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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
EET)
INK SLINGS.
—There is nothing like self-control.
It’s the greatest trouble saver we
know of.
—Italy ard Turkey have about come
to the conclusion that they must stick a
finger in the die.
—The Granger's picnic next. Here's
hoping they will have as fine weather as
we had for the fair.
—Both the Emperor and the Czar of
Russia are following the advice of HOR-
' ACE GREELY to go west.
—Tax paying time is almost here and
that reminds us that taxes will have to
be paid if we expect to vote.
—If sugar goes as high as experts pre-
dict Santa Claus will have to popularize
sour-balls by Christmas time.
—If the war keeps up much longer
poor old St. PETER will probably be kick-
ing for an eight hour “trick” on his job.
—The Dutch want to dine in Paris and
the Russians want to sup in Berlin and
they are trying to beat each other to it.
__Judged by the illuminating quality of
the lights in it Bellefonte might be re-
garded as having gone back to the tal-
tow-dip era.
—There seems to be nothing else to it
than PATTERSON in this Senatorial dis-
trict. That he is the best man for the
office is the general opinion.
—The downfall of COLE BLEASE, in
South Carolina, has somewhat retrieved
the good sense of the people of that
State. He was a dangerous man, very
dangerous to society.
—The boy or girl who always knows
that their parents don’t know what they
are talking about are glad enough, some
day, to have the old folks extricate them
from some fool scrape.
—The great American colleges having
ordered their foct-ball armies to mobilize
we may expect to see general skirmish-
ing until November when the real big
‘engagements will take place.
—More sugar was exported from this
country last month than during the en-
‘tire year of 1913. Because Europe is
ready to pay fancy prices for the neces,
‘sity we'll have to do the same thing un.
less Uncle SAM can stop the exportation.
—Anyway there is one candidate the
war hasn’t eclipsed. DAVID MILLER, of
Ferguson township, our candidate for
Assembly, is on the move all the time and
the further he goes the more general be-
comes the opinion that he is just the
man Centre county should send to Har-
risburg. =
"Forts don’t seem to have counted
for much in the present war. The
French frontier forts failed to stop the
German invasion and the German fron-
tier forts have ‘failed to stop the Russian
invasion. Forts would be all right were
opposing armies to linger long within the
range of their guns but when the enemy
has slipped by them they are not only
useless but a hindrance to the defence of
the country that relies 6n them.
—Did you ever stop to think that, after
all, the single necessary thing to our ex-
istence, outside of the air we breathe,
the sun that warms us and the water we
drink, is labor. The last farthing of
capital could be wiped out, all values,
other than those in the earth we live
upon, could be destroyed, and we could
live and start anew. Wipe out labor,
however, and there would be nothing.
Labor is the embryo from which springs
every phase of our existence.
—Brother CORRELL, of the Easton Sen-
tinel, is protesting against spending State
money on such publications as the 152
page book recently issued by Dr. H. A.
SURFACE, State Economic Zoologist, on
the “Economic Features of the Amphibi-
ans of Pennsylvania.” Brother CORRELL,
being somewhat of an iconoclast, and
more of a pessimist, doesn’t see much
good in anything and has evidently for-
gotten the debt we Pennsylvanians owe
Dr. SURFACE for having told us that the
cabbage worm is good to eat.
—Suppose those who were jeering had
goaded Mr. BONNEY, the aviator, into at-
tempting a flight -on Wednesday in his
machine when it was out of “tune.” And
suppose he had fallen and been dashed
to death for their entertainment. Do
you suppose they would have® been sorry
for the unfortunate victim of their jeers
or sorry that they had jeered at all.
Every instant an aviator is in the air his
life is hanging on the exact balance of
the working of his machine and he, and
not the fellow who sneers in Esafety,
should be the judge as to whether the
machine is going to carry him success-
fully or to his death.
—Just now when you are feeling so
secure and proud because you have a
man in the White House who does not
keep you on tenter-hooks about your
own country’s becoming involved in the
awful foreign war you should resolve to
back up that quiet, conscientious, dispas-
sionate President who is guiding your
good old ship of State so true. The only
way you can express your gratification
to him is by putting Democrats in Con-
gress. Men who will support him and
his policies. Not those who will oppose.
Therefor we ask you to vote for W. E.
TosiAs. He will be with President WiL-
SON. Mr. ROWLAND will be against him
if he is chosen. :
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 59.
Choose the Lesser Evil.
“That government is best which gov-
SON's political proverbs. Opposition to
paternalism has always been a funda-
mental principle of our political philoso-
phy. Therefore when it was announc-
ed, a few days ago, that Congress con.
templated the appropriation of funds to
purchase ships with the view of engag-
ing in international transportation, we
were concerned. Such a step would be
subversive of the doctrine of the Demo-
cratic party which holds that the govern-
ment should not go into competition
with citizens in any enterprise. There
are services, the postal service for exam-
ple, in which this policy may be renounc-
ed safely and properly. It is too big for
individual efficiency.
A cursory view of the subject would
lead one to believe that the proposition
to buy ships for the purpose stated
would be obnoxious to both the princi-
ples and traditions of the party. But ob-
viously the President and the leaders in
Congress had inside information on the
subject. Necessary service must be per-
formed by public or private medium.
The transportation of our products to
the markets is a necessary service. The
facilities which have hitherto performed
the work are no longer available. Con-
gress enacted legistation which invited
private enterprise to the work. But pri-
vate enterprise declined to perform its
duty. The ship owners and ship build-
ers want something more than a fair field
and opportunity.
In other words the ship builders and
ship owners want a ship subsidy. That
is the form of graft they have coveted
for years and out of the confusion and
necessity now before us they hope to ex-
act it. In this they ought to be disap-
pointed. Tke proposition for the govern-
ment to own and operate ships is repul-
sive and hazardous. In the event that
one of the ships were attacked it would
be hard to keep out of the war.
pulsive and hazardous as it is the own-
ership and operation of ships by the gov-
ernment is preferable to subsidizing ship
owners and ship builders. Under exist-
less than organizing a conspiracy to loot
the treasury.
lesser.
——The chances are that Justice Mc-
REYNOLDS will point with pride to the
fact that Senator
against his confirmation.
times loved “for the enemies they have
made.” |
Too Much Paternalism.
There is entirely too much inclination
to rely upon the government for success
in individual: enterprise. = Whatever in-
dustry men are engaged in they appear
to expect the government to intervene
in their behalf, in some way. Wealthy
Americans traveling in Europe look to
the government for relief as confidently
as if it were a legal obligation. Ship
owners want help and cotton growers
imagine that the government ought to
provide for them in case the market for
their products is temporarily inaccessible.
Expert commissions, at government ex-
pense, have come to be the first thought
broad land the moment perplexities are
encountered. : :
Of course this is the logical fruit of the
long continued paternalism expressed in
the tariff. Tariff pensioners have come
to think that the government owes them
a living and that a Congress which fails
to guarantee them ‘reasonable profits”
from their undertakings, is delinquent in
its obligations. Naturally others fall into
the same habits of thought and govern-
ment activities spread in all directions
and multiply like locusts of Egypt. The
result is a deterioration in individual en-
deavor, a disposition to “let others do
the work.” But there are no others to
keep the machinery in motion.
“tired feeling” becomes an epidemic of
the most dangerous type.
We point with pride to the records in
achievement of individual Americans of
a hundred years ago. They were taught
to rely upon themselves and create what
they needed. Civilian pensions were
never dreamed of and though resources
were less abundant and opportunities
less common, there was proportionately
less crime, less suffering and less poverty.
A crop failure never suggested a govern-
ment bounty in those days and a public
calamity only stimulated individuals to
greater exertion. The world is growing
better, no doubt, as we are so frequently
assured, but it is not because the average
man is fulfilling his obligations to the
community in fuller measure.
——There is more or less inspiration
to hope in the fact that the head of the
English War. Department is an Irishman,
Lord KITCHENER.
i
i
i The European war has already exploded
erns least” was one of THOMAS JEFFER- tWO popular and expensive fictions. The
But re- |
ing circumstances that would be little
Of the two evils take the |
VARDAMAN voted |
Men are some- |
of every man, woman and child in this
The :
| Popular Fictions Exploded.
first is that a big army serves as a guar-
antee of peace. Germany, Austria, Rus-
sia and France have been maintaining
big armies for a number of years and
they are all involved in the war. The
second is that a big navy is certain se-
curity of the merchant marine. Germa-
ny had built up a navy second in strength
and efficiency to only one in the world
but the end of the second week of the
war found her superb merchant marine
completely driven off the seas and into
the shelter of neutral ports wherever such
asylums could be found. Both of the
claims, almost universally accepted, are
Big armies and big navies accomplish
but one certain result. They keep the’
people so poor as to make them helpless -
in an emergency which requires inde-
pendence of thought and action. A hun- :
BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 4, 1914.
Passing of Roosevelt.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT appears to be in
the “sear and yellow leaf” period of his
political life. The recent disorders in
Mexico kept him out of the lime light
for a time and since the European war
“has held him off the first pages. To a
man of his superabundant vanity this
forced eclipse: must have been almost
unendurable. But it is not the only, or
for that matter, the principal sign that
he is on the toboggan. - There are more
practical as well as more convincing evi- :
dences of his passing. Even in his own
party he is no longer the master. His
voice is not the only sound which can be
heard in the Bull Moose corral.
‘ his influence is not absolute.
consigned to the junk heap. |
Some time ago under the mistaken
hope of cinching the Republican nomina-
tion for President in 1916 he announced
his preference for Senator HINMAN, a
Republican, as the Progressive nominee
‘for Governor of New York. He naturally
gry man is without the spirit to resist : expected that his preference would con-
even the most flagrant wrongs.
mies and big navies keep men hungry |
and in the proportion that they suffer
from privation they submit to outrages
upon their rights and liberties. This is
the reason why predatory corporations
are always urgent for big armies and big
navies. They understand that poverty.
helps to make men in their employ do- |
cile under conditions which might other-
wise find them rebellious. Profligate
government is an essential element in
increasing the cost of living.
For years there has been in active op-
eration in this country a propaganda
striving for a big army and a big navy.
It has been financed, mainly, by the man-
ufacturers of arms, ammunition and ord-
nance at home and abroad. Its princi-
pal protagonists are the plutocrats who
oppress labor and the army and navy of-
ficers who hope for promotions. But the
burden is upon the men and women who
earn wages by physical or mental labor.
They pay directly or indirectly the taxes
which meet the bills of expense as they
come due. But the experience of the
' past few weeks has burst the bubble.
“No intelligent mind can longer be de-
ceived bythe absurd fiction that “big ar-"
mies and navies are desirable except in
war. ,
[| ——Wheat has advanced at least fif-
teen per cent. in the local markets and
' there is hardly any question but that the
‘war in Europe will keep the price up
' during the next year or so, higher than it
has been for some time. This will be
occasioned by the fact that so few able-
bodied men in the war-ridden countries
will have a chance to put out the crops.
For this reason wheat growers in the
United States should sow more wheat
' this year than usual in order to be able
to supply Europe's deficiency, and this
likewise.
Palmer Accuses Penrose.
The Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER made
a statement before the Senate committee
on privileges and elections, in Washing-
ton, the other day which ought to pro-
duce some important reforms in political
campaigning. He accused the support-
! ers of Senator PENROSE and that Senator
' of violating the corrupt practices law of
' Pennsylvania and the publicity act of
Congress, and asked for such amend-
ments to the act of Congress as will pre-
vent a recurrence of the offence. The
gist of Mr. PALMER'S accusation is that
friends of Mr. PENROSE organized, con-
tributed money and in other ways work-
ed for his nomination as the Republican
candidate for Senator and failed to file a
statement as the law requires.
If Senator PENROSE failed to reveal the
amounts and disposition of his campaign
fund as the law requires, he ought to be
condemned. During the recent primary
campaign it was publicly charged that
Mr. PALMER had done something of this
kind and a good many voters were alien-
ated by the charge. He didn’t disprove
it at the time and when judicial proceed-
ings were inaugurated to discover the
truth, he resisted them by every legal
expedient. But Mr. PENROSE is not
justified in violating the law simply be-
cause some one else did so. In this great
country equality is the rule and every
man is obliged to stand upon his own
feet and be responsible for his own acts,
public and private.
Mr. PENROSE has denied personal re-
sponsibility for what individuals or an
organization has done in his behalf and
declared that his primary campaign ex- |
penditures were accurately expressed in
the statements he filed at Washington.
Possibly he may be misrepresenting the |
facts and in that event there is neither |
injustice nor impropriety in calling him
to account. The beneficiaries of tariff |
legislation may have been free with i
funds in his primary campaign and if
that is true they ought to be rebuked for :
wasting money.
Big ar- | trol the nomination of HINMAN by both
the Republican and Progressive parties
and with a devoted friend in authority
at Albany, he figured that both parties
would be for him on the momentous oc-
casion. But the Progressives rebelled
and sent a delegation to protest. At the
Oyster ‘Bay conference which followed he
stuffed himself full of humble pie and
loudly declared that he would support
‘nobody except a Progressive.
Then SuLzER who misappropriated
campaign funds two years ago and was
impeached for that “high crime and mis-
demeanor,” appealed to him and TEDDY
fell upon his neck. There is ‘a natural
affinity between these two bogus reform-
ers and a fellow feeling, and ROOSEVELT
adopted SULZER as his candidate for the
Bull Moose nomination for Governor. But
the rank and file as well as the leaders
of the party refused to acquiesce and at
a conference since held SULZER only re-
ceived six votes of those present out of
a total of one hundred and ninety-seven.
In other words ROOSEVELT is no longer a
potent force in the Bull Moose party and
may be dismissed as “down and out.”
#5. The Pennsylvania Department. of
Fisheries will begin the shipment of fish
for stocking streams on September 15th.
The fish are all one year old and some
older and are in fine condition. Several
hundred thousand small trout are at the
Bellefonte hatchery ready for distribution, |
but they will be sent out only on properly
signéd requisitions. Application should
be made to the Department of Fisheries,
Harrisburg, Pa.
——Of course everybody is glad that
COLE BLEASE wasn’t nominated by the
Democrats of South Carolina for Senator
in Congress, but there is no certainty
| that the defeat will end him. These re-
is a tip to Centre county farmers to do |
form cranks always reserve the right to
bolt the ticket and COLE BLEASE is one
of the type now somewhat conspicuous
in Pennsylvania.
——It may have been simply a coinci-
dence but it is nevertheless a fact that
the day after some more or less needy
American tourists appealed to Secretary
BRYAN’s married daughter in London the
Secretary issued an official warning to all
American tourists abroad to come home.
——The ‘German army may occupy
Paris and thus gratify an absurd ambi-
tion which has been carefully nursed for |
a quarter of a century. But it isn’t easy
to figure out any advantage that the
capture of Paris would give the Kaiser
if Berlin were lost about the same time.
—It is all right to appeal to God
when you are going out red-handed to
murder in job lots but it is the god of
battles who listens to such appeals. The
God of Peace Who is the only God that
counts, has neither ear nor heart for
that sort of business.
——President WILSON has richly earn-
ed the brief vacation he is now enjoying
at the summer capitol in New Hamp-
shire and every right-minded citizen of
this broad land will hope that he may
have both pleasure and profit from it.
——We still believe that a luxury that
costs fifty millions of dollars a day will
not long endure, notwithstanding the ad-
age that fools and their money are soon
parted. :
——And the worst of it is THEODORE
ROOSEVELT will be a nightmare to future
generations, rather than a memory.
——Wonder if ROOSEVELT will recog-
nize an admonition in the defeat of
COLE BLEASE.
——One more day of the big Centre
county fair, and the best races of the
week will take place this afternoon.
Don't fail to see them.
A ——————
——Have your Job Work done here
In fact.
mm—
NO. 35.
| Vindication for the President.
| From the Philadelphia Record.
| Now that practically all Europe has
| been plunged into war over a pretext
' that must be considered trifling—indeed
| absolutely contemptible in view of the
i untold human misery involved—it is to
be hoped that fair-minded Americans
: will begin to estimate more at their true
‘value the wisdom and ‘justice of that
proved so successful in President Wil-
_son’s handling of the Mexican question.
+ The United States had far more pro-
| vocation for intervention in Mexico than
i Austria-Hungary had for its truculent
attitude toward Servia. Huerta proved
himself a peculiarly exasperating person,
with much more ability and a greater
command of resources than were at first
credited to him, and there canbe no
doubt that a war of invasion, and possi-
bly even of permanent occupaticn, would
have proved popular with a large part of
the American public. After the landing
at Vera Cruz nothing would have been
easier than to find a pretext for such a
warlike policy.
It is infinitely to the credit of President
Wilson and his advisers that notwith-
standing the sneers and jeers of the
empty-headed, the malevolent and the
: selfish interests that desired to exploit
Mexico for the benefit of their own
pockets, he refused to take advantage of
the weakness of a sister republic, but ad-
hered firmly to a line of action that was
high-minded and patriotic. ~Contrasted
with the bullying arrogance of Austria-
Hungary, which has set all Europe aflame,
the President's course has shown the
highest statesmanship, and his country
has benefited immensely by his patience
and tact. This fact is now generally
recognized by intelligent Republicans.
The Boston Herald, a loyal standpat
organ, after praising the President for
resisting the clamor to attack Mexico
and comparing his course with that of
the authorities in Vienna under less pro-
vocation says:
“But the President exercised a staying
and a steadying hand. We did not go in.
We have saved ourselves the horrors of
war, and the long legacy of hate through-
out Latin America which would surely
have followed. If the example of our
own President could find imitators among
the crowned heads of Europe it would be
: a blessing to humanity.”
Americans Abroad Warned in Time.
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
Secretary Bryan is solicitous concern-
ing the safety of Americans now in Eu-
rope and has cabled all Amarican em-
bassies and legations iff the war. zone to
urge Americans to leave for home with-
{ out delay. In an official note he says that
| “war creates uncertainty, so that predic-
! tions about the future cannot be made
! with any certainty or accuracy.” Fur-
: ther delay, he says, is unwise.
Despite Secretary Bryan's warning
there are many Americans in Europe
, who will choose to remain there and run
a great risk rather than miss what they
‘call “the fun and excitement of a big
!war.” To the average mind it would
‘ seem that they would better leave while
they can. If they do so they are likely
| to have no cause for regret and will have
| no occasion to trouble the American le-
| gations should they want to get out and
| be unable to in the hereafter.
i It is history that among the worst suf-
Iferers in the siege of Paris during the
{ Franco-Prussian war were Americans
‘I who, while they had had every opportu-
I nity to get out of the besieged city in
{ plenty of time, nevertheless declined to
; go and remained “to see the fun,” as
‘they put it.
i Conditions in the present war seem
destined to be the same, in many re-
spects, as more than forty years ago,
‘and if any Americans suffer after the
warning and opportunity they have had
to escape the dangers, it will be their
{ own fault. They have had ample notice
Ito get away from harm, and on their
{own heads rests the responsibility for
| their own safety if they elect to remain
|
Keep Us Out.
i From the Johnstown Democrat.
: “Keep the United States from being
involved in the terrible world-wide war!”
| This is the appeal that is being made
to members of Congress from every part
| of the United States. Men who seldom,
if ever, write to their Representatives at
Washington are so anxious that this gov- |
| ernment take every precaution to avoid
| entanglement in the war whirlpool that
they are breaking their custom and ap-
pealing to their Representatives to use
the utmost vigilance to the end that this
nation remain at peace with all the
world.
This is because the reports of the aw-
; ful massacres in Europe have stirred the
‘people to a realization of the horfors of
war; the people do not want war, they
"not only request, but they demand of
| their Representatives in Washington that
i this nation shall not become involved in
war.
Members of Congress feel the same
way the people feel on this subject, un-
| less it be that they are even more re-
| solved that war shall not come to us.
: Only conditiens over which the United
| States has no control whatever could
| draw us into a quarrel.
The people can trust Congress on this
question, and they can trust the man in
the White House. Lest we forget, it was
| to preserve our honor—and peace—with
| the nations of the world that Woodrow
Wilson requested Congress to pass a bill
| repealing the free tolls clause of the
| Panama canal act.
| “Malefactors and Mollycoddles?’’
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Judging from the way Colonel Roose-
velt appears to be “slowing up” we
wouldn’t be the least surprised to ob-
serve the Progressive league asking waiv-
"ers on him in the near future.
policy of watchful waiting which “has.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Two veterans, who fought side by side in
the Civil war, met the other day for the first time
in forty-nine years, while in attendance at are-
union held in Pittsburgh.
—While snapping a picture of her brotherin
the family orchard, Miss Elizabeth Bumgardner,
of Penn township, Perry county, dropped dead,
the result of heart leakage.
—Isn’t it funny? 'Reedsville pays 3 cents per
kilowatt hour for electric light, the borough of
Huntingdon 6 and the people of McVeytown 12
cents. Somebody is getting the short end.
—Mifflinburg was stirred up last week when it
was learned that Arthur Aurand, in a fit of in-
sanity, had made a desperate attempt to kill his
mother, by shooting at her with a 32 calibre re-
volver.
—In the eastern part of the State a judge im-
posed a sentence on a farmer for not allowing an
automobile to pass his wagon, and the old man
is still wondering what this world is coming to,
anyway.
—According to a report made by a Pittsburgh
bacteriologist, who made analyses of samples of
Reynoldsville’s water supplv. the water now
being pumped to the town is unfit for drinking
purposes.
—Owing to a lever being set in the wrong po-
sition, while Simon Marteeny was cranking up
his car in Meyersdale, the machine started ahead
and rolled down a thirty foot embankmant. It
was a Ford.
—The poor directors of neighboring counties
having large foreign populations are worried
over what they will do with the families of the
men called back to their home countries to re-
spond to arms.
—The leader of the West Bolivar Latter Day
Saints society is under arrest for the charge of
assault and battery preferred by a woman whom
he claims to have been full of devils which he
could drive out.
—Thomas Parker, of Langton, who twice es-
caped from the Clinton county jail, after having
pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery, has again
been convicted, this time to serve, at hard labor
in the western penitentiary.
—At the annual meeting of the stock-holders of
the Newton Hamilton Camp association, T.J.
Armstrong and H. L. Wilson, of Altoona, and I.
M. Watters, of Bellwood, were elected, with four
others to constitue the directorate.
—Deaf and unable to hear the frantic cries of
trainmen and of a tower watchman, John Stein-
backer, of Williamsport, walked in front of a
slowly moving freight engine on the Pennsylva-
nia tracks at a city crossing,and died a few hours
later at the hospital.
—Believed to have been robbed of his money,
beaten up and then sent over an embankment in
his machine, Jacob Blank, a well known taxi-
driver of Greensburg, was found unconscious
down over the side of the road about three miles
out from Greensburg.
—The product of the typewriter plant at Kit-
tanning is sold almost entirely in Germany, 90
per cent. of the machines going to that country.
As the people of Germany are too busy to write
letters, the works have closed down until after
the war clouds roll by.
—When M. H. Canan, president of the Central
Trust Company, of Altoona, and his daughters
returned from a dance at the Altoona Cricket
club, early last Friday, they found their home
ransacked and $1000 worth of diamond-set jewel-
rv missing. A cook employed a week ago was
not to be found.
—Dr. Martin Griffith, of Monessen, Pa., con-
victed of man-slaughter by the death of Prof.
William L. Robinson, whom Griffith attacked
during an alleged assaulting of Mrs. Griffith in
her home, was sentenced to six months in the
work house. Judge Doty declined to consider a
parol petition of hundreds of signatures.
—Miss Gertrude Keister, daughter of Isaac
Kiester, residing about three miles east of
Thompsontown, was fatally burned a few days
ago. She spilled some coal oil on the floor and
tried to remove it by setting it on fire. Her
clothing ignited and she was horribly burned,
dying twelve hours later. She was twenty-eight
yearsold.
—-Eulallen J. Schwoyer, the veteran liveryman
and driver of race horses in the big fair Circuits,
was instantly killed and his daughter Elizabeth
fatally injured at ‘Allentown on Tuesday when
their team was struck by an empty engine on
the Jersey Central railroad at Newport. Two
men on the wagon escaped by jumping. Miss
Schwoyer was carried 400 yards on the smoke-
stack of the engine.
—Governor Tener has issued a requisition for
the return to this State for trial of Peter Ruben,
who is under arrest in Baltimore. Ruben and
another man are alleged to have held up Julian
Morss, paymaster of the Crown Slate Company,
near Argyle, Northampton county, and robbed
him of a satchel containing $1,700, money to be
used in paying workmen. The men fled to Balti-
more, itis alleged, where Ruben was arrested,
but the other man escaped.
—Speeding toward Latrobe in a double-seated
motorcycle, George L. Lucas, of Greensburg,
overtook a stranger walking in the same direc-
tion. The latter who proved to be Jos. Greenler,
of Latrobe, accepted an invitation to ride. Later
the driver lost control of his vehicle; there was
an upset and Greenler sustained a compound
fracture of the right leg which will keep him
housed up for many days, while Lucas was knock-
ed senseless, but escaped serious injury.
—Warren is threatened with an epidemic of
typhoid fever. During the last few days 23 cases
have been reported to the health authorities.
Dr. Samuel Dixon, head of the State Depart-
ment of Health, has been no ified and sent two of
the Department’s best typhoid experts to Warren
immediately to combat the disease. The cause
of the epidemic is said to be from impure milk
and an inspection, of all the dairies has been
made with the result that several are expected
to lose their licenses.
—Arthur Williamson, of Ant:s Fort, dropped
dead at the Avis shops Monday morning shortly
after he began his work. Doctors who were
called pronounced death due to heart trouble.
Mr. Williamson left home Monday morning in
his usual health, but for some time back he had
not been well. He had not been working long
until fellow employees saw him fall and when
they ran to his side he was dead. Mr. William-
son was aged 37 years and is survived by a wife
and two little daughters. :
—Simpson R. Miller, the well-known postman
and stock-breeder, of Chambersburg, is confined
to his home suffering from injuries received Sun-
day evening at his stock farm when he was at-
tacked by an angry Holstein bull. Mr. Miller
had his back to the animal, when the bull charg-
ed. He was tossed into the air. When he landed
the bull pawed and kicked him about the ground
until hisson, Jay B. Miller, and others arrived
and rescued him. Mr. Miller's body is a mass
of bruises and two teeth were knocked out.
—The big quarries of the Pittsburgh Limestone
company at Clover creek, in the southern end of
.| Blair county and which furnish limestone to the
mills of the United States Steel corporations at
Braddock, resumed operation Monday, giving
employment to about 200 men. The resumption
caused a general jubilation among the workers
and also tended to increase optimism in the
entire neighborhood, the resumption of work
bringing a feeling of optimism and a general be-
lief that work will be plentiful at all the quarries
_atan early date.