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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.
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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.