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BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—Only two more days in which to
. do it.
—This is May and very little oats
and no corn yet planted in Centre
county.
—Buy a bond today! Have a heart!
‘Put your money behind the boys who
are standing between you and the
Huns.
—Many districts in the county have
gone over the top in the third Liberty
loan but, thus far, only seven have
won honor flags. The latter honor is
procured only by the subscription for
- a bond by one or more in every ten of
the population of the subscribing com-
munity.
—Germany is beginning to realize
that our entrance into the war isn’t
the joke she tried to make her people
believe it to be a year ago. German
and Austrian papers are beginning to
tell the truth now; urging their forces
to hurry up and win a decisive victory
before we can get there in the power
they really know we will exert. If
this means anything, it means that
the Huns foresee the doom that will
certainly be theirs when Uncle Sam
gets all of his boys over there. It is
prophetic of the words of one of the
popular American war songs:
“And they've put it up to us.”
They want to settle up that muss.”
—Give the lie to those who would
try to make you believe that our boys
overseas are not comporting them-
selves in the traditional manner of
splendid American manhood. Dr.
John Price Jackson, whom all of Cen-
tre county knows because of his con-
nection with The Pennsylvania State
College, and who is now a Major with
Pershing’s forces in France, writes
home: “During the three months I
have been in Europe I have not seen
a single disorderly or drunken Ameri-
can soldier. I have seen thousands of
them, on and off duty, and a more
manly set of young men of fine bear-
ing, I never expect to meet.”
—What a bunch of gallant lads
were those forty-two conscripts who
left here for Camp Lee on Tuesday.
They were not just what Janet Stew-
art thought of when she beheld a great
parade of our trained soldiers and ex-
claimed: “It is democracy harnessed
to discipline; it is the ideals of the na-
tion made flesh; the flowering of the
finest.” But they were the makings
of just what she saw and what she
thought. Happy, eager, effervescent
with life during their short period of
mobilization here, their ebullient spir-
its almost completely dispelled the
shade of sadness that falls over us
upon such occasions.
4 An interesting bit of political
gossip comes from Clearfield county
to the effect that Matt Savage, editor
and publisher of the Public Spirit, of
Clearfield, will be a candidate for
nomination on the Democratic ticket
to represent this District in the Sen-
ate. If the rumor is founded on fact
and it is true that there has been a
spontaneous and unanimous request
in Clearfield that Mr. Savage become
the candidate of the party there is a
very strong probability that our Dis-
trict will have a Democratic Senator
representing it in the next Legisla-
ture. The time is ripe, the opportu-
nity is here and with this veteran
newspaper man to bring a peculiar
appeal to the voters the prospects of
victory are surely hopeful.
—Don’t think that just because you
are going about your work as usual
and, incidentally, making about twice
as much money as you ever did be-
fore, that you are doing anything for
the boy on the other side who is bar-
ing his breast to the Hun bullets in
order that your future happiness may
be assured. You are not doing any-
thing for anyone but yourself by
merely working. If you are putting
in an hour or so more a day than you
did in peace times, if you are giving
to the Y. M. C. A, giving to the Red
Cross and buying government bonds
you are really helping, but if you have
done none of these things you have
been helping no one but yourself and
you can’t escape the charge of being
a selfish unpatriotic person.
—Suppose that a produet that the
“Watchman” manufactures should be
very essential to the winning of the
war. Suppose the demand for it had
become so great that the price had
doubled, thus bringing us an enor-
mous profit. Suppose, then, that the
government and all our friends and
neighbors should appeal to us to in-
crease our production, either by in-
creasing our capacity or working over
time. Suppose that the nature of our
business was such that we couldn’t in-
crease the capacity, that we could on-
ly have a normal output. Suppose
even that normal output could not be
produced unless we worked over time.
Suppose we failed to work over time
enough to hold our output up to nor-
mal, what would we be? We would
be miserable slackers, unworthy to
enjoy the privileges we have as the
heritage of a free people. That's
what we'd be, if we didn’t produce as
much now as we did before the war.
And even if we did produce as much
now as we did before the war we
wouldn’t yet be doing anything to
help. We'd have to produce more
than we have ever produced before in
order to help in the real sense. Apply
this to the work or business you are in,
dear reader, and determine whether
you are really doing anything to help,
or whether you are just doing what
you have always done and getting
twice as much for it.
emer
: VOL. 63.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 3, 1918.
NO. 18.
Senator Lodge’s False Charge.
During a discussion of the Overman
bill in the Senate, the other day, Mr.
Lodge, of Massachusetts, said that
the executive department and not
Congress is responsible for the dila-
tory movement of war measures. Yet
the bill under consideration at the
time was introduced by the Senator
for North Carolina early in February
and after more than two months of
useless delay was still far from the
final stage. The first vote on an
amendment was taken last Saturday,
the final vote on the measure may be
hoped for today or tomorrow and if
that does not indicate tardiness the
word has not been properly defined.
In all the adverse argument, more-
over, not a single valid objection was
made.
The purpose of the bill is to author-
ize the President to expedite war
preparations by making such shift of
authority as is essential to efficiency
and validate such appointments to
service as are expressed in the call of
Mr. Schwab to direct the ship con-
struction. It ought to have been pass- |
ed by both branches of Congress with-
in a week of the date it was present-
ed. But such bigoted partisans and
wilfull traitors as Lodge in the Sen-
ate have prevented prompt action with
the result that thousands of lives of
Americans and others holding the
Western front against the Hun le-
gions, have been sacrificed. The ad-
ministration is not responsible for the
delays. Congress has been criminally
slow.
The test vote taken on Saturday
guarantees the ultimate passage of
the bill without amendment. The at-
tack was made on its weakest point
and failed. But it served to reveal
the traitors in the body beyond ques-
tion.
their party as well as their country
are Chamberlain, Gore,
Hitchcock, King, Reed, Smith, of
Georgia; Thomas, Underwood and
Vardaman. How Senator Underwood
got into such company is inconceiva-
ble. The others are inoculated with
the Populist virus and simply express-
ed their antipathy to the true princi-
ples of Democracy in joining the Bol-
sheviki to help the Kaiser and autoc-
racy. Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania,
is equally out of place in the bunch.
ny’s demand for the right of way for
sand and gravel but upon condition
that the sand and gravel are not to be
used for military purposes. They
will be used for building trenches, of
course, and Germany violates the
agreement. But what can you ex-
pect?
Conspiracy Again Organized.
Referring to the death, on Sunday,
of Supreme court Judge S. Leslie
Mestrezat, the esteemed Philadelphia
Record says: “Justice Mestrezat had
many. friends throughout Pennsylva-
nia who have long felt that he would
have made a good Governor, and itis
no secret that he would have died
while filling the place now occupied
by Martin G. Brumbaugh had many
of the Democrats who were looking at
the situation of four years ago from
an unselfish viewpoint had their way.”
Our Philadelphia contemporary is
simply revealing the fact that Justice
Mestrezat would have accepted the
nomination of his party that year if
it had been tendered to him, and that
he would have been elected.
Four years ago the group of office
holders and patronage brokers in con-
trol of the Democratic organization
of Pennsylvania forced out of the
fight every probable candidate who
had a possible chance of election and
nominated a candidate who had no
chance in order to continue their con-
trol of the organization. A false
claim that President Wilson desired
the nomination of the candidate they
had chosen helped them in their con-
spiracy to defeat the party candidate
at the polls. President Wilson had no
such thought at the time and has nev-
er entertained such a thought since.
He believes in the right of Democrats
to make free choice in the selection of
candidates.
This same group of selfish bone-
heads is again in a conspiracy to pre-
vent the election of a Democratic
Governor in Pennsylvania. Each of
them understands that with the elec-
tion of a Democratic Governor the of-
ficeholders’ contingent would lose con-
trol of the organization and their bus-
iness as patronage brokers would end.
A State Democratic victory would
work a defeat of all their schemes
and in order that such a result may
be averted they have picked a candi-
date who can’t hope for more than
half the vote of the party at the elec-
tion, which will guarantee the success
of the Republican candidate, however
distasteful he may be to the majority
of the voters.
——Subscriptions to the third Lib-
erty loan are a trifle tardy but it will
be over-subscribed in the end and the
fourth, fifth and all subsequent is-
sues will be taken. This is the peo-
ple’s war and they will pay the ex-
penses.
The Democrats who betrayed
Hardwick, '
O’Neil’s Coffin Nailed Down.
The decision handed down by the
Dauphin county court on Saturday in
| the matter of the right of Philadel-
phia Town Meeting Republicans to
vote at the Republican primaries this
| spring, drives the last nail in the cof-
fin of O’Neil’s hopes. It means that
90,000 Republicans whom the Vares
expected to exclude from the reckon-
{ing will vote for Sproul, reducing
i O’Neil’s majority in the city to neg-
| ligible proportions, even if the Vares
"do their best or their worst for him.
It practically removes John R. K.
, Scott from the political equation, like-
| wise, for it is a question whether he
| will be able to carry the city with this
| force against him, as it is certain to
be.
| There is something attractive .in
this elimination of ‘a vicious element
from the political life of the Common-
wealth. Hypocrisy is a dangerous
agency in public affairs and the
Brumbaughs and the Vares personify
this form of iniquity. Unhappily,
however, the cause for rejoicing is di-
minished by the fact that in the de-
feat of ‘one of these factions there is.
victory for another, little if any bet-
ter. Sproul’s pretense of conversion
to Prohibition is discredited by his
legislative record of nearly a quar-
ter of a century and the fact that his
campaign cards are posted in every
bar-room in the State. And then
Scott is no more a quarter sessions
lawyer than Beidleman.
But the voters of Pennsylvania can
‘make the defeat of the Varesat the
primary a source of gain to the State,
The nomination of Sproul and Beidle-
man will probably extinguish the am-
bitions of the Vares and Scott:for all
time and in November, by the elec-
"tion of the Democratic candidates, the
absurd pretensions of the Penrose
‘gang can be submerged in an over-
whelming defeat of Sproul and Bei-
i dleman. This result will not only im-
' prove the political morals of the Com-
“monwealth but it will vastly help in
| the equally important work of defeat-
| ing autocracy in Europe and through-
! out the world. These Republican fac-
| tionists pretend patriotism but are
helping the Kaiser by opposing the
| administration.
| om :
——A unique street meeting will-
{be held on the Diamond (if weather
unfavorable in the court house) next
Saturday afternoon, at 2:30 o’clock by
‘Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts, of Washington,
and the popular Scotch corneter,
Mr. David Reid, of Boston, who is
“also a good singer. Both are noted
automobile lecture tourists. They
will speak and sing from an automo-
bile.
Fit Rebuke of a Traitor.
Lincold Colcord, a traitor who
found a willing vehicle for his sedi-
tious rubbish in a Philadelphia news-
paper, was justly and fitly rebuked
by the Academy of Political and So-
cial Science, which he undertook to
address during a session at Wither-
spoon hall, Philadelphia, on Sunday
evening. Mr. George Creel, head of
the committee on Public Information,
had addressed the Academy in reply
to complaints of Mr. Colcord that
news of the movements of the army
and navy and operations of the gov-
ernment had been suppressed and a
charge “that the government had fall-
en almost flat in its war program and
that the allies are looking toward us
in vain.” Mr. Creel refuted him com-
pletely on every point.
If all newspaper publishers were
patriotic and all newspaper writers
intelligent, there would be no need of
censorship. An intelligent writer
wouldn’t write and a patriotic publish-
er wouldn’t print information of the
movement of troops that would ena-
ble the enemy to anticipate purposes
and murder men on their way to duty.
But here and there is entrusted with
the preparation of news a viper, un-
der pay of the enemy or in sympathy
with him, who performs this sinister
service for the enemy, and a publish-
er bigoted enough to print it for the
reason that it helps a political organ-
ization as well the enemy. Lincoln
Colcord and the Philadelphia paper
in question are in this class.
When Colcord arose to renew his
attack upon the government he discov-
ered that his audience was not in sym-
pathy with his treasonable plans. Ac-
cording to the published report of the
proceedings “men and women arose
in all parts of the audience and heck-
led him, telling him to shut up. Sev-
eral yelled, ‘sit down,” we have heard
enough of you!” But he continued to
talk for a time until finally a “storm
of comment and questions” literally
forced him to his seat. It was the
proper response of a patriotic people
to a contemptible writer, though some
audiences would have regarded a coaé
of tar and feathers a more appropri-
ate remedy for so gross and provok-
ing an evil. ‘
——The thirteen willful Senators
who voted against the Overman bill
were able to help the Kaiser in a
small way for more than two months
but their work will be of little use in
the end.
|
‘ unteers is magnificent.
Conscription in Ireland.
Of course there will be conscrip-
: tion in Ireland, as there ought to be.
It is the only fair and just way of
raising an army and the British army
of which Irish troops are an import-
ant part, must be kept up to full
strength. An army made up of vol-
It embodies
the bravest and the best of the com-
munities from which it is drawn. But
it puts a premium on cowardice. It
gives encouragement to slackers. It
discriminates against patriotism and
manliness. Those who are afraid of
the hazard or averse to the hardships
and privations of army life stay at
home while the better element fights
the battles and bears the burdens of
the country.
But you can hardly blame the Irish
people for objecting to a conscription
imposed upon them by a British par-
liament. The people of England ob-
jected to conscription when it was
first proposed there but finally yield-
ed to the force of necessity. The peo-
ple of Canada protested most vehe-
mently against conscription, though
the matter was left to the determina-
tion of their own parliament. Reason
triumphed and the conscription was
ordered, but not until after several
riots had been suppressed and force
invoked. The people of the United
States, more amenable to reason than
those of any other country, offered the
least opposition to conscription, of
the allies who were not used to it.
Just before the war in Europe broke
out a conflict which had continued for
a hundred years was concluded by a
Parliamentary promise of immediate
Home Rule for Ireland. It provided
for an Irish parliament to determine
such questions as conscription, as the
Canadian parliament determined it for
that British colony. But because of
the war the execution of the Act was
postponed indefinitely to the great
disappointment of the people con-
cerned. Nevertheless Irishmen enlist-
ed freely and fought fearlessly. But
the promise of self-government,
“made to the ear and broken to the
hope,” is still unfulfilled. But Irish-
men must fight for freedom for the
world and conscription is the best
way to fill the ranks.
- ——The German proposition to ex-
change invalid Russian prisoners for
healthy and hearty German prisoners
held by Russia, is characteristic. The
Kaiser would steal candy from a blind
baby and imagine it was a smart
transaction.
Seven Honor Flags Thus Far for
Centre County.
As we go to press reports en the
Liberty loan drive in Centre county
are coming in so splendidly as
to warrant the belief that there
will be little doubt of our getting
over the top by tomorrow, We
have almost reached the $600,000
mark now and the patriotic people of
the country districts have caught the
idea of the splendid investment oppor-
tunity that this offering of govern-
ment bonds presents.
It is something to be proud of, but
it is going to be more. The last day
will surely bring a scramble of buy-
ers for the bonds.
Honor flags have been won by the
following communities:
State College Millheim
oward Bellefonte
Snow Shoe Milesburg
Fleming
All honor to the people of these com-
munities. All honor to others that
will strive to win the coveted emblem
today and tomorrow.
—Housecleaning is now the order
of the day in most households in Belle-
fonte, and next week is the time set
by Governor Brumbaugh for a general
clean-up week everywhere. This
should be done not only by people liv-
ing in the towns and villages but by
those living in the country as well.
—Centre county is nearly if not al-
together over the top in the third Lib-
erty loan drive. Won’t you help make
it a certainty by giving her a good
push today through the purchase of a
bond. Boost her so hard that there
will be no question as to whether she
is over or not.
——We would like to sympathize
with the German people because of
the deception that is being practiced
on them and the bereavements that
follow. But what’s the use. Bone-
heads who can be fooled as they are
wouldn’t appreciate sympathy or even
understand it.
The German death list multi-
plies fearfully but it never includes
any member of the Hohenzollern fam-
ily.
——There will be grouches as long
as life lasts but their influence dimin-
ishes as intelligence expands.
— Money invested in Liberty
bonds not only talks but it actually
strikes the Kaiser.
—The April showers we have had,
so we may look for the May flowers.
| HEROES ALL OF THEM.
Another Bellefonte Boy Writes of His
Work in France.
The following very interesting let-
! ter was received by Mrs. W. Henry
| Taylor, of this place, from her son, J.
i Reynolds Taylor, who is serving in
i France as a member of the 26th en-
gineers.
Somewhere in France,
Sunday, March 10.
Dear Mother:
I received two letters from you, one
on Tuesday and one on Saturday. It
is good to know that you are all well
and getting along nicely.
I never felt better in my life than
I have since I camé to France. Plen-
ty to eat and not a thing to -worry
about, since I know you are all well.
I will try to tell you a little about
the country we are in. Several days
ago we broke camp and moved here;
it is a long way from where we were.
The weather is fine, just like June at
home. We are quartered in French
barracks and are very comfortable.
A short distance from our camp
there is an old castle, which at one
time was a very beautiful place. The
castle is built of stone and cement;
also the walls which surround the
large court. All through the grounds
and gardens are countless numbers of
evergreen trees and in the centre a
large fountain surrounded by a lake.
There are many walks and driveways
through the grounds, outlined with
rocks covered with moss. No doubt
Kings and great men of the eastern
world have sat on the very spot I now
am. I am in a little rest house at one
corner of the lake. It is all built of
stone, even the benches and a table
have been hewn from the rocks by
men, ages ago. The entire nook is
covered with evergreen vines. Your
love of nature would make this very
interesting to you if you could cxly
see it. The shrubbery, trees and flow-
ers are very different from ours; some
very beautiful and curious to we
Americans.
Sometime ago I passed by a city
which was entirely surrounded by a
stone wall that man could never scale.
There are four large iron gates, one
at each corner of the wall. This is
the oldest city in France. I cannot
tell you the name of it. fo Te
I found out yesterday where Har-
old is, only twenty miles from here.
I will see him soon. :
Well now, mother, I must bring this
letter to a close. I hear the old
chimes on the cathedral in a town
close by, and I want to be in the mess
line at camp for dinner. We are off
this afternoon so I am going to take
a walk over the country. I will tell
you later what I see in my stroll.
I must tell you of something that
amused us very much. For several
days we had been hearing a French
woman blowing a horn, then go out
the road from town. We could not
imagine why she did this. Well, when
we came in from work yesterday noon
we had solved the problem:
Several of the old women gather
up all the cows, pigs and sheep and
take them out to pasture. The wom-
an with the horn gives notice that the
herds are coming.
Another day we were working out
in the country when suddenly an old
woman came running to us and mo-
tioned for us to follow. She seemed
so anxious for us to hurry to the res-
cue that knowing not just what we
were to meet, we followed cautiously
and quietly. Just over the hill we
found her old cow upside down in a
watering trough. We helped her out;
and now we are all heroes, we saved
the cow.
Hoping the censor will pass this
long letter, and with best love to all.
Sincerely,
J. RT.
Right from the Front Line Trenches.
The following letter was received
this week by Mr. and Mrs. Jacob P.
Smith from their son, Clarence Smith,
of Ambulance company No. 2, who
has had his baptism of fire in the
front line trenches in France:
March 31, 1918.
My Dear Parents:
I have just returned from the front
and judging from what I saw there,
there must be a real war going on.
It is a wonderful experience. We had
to carry the wounded en stretchers
through the trenches, or out in “No
Man’s Land.” :
One can never forget the noise the
shells make as they come over in the
air. The boys have named the noise
the “Graveyard Rag.”
However, we all came through in
good shape with a good record. Some
of the boys had to wear their gas
masks for four or five hours at a time.
We slept in a dugout at night, because
they are usually protected against gas
and shellfire. But they are not proof
against rats and lice. I received a
letter the other day from Frank. He
is over here now and getting along
all right. I wrote to him a few days
ago.
As I have gone about the limit now
will have to stop, with love to all.
CLARENCE SMITH.
.| school
'ceipt called for ten.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Trinity M. E. church, of Philipsburg,
will celebrate its centennial May 12th.
—The local Odd Fellows of Philipsburg
celebrated the ninety-ninth anniversary of
the founding of the Order at their lodge
room Thursday evening. Guests were also
in attendance.
—Forest fires, driven by high winds,
endangered life and property and caused
damage of thousands of dollars west of
Derry and around Hilside, Westmoredand
county, on Sunday.
—Thieves entered the Punxsutawney
Talking Machine shop at an early hour
Saturday morning, opened the safe and
pried off the door and secured $22 in cash
and a $50 Liberty bond.
—The glass manufacturing plant of the
Barney-Bond company, located at Smeth-
port, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday
with a loss estimated at $100,000. The
plant was one of the principal industries
of Smethport.
—Edward Bohenski, an 11-year-old lad
from Dent’s Run, Elk county, while riding
on a freight train near his home, fell un-
der the wheels and had his leg severed
above the knee. He is in a serious condi-
tion at the DuBois hospital.
—The four-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Wool, of Sagamore, Arm-
strong county is dead and her parents and
an infant daughter are in a critical con-
dition at the Punxsutawney hospital, as
the result of a gas explosion in the bed-
room where the four were sleeping.
—Eight persons narrowly escaped se-
rious injury or death Sunday evening
when a big touring car, driven by Russell
Timblin, of Big Run, Jefferson county,
turned completely over, pinning the occu-
pants under. One woman was severely
squeezed across the hips and is still una-
ble to move her limbs.
—The gas explosion at Sagamore, Arm-
strong county, which cost the life of little
Evelyn Wool, aged four years, claimed
two more victims on Sunday, when her
parents, Mr. and Mrs .Morris Wool, died,
leaving as the only survivor of the family
the 18-months old daughter, who is in a
serious condition as the result of her
burns.
—Robbers broke into a shanty tenanted
by Max Johnson, employed at the Haw-
stone refractories, at Hawstone, Hunting-
don county, on Sunday night and carried
away $90. The money had been saved with
a view of buying a Liberty bond and
Johnson says it was some one who was
familiar with the cache of his coin as
nothing else was disturbed.
—Entering a plea of guilty to violation
of the administration’s flour order, Michael
Smith and Michael Thomas, two Perryop-
olis merchants, set their own punishment
at a hearing last Friday. They will re-
frain from the sale of flour for thirty
days, buy $100 worth of Liberty bonds and
donate $100 each to the Red Cross. Igno-
rance was given as an alibi.
—The draft in Pennsylvania to date has
cost $852,147.92 according to figures made
public on Monday by Major William G.
Murdock, disbursing officer for Pennsyl-
vania and who is in charge of the draft
bureau. The total includes the pay of
members of the various local and district
boards, clerks, physicians, cost of sup-
plies and incidental supplies.
—Mrs. Bessie Kaufmann Yarris, of
Uniontown, was drowned and Harry C.
Shoop, of Thompson, near Uniontown, was
injured seriously when the automobile in
which. they were riding plunged through
the railing of a concrete bridge, one mile
north of Uniontown, early Sunday morn-
ing and landed in a creek. The man and
woman were pinned beneath it.
—Because he is alleged to have pulled a
Liberty bond button off a friend's coat
and insulted the American flag, Stanley
Levetskie, an Austrian, was mobbed and
ducked in the Susquehanna river at Nor-
thumberland on Sunday by a crowd of
angry citizens. State policemen rescued
him and rushed him to the Sunbury jail,
where he is held pending the action of the
Federal authorities.
—Literally dug out from his cave under
a barn in an isolated section near Ingo-
mer, Allegheny county, where he had pre-
visioned and secluded himself for more
than four months to escape the draft, John
Milco, aged 25 years, who says he is Amer-
ican born, was started on his way to Camp
Lee, last Wednesday. Milco said that dur-
ing the four months of his seclusion he
left the barn only twice for food.
—William Young, the white man strick-
en with smallpox at Woodland several
weeks ago, is now fully recovered and was
released from quarantine Friday. All the
suspects have also been released. There
is now but one case in the town, a color-
ed man, who will be released the begin-
ning of the week. Out of a total of sev-
en cases developed, there were no deaths.
It is thought the disease has been pretty
thoroughly stamped out.
—Provigions are being made at the State
Treasury at Harrisburg for the distribu-
tion of $532,000 to the thousand High
schools of the State under action recently
.taken by the State Board of Education.
The money will be to assist High schools
as the State allowance under the common
appropriation is not enough.
Schools will receive the money according
to three grades: First, $800; second, $600
and third, $400. Bellefonte High school
will profit according to its class.
—Harry S. Meyer, former vice-mayor of
Williamsport, who but recently returned
from an extended trip to New York city,
was arrested upon information made be-
fore Alderman A. H. Stead, of Williams-
port, on Monday, on charges of carrying
concealed and deadly weapons, threats
and making threats upon various persons
within the past two years. Meyer was
given a preliminary hearing at three
o'clock and was shortly afterwards com-
mitted to the county jail in default of
$500 bail. ’
—Charged with the theft of $487 frem
the Adams Express company, David Rich-
ards, of Altoona, has been held for court
by alderman Will J. Lamberd. The mon-
ey had been sent by express from Phila-
delphia, to the Priscilla Coal company,
South Fork, during the holiday season,
when Richards was running on the Altoo-
na-Pittsburgh division as a messenger.
Ten packages were to be given the Johns-
town agent, but, according to the accuesd
man’s confession, only nine were placed
in the hands of the agent, while the re-
The missing pack-
age contained the money. Special Agent
N. H. Gans suspected Richards and not
the Johnstown man and worked upon the
case until he had convinced himself of the
Altoona man’s guilt, following which the
confession was written, read by Richards,
and signed by him. An embezzlement
charge was made. The defendant was un-
able to secure $600 bail and was taken to
Jail.
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