BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
— Practically all of the oats and
most of the corn planting in Centre
county will be completed by tomor-
TOW.
—You can buy twenty-five pounds
of sugar at a clip if you can can dur-
ing the summer, but if you can’t can
you can’t.
Every time the water of Spring
and Fishing creeks gets muddy the
dispositions of a lot of fellows around
Bellefonte become noticeably riled.
—How many of the boys who are
going out to see the inter-Ward cham-
pionship baseball games remember
the time when seven balls took a base.
— Whenever we see a fellow wear-
ing a white collar without a necktie
we are impressed with the thought
that he is timidly pushing his way
into the light of civilization.
—_Over half a million men in France
and only one transport put down by
Hun subs. Where is that man Roose-
velt who was so blatant about the in-
efficiency of Uncle Sam’s navy?
—We hope that the report that Hin-
denburg is dead is without foundation.
He, of all men, ought to be spared for
the damned good lickin’ that he has
been courting the past four years and
that he is surely going to get.
— Remember that the Hon. John
Noll is a candidate for nomination for
the Legislature on the Democratic
ticket. He is the only one, but be-
cause he happens to be the only one
don’t fail to vote for him, for the
«Watchman” has uncovered a well
organized movement to place a Re-
publican on our ticket by stickers. It
is a cleverly conceived scheme, secret-
ly organized and will be pulled off un-
less the Democrats arise and strike
those who would steal their ballot
from them.
—Pity the poor army mule. The
government is going to try the ex-
periment of devocalizing the critter
so that the sonorous bray can no
longer disturb the slumbers of sol-
diers or betray their whereabouts to
the enemy. They might be able to
deprive him of his Eeh Aw! but they
can’t take the kick out of his hind
legs without rendering him ‘useless
and with that accomplishment still
remaining there will be something of
natural picturesqueness of the poor
mule left at least.
—The first week in June has been
designated as the one during which
all persons who can should order or
house their winter's supply of coal.
The fuel administration is desirous of
having as much coal stored now, when
mining and shipping facilities are at
their best, as is possible, in order to
avert a recurrence of the shortage ex-
perienced ‘last winter. Prices during
the first week in June will be as low
as you can hope to find them, so the
person who is able to do so will be
wise in stocking up with coal at once.
—At the primaries next Tuesday
the Democratic voters of Centre coun-
ty owe it to Col. Hugh S. Taylor to
give him a fine vote for the Congres-
sional nomination in this District.
Not content with having four times
volunteered for service in a fighting
branch of the army he has given prac-
tically all of his time during the past
year to patriotic service at home and
abroad. Col. Taylor would make an
effective, an able Congressman, one
who would be heard from in Wash-
ington and everybody knows this Dis-
trict needs someone of his sort.
— The Hon. Deacon Harris, of
Bellefonte, Harrisburg and Mechanics-
burg, was in town on Saturday. We
didn’t see him roll a cigarette but he
looked wise enough to furnish a clue
that something must be on. There
was, for the Hon. Harry B. Scott, of
Philipsburg, arrived in town during
the afternoon and there was a grand
parade to State College where a pow-
wow was held and everything fixed
up to insure the nomination of Mr.
Scott for the third time on the Repub-
lican ticket for Assembly. Who the
boss little fixer at the College is, these
days, we've been unable to worm out
of our leaky friends among the oppo-
sition, but from what we hear from
other sources at the College he isn’t
a boss fixer at all. He’s just a near-
fixer, for Harvey is said to be the
man with the real appeal to the three-
mile zone Republicans up there who
claim that Scott has always been a
Bolsheviki -on the temperance ques-
tion.
—If you want to see a worth-while
sight go to State College this week
and see the three hundred and more
little patriots from all parts of the
State who are up there getting train-
ing for work on the farms of Penn-
sylvania. The bewilderment of the
city boys at the first attempt to har-
ness a horse, milk a cow and handle
machinery is amusing to say the least,
but the result of their two weeks’
practice, coupled with the military
discipline they are under, is astonish-
ing. It suggests the thought that
some such recreative training for the
lads of our: country. would prove a
blessing were it continued even after
the necessity which has called it into
practice no longer exists. While it
was a present emergency that called
the Public Safety committee of Penn-
sylvania into activity so much of its
work has been permanently construc-
tive that we are inclined to believe
that Gevernor Brumbaugh can some
day look back upon his whole-hearted
support of the committee as the act
of his administration that did most to
bring about his desire to have Penn-
sylvania “a sweeter place to live in.”
YOL. 65
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE,
PA.. MAY 17,
1918.
NO. 20.
Misusing the President's Name.
Mitchell Palmer, Vance McCormick |
and Joe Guffey are still using the
name of President Wilson as their
principal political asset. In Philadel- |
phia, the other day, Mr.
threatened to use the executive pow-
er of the government against busi-
ness men unless they followed lines
laid by him in politics. In Harris-
burg, a day or two later, Vance Mec-
Cormick inferentially stated that
President Wilson is behind the candi-
dacy of Mr. Guffey. Mr. Palmer has
been industriously circulating similar
statements in letters and interviews
and being in the enjoyment of a very
lucrative office under the favor of the
President such statements appeal
strongly to the credulous.
Four years ago similar tactics in-
dustriously worked kept available
candidates out of the contest and re-
sulted in the nomination of a candi-
date who never had the confidence of
or was in sympathy with the rank and
file of the Democratic party. Mr.
McCormick has been the owner of
what assumes to be a Democratic
newspaper for sixteen years but which
has never, in all that time, supported
a Democratic ticket and has been the
instrument of defeating several ca-
pable and fit Democratic candidates
for responsible local offices. Except
for his opposition to such a candidate
Harrisburg would now have a Demo-
cratic Mayor and an important force
in the councils of that city. But he
will permit no man, unless he is ab-
solutely servile, to hold office there.
Of course we have nothing to do
with the local affairs of Harrisburg,
except in so far as they concern the
interests of the Democratic party gen-
erally. But we are concerned in the
misuse of the name of the Democrat-
ic President of the United States and
we have the best authority for stating
that President Wilson has not ex-
pressed a preference between the can-
didates for the Democratic nomina-
tion for Governor this year or at any
other time. He believes in true De-
mocracy which favors a full and free
expression of the voter in the selec-
tion of candidates for the party and
‘detests bossism as an evil. If he
knew of the use that is being made
of his name there would be an exodus
in Washington. poral SR
— Next Tuesday will be primary
day in Centre county. The Republi-
cans have hot contests on for both
congressional and legislative nomi-
nees, but we should worry! It is all
water on our mill and when Novem-
ber comes round the voters will send
a Democratic Congressman from this
District and a Democratic Legislator
to Harrisburg.
Electoral Fraud Twice Defeated.
For the second time since the open-
ing of the pending primary campaign
the Dauphin county court has defeat-
ed a corrupt scheme of the Vare fac-
tion of the Republican party to cheat
the voters. A man named Woodward,
of Allegheny county, had announced
himself as a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for Secretary of In-
ternal Affairs. Fake petitions 'of
another man of the same name living
in Schuylkill county were presented
at the State Department with the ex-
pectation that some friends of the
real candidate would vote for the spu-
rious candidate and thus help make
a plurality for the Vare candidate.
The court promptly and properly
threw out the fake candidate.
In Philadelphia the reputable ele-
ment of the Republican party peti-
tioned the State Department at Har-
risburg to put on the ballot the name
of a man named Woodward for State
Senator in one of the districts in the
city against the Vare candidate.
Thereupon the Vares induced another
man of the same name to allow his
name to be used as a cand'date for
the office. The bogus candidate being
an obscure person it was expected
that many votes would be cast for him
by persons who intended to vote for
the other, thus benefitting the Vare
candidate. But the trick failed.
Judge McCarrell threw out the bogus
Philadelphia Woodward as Jndge
Kunkel had disposed of the bogus
Schuylkill county Woodward.
And these scurvy attempts at elec-
toral fraud and deception had the ap-
proval and support of the Governor
and the Attorney General of the Com-
monwealth. If the agents of the con-
spirators had been less stupid they
might have been successful. They
failed only because sufficient signers
to the petitions had not been obtain-
ed. The Vares were highly indignant
and severely censured the officers of
the Commonwealth because they were
not passed, notwithstanding the de-
ficiency, and if Denny is nominated
for Governor and elected they will
probably be punished. But that is
not likely to result. The voters of
Pennsylvania will hardly ratify such
iniquity in this year of grace.
— Half a million well equipped
men in France within a year would
seem to be a considerable achievement
to most observers but Roosevelt
thinks it means nothing.
Prostituting the Courts.
In the history of Pennsylvania no
high public functionary has been as
sharply and justly rebuked for mal-
feasance as was Governor Brumbaugh
Guffey | the other day, when the Supreme
| court adjourned indefinitely, because
of his failure to fulfill a public obli-
gation. There are two vacancies on
the bench, one of which has existed
for several months and the other for
a few weeks. The work of the court
taxes the energy, mental and physical,
of a full bench. But because Brum-
baugh wants to use these commissions
as currency in the purchase of votes
for his personally picked candidate
for Governor, it is said, the court is
allowed to limp along as a cripple and
the interests of the State to suffer.
In nearly every county in the State
appointments to these vacancies have
been held out before lawyers, fit and
unfit, as an inducement to join the
Governor's faction and support the
Governor's candidates. Every right
minded lawyer has a laudable ambi-
tion to become a judge and the dis-
tinction of sitting on the bench of the
Supreme court is an almost irresisti-
ble enticement. And the Governor
has been working it to the limit. That
he is insincere in his proffers is ob-
vious. He cannot gratify more than
two lawyers by the bestowal of com-
missions to fill vacancies, yet accord-
ing to current gossip he has offersd
them to ten times that number for
and in consideration of help at the
polls.
Possibly it isn’t entirely the Gov- |
ernor’s fault that these alluring fa-
vors are yet available for use in buy-
ing votes. It has been said that most
of the lawyers of Pennsylvania fit for
the office of Justice of the Supreme
court regard the favor of Brumbaugh
as an altogether crushing political li-
ability and refuse to accept the ap-
pointment because it would subject
them to popular execration and polit-
ical oblivion. This is the charitable
side of the question for it seems im-
possible that any man could be base
enought to prostitute the courts to the
purposes of party chicane. In any
event, however, the situation is lam-
entable but probably a just punish-
ment of the people for electing Brum-
baugh. re
etna tn = 5¢
— President ‘Wilson was ‘deceived
in Gutzon Borglum. Later he will
probably discover that he has mis-
placed confidence in other intimates
who will betray him whenever person-
al interests are promoted by such
perfidy.
Prospects “After the War.”
‘Mr. John Wanamaker, of Philadel-
phia, performed a useful public serv-
ice the other day when in a letter to
the Board of Trade at Carlisle he en-
deavored to expel some of the gloom
which certain persons are trying to
spread over the country with respect
to industrial and commercial condi-
tions “after the war.” For some in-
explicable reason these pessimists
have been predicting all sorts of bus-
iness calamities after the war. Some
of them apprehended that the whole
world will make a dumping ground of
the United States and flood the coun-
try with products of every descrip-
tion at prices so low that the produc-
tion will be ruinous. Low prices
would be a welcome novelty to most
of us.
Mr. Wanamaker whose long exper-
ience in business invests his opinions
with high value sees in the future a
directly opposite state of affairs. He
believes that the end of the war will
usher in an unparalleled era of pros-
perity. The country will have been
schooled in principles of economy and
learned habits of thrift. Besides that
our industrial and commercial life
will be strengthened by a vastly in-
creased merchant marine, by the es-
tablishment and successful operation
of new lines of production in dyes and
chemicals and in various other ways
our industrial and commercial vision
will be broadened as our operations
expand. It would be strange indeed
if these things forecast calamity.
When the war ends every nation in
the world with the exception of the
United States will be an industrial
cripple. Impoverished by the. burden
of debt and taxation Germany will be
a helpless national infant and Eng-
land, France and Italy will be in lit-
tle if any better shape. Their man
power will be at the point of exhaus-
tion and their money power in the
slough of despond. But the United
States will be scarcely touched by the
finger of disaster. Her generous soil
and teeming mines will be producing
in greater abundance than ever and
her immense physical capacity will be
in full vigor. There is nothing to ap-
prehend in the prospects “after the
war.”
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— We are a patient and leng-suf-
fering people but ome of these days
there will be a round-up of German
spies and a first class shooting match.
— Probably the girls cover their
ears in order to keep out the gossip
of the streets but possibly they have
some other reason.
German Folly in Flanders.
The German army continues to
hammer on the stone wall of British
and French troops on the Western
front but makes no progress. For
| more than six weeks this pounding
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Much Frequented by American Sol-
diers. Hungry Soldiers and a
Dramatic Incident.
April 15, 1918.
! has been in progress and though the | My Dear Miss—
{ German line of battle has been ad-
| vanced
made. When similar tactics were em-
ployed in an attempt to capture Ver-
dun it was believed that the high tide
‘of folly had been reached. But the
drive begun in March and renewed at
intervals since to seize important
' points of access tothe English chan-
‘nel has been more costly than the
| Verdun enterprise and no more ef-
‘fective. It justifies the belief that the
German leaders have lost their rea-
Son.
During the first week of the present
campaign the German losses have
been variously estimated at between
1 300,000 and half a million men. Since
'that as many more must have been
| sacrificed for the massed formation
"has been continued from the begin-
ning. Assuming the lesser figure to
{be the more accurate, therefore, the
fatalities in the German forces have
reached the enormous total of 600,000
men absolutely wasted in a foolish
ent rise. There are a good many
' more, no doubt, in the German army,
but such wanton waste will soon ex-
‘haust any country and unless the
public has been deceived in the popula-
tion of Germany that result must
come quickly there.
. When the drive began in March we
| predicted that unless success was im-
| mediate failure was certain. Such
‘military movements cannot long con-
‘tinue unless the force is inexhaustible
and overwhelming in numbers. The
advantages are all on the side of the
defenders. With half the force and
the security of carefully constructed
defences one man is equal to a dozen
advancing in the open. The Kaiser’s
movement was not immediately suc-
| cessful. It will never be successful
'and the longer it is continued the
greater the slaughter. The disap-
pointment and loss is_a just punish-
ment of the German nation for the
murders they have committed and
the troubles they have forced upon
the world. Gi, ;
Centre County Will be Closed to
| Pheasant Hunting.
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| On petition of a number of Centre
‘ county hunters the State Game Com-
‘mission will declare the county closed
ito pheasant hunting for a period of
two years in order to protect the game
and allow it to become more pleniful.
In this connection it might be stated
that the sportsmen of Centre county
were virtually compelled to petition
the Game Commission to declare a
two year closed season.
Quite a number of counties have
been closed for several years and the
result has been manifest every fall.
Centre county has been a dumping
ground for hunters from all parts of
the State, who came here and camped
on the ground for from two to three
weeks, killing all the game they could
get sight of. The “Watchman” has
repeatedly protested against the un-
fairness of sportsmen after securing
closed seasons in their home counties
coming to Centre county and hogging
the game here, but protests availed
not one iota.
This season practically every coun-
ty contiguous to Centre will be closed
and it was simply a matter of self-
preservation that impelled the local
sportsmen to petition the Game Com-
mission to close Centre county, also.
In addition it is well known that the
past two seasons pheasants were so
scarce as to afford little sport in the
way of hunting, and witha two years
closed season, and proper protection
from forest fires they should again
become abundant enough to afford
good sport.
—There is something about Gen-
eral Foch more perplexing than the
that problem a solution of the others
will come in time and in a way that
everybody will understand.
——King George of England cor-
rectly estimates the American soldier.
“The allies will gain new heart and
spirit in your company,” he told a
group of them the other day.
— A German Professor imagines
that he has discovered evidence that
Napoleon was of Teutonic extraction
and the poor man can’t resent the as-
persion.
bin ———
—Nicaraugua has declared war
against Germany and if the few oth-
_ers were not afraid a motion to make
it unanimous would carry.
—_* Under a recent ruling personal
checks will not be accepted at the
postoffice in payment of stamps or any
kind of postal supplies.
— Hearst and Roosevelt are twin
evils but it would be difficult to de-
termine which is the lesser.
—Don’t forget the primaries next
Tuesday.
pronunciation of his name but as to
some no vital gain has been | love the puzzles.
|
{shovel to get the mud out.
The boys at the hospital here will
They beam at any-
thing we take them—pansies, prim-
roses and English daisies which we
plant in tin cans, are the greatest joy
to them, and Marian gets lots of sweet
chocolate, cigarettes and magazines
from Harrisburg people and they are
fine for the boys who aren’t too sick.
We are going to plant flower bois
| each side of the hospital doors, (there
are four barracks), and also some on
the sunny side of the Y. M. C. A. and
the officers’ club and around our own
barracks. You ought to see our kitch-
en window sills, the sunny one about
it wider, has boxes of pansies and
pink English daisies in front and some
pots of lovely lavender and purple
French flowers behind them. The
boys just love the flowers and now
that the days are warm and the case-
ment windows open, we have a con-
tinual stream of visitors while we
cock and eat our meals. :
Two boys were there yesterday
talking to me and one told me his
company had arrived here about two
weeks ago. They had been for two
months near a little town where there
was no Y. M. C. A. and no place to go
but cafes. He was a nice boy, too,
and said that since they have been
here, and can come to the Y. every
night and be entertained and get
books to read, they never go to the
town except once a week for their
laundry. I tell you these boys can’t
say enough about what the Y. means
to them, and it is full every night and
fullest Sunday nights, when they sing
for half an hour, and it does your
heart good to hear them roar, then
they hear the best half-hour sermon
you could hear anywhere, and he gets
them every time. :
Bless his heart, he’s little, but he’s
as game a sport in every way as I
ever met. Why he gets up in the
morning early and helps sweep the Y,
and that includes using a hoe and
been taking French from a lieutenant
stationed near here and before his bi-
ble class tomorrow night he’s ‘going
to give a French lesson to beginners.
I started this right after dinner and
it’s now eleven o’clock but I must tell
you what a thrilling afternoon we've
had. You know our dear Sixteenth,
which was here ever since we came,
left ten days ago for the front. It
nearly finished us to see them go.
Well today a captain and fifteen men
arrived to stay two days. Six of them
appeared at our sitting room door
(it was our Monday holiday) and the
poor lambs had had nothing to eat all
day, and it was half-past two. We
flew to our kitchen and I built the fire
while Marian pared potatoes and we
cooked them everything we had in the
house. Such hungry boys! They ate
all the potatoes we had, all of a ham
that had had only three slices cut off
of it, two large loaves of bread, two
quart buckets of jam and gallons of
coffee. 1 never enjoyed anything
more.
This evening Mr. Edwards, our hut
secretary, persuaded Capt. Lewis to
speak to the boys. The place was
packed and you could have heard a
pin drop while he told things 1 dare
not write, but that made you so nroud
the tears just flowed, and then told of
one night when he was billeted in a
house in a little town right on the
street, and heard different ‘troops
passing all night. Once the bagpipes
were playing but in the early morn-
ing he heard a beautiful male voice
singing a familiar American song and
he jumped up and looked out of the
window, feeling sure it was an Amer-
ican regiment, but they were English
Tommies. However, he dressed and
went out in the street and found the
singer was a Doctor Jones, from
Cleveland, Ohio, who was attached to
the English regiment. .
It was rather dramatic the way he
told it and then remarked, “I want
you all to join in that song,” and a
boy at the piano played the opening
bars of “Way Down Upon the Suanee
River.” Those boys sang it wonder-
fully but Marian and I had to retire.
BERTHA.
Another Bellefonte Boy Writes From
France.
Base Seventeen, France, April 26.
Dear Mother: —
At last T am settled in the place
that in all probability will be my home
for some months.
My trip from the States was not
without its thrills. We actually en-
gaged in battle with a supposed sub-
marine, but later we all concluded it
was something else, and this diver-
sion and the novelty of standing sub-
watch on the bridge, made the jour-
ney less monotonous than it etherwise
would have been. It was a wonderful
trip and the weather was delightful
throughout the entire journey. Our
(Continued om page 4, Col. 4).
{at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
| Dixonville, Indiana county, re
| bank, with a capital of $25,000
eight feet long with a board to make 5
He has
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYS
. —Five cows belonging to Kf
Bear Gap, were poisoned wit!
Mrs. Anna Gulich Heisey
ebrated her 102nd anniversary
H. Hall, near Clearfield, recently: a
At a meeting of the business »
was unanimously voted to. esta
there, the name to be the Di
—Paul Kuntz, son of G
Big. Run, died in the I
pital Wednesday as the res
received when he attempted
freight train at the latter place.
—A probable loss of $85,000 wi
by a fire Sunday night which des
B. Fluke & Son’s planing mill
ber yard in Altoona and three
near by. There was mo insurance
mill or lumber. Heed i
—The will of the late Stephen L.
trezat, associate justice of the Pennsy
nia Supreme court, was filed at Uniontows
on Monday. It disposes of an estate 3 als
ued at about $400,000, largely tor the he
named after the late justice were each give 5
en $100. fe i)
Mrs. James B. Wolfe, of Philadelphia
Bibles for American soldiers, has gone
with her husband on a tour of the south-
ern army cantonments to distribute more
testaments. At Chattanooga, a few days
ago, she found ome soldier who had never
before seen a testament.
—M. T. Emery, of Laurelton, pleaded
guilty of being the owner of a dog which
had chased a deer on April 30, and paid a
fine of $25.00 to Game Protector Charles
L. Braucher. Some weeks ago the owner
of the dog which had chased a deer in the
White Deer mountains was arrested and
paid a like fine to the game protector.
Mrs. Caroline Nerhood, widow of the
late Daniel Nerhood, of Beaver township,
Snyder county, met with a fatal accident
last Thursday when she was on her way
to attend the funeral of a relative. The
horse became unmanageable and started
to kick and Mrs. Nerhood jumped from
the buggy, alighting on her head. She
died that same evening.
—There is at least one plant in this
State which has not felt the scarcity of
labor. That plant is the Standard Steel
works at Burnham, Pa. In a letter to the
Federal State Labor Bureau at Altoona
they stated they need no labor whatever.
They maintain an employment bureau of
their own and it supplies all their needs.
They employ 5,000 men.
— Fifteen special inspectors have begun
inquiries into the methods of the local
draft boards operating in Pennsylvania
under the selective service law and will
spend probably two weeks investigating
the systems adopted, the results obtained
and the conditions now prevailing in each
of the 282 districts. The inspectors are all
men experienced in draft affairs.
—FEdmund W. Mudge & Co. of Pitts-.
burgh, basic and Bessemer pig iron merch-
ants, who own and operate Claire Fur-
nade company, Sharpsville, Pa. and the
Ella Furnace company, West Middlesex,
Pa., have closed contracts for a modern
merchant blast furnace with a daily ca-
pacity of 600 tons, to be located at Wier-
ton, W. Va. Contracts call for the com-
pletion of the furnace shortly after the
first of next year. :
Caught between two cars being placed
in the shops in the Marysville yards of
the Pennsylvania Railroad on Monday
Paul R. Kister, of Wormleysburg, a brake-
man, was crushed so badly that he died
just as he arrived at the Harrisburg hos-
pital. Kister was widely known in Har-
risburg as a baseball player, having been
a member of the Airncliffe and other ama-
teur and semi-professional nines. He was
one of the stars of the old Wormleysburg
team several years ago.
—Severely reprimanding him for selling
liquor to coal miners, thereby decreasing
their efficiency in time of need for 100 per
cent. coal production, Judge W. H. 8.
Thompson, in the United States District
court at Pittsburgh on Monday, sentenced
Joseph Bearman, alias George Marks, of
Hill, Washington county, to six months
in the county jail on a charge of selling
liquor without a license. Bearman, when
arrested last March was preparing for a
trip to the mines with a wagon filled with
liquor hidden under potatoes. He plead-
ed guilty.
—The Quertinmont glass factory at
Fairchance, Fayette county, employing
162 men on the night shift, was. almost to-
tally destroyed by fire at 5 a. m. Tuesday.
The employees had a narrow escape when
the roof collapsed, fell on a tank, break-
ing it open and releasing tons of molten
glass. The loss is estimated at between
$80,000 and $100,000. The company has a
government contract for furnishing win-
dow glass for ammunition factories now
in course of erection, and was working
double turn. All the buildings were of
frame construction. The company is own-
ed by A. J. Quertinmont and A. S. Maple,
of Point Marion. :
— Discovery that Miss Laura Ager, a
nurse in the Miners’ Home hospital, at
Spangler, had smallpox, was followed by
the immediate quarantining of the insti-
tution, under orders of County Medical
Inspector, Dr. W. E. Matthews. Miss Ager,
who is 20 years old and who is a member
of this year’s graduating class, attended
a smallpox patient, a Miss Caldwell, some
time ago and had returned to the institu-
tion. She has & very mild attack of the
disease and the possibilities are that the
hospital will be released from quarantine.
soon. The state law requires 18 days,
however. It is understood that a project
of erecting a temporary isolation hospital
in the north of the county is being dis-
cussed. :
—Surprised as they were rifling the
coats of a number of railroad employees
in the shop of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Railroad, at Aliquippa, Saturday night.
two thieves shot and probably fatally
wounded Mike Rodorich, an employee;
boarded a light engine, and after riding a
couple of hundred yards, jumped oft, leav-
ing the engine running wild to crash into
another stationary railroad engine a half
mile away. Both engines were badly dam-
aged. The thieves escaped. Rodonich is
in the Providence hospital with bullet
wounds in’ his neck and right shoulder.
The shooting attracted railroad employees,
who, hurrying to the shanty found Rodon-
jeh unconscious. Seeing the engine being
driven out of the yard they opened fire on
he thieves. The men jumped from the en-
gine, leaving the throttle open. The em-
gine ran about a half mile further and
crashed into another lecomotive, statiom-
ary on the track. Seven men lost money
from their clothes, the total being about
$180.
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