oR Sa % AE ? Decal Nitin BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. ——Speaking of tadpoles Representa- tive FARR is about the smallest toad in the Congressional puddle. —The warm rain of Wednesday al- most put an end to the few snow banks "that had been lying in the shady sides of _ the roads. —The first robin has been seen in this community, but robins have made mis- _ takes before, so don’t count too much on spring’s arrival. —At the rate Austria claims to be tak- ing Russians prisoners we are surprised that the Czar is even able to muster a single army corps for the defense] of his country. Sk —After a lot of gloomy weather is there anything that cheers you up more than a little bit of God's bright sunshine? _ The gloom that many of your fellows are . walking in might be dispelled by just a little sunshine from you. —Up to this time most of the boats ! that the German sea raiders have sent to the bottom have been loaded with cot- _ ton and supplies for the Germans, them- selves. Surely here’s a casé of killing "the goose that was laying the golden egg. —Let us credit it to the good sense of the people of Centre county. There was no excitement, no unusual interest, no morbid curiosity displayed on Tuesday when the first electrocution ever made in Pennsylvania was being enacted at the new penitentiary. —The cold weather of last week froze the ground harder than it has been at any time during the winter. This is * probably due to the fact that all of the * previous hard freezes we had came at - vania into West Virginia. the time when there was a blanket of snow covering everything. —Two West Virginia negroes have been caught in the act of toting eighteen hun- dred half-pints of whiskey from Pennsyl- It sounds al- most like they might have been Republi- ' can county chairmen getting ready for * cisco. an election, the way they used to do it. —The great Panama Exposition has opened most auspiciously at San Fran- While this country is celebrating the completion of one of the greatest . civilized world is at war. achievements of peace the most of the Let us hope that all of our great achievements of the son, who future may be those of peace and the greatest of these might be the bringing of permanent peace to warring nations. —Lieutenant RicHARD PEARSON HOB- ‘his fourth engagement to lecture in Bellefonte, on Wednesday evening, has not added to his popularity in this community. The hero of the Merrimac shot his big wad in the harbor at Santiago and since then hasn’t done much to add to his halo. In fact he is only notable now as a baby kisser and a maker of Japanese bugaboos. —Ex-President TAFT is evidently more of an American citizen than he is a parti- san politician. In his speech at Morris- "town, N. J, on Monday he made that clear. He gave unstinted praise to the position President WILSON has taken with regard to this country’s neutrality and sounded a clarion call of patriotism in these words: “When the President has acted, we must stand by him to the en ~—Pennsylvania be had her first official electrocution. From all reports, gruesome as it was, it must have been far more humane than hanging. In fact there can be little doubt of it, since one of the wit- nesses, who boasts of having helped at forty-eight executions, remarked, after seeing thisone: “It’s too quick. A fellow doesn’t have to suffer long enough for hav- ing murdered another.” This gentleman seems to have missed seeing the intent of the law in inflicting capital punish- ment. It isn’t for the purpose of tortur- ing the condemned, but purely as a les- son to those who are left. —Sonie one has figured it out that the man who cuts out one ten cent cigar a day saves at least the dividend on twelve shares of Pennsylvania railroad stock. “What an easy way to make a good in- ‘vestment. Cut out the cigar, lay the dime in a box every day and when the .other fellow gets his quarterly check from the Pennsy go to the box and lift yours. You won’t even have to endorse a dividend check or sign a proxy for the annual meeting and ii the full crew law isn’t repealed you won’t need to worry lest the dividend might be cut. —Fifteen eastern railroads are com- bined in an association for the purpose ‘of educating the people in the communi- ties they serve. The effort is being made with the hope that the public will change the viewpoint it has evidently had con- cerning the relations existing between itself and such corporations. While there is no question of there being a natural .inclination oa the part of most individu- als to “stick it into” a railroad company whenever the opportunity presents itself, such a disposition was fostered long ago ‘when the railroad companies were wont to operate on the assumption that they were responsible to no one. The WATCH- MAN can see no reason why the same treatment should not be accorded a cor- poration that an individual expects and it hopes that the day will soon come when exact justice will be given to each of them. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. VOL. 60. BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY #° , 1915. Germany Appears to be Hunting Trouble. | When Emperor WILLIAM, then a young i and somewhat impetuous War Lord, as- cended the throne of the German Empire his idiocincrasies were ascribed to men- tal disorders. Since reading the Gérman reply to the American protest against the threat to destroy neutral ships in waters surrounding England, we are in- clined to believe that the government house in Berlin is a “bughouse.” Instead of showing appreciation of the forbear- ance of the government of the United States in the face of a “proclamation of piracy” the Berlin government reiterates the purpose expressed in the original proclamation of the admiralty and infer- entially adds “what in hades are you going to do’ about it.” The German note predicates its pirat- ical threat upon the hypothesis that the allies propose ‘to cut off all supplies from Germany and thereby starve her peaceful civil population—a procedure contrary to all humanitarian principles.” As a matter of fact the allies resorted to this expedient only after the German government had commandeered dll the food supplies of the Empire for the use of the army. That foodstuffs for non- combatants in a belligerent country are not contraband is a principle of inter- national law. But by its action Germany had converted all foodstuffs within her borders into contraband material and thereby opened the door to and invited the action of which she complains. The German note gives as an addition- al reason for its threat to sink American merchant ships the fact that “a traffic in arms, estimated at many hundreds of millions, is being carried on between American firms and Germany’s enemies.” That is no fault, however, either of the government of the United States or American firms. Germany has the same right to purchase the products of Ameri- can firms as England or France and upon precisely the same conditions. In every case the terms place the burden of de- livery upon the purchasers and the goods are paid for whether they reach their destination or. intercepted on the way and seized, iff Sntraband. Food for the army is in the class. with guns. The government of the United States has not undertaken to safeguard com- merce with Great Britain and France. It ‘has permitted the traffic between manu- facturers and others in this country and the governments of those countries just as it would cheerfully acquiesce in simi- lar transactions with Germany if that country will take the hazard of convey- ing the goods to destination. The gov- ernment of the United States is playing no favorites in this war game but it does not propose to stifle commerce or destroy the industrial life of the people by for- bidding the manufacture and sale of goods to any solvent customer that offers to buy and is willing and able to pay. ‘Penrose Against Repeal of Judicial Law. Senator PENROSE has declared him- self unequivocally against the repeal of the law providing for a non-partisan vote for the election of Judges. The Senator ison a “stool of repentance” just now and is trying “his best to “make a noise like a reformer,” but the advantage to his party in the present law for the election of judges is too obvious to be relinquished voluntarily. At the general election last fall both the candidates for the Supreme. and. the Superior court judges were Republicans and the Sena- tor imagines that the same result is like- ly to follow in nine cases out of ten in which only one judge for each court is to be chosen. Therefore he sees no reason for a change in the law. But there are various and ample rea- - sons why the people of the State should object to a system of voting which prac- tically disfranchises all the voters except those of one party at the general election in nine cases out of ten. Under the ex- isting law the two aspirants having the highest vote at the non-partisan prima- ries become the ouly candidates at the general election. The opposition to them in the aggregate may have been considerable but because of preferences on account of political affiliations this majority was scattered among several candidates and the two men of the ma- jority party favored by the machine may be nominated and all the voters are limited in choice to them. Senator PENROSE pleads for a fair trial of the law because it gives his party in this State this immense advantage and a fair trial involves a prolongation of the evil. But he is not so ready to givea fair trial to other laws equally or more deserving of such consideration. Take the UNDERWOOD tariff law for example. The friends of that measure, and in fact all men acquainted with the principles of political economy believe that a fair trial of that law will prove its efficiency and beneficence. In fact we have every rea- son to believe that Senator PENROSE him- self is persuaded that unless the law is repealed before it ah a fair trial it will never be repealed at all and hence he demands immediate an 2 Little Cause for Uneasiness. The tardiness cf the Governor in mak- Brumbaugh’s Local Option Law. In a recent issue we expressed the be- ing appointments to office is giving the lief that Governor BRUMBAUGH'’s local political bosses some concern, according option bill would pass the;House in Har- to current gossip, Recently he sent cut a request to the heads of the various de- partments for complete lists of their sub- bordinates as well as a statement as to their political backers which was gener- ally regarded as ominous and just before the VAREs, McNicHoL and Chairman CROW started for their mid-winter vaca-’ tion in Florida His Excellency refused to give out any information as to his inten- tions. This was also interpreted as a danger signal and excited a good deal of whispered comment. But to the close observer of events and the careful stu- dent of politics these things mean noth- ing. ° Upon assuming his office Governor BRUMBAUGH appointed an Attorney General, a Secretary of the Common- wealth and a Private Secretary. For Attorney General he selected a VARE man; for Secretary of the Commonwealth risburg and be defeated in the Senate. | In view of recent developments we are influenced to withdraw that estimate of | the strength of the measure in the House ' and predict that it will be defeated in! that body. ' It will be reported from the committee on Law and Order of the House, in which it is under considera- tion, with a recommendation in favor of ! its passage. But according to a canvass made by a representative of the Phila- delphia Public Ledger, which is strongly in favor of the legislation, it will lack some forty votes of a constitutional ma- jority. It could be defeated in Commit- tee according to the canvass. As we have said before Governor BRUMBAUGH will not quarrel with his ‘party upon this question. He will urge the adoption of the bill and may even “solicit votes for it, but he will not at- tempt to coerce or compel support of it. a PENROSE man, and for Pris ite Secre- | That would mean war in the party for tary a BRUMBAUGH man. There was | while he in his personal platform declar- nothing in these appointments to alarm ed for it the party refrained from the politicians. Since then he has reap- | pledges on the subject and actually cam- pointed Adjutant General STEWART who , paigned among candidates for the Sen- is a PENROSE man to whom the VARES ate and House against it. Dr. BRUM- have no objection and that is as far as | BAUGH feels that Senators and Represen- there have been vacancies. The com- mission of the Secretary of Agriculture expired yesterday, that of the Commis sioner of Health will terminate on March 1, that of the Commissioner of Insur- ance on May 3. The commission of the Highway Commissioner is good until June 1. That “a guilty conscience needs no ac- cuser,” is proverbial and most of these officials feel that public sentiment will force their retirement. But viewing the subject from this distance and without prejudice we are inclined to think that outside of the Highway Commissioner there is no occasion for uneasiness. BIGELOW will probably have to go. Like MCAFEE he has nobody to stand up for him and his administration which was severely assailed during the campaign. But the others are fairly safe for anoth- . er term unless something happens mean- time that is not within view now. They are all PENROSE adherents but the antip- athy of the VARES for PENROSE has some- what abated and may be entirely re- moved. ——MITCHELL PALMER failed of his ambition to sit in the Senate but that hardly justifies the loss of his reputation for amiability, which was a valuable asset. Besides frequent quarrels im- pairs a man’s standing as a Quaker and that is another of Mr. PALMER'S assets. Brother Vare’s Joke. During one of the brief sessions of the Pennsylvania Senate last week Brother . ED. VARE rose in his place and present- ed a resolution requesting Congress “to repeal the present tariff law and replace it by a law giving adequate protection to our labor and industries, and, under nor- mal conditions, sufficient revenue to war- rant the repeal of the present unjust and uncalled for special methods of taxation now in operation.” Of course Brother ED. premised his resolution with various and sundry ‘‘whereases” in which refer- ence is made to the suffering of Penn- sylvania, the steel and textile plants “operating only about half their capaci- ty” and expressed the belief that “the worst is yet to come.” Brother ED. assumed an unusually grave aspect when he offered his resolu- tion. He seemed to imagine that it was “the last word” in statesmanship and he threw out his chest and looked across ‘the aisle at the Democrats in the body in his most ponderous manner. He probably expected a vigorous protest and posed to big crops, it seems, for the rea- called for second reading in subdued but determined tone. When Senator WAs- BERS, of York, smilingly demanded the ayes and nays and Senator SONES sec- from beneath the waistcoat of Brother | | tatives have the same right to opinions upon legislation as he enjoys. He re- gards their pledges as binding upon them as his are upon him and will not under- take to force them to betrayal of obliga: tions. The truth of the matter is that the Republican party is dependent upon the liquor interests of the State for its ma- jority not only in the recent election but in every election held within the last quarter of a century. The Liquor League has supplied the Republican par- tv with the bulk of its campaign fund during all that period of time and so long as the League is opposed to local option the Republican party will resist it or con- fess recreancy. Theseare the unvarnish- ed facts in the case and it looks tow as make “short shrift” of the pending bill by killing it in the House. Money will be needed next year and it’s unwise “to kill the goose which lays the golden egg.” ~——Court and probably business mat- ters brought more people to Bellefonte this week than the average crowd seen here for a number of years past. In fact, one was reminded of the good old days when the genuine true blue Democracy gathered here for the old-time county ; conventions. Groups hobnobbed onjevery corner, the various candidates pulled every wire available and the conventions were genuine political picnics. All the fighting was done before and in the con- vention and after the ticket had been nominated personal differences were for- gotten and on election day the Democ- racy voted as a unit and generally was successful. But that day is now a mem- ory only. The direct primary cuts out much that was intresting in local poli- tics and in its very uncertainty: breeds greater factional differences. ——There are several hundred Ameri- cans in the war zone yet, according to reports, and they are getting anxious about their safety. But it’s hardly worth while to worry about them. People who can’t take a warning in six months are not of much account anyway. — The" weather the past week has been rather spring-like, and especially Wednesday’s dashing rain. The result disappeared without raising the streams to the danger point. ——Grange Master MCSPARRIN is op- son that prices of farm products might come down. The wise farmer will raise all he can, however, and take chances ‘on the Fegult. * onded the call a sigh of relief emanated | ——We may have an investigation as Ep. and his resolution was adopted with | to the cost of the re-election of Senator a strict party vote. The ten Democrats PENROSE but it is a safe bet that there in their seats voted in the negative and | will never be an investigation concern- | ing the re-election of Senator REED, of all the Republicans in the affirmative. + It was an imposing but silent incident. Brother Ep forgot for the time that in | 1907 under the DINGLEY tariff law the steel and textile plants were operating at ' session of Congress but we are getting so less than half capacity and that from accustomed to it now that it may be 1898 to 1901 precisely the same methods of taxation obtained, whether just or un- just. In fact every evil which Brother Ep. ascribes to the UNDERWOOD tariff law existed under the DINGLEY act and the distress among the poor was greater during some of the periods in which that law was in operation. But Brother Eb. didn’t know. His mental vision is limit- ed to the length of his nose and he im- agined that he had pulled off a great political stunt, whereas it was only a grim but huge joke. Missouri. ——Of course nobody wants an extra ' lonesome during the recess, if it should be prolonged -to any appreciable extent. ——The food problem has many per- plexing features and electing a jackass to the office of Mayor of New York add- ed to the complexity of the situation. ——1In another week HOBSON, of Ala- bama, will be in oblivion and the “yellow peril” will be a lonesome bird. ——For high class Job Work come to the WaTcHMAN Office. . i. {if the managers of ‘the party intend to | P a : Fede fon | century. is that most of the winters’ snow has | De | A Plea for r Disarmament. By Harold Sudell in Philadelphia Record. The European war has caused a heavy falling off in our Federal vevetiues, partly due to decreased imports and 3 partly to , diminished business. he Demacsatic | | party is pledged to al lishment t ; sugar duties, and this will still further reduce the national revenues. “the StSMp taxes recently imposed to | the deficiency caused by the po in i customs duties were only de i ge run ‘until the end of this = oS ay should, by all means, be with. A decided reduction of otf ational ex- penditures is therefore necessary. No better place for this could be found than in the immense sum we annually spend on useless armaments. Even those who are clamoring for a vast increase in our army and navy ex- rons o it that the Hundrads of millions of dollars we have spent in the they tell us we now have no army and that our costly navy is nothing but a lot; of junk. in I therefore suggest that we fetrench | by building no new war vessels for ten years, and by cutting down the army and’ navy estimates to the lowest possible | poin Why should we, at this ‘time, spend | money on these things? The leading na- the most terrible and costl last several years, and its close must in- evitably find all these nations. totally ex- men, capable of bearing arms, killed off or crippled, and their immense armaments destroyed or worn out. We have, there- a generation to come. Then again, the new methods of war- tionize the art of war that our pres- ent-day paraphernalia of war may have o go into the scrap-heap as obsolete ings. ng view of these facts, itis foolish to go on spending countless millions on things that are clearly unnecessary and therefore absolutely useless. Business is bad; multitudes are unemployed; itis no time to waste immense sums on costly and dangerous toys. This is the fiscal side of the question. From the ethical side this retrenchment is. even more emphatically called for. When the war ends we shall, likely be asked to aid in bringing peace to nations. I itis to | lasting better grace can we pi the ‘suggestion if we, the foremost nation in .the world (as we shall then easily be,) can point to what we have already done in that direction and ask that they follow our example! Our financial needs call for this edie tion in armaments; common sense shows ' its wisdom, and our christianity demands | it. And never was there a more pro- pitious time for the doing of it. The President and Mr Palmer. From the Allentown Democrat. From Washington comes the news that the friends of Congressman Palmer, who will be separated from his job on March 4, are becoming worried because the President has not done anything for him. Six months ago, they were dead certain that Mr. Palmer could sit at the council board of the presidential family as a member of the cabinet. A few months later a federal judgship was said to be at the Congressman’s disposal. Still later other offices, less important, were spoken of. Now Mr. Palmer is said to be wait- ing patiently for any crumbs that may fall from the table. Not any have fallen, | however, and Mr. Palmer's friends are becoming restless. All this is gossip from Washington. The Democrat does not repeat it, be- cause it rejoices over Mr. Palmer's ap- parent discomfiture. We do not glory in his rout. We are not exuberant because of his throwdown. We rather feel sorry for him-—sorry because he failed to take to become the most forceful figure in the | sylvania and a leader in the nation. When Mr. Palmer's star was rising he had no more ardent admirer than the mocrat. He had no more loyal sup- porter. However we have witnessed the humiliating sight of A. Mitchell Palmer | foolishly throwing away the chance of a life-time when he became a boss instead of a leader and a most arrogant boss at | that. These things are not pleasant to | say, but they are the truth and if Presi- dent Wilson really has been forced to part company with Mr. Palmer the lat- ter has no one to blame but himself. He had good friends, loyal Democrats, who pleaded with him and who tried to show him the error of his way, but Without avail. They had no selfish interests to serve. They had only the good of the Py in mind and had he been a leader e would have given ear to their warn- ings. However, they were addressing a boss and not a leader, and then came the | deluge. More's the pity. ——One evening recently as the night’ train east on the Bald Eagle Valley rail- road attempted to pull out of Blanchard the engineer was dumbfounded to find the driving wheels spinning around with- | out taking hold. An investigation pd ed that the track had been greased, and | it was only after the grease had been | cleaned off and the track well sanded that the train could be started. An in- vestigation led to the arrest of Russell Spangler, of Blanchard, as the man who greased the track and he was arrested on the charge of malicious mischief. ——Put your ad. in the WATCHMAN. - past decade have been utterly wasted, for | tions of the world are now all engaged in’ y war mankind has ever seen. It will, in all probability, hausted, physically and financially; their fore, nothing to fear from this source for. fare now being tried out may so revolu- the | the advantage that was his to embrace | Democratic politics of the State of Penn- ; SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~Nelson Fryland was thrown from a sleigh at Osceola, alighting on his head and which re- sulted in his death a few hours later. —~Frank T. Long, who lives near New Balti- | more, Somerset gounty, cheerfully paid a fine of $50 and the costs for shooting seven wild turkeys. —The council of Johnstown has agreed to expend $3,000 in the employment of men who are jobless. The workers are to be paidin provisions, not money. ~—Last Saturday the Frick company ordered 418 additional coke ovens to be fired in West- moreland county; making 1,273 to beput in blast since February 1st. —Mayor Cauffiel, of Johnstown, has instructed one of his officers to collect a quarter from each person who indulges in an oath in the city halt and an équal sum from any teller of a question- able story. —MTrs. Bertha Unger, a bride of seven weeks, was found lifeless at her home in New Kensing- ton, Westmoreland county, the other evening. Her husband is missing and is supposed ta have ended her life aftér a quarrel. =Modern business structures will replace the buildings ' destroyed in Ebensburg by last week’s $250,000 fire. During the past three years that town has had three disastrous fires, resulting in losses aggregating $600,000. —While Joseph Weller and his wife, of Mc- Connellsburg, were driving home from Mercers- burg, and engaged in conversation, Mrs. Weller suddenly leaned against her husband’s shoulder and in another moment breathed her last. —David Frank, of Flemington, Clinton county, had his skull fractured by being knocked from a ladder while cutting limbs from a tree, and died afew hours later, never having regained con- sciousness. He was aged about 38 years. —A valuable blooded cow belonging to G. Mack Johnson, of Beech Creek township, Clin- ton. county, slipped on the ice while she was drinking at a walled spring and, falling with her head in the water, was drowned. She was worth | $100. a . i" —Norman. Gillnett, a DuBois man who has | been making his home in Renovo for the last | year, was found dead in his room the other even- | ing with a bullet wound in his right temple and a revolver in his right hand. His motive is un- ! known. —Seventeen tolerably active and more or less expectant candidates for three postoffices in Lycoming county, paying good saleries, are causing the Democratic chiefs sleepless nights. They are Jersey Shore, Montoursville and Muncy. —James I. McGonigal, a lumbermari of Potters- dale, Clearfield county, says that despite the statements made each year that the last rafts ‘have been run from the Clearfield region, he will put in seven rafts this spring, which will be taken to Williamsport. —Dan Belford, a resident of Mahaffey, but employed in Clearfield by the New York Central railroad, was run down by an engine while work- ing on the tracks. Both legs were cut off and the man was hurried to the Clearfield hospital. He was living at last reports. —Louis Perasine, aged 22 years, was’ burned to death early Saturday morning in a fire which totally destroyed a grocery store of Clem Fresh, at Lewis Run, McKean county. Mr. and Mrs. Fresh and two other boarders, who lived in the second story of the building, narrowly escaped death by jumping.’ —George Schompert, of Dale, a Johnstown suburb, was maimed for life when a trap gun set by Grant Wise, of Moxham, was fired, the charge ] Sifiking the lad in the right arm. The elbow is I, and ‘amputation may be ‘necessary. = ‘Schompert and two companions were trying to ‘steal Mr. Wise’s pigeons. —By the accidental exchange of dinner buckets some Williamsport workmen discovered that one of their companions had been eating nothing but boiled potato parings for a week. They joyfully shared their better meal with the man whose family had been eating the potatoes while he . contented himself with the parings. | —Victor Trego, a Belgian glass blower who has been employed in DuBois since last spring, was overjoyed the other day by the arrival 'o his wife and daughter from Belgium. Their home was in the heart of the war district and ° the man had heard nothing from them since last August. The woman and child had many serious adventures. —After hearing the Rev. Dr. William P. Nichol- son tell of the evils of the rich at an afternoon | meeting in the tabernacle at Milton on Saturday, a wealthy Milton woman took the bulk of her fortune of $150,000 in giltedged bonds to her pastor and offered them to him, it was announc- ed. He told her to use them as she thought God would have her do with the money. —A. J. Hoverter, accused of aiding and abetting cashier Alvin Binner of the First National bank of Schzefferstown in the misappropriation of $18,500 of that bank’s funds, entered a plea of guilty to all the allegations of the government on ‘Tuesday, and was remanded after declining bail in the sum of $10,000. Hoverter will. be tried in the United States district court at Scranton Hoverter is now available as a witness for the government. —All hope of finding Keith Dalrymple, the missing Port Allegheny boy, who fell heir to a fortune of $365.000, has been given up. Whether Dalrymple is still alive and wandering around | the country, ignorant of the fact that he possesses a fortune, or whether he has been murdered; is as much of a mystery as ever. Many of the resi® dents of Port Allegheny, who knew the missing heir since he was a child, are of the opinion that he was murdered, while others believe that some day he will return home. —The threatened removal of all insurance companies from Tioga county as the result of | numerous alleged incendiary fires there, was | taken up at the largely attended meeting the business men and property holders of the county held at Wellshoro last Wednesday. It was stated , that there are more than 40 cases where the in. surance companies have withheld payment be- cause of suspicion of incendiarism and the hard- ! ships that would result from the absence of in- surance protection were touched upon. —Six members of the family of Charles Brion, at Tombs Run, are suffering with diphtheria. At | present four members of the family are confined to their beds. Mrs. Brion’s condition has been | very serious but this week she was reported to be greatly improved. Health officer Charles: | Seely, of Jersey Shore, is taking every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease. The public i school has been closed and will be fumigated: | The school board is also co-operating with the | health authorities to prevent an epidemic. 8 —After an exciting chase after two men be lieved to have robbed a teamster near Scalp | Hawke, in which officersand a number of Rock- wood citizens joined, one of the fellows was rounded up late Tuesday afternoon and a short time later was landed in the Somerset jail for safe keeping. The other man made his escape and is believed to have taken refuge in one of the abandoned mines of Somerset county. A large quantity of jewelry, all of which is believed to have been stolen, was found in the possession of the prisoner. He refuses to make any state- ment, but appearances would indicate that he is “a smooth article” in the pursuit of his calling. | A search is being made for his companion in | crime. A
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