= BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—The betting on WILSON against the |
field in New York is four to one, and no |
takers. i
—According to one of our exchanges, |
“President TAPT sees victory at the -
polis.” He has likely had a forecast of |
the WILSON returns. |
—Anyway our people can rest assured |
that if nothing else is coming down air- |
ships are. Even a protective tariff don’t
seem able to keep them up.
—That Balkan war leaves no doubt
that the purpose of Greece and Monte-
negro, both, is to get their share of Tur-
key before the regular Thanksgiving dis-
tribution occurs.
—Mr. ROOSEVELT, it is now said, has
been arranging for over ten months for a
popular uprising in his behalf. Evident-
ly, however, he has gotten hold of the
wrong kind of yeast.
—Two years ago CHARLEY PATTON was
campaigning all over this district with
TENER ageinst Berry. Now he is on the
Keystone ticket with BERRY. What a
straddler our Congressman is.
—Mrs. RUSSELL SAGE is complaining
that her wealth it a burden. Possibly
the dear old lady hasn't looked hard
enough for persons willing to share her
burdens. The world is full of them.
i
| Several witnesses testified before the
| CLAPP Senatorial committee to the effect
| that conferences were held between PEN-
—In just eleven days WOODROW WIL: | the truth and most people whoknow him | stitutional amendments of 1909 which pro-
SON will be chosen President of the Unit- | understood that fact. But the evidence longed the term of office to four years,
ed States. There is no question about | of the newspaper men fastens the crime | that he was entitled to another year. The
it. The only thing in doubt is just how ' o¢ noriiry upon him indelibly. For years | question was argued in the Dauphin
overwhelming his overwhelming majority
is going to be.
—A rabbit can run sixty feet in a sec- | that purpose in view he looted the city of | tention. It was appealed at his instance
ond, or nearly three-quarters of a mile Pittsburg until he had acquired sufficient | and apprehensions were widely felt that
in a minute. And that is the reason so
many rabbits are sitting tight in their
burrows before the amateur hunter gets that ambition he solicited the help of the ment on one point. Neither of them
ready to shoot.
—JACK JOHNSON, the nigger pugilist | enter into any corrupt alliance with any- fairs at Harrisburg. It will mean not only
has gotten himself into trouble in Chica- body. But bad as DURHAM was and as | a complete exposure of iniquities but a
go that will probably remove him from : PENROSE is they couldn't be induced, even | correction of the evils.
the prize ring to the prison cell. Such
an outcome would be welcomed by chris-
tian people everywhere.
—The county commissioners are after
Bellefonte council to pay up on the new
High street bridge, but council will prob-
ably refuse to “come across” until the
commissioners see to it that the brick on
the bridge are properly laid.
—If new parties keep springing up in
Pennsylvania the size of the election
booth will have to be increased. The
voter and the ballot will scarcely be able
to get crowded into them on the 5th of
November, so large is the ballot now.
—Col. ROOSEVELT must be in a far
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 57. BELLEFONTE, PA.
OCTOBER 25, 1912. NO. 42.
Flinn Proved a Liar.
FLINN during the period between the
| death of Senator QUAY and the appoint.
| ment of PHILANDER C. KNOX to fill the
| vacancy. Senator PENROSE had sworn
that FLINN offered Mr. DURHAM and him-
self a million or two million dollars for
the seat.
under oath, and wentso far as to swear
: that he hadn't seen either PENROSE or
DURHAM during that period of time. On
Monday four or five reputable newspaper
reporters and consequently credible wit-
nesses, testified that there had been con-
ferences between the gentlemen during
the time and that they had reported the
| gossip incident to their papers.
Of course BiLL FLINN lied about the
! matter notwithstanding his oath to tell
| he has been cherishing the absurd am-
| bition to be a Senator in Congress. With
| tainted money to go into the market and
| overbid other aspirants. Because of
| Standard Oil company and was willing to
' by so liberal an offer, to put humiliation
"upon the State by catapulting FLINN into
| the place.
The evidence of these reputable news-
| paper correspondents puts somebody
under moral obligation to prosecute
{ FLINN for perjury, however. His false
statement to the committee was certainly
perjury under the law and perjury is a
| grave, crime. It cannot be claimed that
| FLINN was mistaken in the matter or had
| forgotten the incident. On the contrary
| he was positive in his statement to the
| committee under oath and declared that
| his mind was clear. That being the case
the district attorney of Washington
i should summon him to court and impose
ROSE and BiLL FLINN and DURHAM and
FLINN denied this absolutely, |
| control of the Board of Public Buildings
more serious way than the average lay- | upon him the penalty of his crime. If he
man realizes. His physicians say that he | were a labor leader the proceedings
has 74 polymorphoneuclia neutrophiles | would probably have been instituted
and 6400 leucocytes, and no man with all | 3¢ once. Therefore there is no valid
those unpronounceable things could be reason for the failure to proceed against
anything else than very sick. | FLINN. Let there be no further delay.
—And now it is given as a fact that | wmS@“@w—se..Z
chairman GUTHRIE, Mr. MCCORMICK and | ——TAPT is confident that the cost of
Congressman PALMER have, each, al- | living is coming down and that after the
ready declared his intention of being a | election the movement will be accelerat-
A Heartening Decision.
The decision of the Supreme court af-
firming the decree of the Dauphin county
tribunal in its opinion that there will be
a vacancy in the office of Auditor General
at the expiration of the term of the pres-
ent incumbent, should hearten the Demo-
crats all over the State. It adds vastly
to the value of the impending victory. It
guarantees, in the event that the Demo
crats carry the State, almost an absolute
certainty, a complete revolution in the
administration of affairs at Harrisburg.
The election of ROBERT E. CRESSWELL as
i Auditor General and WILLIAM H. BERRY
' as State Treasurer will give that party
and Grounds and incidentally other exec-
| utive boards and commissions.
| The litigaticn grew out of the claim on
| the part of Auditor General SISSON that
| because he was installed into the office
! subsequent to the adoption of the con-
county court some weeks ago and was
decided adversely to Mr. SISSON'S con-
| the decision would be in his favor. The
: two Republican machines are in agree-
| wants the Democrats to get control of af-
In the campaign, therefor, from this
time on the Democrats have this addi-
tional incentive to work for success. The
election of our candidate for President is
no longer a matter of doubt and it is rea*
sonably certain that he will have both
branches of Congress in accord with him
on policies of government. That means
a complete house cleaning in Washington
and a destruction of the superstitions
with respect to tariff. The election of
CRESSWELL and BERRY will have a pre-
cisely similar result .n Pennsylvania for
while the Governor will still exercise con-
trol in his office,he will be constantly held
to his obligations by the check which the
An Amusing Controversy.
The rather childish controversy in pro-
gress between Chairman WASSON, of the
Republican State committee, and Chair-
man “Hampy” MOORE, of the Republican
Congressional committee, is amusing, but
not without some value. It shows how
hopelessly the Republican party of the
State is divided and how irretriev-
ably the electoral vote of the State is lost
to both ROOSEVELT and TAFT. These
are important because they serve as
guides to the voters of other States.
Thousands of voters have little interest
in party policies. But they have the de-
sire to be on the winning side and we
have no doubt that the vote of some of
the doubtfu! States will be determined
by the plain signs that Pennsylvania will
vote for WILSON.
Aside from that, however, the contro-
versy is only amusing. It presents to a
somewhat tired public the spectacle of
two selfish and insincere men quibbling
over nonessentials while the essentials
are permitted to go to the dogs because
no attention is paid to them. Hawmpy
tells WASSON that he is a recreant, which
is no doubt true. WASSON retorts that
HAMPY is usurping authority, which is
absolutely certain. But what do the peo-
ple care about such things. Neither
HAMPY nor WAsSSON is of great import.
ance in the political equation except that
one is the servile follower of PENROSE
and the other the obedient slave of FLINN.
They are equally indifferent to the inter-
ests of the people.
Every thoughtful observer of events
understands that Chairman WASSON is at
heart a supporter of ROOSEVELT and that
his pretenses of fidelity to the Republican
ticket are false and fraudulent. It is
equally obvious that HampY doesn’t care
a straw for TAFT and would be willing to
support ROOSEVELT if such action would
reinstate PENROSE in the leadership of
the party. But in common with all stu-
dents of current political events we are
amused at the sham battle which these
grown up children are maintaining and
hope they will keep it up until the end of
the campaign. And they may as well do
that, moreover, for a cessation of hostili-
Auditor General and State Treasurer will
have upon him. All inall that decision |
is the best incident of the week.
——]If it had been the other way can
any man imagine ROOSEVELT withdrawing
from the stump because his opponent
had been injured by a crazy man?
: Hardly.
President Taft’s Delusion.
ties now won't change the result.
Wilson’s Humane Record.
From Collier's Weekly.
Social workers have gone mainly for
the Bull Moose, quite naturally and prop-
erly, since the Moose platform gives such
emphasis to their work. It is often over-
looked that Wilson, although he is not
bringing it much into the National cam-
, has shown in his Governorship
ow he stands in this field. Under his
leadership the Jersey Legislature has, in
two years, limited the employment of
working women to 60 hours a week, this
being the first law relating to woman
wage earners ever enacted in New Jer-
sey. Several other laws, of less impor-
tance, relate to the welfare of women in
various directions, includi improve-
ments in the penal system. Abouta doz-
en laws for the protection of children
have been passed. In the domain of
health much progress has been made.
New Jersey has taken a decided step in
the Saumliiin against tuberculosis, a step
: has been taken toward controlling feeble-
mindedness, a remedy for pre-natal blind-
ness is to be furnished free of charge and
' the use of the common drinking cup has
. been restricted. Among the commis-
sions appointed were those on la-
bor, employers’ liability, ameliorating the
condition of the blind and play-grounds.
The New Jersey State Federation of La-
bor passed a resolution the Gov-
ernor “for his unremitting untiring
| efforts in assisting to bring about better
| conditions for the earners of New
| Jersey.” Altho looks upon the
. trusts and the tariff as the t nation-
al issues of the campaign, his work as
Governor is the best proof of his interest
in social and industrial amelioration.
£ No Political Capital.
From the Harrisburg Star--Independent.
There have been attempts to make polit-
ical capital out of the shooting of Theodore
! Roosevelt by a crank who says it was his
| iy 2ppoj inted ask 19 povent a, violation
0 ird-term avenge
the assassination of President McKinley.
Some of the Colonel's supporters say that
| the shooting was the “culmination of the
| brutal adjectives” used by his political
nents.
| tal adjectives” in a political campaign
drove criminal cranks to assassination
quite a number of men Bghin public life
would be very unsafe. has been
more use of such adjectives, and more
vituperation, in this campaign than in
any other for many a year.
t could ba said that the campaign of
t is tommy-rot. If the use of “brid\
politan newspaper that called all that did
not agree with it “drabs” and “tories.”
tn | i vasisd “facts” and misgtafed Tecords)
| ——The lovers of game and devotees | It has done everything that factionism
| of umn i te whe obec | FURR 1,3 cami of Si ind
| the payment of an unjust tax upon their | tal adjectives” have not sent anybody out
| pleasure and recreation in the form of a | on a mission of murder.
' Resident Hunters’ license law should =. It is wrong to ascribe the attack on the
i . : Colonel to a political cause. It is worse
| bear in mind that the Republican and 4 hold any political party nsible for
i Bull Moose candidate for Auditor Gen- it. Republicans, Democrats, hibition.
eral, W. A. POWELL, was a Senator dur- | ists, Socialists, do not campaign with re-
| volvers nor send out their doctrines with
candidate for United States Senator two |
years hence. Evidently they purpose
getting out to the pasture lot even before
the bars are let down.
—If you are for WiLsoN for President
don’t be for PATTON tor Congress. If |
you want to try a Democratic President
put a Democratic Congress back of him |
so that his ideas can be enacted into laws.
A Democratic President, with a Republi-
can Congress, or vica versa, is really a
governmental eunuch.
—HEeNRY CUTE QUIGLEY has been se-
lected from among the Republican coun-
ty chairmen of the State to organize “a
snappy TAFT fight during the rest of the
campaign.” We presume it is to be a
sort of a ginger snappy fight without the
ginger, because the WILSON cause has
the corner on all that spice this fall.
—The manufacturers declare that it
will take thirty thousand freight cars to
transport the automobiles that will be
shipped from Detroit alone the coming
winter. Counting three machines to a |
car that will mean ninety-thousand men !
with a little wad today who will be mi- |
nus most of it by this time next fall.
—It has been proven beyond a reason.
able doubt that PENROSE was invited to
' take charge of the ROOSEVELT campaign
in Pennsylvania, but not until after he
had decided to stand loyal to TAPT did
ROOSEVELT discover what a bad man he
is supposed to be. Which of the two
types command the most of whatever ad-
miration you could have for either.
—And THoMAs F. RYAN admitted to
the Congressional investigation commit-
tee that he had given $350,000 to the
PARKER campaign fund, after he knew
that there was no chance of electing Mr,
PARKER, merely for the sake of keeping
the Democratic national organization
~ from going to smash because it had no
funds at the time. He must be THOMAS
FORTUNE RYAN indeed.
—With a Democratic President, a Dem- | campaign expenses. In the event of his TAFT would reverse these conditions as
ocratic Congress and Senate this country |
will have a new sensation after the 4th
of March next. Then it will be found
what the real meaning of a government
“of the people, for the people and by the | tions between the people and the monop-
people” is. Surely you are not going Sea. Me, PERAING juvariably sakes sare |
* to fail to have a part in this great work | of his own interests if there is!
of 1 IARiag Toe owes Go or’ 16 polls{anyihing left that ho: dein’. Deed, thet: J idet tis Eifeuiiunces from which
on November 5th and vote the ticket | people are welcome to it. But beware of
straight for Democracy.
bly the reason for this discrepancy of | Circumstances. Practical men abhor
| lies are evils which must be abolished, | and capital was strong all the time. But
| ROOSEVELT as a mark of appreciation of ent prosperity is attributable to that fact
ed considerably. Probably that is true : President TAFT expresses the belief
because the election of WILSON will send | that he will be elected because of the |
the trusts and monopolies scampering. | present industrial and commercial pros-
re memerer eee | perity which he ascribes to the PAYNE-|
| ALDRICH tariff law. The panic began in |
i 1907, he says, and continued until within |
Colonel ROOSEVELT is not opposed to | a few months when conditions began to
either trusts or monopolies. He regards | improve and are now approaching a nor- |
them as instruments of industrial and mal state. ROOSEVELT was President, he |
commercial progress. Properly conduct- | continues, inferentially, when the panic
ed, he contends, they cheapen the cost of set in and he is President now that the |
Abolish Monopoly.
| production and make for commercial ex- | improvement is making itself felt. There- |
pansion. He would regulste them, he fore, ROOSEVELT is to blame for the trou- |
says, and make them docile and good. ble and he ought to be credited with the
Industrial and commercial commissions | betterment. There may be something
are his panacea for every economic ill. | In the political literature of the world as
He distrusts courts appointed by the A absurd as this but we haven't seen it.
President but has absolute faith in com-| Panics usually run from three to five
missions created in the same way. Proba. Years when improvement is forced by
view lies in the fact that courts are au. | idleness and capital covets activity. The
thorized by the constitution and commis. | Panic of 1907 was created by the money
sions are new fangled contrivances which | trust and if the tariff had been lowered
were little in vogue before his time. | Promptly it wouldn't have lasted two
Wooprow WILSON, on the other hand, | Years. The crops were abundant each
is of the opinion that trusts and monopo- Year and the enticement to both labor
In rt of this view of the question | €Xcessive taxes and profligate administra-
the e New York World observes | tion have burdened the people to such
that “the attempt to legalize and regulate | a0 extent that they were unable to take
slavery was the one stupendous blunder | advantage of opportunities that were of-
of the constitution, which led to Civil war | fered. Labor is helpless without capital
and the most momentous contest of mod. | {0 provide materials and the earnings of
ern history.” Monopoly is a form of | men were absorbed in paying the exces-
slavery and an attempt to legalize and Sive taxes.
regulate it can have no other consequence | The improvement to which the Presi-
than disaster. Mr. ROOSEVELT knows dent refers is not because of the admin-
olies the government would become the |
creature and the trusts the controlling | business activity which was subsequent-
element. ly paralyzed by the vetoes of the tariff
stead of abolishing them originated in the A the Republican party made the election
fertile brain of GEORGE W. PERKINS, of ©f a Democratic President certain, a sub-
the Harvester trust, and was adopted by = Stantial improvement set in and the pres-
election and the creation of a commission | Certain as fate and within a year from
to regulate the trusts, PERKINS would ' his re-inauguration the business condi-
make the selections and everybody knows _ tions will be as bad as ever, because there
how his creatures would decide ques- Will be no hope of tax reduction.
i
i
|
-—Really TAPT has MARK TAPLEY
skinned a mile. MARK could never be
‘TAFT draws all sorts of hope.
ing the last session of the Legislature
and voted for that iniquitous measure at | bullets. The man who shot Re oh 9
was not a representati
every opportunity. If he had been able and his crime is Sentalive dy Nev-
to accomplish it every farmer and farm- | ertheless the campaign of vituperation
er's son in the State would now be | and misrepresentation should en
compelled to pay a tax before he |
could go out on his own land to shoot a
squirrel, bird or rabbit. POWELL wanted
to “soak” us then and we ought to “soak”
him now. .
Let Well Enough Alone!
From the Pittsburg Sun.
It certainly is a Democratic year. No
matter what is said by the opposition, it
results in good for the Democracy. Even
: | the slogans of the Republicans are good
—BILLY RUGH, the fourteen year old | arguments for the Democrats. You might
Gary, Indiana, newsboy is dead. He vol- | think that the appeal to “Let Well
untarily had his crippled leg cut off in | Enough Alone’ was an argument in favor
order that the skin from it might be | Prooomtn og bi a ae or we
grafted onto the body of a girl he didn’t | continuance of the Democratic
know; thus saving her life. He died | that “tied the hands” of the man whom
from the effects of his operation. It was
the Republicans elected President.
well that Gary gave him a funeral such Under fhe Previous Republicah admin
as had never before been witnessed. It
would be near the millennium if all the
istration the country experienced one of
the most serious panics in its history.
Mills were closed. Men walked the
streets in idleness. The “gray ghosts of
want,” invented by the Republicans to
frighten their adversaries, returned to
their owncreators. There was no
had not been in-
men in the world were grown up BILLY
RucHs. ®
——At a meeting of the Republican
county chairmen loyal to the Taft or-
ganization, held in Philadelphia last
Thursday, Henry C. Quigley, of Belle-
fonte, was made secretary of a special
committee to plan for a “snappy” cam-
paign from now until election day; so if
you hear any unusual noise in the Re-
he had a blican back
publican ranks you will know where it Dod he Id 2 Rep bkean C1 the peo-
comes from. ple was not Jortiicoming. |
re ete they tied the hands of blican
~——Probably the United States army Fretiden: ang put a Democratic
is in “poor shape,” as Secretary of War on ;
STIMSON declares, but in that event the | Presto! The wheels of industry begin
vast sums of money appropriated by Con-
gress to put it in good shape must have
—f month or more ago Dr. Thomas
Tobin, of Tyrone, formerly of Bellefonte,
was arrested at the instance of the Civic
Purity League, of Tyrone, on the charge
of accepting graft, the doctor being presi-
dent of the Tyrone borough council. He
retaliated by having several members of |
the Purity League and a private detec-
tive arrested on the charge of conspiracy.
The case promised to be a rather sensa-
tional one but it was settled two weeks
ago before being called for trial in the
Blair county court, on the grounds that it
was “for the best interests of all concern-
ed as well as the town,” Dr. Tobin to pay
the costs, amounting to $300, which he
such a system of regulating trusts. ~Subscribe for the WATCHMAN.
did. ~The public will be interested in
— the fact that the Republican State com-
—Don’t read an out-of-date paper. Get | mittee is still thinking of opening up the
all the news in the WATCHMAN. campaign.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—One section of Elk county reports about twen-
ty five cases of diphtheria within the last two
weeks,
~An epidemic of hog cholera in Nippenose val.
ley is checked now, there having been a cessa-
tion of new cases for a few days.
~Clearfield folks are looking forward with
{ much interest to the annual meeting of the State
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, there early in De-
cember,
—Frank Calhoun, the Huntingdon county com-
victed murderer, has taken an appeal to the Su-
| preme court. That body will listen to the argu-
ments on the 28th inst.
—John Brown, of Anita, isn't dead. but his
thigh and leg peppered with buck shot. He was
shot from ambush at night and the identity of
the would be assassin is unknown.
~Martin Richardson might have been serious-
ly injured at the Huntingdon freight station when
a 1,300-pound radiator fell against him, bruising
and cutting one side from the face down.
—According to a decision of the Superior court
a club may sell liquor to its members, but only
when the element of profit has been eliminated.
The club that makes money out of its bar is a
violator of law, as the opinien clearly shows.
~Richard Bittner, a 14-year-old Lock Haven lad
was found dying by his father with a revolver
shot in his head. The boy had bought the wea-
pon and the father had hidden it, but not too
well for the lad to find it and handle it at the ex-
pense of his life.
—Shallie Houser, of Youngwood, Westmo re
land county, a baseball player of much local note,
was shot through the left shoulder by A.C.
Mechling, a farmer, receiving a serious wound.
Itis claimed that the injured man was hunting
on the Mechling farm.
~Within a few days W. H. Buzzard,near Arona,
Westmoreland county, lost a mule, two valuable
cows and six pigs of hydrophobia. The dog was
the same that bit ten persons, all of whom are
taking Pasteur treatment. Mr. Buzzard lost four
cows last year from the same cause.
~Thomas Gates. the Bedford county young
man who was taken to the Blair Memorial hospit-
al, Huntingdon, last Thursday, suffering froma
gunshot wound in the left lung, died that night.
He was aged 21 years and is said to have been a
magnificent specimen of young manhood. Harry
Meck, who accidentally shot Gates, is, very much
broken up over the affair.
~The Portage Dispatch tells a harrowing tale of
the cruel neglect with which the wife, daughter
and son-in-law of Joseph Surkey, 63 years ; of age,
living near Portage, who was found penned in the
family barn, the victim of seemingly long con-
tinued neglect. The Portage constable secured
the man, and finally took him to the] Cambria
county home, at Ebensburg.
--Mrs. Robert Gittings, of Ebensburg, was so
badly burned while boiling cider at her home last
Thursday that she died soon after. While using
her apron to lift a kettle from the stove'ithe apron
caught fire and before assistance could be given,
her clothing was practically barned {from her
body and she was terribly burned. She is sur-
vived by five children, one less than two years
old, the eldest only 13.
~—Robert Cramer, aged 35 years, a track hand
employed by the Pennsylvania Railroadicompany,
‘was run down and instantly killed just east of
Mill Creek station shortiy after noon Saturday by
Atlantic express. He was walking westward on
the eastbound passenger track and likely failed
to notice the approach of the train on account of
a passir 3 freight. He was married and is sur -
vived by his wife and two children.
~The Supreme court handed down a decision
last week in the case of the Walnut Coal company
against the Pennsvivania railroad company tried
| im the Clearfield county courts some months a go,
when the coal company was awarded a judgment
of $48,000, The Supreme court reverses the} lower
judge and orders a new trial. This case is one of
the severalsimilar suits that have attracted at.
tention in the Clearfield county courts.
~State health officials stated on Monday that
they regarded the typhoid situation at Troy as
serious, a total of 150 cases being reported, with
two deaths since the outbreak. Twenty cases
are in the emergency hospital, and there are
many other suspected cases. The State hasa
force of inspectors and nurses on the ground and
every effort is being made in conjunction with
the local authorities to halt the spread of the in-
fecticn.
—Ben. Habbershon, of Osceola, sealer of
weights and measures for Clearfield county states
that out of 450 scales examined thus far inthe
county, he found 125 that failed to measure up
to the standard. He has encountered many other
experiences that show the need of such officials
as a sealer of weights and measures in every
county in the State, The commissioners of Cen.
tre county should get busy and make a similar
appointment.
—As aresult of a bullet wound in the thigh, in-
flicted by Miss Helen Rentlers, when she fired at
aman who had struck her on the cheek, George
Lentz, a youth of Williamsport, was sent to the
hospital. Miss Rentlers is under $500 bail. She
explained to the alderman that she really didn't
intend to hit anybody when she fired only shoot-
ing to scare a man named Sheehan, with whom
she had quarreled; but Lentz who was walking
with Sheehan, was struck.
—Carl Hammerstrom, a well known young man
of Barnesboro, died suddenly at 8:30 o'clock last
Thursday morning as he was seated in a chair in
Green's barber shop. Heart disease was the
cause of death. He hadbeen a victim of the ail
ment for several years. He had just entered the
shop, and seated himself in the chair when he
was seized with an attack and expired. He was
aged 18 years and is survived by his parents and
several brothers and sisters.
~The first issue of Pennsylvania's autemobile
license tags for 1913, will be made by the automo-
bile division of the State Highway Department
on December 1st., almost two weeks ahead of the
time of issue in the past, and it is expected to
break all records for the first issue. The licenses
will be sent out as rapidly as possible, owing to
the fact that on January 1, 1913, days of grace
will be abolished. The latter order means that
persons failing to display 1913 tags on and after
January Ist, will be liable to arrest.
~The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company,
—After being in litigation for a.period of over
five years the famous grain case of C. O. Salberg
vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. was settled by
the State Supreme court last week. Salberg is