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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—It beats all how the rains keep up.
-—Bellefotne now has a new traffic or-
dinance. It looks like a good one and
should be enforced promptly.
—Wouldn’t it be lovely to be Easton,
Pa, for the one day on which the two
biggest circuses traveling are to exhibit
there.
—Have you cleaned up? If not, there
is yet time to be in line with your neigh-
bors and have a healthy, attractive look-
ing home to live in.
—What a splendid suggestion; that
ROOSEVELT be made Dictator of Mexico,
until a stable and peaceful government is
established in that restless Republic. The
Big Stick might be what is needed most
down there.
‘—Anyway VILLA talks like a fighter
when he says rather than unite with Hu-
ERTA’s forces for a war against the United
States: “If we are unable to avoid it
we wili face two enemies, the powerful
stranger and the depraved compatriots.”
—Go to Church Sunday in Bellefonte
didn’t exactly have the effect of crowd-
ing the church auditoriums, but} many
new faces were seen in unusual audienc-
es and earnest prayers were offered that
they might not remain new to places of
worship.
—Slowly the State is wakening up to
the fact that a stitch in time saves nine
and is planning to do a little repair work
on state highways in Centre county.
What a waste it is to let roads that have
cost thousands in building go to destruc-
tion for the want of a few hundred in
repairs.
—How are we going to mediate with
HUERTA’S government when we don’t
recognize its existence? CARRANZA’S re-
fusal to participate in mediation proceed-
ings puts a different aspect on the whole
Mexican situation and makes a muddle
of it that is likely to become embarrass-
ing to us.
—At the age of thirty-one Mrs. WIN-
FIELD STONER, of Quarrysville, Pa., is the
mother of nine children and also cham-
pion cake baker among three hundred
and fifty of her neighbors. If her nine
consume cakes like one that we know of
it is little wonder that she is the cham-
pion baker.
'—May 19th is Primary day and from
the present backward condition of farm
work a light vote may be looked for from
the country districts. Many farmers will
be busy with corn planting about that
time and that will affect their pocket-
books more directly than RYAN’s or Mc-
CORMICK’S aspirations to be Governor.
—When BENSON, of McKean county,
had a chance to vote for the late J. C.
MEYER, of Centre county, for Speaker of
the House of Representatives, did he do
it? No! He voted for a Republican in:
stead. Now he wants the Democrats of
Centre county to vote to make him their
nominee for Congress. Will they do it?
We hope not.
—After the primaries, surely we ought
to know who will be post-master of State
College. A prominent State College citi-
zen remarked vesterday that our used-to-
was friend BoB FOSTER had already spent
the equivalent of three years’ salary,
running to banquets and meetings where
the men who make post-masters congre-
gate and while that isn’t likely to break
BoB up it might break his heart if he
doesn’t get the plum.
—Judge BONNIWELL has challenged
“Farmer” CREASY to meet him in public
debate and has offered to prove that “he
has been a fawning dependent upon both
GUFFEY and HALL, that he received mon-
ey from both of them, not only as State
chairman, but as a Member of the Leg-
islature and that he is not fit to hold an
administrative office.” Poor CREASY!
He must stand convicted of these nasty
charges unless he accepts the challenge
and we fear he won’t have the courage
to do that.
—We do not believe any of the un-
pleasant rumors that are being whisper-
ed around concerning Rev. JoHN HEw-
1TT’s withdrawal from the Congressional
race at ‘the eleventh hour. Certainly if
there is any ground for any of them he
was not a party to the scheme. The re-
sult of the Primary will show, however,
if some of his friends have tricked him,
and the voters of Centre county as well.
If BENSON runs strong in Centre county
there will be ground, at least, for the
suspicion that Rev. HEWITT was being
played in order to keep off other Centre
county aspirants and then throw the
vote to BENSON.
—Judge BONNIWELL has publicly called
“Farmer” CREASY an “impudent” liar, a
man without honor and a mottled re-
former and threatens to show him up
right unless he apologizes for making
false statements concerning the Judge.
For the sake of the fun that might fol-
low we hope CREASY won't apologize. If
he doesn’t Judge BONNMIWELL will have to
make good his ‘threat and then the Penn-
sylvania Democrats will probably learn
something of the hypocritical statesman
from Columbia county who took $2000 a
year from Jim GUFFEY for being State
chairman and would now have the pub-
lic believe that all his services to the par-
ty have heen gratuitously for its own
good.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 54.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 8, 1914.
Non
Reason for Hysteria.
There is a reason for the hysteria of
the PALMER-MCCORMICK conspirators.
They are employing every available ex-
pedient to win votes but small wonder.
of these political pirates is involved. If
paign and since is a question of direct
interest to many Democrats. A search-
ing investigation of the subject might in-
volve criminal proceedings.
During the process of organizing the
conspiracy in 1911, JAMES I. BLAKESLIE
gave frequent and expensive dinners
which were paid for out of the treasury
of the committee. During the campaign
of 1912 money was freely squandered in
entertainments at the expense of the
committee. By no method of contortion
can such expenditures of campaign funds
be reconciled to the provisions of the
corrupt practices act of the Legislature.
Mr. PALMER'S car fare and telephone
bills are not legitimate campaign ex-
penses when his trips and talks are in
his personal interest. Mr. BLAKESLIE
has neither legal nor moral right to waste
the funds of the party in hospitality for
his personal friends.
treasurer of the Democratic National
committee swears he paid for use in the
campaign of this State in 1912. Presum-
ably it was paid to Mr. PALMER but it
has been publicly charged that there is i
no record of it in the sworn statement of |
receipts and disbursements on file in the
office of the Secretary of the Common-
wealth at Harrisburg. An investigation
might shed light upon this curious prob-
lem in finances and naturally those con-
cerned are anxious to avert exposure.
But they are not promoting that result
by traducing other and better men. They
can’t fool the people by making false ac-
cusations. Mendacity never won an
enduring victory.
——Whatever other people think .
THEODORE ROOSEVELT ought to have a |
kindly feeling for the financial pirates |
who looted the New Haven railroad. A !
large part of the loot went into his cam- |
paign fund, according to the evidence be- |
fore the Interstate Commerce Commis- |
sion.
Reasons for Blakeslie’s Bi-Partisan Ac-
tivities.
In a speech opening his campaign for
re-election, delivered at Minersville, the
other evening, Congressman LEE of
Schuylkill county cast an illuminating
side light upon the bi-partisan activities
of Jim BLAKESLIe, messenger boy for the
PALMER McCormick office brokerage firm.
One of Mr. BLAKESLIE's relatives is an
unopposed candidate for the Republican
nomination fof Congress in the Schuyl-
kill district and Mr. BALKESLIE, who is
Fourth: Assistant Postmaster General,
wants to keep as many Republican post-
masters in office, until after the election,
as possible, in order that they may * help
his Republican relative to the realization
of his ambitions.
Congressman, LEE is easily the most
efficient and capable Democratic Repre-
sentative in the Pennsylvania delegation.
He has acquired the enmity of A. MITCH-
ELL PALMER because he has neglected to
beg the permission of that would-be po-
litical autocrat to serve his Constituents
when the opportunity is offered. Of
course this makes BLAKESLIE his relent-
less enemy. The incentive of helping a
relative was not necessary, therefore, to
send BLAKESLIE, with a dagger in his
hand, after LEE. But the fact that he
may stab LEE and help his relative at
the same time probably whets the edge
of his desire to strike and he has already
induced one postmaster to commit what
looks very much like perjury in order to
continue in office.
Neither PALMER, McCORMICK nor
BLAKESLIE has any political convictions.
PALMER hung on to GUFFEY and HALL as
long as they paid for his services. Mec-
CORMICK’S political career shows the al-
ternation of profligacy and perfidy. If
he is allowed to name the candidates he
is profligate. If another than his choice
is nominated he is perfidious. BLAKES-
LIE is simply a jumping jack, once more
or less amusing, but now disgusting.
And these three deliberate assassins of
character claim the right to manage the
Democratic party of Pennsylvania for
their own personal profit and political ad-
vantage. Such assumption is insulting to
the intelligence of the people of the State.
1
——JiM BLAKESLIE can hardly divert
public attention from his deal with the
Republican postmaster of Mahanoy City
by lying about others.
”
Then there is the $15,000 which the !
| Reasons for Mr. Ryan’s Confidence.
1
: After a tour of the State, covering all
| sections and a period of four weeks, Mr.
MICHAEL J. RYAN, city solicitor of Phil-
| adelphia, expressed the utmost con-
! candidate for Governor. Mr. RYAN is
; his opponent and discovered evidences
| of factional “bagmen” extorting funds to
| be used against him. But in the face of
| these conditions he is confident.
! The reason for Mr. RYAN’s confidence,
| in view of these adverse conditions, is
( that he has faith in the courage and pa-
| triotism of the--“unowned, the unawed,
| the unbossed Democracy,” to use his own
‘language. These sturdy and sterling
citizens are incorruptible and the party
| boss is as abhorrent to them as any other
: destroying evil. They resent the as-
! sumptions of three or four office brokers
| to control the Democratic party and rep-
' robate the malignant spirit which tra-
| duces all who refuse to acquiesce in their
, usurpation of power. And Mr. RYAN
knows that manly men of this splendid
type are vastly in the majority in the
Democratic party of Pennsylvania.
Every time VANCE C. McCORMICK’S
paper, the Harrisburg Patriot, denounces
i such faithful and earnest Democrats as
| HENRY BUDD, Major MOSES VEAL, RYER-
| SON JENNINGS, Judge JENKINS and Magis-
trate EISENBROWN as “bi partisan crooks,”
or “PENROSE followers,” he makes hun-
dreds of votes for MICHAEL J. RYAN, and
like the consummate fool he is, he com-
pels his paper to do that every morning.
This accounts for the rapid increase of
the strength of Mr. RYAN among the
honest and thoughtful people of Pennsyl-
vania and promises such a victory for
him on the 19th of May as has never be-
fore been recorded for any candidate in
the Commonwealth. But #t will be the
: ; Spine
just verdict of an outraged people.
——President WILSON gave as one of
his reasons for sending Federal troops to
Colorado the fact that Secretary of Labor
WILSON was unable to secure an adjust-
ment of the troubles there by arbitration.
Secretary of Labor WILSON was too busy
at the time fomenting war among the
Democrats of Pennsylvania to attend to
any official duties.
The Mexican Problem.
General CARRANzZA, head of the Con-
stitutionalists in Mexico, threatens to be-
come a disturbing element in the pro-
ceedings looking to pacification. He re-
fuses to agree to an armistice pending
the negotiations. Of course if he per-
sists in that policy the plan will have to
be abandoned or else he will have to be
suppressed. Either of these expedients
is hazardous. If there can be. no arbi-
tration there must be the alternative,
which is vigorous hostilities. That means
the elimination of HUERTA by force first,
and afterward the similar disposal of
CARRANZA. It is surprising that he is
not able to see this for himself. Every-
body else sees it clearly.
President WILSON set out to give the
people of Mexico a stable government.
With abundance of wealth in soil and
minerals good government in Mexico
means happiness and prosperity. Inter-
vention during the continuance of domes-
tic turbulence would not have achieved
this result. It would have been forcing
an alien government upon an unwilling
people. Governments thus created are
never enduring or peaceful. President
WILSON knew this and wisely acted ac-
cordingly. His treatment of the Mexi-
can question has been both just and pa-
triotic. It has shown him in a most fa-
vorable light. He was influenced by the
purest motives to the wisest conclusions.
In any event HUERTA is impossible.
CARRANZA is making himself equally dan-
gerous and objectionable. If he had
ioined in with the movement originated
in the minds of the representatives of
Argentina, Brazil and Chile, a settlement
alike honorable to all concerned and
helpful to civilization might have been
secured. His refusal puts him in the at-
titude of a trouble breeder. Such men
have no right to stand in the way of
progress. It is the duty of civilization to
silence them and the present may be a
good time to begin the operation. The
Mexican problem must be settled along
the lines laid by President WILSON even
if the elimination of HUERTA and CAR-
RANZA both be necessary.
——There is nothing in the argument
that railroad profits are not as big as they
used to be. They used to be bigger than
they ought to be and excessive profits of
railroads mean depleted balances for the
people.
Secretary Wilson’s Dirty Bargain.
| There can be no misunderstanding of
| VANCE C. McCORMICK’S record on the la-
bor question. WILLIAM B. WiLsoN, Sec-
retary of Labor in the cabinet of Presi-
Self-preservation is the first law of nature | fidence, the other day, of his nomination, ' dent WiLsoN, may betray labor interests
and the personal liberty of some | on the 19th instant, as the Democratic | and prostitute himself by perverting the
: facts, but the truth is a matter of rec-
Mr. RYAN is nominated for Governor and not unmindful of the elements against ord. In 1905 councils of Harrisburg
HENRY BUDD for Senator there is likely | him. Wherever he has been he has seen . passed an ordinance increasing the wages
to be a judicial investigation of the ac- | the federal officials and those who hope ; of laborers in the employ of that city
counts of the Democratic State com- to be appointed to office aligned against | from fifteen cents an hour to sixteen and
mittee of 1912 and since that campaign. him. He has found at every step traces | two-third cents an hour. The rule was
The misappropriation of funds con- | of the pernicious activity of the Demo- ' to work eight hours a day and the wages
tributed by Democrats during that cam- | cratic State committee in the interest of | were considered inadequate by the men
themselves and by councils. The differ-
. ence was thirteen and one-third cents a
day and McCoRMICK, who was mayor at
the time, vetoed the ordinance.
. For years previous to the purchase of
the Harrisburg Patriot by VANCE C. Mc-
CORMICK it was a Union shop. The Un-
rion label appeared at its mast head every
! morning. But the day MCCORMICK as-
sumed control the token of its sympathy
with organized labor was left out and it
has never been seen there since. This
was VANCE McCorMICK’S method of ex-
pressing antipathy to organized labor, of
showing his contempt for the Typograph-
ical Union. And when the annual period
for signing the scale arrived he refused
to sign and precipitated a strike. After
| he found that he couldn’t help himself
he signed, but it was a forced process
and he yielded most ungraciously.
WILLIAM B. WILSON has been marvel-
ously favored by McCorMICK and PAL-
MER, but he is paying a high price for
their service. Besides they owed him all
they gave him. The old Democratic or-
ganization had twice elected him to Con-
gress but he joined in the reorganiza-
tion movement and villified those who
had helped him. His third campaign
else wanted the office of Secretary of
Labor, PALMER and MCCORMICK asked
for it for him. And the betraval of the
interests of labor and treachery to those
Wio first gave him a taste of public life.
is the price heis paying. It is a dirty
bargain.
——When A. MITCHELL PALMER was
imploring WILLIAM J. BRENNEN, of Pitts-
a boost, Mr. BRENNEN was no better and
no worse than he is now. But Mr.
PALMER now declares that Mr. BREN-
NEN’S support of a candidate marks him
as a corrupt man unfit for popular sup-
port.
was managed so stupidly by the reorgan-
izers that he was defeated and as nobody | quell strike disorders is without logic;
burgh,to give his ambition to preside over |
the Democratic State conventien of 1909
Europe and Huerta.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
European financiers who were the
beneficiaries of the Diaz regime in Mexico
naturally look upon any proposition like-
ly to eliminate Huerta with concern. The
present dictator in Mexico City has been
relied upon to maintain the order estab-
lished by Diaz, feebly attacked by Madero
and buttressed by Huerta during his
brief day of power. It follows very
naturally, therefore, that the representa-
tives of the interests that have plundered
Mexico should endeavor to bring diplo-
matic pressure to bear in an effort to
hold in the council room possessions more
or less endangered by the pending Mex-
ican revolution.
Europe has from the first refused to
place the blame for Madero’s murder
upon the shoulders of Huerta. AHN that
Europe has asked of the dictator was
that he “establish order.” When the
record of the Pearson syndicate, of the
innumerable Mexican land and oil com-
panies is perused no wonder remains that
“order” was the one thing the financiers
interested most desired. Many of them
were interested in holdings filched open-
{ly from the Jecpls of Mexico. The
French, Germah and British syndicates
| that have operated in Mexico have not
| been organized upon a philanthropic basis
by any means. If Huerta falls and the
revolution succeeds there may be a day
i of rather rude accounting. Quite likely,
even though the revolution does succeed,
: European investors will be awarded, by
an international court if necessary, dam-
| ages for losses actually sustained. The
i European syndicates, however, do not
' want their money back. They haveplay-
! ed for big stakes and many of them have
played corruptly. Back of Huerta in
| Mexico stands The System, and it is be-
cause President Wilson’s stand has en-
dangered The System that his Mexican
policy has failed to arouse enthusiasm in
Europe. There would be loud acclaim
from the syndicates if the American gov-
STfiment would crush the revolution for
them.
Use of Military in Strike Troubles.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The noisy protest by labor agitators
against the employment of soldiers to
the same protest would be made what-
ever form of force were used to prevent
breaches of the peace or to protect prop-
erty in times of violence. Labor seeks a
privileged position. In its appeal for a
free hand in its warfare with, capital it
wants the same powers of tyranny which
employers are accused of exercising.
While violence is the natural weapon of
the weak, two wrongs never made a
right, and the path toward equity and in-
dustrial peace is made more difficult
whenever the bayonet and the bludgeon
! are used to clear it. j
The real secret of the success of
Federal troops in dealing with such
emergencies as have arisen in Colorado
is their neutral attitude. The militia is
too near the scene of the controversy to
be disinterested, and serves rather to in-
tensify bitterness and prolong disorder.
The remoteness of regulars from the
dispute makes them invariably impartial
Possibly Wants Another Chance to Boit. :
McKean county's candidate for Con- !
gressman, Mr. E. R. BENSON, spent a,
goodly portion of last week out in Clear- |
field trying to induce the good Democrats
of that county to vote for him at the |
primaries, as against their own local |
candidate, Mr. W. E. ToBIAS, for the posi-
tion. His principal argument, why they |
should do so, was that if nominated, he
would receive more Republican votes
than any other candidate and conse- |
quently was more certain of elec- |
tion.—As if the Democrats of the dis-
trict didn’t care a bobee what kind of ,
a man, or a Democrat, was placed upon
the ticket, just so he could be elected.
There may be some Democratic voters
of that kind in the district, but the.
WATCHMAN is glad to believe that there
are but few, and if Mr. BENSON has no
other reasons to give them why he
should be made the nominee he might ;
as well go back to Mt. Jewett and con-
tinue his efforts to defeat and disband
the Democratic organization in McKean
county, a job he has been working at for
a number of years.
It is a Democratic Congressman the
Democrats of this district want a chance
to vote for.—A man who can be depend-
ed upon to stand for Democratic ideas .
and Democratic measures, under any
and all circumstances, and not a trimmer
and bolter as Mr. BENSON proved him-
self to be only two years ago. It is proof -
of his Democracy, more than assurance
of Republican support, that he needs to
secure Democratic assistance from this
end of the district. Our people despise a
bolter, and if there is to be one sent to
the next Congress they don’t propose
taking the obloquy of the act upon their
shoulders. Mr. BENSON has proven him-
self one, and it will be a long time before
he can make good Democrats believe
he would not do the same dirty trick
again if given the opportunty.
——There are a good many people who
are curious to know how JiM BLAKESLIE
managed to get Postmaster GRAHAM, of
Mahanoy City, to swear that he didn’t
write a scurrilous letter to Judge BRUMM
when the Postoffice Inspectors failed to
accomplish it. Possibly BLAKESLIE is a
hypnotist.
—The best Job Work done here.
and order is enforced whether it applies
to lawbreaking employers or employed.
Pennsylvania’s experience with the
State constabulary proves the superi-
ority of an armed force, under the direc-
tion of a central authority and removed
completely from local sympathies and
prejudices. The degree of enmity dis-
played toward the State police by some
of the labor leaders is a measure of their
efficiency, and merely proves how su-
perior they have proved as the defenders
of law and order to either local police or
militiamen lacking discipline and train-
Tolls Repealer Nearer Passage.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
With the Mexican excitement absorb-
ing so much national attention the fight
to repeal the exemption clause of the
Panama Canal act almost has been lost
sight of, but it is gratifying to the friends
of the Administration to learn from
Washington that the repealer bill is to
come out of the Senate committee on In-
teroceanic Canals in a form that is satis-
factory to the President.
The fact that the bill is to be reported
“without recommendation” does not
mean that it is not a victory for the Ad-
ministration. There was known to be
strong opposition to the repealer within
the committee, which showed itself when
efforts were made to amend the bill in a
way that would have been objectionable
to the Democratic leaders in the Senate,
but all of these objectionable amend-
ments were defeated.
The only amendment that was tacked
onto the bill by the committee is the fol-
lowing one, which does not materially
weaken the measure, and which was con-
ceded to win the votes of several com-
mitteemen who were wavering:
That neither the passage of this Act nor any-
thing therein contained shall be construed or
held as waiving, impairing or affecting any treaty
or other right possessed by the United States.
This amendment does not cripple the
bill, and the measure’s early passage by
the Senate is looked for after Senator
O'Gorman presents it for the committee.
A Family Army.
From the Christian Herald.
When one thinks of war one has in
mind big, stalwart men. But in this
Mexican revolution women and childern
fight, too. Little boys-14 and 15 years
old-shoulder a gun and march with the
veterans. They suffer more, however,
but they are brave fittle fellows, and
rarely complain. I saw little chaps with
their faces badly shot up-marred for life.
Women and children follow the men into
the worst of battles. For these Mexican
armies have practically no commissary
departments, and the wives usually travel
with their husbands to provide them with
food, for which they forage between bat-
tles. Can’t you imagine the kind of a
situation which this must develop?
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Two Johnstown children sampled headache
powders thrown into their homes the other day
and came down to the gates of death thereby.
Fortunately they were saved by heroic exertions.
—Mrs. Maria O. Lingle, who has been a resi-
dent of Lock Haven for the last sixty years, cele-
brated the 91st anniversary of her birth last Tues-
day. The lady enjoys good health and is able
to sew or read without glasses.
—Miss Bertha Kyler, of Shawsville, Clearfield
county, has entered a trespass suit in the Blair
county court against E. B. Gulich, a prominent
business man of Altoona, to recover $10,000 dam-
ages for breach of promise to marry. The de-
fendant recently married another girl.
—William Hughes and H. C. Estep live near
Nant-y-Glo, Cambria county. The latter accused
the former of the theft of coal and had him ar-
rested on a criminal charge. The jury acquitted
the accused who now turns around and sues
Estep for slander, estimating his damages at
$5,000.
—A roll of currency said to contain $1,800 was
fished out of the ruins of the Homer
Bierly building, at Flemington, by boys who
were digging through the debris. It is believed
the former owner secreted the money somewhere
in the walls of the building, which was destroyed
recently by a fire.
—In federal court at Harrisburg, on Tuesday,
Harry West, acused of having forty-eight aliases,
was sentenced to five years in prison by Federal
Judge Witmer, after pleading guilty to forging
the names of the treasurer of the United States
and paymasters of the navy to warrants. He
also impersonated a marine while passing the
warrant.
—Three men were injured, fifteen others had
narrow escapes and 6,000 drums of parolite were
destroyed on Sunday in a fire at the Eclipse oil
works of the Atlantic Refining company, Frank-
lin. The damage is $50,000. The parolite burned
for five hours. For a time fear was felt that the
flames would extend to tanks containing many
thousand barrels of oil.
—With his feet submerged in the water of the
Conemaugh river, John W. Breslin, aged 36
years, of 2422 Maple avenue, Altoona, was found
lying dead one mile east of Summerhill, on the
Pittsburgh division of the Pennsy, at noon Sun-
day. According to an investigation conducted
by Coroner C. A. Fitzgerald, of Cambria county,
Breslin died from exposure.
—Burglars early Sunday morning entered the
fruit store owned by Louis Anos at Port Alleghe-
ny, McKean county, and robbed the safe of $600
in cash. The robbery was not discovered until
Monday morning when Anos opened his store.
The safe was opened by the combination, and
Louis Papis of Oléan, who sold the safe to Anos,
is being sought by the police.
—Five persons were injured, one probably
fatally, and thirteen others are under arrest as a
result of a a riot between Roman Catholics and
Greek Catholics of Butler township, Butler coun-
ty. There has been bitter feeling between the
religious bodies for several weeks. The Butler
troop of the Pennsylvania state constabulary
was rushed to the scene and quickly quelled the
disturbance. Further trouble is feared and the
state troopers will remain in the district for the
present. :
—It is reliably reported from Mapleton that
there are twelve to fourteen cases of genu-
ine smallpox in that town. They have been
found mostly in one of the outlying portions of
spector, has been in conference with Drs.
Simpson and Spangler of that place. Some of
the cases are almost well, and some are atthe
worst at the present time. Absolute quarantine
L has been placed over the cases, and strict. arecau:
tions are being taken to stamp the disease out.
—William R. Baum, the railway mail clerk,
who stole $20,000 from the United States mail on
July 4, 1912, sentenced to Harrisburg on Monday
to three years in prison and $100 fine after a con-
fession in United States court. He said that he
had taken the key to the pouch containing the
money from the pocket of the man in charge and
had spent most of the cash in playing stocks
and lifting mortgages from properties which he
owned. He made restitution to the amount of
$12,000, having sold his home and farm to raise
the money.
—Miss Margaret Discavage, 18 years old, of
Lost Creek, Schuylkill county, committed suicide
Saturday. The young woman was in love with
Joseph Mill, 21 years old, of the same village, and
had an appointment with him. She was about
to leave the house when her family remonstrat-
ed and refused to permit her to leave. Itis said
she dashed upstairs in a fit of temper, took a
revolyer from the pocket of her brother's cloth-
ing and fired a bullet through her heart. The
family is prostrated and it is feared the shock
may kill her mother, who is in a critical condi-
tion over the affliction.
—The worst fire in the history of St. Marys
Friday night completely destroyed the big kind-
ling wood mill of the Standard Wood company*
entailing a loss of $125,000. The origin of the fire
is not known, but is believed to have started
from overheated steam pipes in the dry kiln.
The flames spread to the storehouse, where over
2,000,000 bundles of kindling wood were stored.
These were soon a mass of flames. Fearing that
by the Kaul & Hall Co., nearby, several build-
ings were dynamited. The plant will not be re-
built, owing to a limited supply of timber in the
locality.
—The Pennsylvania and Southwestern Railway
hamton and Eastern Railroad company, at one
time heading towards Philipsburg, including a
million dollar’s worth of property in Bradford
and Lycoming counties. The work of building
this road was started several years ago, and after
more than twenty miles of roadbed had been
graded and many bridges erected, work was sus-
pended. The merger and taking over of the
property by the Pennsylvania and Southwestern
company is believed to mean that the road will
be completed.
—Three thousand dollars in real money and
$3000 in counterfeit coin were found on Tuesday
while tearing down houses in Mulberry street,
Harrisburg. The $3000 in real money had been
hidden in the house of Frank Monath, Court and
Mulburry streets, by Monath’s mother. Monath,
in moving, discovered gold coins hidden in up-
holstering. A thorough search revealed coin in
furniture, under carpets, in secret recesses, in
stairways and other peculiar hiding places. A
pot of counterfeit coins,half-dollars and quarters,
was found by workmen tearing down the house
at 223 Mulburry street. It is believed by the
police that this was the hiding place used by
Petro Stella, alias Frank Kelly, who is now serv-
ing two years in the Eastern Penitentiary for
having passed counterfeit coins. !
—For their “kindness and self-sacrifice,” Mr.
and Mrs. George Smith, of Sunbury, were be”
queathed nearly $8,000 by the will of John Fell,
80, for years a beggar at Northumberland. The
will was probated on Monday shortly before
relatives of Fell arrived at Northumberland to
contest the document. Fell, who was believed
to be almost penniless, went to the home of the
Smiths several days previous and asked for
shelter. He said he was friendless, that he felt
ill and believed he was going to die. Although
the Smiths had only one bed, they gave it to the
old man, and themselves slept on the floor. The
next day Mrs. Smith said Fell gave her a checla
for $507 on a Northumberland bank and $55 in
i
i i is entire estate, consi
$7,000 iy Wilkes. Barre bank and stocks valued
at $800 to the Smiths.
the town. Dr. H. C. Frontz, county medical in- -
the flames would spread to the large mill owned
company has taken over the Pittsburgh, Bin g-
ike