Demoriics iia
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—The best thing
the rain.
- —Many a hunter came in last evening
with an empty bag and an empty bottle.
—Speak it lightly to Dr. DAVID DALE,
WiLLiam T. KELLY Esq., and A. LINN
MCGINLEY that the Athletics are a bunch
of has beens.
—Someone called the Athletics the
Old Guard of baseball, the other day,
and then we knew just why they got
such a lickin’.
—It’s a great game they're playing
now! To bait PALMER off the ticket in
order to make it easy for PENROSE to de-
feat PINCHOT. :
« —President WILSON needs WILLIAM E.
ToBIAS in the next Congress. Remem-
ber that, you who are proud of your
great President, when you go to the polls
to vote on November 3rd.
—If BILL FLINN fools A. MITCHELL
PALMER into withdrawing from the race
for Senator he must be credited with be-
ing the real ‘thing in political bunco
steerers. But he can’t do it.
. —Why not go a little slower in build-
ing roads and build them all of brick.
They would cost more at first but they
would last a lifetime and their upkeep
would be trifling as compared with that
of macadam or concrete.
—It took only this war to make those
who scoffed at Secretary BRYAN’S plans
for universal peace turn to admire. And
if Mr. BRYAN succeeds in bringing about
universal disarmament, which is tanta-
mount to universal peace, his name will
go down in history with far more lustre
than it would have had had he been
elected President each time he ran.
—HARRY ScoTT, of Philipsburg, has
been over “on this side” this week.
HARRY is an amiable soul, subject to de-
lusions, the greatest one of which just
now is that he has a chance to be elect-
ed to the Legisiature. A chance, yes,
about as much of one as a cat with tal-
low legs has of winning a walking match
in hades. HARRY is for PENROSE. He
doesn’t deny it and everybody knows it.
And the voters of Centre county are not
in a PENROSE humor this year.
—Centre county has a peculiar inter-
est in the candidacy of W. H. PATTER-
SON for the State Senate. Many of our
people know him so well and he is so
closely affiliated with our own county,
both by family ties and business connec-
tions that he seems almost like a home
candidate. It would be a most gracious
thing for Centre to treat him as such
and give him the rousing complimentary
vote that his splendid personal character
and ultimate usefulness to us merit.
of this week has been
—It is just as important to elect our
Congressmen-at-Large as it is to elect
District Congressmen. They exercise
exactly the same functions and are just
as necessary if the policies of President
WILSON are to be given a chance to prove
their beneficence. Don’t lose sight of
the fact that ROBERT S. BRIGHT, MAR-
TIN J. CATON, ARTHUR B. CLARK and
CHARLES N. CROSBY are the men who
are pledged to stand with the President
if they are sent to Congress. Vote for
them if you want to do your country a
great service.
—If protection is the all-in-all to
American industry why doesn’t it protect
it now. Accidentally war abroad has
given America the highest tariff effect
that the most extreme could dream of.
No foreign “pauper labor” made goods
are entering our ports now. The high-
est tariff wall that could ever be built
could not shut out foreign competition
any more effectually than it is shut out
now by the war abroad yet they say our
industries languish. Ts it not proof con-
clusive that what we need most is not a
tariff at all, but a foreign market.
—DAviD W. MILLER must be taken
into consideration if you are one of the
many who want to rid Pennsylvania of
PENROSEism. He must be sent to the
Legislature to vote against the Machine-
made measures that PENROSE may try to
fasten onto Pennsylvania, even after he
has been defeated for the United States
Senate. The Pennsylvania Legislature
has been the goose that has been laying
the golden egg for PENROSE. He wouldn’t
last long if he didn’t have it to create
commissions and jobs and favorable laws
for his henchmen. Harrisburg is the
real Gibraltar of PENROSE. Let us help
take it by sending DAVE MILLER down
there to represent us—not PENROSE.
—Two Academy students were watch-
ing the electric score board at the Scen-
ic Monday afternoon. When the Athlet-
ics made two runs in the opening of the
tenth one of them said “I just knew it
had to come.” Then turning to the oth-
er boy, he said: “Say, BILL have you got
that money with you?” BILL hadn't it,
of course, so the winner of the sure thing
bet on the Athletics urged him to run up
to “the Hill” and get it. It did look bad
for Boston and BILL left to get the coin
he had wagered on the Braves. He had
scarcely gone out of the hall when Bos-
ton came to bat and the ball got Gowpy
for a homer. Then more happened and
the young student who “just knew it had
to come” began talking to himself in
these words: “By craps, I might lose
that money yet.” He did. :
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 59.
That Senatorial Investigation.
The Senate committee on privileges
and elections has determined to post-
pone the consideration of the resolution
of Senator NORRIS to investigate the pri-
mary campaign expenses of the Demo-
cratic nominee for Senator in Illinois,
ROGER C. SULLIVAN, and the Republican
candidate in Pennsylvania, BOIES PEN-
ROSE, until after the election. It is not
to be inferred from this fact, however,
that the Senate as a body condones such
offences as are implied in the accusation.
On the contrary it may be set down as
certain that if the charges are sustained
the penalties will be enforced. The ac-
tion of the Senate, therefore, may be
interpreted as a simple notice to a dis-
tinguished gentleman in Washington,
that that body cannot be used as “a
spite instrument” even by the Secretary
of State. Mr. BRYAN must find some
other means of punishing his enemies.
It may be said in the outset that com-
plaints against Senator PENROSE in-
fluenced the resolution incidentally only.
The purpose of the action was to con-
tribute to the defeat of Mr. SULLIVAN,
the Democratic nominee for Senator in
Illinois. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN will
permit no Democrat to be elected to
office in any State or in the United
States, until he has been reckoned with.
The author of the resolution in question,
Senator NORRIS, of Nebraska, owes his
seat in the chamber to the fact that his
Democratic competitor for the honor was
opposed by BRYAN. In 1910 the Governor
of Nebraska, a Republican, was indebted
to Mr. BRYAN for his election. His Demo-
cratic opponent refused to take orders
from Mr. BRYAN during the campaign
and BRYAN took the stump against him
and in favor of the Republican candidate,
who was elected.
Mr. ROGER C. SULLIVAN, of Illinois, is
one of the active and earnest Democrats
of the country who grew weary of Mr.
BRYAN’S pretension of -ownership of the
Democratic party. He was an enthu-
siastic supporter of BRYAN in 1896 and an
equally active and earnest supporter in
1900. But when BRYAN, in 1904, worked
the destruction of the Democratic party
because the St: Louis convention refused
to allow him ‘to ‘run it his way, Mr.
SULLIVAN came to the conclusion that it
was time to look about for other candi-
dates.
himself upon the party. at the Denver
convention by “packing the benches”
Mr. SULLIVAN gave him loyal support, as
did the Democrats of Pennsylvania whom
he had outraged. Notwithstanding this
fact, however, ever since 1904 BRYAN has
been fighting SULLIVAN “tooth and nail”
and in the recent primary excelled him-
self in the venom of his opposition.
Mr. SULLIVAN was nominated, the ef-
forts of Mr. BRYAN to the contrary not-
withstanding, and now BRYAN is using
his Republican beneficiary in Nebraska
to defeat his election by trumped up
charges of political immorality. They
included PENROSE because they imagined
that the use of his name in that connec-
tion would strengthen the movement.
The majority of Democratsin the Senate
deelined to be used by Mr. BRYAN in this
way, however, and his conspiracy is de-
feated. If Mr. SULLIVAN is elected, as
we hope he will be, that will probably be
the last of it.
frown ens —————
—PINCHOT’S platform denounces Presi-
dent WILSON and everything Democratic,
yet there are Democrats who think PAL-
MER would be doing the right thing by
getting out of PINCHOT’S road so they
could vote for the man and the platform
that are the very antithesis of Democ-
racy.
—1It is all right to suggest over-
confidence as an excuse for bad blunders
and its a good deal more polite than to
ascribe them to mental ‘maladies. But
CONNIE MACK ought to have put his best
pitchers in the box rather than those
who have served him longest.
——One reason why BILL FLINN is
always ready to fuse with anybody is
that he probably doesn’t know the differ-
ence between the principles of one party
or the other. He always finds out which
party will be most helpful to BILL FLINN,
however.
——The reports of the weakening of
the lines of battle on one side or the
other were interesting until they became
wearisome. The facts are that unless
both sides have been lying both lines
ought to be worn away by this time.
——Business depression is becoming
acute in Pittsburgh, according to news
dispatches, but that is because election
day is drawing near and everything that
is to be done in that line must be done
right away. :
—If you always want to have the
best’ take the WATCHMAN and you'll
have it.
Nevertheless when BRYAN forced |
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCT
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Roosevelt’s Plans and Prospects.
The New York World has undertaken
(to estimate the present strength of the
i ROOSEVELT party throughout the coun-
try and in a recent issue publishes the
result of its canvass in several States.
Our esteemed contemporary is of the
opinion that the purpose of Mr. ROOSE-
VELT’S activities is to show the Republi-
cans that they will need him in 1916, and
that he is playing for or against the Pro-
gressive party accordingly as one or the
other course will serve him. In some of |
the States, according to the returns thus
far made, the Progressive leaders are in-
clined to pay no attention to ROOSEVELT.
His recent western trip was disappoint-
ing in that it created no enthusiasm and
accomplished little good. But in other
sections, on the contrary, ROOSEVELT’S
pleasure is law.
In Minnesota, for example, the report
says that “Colonel ROOSEVELT will cut
no figure in the election this fall. Party
leaders will be satisfied if they poll 25,-
000 votes in the State out of 250,000 two
years ago.” In Ohio the same slump is
indicated. “It looks as though there
would be 60,000 Progressive votes in
Ohio next month,” the correspondent
writes. In 1912 ROOSEVELT had 229,327
votes. In Illinois the fight is on the Sen-
atorship and the ROOSEVELT candidate is
known as a “parlor Socialist.” He is a
negligible quantity in the contest. “Odds
are being offered that the Progressive
party will run third in Indiana,” is the
language in the report from Hoosierdom.
In 1912 ROOSEVELT ran second by a good
{ margin. - In Iowa “political sharps fail to
, consider the Progressive party seriously,”
_the report states. In 1912 ROOSEVELT
| polled 171,783 votes in that State and
beat the Republican candidate by nearly
50,000. The report from Michigan states
! that “indications are that the Progress-
live party will poll less than one-third of
the vote that Colonel ROOSEVELT got two
years ago.” :
That is substantially. the condition of
affairs throughout the Middle west. The
ROOSEVELT party has completely collaps-
ed and is now merely a false pretense
President in 1916. In Massachusetts it
i is being used as an auxiliary to the Re-
| publican machine under an implied agree-
ROOSEVELT in 1916 and in Maryland it is
serving the same purpose. The attempt
at fusion in this State had the same ob-
WILSON or some one else.
whose lust for office would lead him into
|a deal intended to help ROOSEVELT in
| 1916 doesn’t deserve the support of Dem-
ocrats.
——ROOSEVELT’S voice is as elastic as
his conscience. A few weeks ago it was
absolutely down and out and now it is
strong enough to stand any tax upon it.
But it has lost its potency on the public
ear.
Senator Penrose Makes a Mistake,
Senator PENROSE shows scant respect
for the intelligence of the voters of Penn-
sylvania when he defends the registra-
tion frauds in the rural districts or de-
{ nies that registration frauds have been
committed. The record is against him.
In Fayette county the most glaring frauds
have been perpetrated. This statement
is not made upon the assertion of local
politicians and party workers. The evil
has been proved in a court presided over
by Judge UMBEL, than whom there is no
fairer jurist on the bench.
If Senator PENROSE were wise he
would throw the weight of his influence
{into an effort to stop electoral corrup-
tion instead of encouraging and apolo-
gizing for it. Good citizens of Pennsyl-
vania of all political persuasions believe
in honest elections. They realize that
confidence must be preserved in the in-
tegrity of our public life and that no con-
| fidence can obtain where there is reason
to doubt the honesty of elections. That
the registration in Fayette county was
corrupted has already been proved.
That there has been corruption in other
counties is suspected.
Senator CROW, chairman of the Repub-
lican State Committee, is a candidate for
| re-election. His district is Fayette coun-
[ty. The registration may have been
| padded to secure his triumph. But a vic-
| tory procured by such means will be too
| expensive to enjoy. Senator CROW would
better welcome defeat than purchase vic-
tory by corrupting the ballot. The peo-
| ple of Pennsylvania will resent corrup-
tion at the polls no matter where it oc-
curs or in whose interest. Senator PEN-
ROSE ought to understand this fact.
——The value of Colorado's crops this
“year is estimated at 1$110,000,000, and
that is exclusive of political crooks of
whom there is an over supply.
ment that Senator LopGe will* favor |
ject in view and in so far as it succeed- |
ed it will hurt the Democratic candidate |
for President whether he be WO0ODROW
A Democrat
| Situation of the Cotton Problem.
i
! It is gratifying to learn that the admin-
istration has set its face against the
paternalistic scheme of some of the
Southern Congressmen to involve the
government in the hazard of financing
the cotton crop. Secretary of the Treas-
ury MCApoo has written to Represen-
: tative HENRY, of Texas, that the proposi-
tion is preposterous and presumably he
| has thus expressed the sentiment of the
President.
Such an idea is preposterous in the ex-
treme. The appropriation of money, out
of the treasury, to carry the cotton crop
| over from a bad year to a better one
| would make it necessary to adopt the
same policy with respect to corn and
wheat and potatoes and every other
commodity produced by the people.
Moreover it would inevitably increase
the prices of every commodity until in
the end nobody would have money
enough to buy anything.
| Itis to be hoped that the administra-
tion at Washington will come to the
same view of the question of building
ships by the government. Men inter-
ested in cotton, if put upon their own re-
' sources, .will find a way to finance the
cotton industry and men concerned in
transportation will find a way to provide
ships when they are needed. Capital is
courageous enough when it has a fair
field for action.
What is really needed at this time is to
let the natural laws of commerce take
their usual courses and ‘business will
adjust itself and prosper. The soil is
- producing abundantly and industry and
intelligence are fulfilling their obligations.
. These facts afford a sufficient guarantee
{for the future. There is danger in
| “monkeying with a buzz saw,” and equal
peril in interfering with the natural laws
| of trade.
| Secretary McApoo has touched the
right chord in his letter to Mr. HENRY.
There will be plenty of demand for cot-
; ton at a fair price inthe future and there
| is neither justice nor reason in fixing
: fictitious prices for it and maintaining
| them by artificial processes because the
maintained to force ROOSEVELT upon the | crop happens to be more abundant than
Republican party as its candidate for { usual. That ought to ‘make cotton
| cheaper instead of converting planters
| into pensioners:
——Captain COLEMAN of the United
| States army never heard the story of the
bull dog and the parrot or else he has
forgotten the moral.
An Interesting Fight in Prospect.
WILLIAM SULZER, of New York, has
challenged Colonel ROOSEVELT to a joint
: discussion of their respective moral frail-
| ties. It is to be hoped that the Colonel
| will accept. Such a public discussion
{would certainly “add to the gaiety of
| nations.” Besides it would greatly en-
| hance the volume of information con-
| cerning fraudulent reformers and bogus
reforms. Both are past masters in the
' art of demagogy and experts in the pro-
fession of humbuggery. Another source
{ of satisfaction in the contemplation of
such a debate, moreover, lies in the fact
that it wouldn't make much difference
| which would win. They are equally dis-
credited politicians and discarded office
holders.
| The quarrel between these two hum-
bugs originated in some aspersions cast
upon SULZER by ROOSEVELT during a re-
cent speech. Some weeks ago they were
| very chummy and in a conference held
at Oyster Bay ROOSEVELT made a quali-
fied promise to favor SULZER for the Bull
Moose nomination for Governor of New
York. With characteristic inconstancy
ROOSEVELT subsequently repudiated this
agreement and SULZER made some com-
ments upon the fact that were not en-
tirely complimentary to the Colonel.
Thereupon TEDDY put on his fighting
face and “cut loose,” so to speak. Among
other things he said that SuLzerghad
misappropriated campaign tunds contrib-
uted during his gubernatorial contest in
1912.
Of course the Colonel will §have a con-
siderable advantage in the event of a
joint debate because he has his evidence
cut out for him. In the Court of Im-
peachment which resulted in SULZER’S
removal from the office of Governorjthe
accusation which ROOSEVELT has made
was clearly proven. But there is;a good
deal of evidence that the Colonel has
been an artful dodger in his time, availa-
ble, and SULZER isa resourceful man in
what might be called “rough and tum-
ble” controversy. Therefore we sincere-
ly hope that the quarrel will go on to a
logical conclusion for if the public gets a
thorough understanding of both of them
both will be eliminated from future con-
sideration.
——What Representative HENRY, of
Texas, really needs is a surgical operation
that will change the contents of his
cranium, Sias AY «0 dad Siu
OBER 16, 1914.
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NO. 40.
An Awful Family Row.
From the Boston Herald.
"In a little company of exceptionally in-
telligent ladies and gentlemen where the
talk was about the awful foreign cata-
clysm, of course, the host offered a small
wager that no one of his guests could
give accurately the family relationship
or relationships existing between the rul-
ers of the three Empires now. at war
among themselves. The wager was ac-
cepted, but it was not won. by any of
those who accepted it. In order to win it
would have been necessary to trace the
several relationships as follows: King
George of England, and Kaiser William
of Germany are first cousins, King
George's father and the Kaiser's mother
having been brother and sister. King
George and Czar Nicholas of Russia, are
also first cousins, the King’s mother,
Dowager Queen Alexandria, and the Czar’s
mother, Dowager Empress Dagmar, be-
ing sisters, King George of England,
and Alix, Czarina of Russia, are first
cousins, the former’s father and the lat-
ter’'s mother having been brother and
sister. Kaiser William and the Czarina
of Russia are also first cousins, the Kai-
ser’s mother and the Czarina’s mother be-
ing sisters. Thus the Kaiser and the
Czar are first cousins by marriage. Fred-
erick VIII of Denmark, is brother of the
Dowager Queen Alexandra and the Dow-
ager Empress Dagmar and is, therefore,
uncle to both King George and Czar
Nicholas. There are various other col-
lateral relationships existing between
the reigning families of England, ‘Germany
and Russia through the rei ing families
of other European countries, but those
here given are the closest. Having in
mind all these close relationships exist-
ing between the rulers of the three great
Empires now at war among themselves; it
seems quite permissible to ejaculate:
“What a horrible family row!”
A Great President.
From the Schenectady Gazette (Ind.)
The United States has a President who
refuses to leave his work to take part in
the congressional campaign because of
the situation brought on by the European
war. : .
Thus once more the country is made
to realize that Woodrow Wilson is a man
to whom the good of the nation over
which he has ‘been called to preside is
the first and overwhelming econsidera-
tion. A man who as chief executive of
this great nation, wrote his essag e to
the warring powers in which he tendered
his good offices to them for the settle-
ment of their difficulties, at the side of
hisdying wife, is the kind ‘of man from.
whom such a course is to be expeeted.
But it raises him still more in the esteem
of his fellow-citizens, nevertheless.
From all over the country and from
widely different sources there comes a
strong, emphatic and continually greater
expression of satisfaction that our coun-
try has a man like him for President
now.
The confidence in him by the nation
when it elected him chief magistrate has
grown since he has been in office. The
public has found that he has justified,
and more than justified, its confidence,
and he is stronger with the public than
ever before, notwithstanding the fact
that he has been through some difficult
and trying experiences as President. The
success of his Mexican policy alone, a
policy followed in spite of criticism,
calumny and ridicule, has given him the
support of hundreds of thousands of
voters.
The country has a President of whom
it is proud and in whom it trusts.
Figures Which Stagger.
From the Johnstown Democrat. ’
The report of the bureau of corpor-
ations just issued upon the vast holdings
of the lumber lords of the United States
furnishes material for thoughtful consid-
eration for the friends of equitable in-
dustrial development. It shows that
there are estates within our own borders
that make the big Mexican estates look
like 40-acre patches. The report shows
that “1,694 timber owners hold in fee
one-twentieth of the land area of the
United States—105,600,000 acres, or an
area two and one-half times the size of
New England.” .
Sixteen men hold 47,800,000 acres;
three railroads hold enough to give every
adult male 15 acres in the nine States
where their lands are located. In the
upper peninsula of Michigan 45 per cent
of the land is held by thirty-two persons.
One-third of the entire State of Florida
istheld by fifty-two timber lords. Most
of those vast holdings were obtained
illegally, through the bribery of Con-
gressmen and other public officials. The
vast grants of public lands made to rail-
road and other corporations were ob-
tained through official corruption. It
was understood, at the time the grants
were made to the railroads that the land
would be redistributed to small holders.
Of the 82,500,000 acres granted to the
Pacific roads in the sixties they still re-
tain about 40 per cent.
The only way now left for the people
to get back these lands is through the
taxation of land values, irrespective of
improvements, in the States in which
these holdings lie.
Something to Worry About.
‘From the Knickerbocker Press.
If Colonel Roosevelt had preserved
strict neutrality Mr. Sulzer might have
captured the whole Bull Moose works in
the Empire State.
Election Would Be Unanimous,
ernie
From the Memphis Commercial Appeal. :
The only platform left for Bill Sulzer
to run on is that of the way-back-and-sit-
down party, and he will win on that."
1 ~——=For high class Job Work come to
'
' the WATCHMAN Office. ' - ¢
{ SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The fall rally of the Cambria County Woman
Suffrage party will be held in Johnstown on the
24th inst.
—In addition to typhoid fever, mumps and
diphtheria, Johnstown is now threatened with
a mild epidemic of chicken-pox. -
—The effort to raise $30,000 for the benefit of
the Lewistown hospital has seemingly halted
with a subscription of about $15,000. ;
; —At the recent public sale of property belong-
ing to Blair Burket, north of Loretto, one cow
was sold for $135 and two for $10 apiece.
—The mayor of Johnstown set ail other city
executives a fine example when he fined Harry
Dick, of Indiana county, $50 for driving an auto-
mobile while intoxicated. :
—A Johnstown business man has presented, Of-
ficer John Woods of that city’s police force, with a
gold watch in appreciation of his vigilance in
capturing a burglar who undertook to raid his
store. :
—Of the $52,200 subscribed for the benefit of
the Williamsport Young Women’s Christian as-
sociation'in 1910, $50,317 has been collected and
all spent in the purchase and renovation of the
building except $317.
—One of the features of Williamsport’s styles
show was a public wedding in which a Philadel-
phia couple took the role of bride and groom in
consideration of numerous presents donated by
the town’s business men.
—Harry Hoover, of Curwensville, aged 85, has
been a fireman for 71 years. He attended last
weeks Harrisburg convention and tells the Du--
Bois Courier that there were eleven firemen there
over 80, but he was the oldest.
—According to the Clearfield Spirit, W. Albert
Smeal, a scientific farmer of Clearfield county,
raised this year on ten acres of ground 2,000
bushels of “fine, large, solid potatoes, without a
rotten one in the whole field.”
—During the belated thunder storm of last
Saturday night the residence of Constable
George Casey, of Gallitzin, was struck by light-
ning, but beyond shattering a mirror and setting
a couch on fire little damage was done.
—Because the chickens of one boarding house
boss in Lucerne, Indiana county, scratched the
garden of another there was a shooting affray
between the two men in which one of them got a
bullet in his abdomen and will probably die.
—Samuel W. Sheets, who is serving a sentence
of six months in the Juniata county jail for the
illegal sale of liquor, was married to Miss Grace
E. Pannebaker, of Mifflintown, some days ago.
The wedding took place in the parlor of the
jail.
—Renovo had a bit of excitement early Sunday
night when an Italian, his wife and a friend were
shot but not fatally by one of three other Italians
who called for the express purpose of raising an
uproar. The assailants have not yet been appre-
hended.
—Cambria county was until recently the home
of one of the most heartless mothersin the coun-
try. She ran away with a boarder leaving be-
hind her four small children who must be main-
tained by the county until homes can be found
for them.
« —Investigation has confirmed the suspicion
that infected milk was responsible for most of
Johnstown’s cases of typhoid fever. On one
milkman’s route were forty-nine cases and an
analysis of his milk supply showed it was infected
with typhoid germs,
—Raymond A. Love, aged 19, was urging the
Horse he rode to great speed over a Lock Haven
street when the animal slipped and fell, precipi-
tating its rider to the sfreet with great violence
and fracturing his skull. He died in the Lock
Haven hospital forty-eight hours later. .
—Ellsworth Small, of Williamsport, employed
by ‘the Central Pennsylvania, Lumber. com-
pany, was pushing a log through a saw when
apart of his clothing was caught and he was
drawn into the machine. He had presence of
mind to shut off the power and escape unhurt,
although his overalls and trousers were ruined.
—The case of Harry Bubb and Mary S. Bubb
his wife, vs. the Williamsport private hospital
was given to the jury at noon Friday. After be-
ing out untilnearly 9 p. m. the jury returned a
verdict of $1 for Harry Bubb and $270 for Mrs.
Bubb, who alleged she had been burned by a hot
water bottle placed against her body by a care-
less nurse.
—Scores of fishermen who have been illegally
taking eels and other fish from the Susquehanna
between Harrisburg and the State line have been
arrested and fined in one of the largest raids
ever made by State policemen and game war-
dens. Dozens of fish baskets and other illegal
devices were found within a dozen miles of the
state capital.
—John Powley and William Dougherty, two
Portage men, have been committed to jail at
Ebensburg to await trial on the charge of having
assaulted Mrs. John Hand. The woman and a
companion were walking through a mountain-
ous locality when they were approached. The
other woman escaped but Mrs. Hand is said to
have spent the night in the mountains.
—While Mrs, John Carey, of Williamsport,
was preparing the noonday meal, she had occa-
sion to transfer a large pan of boiling water from
the stove to a table. At the moment she was
doing this she stepped on the foot of her 3-year-
old son, Joseph. He cried out and the frightened
woman permitted a quantity of Scalding water
to fall out of the vessel on the child, scalding
him terribly. He has a chance for recovery.
—Alleged to have caught a wild turkey and kept
it in captivity until it died, Lorenzo Varner, re-
siding near Geistown, Cambria county, was fined
$25 and costs by Alderman Will J. Lamberd, of
Johnstown, a day or two ago. Kinter Rodgers,
a game protector was the prosecutor. Varner
was said to have caught two young wild turkeys
while out for berries a month or so ago, and to
have kept them at his place. One of them died,
and the other got away. Rodgers heard of the
incident, and brought the charge
—Six men were burned, two of them so badly
that they were removed to the Miners’ hospital
at Spangler, in an explosion of powder Saturday
at No. 2 mine of the Madeira Hill Coal company,
Barnesboro. The two victims sent to the hos-
pital are Joe Patanisi, aged 28 years, of Barnes-
boro, burned about the face and chest, and Cal-
dart Alvizi, aged 17, of Barnesboro, who was
burned about the face and probably inhaled
some of the fumes. The four other men were
only slightly burned about the hands.
—David Yingling, of Cumberland township.
Adams county, residing near Natural Dam, while
driving along a road in that vicinity was startled
and amazed when looking into the sky to see a
large bald eagle swooping down toward him.
The bird pounced upon Mr. Yingling, lighting on
his leg, when it began tearing his flesh with its
claws and making the attack more severe by
piercing him with its beak. After fighting the
eagle, he managed to get it under his feet and
with forceful stamping crushed the life out of his
adversary.
—A 4,000 mile race to reach their son before he
died was lost by the parents of 9-year-old John P.
Heller, whose death of injuries received in a foot.
ball game was reported on Tuesday in Philadel-
phia to the coroner. Clyde A. Heller, the boy’s
father, is the president of a mining company
with interests in Alaska. He and Mrs. Heller
were in Vancouver on their way to Alaska when
they were informed that their son had been ser-
iously injured. Chartering a boat and a special
train to San Francisco they hurried to this city
to learn that the boy had died.