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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Sunday’s rain was a God-send.
—Farmers are much further along!
with their plowing than they were at this
time last year.
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—Bethlehem steel is acting very much
as if it is time for the fellows who have |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
‘had a fine ride up to begin to jump off.
© —Anyway the biggest trout are still in |
VOL. 60.
BELLEFONTE. PA... APRIL 16, 1915.
the streams. Most of the fishermen yes- |
terday let the big one get away. They |
always do, you know.
An esteemed Philadelphia contempor-
—Be a sport and help preserve Belle- | ary has convinced itself, and probably
fonte’s piscatorial museum. Don't try to ; persuaded a few other feeble minded
catch the trout that are such a source of A persons, that the result of the recent
i Significance of the Chicago Election. |
interest to strangers in our town. |
—How true is the saying of J. E.|
HousE that some family troubles begin |
when father marries a second wife and
the others start directly after his will is
read.
—A fly swatter can be had for the ask-
ing most anywhere and no one can tell
how many million germs of infectious
diseases might perish on the feet of the
very fly you swat.
—The election returns from Chicago
seem to indicate that the CARTER HAR-
RISONS are of the opinion that they are
the only Democrats suited to the mayor-
alty of that great city.
—Patterson, N. J., hasn’t yet fully de-
cided whetherit will permit itself to be
SunpAYized. We fear that the base-ball
evangelist is up against the hardest prop-
osition there that he has ever encoun-
tered. :
—And now we hear rumors that the
WILLARD-JOHNSON fight was a fake and
that the dusky champion laid down. It
matters little how the victory was won
so long as it knocked JOHNSON out of the
spot light.
—Congressman CASEY has decided that
he would like to be National committee-
man from Pennsylvania. Inasmuch as
all that is necessary to the gratification
of his ambition is the requisite number
of votes we presume that the Hon. Ca-
SEY has as much right to try to corrall
them as anybody else.
—Jess WILLARD isn’t exactly honest
when he says it was merely the glory he
was after in Havana. He didn’t get a
nickle by defeating JOHNSON, but he did
get a lot of advertising that will be good
for thousands of dollars so long as he
can keep some other husky from knock-
ing the advertising value out of him.
+ —If the Kronprinz Wilhelm could slip
into Newport News without being seen
by the allied war ships said to be watch-
ing off the capes the Eitel Friedrich
might have slipped out. She didn’t’ try
it, however, and interned for the war and
that is probably what this latest German
sea raider to seek a haven in our port
will do.
—The York county bar association is
threatened with disintegration over the
local option question. The York lawyers
are divided and when those in favor of
option happened to have a majority at a
meeting called to transact other business
those opposed to it left the meeting and
threatened to organize an association of
their own.
—The United States Steel Co. has be-
gun the erection of a new ten million
dollar plant at Duluth, Minn. This ex-
tension is probably being done on the
theory that in dull times we should pre-
pare for the rush of business that is cer-
tain to follow. But the capacity of this
corporation is so great now that further
enlargements must certainly be based on
a wonderful faith in future demands for
steel products.
——The death of Ep. QUIGLEY suggest-
ed the thought to us that men of his type
should have understudies, so that when
they are called their splendid traits do
not become mere memories, but live on
as daily reminders to others of what they
might do to brighten up this old + world
and make life worth while. Having
known him most intimately for nearly
thirty years we failed to discover a single
trait in his character that it would not
have been well for anyone to emulate.
There was so much of good and nothing
of bad, so much of sunshine and nothing
of gloom, so much of candor and nothing
of deceit in his make up that even
though he was called in the prime of
manhood he has left more to those who
were touched by his life than many
might were they given a thousand years
to live.
—Prohibition is a moral question and
not a political issue. It never will be
solved by injecting it into politics. In
fact it is our opinion that it will be injur-
ed rather than advanced by such a pro-
cedure. We have had personal knowl-
edge of many faivly honest Prohibition-
ists whose first loyalty is to their party,
who haven't hesitated to vote against
Prohibition when it has been espoused
by others than the candidates of their
party. Witness, the election for Assem-
blyman in Centre county last fall. Hun-
dreds of men voted for Mr. SCOTT be-
cause he was a Republican, who would
have voted “yes” at the same time had
there been a non-partisan ballot taken
asking whether they were in favor of
Prohibition. Mr. SCOTT ran on a plat-
form opposed to Prohibition, but he was
supported by many in favor of it merely
because he represented their political
ideals.
local election in Chicago indicates the
restoration of the Republican party to
power next year. To achieve this result
it published the opinions of the chairman
and secretary of the Republican Nation-
al committee and a few other active Re: .
publican politicians, influenced :- to the
thought by the wish. Senator PENROSE, '
who predicted the election of TAFT the
day before the vote in 1912, is one of the |
witnesses and other Senators equally
partisan and quite as dependable are
quoted. But no man of intelligence |
could be deceived by such evidence. |
The Chicago municipal campaign was !
conducted on purely local issues and the
result had no more political significance
than the election of a constable in any
township in this county would have. It
is true that the Democratic nominee for
Mayor blundered egregiously and lost |
thousands of votes in consequence. Be-
ing a German by birth he perwitted his |
friends to appeal to the citizens of Ger-
man birth and extraction to support him
on the ground that his election would in-
dicate that popular sympathy in this
country is with the Germans in the war.
This pretense was resented by voters of
all nationalities, including German, as it
ought to have been. It was a falsehood
on its face.
But the result was not determined even
by that false step on the part of the
Democratic nominee. In the primary
campaign religion had been introduced
and developed a bitterness which could
not be suppressed subsequently. After
the result was practically determined the
calamity howlers broke in with the view
of giving the contest a semblance of
nationalism, but they fooled nobody ex-
cept those like our Philadelphia con-
temporary, who wanted to be fooled. We
have the best authority for saying that
not a single vote cast was influenced one
way or the other by the tariff and that
politics had nothing to do with the re-
sult. In any:event, however, times will
be different next year. .
—In replying to our last week’s appeal !
for financial help an old friend up the
Halfmoon valley writes that he is ‘almost
as hard up as we claim to be but rather
than disappoint us he would hold a festi-
val to raise the money if he couldn’t |
scrape it up in any other way. That's!
the spirit of '76 for you and that’s the |
very newest plan that we have ever had
proposed to raise the mazuma for the |
WATCHMAN. Go to it friends, send in !
the money. We don’t care how you get
it so long as you keep out of jail in do-
ing it.
Brumbaugh and the Tariff.
The fellow who in inveigled Governor | i
BRUMBAUGH into talking upon the tariff
must have had a grudge against him. No |
public man in recent years has made
such a fool of himself as the Governor. |
did in a recent interview of which tariff |
taxation was the subject, if he is correct- |
ly quoted. “The Democratic tariff is an |
entirely wrong conception, so far as it
concerns the revenue problem,” he de-
clares. “The expenses of the national |
government are constantly increasing,”
he adds, “and the only method by which
revenues under the present tariff sched-
ule can be made to meet the demands of
the government is by a sliding scale.”
Of course his meaning is left to con-
jecture but the sliding scale proposition
is a corker, as ROOSEVELT would say.
The constitution requires uniformity of
levy in tariff and other taxation and how
to get in a sliding scale on a uniform
levy would puzzle the most expert math-
ematician. But BRUMBAUGH probably
knows. He has discovered that the, in-.
come tax “is a distinct assessment on
the North as opposed to the South,” and
a fellow who can draw such a conclusion
is liable to adopt any other crazy notion.
But that doesn’t present BRUMBAUGH at
his worst. He adds “the UNDERWOOD
tariff act interferes with the markets of
our industries, and in addition the Dem-
ocrats effected an income tax which
placed assessments upon those whose
markets were destroyed by the new tar-
iff schedule.”
What absurd drivel. But probably
Governor BRUMBAUGH never uttered such
nonsense. We find it in the Harrisburg
Telegraph, however, which assumes to be
his personal organ. But we submit that
it would be a discredit to a grammar
school boy. The income taxis alike up-
on the people of the North and South
and the war in Europe; rather than the
tariff law, has cut off the markets for our
products. The income tax has not yield-
ed what was expected because incomes
have been curtailed by the war. But
what's the use of discussing the subject?
If BRUMBAUGH is correctly quoted he is
hopeless.
NO. 18.
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Our Weekly Summary of Legislative Activities.
Feeling that the people of Centre county have a personal interest in what is
' being done by the Legislators at Harrisburg and that laws that may affect the
future of every individual more directly than ever before are under consideration
now and may be written into the statutes of the Commonwealth, the WATCHMAN
has arranged to publish a weekly summary of what has been done at Harrisburg.
It is not the purpose to go into detail of the various Acts proposed and furnish
you with a burdensome account of them. Merely to set them, arid whatever else
. is deemed of interest to the people of this community, before you in a general,
unbiased statement that will keep you informed of the progress that is being
made. The contributor of this Summary is one of the most capable and best
informed of Harrisburg’s newspaper men and the WATCHMAN has been very for-
tunate in enlisting his service for this work.—ED.
HARRISBURG, PA., April 14, 1915.
The new fish code passed the House finally on Monday evening and is practic-
ally certain to go through the Senate next week without change. It is the fruit
| of nearly four years of constant effort upon the part of Fish Commissioner Na-
THAN R. BULLER and expresses the understanding acquired by practical experience
and intelligent investigation. The feature of greatest interest at this time, proba-
bly, is the elimination of the size limit on trout. Every trout taken must be re-
tained and considered in reckoning the number limit, fixed at forty a day, which
is certainly enough.
Most of us have seen fishermen throw back wounded trout a trifle shy of the
six inch limit and all of us know that they die. Some of us have seen fishermen
discard smaller trout when the number limit had been reached in order to fill the
quota with larger fish. In other words the size limit worked harm in various ways.
_ Under the pending bill every fish caught must be counted and when the limit is
reached the fisherman will be obliged to quit for the day or incur the penalty
which will be severe. Moreover tie increase of the number of fish wardens and
making game and forestry wardens auxiliary, will make detection certain.
No very good reason has been given for the nine inch limit on black bass pro-
vided in the code. The limit under the present law is eight inches and the small-
er fish thrown back invariably die. Few under that size were caught but many of
that size were taken. An eight inch bass can take about any size hook and bait
and it is a safe guess that under the new law more bass will be returned to the
water than taken home. If the return guaranteed another chance at them a year
later, it would be all right. But as a matter of fact it simply means the waste of
fish life. The provision forbidding the sale of bass, however, is wise and expedi-
ent, and will make for conservation. 2
The Governor’s compensation legislation got through the House on Monday
evening on a flood tide. There were seven bills in the batch and except for the
amendment made last week including coal mine employees in the beneficiaries,
they were unaltered during the process of passage. Last week, it will be remem-
bered, BALDWIN of Delaware, the PENROSE mouth-piece in the House, almost suc-
ceeded in defeating the principal measure by emasculating it. But in the roll call
Monday night only three votes were cast against it, those of Mr. BALDWIN and
his Delaware county colleague, Mr. Heyeuget and Mr. ROTHENBERGER, of Berks.
‘This was “plucking the flower victory from the nettle danger.” 3
It is predicted that these measures will have a harder race to run in the Sen-
ate. Privilege is well entrenched in that body and the big employers will not yield
without a struggle. But it may be predicted that all the compensation bills will
go through. The Republican State platform promised the legislation and Sena-
tor PENROSE wants to “look good” on the eve of the opening of a Presidential
campaign. There may be an amendment inserted here and there,and some legis-
i lative snakes are likely to wiggle in through the underbrush of verbiage. But the
compensation legislation will be enacted and the child labor bill will be passed
in some form that will serve the purpose of fooling the people.
Present indications are ominous for the “trading stamp” industry. That ele-
ment in business has been a prolific source of trouble to retail merchants for some
years and the subject of legislation in various States. The pending bill which
passed the House on Monday night by an overwhelming majority, promises tc
strangle it, however. Hitherto legislation on the subject has taxed only the com-
panies which issue the stamps, originally, at a nominal rate. Of course that was
ineffective. The pending bill, on the other hand, proposes a tax of $1000 a year on
| such companies annually and $150.00 a year on retail stores issuing them to cus-
tomers. “This is the blow that will kill father.”
The bill for the classification of counties according to population passed the
House unanimously on Monday evening and is practically. certain to become a
law. The purpose of the measure is to effect better results in legislation. Legis-
lation suitable for counties of large population is some times oppressive on the
people of smaller counties. The pending bill provides for eight classes. Coun-
ties of 1,500,000 inhabitants, or more would be first class. Those of more than
800,000 second class. More than 300,000 and less than 800,000, third class.
More than 150,000, and iess than 300,000 fourth class; more than 100,000 and
less than 150,000, fifth class; more than 50,000 and less than 100,000, sixth class;
more than 25,000 and less than 50,000, seventh class and less than 25,000 eighth
class. :
There is quite as much uncertainity and almost as much interest in the bill
for the repeal of the Full Crew law as there is in the Local Option measure.
The public hearings before the committee in which it was considered brought
immense crowds to the city, that at which the opponents of the repeal bill were
heard, having been a record breaker. In the expectation that it would be con-
sidered on second reading on Monday evening the House was crowded, high-up
railroad officials predominating. It didn’t come up until Tuesday when it was
allowed to go through without opposition, under an agreement making it a
special order: for third reading and final passage next Monday evening.
' Both sides in this contentions are professing confidence and both are reveal-
ing doubts. The railroad corporations have made a vigorous fight at vast expense
and the employees have done the best they could with their limited resources.
The humanity side of the subject, the “safety first” policy, has been their de-
pendence and they have made an impression. But lots of people like to stand
well with the railroad managers concerned in their communities, and the labor
vote has come to be regarded as negligible. The Republican bosses think they
can get it when they want it, anyway, and don’t pay much attention to labor leg-
islation. But there will be a good many votes against the repeal bill and possibly
it will be defeated.
‘The veto of the Philadelphia housing bill by the Governor, the other day gave
some of the Machine managers quite a shock. They knew it ought to have been
vetoed and feared that it might be, but hoped that it would be approved. How-
ever, the Governor let them down as easy as possible and his apology for disap-
pointing them has been accepted. In other words they are preparing a new bill .
which will serve their purpose and won’t look so raw. The housing bill of 1913 |
will not be enforced anyway, and that is what concerns them.
The appointment of ROBERT J. CUNNINGHAM, of Pittsburgh, as Highway Com-
missioner, justifies the hope that road building in the State will soon begin. No-
body knows much about CUNNINGHAM and his fitness or unfitness for the work is
a matter of conjecture. But everybody is interested in the roads and anxious to
see ‘the work in that direction begun. In fulfillment of this promise Senator
SPROUL yesterday introduced measures to provide the funds and it is said that *
the Governor intends to personally see that the work is promptly and well done.
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OH YOU AUTO OMN 1BUS!
hindi: ”
[Written for the WATCHMAN.] -
Oh you Auto Omnibus,
You wake us up and make us cuss.
Before you came our sleep was sweet
Our dreams were pure our rest compléte.
But things have changed—for many
So things are going from bad to worse,
With Jitneys here we fear a hearse
Will back up to the curb for us:
Oh you Auto: Omnibus.
Oh you Auto Omnibus,
You’re simply here to torture us.
You fill our eyes with dust and dirt.
And blow your horn—our ears to hurt.
You kill our chickens, cats and dogs
And scare our horses, cows and hogs. 3
You surely try your very best
To earn the name—a human pest.
We'll get your scalp—take it from us
Oh you Auto Omnibus. "
Oh you Auto Omnibus
You make an everlasting fuss.
O’er lumps and bumps and cobble stones’
| Your name should be—old rattle-bones.
| You toot, and toot, and toot your horn
Throughout the night ant early fiorn.
You never sleep or take a rest, :
Continuous racket you like best,
We'll win the race—take it from us
Oh you Auto Omnibus.
Oh you Auto Omnibus,
It will not be forever thus.
Some day the bell will tap foryou
The Judge will come to look you through
Your end will be—we have in mind
Your carcass to the dump consigned.
And then will be that brighter day
For we will have the right of way.
Then you will not run over us,
Oh you Auto Omnibus.
isa
—Priscilla.
If a Break Comes.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
If a break comes between Mr. Bryan
and the President it is likely to be occa-
sioned by the prohibition procliv-
ities of the Secretary of State. Presi-
dent Wilson hitherto has held the ground
very firmly against doctrines ‘which Mr.
Bryan seems disposed now to. make his
SN adoubtedly the Secretary will ond a
large response from Democrats to his
recent appeal in behalf of prohibition,
but it will be by no means a general re-
sponse. The ‘old doctrines of Democracy
are too deeply ingrained (in the fibre of a
large body of its disciples to permit them
to extend hospitality to a doctrir at cruss
Prrpises with its essential
indeed a clear denial of ‘the’ Ne es-
sence of that Democracy, for if Democ-
racy means any thing it means individu-
i al choice, individual responsibility, indi-
| vidual avoidance of evil, Mr. Bryan
: would adopt the arguments of authority
and impose upon the individual such
morals as the majority may choose.
And of course if the majority may im-
pose one set of morals on the minority it
may impose any other set of morals at
will. There is no place where the line
may be drawn, once admitting the right
or the authority of the majority to deal
with moral questions. From morals it
is a short and logical step to religion;
and when morals have been regulated to
suit the majority, the regulation of relig-
ious opinion and modes of worship will
follow in order. There is no escape from
this logic.
In none of the writings of the Presi-
dent which have come under our notice
do we find any indication that he is hos-
pitable to the notion that the regulation
State. Certainly it is no part of the duty
of the Federal government. He has
everywhere manifested the keenest sym-
pathy with the spirit of free institutions
and the largest appreciation of individual
liberty and responsibility. And so he
must have undergone a very great change
indeed if since quitting the cloister for
the forum and the seat of executive pow-
' er he has become sympathetic with the
doctrine which flatly denies all he had
before taught and sincerely believed.
It is on this issue that we may fairly
expect the President and his Secretary of
State to reach the parting of the ways.
The President is perhaps as. strong an
advocate of sobriety as Mr. Bryan. He
is as earnest in his desire to abate the
evil of drink. But he is likely to be un-
willing to pay the price for the abate-
ment of the evil that Mr. Bryan seems
more than ready to offer.
A Strange Reply.
| From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The reply of the German government
to the American note concerning the
sinking of the American ship Frye ap-
pears to presume that all we want is doi-
lars and it is generous and prompt in of-
fering plenty. The reply is amazingly
prompt. It was handed to our Ambassa-
dor the day after he had presented the
long and elaborate American note with
its deliberately prepared and apparently
irrefutable argument from international
law. The German reply insists that the
commander of the Prinz Eitel was right
| in sinking the American merchant ship
| but it refers to old treaties between our
.| country and Prussia as probably entitling
the owners to compensation under the
“decision of German prize courts for both
| ships and cargo, although our note made
no claim for the cargo. The amazing
German contention that the sinking of
this American ship was right is thus
glossed over with the offer of compensa-
tion, but the remarkably quick reply and
the accommodating spirit displayed. sug-
| gest that this contention will not be
maintained and that there will be no
more outrages of that sort upon inoffen-
sive ships under our flag.
a s ‘something in a name after
' The’ first straw hat ‘we ‘have Seen
| worn this season was perched on the
“coco of ALFRED SHADY on Saturday.
~ We've done somnambulistic stusts. hd :
of morals is any part of the duty of the,
ry
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The council of Johnstown has appropriated
$2,500 for playgrounds during the coming season
and atleast ten will be opened in different parts
of the city.
~—Harrison Straw, of Geshen township, Clear-
field ‘county, has just sold ten milch cows to
| Bucks county buyers for which he Teceived $100
i | each or $1,000 all told.
—Plans are in course of preparation for modern
buildings to cover many of the recently burned
over sites in Ebensburg, and all the new build-
ings will be practically fireproof.
~The business men of Indiana are said to be
making a determined effort to secure the annual
encampment of the Second Brigade, National
Guard of Pennsylvania, for their town this year.
~Ford City recently celebrated the opening of
a new bridge at that place over the Allegheny
river, with vocal and instrumental music and a
parade in which 4,000 citizens participated. The
bridge cest $97.800.
—QGallitzin’s special election to determine
whether bonds to the amount of $60,000 should be
. | issued for the purpose of creating a municipal
water plant, resulted in 257 votes for the proposi-
tionand 1 against it.
~—Walter Williamson. ativkless motoreyclist of
Lock Haven, was thrown from his machine while
traveling at the rate of forty-five miles an hour
in the vicinity of Mill Hall and badly hurt. He
|| will recover, however.
—Mrs. Catherine Shuey Bair, who died at her
home in Greensburg one day this week, would
have been 100 years old had she lived until Oc-
tober 13th. An attack of la grippe developing
into pneumonia ended her long life.
. —A mysterious fire at Kittanning recently en-
tailed a loss of $25,000. Flames destroyed the
ware-housz and gutted the big store of Gault &
Co. It is said a small terrier dog confined in the
| building first gave the alarm by barking and
| later lost its life in the flames.
—VWilliam King Kilpatrick, the noted band
leader of Williamsport, who was seriously in-
jured on the early morning of April 6th by fall-
ing from a culvert to the ground, a distance of
twenty feet, is dead from his injuries in the
Jersey Shore hospital, where he was taken after
the accident. He was aged 44 years.
—Roy Delmar Kepler, aged 24 years, emploved
“| in the Pennsylvania Railroad company’s round
house at Renovo,left for his home,near Renovo,the
other morning after completing his night's labor,
but never reached there. For some reason he
committed suicide by shooting, his dead body
having been found on the roadside half a mile
from his home.
—Grevious mental anguish and injured reputa-
tion entitling him to $10,000 damages, are alleged
in the suit started by councilman. Arthur Stauff-
enberg, of West Hazleton, against constable
Anthony Kobitski, who caused the arrest of
Stauffenberg and the other five members of
council, charging them with conspiracy to mis-
appropriate $20,000 borough funds.
—George W. Peters, a much respected citizen
of Bigler, Clearfield county, was instantly killed
while at work in the Clay mines at his home
town. He was in the act of placing some props
when nearly ten tons of rock broke loose and fell
on him, breaking his neck and mangling his
body. He was about 40 years of age, was un-
married and owned a large farm near Bigler.
—The auditors of Clarion county have sur-
charged the county commissioners of that county
$99, being money paid the sheriff for attendance
at criminal court during 1914. They have also
surcharged them $94.44 for fees paid witnesses in
| certain “black hand” cases in that county. The
commissioners claim they paid these bills in good
faith and followed the custom of years. They
| will take an appeal.
celebration of the 70th anniversary of
bi { the ith of Thomas H. Murray, Esa. of Clear-
field, at the Dimeling, on the evening of the Sth,
under the direction of the Clearfield Bar asso:
ciation was a notable event. Among the speak.
ers was Judge Harry White, of Indiana county;
Miss Jane Leonard,of the Indiana Normal school,
who was one of Mr. Murray’s teachers, and
Thomas H. Greevy, Esq., of this city. The guest
of honor, Mr: Murray, also delivered a notable
address.
—Word was received at Port Allegheny Sat-
urday night from Los Angeles, Cal., that Keith
Dalrymple, the missing heir to a fortune of more
than $365,000, is thought to have been found in
that city. Dalrymple, for whom a search has
been made for eight years is said to have been
found by W. B. Linney, general agent for an
insurance company, who states that he first met
Dalrymple in McGill, Nev., and that the young
man told him he left his home in Pennsylvania’
when only a little boy.
—The biggest coal mining resumption in
Washington county since the shutdown months
ago, came on Monday, when the extensive work-
ings of the Lackawanna Steel company, at Ells
worth and Cokeburg were put in’ operation’ and !
fires lighted in 500 coke ovens in the Same towns.’
The resumption gave employment to about 2200
and Cokeburg mines, which are among the big- :
gest in Washington county, have been running’
on part time or have been closed. he
—Thomas Nolan, who has supported three
wives for more than five vears in different parts
of Philadelphia, maintaining all the while a regu-
lar nightly schedule for visiting each, came to
grief on Tuesday when each learned of the ex-
istence of the other two and Nolan was hustled
off to jail in default of bail. His only comment
was: “I kept them in comfort and visited them
regularly. I don’t know why they should kick.
These ladies will have to shift for themselves
now that I have been ‘interned.’ It’s a relief
though to be taken from under such a load.”
—Six men were injured seriously, several
State constables were bruised and fourteen men
and thirteen women were arrested in a fight’
among miners at Vesta mine No. 5, of the Jones
ani Laughlin Steel company at Point View,
Fayette county, on Monday. The mine re
opened Monday after a shutdown and a crowd’
of miners who were refused work attacked
another group with sticks and stones. Several
shots were fired. The State police were sum-
moned and made twenty-seven arrests. The"
women who are said to have thrown stones were
released on their own recognizance for a hear-
ing. :
—That her husband in one embrace hugged
her so hard that her breast bone was broken,
which left her in a weakened condition for a
long time, and from which she has not fully re-
covered although it occurred more than a year
ago, was one of the reasons why Mrs. John J.
Carr, of Mt. Carmel, was recommended a decree
in divorce in the Northumberland county court
on Tuesday. According to the woman's testi-
mony they were wedded in November of 1911
and that she lived with him until January of this
year. - Allegations of brutality are als”, made.
She declares this was so continued that she was
forced to leave him and support herself.
—Irvin Blackhart, who has for years been em-
ployed as a section hand on the N. Y. C. railroad
at Philipsburg, was arrested on Tuesday of last
week by railroad policeman J. E. Overdorff, of
Jersey Shore, and constable H. R. Nash, of Phil-
ipsburg, on the charge of having on the night of
February 20th broken open a N. Y. C. car and
removing and disposing of goods consigned to
i Philipsburg ‘merchants. He was given a hearing
. Wednesday before Squire Finigan in Chester
Hill and was held for court in the sum of $500, in
default of which he was taken to Clearfield jail.
, arrested in. connection the
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