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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
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—Rain is what we need most just now. |
—Uphold the President. Vote for the
men for Senate and Congress who will |
support him. : }
—Recent enrollments indicate that
Moose are gradually becoming extinct in
Pennsylvania.
—If it has cost us eight and one-half
million dollars for that little adventure
to Vera Cruz, how much might we have
had to pay had a hasty President ordered
our troops to go further?
—Send WILLIAM H. PATTERSON to the
Senate to be sure you will have a man in
Harrisburg who will not fall under the
PENROSE blight, should the latter happen
to retain the boss-ship of his party.
—Mr. VILLA’S army is deserting him,
so the latest reports from Mexico state,
and without an army we fear Mr. ViLLA
will become nothing more than he once
was, a common bandit and cattle thief.
—The North American may be a very
great paper, as some of the candidates
for office on the State ticket would have
you believe it to be, but real Democrats
haven’t much use for a journal that near-
ly every day has some new aspersion to
cast on President WILSON.
—Its hard luck, of course, for the cot-
ton growers of the South that they can’t
sell their crops on account of the war
abroad. But all the hard luck isn’t fall-
ing to the lot of the cotton growers.
Every industry in the country is bearing
its share, but making less noise about it.
—Next season probably Penn will start
her foot-ball schedule with Philadelphia
High, Manual training and some of the
other schools in that class. There don’t
seem to be any College teams in the
State that she can lick consistently
enough to figure on them as practice
games.
—MAX LINDNER, 2a “movie” comedian
who was drawing a salary of $70,000 a
year, was killed in the battle of the Aisne
several weeks ago. Talking about the
waste of war and dropping sentiment in
the discussion there is some loss when
an earning capacity of $70,000 a year is
destroyed in an instant by a bullet that
cost only the fraction of a cent.
—England’s Indian troops had their
“prayer mats” with them when they
landed in France to help the Allies in
their fight against Germany. The way
the shells are reported to be raining out
of the big guns over there and the terri-
ble destruction they make it would look
as though a soldier is either too busy
shooting or being killed to have time or
opportunity to use a “prayer mat.”
—Governor GLYNN announced to the
newly assembled New York State Demo-
cratic committee that, henceforth, he
vill be the leader of the party. Then it
was that CHARLES F. MURPHY picked up
his hat and beat it back to New York
Only the future will disclose whether the
Tammany chieftain was merely putting
one over on the party in the Empire
State or whether hereally was unhorsed.
—The Meadville Messenger has bolted
the regular Democratic nominee for Con-
gress in the Erie—Crawford district and
will support the Progressive candidate.
It announces, as one of its reasons, that
Mr. LIEBEL was a traitor to BRYAN in
1908. We fear that the Messenger is
bringing skeletons out of the closet that
might be very unnerving to other candi-
dates on the ticket, as well as spectres of
its own inconsistency.
—There is no good reason for anyone
voting against Mr. TOBIAS for Congress.
He is qualified in every way to make a
splendid representative for this District
and he is pledged to support the policies
of President WILSON. The middle of the
stream is no place to change horses and
the country should do nothing to hamper
the plans of our great President until
they have been given a chance to work
out. Mr. ROWLAND would go to Wash-
ington to oppose those plans therefor
Mr. ROWLAND should be kept at home.
—The Rev. R. E. MCCLURE, of Blairs-
ville, is of the opinion that “praying and
resolving alone won't defeat PENROSE.”
And we are of the opinion that the Rev.
MCcCLURE is about right. They are only
a means to anend. Votes are the things
that will defeat PENROSE and unless the
men who are entitled to cast them get to
the polls on November 3rd he will not
be defeated. Resolve to go to the polls
right now, ‘then pray for back-bone
enough to stick to vour resolution. If
your faith amounts to anything your
prayer will be answered and you will
have done something really worth while
for Pennsylvania.
—HARRY SCOTT is for PENROSE. Ask
him. He won’t deny it, Centre county
voters want no more of PENROSE, therefor
they should not vote to send Mr. Scorr
to the Legislature. Whether PENROSE
should happen to be re-elected to the
United States Senate or not he will still
be the boss of the Republican Machine
in Pennsylvania for a time and being so
he will dominate every Member of the
next Legislature who is not a Democrat
or a Progressive. If you want to com-
pletely retire PENROSE the only way to
do it is to beat him at every turn and
Centre county can do her share by send-
ing DAVID W. MILLER to Harrisburg. He
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VOL. 59.
Trade With South America Improving.
Work of Congress Complete.
The good effect of President WiLSON’S
Mexican policy is being felt in all sec-
tions of South America. Senor ANTONIO
E. PERAZA, president of the City Council
of Havana, Cuba, while in Philadelphia,
the other day, bore substantial testimony
of this fact. “The United States stands
in a better position commercially than
ever before, so far as South America is
concerned,” he declared, “because con-
fidence in this country has been vastly
strengthened by President WiLsON’s
sagacious handling of the Mexican situa-
tion, which dispelled the idea that the
United States is an aggressive, territory-
greedy nation.’”
Opinions as to the merits of the CLAY-
TON bill, the last of President WILSON’S
trust busting measures, differ widely, and
six Democratic Senators voted against
the conference report upon it on Mon-
day. Senator REED, of Missouri, and
Senator VARDAMAY, of Mississippi, pro-
test that its teeth have been abstracted
by amendments made in the Senate and
LANE, of Oregon, MARTINE, of New
Jersey, THOMAS, of Colorado, and JOHN
SHARP WILLIAMS voted to recommit for
unexplained reasons. It is practically
certain to be accepted by the House of
Representatives, however, and thus it
: may be said that President WILSON'S
Soon after the Civil war the govern- | legislative program, announced at the
ment at Washington, under control of the . opening of the session has been com-
Republican party, began revealing a lust pleted.
for conquest. Attempts were made to: Of course such Senators as WILLIAMS,
annex Santo Domingo and other helpless of Mississippi, are entitled to respectful
South American governments and appre- consideration and it may be safely said
hension took the place of confidence that his opposition to any measure has
throughout South and Central America. substantial foundation. But to the lay
Because of this, trade which might have mind it would seem that the CLAYTON
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFON TE, PA.. OCTOBER 9, 1914.
NO. 40.
: Roosevelt a Disappointment.
Whether Colonel ROOSEVELT has “lost |
his punch,” as some close observers. de-
clare, or is less sincere in his professions
of reform, as others believe, it is certain
that his speech in Philadelphia last week
was disappointing. He denounced PEN-
ROSE, all right, and railed against LoOR-
IMER, of Illinois, and BARNES, of New
York. But as an esteemed contempo-
rary expressed it “the popular phrases
and alluring doctrines which he so elo-
quently and forcefully presented in pre-
vious years were conspicuously absent.”
In other words it bore “no message other
than a denunciation of PENROSEism,” and
| that was not satisfying to those who ex-
| pected a great speech enunciating great
ideas in burning periods.
The truth is that there is a growing
' suspicion among thoughtful men that
Colonel ROOSEVELT doesn’t want to de-
feat PENROSE or eliminate BARNES and
LORIMER from politics this year. They
reason with some plausibility that with
the offensive bosses in Pennsylvania,
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been acquired for us, was diverted to :
Europe. Incidents following the Spanish
American war contributed to the fear :
and the “dollar diplomacy” inaugurated '
by MCKINLEY and pursued through the
administrations of ROOSEVELT and TAFT |
failed to allay or even mitigate the sus-
picions. .
But President WILSON has dispelled all |
fears from that source. He has shown ;
' prohibits the destruction or lessening of |
bill as completed in the conference com- | New York and Illinois eliminated this
mittee is an improvement on the existing : year there would be no reason for ROOSE-
legislation with respect to the matters of | VELT in 1916. The country would be
which it treats. It forbids price dis-|safe without his guardianship and he
crimination, though the SHERMAN law {doesn’t want that impression to get
did that. But it also limits interlocking | abroad. What ROOSEVELT believes him
directorates, the greatest evil of all, and | self and wants everybody else to think
is that unless he gets a “third cup of
coffee” within the near future, the coun-
try will go to the “demnition bow-wows”
competition by holding companies. It
declares that “the labor of a human |
that the governmentof the United States, |
so long as it is under the control of safe commerce,” and has the unqualified en-
and sane administrators, has no craving i dorsement of organized labor leaders.
for territory or aspiration other than ta | Senator REED, of Missouri, and VAR-
be a helpful neighbor to her weak sisters ' DAMAN, of Mississippi, are radicals and it
in the South. This attitude appeals to is not surprising that they should object
the commercial spirit of the people there | to a measure that Senator RooT, of New
and kindly impulses have taken the York, could accept. They are Populists
place of suspicion. How fortunate this | rather than Democrats and agitators
is for the people who would have to pay | more than statesmen. But the measure
the price in kind for commercial conflict will soon be a law notwithstanding their
and industrial suspicion? Then think opposition and thus the greatest legis-
what might have been if ROOSEVELT in- lative program ever undertaken by a
Stead of WILSON had been elected in | President has been completed. The Con-
1912. | gress which has achieved so much may
Of course commerce between the safely adjourn and those composing it re-
United States and South America will | turn to their homes confident of popular
|
being is not a commodity or article of
‘increase in volume under the changed | approval and content that they have ful-
conditions and the people on both sides filled their obligations to the people as
of the line will be happier and more pros- | well as to their consciences. It is a
perous. That is the just reward of wis- | splendid record and deserves the com-
dom in intrusting the government to : mendation it will receive.
Democrats. |
| —TIt is possible that the world’s series
may share the front page with the Euro-
; pean war but we doubt it.
: not as absorbingly interesting as it used
| to be. :
—It is to be hoped that the habit of
shooting men in mistake for Moose,
which occurred in Maine the other day,
will not become general. Moose are
threatened with extinction by natural
processes and it’s hardly worth while to :
begin shooting them.
Paternalism Run Mad.
: There is no reason in the demand of
| the South that Congress be held in ses-
| sion until legislation in the interest of
. cotton planters is enacted. Of course we
; all sympathize with those who are de-
i prived of a market for their products by
| causes for which they are not responsible
{and could not avoid. But supplying
| markets is no part of the duty of govern-
ment. When the government pro-
| tects the life and property of citi
draw some profit. There are two req. | zens, it has fulfilled its obligations. It
: r "can’t undertake to father and mother
rin MEE Bis Herr | every family in the land and to serve one
win 5 | citizen at the expense of another is a
with his father in political operations he !
. 1 positive injustice and a grave evil. South-
probably doubts everybody and being | ern Congressmen should understand this
intimately acquainted with FLINN he '
| fact.
feels morally certain that any transaction | This demand for help in the disposal of
. - . |
in which the Pittsburgh contractor boss the cotton crop is an expression of the
was concerned must be crooked. “It’s |
i Whig sentiment which prevailed in the
Lewis’ Withdrawal a Corrupt Deal.
RICHARD R. Quay, of Pittsburgh, son of
the late Senator and supreme party boss,
persists in his declaration that the with-
drawal of DEAN LEWIS as the Washing-
ton party candidate for Governor and
the substitution of VANCE C. McCoRMICK,
was a corrupt deal out of which BILL
FLINN, of Pittsburgh, drew or expects to
the nature of the beast.” | SH /
: th bef the Civil y+] h
Of course so far as Mr. MCCORMICK is | South hefore the Civil wer. Ir. 1s the
d th a | spirit of paternalism run mad. If the
Soncerns 1 ore Was 10 Corrupt consid. : wheat growers of Minnesota or the corn
eration given or promised. He has’
I f £ hi dis willie producers of Iowa were to demand that
plenty of money of his own an 1S WHINE | the government assume the burden of
to spend ten times or twenty times the
| taking their products to market we would
salary of the office to secure the election. all say that they were foolish. When
But he wouldn’t spend the money cor- ! the Populists proposed, a few years ago,
ruptly. It is a safe bet that every penny
f th iderabl tin: his om | that the government advance money
Oi the considerable sum spent in '® PI" | on farm products stored, they alienated
mary campaign was squandered within |
the limit and and h b £ th | hundreds’ and thousands of Northern
e mip an ger he sahiction ithe voters, but made a favorable impression
law and it is possible that if a less sum
in the South. That is because the prin-
had been used he might have been de-' . : : :
a. | f the Wh 1 3
feated. But he paid no money to BILL ' €iples of the ig panty are 97 cherish
: ed there in spite of professions in the
FLINN or DRAPER LEWIS for getting LEwis Democracy. p b
off and putting him on the Washington | Paternalism is the antithesis of Dem-
gory Boke on) mania fio rite or |ocracy which makes for self-reliance,
valuable thing to either of them. | independence, manhood. Equal oppor-
The only cause of complaint which te 3
3 : tunity is all that Democracy asks and al
lies against Mr. MCCORMICK in the mat. that any one has a right to claim. The
ter is the stultification involved. He is : :
| cotton growers are entitled ti i
a Democrat and the Washington party | £ 0 Security
re : > lin life and property while cultivatin
principles are the antithesis of Democra- their soil sland their crops and ne
cy. In accepting the nomination for | t
| wheat and corn gro
Governor of the Washington party, there. | Wiea growers have the same
| claim on the government. But neither
fore, he subscribed to the declaration of ' : : : ;
es has a right to go further in S
principles of that party including its! g 2 St in: their dlaim
a ° > : for the government can’t go further in
denunciation of Democratic principles | g "
5 behalf of one without doing harm to
and its expressed opposition to th oli- | : : :
Gos Of be i rs Re Lin ST Be | others. This fact is so palpable that it
CORMICK professes to love and admire. | needs So support, It is equally Seria
We can’t see how Mr McCORMICK recon- | that no Zovamment has a right io h
ciles himself to these incongruous things Citizens and nojust government will do
but then we are of the old fashioned type | s0- —
is not for PENROSE and Mr. SCOTT is.
' conscience as those now in control.
——They are all good enough, but the
of a Democrat and not so agile of |
| WATCHMAN is always the best.
Base ball is |
with a celerity which is startling to
think of.
In any event ROOSEVELT didn’t make
much of an impression with his first
speech in Pennsylvania this year. He
made several speeches in Maine and the
vote of his party slumped off to less than
half of its poll in 1912 and people ate
beginning to think that results will not
be different in Pennsylvania whether he
‘makes one speech or a dozen within the
State. He can no longer arouse enthu-
siasm or sway public opinion by startling
declarations. Like other celebrated pub-
lic characters he wants to come back but
can’t unless the Democrats make it easy
for him by stupidity such as has been re-
vealed in this State by the so-called lead-
‘ers now in control of the organization.
——1J. BENJAMIN DIMMICK admits that 3
he doesn’t like PENROSE but declares '
that because he competed for the nomi-
| nation against him he is estopped from
i participating in any organized movement
to defeat him. If WiLLiaM H. BERRY
had been influenced by the same inter- |
pretation of honor four years ago WEB- ;
STER GRIM would have been elected Gov- |
ernor and PENROSE and PENROSEism elim- .
inated from the politics of Pennsylvania |
then. |
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| ——Of course the Governor's trip to.
San Francisco was an expensive luxury |
but that was what the money was appro- |
priated for. The pretense that the pur- |
pose was to exhibit the resources of the
State at the Panama Canal Exposition is i
absolutely false. The Governor and his
friends must have a junket oncein a
while and junkets are always costly. |
as
|
:
——Some very foolish person started a
rumor the other day that an extra ses-
sion of Congress will be called between
October 15th, the time fixed for adjourn-
ment and December 1st, the date of the
beginning of the next session. We have
had a continuous session of about seven-
teen months and nobody will deny that
the body has earned a brief vacation.
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—Do nothing by your vote that will
embarrass the administration at Wash.
ington. The times are too grave to be
trifled with. Send only men to Congress
who will support President WILSON. Vote
for the Democratic candidates for Con-
gressmen-at-Large, for Senate and for !
District Congressman.
——All the participants in the European
war are telling thrilling tales of atrocities |
being perpetrated by all the others but |
as a matter of fact this war is just about |
like other wars and General SHERMAN
knew what he was talking about.
——VILLA protests that he has no am-
bition to be President of Mexico but his
action indicates that he would have no
objections to bossing the President of
that unhappy Republic.
—In refusing to grant a change of
venue at the suggestion of the “Coinel,” |
it may be predicted that one Albany
Judge has gotten himself disliked in a
certain quarter.
—A vote for DAVID W. MILLER for
Assembly will be a vote for just the kind
of a man who will best represent you in
Harrisburg.
——At this distance it looks as if all
the water courses in France are “Rivers
of Doubt.”
~——Have your Job Work done here.
Progressives and President.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Of course, it does not matter to the
President, or to anybody else, what the
Progressives say about him. He will not
lose any sleep and the public will not lose
any confidence in him because Progres-
sives are declaring that he has been be-
trayed into the ‘hands of the money
power, and that he is little better than a
tool of Wall street.
Nevertheless, this ranting by the Pro-
gressives has its value. It shows how
absurd it would be for the Democrats
and the Progressives to fuse. The Pro-
gressives are giving no support to the
administration. On the contrary, they
are nagging at it and abusing it constant-
ly. With few exceptions they are just
as rabid Protectionists as the Republicans
are, and apart from the tariff a coalition
of Democrats and Republicans against
the Progressives would be at least as
logical and sensible as a combination of
Democrats and Progressives against the
Republicans. Eo :
The very fact that the Democrats and
the Progressives aim at many of the
same things explains the bitterness of
Progressives toward the Democrats. The.
latter have stolen their thunder. The
Democratic party is actually doing the
very things that the Progressives have
simply been making a loud noise about.
The more the Democrats go on doing
what they have been doing for a year
and a-half the less chance have the Pro-
gressives ever to get control of the gov-
ernment. The consciousness of this ex-
plains the animosity of the Progressives
to Mr. Wilson. :
Of course, the Democrats do not £0 so
far as the Progressives, for they do not go
beyond what is safe and sane, and the
Progressives are deeply imbued with the
impracticable notions of the Popuiists,
and some of them are not free from
Socialism. But all the reforms that are
practicable, and in the interest of all
classes of the community, are being ef-
fected by the Democrats, and Progres-
sives recognize that the wind is taken
out of their sails—that as a third party
they have no reason for existence—and
their hatred of the Democrats is propor-
tionately great.
They know, as well as anybody cise
that the President has not yielded a p t
to the corporation and financial inter-
ests, and probably they know that their
own wild notions, if reduced to the form
of statutes, would destroy business. The
Democratic success is removing all rea-
son for the existence of the Progressive
party, and enough of the Progressives
have relapsed into the G. O. P. to destroy
‘any chances the Progressives can have
imagined that they had of carrying the
country, and therefore they rage at
Woodrow Wilson and imagine vain things.
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Will not Weaken President.
From the Springfield Republican.
That the change in point of view of the
nation since August 1 must be of advan.
tage to the party in power is generally
admitted. Lines of attack on the admin-
istration record, which had been care.
fully opened up, are now completely
blocked. Certain liabilities of the Presi.
dent are now revealed as assets, a gibe at
“watchful waiting” today would be more
likely to make Democratic votes than
Republican or Progressive votes. All
criticism of the foreign policy of the ad-
ministration is suspended. Mr. Roose-
| velt has pulblicly announced an abandon-
ment of his assault on the President
along that line.
The sufficient answer to criticism of the
foreign policy of the United States Gov-
ernment is that the United States is at
peace with all the world. Americans
prefer the answer of the “inexperienced”
Bryan to the Japanese Ambassador,
“There can be no last word. between
friends,” to the experienced Von Beth-
| mann-Hollweg’s professional sneer at a
| “scrap of paper.”
The nution must take
pride in the scrupulous observance of
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, in the matter
of the canal tolls, now that a great Eu-
ropean power has made a mockery of
the treaty neutralizing Belgium. One
can no longer sneer at “amateur diplo-
matists,” in view of Gerard's splendid
service at Berlin and Whitlock’s master-
ly rescue of unfortified Brussels from the
German guns.
The country is not likely in: the com-
ing elections to weaken seriously the
President’s influence either at home or
abroad. He must remain President of
the United States throughout the war
period, and in him rest the world’s best
hopes of peace as soon as conditions ren-
der it advisable for him to again offer his
friendly offices. He will need the strong
and undivided support of his countrymen
in order that he may speak at the oppor-
tune moment with such prestige that
the powers in conflict will listen to his
counsel.
The Kaiser’s Prophecy.
From the Manchester Guardian.
When the Russian artist Vassili Vere-
schagin exhibited his pictures at Berlin
it is recorded that he received a visit
from the present Emperor and Empress
of Germany, whom he conducted round
the gallery. The Emperor, in the course
of their survey, stepped before the can-
vas on whice Vereschagin has represent-
ed the awful series of massacres which
is known to history as the retreat from
Moscow. Napoleon heads a horde of
ragged, sullen, starving soldiers, and the
artist has succeeded in depicting in the
French Emperor’s countenance the mood
of despair that must have possessed him.
The Emperor William paused before the
picture for some time; then, as Vere-
schagin relates, he turned to the artist,
saying: “And in spite of that there will
still be men who will want to subdue the
world; but they will all end like this!”
——The bass fishing season down Bald
Eagle was not a very successful one this
year.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Philip Cimo and Clayton Hosten, convi
murderers of Clearfield county, have been -
tenced to be electrocuted at a time to be fixed
the Governor. .
—At the general election next month the voters
of Lilly will decide the question of increasing the
indebtedness of the borough to the amount of
$30.000 in order to construct a new school house
on the site of the present structure.
—According to investigations set on foot by
the Johnstown Board of Health 35 cases’ of ty-
phoid fever there were caused by infected milk
while 16 cases were due to infected wells or
springs and drinking unboiled water.
—The churches, schools and places of amuse-
ment in Seward, Cambria county, have been
closed on account of the presence of an epidemic
of diphtheria. Twelve families are affected and
thus far there have been two deaths.
—J. S. Reitmeyer, of New Columbia, Union
county, has a freak of nature at his home in the
shape of a duck, alive and healthy, with four ful-
ly developed legs. When the feathered oddity
walks the extra legs trail along the ground.
—A drunken man smashed the glass in the win-
dow of a Lock Haven pawn-broker’s place of
business the other night and at a later hour some
bold adventurer took advantage of the situation
to acquire several watches, some rings and other
articles,
—When the Suffragists who have been canvass-
ing their Johnstown sisters for support entered
one home the fair mistress said: “I haven’t
time; I'm putting up pickles.” Another said:
“You'll have to excuse me, for I have hot cakes
on the stove.”
—During the progress of a fire that badly dam-
aged the residence of Thomas Tobin at Nant-y-
‘Glo, three of his children who were ill of diphthe-
ria lay upon cots on the street for a considera-
ble time. Later on they were returned to their
damaged home nobody being willing to run the
risk of taking them in.
—South Fork’s water supply is gone<-gone to
the same extent as if it had never existed, and at
the present time there is mighty little prospect of
relief. While water for domestic uses no longer
exists, the Pennsylvania Railroad company has a
large pipe line which would become immediately
available in the event of fire.
—While picking apples at his farm east of Mil-
ton a few mornings ago, Dr. J. M. Reimensny
der, for twenty-seven years pastor of Trinity
Lutheran church of that place, fell a distance of
fifteen feet, sustaining a fracture of the left arm
between the wrist and the elbow, as well as inju
Ty to the joint of the left hip.
—The search for aged Mrs. Edward Caluse, of
Clyde, Indiana county, who disappeared from
her home some three weeks ago, has been aban-
doned. The searchers found no clues whatever
except a human foot that was brought in by a
dog from the mountains ten days ago. Hope of
ever locating the body has been abandoned.
—Ray James, who stole a number of revolvers
and knives from a Clearfield gun store last De-
cember, but was able to hide the evidences of his
guilt until a few days ago when he relaxed his
vigilance and sold some of the stolen goods to
persons in and around Woodland where he now
resides, has been arrested and admits his guilt.
—Clifford Cohan, aged 21 years, a resident of
Williamsport, has confessed that he set fire to his
mother’s residence the other day, at her instiga-
tion, the motive being to secure $500 insurance
recently placed on the household goods. The
young man and his mother were arrested and
taken before Judge Whitehead where they plead
guilty and were remanded for sentence.
—William Myton, a young farmer living near Cot-
tage, Huntingdon county, was kicked by a horse
and thrown with considerable violence against
‘the side of the stable in which he was working, .
striking his head. At first he suffered MoT inon-" eRe
venience but became unconscious later and has
been in a critical condition since. It is believed
the blow ruptured a blood vessel in the head.
—Mrs. Alice Wherry, aged 60 years, who arriv-
ed in Cresson last Friday with her son, Dr. C. M.
Wherry, of the State sanatorium, was taken ill
Saturday afternoon and died a few minutes later.
Her daughter, Miss Wherry, of Chester county,
dreamed Friday night that her mother had died
and left on Saturday morning for Cresson, arriv-
ing some twenty minutes after the elder lady’s
death.
—Norris Harvey, a butcher who lives near Wil-
liamsport and who attends the curbstone market,
Saturday reported that he had been a victim of
pickpockets at the Milton fair last week. He re-
ported that a wallet containing $212 in bills and
$500 in notes had been taken from his pocket
while he was walking on the Midway in the mid-
dle of a crowd of people. Other cases of theft
were also reported.
—The residence of Hanson F loyd, located
about a mile north of Hyner, Clinton county, was
destroyed by a fire which caught from a stove
while the members of the family were out. The
flames communicated to the barn. which was
burned likewise, with the year's crops, although
the stock and some farm furniture were saved.
All the furniture was consumed with the house,
as well as $350 in cash, all the money Mr. F loyd
had. There was no insurance.
—On account of the date set for the holding of
the annual reunion of the survivors of the 22nd
Penna. Cavalry falling on the big day of the Bed-
ford county fair, the reunion association has
changed the date for holding the reunion to
Thursday, October 15th, 1914, at Everett, The
address of welcome will be delivered at 10a. m.
iment. A business meeting will be held at 2 p.
m. and a camp-fire at night.
—The Pennsylvania State Synod of the Presby-
terian church will be held in Erie October 20-24,
and there will be a large attendance of delegates
from all over the Commonwealth. One of the
interesting sessions of the gathering will be that
held on Wednesday afternoon, the second day of
the convention. At this time the work being
done hy the men of the church will be discussed.
Rev. W. F. Weir. D. D., of Wooster, Ohio, will be
the principal speaker on that occasion.
—By action of the State Game Commission the
counties of Warren, Forest, Clarion and Jefferson
have been added to the list of those in which
deer hunting will be prohibited for a period of
years. In all nine counties have been closed to
deer hunting. Somerset, Westmoreland, Cam-
bria and Fayette having been the first to be clos-
ed. They are closed for three years from De-
cember 1, 1913. The other four counties and also
Chester will be closed for five years from Novem-
ber 1.
—With 500 volts of electricity passing through
his body when a telephone wire which he was
holding, wrapped about an electric feed wire at
Mount Carmel Tuesday, Charles Dixon, a line.
man for the United Telephone company, saved
his life by his presence of mind in cutting the
wire with his nippers. The hand that held the
live wire was paralyzed and he was unable to re-
lease his hold. The wire had burned the flesh to
the bone before he was able to cut it with his
nippers.
—William J. Stitt, of Blairsville, 70 years old, a
real estate dealer, and one of the most prominent
men in that region, was found hanging by a rope
to a joist in the cellar of his home on Saturday
by his daughter Jean. Worry over financial
troubles, coupled with domestic troubles in the
family of one of his married daughters, is believ-
ed to have prompted the deed. Stitt was a Civil
war veteran, a member of the Pennsylvania Ca.
nal Boatmen’s association, of the Methodist
Episcopal church and of the G. A. R.
and will be responded to by a member of the reg.
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