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BY
INK SLINGS.
i —At this time last year we were wad-
ing through the mud that followed an
eighteen inch fall of snow on the Satur-
day and Sunday preceding.
—Beat the Dutch if you can. A quar-
tet of “Belgian Refugees’ were being
showered with coin in New York until
they were’ found to be Germans from
Brooklyn.
. —German soldiers carry tin whistles
to blow as a signal for medical aid when
they are wounded. Certain it is that
the Germans don’t need to whistle to
keep their courage up.
—If the members of Troop L under-
take to follow their new captain the first
time he gets them out on a mounted
drill there’ll be a lot of them taking their
meals off the mantle-piece for a few days
afterward.
+ ——IJt is to be hoped that Colonel
HousE will not give up his residence in
Texas. With Cyclone DAviS and JEFF
MCLEMORE in the public life of that
State there is need of “leaven to leav-
en the lump.” ?
——Now if the labor element will ex-
press its real opinion of Speaker AMBLER
BRUMBAUGH will wonder why the VARES
want him nominated. Itis an easy prob-
lem, however. “A fellow feeling makes
us wondrous kind.”
—The general average of food prices
in the United States was 1 per cent. low-
er in 1915 than it was during 1914. Po-
tatoes, sugar, cheese, eggs, beans and
onions were higher in 1915, but meats,
fowls and other food products were gen-
erally lower. :
—Mayor NEWT BAKER, of Cleveland,
has been made Secretary of War. Well,
NEWT ought to be right at home on that
job. He has started some of the biggest
wars Cleveland ever had. He started
them as the people’s champion in each
case and always won out.
—After grinding one of the longest
weeks on record it looks as though the
grist from last week’s law mill will all
have to be ground over. Not an im-
portant case that was decided will stand
put. The attorneys in every one of
them have moved for new trials.
—When Capt. JoHN A. HUNTER, of
Stormstown, died surely Centre county’s
“grand old man” passed away. He had
lived ninety-six years and most of them
. were devoted to the development of a
character that was remarkable for its
amiable” poise and steadiness in right
living.
—BILLY SUNDAY is disappointed over
his Baltimore campaign. The people are
not turning out to meetin’ and those who
do are not turning their pockets inside
out as BILLY thinks they should, but Bal-
timore has never had anything like BIL-
LY before and possibly they’ll waken up
before he departs. ‘
—The whole world acclaims the dar-
ing, the strategy of the master and crew
of the German ship Moewe. That they
could slip out of Kiel, run the English
blockade, sail the high seas on a com-
merce raid that had numerous rich priz-
es, then run the blockade back into Kiel,
is too amazing for the English mind to
comprehend; therefor ' they don’t be-
lieve the Moewe did it.
—Experts predict the exhaustion of
gasoline in twenty years, if the waste is
not stopped. Inasmuch as they have
not specified just what is meant by “the
waste” we are at a loss to know just
what we might do toward playing a part
in the way of conservation. We do
know, however, that if JOHN D. were to
put the price up to a dollar a gallon and
HENRY FORD were to stop making tin Liz-
zies the experts would have to pull the
telescope out a little longer to see the
end of the gasoline production.
—At a luncheon given in a Washing-
ton hotel, by Representative WARREN
WORTH BAILEY, of the Nineteenth Penn-
sylvania district, on Monday, there were
two Senators, fourteen Congressmen and
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. In reporting
the affair Congressman BAILEY’S Johns-
town Democrat says:
“Several of the diners asked Mr. BRY-
AN for a direct answer as to what they
should do.”
Such candor is refreshing. It will be so
pleasing to the folks back at the homes
of those fourteen Congressmen to learn
that Mr. BRYAN is God-father to them
all-and that they needn’t have any minds
of their own at all.
—Mr. BRYAN's efforts to embarrass the
President seem most persistent. While
he has a perfect right to oppose any plan
the President may favor he has chosen a
most inopportune time to play upon the
power he wields among many Democrats
in this country. It would be far more
creditable and far more loyal to his
country were Mr. BRYAN to keep his
hands and his “silver tongue” off the
preparedness question until others, and
more serious ones, are settled. Our re-
lations with the belligerent powers are
unsettled. Let the President have op-
portunity to establish them finally then
fight him on the preparedness question,
if you like, Mr. BRYAN, but don’t embar-
rass him and alarm the country by using
the one issue as a club to enforce the ac-
ceptance of the other.
VOL 6).
Temperamental Mr. Bailey.
We have already expressed in these
columns, and in rather enthusiastic
phrases, our personal liking for Congress-
man WARREN WORTH BAILEY, of Johns-
town, and the hope that he may be re-
elected. We have not approved of his
attitude toward the policies of the Presi-
dent and very much regret his wide di-
vergence from the trend of Democratic
thought with respect to the obligations
of Congress in the matter of defensive
facilities. But in justice to Mr. BAILEY
we are constrained to say that probably
it isn’t his.fault. In other words his tem-
perament forces him into positions which
misrepresent rather than express his
feelings and purposes. He wants to be
a Democrat and really is a Democrat.
But he can’t restrain his impulse to op-
pose authority.
Mr. BAILEY is constitutionally and fun-
damentally an opponent. There is an |
old tradition, or superstition, or some-
thing, that “whatever is, is right.” But
that never appealed to Mr. BAILEY. In
his mind whatever is, is wrong. From
the earliest period of his political activi
ty, he has been fighting and fighting
hard. At first he fought only the Re-
publican party and he thumped it fore
and aft, hurling sixteen inch broadsides
with the rapidity and velocity of machine
gun fire. But there probably weren't
enough Republicans to keep him busy or
they didn’t fight hard enough to keep
him interested, and he turned his atten-
tion to the organization of his own party.
And what a fight he made? What re-
sults he achieved?
It is- safe to say that the Old Guard
Democratic organization tried harder to
pleasé WARREN WORTH than any living
man. He was such a likeable fellow
that nobody could help trying to please
him. But it was absolutely no use. You
might as well try to put out a conflagra-
tion by pumping coal oil on it as to please
Mr. BAILEY and he kept on fighting early
and late, in season and out. Finally the
Old Guard organization was turned out
and the group affiliated with Mr. BAILEY
in his fight came into power.” But BAI
LEY was no better satisfied than before
and within a year. he was fighting the
new faction as hard as ever. There is
but one thing to which he is constant.
He is a single-taxer first, last and all the
time.
—If the New York Democratic State
convention had been a day or two later
the chances are that O’GORMAN would
not have been elected a delegate-at-large
to the National convention.
Democratic Publicity Bureau.
The Democratic State committee has
opened a Publicity Bureau at Harrisburg,
according to the news dispatches, for the
purpose of supplying the Democratic
weekly papers of the State with informa-
tion, political or otherwise, for use in
their columns, during the coming cam-
paign. A weekly letter is contemplated
touching political developments and cov-
ering political events, and a very capa-
ble and experienced newspaper man has.
been employed to direct the bureau and
perform the service. If the bureau is
properly conducted the funds of the com-
mittee could be used to no better pur-
pose. The weekly papers can’t afford to
supply such service and it is capable of
much good. :
But a Publicity Bureau perverted to
factional uses is a grave evil and a seri-
ous menace to party prosperity. Two
years ago such an agency of disruption
was created and during the primary cam-
paign it sowed the seeds of dissension
and cultivated the spirit of faction to
such an extent that the party will suffer
for years from it. The rubbish it sent
out to the papers was slanderous and
scandalous and the funds of the commit-
tee were thus misappropriated and mis-
spent. In other words the money contrib-
uted to the committee by Democrats was
used to spread vituperation against one
element of the party and endow the oth-
er element with a false virtue. Such
service is worse than none.
The truth is that the Democratic State
committee has neither legal nor moral
right to take sides in a fight for nomina-
tions or participate in factional quarrels.
Democratic citizens have a right to dif-
ferences of opinion with respect to as-
pirants for party favor and the organiza-
tion is bound in honor as in law to keep
hands off until the question of preference
is settled at the primary polls. Then,
which ever faction or element wins, the
organization is bound to promote its suc-
cess at the general election. Unless the
newly created Publicity Bureau intends
to pursue this course it would better not
be born.
—Of course we are all interested in
the re-election of Indiana Democratic
Congressmen but it is just possible that
other things might be equally important.
Widening of the Breach.
The Citizens’ League, an organization
of Independent Republicans of Philadel- ;
phia has issued a statement expressing
its purposes and justifying its existence. | action of the Senate with respect to the i=
“The stumbling block to party unity in
Pennsylvania,” this manifesto declares,
“is the pernicious system of ‘contractor
government,’ as exemplified in Philadel
phia; the effort to extend it to the State
| government, and the furthering, through
' the influence and the public advocacy of
city contractors, of the ambition of the
. Governor of the Commonwealth to be
' the Republican candidate for President.
! Such a factional effort must be defeated
if independent Republicans are to realize
their desire to effectively express their
convictions in national issues.”
The putative head of this organization
is Mr. GEORGE D. PORTER, who was the
principal opponent of the present mayor
at the recent municipal election. Mr.
PORTER'S associates in the movement are
the usual reformers of the city, those
who have formed the “Committee of One
Hundred,” the “Committee of Seventy”
and other political bodies which have
opposed the “machine,” sometimes suc-
cessfully but mostly otherwise. At the
time of organization preference was de-
clared for PENROSE against the VARES
and it was regarded as a substantial help
to the Senator 'in the then impending
fight for control of the Pennsylvania del:
egation to the Republican National con-
vention. At least it set PENROSE in a
respectable environment.
The statement issued the other day
indicates no recession from the original
purpose but broadens the plans of opera-
tion somewhat.
to the nomination of Speaker AMBLER
for Auditor General for the reason that
being a contractor his nomination and
election would make for the extension of
the contractor government over
State. “Mr. AMBLER is in the contract:
: ing business, has been engaged in im-
portant State Highway contracts and is
in close political relations with the VARE
contracting interests,” the statement
adds. ‘These are literal facts and “com-
ing from such a source must command
attention. If the Citizens’ League is
true to its declarations, therefore, the
VARE and BRUMBAUGH combine is going
up against an obstacle.
——Speaking of physiognomy the chin
of WooDRrROW WILSON is a good deal like
that of the late and revered ANDREW
JACKSON, and by the same token there is a
good deal of resemblance between these
great men along other lines.
i Se —————
: Secretary of War Baker.
The long delay in the appointment of
a successor to Secretary of War GARRI-
SON is justified in the excellence of the
choice finally made. On Monday Presi-
dent WILSON announced the appointment
of NEWTON D. BAKER,
Ohio, and the universal judgment of the
press is that he made a peculiarly wise
selection. Mr. BAKER is a lawer of much
ability, an administrator of wide exper-
ience and a Democrat of the sterling
judgment and ‘young enough to enjoy
supporter of the President for the: nomi-
nation four years ago and has been a
consistent and capable friend of Woob-
ROW WILSON ever since.
Mr. BAKER is a native of West Vir-
ginia and forty-four years of age. His
first public service was as Secretary to
the Postmaster General during CLEVE-
LAND’S second administration, WILLIAM
L. WILSON, author of the WILSON tariff
Cleveland and entered upon the practice
of his profession, the law, in which from
the beginning he met with great success.
He was elected city solicitor three times
and mayor of that city twice, and at the
beginning of WILSON’S administration
declined the portfolio of Secretary of the
Interior for the reason that being at the
time mayor he felt that it was his duty
to complete the term and thus fulfill his
obligations to the people.
When the late ToM JOHNSON died and
left his campaign in behalf of the people
against an arrogant street car monopoly
unfinished, Mr. BAKER tcok it up and
pursued it to a triumphant conclusion.
At the expiration of his second term as
mayor, however, he declined a re-election
and resumed the practice of law which
had grown to large proportions. But he
never lost his interest in or fidelity to
the principles of the Democratic party
and for many years has been recognized
as among the leaders of the party in his
adopted State. He is a member of the
Democratic State committee and chair-
man of the local executive committee.
But notwithstanding his relations with
the President he never opened an office
brokerage establishment.
——Put your ad. in the WATCHMAN.
"STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH LO,
Important Question Finally Settled. | THE HOUSE OF T00 MUCH TROUBLE.
It declares opposition
the
of Cleveland, |
type. He is old enough to be of ripe
full vigor of mind and body. He was a
law. Some ten years later he moved to |
wea
1916.
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| In the vote of the House of ‘Represen- 4
tatives, tabling the McLEMORE ‘resolu: |
; tion, on Tuesday, following the similar
| GORE resolution last Friday, Congress |
“has with some emphasis expressed its
condemnation of allegiance to the Kaiser |
rather than the President. Both proposi- |
tions had the effect of embarrassing the |
President in his diplomatic negotiations |
with Germany concerning offences against
the United States. Both apparently had |
their inspiration and origin in the pro-
German propaganda which has been
operating in various sections of the coun-
try ever since the beginning of the war |
in Europe. |
The point at issue was the question of
forfeiting the rights of American citizens
to sail on ships of belligerents armed for
defense. International law sanctions de- |
fensive armament of inerchant ships and
Germany undertook to alter the law by
an order instructing submarines to at-
tack, ‘without warning, and sink with
crews and passengers ships so equipped.
The President assumed the ground that
such action would be violative of the
rights of neutrals, and that to tolerate
such a violation of the rights of Amer-
icans would involve the sacrifice of Na-
tional honor. Mr. GORE in the Senate
and Mr. MCLEMORE in the House in-
troduced resolutions warning Americans
against traveling in such ships.
For some unaccountable reason these
resolutions were held over the Presi.
dent’s head by the Kaiser’s government.
The President addressed a letter to Sena-
tor STONE, of Missouri, chairman of the
Senate Committee of Foreign relations,
pointing out the evil influences of such a
menace, but his protest was disregarded.
Finally he demanded a vote on the reso-
lutions with a view to discovering wheth-
er or not the Kaiser had control of our
legislative machinery. The result is all
that he could have desired or the coun-
try hoped for. The Senate resolution
| was tabled by a vote of five to one and
| the Hoyse measure by two to one. It
sett ceand for all time that im-
NO. 10.
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By ALBERT BIGLOW PAINE.
In the House of Too Much Trouble
* “’liveda lonely little boy; - = ©
He was eager for a playmate, ' ?
“He was’ hungry for a toy,
But ‘twas always too much bother,
: Too much dirt and too much noise,
For the House of Ton Much Trouble
Wasn't meant for little boys.
And sometimes the little fellow
Left a book upon the floor,
Or forgot and laughed too loudly,
Or he failed to close the dor;
In a House of Too Much Trouble
Things must be precise and trim—
In a House of Too Much Trouble
There was little room for him.
He must never scatter playthings,
He must never romp and play;
Ev’ry room must be in order
And keep quiet all theday;
He had never had companions,
He had never owned a pet—
In the House of Too Much Trouble
It is trim and quiet yet.
Ev’ry room is set in order—
Every book is in its place,
And the lonely little fellow
Wears a smile upon his face.
In the House of Too Much Trouble
He is silent and at rest—
In the House of Too Much Trouble,
With a lily on his breast.
The Cart Before the Horse.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
That the Republicans did none of the
things they accused the Democrats of fail-
ing to do is a sufficient answer to the in-
dictment embraced by the recent key-
note speech of Mr. Elihu Root. “Hind-
sight,” as Andrew Johnson used senten-
tiously to observe, “is better than fore-
sight.” Itis easier to relate what was
best after the event. \
In the matter of preparedness the Re-
publicans have nothing on the Demo-
crats. In response to' the chatter of
Roosevelt comes the ready retort: “You
were eight years in the White House;
what did you do for the army and the
navy?” A similar answer might be
made to Mr. Root in the matter of our
foreign relations.
There are wheels inside of wheels. All
that glitters is not gold. If Congress
should proceed headlong to place the
country on a war footing, with no enemy
in sight, the plain, common sense of the
pecple, stimulated by needless and
eon
tious taxation, would not be long in L
| portant question.
|
! ——The opposition to BRANDIES as Jus-
tice of the Supreme court has practical- |
ly petered out and his confirmation may |
be expected within a few days. But the
animus behind it will be remembered a
good while.
|
GE Sa |
| He Should be Chosen.
| At the Central Pennsylvania 'confer-
| ence of the Methodist Episcopal church,
to be held in Altoona next week, W. T.¢
| TWITMIRE, the lay delegate from the
, Bellefonte church, will present the name
‘of C. C. SHUEY, of this place, as an as-
' pirant to represent the Conference as
| one of its lay delegates at the General
conference of the church.
So far as we are able to recall the
: Bellefonte congregation, nor the Centre
| county Methodists, have never had the
honor of having a representative from
| the laiety to the General conference. Mr.
| SHUEY has a peculiar claim. for recogni-
| tion when the six laymen are chosen, be:
cause of his devoted service to Method-
ism in particular and the cause of re-
ligion in general. We know of no lay-
: man who has given more enthusiastical-
i ly of his time and his means to the up-
building of the church of God and his ef-
forts in recent years have reached into
almost every charge in the conference.
Surely the Central Pennsylvania. con-
ference cannot fail to let its choice fall
upon this man whose one pleasure seems
| to be work in his Master’s vineyard.
——Centre county farmers who are
having public sale this spring, as well as
those desiring blooded stock, will be in-
terested to know that at a public sale of
Charles Wertheimer, on the O’Donnell
stock farms near Petersburg, Md., last
. Thursday cows sold as high as $270,
| while horses went for $100 to $175. Sheep
| brought from $8.00 to $13.50. The sale
| amounted to $9,830.
|
i
——An explosion at an oil stove caus-
ed a fire in the kitchen of the Mrs. H. Y.
| Stitzer home, opposite the court house,
shortly before five o'clock on Wednesday
|
- evening, but the timely arrival of the
| firemen resulted in the flames being ex
tinguished before any great damage was
done.
——Senator GORE voted against his
own resolution to embarrass the Presi-
dent, but that is not surprising. GORE is
| one of those peculiar statesmen who are
| influenced more by patronage than prin-
I ciple.
——Another evil of the war is that it
| gives so many people whose opinions are
“worth nothing an opportunity to obtrude
their opinions in public prints.
—They are all good enough, but the
vincing its members that they were not
sent to Washington personally to exploit
themselves at the public charge. They
would be given to learn, to know and to
realize that there is such a thing as econ-
omy as well as timeliness in national ex-
| penditure.
The military experts would put the
cart before the horse. That is their pro-
fession. The mercenary armorplate peo-
ple would get up a hysteria of patriotic
fervor. That is their trade. But back of
these stands the mass and body of vot-
ers, the men who hew the wood and haul
the water and, incidentally, pay the bills
—sober and sensible, not always dull of
vision—who take no curbstone stock jn
Japan scares and no insurance risks
against submarine hobgoblins.. They
would have the country protected against
all comers. But they do not believe the
Mikado, having robbed China, is going to
be in a hurry to swim the Pacific, nor
that the Kaiser, after he thas licked the
British and made monkeys of the Dagoes
and the Frogeaters, means without warn-
ing to annex Canada to Prussia : and
thence to descend upon Plymouth Rock
in Massachusetts and Simm’s Hole, in
Kentucky! .
Time to Stand by the President.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
There was a moment of most ominous
tension on Thursday when Senator Gore
made a grave misstep by venturing to
quote the President upon an issue of war
or peace and at second hand, without
troubling to secure confirmation of the
quotation. Fortunately a prompt and
positive denial was forthcoming, but the
incident serves to show both the fire-
brand character of any careless state-
ment like that of the Oklahoma Senator,
in spite of his unquestioned pacific in-
tentions, and the exceedingly grave con-
ditions now confronted by our govern-
ment.
Altogether the situation in both Houses
of Congress was for a time both con-
fusing and alarming although the temper
of both Houses showed the usual grati-
fying disposition to rally to the support
of the Chief Executive in any controversy
with a foreign power. The Presidents
appeal to the Republican leader of the
House met with a prompt response and
that incident was most creditable to the
patriotism of both, for in such emer-
gencies patriotism should always rise
above partisanship.
It is most unfortunate, however,that the
Democratic leadership in the House has
not been in more thorough harmony with
the administration, thus making more
urgent the appeal of the President to the
minority. The result has been a virtual
division of that leadership bétween Mr.
Kitchin and Mr. Pou, the ranking mem-
ber of the committee on rules. This is
an intolerable situation and one that
should be immediately changed by the
side tracking of Kitchin unless he realizes
at once the need of more perfect party
harmony. Both wings of the party must
flap together in Congress as they will
throughout the Nation; for there can be
no doubt that Democratic sentiment will
overwhelmingly support the President in
his stand upon foreign policies.
——Monday, March 6th, was the
twentieth anniversary of the famous Et-
linger tragedy at Woodward, one of the
most sensational occurrences that ever
happened within the memory of several
| WATCHMAN is always the best.
generations.
! .SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
| —Punxsutawney’s steel hoop mill, which has
j not been in operation for several years, is once
, more to be the scene of industrial activity,
| thanks to the efforts of Punxsutawney’s chamber
| of commerce.
~The district attorney of Juniata county has
; had seven men arrested, some charged with sell-
: ing liquor without license and to minors, others
| with running a gambling room and still others
| with playing poker.
| —Alfred A. Pancake, who was engineer on the
; first locomotive to make the trip from Harris-
{ burg to Pittsburgh, died at Harrisburg on March
1st, aged 87. He also ran the first train through
the Gallitzin tunnel.
—Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh on Friday
fixed the week of April 3 as the date forthe
! electrocution of Thomas Chickerella and Gasper
Marturano, Barnesboro men who were twice
convicted of the murder of Vito Cavelle, near
that place. ’ ;
—The funeral of Mr. and Mrs. David Stam-
baugh, an aged couple who were burned to death
at their home in Elliottsburg, Perry county, one
night Jast week, occurred last Monday. But little
of their remains could be found in the ruins of
their home.
—After living together for forty years and
rearing eleven children, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Keib- -
ler, of Armstrong township, Indiana county,
have obtained a legal separation in court. The
wife charged her husband with non-support and
abuse and was granted $25 monthly. to be paid
by the husband, at the court's order.
—Extensive snow slides onthe mountain sides
between Renovo and Lock Haven closed the rail-
road tracks, covering them to the depth of twen-
ty feet. All the available men between Williams-
port and Renovo, about 300 in number, were
put to work and succeeded in clearing the
tracks about 4 o'clock Tuesday morning.
—Prospectors drilling in the vicinity of the
head of Clover Run in Bell township, Clearfield
county, are working night and day. They have
struck a pocket of gas and are going deeper.
Their results are being closely guardedjbut it is
said that the price of acreage in that vicinity is
higher than usual if one were to try to buy it.
—Sarah, the 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Rupp, of Saville, Perry county, was
burned to death one day last week. She and two
younger children wereiplaying when one of them
kindled a stick at the fire and thrust the flame
between the leaves of a book Sarah was looking
at. Her clothing was set on fire and fatal burns
ensued.
~—Mr. and Mrs. David Stambaugh. aged resi-
dents of the village of Elliottsburg,Perry county,
were burned to death in [a fire; which {destroyed
their home early last Thursday. They lived
somedistance fromlany houses and the flames,
which are thought to have started from a defec-
tive flue, had spread through their home before
an alarm could be given.
—It has been announced fromZEbensburg that
the contract for the proposed |fextension {of the
New York Central line from White Mills through
Nant-y-Glo to Beulah, had been let to an Altoona
concern. The mines of the Ebensburg Coal Co.,
controlled by Coleman & Weaver, said to be
allied with the N. Y. C.ilines, are located at Col-
ver and Beulah on the line of the proposed new
railroad. ?
—During a spell off{despondency}Mrs. Thomas
Marshall, of Houtzdale, on Wednesday morning,
March 1st, committed suicide by drowning in the
Higgins dam, near that place. It is said that
since the death of her husband, who was killed
in the mines at Pocohontas, W. Va., one vear
ago, her mind has on several occasions)seemed
‘unbalanced, and it was during one of these spells
that she committed the rash act.
—State health officials are following with close
interest the numerous reports of out-breaks of
measles and grip and the unusual after effects of
these two diseases jwhich are constantly being
heard from. The measles outbreaks have been
notably severe in several fcities of the State
and it is believed the total for the month of
February will run very high. R:ports of ear
troubles following grip are numerous.
—Brookville has suddenly found itself enriched
to the extent of $1,453.33 by the accidental finding
of two $500 bonds issued in 1904. It was “suppos-
ed that they had been sold at the time of the
issue and the borough’s accounts had been
figured from that view, with the interest amount-
ing to $463.33 added. They were found:!fin the
bottom of a tin box by the borough manager
while rummaging through some stores.
—Galeton has raised $300 by popular subscrip-
tion to press a fight against the Galeton-Eldred
Water Co. for alleged inadequate] water supply
for fire protection at the time offthe fire on Janu-
ary 19 which did $800,000 worth ofj, damage to
Galeton property. The water company’s fran-
chise requires it to furnish an:*‘adequate’” supply
for allpurposes and the borough officials do not
believe that was done at the instance of the
fire.
—The sight of a live deer taking an automo-
bile ride through the business section of Altcona,
Pa., made pedestrians stare on Tuesday. The
buck has been living with the cattle in the barn-
yard of Frank Weyandt’s farm, in Frankstown
township, for some time and refused tobe chas-
ed away. Game wardens drove the animal into
a pen, bound its legs together, loaded it into an
automobile, hauled it to another section of the
county and turned it loose again.
—As the result of a shooting affray in a pool
room Monday night at Sugar Hill, Jefferson
county, Oliver Harrison is in theJAdrian hospital,
at Punxsutawney, with a bullet hole through his
windpipe while Miles Flack, aged 17, is held at
Reynoldsville, to await the result of Harrison's
injuries. The latter is breathing through the
hole in his windpipe and the bullet has not been
located. Flacksays the shootinglwas accidental
and occurred during a friendly scuffle.
—Digging their way through an 18-inch brick
wail four prisoners in the Mercer county;jail slid
down a rope made of blankets sometime during
Thursday night and escaped. A sheriff’s posse
took up the trail as soon as the escape was dis-
covered, but it is believed that the fugitives had
a start of several hours on their purséers. The
hole through which the prisoners crawledito liber-
ty was 18 inches in diameter,and it is thought that
they worked on the job for several nights. Where
they secured the tools is a mystery to the jail
officials.
—Hollidaysburg is likely to be one of the most
progressive localities in the State during the
present year, as a number of new buildings will
be erected and other improvements made.
Among these willbe a federal building, a State
armory, for which the ground has been donated;
a market house square; a commerce building;
a cold storage and store room: a foot bridge
across the railroad tracks of the P. R. R.; a mar-
ble and tile factory; a steel casting foundry; ice
cream factory; and natural gas throughout the
borough.
—One hundred and one indictments against
brewing companies distributed throughout Penn-
sylvania and one against the United Brewers
Association of New York were returned on Fri
day at Pittsburgh by the United States grand
jury. The indictments charged violations of the
penal code, principally on unlawful expen-
ditures of money in Federal electi ms. No
individuals were mentioned in the indictments.
Among the companiesnamed are; Altoona Brew-
ing company, Altoona; Clearfield, Philipsburg
and Windber companies; the Emerling, of Johns-
town; the Flock, of Williamsport.