« i BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —In just thirty-two days the first day of spring will be here. " —One thing nice about the appearance of spring. It sounds the knell of parting curses for the steam heat service. —OQur Tylersville correspondent tells us that “JoHN DAY, of Rebersburg, has welcomed his twelfth child and the fam- ily is rejoicing at the new arrival.” Many Happy Days! as it were. —The two wonderfully brilliant stars that have been hanging so close together just after sunset in the western Heavens are Jupiter and Venus. If you haven't noticed them a look will be worth while. —Preparedness really doesn’t mean getting ready to lick anybody. It means taking a few lessons in the manly art so that we are ready to give the other fel- low a run for his money when he tries to lick us. —AIll the unmarried men in England are to be called to the colors. That is all under the age of 41. It is take a wife or a rifle for the bachelors over there and, we presume, some of them would about as soon take chances with the one as the other. —1It looks to us as if Germany were right in taking the view that merchant vessels carrying guns should be regard- ed as war ships. If they don’t expect to fight something why the guns, since they don’t need them for self defense. A soldier is a soldier, whether he carries a flag or a mauser. —It took Sunday’s flawless snow and the perfect atmosphere of a clear winter day to reveal how many: houses in Belle- fonte are badly in the need of freshening up with a coat of paint. Excepting six, every house on the north: side of east Linn street, would be much: improved by a visit from the painter in the spring. —As HEerBerRT KAUFFMAN says: If you demand payment for every second of your time see that you give. your em- ployer an equivalent return for every second he pays you for. If heis only dealing square with you when he pays you for every second you are only deal- ing square with him when you yield him every second. —If the Commonwealth takes over the Centre and Kishacoquillas turnpike the county will pay one-fourth of the cost, On the basis established by State High- way Commissioner CUNNINGHAM, upon the occasion of his visit here on Wed- nesday, it would be a good investment. At that price the county’s share would be less than the taxpayers of the county pay to the turnpike company in tolls in one year. —When one kid stands on the opposite side of the street from the one you have employed to shovel the snow off of fifty foot of pavement and tells him he isa fool for taking the job for less than fifty cents, when you have offered twenty-five for the work, there is the beginning of the unrest and unreasonableness that leads to the strikes and labor troubles that are becoming more and more trouble- some in this country. —This week last year was like spring. The streets had been cleaned and the first robin had put in its appearance. This week in 1914 was bitter cold. On the night of Friday, February 13th, 1914, sixteen inches of snow fell, the thermome- ter registered zero and there wasn’t a night until the 28th when the mercury didn’t fall below zero and on the 24th it registered from 8 to 32 degrees below in different parts of the county. —Up to this minute this Congressional District has shown no disposition to put more aspirants in the field for the honor of being delegate to the coming Demo- cratic national convention at St. Louis. Why should it? The two already an- nounced, the Hon. ELLis L. ORvis, of Bellefonte, and JOHN SHORT Esq., of Clear- field, fulfill the requirement as to num- ber, and, surely, that man isnot alive who would have the temerity to say that they would not make very creditable delegates. —President SPARKS, of The Pennsyl- vania State College, suggests that the government might take greater advant- age of the opportunities offered at that institution for training young men to be- come capable army officers should an emergency require the services of men with the equipment necessary to com- mand. Some of the fundamentals of modern warfare the Penn State boys have already reduced to an exact science. For example: They no sooner enter that great institution until they start “dig- ging in.” And after they have been there four years they all have splendid practice in “digging out” again. —RicHARD W. WILLIAMSON, of Hunt- ingdon, has setout to win the Republican nomination for Congress in the Seven- teenth District of Pennsylvania. BEN]. K. FocHT, of Lewisburg, represents the district at present and is a candidate for renomination. DICK is an old State Col" lege grad and a hustler who is likely to make FOCHT step some in the eight coun- ties that comprise the Seventeenth. It is a Republican fight and among them be it. An interesting sidelight is thrown on the situation, however, when it is known that Mr. Foca has ever been a PEN- ROSE pet while DICK WILLIAMSON enters the contest from the home county of Governor BRUMBAUGH. VOL. 61. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA. FEBRUARY 18, 1916. _NO. 7. Secretary Garrison’s Resignation. | No recent even has caused more pro- | found regret than the resignation of Secretary GARRISON. The entire country had come to the opinion that Mr. GAR- RISON was peculiarly adapted to the serv- ice of that Department of the govern- ment and nothing had transpired to indi- cate even the slightest disagreement be- tween the President and th& Secretary. For these reasons the resignation came as a startling surprise. It may be said, however, thatin the light of analysis, the regret is modified. There was no com- pelling reason for the Secretary’s action and obligations which are too lightly held would better be revoked. Mr. GARRISON misinterpreted his relationship with the government. The differences between the President and the late Secretary of War were not upon public policies nor as Mr. GARRISON imagined, fundamental. They were pure- ly temperamental. A strong man physi- cally and mentally, Mr. GARRISON had come to the belief that he was entitled to his own way and that opposition was enmity. He had evolved a system of in- creasing the defensive facilities of the government without observing ‘the spirit of militarism and believed that his plans should have been adopted. They were approved by the highest military au- thority and in some measure endorsed by the President. But Congress did not concur and the determination of such questions is a Congressional prerogative. Under the circumstances Mr. GARRISON wanted the President to coerce Congress into acquiescence. The attempt to do that would have been a dangerous usurpa- tion of power and if successful a perilous violation of the fundamental law of the country. President WILSON wisely and justly declined such an’ enterprise. He earnestly desired legislation along the lines expressed in Mr. GARRISON’S mea- sure. But he had neither the power nor the inclination to force Congress and in a becoming way, within constitutional limits, endeavored to persuade Congress and the people to accept his views. Gov- ernment is the fruit of compromise. Leg- islation essentially so. Mr. GARRISON as a servant of the peo- ple had no right to insist upon methods to which Congress is opposed. It was his privilege as Secretary of War, to sug- gest legislation and recommend policies. But Congress is responsible to the peo- ple for all legislation and under. the con- stitution is entirely independent of the executive branch of the government. Being a Democrat Mr. GARRISON ought to have known this. Itis a cardinal tenet of the party and if he has studied the principles of the party and the system of the government to such poor purpose as his action would indicate, it is just as well that he is out of the Cabinet. He be- longs in the ROOSEVELT group. Woodrow Wilson Will Run. The letter 'of President WILSON to the Secretary of State of Ohio, giving con- sent to the use of his name as a candi- date for the Presidential nomination, is exactly what was expected by his friends, alike in form and substance. WOOEROW WILSON is not willing to “enter into any contest” for the nomination. He will not strive to procure votes in the con- vention or solicit support for the nomi- nation. But he will accept the favor if it comes to him free from taint and without the burden of obligation. As heretefore he is willing to assume any duty which the people of the country put upon him and his record in the past is a substantial guarantee that his service in the future will be of the highest order of merit and efficiency. It is not likely that there will be any opposition to his nomination in any part of the country. In so far as it was pos- sible, he has fulfilled every obligation put upon him by his election four years ago. Some of the improvements in gov- ernment and reforms in methods which he has undertaken are not completed. There has not been sufficient time to overcome the opposition and accomplish the changes. But that is a reason why he should be renominated and re-elected. It will give him an opportunity to finish the work begun in the way it was plan- ned and secure to the public the benefits contemplated. He ought to have no op- position either for nomination or elec- tion. Of course certain selfish politicians will invent an opposition to his pomina- tion in order to create a claim upon his friendship after his re-election. four years ago there wasn’t enough opposition to his nomination in Pennsylvania to car- ry an election precinct. But political charlatans managed to extract from his election a seat in his Cabinet, an Ambas- sadorship and a lot of other lucrative of- fices under the false pretense that they overcame a formidable force banded to- gether to defeat him. If Wooprow WIL- SON, in his present administration, has shown a single weakness it was in the credulity that allowed these political harpies to impose upon him. The Republican Squabble. Attorney General FRANCIS SHUNK BROWN treats the PENROSE element of his party rather contemptuously. Upon his return to Harrisburg from Philadel- phia, the other day, he was asked about - the relative chances of the an- nounced candidates for Auditor General and replied there is only one candidate for the Republican nomination for that office. “Has Senator SNYDER withdrawn from the contest?” :he interviewer con- tinued. “I don’t know whether he has withdrawn or not,” remarked the Attor- ney General, “but there is only one can- didate and he is Speaker AMBLER.” With- in a few hours of the time that state- ment was made Senator SNYDER had pub- licly declared that he is in the fight and will be in to the finish. Senator SNYDER who is now in the en- joyment of two offices is widely known throughout the State. He is now serv- ing his second term in the State Senate and had previously served three terms in the House of Representatives. For sev- eral sessions he has been Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary local, commonly known as the “pickling com- mittee,” and of the highest importance from a political view point. While in the House he introduced and procured the passage of the first law providing a minimum salary for school teachers. He isa man of considerable ability and great energy and is easily the sartorial model of the General Assembly. He de- clares that Senator PENROSE is commit- ted to his support. " At the time that Attorney General BROWN ventured his prediction he had just returned from a conference with the VARES, Mayor SMITH and others of the BRUMBAUGH faction and probably ex- pressed the opinions of all those amateur politicians. They imagine that PENROSE will not make a fight but will take what he can get from the new masters in the matter of delegates to the National con- vention. In fact a rumor was started from the VARE headquarters in Philadel- phia that the Senator has already made overtures for a compromise on candi- dates and that his only present purpose is to “save his face.” This may be true, but if it is it means the elimination of PFNROSE from the political equation of the future. ——Speaker CLARK made short shrift of the gossip about displacing Mr. KITCH- EN from the floor leadership because he is opposed to one of the policies of the President. Among Democrats the liberty of thought is inalienable and all the punishment which will be inflicted upon KITCHEN will be the revelation of his un- importance. Roosevelt May be Nominated. The organization of a ROOSEVELT con- tingent in the Republican party of Massachusetts has inspired the friends of the Colonel in Pennsylvania to activity. At no time within the last two years has there been a moment when the hope of seizing the Republican nomination has | been absent from ROOSEVELT’S mind. The hope has increased or diminished as con- ditions have changed and a few ‘months ago became very feeble. But within the last month they have grown rapidly and since the movement started in Boston a week ago others than ROOSEVELT have begun to think that the Chicago conven- tion may be stampeded and he nominated before the tide can be checked. In the spring of 1914 ROOSEVELT be- gan manoeuvering to seize the Republi- can nomination this year. At that time he declared that the party would be ob- liged to nominate him because he is the only man who could “rip WoobrROW WIL- SON to pieces.” Immediately after that he started on a tour of the West and at every stopping place traduced the Presi- dent. Yet within a few months the stupid or venal managers of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, after making a corrupt bargain with Boss FLINN, of Pittsburgh, financed a tour of this State for ROOSEVELT in order that the “rip- ping” of the President might be enjoyed here. Nearly one-third of the votes poll- ed by ROOSEVELT in the campaign of 1912 were cast by Democrats. His speeches strengthened his hold on these voters. With any other candidate than ROOSE- VELT on the Republican ticket WOODROW WiLsoN will be elected next November by a practically unanimous vote of the electoral colleges. Without the impulse which the 1914 episode gave ROOSEVELT, he would not have the ghost of a show for the Republican nomination. As it is, he may succeed in his attempt to seize it. Republicans in Pennsylvania are seri- ously considering a proposition to turn toward him as an expedient to defeat PENROSE.. The VARES have no other present ambition in politics and are re- strained by no conscience or principle. Therefore if ROOSEVELT is nominated he can thank the stupid or venal Democratic leaders of Pennsylvania. : , Italian laborers reported there. | pipe-dream of one of the ultra pacifists. Senator Root’s Ambition. | That Senator RooT, of New York, has not given up his ambition to become the Republican ‘candidate for President is clearly revealed in his speech in the New York State convention on Tuesday. In a recent interview Colonel ROOSEVELT had declared that he is for ‘‘anybody to beat WILSON.” As if in response to that invitation to come within the ROOSEVELT favor, Mr. ROOT proceeds to assail the President from every angle and even goes beyond ROOSEVELT in the vehe- mence of his denunciation. If he had appointed ROOSEVELT as his censor and submitted the manuscript of his conven- tion speech in advance of its delivery, it couldn’t have been more ROOSEVELTian. It is not surprising that Senator RooT should assail the tariff policy of the Dem- ocratic party and the President as ex- pressed in the UNDERWOOD law for he has been for more than a third of a cen- tury the star lawyer of the tariff mong ers and the principal defender in the courts of the tariff grafters. But his criticism of the President’s policies with respect to Mexico and the European bel- ligerents is most astonishing. He con- demns the refusal to recognize HUERTA as the de facto President of that unhap- py republic after he had acquired the claim to title by the murder of two men and the imprisonment of others and de- clares substantially that there is no dif- ference between that monster's claim and that of CARRANZA. So far as the European war is concern- ed Senator ROOT simply, in a feeble way, asserts the sentiments which ROOSEVELT has so frequently and so absurdly de- clared. The invasion of Belgium ought to have been resisted by our government, he says, though there is no more reason for such an action than there would be for the invasion of Canada or the con- quest of one of the South American re- publics. The people of this country do not want to participate in the European war and our military equipment is inad- equate for such an enterprise if we were go inclined. The truth is that the ambi- tion to be President has addled the brain of the distinguished New York lawyer. ——Lovers of astronomy witnessed a beautiful sight on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights when the two brilliant planets, Jupiter and Venus, shone forth in all their glory in the southwestern sky. They were visible until after nine o'clock when they disappeared below the horizon. They were in conjunction for the first time in two years at three o'clock on Monday morning, although not visible here. This is the last time these two planets will come in conjunc- tion for ten years. In conjunction means that they are in direct line from the earth and not that they are very close together, as astrology gives the location of Venus as only 67,000,000 miles away, while Jupitor is 437,000,000 miles from old Mother Earth. ——The main trouble ‘with the lime- stone industries in this section nowl}is the shortage of labor. The Whiterock quar- ries are badly in need of a big force of men and on Monday the American Lime and Stone company sent Perry Cole to Lockport, N. Y., to see aboutfa bunch of This shortage is no doubt due to the war in Europe, as thousands of Italians have left Pennsylvania to go back to the old country and join the colors. ——The fight against the confirmation of BEANDEIS for Justice of the Supreme court continues with increasing bitter- ness and the funny thing about] it is that the corporations are getting the trust- busters to perform the work. ——Those suffragettes who appealed to Congressmen through St. Valentine verses may have had a lot of fun but wasted their time. Poetry doesn’t ap- peal to practical statesmen and besides the verses were not poetry. ——1It is reported that a ghost has been seen, recently, in the corridors of the capitol. Probably “Gussie” GARDNER has clothed his war horse in a sheet. ——Some of the tariff mongers appear to be afraid that after the war foreign goods will be offered to the people of this country free of charge. ——Ground-hog or no ground-hog cold weather is seasonable for a few weeks after the first of February and there is no kick coming. ——The invasion of Canada by the Germans of New York is probably a ——When the labor vote hits Speaker AMBLER he will think a Kansas cyclone is like a gentle zephyr. : elf | iron crosses were currency the Kaiser would have an easy way of pay- ing the war expenses. MODESTY. By Frank Simpson, Huntington, W. Va. When every pool in Eden was a mirror, That unto Eve her dainty charms proclaimed. She went undraped without a single fear or Thought that she had need fo be ashamed. *Twas only when she’d eaten of the apple That she became inclined to be a prude, And found that evermore she’d have to grapple ‘With the much-debated problem of the nude. Thereafter she devoted her attention, Her time and all her money to her clothes. And that was the beginning of Convention, And Modesty, as well, I do suppose. Reactions come about in fashions, recent. Now girls conceal so little from the men, It would seem, in the name of all that’s decent, Some one ought to pass the apples round again. To Make a West Point of State College. From the Harrisburg Star-Independent. The suggestion attributed to Governor Brumbaugh, and said to have met with the approval of Dr. Edwin E. Sparks, president of Pennsylvania State College, that the military training at that institu- tion be developed in a way to produce men just as capable of officering the Army as the men educated at West Point, har- monizes well with the general trend of opinion that the nation should prepare adequately to defend itself in the event of possible war. State College doubtless could be made to produce just as good officers as West Point if the same careful selection of candidates for military honors were made for the Pennsylvania institution as is made for the Academy on the Hudson, and if West Point discipline and a facul- ty of Army officers of the same high cal- ibre as those at the Point were introduc- ed at Staté College. The placing of State College on the same high plane of efficiency in military instruction could be accomplished, however, only by making the facilities for such instruction just as good as those at the Point. This, of course, would require a complete read- justment of the faculty and equipment of the Pennsylvania institution, which would cost a lot of money both for introduction of the necessary innovations and for their maintenance after being intrcduced. It seems hardly fair to the taxpayers of Pennsylvania to impose the additional financial burden on them alone, but there seems to be no good season why this State should not offer to permit the Unit- ed States War Department to establish West Point training at State Colieg the Federal Government is willing to foot the bills. At any rate, even if the plan of instruc- tion at State is not by some such arrange- ment put on the same high plane of mil- itary efficiency as that at the United States Military Academy, it can be im- proved along ‘military lines in a way to make State College graduates better equipped to become officers in the Army, should occasion require, than is the grad- uate of the ordinary college where mili- tary tactics are taught, even if the State College graduates do not, at the time of graduation, come up to the standard of West Point graduates. This much doubt- less could be accomplished with no very great additional expense to the Pennsyl- vania taxpayers, and under such a plan the Pennsylvania institution could pro- duce military men who, after additional training in actual army service, would stand a good chance of developing ulti- mately into just as good officers as West Point produces. When a Tip’s Not a Tip. From the Altoona Times. 3 It was very nice of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, when she was in Des Moines on the President's speaking tour, to give two waitresses five dollars apiece. But she got those girls into trouble and there- by inspired a curious legal interpreta- tion. It is illegal to give tips in Iowa. It would have been just as illegal to give those waitresses a nickel apiece as to give them five dollar bills. The size of the tips, however, made it seem wise for the authorities to take cognizance of the matter when the offense became known. The case was submitted to the Attorney General for an opinion, and he made this ruling worthy of Solomon himself: f Mrs. Wilson gave the waitresses fs five dollar gold pieces as souvenirs, well and good. But if the donations were intended as tips, they must be re- turned to Mrs. Wilson or the recipients must submit to a fine. And the girls themselves are left to determine the precise nature of the gift. If they keep the money it’s a souvenir; if they spend it, it’s a tip. It’s safe to say that the tips are souve- nirs. Evidently Have Sense of Humor. From the Chicago News. Senator Sherman has been endorsed by Illinois Republicans for the Presiden- tial nomination, and his supporters insist that he now looks more like Lincoln than ever. Unless It’s His Swan Song! From the Columbia State. The New York Sun observes wistfully that it has never heard Col. Roosevelt sing. Sh-h-h! man, sh-h-h! For heaven’s sake, don’t start anything! Cat’s Got His Tongue. From the Anaconda Standard. Col. House doesn’t strike the European diplomats as a bonehead exactly, but they can’t help regarding him as a poor conversationalist. ‘Won't Be Too Proud to Lick T.R. From the Detroit Free Press. If T. R. keeps on he'll have President Wilson mad enough to fight. | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —C. P. Stewart, a prominent resident of Ty- rone township, Perry county, paid a fine of $50 and costs to the amount of $8.52 the other day for selling eggs that were not fresh. —The war on the measles outbreak in Somer- set county is believed to havé had its effect, as only a few cases were reported last week. The epidemic at South Fork also has been stamped out. —Typhoid fever is prevalent in DuBois. The first death from the disease occurred last Satur- day evening, when Mrs. Michael Bush passed away. Her 11-year-old daughter Arlene is ill from the same terrible disease. — Measles continue to worry Johnstown juven- iles. Last week registered an increase of nine- teen cases, the total number for the week foot- ing up 119 cases, while the number under quar- antine two days ago was 229. —Perry county has a sensation in the arrest of Howard D. Saylor, aged 43 and married, on the charge of abducting Stella May Harter, aged 15. The couple have been absent from Perry county about a month and were arrested in Pittsburgh. —All the pool room proprietors of DuBois have been notified by the mayor of that city that gambling and gambling devices must stop They must also keep tab on the ages of thei patrons. Such a rule in Bellefonte may be needed. —James Gigliotti, a Johnstown man, charged with violating the new child labor law, admitted his guilt but indignantly declined to pay a fine of $10 and costs, assessed by the alderman who heard the case. He was remanded to the city prison. —Only the tottering walls of the Williamsport Paper company, located at Williamsport, remain standing as the result of a destructive fire Satur- day evening. The stock and machinery burned were valued at $100,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. —William Felton, aged 60, a resident of Sew. ard, Indiana county, was found Monday morning sitting against a pile of ties along the Pennsylva- nia railroad, frozen to death. It is believed he was under the influence of liquor Sunday night and sat down to rest or sleep. —George H. Hush, of Grampian, on the 9th inst. filed a suit in the Clearfield county court against the Harbison-Walker Refractories Co. for $20,000 damages claiming that he sustain- ed permanent injuries several months ago in an accident at their Stronach plant. “—Howard Leonard, a 17-year-old resident of Williamsport, was found early Sunday morning lying face downward in the snow, stupefied from drink, and would certainly have frozen to death had it not been for the active exertions of the good Samaritans who found him. —The trials of the four men suspected of mur- dering John Rowles, at Clearfield on the night of January 31st, will begin at Clearfield on. Febru- ary 28, as will also the trial of Andrew Kitko, of Madera, indicted for the killing of Andrew J. Bloom, at the latter place on January 28. —Dalton Williams, mailing clerk at the Johns- town Democrat, was found dead in his room Tuesday afiernoon. Death was due to suffoca- tion by fumes of a gas stove burning in the room without any ventilation. He was 22 years old and is survived by his wife and one child. —Charged with having plotted to smuggle saws into the Westmoreland county jail, at Greensburg, Earl Weaver and George Davis: who gave their residence as Latrobe, have been arrested. They are now in jail themselves, but the two saws carried by Davis ‘were taken from him. —Five hogs, weighing a total of 1,500 pounds, . t'andsix small shoats were shot .at. the Odd Fel- lows’ orphanage near Sunbury, Monday of this week by the superintendent, E. E. Chubbuck, after Dr. Edward P. Althouse, veterinary sur- geon of Sunbury, had examined the herd and pronounced the eléven hogs to be suffering with cholera. —Judge Bell at Clearfield on Friday afternoon on a $1500 bond released John Jacobs, of Board- man, on charge of assault, with intent to kill. It will be remembered that Jacobs, while under the influence of alcohol, shot John Mosart in mistake for another man. The physician attending Mos- art testified that the wonnded man was out of danger and would recover. —A raise of 15 cents per day has been granted by the Elk Tanning company in all of its plants. The raise goes to all men who are not employed by the month or on salary. The Elk Tanning company operates about twenty refineries in adjoining counties and about three thousand men are affected by the increase, which was made voluntarily and is effective from February 1st. —South Fork had an aarivH morning fire Tues- day which revealed a perilous state of affairs. Next door to the burning frame tenement house was another frame structure containing half a carload of dynamite, powder and dynamite caps. Firemen and others, at the risk of their lives, carried the dangerous stuff to a place of safety. Had it exploded nearly every building in South Fork would have been damaged. —On Saturday evening the bodies of two of the fifty elk shipped to Pennsylvania from Mon- tana to stock the State preserve at Slate Run, were cut up, and distributed Sunday among the charitable institutions of Williamsport. The elk had been lassoed together and in taking them out of the car began to drag and both were strangled. The drove of elk arrived at the pre- serve in good order and will undoubtedly thrive. —Apparently flushed with their victory at Clearfield the other day, when a Clearfield coun- ty jury imbued with the native son spirit acquit- ted them of all charges preferred by Sheriff Mulhollen, of Cambria county, members of the Oshall family are now out to collect damages from different people. Sheriff Mulhollen and E. G. Miller, an Ebensburg constable, have been sued for $5,000 damages by two girls of the family. —Oscar B. Miller, aged 45 years, of Clearfield, while pushing out a car load of clay from the mine of the Patterson brick works, near the former place, on Friday afternoon, was fatally injured by a fall of rock. He was removed at once to the Clearfield hospital, where he died on Saturday morning at 3 o'clock. The rock fell from the roof just as he reached the mouth of the mine, breaking an arm and causing serious internal injuries. —Twenty-five dead, three missing, four injur. ed and two rescuers overcome by afterdamp, is the toll of the explosion which wrecked the in- terior of the Ernest mine No. 2, of the Jefferson and Clearfield Coal and Iron company, of Ernest, six miles south of Indiana, Friday. The explo- sion was terrific and the twenty-five bodies brought out of the mine were so badly mangled that identification in most cases was impossible, except by checks given the employes by the com- pany. Mining engineers say the force. of the blast was greater than any they have investigat- ed in Pennsylvania heretofore. —The federal authorities at Detroit, Mich., a few days ago, arrested John A. Duke, formerly of Clearfield, on the charge of embezzling $4,000 from the Clearfield National bank. He was given a hearing and DuBois friends gave bail in the sum of $2,500 for his appearance at the March, term of the United States court. Duke's whereabouts were known to Clearfield peo- le for some time, but the case has entirely in the hands of the federal officers. He was a paying teller at the bank, well known and popu- lar, and when he disappeared last June, with his accounts short $4,000, it was a great shock to his friends and the community generally.
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