Demorraiic Wada,
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Happy New Year!
' —How many times have you written
it 1914?
—Let’s all make up our minds to boost
Bellefonte this new year.
_ —Don’t turn over any new leaves un-
less you mean to keep them turned.
——MTr. BRYAN is in favor of prohibi-
tion but not through the process of a
Federal constitutional amendment. The
President is opposed to that sort of thing
and Mr. BRYAN has a wholesome respect
for the opinions of his employer.
—Nearly every merchant in Bellefonte
reports that his business on the day be-
fore Christmas was a disappointment.
They add, however, that their holiday
trade was quite up to, and in a few cases,
surpassing expectations. This seems to
be proof that the “Do Your Shopping
Early” campaign found many followers
in this community. The WATCHMAN has
heard of few complaints 2nd infers, there-
for, that the business was much better
than early predictions made it.
—The business men and property own-
ers of Bellefonte should not fail to at-
tend the Board of Trade meeting to be
held in the Logan Engine house next
Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Business
of much importance to the welfare of
our own community is to be transacted
and everyone should attend. Persons
who are not in a position to help finan-
cially often make the mistake of think-
ing they are of no use at such places. As
a matter of fact a real hearty booster
with no money is worth ten times as
much as a knocker witha wad that would
choke a cow.
—The announcement of JAMES E.
HARTER, of Penn township, that he is an
aspirant for nomination by the Demo-
crats for the office of County Treasurer
will probably open things politically. It
will make a long and exhaustive cam-
paign for the candidates, but as all the
county offices, including President Judge,
are to be voted for next fall there will be
lots of ground to cover and hosts of peo-
ple to see. County elections are becom-
ing more and more matters of personali-
ty and activity of the individual aspirants
and for that reason it seems the wise
thing to get busy and stay on the job
until the verdict of the voters is record-
ed.
. —You will probably recall that several
times during the summer and fall of
1914 the esteemed Centre Hall Repeater
“made the announcement that the WATCH-
MAN does not tell the truth. You were
doubtless surprised that the good old
sheet that comes from an editor who has
been in prison and whose office has been
mobbed many times for fighting the
fights of Democracy for the past fifty-
nine years should deteriorate into a fla-
grant liar, but such is the opinion of our
erstwhile friend from over the mountain.
Now just because the WATCHMAN could
never rest under a destinction that it
hasn’t honestly earned it is going to tell
a lie that will finally clinch Mr. “Spike”
SMITH’S opinion that it doesn’t tell the
truth. Listen, all of you, to the one
grandest lie the WATCHMAN has ever
told. Here itis: The people of Centre
Hall are simply prostrated with joy over
the announcement that Mr. “Spike”
SMITH, editor of the Centre Hall Repeater,
has been made postmaster of that town.
It isn’t a very long one, is it? But we'll
wager our chances of passing a civil
service examination if nearly everybody
in Centre Hall, excepting Mr. “Spike”
and our old friend GEORGE GOODHART,
doesn’t say it’s the d——st biggest one
they ever heard.
—The Economy and Efficiency com-
mission appointed by an act of the last
Legislature to examine into the manner
in which the States’ business is handled,
has reported to Governor TENER. It
found that there are 6,152 positions in
the state government which draw an ag-
gregaie salary of $3,613,409.44. It makes
some very good suggestions as to changes
in present methods but we are of the
opinion that the Commission assumed
prerogatives that were not given it when
it essaved to advise the trustees of The
Pennsylvania State College as to the cur-
riculum of that institution. HARRY S.
MCDEVITT, JACOB SOFFEL and WILLIAM
H. FISHER are the Commisssion. Are
they competent to pass upon what
courses of instruction a great institution
of learning should afford the young men
and women of the State? If they are it
is quite evident they have never read the
Land Grant Act by which The Pennsyl-
vania State College was endowed by Con-
gress else they wouldn't have advised it
“to bear in mind that it was created pri-
marily as an agricultural institution *
* #% * there is plenty for it to do in its
own restricted sphere.” We quote from
the Act of 1863, endowing the College, as
follows: “The leading object shall be,
without excluding other scientific and class-
ical studies, and including military tac-
tics, to teach such branches of learning
as are rzlated to agriculture AND THE
© MECHANIC ARTS * * * in order to pro-
* mote the liberal and practical education
of the industrial classes * * * and
that is exactly what The Pennsylvania
State College is doing and what it should
continue to do, the advice of this Com-
T
mission to the contrary notwithstanding.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JANUARY 1, 1915.
NO. 1.
The President’s Most Malignant Critic.
The most malignant as well as the
most inconsistent of the enemies of Pres-
ident WILSON is the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. Occasionally it “condemns him
with feint praise,” but that is obviously
Pennsylvania the Keystone of Democracy.
cratic party of Pennsylvania seemed
most auspicious. The votérs of the
party had become reconciled to the rape
! of the organization which had deposed
{ An Absurd Remedy.
: I
A year ago the future of the Demo-| The decision of the State Public Serv- | From the Philadelphia Record. *
ice Commission with respect to the in-
crease of rates to commuters in the
neighborhood of Philadelphia, was disap-
, pointing, no doubt, for there was a good |
Party Unity.
A New York paper which is more or |
less Democratic, but is never satistied
with the party or its Presidents, is now
treating Mr. Wilson very much as it did
Mr. Cleveland, whom it maligned and
to deceive casual readers into confidence
of the sincerity of its frequent and un-
just criticisms. For example, when the
President declared, some months ago,
that the industrial and commercial paral-
ysis was more or less psychological, our
bigoted Philadelphia contemporary ridi-
culed the idea in a hundred ways. The
other day, under the caption “Business
Needs Exercise, Not Medicine,” it appro-
priates the President’s thought and am-
plifies it as an original and very happy
conceit of its own. :
That is a trifling incident, however,
but characteristic. In another article
published within a week the Public
Ledger states that “when the profits and
losses of the war are finally reckoned it
is likely that the administration in Wash-
ington will emerge as the chief bene-
ficiary on this side of the ocean.” The
idea it desired’ to'convey in that sentence
is that the market for American prod-
ucts created by the war averted evil
consequences of the policies of the ad-
earnest and faithful leaders for an ex-
periment with new men who had been
liberal in promises of efficiency. But the
glowing expectations were not fulfilled.
The spirit of faction which had previous-
ly asserted itself fed upon the ambitions
of the new leaders and wrecked the
hopes of victory. At the end of the year
the party was in worse condition than
ever before. A poor third in the strug-
gle for supremacy it is without organiza-
tion, hope or faith. No silver is discern-
able in the lining of the cloud of dis-
pair.
We are today entering upon a new
year which ought to be made the begin-
ning of a new era for the Democracy of
the Keystone Commonwealth. “Truth
crushed to earth will rise again,” and
the ravished Democratic party of Penn-
sylvania may lift itself out of the “slough
| of despond” into which it has stumbled.
| This grand result may be accomplished
| by the simplest processes. It is not nec-
i cssary to reorganize. The present or- |
{ deal of validity to their claims. Many | blackguarded by all the arts known to it
i
i
road officials to locate in suburban towns
by the promise of low rates of transpor-
tation between their homes and their
work and others located in the suburbs
of their own accord because of the low
rates. But the proposition of their coun-
sel, Mr. ABBOTT, that the Commissioners
be removed from office as a punishment
for the exercise of their lawful discretion
was an absurdity of the most glaring
type.
Public officials should be held to a
strict accountability in the performance
of their duties and where they are clear-
ly defined compelled to literal results. |
But if they have discretionary power it '
is not only the duty but it is wise to act
according to the dictates of conscience.
They may be quite as nearly right as
those who take the opposite view and
there is no arbitrary rule to govern the
matter. Possibly in the case in point the
Commissioners favored the railroads. In
ministration. “The disappearance of the | ganization officials need not be deposed. | view of the personnel of the body it is
favorable foreign trade balance in the They have been inefficient because they | €asy to imagine that they did incline
spring, with its menace to the American followed factional lines and pursued a | that way. But ripping them out of of-
gold reserve,” says the Ledger, “justified ' policy of destruction rather than one of | fice is not the surest or best remedy.
forebodings for the future. But the war
has made such heavy demands upon this
country for supplies that the favorable
trade balance in the next twelve months
is likely to be greater than in any pre-
vious year.”
As a matter of fact there was no per-
ceptible change in the foreign trade bal-
| construction. The mistake may have
' been of the head, however, and not of
the heart. If they will reverse their line
! of march they may achieve the triumph
| the party principles deserve.
| There are as many Democratic voters
"in Pennsylvania now as there ever have
| been and more. But the policy of pro-
ance in the spring of 1914. About mid- | scription which has been the recent rule
summer, when the war broke out, com- | will not bring them to the polls. It de-
plete commercial paralysis sect in and | prives them of hope and robs them of
continued for a month or two. But this ' faith. It'leaves them without incentive
was not ascribable even remotely to the to activity or effort. On the other hand
policies of the administration in Wash-
ington. It was the logical consequence
of the fear of capture of ships and car-
goes at sea and the withdrawal of the
insurance, companies fram the .seryice
they had been’ performing.
ghosts were laid by the partial return of
reason and confidence, foreign commerce
was resumed to some extent and the fa-
vorable trade balance set in. If the of-
fice boy in the Ledger shop has intelli-
gence enough to meet the requirements
of a country printer's devil, he could
have given his stupid editor this infor-
mation.
Of course the foreign trade is still lim-
ited to commodities of actual necessity,
or nearly so. Notwithstanding the bet-
ter sentiment on the subject there is
greater hazard of the capture and confis-
cation of cargoes than business men like |
to encounter and most of :the loaded
ships go out from our shores instead of
in. That is why the trade balance is so
greatly in our favor as to delight thi
‘When these’
harmony inspires energy and gives force
to purpose. Therefore if the managers
of the Democratic organization will be
‘just and fair to all honest and earnest
Democrats restored. hope. -and-renewed|
confidence will influence effort and com-/
mand victory. Thisis all that we need
to reinstate us in our rightful position in
the political force of the State and make
. us the Keystone of Democracy.
——Everybody takes a fling at Ger-
many and there is abundant reason for
; condemning the militarism which brought
ton the destructive war. But the Ger-
‘man armies have certainly fought val-
'iantly against vast odds and have earn-
| ed admiration by their courage and fidel-
“ity to their country, however wrong it
may be.
The Hobson Amendment.
ves, the other day, upon the HoBsoN
amendment to the constitution can hard-
The vote in the House of Representa-
ti
mi quacks who appear to imagine ly be interpreted as an expression of the
that the only profit in foreign commerce ! sentiment of the members with respect
goes to the exporter. In the course of to the question of prohibition. Many
time there will be a complete adjustment ! }
of commercial conditions but meantime
the real beneficiaries of the business are
those engaged in the trade, and not the
administration.
—Inasmuch as we have spent four
hundred million more dollars on our navy
during the past sixteen years than Ger-
many spent on hers; inasmuch as Germa-
ny’s navy hasn’t been licked yet and inas-
much as every cent of the money we
have spent was appropriated by a Re-
publican Congress and expended by a
Republican Navy Department we can’t
see what all thjs Republican holler about
the inefficiency of our navy means.
—It is gratifying to learn, moreover,
that Santa Claus met with fewer ac-
cidents this year than usual. In other
words, though his philanthropy is undi-
minished he is becoming more careful.
(Se erp————
——Now if HoBsON would take him-
self out of the proceedings of Congress |
as completely as his hobby has been
kicked out of the House of Representa-
tives, the future would look brighter.
——1It will be exceedingly cruel if Mr.
JOHN D. ROCKERFELLER is compelled to
pay his taxes just as poor men have to
do. But this is an exceedingly cruel
world.
—If you're on the water wagon now
beware of the water that splashes out as
she jolts along. It freezes rapidly in this
cold weather and you're likely to slip off.
——The idea of using patronage in
politics is so repugnant to Senator PEN-
ROSE that he is threatened with a con-
niption fit.
——If somebody doesn’t watch out
Mr. ScHwAB will be voting the Demo-
cratic ticket before long. He is very op-
timistic.
members of Congress who had no sym-
‘pathy with the purpose of the resolution
voted for it and others who believe in
and would have prohibition cast their
| votes on the opposite side. There were
other considerations than that of tem-
| perance involved in the issue. The
| fundamental principle of home rule was
| closely associated with it. The temper-
ance question was simply an incident, a
sort of side issue.
{ There are a great many men in this
| country, in and out of public life who
| hope for the obliteration of state lines
| in the government of the United States.
| They believe in the concentration of pow-
| er at the seat of government at Wash-
{ ington and the resolution of HOBSON was
‘a subterfuge to create the precedent
i which might easily, thereafter, be tor-
| tured into an endorsement of this notion.
It may well be believed that President
WiLsON and OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD were
so influenced. They are both temperate
men but they are alike fixed in the
principles of government proclaimed by
JEFFERSON. j
The question of prohibition is a moral
one to be reckoned with by the States.
The control of it is a police power which
is local. There is no warrant in the con-
specific protest against the exercise of
power by the Federal government which
is not authorized by the constitution.
These are the reasons which influenced
certain men who are absteminous if not
total obstainers to vote against the HOB-
SON resolution. Temperance advocates
may regret the result of that vote but it
revealed a high order of patriotism and
a substantial basis for hope.
——Meantime Senator LODGE will need
both an army and navy to get himself
re-elected and it would require a large
army and navy to accomplish it, at that.
1
There are other methods of procedure.
If those residents in the suburbs of
Philadelphia feel that they have been
wronged by the action of the Public
Service Commission, their remedy is in
the courts or by impeachment proceed-
ings. - If the precedent of ripping officials
out by executive decree or gubernatorial
edict were adopted it would be hard to
get good men into office because the ten-
ure would be altogether too uncertain.
There is no greater security of efficiency
and fidelity in office than the certainty
of the tenure. In this country the poli-
cy has been to make terms short in or-
der to make the removal of bad officials
easy and certain. But if they are short
would:serve.
——A number of Bellefonters are
planning to go to Harrisburg next Mon-
day to witness the opening session of the
Legislature, which will convene that day,
and a speaker elected. The Legislature
will then ‘adjourn until Tuesday, January
19th, the day of the inauguration of Gov-
ernor-elect Martin G. Brumbaugh.
Report of the Economy _ and: Efficiency
Commission.
* Very little of value was expected from
the “Economy and Efficiency Commis-
|'sibn” appointed by Governor TENER
something over a year ago, under au-
thority of the Legislature of 1913, and
measuring its work by the report, a sum-
mary of which has been published, very |
little has been produced. It récommends
State civil service which is in accord with
public sentiment and civil pensions which
are not.
State highways which may or may not
be advisable and the increase of salaries
makes one or two recommendations
which if adopted will justify the expense
it has entailed.
The report says there are too many
commissions and suggests the con-
solidation of some of them to reduce
the number. The WATCHMAN has com-
plained of this evil many times but rec-
ommended abolition rather than con
solidation. Of course. the Legislature
will adopt neither suggestion. These
commissions have been created to give
profitable places to political henchmen
| of them had been induced by the rail- | during two administrations, and fawned
‘question. Mr. Wilson’s moderation, to-
anils.uncertain. both only. adventurers
when the new Members will be sworn in
It suggests the rerouting of the
which is clearly not desirable. But it’
upon him during the last year of his life,
when he was entirely out of politics. It
observes the Republican joy over Mr.
Wilson's “course in splitting the Demo-
cratic party wide open in a patronage
fight,” and adds that “in any enterprise
calculated to demoralize the Democratic
party Mr. Wilson has never needed out-
side encouragement.”
This is just the same sort of stuff we
used to get from the same source re-
garding Mr. Cleveland. After a few
years, when Mr. Wilson has completed
his valuable services to the country and
has retired from politics, he will get from
the same eminent authority beautiful.
tributes to his courage, his patriotism
and his sound judgment.
* * * * * * *
Instead of dividing the party, Mr. Wil-
son has made it. more united
than it has been for 20 years. The seri-
ous division in the party occurred soon
after 1892 on the coinage and currency
gether with persistence, and his réemark-
able diplomacy, have brought both wings
of the party together in the new Banking
and Currency law. He has been not less
successful in winning the support of
divergent elements in the party
in the laws extending the opera-
tions of the Anti-Trust law, and provid-
ing for further curtailment of the power
of combinations, while safe-guarding
business that is not of a monopolistic
character. The opponents of the Trusts
and the representatives of big business
have been brought together as a few
years ago it seemed they never could be.
Mr. Wilson has procured a reduction
of the tariff, and that, we presume, and
not a difference with three Senators over
patronage, is the real occasion for the
attack upon him. Unfortunately for
Protectionists who think they are Demo-
crats, the overwhelming majority of
Democrats are in favor of a low tariff,
and have a majority of the country with
them, and have had in most of the elec-
tions of the last 30 or 40 years where
other issues were not involved. Mr.
Wilson will never secure the admiration
of Protectionist Democrats until he shall
have retired from politics, and then Mr.
Cleveland's experience warrants the.ex-
pectation that he will be the object. of |
, warm admiration.
More Countries in the War?
From the Harrisbug Star-Independent.
That Greece and Rumania will enter
the war has been foreshadowed, it seems,
by the guarantee which has now been
given to them by Great Britain, France
and Russia that in the event of their ac-
| tive participation they will not be at-
tacked by Bulgaria. The declaration of
its neutrality by Bulgaria, apparently
brought about by the careful diplomacy
of the Allies, may decide Greece and Ru-
| mania as nothing else could, to take up
arms against Germany, Austria Hungary
{and Turkey.
During recent months it has been gen-
, erally reported that the Rumanian peo-
: ple have been eager to join the Allies
' and the sympathies of Greece have been
| known to lie on the same side. The po
| sition of Bulgaria had been open to ques-
tion, and that it might join Germany to
avenge itself for the humiliation it un-
derwent in 1913, had even been suggest-
ed. Now that it has declared its neutral-
ity, however, Rumania and Greece have
been assured by the Allies that they need
not fear Bulgarian armies if Greece and
Rumania enter the conflict.
With these two countries entering the
game of war, there would be almost a!
million more men opposing the Kaiser
Now that the Bulgarians are pledged not
. to take sides, it may be only a question
of time before Rumanians and Greeks
will be fighting side by side with English-
men, Frenchmen and Russians.
Of greater import than the entrance of
Rumania and Greece into the war would
be active participation by Italy. That
the latter nation, now avowedly neutral,
will soon be on the side of the Allies,
, has been accepted as highly probable. A
| dispatch from Rome says that soldiers of
! the 1892 class in the Italian army, which
would have shortly been dismissed, have
been retained under the colors by royal
| stitution for the exercise of such power |
by the Federal government and there is |
and so long as the henchmen are present ' decree. Then, too, the country’s nation-
and need the jobs, they will not be dis- | 8 Joa of 3200000000 is not without
- | .
turbed. The Economy and Efficiency | “1 (0511d seem that the game of war
Commission was created for this. reason has just begun; that the combatants are
and now that its time has expired some only getting in line, and that the actual
other commission will be appointed to conflict has not yet started in all earn-
: . _.__. 'estness. Additional entries in the gam
take its place. From the beginning it are still to be expected. Sine
has been regarded as a joke. |
The recommendations that the For-
estry, Fish and Game departments be |
consolidated in a department of conser- From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
vation and that the State College receive | The report of the committee appoint-
more generous treatment are reliefs in | ed by the State Educational Association
i i at its meeting in Pittsburgh a year ago
the Mmpngtony of Plefinues of a jon the suggests a number of amendments to the
report 1s. made up. he same. Lommis. |, school code. Chief among theses
sion has been an instrument of harm the proposal for the reorganization of the
for vears and since the retirement of Dr. school system on county units. The plan
ROTHROCK, the forestry service has been Would call for the election at large of a
a monument of inefficiency. The De- | smallipcarg of county directors who
School Code Amendments.
; j 5 intendent,
partment of Fisheries has been improved Would glect the Comaty superintendent
by the present Commissioner but there |
is room for further advancement and the
consolidation of all under an efficient
head might achieve the purpose. But
the Economy and Efficiency Commission
has eaten up its appropriation.
——The WATCHMAN enjoys the proud |
distinction of being the best and cleanest '
county paper published.
levy a county school tax, and generally
have supervisory powers over the local
boards,. Other recommendations urge a
revision of the system of taxation on the
line of State uniformity, standardization
of rural schools,’ more ‘State normal
schools, the selection by the State board
of High schools where a postgraduate
course of two years’ preparation for
teaching could be obtained, and an ap-
propriation to make effective the mini-
mum salary increase by $5 a month
; SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Robbers broke into eleven cars in the Pennsy
freight yards at Latrobe and carried away a
. quantity of goods contained iherein.
—The lifeless body of an unknown foreigner
was found hanging in a shanty in the Sunshine
mines district near South Fork. He was about
35.
—The Cambria Steel company has received an
order from the Westmoreland Coal company
for 100 steel freight cars. The order is for im-
mediate delivery.
—L. M. Sanderson, a merchant of Lilly, was
convicted in the Cambria county court of selling
18% pounds of suzar for 25 pounds. He says he
will appeal to a higher court.
—Mrs. Jane A. McNamara, of Williamsport,
who was struck by a motorcycle and badly hurt
more than a month ago, is dead of her injuries.
She was one of Williamsport’s oldest residents.
—During a Christmas celebration at Colver,
Cambria county, one of the guests, Steve Bod-
ner, fell down stairs and broke his neck. He
was 39 years old and is survived by a wife and
five children. h
—J. Woods Clark, of Indiana, recently appointed
clerk of the United States district court for the
western district of Pennsylvania, is a son of the
Justice Silas M. Clark, of the Supreme court of
Pennsylvania. :
—Samuel Mason, charged with the murder of
his brother-in-law, John Roof, at Homer City, was
acquitted by an Indiana county jury and imme-
diately re-arrested, charged with carrying con-
cealed weapons. ’ :
—The Reliance Window Glass Manufacturing
company, of DuBois, is overwhelmed with orders
and is putting out a car load of glass a day. Itis
a pleasure to hear of an industry that is un-
«affected by the hard times.
—Charles Raider, aged 46 years, residing near
Liberty, Lycoming county, was frozen to death
while attempting to make his way home from
Liberty carrying a pair of horse blankets as a
Christmas gift for his employer.
—The rumor is reaffirmed that the proposed
State Industrial home for women is to be built on
a tract. of about 500 acres of land extending from
the Pennsylvania railroad at Muncy station back
to the State forest reserve on Bald Eagle moun-
tain.
—The Winburne postoffice was entered and’
robbed of $60 in money and stamps on Saturday
evening. The identity of the guilty party has.
not yet been discovered, but it is thought to
have been some one more or less familiar with
the interior of the office,
—Donald Burchfield, aged 17, and Helen Fink,
aged 16, both of Mifflin, eloped the other even-
iag on matrimonial thoughts intent. They were
captured at Harrisburg, however, and held unti]
the arrival of the lad’s father, who took the lov-
ing but unwedded pair back to Mifflin.
—Miles Kyler, a Nippenose valley farmer, is
dead at his home near Rauchtown, the result of:
a fall in which he ruptured a blood vessel in his
head while cutting ice on a pond near his home,
some hours before his death: He was 61 years
old and is survived by a widow and six children.
—Archie Moran, aged 10 years, living with his
mother at Munson, Clearfield county, was fatally
injured Monday morning by running into a
trolley car. He lived a half hour after the ac-,
cident. Two other boys who were with him
went under thecar but escaped without injury."
—A Westmoreland county woman has “begun a
suit to have a divorce set aside that was granted’
her twenty years ago. Her former husband died,
recently bequeathing a fortune of $170,000 to his
children and his second wife. ‘The first wife
wants the divorce annulled so she can get her’
third.
tailed on DuBois for more than a quarter of a.
century occurred last Saturday night when the
large general store room of the B. R. and P.
locomotive shops was completely destroyed, with
itscontents. It.is believed the loss on stock will
aggregate $200,000.
—The Clearfield Brick Manufacturing Co. has:
just landed an order for six million paying brick
for delivery as soon as possible at Miami, Florida,
The company’s two plants—No. I'at Centre and
No. 2 at Krebs—will start in on the big order:
about January Ist and keep them running steady.
for nearly six months. :
—The Kane Brick company. recently received.
the largest order in their history... The order
which was received through Fiske & Co., of Bos-
ton, calls for the delivery of approximately 1,000.-
000 brick. The plant started operations to its
full capacity on Monday, as a result of the order
which insures steady operations for four months.
—The body of Albert Stansky, a quarrelsome
citizen of Westmoreland county, was found tied
to the railroad track the morning after Christ-
mas. He had been badly beaten over the head:
and stripped of his clothing and was probably
frozen to death if he did not die of his wounds.
Seven suspects have been arrested and lodged in’
jail rei Bane ’
—According to the Clearfield Public Spirit an:
Italian invaded a Chinaman’s place of business;
there the other day and robbed him of some
money. The Chinaman complainedito. an*Irish
neighbor who notified a Scotch policeman. The"
officer sent a posse consisting of two Americans,
a German and an Englishman after the robber;
who escaped. AEE Dw
—Mrs. L. S. Jackson, of Lock Haven, whose
‘husband is an inmate of the Danville hospital for
the insane, has appealed to the council of ‘Lock
Haven to secure the man’s release. She de-
clares that while he is in a helpless condition
physically, he is not insane. She also alleges
‘that he is not properly clad and is the victim of
gross neglect.
—Receivers for the Sunbury and Susquehanna
Railroad company, a $1,000,000 corporation operat-
ing trolley ‘lines between Selinsgrove, Sunbury
and Northumberland, last week applied to the
‘Northumberland county court for an order of
sale. Argument will be heard January 8th. The
road is nine miles long and went into the hands
of receiverslast May. It has defaulted in inter-
est payments and has unpaid bills of more than
$100,000.
—Figures gathered by wardens for the State
Game commission show that 27 deaths occurred
through hunting accidents in Pennsylvania dur-
ing the 1914 season. This is an increase of two
over last year and the majority are shown to
have been of rabbit hunters, some of whom were
killed by discharge of their guns while climbing
fences. Itis estimated that one thousand deer
were killed in the State during the fifteen days of
the hunting season.
—Just as the family of Harry Cabman, con-
sisting of himself, wife and daughter sat down to
supper the other evening at their home in Her-
minie, Westmoreland county, gas which had es-
caped from one of the mains and followed a
sewer into the house, was ignited at a grate fire,
and a terrific explosion followed, dropping the
family into the cellar and setting the house on
fire. The three victims were rescued but the
house was destroyed.
—Charles Peters, who was killed" by a Balti-
‘more and Ohio train near Meyersdale some days
| ago, would have been buried in, a pauper’s grave
had it not been for two benevolent citizens of
Meyersdale, who paid the expenses of his burial.
It is said he was a member of a prominent family
of Baltimore and when he landed in Somerset
county thirty years ago was worth about $40,000,
which gradually disappeared, and for some years
| past he spent a portion of his time in the county
under the new code.
home.
\ “~The heaviest financial loss that has been ‘en =~ =