Bema adn
INK SLINGS.
—From the number of open mufflers
we hear on our streets we are almost
persuaded to believe that our policemen
have ear mufflers on their caps.
—Farmers are cheering up. Recent
rains and the following warm weather
have made the wheat pick up materially,
given the oats and corn a most promis-
ing start and begun to lengthen out the
timothy grass.
—Only three weeks until Old Home
BY P. GRAY MEEK. i
week. All you distant Centre countians
begin to get your socks darned and your
linen laundered right now, because we're |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JUNE 11, 1915.
NO. 24.
Mr. Bros Has Roslgnal
The resignation of Secretary of State
BRYAN has been tendered and accepted.
[It now devolves upon the President to |
‘ find a new premier for his Cabinet. Let
expecting you and will welcome you with | | us hope that his choice will fall upon a
brass bands and open arms.
—Many people. Many ideas. That is
what makes up a community and that is
what makes differences of opinion in
communities. It is evidently part of the
Divine plan that it should be so, else God
would have endowed all men with the
‘ same reasoning power.
~ —The revenues on spiritous liquors
have been falling off at the rate: of $1,
250,000 a month in the United States,
notwithstanding the increased war tax
' on wines. The wheels of the water wag-
ons must certainly be creaking under
the loads that are evidently climbing on.
—The courts have allowed, the ASTOR
baby three years old, $20,000 a year on
which to live, but its mother avers that
$30,000 are required to keep it properly.
Talk about being raised with a gold
spoon in oue’s month. Here is a case
where a whole chest of spoons must be
in use.
—The decision of the United States
Supreme court to the effect that the U.
S. Steel company will not have to dis-
solve, as it is not a combination in re-
straint of trade, will be most reassuring
to the business of the country. It will
relieve many doubts and end much sus-
pense. It took a long time for the court
to arrive at the conclusion; in fact much
longer than it took CHARLEY SCHWAB to
discover that the big Steel trust doesn’t
have a cinch on the steel business and
can’t “stall” the right man off when he
starts into competition with it.
—Some years ago two boys attempted
to enter a house in Bellefonte and after
pounding on the front door for some
time they were answered from an up-
stairs window in these words: “If you
kids don’t get out of there this minute
I'll shoot you.” One of them looked up
at the white figure in the window and
replied: “Don’t you believe it;” where-
upon his companion exclaimed: “By
gosh I do” and took to his heels, never
stopping in his flight until he was clear
home. That is about the way the Mexi-
cans look at our latest admonition to
them to be good. CARRANZA doesn’t be-
lieve we'll do anything and VILLA does.
And the ones who believe the - warning’
means something will be safest when
Uncle SAM starts to make good his
threat to intervene.
—After years of a policy that entirely
ignored public opinion and scoffed at the
rights of the individual the Pennsylvania
Railroad Co. woke up to find itself on
the brink of a chasm into which it would
have fallen to utter ruin had it not re-
solved to back track at once. Its reversal
of policy was complete. And the public,
quick to perceive the reform, rewarded
it by instructing its Legislators to repeal
the full crew law and admonishing
them against the enactment of further
harrassing laws. The Pennsy almost
“bulled” itself into the pit. Almost a
parallel case is found in the recent ac-
tion of the allied liquor dealers associa-
tions. They and not the courts of Phila-
delphia are back of the order to put an
end to the cabaret and dancing in the
hotels and grills of that city. At last
they have awakened to the consciousness
that had they not so flagrantly violated :
the laws in the past public indignation at
the traffic would not be so great now.
We fear, however, that their awakening
has been too late. The opposition has
gone too far, has rallied too much strength
to be sidetracked by reforms when the
battle is more than half won.
—Hiunts that Mr. BRYAN was to retire
from President WILSON’S Cabinet have
been in the air for some time, but few
expected so speedy an exit of the great
Commoner. Though his enemies will
invent many ulterior motives lying back
of his resignation as Secretary of State
the one and apparently only reason for
his act is his disapproval of the spirit of
the last note forwarded to Germany by
our government. In very recent years
Mr. BRYAN’s hobby. has been peace
treaties with foreign powers. He is for
peace at any price and against war, no
matter what the provocation. Being op-
posed to sending virtually an ultimatum
to Germany he found his positionlin the
Cabinet no longer tenable and resigned.
That is all there was to it so far as Mr.
BRYAN is concerned. What effect his ac-
tion may have upon the administration
of President WILSON and upon the coun-
try remains to develop. In the grave
crisis in which the country finds itself
today a Cabinet crisis is serious, for it
may suggest tc Germany that there is
not solidarity among the American peo-
ple and encourage a reply that will leave
us no other alternative than severing re-
lations with a power with which we have
man who will not desert him in a crisis
such as the one in which our government
finds itself today. While it is possible -
that Mr. BRYAN may justify his act in the
minds of some by setting up the claim of
consistency he seems to us to have acted
upon the assumption that he is the gov-'
ernment instead of belng merely one of
its advisors.
He is for peace and against war. Presi-
| dent WILSON is for the same thing. Their
ideas as to how such a policy may be
honorably maintained differs and with °
characteristic insistence upon his own |
superiority the great Commoner has de- ;
clined to travel further on a path that he |
has not blazed himself.
tered President WILSON’s Cabinet his
eminence had been acquired solely
been no opportunity to put him to the
loss to the administration should not be
regarded as irreparable.
the Baltimore convention instructed to
vote for CHAMP CLARK for the Presi- !
dential nomination. When it seemed
‘ed the tide in favor of WILSON.
way of reward for that service, the Presi-
dent appointed him Secretary of State.
It seemed like a just recompense for an
important service and a proper use of
official patronage. But Mr. BRYAN im-
mediately set about committing the ad-
ministration to Populist heresies and
using his office for personal aggrandize-
ment. His ambition to be President was
always uppermost in his mind.
office, neither
nor the coun-
He has been
him, resigned his
the administration
try will suffer much.
ning of his service in the office. He has
alienated Democrats by projecting other
than political questions into the policies
of the party and alleging his personal
opinions as the policies of the adminis-
tration. He has outraged Democrats by
usurping authority to boss in localities
where he had no residence or interest
and if President WILSON is a candidate
for re-election he will be stronger with
BRYAN out.
Gregory on the Right Tack.
Mr. GEORGE W. PERKINS, president of
the Harvester trust and director in the
Steel trust, is highly indignant because
Attorney General GREGORY proposes to
appeal the case against the Steel trust,
decided adversely by the Federal Court
of Appeals, sitting in Trenton, New Jer-
sey, the other day. The suit was begun
vnder the TAFT administration by Attor-
ney General WICKERSHAM and Mr. PER-
KINS resents the appeal for the reason
that it values the opinions of TAFT and
WICKERSHAM above those of the Court
which rendered the recent decision. In-
cidentally, Mr. PERKINS adds, that the
appeal “is a flat notice to every business
concern in the country that the WILsSON-
BRYAN administration is still under the
influence of the BRYAN platform of 1
As a matter of fact the Attorney Gen-
eral is influenced to appeal the case be-
cause the Court of Appeals failed to con-
sider some of the vital questions at is-
sue. Even at that the court decided.
that certain practices in which the offi-
cials of the Steel trust had been indulg-
ing were unlawful, but because the un-
lawful practices had been abandoned the
trust is entitled to immunity. This ref-
erence was to the GARY dinners at which
“gentlemen’s agreements” fixing prices
were entered into. But the greatest
crime committed by the trust was the
absorption of the Tennessee Coal and
Iron company and that was overlooked
entirely by the Court of Appeals.
The trust question is less important
than it was when the suit was begun
and there is less inclination on the part
of the public or the authorities to prose-
cute trust offenses now than then. But
the law upon such questions should be:
fixed definitely and the only way to ac-
complish that is to take it to the highest
court. Tbe trusts may be on good be-
haviour now but they will remain on
good behaviour only so long as they feel
that the public is alert and the authori-
ties watchful. Meantime the best evi-
dence in the world that Attorney General
GREGORY is on the Fight tack is the Siok:
position of GEORGE PERKINS. Right
thinking men will “love GREGORY for the
; enemy
ie has made.”
While Mr. BRYAN is an eminently great : + 3 Se :
: s committed to pr up by aldermen, magistrates and justices of
and able man, possibly the most noted of ! Dersons comm prison of lock #p by g :
living Democrats, up to the time he en- |
Mr. BRYAN was sent as a delegate to
nated Mr. BRYAN betrayed his constitu- |
ents by deserting their favorite and turn- :
In view !
of his reputation as a statesman and by :
But since Mr. BRYAN has, in resent- |
ment of the President’s distrust of
an element of weakness from the begin- |
through forensic brilliance and there had !
acid test of practical fitness as a states-
man. His service as Secretary . of State !
during two years has revealed no really :
notable achievement, consequently his |
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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, and 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., June 9th, 1915.
Govérnor BRUMBAUGH began business this morning by swinging the veto axe
vigorously. The first victim of his prowess was the bill providing for the pay-
ment of premiums on bonds required of public officials. He imagines that the
main purpose of the measure is to benefit bonding companies, which is probably '!
true.
Among the several bills approved today are those relating to the release of
the peace; relating to the amount of bond and compensation of borough control-
lers; providing for a consolidated loan fund in cities of the first class; authorizing
the erection of garages in cities of the first class; providing for the construction,
maintenance and operation of main trunk sanitary sewers and sewage disposal |
plants by counties; relating to proceedings in equity by the issuance of a writ of |
summons and relating to the indebtedness of municipalities and providing for its
increase between seven and ten per cent., by vote of the electors.
Last week the Board of Public Buildings and Grounds of which the Governor
is chairman, adopted a resolution that the capitol would be kept open on Sundays
for the use and pleasure of tourists and visitors. Yesterday the Methodist Min-
isterium held a session and condemned the act in the severest terms. This will
create an interesting dispute as the Pennsylvania Railroad has already arranged
for Sunday excursions to the city to see the capitol.
The act increasing the number of factory inspectors, which has been approv-
ed by the Governor, provides for fifty new deputies but the appropriation bill
provides salary for only forty-five. There is a great demand for these places,
however, thus far nearly 3000 applications having been filed. One appointment
was made last Thursday and she others will be held until after the Governor has
disposed of the bills in his hands so that he may give personal attention to the
selections. The single appointment was made to spite JOSEPH R. GRUNDY, Presi-
dent of the Manufacturers’ association and Bucks county boss. It was the first
shot in the impending war between the Governor and GRUNDY.
Taking up the record where we left it last week on Thursday he approved
the pure paint bill. It requires labels in plain English on paint, putty, turpentine
and their substitutes. There has been no more prolific source of fraud and the
lobby fought the measure vigorously. Two bills changing the system of prison
labor were also approved. One of these removes the limit on the number of
prisoners who may be employed and the other provides for labor outside of
prisons under restrictions. This squints in the direction of “contract labor,” the
sum and substance of reaction. But progressives can be reactionaries when it
suits them and criticism of them is a crime.
The bill authorizing the State Sanitary Board to kill domestic animals “to
: prevent the spread of diseases,” has been approved. If the animal has foot and
mouth disease the compensation is “fair market value,” and for other diseases
two-thirds of fair market value. Besides these very important measures these
bills were signed: requiring county superintendents to examine pupils who de-
sire to attend high school in adjacent districts; fixing the fees of sheriffs in cer-
tain cases; regulating the sale of crushed limestone, gypsum, and related products
used for soil improvement and spraying; providing a method of allowing a
widow's exemption where property consists of realty; providing that damages
for private property taken for public use by municipalities shall bear 6. per cent.
interest from the date of taking over; fixing time for township elections; repeal-
ing the law which permitted voters to vote for all candidates except one where
two or more candidates were in the field for Superior court Judges; authorizing
boroughs to sell new interest bearing bonds to redeem outstanding issues; reg-
ulating the disposition of justices and aldermen’s dockets and amending the
school code in relation to inmates of orphan schools "attending district schools.
The Governor’s mind seems to have been in an approving frame on Friday
notwithstanding his vetoes. Fifteen bills were signed during the day and some of
them, notably that absurd measure prohibiting unnaturalized residents from keep-
ing dogs, deserved the other treatment. Now we have laws forbidding aliens to
own guns, go fishing and restricting their natural rights in various other ways,
yet we boast that we are conducting an asylum for the oppressed. The bill pro-
viding that the property of any person maintained in any hospital, home, sani-
torium, or other institution, in whole or part at the expense of the Common-
wealth, shall be liable for such maintenance, was properly approved. The bill in-
creasing the number of mine inspectors was likewise approved and that increas-
. ing salaries of employees in the Treasury department which ought to have been
vetoed was signed.
The signing of these bills completed the Governor’s work of Friday; prohibit-
ing the construction of public mausoleums in second class cities; providing that
State Normal schools may condemn portions of public’ highways extending into
lands of the schools; providing for appeal of juvenile court cases to the Superior
court; providing that the Insurance Commissioner shall be the official upon whom
all legal processes involving foreign insurance companies shall be served; pro-
viding for the appointment of interpreters for assessors at $2.50 a day; providing
for the return of unpaid school taxes on seated lands; increasing the salary of the
Secretary of the committee on lunacy from $3000 to $5000 a year; regulating the
issuance of letters testamentary upon estates of persons presumed dead by reason
of long absence; amending the SPROUL highway law by extending the act to in-
clude toll bridges less than 500 feet in length; amending the act to regulate li-
censing of osteopaths and creating a division of municipal statistics in the Depart-
ment of labor and industry and adding $3200 in salaries.
The compensation bills were signed Monday. There are six of them and from
the beginning of the administration have been labelled the pet measures. Much
good is expected of them and the Democratic leaders in House and Senate have
been striving to enact similar bills for more than a dozen years. The bill putting
coal miners within the shelter of the legislation was rather forced on the Gov-
ernor. It wasn’t part of his program but is an important feature of the beneficent
plan nevertheless, and he has adopted it. The Republican leaders in the General
Assembly were opposed to the measures from the beginning but were driven into
line. They hope for failure as fervently as the Governor hopes for the success of
the measures.
The anthracite coal tax bill was approved on Monday. It is expected to pro-
duce revenue to the amount of $4,500,000 but only half of it will go to the State’
for use in constructing and maintaining highways. The other half goes to cities,
boroughs and townships in which it’ is produced. Other bills approved are:
changing the periods of reporting by corporations and other bodies subject to
State tax, except banks, saving institutions, trust companies, building and loan
associations and foreign insurance companies to the calendar year instead of a
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Something About Shrapnel.
From the Wall Street Journal.
How much copper is used in the man-
| ufacture of shrapnel? How much steel?
What other metals? What is the cost?
These are the questions Wall street is
asking. i
Expressed in the I age of Wall
i street, shrapnel is costing European
' countries now at war about $18 each on
, the firing line. Manufacturers in this
' country and Canada are getting from $15
to more than $16 for each shell, the ad-
ditional expense to. the foreign countries
being cost of transportation and, in cer-
tain instances, filling the cartridge cases
: wih powder sbroad, %
rom the post of view engineers,
shrapnel, one of the most cat agen-
. cies for the destruction of human life yet
devised, is an extremely complex mechan-
i ism, its complexity being shown by the
' subcontracting of the order received by
' the Canadian Car and Foundry company
; among 50 concerns in the United States
‘and Canada. That company’s order call-
ed for 5,000,000 shrapnel at an approxi-
| mate cost of $83,000,000, or $16.65 each.
Close to 20,000,000 pounds of copper are
being used in their manufacture or about
- four pounds to each shrapnel.
The complete shrapnel is composed of
three principal parts: (a) The time
| fuse; (b) the projectile proper, a hollow
i steel shell filled with bullets and a burst-
| ing charge of black powder; (c) smoke-
less powder to shoot the projectile from
the gun. This brass cartridge case is
similar to the shell of an ordinary rifle
or revolver cartridge.
i The time fuse is a very complicated
| mechanical device which may be set to
| burst the steel projectile any number of
: ‘seconds or feet after it has left the muz-
‘ zle of the gun. It is as delicately con-
structed as a watch or a safe lock and is
made largely of brass and alloys of
aluminum.
The time fuse is screwed into the
point of the steel projectile, the projec-
tile is filled with" small bullets, usually
about 250 in number, and is exploded by
means of a charge of black powder seat-
ed at the opposite end from the time
fuse. When it explodes the bullets are
hurled over a range of about 250 square
yards. - The bullets are 88 per cent lead
and 12 per cent antimony.
The cartridge-case is from a foot to
almost two feet long and is made of
sheet brass and filled with smokeless
powder. It is set off by a Joxcyssion cap
and will hurl the proj 6,000
yards, making that
less than 20 seconds.
TTI TT
Germany Admits Errors. -
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is interesting to learn from the note
of the German Foreign Office regarding
the torpedoing of the American steam-
ship Guiflight, which is admitted to have
been done by a German submarine, that
the Kaiser's Government at last recog-
nizes that a mistake was made, for which
it expresses its regrets and willingness
to make compensation. Of course, it
could not easily have done less, but a
point has been gained in securing this
acknowledgment. Heretofore it has been
too much the custom of Germany to de-
ny that its sailors or soldiers could be
guilty of errors of judgment,
This concession from Berlin adds force
to the contention of President Wilson
that submarine warfare, especially as
conducted by Germany, makes mistakes
almost inevitable, to the great injury of
innocent neutrals, and that, therefore, it
should be abandoned in favor of the
methods recognized by international law.
If German submarine officers couldn’t
recognize the nationality of the Gulflight
from her flag, they clearly were without
excuse in attacking her, under the sup-
position that she must be British because
near British waters. It was the same
proneness to error that led to the sink-
ing of the Nebraskan and the attack of
a German aviator on the Cushing. The
German note strengthens President Wil-
son’s hands. It is to be hoped that it
marks a more reasonable and concilia-
tory attitude on the part of the Kaiser’s
Government toward the well-grounded
protests of the United States.
Where Neutrality Ends.
From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
President Wilson may eat French
bread, Vienna rolls, German fried po-
tatoes and spaghetti, but he draws the
line at Turkish cigarettes.
Why Not t Begin Now?
From the Florida Times-Union.
Perhaps the failure of Capt. Hobson to
close the mouth of Santiago harbor ac-
counts for the fact that he has never
tried to close his own.
Our Idea of Thrift.
From the Boston Advertiser.
Out of his $6,000 year’s™salary Huerta
saved up enough to buy $74, 000 worth of
New York real estate.
—Only a few years ago stock in Mr.
HENRY FORD'S enterprise was offered al-
most for a song. Today ‘‘there’s mil-
lions in it.” Tir Lizzie has come into
her own and the nicest, juiciest big mel-
on that any industrial has ever produced
is rattling right out of her. Think of a
$48,000,000 dividend out of an investment
that was looked upon as foolish only a
short time ago.
—It was decidedly BRYANesque that the
former Secretary of State should sit for
his picture immediately after he made
his’last official call upon the President.
—Mr. BRYAN will get more extra mon-
ey for his Chautauqua lectures now than
will compensate for the loss of his sala-
‘ry as Secretary of State.
r
‘now in the Lewistown hospital.
! SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. :
—A powder plant now in progress of erection
west of Newton Hamilton and that will employ
not less than 300 men, will be Teady for | opera-.
tions by July 1st.
—It is asserted that some unknown dastand
of Meyersdale, while he was working in his gar.
den a few evenings ago.
children, seventy-four grand children and eight- -
-1 great-grand children, held a joyous reunion in
one of the Johnstown parks last Sunday after.
noon. Lal
John M. Chambers, a prosperous farmer, resid.
the roadside last Sunday afternoon. followi
the excitement of a runaway by his horse, He
was in his 71st year.
—The Associated Charities of Johnstown rot
eczema and upon inquiry found that the mother
had been feeding it updn beer, meat, potatoes
and other heavy articles of food.
—Rev. Dr. R. E. McClure, of Blairsville, pur-
sale, the purchase price being $12,800. Itis
rumored that the property was bought for
the use of the Blairsville school board.
—A hungry bear invaded a farm yard near
Marion Centre, Indiana county,the other day and
began to kill the sheep for dinner. Then the
farmer came along and shot the bear, contrary
tolaw. Subsequent events will be awaited with
considerable interest.
- —Newport, Perry county, Pa., is suffering from
an epidemic of typhoid fever. At the present
time there are 60 cases in the town and 40 trained
nurses are now on the ground to help in the bat-
tle with the epidemic. Four deaths so far from
the disease are reported.
—Three business establishments in Williams-
port cashed checks purporting to be drawn by
the Keystone Glue company, of that city, last
Saturday, each of which was drawn for $42. A
similar check presented at another business
place was refused payment and the fraud dis-
covered.
—Charles A. Philips, convicted in the Lycom-
ing county court of murder in the first
degree, his victim having been Emanuel T.
Leib, aged 74, to whom Philips owed money, will
be Lycoming county’s first contribution to the
new death house in Centre county,” less the
higher courts or the hoard of pardons intervene
in his behalf.
—The entire family of Charles Isenhouer are
Isenhouer was
taken to the hospital Sunday suffering from ty-
phoid fever, his little daughter followed threater-
ed with an attack of the disease, and his wife
being left at home suffering with tuberculosis
without care it became necessary to send her to
the institution.
—Paul Van Horn, of Williamsport, who plead
guilty to the charge of murder in the second de-
gree this week, has been sentenced by Judge
Whitehead to serve an imprisonment of not less
than nineteen nor more that twenty years in the
eastern penitentiary. He killed Mrs. Mary J.
Fulmer, under peculiarly atrocious circum-
stances and really deserved electrocution.
—Martin D. Wike, of Lewistown, lost a full set
of teeth Saturday in his efforts to land the body
of Edwin S. Pitman, who was drowned in the
Kishacoquilas creek a week ago. A blast fired
by Wike in razing the walls of the Old Stone
brewery raised the body to the surface and his
leap into the chilling spring waters caused his
teeth to chatter until they dropped from his
mouth.
—Truman Logan while iain from wil
liamsport to Newberry on a bicycle saw some™
thing in Lycoming creek which attracted his at-
tention. Investigation proved that it was a
brown trout measuring eighteen and a quarter
inches, that had been hooked by some angler
whose line had broken. The piece of linefattach-
ed to the hook had caught on an obstruction in
the stream.
—Two trainloads of cattle passed eastward
over .the Pennsylvania ‘railroad - through Lock
Haven early last Thursday morning for ship-
ment to France. In all there were 77 cars, con-
taining about 1,600 head of cattle, together with
the usual number of cattle inspectors, attendants,
etc. The trains were made up at Chicago and
were consigned to Bayonne, N. J. When passing
through Pennsylvania, they were on an 18-hour
run from Pittsburgh to Buttonwood, Pa.
—Williamsport seems to be falling into the
clutches of outlaws. Following upon the heels
of the sentence of a young man for the murder
of an aged woman whom he robbed, Mrs. Wilbur
A. Hornberger was knocked senseless, bound
and gagged and her residence looted; Logue
Bros. store was entered and robbed and a night
watchman had a pistol duel with two unknown
men who were muscular enough to carry offa
large box containing tools valued at $50.
—Miss Mabel Confer, who has been selling '
tickets for the Lyric theatre, Williamsport, for
several years, and Ira Jacobs, a former resident
of that city, were married by Alderman Henry
Kellenbach on Monday afternoon. The wedding
is the outcome of a romance which began at
Memorial services that morning when the couple
met for the first time.” Cupid was close at hand
and used his darts so effectively that the young
couple made their courtship brief and were mar-
ried at once.
—Death has solved a mystery of more than a
quarter of a century’s standing. The body of
Reuben Hilliard, who was thought to have been
drowned in the Johnstown flood, was sent from
Kane to Punxsutawney last Wednesday evening,
where it was recdgnized by Hilliard’s aged moth-
er and sister. Hilliard left Clarion county,
where his mother then resided, in May, 1889, and
was never heard from until after his death, a few
days ago. He was supposed to have perished
in the flood. He leaves several thousand doljars
which will go to his mother.
—Nearly all of Dalmatia was levied upon by
Sheriff John H. Glass,of Northumberland county,
Satutday, due to the assignment of W. P. Zart-
man, Shamokin, an extensive lumber dealer,
who has large operations in Northumberland,
Schuylkill and Dauphin counties. A saloon own-
ed by H. W. Hoffman was among the properties
affected. More than a dozen banks have Zart-
man’s paper and many citizens are on his notes,
including Frederick R. R. Dornsife, commission-
er of Northumberland county. The amount
involved in the assignment is said to be $100,000.
—Wednesday’s Altoona Times said many Al-
toona, Hollidaysburg and Williamsburg people
were interested in the African} ostrich farm, at
Bloomsburg, an ill-starred venture, which recent-
ly ended in a-court of bankruptcy. A coterie of
county capital investors met at the office of Dr.
Frank R. Shoemaker a few months ago and de®
cided to take a flyer in ostrichffeathers provided
that George A. Clark, one of their number, visit
the ostrich farm and pass upon the feasibility of
the investment. Mr. Clark was received very
kindly by the promoters, and wasjescorted to
the farm, where the birds were to have their
feathers cut. Inthe midst of the operationsan
ostrich managed to escape [from its captors and
ran towards Mr. Clark. Before the bird was
recaptured it shed a feather, waich was picked
up by Mr. Clark. To his astonishment he found
that the bird had a hook at the end . of its
feather like an old fashioned hook and [eve used
on Amish people's clothes. A further investiga.
tion disclosed that all the pulmage was hooked
on in a similar fashion. Mr. Clark got a large
pair of cold feet, and the malady) spread when
he returned and informed his fellow linvestors,
made an attempt to murder Chief of Police Hare, pie
—Mrs. John Marshall, of Johnstown, her eight 2
ing in northern Indiana county, dropped deadon
cently discovered a baby in a bad way with
chased the old Blairsville college at sheriff's 5