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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—And this is spring.
—The best way out of trouble is not
to get into it.
—We are not going to catch VILLA
with a salt cellar.
—BRUMBAUGH says harmony is possi-
ble. Hardly, as long as BRUMBAUGH wants
to boss.
—When Water street is paved there
will be an end of Bellefonte’s slough of
despond.
—The scarcity of women’s dress goods
isn’t really as great as the style of clothes
they wear would indicate.
—The fellows who are signing the sale
notes these days have yet to find out how
soon March, 1917, will be here.
—ToM TAGGART is the new United
States Senator from Indiana. Tom has
been a great politician but never held
anything else than a local office before.
—On the second day of spring last
year we had quite a snow storm and a
year ago today the snow was from one
to two feet deep on the north sides of the
mountains.
—With so much snow still on the
ground and the opening of trout fishing
season only twenty-two days off it is
highly probable that the ‘water will be
both high and cold.
—A week from tomorrow will be April
1st. We are not expecting many of our
delinquent subscribers to pay up on that
day, but who can tell? We might be
April fooled by a lot of them.
— While all the other countries are be-
ginning to show signs that peace is in
sight England avers that she can’t see it.
Of course England can’t get ready for
peace until she has done some of the
fighting.
—Step out in front, all you fellows who
were carping at the Presidents’ “watch-
ful waiting” policy with regard to Mexi-
co. Some fighting may have to be done
yet and you should be the first to volun-
teer.
—In Deuteronomy it says that when
a man has taken a new wife he ought
not to go to war or work for a year.
When some fellows take a new wife they
give her a wash tub and rubber for a
wedding present, then they never go to
work.
—The retirement of VON TIRPITZ from
supreme command of the German navy
may be coincidental with the retirement of
the German submarine from pernicious
activity. VON TIRPITZ was the man who
insisted upon: using the. under-water boat
* Hrother WARREN
wrought up because the Philadelphia
Record and the New York World are at-
tempting to read Mr. BRYAN out of the
Democratic party. Brother BAILEY is
fully qualified to pass upon the justice or
injustice of such proceeding because his
Johnstown Democrat is almost the boss
reader out in the whole State.
—My, how naughty we thought the
women were when they first wore those
peek-a-boo waists? And how little we
knew of what the world of fashion was
leading to. Now they begin to dress
nine inches below the chin and stop nine
inches from the ground and most of the
stuff they drape around themselves is so
sheer that in the strong sunlight you
could read a newspaper through some of
them.
—One hundred years ago last Saturday
the borough of Pittsburgh became a city.
As a centenarian Pittsburgh points with
pride to a great many achievements,
probably the greatest of which has been
her industrial expansion and her polit-
ical contraction. Among other things
she gave BILLY SUNDAY the biggest con-
tribution he had ever received prior to
his visit to Pittsburgh, voted for Wom-
an’s Suffrage and developed HONUS
WAGNER.
—Quite a bit of street gossip there is
about ‘Squire BILLIE CAssIDY and his
new ‘Squire job. It appears that BILLIE
is sick and tired of being a ’'Squire and
is just pining away for the solitude of his
little print shop in Crider’s stone build-
ing, there to dream of fishing, hunting
“dough” and being free from holding up
the hands of justice. Now BILLIE is a
good "Squire i in every sense of the word
and while most people know it there are
afew who don’t and they get on his
nerve. For instance, the other day when
he refused to “give the law” to a fellow
whose wife had bought a thirty-five cent
broom at a local store, and the broom
went all to pieces and the merchant
wouldn’t give the lady her money back,
the irate husband looked him square in
the eyes and. saidi~ “Well, you're one
h— of a "Squire!” Then when he fined
another fellow ten dollars and the victim
went to jail rather than pay the fine,
though he had enough money in his
pocket to wad a forty-two centimeter
gun, Squire BILLIE gave vent to his ut-
ter bewilderment by exclaiming “Well,
what do you know about that!” All the
signs point to the early retirement of
*Squire BILLIE. He just don’t like the
job and would rather feed a Gordon press
at forty cents an hour than take down a
quarter every other minute by swearing
the public to sundry papers. He has re-
signed and G. WASHINGTON REES thinks
he would just be the man to fill the un-
expired term.
Worth Seiity Jy
tion of the abuses asd ou
old political, machi
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 61.
BELLEFONTE, PA. MARCH 24, 1916.
“NO. 12.
Brumbaugh’s Bogus Candidacy.
Careful analysis of the BRUMBAUGH
presidential movement reveals the fine
Roman hand of BILL FLINN, of Pittsburgh.
At his urging the correspondence be-
tween National Committeeman Wasson
was begun. At his instance the promise
that BRUMBAUGH would withdraw in
favor of a candidate from “a sister
State,” was obtained, and at his solicita-
tion the WAsSON letter and BRUMBAUGH
reply were made public. The entire
farce is the product of the brain of
FLINN, the contractor politician of Pitts-
burgh, and is being put upon the stage
by Senator and Congressman VARE, the
contractor politicians of Philadelphia. It
is a false pretense and BRUMBAUGH’S
recompense is to be the bossism of the
Republican machine.
Of course the claim that the split in
the Republican party in 1912 elected
President WILSON is absurd. If there
had been no split in the Republican
party the result of the ballot would have
been the same. With ROOSEVELT as the
candidate nine-tenths of the vot&s cast
for TAFT would have gone to WILSON
and with TAFT as the candidate as great
a ratio of the ROOSEVELT vote would
have been cast for the Democratic candi-
date. The election of WILSON was an
expression of popular indignation at the
betrayal of the Republican promise of
1908 for the reform of the tariff down-
ward and the failure of the Republican
administration to fulfill other pledges
made during the campaign for the elec-
tion of TAFT.
Unless the signs are misleading the
campaign of this year, in this State, so
far as both tactions of the Republican
party are able to shape it, will be one of
false pretense. BRUMBAUGH has already
sold his delegates to the ROOSEVELT pur-
chasing agent and PENROSE is appealing
to the better element of the electorate
by handing out false promises of reform.
If BRUMBAUGH wins ROOSEVELT will
be nominated at Chicago and the dogs of
war will be turned loose to terrorize the
public. On the other hand if PENROSE
wins the probabilities are for the restora
of the
however, in the ce ty that in either
event WOODROW WIiLsON will be re-
elected.
——1It may be only a coincidence but
it's worthy of remark, nevertheless, that
every Progressive who announces his
return to the Republican fold simultane-
ously announces that he is a candidate
for something.
Wise Action of the President.
President WILSON has hit upon a plan
to eliminate the pestiferous office brokers
who have been falsely pretending to rep-
resent him, in Pennsylvania, since the
beginning of his administration. He says
that no Federal office holders shall be
delegates to the National convention at
St. Louis and that means, of course, that
the convention shall be made up of un-
selfish men, influenced by patriotism and
inspired by consideration for the public
good. Under such circumstances the
very best results may be expected.
Woobrow WILSON will be unanimously
re-nominated and re-elected by an over-
whelming majority. The political mer-
cenaries will have no voice in the selec-
tion of the candidate.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania were
quite as unanimous for the nomination
of WooDrROW WILSON four years ago as
they are now but the President was made
to believe that the office brokers who
were in control of the party organization
then encountered and overcame aformid-
able and militant opposition to him-
They arestill trying to keep this false
impression in his mind notwithstanding
the vast preponderance of evidence to
the contrary. But they are not succeed-
ing this time. His order forbidding the
meddling of office holders is ample proof
that he understands the situation now
and doesn’t want to be pestered here-
after, by pretenders. Itis a four-square
case in Pennsylvania this year.
Of course this will be a disappoint-
ment to some of the office-holders who
imagine that they are the custodians of
the party interests and the dictators of
party policies and principles. Two years
ago they undertook to write alien doc-
trines into the platform of Pennsylvania
without consulting the voters on the sub-
ject and now they are assuming that the
President relies ubon them for the main-
tenance of the party organization. As a
matter of fact most of them represent
nothing but their own selfish interests
and express nothing but a lust for office
and a yearning for power. The Presi-
dent was wise in putting the ban upon
their false pretenses. . His party will be
strengthened by the action.
—-Speaking of VILLA “dead or alive,”
why not add: “preferably dead.”
| elected President. :
i organized in the cities.
Progress of the Pursuit of Villa.
The punitive ghpedition sent out trom
New Mexico in pursuit of the murderous
| - Bill Adams Has His Reward.
| BILL ADAMS fies con come into his own, in
That is to say the Representative |
part.
i Rule to Revoke Bush House License Refus-
ed and Costs Divided.
Judge Henry C. Quigley yesterday hand-
outlaw VILLA, is making progress, ac- | in the Legislature for the First District | | ed down his decision on the rule taken out
cording to the limited information attain- . of Luzerne county has been appointed to ; | by James R.. Hughes, headmaster of the
able, but has not thus far accomplished |
its purpose. On Monday evening a bat-
tle between the VILLA forces and a con-,
tingent of regular Mexican troops was
reported at Namiquipa, in the State of
Chihauhau, with results uncertain at the
time of the advices.
pathy with the pretended purposes of
their government and may ultimately
fail to perform their part in the plan to
capture the outlaw is increasing. In at
least one instance a detachment of them
withdrew at VILLA’S approach.
There are many perils in the path of
this enterprise and the capture of VILLA
may require considerable time and some
loss of life. Especially if the Mexican
troops are faithless the expedition will
be hazardous for if he succeeds in get-
ting into the mountains, he will be diffi-
cult to locate and delinquency of the
CARRANZA troops may enable him to
reach that shelter. But in the end and
at the smallest cost possible he will be
taken and fitly punished. Even moun-
tain fastnesses and caves will be little
protection against the operations of air-
craft which will soon be in the service of
the expedition. Bombs from the clouds
will find their way into any sort of re-
treat.
With this enterprise in progress the
end of the Mexican trouble comes into
view. The policy of “watchful waiting”
will be thus vindicated and the Mexican |
question, as a campaign issue, will be
eliminated. This problem, one of the
most perplexing of the many which has |
confronted the administration, might
have involved the country in a prolong-
ed and costly war, and would have had
that result if a less wise and conserva-
tive President had bzen in power, will be
disposed of in a way that reflects the
highest credit upon the country and at a
minimum of expense. Such an issue ol
a vexed situation is one of many
why WooDROW WiLSON sh
— The esteemed New York World
says that “as a politician Senator LODGE
must find it difficult at times to recognize
HENRY CABOT LODGE the historian.” Not |
at all. HENRY CABOT LODGE the historian
was absorbed by Senator LODGE the
politician several years ago and the
LODGE that is left is of the scurvy type.
Put No License Tax on Fishing.
Fish Commissioner NATHAN R. BULLER
has earned public confidence by efficien-
cy and fidelity to duty. He has develop-
ed the industry of fish culture to a high
standard and conserved fish life most ad-
mirably. But if he persists in the an-
nounced purpose to urge legislation im-
posing a license tax upon fishermen of
the State he will forfeit a large part of
the friendly public opinion he has ac-
quired. There is no necessity for such
legislation, either for the purpose of rais-
ing revenue or with the idea of protect-
ing fish. The laws for the protection of
fish may be inadequate or inefficient.
But taxing citizens of the State for en-
joying a natural right is not the remedy.
From the earliest period of the history
of Pennsylvania the right to catch fish
has been inherent in the boyhood and
manhood of the Commonwealth. It is
one of the first of the health giving
sports or diversions of out doors that ap-
peal to the normal youngster. Bare-
footed, brown-legged and radiant with
hope he has tramped the banks of the
streams taking his toll from the “holes”
here and there and providing feasts, “fit
for a King” for his family, as the just re-
ward of his skill and patience. Is the
Pennsylvania boy to be deprived of this
privilege because the Fisheries Depart-
ment wants more money to spend? Per-
ish the thought. No man shall under- |
take to perpetrate such an outrage.
Of late years fishing clubs have been |
The members of |
these clubs spend their vacations of from
one to four weeks in the summer in
camps along the streams and as a rule
they want more than is coming to them.
They have expensive and ornate fishing |
tackle, comfortable boats and all other |
paraphernalia. They envy the success
of the boy with the birch switch for a
rod as he envies their more costly equip-
ment. But they have no right to drive
him from the competition because he |
can’t afford to pay a license tax. There
are plenty of fish for all if the clubman
will play the game as fairly as the boy!
plays it. Cut out illegal fishing and the
problem is solved.
—If the esteemed Philadelphia Public |
Ledger has not taken out a license for
exhibiting lunatics we protest against its
public display of REUTERDAHL.
But a suspicion
that the CARRANZA troopsare not in sym- ,
a twelve hundred dollar a year clerk-
ship in one of the departments at Har-
risburg. He was promised something |
better than that but politicians don’t |
always get what they are promised and |
sometimes don’t deserve as much as
they get. Anyway BILL appears to be |
satisfied and nobody else has any right '
to complain. He never did much for the
State and he disappointed those who be-
stowed favors upon him as the court
records of Luzerne county show.
Those who read the letters of our Har-
risburg correspondent during the last
session of the Legislature will recall an
agreement made between the Governor
and Mr. ApamMs. BILL had been elected
to the House by the liquor interests
under written pledge that he would vote
against the local option measure. As!
his name was first on the roster it was
desirable to the optionists that he vote
with them and the Governor asked him
to do so. He replied that he was under
obligation to the other side and that as
he was a candidate for the Republican
nomination for Sheriff of his county, the
betrayal of faith would be fatal to him.
The Governor assured him that if he
would vote as he desired he would use
the gubernatorial influence to have him
nominated and failing in that would give
"him a state office equally lucrative. BILL
, accepted and voted for local option, thus
throwing the other side into a panic.
At the subsequent primary BILL was
defeated for the nomination he sought
by an overwhelming majority and at
once went to Harrisburg to demand the
| gubernatorial promise.
gave him an order on one of the
Philadelphia hospitals, for the free
treatment of a friend. But that
didn’t satisfy BiLL. He insisted in
| the full measure of the promise and per-
sisted. Finally he has got the twelve
d dollar clerkship, as we learn
But ‘probably it doesn’t matter.
——Don’t burn your old newspapers,
, rags or paper boxes. Put them in an old
burlap sack and save them until you get
a hundred pounds or more then they can
be sold. If you can find no place to sell
them yourself the WATCHMAN will find a
market for you. Really the paper situa-
tion is becoming so serious that some
sort of conservation must be put in opera-
tion at once and this is one way to do
it. You can help keep the price of pa-
per down by saving all your paper scraps
and at the same time be paid for the
trouble. Don’t think that the high price
of paper doesn’t effect you. It does.
Your writing paper costs more. Every-
thing you buy at the store will soon have
a fraction of a cent added to its cost be-
cause the paper in which it is wrapped
costs more. And your newspaper will
cost more ere long if the waste .is not
stopped. Think of it. There are 15,
000,000 tons of various kinds of paper
made in the United States every day and
most of it is destroyed instead of being
saved to be reground into pulp.
——Spring is here but the weather of
this week would not indicate it. With
cold, snow, rain and sloppiness it has
been more like February weather than
almost the first of April. Take Wednes-
day, when several inches of snow and
sleet fell while at the same time there
was quite a lot of thunder and lightning.
The only sure indication of approaching
spring is the days, which are now longer
than the nights.
——Notwithstanding the bad weather
: under foot on Tuesday there was a good
attendance at the Gust Armor sale east
of Bellefonte. As evidence that every-
thing brought good prices is the fact that
| the sale amounted to over $4,300.
——The German Crown Prince natural-
ly wants a “place in the sun.” All crown
princes have ambitions in that direction.
But the slaughter at Verdun was too
| ! high a price for even a Crown Prince to
pay for a “place in the sun.’
——Really it is impossible to arouse
sympathy for Philadelphia. A city which
will make Tom SMITH mayor within half
| a century of its. experience with REY-
BURN is simply unworthy of considera-
tion.
| —Possibly ViLLA will seek a hiding
place in the mountains but airships ought
to be capable of search even in the moun-
tains. We are patiently waiting for news
from our aerial operators.
——Search as we may it is impossible
to find what the British are doing in the
"war on the East or West battle fronts.
ET
The Governor |
| Bellefonte Academy, against W. L. Dag-
| gett, of the Bush house, to show cause
; why his license should not be revoked
1 in which he discharged the rule and di-
(vided the costs between the petitioner
i and respondent.
The hearing in the case was held last
Saturday morning. District attorney
James C. Furst and J. Thomas Mitchell
Esq., represented the petitioner and W.
Harrison Walker Esq.. looked after Mr.
Daggett’s interests.
George Horner, janitor at the Belle-
fonte Academy, and Prof. G. F. Reiter
both testified to seeing Clyde Faucett
and LeDois Craig return to the Acad-
emy about 9.15 o’clock on the evening of
February 18th and both were intoxicat-
ed. Prof. E. L. Harstine testified to hav-
ing seen the young men between 10 and
10.30 and they were then intoxicated.
Clyde Faucett testified that he was only
eighteen years of age and that on the
evening of February 18th he went into
the Bush house bar and purchased a half
pint of whiskey. He identified John
Justice as the man who sold it to him
and declared that he did not ask his age.
He stated that there were no othersin
the bar room. It was between 7.30 and
7.45 when he was in the bar.
LeDois Craig testified that he was
eighteen years old and on the evening of
February 18th, between 8.30 and 9 o’clock
he went into the front bar and purchased
a half pint of whiskey. He also testified
that he saw no one in the room. This
ended the testimony for the petitioner.
i For Mr. Daggett John Justice, bartend-
er, testified positively that neither of the
boys were in the bar that evening. That
it was unusually quiet and if they had of
been there he would know it.
George Lose testified that he was in
the front bar from seven o'clock until
the train came in at 8.30 and neither of
the boys had been
| there during the evening. i
William Bathurst testified that he
knew the students by sight, that he was
in the bar from 7.15 until 9.30 and that
neither of them were in during that time.
He also testified to having seen a man
give the boys a half pint about 5.30
o'clock in the evening in Medes’ pool
room.
In rebuttal both students swore that
they were not down town before supper
on the evening in question.
Both sides made a brief argument at
the conclusion of which Judge Quigley
stated that the court would not tolerate
any wilful or persistent violation of the
law on the part of any landlord. On the
other hand the court was not going to
regulate the morals of the community,
and young men who came to Bellefonte
or State College as students would have
to be looked after by the heads of the
educational institutions. Judge Quigley’s
decision as filed yesterday is as follows:
The hearing on the petition to re-
voke the Bush House license was held
in the Grand Jury room last Saturday
morning before Judge Quigley, the
outcome of which was the conclusion
by the Court that the testimony was
not sufficiently convincing to warrant
a revocation.
‘We herewith quote the Opinion filed
Wednesday which gives the facts more
explicity than we could possibly state
them:
“On the 25th day of February, 1916,
a rule was granted on W. L. Daggett,
Proprietor of the Bush House of Belle-
fonte, to show why his license should
not be revoked, based on a petition
of James Hughes, Head Master of the
Bellefonte Academy, in which it was
alleged that intoxicating liquor was
furnished to two of his students, both
minors, on the evening of February 18,
1916, between the hours of seven and
ten o'clock, to which answer was filed
not only denying said sales but also
denying that the young men in ques-
tion were in the bar-room of the re-
spondent during the time specified.
“Upon the petition and answer tes-
timony was taken on Saturday, the
18th instant. The two young men in
question positively swore that they
each had purchased one half pint of
whiskey from the bartender at the
Bush House durirg the evening of
February 18, 19€¢, one of them, Clyde
Faucett, between the hours of seven-
thirty and a quarter of eight o'clock,
and the other, L.edos Craig, sometime
after nine o'clock: that no questions
were asked concerning their age.
“That these young men did have
whiskey and were under the influence
of liquor on this particular evening
there can be no question, because two
very responsible instructors of the
Academy saw them either upon or
soon after their return to the Academy
and have testified to this effect.
“The testimony on behalf of the
respondent is emphatic in denial that
these boys purchased this liquor at
the time specified. The bartender on
duty that evening swears positively
that neither Faucett nor Craig was in
the bar-room that evening; that hav-
ing heard on Saturday evening or
Sunday following of the alleged oc-
currence he charged his memory with
the happenings of Friday evening and
remembered that the only whiskey he
had sold in bottle on that evening was ;
[Continued on page 4. Col. 6.]
in Wilkinsburg, leaving according to her will
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—State Senator William B. Dunlap, of Bridge-
water, has been fined $20 for failure to attend a
meeting of town council, he being a member of
the body.
—Joseph H. Reilly, of Philadelphia, 1s pur-
chased 140 acres of coal land in Barr townsnip,
Cambria county, where he already owned more
than 500 acres.
—The eleven medffvho were sent to the peni-
tentiary from Elk county for bounty frauds will
be releused in May and sone of them will be re-
arrested and tried on other charges.
—The State department of health has decided
that Sayre must stop emptying its sewage into
the Susquehanna river and must prepare to erect
a sewage disposal plant before the end of 1916.
—The explosion of a bomb under the old skat-
ing rink at Windber is believed by the police of
that place to have been an attempt on the lives
of some Italians that were sleeping in the old
structure.
—William J. Curry, of Punxsutawney, has
been appointed to fill the vacancy from the
Twenty-seventh district at the Annapolis Naval
academy, with John D. Corrigan, Jr., of Clymer,
as alternate.
—The Western Pennsylvania State hospital for
the insane will be erected near Ligonier, accord-
ing to State Senator C. D. Sensenich. The insti
tution is to cost $50,000 and have a site of 500
acres of land.
—More than 70 per cent.of all the buckwheat
raised in the United States is raised in Pennsyl-
vania and New York, with the Keystone State
leading by a margin of about 1,000,000 bushels
over New York.
—The “Gussie” mine at Spangler, Cambria
county, has been purchased by James A. Mc-
Clain and the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke com-
pany. The tract to be operated contains more
than 2,000 acres of coal.
—The State Game Commission has made ar-
rangements with the farmers of Indiana county
to have the eggs of quails and pheasants hatched
under hens, after which they will be kept for a
time and then released.
—Dr. A. L. Yoder, of Johnstown, was sentenced
Monday, by Judge Stephens to serve six months
in jail because of having one too many wives in
Pennsylvania. The sentence was afterward sus-
pended and the doctor was released on parole.
—Dr. L. F. Stewart, the well known Clearfield
surgeon, will sail for France on Sunday, March
26th, to jointhe American Ambulance at Neuilly,
a suburb of Paris, a hospital having at no time
less than 2,000 patients wounded on the battle-
field.
—For the first time in nearly a hundred years
the East ward of Ebensburg is without license,
the applicant, M. J. Stoltz, having been refused
by Judge Stephens. There are now only three
licenses in Ebensburg. Eight years ago there
were five.
—According to the weekly bulletin of the Unit-
ed States public health service, the case of John
Kirschner, suffering with cerebro-spinal menin-
gitis at the Municipal hospital, Johnstown, is
the only one in the State, there being only 31 in
the entire country.
—The famous semi-colon case, the decision in
which will determine whether the salaries of
most county commissioners in Pennsylvania are
to be increased to $1,800, is still under con-
sideration by Judge Hincklet, at Warren. The
use of the semi-colon was one factor that figured
in the case.
—Mrs. Emily Munson Lee, widow of Dr. John
K. Lee, and sister to the late George T. Swank
and the late James M. Swank, died at her home
fo
had lost ‘the most. ‘money, Joseph Zitarelli, of
Williamsport, was stabbed three times by Alex-
ander Liva, Sunday night. Zitarelli is at the
Williamsport hospital suffering from wounds in
the hand, the left thigh and a body wound just
above the stomach.
—John H. Hilker, a prominent resident of
Stiltz, York county, died from infirmities of age
in his 75th year. He was twice married. His
second widow and twenty-two children survive.
There are many grandchildren and great-grand-
children, and he had the largest family in that
section of the State.
—The extensive holdings of the Arrow Coal
Mining company, of Somerset county, controlled
by William Gahagen, of Windber, have been
optioned to an eastern syndicate for nearly
$500,000. The mines on these properties have
been in operation less than three years, with
an output of 750 tons daily.
—Ravmond Fowler, of Houtzdale, only about
17 years of age, was arrested on Thursday after-
noon, the 16th, and held in the sum of $5000 for
stealing wire from the Bell and H. & C. Tele.
phone companies. Mose George, a Houtzdale
junk dealer, was arrested and held in the same
sum for buying the wire from young Fowler.
—Dr. A. Yoder, of Johnstown, was found guilty
of adultery on Wednesday at Ebensburg, and
recommended to the mercy of the court. Dr.
Yoder had obtained a divorce in Indiana from
his wife, Rachael, whom he had married in Penn-
sylvania, and then married another woman, re-:
turning to Johnstown to live, when complaint’
was made by his first wife. He has applied for a
new trial.
—Charles Caskey, of Coudersport, has had re”
markable success in hunting and trapping this
season. He has bagged 17 foxes for which he
received a bounty of $34, and sold eight of the
skins for $48. Besides the nine fox skins he has
the pelts of 20 skunks which he values at $75; two
weasels skins, 47 muskrat skins and five mink
skins. Besides the animals he has killed for their
fur he killed a number of deer and bear.
—James Reynolds, an aged man claiming
Bridgeport, Conn., as his home, and until two
weeks ago an inmate of the Blair county alms-
house, was shot and fatally injured at Chalybeate
Springs hotel, near Bedford, early Saturday
morning, by Walter Dauler, proprietor of the
hotel. Reynolds, who was 82 years old, was cn-
gaged in robbing the house when he met his
death. He was shot at 2 o'clock inthe morning.
and died a few hours later in the Bedford jail.
—Because John Slavoski, of West Berwick, got
the naturalization laws slightly mixed with the
marriage laws, he courted Mary Spogaski, of the
same borough for two years mote than was ab-
solutely necessary before he married her. John
has been deeply in love for more than two years.
He confessed as much recently. It was, as a
matter of fact, just about two years ago that he
took Mary down to the county seat and secured
his marriage license—and then went home to
await, as he thought, the two years required be-
fore he could be joined in the bonds of holy
matrimony.
—A ““cure’ she used for frozen feet came near
being fatal for Miss Elizabeth Gessner, 18 years
old and pretty, of Sunbury. When her pink toes
were bitten by Jack Frost earlier in the winter
she suffered much pain and tried many remedies
Finally, it was suggested that by burning gun
powder in a bucket and holding her feet, bare,
over the fumes she would get relief. It was a
treatment used by our great-grandmothers, she
was told, and determined to risk it. When her
4 father, Jacob Gessner, lighted the match there
~ was an explosion and ascream, and Miss Gessner
fell from her chair, rolling about the floor in
; agony. She was scorched and blistered from
' feet to knees, and a doctor had to be called.