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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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INK SLINGS.
—In the Uniontown coke fields six"
teen thousand partially idle men were
put to work on full time this week. That
makes a noise like reviving business,
doesn’t it?
—Surely it’s time to get alarmed over
this matter of Prohibition. - Here comes
a learned professor with an announce-
ment that in a thousand years even
Niagara Falls will go dry.
—The annual catch of lobsters in the
world is reported as being one hundred
and twenty-five million. While there has
always appeared to be plenty about we
had no idea there were enough to keep
up a supply like that.
—The fellow who was elected to the
Missouri Legislature on a platform that
pledged him “to kill fool bills” could find
a job that would require a good sized
statesman if he would gather up his tools
and move to Harrisburg for the next four
months.
—Certainly the armory evangelistic
meetings are making an impression on
this community. The best evidence of
that is found in the fact that the early
knockers of the movement have put
away their little hammers and have faced
about far enough to admit that “it won't
do any harm.”
—Say what you will about WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN, as Secretary of State,
we recall no Cabinet Premier who could
have made a clearer and more to the
point report on the efforts of our govern-
ment to main its neutrality thanis the
recent statement he has issued for the
information of the Senate committee on
Foreign Relations.
—While listening to Dr. ORR preach-
ing in the armory the other night the
Scriptural account of PAUL’S ministry in
Troas came into our mind and we were
just thinking whata hard time EUTYCHUS
would have had going to sleep had he
been perched up among the rafters of
that crowded structure with this later
day Evangelist shooting hot shot in every
direction until everyone was squirming.
And just when we were about to con-
clude that Dr. ORR had one on PAUL in
the matter of keeping his congregation.
awake we realized that he had to do it,
because he doesn’t have PAUL'S power of
bringing them back to life should they
fall out of their seats and kill themselves
as did EUTYCHUS.
—With the United States Steel Co.
earning less than its dividend require-
ments and the Bethlehem Steel Co. earn-
ing many times as much as it has ever
earned before there seems to be nothing
to the falfiire of one and the success of:
the other than the matter of manage-
ment. You will recall that last year,
when most of the other great steel men
had joined the anvil chorus on the
UNDERWOOD tariff law, CHARLEY SCHWAB,
president of the Bethlehem Co., shocked
the protectionist world by a treasonable
utterance to the effect that he could make
money in the steel business, tariff or no
tariff. While the others were sobbing
their eyes out over the loss of the tariff
pap he chucked a night-shirt and a clean
collar into his grip and hit the road in
the quest of business. He got it too. So
much of it that right in the face of a
Democratic President and a Democratic
tariff his company cleaned up $5,500,000
in profits last year as compared with
only $366,864 in 1908 when THEODORE
ROOSEVELT was President and that won-
‘derfully beneficent (?) DINGLEY tariff
was in’effect.
—While it may be a little premature it
seems to us quite the right thing to say
a word, thus early, to the Democrats of
Centre county that if taken as seriously
as it is meant might save some of them
considerable money, as well as disap-
pointment. We haven’t an idea of who
might be candidates for county office
next fall, but the time is coming on apace,
if it is not already here, when there will
be preening of personal ambition and
scheming of party slate makers. Let
Democrats, generally, be careful about
encouraging ‘men to become candidates.
Let individuals weigh thoroughly the
suggestions of their. friends that
‘ they become candidates. Oftentimes
men?’ ‘are flattered “into entering a
© contest | in which they * Have little
chance, onlyto be disappointed and ‘made
sore when the inevitable: defeat comes.
This practice has done more to break up
the cohesion of the party than many
imagine. If you, ifor instance, have. an |
ambition to run for: “county office—get
as general an sin ‘as you ‘can on
thes, your location and
Sonsider that, from spt: possible: angle
and i in the consideration let pie opifion
Ta
does not 1 porslnde, gi Be
| ymeorie _€ in’ your own
9 3 i Hi eros pe of kbrging the
Sn hr ‘precinct away from an
aspirant in ‘another. part’ of the county
so that ifdigien. who is his real
ie can slip n and. beat you ou both.
Don’t be offended if some tell you things
that you don’t want to hear. Honest men
will telliyou the truth and it might not
be favorable to. your aspirations. If they
are honest and do ‘that they. are yeally
your truest friends: 1 shiny di '
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
VOL. 60. ¢
_BELLEFON TE, PA JANUARY 29, 1915.
Tariff Mongers Answered. |
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
MALBURN completely knocked the props
from under the argument so frequently |
put forward by the tariff mongers recent- |
ly, that the UNDERWOOD law is respon- |
sible for the industrial slump that has
prevailed since the beginning of the Eu-
ropean war, in an interview made public
the other day. “The present tariff had
been in effect nine months when the Eu-
ropean war broke out,” he said. During
the ten months preceding the war “im-
ports increased $101,754,989 over the
same period ending July 31st, 1913, when
the ALDRICH-PAYNE tariff act was in ef-
fect. It has been said that these increas-
ed imports have caused our manufactures
to languish and that the tariff act of 1913
has worked this evil. But it is easily
demonstrated that such is not and can-
not be the case.
Mr. MALBURN appeals to the official
public records to prove his proposition.
He says: “In the first ten months under
‘the UNDERWOOD tariff, prior to the break-
ing out of the war, imports of manufac-
tures of cotton were about $60,000,000
against $53,000,000 for the corresponding
period of 1913 under the old tariff, an in-
crease of less than fifteen per cent. Im-
ports of manufactures of vegetable fibres
increased from $42,000,000 to $49,000,
000, showing an increased demand for
the raw material in spite of the increased
imports of manufactured goods.” In
leather goods, woolen goods and all other
kinds of goods the same result of the
new tariff is shown. The increased im-
portations of raw materials stimulated
the manufactures of products into which
the raw materials entered and made
work more abundant and prices less.
But the breaking out of the war in
Europe not only checked the importation
of materials, raw and finished, but it
closed the market for the sale of either.
As we have previously said for several
months after the beginning cf the war
commerce with the outside world was
completely abandoned. Ship owners
were afraid to risk their bottoms and
merchants were equally timid about send-
ing cargoes into the teeth of inquisitive
and hostile battleships. These doubts are
“iow and ‘before
long commerce will resume its course
and both manufactures and shipping will
flourish as never before. The tariff law
has had no ill effect upon foreign trade
and is equally free from blame for in-
dustrial stagnation.
siemens
——Uncle JoE CANNON is trying to
look indifferently upon the movement to
investigate his election. But he doesn’t
feel that way. He would give about any-
thing to silence the gossip on that sub-
ject. :
|
Absurd and Mischievous Suggestion.
An esteemed Philadelphia contempor-
ary imagines that the refusal of the
Senate to obey his orders in matters of
legislation will ‘afford Governor BRUM-
BAUGH an opportunity “for an initial and
determinative victory.” Presumably our
contemporary would have the Governor
enter the chamber with a base ball bat
or a butcher’s cleaver and knock the
head of ev Senator who refused to
obey orders. #It is probable,” continue
our Philadelphia contemporary; “that a
‘stand-and-deliver’ demand will bring the
Senate to submission.” Obviously the
Philadelphia Public Ledger knows as little ' |
inciples of our governess i
the tariff.
r of the Commonwealth is
not a school aster ‘who may enter the
halls of legislaflon with a hickory stick
in his hand and command obedience. He
is quite as amenable to the restraints of |
the law as anyione else and his relations
to the law-making branch are clearly
defined. He may recommend such legis-
lation as appears desirable to him but he
has no authority to “bring the Senate to
submission” any more than he has the
right to demand obedience from the
Supreme cout. In either event his
usurpation would be properly rescnted
by impeachment proceedings. The Legis-
| lature is responsible to the people for its
actions ant not’ even remotely’ to the
Governor. A
The Legislature ought to be responsive
to the will of the people as ekpressed at
from the Go aamors nterpe etat
is no way to coerce agreement, 2
tempt to force either the Senate or, - House |
into submission would be a greater evil
and a more pressing menace: than any-*
thing else the Legislature might'do. Un:
fortunately there is no legal means “of
preventing ignoramuses- from uttering
such absurdities as that expressed by our
contemporary. It does harm, of course,
but a jackass with the’ prices may own a
newspaper. x i
Rumors of Party Trouble.
There is a good deal of speculation
amohg the politicians of the State as to
what the new Governor will do with re-
spect to “cleaning the Augean stables.”
The independent voters who cast their
ballots for the Republican candidate in-
sist that there was an implied agreement
between BRUMBAUGH and the public that
there would be a general exodus from
‘the departments in the event of his
election. The recent announcement of
the new Secretary of the Commonwealth,
that there would be few, if any changes
in that department, has caused a good
deal of disappointment. That depart-
ment has always been regarded as the
political cauldron of the Hill, and no
changes in personnel means no changes
in policies.
The ripest and juciest plums on the
political tree in Harrisburg, are the seats
on the Public Service Commission. None
of those now enjoying the fat salary and
the abundant leisure of that service have
been confirmed and it is widely conject-
ured that all of them, except Judge
PENNYPACKER and MILTON J. BRECHT,
will be withdrawn. PENNYPACKER is
understood to be slated for a good job as
long as he lives as a reward for his silent
acquiescence in the looting of the treasury
in the capitol building operations. It is
reasoned that those robberies could not
have been accomplished} without his
knowledge and consent and that his
subsequent efforts to shield the criminals
deserve consideration. Mr. BRECHT, of
Lancaster, is a school man and personal
friend of BRUMBAUGH.
If the retiring Governor had left the
one vacancy on the Commission created
by the death of Judge EWING, unfilled,
his other appointees might have gone
through. But shunting his private sec-
retary into that vacancy has incensed
the party leaders. He had done nothing
for the party to deserve such a favor,
they say, and never showed any ability
commensurate with the office. There-
fore they will give the present Governor
a chance “to save his face” by withdraw-
ing that nomination and those of the
others except PENNYPACKER and BRECHT,
the former a tub to the boss yhale and
the other a concession fo thet Sh
himself. Of course this is only specula.
tion but it looks like a good guess.
—In a little 1 more than four weeks
‘RicHARD PEARSON HOBSON will retire
from Congress forever. He will continue
| to be a nuisance indefinitely, of course,
but his opportunities to annoy the people
will be greatly curtailed when he assumes
his rightful place in private life.
Neutrality Asserted and Defined.
Easily the best thing that has come
: out of the State Department at Washing-
ton since Mr. BRYAN assumed the duties
of Secretary of State, is the statement is-
sued under date of January 20th in rela-
tion to the relations between the govern-
ment of the United States and those of
the belligerents in Europe. Obviously it
is the voice of BRYAN but the hand of
WiLsoN that uttered it. It not only
proves absolute impartiality on the part
of the United States but fortifies every
statement with respect to the matter by
a recital, from official sources, of the ac-
tion and the circumstances which led up
to it. Nothing could be clearer or more
convincing. It is a masterful document.
Naturally the partisans of the contend-
ing belligerents would have the govern-
ment of the United States favor the in-
terests which appeal to their sympathies
and the fact that products of American
mills and factories reach the ports of the
allies easier than those of Germany and
Austria-Hungary has a distressing influ-
ence on their minds. But the govern-
ment of the United States is not respon-
sible or blamable for that fact. It is
ascribable entirely to the superiority of
the British and French fighting force up-
on the high seas. These floating fight-
ing machines are able to intercept com-
merce consigned to German or Austria
Hungarian ports, while commerce to
British and French ports is practically
uninterrupted. ;
But the important point asserted in the
statement is that ‘American commerce
must be respected | and undisturbed by all
belligerents. ‘American products must
be open to the marke
they are contrab
what citizens, in the exercise of business
discretion, happen to do. This fact is
clearly set forth in the statement signed
by Mr. BRYAN. It should and no doubt
will have a wholesome influence upon
the public mind at home and abroad. |
—Anyway, all the range of possibilities
in victories is claimed by one, side or
the other in the European war.
f the world, If | as if swa
nd they must take the (will p
is s: chances of seizure which international | somes
| law and usage impose, but those chances,
'€ taken the government of the Unif
States is not to. be held accountable iy
(lead to Ci re ii
g - PEA
and" a new | £2
Luthe t Contract 5 ope
be erec sant Gap the , coming | 1
sum «The big demand for houses at
the Gap'is’ ‘owing to ‘the big operations |
of the 'hiterock quarries, which are now
operating. almost to capacity as well as the
Republican Factions Mobilizing.
Whether or not hostilities will break
out between the VARE and PENROSE fac-
tions in Harrisburg, during the present
session of the Legislature is problematic-
al. Both sides are mobilizing, so to
speak, and the missiles may begin flying
at any moment. The Vares have con-
siderable advantage at present and are
not disposed to give concessions. But
the Governor is keeping close watch upon
the actions of both sides and may avert
the threatened fight until after adjourn-
ment. But after that “the deluge.” The
conflict is inevitable. The State of Penn-
sylvania is not big enough for these fac-
tions to dwell in peace within her boun- |
daries.
"At it appears from this distance the
break will come in the primary munici-
pal campaign next fall. The VARES have |
already chosen a candidate for Mayor |
and with the help of the Attorney Gener- |
al they will put up a strong fight. Their
candidate is GEORGE D. PORTER, now a '
member of Mayor BLANKENBURG’S cabi- |
net. It need not be assumed that the
choice has been made on that account for .
there is no friendship between the Mayor |
and the VARE faction. But the VARES |
are bidding for the reform vote and hope
to capture it by a subterfuge. It is an
old PENROSE trick which they hope to
steal froin the Senator. He used it suc-
cessfully in three State campaigns and
that fact commends it to his enemies.
" Meantime PENROSE and MCNICHOL are
not idle and though they have not dis-
closed their hands it may be safely said
that they will be on the firing line at the
psychological moment and that they will
present a ROLAND for the VARE OLIVER.
It may be Mr. TAYLOR, also a member
of the present municipal cabinet and
another may be chosen. TAYLOR has
been responsible for the prevailing popu-
lar rapid transit agitation which would
add to his availability and give him a
lap or two over PORTER. But in any
event the PENROSE forces will be ready
for action when the charge is ordered
and it will be surprising if they do not
use their weapons effectively. They are
veterans.
duced
for its plrpose changes in the election
laws so as to make fusion of parties im-
possible. Under its’ provisions, if enacted,
a nominee would be permitted to run on
only one ticket and no candidate could
withdraw. and have another Substiguted
for him.
Great Britain is monkeying ‘too
much with the ships of neutral nations.
We should be sorry to see the duty of
calling her to her senses devolve upon
the United States but if the worst comes
to the worst we ought to be equal to the
occasion.
——JAMES M. SULLIVAN, late minister
to the Dominican Republic and intimate
friend of WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, may
have been a first rate prize fight pro-
moter but he seems to have been a
mighty poor dip diplomat.
——Of course there will be no embargo
on the shipment of wheat to Europe. No
good could possibly come from such a
policy and the likelihood of harm is im-
mense.
——The Montgomery county Manu-
facturers’ association isnow trying to get
away from its own follies. But it should | -
not be allowed to escape just punish-
ment. :
~The contending forces in the Eu-
ropean war are making little progress.
though if reports are accurate they are
killing immense numbers on both. sides.
—& HENRY FORD, the Detroit automo: }
bile manufacturer, talks like @atreal phil-
anthropist but probably * the ‘advertising.
he gets out of it balances the a t
——Up to this writing _t the . Bellefonte pen
authorities have failed to locate Harry E.
Campbell, the man ‘who two weeks. ago.
swindled Bellefonte ‘parties’ sutof eighty
five dollars in 1 cold cashafter T resenting.
that he was he 4 o/atrange : for ‘putting |
lefoite Sortaft Jin’ blast. * Appar-
C as “completely
e which ‘may. eventually
projected work at the new peniten
during the coming summer. Residents
of the ‘Gap are looking: for quite’ a boom:
in business there during ‘the present year,
ANY
| don and Ex
bus 8 who sign signs:
tiary | York judge has decided, what is it?
| are poultry. i
| Tnmigration After the War.
i
From the Harrisburg Star-Independent.
Despite contentions that barriers should
- be raised to prevent a flood of foreigners
from overwhelming this coun at the
close of the war, the likelihood is rather
that during the year following the close
of the conflict the immigration gains in
this country will be the smallest in sev-
eral decades. Not only has the war
called aliens living in the United States
back to their native countries, and cut off
the inflow to this country, but it will also
be the means of keeping foreigners at
i home after the war is over, that they
may repair the property, revive the in-
dustry and restore the prosperity which
the war will partly or wholly have de-
| stroyed.
In the countries which are now at war
there will be plenty of opportunities for
| employment offered to the surviving na-
* tives at the close of the conflict, and in-
i ducements for them to stay at home
ought to be greater than any that Amer-
‘ica could hold forth. Neglected soil will
i have to be tilled in the devastated coun-
| tries and abandoned shops and factories
| : reoccupied, and all this with great .num-
bers of the former workers in soldiers’
graves.
Even in the European countries which
‘are so fortunate as to keep out of the |
| war, the opportunities for natives at
home will be greater than they have
: been for some time, since these coun-
| tries will get a large share of the bene-
fit of rehabilitated European trade.
There may be disheartening conditions
after the war in sections of Europe
which are hard hit, with perhaps little
more than ashes upon which to re-estab-
ish industry, but repairs and readjust-
ments will have to be made and the na-
tives will hardly rush to this country or
to any other at such a time,—fleeing
from the tasks which will confront them.
Although we in the United States should
under all circumstances ‘exclude vicious
and highly undesirable alien's, we might
do better at present in preparing for the
handling of the big share of the world’s
trade that we will get at the close of the
war, to encourage rather than to dis- |
courage immigration from Europe.
Where America Will Profit.
From the Altoona Times.
One of the ways in which the United
States stands to profit greatly as a result
of the war is by the closer trade relation-
ship certain to result between the States
and South American Republics. Hitherto
i the Republics of the south have traded
| almost exclusively with Great Britain and
European nations, for the reason B=
they have borrowed their r moneg in Lo n-
urope. :
It seems strange that it should have
been easier for these people to have bor-
rowed from far away money markets
when there was money market so much
nearer home, yet it has been a fact, and
for a very good reason. American mon-:
i. ey lenders have not in the past been well |
enough acquainted with the business of
‘lending to foreign governments, nor did
the United States in dealing with these
Republics appreciate the fact that if they
(the Republics) did business with her
they would expect her to do business
with them in return.
But the Americans have the idea now
all right. New York money lenders have
made an Argentine loan of fifteen mil-
lions andl there are insistent demands for
governmental investment in American
lines of steamers trading between the |
States and South American countries.
Nor is this all. We are rapidly assum-
ing the position of money-lender to the
world, and if the European war continues
for many months scarcely a nation will
have avoided the necessity of coming
here for money with which to meet its
extraordinary expenditures. While de-
‘ploring the great struggle, as all humane
people do, there is at least a meed of
satisfaction in the knowledge that the
suffering it has entailed upon us will,
eventually, be recompensed by larger
markets for our. money as well as our
merchandise.
The Way to Do It.
From the Philadelphia Record; :
From a statement of the earnings of x
the Bethlehem Steel corporation it would
appear that in 1908, when the great and
good Theodore Roosevelt was President
for dividends was only $366,864, being by
far the lowest amo sunt n the past dozen
years. In 1914," "the Underwood |
tariff in effect: anda’ rat as Presi-
| dent, the earnings were e $5,500,000,
or nearly 38
stock. A “good. :
‘on Te preferred
§ = Dany: ecto might
tionists claim; ‘but is ina great measure
due to the character of the ‘management. |
In: making an aggressive push for foreign
example to. many-less enterprising Aner}
ican n manufacturers. f AE
od
i Bs rie any
that a rich man’s t
than a;poor ‘man’s
A Poor. ‘man.”
And yet it does cost |’
ox I a.
ate wild tis hen
From the Albany Journal, Ru gl
If alimony is not income, as a New
reminds us of those of
States treasury department, that
is not a'bird'and that frogs’ 1
a
of the United States and the Dingley |"
tariff was in effect, the income evailae :
business President Schwab sets a shining
| ‘and his wifé failed to attend church Sunday
|'noon. Hildebrand says he heard ‘Some 'rioisé ‘on
gs a Dhio Railroad company.
! SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—It is estimated that between $75,000 and $100,
000 will be spent in South Fork in building op-
erations during the coming season.
—Sixty-eight out of the eighty barber shops in
Jobnstown have signed an agreement to charge
fifteen cents for shaving on and after Feburury
1st.
—Mount Pleasant has fifteen cases of typhoid
fever at present, three Americans, the balance
foreigners. Wells and springs are to be analyz
ed.
—W. S. Collins, of Indiana, has just been re-
lieved of a hemlock splinter over half an inch
thick, which he had carried in his neck for forty-
four years.
—Mrs. Ann Capely, who resides with her
daughter, Mrs. H. C. Potts, in Williamsport, will
be one hundred years old next September, should
she live so long.
—Mrs. Casmir Kroll, of Johnstown, found a
baby on the doorsteps of her home the other
night. The child was about five weeks old, was
wrapped in a blanket and almost covered with
snow.
—Mrs. Elizabeth King, of Barnesboro, was ter-
ribly burned about the body when a quantity of
gasoline was spilled over an open lamp or lan-
tern. She was hurriedly taken to the Spangler
hospital.
—A Mount Pleasant lad has been siftering
from an affection of the nose for some time. The
other day physicians removed a good-sized piece
of potato which had been in the nose for over
four months.
—Eighty-seven applicants for naturalization
appeared before the Clearfield court and were
asked the necessary questions. Several failed to
pass the test but the majority will be allowed to
vote next November.
~ —While B. F. Gelwicks and family, of Scotland,
were attending services in the Lutheran church
on Sunday night, a thief broke into the Gelwicks
store and made a get-away with $100 in cash
which he took from the safe in the store room.
—Mat Strader was instantly killed by an ex
plosion which occurred in the supply house of
the Miller Shaft Coal company, at Portage, and
Clyde Shaner was painfully burned. The struc-
ture in which the explosion occurred was totally
demolished.
—Achilli Cellini, a grocer doing business in
Renovo, mixed a little beer selling with his busi-
‘ness, and was recently sentenced to pay a fine of
$500 and the costs of prosecution and to undergo
.an imprisonment in the Clinton county jail for a
term of six months.
—An epidemic of measles has broken out in
Nippenose valley, Clinton county, which threat-
ens to close every school in that section. So far,
according to medical report, there are seventy-
five cases and it is expected that more will come
to light in a short time.
— After his wife had prevented him from shoot-
ing himself, Henry Meiser, a well known carpen-
ter of Shamokin, slashed his throat with a razor,
when his wife again saved him. Later he puta
strap around his neck and was hanging from a
rafter in the cellar when neighbors cut him down.
He is in a critical condition.
—For illegal fishing witha net Thomas Wert-
man, of Allentown, was sent to jail for twenty
days. He says he is unable to understand why
the law should prevent him from catching a mess
of fresh suckers, but accepts his fate with resig-
nation. He took the commitment paper to jail
himself, surrendering to the warden.
—Twenty-two persons, including several small
boys and one little girl have been held to answer
at the coming session of the Westmoreland court
to answer the charge of having stolen a lot of
wire from the Bell Telephone company and the
Pennsylvania Railroad company at Derry. The
children were placed in charge of the probation
officer.
—Negotiations were closed at Sharon ¢
day by which a local company will make 1, ,000
pairs of woolen socks for the French army. In
order to complete the contract in the time speci-
fied the company has leased a knitting mill at
Corry, Pa., and another at Niagara Falls. The
same company recently took an order for 180,000
- pairs of soldiers’ shoes.
—Smoke emerging from the barn of C. H. Sny-
der, near Liverpool, Perry county, led Mrs. Sny-
der to suppose the barn was on fire and she used
the telephone to call some help. Eventually a
tramp who had kindled a fire in an old paint can
was found sleeping in the barn. He said he
merely wanted to make some tea and had no in-
tention of setting the barn on fire. i
—A light-haired damsel who wears a gray coat
and is fairly well dressed is doing the begging
stunt in Johnstown so adroitly that the authori-
ties have not yet been able to catch her. She i is
about sixteen years of age, has a male compan-
jon who posts her concerning where to go. -Res-
idents of other towns are cautioned to be on the
lookout for the light-haired maiden.
—Two masked men entered the store of the
Vulcan Trading company, at Farrandsville, Clin-
‘ton county, last Saturday night and ordered the
manager, C. A. Benner, to throw up his hands.
‘But he sprang through the open door into the
‘ware room, the men firing after him ineffectual-
ly. His wife ran to the store room, grabbed a Te:
volver and pointed it toward the would-be ‘rob-
‘bers. The result'was that they retreated, taking
‘nothing with them." > PE Hee
x —Thirty employees of Milton industries ap-
peared before the court at Sunbury and asked
‘permission to take their names from the applica-
‘tions of liquor dealers for license. They explain-
‘ed that they had been dismissed but would be
re-employed if they got their names off the ap"
plications. . The court told them they would. have
to show they had b been misled when they signed
‘as vouchiers: Bevo started proceedings
in that direction 3 yet: :
—The Danville Stove ood Manufacturing com-
pany and the Montour Iron Works, of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Iron company, will resume
work. this week. H.T. Hecht, general manager
for the Reading Corporation, said there was no
reason for the factory resuming at this time oth*
‘er than that the’ men needed. the work, as the
iron trade: conditions: are not good. According
to Alexander Foster, general manager. for the
it | Stove « concern, the same is true in ‘that trade, and
- | he 'does not look for much piven Beidie
5.
1i~=H. H Waods, a , tdlegtach Operator at Har-
mony Junction, Butler county, on Sunday. shot
a killed his wife and their three children and
then committed suicide. All the victims ‘were
‘shot’ i the. forehead and death in each’ case is
{'beliéved to have beeninstantaneous. The bodies
were found by E. L. Hildebrand, who resides’ on
the first floor and who investigated when; Woods
er-
the second floor occupied by Wocds, early: Sun-
ioe morning, | but. paid no attention to it. Woods,
years old, was employed by the Baltimore
erity i is evident among window lass in-
Sa throughout the Kane region, and all” the
plats are operating to full capacity, with the'ex-
B «ception:of the plant of the ‘Peniisylvania’ Window
Glass company, which, after: operating. steadily
for eight months has been , compelled o shut
down for cold repairs. Alarge forcé of men is
working at the plant day and night,’ getting the
tanks in shape for an’ early; start.” During the
last four ‘weeks considerable ‘window glass |
been shipped to foreign shores, and it is,
stood that the latest inquiry received by the "Gon-
solidated Window Glass company ‘is’ fegarding a
y a AR window glass!
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