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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Get your. fly screens in place before
the flies get in.
—1If the thought of doing it makes you
hesitate, don’t do it.
—Its awful for a town to be too small
for the large circus and too large for the
small one.
—Anyway you look at him King
Nicuoras, of Montenegro, is some
potentate.
—HARRY GREEN is some philosopher
on the fecundity of the fly and he ad-
vises swatting them early and often.
—California evidently wants to be
Progressive on parade, but reserves the
right to fall back on “State Rights” in
practice.
—The farmer no sooner gets through
worrying about getting his fields seeded
down than he begins to worry about the
seedlings coming up.
—The Borough's street physicians
performed a highly successful operation
for curvature of the spine on the Water
street crossing on Tuesday.
—Incidentally, clean-up day doesn't
apply exclusively to your back yard.
There are some anatomical garbage piles
that a hose wouldn't hurt once ina while.
—This is the time of year when the
neighbor with a promising young garden
is apt to lose some of his friendliness for
the neighbor with a promising brood of
young chickens.
—If you don’t like to swat the fly read
how a facetious writer in the Millheim
Journal advises exterminating him. The
method is fully described in the fifth
column of this paper.
—If you want to know the man who
put the dust in the duster just buy one
of the dollar-fifty variety and take a drive
over the Centre county roads, after a dry
spell of a week or more.
—JACK JOHNSON is at last on trial in
Chicago. Nine indictments are piled up
against him and if the law can put him
down for forty-five counts he can be
sentenced to forty-five years in the pen
and $90,000 fine, or both.
—A few car loads of crushed stone, a
steam roller loaned by the State High-
way department, plus a little labor, has
transformed the Slough of Despond back
into a splendid Main street in what was
otherwise the thrifty looking town of
Centre Hall.
Incidentally, council, Judge ORvis,
Dr. ScuMipT and Burgess BOWER might
have an eye on the bad boys while they
are chasing the bad girls off the streets
at night. We fancy that the lure of the
bad boy is quite as harmful as the will-
ingness of the bad girl.
—While we don't think they ought to
want to, women should have the right to
vote if they do want to. But women who
perform like those English Sufiragettes
should be put in a place where they
can't vote and left to starve themselves,
if they want to do that.
—Dr. SCRIPTURE, the eminent neurolo-
gist, of New York, has just published a
paper in which he declares that “two
fisted” or ambi-dextrous persons never
dream. What a lot of horrors they
escape and then they never have to
waken up to find themselves still a ten
dollar clerk after dreaming of being a
muliti-millionaire.
—JAMES J. HILL suggests that Con-
gress adjourn for ten years and give the
country a chance. It might not be a bad
thing after this one gets through re-
vising the tariff downward. But why
restrict it to Congress? Wouldn't we all
be better off and happier if Legislatures,
councils and local gossiping societies all
acted upon Mr. HILL'S suggestion.
—Qur Lemont correspondent remarks
that “the whippoor-will has come to
furnish music to brighten the evenings.”
The Lord help our poor friend WILLIAMS
if he is so unhappily surrounded that
the dolorous song of the whippoor-will
sounds joyful to him. If you have never
heard one, it makes a noise like AD.
FAUBLE singing a solo in a Catholic
church.
—*“Spondylotherapy” is the name of a
new practice in medicine. It means that
if your liver, or your heart or your lungs
or your gizzard is out of order Dr. So |
and So will take an ordinary tack ham-
mer and by pounding on a certain ver-
tebra of the spinal column cure you
in a jiffy. It is a new and very won-
derful discovery and, of course, has
to have a wonderful name, but it
“gangster,” “PENROSE-annex,” “Jim
HALL'S man” and all the other bad names
you want to call a really good Democrat,
won quite a victory on the floor of the
House Monday when he succeeded in
saving his party enrollment bill from
buried in committee. The bill
designed to prevent one party from raid-
another and
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RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Unfulfilled Pledges.
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It is questionable which of the two |
bodies, the members of the House and |
Senate at Harrisburg, or the three or
four men who now imagine themselves |
to be, and act for, the Democratic State
organization, are deserving of severest
censure for failing to make good the |
many and positive pledges given the pub- {
lic when candidates for the positions
they now occupy.
Both of these bodies got into power
through specific pledges:—The former, |
that they would enact such legislation as |
the people demanded and as their re-
spective party platforms professed to fa-
vor; the latter, that the Democratic peo-
ple of the State would, in case of their
success, be consulted on ALL matters in
which the party had an interest or which
had any connection with its welfare or
success.
We all know how utterly the men
chosen to make our laws have failed to
show that they are a particle better than
the discredited Legislators who have pre-
ceded them, and when they adjourn,
some time about the middie of the year,
they will not have a particle more to
point to in the way of good work than
the veriest machine bossed crowd of law
makers that has ever disgraced the
State.
And it is about the same with those
who are now recognized as the mana-
gers, the leaders and the bosses of our
own State organization. They succeed-
ed to the places they now fill, after a
campaign of the most profuse promises
that they were seeking “only the harmo-
ny of the party,” and that if they were
entrusted with its management every-
thing affecting its welfare, in any way,
would be submitted to the Democratic
people. Thatin fact it would be a party
controlled by its voters and not by boss-
es—that the men who made up and con-
stituted its strength would dictate its ac-
tions and choose its representatives; that
from the day of their accession to power
there would be an end to any secret ma-
nipulatiop of party interests, any back-
room business, any “bossism” or any dic-
tation from any source. The Democrat-
ic people were to have a full knowledge
of everything being done, and to be giv-
en a voice in every party action. In fact,
they, the Democratic people, were to be
the party bosses.
Have they been? Has there been, or
is there now, any effort being made to
harmonize the party, to lessen factional
differences, or to consult and advise with
the Democratic people about anything
that is being, or is to be done for the par-
ty good?
We refer to these matters more partic-
ularly that those most interested in
them may reflect over, and understand,
how much more consistent it might ap-
pear to the ordinary looker on in our de-
mands for the fulfillment of legislative
pledges, if we were to require the carry-
ing out also of the political pledges of
our own leaders.
——A Hall of Fame has been started
at the University of Wisconsin with the
view, probably, of perpetuating the mem-
ory of Senator STEVENSON.
A Creditable Appointment.
While there may not have been any
general demand on the part of the Dem-
ocracy of Pennsylvania that President
WILSON should select for the important
post of Ambassador to Japan, Mr. GEO.
W. GUTHRIE, acting chairman of the
Democratic State organization, there are
but few Democrats within the State who
will not approve of, and cheerfully ac-
quiesce in that appointment. In the first
place, it will secure to the government a
most creditable and conscientious repre-
sentative; for think what we may of Mr.
GUTHRIE'S deservings, there are none but
: will concede that he has both the dignity
and ability requisite for the position, nor
will any doubt that he will do his very
best to fill the place to the entire credits
as well as the bestinterests of the country
he represents. Inthe second place, there
are a geodly number of the party who
| really believe he was entitled to some
appointment and will be pleased that he
has been so prominently fixed; while the
many others, who doubt the justice of
giving the best places to those who have
done the least to build up the party, will
be gratified to know that he is so placed
that his future neglect of party duties,
and his natural instincts to create divi-
sions and build up factions, will not be
as effective in demoralizing the Democracy
of the State as they have been since his
uncalled for and open opposition to
Mr. BRYAN in each of his different cam-
paigns. All in all, from the WATCH-
MAN'S way of looking at things, the Presi-
dent has done well. He, the coun-
try. Mr. GUTHRIE and the Democrats of
Pennsylvania, are entitled to congratula-
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| general public.
VELT just as Mr. MELLEN looted the share
tion for this last, and ought to be gen
erally acceptable, appointment. i
BE
Roosevelt a Corruptionist.
The testimony of President MELLEN,
of the New York, New Haven and Hart-
ford railroad, with respect to profits on
sales of shares in his own road may not
have been surprising to the frenzied
financiers who manage the money trust,
but it was certainly interesting to the
It had been ascertained
that Mr. MELLEN had “raked off” a mat-
ter of $102,000 in transactions in the
securities of the corporation of which he
was the executive head and an investiga-
tion was instituted. He admitted both
the operations and the profits but justi-
fied both by setting up the defense that
he had contributed, out of his personal |
funds, more than that amount to the |
ROOSEVELT campaign fund in 1904.
It will be remembered that near the
close of that memorable campaign ALTON |
B. PARKER, the Democratic nominee for |
President, asserted in a public speech |
that the ROOSEVELT campaign was being |
financed by certain corporations inter- |
ested in sinister legislation and question- |
able administrative actions. Mr. ROOSE-
VELT indignantly denied the statement
and denounced Mr. PARKER as a malig-
nant falsifier. Subsequently it was
proved that the big insurance companies
had contributed funds belonging to their
policy holders through Mr. GEORGE W.
PERKINS and now Mr. MELLEN testifies
that at least one of the predatory rail-
road corporations indulged in the same
practice at the expense of its sharehold-
ers.
In the face of such disclosures can it
be possible for THEODORE ROOSEVELT to
further impose upon public credulity by
the false pretense that he was then, is
now or ever can be in opposition to cor-
porate corruption? Mr. PERKINS stole the
money of the insurance policy holders in
order to purchase the election of ROOSE-
holders of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad for a similar purpose.
And these shrewd business men knew
that the money was wisely invested, not
in the interestof those from whom it was
stolen, but for the personal advantage of
those who committed the robbery. The
evidence of Mr. MELLEN proves ROOSE-
VELT a corruptionist.
——We have no idea that Japan will
inaugurate a war with the United States | vertisement of the school board of the
and if it does we will be sorry for Japan. | borough of State College asking for bids
Nevertheless sand-lot statesmanship is | for the erection of a new five room High
hardly as bad as new nationalism and school building. The school facilities
there are so crowded that the board is
compelled to provide additional facilities.
and the members have now decided to
go ahead and do so, notwithstanding the
fact that the citizens have on several oc-
| casions voted against a bond issue to
raise funds for the purpose of erecting a
whichever horn of the dilemma gets us
we are in for a painful operation.
Tariff Bill Moving Forward.
The House of Representatives in Wash-
ington has made unexpectedly rapid
progress with the tariff bill. While it
cannot be said that there was any re-
straint upon the freedom of speech little
time was wasted in oratory and it may
be predicted that within a few days the
measure will be under consideration in
the Senate. There is danger, of course,
that it may be held up in the Senate
committee. But present signs fail to
indicate such a result. The Senators
realize that the people demand tariff |
revision and correctly estimate that it is |
foolish to antagonize public sentiment all |
the time.
Since TAFT'S veto of the tariff bills |
last year the people have been robbed of
nearly a billion of dollars. Even if re-
duced rates had not decreased the cost
of living, therefore, the country would be
|
that much richer now, for with nations
as with individuals a penny saved is athe town and wandered around an entire |
penny earned and money taken from the | gay on Bald Eagle avenue without being |
disturbed or alarmed and the next day |
earnings of the people in excess of the
amount required for the expenses of gov-
tion to the sums taken. But the decrease |
living very materially. If that were not
true there would have been no fight to!
retain the high duties. |
In view of these facts the country is to
LLEFONTE, D2: MAY
9, 1913.
The proposed investigation of the
charge that a bill recently signed by the
Governor was “juggled” through the Leg-
islature will be interesting if it is thor-
Vice. President Marshall’s Warning.
an offense against plutocracy. He has
publicly waste] he wealthy that unless
ough. The bill in question relates to tax ment, events of an unpleasant nature
collectors in Wilkes-Barre To make it |
available for its purpose at once it was
necessary that it be signed by the Gov-
ernor by a certain day. According to
gossip current in the Legislative lobbies
at Harrisburg it was not passed finally
until after that time. But the Republi-
can machine is equal to such emergen-
cies. The bill was signed in advance of
passage but unfortunately the one signed
was not the one passed. In other words
the bill as passed contained matter not
expressed in the bill signed.
We can imagine no greater outrage
against popular and orderly government
than this. The fundamental law of the
State prescribes certain forms for the
enactment of laws. “Bills must be read
in place, referred to committees, consid-
ered in the committees to which they
are referred, reported out and “read at
length on three separate days, consider-
ed and agreed to” in each of the co-ordi-
nate branches of the General Assembly.
Then they must be approved by the Gov-
ernor or returned without his approval.
It is notorious that few of these require-
ments are complied with. But hitherto
the mandate that they be sent to the
‘Governor for approval after passage has
béen respected.
According to the best evidence attain-
able this was not done in this par-
ticular case. The passage of the
measure through the Legislature was
retarded for some reason and as polit
ical exigencies required that it be signed
before it could be run through the
Legislative mill, it was signed in “skele-
ton” form and afterward passed with
amendments. The situation is both nov-
el and interesting. It involves a meas-
ure of moral turpitude upon the part of
somebody that is amazing and we hope
a searching investigation will be made.
investigations that have been oc-
bourbon obstinacy
Vice President Marshall's mild and cau-
ous
| may What these unpleasant
events may be he did not beyond
suggesting that repeal of all tance
laws might be one of them.
Predictions of revolution to follow
a place as Mr. Marshall fills to publicly
express himself so. In doing this he has
sinned against plunderbund interests.
Plutocracy does te. The
man who publicly warns it possi-
bility of a revolution is in as
ble as one who tries to t
oody uprising.
Mr. Marshall's address was delivered
at a time when the plutocratic interests
of New York are Workin
tempt to ina a
relief for a masses.
for a referendum on the ques-
tion of cutting in half the tax rates on
ew York city.
this meas-
New York city by a tre-
ority. Taxes on unimprov-
or tly improved property will be
and many of the owners will be
forced to build ¢ increase Housing 3c.
comm ons for congested popula-
tion of the East Side. But even this slight
toward the single taxis too much
for the ory interests. They are
bitterly ting it. Even if the majority
of New York voters do favor it they are
determined that the will of the people
must not prevail. rents may force
hundreds of into foul, disease-
breeding tenements and may cause the
Sutitely d death, of thousands of ig
infan respectable members
allied real estate interests of New
tolerate meas-
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be relief. Here is an example of
which fully justifies
warning.
His reasoning cannot be refuted by
ridicule or vituperation.
The Shame of California.
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cupying time and energy at Harrisburg
may blaze a trail to the penitentiary.
——In the advertising columns of
today’s WATCHMAN will be found an ad- |
High school building.
——1In the neighborhood of five hun-
dred Sophomores and Freshmen strug-
gled, writhed wriggled and twisted in
their annual flag scrap on the campus at
State College last Saturday afternoon.
The Freshmen were the victors because
they out-numbered their opponents al-
Owing to the hot
hose was called into
service and water was sprayed upon the
| battling students to prevent them from
. being overcome by the heat. No casual-
most two to one.
weather the fire
ties of a serious character occurred.
w ¢ to
the gospel of social justice, unlike chari-
| ty, does not begin at home; California,
| whose fervent acceptance of the new na-
| tionalism is now being mitigated by as
prety a case of States rights disease as
been recorded in recent years; Cali-
| fornia, which feels that her own interests
| are superior to those of the nation, and
that when it comes to an issue between
the constitution of the United States and
the control of the strawberry industry in
the neighborhood of Florin, Sacramento
| county, the constitution must go hang;
this high-spirited State, which has now
‘assumed an attitude of “What-are-you
‘ going-to-do-about-it” to the rest of the
! country, is preparing to commemorate in
| its exposition of two years hence the
| completion of the Panama canal. The
! money that is building the Panama ca-
| nal has not come exclusively from: the
| neighborhood of Florin, in Sacramento
county. The citizens of Minnesota and
Vermont have not refused to pay their
| internal revenue taxes on the ground
| that their good money was being spent
on a canal which did them not the least
| bit of good, whatever it might do for the
development of the Pacific coast and the
upbuilding of San Francisco. The peev-
complaint that it simply will not give
{up its own rights for the sake of the
country at large comes with ill grace
from a community which experienced
| the lavish outpouring of the nation’s
bounty in the time of calamity seven
years ago, and which is now, through the
| nation’s magnificent enterprise, prepar-
ing to harvest a prosperity that surely,
| surely will exceed the interests involved
——Tyrone must certainly be a dead jp the Florin strawberry patches.
town,
according to the correspondent of
the Altoona Times, who stated that last |
Is He a Benefactor?
week a real live groundhog strayed into From the York Gazette.
It will certainly be regretted by many
that Dr. Friedmann in contravention to
his several assertions that he was not
| over here to commercialize his remedy
: took in the sights on Pennsylvania ave- | for tuberculosis, has sold his rights and
ernment makes for poverty in propor- | nue yntil late in the afternoon when he : formula to a syndicate for a A amount
v : | was clubbed and captured by a number |
in tariff rates will decrease the cost of | of citizens. Quiet as Bellefonte appears |
here.
——The trial of pugilist JACK JOHN- purchasing firm to the effect that
be congratulated upon the certainty of ' SON under the White Slave Act is in
the speedy passage and approval of the progress in Chicago and it is safe to say
of money and Stuck, From :
sionz] side, his action will appear un-
‘ethical and contrary to many noble ex-
{to be such a thing could not happen amples in the
past.
Still, criticism must be considerably
! minimized by the announcement of fhe
very poor will be treated free of charge
at the various institutes and that fees
will be graduated to hit the purses of
UnpErRwoOD bill. In the soladarity of that if he gets full justice the black peril ' others. This puts a much better aspect
their representatives in Congress there is | Will be harmless for some time to come.
equal reason for congratulating the!
Democrats. The splendid equipment of |
the party in statesmanship and leader-
ship is a complete answer to the accusa-
tions that have been current for years
that the Democracy is a discordant mob |
incapable of constructive work. While
the Republican leaders were fighting,
bickering and back-biting the Democrats
under the magnificent leadership of
UNDERWOOD have gone forward to vic- |
tory.
——Really the Republican leaders in
Congress are too severe on each other.
Yet we are almost inclined to believe
they are telling the truth.
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tion is a long way off andthe early worm
always gets the worst of it in the long
— There are several murder cases Of the remedy and this
' scheduled for trial at Pottsville this week |
and still there is a large-sized suspicion ' and the
| that all the Schuylkill countians who de-
serve hanging haven't been found out.
-President REA, of the Pennsylva-
nia railroad, predicts a considerable in- |
crease in freight rates in the near future,
but probably he is only tuning the peo-
| ple’s ears to an unpleasant sound.
—Speaker ALTER is doing his best to
please all interests in the Legislature and
it must be admitted that in jugglery he
is developing a high order of talent.
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—Don’t miss the Old Maid’s club
‘meeting in Petrikin hall tonight. It will
be worth far more than the 25 or 35 cts.
admission that will be charged.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~The Dicks-Miles wholesale produce firm at
DuBois has contracted for the erection of a fine
new business building to be completed by the
latter part of August.
—Breezewood has been having a smallpox
scare. Churches were closed and sore arms
were epidemic, but the dreaded disease did not
make its appearance.
—H. K. Crissman, of Philadelphia, went to Du-
Bois recently to take his aged mother to his
home. While at that place he took ill and died of
neuralgia of the heart.
—Barnesboro citizens are favoring the munici-
pal water plant idea and are trying to finda
remedy for the threatened shortage before the
summer drought comes.
~Will Emery, digging for bait at his home in
Philipsburg, dug up a British coin of the year
1797, which probably was the property of one of
the early settlers of that place.
—At a recent meeting of the Clearfield fire de-
partment it was decided to try to secure the dis-
trict convention for 1914, provided the business
men are willing to aid with the finances.
—One hundred green headed bull frogs and
two gallons of bull spawn have been placed in
the trout dam of the Crystal Springs Hunting
camp, in the mountains of Clearfield county.
—Miss Orpha Sloppy, a New Millport school
teacher, lost a handbag containing $175 a few
days ago. Little Miss Louise Turner found it
and took the trouble necessary to find the owner,
—Two of the drying sheds of the Clearfield
Clay Working company’s plant were recently
destroyed by fire, at a loss of §3,000. The plant.
however, will still be able to get out its orders.
—Because the ordinance granting a franchise
to the People’s Gas company of Pittsburg didn't
contain a provision caring for the streets that
would betorn up by the company, the burgess
of Somerset promptly vetoed the measure.
—Heat generated in a box of clean woolen
waste caused a $1,000 fire in the American Natur-
al Gas company’s quarters at Indiana. The fire
men were meeting in their rooms in the next
building and the blaze hadn't much chance.
-Punxsutawney citizens will have a meeting on
Tuesday to consider forming a company to build
a trolley line from that place to Rossiter—a dis-
tance of six miles, through a populous country.
It is expected that Rossiter people will subscribe
liberally.
~The handsome country home of Charles M.
Schwab, of Loretto, was damaged to the extent
of $2,000 by fire which started from an over-
heated stove in the kitchen. Servants were pre-
paring for the coming of the family within a
short time.
—Herbert Oldham, aged 17, went to the cellar
at his home near Nanty-Glo in the dark, lita
match then tossed it away. It fell into a can of
gasoline kept there to be used for cleaning pur-
poses. Inthe explosion that followed he was
$0 badly burned that he died at the Johsatown
hospital.
—Leaping from a coal wagon Monday, 9-year-
old Lionel Livingston, of Williamsport, darted
directly in front of C. W. Scott's auto and was
thrown with great force. Mr. Scott took the boy
in his car to the Williamsport hospital, where he
is reported injured internally and in a very ser-
ious condition.
—Several State College students visiting near
Lock Haven, came upon an 8-year-old girl near
town. The child had fallen and severed an artery
in her left arm on a glass jar she had broken in
the fall. One of the students rendered first aid
and saved the child's life by stopping the flow of
her life blood. She was greatly weakened, as it
was.
—After being ground under the wheels of sev-
eral trains the mangled body of Daniel Hulsizer
was found on the Pennsy tracks at Milton be-
tween 12 and 1 o'clock Friday morning. The
horribly cut and crushed remains were discover-
ed by a brakeman. Hulsizer came near being
killed several years ago, when a train hit his
wagon at a railroad crossing at Milton.
—Dr. B. H. Warren, for years head of the Pure
Food Division in this State, has been appointed
by the municipal authorities of Atlantic City to
enforce the pure food laws of that place. He
will get $300 a month until November. It is said
that Dr. Warren has been given cart blanche to
rigorously enforce the laws, and that some of the
dealers are beginning to overhaul their stocks.
—More than 150,000 salmon fry were distribut-
ed in the eddies on both sides of the Susquehanna
river, from the railroad bridge at Williamsport
to Sylvan Dell last Friday. The fry were small,
having been hatched Thursday, but they will
grow rapidly, It is said that they will grow to
twelve inches within a year. Later bass, perch
and blue gilled sunfish fry will be placed in the
river.
—Scarcely had the gallows used to hang Domi-
nick Petrelli been cleared away from the West-
moreland county jail then two colored men were
brought in, charged with a similar crime. One
of them is said to have driven a pick into the
back of Alex Martin, ziso colored as he lay pros:
trate in the road. Witnesses say that all three
were drunk but vary in their versions of who did
the actual killing. :’,
—Rev. W. M.Grant, Ph. D., who was pastor
of the Presbyterian church of Northumberland,
and who was tried for heresy by the Presbytery
of Northumberland and acquitted, but later de-
posed from the ministry by the General Assem-
bly has been received into the Congregational
Ministry in New York State. The friends of Dr.
Grant will be pleased to hear of his change. It
proves that Dr. Grant is not a Unitarian.
—After almost 25 years, W.C. Wolfe, of Lilly,
Cambria county, has received assurance that he
will recover $2,250 for a house destroyed by rep-
resentatives of the State board of health follow -
ing the Johnstown flood of May 31, 1889. He also
will receive interest on this sum. To obtain re-
imbursement, Mr. Wolfe, through T.J. Itell, of
Johnstown, and James Stranahan, of Harrisburg,
had a special bill enacted by the Legislature of
1905. He obtained judgment against the State
and governor Tener has just signed a bill appro-
priating $2,250 to pay the judgment.
~The Northumberland county court Monday
appointed commissions to inquire into the
sanity of Morris F. Rossiter, of Sunbury, and
John Sabo, Mount Carmel, both of whom are
charged with murder. They were ordered to re-
port their findings next Monday morning. Ros-
sited, on February 11 last, shot and killed William
J. Kerstetter, Sunbury’s police chief, when the
police official went to his home to take him to an
insane asylum for treatment. Sabo went to the
home of Miss Maggie Horwitz at Mount Carmel,
called her outside and asked her to wed his broth-
er, who had become infatuated with her. She
refused, and he is alleged to have sent a bullet
into her head.
~Placing the value of his seven-year-old son's