BY P. GRAY MEEK.
—The United States drinks twice
much coffee as any other country on
globe and only a third as much tea
Engl nd.
—Do your Christmas shopping now
and then you won't be too tired to enjoy
as
the
as
the year’s greatest holiday season when |
it arrives.
—Let us as Americans keep cool on
the Mexican situation and determine to
fight it out along lines of peace if it takes
years to do it.
—If you can’t afford a Thanksgiving
turkey, don’t have one. And be thankful
that you were not fool enough to go into
debt for something you can get along
very nicely without.
-~Forty cents a dozen for eggs in Belle-
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VOL. 58.
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The Hon. A. MiTcheLL PALMER pro- |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL
BELLEFONTE. PA. NOVEMBER 2), 1913.
Road Building and Revenue.
No doubt State Treasurer YOUNG had
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Former President Tatt’s Views.
Former President TAFT has become
UNION.
tests too much. In an interview, pub- , carefully considered all the facts before | © much a political philosopher and so
| lished the other day, in which he rebukes | making his statement that the revenues | little a partisan politician that his recent
Yudge-elect BONNIWELL, of Philadelphia, of the Commonwealth are ample to | speeches deserve the most careful con-
| for the manner in which he had suggest- justify an appropriation annually, of | sideration. In an address delivered before
i ed the name of City Solicitor RYAN of
that city for the Democratic gubernatori-
| al nomination, Mr. PALMER alleges that
fonte and more people in the poultry | in distributing the party patronage there
business in this community than ever be- | has been “no question as to whether a
fore makes it look as though the hens man is an old-line or a new-idea advo-
are not doing their share in this crusade , cate. There is no question as to wheth-
against the high cost of living. | er he was for GRIM or BERRY in 1910.
—All the while Mr. HUERTA is waiting i The only thing we ask is that he be loyal
to decide what to do the Constitutionalists to the Democratic administration at
in Mexico are capturing more States. At Washington and anxious to forward the
the rate VILLA and GONZALES are going interests of his party as a whole in Penn-
now it will only be a short time until all
that HUERTA usurped will be usurped
back again.
—It is estimated that twenty million
dollars worth of toys will be necessary to
fill the stockings of Young America next
month. Old Santy may complain about
the high cost of living for fifty-one weeks i
in the year, but when Christmas week |
comes round its all off. And it should
be.
—Paris has sent out the edict that
henceforth only clergymen and states-
men may properly wear a Prince Albert |
coat. As the average man invariably
looks fora “joker” in every new law
there will be a concensus of opinion that |
there is a very apparent one in this one.
If statesmen may properly wear the
Prince Albert who is to decide between
the real thing and the “near” statesman.
—And to think of it! We can all re-
memember the day when it was a sign
of pretty tough luck to have to eat
“flitch.” And now that same old “flitch”
is called bacon and the man of the house
hangs around the kitchen when it is |
cooking so the aroma of the sizzling fat
permeates his clothing and he carries it
out into his day's business circles in
order to give his associates a little smell
of his riches.
~Former President TAPT seems to be.
a little peeved over the way banker
CHAS. W. MORSE has carried on since he
pardoned him. You will recall that the
President released MORSE from the fed-
eral prison at ATLANTA so that he could
be taken home to die—as it seemed cer-
tain he would do at the time. But after
getting home MORSE decided not to die
for a while yet and Mr. TAFT thinks de- |
cency ought to have prompted him to
make good,
—District Attorney WHITMAN, of
New York,has properly declined to guar-
antee immunity to former Governor
SULZER in the event that he should “turn
state’s evidence” against his former as-
sociates in crime. SULZER has been and
is now the most unconscionable criminal
in the pubic life of the Empire State and
the District Attorney of New York is ab-
solutely right in arranging matters so
that ultimately SULZER will be compelled
to pay the legal penalties of his iniqui-
ties,
—Eight thousand men crowded the
tabernacle at Johnstown and four thous-
and more were unable to gain admittance
to BILLY SUNDAY'S meeting for men the
other day. And the Johnstown mer:
chants are advertising that they will close
sylvania.”
In support of this assertion Mr. PAL-
. MER cited the fact that of five appoint-
| ments made for Philadelphia since the
inauguration of the President four were
taken from the ranks of the BERRY sup-
porters and one from the adherents of
GRIM. As a matter of fact, however,
six appointments have been made for
Philadelphia federal offices and only one
| of these appointees voted for GRIM, and
he was indebted to the Congressman
from Berks county for the favor. Mr.
PALMER and the Democratic State Com-
| mittee have been inflexible and bitter
‘all the time in their determination to
exclude from patronage Democrats who
opposed the rape of the organization by
| PALMER, GUTHRIE and MCCORMICK. They
have even gone so far as to declare that
‘no name would be considered for ap-
| pointment unless it was endorsed by cer- |
tain local adherents of these bosses.
| Judge BONNIWELL was inaccurate in
| his statement that the Keystoners had
| not been sufficiently favored in these ap-
| pointments. The records show that in
| Pennsylvania at least ninety per cent. of
' the appointees were supporters of BERRY.
| But Mr. PALMER is equally away from
| the truth in his statement that there was
no question on the subject in making the
| selections. Possibly it doesn’t make
‘much difference to Mr. PALMER how a
‘man voted in 1910. He doesn’t pay
' much attention to past obligations. His
standard of fitness is servility to himself
and he would dump the BERRYS and the
rest to promote his own ambitions. But
it makes a difference to the others and
the records prove the facts.
—Don’t worry about Mexico. The
sane and safe policies of President WiL-
SON will solve all the problems of Mexico
and all the other foreign complications.
- The President is simply showing the
world what a real statesman can do
under adverse circumstances.
Bailey and McNair Offer an Alibi.
We have the assurance of our esteem-
ed contemporary, the Johnstown Democrat,
that the Hon. WARREN WORTH BAILEY
has no present intention of starting a
new party to be called “Single Tax,” or
given any other name. All Mr. BAILEY
and his political collaborator, Mr. Wm.
N. McNAIR, of Pittsburgh, have in mind
is to commit the Democratic party to
the principle, or heresy, of Single Tax,
and Mr. McNAIR offers to prove by Tur-
got, “prio” to the French Revolution,”
that Single Tax isa “fundamental Demo-
| the National Geographic Society in Wash-
000 f construction. Bu
A i last week, ha ington, the other day, he criticised the
use of the revenues will be at the ex. | Policy of the administration with respect
pense of “other cherished institutions.” | '© the Philippines. Obviously he must
Mr. YOUNG would divert the funds ap- | have been influenced by environment for
iated to public charities and local | though his audience could hardly have
hospitals and unquestionably it would A eeP partisan he played the part of par-
serve the pu The last Legislature | tisan politician. On Saturday last he
appropriated more than that amount for | spoke to the pupils of a school in Potts. :
such. benel and possibly such | town, this State, and emphatically declar-
charities “have no just claim upon the | ed that the policy of the administration
State's bounty.” But they have some | 0% foreign affairs should not be criticis- |
clai hi f |
Sn upon the philantinopy of the pros In his Pottstown address Mr. TAFT ex- |
In this county, for example there is an pressed the highest appreciation of states. |
institution in which the people take great | manship. He may not have intended to |
and just pride. The Bellefonte hospital do so but as a matter of fact he literally :
! i
has no legal claim upon the Legislature Spears wd Sol gorse ey i
for support or even assistance. But it | the Pamotratic since Rs of |
has a very valid and substantial moral | party
; . His expression on the tariff |
claim because it dispenses charity with | JEFFERSON : |
generous freedom to all who need jt | Was a discordant note in an otherwise
. | admirable political exegesis but it may
whether residents of the county or way- . :
farers overtaken by misfortune. What be assumed that his tariff views are an
a NO. 46.
Money Enough for Roads.
From the Philadelphia Record.
When State Treasurer Yi who,
above all other Tun 1 2 preion o
speak with authority on the financial
condition of the Commonwealth, says
that its are sufficient to allow
an ap of $5,000,000 annually
for th of roads, his
statement | be taken as being un-
assailable us the defeat of the pro-
posed $50,000,000 bond issue need not
delay the advent of better highways, and
the State will be spared the scandals and
political jobbery that would have almost
inevitably attended the ture of so
vast a sum unless there should be a radi.
cal change in men and measures at Har-
urg.
In making his statement Treasurer
Young explains that a large part of the
desired revenue can be secured by giving
bid sph oad
made e islature of year to
objects having no just claim upon the
States bounty, fhe withholding of which
would not only an improvement
economics, but of public morals.” This
refers, of course, to the millions appro-
priated to private charities, f in
violation of the law and often at the ex-
pense of the institutions maintained
the State for its dependent wards. Ail
parties promised a reform in this ve
abuse at the last session of the
lature, but Dothing was accomplished.
The people of nsylvania can have
good roads and support all State insti-
their stores today in order that SUNDAY's cratic doctrine,” and that THOMAS JEF-
citizen of Bellefonte or in the neigh.
borhood of this most deserv-
ing charity would cripple it by
taking away the meager help extend:
ed by the Legislature? We venture
the opinion that most of our peo-
ple would endure bad roads rather
than impair the usefulness of this care-
fully managed hospital.
For that matter the Legislature is
| under no legal obligation to provide good
roads. It is simply an economic ques-
tion. Good roads will benefit the people
and the highest function of government
is to conserve the interests of the people.
, Therefore the Legislature has a right
and it is its duty to provide good roads
as far as possible but it is neither wise
| nor expedient to fulfill this obligation by
sacrificing another equally meritorious.
Both obligations might have been met in
full measure without distress to the peo-
ple and the failure is an offense against
progress and prosperity. We have har-
nessed our chariot to an ice wagon in-
stead of a star. The responsibility for
the blunder must be fixed.
—From the time Hon. WEBSTER
GRIM was nominated as the only Demo-
crat on the State ticket for Superior
Court Judge to the moment the polls clos-
ed the Centre Democrat hadn't a single
word to say to its readers as to his fit-
ness or the desirability of getting a
Democrat on that bench.
Sulzer and Thaw.
President TAFT may have been joking,
the other day, when he suggested WiL-
LIAM SULZER and HARRY KENDALL THAW
as a ticket for President and Vice Presi-
dent, with “the sanctity of an oath,” as
their platform. Yet judging by recent
events it wouldn't be an unpopular com-
bination. Thousands of people have
figuratively gone into hysterics through
sympathy for THAW because he has been
unabie to evade the law and escape from
the just penalties of his viciousness.
Other thousands have shown equal men-
tal disturbance because WILLIAM SULZER
has been removed from the high office |
| inheritance from the past which he has
not, as yet, been able to cast off. But
in the last analysis politics is so much a
of compromise that we can afford
to indulge the former President with re-
spect to his tariff notions in view of his
admissions in regard to other fundamen- ha
tal questions.
Mr. TAFT is essentially correct in his
idea that there is peril to the Republic
in the heresies which the Populists have
been advancing and which some so-call-
ed Democrats have adopted with respect
to the relative powers of the people and
the representatives of the people. Ours
is a government of the people through
| the representatives of the people. That
| is the principle for which JEFFERSON con-
tended and a departure from it will re.
sult in a defeat of our system of govern-
ment. It is possible that those who ad:
Washington do not understood this fact,
|butit is true. The subversion of our
| representative government means che de-
struction of our Republic.
——The Centre county teachers’ in-
stitute closed last Friday and a cor-
, respondent of the WATCHMAN states that
after returning home the teachers were
| “loud in their praise of the courteous
| treatment received while in Bellefonte.”
| In that respect the teachers did not re-
' ceive any more than they deserved. The
' writer can remember the time when the
school teachers looked upon the annual
institute as the opportunity for having a
good time generally and the sessions
were only about half attended. Now-a-days
teachers take the institute seriously and
attend it for the purpose of adding to
their store of knowledge to help them in
their vocation. They are a gentlemanly
and ladylike bunch of teachers, good
mannered and good behaved at all times,
so that they were deserving of courteous
‘treatment from everybody with whom
‘ they came in contact. And it must be a |
source of gratification to the county su-
perintendent to know that he has a band
of such loyal, good teachers.
——It might be well for those Demo-
vocate the centralization of power in| the
request that all clerks in stores go to the
FERSON had stated it is “a proposition to
mother’s meeting with their mothers can be considered when land was no longer
be granted. Even the Johnstown Demo- | free in this country.”
cral, so bitterly opposed to the idea of | Of course these collective statements
having SUNDAY go to Johnstown, is Of purpose dispose of the matter for the
beaten up and down the sawdust trail Present, if not finally. Both gentlemen
every day and preachin’ sermons longer are candid and truthful and presumably
than BILLY'S. thoroughly understand their plans and
—It is quite apparent, from reading | Purposes. They believe in the Single
tie erg th ont into this office, | TO% doctrine and hope to convert the
that the prohibition movement that has | entire Democratic electorate to their
recently been shaping itself in Bellefonte | Views. With that purpose in mind they
is not merely local. It seems to be State. Nave been conferring together and in- |
wide and we would not be surprised if it | Yiting others to confer with them in order
were the gathering of the storm that will | 1 Procure the concentration of the vote
make Pennsylvania dry in a very few | Of the Single Taxers on a candidate for
years. What makes it seem more power- | the Democratic nomination for Governor
ful at this time is the fact that ihioa 308 thus, Surepdsioedy roma tee
general movement, not organized partic. | ment in .
ularly by the W.C.T.U. or the Anti. Monwealth through the fertilization of
Saloon league, but by the churches and | Patronage.
usiness men’s associations insome parts |
Pidinaso wns RE ment that Messrs. BAILEY and McNAIR
fo di at| Soatewplated She Organ} zation ot on
last that “muck-raking” isn't the means | } y, primarily the fault o met.
ropolitan papers which published ac-
to the end he hoped to accomplish when | v; pu
! counts of their movements and opera-
he started out. He hasadmitted also that
he has defamed are really “good and | ig? x
Om men” and only. occupy the | big” with this notion and we believed
| them because neither Mr. BAILEY nor
positions of buss.because conditions of | y's onao ioe Hitherto Geen clan.
environment have imposed the jobon| ineand it never occurred to us th
i at
them. TH WATCHYAN Fr a im: they might be trying to capture the
pressed with the personal guilt of many Democratic party by stealth. But we are
of the men whom STEFFENS exposed and |
\ | forced to reverse our opinion for men
it always believed that in the last analy- |
in 10 andiup. who mix the political philosophy of Tur
fot with that of JEFFERSON are likely to
right and appear to be otherwise onl any other absurd thing.
because of conditions for which they are | Se
primarily not responsible, | seSubscrite for the Warenman
he had inveigled himself into, on account ' rats in Centre county who are so ready
of crimes he had committed before and tO Swear by the Philadelphia North Amer- |
after his election. ican and eager to be used by it whenever
The sympathy for THAW grows, main.
| occasion arises, to note the way it has
ly, out of the belief that he has been been trying to discredit President wiL- |
persecuted. He murdered a man of hig SON'S currency bill. Of course the North |
own type, it is admitted. But the man American is a Republican paper and
was a moral monster, and therefore | never has supported a Democratic ad-
though THAW was no better, the killing ministration of any sort which makes |
was all right. That is a dangerous meth. | the influence it seems to have over some |
od of dealing with the question. Killing Centre county Democrats all the more |
men is wrong. If a manis guilty of crimes inunderstandable. We call attention to |
against society, the law provides a means its fight on our President now merely
of punishment. It doesn’t invest anoth. that it may be kept in mind in the future
Legislature men who
th questions seriously.
Governor who will work for improved
highways and careful handling of the
State's money as applied to charities will
ve an opportunity to make his admin.
istration famous.
Income Tax at Source.
| Fin oh the T has
! tary of reasury met
| the showing of the practical i ty
of securing from foreign investors in-
come tax exemption statements with
each payment by issuing an order that
the signature of the representative of the
corporation certifying to the list of fore-
ign security holders will be as
adequate. This relieves such a tion
as that created by the fact that there are
| 420,000 holders of Pennsylvania railroad
bonds in alone.
Whether this order of the
Treasury
Secretary of
goes beyond the strict Jet.
ter of the law we are not certain. t
we deemed it wholly possible. For it is
certain that this must be done by execu.
tive officers if the idea of collecting the
income tax “at its source” is not to be-
| come a matter of inextricable confusion.
| For instance, we have in mind the case
| of a man whose gross income is $5,500.
Of this every cent is paid employers
(or tenants, who, under the letter of the
i law, should retain the tax. But this
| would necessitate some of the tenants
retaining 5 or 10 cents from the monthly
‘rate of payment, many of them being
| probably ignorant that the law requires
aw such duty from them.
t is understood that the government
has decided that such debtors need not
retain the income tax until the amount
which they are to pay has exceeded
1 $3,000. This may be common sense, but
{it is not in the law. The plan to make
' every holder of a bond retain the tax on
- the interest which he pays is another
{ illustration of the trouble which the law
| can make unless amended by adminis-
| trative officers—which is always a haz. !
, ardous operation.
; Insatiate.
! From the Pittsburgh Post.
| Our young friend McNair (William N.)
pro to make our old friend Berry
(William H.) a United States Senator.
| It was thought Berry would be stationary
for four years, at least, when he was
| made collector of the port of Philadel-
| phia, but this seems to be a mistake, for
' like all alleged progressives his course is
onward and upward. One good office
deserves another and better one, is
Berry's motto, and to this end he will
fight under any flag.
At present he is cultivating the fusion
field, believing it a promising method of
getting recruits to aid in his promotion
to a higher office. Fusion is a favorite
scheme of perpetual seekers for place |
like Berry. The Democrats of 1. |
vania must not t themselves to
victimized by this little game which is
being Worked for selfish i 8. The
party nothing to si an
alliance.
We say to Democrats, steer clear of
any such arrangement. To permit a few
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er degenerate with the powers of an exe. When it is trying to persuade Democrats A narrow-gauge politicians to use the Demo-
That we were misled into the state- |
cutioner. Besides in the case in ques-
tion the living recreant continued his
to evade the law which he had outraged.
SULZER is equally unworthy of sympathy
and support.
the reason that SULZER was attacked, not |
because he was bad but because he want-
His successor in office wants to be good |
and will be but there is no danger of his
impeachment for the reason that nobody
has anything on him which can be used
to divert him from his righteous purposes.
The fact isthat sympathy for these moral
perverts is an evidence of a low standard
of public morality and 2a man who sym.
pathizes with either of them has some-
thing the matter with his own moral or
mental equipment.
For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
to help pull its chestnuts out of the fire. |
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——1It is not too early to bring forward |
candidates for the Democratic nomina- |
| tion for Governor. The primary elec.
| tions will be held in May and +t. re are
, who depend upon conditions of the mo- |
‘ment may think differently but oppor- |
party and for the ticket all the |
| time have a just right to begin “looking |
| them over,” now.
——Meantime keep in mind that the |
real disturbers of harmony in the Demo- |
cratic party of Pennsylvania are those
who stole the organization and refused |
| to submit the question of title to the
i
. =Mr, A. MITCHELL PALMER has a t |
| time throwing fits over everyone who is !
! mentioned for the Democratic nomina- |
| tion for of Pennsylvania whose |
initials are not A. M. P.
blunder.
g
cratic vote would be a
with the suggestion.
The Test That is Coming.
From SH New York Journal of Commies, i
The time is now rapidly approaching
McAdoo will
commercial paper.
action will
f
83k
treasury
by the exertion
Secretary Shaw, such resistance
Siuarily Successful, at th Jn ;
n treasury
: gh demands itor an anion f
they proceed from ban! are in a
somewhat weak or doubtful condition
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Fires have been lighted at the Sheffield, Jef-
ferson county. bottle factory and the long lay off
will soon be ended.
—Lock Haven council heard a lengthy descrip-
tion of plans for a new sewerage system and sew-
age disposal plant to cost $170,900, but has not
taken action.
—Sixteen shot were picked from the back of
William Nelson, of Mount Pleasant, Westmore-
land county. A friend was cleaning his gun near
where Nelson stood.
—A blow on the head, received during a polit-
ical dispute some time in October, is said to have
been the cause of brain fever, which killed Harry
Emigh, of Morrisdale.
—A. H. Beals, of Vandegrift, accidentally killed
a fawn a few days ago. He at once went to the
game warden, paid his $50 fine and sent the car-
cass to the Clearfield hospital.
—Miss Margaretta Loudon Bell, Newport's old-
est resident, celebrated the 95 anniversary of her
birth recently. A number of friends joined in an
all day celebration of the event.
—With a bullet in his eye that had hit » tree
and glanced into the optic, Joseph Wells, of Mas-
ten, is in a Williamsport hospital, where every ef-
fort is being made to save the eyeball.
~While standing on a load of straw at Duncan-
non, William Kretzinger, aged 53 years, was seiz-
ed with an attack of vertigo and fell from the
wagon. His neck was broken in the fall.
—Afraid to trust their money, S. A. Leasure
and Mrs. Ann Henderson, aged residents of Ligo-
nier valley, kept $650 in their home. They are
now without home, household goods or money.
owing to a fire that destroyed their house.
=Dr. A. T. Ormund, second president of Grove
City college, was formally inaugurated on Satur-
day. A large number of visitors witnessed the
ceremonies. Dr. I. C. Ketler founded the institu-
tion thirty-seven years ago and it has had a flour-
ishing career.
—Lying in a cart with a mosquito netting over
.
in | it, a four-months-old child of Gus Neidrick, of
Osceola Mills, was peacefully sleeping when a
brother, aged two and one-half years, stuck a
stick in the fire and then touched the netting
with it. The baby inhaled the flames and died in
two hours,
—Governor Tener Friday announced the ap
pointment of Francis J. O'Connor as additiona
law judge of Cambria county to serve until the
first Monday in January, when his elective term
begins. Judge O'Conner was recently elected
first additional law judge of the county under the
S€- | act of 1913.
—Five cases of smallpox were discovered Sun-
day in Portstown, a suburb of Huntingdon. All
the cases emanated from one house, but before
their condition was fully ascertained to be a con-
tagious disease several of the afflicted ones had
moved promiscuously throughout the town, and
it is feared a general epidemic may result.
—Miss Lulu Peffer, primary teacher at Calu-
met, undertook to whip a twelve-year-old boy who
resisted, refusing to leave his seat. Forcing him
to do so resulted in bumping and cutting his
head. The father sued the teacher and the West.
moreland county grand jury has just ignored the
charge, putting the costs on the prosecutor.
=H. D. Seeley, defeated candidate on the Re-
publican and Democratic tickets for the] office of
burgess of Jersey Shore, says he is going to sue
three pastors of the town for damages for slan-
der. He blames Revs. A. E. Cooper, J. L. Ewing
and J. F.Glass for circulating talk about him
which was largely responsible for his defeat.
—Mike Volt, the five-year-old lad who had his
skull fractured by the dropping of a fifty pound
| bar at the coke ovens at Whitney, where he had
wandered alone, has recovered sufficiently to
leave the Latrobe hospital. There is yet, how-
ever, a big hole in his head, which is protected by
a football head gear which he will wear for some
time to come.
—Aroused by the explosion of a gun which
stood in an out kitchen, Nathan Yost and family,
of Lock Haven, escaped in night clothes and bare
feet from the house, which was on fire. The
blaze, which was the cause of the gunlexplo-
sion, started in the out kitchen, in which there
had been neither fire nor light and is believed to
have been the work of an incendiary.
--Going to work fifteen minutes earlier than
usual cost the life of Peter Baranich, a big Slav
employed on night turn at the Punxsutawney
Iron company’s furnace. The daylight men had
all sought safety to escape a dynamite blast when
Baranich arrived and, it is supposed, looked into
the jacket just in time to catch the force of the
explosion. He had not lighted his torch and no
one saw his approach.
—Charged with havng garroted her two boys,
two and one-half and three and one-half years
old, respectively, Mrs. Amelia Sebolt Banko, 26
years oid, isin the county jail in Ebensburg. It
is said that after having strangled the children
Mrs. Banko attempted to take her life at the
home of her father, William Sebolt, two miles
from Portage. Disconsolate because her husband
had forsaken her is given as the cause.
—The holder of one Carnegie medal, Lewis La-
made, of Williamsport, demonstrated his right to
another when he held his fur cap over the door
of a small egg stove while another man carried it
out doors, saving Mrs. Riley's small store from
burning. The woman had put wet wood into
the stove and her daughter had poured coal oil
on it, with exciting results. Four years ago, at
the risk of his own life, he had saved several men
from drowning in the Susquehanna.
—The innocent spectator certainly “got it in
the neck’ at Clymer recently when Frank Tosa-
ra, attracted by a shot, arrived on the scene of a
melee just in time to receive a bullet wound in
the throat. He is in a serious condition at the
| Dixonville hospital. Chief of Police Matt Leon-
ard was trying to arrest three Italians. He had
the handcuffs on one when they all attacked him
and he was compelled to use his revolver. One
of the men has a wound and is being treated in
iail. The other two escaped.
—Charles Boyer, aged twenty-one years, was
killed at 11 o'clock Saturday morning while at
work in the grist mill of H. L. Bieber, at Clinton-
ville, a short distance from Mougomery. His
clothing caught in a line shaft on the second floor
and he was whirled about the rapidly revolving
shaft, bis body striking against the ceiling tim-
bers. His left foot was nearly torn off. Coroner
Hardt, of Williamsport, was notified and arrived
there a half hour after the accident occurred. He
decided that an inquest was unnecessary.
~There is every evidence that the Austin dam
cases, both civil and criminal, which are listed
for trial in Wellsboro next week, will be settled
out of court. It is reported in Coudersport that
the plaintiffs will receive from 10 to 50 per cent.
of their claims and that the Bayless company ex-
pects to pay out in the neighbori:sod of $150,000
in cash and stock to get the matter satisfactorily
settled. Assoon as the civil cases are withdrawn
it is understood the criminal cases will be nolle
prossed and the Austin dam disaster will become
a thing of the past so far as the courts are con-
cerned. :
~The prison board of parole of the Western
less be partly t the char- | giving wherever they desire. An entire outfit
acter of the t and commercial situa- fyus ban vrovided foreach Brisone: This con-
tion existing in that part of the country and a necktie. E. : also will be given $10
which has the funds. ai 53 Provided by the resw parole’ law. A
S— em number of the Prisons now snplored on Ihe
—Have your Job Work done here. Rony Those discharged.