INK SLINGS.
—Is it, or is it not ground-hog weather.
—March came in kind of half lamb
‘and half lion.
i —Just seventeen days must pass be-
fore spring comes. The gentle thing.
« —The new American army is com-
‘plete. TEDDY and his four sons have
“enlistad,
—It has been suggested that a lively
scrimmage among the bakers might help
to keep down the price of bread.
—The farmers who didn’t let their
‘wheat go when it reached $1.50 are com-
‘paratively few in number, of course, but
wonderfully great in regret.
——We are not exactly ready to take
off our hat to the ground hog but there
are plenty of weather prophets in whom
we have less faith at this blessed mo-
‘ment.
——ROOSEVELT offers himself and his
four sons as officers in a reserve force
certain to be well paid and always free
from danger. The Colonel is a valiant
man with his mouth.
—Nothing daunted by the big fire in
Ebensburg that destroyed its plant the
Cambria Freeman is being published as
usual, though in rather contracted form.
We admire the grit of the Freeman in
looking at the matter so philosophically
‘and trust that all of its hopes for the fu-
‘ture may be fully realized.
—Talking about the pernicious activi-
‘ty of the government in interfering with
corporate business the Rock Island com-
pany revelations are enough to justify
everything the government has done.
Think of it. Assets in that company’s
books listed at a value of $105,000,000
have been discovered to be worth only
$29,000. And they say the government
is interfering with business because it
puts the public wise to such rotten en-
terprises and possibly deters widows and
orphans from putting their savings into
such rat holes.
°
—A German professor is reported as
‘having discovered a means of convert-
‘ing straw into food for human beings.
Nothing so wonderful about that. For
years Centre county farmers have been
converting straw into foods by merely
‘passing it through a consumer called a
yearling steer. What sticks fast to the
'steer’s ribs makes the food. Then too,
‘we have countless makers of breakfast
foods in this country who are suspected
ket as the most wholesome of foods.
—Germany has taken a new front with
regard to Uncle SAM’s representation re.
garding the rights of his children. We
thought, when some of the Jingo papers
of the country were trying to shame us
intp war with some one that President
WILSON would sit tight and not permit
the boat to be rocked. Developments
within the week reveal what that policy
is bringing forth. Germany has signified
her willingness to comply with practical.
ly all of the American proposals to safe-
guard neutral shipping within the war
zone and inasmuch as that is all we are
interested in just now it looks as though
we ought to be satisfied.
—The Easton Sentinel, always a sup-
porter of the Hon. A. MITCHELL PALMER
and one of the papers that insisted most
argumentatively that he was destined to
become “a conspicuous figure in State
and National affairs,” has written his
obituary, so far as its further interest in
him is concerned. In concluding a rath-
er scathing editorial setting forth its re-
vulsion of feeling it says: “We congrat-
ulate the people of this Congressional
district that after March 4th, next, they
will be forever rid of A. MITCHELL PAL-
MER.” It remains to be seen whether so
good a man as the Seniinel once declar-
ed Mr. PALMER to be can be kept down.
—The French poet and novelist, LAv-
REDEAU, who has professed nothing but
sarcastic mockery and scornful hate for
all religion, has seen the light and fallen
on his knees in prayer. The sight of the
soldiers of his beloved France marching
“cheerfully on to death” raised the ques-
tion in his mind as to what sustained
them in such an ordeal. When the
answer he invariably got was: “I be-
lieve in God” he turned and cried: “I
have deceived myself and you too, who
have read my books and sung my songs.
There is a God and LAVREDEAU dares not
die as an atheist. This word is the
morning-song of humanity. Whoso
knows it not, for him it is night.”
—Governor BRUMBAUGH has gone
further than it was thought he would in
support of the proposed local option law.
In addition to merely giving it his moral
support, as he pledged himself to do, he
‘has employed strategy to save the bill
from being rushed to early defeat. At
his request the bill has been held in com-
mittee “for the present.” It had been
announced that it would be reported out
at once, but the local option advocates
discovered that the House had not been
rounded up well enough to save it from
defeat and in order to avert that fate the
Governor has used his influence to hold
[it back and the presumption is that he
intends to use the power of his office to
of shredding up old lumber and things
~ like that and putting them ‘on ‘the mar-|
VOL. 60.
Government . Ownership of Ships. | Former Secretary Meyer and the Navy.
STATE RIGHTS AND ‘FEDERAL “UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA. MARCH 5, 1915.
Penrose Misrepresenting thé Facts.
les
: le : :
The adjournment of Congress without | Former Secretary of the Navy GEORGE ' - Senator PENROSE made a speech in the
writing a ship-purchasing law into the
statutes, will, we sincerely hope, put an
end to that form of federal aggression.
At the breaking out of the European war
there were reasons to apprehend a scarc-
ity of ships to carry the commerce of
the country to foreign markets. But
these conditions soon passed away and
though outgoing cargoes are as numerous
today as ever, there are plenty of ships
for the service. The rate is high, of
course, for the hazard is great, but as
the consumer pays the cost of carriage
in that as in other things and the con-
sumers are foreigners, that is unimport-
ant. It took no currency out of our
pockets.
Activities of the federal government
along lines not specifically authorized by
the constitution were the special aver-
sions of THOMAS JEFFERSON. Centraliza-
tion of power in the government at
Washington was abhorrent to him. He
combatted it at every turn. The follow-
ers of JEFFERSON have adhered to his
doctrine on these points ever since. No
true Democrat has ever favored govern-
ment ownership, or federal activities in
social affairs or any of the other fads of
the Populists and Socialists. It is true
that Mr. BRYAN came back from one of
his European trips with the public owner-
ship of railroads in his mind. But the
party refused to adopt it and Mr. BRry-
AN’s defeat in 1908 is ascribable to that
fact.
Mr. BRYAN cannot tolerate an Apostle
of Democracy other than himself. He
cannot calmly contemplate the spectacle
of a vast force adhering to principles pro-
mulgated before he was born. He be-
lieves in paternalism and wants to wean
others from the antipathy to that heresy
which JEFFERSON felt. The anomalous
condition of the ocean carrying trade
which the European war created afford-
ed him the opportunity to beguile Presi-
dent WILSON intoan endorsement of gov-
ernment ownership of ships and brought
him the first defeatof his:administration.
But happily it has ddn# little harm. The
next Congress meets will have returned
to natural reasoning. :
——Congress has adiourned after a
memorable service of achievement. It
has been an industrious and intelligent
Legislature but we are glad it’s gone and
that some of its members who have gone
with it will remain out forever.
Bitterness of Feeling: Increases.
That the reports, official and other-
wise, of the loss of life and the capture
of prisoners in the European war, are
exaggerated, may be set down as certain.
The war has been the most destructive
in life and property in the history of the
world, beyond doubt. But acrording to
reports the number of killed and wound-
ed on both sides must be in excess of the
number of troops engaged and the pris-
oners taken are almost beyond computa-
tion. The probabilities are that the
death list has been less than half the
number claimed and it is doubtful if the
number of prisoners taken will reach
one-third of the aggregate alleged in the
official reports from Berlin and other
capitals within the war zone.
But there is no doubt that the bitter:
ness of feeling between the antagonists
is increasing as time advances. In the
outset it was the. palpable purpose on
both sides to conduct the quarrel accord-
ing to the rules of civilization and in obe-
dience to the provisions of interna-
tional law. But first one side and then
the other has gone beyond the lines laid
‘President isa Democrat and before ‘the -
|
i
Von L. MEYER, of Boston, severely criti-
cises the President for refusing to pub-
lish to the world that this country is ut-
terly unprepared for defense against at-
tack, in a letter to Representative GARD-
NER, of Massachusetts. Mr. GARDNER
undertook to force the administration to
some sort of a confession of that kind
some time ago, but failed after a rather
Sénate, the other day, in which he feiter-
ated his campaign ‘statements that the
industrial life of the country has been
almost completely destroyed by the tariff
legislation of the Congress which has
¥
just expired. In every section, he said,
industrial paralysis prevails because the |
products of ‘the pauper labor of Europe
| have driven our manufactures out of the |
severe rebuke and Mr. MEYER freely ex- market. The European war has nothing
presses his sympathy with Mr. GARDNER
and his purpose. Meantime the admin-
| to do with the matter, he insists, and all
| the poverty as well as all the idleness are
istration has been improving both the ascribable to the operations of the UN-
army and navy establishments, having
closed all the leaks and stopped all the
grafting operations responsible for what
may be a deplorable condition.
Mr. MEYER states accurately that with-
in fifteen years Congress has appropriat-
ed more than fifteen hundred million
dollars, a greater sum than has been ex-
pended for the navy of any other coun-
try except England, for equipment of our
navy. He adds that in view of that fact
our navy “ought to be second only to
that of Great Britain,” while as a matter
of fact, it stands fourth. It is “defective
in ships, armament and badly balanced,”
he declares and asserts that the country
would be unable to maintain the MoN-
ROE Doctrine, if it were challenged, and
incapable of defending the Panama ca-
nal, if that expensive luxury were at-
tacked by even the weakest of the weak
powers of the world.
Mr. GEORGE VON L. MEYER, of Boston,
was Secretary of the Navy during the
administration of President TAFT. At
no time in the history of the govern-
ment, except during the period of the
Civil war and that of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war have the appropriations for the
navy been nearly so liberal as during the
time that he occupied that seat in the
Cabinet. Yet it was during that period
that the navy degenerated~and we can
imagine no where to put the blame ex-
cept upon Mr. VoN L. MEYER. If his
conscience has recently been awakened,
and he feels like making restitution of
whatéver “patt ‘of ‘the graft may hive
found its way into his own pockets, how-
ever, he’s all right.
——The Republican machine bosses
having had a week together in Florida
the legislative mill will probably be kept
in motion until the grist is finished. In
other words the work of the Florida con-
ference will now be ratified with as little
friction as possible. he
Party Bigotry Run Mad.
——
The Philadelphia Public Ledger is
determined to quarrel with President
WILSON. Whatever he does, in the prej-
udiced mind of that bigoted organ of
tariff graft, is wrong. For example in
commenting upon the newly appointed
interstate trade commission the Ledger
says “three of the five members are
Democrats and the other two are Pro-
gressives,” and for that reason it “starts
under a heavy handicap.” As a matter
of fact one of the minority members of
the commission is a Republican now and
the other was before he became a dis-
ciple of ROOSEVELT, the most obedient
servant of the trusts who has ever oc-
cupied a place in the public life of this
' country.
down by the Hague Congress and now.
expedient available that will cripple or
increase the sufferings of the other.
Starvation of civilians and noncombat-
ants appears to be the last resort and both
sides are ready to adopt it. Certainly
“man’s inhumanity to man makes count-
less thousands mourn.” «©
Starving noncombatants might hasten
the end of the strife but it is a cruel pro-
cess. Yet the indiscriminate destruction
of merchant ships by mines and’ subma-
rine devices of other kinds makes for the
starvation of men, women and children,
and both sides have resorted to it. The
authorities at Washington have endeavor-
ed to divert combatants from this cruel
intention but thus far there are no indi-
cations of success. The German Em-
peror would, out of necessity, agree to
the proposition, no doubt, but Great
Britain is not in such extremities and is
inclined to take advantage of every con-
dition in her favor. Possibly serious re-’
flection will develop a more gmiable
spirit but the outlook is not favorable.
——CARRANZA may not be able to sub-
due the people of Mexico but he can cer- employees’ compensation act, but the’
whip recalcitrant Members into line for
its support. g :
_i out of his hand.” x5 Loa
tainly make the bankers down there “eat
The point upon which the Ledger
hangs its criticism of the commission is
its relation to the tariff question. “It
has been suggested that this commission
shall constitute a permanent tariff board,”
declares our Philadelphia contemporary,
and “that it shall collect data upon which
future tariff bills may be built and that
it shall become a vast treasury of in-
both sides seem ready to resort to any | dustrial information.” Of course a per-
manent tariff board may suggest tariff
schedules but it can't enact them into
law and if there is any great harm in
collecting data or acquiring industrial
information, we are unable to seeit. In
fact our esteemed contemporary has
great need for such a fountain of knowl-
edge.”
If President WiLSON had named Mr.
SCHWAB, Mr. GARY and the president of
the Philadelphia Manufacturers’ club, all
tariff mongers and tariff pensioners, the
Philadelphia Ledger would have thought
him wiser than SOLOMON. He couldn't
have named five men of intelligence with-
out naming Democrats or Republicans or
Progressives and it would be equally im-
possible to create a board of five without
giving a majority on one side or the
other of questions to be considered. But
this journalistic grouch would _ denounce
the Saviour if He were on earth today
unless He openly advocated looting the
public for the benefit of tariff grafters.
~——Neither employers nor employees’
are entirely satisfied with the proposed
lion and the lamb don’t sleep together.
. habitually as yet. Fone
|
|
DERWOOD law. In this absurd. allegation
Senator PENROSE pays scant respect to
| the intelligence of the American people.
“If there were any evidence of exces:
: sive importations of foreign made pro-
ducts, the Senator would have some
foundation for his assertions. But in-
| stead of an increase in importations there |
, has been so great a decrease as to make
importation actuaily negligible. Accord-
ing to the best ‘information available
ships coming into our ports from Europe |
are almost entirely without cargoes and
the statistics of the government confirm
this view by showing such a difference
in the balance of trade in our favor as
has never been known before. If foreign
| products were crowding our markets to
such an extent as to paralyze home in-
dustry, the records would reveal the fact
unquestionably.
i According to current reports Mr.
SCHWAB is buying all the land adjacent
to his Bethlehem works for purposes of
expansion. The newspapers tell us that
Pittsburgh iron plants are being deluged
with orders and similar reports come
irom other industrial centres. Senator
PENROSE ought to know about these
things and if he knows them and tries to
deceive the people by misrepresenting
the facts he is worse than even his ene-
mies paint him. Calamity howling im-
Bie confidence and destroys business
and no good citizen will deliberately
falsify the facts for the purpose of mak-
i rty capital. We believed that
; fo Phraces wil ane Brod to
agogy.
Consider the Proposition Carefully.
The proposition of the State-Centre
Electric company, made to borough
council on Monday evening, to install an
electric pump at the pumping station
and pump the water by electricity in-
stead of using the steam pump, should
be very carefully considered. As figured
out by the Electric company’s own ex-
pert it is now costing the borough $231 a
month to operate the steam pump, al
though the auditor’s report shows the
expense during 1914 to have been just
$179 per month. The company’s expert
also figured out just how much water
was being pumped into the mains by the
steam pump and estimated it at approxi-
_mately 13,000,000 gallons a month, but the
last month (February.)
The company’s proposition is to install
a pump with a capacity of 1,296,000 gal-
lons every twenty-four hours, estimating
that it will only be necessary to operate
the pump from eight to nine hours a day
to keep up the supply of water. Their
price is given as $18.00 per million gal-
lons, and on an estimate of a thirteen
million gallons'a month consumption this
would mean a cost of $234.00, three dol-
lars more a month than their own esti-
mate of what it is now costing the bor-
ough to operate the steam pump, and fii-
ty-five dollars a month more than ap-
pears in the auditor’s statement.
As is well known, more water is used
in summer than in winter, and suppose
the consumption should be such that it
would be necessary to pump twenty or
twenty-five millions of gallons a month
with the electric pump, then what would
the cost be? Surely the proposition is
one that cannot be considered too care
fully; especially as the proposition pro-
vides for a ten year’s contract, at the end
of which time the machinery is to be-
come the property of the borough.
——Mr. HENRY C. FRICK is satisfied
that “business will never be at its best
until we get a Republican administra-
tion.” As Mr. FRICK has made many
millions of dollars by looting the public
through government agencies, he is jus-
tified in his predictions. Tariff grafting
is ended forever and the chances are
there will never be another Republican
administration and Mr. FRICK’S business
will' never prosper as it did.
i —————n ———————
——]Just think! It is only forty-one
days until the opening of "the trout fish-
ing season, and Mr. Izaak Walton’s dis-
ciples will soon be looking up their rod
and tackle in anticipation of the event.
——The U. S. Senate last Friday con-
firmed the appointment of Allen S. Gar-
man as postmaster at Tyrone. |
calculation was made on the water used
From the Kreolite News. fa
Little girl, you look so small,
Don’t you wear no clothes at all?
Don’t you wear no pettiskirt?
© Just your corset and your h
Are these all your underclothes?
Little girl, when on the street,
You appear tobe all feet,
With your dress so very tight, +.
Surely, you're an awful sight. ;
Nothing on to keep you warm—
Crazy, just to show your form; _
Little girl you wont live long,
Just because you dress all wrong.
Can't you wear more underc
~ ' Than your corset and your
© After while I do believe, ©
- You will dress like Mother Eve.
You've a very narrow skirt,
Little girl. }
Are you sure it doesn’t hurt, =
Little girl? i
‘That's a mincing little stride;
Where the street is wild and wide,
Are you sure there's room inside,
; Little girl?
‘ What would happen if you slip.
Little girl? fo
Aren’t you afraid ‘twill rip,
Little girl? i
You had better take a sack,
So if anything should crack. ©
It would serve you coming back,
i
Little girl. x
_ Let the bottom cut a bit, +
: Little girl; : 2p
It is much too tight a fit, 74
Little girl. | %
As the matter sadly stands, ~
You'll be walking on your hands,
And in that event—MY LANDS ! !
Little girl. ai
A Compliment to the U. S.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The New York Tribune prints a curious
story, the authority for which is not
revealed, that in the event of the break-
up of Turkey the United States may be
given supervision: of the Holy Land. The
reason for this, it is pointed out, is that
in Palestine, and especially Jerusalem,
the racial and religious antagonisms of
the Christian European n are. 80
fierce, and the interests of the Jews and
Mohammedans are so grea hat it is
i ‘done to
tolerant
all sides only by a coun:
and so disinterested as
Sam has established for fairness in ‘his
international dealings. . We set.a high
standard when we fread Cuba and gave
her her independence, without any string
attached to it, and Przsident Wilson has
adopted the same principle in - his efforts
to bring peace to distracted Mexico.
From the standpoint of European diplo-
macy we would have been ' justified long
ago in intervening and even taking pos-
session of that country, but instead we
have made altruistic efforts to restore
harmony and prosperity, without grab-
bing off anything for ourselves. ;
It is not at all probable that the United
States will be either asked, or inclined,
to take supervision of the Holy Land, for
we have quite enough extraterritorial
jobs on hand now, but it must be re-
garded as a compliment that our country
should be considered as the one best
qualified for such a delicate task.
Italy Near the Brink.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The situation in Italy serves to illus-
trate the troubles kings have now-a-days
in holding down their jobs. There is not
the slightest doubt that the sovereign
who rules in Rome is exerting every ef-
fort to restrain his subjects from so em-
broiling the situation that the nation
will be plunged into war. Italy smarts
because of unforgotten wrongs. The
triple alliance was, as far as Italy was
concerned, an unnatural compact. It
bound her to Austria, the nation that
Italians believe despoiled their land.
There is about as much real sympathy
between Italy and Austria as there is be-
tween Germany and Great Britain. The
dual monarchy holds provinces that the
Latins believe shouid be a part of their
national inheritance. For this reason the
jingoes and the imperialists find it easy
to create sentiment in favor of striking
at Austria now while that power is sore-
ly beset. If Italy plunges into the pend-
ing conflict it will be because intense
nationalists have stirred the people to
the fighting point rather than because
the king and his cabinet have intrigued
to ring 8 war about. In short, if Tealy
fights she will be fighting what will be in
all its essential elements a war of con-
quest.
So strained has the situation become
that it is currently reported the German
Ambassador at Rome threatens to resign
unless Austria makes some very decided
concessions to Italy.
Farr and Palmer.
From the Lock Haven Express. “
Representative Farr bearded the Demo-
cratic Congressional lion in his den
Thursday and dared to voice on the floor
of the House some of the things that
heretofore have been but idle rumors in
the corridors referring to alleged affilia-
tions between the aforesaid lion, one A
Mitchell Palmer, and some of the trusts
that the defeated senatorial candiate has
| been expressing so keen a desire to
“bust.” ‘
In short, Mr. Farr called Mr. Palmer a
“lobbyist” and gave what might appear
to the lay mind to be some very cogent
reasons for his accusations. ¢
. But Mr. Palmer came right back at
him. Yes, indeed, he did. He : called
‘Mr. Farr “a tadpole.” Just like that,
he said, “You're a tadpole.” With
which dignified reply and logical
argument he was content to let the
charge. stand, : ; -. ..07 "igen
a —————————
_. There may beso fi i the.
tale, but none the less it is sigiiificant as
a tribute to the reputation that Uncle
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Brookville is to have a handsome new Y. M.
C. A. building. In a short canvas $27,000 has
been pledged, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Corbett
making a donation of $10,000.
years during the: administrations of President
Roosevelt and Taft, died in the University hos-
pital, Philadelphia, Tuesday morning, of cancer.
~The voters of Johnstown will decide at a
| special election, to be held on Tuesday, April 20,
whether or not additional bonds shall be issued
to the amount of $1,100,000 to ‘pay for the new
| sanitary sewer system.
. —A mysterious fire, the origin of which is not
known, totally destroyed the lath and shingle
mill owned and operated by J. A. Coppes at
Muncy. All the machinery was destroyed but
the stored lumber was saved. §
-=Closing up the Hyde City hotel the other day
Sheriff McCloskey, of Clearfield county, was
obliged to haul the “wet goods” of the establish-
ment to the court house in Clearfield in an under-
| taker’s dead wagon. ‘Not so inappropriate, after
—The school authorities of Miffiintown have
had some trouble with members of the senior
and junior classes in the high school. Four
members of the junior class were suspended for
thirty days and others in both classes were rep-
rimanded.
—George Miller, of Jersey Shore, who struck
woman with whom his telations were decidec
irregular was sentenced to spend four months in
jail and to pay a fine of $5 and the costs. Judge
Whitehead regretted that the whipping post is
not in use in Lycoming county.
~The Russian Orthodox church at Jeannette
was totally destroyed by fire a few evenings ago.
This is the third Greek Catholic church burned
to the ground in Westmoreland county during
the past two months. An over heated stove or a
falling candle is blamed for the last fire.
—Geoarge Botts, aged 71, and his nephew.
George Botts, Jr., were thrown over a precipice
about eighty feet high while riding in a wagon,
not far from Williamsport. The old man was
badly hurt but the younger one escaped without
any noticeable injury. The horse was killed.
—The Jefferson Electric company, of Punxsu-
tawney, has presented to James Stapleton, who
had both hands blown off by dynamite last fall,
$11,000 in cash. The money was paid Mr. Sta-
pleton without litigation of any kind. That com-
pany has a big heart and fine sense of justice.
—Two young persons from Lloydsville, said to
be Gertie Eaglehouse and Peter Lincosky, were
walking near the Beatty works, in Westmore-
land county, a few days ago when the girl broke
away from the young man and plunged into the
reservoir, nearby. She was rescued but gave no
explanation of her conduct. 3
—Thomas Vallileo, an Italian resident of Lock
Haven, while on his way home a few evenings
ago, was attacked by an unknown assailant,
presumably a fellow Italian, who slashed him on
the side of the face and neck with a knife, evi-
dently meaning to cut his throat. Seven stitches
were reqttired to close the gaping wound.
—When a cat serenaded him from the back
fence of his home at midnight Wednesday night,
Andrew Werntz, 30 years old, of near Kline's
Grove became angry. He took his gun and
‘went downstairs in search of the feline entertain-
er. In. the back lot he slipped and fell and the
Ee was discharged, the charge tearing off part
his hand. The cat escaped.
—While walking along the city with a lady
friend. Mrs. J. Conrad Griesing, of Williamsport,
‘was suddenly taken very ill and though given
‘medical attention, died fifteen minutes later,
death being due to acute dilation of the heart.
some time. She was in her 5Ist year and is sur-
vived by her husband and two children.
—The Park Hotel at Grass Flat, of which
Joseph Strickland is proprietor, was entered
Thursday night and robbed of about $70,00 in
silver which had been placed in a couple of tum-
bler -and left in the bar room. Suspicion at-
taches to a certain individual, and arrest may
follow. A young Swede was arrested for the
crime and will be held pending an investigation.
'—A 12-year-old son of Frank C. Livingston
went to sleep in a Williamsport theatre last Sat-
having seen him. Later in the night he woke up
and his cries secured his release. At 11 o'clock
Sunday morning the lad vanished from his home
and has not been seen since. His parents are
considerably worried over his prolonged
absence. :
—No. 7 tippleof the Berwind-White Coal com-
pany at Fordham, near Punxsutawney, now
operated by the United Coal company, was dyna-
mited Wednesday morning of last week at 1.30
o'clock, causing heavy damage to the tipple and
destroying the scale office. The night watchman
narrowly escaped death. The coal company is
without a clue to the perpetrators and have
placed officers on the case.
~The storage battery branch of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, operating between Montandon,
mission Saturday evening when the only two
cars of this service collided. ' Mrs. F. Mitchell, of
Danville; Mrs. Harry Nesbit, of Lewisburg; the
motorman, Mr. Bubb, and several others, were
slightly injured. 'A substitute operator and a
mixture of orders is said to have been the cause.
—The little village of Hyner, in the upper end
of Clinton county, was the scene of a fire on Sun-
day morning. The mill of T. R. Harter & Com-
pany, of Loganton, is located at that place. Fire
and, before extinguished, a thousand doliars
worth of lumber and staves were destroyed. This
firm does the largest business in that section in
the manufacture of staves, which] are used to
make nail kegs. The loss is covered by insuz-
ance.
—Rembrandt Peale, the millionaire coal opera-
tor, spent last Friday in Patton and it is believed
that his visit may have something to do with the
rumored sale of several mines by the Pennsyl-
vania Coal and Coke corporation to interests
identified with the ownership of the New York
Central railroad. Mr. Peale refused to make any
statement. The reports concern the future of
the mines of the Pennsylvania corporation lgcat-
ed at Patton, Cambria county, which are reach-
edby the New York Central system over its
Beech Creek division. :
—Charles E. Richardson, former. secretary of
the Keystone Building and Loan Association of
3 was arrested at Washington, D.C.,
on Tuesday, charged with embezzling more than
$5,000 of the corporation’s money. According to
reports Richardson left Shamokin about ten
months ago, and the directors of the organiza-
tion, all prominent men, made up the shortage.
It is understood that efforts were made to get the
matter settled up, but the money that he was al-
leged to have embezzled was not made up and a
warrant for his arrest followed. -
* ~The large home of Dr. S. S. Koser, on Gram.
pian boulevard, Williamsport, was totally de-
stroyed by fire of unknown origin early Sunday
morning. Six persons, including the surgeon’s
family and servants, escaped from the burning
structure in their night clothes. The loss is
about $20,000. Escape for two women down the
stairway was cut off and they climbed to the
‘porch roofs and gained the. ground by means of
‘ropes made of bed-clothes. The fire was dis-
‘covered by Dr. Koser when he arose early, and
at that time had spread through the house. Jew-
els valued at $2,500 werelost. . © © :
—George Fox, postmaster of Altoona for eight .
urday night and was locked up, the janitor not
Lewisburg and Mifflinburg, was put out of com-
was discovered in the lumber piled near the mill