ad
Demon iatcnn
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—If the ground-hog saw his shadow
on Wednesday he has some eye sight.
——One trouble with Germany is that
she was over confident of her prepared-
ness.
—Easter doesn’t come until April 23rd.
It is a very late date and indicates a late
spring.
‘—The latest war news is to the effect
that the Russians have chased the Turks
down Mush valley.
—Nearly every child, no matter how
dull it may be naturally, has at least one
real “smartie” period in its life.
——VILLA is surrounded again, accord-
ing to dispatches, but nobody every
caught a flea by surrounding it.
——What the country really needs is a
Congress with intelligence enough to.
frame a tariff law and courage enough
to pass it.
—We are all glad to hear that the
United States is ready to go to war right
now, but we would all be sorelydistressed
to hear that she had gone.
——Strangely enough it never occur-
red to ROOSEVELT, while he was Presi-
dent, to do the things which he now
_says ought to have been done long ago.
——There is a suspicion abroad that
the Standard Oil company is “cutting-up”
again and if Mr. ROCKERFELLER is wise
he will take steps to remove that sus-
picion.
——Mr. PALMER has made up his mind
to reappoint himself member of the
Democratic National Committee for
Pennsylvania but appointments are not
valid unless confirmed.
—Wednesday was ground-hog day and
even if the weather wise little rodent
didn’t see his shadow we hope he is back
in his hole again. Surely we have had
so little winter that every one would wel-
come at least six weeks more of it.
—*“When I see some of my fellow citi-
zens spread tinder where the sparks are
falling,” said the President in his Chicago
speech, “I wonder what their ideal of
Americanism is.” They are the fellows,
Mr. President, who have no ideals, they
are our iconoclasts and should have no
place in our land.
—Decent, self-respecting Republicans
have no alternative. They must follow
either PENROSE or the VARES, and in
doing that they are following the past-
masters of corrupt politics and placing
their stamp of approval on the methods
of one or the other. They must either
do that or come over tous. =
—In all this talk about drilling and
military training for the civilians of this
country the fact should not be over look-
ed that as a mass Americans have more
intelligence than the peoples of any
other nation and with this superior in-
telligence they could become first line
soldiers in an increbibly short time.
—“If February 1st and 2nd be clear
there’ll be two winters in one year,” so
runs an old weather proverb that THAD-
DEUS HAMILTON quotes. You all know
that Tuesday and Wednesday were far
from being clear days so that itis not
likely, if there is anything in Mr. HAMIL-
TON’S couplet, that we will have a cold
spring. :
—The German sympathizer can surely
look his pro-Ally friend in the eye and
demand that he acknowledge that one
of the greatest feats in the old world-war
was the capture of the ship Appan and
the landing of the prize in American wa-
ters. With the Germans supposedly swept
clear off the seas that was certainly some
achievement.
—*“If there is one thing that we love
more than another in the United States,
it is that every man shall have the privi-
lege, unmolested and 'uncriticised, to
utter the real convictions of his mind.”
—From President Wilson's Pittsburgh
Speech.
And there are a lot of people in this
glorious old country of ours. who think
that that man is not a Democrat whose
mind and voice at times, run contrary to
those of the President or his advisers.
—The Borough of Bellefonte has the
prospect of State and county aid in con-
structing two pieces of highway during
the spring. It is just possible that the
Highway Department will find it im-
possible to co-operate in the construction
of more than one of the two pieces.
Should such be the case we trust that
council will bend every effort to .make
that portion from High, along South
Water street, to the Borough line. There
are many reasons why the permanent
improvement of this thoroughfare would
be more desirable than the building of
the other proposed piece from Bishop
street, out Pine to ‘the Borough line.
Water street probably carries more and
heavier traffic than any other street in
town. It is low and in wet weather it is
next to an impossibility to keep it from
becoming a veritable sea of mud. It is
the approach to the Big Spring, Belle-
fonte’s beauty spot, and we think we are
quite within the truth when we say that
the upkeep of this particular piece of
road has ‘cost the Borough twice as much
as ‘the same distance -on any other
thoroughfare in town, Water street
property holders should join in the move-
ment enthusiastically because’a bricked
highway there instead of a muddy lane
would add considerably to the value of
their properties.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 61.
BELLE
XO. 5.
President Wilson’s Tour.
President WILSON’S tour of the Middle
West is more than fulfilling expectations. | District court of New York, convicting to a profond surprise in the appointment
He is meeting with cordial! receptions
wherever he stops. The success of
such an enterprise is not always
measured by that standard. During the
campaign of 1912 ROOSEVELT drew vastly
the larger crowds and wherever that
trouble-bréeder goes now he attracts
large audiences. But nobody regards
him seriously. Oa the other hand Presi-
dent WILSON commands large audiences,
genuine enthusiasm and popular respect.
He is known as an earnest patriot, un-
selfish public official and sincere man.
His statements are accepted at full value
and command approval. He is giving
voice to the best sentiments of the coun-
try. : v
In his speeches at Pittsburgh, Cleve-
land, Milwaukee and Chicago he has re-
vealed his earnest purpose to conserve
the interests of the people. As the ser-
vant of the public he asks the public to
support him in his aspirations to fulfill
his public obligations. As he stated in
Chicago there are no new perils to be
met. But there are dangers always and
he asks the people to provide him with
the facilities to meet them. If your
neighbor’s house is on fire it is your duty
to make provision against communica-
tion with yours. The neighbors’ houses
on all sides are on fire now and he asks
us to prepare against the calamity which
would follow if our dwellings should
come within the zone of the conflagra-
tion.
If responsibility for danger were limited
to our own actions there would be no
cause for apprehension. The President
and the people would keep us out of the
trouble area. But it is quite as important
to preserve national honor as it is to
maintain national’ peace, and any or
either of the belligerents have it in their
power to assail our national honor. The
purpose of the President is to prevent
such misfortune. He asks for such de-
fensive equipment as will qualify us to
resent such wanton assaults. He knows,
as we know, that the people will support.
him in his desire. As in the beginning
so now, “millions for defence but not
one cent for tribute.” Thatis his idea
and the country is behind him.
——The average man is easy, no
doubt, but the Wall Street Journal will
have a hard time convincing him that
“the man who runs his own peanut stand
is a capitalist” while “the salaried Presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania railroad is a
workman.” Economic science will hardly
stand such refinement.
‘Republican Factional Fight Goes On.
The war in the Republican party of
Pennsylvania goes “merrily on.”
adelphia contemporary, Brother BILL
VARE issued the official declaration. He
is for anybody for President that PEN--
ROSE doesn’t want but his first choice is
BRUMBAUGH. “I should like to see Gov-
ernor . BRUMBAUGH’S splendid ability
placed at the service of the nation,” he
states, “and will gladly give him my sup-
port and ask for him the support of my
friends.” Another esteemed Philadelphia
contemporary ‘after a {poll of the State
says. “PENROSE will control nominations.”
So there you are. “You pays your mon-
ey and takes your choice.” It. all de-
pends upon how the people take Brother
BIL.
As a matter of fact, however, no pub-
lic man in recent years has disappointed
public expectation as grievously as Gov-
ernor BRUMBAUGH. His long experience
and considerable success as an educator
had influenced the public mind strongly
in his favor and he was elected over a
factional’ candidate of the Democratic
party by a large majority. But he 6 has
failed to make good in . every particular.
His head swelled to enormous. propor-
tions and his'vanity inflated beyond calcu-
lation, he has wobbled around in’ the
office to which he was chosen as a mouse
would in the nest of a lion. He set up a
trading post in the State capitol to cajole,
or coerce or Legislators into obeying
his orders and failed in that.
Of course it makes little difference to
us which side wins in the impending fac-
tional battle for control of the odious
Republican machine or who is nominated
for President by the Chicago convention
in June. President WILSON, who has
safely and sanely guided the country
through he troubles of the past two years,
will be re-elected President by a majority
greater than that of 1912. But the talk:
of BRUMBAUGH for the nomination of any:
party for that office is not only absurd,
but an insult’ to the intelligence of the
voters of the country. The only Repub-
lican in Pennsylvania who comes within
range of Presidential material is former
Senator KNOX and PENROSE has a mort-
gage on him.
On’
Sunday, according to an esteemed Phil-’
| «wot of Wall Street,” Goes in Prison.
|
1 —
| The judgment of the United States
| DAVID LAMAR, known as “the WOLF of
| Wall Street,” of fraud, has been affirmed
i by the United States Supreme court and
he will likely be committed to the Atlan-
| ta Federal prison to serve the two year
‘sentence imposed at the time of the
trial. WOLF was charged with using the
| name A. MITCHELL PALMER in telephon- |
"ing to certain New York financiers in
relation to some Street operations. After
' a Congressional investigation he was in-
dicted, and though the purpose of his as-
suming the name of Mr. PALMER was ment, except President WILSON. Proba- |
FONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 4, 1916.
The Appointment of Brandeis.
President WILSON treated the country |
of Louis D. BRANDEIS to the vacant seat |
on the Supreme bench. Mr. BRANDEIS
has long been known as an able lawyer !
and an honest and courageous gentle-
man. But he has never been classed
among the corporation advocates or em- |
ployed by the giant trusts. He has serv- |
ed the government with distinguished |
ability on several occasions but has never |
written a charter for a monopoly. For
these reasons nobody even thought of
him in connection with such an appoint-
! not fulfilled, his turpitude was clearly , bly no other man in the country, in like
revealed. He appealed the case and thus
delayed incarceration until now.
{ Mr. LAMAR is under indictment in the
_ same court which convicted him of that the Supreme court. It is an illustrious | go
offense on the charge of having conspir- | as well as an honorable body of men. houses, bathe and disinfect and dose and
: ed with a German emissary named VON
| BINTELEN and others, to organize strikes
| in establishments engaged in ihe manu-
| facture of munitions of war for Great
| Britain and her allies. A Chicago mem-
| ber of Congress and others are alleged
to have been associated with him in
these transactions and Captain Boy-ED
and Captain VON PAPEN of the German |
legation at Washington were given
| passports, in connection with the con-
| spiracy. LAMAR is under $5000 bail on
. this charge, but now his trial is likely to
| be postponed until after the expiration
of his sentence for the other crime.
It may have been only a coincidence
but it is a curious fact that A. MITCHELL
PALMER might have been involved in
this second crime of the “WOLF of Wall
Street.” Some time before the discovery
of the conspiracy the New York World
exposed the mysterious visit of an in-
fluential Congressman to the White
House who registered as “M. P. of Penn-
sylvania.” The purpose of the visit was
to.obtain from the President, in confi-
dence, the purpose of our government in
respect to certain important matters, to
be transmitted through German agents
in New York, to the authorities in Ber-
lin. The exposure divorced Mr. PALMER
from the affair. At least his. ‘name has
never been connected with it since.
—Dropping bombs trom airships
upon the helpless inhabitants of cities
and towns is atrociously cruel beyond
question but war is what General SHER-
MAN named it many years ago.
Satan Reproving Sin.
Colonel ROOSEVELT has finally satis-
fied himself that President WILSON is to
blame for the German invasion of Bel-
gium and is railing like a madman about
it. In a speech delivered in Brooklyn on
Sunday night he dwelt fondly and at
length on this phase of recent history
and declared that “it was dishonorable
conduct on the part of the United States
to take no action in the matter.” He
doesn’t indicate what sort of action ought
to have been taken, but presumably he
has in mind his own ambition to lead an
army into the theatre of war and wipe
Germany off the map. Of course that
would have been crazy action but hardly
anything else could have been expected
of ROOSEVELT.
ROOSEVELT was President of te Unit-
ed States for nearly eight years and dur-
ing that time had opportunity to exercise
every legitimate power of the office. He
says with tiresome frequency that prep-
arations for war and strengthening the
defensive facilities of the country are
among the prerogatives of the office.
Yet during the period he occupied the
Presidency the defensive equipment of
the country constantly degenerated until
at the expiration of his term we hadn’t
force enough or facilities sufficient to
fight the weakest South American Re-
public if the occasion had arisin. Why
didn’t he perform his duty to the coun-
try when he had the opportunity to do
so? : -
In his Brooklyn speech of Sunday
‘night the Colonel prates much about na-
tional honor. Yet whilc he was President
he organized a rebellion against a weak
sister Republic, easily the most atrocious
piece of national brigandage perpet: ated
in any country since the dawn of modern
civilization. When Colombia refused to
agree to his terms for the zone
of the Panama canal he sent warships
and marines to the Isthmus and literally
seized the territory desired, creating a
bogus Republic to act as the holding
agency for his crime. A man guilty of
that offense against national honor and
national morals has no right to a voice
among honest citizens anywhere, ox upon
any question.
——Chairman HILLES, of the Republi-
‘can . National committee, declares that
ROOSEVELT will not be the candidate of
, his party for President and that state-
ment may cost HILLES his job.
|
{
i
cripple the power of the President. It |
such circumstances we need:a man like
. Noll’s garage on south Water street, has
‘| awakened the Department of Labor and
circumstances, would have had the cour-
age to nominate him for that service. |
We have no complaint to make against i
But it will suffer nothing, either in ability
or character, by the accession of Mr. |
BRANDEIS. In legal learning, personal
character and habits of life, he will
measure up with the best of his asso-
ciates, if he is confirmed, as we hope he
will be. The south laid claim, with some
justice, to the favor. We hoped an old
time and thoroughly seasoned Democrat
would be called to the office. But Mr.
BRANDEIS was born in Kentucky and he
is sufficiently set in his opposition to
graft, monopoly and imperialism to make
a first rate imitation of astandard Demo-
crat.
Besides Mr. BRANDEIS will represent
the people upon the bench of the Court
of last resort, and the people are entitled
to representation in that tribunal. Every
other interest is represented and assured
of protection in so far as the Court is
able to protect. Then why shouldn’t the
people have a champion there? No other
government agency is so potent in the
administration of affairs. The Supreme
court can annul the acts of Congress and
can write anything into the statutes and
diminate any provision of the law. Under
ANDEIs ‘and as usual ‘President Wit-
SON has tried to give us what we need.
——Last Thursday afternoon, during
the recess period, a nurnber of children '
at the new High school building were ' 2
roller skating on the pavement. Just at |
that time the Adams Express company’s |
wagon happened along and with it was:
James Toner’s bull dog. The dog grab- |
bed Paul Dubbs, the eight year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. John Dubbs Jr., by the i
leg, throwing him down, He then pawed i
his face and finally bit him in the ear, |
one tooth puncturing the ear. The bite |
on the leg did not bring blood, but the !
tooth marks showed very plainly. The
boy’s knee was also injured in his fall to
the pavement. On Saturday afternoon
the same dog made for a boy who was
roller skating on the pavement in front
of the court house, but the lad happened
to have a stick and hit the dog, driving
it away.
——The recent tragic deaths of Mr.
and Mrs. William H. Noll, who were
overcome with gasoline fumes in Mr.
Industry to the great danger to automo-
bilists in inhaling gasoline fumes and
medical experts of the bureau will im-
mediately conduct investigations along
this line and their findings given to the
public in bulletins issued by the Depart-
ment.
——On Friday of last week John T.
Gephart resigned his position as engineer
of construction with the State Highway
Department to accept the position of
county engineer in Fayette county. Mr.
Gephart had been with the Highway
Department since 1905, shortly after it
was organized. His new position pays
in the neighborhood of four thousand
dollars a year. Mr. Gephart’s successor
will not be named before spring.
——The County Commissioners recent-
ly took out a policy with W. Miles Walk-
er for $43,000, covering all the county
officials, jurymen, election officers, con-
stables, tax collectors, assessors, witness-
es, etc.,, under the Workmen's Compen-
sation Act, so that if any man is injured
while in the employ of the county he
will be entitled to recover damages.
——The Republican leaders have de-
cided upon W. I. Swoope ‘Esq., of Clear- |
field, and A. H. Gaffney, of Kane, Mc-
Kean county, as candidates for delegates
to the Republican national convention
from this, the Twenty-first congression:
district. 78
——The bridge erected last summer
from south Water street to the Island to
accommodate the Midway attractions
{ from the Vares is praise indeed! Most
' restrained condemnation
| blue ocean is scarcely a marker to the
| predicament of voters who hesitate be-
| From the Southern Lumberman.
.exceedingly hot-headed. An equally high
temperature, however, does not appear
‘to affect his feet.
of Old Home week, was finally removed
Saturday and the lumber hauled away.
A Sensible Invasion of Mexico.
From the Shamokin Dispatch. fog
.. The United States is intervening in
Mexico. The advance guard of its army
of invasion is already en route, and the
main army is mobilizing. =~ ;
It isn’t a large army, but there's no
question of its ability to handle the job.
In part, it’s the same force that invaded
Serbia lately—before the Germans and
Bulgarians swept through. And its ob-
ject is the same. The United States is
not fighting Mexico, any more than it
fought Serbia. It is fighting typhus, one
of the great scourges of the human race,
and the particular foe of nationalities not
given to cleanliness. There are said to
be 100,000 typhus victims in Mexico.
The invading column consists of a
corps of physicians and nurses. Their
uniforms are chiefly silk underwear—for
which the typhus-carrying vermin have
a peculiar dislike—and rubber gloves and
oots. Their weapons are kerosene,
vinegar and a serum specific. They will
into the infected communities, clean
feed the victims and their families.
It will be hard work. There will also
be much risk in it. The invaders stake
their own lives as surely as soldiers do
in battle.
They are doing this for an ignorant,
slovenly, prejudiced race that hates the
United States, and mistakes its tolerant
kindness for cowardice. It requires a rare
degree of christian charity to “love your
neighbor as yourself” when that neigh-
bor is Mexico. It is hoped that the
Mexicans will soon begin to appreciate
that fact. -
Choosing the Lesser Evil.
From the Altoona Times.
Scylla and Charybdis would have no
terrors for the political voyager in Penn.
sylvania who is compelled to steer a
course between two Republican factions,
represented respectively by Senator Pen-
rose and the large corporation interests
and Governor Brumbaugh and the crook-
ed contracting combine in Philadelphia.
But this is how the situation has resolved
itself. Penrose the other day threw down
the gauntlet to the Governor over the
selection of national delegate candidates
and it was promptly taken up by the
Vares, contractors extraordinary and ad-
visers particularly to our beloved Gov-
ernor.
_The Vares, you know, claim ‘responsi-
bility for Brumbaugh, and they very
promptly resent anything that seems to
reflect upon their handiwork. And praise
honest men would prefer open and un- :
A from their |
enemies! : i)
But that is not what we started out to
What interests us is how upright,
God-fearing Republicans, confronted with
the duty of choosing between these
equally nauseous alignments, will meet
their responsibility.
Being between the devil and the dark,
tween party loyalty and their self-re-
spect. :
Back to Cobden.
From the New Republic.
In the early days of this struggle facile
pens discoursed about the war that was
to end war and create a united Europe. All
but the blindest see now that men do not
gather olive branches from machine guns.’
The war overtook a divided Europe, and
it has deepened its divisions into chasms.
While the clergy, the poets, and the
demagogues invoke our selfrighteousness
to refuse all dealing with the enemy of
yesterday,the business world will capital-
ize our hates and turn our sentimentality
to profit. \
Somewhere from their present silence
sager heads may emerge on both
sides to warn us all that an economic
struggle with the old divisions on the old
battleground means the permanent or-
ganization of the moral ruin of Europe.
Some see and some will dare to say that
it was our financial imperialism,our com-
mercial nationalism, the closed colony,
and the concession area which prepared
the present strife.
Cobden’s preaching on the connection
of peace land free trade is not wholly
forgotten, but the lessons will be slowly
learned, and it may require a hard ex-
perience to enforce it. y
Look Out for the Fireworks.
From the Chicago Herald. ’ ¥
Col. Roosevelt is going on a trip to the
West Indies, no doubt as a preliminary
to coming back and raising East Hades
if Congress doesn’t provide a defense that
suits him. :
The Country Would go Fishin’.
From the Philadelphia Record. )
Taft says the Bepublicans would lose
with Roosevelt and the Democrats with
Wilson. But what would happen if they
were the two candidates?
Mahomet Went to the Mountain.
From the New York Evening Sun.
Those stern words of George W. Per-
kins. “Let the G. O.P. come to us!”
recall to mind the ancient adage of Ma-
homet and the mountain. !
Pedal Extremities Are Cold Storage.
The King of Roumania is said to be
. It’s a Good American Doctrine.
From the Anaconda Standard.
At any rate, Gen. Carranza must be
given credit for some bustling activity in
locking the stable door after the abstrac-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Cledrfield county had six shooting episodes
within ten days and the returns are scarcely all
in yet.
—~Williamsport expects to recpfd the orgdriza-
tion of an Engineering and Aeroplane: company
within a few weeks. :
—Harry N.Lakin, a member of the Greens-
burg High school faculty, has been appointed
vice-consul at Leghorn, Italy.
—Jacob Lightner, who died in the Franklin
county almshouse recently left the sum of $5,000
to A. A. Schugrman, who befriended him for
many years.
—Williamsport’s new mayor is making the sit-
uation lively for corner loafers and vagrants. He
is locking them up and prescribing alternate
days of darkness:
—Five members of one family were simultane-
ously removed from the Westmoreland county
town of Bitumen to various hospitals, all having
contracted pneumonia.
—DuBois had three incendiary fires on a single
nightlast week. They kept the firemen quite
busy but were extinguished promptly with a to-
tal loss of possibly $1,000.
According to the Progress, Clearfield is short
on girl workers and the industrial establishments
of that town are in a position to offer employ
ment to a score of energetic girls.
—According to the Johnstown Democrat, for-
eigners in the Flood city have been mulcted of
$600 or more during the past few weeks by con-
stables who are taking advantage of the alien
dog act.
—The West Branch National bank, of Wil-
liamsport, has just awarded the contract for the
construction of a handsome new home, with all
the modern conveniences, at a cost of about
$500,000.
—The State health authorities have ordered
the city of Williamsport to file plans for a sewage
disposal plant within six months. The cost of
plant and accompanying sewers willlbe about
$1,090,000.
—William Workinger, a famous. hunter and
trapper of Milroy, while on a recent hunting ex-
pedition to the Seven mountains, captured two
wild cats, one of which weighed sixty pounds, the
other half as much.
—Somebody seems to be selling poisoned can-
dy in Pennsylvania. A two-year-old daughter of
Jacob Bixel, of Jersey Shore, died twenty-four
hours after eating some lollypops, purchased
from a confectioner.
—The lawyers of Williamsport are about to in-
augurate a new departure. They will attend the
First Baptist church of that city next Sunday
night and will listen to an address and a sermon,
both relating to legal topics.
—Indiana is no longer numbered among the
dry counties of Pennsylvania. At Indiana yes
terday morning, Judge Langham granted fifteen
licenses and refused eight. The Indiana Brew-
ing company was also licensed.
—Huntingdon’s Chamber of Commerce will
give a complimentary dinner to Hon. George B.
Orlady, of the Superior court, and Hon. Thomas
F. Bailey, judge of Bedford, Huntingdon and Mif-
flin counties. The event will come off. this even-
ing.
—Without food or money for many days,
Charles Douglas, condemned murderer, who es-
caped from the Greensburg jail a week ago with
two others, was recaptured near Irwin last Sat-
urday. All three have now been returned to
prison,
. —Five men residing in the outskirts of Johns
town have been arrested on the charge [of Jsend-
ing their children out early in the morning, re-
gardless of the weather, to gather garbage and
*‘slop’ with which to feed cows and pigs, The
conduct of these men is said to constitute pro-
nounced cruelty.
—Mrs. Ellen Zenobia Parks, of Johnstown, lost
a 2-year-old son on Saturday, January 1. On
Saturday, January 8, her husband was taken to
the hospital, where he died on Saturday, Janu-
ary 15. On Saturday, January 22, Mrs. Parks
gave birth to a daughter. She has two other
daughters living.
—Quite an uproar existed in Patton recently
because it became known that an assislant prin-
cipal of the schools had developed tuberculosis
and been compelled toresign. All the school
rooms were closed and then exhaustively fumi-
gated. Fifty years ago there would have been
no excitement, probably no trouble.
—Out in Jefferson county during the greater
part of the past week farmers were plowing,
trees were budding, children running about in
middy blouses with no outer coats, while Miss.
Pearl Mann, teacher of the public school at
Walston, declares that a great many of her pu-
pils have been coming to school in their bare
feet. :
—The Hon. Frank B. Black, of Meyersdale,
member of the State Agriculture commission,
has presented to the McElhattan, Clinton county
z00, a golden eagle measuring seven feet across
the wings. The bird was captured inan unusual
manner, its talons having become entangled in
the thick fleece of a sheep which it was trying
to carry away.
—Andrew Jackson Bloom and John Kitko, both
of Madera, Clearfield county, engaged in a quar-
rel about some stock which had trespassed on
the lands of the two men, Bloom was endeavor-
ing to strike Kitko with an axe when Andre Kit-
ko, aged 17, son of John, picked up a heavy piece
of wood and struck Bloom on the head, killing
him instantly. The dead man was aged 55 years.
—Tripping as he was about to descend a flight
of stairs at his home at Shamokin, on Friday, Jo-
seph Haupt, proprietor of a meat market, met
death by plunging headlong to the bottom, break -
ing his neck. His body was found half an hour
later by his son Earl. Haupt’s wife, whose hear-
ing is defective, was in the kitchen at the time of
the fatality and was notified of the death by her
son. | : sh
I" —John Rowles, an inoffensive inmatelTof the
Clearfield county home, was attacked by four
men, supposed to be hoboes, and beaten to death
Monday evening in the Clearfield yards. Two
officers from DuBois captured twolsuspicious
characters in a freight car near Rockton,! after a
pistol fight in which one’ officer was slightly
wounded while one of the suspects was shot
through the left lung. The latter is in the Du-
Bois hospital and is in a serious condition.
—Mrs. Austin Rowe, aged 33, residing near’
Liverpool, Perry county, had her left arm and
right leg fractured, her left shoulder dislocated,
her scalp torn off and her body covered with cuts
and contusions when she was drawn into a corn-
fodder shredder which she was running during
the temporary absence of her husband. Her
skirt cayght in one of the stalks and was wound
around the sharp teeth of the machine before she
realized the danger. The woman is in the Har-
risburg hospital and may recover.
—The store, postoffice and railroad station at
Elban, Pa., a small mining town of the Shawmut
Mining company, 19 miles south of St. Mary’s,
were robbed Friday morning about three o’clock.
Among the loot secured are the following: Dia-
mond ring, one-half karat, Tiffany setting: 1
twenty-dollar bill; 25 one-dollar bills;; $10 in
halves, wrapped; $10 in quarters, wrapped; $2 in
| nickels, wrapped; $5 in pennies, wrapped; $35 to
$40 in change; one P. S. & N. check, James Ben-
' nett, 10 cents; three Shawmut Mining company
statements; $30 ticket money; 900 one-cent
stamps; 100 five-cent stamps; 200 six-cent stamps;
100 ten-cent stamps; 100 twelve-cent stamps;
‘postoffice money order for $38; $40 from postoffice
tion of the stud.
money drawer; 25 to 30 watches, valued from $9
to $15, and two pair of shoes.