enor Mica. |
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
om————
INK SLINGS.
— Just eighty-five days until Christmas.
Begin shopping now. |
—Good morning, steam heat!
you on or are you yet to come?
—Next week we would be having the
county fair if we were going to have one.
——Maybe that rush of the allies on |
Sunday was a bluff but a bluff wins if it
isn’t called.
—It was the recali we wanted in Dr.
DuMBA’s case and there is to be no refer- |
endum about it.
—It is possible that the Grand Duke is
running yet, but the Czar has succeeded
in getting his armies to face about.
—Making hay in October is rather an
unusual occurrence among Centre coun-
ty farmers, yet lots of them are at it.
—The sun gives 60C,000 times the light
that a full moen does yet men get lit up
more frequently by moon-light than they
do by sun-light.
—Political pow-wows are being held in
Bellefonte every night, but woe unto
the candidate who thinks he can pow-
wow votes to the polls in November.
—Many a man who ate goose on
Michaelmas day figured that the good
luck that was his due came when he
didn’t groan with indigestion as a result
of the feast.
—We can’t imagine another place in
the world where a goodly amount of the
coin of the realm would come in as han-
dy just now, as right in this office. Can't
you send us a little.
—The long expected and much vaunt-
ed Anglo-French drive on the Germans
is supposed to have begun. The begin-
ning, however, is not a matter for such
serious consideration as the ending.
——The road to the White House is
the highway which attracts most of Gov-
ernor BRUMBAUGH'S attention these days
and his deal in Philadelphia machine
politics recently has roughed it amaz-
ingly.
—We know several fore-handed per-
sons who have a lot of their Christmas
shopping done already. My, won’t they
be enjoying things when you are worry-
ing your head and running your legs off
at the last minute, as usual.
—JAY E. HOUSE says that “a man who
can cook and make himself generally
handy around the house might as well
do it. He seldom is worth much down
town.” Do you know, there’s more truth
than poetry in that and the more we
. think about it the more. puzzled we are
' over the bluff some’ men are able to keep
up when they are down town.
—We notice that CHARLES M. SCHWAB
is about to erect a stone palace at his
summer place at Loretto. The present
frame house is to be lifted clear over the
tops of the trees and set down on anoth-
er location. There is no end to CHAR-
LEY’S ability to lift things. Jackpots,
houses, Bethlehem steel, etc., go to the
clear blue sky when he starts raising.
—What does Centre county want a
new prothonotary, a new recorder, a
new register, a new district attorney, new
commissioners or auditors for? If there
is a man in Centre county who can fur-
nish a single good reason why any of the
faithful officials who are now serving in
those offices should be removed we
should like to know of it. We think
there has never been a cleaner, more effi-
cient corps of officers in the court house.
—The fact that the Phillies have won
a National League pennant gives more
general satisfaction than a victory by any
other team in the major organization
could have brought. For thirty-two
years they have been game contenders
for the flag that will soon float over their
grounds and to the general base-ball lov-
ing public who are not wedded to any
particular team the victory of the club
that was so nearly shot to pieces by the
Federals, two years ago, is a matter of
exceptional satisfaction.
—The case in the Centre county courts
this week in which WILLIAM BRENNAN, a
well-to-do and very reputable farmer of
Benner township, was so evidently the
victim of a “frame-up” has aroused con-
siderable indignation. That he can se-
cure no satisfactory redress for the men-
tal anguish he must have suffered and
for the aspersion upon a character that
has always been of the highest is lament-
able, not because of any comfort it
might bring him, but as a matter of pro-
tection to other equally innocent men
who are exposed to the dastardly impu-
tations of people who would wreck lives
and homes for the purpose of blackmail.
Are
—The WATCHMAN has had its eye on
one of the Republican candidates for of-
fice in Centre county for a number of
years. Its record of him is probably
more complete and accurate than that of
any other of the many men it keeps tab
on for the purpose of being informed,
should they ever come into public notice.
It might be necessary to give this infor-
mation to the public before the ides of
November. We hope the occasion won't
arise because the WATCHMAN has no de-
sire to see anything other than a clean
campaign and will certainly do nothing
to precipitate that which it does not
want. It reniains for the men whose fat
is in the fire to show by their actions
what kind of a campaign they want,
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STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 1, 1915.
NO. 39.
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The esteemed Altoona Tribune is great- |
| ly outraged because we said in our last, British tr
British Troops Awakened.
For the xX time within a year the
s accomplished something
‘ ington dispatches, is of the opinion that
Tariff Commission is Folly.
President WILSON, according to Wash-
issue that the Governor’s proposed tour | worth while in a drive made on the bat- there are agencies of government al-
of the State for the ostensible purpose of | tle front in Belgium. The offensive ready in service with full power and au-
inspecting the roads is a “junket.” | movement began on Saturday morning ! thority to perform the work of the ex-
WEBSTER defines junket as “to feast; to and covered an area of twenty miles. In' pensive permanent
tariff commission
banquet; to make an entertainment,” two days 20,000 prisoners, thirty-three ' which the tariff mongers propose to cre-
and adds that it is “sometimes applied
opprobriously to feasting by public
officers at public cost.” The Governor
has invited a hundred or more persons
to accompany him on a trip which has
all the ear-marks of an entertainment.
Among the guests are to be a number of
public officials who will travel in con-
veyances owned by the State and equip-
ped at public cost. This makes the en-
terprise look like a junket in its opprobri-
ous sense.
It is true that the trip to San Francisco
recently completed by the Governor “was
undertaken in accordance with legislative
action,” as the esteemed 77ibune de-
clares. But the legislation in question
didn’t contemplate the participation in
the trip of any persons other than mem-
bers of the commission and the commis-
sion might easily have been conveyed in
a couple of extra cars on one of the regu-
lar trains. As a matter of fact, however,
-
Governor BRUMBAUGH so augmented the |
company by personal invitation that a
“train de lux” was required to carry the
junketers and while the accounts have
not been audited it is a safe bet that the
cost of the service will be paid by the
State out of the appropriation for the
participation of the State in the Panama-
Pacific exposition.
The editor of the WATCHMAN who
“owns the soft impeachment” as to age
has no personal quarrel with the Gov-
ernor and had no expectation of political
advantage from the publication of facts
as they come within his knowledge. The
Panama-Pacific junket was an expensive
enterprise, sanctioned in part by law,
probably, but entirely without merit as
an agent for advancing the interests of
the people and the proposed “See Penn-
sylvania tour” is so palpably a political
fence repairing project
ernor BRUMBAUGH came into office blow-
ing the trumpets of reform so vigorously
that we hoped for something better. But
after all professional reformers are all
alike.
—It is a long way to Tipperary but
there are harder roads to travel in Bel-
gium and the Kaiser has encountered
some mighty rough highways in Poland.
Republican Quarrels Everywhere.
The arrest of between fifty and a hun-
dred Republican workers, election officers
and others, upon warrants issued by the
District Attorney of Allegheny county
expresses the harmony upon which the
PENROSE machine managers depend for
the party victory next fall they are now
boasting about. The defendants in these
cases are the men who polled the big
vote in Allegheny county at the primary
election. In one voting district 650 Re-
publican votes were returned while the
registry shows there are only 300 voters
altogether. Presumably the total vote
and the machine majority was made up
by similarly stuffing the ballot box in
other districts.
The fact of the matter is that the Re-
publican party of Pennsylvania never
looked into a gloomier future than stands
before it at this time. The big primary
vote was obtained by fraud in large part
and by bitter battles and irreconcilable
feuds in considerable number. In Phil-
adelphia it will be impossible to patch
up even a temporary peace and in Pitts-
burgh the party leaders will be at each
other’s throats on the day of election as
they were on the day of the primary. In
the other populous counties factionalism
is equally rampant. Schuylkill, Lacka-
wanna and Luzerne county Republicans
are literally raging at each other and
even here at home the harmony is not of
a quality to depend upon.
Of course there is little to gain for the
Democracy of the State by these fissures |
in the Republican party. Outside of the
Superior court bench there are no State
offices to fill this fall. But there are
many local offices to be supplied and
many of them are important. If the
Democrats throughout the State are vigi-
lant and vigorous great gains may be
‘made in these county offices and it is the
duty of the Democrats to get all they
can. In Centre county every local office
from Judge to Auditor ought to be oc-
cupied by a Democrat after the next
election and that splendid result will be
achieved if every voter does his duty
every day until the election.
~The frost is on the pumpkin all
right and the pies will soon be ripe.
Notwithstanding the high cost of living
there is comfort in anticipation of what
follows.
nce-T¢ that it ought to
‘be condemned’by universal protest. Gov:
- big guns and a large number of machine
guns were captured. The French did a
good share of the work, but as was said
in relation to another great victory, there
was glory enough to go around. Trench-
es five miles in width and nearly a mile
in depth were taken and this achieve-
ment gives the British possession of the
road from Lens to LaBassee, used by the
Germans for moving troops and supplies
North and South. 3
This incident will hearten the allies
both on the firing lines and at home.
For nearly a year, or ever since the Ger-
man army was turned back from the
gates of Paris, the British troops have
been as inactive as if they were attend-
ing a tea party so far as the public had
information concerning them. Mean-
time the Kaiser was able to withdraw a
large contingent of his troops from Flan-
ders and employ them to force the Rus-
sians out of Poland and fill their hearts.
with apprehension of the capture of their
entire army. But this episode on the
Belgian coast will have a tendency to
change the aspect of affairs both in the
East and West. If the British troops
continue the activities thus begun the
Kaiser will have reason to worry.
The war ought to have been ended by
this time and if the British and French
troops had been as energetic as those of
Russia it probably would have been over.
Thus far Germany has had to bear none
of the real costs of the conflict for her
soil has been free from hostile forces.
But if the work begun on the Belgian
coast on Saturday and continued on Sun-
day is persevered in there will be a pos-
sibility of the invasion of Germany from
both ends of the line. Such a turn of af-
fairs would set the haughty Kaiser to
thinking and the chances are that his
thoughts would . be largely of peace
“with honor.” Anyway+he would find-it
necessary to “save his face” in one way
or another.
——PENROSE may be all right as a fa-
vorite son and it is admitted that he is a
daisy. But so long as BILL FLINN re-
tains the confidence of the Suffragettes
the Senior Senator will never be the
State flower.
Signs not Favorable for the Machine.
The large vote of the machine Republi-
can candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia
as compared with the combined vote of
the candidates of the other parties is not
a guarantee of thesuccess of ToM SMITH
at the election in November. SMITHS
total vote was about 130,000 as against
56,000 for Mr. PORTER who ran on three
tickets, and the vote of three or four
other candidates increases the anti-
SMITH vote to say 75,000, giving SMITH a
majority of the ballots cast of about 55,-
000. But there are nearly 90,000 voters
registered who didn’t vote at all and it
may be assumed that a vast majority of
these are anti-machine voters. In other
; words the machine polled nearly its full
strength at the primary.
Four years ago the candidate of
the Republican machine, GEORGE H.
EARLE, Jr., a most admirable and capable
man, polled 180,000 votes at the primary
while his principal opponent, Mayor
BLANKENBURG, received only 50,000. Yet
at the general election of that year Mr.
BLANKENBURG was elected with a margin
of about 5000 votes. It can hardly be
claimed that Tom SMITH has a greater
claim upon the confidence of the elec-
torate than Mr. EARLE. It will not be
seriously said either that public interest
in good government has abated. In fact
the present confidence of the machine
managers is built entirely upon the hope
that political prejudices are stronger now
than they were four years ago.
If the majority of non-voting electors
in Philadelphia are followers of the ma-
chine or if they are split even the chances
of SMITH’S election are rosy. But in the
nature of things that can’t be possible.
For weeks before the primary election
the machine managers were resorting to
every expedient to geta full poll at the
primaries. With the view of preventing
activity on the part of their opponents
they withheld the name of their candi-
date until the last minute but worked
assiduously to get out the vote for the
candidate whomever he might be. In
view of these facts the primary result in
that city indicates not the election, but
the overwhelming defeat of the contrac-
tor’s candidate.
——Austria has agreed to recall DumM-
BA, the cable informs the public, so that
the necessity of kicking him out has
passed for the time.
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| ate during the next session of Congress.
' In the Department of Commerce there is
i a bureau the activities of which are in
| that line and the industrial commission
| created by the last Congress has ample
power to make investigations and recom-
mendations with respect to tariff rates
can be no valid reason for creating the
new board other than the desire to pro-
vide fat salaries for party favorites.
Mr. MYRrRON T. HERRICK, of Ohio, ffor-
mer Ambassador to France, and now a
Presidential nomination advocates a tar-
iff question out of politics.” Of course
this is only a subterfuge. The tariff
question is essentially a political ques-
tion. You might as well try to take the
heat out of the sun or light out of the
moon as to take the tariff out of politics.
What is needed is the taking of graft out
of the tariff and that can only be accom-
plished by electing honest and capable
men to Congress. Tariff rates are legis-
lative questions and whatever legislation
expresses governmental policies is polit-
ical.
President WILSON is everlastingly right
in this as he is in most things. The
country neither needs nor wants a high
priced tariff commission. There are
flocks and flocks of political lame ducks
who must have jobs but the government
of the United States is not an institution
for dispensing charity to self-constituted
tariff experts. Under the wise adminis-
tration of President WILSON commercial
conditions will adjust themselves as soon
as normal conditions are restored and
the people of the United States will won-
der why they endured the iniquities of
tariff spoliation as long as they did. Sit
down on the tariff commission project
tan other graft ositions and all will
come ‘out right.
——Thirty years ago residents of Nit-
tany and Pennsvalleys who had business
in court either rode or drove to Belle-
fonte early on Monday morning and re-
mained throughout the week. Then came
the Lewisburg & Tyrone railroad through
Pennsvalley, the Bellefonte Central rail-
road to State College and the Central
Railroad of Pennsylvania down Nittany
valley and this was thought to be the
acme of convenient transportation be-
tween residents of the above valleys and
the county seat. But witness Monday
morning: Just twenty-one automobiles
were parked around the court house, the
most of them having been used to bring
jurors, witnesses and others to court.
After court had adjourned for the day
the men autoed back home, returning
the next day and so on until the com-
pletion of court. Result, minimum hotel
bills and home every night. Inasmuch
as two-thirds of the cars were Fords this
might be ascribed as another of the Henry
Ford innovations.
——Two weeks from to-day will mark
the opening of the hunting season and
Bellefonte nimrods are already living in
anticipation of the day. Pheasants are
reported very plentiful and quite a num-
ber of squirrels have been seen. Wild
turkeys, however, will be one species of
game much sought this year, and after
enjoying a closed season of two years
the birds are reported more plentiful
than ever before. Various flocks have
been seen on Nittany mountain, Muncy
mountain and in the foothills of the Al-
leghenies, and the opening day for tur-
key will doubtless result in bagging a
large number of the birds.
——Brokers in the financial centres
are “opposed to the entry of British cap-
ital to stapleize the cotton market,” ac-
cording to the newspapers. There may
| be a valid reason for this but most of us
are willing to take all the capital that
comes our way without questioning its
nationality.
——JoHN D. Jr., is still studying condi-
tions in Colorado but something more
practical is needed. The miners want
improved conditions and most thought-
ful people believe they are entitled to
what they want in that respect.
——There is every indication for a
good chestnut crop this year. The trees
are well laden with burrs and the size
of them would indicate larger nuts than
usual.
——The cool weather of the past week
has resulted in a hungering for buck:
wheat cakes and sausages. ) :
—They are all good enough, but the
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and schedules. That being true there
receptive candidate for the Republican’
The Sting of Truth.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Prof. Hugo Munsterberg is a German
who seems bent upon making Americans
think. In a recent article he calls atten-
tion to the fact that a portion of our
people went cold with rage when the Lu-
sitania went down, but that very little
attention was paid to the sinking of the
Eastland. Both vessels were torpedoed.
The Lusitania can be charged up to the
Germans. But who is responsible in the
case of the Eastland? That disaster
cannot be classified as an “act of God.”
The Eastland did not turn turtle as a re-
sult of a high wind or a tidal wave. It
sank in 20 feet of water beside a dock.
It sank in times of peace. It was torpe-
doed by something.
Prof. Munsterberg says that it was a
trait of mind that is responsible for the
fate of the Eastland. He points out that
we are a happy-go-lucky people: that we
are inclined to disdain the advice of the
expert; that we resent the interference
of government in any of our affairs; that
we are inclined to take chances; that we
lack thoroughness in our study of pend-
ing questions. He says we are as care-
less of life as we are of the rest of our
natural resources.
There is the sting of truth in what the
German scholar says. If there/had been
competent inspection, if .the laws had
been strictly enforced, if we had been as
careful when the Eastland was charter-
ed to sail the lakes as the Germans would
have been under similar conditions, there
would have been no disaster. There is
no gainsaying that. Neither can we de-
ny that the sinking of the Eastland has
failed to teach us anything. Lake ves-
sels are not any more carefully inspected
now than they were six months ago. We
seem to take the position that it is all
part of the game if our lack of system
and our American customs sink a ship.
We are willing to take disaster at the
hands of our own government without a
protest. We kill Americans in wrecks
that could be prevented, in grade cross-
ing accidents that are a disgrace to our
civilization and in Eastland disasters.
The death of our citizens under such cir-
cumstances does not daunt us. But the
death of one American across the sea is
accounted cause for war.
Munsterberg gibes at us, but there is
sting in what he says.
A Voice from Experts.
From the Philadelphia Press.
At the State election in November one
of the questions which sha
ly is. whether or not the
be extended to women.
{in favor of woman suffrage and those
| antagonistic have made splendid cam-
| paigns. The antis have lacked the force-
i fulness and the novelty of their sisters
i who are struggling for the ballot, but in
a less spectacular manner have been
fighting the extension of suffrage.
In determining this question rightly
and satisfactorily the voter will be called
upon to use his judgment tellingly and
intelligently. There is no guide in this
State to actuate the male in voting on
this matter. But one can turn to those
States where women have enjoyed equal
franchise to find if woman suffrage is
{ desirable in the Keystone State.
In Boston recently there was a con-
vention of the Governors of the various
Commonwealths. While they convened
the chief executives of those States
where suffrage is a tried proposition
were asked if the extension of the fran-
chise was a success or failure. These
! Governors unanimously declared, with-
i out regard to their political convictions,
| that woman suffrage in their States had
been a success. :
Governor Capper, of Kansas, was one
of those questioned. His views aré™met
at this time and should be considered by
all the males who will pass on the suffrage
i question next November. He ~-8ays:
“Kansas gave woman school suffragé and
liked it. The State gave her municipal
suffrage and liked it better. Finally she
gave them full suffrage and liked it best.”
“Suffrage in Kansas has broadened
woman’s views of social life. It has cen-
tered her thoughts on home and its needs
and has given a new and beneficial in-
fluence in the life of the State. It has in
no way detracted from her character,
but has strengthened both. Kansas will
never go back to the rule of all the peo-
ple by a part of them.”
Pennsylvania, go thou and do likewise.
It Wouldn’t Happen Now.
From the Marquette (Kas.) Tribune.
Speaking of charge accounts and the
errors thereof, the following story told
by George McCourt some years ago is
worth preserving. In the rush of a Sat-
urday’s business he sold a saddle and
neglected to charge it at the time. That
night he tried in vain to recall who was
the purchaser. He thought over it all
day Sunday and made out a list of 14 of
his customers who might have been the
person who bought the saddle. He could
not make up his mind, and there being
no phones when the first of the month
rolled round he sent a statement to each
of the 14 men thinking to get the right
one that way. During the week 10 of
these 14 men paid up their accounts in-
cluding that saddle!
Safety First.
From the Indianapolis News.
Secretary Daniels says we should profit
by the lessons of the European war, and
so we should—by taking a correspondence
course.
Greatest Dreadnaught in Business.
From the Baltimore Sun.
“War Monsters for United States.”
Laws, when we’ve already got one at
Oyster Bay!
"For high class Job Work come to
WATCHMAN is always the best.
the WATCHMAN Office.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—One hundred and forty-five non-residents are
attending the Williamsport high school. The
school district gets $50 apiece for them.
—Two-year-old Mary Strepelo, of Ehredfield,
pulled a kettle of hot water from the stove, spill-
ing the scalding fluid over her entire body. She
died soon after from her injuries.
—The DuBois Glass company, located at Falls
Creek, reopened its plant for the manufacture of
glass bottles, on Monday. It has been closed for
some time and extensive repairs have been
made.
—William H. Tyson, a Milton lineman, touched
a high-tension electric wire while at work on the
top of a 30-foot pole at West Milton. Fellow
workmen rescued him. He died Monday night
in a Williamsport hospital.
—A. W. Dewitt, who died the other day, work-
ed sixty years for the Erie railroad, having begun
in the days of the old diamond stack, wood-burn-
ing, four-wheeled locomotives. Dewitt invented
a duplex train check, which is now in nation-
wide use.
—Somerset county, which used to be a rock-
ribbed Republican county, reports the presence
at the polls this year of one Emanuel Specht, 95
years old, who has never missed an election
since he became old enough to vote, and has
always been a Democrat.
—Peter Kyner, arrested last July on the charge
of sending black-hand letters to John Kazmaier,
a well known brewer of Altoona, was sentenced
to two years and one month in the Western
Penitentiary on Friday, sentence being passed
in the United States district court at Erie.
—The E. R. Baldridge stone quarry at Barree,
after being idle since last November, has again
been opened for work. At present about twenty
men are employed. They expect to increase the
output of stone, and extend their plane to the
top of the mountain, about 1400 feet further.
—Mr. and Mrs. Sheridan Oldham, of Johns-
town, are the happy parents of a perfectly de-
veloped boy baby who is about one-third the
average size of a newly born infant, weighing be-
tween two and three pounds and measuring be-
tween 12 and 13 inches in length. The child is
in good health.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Saxton, aged 70, of Mutual,
Westmoreland county, heard a commotion
among her chickens and discovered that a black"
snake of unusual size was endeavoring to make
away with a voung rooster. The lady picked up
a club, entered the coop, killed the snake and
rescued her rooster.
—Richard W. Boyer, a prominent young busi-
ness man of Lock Haven, is dead of meningitis
at the age of 32 years. It is believed that his
death was due to an injury he received last sum-
mer while engaged in a ball game when he was
hit on the back of his head by a ball. He is sur-
vived by his wife and two children.
—At the convention of the retail merchants of
the state held at Conneaut Lake, Pa., J. C. Nor-
ris, a grocer of New Castle, Pa., was elected
president of. the organization. He has taken
charge of the office and already has a number of
projects for increasing interest and membership.
There are about 8,000 members of the organiza-
tion.
—Edgar L. Horning, of Mifflintown, probably
is the only man in the State who has two wives
and still is declared not guilty of bigamy. Horn-
ing finds himself. in the predicament of being
‘obliged to support two wives as the resultof a
verdict of Juniata county court recently, when a
divorce granted in Colorado was declared null
and void.
—Jesse Marshal, an employee of the Mahaffey
tannery, fell into a vat of boiling liquid at a tem-
perature of 152 degrees Fahrenheit and was so
badly scalded when he was taken out by em
t-ployees thatthe burns proved fatal. He was
rushed to the Clearfield hospital, where, after
much suffering he died. The deceased was 20
years of age and was a young man highly re-
spected in his neighborhood.
—Mrs. Anna Cately, Williamsport’s oldest resi-
_dent,who celebrated her one hundredth birthday
anniversary on Saturday, became a member of
the Grace M. E. Church on Sunday. Rev. J. H.
Mortimer, pastor of the church, received Mrs.
Cately into fellowship at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Harriet Potts. Mrs. Cately is in fairly
good health, but owing to blindness which came
on in the past few years is obliged to recline.in a
wheel chair.
—George Verboutz, an Austrian, is in the Hol-
lidaysburg jail charged with attempting to dyna-
mite the plant of the Carlin Limestone Company,
a Pittsburg Corporation having quarries near
Altoona. The company furnishes limestone to
the steel mills manufacturing ammunition for
Allies. Twenty-five sticks of dynamite and a
lighted fuse were found in the plant by a watch-
man, and the authorities declare they have trac-
ed the act to Verboutz.
—The Clearfield Bituminous Coal Co. is now
engaged in dismantling most of their dwelling
houses at Peale which place was named after
Hon. S. R. Peale, and removing them to Grass
Flat, not far distant. The company’s mines at
Peale are practically worked out, and the men
are being transferred to Grass Flat where exten-
sive operations are now being carried on. The
big hall, in which public meetings were held, h
been moved to Grass Flat. :
An unusual incident occurred on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad one day last week, in which two"
deer were chased for nearly a half mile along the
track. The incident occurred near Bell’s Siding,
two miles east of Brookville. As the train came
along the deer ran out of the woods and took to
the track ahead of the train. The train was
making fast time, but the fleet-footed dear easily
kept ahead of the engine, and after traveling for
nearly a half mile decided that they had demon- '
strated their ability as runners and took to the
woods again.
—Andrew Felix McClintoc, 58 years old, is
dead at Milroy from a gunshot wound self-in
flicted. Temporary insanity induced by worry
over poor health is said to have been the cause.
McClintoc was a cattle buyer for the eastern
markets. Sunday while his wife was at church
helay on the bed, placed the muzzle of a 44-
caliber rifle under his chin, pulling the trigger
with his big toe. The bullet went wild and he
then took a stick from the window blind, notched
the end and sent a bullet crashing through his
head. He died at midnight.
—Joseph Huey, of Mahaffey, who was attacked
and robbed in Punxsutawney last May after he
had been lured to a secluded spot in the rear of
an oil tank, has made information against four
young men of Punxsutawney, two of whom have
already admitted their guilt. The name and ad-
dress of Huey, an aged man, were not learned
at the time of the robbery and it was only after
members of the state constabulary made a long
search that Huey was found. Louis Lardin, a
former Johnstown young man, now a member of
the constabulary, did effective work in locating
Huey and in arresting the .Punxsutawney young
fellows.
.—The buildings and real estate formerly occu-
pied by the Lewisburg box factory has been sold
to John Coleman, a prominent Williamsport bus-
iness man, for $2600. Title to the property was
given last week at the Sunbury court house.
The plant until recent years was one of the lead-
ing industries in that section. For many years it
operated as a door factory, taking contracts for
equipping large apartment houses and other big
buildings in New York and other cities. The
plant later changed over to a box factory, and
about two years ago closed down, the machinery
and equipment being sold out piece-meal- at pub-
lic sale.