs for Governor of New York or not this year depends ; upon something other than his statement. | If when about the time is ripe for the nomination of a Governor of New York | the signs are favorable for his election he | will run and the Progressive who gets in | his way will be bowled over. An elec- | tion for Governor of New York this year would materially help his campaign for President two years hence and ROOSE- VELT will do anything fair or unfair to consummate that ambition. But as we have said before Colonel ROOSEVELT will not depend upon the. Progressive vote to elect him President in 1916. He is going to take the Repub- lican nomination for that office whether the Republican leaders like it or not. In fact we believe that he would prefer to meet the resistance of the Republican leaders so that he could grab the coveted prize with one hand while he was chok- ing the political life out ot them with the other. It would be a grand achievement and the Colonel delights in spectacular performances. Besides he would enjoy the sufferings of the victims of his politi- cal prowess. ROOSEVELT believes that he was cheat- ed out of the Republican nomination two years ago and probably he was. Anyway it is reasonably certain that if there had been no coercion of the southern dele- gates he would have been nominated. There will be southern delegates the next time, to be sure, and they will be of the same type as those that disappointed him in 1912. But he will have equal chance with any other candidate to cor- ral them and PERKINS, FLINN, FRICK and others of those who “have been so friendly” to him in the past will hardly allow pikers like CHARLIE TAFT to get away with the pork barrel. ——The mediators at Niagara Falls may not achieve much in the line of settling Mexican troubles but they have had a good time without much expense to themselves. —Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. ! and too long drawn out activity. There- President Wilson’s Policy Approved. With practical unanimity the people of ; the country approve of the plans and purposes of the President, with respect to Mexico, as expressed in current Wash- ington news dispatches. “As for the in- fluence of American investors in Mexi- can concessions,” according to highly responsible authority, “the President has not taken them or any of their plans info consideration. He does not know them nor does he regard them as in any sense parties to the present controversy. It is with him not a question of preserv- ing the rights or promoting the claims of any American concessionaire, but a ques- tion solely of securing to the people of Mexico a stable government based upon their will and administering to their wel- fare and happiness.” Of course there are some -selfish and sordid citizens who will complain of this policy. There may be a few men and women who imagine that it is unfortu- nate that the moral duty of this govern- ment to protect its citizens abroad should be ignored in a conception of mortality that concerns itself only with the mis- fortunes of a semi-barbarous people,” as the esteemed Philadelphia Public Ledger puts it and that the preservation of life and the restoration of prosperity and happiness in Mexico “are not germane” to the office of President of the United States. But happily there are not enough of them to command serious attention. The vast majority of citizens of the Unit- ed States hold human life and happiness higher than questionable claims to foreign property. : Most of the concessionaires in Mexico are adventurers who acquired titles to property by devious means and the gov- ernment of the United States is under no moral obligation to protect such claims, even if held by American citizens, at the expense of justice and humanity. But the government of the United States is under moral obligation to protect the lives and conserve the happiness of the’ millions Mexico who are victims of the rapacity ios bandit of thief own eda try. In this condition of affairs President WILSON has set out to fulfill his obliga= 1c . Mc of foreign investors and the cupidity of is PERKINS, Mr} FRICK or sbme othei agent” ; tions as he understands them and in his undertaking he has the moral support of i his countrymen. : ——GIFFORD PINCHOT promptly comes to the support of AMOS in his demand for the elimination of PERKINS from the | management of the Bull Moose machine. | But GIFFORD and AMoOs are willing to | spend their own money. It is different | ' with ROOSEVELT and in the last analysis | “what he says goes.” The Question of Adjournment. We cordially agree with Representative UNDERWOOD, of Alabama, floor leader of the majority, that Congress ought to ad- journ as soon as possible. It has been in session, almost without interruption since April, 1913, and the country is heartily tired of its palaver. It has accomplished much within the period and its record of achievement is without parallel in the history of the country. But the public is tired of it, nevertheless, and the Senators and Representatives are tired of the pro- longed grind. Their physical force and mental agility are impaired by over-strain fore Congress ought to adjourn “as soon as possible.” But yielding due respect to their obli- gations Senators and Representatives in Congress cannot abandon their work until it is finished. It is not possible to adjourn until the work of the session is completed without stultification, if not perfidy. The majority in both branches of the body is under solemn pledge to enact certain legislation. Part, even ! most, of this legislation has been enacted. ! But the moral obligation covers all of it and the pledge will not be fulfilled until the pending trust bills are sent to the President for approval. To adjourn be- fore that would be a betrayal of solemn | obligations and honest and honorable | men do not betray such obligations. Most of the Democratic Senators and Representatives in Congress who are running for re-election, deserve the favor | of another term. Remaining in Wash- ington in the performance of their official duty is giving their competitors an ad- vantage—possibly an unjust advantage when the campaign is on. But if they will address themselves to their work with the energy and determination they are able to summon, they will easily com- plete it in time to present their cases to the public and their record will be their best recommendation. That being true it is up to Congress to move forward with the necessary celerity. It can finish its work and adjourn by the first of September. i ——For high class Job Work come to ' the WATCHMAN Office. BELLEFONTE, PA. J UNE 26, 1914. Mr, Palmer’s Views and Errors. a In a letter addressed to the editor of the Allentown Democrat and recently published in that earnest and able Demo- cratic paper the Hon. A. MITCHELL PAL- MER, Democratic nominee for Senator in ongress for Pennsylvania, expresses the belief that if the Democrats of the State are united and zealous for the ticket independent Republicans in suffi- cient number to guarantee victory will vote for our candidates. The letter was in reply to a complaint of the Democrat against the methods adopted by the party managers in preparing and pro- mulgating the platform. Mr. PALMER defends the star-chamber processes under the specious plea that he and VANCE Mc- GORMICK were commissioned by the peo- ple to make the platform in the way they adopted, or any other way. © Upon a vote of about fifty per cent. of the total strength of the party Mr. McCoRMICK was nominated for Governor by a majority of about ten per cent. of the vote cast after ving spent in the neighborhood of thirty times as much money as his com- petitor used in the campaign. Possibly he would have been nominated without such a lavish use of money, for party patronage is a potent force in politics and the promise of office is sometimes as effective asthe jingle of gold. But he took no chances of an appeal to patriot- ism upon a common level with his less wealthy and probably more circumspect antagonist. A nomination by so small a thargin under such sinister circumstances ardly carries with it a commission to revoke the party traditions of a century and set up a system of bossism repug- nant to every earnest party impulse. "We fully concur in Mr. PALMER'S esti- mate of the result of a full and united Democratic vote supplemented by the support of independent Repub- cans who ‘would - likely join us under such conditions. But star- Se g up the claim oO EERO boss he would -employ his considerable ability in an effort to harmonize the dif- ferences which are now distracting the Democratic voters, the beneficent result which he predicts might be fulfilled and we earnestly hope he will do so. The hysteria which endorses every slander against former party leaders has passed forever. ——PFollowing almost a month of ex- treme dry weather the droughtiwas brok- en by two good showers last Friday. They were followed by an all-night’s rain Sunday night and another one on Mon- day night, so that the ground has been well soaked. Though the rain is too late to do the clover crop any good, it will help the timothy and increase the hay tonnage in Centre county thousands of dollars worth. The rain also came in good time for the corn and potatoes, as well as the late berry crop, but some of the cherries have been so stunted by the dry weather that they are not fit to market. : ——In the United States there are ap- proximately 750,000 national banks. Of this vast number only 1,500 have been des- ignated by the United States comptroller of currency as entitled to a place upon the honor roll. One of these is the First National bank of Hoxie, Kan., of which Edward M. Speer, son of the late W. T. Speer, of Bellefonte, is cashier. bank also ranks twenty-second among the hundreds of banks in Kansas, and much of the credit for its exceptionally high rating is due to cashier Speer’s splendid management. ——The attention of the people of Bellefonte is called to the fact that the Chautauqua program recently distributed around town is wrong. It specifies Mon- day as the opening day of the Bellefonte Chautauqua, whereas it should be Tues- day, July 7th. The program specified for Saturday evening will be the closing exercises on Monday evening, July 13th. ——Close observers were not greatly surprised when a disagreement between CARRANZA and VILLA was announced. Men of their type usually want to run things their own way and when their ways diverge there is sure to be trouble. ——The Colonel may have lost his voice as stated in the news dispatches, but it is a safe bet that he knows where to find it when it will serve his ambitions. Se — ————————— ——Of course an income tax is inquis- itorial but any income tax payer may easily avoid the unpleasant part of it by making an honest return of his income. ——Possibly RoLAND'S. MORRIS thinks it's greater tobe chief of a faction than private in the ranks of an harmonious force. ~ : hamber methods and factional conspir- | men, women and children in | 5, ! This: ! 1 Who Wrecked It. From the Scranton Daily News. Now and then we hear of a man who says he is going to stand by the Repub- lican party because he don’t want to see it broken up and will not be one of those who are trying to wreck it. Let’s take a square look at the facts. Theodore Roosevelt may be taken as the best rep- resentative of one time Republicans who are now said to be engaged in breaking up the Republican party. Let's see who are the party workers. In 1912 two men went to Chicago. Both were life- long Republicans. One was Penrose, the other was Roosevelt. The ‘Republicans of Pennsylvania (there was no split there) had voted at a regular primary on these two men. By an immense majority the Republicans of Pennsylvania had in- structed Boies Penrose, the national com- mitteeman from this State, to favor Roosevelt for President. Pennsylvania Republicans at a regular primary had sent an almost solid delegation to Chicago to ratify their choice in the convention. Mr. Penrose can have any opinions he likes but when he is acting in a purely representative capacity the vote of the Republicans of his State is binding on im. What did Mr. Penrose say to the rank and file of the party which had given him high place and public honors for many years? How did he treat their mandate? He defied, insulted every Republican vot- er in the State and proceeded to frame up the “steal” by which a little bunch of corporation henchmen, “bosses,” by means of a sordid technical manipula- tion of certain “rules” understood only by themselves, could defeat the will of the great mass of the Republican voters of the country. Who wrecked the Republican party? The Hon. Boies Penrose, more than any other living man. How did he wreck it? By resorting to plain thievery to get what he could no longer get by appealing to the intelligence and patriotism of his fellow Republicans. The wrecking of the Republican party began with steal- ing, and stealing is going to finish the work of destruction. Little crooks learn from big crooks. Little thieves dote on the tricks of big thieves. So the little: Republican bosses all over the State have taken their cue from the big bosses and stealing is now the approved means of winning public office and patronage. Who is Villa’s Halleck? From the Johnstown Democrat. = It must be acknowledged that for a f | “murderous bandit” Villa has conducted th his supreme chief, = misunderstanding wi Carranza. The fighter, ordered to the rear, obeyed orders. He was named as Governor of Chihuahua and immediately got busy on the job. The Constitutional- ists found however, that they needed Villa at the front. That fighting man declared that he was willing to take hold of the job of capturing Mexico City; that he would agree to recognize Carranza as the supreme chief in absolute control of the civil situation and the foreign rela- tions, but that if he was to lead the at- tack he would be the supreme military chief. Those who are familiar with the history of our own Civil war will remem- ber that many a good general was ham- pered and harrassed as a result of politi- cal intrigues. Even Grant was for a time placed on the waiting list, being given an unimportant detail. And Grant did just as Villa has done. He went where he was sent. There is undoubtedly a. Hal- leck connected with the Mexican rev- olution, and if the Mexican Halleck has made as much trouble for Villa as the American Halleck did for Grant one is rather astonished at the “murderous bandits” moderation. Vacation Philosophy. From the Indianapolis News. Do not spend more money than you can readily afford to spend. No benefit accrues from trving to squeeze a $100 vacation out of a $50 appropriation. It is far better, on the contrary, to take a vacation with your $50 allowance. You will enjoy it more, because you will not be harrassed and nagged by the fear of lack of means or by the necessity of counting every cent and of getting the utmost out of every nickel. Some per- sons, perhaps, may not mind this sort of mental labor, with its attendant worry, but most of us do. We invariably dis- count it, however, before the vacation is begun, only to regret it as soon as we are started. And the secret of the art of get- ting the most out of vacation lies ini fore- seeing this regret and forestalling it—in having not only barely enough money, but more than enough to do what you plan to do. It is better to take a trolley ride and come home solvent than to jour- ney to the seaside and pawn your watch to get back. Vacations ought to afford freedom from vexation and not merely result in changing a familiar care. The Political Outlook. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. : The movement of the Sugar Barons o Louisiana to break the Solid South by falling out of the Democratic and drop- ping into the Bull Moose column is char- acteristic not only of modern, but of un- iversal politics. The Bull Moose seems to be atonce an amphibious animal and a hermaphrodite. He stands half-way between Hell and the iron works, the Devil and the deep blue sea. Thus he can swim or eat live coals, as the case requires, be a woman or a man at will. In the North he is a dissatisfied Repub- lican, in the South a disgruntled Demo- crat. In Louisiana ene might call him old Sugar-in-the-Gourp, in Pennsylvania, the He-Goat of High Tariff, In Roosevelt he is masculine, in Perkins feminine, and in Pinchot neuter. and nothing long, his votaries worship at the shrine of Teddy of the Forked Tongue and the. Tiger Heart, whilst Teddy rides him for all he may be worth. All things by turns. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —William H. Clawson, a veteran hotel man of Indiana, was acquitted by the jury, after an all night session, of the charge of arson in connec- tion with the burning of the Kinter house, last January. —Two armed robbers secured over three hun- dred dollars in cash and some valuable jewelry, early Thursday morning, at New Alexandria, Westmoreland county, by breaking and entering the general store of Weiss and Schwartz. —Five Williamsport hotel prorietors are charg- ed with violations of the female labor law. They are alleged to have employed women seven days in the week when the law provides that no em- ployed woman shall be permitted to labor more than six days a week. —The smallpox epidemic in Snyder county, which gave the State Health Department consid- erable concern because of the many people who had been in contact with developed cases, has '| been held in check, and it is now said that there need be no further fear of a spread of the disease. —At the recent meeting of the Woman's Mis- sionary society of the United Brethren church, held at Braddock, Mrs. W. H. Spangler, of Phil- ipsburg, was elected vice president of the eastern district and a delegate to the Woman's Mission board meeting, which will likely be held in the west. —Henry Cramer, of Kingwood, is in the Som- erset jail, charged with the felonious shooting of W. H. Trimpey, who will likely die from the re- sults. The tragedy culminated a feud of a few years, when the principals were residents of Lew- istown, held over a dispute concerning the build- ing of a fence. —Charles Pugh, son of James E. Pugh, secre- tary and treasurer of the Williamsport Steam - Heat company, was run down and killed by an engine in the Lansford tunnel of the Central Rail- road of New Jersey near Tamaqua, last Satur- day. Pugh was twenty-fi¥e years old and well known in Williamsport. —With a ligted toby in his mouth, the body of Martin Folk was found in his room at the home of Jacob Eschrick, at Stoyestown on Monday, a few minutes after he had sent a bullet into his brain. No motive for the suicide is known other than that Folk had been drinking heavily. He was 45 years of age and unmarried. —Charges of disturbing a religious gathering and resisting an officer were made against Mrs. Bertha Porter and daughter, Miss Clara Porter, who created a disturbance, it is said, during ser- vices in the United Presbyterian church at Clin” tonville, a small town 16 miles from Franklin. The women were locked up, but afterward gave $1,000 bail. —When a big motor car turned turtle at Tip- ton early Sunday morning, three Tyrone youths, Harry Albright, Arthur Piper and George Shires, were probablp fatally hurt. All were held pris- oners beneath the heavy car for hours. The steering gear failed, and the car skidded and overturned. Piper and Shires are in the Altoona hospital and may die. —It is likely that rewards aggregating $1,000 which were offered for the apprehension of Frank G. Hohl, the Union bank of Altoona ban- dit, will never be paid. No demands of any kind * have been made on the county or the bank by anyone connected with the arrest of Hohl, at Sa- lem, O., and until such demands are made the reward will not be paid. —The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Mi- chael, of Westline, McKean county, was almost instantly killed and Miss Bertha Zurflush,aged 14, | of Emporium, was seriously injured when an au- tomobile driven by J. H. Rose, Ridgway, hit them on Main street, near the railroad station, Satur-. day afternoon. The girl was carrying the baby and the mother was following. ED :=Hon. Thomas H. Murray has presented the Clearfield County Law association with portraits of three former judges in that county. The pic- tures represent Hon. Charles Huston, Hon. Thomas Burnside, and Hon. George Woodward. Mr. Murray in presenting the portraits said that he considers Judge Woodward to have been one of the most learned judges Pennsylvania ever had. —Alexandria seems to regard motorists with disfavor. Some person there is strewing tinner’s nails, and autoists are having trouble. The Huntingdon New Era says that no investigation will be made, as the local authorities, who held up their notices of speed law violations for two weeks, till they got nearly sixty ints the net at $14 each, appear to be in sympathy with the of- fenders. —The Orangeville Agriculture Works owned by H. W. Conner, were totally destroyed by fire, discovered at 3.40 o’clock Friday morning, entail- ing a loss of $36,000. Fora half hour it seemed certain that the entire town of Orangeville, near Bloomsburg, would be destroyed, but fortunate- ly, by hard work on the part of the citizens, fires in many of the homes were extinguished. The whole town fought the fire. —The State Spanish-American war veterans, at their tenth annual convention at Easton on Tuesday, expressed thanks to the Pennsylvania Congressmen who supported the Key bill, pro- viding for pensions for widows and orphans of Spanish war veterans and directed that letters of thanks be forwarded to Senators Penrose and Oliver for their efforts toward having the bill passed by the Senate. Johnstown won out over Norristown for next year’s convention by a vote of 66 to 36. —Conductor Chambers Bowers, of Kittanning, is one of the oldest employees in point of service on the Allegheny division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mr. Bowers has been on the road for 45 years. In 1869, when he was but 17 years of age, he became a freight brakeman on the old Allegheny Valley, and for many years has been a passenger conductor. It is estimated that he has traveled 45,000 miles a year, which would be over 2,000,000 miles for the 45 years, or a distance equal to 80 trips around the world. —Angelo Terranova, slaver of William Ander- son, will be tried in the Bedford county courts and not in Huntingdon county, as was first be- lieved. This became known on Saturday when a corps of civil engineers completed their survey of the county line near Woodvale, determinining that the scene of the crime, an old spring, was just 142 feet over the line in Bedford county. Ac- cordingly, Terranova, who was being held by the Huntingdon county authorities, will be turn- ed over to the Bedford county officials. —Fire which broke out late Thursday afternoon in the main building of the L. Martin & Co. plant at Johnsonburg, manufacturers of lamp black. due to spontaneous combustion, completely de- stroyed the building, which collapsed within a half hour, the flames then spreading to the ware- house, containing seven carloads of finished product, but which was saved.after a heroic fight, despite the fact that the water pressure was low. The total loss will reach about $35,000 including buildings, machinery and stock. A part of the loss is covered by insurance. —While returning from the funeral of John Jordon Friday afternoon, Alexander Schwab and two sons took refuge under a large tree when near their home just below Cameron, during a thunder storm. While standing under the tree it was struck by lightning and the ball of fire went down the tree and struck Mr. Schwab in the leg, tore the tree to splinters and set fire to the clothes of the man and boys, badly burning all of them. A horse which was standing under the tree was killed. Mrs. Schwab, who was in the house near by, ran to their assistance and aided in putting out the fire.
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