O—
A new trick pen has an explosive on
the point to startle would-be users, It
will be devoted to writing snappy
paragraphs,
More than 20,000,000 acres of land
in the United States are owned by the
avistocracy of England. The heirs
of Viscount Scully own 3,000,000
acres in Illnois, Towa, Kansas, and
Nebraska.
Pupils in the public schools of Co-
penhagen, Denmark, are required to
take three baths a week in the public
school building, and while they are
bathing their clothes are sterilized in
a steam oven. The Danes object to
the regulation on the ground that it
makes the children discontented with
their home surroudings.
The advocates of woman’s rights
have reason to exult today. A woman
started life as has
made herself the acknowleded ruler
of the countless millions of China.
This queen not only rules but gov-
erns. In the apotheosis of Tuen, the
oldest nation of the world betters the
most advanced theories of the newest.
who a. slave
The civilized nations of the globe
have just been taught the superb effi-
ciency and great practical value of
this government’s signal service. Its
work in the West Indies by serving
the regions threatened by the recent
hurricane with twenty-four hours’ ad-
vance notice of its approach was the
means of saving thousands of human
lives and protecting incalculable mil-
lions of property.
The Greek government has prepared
a bill to establish an *‘Antiquities-
Gendarmerie,” the special function of
which will be the guardianship of the
national Greek antiquities, including
places where no excavations are at
present in progress, in the interest of
the Greek people.
shall be admitted to this corps is to
possess a certain degree of necassary
culture, in order that he may under-
stand what is confided to his observa-
tion and protection.
Ee
In western Austria they pnsh the
equality of the sexes to a conclusion
that would satisfy even the most ar-
dent ‘‘equal righters.”” In that land
the men act on the principle that if
women demand men’s privileges they
must take with them men’s responsi-
bilities. = Accordingly, a bench of
magistrates have charged a woman
with deserting her husband, and what
is more, they have sent her to prison
for a month because she steadfastly
refused to contribute to the domestic
comfort of her life partner. A philos-
opher once remarked that human be-
ings should have a care for what they
wished, for that thing would surely
come to them,
Every man who
The Utica Press says: As to the fi
nancial part of it (the war), the situa-
tion is not less gratifying. Nothing
more than inconvenience using
stamps is experienced from the special
war revenue taxes, The people are
not complaining of their burdens,
fhe war loan bond issue was not halt
big enough to accommodate all the
would-be investors. Another and an-
other of the same size would be as
quickly subscribed. The resources
of the United States have not been
tested to a tenth of their capacity.
in
What has been done has not noticea-
oly interfered with the usual run of
affairs in any community. The war
1as been ouly an interesting and some-
dimes exciting incident in the United
6tates. The foreigners who wonder
et American achievements in thes war
should visit the country and see for
themselves how really limitless its re-
sources are,
The almost marvellons growth of
trolley railroads in this country is
graphically presented in some current
figures, comparing mileage in this
country with that in countries beyond
the sea. Communities here may be
contrasted with countries there. For
instance, Allegheny county in Penn-
sylvania has 314 miles of electric rail-
ways. Other communities may be
a8 well or better supplied, but it is
instructive to note that Allegheny’s
mileage is more than one-fifth of that
of all the trolleys on the continent of
Europe. It is greater than that of
all the electric lines of France, more
than three times that of the lines in
England, Scotland and Wales, and
nearly one-half that of Germany,
which latter country -has about one-
half of the entire mileage of 1422
miles of Europe. France follows Ger-
many with 246 miles; then comes
Great Britain with 97, followed by
Switzerland, Italy, and Austria-Hun-
gary with 90, 82, and 66 miles re-
spectively. The mileage of other
countries is small, running as low as
less than two miles in Ho'land and
Portugal.
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THE CULTURED MAID,
Stnoee Betsy came from gay New York
Most everything is changed,
They've turned the farmhouse inside ou
And fixed and rearranged.
I stood the now-style capers
Till the budding social queen
Fitted out her father's parlor
A la Louis the fourteen.
The chairs are made so very frail
You dare not draw a breath,
And all so stiff you can't forget
She's now E-liz-abeth.
And in place of that old sofa,
Where at ease I used to lean,
Stands a spindle-legged divan
A la Louis the fourteen.
You can not dim electrio lights,
To give your nerves a show;
The doors are now all port-aye-airs,
You're bound to whisper low;
But chairs are stuck on sep'rate mats
With waxed floors in between:
Oh! you can’t make love in parlors
A la Louls the fourteen.
You can’t drop in promiscuous like,
To chat a little while;
You've got to wear your Sunday duds
To chime in with the style.
8o I must give up Betsy,
For she, as Mistress Green,
Might want my parlor furnished
A la Louis the fourteen.
—Charles M. Bryan, in Puek.
IA RA
4
BY WILTON RIX AND W..T,
A Stirring Incident of Life Among the Australian GolJi-Pionzers.
CE FOR A GOLD MINE.
p
fe
KERRIDGE.
first? Look at the spec®men. There's
tons and tons of it, Getting there
first? Well, so he may, but we've
got to be there before him!"
The English lad -—he was scarcely
more than a boy--pricked up his ears,
“Is it gold yer’ve found, Pat?”
“Good gold,’ the colonial answered,
curtly. ‘‘*Good gold as ever I see. But
(Geordie’s gone.
him. Did yer come across the claim
together like?”
*We did,” said Pat.
“Then,’’ mused the colonial,
ours as much as it is his by right and,
OO SPO OT WOR IG Sg a ag age Sg ROG gE a rr ag |
Bad luck! Hard work, sand and | he told himself, had well known for
sun in profusion, water alarmingly |loung—that this was the spot of spots, |
is the
miner.
Such
scarce and gold scarcer!
gold
lot of the Australian
|
the only claim worth calling a claim,
an Eldorado, a miner’s ideal, a para-
|
True, there ave excepticni, when gold |
trouble of
water freely
But,
can be picked up for the
stooping and food and
purchased at reasonable prices.
{ gold in this wild
being exceptions, these cases only go |
to prove the rule. And so
nothing surprising in the
three diggers, with whom we are now
concerned, found themselves
very edge of the Great Victorian des-
ert in West Australia with pockets
none too full and themselves often
empty. They toiled patiently on
against persistent ill-luck, hoping that |
each day might bring the turning-
point in the tide of their affairs which
would lead to fortune.
An Engishman, boyishiy hopeful;
an Irishman, humorously despondent,
and an Australian with a strong an-
tipathy to discuss his ancestors’ ori-
gin—his grandfather had journeyed
from England at the expense of the
government—made up the party.
Their camp lay at place called ‘Brook,’
in the neighborhood of Mount Weld.
To the east the great sandy deserts
stretched right away as far as the eye
could reach in billowy sandhills
clotted with spinifex—lonely, arid,im-
penetrable. To the north lay low
ranges and stony plains, unknown,
but seemingly good for gold. Thither
they daily journeyed looking for likely
spots, with variable luck—mostly in-
different. : :
On a certain day the Irishman, hav-
ing wandered farther than his wont,
was led by fickle fortune into the
midst of a perfect paradise of reefs.
Kindly-looking quartz grid-ironed and
intersected the conntry for fully a
square mile.
Pat stood and looking round pulled
thoughtfully at his scrubby beard and
muttered:
“Great Christopher! Here we've
been toiling to the tune of three
or four weights a day when
within two dozen miles there lay a
sort of natural Bank of England,
stuffed full of gold and ours for the
asking!”
Selecting a likely-looking rock of a
dark ferruginous color, he gave acon-
venient corner a crack with the poll-
end of his pick. Off flew a fragment,
which he examined carefully with the
aid of a pocket lens.
‘‘Good gold!”
But where there was quartz as rich
as this, Pat knew that better could
not be far. This would prove to be a
‘“‘stringer’” or ‘‘gash vein,’’ one of
several overflowings of a great parent
reef running through them all. He
was right. Only a few minutes’ walk
brought him to a thick reef of quartz
running north and south and crossing
all the others. This was the ‘‘parent.’”’
Selecting a conveniently crumbled
part, Pat knocked off a corner. Even
before picking up the severed rock he
could see the gold shining in bright
beads.
‘‘Be me sowl,” he said, ‘that’s koind
stone!”’
With a crack he knocked off another
lump and broke it in two. Pat gasped.
It was simply permeated with particles
of gold. This was enough for Pat
O’Lochlin. That gold in unwonted
abundance was here he now felt sure.
The next thing was to secure it for
himself and his mates.
Twenty-four acres is the full extent
of one man’s claim. This must be
pegged out with four small stakes, a
notice put up and the fact registered
at the office of the neighbouring war-
In case of two claimants, the
one who first succeeds in registering
his title is, ipso facto, in possession
of the miner's rights over the claim
in question.
~ Having made certain of the value of
his find, Patlooked for pegs with which
to mark the ground. He soon secnred
four from a dead malga tree, two of
which he rammed into the ground at
the proper. distance and proceeded,
with the remaining: couple over his
shoulder, to step out the number of
Yards necessary to cover a fall claim.
As he walked he whistled and men-
tally patted himself on the back as the
cleverest digger in the colony. In
fact, Pat felt at that moment as proud
as though he himself had put the
gold in the reef and made the rest of
West Australian as well. Such is the
miner's way. When gold is scarce he
curses his ill-luck, the country, the
sun, the absence of water—anything!
But, when his claim is rich, yielding
ounces a week, and he finds himself
on the high way to fortune, he never
then suggests that plain strength and
stupiduness might account for his luck,
or that anyone but the miner himself
is accountable for the fact of gold
being old or its presence in the par-
ticular spot where he has found it,
Here Pat had come, all by himself,
much farther than anyone else had
ever dreamed of penetrating. No
one, uotamanin the country, had
ever suspected what Pat,of course, so
there is |
fact that |
en the |
dise, in short, Pat’s claim. Who
Pat, clever Pat, would ever have
thought for a moment of looking for
wilderness, where
man had suvely never trod before?
Surely no one!
Ne one. So far as Pat knew, no
one. Half the distance had been
paced, and Pat grew more elated as
he walked. He saw himself and his
chums each twice a millionaire. It
was so easy.
They would be all alone. Among
them they might take up the greater
| I've heard him say
but |
| their pounds.
| was his idea:
who's to say, not more?
brumby is his as well, and there's no
catching that, for we've not got a one
in the camp. There's no catching
him.”
“I think——"" the Englishman be-
gan.
‘No use! Thinking: won't stop
George. Some years azo he might ha’
been stopped . my father . .. .
Well, he
Still, Geordie’s gone.”
him, I will! I. rode a
knew men!
“I'll cateh
| had been hot, and the
“
=
limbs and buckled 'wheals, So the
horse still kept ahead.
Aguin another rock
path, Dismount once more. Then
on again. And so again and again.
How long could this go on,and which
would tire first? But, stay, the pace
brumby, not
rolle in the
| over fresh at the start, was tiring. So
There's no catching |
was the Englishman, A few more
i scrambles on and off, a few more lift-
ings of the machine over obstructions
| placed in his way, and he would be
4Gt's |
But the |
done.
Maxwell slackened pace again. He
was going to dismount. Once more he
was going to block the way, or, if that
| failed, tackle the cyclist as he passed
by. The lad was
could stand a fair
desperate. He
race, bot if it came
| to a fight he meant having the first
! blow. So he whipped out his revolver
quad in England-—I was a ‘pro,’ you !
know. But I rode big machines for
shillings a week and made the pace
for worse men than myself who earned
I've got my old ma-
chine in camp. It’s a veteran, but I
can push it, I can!”
Pat stood up and smiled, for this
The bicycle against the
horse.
“‘Here, bring it out!” The'lad was
| stripped to his waist already-—it didn’t
part of the reef, and then" they had |
only to work for it—for they had none
to disturb them.
Suddenly Pat’s auriferous specula-
tions came to a full stop with his feet.
Hiskeen bushman’s ear had detected a
sound. A rattling pebble, a crack of
a dead, dry twig. Pat. knew he was
not alone. Then, peeping out from
the scrub, he saw a face. He was
being watched. A few strides brought
him to the intruder, who sprang to his
feet at Pat’s approach.
minute they stood and stared, each
just as much astonished as the other.
Simultaneously they found speech,
and each inquired of the other what
he was doing on his claim.
The dialogue then became involved.
The stranger threw down the two
pegs which he also was carrying and | 8
| swerving
offered pugilistically to “fire” Pat
out if he didn’t shift.
shifting, summed up ina few well-
chosen words his opinion of the
stranger.
comparing Pat to several unpleasant
animals. This was merely preliminary
and to show independence. Having
done so, Pat felt able to propose with-
out prejudice that, as each seemed to
have found the claim simultaneously,
a partnership and division of profits
would be the fairest and most amicable
way out of the difficulty.
“Your claim, indeed!
Maxwell, ye are.
know ye!
Geordie
what do yer mean?” he said. ‘‘Wasn't
I here at the same instant as yourself |
Haven't I two pegs |
and before?
down and two with me, like yourself?
Half it I've got, and half it I'll have,
friendly or otherwise. So think of
that, Maxwell!”
Maxwell pushed Pat roughly aside,
consigning him and his half to unde-
sirable localities. Said he:
“It’s the whole hog with me, or
nothing!”
‘“Liet it be nothing, then!” said Pat,
and, striding on with his pegs, he |
{ seemed at a
placed them at the corners of his
claim. Maxwell did the same. Both
then placed the necessary notice, and |
Pat made the best of his way back to
camp, as he came, on foot. He had
five miles to go and could get there as
soon as the interloper, of that he felt
sure.
But Pat had not gone far before he |
heard a muffled, scrambling noise be- |
hind and turning saw his rival,
mounted on a native pony —a brumby
—close on him. Tt was a matter of
time. The brumby could co.
knew that. And he was on foot, with
his rival on horseback and the first at
the warden’s office to get the claim.
Pat bemoaned his luck.
ping on his knee and pulling his re-
volver from his belt, bethought him
evilly of the advantages to be gained,
of the bad luck he had met hitherto.
Was he to starve because men, with
brumbies hidden in the bush,spied on |
him and wrested from him, by a quib-
ble of law, what was rightly his own?
Was he to lose his hard-found fortune
or-—?
No! He slipped the revolver back.
Pat would none of it—not in that
way. The first at the warden’s office
should win. A pony could gallop;
but there was a camel-pad right down
to the township, and—well, Pat had
an idea. Secarcely more than three-
quarters of an hour had elasped when
Pat dashed into camp, covered with
sweat and dust.
“Pat! What's up?”
*‘A dirink, boys! A dhrink! Then
perhaps I'll speak.”
They gave him a pannikin of water,
at which he took great gulps, while
they gazed astonished at a lump of
quartz he handed them in exchange.
“Pat! Where did yer get it?”
‘“Never yer mind! Tell me”’—Pat
was, still gasping —*‘have yer set eyes
on Geordie Maxwell this hour?”
The old Australian looked serious,
turned over the plug of tobacco he
was chewing, spat and said: :
“George is gone. Passed on his
gray brumby this hour ago.” Then,
after a pause: ‘‘He meant getting
there.”
‘‘Gittin’ there, is it?” said Pat,
jumping to his feet. ‘‘Gittin’ there!
Yer don't gather my meaning.”
“I do!" said the Australian,
‘‘Theu yer mean he’s getting there
| portance of saving
take him long. He had little to shift.
He took his bicycle from willing
hands. With a leap and scramble he
was into the saddle.
“Mount Margaret, you say?”
“Mount Margaret. And luck
yer!”
The English boy knew well the im-
himself. He had
to
! done his share of pacing for many a
| record bout of
50 or 100 miles. He
t was out of breath to start with, but
{ that was from pride and
excitement.
| It was like ol 1 times again. He would
| race and win gold for his partners and
For fully a |
himself. He had not done much for
| the partnership as yet, pit now he'd
| show them that Englishmen.
| But, steady.
i row and winding,
Pat, without |
He must get his wind.
The path was smooth—worn smooth
by camels’ feet—but dangerously nar-
But what did that
matter to a ‘‘steerer’” who could guide
a “‘quad’’ at 30 miles an hour without
from a chalk-line? This
was not half so bad as taking a triplet
{ round the Olympia course in London,
! and that he could do right casily.
The stranger responded by |
Steady! Steady! You're not at the
Crystal Palace now, with half a dozen
| multicycles ready to take you on and
| shield you from
{| Phoo! the sun!
{ he had kept his shirt on.
{ And so close ou an hour passed. Now |
| comparatively fresh, now
Ye think I don't |
Well, we’ve got to know i
all sorts in this uncivilized land! Sure, |
{ shape.
! must pass.
{ was he going so
the
But keep on riding.
Awful!
wind. Steady!
No time to lose.
He
Plug, plug!
seemingly
done; slow now, then fast again, and
still there was nothing on the horizon
but sand and sky.
Stay! There! Right straight ahead.
No, it was gone. Yes. there it was
again —a cloud of dust. A tiny cloud,
but full of hope for the boy, for,as he
went, it traveled still betore.
Ha, ha! The dust grew near. Took
It was the horse and on it,no
doubt, Geordie Maxwell, the man he
Was his horse beat? Why
slow? Ride, ride!
{ but still steady, steady, for there was
| Mount Margaret.
distance to be traveled still.
Justthen the pad ran round the great
Salt lake that lies to the north of
The bicycle came
close and closer, but the horseman
loss. At length they
and then the cyclist
The edge of the
came together,
saw his advantage.
| lake, for some way round, was crusted
| with salt, a coating thicker than ice,
| but not so strong. Could one get over
! this, miles might besaved and the race
Pat |
won. Maxwell had tried and tailed.
His horse was too heavy for the salt
and sunk in, almost helpless.
The English boy took stock. The
brumby did not sink over much, but
just enough to check his speed.
Geordie had wasted much valuable
time in taking this short cut. Still,
the salt which would not bear the
| horse would carry the bicycle and its
Then drop- |
i best he could to
So, while Maxwell wallowed as
firmer ground, the
rider.
| cyclist sailed alread, takihg a cut across
| a corner of the lake.
I -safe, until,
H'hen all seemed
looking, the lad espied
i another cloud of dust. Yes, there were
two. The one was Maxwell's, who was |
fallowing as host he
west. They met and stopped.
A change of horses. Maxwell had
wished |
t
.messroom of the
and spurting till he was close to the
horse, let fly a heavy ballet right be-
hind its shoulder, and the animal
dropped with a crash, stone dead.
An hour later he had put in his ap-
plication and obtained the necessary
| papers for a reef claim; and should
you travel that pad from Mount Mar-
garet to Mount Weld you will hear as
you pass along the thunder of the five
head of heavy stamps pounding the
quartz and yielding three nice fat
cakes of gold fortnightly for the
plucky men who found the claim aud
made it their own with the help of a
bicycle. The largest shareholders are
an Englishman, boyishly hopeful; an
Irishman, humorously despondent,
and an Australian, who still has an an-
tipathy to discuss atavism.— The
Wide World Magazine,
FITTING UP TROOPSHIPS,
Important Preparations Now Under Way
in the Navy.
The fitting up of troopships is one
of the most important preparations
under way in the navy department.
The unexpected call to send soldiers
to Santiago found the government
with no suitable transports for troops,
and to this fact was largely due the
horrors of the returning ships loaded
with sick and wounded. The main-
tenance of garrisons in distant islands
makes it necessary for the government
in the future to have regularly equip-
ped troopships instead of hastily pick-
ing up merchantmen and cattle freight
boats, as early in the war. The plans
already made indicate that the troop-
ships will have every reasonable pro-
vision for the health and comfort of
soldiers at sea, The Mobile, for ex-
ample, will be lighted with electricity.
It will have a large distilling appar-
atus to furnish pure water. There
will be ample refrigerator room to
keep meat and vegetables fresh. The
men will be so ar-
ranged that the tables can be folded
against the walls and the room used
as a gymnasium, for which purpose
there will be proper apparatus.
The bunks will be supplied with
mattresses as well as blankets and
may be folded against the sides of the
ship, affording a roomy promenade.
These quarters will be provided with
bathrooms. The ship will be fitted
with a hospital having seventy-six
cots. The hospital will have a co:n-
plete dispensary, an operating room
and at least two bathrooms. There
: will be an open-air promenade for the
could, “and the |
i other came along the track from the
men and awnings to protect invalids
while taking an airing. There will
be accommodations for eighty-four
officers and a bathroom forabout every
twenty of them. Among the vessels
to nudergo this transformation are the
Michigan, Mississippi, Manitoba, Mas-
sachusetts and Minnewaska. The Ob-
dam, Panama and Roumania may also
be used. It is the aim of the govern-
ment to have some of the finest troop-
ships afloat, and it has excellent boats
among its transports for that purpose.
The troops who sail in these refitted
ships will have little cause for com-
plaint,
QUAINT AND CURIOUS,
Chinese coinage in the shape of a
knife has been traced back as far
2240 B. C.
The leaning tower of Pisa was built
in the twelfth century, and is thirteen
feet out of perpendicular.
A canal connecting the Mediterra-
nean with the Red sea existed as early
as 600 years before the Christian era.
Its length is ninety-two miles.
From China $450,000 worth of hu-
man hair is exported anuually. It
comes mostly from the heads of male-
factors, paupers and dead people.
Au Elizabethan seal-topsilyer spoon
weighing one ounce and a half was
as
| sold in London recently for $150; that
swopped with one of those belonging |
to the. newcomers. Now ride, if ever
you did. No matter the sun.
ter the Just and
round your eyes, halt blinding you.
Ride, Englishman, ‘ride! The fresh
horsa drew on and on, but Maxwell
was urging it beyond its strength, and
the knowledge that he was doing so
seemed to make him more than ever
frantic. He could not save himself
he could notsave the horse. He must
bave the claim-—no matter who had
to suffer.
No mat- |
sweat which cling
is, $100 an ounce. This is a record
price for old silver.
The Victoria lily of Guiana has a
circular leaf from 6 feet to 12 in diame-
ter. Itis turned up at the edge like
| a tray, and can support, according to
re LA
ible to the naked eye.
Gradually the horse caught up and
turned aside among the rocks, and i
then another short struggle and it was |
past and on the track again, this time
ahead. But still the cyclist kept close
at his heels, looking now to the right,
now to the left,
for a chance to pass.
Did Maxwell know the chance must
come?
way and see that the cycliist had set-
tled down to ride ‘for ever,” as he
himself would : ay? Perhaps he did,
anxiously watching !
its size, from 100 to 300 pounds.
The sea-cucumber, one of the curi-
ous jelly bodies thatinhabit the ocean,
can practically efface itself when in
danger, by squeezing the water out of
its body and forcing itself into a uar-
row crack, so narrow as not to be vis-
The Horrible Part,
“Oh,” she said, ‘IT had a horrible
dream last night. And—and you were
a pwrt of it.” =
“I? he exclaimed.
“Yes; I dreamed you and 1
alone together upon a deserted
wore
Pisland.”
Did he feel his horse giving |
for, galloping ahead for a few yards, he |
pulled up and, leaping from the saddle,
rolled a great rock right in the path.
The cyclist saw it just in time, but had
to dismount, To verge from the nar-
row path meant rocks and broken
i nal for help.’
“Well,” he replied, as he arose to
go, “‘if that’s your idea of a horiible
dream I guess I may as well be say-
ing good-by."”’
‘But wait,” she cried, ““nntil you
have heard all. You were standing on
the beach waving your coat as a sig-
When he left three hours later a
great change had come into his I.fe,
' — Chicago News,
J next car.
the
|
REVSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
A COACH TO HIMSELF.
A Cowboy Flourishes a Revolver and Passenges
On a Moving Train Dieperse to Another
Car Placed in the Lock-up.
When through
bcund,
express No. 6, east-
reached Greensburg a few
nights ago, a man who had
been terrorizing the passengers
was taken off and the police escorted
him to the lockup. Soon after the
train had left Pittsburg he pointed a
revolver at the passengers and threat-
enied to shoot. He speedily empticd the
coach, the passengers as well zs the
brakemen and conductor being com-
pelled to fly for their lives into the
He had the coach all to him-
self when the train reached Greens-
burg. With some trouble he was taken
from the train, disarmed and taken to
the lockup. His name or home is un-
known, but he carried a ticket for New
York City. He is a typical cowboy.
The passengers were panic-stricken.
The train was delayed 15 minutes.
The following pensions were issued
last week: Harper G. Andrews, Brad-
ford, $8; Lucius Adams, Beaver Cen-
ter, Crawford, $8; Robert Aaier, Pitts-
burg, $6; Joseph B. Stretch, Meachan-
icsburg, $6; Hugh McGreevy, Port
Perry, $6 to $12: James Armstrong, El-
derton, $8 to $12; Almerian D. Biddle,
Canton, $30 to $50; Henry Frailey, Ki-
derton, $12 to $17; Walter L. Owens,
Granville, Mifflin, $10 to $15; John DAe-
ter, Erie, $12; David J. Armstronz, Bb-
enezer, $6 to $8; John L. Lewis, Alle-
gheny, $6 to $8; minor of Henry Get,
Renovo, $10; Mary Rumble, Greens-
boro, $8; Mary M. Gates, Knox, Clar-
ion, $12; William -MclIlhatten, Belle-
fonte, $6; Torrence Casey, Erie, $6; Ir-
vin T. Andrews, Lewistown, 36; Wil-
liam J. Carry, dead, Bennett, $12;
Joseph Phillips, Allegheny, $6; Harri-
son Collins, Cranesville, Erie county,
$83; David Mehaffy, Sunbeam, Frank-
lin, $6 to $8; Obed E. Fox, Callensburg,
Clarion, $6 to $8; Marion Clark, Mas-
ontown, $8 to $10; Jacob IL. Shank,
Penn Run, Indiana, $10 to $12; Mary
A Carry, Bennett, $8; Sarah Leister,
Oakdale, $8; Catherine Davis, Altoona,
$8; John W. P. Blair, Mariasville, $6:
Miles F. Newberry, Beaumont, $12:
William H. Huffman, Beaver Falls,
$12; Sarah J. McAleer, Bradford, $8;
Hannah Kaney, Tarentum, $8; Martha
Jane Keuff, Pittsburg, $3: Charlotte H.
Waid, McKezan, $12; Fernando C. Har-
per, Conneaut Lake, $6; Georg: W.
Mack, Whites Corners, Potter, $8:
Scott Taper, Pittsburg,. $6; Samuel
Henderson, Bolivar, $6 to $8; Theodore
D. Quick, Garland, Warren, 38 to $12;
Benjamin Timmins, anksvilla, Alle-
gsheny, $10 to $14.
Mathew P. Anderson, a student at
Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, and a
member of the seminary football team,
died the other night from injuries re-
ceived while playing football. Anderson,
played with the seminary team against
Dickinson at Carlisle last Saturday
and was injured. He complained of
pains in the head and his mind ap-
peared to be affected. When he re-
turned to the seminary he was much
better, and went out to practice, While
at play he became unconscious and hed
to be carried to his room. Doctors
could afford no relief, and the patient
slov:ly sank until death came.
For twenty-five years the record of
big pumpkins kept by Jacob Boos, a
grocer of Butler, has stood at 198
pounds. Last weck Mrs. Maggie Dor-
sey, of Middlesex township, brought a
pumpkin to town that sends all former
records to everlasting smash. The
pumpkin weighs 138 pounds and meas-
ures 7 feet 7 inches at its greatest cir-
cumference. It was all two stout men
could do to unload the monster from
wagon.
A verdict for $20,548 99 was recorded
in the Blair county court the other day
against the Aetna Mining Company on
i suit brought by the banking house of
Gardiner, Morrow & Co. to recover on
an overdrawn bank account 12 years
eld. The suit was on trial five days.
The defendant firm, which is composed
of J. K. McLaughan, T. H. Lewis, John
Manning and A. S. Morrow, pleaded
the statute of limitation to the bank's
claim.
A second attempt was recantiy made
by some unknown enemy to murder J.
S. Zearfoss, a prominent miller rezid-
ing about a mile north of Shippens-
burg. As he was uniocking his otic
decor a shot was fired at him, and the
bullet, striking close to his h rad, diep-
ved to the floor. Some time ago he was
struck on the head with a hatchet, and
at the time was thought to be fatally
injured.
Mrs. James €arrier, of Greenville,
was out of her home for a short time
the other morning, when a four-foot
blacksnake crawled in. When she re-
turned the snake lay curled up in the
cradle in which her four months’ old
baby lay asleep. Although terribly
frightened, she dislodged tha snake
and killed it with a poker.
Hon. Harry W. Williams, of \Volls-
boro, Tioga county, a judge of ‘he sii
preme court of Pennsylvania, has en-.,
tered Buhl hospital for treatment for
nervous paralysis brought on by over-
exertion. Judge Williams vears
age. He is improving and wiH
alle to return home in about
weeks.
Tre dead body of Irwin Wilson. aged
49, a carpenter, of Cherrytree town-
ship, near Frankstown, was found in
his workshop a few days ago. A rifle
which he had been handling had be-
come accidentally discharged and the
builet passed through his heart. He is
survived by a widow and one child.
An explosion of natural gas wrecked
the saloon building of Jacob Duden-
hceffer this evenina and his wife will
likely die of her burns. She went up-
stairs with a lighted lamp and the gas
Which was collected in two bedrooms
¢xploded. Windows were blown half a
square.
The drug firm of M. S. Kuhn at
Mount Pleasant, Pa., was robbed yes-
terday morning of $70 in cash and
bonds aggregating $2,500 in value. The
explosion which shattered the safe
was terrific, shaking the adjoining
buildings.
The United Presbyterian church at
Fairview was destroyed by fire Wed-
nesday night. The building was erect-
ed in 1884 at a cost of $137000, and was
the finest country church in the county.
The irsurance is very small.
Thomas GG. Speece of Altoona, a
Pennsylvania railroad freight b.ake-
man, was missed on the arrival of his
train here. It was found he had fallen
from the train near Kittanning Point
and been ground to pieces.
Lancaster county teachers will hold
théir annual Institute at Lancastd
from November 14 to 18 inclusive.
Mrs. Phoebe N. Keesey, aged 56, of
Columbia, was carrying a lighted coal
@il lamp the other night when it ex-
ploded and set fire to her clothing. She
died in a few hours.
A 16-year-old Porto Rican boy,
brought to New Castle by Company B.
of the Sixteenth Pennsylvania regi-
nent, is sick in the hospital there with
typhoid fever.
Center county burglars are unusual-
ly active. At Potters Mills the robbers
secured $200 worth of money and store
goods, and other localities have suf-
fered.
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A freight wreck on the Lebanon Val-
ley Railroad, at Myerstown, the other
evening blocked all traffic temporarily.