EES A ee “HERE'S TO HIM.” Here’s to the man whose hand irm when he clasps your own— Like a grip of steel That makes you feel You're not in the world alone. fere’s to the man ‘whose laugh Puts the sombre clouds to rout— The man who’s fair And kind and square To the one that’s down and out. —The Milwaukee Sentinel. \ 9 9000000000000000000000 Qe @ C04 p y > 9 b Hoppy's <* > p bh > > > ° ev & on Ce — = = wn cD “o 0 — =< acsbbdblblbloblde ¢ 59 @ *0 ® <¢ Oa DOLLA OEALLLOL000600 ° 96060000560 06000 Well, he “You remember Hoppy? was with a little bunch of us back among the foothills of Nevada about twenty years ago, where we were at- tempting to induce mother earth to give us a fortune, and where, I might say incidentally, that we found it— and kept it—thanks to Hoppy. “He was one of those lank, bony creatures that nature puts on the earth to show by way of contrast the beauty and use of other mortals. He got his name from his walk; it al- ways made me think of a man trying to run and changing his mind at the last moment; it was a cross between two gaits. “We tolerated him for the simple reason that so many other people are tolerated on earth—he was willing. Willing to do us any favor or give us any help that lay within his power, and a quiet appreciation of what you did for him — these were the two things that distinguished him and led us to forgive him for the many acci- dents that he was the chief instru- ment in causing. “We were working the hills for all we were worth and getting pretty well discouraged when Hoppy, who was ahead of us, stumbled and slid down the bank he had climbed, throwing the gravel every which way. Had it been any other of us we would have cussed a little, but Hoppy sim- ply rolled over and stared at some- thing he had unearthed. It was gold dirt. - And there we found our for- tune. We dug in it for all we were worth, and after the days had gone and we were through every man in the bunch had dust enough to make him grin the rest of his life. “Well, to skip details, on the day when we were packing up ready for the ride to the nearest camp a man rides up in a great stew and sweat to tell us of a murder that had been done somewhere in the valley, and we immediately offered to go and help run down the men who had done the dirty business. “So it was fixed up that Hoppy should be left to guard the dust. It looked foolish to me, but you know how it is; we were in a sweat with the excitement of a man hunt and perhaps a good gun fight thrown in, yet some of the fellows thought that Hoppy was just the man to put in the position of guard, for he'd fight if we told him to, like a cat in a corner. “We rode off, leaving him behind to keep an eye on the dust. The rest of the story I have gathered from him and it’s mighty interesting. It seems that we had no more than ridden out of sight and hearing, or beyond the reach of a gunshot, when three men rode from around the cliff to the gul- 1y and came up to the shack. “Hoppy saw them and he didn’t like- their looks, but in those days it was up to every man to be decent to any pilgrim that struck his bunk. So Hoppy walks out with that queer gait of his and says: ‘Howdy!’ They grunted in reply, and the big fellow of the three leans over and says: “Kin we stop a minute, friend?’ «« ‘gure,’ Hoppy answered, wishing they were in China or some other ta- booed place. “1 suppose when they saw Hoppy they thought they were going to have a regular cinch in landing our gold, but they made a mistake, as people often did when they figured they could go by Hoppy's personal appear- ance. You see, the whole thing was a put-up job; somewhere or other they got hold of the truth that we had a lot of dust up there, and they got it into their heads that they wanted it. So they cooked up that scare about the murder and the mur- derer putting up a game fight and wanting our help. We did just what they wanted—rode off with the chap while they dropped in on the scene to do business. “They got inside, but Hoppy had his gun a little too handy, so they didn’t do anything except sit around and gab. - Finally one of the men asked Hoppy for a drink of water. The pail was just beyond Hoppy, near the door, and Hoppy invited him to go over and help himself, but there was where Hoppy made a mistake. Instead of handing the robber a glass himself he let him go over, and the frst thing Hoppy knew there were three husky chaps astride of his piti- ful five feet by one, and they had his windpipe shut sc ke couldn’t squawk. “They let him set up after they had tied his hands so tight behind his back his shoulder blades over- lapped. And the first thing the lead- er wanted to. know was where was the dust. Naturally, Hoppy had forgot- ten, as any man jn his right mind would under such circumectances. They administered a few kicks to Hoppy’s bony anatomy, but that didn’t seem to waken his faulty mem- ory. Still he couldn’t think, and one of them informed him that if he couldn’t remember without a little stronger assistance they’d give him a ittle to help him along. Once more they wanted where couldn’t remember. They held a lit- tle consultation; time was flying and they must work quickly. “Hoppy watched them with inter- est, and it didn’t take him long to see what they had planned for him in the way of entertainment. The big bru- tal fellow of the crowd had snatched a long rod we use in prospecting and was stirring up the fire. When it was | Say, then, gossip, if you can, burning brightly he stuck the end of Why you wed him—horrid man! the rod in the fire and looked over at Hoppy. “Hoppy wilted a little, and I don’t | Why to-day you scorn each other blame h'‘m, but he was game. The big fellow wanted to know where that gold was, but Hopp couldn’t re- member. When a man has given up vears of his life to find the yellow stuff as we had, and has found it at last, he isn’t inclined to hand it over to the next poor sinner that comes along and tries to take it by force. Hoppy was game. «When the rod was nicely heated the robber came over to Hoppy and held it about one-eighth of an inch in front of Hoppy’s nose, and he wanted to know if Hoppy saw it. Needless to say, Hoppy did see it, and, more- over, he felt it. He was given to un- derstand that not only should he see it, but that he would feel ‘it if he didn’t give them the necessary infor- mation, but Hoppy was tight—busy praying that we fellows would come, you:'say? Not.at all. He was think- ing of something else. “At the order of the leader one of them snatched off his boots and they made ready to bore a few holes into his sole. Hoppy had a tough one, but he knew as well as they that it wouldn’t stand roasting. At the first hiss of the red iron he let out a yell and they had to sit on him a while before he cooled down. This time they got him firm and, as he still couldn’t seem to remember, one of them yanked off his shirt and the big chap leveled the red hot iron for his heart. That was too much for Hop- py, and he begged for mercy and promised to tell him where we stored the gold. “Hoppy told them to go back of the shack near a brown rock and there under a covering of earth they'd find the gold. He acted scared blue, and they hustled out. Hoppy could see them as they hurried up the rise of ground back of the shack. He saw them fihd the place as he had said with the earth covering. They were as eager a pair and pleased a crowd, Hoppy said afterward, as he had ever seen. “Ope of them had a crowbar. He lifted it up and down it went. Then something happened. There was a crash and a blast of flame that went a hundred feet into the air. Mixed in the crash and blaze were men’s cries of agony and forms shuttled a mo- ment into view, and it was all over. the dust was, but Hopp | fVhat’s a woman? Why, then, gossip, tell me true, Ask a woman: « Gentle sir and sweetest madam, Ask your parents, Eve and Adam, a Ask a man, What d’you fancy he will say? Airs and graces, frills and" laces, Never knows what she wants each day!” y you woo her—as you do. What's a man? What d’you fancy she will say? *Swagg'ring, swearing, overbearing, Always wanting to have his way!” Would you know the reason true, n And to-morrow bill and coo? They can tell, and—so can you! —Pall Mall Gazette. RIPPLES 14S oF IRT AE Reginald—*“How do you like the {dea of my growinga beard this fall?” “Why, I should set my face against. it.”’—Judge. “We speak only good of the dead, because as a general thing we have exhausted our supply of blame on them when they were alive.”—Phila- delphia Record. ‘A little widow now and then Plays havoc with the single men. She smites our heart with glances bright. Beware, O men, the widow's smite. —Houston Post. Editor — “No, take it away. 1 don’t buy poetry.” Poet—' Well, all the editors who have read this say it isn’t. Won't you look at it, sir?” — Cleveland Leader. “You are a dog fancier, are you?” “Me? No, ma’am; I'm a dawg hater. That’s why I'm offerin’ you this beau- tiful fox tarrier so cheap. I want to git rid of ’im.”’—Cleveland Leader. Blobbs—*‘Bighead is pretty good company for himself, isn’t he?” Slobbs—*‘I should say he was. Why, that fellow wouldrather play solitaire than poker.’’—Philadelphia Record. The Lady—‘What’s your trade?” The Hobo—“Lady, I'm a captain of industry.” The Lady—"In those clothes?” The Hobo—*‘Dis is me fa- tigue uniform.”’—Cleveland Leader. Why should we pay the weather man A’stipend, fat and large, If on the ancient, time-tried plan The ground-hog is in charge? —Judge. ‘Austere Person—*I can’t tip you, young man, unless you have change for a tenner.” Waiter (sizing him up)—*‘Keep your dime, sir; I haven't a nickel about me.”’—Chicago Tri- bune. “So your boy Josh is an inventor?” “Yes,” answered Farmer Corntossel. “He has invented a lot of labor-sav- ing devices,” ‘What are they?” “Excuses for not working.”’—Wash- ington Star. “We rode hard on the back stretch for we saw and heard the explosion, and I tell you it was an anxious and hot bunch of men that threw them- selves off their ponies at the shack or what had been a shack. We dug Hoppy out of the debris of the shack, more dead than alive, but he was just mad enough to spoil all chance of his dying, and we managed to get the truth out of him. «It seems that he had kept the bluff to the last minute so that he might not arouse their suspicions, and then kindly directed them to a place he had provided in that strange foresight of his for such emergencies —a hole furnished with enough dy- namite to blow a mountain over al- most. They had done the rest, and incidentally had found rest, too, for it was so much work picking them up that we gave up the attempt. “Hoppy was a hero after that. I'm afraid he never got over our praising him, but as long as Hoppy staid with us he was treated like a man and he stuff clear was one, too—the real through.” — W. Werner, in Chicago News. e—— CURIOUS FACTS. Chinese farmers foresee approach- ing storms by observing the actions of birds and insects. Bron Borough is increasing more rapidly in brick dwellings than any other borough in New York City. The city of Philadelphia planned the establishment of a wireless sta- tion on top of the City Hall tower, 537 feet above the ground, to give communication with the surrounding country and ocean within a radius of 1000 miles. Thomas West, known as ‘the big Indian,’ died recently at his home near Kanawa, Okla. the townsite which he owned and sold for $12,- 000. West was a Seminole and came to Oklahoma in 1866. He was one of the signers of the treaty for the allot- ment of the Seminole lands, July 1, 1898. Since March 14, 1900, there have been chartered in the United States 4086 banks, with authorized capital of $245,933,300, of which 2632, with porated under the act of that date, and 1454, with capital of $177,367,- 800, under the act of 1864. The railway between Singapore and Penang, just completed, opens up an enormous rubber country. For the last ten years William Bid- dulph Cross of Crook street, Chester, England, who died recently, was en- gaged in the construction of his own ,, made of empty match boxes. of the ordinary shape, and much and skill have been it. There is, of course, ¢ f wood, on to which the ire glued ce a capital of $68,565,600, were incor- | _| fruit or Grandma — “In my day women didn’t fly around out of doors as they do now. They would sit at home and spin.” Gladys—‘ ‘But now they go out and spin much better, if they have a good, fast auto.”’—Baltimore Amer- ican. “Human nature is the same the world over,” said the philosopher. “When a man discovers that a law interferes with his personal interest, he wants it abolished.” “Yes,” an- swered Senator Sorghum, “I'm look- ing for some of these aviators to come up with a proposal to repeal the laws of gravitation.”—Washing- ton Star. He—“You claim it is silly for me to make a fuss about a collar button when I lose it.” She—*‘Yes, I do.” He —*“Well, here’s an item in this paper about a professor of mathematics at Darmstadt, who has instituted a prize of $25,000 as an inducement to re- discover the famous theorem of Fer- mat, which has been lost for over two centuries.”’—Yonkers Statesman. News. By ADA T. DRAKE. The road which has been running | from New York to Boston has got | there. Mr. Jones recently went to his of- fice, leaving the lid off the family jar. An explosion resulted. Miss Jenks, who was seen to take | a street car at the foot of Main | street last night, has been arrested. Miss Mason has been having trou- ble with her eyes. Yesterday they persisted in running up and down the columns of the morning paper. Then | they became fastened on the picture | of a departed friend, and at last re- | ports they were glued to the opposite | wall. Professor Seeley, in a moment of deep thought on Friday afternoon, threw his eyes into the fire. | When Mr. Morton arrived at his | office this morning he had a young lady on his arm. Dr. Smith is the attending physician. On Tuesday the night editor, while | following a train of thought, walked | off a high trestle and fell into a | reverie, but his injuries were slight and he is now able to be at his desk ain. Everything looks very bright to- | day. It is reported that ome of our early rizers swept the landscape with | his eye.—From Judge. { Pineapple For Hextra. Two diners at an hotel were dis- | puting as to what a pineapple really was. One of them insisted that it | was a fruit, the other insisted that it | was a vegetable. The friends deter- | mined to accept the decision of the | waiter, who was called to the table. “John,” asked one of them, “how Is it a | do you describe a pineapple? a vegetable?” gentlemen; a “Tt The dn. 7 ue ns, Sunidaigy=School - INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- MENTS FOR APRIL 18. Subject: The Conversion of Saul, Acts 9:1-830—Golden Text: Acts, 9:4 —Commit Verses 15, 16—Coms- mentary on the Lesson. TIME.—A. D. 37 (7?) PLACE.— Jerusalem, Damascus. EXPOSITION.—I. Saul the Mur- derous Enemy of Jesus, 1, 2. Saul’s intense anger against Jesus and His disciples was not a matter of a single hour or day. The extent to which he carried his hatred in action we see in ch. 22:19; 26:10, 11. In this Saul had persuaded himself that. he was doing right (ch, 26:9). It is a striking illustration of how a man who intends to be conscientious can be thoroughly and awfully wrong. ‘II. Saul the Humbled Penitent, 3- 0. The Lord allowed Saul to go a long way in his mad career. But at the proper moment He put forth His hand and saved the little flocks in Damascus. Probably Ananias had prayed, though he could hardly be- lieve when he heard. The Lord often acts “suddenly.” The “light out of heaven’’ that shone around Saul was the light of Christ's resurrection glory (v. 17; 1 Cor. 15:8). It was “about noon” (ch. 22:6), and the glare of the eastern noon is exceed- ingly bright, but the glory of this was “above the brightness of the sun’ (ch. 26:13). Our Jesus is ex- ceeding glorious. The stout-hearted persecutor is thoroughly humbled (v. 4). There are many to-day who speak great, swelling words against our Lord, who, if they should get one look at Him as He is, would ‘fall to the earth” before Him (Phil. 2:10, 11). Evidently, for all his zeal in persecuting the church, Saul had many a goading thought that he might be wrong, and Jesus indeed the Lord (26:14, R. V.). A start- ling question (v. 4). He puts it to every one to-day who is persecuting His people. Note how tenderly Jesus identifies Himself with His disciples (v. 5; comp. Matt. 25:35-40, 42-45; Eph. 5:30). What an awful mo- ment it must have been in Saul’s life when it fully broke upon him that the glorious One who stood before him was indeed. Jesus, whom he had so bitterly hated and so relentlessly persecuted. What an awful moment it will be for many now living when they see Jesus in the glory, and real- ize that it is He whom they have spurned and persecuted. The light Saul saw was no mere subjective vis- jon or effect of sunstroke; the others saw it, too (ch. 22:97, and heard the voice. When we look at the original the apparent contradiction between v. 7 and ch. 22:9 entirely disappears. In this passage ‘‘the voice” is in the genitive case, which with the verb translated ‘‘hearing” indicates the person (or thing) heard speaking the message. In Acts 22:9 “the voice” is in the accusative case, which indi- cates the message which is heard. There was no hurrying of Saul into the light. It is not a bad thing for a man to have time to think and to re- view the enormity of his sin. III. Ananias, the Obedient Disci- ple, 10-16. Ananias was simply “a certain disciple.” This destroys the doctrine of the Mormon church (and of many others) that the laying on of an apostle’s hands was necessary to receiving the Holy Spirit. Ananias was a ready instrument to the Lord's call. But when the definite direc- tions came Ananias was staggered. He quite overlooked what Jesus had just told him about the change that had been wrought in Saul. Saul, the terrible, fills his whole vision and he protests. Jesus enters into no dis- cussion with Ananias. ‘Go thy way,” He says, and then He tells what Saul of Tarsus really was—‘‘a chosen ves- sel unto Me.” How wonderful are God’s ways, to transform the bitter enemy into “the chosen vessel.” Rut this former persecutor must himseif suffer for the sake of that name he once hated. This, too, a gracious act on Jesus’ part to permit Saul to suf- fer for Him, and to-day the suffer- ings that Saul once inflicted upon Christ are quite forgotten in the suf- gerings he endured for Christ. IV. Saul, the Bold Witness For Jesus, 17-19. Ananias protests ro longer. Readily and promptly and heartily he obeys. The moment he sees Saul he tenderly lays his hands upon him and exclaims, “Brother Saul.” There were no men on carth that Saul had hated as he did disci- ples of the Lord. There was no man on earth that Ananias had dreaded as he did Saul. But this was, all changed. Faith in one Lord had made them brothers. “And be filled with the Holy Ghost.” The Lord had said nothing about that to Ana- nias (v. 12). But the Lord had said “he is a chosen. vessel to carry My name before the Gentiles,” etc., and Ananias knew he could not do that properly unless he was endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4, 5; ch. 10:38). Saul did just what every man ought to do as soon as he is saved and Spirit-filled (v. 20). There is no indication that Saul at this time received miraculous gifts through being filled with the Holy Spirit. He took God’s word for it that he was so filled, and went ahead, and the filling with the Spirit manifested itself in the power with which he preached (v. 22), The Good Grows. How indestructibly the good grows and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evill— Carlyle. To Prove and Strengthen Us. All providences are doors to trials. Even our mercies, like roses, have their thorns. Our mountains are not too high and our valleys are not too low for temptations; trials lurk on all roads. Everywhere, above and be- neath, we are beset and surrounded with dangers. Yet no shower falls unpermitted from the . threatening cloud: every drop has its order ere it STATE OWES UNCLE SAM Old Books Record the Receipt of $2,742,514.78. Harrisburg. — According to the State’s cash book of 1837. Pennsyl- vania stands indebted to the fdeeral government in the sum of $2,742, 514.78. This money was received in three installments and came as “dis- tribution of the surplus revenue de- posited to the credit of the different States by act of congress, June 23, 1836.” Receipts of this money had been forgotten until the Murdock bill, calling upon the various States which had received these “surplus revenues” to pay, was presented to congress. State Treasurer Sheatz discovered in an old State cash book the following entries: “January 13, 1837. Received of the United States, etc, check on the Girard bank for $750,000. Check on the Moyramensing bank, $80,838.26. “April 1, 1837. Second installment, check on Girard bank, $750,000; Mo- yamensing bank, $80,838.26; Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ bank, Pittsburg, $125,000. “July 1, 1887. Third installment, check on Commercial bank, Cincin- nati,” $150,000; Girard bank, $680,- 838.26; Merchants and Manufactur- ers’ bank, Pittsburg, $125,000. To- tal, $2,762,514.78.” Whether the State will have to face interest charges or not is in doubt, as the exact provisions of the Murdock bill are unknown here. GENEVA WINS DEBATE Defeats Westminster in Compulsory Arbitration Discussion. Beaver Falls. — Geneva defeated Westminster here in the annual de- bate. The question was “Resolved, that compulsory arbitration would be the best method of settling disputes beween corporations and labor unions in the United States at the present time.” Geneva took the affirmative and Westminster the negative. The debaters were Boyd Tweed and Frederick Reade for Geneva and Paul J. Simison and Adam C. Williamson for Westminster. The judges were W. C. Leffingwell, Pittsburg; Rev. J. H. Bausman, Rochester; A. M. Craw- ford, Pittsburg. Site for Johnstown Postoffice. Johnstown. — That the site for Johnstown’s new federal building has been definitely selected by the gov- ernment became known when notice was served on John Hannan, Joseph Hummel, W. W. Bailey, John Cooney, Dr. W. N. Pringle, Henry Lubken and James Quinn that they had been ap- pointed viewers to appraise a proper- ty at Locust and Market street, which will be taken by condemnation pro- ceedings. The site is convenient to the big business houses. Commencement at Carlisle, Carlisle.—The commencement exer- cises at the Indian school were held | PENNSYLVANIA Interesting Items from All Sections of ‘the Keystone State. FULL PENALTY IMPOSED Victim Held Prisoner for Days and’ Subjected to Revolting Abuse. Philadelphia. — Twenty-five years’ imprisonment in the Eastern peniten- tiary and a $2,000 fine was the sen- tence imposed by Judge Barrett here upon George Washington, a negro,. who was convicted of holding Mrs. Ella Curtin, white, a prisoner in his room and ill-treating and robbing her. Mrs. Curtin went to the negro’s. home to make arrangements to have her trunks moved to a storage house. She alleged that Washington kept her a prisoner in his room from March 21 to 29. She was rescued by the police, who had been notified of the matter, by another negro roomer in the house. ; iE The woman, hospital physicians testified, is a physical wreck as the result of her experiences. Several times while testifying to he revolting. nature of her experience she collaps- ed on the stand. : The jury quickly convicted - Wash- ington and he was given the full pen- alty of the law. TRACK SINKS IN SWAMP’ B. & L. E. Engineers Encounter a Second Troublesome Bog In Mercer County. Butler.—What is believed to be an- other “bottomless pit” has been en- countered by the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railway Company's engineers at Rattlesnake swamp, several miles north of Mercer. The swamp covers several thousand acres and may prove a greater problem to engineers than the Hartstown swamp, a few miles away, which was conquered, recently, after three years’ work and an expen- diture of nearly $250,000. The railway engineers, four months ago, started construction of a cut-off through the Rattlesnake swamp. A solid track over 300 feet of the soft ground has been completed. Yester- day a part of the track sank away and a trestle toppled over. Soundings show the mire is 80 feet deep. A few nights ago the trestle shifted 20 feet from the line of survey. It has been anchored to prevent it from disap- pearing. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION State Chairman Issues Call for Meet ing in June. » The Pennsylvania Republican State convention will be held in the Majestic theater at Harrisburg on June 16, at 10:30 a. m., to nominate a State Treasurer, an Auditor Gener- al and a Judge of the Supreme Court. Colonel W. R. Andrews, chairman of the State committee, issued the call which was attested by John R. Will- jams, secretary.’ ! Under the rule of the State organi- zation there will be a new apportion- ment of delegates this year based up- on the vote cast for President last April 1. The class is the largest ever graduated, consisting of 52 stu- dents from the trades department and 26 from the classical department. The diplomas were presented by Indian Commissioner Francis E. Leupp, and among the large audience in attend- ance were United States Senators Page and Platt. Shenango Furnacemen’s Wages Cut. Sharon.—About 600 blast furnace employes at the four furnaces of the Shenango Furnace Company, at Sharpsville, received a 10 per cent cut in wages April 1. The men had anticipated the reduction. These are the only furnaces operating at Bharpsville, bu it is said the four others will make a similar cut when they resume. Power Plant Burned. Canonsburg.—The power plant of the Greek coal mine, near McConnells Mills, owned by John M. Greek, was destroyed by fire. Superintendent Edward Mooney said he believed the plant was set on fire and a reward will be offered for the arrest of the supposed firebugs. The loss is plac- 2d at $13,000. New Castle Women Project Library. New Castle—The Young Women’s Christian Association plans to start a public library here. A committee of 30 women. has been appointed to as- sume general charge. Each of them is to appoint 10 others to aid her and each of these is to obtain 10 books from friends. If the plan does not miscarry, a library of 3,000 volues will result. Waynesburg.—After searching al- most a year for their son, J. R. Streit- enberger, who disappeared mysteri- ously, Mr. and Mrs. Adam Streiten- berger of Waynesburg have received news that the boy way washed over- board from a United States ship near Rotterdam, Holland, and drowned. Wealthy Farmer Is Robbed. Shamokin.—Five masked burglars, ison Vought, a wealthy farmer; near Elysburg, open a safe at his home, from which they procured $700. They escaped. Loss by Storm. Washington.—An inventory of dam- age done by the hurricane in this county shows the loss will reach near- ly $100,000. Every oil and gas com- pany operating in the county reports rigs and derricks razed, while in many instances tubing and other equipment were damaged. The aver: age loss sustained at each well is es- timated by oil men at $300, and at least 150 derricks were leveled. Dozens of men were today repairing hastens the earth. The trials which rom God are sent to prove engthon va~=Reav. C. H. Spurge telephone and telegraph lines, but it will be several days before service is completely restored. at the point of revolvers, made Mad- | year. Each legislative district is en- titled to one delegate for every 2,000 votes or fraction thereof cast at the preceding Presidential election. der this rule the convention this year will consist of but 372 delegates, while for the past four years it has consisted of 425 delegates. KILLED BY EXPLOSION Another Seriously Burned When Gas Ignites in Tank Being Cleaned. Bradford.—An explosion of gas in a 600-barrel crude oil still at the re- finery of the Emery Manufacturing Company, killed Thomas Brophy and seriously injured Bart Conners. The oil was pumped out of the still Brophy and Conners started to clean the tar from the bottom. An explo- sion followed, which burned the trapped men. They emerged from the still with their clothing almost burn- ed off and still ablaze. Brophy died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital. He leaves a widow and three children. Con- ners’ condition is dangerous, but he has a slight chance of recovery. STATE LEGISLATURE. Harrisburg. — Governor Stuart’s State highway bill was passed in the house by a vote of 107 to 82 after a strenuous battle. The measure, which provides for construction of a great $5,000,000 highway across the State from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, through Harrisburg. The judges’ salary increase bill passed the house with 126 .votes in its favor, 62 against it and 16 mem- bers absent or not voting. With only two votes in opposition and with exceedingly few members absent or not voting, the soldiers’ pension bill passed the house finally, and it will now go to the senate for consideration. The measure provides $1,700,000, to be distributed in $6-a- | month pensions to all Civili War vet- jerans of this State whose income does jot exceed $700. Greensburg.—John B. Moloney of Greensburg, was notified by English barristers that he is one of three heirs to a fortune in Ireland estimat- er at $480,000. | Musician-Philanthropist Dies. Pittsburg.—Charles Chauncey Mel- lor, musician, scientist and prominent {business man, life long friend of An- drew Carnegie, and associated with {him in many of his charities, died at his home here, aged 73 years. Mr. Mellor had been the guiding spirit in the development of musical culture in Pittsburg half a century. He was | actively connected with several na- | tional scientific societies. | rte —— —— Occasionally a man honest opinion cause {ferent from his own. listens it is to a so dis Un-' Famili 9 | | * ny % é > “involv: hydran -quentl acquali “The p that t! grount specia The “times -a coal lot of fn ab flagra lives. Suppo may 1 impris mechs struct result precit dreds
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