Borne Papr —For Hie Done Ihr circulation •( tins paper is iu • reasinu} lit** iHIKM'Ii i!i . i 111 «"•»• I lit - * (HMSIISSKIM'JIS PLAN CHANCES The county commissioners at their regular weekly meeting Saturday, de cided on a system of very important improvements at tlic courthouse, which together with new paint and several oilier necessary repairs will give Mon tour county a building, which will ••onijiare in all respects with the best in this section It is proposed to ti\ up lawn all around the courthouse to correspond with the northern side, where the ground lias U-en carefully graded and grass seed sown, while the whole is temporarily enclosed by a neat wire fence. The wall will lie rebuilt at the rear of the grounds and a gravel drive provided tor bringing coal into the building. The outbuilding southwest of the courthouse will be abolished and a lavatory system will lie installed in tlic southeastern part of the cellar. The improvements of course make the present lavatory in the secoud storv ct the courthouse unnecessary and the v]acv then- will lie devoted to other purposes. The county commissioners have plan ned to connect the building with the v»vr which extends westward out Market -treet and at the courthouse grounds turns southward traversing the alley toward the river. A pipe will be sunk in the lower lawn, ex tending from the front of the court house diagonally to the southwest cor ner of the grounds where connection will be established. This will make it possible to sink the drain leading from the courthouse at such a depth as may lie required in order to insure successful ojieration of the system. The contract for painting the couit house has not as yet been awarded. On Saturday little more was done than to discuss the color of the paint to he us ed The commissioners seemed to be uuauiiuou* in the view that some otli n ,uioi iimu iw> or uric* cotor snouin I*- employed in order to afford a change for the eye. The color that will most likelv lie selected will Is- a stone col or. The work of {Hiinting as well as work on th»* new lavatory,it was stat ed Saturday, will begin in a short time. i It wa* reported to the commission er- that loafing at tin* approach to flit* river bridge 011 'he luuvilk* t-i«l«* has It. , oim- a verv nifii( nuisance. During tin* evening crowds of voting men and b »vs a.-«ciiible there ami I>y their pro fait*' ainl nli*-! euc language make it verv unpleasant not onlv lor families . » 1 Inmg m-ar but also 1• >r persons jiasr>- 1 backwards ami forwards over the bridge. On motion it was ordered that the clerk lay flu* matter ln-fore the thorough council at its uext meeting and that that l>ody I"' asked to have the jwilice tak«- tli»* matter up Hoy's Painful Injury. Luther ianner, a 13-year-old boy, , employed on Kdward Beyer's farm, Valley township, met with a very had injurv while at \>ork on Momlav at teruoon. The boy was eugaged in rolling oue of the fleld«. As is customary he was riding the roller,when the hor-es took fright and ran away. The hoy was in gr> »t danger* t falling under the heavy roller, m which event he would no doubt have IN-I'H killed ;hllt hepluckilv held onto the liues aud maintained his position ou top the roller. The team made a dash for the farm building* aud when it arrived at the barn the '>o\ was clinging to the seat. His foot in MHiie way had caught fast. The toe of his shoe 011 the right foot WM- completely pinched off;his big toe was torn off hack of the ltr-t joint and the 'lid of the next toe was complete ly sev*T**d The hoy WHS too much frightened to tell bow the injury was inflicted, but it is supposi-d that the double tree while the horse* were gal loping along flew h.e k and caught his foot. The injury was of -uch a sort a- to cause the most excruciatnig pain Dr. Curry w.i* summoned and lie found it j ■eceasary t«» amputate both tor-. It will tie Mime time liefore the boy will regain the full use of his foot. Invented High Explosive. Peter A Kll ue, a liloomshurg man, is now in Washington, 1). t'., mi busi ness connected with the patenting of H new kind of explosive jiowder that be has discovered. Mr. Kline claims that a quantity of his |iowder will do more actual work than double the quantity of any other powder made It c*u Ite sold at »> cents a pound. Coal Digger lieing Repaired. Lei) ii' 's steam dredger "City of Pans" which figured in the sensation al accident at the Catn\\isl!--N<) K* The police officers have just finished measuring off all the principal streets of the hi trough and establishing courses for tli purpose of timing automobil ists,drivers of vehicles ami others who | violate the law or the ordinance as to j speed. l'he authorities are now prepared to , enter upon a crusade not only against the last running of automobiles, hut against fast driving also. It is said to be a fact that no one longer seems to think it worth while to observe police regulations. Not only jiersons out for pleasure,hut drivers of delivery wagons and others,even on Mill street, let their horses go just as they please, and often reach a Dane that is sugges tive of the race course Even the wheelmen, who appear in increased numbers this spring, seem to have for gotten wholly what the ordinance pro vides. According to complaints en tered they not only show indifference as to the speed regulations, but are negligent in the matter of alarm bells and lamps and even are known to ride on the sidewalks. For a violation of the ordinance in either of the above respects a tine of five dollars is provid ed and the officers insist that someone before long is going to get into trou ble. The speed limit for bicycles as fixed I by the ordinance is ten miles per hour ; | for driving, eight miles per hour. Automobiles are limited to ten miles an hour by the State law. The courses measured off on all the streets are 100 yards in length. In con nection with these a schedule has been prepared showing the 100-yards rate per hour. Thus at the rate of 8 miles an hour a vehicle will be 2~>. 50 sec onds, or nearly half a minute, in pass ing over the 100-yard course marked off. The speed, which limits automo biles to one mile in six minutes, is much slower than many automobiles travel. By the aid of printed schedule and their stop watches used in connec tion with the courses marked off the police officers hope to be able to do effective work and compel obedience . of the regulations. ."lany Non.Resident Pupils. The importance of our local high school with the grades leading up to it as a factor in this vicinity will be bet ter understood when it is stated that ■ there are some sixty non-resident pn- ' pits attending school in Danville and that the aggregate of tuition paid to I amounts to about eight hundred dol lars. It is probably superfluous to expati ate upon the general excellence of the Danville schools and the tine opportu nities afforded the children ol the townships of Montour anil Northum berland counties who under the law are permitted to attend our high school. It is well enough, however, that the prospective pupils should | know exactly how to proceed in the j matter ol examinations required to gain admittance to the end that they mav make the best jiossible showing j and that valuable time may not be lost. As in the past next year a number | of boys and girls will complete the course in the township schools and w ill he candidates for admission into the local high school. What Borough Superintendent Gorily would like to impress upon these pupils is that it j would be much to their interest to I come into town on the week of May Ulst and take the regular examination with the borough pupils instead of postponing the matter and requiring a sjiecial examination next fall. It j should be very evident to them that having recently left school they are much brighter now than they will lie some four mouths later and will be able to do themselves a full measure of justice. Again, the regular exami nations are continued during the whole week, say one branch a day, while in the fall the examinations are crowded into one day, which makes them much more wearisome. Hereto fore no especial pains have been taken to call attention to these facts. There is only one way to look at the matter and there are probably few young peo ple in the townships who contemplate a course in the borough schools, but w ill he glad to take Borough Sujierin tendent Gordy's advice and attend the spring examinations. Funeral of Solomon Cherry. Solomon Cherry, the well known engineer on the S. 11. it W. division of the Peiiusvlvauia railroad, whose tie.i. -i occurred at Nescopeck Tuesday, w ill be consigned to the grave in the u«-w cemetery at Sunbury on Friday. The remains will In- taken to Sunbury on the train that passes South Danville ut 12:1 ap. in. The funeral will be held from the residence of Mrs. Haujit, Sunbury, at '2 o'clock The deceased was a former resident ol Danville, his wife before marriage being Mi--. Emuia Clara Albeckof this place. Besides his wife two daughters, Florence and Clara, survive. Will IJo Buried on Friday. The funeral of the lateSharach Fry. who died on Sunday took place yester day afternoon at I :HO o'clock and was 112 largely attended. The services wen - conducted by Kev. Dr. MeCormack, r pastor of Grove Presbyterian church, s of which the deceased was a member v The pall hearers were Kobert Adams s Hugh Cnrry, W. B. Gearhart, .1. B I Gearhart, W L. McClure and Alex, ii Foster. Interment was made in Od< Fellows' cemetery. i'iiiKh si;m i PATROL SHEET 1 Word from Mt. Canuel last night in s dicates that everything is peaceful and s quiet and that no trouble of any na ture occurred yes'erdav. > It was reported that the members of ) the State constabulary had received orders to arrest a number of men who ) participated in the riots on Monda> and that serious trouble would surely occur if these arrests would be made • If the members of the troop received ! such orders they must have been couu ■ termanded later for no attempt was 1 made to arrest the men whose names it is said have been learned and for whom it was reported warrants had been issued. It was feared that if members of tln state police force would leave their barracks and enter the tow n their pre sence would cause more rioting. Early yesterday morning, however, a number j of troopers rode into the town and ' patrolled the principal streets and I there was not the least semblance of I any trouble. When questioned the troopers stated that they were merely exercising their horses and they were j not hissed or molested in any 1 manner. Later they rode in a body through the main streets of Locust Gap and no interference was met with at l that place. The chief burgess and citizens of Mt. ('armel are of the belief that the trouble of Monday will not be repeat ed unless a strike is declared and at tempts are made to work the collier ies. Strike breakers and deputies have been steadily arriving in the Shamok iu-Mt. Carmel region. In all there have been 8 car loads of strike break ers to come in during the past sevt nil days. Most of these men are from th< bituminous region about Clearfield,! and they will he held in readiness so! that an attempt can he made to operate the mines if the Scranton convent ion ! declares a strike. Captain Groome, of the State con stabulary, arrived at Mt. ('armel lasi night and proceeded to the troops' I camp at Sarye shaft. Exchange Is (irowin*. Hon. L. W. Wei liver was in Dan- ! ville yesterday, where he announced himself as in the race for associate 1 judge. Mr. Welliver hails from Ex change, the homelike and prosperous ! town of Anthony township, w here so ! many substantial and representat i ve.! was formerly uufortunati in lying so far from the county seat, j | hut of late distance has lieen an nihil i ated by the telephone, and Mr. Wei liver states that there are just twenty 'phones in the town. Scarcely a da\ jiasses but the citizens call uji Danville and thus keeji in touch with events at this end of the county. Exchange is a growing town. Last year four new houses were added,built by Boyd Stead, Augustus Kleeman, William Dildiue and L. W. Welliver. Several others will lie erected this i year. Ground is already broken for three, to be built by Thomas Sharon, John Denuen and John Hitter. Exchange has three good stores Thomas Denuen has Hon. L. W. Wel liver's old stand. Boyd Stead has a very tine store. The other store, w hero the telephone exchange is installed, is j kept by Lizzie Wagner. William ! Houghton keeps the hotel, which is described as a very fine hostelry. There are two churches, one of them a Lutli i erau and the other a Catholic church. At the latter Rev. Father Feeser of the Holy Family convent, Danville, offici ates. Exchange has no doctor but it boasts of a woman lawyer, Mrs. B. Frances Wagner. 'Squire Ellis and John Ellis, the latter a director in the Peoples hank, this city, both are resi dents of Exchange. Former county | treasurer James F. Branuen was near ly a life-long resident of Exchange. A | couple of years ago along with his wife lie went to California for the beuefit of his health. Just now the residents of Exchange are happy over i the tidings that Mr. and Mrs. Brenuen are on their way home—that Mr. Bren uen has fully recovered his health and that the couple will again take up > j their residence at Exchange. B. K. Club Entertains. The B. E. club, conijHised of a nuin ( her of young ladies of town,entertain ed at a progressive luncheon and euchre ; Friday evening. During the evening i seven houses were visited. The menu i was as follows : Cream of Corn Soup Breailstick- Miss Clara Detwiler. •' Oysters on the half shell Wafer-- Miss Annie Steinbrenner. Potato Chips—-Veal Loaf. «j Miss Lorine Phillips. Deviled Eggs—Olives. Miss Sara Beaver. Chicken Salad —Saudv iche t Miss Marion Jones, i'j Fruit Gelatine —Nuts Mints s, Miss Florence Price , 1 Ice Cream—Cake. Miss Grace Shepperson. At Miss Shepjierson's home the guests were given a progressive eticln • ! lu addition to the young ladies men tioned there were present Mis*. Lttcil • s I Evans, Messrs. Thomas Fultz, Will I. 1 McCoy, George Jacobs, Jay Sechler. '* | Will Jones, Harry Woods. William '* Hancock and William Books. i, i There are two items in the San ! Frac Cisco news of brave and encoiirag iug import: Lovers continue to marry, d and about as much is asked for cornel lots as before the earthquake DAN'VILLK. I'A., Til t IJKDAV MAY 1000. ALL DEPENDS !>\ i MUM. TIIDAYj WILKES-BARRE. May 2.—While strike talk in the towns and hamlets! of the region is hot because of the i shooting and bloodshed at Mt. Carmel, \ John Mitchell and the uuiou leaders propose preventing any precipitate ac- j tion on the part of the delegates to the tr-i-district convent ion in bringing on ; a strike because of the Mt. Carmel \ affair. The delegates,while variously instructed by their locals, will be ask- | ed by President Mitchell to give the, issues their fullest consideration and best judgment. No strike will be vot -1 ed unless the delegates feel that their 1 I best interests would be served by such ' | action. From present indications the > | convent ion will he in session three i | days and the final vote to strike will J not be taken Thursday. j I MITCHELL HAD NOTHING TO SAY John Mitchell left here today fori; j Scranton, where he will meet the niem ! hers of the sub-scale committee at 2 , I o'clock this afternoon and prepare the : j report of the negotiations that were entered into with the operators look- ; iug to a settlement of differences. | i This report will be read to the dele- 1 gates on Friday and will be made the basis for general discussion by the de i legates. Just what attitude President Mitchell will take before the delegates J j in reference to the pro; ositions advauc- I ed bv the operators cannot be learned. | s He kid nothing to say on the situation j this morning. The majority of dele- ',| gates, so far as any information is oh- ! ;l tamable, are instructed to follow the ' direction of President Mitchell.which ! t hits practically placed the situation i upon the shoulders of the miller-' lead-■ * d ONE Ol- THE RU MORS IIKAI-tl). i „ A report w»s heard this morning j | that after the report of the scale com mittee had been heard several delegates | would express the opinion that in view jj of the fact that a~ the only difference between the operators and miners was a quest ion of arhitr&t ion on one de- maud, tint of wages, the scale com- j mittee should lie directed to return to ,N New York and renew negotiations!'" with the operator* to arrive at a settle ment on 1111 ~ seemingh simple ques- i tiou. Tin? convention will doubtless s ' do little more than organize on Thurs- '' day by electing committees on cred entials and 11 -• 11nt ioli < and adjourn ■ until Friday, when the reports will be read and President Mitchell will make i .0i^i;....... latitude in the discussion of the ques- | "J t ion and which President Mii cliell has always given each delegate, , ' 1 who wishes to have his saV, it will r-iiTV tho • I L* 112 W tiou ov« r until batunlav. SAY MEN WANT WORK. Meanwhile, the railroad coal com- panics have resumed their prepara tions to resume work, believing that the miners' convention will call al j strike. Non-union men and strike jj ( breakers are being moved quietly the region and distributed among collieries. An official of the Lehigh Valley said this morning that scores |j, of old employes in the company's j c mines in the middle, district hadappli- | j-. Ed for work when operations are re- sumed. The Lehigh and W ilkes-Barre Coal company is making the first moves in this section to resume work. ( The Lackawanna and Delaware and Hudson company hope to have a maj-j ority of their collieries in complete 112 operation within a week. y luo kiile I man at the West End Coal Co. wash- ] cry was instantly kill- 1 ed aud considerably mangled. j < How he came to bis death is not 112 known, hut it is supposed that he i crossed the river anil while waiting : j the coming of a train dozed into a | sleep, from which lie may have been i startled'by the train, and bewildered, j stumbled on the track in front of the | engine. He was seen by the train hands when ! too late to save him. The cowcatcher | : caught the unfortunate man and flung | him several feet into the ditch along side the track. When picked up he was ; dead, and badly cut up. The remains were at once taken to J Shiekshiunv, where lie resided with i his wife and child. A brother and sis | ter live at Berwick. He was a man , :18 years old. SUB-IDE AT BRANDON VILLE. Throw ing himself in front of a fast jP. & R. freight,a man whose identity ! is not known committed suicide at ( ; Braudoiivilh) early yesterday morning. His body was terribly mangled. The train was running at the rate of i between fifty and sixty miles an hour, ' when the engineer discovered a man standing between the cars along the track. A- the tr eii approached with ill a few feet of Ihe per ill lie sudden i lv threw himself forward on the rails, and the engine and several cars passed over hi h idy The man was instant !-, kill, i oid puts of his body were strewn I' >r several \ trds along the track I remains were gathered up and taken to Kiugtowu, where an ef fort wii- made to ident ifv the man,bill i ! there was nothing about his clothes 4 Ihiit would lead to identification. He was a man of about IL'p years of age, r' and by the clothes he wore was thought to be a man of limited means. I'EItSONJI. I'IIMHI'IIS Mrs. William C. Bowyer and son James spent Sunday with relatives in Sunbury. Mrs. William F. Pattison, of Phila delphia, is visiting at the home of her brother W. O. Kramer, West. Mahon ing street. Lloyd W. Welliver,of Exchange,was a visitor in this city yesterday. E. J. Coxey, of Sunbury, was a \ is itor in this city yesterday. B. P. Harris returned to P'vmouth yesterday after spending several days with friends in this city. W. E. Gosh, Charles and Frank Wat ; >n, of Philadelphia,left this city yes- j terday for a fishing trip to Pocono. J. T. Find ley was a business visitor at Jerseytown yesterday. Griffith Billmeyer.of Mexico, trans acted business in Danville yesterday. Myron Eves,of Mi 11 ville,was a Dan ville visitor yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Vastine and daughter, Mrs. John Ryan, of Sun bury,attended the funeral of Shadrach Fry in this city yesterdaj*. Mrs. M. A. Davis, of Sunbury,spent yesterday with friends in this city. Mrs. Peter Diehl, of Berwick, spent yesterday in this city as a guest at the home of Howard Reppert, Church ■street. Miss Agues McCloughan left Tues day for a trip to Washington, D. (3. tnd Philadelphia. Mrs. Fanny Heddens, of Washing tonville, called on friends in Danville yesterday. Mrs. W. L. Myerly returned to Mid lletown.N. Y., yesterday after a \isit ■ it the home of her sister, Mrs. F. E. larpel. Ferry street. Mrs. Edward Hanghtoii returned I resierdav from a visit with friends in Baltimore. i Howard Lunger has returned to this J •ity from Montreal, Cauadu, where he ( ins been employed during the past \ inter. Mr. Lunger has accepted a losition with the A ('. iV F company 112 Bloomsburg. George W. Albeck, of Wilkes-Barre, ' pent last night at his old home in ' his city. 1 3 i .awrence Cotter in Larger Field. \ Lawrence ("utter, (1... "..n 112 " > 11. flUtl C llHl LTt' tjJ I,UU itTiirnnrt*r« m * a>t n* * n n\»* Mir .1 >« ar rso past,has accepted a position with lugeue Foss, of Boston.and is now in J. barge of one of the largest aud best now II establishments in the country. Mr. Cotter left Danville on Sunday , v»ning and on May Ist entered upon lis new position. The lease held by Jr. Cotter on the Castle Grove green louses does not expire until June 15. dean while the business here will be n the hands of Mr. Cotter's son, Wil- iam Cotter, a young man of studious labits and of intelligence, who already ias mastered the details of floriculture ( md who in time promises to attain the listinetion won by his father. Frank 3auuigan is foreman under William Jotter at Castle Grove. Mr. Cotter s aniily will reside at Castle Grove uu il the lease expires, on .Tune loth., .vlien it will remove to Boston. The future of the green houses at 'astle Grove is not known. William hotter, yesterday stated,that if things prove at all favorable lie might lease lie establishment himself the next year. Lawrence Cotter stands very high as i florist aud will be sure to succeed in the larger field that he has entered. He is very widely known over the Un ion, but nowhere better than among the progressive people of Boston,a fact which insures him a felicitious and prosperous career. Mr. Cotter made many friends in Danville and when ever for the sake of old associations he feels like drifting this way he may rest assured that he will receive a roy al welcome. Pleasant Surprise Party. A pleasant surprise party was given at the home of Dallas Hummer, on Ash street, Friday evening. Ice cream and cake were served for refreshments. Those present were: Mrs. Dallas Hum mer, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Raver, Mrs. Jacob Hummer, Mrs. William Miller, Mrs. Rebecca Lovett.Mrs. Black, Mrs. Randall Scott, Mrs. Henry Hankey, Mr. aud Mrs. Percy Sliultz, Mr. and James Magill, Misses Katie Hau kev, Emilia Garrow.Mrs. Frank Hum mer, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller, Miss Stella Cook, Mrs. Henry Johnson, Mrs. Jacob Miller, Mr. Edward Hummer and Miss May Gay Large Mail Stones. The towns of the west' branch were deluged in the biggest storm of the \ear last evening. The storm center seemed to be at Muney and Williams port, where the downpour lasted for several hours, and the hail stones at i iiues being of the size of walnuts. The raiu anil hail was accompanied by | terrific lightning and high winds. The storm passed to flu 1 north of Danville and for a while it looked a~ if this city was on the map for a storm of unusual severity. It turned out, however, that not a drop fell here New Paint and Paper. The interior of J. W. Lore s jewelry "store, Mill street, is being repainted and re papered. The room now shows up very attractively. THE OiIESTIOS OF 1 TAKK Notwithstanding that summer is coming on apace there is no especial stir at any of the parks and the people of Danville are beginning to wonder where they are going to enjoy their outings the coming summer. The trol ley lines by influencing travel gener ally revolutionize things relating to sport. The local lines as yet have giv en no intimation of what they propose to do in the way of selecting and building up resorts. It is a well-known fact that as early as last fall the Danville and Blooms burg line and Dr. W. R. Paules, the owner of the fine grove between this j place and Grovauia.came to a full un derstanding and that the trolley com pany held an option on the resort. Up to the present, it seems, nothing has been done and the matter rests precise ly where it was last fall. The scheme embraced the erection of a fiue pavil ion and several other buildings, the whole necessitating the expenditure of some four thousand dollars. It is pretty evident that if any such improvements are to he completed before the season opens the first step will have to be tak en in a pretty short time. Neither has anything tangible been accomplished with reference to estab lishing a base ball ground at Grovauia, on which clubs from this city and Bloomsburg were to cross bats. In view of the travel that the Danville- Bloomsburg games would attract it was thought that some concessions might be obtained from the trolley company. During an interview last evening General Manager W. R. Miller stated that the trolley company ha IN 180.-> MRS IUIISCII | ! Mrs. William C. Williams, of Hotel i Baldy.was the first person in Danville I to receive a letter from stricken Sail i Francisco. It arrived [ Saturday and l was from Mrs. Caroline Bausch, a ! former Danville lady concerning whose welfare since the earthquake there was so much doubt and suspense. The letter was written on April i4th last Tuesday, aud like all letters sent out from San Francisco, since the dreadful calamity, it bore no postage stamp. The epistle contains only a few hastily written lines, as follows : "We are all safe. We had to run to the hills and we just got hack. Our house is badly damaged but we can live in if. Please tell all our friends." The brevity and the tone of the let ter plainly indicate the tension aud the excitement under which the peo ple are laboring. The letter, written last Tuesday,states that they had'just got back' from the hills, where they ran when the earthquake occurred, nearly a week before. It would seem likely, therefore, that they experienc ed many ol the discomforts and priva tions that fell to the lot of the great army of refugees. Mrs. Bausch's resi dence is on Sutter street, which ex tends through the burned district. The number she occupies, 2241, while out side the area of fire was dangerously near the liue. The Morning News is in receipt of a few lines from our former tow ns man, George H. Smith, the jeweler who with his family is at Los Angeles, California. Mr. Simth and family, therefore, wholly escaped loss. The letter was accompanied by a copy of the Los Angeles Times of Saturday, April 21st and contains the first views of San Francisco,and a graphic write up by the lirst newspaper man to get within the troop patrolled limits of San Francisco. The incidents describ ed and the illustrations which possess ed such a deep interest in Los Augeles on the date of their first appearance by this time have become the common property of newspapers aud are uo longer new to the general reader. None of the views printed in the East, however,are quite as striking as those in the Los Angeles Times. Shadrach Fry Dead. Shadrach Fry, an old and a well known resident of Danville departed fc\ , KW." ,r i?£aWftmV ry description during win ter. Now is the time to clean out all these places and make them neat and wholesome; but though the women are in the depths of spring cleaning many of the men have hardly l>eguu to think ai.out cleaning up the deserted Hud neglected spots out of doors. Residents Affected. While traffic 011 the Catawissa divis ion of the P. & K. lias been reduced to small proportions by the anthracite coal troubles, enormous quantities of bituminous coal is being handled by this road on some of its divisions fur ther down the line. The very unusual order has therefore been received at Catawissa ordering a large number of trainmen from that place to report at once to llarrisburg for work. Three full train crews have received such orders. The following men, all from Catawissa, have gone to llarrisburg : John Simon Lynn, eng ineer; Frank Krebs, fireman; George Albert Kckroat, engineer; Lewis Me Cartv, fireman; Wilbur Teufel, fire man; Kdward Robinson, fireman; Ira Carrell, brakeman; Klmer Troy, con ductor; Charles Krebs.'flagman. These transfers are only of a temporary 11a ture. Sizes up the Situation. The Wellsboro Advocate, which is opposed to the old style of road build ing and sees no sense in following pre cedent if precedent has been found to be wrong, sizes up the situation in the following terse and truthful man ner: "That annual spasm of dragging the mud out of the ditches into the middle of the road to be washed back again, popularly misnamed 'roadmak iug,' has commenced."