—After all the hardest work in most |
government jobs is getting them.
—The Daughters are fighting again.
It has been the same old STORY for eight |
i
—Mayor GAYNOR probably closed New
York cafes at 1 o'clock so that the “night
cap” could get settled before the “eye
opener” starts stirring it up.
—Now the Board of Trade is going to
present us with an automobile factory.
Of course we are not advising any one to
establish a local agency for the machines
just yet.
—Many a disgusted fisherman has laid
his tackle away to await the opening day
of the season next year. In the parlance
of the theatrical people there are a lot of
“first nighters” in the trout fishing crowd.
—Pennsylvania Congressmen are be-
ginning to realize that when it comes
down to being a real, big, arbitrary, au-
tocratic boss Mr. A. MITCHELL PALMER
has all his predecessors faded into insig-
nificance.
——Thus far no harm has come from
the breaking of the message precedent
by President WILSON and there are a lot
of other precedents which might be
broken without doing injury to the pub-
lic service.
—Everyone knows that Secretary BRY-
AN is a great and good man, but the sus-
picion will always remain that those Sun-
day sermons in Philadelphia were not de-
signed with an eye single to the spread-
ing of the gospel of Christ. They also
gave him half a day's rest from pestifer-
ous office seekers.
—Probably President WILSON never
dreamed that his extra session was going
to eclipse our own little legislative show
down at Harrisburg or he might have de-
ferred calling it until our local statesmen
get through. A lot of big guns are be-
ing spiked in the Palace of Graft because
Washington news is taking up so much
space these days.
—The Legislature has passed the
Jones bill providing for the appointment
of a country life commission, and appro-
priated $10,000 to set it up in business.
The commission is to carry the gospel of
happiness and prosperity to the farmers
of the State. God save the farmers! If
the State wants to conserve their happi-
ness it had better not send a commission
to bother them while they are piling up
the dough to buy more farms with.
—If, as political gossips say, it is true
that Congressman A. MITCHELL PALMER
wants to be our next nominee for Gov-
ernor and that VANCE MCCORMICK {wants
to be United States Senator, or vice versa,
we can't see that either gentleman is do-
ing much constructive work on his polit-
ical fences. Certainly their present atti-
tude does indicate that they either
want or expect to ask for the votes of
that large element of our party known
as Regulars.
—Democrats who are at all concerned
in the success of our party in the county
might do well to keep an eye on the do-
ings of Mr. HENRY CUTE QUIGLEY.
Quietly though effe:tively he is building
up an organization that will be ready for
efficient service when called upon. Of
course it is designed to aid the Republi-
can party as a whole, but to promote Mr.
QUIGLEY'S judicial aspirations in particu-
lar. The latter is the inspiration for his
work, but however that may be Demo-
crats should cast an eye to the windward
of the situation. What condition is our
own organization in and what condition
will it be in next fall and the fall follow-
ing when a judge is to be elected in Cen-
tre county? We have a chairman who
is apparently little interested and, even
if he were, who cannot command the re-
spect or co-operation of a large element
of the Democrats of the county. We
have no headquarters, and no place
where district chairmen or township
leaders can visit when in town to keep
themselves informed of the conditions in
the county or get that inspiration so nec-
essary to every militant organization.
Reorganization.
Hon. Geo. W. GUTHRIE, Ambassador to
China.
(Successor to Geo. W. Guthrie Democratic
State Chairman.)
Hon. VANCE McCorMICK, Dispenser of
Patronage and candidate for United
States Senator.
(Successor to Vance McCormick, Bullet maker
to the Reorganizers.)
Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER, Supreme
Justice of the Court of Last Appeal and
candidate for Governor.
(Successor to A. Palmer, Big bullet shooter to
the Reorganizers.)
Hon. I. JAMES BLAKESLIE, (accent on
the L) Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen-
eral.
(Successor to Jimmie Blakeslie, Secretary to
Reorganizers,
the .)
CHARLES R. KURTZ, Surveyor of the
Customs at Philadelphia.
(Successor to CharlesR. Kurtz, lickspittle.
issimo for the Reorganizers.)
Bulletin. The Democratic State Com-
mittee takes pleasure in announcing that
the reorganization of the Democracy of
Pennsylvania, begun with so much eclat
last summer, has been completed. We
have the jobs we want, now the rest of
you pitch in for yourselves and the devil
take the hindmost.
VOL. 58.
Must Imagine the Taxpayers are Idiots.
Some one speaking for the little |
themselves to be the Democratic party of | gressmen of this State upon the question | ed a novel spectacle
the State or, at least, presume to speak | of Mr. BERRY. As nearly ascan be as- week. We have already seen amateur
Mr. Berry’s Ambitions. |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEVONTE. PA. APRIL IS 1015.
Usurpation Fitly Rebuked.
O10.
! Democrats Must Keep the Faith.
There appears to be some differences The General Assembly of Pennsylvania | From the Springfield Republican.
coterie of political bosses who imagine of opinion among the Democratic Con- has had a strange experience and enjoy- | The most notable aspect of the com-
within the present
for it, is sending, weekly, to the Demo- | certained from newspaper reports and politicians and quack statesmen assemble
cratic newspapers a manifold letter from gossip, Mr. BERRY wants to be Collector in convention and with the solemnity i
the last copy of which we get the follow- ' of the Port of Philadelphia. This may ' and ponderosity of the “Three Tailors of | the
ing referring to the proposed $50, 000,000 easily be believed for “so long that the Tooley street,”
loan for State roads:
THE POOR MAN'S YOKE.
“Who pays for all this? Not the
“telegraph and telephone com-
“panies, not the street car lines or
“steam railways, not the money lend-
“ers nor the investers in Wall street
“stocks. Oh! no! Under the beau-
“tiful system of taxation in Pennsyl-
“vania, the farmer, the workingman,
“the modest store keeper, the widow
“and orphan will have to build and
“maintain these roads.”
Evidently themen who hired the writer
of the above to provide the Democratic
press with arguments for, or against,
such measures as they favored or op-
posed, had little knowledge of the good
sense of their employee or have a most
pitiable contempt for the intelligence of
the taxpayers if they imagine them gul-
lible enough to believe such rot.
We have heard many different reasons
given why the building of our public
roads, by the State, would be wrong, and
why the borrowing of fifty millions of
dollars to begin the work should not be
allowed, but the above, and we are sorry
to admit that it comes from a supposed
Democratic source, is the first allegation |
we have seen or heard that an appro- |
priation for the purpose of aiding in the
betterment of our public highways should |
not be passed for the reason that such
an appropriation would increase the tax
of “the farmer, the workingman, the
modest store keeper and the widow and
orphan.”
For many years the State has aided the
taxpayers to keep up the public schools.
Is there a single one of them who is op-
posed to receiving that aid, or who believes
that the State appropriation for that pur-
pose increases his taxes, or would he be
in favor of having the State withhold
that aid?
And this road proposition is exactly the
same, only that the State will take entire
charge of the roads, making all repairs
to and keeping in order, all public high-
ways it designates as state roads, with-
out cost to the individual taxpayer.
The money that is to go into these
roads comes from exactly the same source
as that which is of so much aid to the
taxpayer in maintaining our public schools
—the State Treasury. It gets it from the
taxes levied upon the capital stock of
corporations, on inheritances, on licenses
to do business, and other sources from
which not a single penny comes to help
pay the road, or poor, or street, or water,
or any of the many local taxes that are
so heavy and burdensome to the local
taxpayer.
There is no denying that there will be
some “graft” in this road proposition;
that some of the money intended for it
will be squandered; that some of the
roads will not be built as well as they
should be or that some people may get
good jobs in building them. But where
is the taxpayer who would refuse the
great help it would be to him because he
couldn't get all that he thought he ought
to have, or because in its distribution
some of it went elsewhere than was in-
tended? The taxpayer who would, would
be an objector to the school appropria-
tion, because there are some incoin-
petent teachers employed, school books
used that he doesn’t like, or school houses
built that failed to meet his ideas of what
they should be.
We wouldn't wonder if corporation in-
fluences were at the back of the effort
now being made to defeat aid from the
State to our public roads, or if they did
not have a hand in securing and mailing
the circulation of just such stuff as the
lunk-head, who wrote the paragraph
quoted above, is sending out to the
Democratic press.
——The Bellefonte Business Men's as-
sociation decry the fact that a good many
Bellefonte people send to the cities for
their clothes, groceries and other supplies
in preference to purchasing them at
home; and at their last meeting decided
to boom the town by having posters put
up all over the county. The names of a
large number of Bellefonte merchants
never appear in the advertising columns
of any of the local newspapers and this
may account in a measure for their lack
of trade. When the people of Bellefonte
or any other community send to the
cities for supplies it is generally because
they have seen offers and prices of same
advertised in the newspapers and they
know exactly where to send and get what
they want. If the merchants of Belle-
fonte would be a little more liberal ina
judicious use of printer's ink it would be
more to their advantage than anything |
who lives in Chester, which is only a
! suburb.
' and whatever office he may hold at the
‘has held a good many offices as a Demo-
else they could do.
for the best office in sight, and measured
in money, the best office at the disposal of
the President, in this State, at the time,
But the two Philadelphia Democratic
Congressmen think that particular plum
belongs to Philadelphia and censequently
should not be bestowed upon Mr. BERRY,
There is a rumor that National com-
mitteeman A. MITCHELL PALMER favors
the appointment of Mr. BERRY to the of-
fice of Collector of the Port of Philadel-
phia in order to take him out of the con-
test for the Democratic nomination for
Governor next year, an honor to which
Mr. PALMER himself aspires. Of course
that is only a matter of conjecture for
though it is reasonably certain that Mr.
PALMER has ambitions in the direction ot
the Governorship he probably knows
that anything he might do for Mr. BER-
RY in the meantime would not count in
the way of keeping Mr. BERRY out of
the contest for Governor. Mr. BERRY is
obsessed with the idea that he is the only
man in Pennsylvania fit for Governor
time or whatever any other candidate
may have done before, Mr. BERRY will
be a candidate for Governor. He can’t
help it. He is a perpetual and perennial
candidate for the best office vacant.
Of course we cannot agree with the
Philadelphia Democratic Congressmen
that the office belongs to Philadelphia.
The eastern Pennsylvania customs dis-
trict embraces a good many counties be-
sides Philadelphia and any Democrat
within the radius of the district is eli-
gible for appointment. But we can't
conceal a sympathy with their proposi-
tion that some one other than Mr. BER-
RY ought to be selected. He has not
been a Democrat very long and yet he
crat and he has aspired to a good many
others between that of Vice President of
the United States and township tax col-
lector. No doubt he would make a good
enough collector of the port but there
are others.
Senator Penrose Despondent.
We are inexpressibly grieved to learn
that Senator Boles PENROSE takes a hope-
less view of the future of the country.
The Senator has not, hitherto, been a
pessimist. Under rather adverse condi-
tions he has, on occasion at least, held
confidently to the highest standard of
optimism. For example up to within a
few days of the Pennsylvania Republican
State convention last year he predicted
that ROOSEVELT'S friends would be only
a negligible quantity in that parliament
and when the convention assembled they
had so overwhelming a majority that
PENROSE hadn't courage to face the
music. Then he insisted during the
campaign of last year that TAFT would
be elected by a safe majority.
But the impending tariff legislation has
taken the “ginger” all out of the Sena-
tor. In an interview published in one of
our esteemed Philadelphia contemporaries
the other day he simply throws up the
sponge. “The UNDERWOOD bill is the
most radical measure ever presented to
Congress in the history of tariff legis-
lation,” he laments, for the reason that
it precipitates the issue “directly as be-
tween free trade and the doctrine of pro-
tection.” And he sees no chance of es-
cape from this result. He believes that
“the administration will be able to line
up every Democrat in Congress in sup-
port of the bill.” That is certainly a sad
situation, for thus solidified there are
enough Democrats in Congress to pass
the bill.
Happily Senator PENROSE doesn’t
undertake to accurately measure the ex-
tent of the calamity which he so clearly
discerns. But he ventures to say that
“there is already seen curtailment in
many industries,” and adds that “exten-
sive cutting down of hours of labor or
rates of wages must work disastrously to
the country.” As Madame MALAPROP
would say, “we own to the soft impeach-
ment.” Senator PENROSE doesn't have
to go back further than 1907 to prove his
proposition. During that Republican
panic there was extensive cutting down
of hours of work and rates of wages,
though the atrocious DINGLEY tariff law
was in full force and robbing right and
left. There was no free trade element
in that affair. ;
EE —
«For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
assume the right to direct
| memory of man runneth not to the con- | the proceedings of the Legislature at
trary.” Mr. BERRY has been a candidate | long distance. But on Monday last WiL- |
LIAM FLINN, of Pittsburgh, and others not
associated with the Legislature, met in
| Harrisburg, and after a prolonged ses-
sion determined to go upon the floor,
figuratively speaking, and direct the pro-
ceedings of the State Senate. In ful-
fillment of this impudent assumption,
they prepared resolutions to be presented
during the session of Monday evening
and even designated who should introduce
them.
Of course the Senate resented this
usurpation and obtrusion. The first res.
olution had for its purpose the discharge
of the Senate committee on elections
from the further consideration of the
House bill providing for State wide pri-
maries. It developed during the more or
less interesting debate upon the resolu-
tion that the so-called progressive Re-
publicans of the Senate, in and out of
the committee, had made no effort to get
consideration for the measure during the
weeks it has slumbered in the pigeon-
hole. But being enamored of the spec-
tacular they undertook to force action
under pressure from outside, in the man-
ner conceived by FLINN and after the dis-
courtesy of the proceeding had been ex-
posed by Senator HERBST and others,
they were justly rebuked by an adverse
vote of thirty to fourteen.
The surprise and shame of this ex-
traordinary proceeding, however, lies in
the fact that one of these resolutions,
framed up by FLINN and the recreant
chairman of the Republican State com-
mittee was offered by a Democrat. Have
we come to the pass that a man whose
political record is so rotten “that it stinks
to high heaven,” shall commandeer the
forces of the Democratic party of Penn-
sylvania in our highest iegisiative body?
BILL FLINN has never been a Democrat.
He has never entertained or expressed a
sympathy for Democratic principles,
policies or men. Yet a man assuming
to be a Democrat and who acquired his
seat in the body through the votes of
Democratic citizens, accepts at the hands
of a political adventurer and political
degenerate, a commission to enmesh the
Democratic Senators in a net laid under
such auspices. :
Happily the whole performance de-
generated into a farce. At every stage
of the proceedings the absurd pretense
the conspirators was laughed off the floor
and the incident is now only a grotesque
memory. Senators HALL, HERBST, HUFP-
MAN, DEWITT, SONES, FARLEY and FisH-
ER, honored the Democratic party by
joining in the vote to rebuke the usur-
pation. It need not be inferred that they
afe opposed to the legislation in ques-
tion. On the contrary we have no doubt
that each of them would give cordial and
earnest support to any measure which
promised electoral reform. But they are
unalterably and righteously opposed to
the political bossism expressed in FLINN'S
action and we believe that their action
will be approved by a vast majority of
the real Democrats of Pennsylvania.
—The way the International Harvester
Co. settled a prolonged strike among its
seven hundred employees at Auburn, N.
Y., was not only original but very heroic.
After offering to take all the men back
at the old terms the company announc-
ed that the whistle would blow, as usual
Monday morning, and if they were not
there to take their places, the plant
would be maved. The whistle did blow,
but the men didn’t go back. Immediate-
ly the fires in the plant were drawn and
before dawn the next day nearly all the
machinery had been placed aboard
freight cars and was on its way to the
seaboard for shipment to Germany,
where the International will henceforth
manufacture its binder twine. The May-
or, the Board of Trade and the citizens
of Auburn have nearly thrown a fit, but
the great plant has gone beyond recall,
and a new phase of the strike ques-
tion is presented for the serious consid-
eration of every community.
——Colonel ROOSEVELT says that the
late Mr. MORGAN was politically opposed
to him yet it is a matter of record that
the MORGAN interests were always friend-
ly to the Colonel. However the “inter-
ests” have no politics and the friendship
of Mr. MORGAN may have been altogether
personal.
——Vice President MARSHALL declares
that he will “never again” play golf yet
it can ‘hardly be said that playing golf
was the principal reason for TAPT'S fail.
ure in politics.
| ment on the Underwood Tariff bill is
that it would consistently carry out the
! of the Democratic party. The
: II's opponents concede that much. At
the start there is no trickery, no hum-
bug, no breaking of faith. The bill is
genuine downward revi accord-
ing to Democratic principles, in so far as
it is possible to write a general
ih Baril act, dis ght be’ cling
t might Cl -
| ed. ys t be increased or
J TY Jute igh bs the essential
! character of the measure. For the in-
| come tax alone would cause a fiscal rev-
olution. Free wool would mean a final
Democratic triumph at what for genera-
tions has been “the bloody » of
tariff controversy in America. our
judgment, raw sugar could be left with
the duty at one cent. a involvi
a reduction of at least 25 per cent.;
A 2 2 atistactory
o ocral
details aside, however, the Democratic
party faces in this legislation a very great
crisis of a political nature which should
not be in the least misunderstood.
The tic party could survive
honest mistakes in économic judgment.
Hard times would not destroy it in the
future any more than in the past. It
could go down in defeat again an aga
and be restored finally to power,
that its blunders or misfortunes carried
no taint of political perfidy. The Demo-
cratic party in the present crisis, how-
ever, cannot risk its honor. It cannot
afford in the least to violate its pledges,
or to allow the impression to prev-
alent am the people that by reason
of its lack of coherenceor its lack of dis-
cipline or its lack of moral character it
can never be to respect its fixed
public obligations.
Cos ti tariff ng the
label of “perfidy and dishonor,” which
President Cleveland in his great wrath
affixed to the ill-starred measure of 1894,
would doubtless break the Democratic
party of today io fragionts. The Pre
ve party ready sf
representation in both House and
Senate, and but one thing more is need-
ed for the making of it, namely, Demo-
STNC disfuption. . . » » Democratic fail-
ure at Washington with this tariff meas-
ure would instantly transform the politi-
cal situation by affording the ves
an opportunity such as they have not yet
enjoyed of recruiting their ranks from
largely dissatisfied and disgusted elements
in the Democratic party.
More Tinkering.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
Among the bills that were int=oduced
in the Senate of Pennsylvania a few days
ago was a resolution providing for an
amendment of the State constitution
which would allow ali cities to increase
their indebtedness from seven per cent.
of the assessed valuation, which is the
constitutional limit now, to ten per cent.
It is to be regretted that there seems
to be any necessity for such action.
There are a number of municipalities
that have reached, or almost reached,
the limit of their borrowing capacity
but which desire to make necessary im-
provements. They cannot do this un-
der the constitution. That is why they
want to increase the limit to ten per
cent.
Here is an objectionable feature of the
present custom of tinkering the consti-
tution. In 1911 the people of the State
ratified an amendment to the constitu.
tion expressly for the purpose of enablin
Philadelphia to borrow funds for munici-
pal purposes in such wise that they
might not be accounted a part of the
city’s indebtedness under the terms of
the constitution. That was one way to
whip the devil of limitation around the
stump of municipal necessity. Now it is
proposed to tinker the same section of
the constitution to enable the other mu-
nicipalities to borrow in excess of the
seven per cent. limit.
All this tinkering could be avoided if
the Legislature should consent to do
what the Star-Ii t proposed some
months ago—namely, return to the mu-
nicipalities a certain share of the State
That would give the municipalities more
money without increasing the constitu-
tional limit or the rate of local taxation.
fils
hin
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Philipsburg’s new canning factory is to start
operations the first of May.
—Four girls, all perfectly formed, but very
small, were born to Mrs. David Lewis, at Mt.
Carmel, on Sunday. They died afew minutes
after birth.
—Latrobe is to have another industry. Appli-
cation has been made for a charter for the La-
trobe Tool company, which will employ many
skilled mechanics.
—Ten of the twenty cottages at the Cresson
State tuberculosis sanatorium will be ready for
occupancy next week. The others will be ready
by the first week in May.
—Governor Tener has signed the death war-
rant of Frank M. Calhoun, convicted of murder
in the Huntingdon county court and his execu-
tion day has been fixed as May 8.
—Two-year-old Samuel Blayman, of Ebens-
burg, walked out of his home a few days ago “to
meet daddy.” He walked into the way of a
freight train and was carried back dead.
—Three men are in jail at Indiana, as a result
of a Sunday feast at Heilwood. In trving to quell
the free-for-all fight, Constable E. W. Jefferson
was struck on the head with a beer bottle.
—Two men arrested on suspicion of knowing
something about the assault on a Slav at Madera
were released and the hunt is still on for the high-
waymen. The victim is in the Philipsburg hos-
pital in a critical condition.
—Allensville, Mifflin county, where a measles
epidemic has been raging for some time, is glad
to have some of the quarantines lifted. The little
people have been missed by those who were ac-
customed to have them do errands.
~The last log has been sawed at the Empor-
ium mill and each of the employees was presented
with a $10 gold piece by the company. Some of
them will go to Virginia, where the same com-
pany has mills: others will hunt new jobs.
—Rev. Father James Saas has decided to post-
pone the erection of a new church at Windber be-
cause he cannot get the structural steel needed
in its construction. He could not find any com-
pany to promise to fill the order before late au-
tumn.
—Mrs. John Schrecongost, of Brookville,
poured gasoline from a bottle on wood in her
kitchen stove, then held the bottie in her hand
while lighting the fire. The gasoline in the bot-
tle took fire and she was so terribly burned that
she died four days later.
—Westmoreland county is to have two hang-
ings within the next month. On April 20 Domi-
neck Petrelli must pay the penalty for the mur-
der of his son-in-law, Ferdinand Salvatore, and
on May 8 Joseph Erjaerviz is to be hanged for
killing Mat Petek with an axe.
~—Six married children of H. S. Byerly, of Sha-
mokin, were at home recently for a family
reunion. When they turned over their plates at
the dinner table they found under each a check
for $1,000. Mr. Byerly thought they would enjoy
the money better while he was living.
--The Madera Hill Coal Mining company has
purchased 5,000 acres of coal land in the Clover
Run district, near Punxsutawney. A tipple will
be erected at once. Surveys have been complet-
ed for a two-mile spur from the Bellwood divis-
ion of the Pennsylvania railroad to the new opera-
tion.
—Mrs. Francis Perry, aged 28, conducting
a boarding house at Kane, committed suicide at
9,15 Monday morning by shooting herself above
the right breast with a38-calibre revolver, secured
from her husband's coat pocket. Death was in-
stantaneous. No reason is given for the act.
Three children are left motherless.
-"Billy” Sunday closed his seven weeks’ evan-
gelistic campaign in Wilkesbarre Sunday and
left with $23,720 for his work of “‘saving 16000
souls,” which the good people "coughed up.” He
went to South Bend, Ind., where he will begin a
campaign after a short rest. Billy is the greatest
money making evangelist on the road today.
~The prompt arrest of Louis Garlich, of
Jacobs, at Huntingdon probably saved a repeti-
tion of the Mapleton shooting affray, Mrs. Rosan-
na Cordovanni told a justice of being tormented
by the man and she was about ready to usea
gun should he continue his advances. The ijus-
tice delivered him under heavy bail to keep the
peace.
rs. Eugene Hagenbuch, of Parson, Kan.,
came last week to Oakgrove, near Milton, to
join her husband, who was visiting his parents.
On account of delay from floods, she was a week
on the way and during that time her husband
had been taken suddenly ill and died. When she
arrived it was to find herself a widow and her
friends in mourning.
—Filing an account of the time he had spent
on the accounts of the defunct Huntingdon bank
which, if charged for at accountant’s usual fees,
would amount to $2240, Robert J. Mattern, the
assignee, remits the charge and asks for only
$17.51, his actual expense. Depositors appreciate
this rare unselfishness. They will now receive
a ten per cent. distribution.
—David Wertley, 90 years old was before the
Northumberland county court on Monday on a
charge of desertion and non-support, the oldest
such defendant the county has ever known.
Judge Moser sentenced him to pay the costs and $8
a month to his 80 year-old wife,which he declined
to do, going to jail instead. After three hours in
jail, the prisoner agreed to pay and was releas-
ed.
—H. F. Barron, former cashier of the Somer-
set Farmers’ National bank, charged with em-
bezzlement of $43,000, has recovered from a re
cent illness sufficiently to be able to appear and
enter bail for a hearing before the United States
district court. There is considerable mystery
about the disappearance of the amount and Bar-
ron’s friends believe he will be able to clear
himself,
—Embers of a brush pile at the home of Sheri-
dan McBride, near Ligonier, brought death to
the S5.year-old daughter Thelma and serious
burns to her 10-year-old sister Sylvia, who tried
to save the little one. The mother had gone to
a neighbor's and the older sister was in the house
while the little ones were out playing. No one
knew there was life enough in the embers to do
any damage.
~The Supreme court of the United States on
Monday granted permission to J. Harry Spencer,
Albert Sholl and Frank L. Moyer,of Williamsport,
Pa., to file applications for release from the peni-
tentiary on habeas corpus proceedings and the
case was set down for hearing April 21. The
applicants, as officers of the National Protective
association, were convicted of conspiring to de-
fraud the association.
—Leo Kitchell, a Jeanette glass worker, had a
bad cold and thought he would use a mixture of
glycerine, whiskey and rock candy. When he
made the mixture, he took a two-ounce bottle cf
oil of wintergreen instead of the whiskey. He
did not discover his mistake until after he had
taken a generous dose. The lining of his throat
and stomach were badly burned and it was fear.
ed for a time that the dose would prove fatal.
~William R. Haupt,of 109 Ninth street, Juniata,
a brakeman in the employ of the Pennsvivania
Railroad company, while going east with his
train Thursday night about 11 o'clock was
standing on the top of a box car passing through
Gallitzin, where the wind was blowing a terrific
gale. It got under the roof of the car, blowing
it off onto the right of way, taking Haupt with it.
The train was stopped, and Haupt picked up and
taken to the Altoona hospital. It was discover
ed that he had bruises and his left shoulder was
badly wrenched. His condition is not serious,