Dieworralic atc
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Incidentally, let us remind you that
there are only thirty-one shopping days
until Christmas.
——The Germans are making an
heroic fight but what’s the use. In the
end they must yield and the longer they
resist the heavier the penalty will be.
—There are more than forty-six thous-
and automobiles, not to mention the
mules, in Missouri. And, we reckon, it
is some question as to which are the
hardest to handle.
—The large demand for safety razors
recently reported from Austria-Hungary
rather discredits the Russian reports that
the Czars forces have practically annihi-
lated the Austrian army.
—Talking about this “made in Amer-
ica” slogan for the upbuilding of Ameri-
can industry what’s the matter with a
Bought in Bellefonte slogan for doing
justice to the business men of our com-
munity?
—The average cod-fish weighs a little
less than eight pounds and lays seven mil-
lion eggs. The average chicken hen weighs
about four pounds and lays——well the
report would probably be better if she
were crossed with the cod-fish.
——As we have said before, our liber-
ality to the Belgians is magnificent. But
according to the newspapers there are
a lot of starving women and children in
the coal regions of the middle west, and
charity ought to do something at home
besides beginning. A
—We had the first real bite of winter
on Tuzssday morning. The thermometer
hovered around 24 degrees in the morn-
ing and did not rise above the freezing
point all day. The farmers who are late
with their corn husking suffered most,
but there are not many of them in the
county.
—According to the latest official re-
ports from the clerk of the House at
Washington there will be 233 Democrats,
193 Republicans, 7 Progressives, 1 In-
dependent and 1 Socialist in the next
Congress. This will give the Democrats
a majority of 31 over all other parties
combined.
——If the Democratic State organiza-
tion had given the attention to candidates
for Congress in this State which honor
and party obligations required, there
would be more Democrats in the next
Pennsylvania delegation in Congress and
the Democratic majority in the House
would not be so meager. :
—So far as Thanksgiving is concerned
turkeys are not worth 24cts. the pound.
If you are well and happy you should be
thanks giving on Thanksgiving day if
you have nothing more than bean-soup
on the table. It isn’t what.you have to
eat that counts. It’s the fact that you've
been spared to eat anything.
—The Chicago Tribune's idea of adopt-
ing the orphan Belgian children rather
than sending succor to them isa good
one. Thousands of childless American
homes could be made happier than they
are and the little folks of stricken
Belgium could be brought up far better
by adopted parents than with none at all.
——-The Democratic candidate for Con-
gress in the Erie district was elected in
spite of the open opposition of the Unit-
ed States District Attorney for the West-
ern district, who lives in Crawford coun-
ty. But the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Schuylkill district was
not able to overcome the secret opposi-
tion of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General, though he lived in another dis-
trict.
—All those big orders that CHARLES
M. SCHWAB is bringing home from Eu-
rope to his Bethlehem mills will be
heralded as signs of prosperity that have
so quickly followed the commission Penn-
sylvania recently gave Mr. PENROSE to
rewrite the tariff law. Take it from us.
CHARLEY was on the other side booking
the orders long before there was any
thought of PENROSE'S stupendous ma-
jority and he would have booked them,
just the same, had PALMER or PINCHOT
been chosen. Business is everywhere for
the getting and if you have the goods
you can find someone to buy them, tariff
or no tariff. :
—When you are wondering why you
pay thirty cents the dozen for eggs that
cost only fifteen twenty years ago and
forty cents the pound for butter when
twenty was regarded as a fair price in
1894, just bear in mind that there are
more than one hundred million mouths
to fill in this country today, whereas
there were only sixty million two decades
ago. While our population has been in-
creasing by leaps and bounds the num-
ber of cattle and chickens in the country
has actually been decreasing during the
past twenty years. Time was when
nearly every family in Bellefonte, for
instance, had its own cow. Now you can
count the number almost on the fingers
of your one hand. You remember when
nearly every Bellefonte family raised two
or more pigs. But the cows left their
cards on the Diamond and the pig sties
were more odoriferous than the rose
gardens so aestheticism and Dr. Dixon
said they must go. They have gone and
we rail because the milkmen have raised
the price of milk and sausage costs
twenty-five cents the pound.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 59.
BELLEF
ONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 20, 1914.
NO. 46.
More Outrages Contemplated. |
A Lesson.
Moving in the Right Direction.
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The obviously stupid, if not actually | For two days last week a party of more | The American Federation of Labor
venal, Democratic organization of Penn- |
sylvania, proposes to continue its faction- i
al fight in the party, notwithstanding the |
rebuke administered to it by the voters :
on the 3rd of November. That is to say
‘a movement is on foot to change the
name of the PALMER-MCCORMICK League
of Philadelphia and convert it into an in-
strument to embarrass the regular Dem- |
ocratic organization of that city. The
“leaders” as these treacherous toy poli- |
ticians style themselves, want some sort |
of an organization “distinctly in sympa- |
thy with them,” and reason that their .
hope in this direction lies in the rehabil-
itation of the now odorous PALMER-Mc- :
CORMICK League. «4
Three years ago a group of selfish
office seekers seized control of the Demo-
cratic organization of the State by meth- |
ods which would have appalled ordinary |
burglars. This group consisted of |
GEORGE W. GUTHRIE, VANCE C. MCcCOR- |
MICK, A. MITCHELL PALMER, JAMES I. |
BLAKSLEE and WILLIAM B. WiLsoN. All
these men except WILSON and PALMER |
had been discredited and discarded office |
seekers and WILSON and PALMER were at
the time in the enjoyment of places con- |
ferred upon them by the old leaders of |
the party. In spite of their incompetency
the party came into power in the coun-
try at the subsequent Presidential elec-
tion, and they all scampered to the pie-
counter. Every man of them wanted an |
office. !
. As has before been stated in these |
columns Pennsylvania had no part in the |
Democratic victory of 1912. The party
in the State was harmonious, enthusias- |
tic and hopeful. The candidates were ;
popular and capable. But the managers
of the campaign were so obsessed with
their own ambitions that they sacrificed
every party interest in order to entrench !
themselves in the power they had un- |
scrupulously usurped. With the Repub- |
lican party divided they failed to bring |
their own party to the polls and Woob-
ROW WILSON firmly fixed in the hearts of
the Democratic voters, polled the small- |
est vote, with a single exceptipn, that
had besn cast for a Democratic candidate
for President in half a century.
“Under such citéumstances modest men
would have refrained from asserting '
claims to the favor of an administration
which they had no part in placing in
power. But these selfish office hunters
are not modest. They began a seige of
the President's office the day of his in- i
auguration and continued it until their |
absurd ambitions were satisfied. WIL- :
LIAM B. WILSON was appointed Secretary
of Labor, GEORGE W. GUTHRIE made |
Ambassador to Japan, JAMES I. BLAKSLEE
got the office of Fourth Assistant Post-
master General and PALMER and Mc-
Cormick were slated for the offices they.’
coveted. Then they turned the party
over to a lot of servile incompetents who
have wrecked it completely.
Now they propose to perpetuate their
power for evil by perpetrating new out-
rages. The creation of a body “distinct-
ly in sympathy” with the defeated and
rebuked State organization is for the
purpose of displacing the legally organiz-
ed Democratic committee of Philadelphia
by methods contrary to law. This will
prolong the factional strife which has
already worked such havoc in the party
and prevent the reconciliation of ele-
ments essential to future party prosper-
ity. But the selfish office seekers who
are drawing fat salaries and exercising
official authority are not concerned
about such things. They know that
President WILSON will be re-elected and
hope to hold their jobs.
——The Bellefonte High school dis-
played an unusual amount of school spir-
it last Saturday afternoon on account of
their football team’s game with the
Clearfield High school. The students
paraded the streets led by the High i
school band, and on the Diamond sang
the High schodl song and gave the High
school yell. The result was they had a
large crowd at the game on old Hughes
field and the contest was one worth
watching. The Bellefonte High school |
won by a score of 12 to 0. To-morrow |
the High school will play the Lewistown !
High schocl in Bellefonte and on Thanks- |
giving day the Bucknell Freshmen team
will be here for the final game with the
High school team. Both these games
will be worth seeing, as the High school
has been playing good football this year.
Give the boys a boost both tomorrow |
and on Thanksgiving, as they deserve
your patronage. These will probably be
the only games you will have a chance
to see this season.
i
——And we have every reason to ap-
prehend that VILLA will live a long time.
——The WATCHMAN enjoys the proud |
distinction of being the best and cleanest
county paper published, Sr rd
i leaders.
than one hundred students from the
Michigan Agricultural College at Lans-
ing, Michigan, made Bellefonte their
headquarters while the football team of
their institution was keeping an engage-
ment to play at State College. So far as
our observations and personal inquiries
were able to inform us they were just
ordinary boys, as boys go. The average
type, evidently, of the student body of
the institution in which they are matric-
ulated.
Search Bellefonte with a fine-tooth
comb and you wont be able to find a
person who has an unfavorable criticism
to make of one of the party. Clean-cut
looking, genteel in their behavior and
polished in their manners they were an
object lesson to boys of - every class and
condition. So far from home that almost
any unmanly act they might have in-,
dulged would scarcely have embarrassed
them upon their return, yet the shade
of the father, mother or sister of each of
them might have been his constant com-
panion while in Bellefonte and no other
feeling than pride would have been
aroused.
They were not “sissy” boys, either.
They were swelling with good red blood.
Their team showed that on Beaver field,
their band showed that in Bellefonte,
their rooters showed that because many
of them had the spirit to make unusual
sacrifices of personal comfort to get here
to cheer for their gridiron heroes. They
were just a crowd of manly fellows of
whom any parents, any institution, ought
to be proud.
There was nothing in Bellefonte espe-
cially to amuse them, vet they had a
in that verdict. But their idea of a good
| time is what puzzles us most when we
| compare it with that of other groups of
College boys we have known. Therein
lies the singular superiorty of these
Michigan Aggies. They cheered and
paraded the streets and found out more
about Bellefonte’s history, her prominent
citizens and industries in twenty-four
hours than many boys who have spent
their life-time here know. There was no
' rowdyism, no intoxication no vulgarity
‘nothing that ‘we wouldn’t be happy to
know that the students from everyone of
our local institutions emulate both at
home and abroad.
——The Democratic membership in
both houses of the General Assembly has
been reduced to a minimum but the
¢ Democratic organization had no interest
in Democratic candidates other than
those for Governor and United States
Senator.
An Evil and a Remedy.
The esteemed Johnstown Democrat,
' whose able and worthy editor has been
re-elected to Congress, makes the re-
: actionary suggestion that “there should
{ be a revival of the convention system by
the Democrats of this State to the ex-:
tent at least of having an authorized
| representative body to declare the party
program and outline the principles and
policies for which it stands. Party
solidarity must become a thing of the
past,” continues our Johnstown con-
temporary, “if the individual platform
becomes the fashion.”
The evil against which this complaint |
is made is certainly present and the sug-
gestion of a convention to “declare the
party program and outline the principles
and policies for which it stands,” is a
remedy. But it is not the surest, quick-
est or best remedy. The suppression of
the arrogant, incompetent and selfish
bosses who usurped the power vested in
the State committee by law would
achieve the purpose much more effective-
ly. The hungry office grabbers and office
brokers who tried to force their individ
ual prejudices and opinions upon the
party as a platform, violated the law and
outraged every principle of Democracy,
and are to blame for the disaster which
followed. :
“We have no objection to a convention
to “declare the program and outline the
principles and policies for which it
stands.” Such an assembly of earnest
and active party workers at intervals
would have an inspiring influence and
wholesome effect upon the party. It
would be the means of bringing the
strong men of the party together, more-
over, and making them acquainted with
each other. But in any event the usurp-
ers, the office seekers and patronage
brokers,should be driven from their stolen
places of power. .
——President WILSON has probably
learned that Pennsylvania Democrats
prefer to choose their own candidates
and are determined to select their own
'——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN:
struck a true note, during its annual con-
' vention in Philadelphia last week, when
it put the seal of its reprobation upon
militarism. That is not only the bane
of labor but the fountain of evil. The
resolution upon the subject was introduced
by the international typographical union
and it pledged the federation to the sup-
port of “any plan which has for its pur-
pose the disarmament of all nations to
the furtherest extent consistent with the
preservation of law and order in the
world.” That would be the longest and
best step in the direction of industrial
improvement. It would lift from the
back of labor its most crushing burden.
The devastation of Belgium and the
misery in nearly all parts of Europe at
this time are the logical and inevitable
consequences of militarism. For years
to come the whole world will be com-
pelled to stagger under the weight of
debt entailed by the spirit of militarism
which has been fostered during the last
quarter of a century. But for such bur-
dens, ascribable to that cause, there
would be little, if any, cause of quarrel
, between employers and employees. The
expenses of folly must be paid, however,
and capital shifts the charge upon the
weaker partner in the industrial system,
labor, and men, women and children
suffer. The lockouts and the strikes are
the results.
In the resolution in question the Amer-
ican Federation of Labor has set its face
in the right direction. Peace will . bring
plenty and contentment and not only
| glory enough but prosperity sufficient to
go around and capital and labor will
work together in harmony and happiness.
i splendid time. They were of one accord The man or party or organization which
. favors the policy of militarism is not only
| an enemy of his country but a foe of his
! kind and should be avoided as a pesti-
i lence. Take no stock in a proposition to
prepare for war by increasing the army
,and navy. The preparation is not for
glory but for poverty and want and mis-
ery. In time of peace and in all times
| prepare for peace.
——The Prolonged drought in Centre
“coudity, as well as other portions of the
State was partially relieved by a hard
..rain which began on Saturday night and
continued without cessation all day on
Sunday. Considerable rain fell in that
length of time but the ground was so dry
that it soaked in as it would in ‘a sponge.
Cisterns were filled up but it made no
perceptible effect on the springs and
streams. It grew colder Sunday night
! and Monday and by Tuesday morning
| the thermometer was down to eighteen
degrees above zero. Cool weather is
predicted for the week.
New Currency Law in Force.
The opening of the Federal Reserve
banks, on Monday, puts the new cur-
rency law in complete operation. How
efficient it may prove to cure the ills of
{our commercial and industrial life re-
| nine to be seen. If it fulfills the ex-
| pectations of its friends there will be no
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{ more panics in this country. If the pre-
| dictions of its enemies are realized the
| end of financial security is in sight. Hap-
.pily the first prophesy of evil has not
| been fulfilled, however. The opening of
the regional banks and the transfer of
| reserves from individual banks to the
regional institutions, caused no dis-
turbance of credits or strain upon re-
sources in any section of the country.
The principal purpose of the new law
was to inject flexibility into the currency
system. Under the old system, whenever
there was urgent need for an increased
{ volume of currency the circulation con-
tracted. Possibly this was unavoidable.
| But most people came to the belief that
| it was the consequence of conspiracy to
, promote speculation. It was a compara-
tively easy matter for the big banks in
i the centres of commercial operations to
inpound the currency in their vaults and
‘release it only at their pleasure or
!caprice. That hoarding of the currency
' was the main cause of industrial paraly-
sis. It was likewise a prolific source of
speculative operations.
The new law will avert this evil
There can be no “cornering” of the cur-
- rency while thislaw is in operation unless
the members of the Federal Reserve
Board at Washington and the managers
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Re-organizing the State Democracy.
From the Allentown Democrat. ;
It must be plain to every Democrat
who has no selfish ends to attain that the
party in Pennsylvania stands in the
greater need of re-organization than it
did three years ago, when one set of
bosses sought to dethrone another set.
At the time the Democrat warned the
Democrats of the State to go slow in the
matter of taking possession of the party
machinery. We had absolutely no con-
fidence in the Palmers, the Blakeslees the
Guthries, the Morrises and others who set
themselves up as the only Simon-pure
Democrats in the State. We always have
been suspicious of men who affect a
holier-than-thou attitude. We believed
that the sole object of those who three
years ago sought to get control of the
machinery of the party in the State was
to get possession of the federal patron-
age, for at that time it was already ap-
parent that there would be a Democratic
administration at Washington after the
fourth of March, 1913. Our judgment
has been vindicated. The Democrats of
the State handed over the party to Pal-
mer, Blakeslee, et al. and they have ruin-
ed it. But their selfish ends have heen
attained. They have dealt out the feder-
al patronage. Their henchmen have the
jobs, so what do they care even if the
party is so thoroughly demoralized that
it will require heroic treatment to bring
it back into fighting form for the presi-
dential and congressional elections two
years hence. This can never be done
with Palmer, Morris and Blakeslee in
command of the Democratic forces. The
rank and file of the party have lost all
confidence in these leaders. Their con-
tinuance in command of the Democratic
forces of the State will mean that it will
be impossible to get the Democratic vote
out on election day.
The condition of the party in the State
is pitiful. The most important office
filled at the recent election was the Unit-
ed States Senatorship and on this vote
the Democrats have been humiliated by
being forced into third place. Even the
Progressive party, which is so near dead
that the death rattled in its throat, poll-
ed a greater vote than was cast for the
Democratic candidate. With the present
leadership how long would it be before
the Democratic party of Pennsylvania
would be forced to forfeit third place to
the Socialists?
Fortunately, there will be no State
campaign next year. Consequently be-
tween now and the presidential cam-
paign of 1916 a re-organization of the
party can be effected. If Mr. Palmer and
Mr. Morris had a due regard for the
proprieties they would resign their posi-
tions of national committeemen and State
chairman respectively, so that the work
of re-organization might go ervunidirder:
ed. According to reports Messrs. Palmer
avi Morris contemplate daily this very
thing.
The Non-Partisan Ballot a Failure.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
It is a bitter disappointment to those
who advocated the non-partisan primary
and ballot as applied to the judiciary to
have forced upon them the conviction
that the experiment has been an utter
failure. The experience of Philadelphia
in the selection of the judges of the
Municipal court and of the State in the
choice of Supreme and Superior caurt
| judges proved beyond question that the
power of the political machine was in no
way curbed by the new system. but, on
the contrary, made it much easier for the
machine to name the judges. More seri-
ous still, the pretense of non-partisan-
ship compels candidates for judicial office
to engage in political struggles thorough:
ly incompatible with the spirit of judicial
non-partisanship. The parties still have
their candidates, party machinery is
openly used in their behalf, and the re-
sults reflect not the untrammeled judg-
ment of the voters, but the manipulation
of shrewd politicians, and often the ex-
penditure of large campaign funds. The
non-partisan primary and ballot are fail-
ures and ought to be abolished.
Return of the Penroses.
From the New York Globe.
A mistake will be made if the Pen-
roses and the Cannons construe what
has happened as their victory. They
wrecked their party two years ago by
forcing, through control of the party ma-
chinery, a nomination that the party had
declared itself averse to. The spirit’ of
their leadership was condemned at the
polls not only by a plurality for Presi-
dent Wilson, but by a larger popular vote
for Col. Roosevelt than for Mr. Taft.
‘If the Republican party hopes to win
in two years it must keep in the back-
ground its old reactionary element and
turn for its leadership to progressive
members of the party. Let it be clear
that the old standpatism is in control
and that it has not learned anything, and
the progressive element in the party, in-
stead of trying to maintain a new organi-
zation, will support President Wilson by
millions. The best thing for the Wilson
administration yesterday was the return
to Congress of a number of Republican
bourbons. Intelligent Republican activity
should run in the direction of minimizing
their influence.
Premature’ Presidential Talk.
of the regional banks are recreant. Each | From the Altoona Times.
regional bank is supplied with sufficient
All this talk about “making” Governor-
emergency currency to meet the require- | elect Brumbaugh the next President of
ments of the district in which it is locat-
ed and the emergency currency must be
issued under the conditions provided by
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this nation is’ pure moonshine. Two
years will intervene before the people
elect a successor for President Wilson,
and much may happen to make the sug-:
law, when the emergency arises and the | gestion of over-enthusiastic admirers
demand is made. The new system went
into operation on Monday without creat-
sound foolish. Mr. Brumbaugh will have
opportunity to demonstrate his capacity
for higher office before he is called to
ing a ripple upon the surface of the sea ater responsibility, and upon the man-
2 Pps To |e in which he meets his duties will
|d
epend in large measure the reception
his name ‘will receive before the national
: | convention of his party. - sith
‘ey was pai
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party 1mprison
the armory. The case is in
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Frank D. Jerald, a forester for the State, who
was accidentally shot by Arthur Callahan and
taken to the Williamsport hospital, is dead of his
injuries. i
—Two Clinton county young men slept togeth-
er the other night. While one ‘was dreaming he
gave his companion a terrific punch in the face,
breaking his jaw. : :
—C. H. Weir, a prominent resident of Clymer,
Indiana county, has been arrested on the charge
of stealing $3,355 from another resident of Cly-
mer whose name is not mentioned.
—Four members of an organized conspiracy to
intimidate and blackmail have been convicted in
Westmoreland county and will probably spend
some time in the western penitentiary.
~The’ burgess of DuBois has determined to
put a stop to violations of the town’s cow ordi-
nance. Hereafter bovines caught roaming the
streets will be locked up until redeemed by their
owners.
—Miss Margaretta Louden Bell, of Newport,
Perry county, celebrated the 9th anniversary of
her birth last Thursday. A company of friends
enjoyed the day with her. She is in fine health
and in possession of all her faculties.
—A cave-in at a Jefferson county mine disclos-
ed a petrified tree, about 200 feet below the sur-
face. When found the entire tree was there.
The stump was broken off and taken to Sykes-
ville where it was put on exhibition.
—By an explosion of gas in a coal stove last
Sunday morning Assemblyman-elect G. M. Al-
corn, of DuBois, was badly burned about the
face. Fortunately his eyes were uninjured, al-
though the eyebrows were burned off.
—George L. Comp has been appointed pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal church of Wallaceton
to succeed Michael B. Bubb, a well known minis-
ter in the Central Pennsylvania M. E. conference,
who has accepted a call to a Presbyterian church
in New York State.
—Professor Arthur C. Ferry, instructor in’ the
Lewistown High schools, purchased a quart of
oysters Saturday. He bit on something solid and
upon taking it to a local firm of jewelers found
that he had a pearl of great brilliancy. They
made him an offer of $30.
—Johnstown has a citizen who claims that be-
cause he pays nothing for shoes and stockings
and compels his family to earn their own living,
he has money with which to buy liberal quanti-
ties of beer. The mayor gave the chap a con-
tract to clean the public highways.
—The town of Irwin, which has just celebrated
its semi-centennial, never had a murder case in
the courts and hasn’t had a business failure in
five years. About 60 per cent. of its people own
their own homes and nearly 70 per cent. are
church members. That’s a very fine record.
—Daniel D. Smeal, of Irvona. died in the Clear-
field hospital Wednesday morning from injuries
sustained the previous afternoon when the horse
he was driving to Clearfield took fright and
threw him from the buggy, dragging his body
into Clearfield. He was a well known liveryman.
—A Johnstown merchant discovered an alleged
shoplifter in a queer way. The woman carried a
baby which one of the heads of the store admir-
ed and desired to take in his arms. The woman
excitedly refused when it was discovered she had
a couple of unwrapped skirts between the infant
and herself.
—Five young men have been lodged in the
Westmoreland county jail at Greensburg, charg-
ed with the murder of farmer Wedge, who was
fatally shot a few nights ago. Ernest Reeping,
one of their number, says he fired the fatal bul-
let with the intention of frightening the farmer.
He had no thought of killing him. :
—The home of John Andrews, at Woolrich,
Clinton county, has been stricken by the death of
two daughters, both of whom died on the same
day last week from typhoid fever. One was 21
years old, the other about 9. Another daughter
and a babe, the child of the olderdeceaseddaugh-: .
ter, are seriously ill from the same disease.
—Burned to death by boiling taffy was the fate
of F. Eugene Ryland, 17 months old, of Hollidays-
burg. While the child was sitting on the floor
near the kitchen range a pan of molasses taffy"
was spilled on his head, running down his face
and over his body. The boiling substance stuck:
to the skin and burned deeply before it could be
removed.
—Barn Destruction continues. Among the
latest is that of John Lyons, near Hughesville, :
Lycoming county, and with it went to destruc-
tion a valuable team, one driving horse, five head’
of cattle, several hogs, all the farm implements
and large quantities of corn, oats and hay. Mr. .
Lyons was badly burned on the arms and hands °
while trying to rescue some of the horses.
—Mrs. Ellsworth Young, of Duboistown, Ly-
coming county, tried to hasten a fire in a kitchen.
range by using coal oil. The result was an ex-
plosion which resulted in the destruction of the
dwelling and the fatal burning of the woman.
The catastrophe occurred shortly after noon last
Wednesday and the woman, who was only twen-
ty years old, died in the Williamsport hospital
about 60’clock the same evening.
—Samuel Coy, a harness maker and livery sta-
ble owner, of Bedford county, committed suicide:
at his home by hanging himself early Saturday
morning. Coy resided at Woodbury and was
widely known throughout the county. He was
45 years of age, and recently he had brooded:
over financial troubles, he having been sold out
by the sheriff. His father-in-law discovered his
body swinging from the rafters in the Coy barn,
about 5 o’clock on Saturday morning. .
—Mrs. Gilbert Springer, of Patton, narrowly
escaped having her head scraped off on Sunday
when an automobile in which she was riding
plunged under a heavy guard rail. The woman
sustained fractures of both jaws and a cheek
bone, and her little daughter was badly cut about
the head. Mr. Springer, who was driving the
car, dodged as the car passed under the guard
rail, after swerving from the road following a
tire blow-out. Mrs. Springer may not recover
from her injuries.
—Don Gray, who was paroled out from the Re-
formatory to I. Scott Buck, of Warriorsmark
township, on October 22nd broke his parole and
had been working quietly for G. E. Raugh, Ty-
rone R. D. 2, until Wednesday last. Mr. and
Mrs. Raugh, who are moving away, said that
they would be away for a time and had given
young Gray work in setting up fodder in the field
until their return. He hid in the barn and after
Mr. and Mrs. Raugh left he broke in the house,
took $25.00 in money and left.
—A. H. Miller and Samuel Steel, of Somerset,
took to Uniontown recently eighteen head of cat-
tle for D. B. Zimmerman, who owns 20,000 acres
of mountain land between Gibbon’s Glade and
Five Forks. These cattle were bought iby Mr.
Zimmerman last spring and shipped to his Glade
farms to graze. They weigh 1,800 pounds apiece.
He has sold them and is shipping them to Johns-
town. They are fat and will be sold to butchers.
The cattle are of Canadian birth and some of
them have horns five feet long.
—Joseph Snyder and his two sons, Richard and
Arthur, are under arrest at the Forty-fourth regi-
ment, Niagara Falls, charged with high treason
in attempting to take Austrian reservists "across
the border to the American side. They are lia-
ble to a death penalty. The Snyders have been
under surveillance for some time and were
caught in a trap. They were offered $40 to land
four Austrians on the American side. The mon-
and four supposed Austrians were
them. A squad of militiamen sur-
; and isoned the Snyders in
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the hands of the °
of finance and we sincerely hope and
confidently believe it will accomplish
. every expected reform. = |
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