Demorealic atc
INK SLINGS.
—Next week the Chaw-talk-away.
—The month of brides and roses is |
gone.
ermen.
—Be sane and yvou’ll surely be safe to-
morrow.
—What if VILLA gets HUERTA before |
we get through mediating with him, then
where will we be at?
—Next week there will be no WATCH-
MAN issued. Possibly you will be glad of
the rest. Surely we will.
—Human hair is said to grow at the
rate of .1095 of an inch a day. But some
human hair doesn’t grow at all.
—Even if the Colonel's voice is gone
and he needs four months’ rest he doesn’t
need the latter any more than the Amer-
ican people.
—If as Dr. Lucas, of England, declares:
We will eventually come to a one toed
race our corn acreage will be reduced
just eighty per cent.
—If it is true, as one dry goods expert
declares, that the CLAFLIN failure was
due to the fact that there is no market
for petticoats anymore, blame it on the
Sufs.
—There are eight candidates on our
state ticket; but only two of them take a
picture handsome enough to be publish-
ed by our state organization news bu-
reau, it seems.
—Teach your children cleanliness and
good manners and they will be started
well on the way toward a useful and suc-
cessful career. Neither the sloven nor
the graceless gets far.
—Tomorrow, just remember that
splendid Fourth of July demonstration
we had last year. Possibly the memory
will be enough to make you forget that
there is nothing doing.
—Men may be out of employment, but
when Centre county farmers have to pay
$2.50 per day and board for harvest
hands it doesn’t look as if there were an
army of unemployed in this neck-o-the-
woods.
—The next question of greatest polit-
ical interest in Centre county is: Who
is to be the new post-master at Centre
Hall? Surely our very dear friend
SMITH, of the Repeater, ought to have
that job.
—Gasoline is fast pushing the hay
motors back to the farm. Even in this
community the horse is being relegated
. 80 rapidly that it will not be long until
there are more automobiles than horse-
drawn vehicles.
—Every week Dr. DIXON’s “health
talks” inveigh against over eating in sum- |
mer time. If what Republican papers
try to make us believe about times being
hard is true itseems to us that there
should be no reason for the Doctor's
alarm.
—It will be noticed that the uptown
Keystone organ isn’t quoting the Phila-
delphia Ledger so much lately. The
Ledger is, and always was a Republican |
paper and its unfriendly and unfair criti-
cism of President WILSON’S policies are
all that are needed to convince any one
that it is a decidedly partisan paper too.
—Governor TENER was in town Tues-
day with a motoring party. We hope his
route, coming or going, took him over
that road between Bellefonte and State
College that the State took over several
years ago. And it might have helped
had he been delayed by a few blow-outs
and broken springs, as so many other
travelers are.
—Each of the eleven million chickens
in Minnesota last year laid an average of
five and a third dozen of eggs. With
eleven million chickens with a produc-
tion of seven hundred million eggs it is
easy to figure the average per chicken
but in so doing we are giving the roos-
ters that must be among them credit for
delivering goods that are not supposed
to be in their line.
—The Clinton county way of conduct-
ing a primary election at least casts sus-
picion on the motives of those who have
set out to clean up Democratic politics in
the State. Spending $1400 to get out
nine hundred votes and employing one
man in every nine to “watch” the other
eight sets a mark for using money in pol-
itics that we think the most corrupt prac-
tices of the past could scarcely equal.
——The first fiscal year of the WILSON
administration ended .June 30th. The
new revenue policies of Democracy re-
sulted in a gain of $33,784,452.07 of reve-
nue over the ordinary expenses of the |
government. If that isn’t making good
we would like to know why. If that
doesn’t give the lie to those Republicans
who would have you believe that the
Democrats are plunging the Nation into
debt we would like to know why.
—The State makes laws prohibiting
child labor; it makes it a misdemeanor
for employers to work- men or women
more than a certain number of hours a
week; it supports hospitals and sanitari-
ums to restore their broken down health;
in fact every great movement seems to
have for its objective longevity of life
for human beings. But what’s the use?
Few wage workers can save enough to
keep themselves when they are old and
few employers will take on a man after
he is sixty.
—One more month for the trout fish- |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 59.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JULY 3, 1914.
NO. 27.
Palmer and the Washington Party.
Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER justifies a
| Washington party on the ground that its
| main purpose is practically the same as
that of the present Democratic organiza-
tion. The principal aim of the Washing-
ton party in Pennsylvania, he declares,
is opposition to Senator PENROSE and
that is likewise the influencing cause of
the activity of the present Democratic
leaders. It is a righteous purpose, no
doubt, for PENROSE is a bold, bad man
i and PENROSEism a blight upon the body
politic. But we imagined that the Demo-
cratic party had a broader field of use-
fulness and higher impulses than the at-
tack upon an individval and that a com-
man purpose in that direction would
hardly condone fundamental faults in
other directions.
The late JEREMIAH S. BLACK, who as
Judge of the Supreme court of Pennsyl-
vania and Attorney General and Secre-
tary of State in the Cabinet of a Demo-
cratic President had come standing in the
party, once said that “a man couldn’t be
a Protectionist, and a Democrat,” and
| Colonel HENRY WATTERSON,who has also
| cut some figure as a Democratic leader:
| declares that the Washington party is the
| “He-Goat of Protection.” THEODORE
ROOSEVELT, who is the Washington party,
is unalterably opposed to every princi-
ple and policy which makes up the Dem-
ocratic creed and is to-day the most
potent force in the land in opposition
to the policies of the WILSON administra-
| tion. When ROOSEVELT takes snuff PIN-
CHOTT and LEWIS sneeze and even moral
support of those men is substantial op-
position to WILSON.
The Washington party is a one-man
organization and according to Mr. PAL-
MER it must be a one-ideaed aggregation
as well. Its one man remains in public
life in the hope of destroying the Demo-
cratic party and subverting the princi-
ples made immortal by JEFFERSON and
enduring by the fidelity of the Demo-
has intervened. We are very much in
favor of defeating Senator PENROSE and
eliminating -PENROSEism but we hope to
compass the result without in any way
aiding and abetting the pernicious poli-
cies of THEODORE ROOSEVELT, who is all
| there is of the Washington party. Op-
| portunism has advantages but little merit
and the politician who relies upon help
that comes through the sacrifice of prin-
ciple doesn’t deserve success.
——Speaking of “worse coming to the
“read out of the party” there will be no
party left.
Mr. Patton’s Absurd Predictions.
Our distinguished Representative in
Congress, Hon. CHARLES E. PATTON, has
been indulging in some political “pipe
dreaming” that is amusing. In an inter-
porary, the other day, he expresses the
hope that the Republicans will carry not
only the Northampton-Monroe district
but the Berks-Lehigh district. In this
absurd prognostication he assumes that
the friends of Representative ROTHER-
MEL will refuse to vote for Mr. DEWALT,
the nominee and he is equally certain that
ocratic nominee,
Mr. PATTON also claims five other dis-
tricts now represented by Democrats.
mittee and probably feels that it is his
duty to give encouragement to the Re-
publicans of Nebraska, Iowa and other
States far removed from the Keystone.
The voters in those remote sections of
tions here and the discordant notes of
the calamity chorus are as entrancing to
their ears as the songs of the siren were
to the grouch who was drifting on the
surface of the sea after the siege of Troy.
But to those of us within the range of
view the signs of industrial prosperity
and commercial activity are more ap-
! pealing than tales of woe and we are not
i misled by prophets of dispair.
As a matter of fact the chances are
much stronger that the Democrats will
gain in the coming election in Pennsyl-
vania than that they will lose. Even in
Mr. PATTON'S district the signs indicate
the triumphant election of our capable
| candidate fer Congress, Mr. WILLIAM E.
ToBIAS, who enjoys the confidence and
will receive the cordial support .of all the
Democratic voters and a good many oth-
ers who favor just legislation and good
government. We may lose one district
but have a fighting chance to gain five,
while our four nominees for Congress-
man-at-Large are reasonably certain to
be elected. The cost of living is going
down and industrial activity is increasing
and these things count.
1
cratic voters through all the time that .
sence of PERKINS? . He could _hardly tel |
worst,” if PERKINS and the “Coinel” are '
the present Congress.
view published in a Philadelphia contem-
the friends of MITCHELL PALMER will cast
their votes against Mr. STEELE, the Dem-
to succeed PALMER. .
|
somewhat friendly relationship with the |
Perkins, Pinchott and the ‘‘Coinel.”
As might have been expected Colonel
ROOSEVELT stands by Mr. PERKINS in the
quarrel brought on by AMOS PINCHOTT
and supported by GIFFORD. GIFFORD
PINCHOTT has been a close friend of the
Colonel and a valued member of the Ten-
nis cabinet during his “corking” period
| ‘Democrats Get Together.
It is to be hoped that the Democratic
State Executive Committee will not be
- beguiled into an attempt to “rip” the
Philadelphia City Committee. We do not
propose to champion the cause of that
local committee. It may not have reach-
, ed the highest standard of efficiency and
That Expense Account.
| From the Lock Haven Express (Rep.) :
| The certified expense account of the
Palmer-M¢Cormick committee in Clinton
! county published in the Express on Fri-
| day made extremely interesting reading
| for Republicans and Democrats alike and
: shows conclusively that primary election
| voles “an be safely catalogued among
! those things that come under the head of .
in Washington. But fhere is a stronger some of its members may not be above | “The High Cost of Living.”
bond which binds him to PERKINS. The
head of the Harvester trust financed his
campaign for President on two occasions
and “wine is stronger than water.” PIN-
CHOTT was able to take him away from
TAFT, but TAFT had really no claim upon
his friendship. TAFT probably didn’t
contribute more than a thousand dollars
or two to the campaign of 1904 when
money was needed badly.
PERKINS, on the other hand, was the
most “useful” member of the Republican
party at that critical time as he was
altogether the most “useful member of
the Bull Moose aggregation in 1912. BILL
FLINN did fairly well and MUNSEY and
others broke local records in the liberali-
ty of their contributions. But so far as
the records show PINCHOTT was a mere
“piker.” He may have given a thousand
or two of his abundant supply but cer-
tainly not more than that, and so far as
we are able to recall the gossip of the
time and subject AMOS PINCHOTT’S name
was never mentioned in connection with
the collection of funds. In view of these
facts nobody who knows the Colonel
couid cherish a doubt of his attitude.
“If you read PERKINS out of the party,”
the Colonel is said to have replied to his
informant as to the PINCHOTT purpose,
“you may as well read me out too.” And
that is absolutely true. Without PER-
KINS ROOSEVELT would be what the late
Mr. BLAINE called, “a dead head in the
enterprise.” He has plenty of money
himself but he never wastes any of it in
politics. While he was President he
didn’t even use any of it to pay his per-
sonal expenses. His household servants
were on the pay roll of the departments
and his grocery bills were paid out of the
contingent fund. With such habits of
thrift how could he get along in the ab-
erate FLINN.
—Speaking of the contest for the
Democratic Congressional nomination in
the Buck-Montgomery district of this
State what claim has Mr. DIFFENDERFER
to such a title? Not long ago he publicly
read himself out of the party and invited
his colleagues to join him in forming a
new party. :
One Flaw in the Record.
We are proud of the achievements of
It has made a
record in constructive legislation that is
without a parallel in the history of the
country. It has been scrupulously care-
ful in the fulfillment of party pledges.
With a single exception no promise of
the Baltimore platform has been neglect-
ed. The tariff has been reformed in the
interest of the consumers. Modern and
efficient currency legislation has been
substituted for the archaic system under
which the Money trust looted the public
mercilessly for years. The Trust meas-
ures now pending in the Senate, and cer-
tain to be enacted before final adjourn-
ment, will complete a full measure of
faithful service. :
But the one failure mars an otherwise
faultless record. The platform of the
Democratic party pledged the Congress
: 3 | to economy i admini i
Mr. Parton is the Pennsylvania mets. to omy in the administration of the
ber of the Republican Congressional com- .
government. Profligacy in public ex-
penditures is one of the potent agencies
of expensive living. A billion dollars in
the country are not familiar with condi- -
expenditures is equivalent to a tax of ten
dollars on every man, woman and child
in the country. There is no dodging
this obligation. Every one has to pay in
one form or.anotherand in a family it
will take a large share of an ordinary
working rhan’s wages. Besides profligacy
in government leads to extravagance in
private life and these agenciés together
contribute to the high cost of living.
We would not prolong the session in
order to correct this fault but itis a
fault and ought 10t to be contin:ed long.
When Conrgess reassembles in Decem-
ber the pruning knife should be called
into service and every item of expendi-
ture cutto the bone. We don’t believe
in parsimony nor do we recommend an
impairment of the efficiency of the ser-
* vice. But we do believe in ecomony in
administration and in the fulfillment of
that pledge to the people as completely
as any other. The administration is con-
cerned in this equally with Congress and
if they pull together and with proper
spirit and energy the resujt will be cer-
tain. That will perfect the record.
—Sunday was sweltering hot and Mon-
day the kitchen was she cosiest room in
the house because the cook stove had a
fire in it. Some temperature changes,
those, for the last days of June.
trickery to continue themselves in power.
| But it has been organized according to
: rule by men chosen by popular vote to
perform that service and breaking in
; upon its organization by an outside force
: would be subversive of the fundamental
: principles of Democracy. In other words,
; even if a fault has been committed the
| proposed remedy is worse than any pos-
sible evil from it.
| The Detwnocratic party of Pennsylvania
| has a great opportunity before it. With
| ROOSEVELT actively in the fight for the
! candidates of the Washington party there
are many reasons to believe that it will
retain sufficient strength to defeat the
| Republican candidates if the Democrats
| are united in behalf of their candidates.
Thus far those in control of the organi-
zation have not shown a disposition to
cultivate harmony. In the BUCKS-MONT-
GOMERY Congressional district the defeat-
ed candidate for the Democratic nomina-
tion is trying to organize disaster for his
successful competitor. Chairman MOR-
RIS has himself been heaping fuel upon
a factional flame. But there is time
enough yet to get together. :
This result will not be accomplished,
however, by the arbitrary and unjust use
of force in behalf of one faction against
the other. It can be achieved by concili-
atory measures in treatment of party
questions and the employment of fair
methods in distributing the party favors.
If the Democratic ticket is elected in
November there will be “glory enough to
go around” and a good many more fa-
vors to dispense than there are at pres-
ent. Why not, therefore, direct the en-
ergies of the party leaders toward com-
posing differences rather than aggravating
them to satisfy the absurd ambitions of
men who miscalculated their popularity
24d importance.
——Tomorrow will be the first Fourth
of July in years that Bellefonters have
not celebrated in some way. If it was
not directly in Bellefonte, it would be
with a picnic at Hecla park. This year,
however, there will be nothing doing
here, not even an automobile ride for the
children. The stores will all be closed
and it will be quiet asa Sunday. In the
afternoon and evening there will be a
dance at Hecla park, which will probably
draw a good crowd of young people.
State College will have its usual demon-
stration, under the auspices of the Alpha
fire company. There will be a big pa-
rade, speeches, races and all kinds of
sports with a festival and fireworks in
the evening. The only thing lacking
there will be fire water.
——At a meeting of the trustees of the
Central State Normal school at Lock
Haven, Monday evening, Prof. Charles
Lose was unanimously elected principal
to succeed Dr. George P. Singer, who has
filled the position since the death of Dr.
J. R. Flickinger. Prof. Lose has been
superintendent of the Williamsport
schools the past twenty years and is re-
garded one of the best educators in the
State. He is well known in Centre coun-
ty and was frequently one of the instruc-
tors at the Centre county teachers’ in-
stitute. Before going to Williamsport he
was superintendent of the schools in
Philipsburg.
——The CLAFLIN failure emphasizes
the folly of trying to monopolize an ele-
ment which in the nature of things is
open to competition. Merchandizing is
an inherent right and the attempt to
limit it brought disaster. Incidentally
the failure proved Mr. MORGAN'S meth-
ods misleading.
——Of course reform legislation is all
right in its way and many an evil impulse
has been restraind by wholesome fear of
the law. But the moral improvement
that comes from the heart is more endur-
ing than that of the head and the better
sort is not obtained by legislation.
——1It is not surprising that a represen-
tative of the University of Pennsylvania
has discovered a new history of the
deluge. That institution teaches eco-
nomic philosophy which alleges that taxa-
tion produces wealth and the new deluge
story is easy compared with that.
——Admitting all that has been said
concerning VILLA’S viciousness in the
past it should be remembered that SAUL
of Tarsus was a tolerably tough custom-
er before he “hit the trail” and BILLY
SUNDAY was no angel in early life.
—Now that Greece has two fairly
well equipped battleships she can “pour
oil on the troubled waters.”
There are many Democratic voters to-
. day trying to figureout why John Smith’s
: services as a watcher cost only $2, while
' his neighbor, John Jones, was handed
{ $10, and John Brown, a sturdy old Demo-
! crat further down the street, didn’t geta
{ cent, according to the expense account
filed at Harrisburg. It is quite probable
that many voters will take a
summer's course in some institu-
tion that teaches “political science” so
that they may be qualified as “dissemina-
tors of information” at the November
election, .as that apparently is a desirable
job, bringing $25 compensation in some
$50 in Renovo. An official “dissemina-
tor” is a sure snap while the fellow who
gets an attractive piece of money for
the same class as the agent who hires
contract labor.
The publication of the expense account
for some of the gentlemen appearing on
the roll as in some instances they were
generally believed to be on the other
side. It will have the further excellent
effect of making it difficult to repeat the
stunt, as many of the watchers would re-
fuse a much larger stake than a $2-bill
rather than see their names on the pub-
lished list.
The system cannot be credited to the
ingenuity of the Clinton county Demo-
cratic leaders, as the same tactics were
pursued throughout the State generally,
but not on such an elaborate scale as in
this county, where the new management
realized that they had to “make good”
to Messrs. Palmer and McCormick for
favors received. The workers could not
go to the voters and offer them money
or their votes, as that would be bribery.
But the law allows them to hire watch-
ers and they hired them to the queen’s
taste. :
Those Democratic voters who were
wondering who got the coin now have
their curiosity satisfied. They can now
sit down and figure out the MecCormick
vote in their respective districts and
then tally up the watchers. It promises
to be the favorite hot weather pastime
for some time to come. °
J... . Perkins Will Stick. wi
From the Johnstown Democrat. 4
Col. Roosevelt is a practical man. He
is a leader, not a commissary department.
He has never achieved fame as an audit-
or. He probably detests book-keeping.
In fact, there is no reason at all to
believe that he has a fondness for finan-
ces. It would suit him much better to
plunge into a political battle knowing
that the bills were all being paid and that
he need not worry any than to begin
fighting knowing it was necessary to live
off the country as he marched. Although
a brilliant political star the Colonel has
never at any time posed as an angel.
Roosevelt has even had a very extraordi-
nary faculty for gathering the phalanxes
of capital behind him. There’s Flinn.
And there’s Perkins.
The Colonel arrives in New York. and
hears that Amos Pinchot and Giff Pin-
chot are proposing to read one Perkins
out of the Bull Moose party. “If they
read Perkins out they will read me out,”
snaps the Colonel grimly. And that is
probably all there will be of that. The
Colonel is in a position to take the Bull
Moose party with him whenever he
moves. Perkins is safely rooted in the
Roosevelt affections. There are few
practical men who would pick out a
twenty-times-a-millionaire as a Jonah
right on the night before the battle.
Amos and Giff Pinchot are nice fellows.
But they are too idealistic, even thougha
bit presumptious. They forget that it is
the Colonel who reads ’em out of his
party.
Roosevelt Malice.
From the New York World.
Mr. Roosevelt's attack upon Mr. Whit-
man is mean, malicious and contemptible.
What if Mr. Barnes does favor Mr.
Whitman’s nomination for Governor by
the Republicans? Does that make the
District Attorney a Barnes “rubber
stamp”? Mr. Roosevelt was nominated
for Governor by Platt. Did that make
him Platt’s rubber stamp? He was nom-
inated for Vice President by Platt and
Quay. Did that make him Platt and
Quay’s rubber stamp?
Mr. Whitman has been District Attor-
ney of New York county for more than
five years. There is no office in the State
that offers more subtle opportunities
to play machine politics. Can Mr. Roose-
velt name a single instance in which the
administration of justice under Mr. Whit-
man has ever been swerved by so much
as a hair's breadth by political considera-
tions? .
A man who has been President of the
United States should be ashamed to try to
besmirch an honest, conscientious public
official of Mr. Whitman's character.
That is the sortsof thing that Mr. Roose-
velt has been shrieking against for thirty
years.
Enough is Enough.
From the Washington Star.
Sir Thomas Lipton should be warned
that Uncle Sam does not feel the need of
any further opportunities to claim con-
sideration as a good loser.
Especially for the Victim.
From the Washington Star. :
Senator Lewis is reported to be tired
of references to him as “Jim Ham.” Any
year after year. 3
instances in Lock Haven and as high as
hiring watchers appears to be about in:
resulted in an unexpected surprise party
joke loses its edge after being repeated
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The corner stone of a $100,000 High school
building was laid with impressive ceremonies, at
Lock Haven, last week. :
—Anthony Reclite and Vincent Sharp, charged
with attempting to rob Patrick Barry, at Clear
field, last Saturday evening, were arrested and
jailed to await trial.
—Grasshoppers are making havoc in some
parts of Perry county, upon grass and grain. So
numerous are they that whole fields are made to
look brown as they sit on timothy heads or wheat
heads.
—Forty persons were naturalized and fifteen
aliens took the preliminary steps at Clearfield
last Thursday. A representative of the chamber
of commerce was present and assisted in the ex-
aminations.
—The J. E. Thropp furnaces at Everett shut
down last week for repairs, and will remain clos-
ed for at least a month. From four to five hun-
dred men are out of employment pending the
completion of the work.
—Thann Hipps, bookkeeper at the Elk Tan-
ning company’s tanning plant, Curwensville, was
found dead near the bark sheds Wednesday
afternoon, with a revolver by his side. He had
been in ill health for several years.
—Norman B. Ream, a New York millionaire
who formerly lived at Ursina, has notified J. B.
Davis, a nephew, that he will contribute $1,000 to
the fund for the relief of the sufferers from the
storms which desolated Ursina several weeks
ago.
—William Anderson, of Wells township, Fulton
county, was fatally shot by an Italian near Wood-
vale, where he was employed as a teamster. The
Italian who is now in custody believed him to be
another person, and it was not his intention to
kill the Fulton countian.
—Somerset county farmers place the blame for
the impure milk that is being sold in Johnstown
upon the railroad company and the health de-
partment of the city. The former is blamed for
not providing refrigerator cars, and the latter
for not compelling the railroad to do so.
—Miss Annie Herbert had her collar bone and
shoulder blade broken, Miss Triphena Polkinghorn
was injured internally, Miss Thelma Stewart was
hurt about the arms and leg, and Miss Cornelia
Rufner had an arm sprained, in a runaway ac-
cident at Woodland, Clearfield county, last Tues-
day.
—John G. Miller and his wife were lodged in
the Somerset jail, Thursday, charged by J. W.
Phillips, proprietor of a general store at Bakers-
ville, with forgery. It is alleged that Mrs. Miller
purchased goods at the Phillips store, and re-
ceived money in change, for a check afterwards
repudiated by the man supposed to have sign-
ed it.
—]J. C. Heilman, a Gallitzin conductor, who was
run down by his own train while working in the
Cresson yards, Sunday morning, died at the Al-
toona hospital Monday morning at 10.20 a. m.
The unfortunate man had his right leg ground
off and he sustained injuries which caused his
death. The body was shipped to Gallitzin Mon-
day for interment.
—Projected improvements in Portage, the con-
tracts for which will be let next month, will in-
volve an expenditure in the neighborhood of
$60,000. The biggest iob of the three large ones
will be a $34,000 public school building. A
parochial residence proposed will cost about
$13,000 and the new store building of the Pearce
firm will probably cost a like amount.
—Twenty minutes after he had gone to the
field to plow corn, the body of Charles G. Dick, a
well known farmer of East Wheatfield township,
Indiana county, was found by his brother William,
last Wednesday. Death is believed to have been
due to heart disease, as he had frequently com-
plained of an ailment of that nature. He was 54
years of age and a life-long citizen of that town-.
ship.
—Rey. A. C. Steinbarger, of Lewistown, fell
twenty feet, and, notwithstanding the fact that
he is a man 70 years old, no bones were broken.
The accident happened at Open Hearth, where
the aged clergyman was indulging himself in the
innocent amusement of standing on a limb and
picking cherries when the fall occurred, caused
by the breaking of the limb. He was severely
bruised and suffered from shock.
—Orville A. Mayes, aged twenty-eight, em-
ployed as a farm hand by Daniel Knepp, a farmer
residing near Granville, Mifflin county, was kill-
ed at a public road crossing one mile west of
Lewistown on Thursday morning at 2.57 o'clock,
his horse and buggy being struck by the engine
of fast train No. 19. The horse was also killed
and the buggy was demolished. It is thought
that Mayes was asleep at the time of the ac-
cident.
—Investigation is being made by state police
and local authorities of the killing of Karl
Ocanich, thirty-eight years old, a miner, follow-
ing a dispute between miners at a Bellevernon
hotel late on Saturday. Ocanich left the hotel
shortly after the fight and was struck down with
some blunt instrument. With fractured skull he
walked a half mile to hishome, said to his wife,
“Somebody got me,” and fell dead. Two arrests
have been made.
—The Tyrone Brick and Tile company have
just received an order for 300,000 red wire-cut
brick to be used in the construction of the new
government building at Huntingdon. The brick
will all be made at the company’s plant just west
of Tyrone station. At present the company is
filling an order for 175,000 brick for the J. C. Blair
Co. at Huntingdon. President William Fuoss
states that the orders now booked aggregate
over 600,000 brick, and the season is still young.
—The biggest gas well that has been struck in
Elk county in years came in on the Hanley lease,
in Highland township, a few days ago. It came
in with aroar and a capacity flow of 12,000,000
feet which is nearly a record. The lease, which
is owned by a Bradford man, has proven to be a
most prolific one as there are 90 wells located on
its broad acres. More wells are being drilled on
it. Readers of this paper will recall about 10 days
ago a well was struck on the lease with a flow of
2,000,000 feet.
—Thomas E. Parker, charged with embezzle-
ment and forgery, who escaped by digging out of
the Lock Haven jail a year and a-half ago, and
who was recaptured and returned to that jail
two weeks ago, again escaped Saturday night
by sawing the lock off the steel cage in which he
was confined, the lock off the door of the cell of
John Stratton, held on a statutory charge, the
lock off the rear door of the jail, and then com
pleted the job by sawing the lock off the door
leading from the jail yard into an alley.
—Quick work by constable Miller, of Ebens-
burg, saved his life at Clover Saturday afternoon.
A big Slav named Steve Makorkey, whom he had
placed under arrest, made several attempts to
reach a long, keen butcher knife, and failing at
that grabbed a pickax. Miller's agility overcame
the man’s murderous intentions and following a
short but terrific struggle he succeeded in sub-
duing the man. Constable Miller had a warrant
for Makorkey, who was charged with stealing
checks from mine cars and substituting his own.
—Despairing of securing help in planting his
late potatoes and harvesting the wheat on his
farm in Henderson township, Huntingdon coun~
ty, C. B. Emerick, a well known lumberman,
applied to justice David S. Black recently for
assistance. Huntingdon’s accommodating magis-
trate came to Emerick’s rescue. Hastening to
the county jail he released two stalwart young
freight riders, who were overjoyed at obtaining
their liberty upon no harder condition than going
to work on Emerick’s farm at good wages
board.
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