Deora iad
BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
remem ere
—Anyway, the trout hereabouts
had a quiet and uneventful Memorial
day. The water is still muddy.
—Much of the corn fields of the
water sheds of Spring creek.and Lo-
gan’s Branch have floated past the
“Watchman” office during the week.
—Politics was certainly making
strange bed-fellows when it tucked
Davey Chambers into the berth of
chairman of the Prohibition party of
Centre county.
—“We done noble” in the Red
Cross drive. Now let us forget to re-
tie our purse strings and tell Uncle
Sam and his assistants to come on
with the next and the next.
— Think of it! Tomorrow will be
the first day of June and only 208 days
until Christmas. Before we know it
we will be harping over that old ad-
monition: Do your Holiday shopping
early.
—The success of the Red Cross
drive shows that we are learning how
to give in Centre county. Let us keep
at it until every last individual thor-
oughly understands the obligation of
citizenship.
—1If Uncle Sam were to bring over
here the first two hundred Huns our
boys captured in France, put them all
in cages and start them over the coun-
try under a capable menagerie man-
ager we'll bet he’d raise enough mon-
ey on admissions to equip many divis-
ions in the army. .
—A Mitchell Palmer obtruded his
arrogant, dictatorial demands that
this and that should be done by the
Democrats of his own district, but the
fact that not a county in it voted the
way he ordered it to makes it look as
though Mr. Palmer is at the end of
his string at home as well as abroad.
—Myr. Palmer fought Congressman
Dewalt for renomination and Con-
gressman Dewalt was renominated.
Mr. Palmer fought Congressman
Steele for renomination and Congress-
man Steele was renominated. Mr.
Palmer fought Eugene C. Bonniwell
for nomination and Mr. Bonniwell was
nominated.
—There is indisputable evidence
that the brewers are doing their best
to make the country safe for Prohibi-
tion. The beer they are brewing now
contains so little alcohol that much of
it actually doesn’t keep while in tran-
sit from the brewery to the dispenser
and as the size of the glass is to be
reduced a half the consumer who
hopes to get any “kick” out of the
stuff will have to be a millionaire, for
he will have to drink a barrel at a
sitting before he can look for results.
—We den’t want to be disloyal but
we simply can’t obey the govern-
ment’s latest order to decapitate all
the old roosters. The “Watchman”
‘has several in its coop that are near-
ly half a century old. They have been
crowing for us on the occasion of
every Democratic success for so long
that they are trained to the exultance
of victory as well as to the silence of
defeat. The “Watchman” might as
well smash its press as slay the faith-
ful old birds that wait so patiently
with us for a chance to crow.
—Pity the poor Prohibition party
in Centre county! County Treasurer
David Chambers was elected its chair-
man at the primaries last week be-
cause he was the only person voted
for. He received only one vote for
the distinguished position, but that
was enough. He can now demand
possession of the archives of the or-
ganization and we await, with bated
breath and forebodings of awful rev-
elations, the time Davey goes digging
into the plans and specifications by
which the Prohibs succeeded in put-
ting Ives Harvey on the Republican
ticket when Davey thought he had it
all set up for Scott.
—Cable reports indicate that the
Huns are about to launch another
great offensive on the western front.
Military experts are of the opinion
that it will be more desperate than
any that have been made before, but,
happily, the same experts credit the
Allies with being in greater strength
and better position to withstand it
than they have been when meeting
the former drives. It is generally be-
lieved that this will be the last great
German effort and if it is spent with-
out gaining material advantage will
mark the reversal of the tide of war
by forcing our enemies into a defen-
sive position while we take that of
the offensive.
—It is interesting to note that the
recent primary vete of the Democrats
in Centre county left something of un-
certainty as to their real intentions.
While the slated candidates for Gov-
ernor and Secretary of Internal Af-
fairs received substantial majorities
J. Washington Logue, the organiza-
tion’s candidate for Lieutenant Gov-
ernor, was beaten by Howard O. Hol-
stein by nearly two hundred votes.
Just why this should have been we
are unable to account for unless it
ical advantage Mr. Holstein had over
Mr. Logue because of which his name
appeared first on the ballot. This ex-
planation might appear conclusive to
some, but not to us, for the voters
showed that alphabetical placement
on the ballot didn’t work to the ad-
vantage of the first letter candidates
for Congressmen-at-Large where
every one of the slated nominees re-
ceived a majority of the votes; not-
' withstanding that two of them were
the last names to appear on the ballot.
might have been due to the alpghabet-
VOL. 63.
Judge Bonniwell for Governor.
The Democrats of Chester county
have set an example which those of all
other counties in the State ought to
follow promptly. On Tuesday even-
that county, at a largely attended
meeting, unanimously adopted a res-
olution declaring that “the Democra-
cy of Pennsylvania has nominated a
candidate for Governor whose loyal-
ty to Woodrow Wilson and the admin-
istration at Washington is known to
every citizen, whose aggressiveness
as a party leader and record of abso-
lute independence in politics as the
champion of clean government are
well established, and whose exception-
ally fine abilities as lawyer and jur-
ist, reinforced with a public service
record marked with the highest de-
gree of efficiency, without spot or
blemish, qualify him to fill the exalt-
ed office of Governor of the foremost
State in the Union and commend him
to the support of every citizen who
honestly believes in the redemption
of the political destiny of the Key-
stone State.”
Judge Bonniwell fully merits this
generous eulogium. Always a faith-
ful Democrat, his voice and time in-
variably at the service of the party,
he has been from the beginning of his
public career an uncompromising foe
of the party boss. After the Allen-
town convention of 1910, it was he
who organized the Keystone party
and gave it such force as to almost
carry William H. Berry into the office
of Governor of Pennsylvania. It was
mainly through his influence and by
his energy that the reform movement,
within the party, was begun in 1911,
and he continued the most potent lead-
er of that movement, until the selfish-
ness and sinister ambitions of others
in the work forced him, as they had
forced the only other unselfish lawyer
in the enterprise, Mr. Cullen, of Phil-
adelphia, to abandon it. But during
all this period of struggle he was al-
ways and ever ready to work for De-
mocracy. He spoke in nearly every
county in Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Delaware for Woodrow Wilson in
1912 and 1916. .
Judge Bonniwell was not influenced
by personal ambition or, selfish inter-
est to become a candidate for Gover-
nor this year. But he saw that the
great party to which the best ener-
gies of his life had been devoted was
being prostituted to the base uses of
the most atrocious political machine
ever organized in this or any other
State. He vainly appealed ‘to distin-
guished men of the party to assume
the burden. He implored old party
leaders in whom the public had faith
to take up the fight. But the menace
which the machine constantly held up
before the eyes of laudable ambition
deterred them. The misuse of the
President’s name as the supporter of
this machine held them back. Final-
ly Judge Bonniwell determined to un-
dertake the work himself and with-
out organization, without the helpful
efforts of committees in any part of
the State and entirely at his own ex-
pense he made the fight and brought
it to a glorious and triumphant con-
clusion.
When the odious Philadelphia ma-
chine imported alien gunmen to carry
a local contest by murderous methods
and the community stood appalled at
the atrocity Judge Bonniwell initiat-
ed and set in motion the movement
that promises the redemption of even
that modern Sodom from the vices
that made it an object of public exe-
cration. At his own expense and
without a thought of the consequences
to him personally he rented the great
auditorium of that city and invited
the people to come there and register
their protest. They came in vast
crowds and organized the Town Meet-
ing party which in alliance with the
Democrats carried the city by a con-
siderable majority. That they were
counted out was no fault of his. The
courts made it impossible to open the
ballot boxes and expose the frauds
and the machine candidates were com-
missioned on spurious returns. But
it was the last victory they will ever
score for Bonniwell will be elected
Governor and crooks will rush from
the State as rats desert a sinking ship.
——The normal annual birth rate
in Centre couiity is from 1100 to 1200.
Assuming that fifty per cent. are
males, and an allowance of ten per
cent. for deaths, it will mean that on
June 5th about 500 young men in Cen-
tre county who have attained their
majority since June 5th, 1917, will be
called upon to register for military
service under the selective service act
which has been so amended by Con-
gress and signed by the President. In
another column of this paper will be
found the official notice of the local
exemption board regarding the differ-
ent places in the county where these
young men can register. This duty,
while compulsory, should be deemed
one of patriotism as well. If you
don’t register the government will get
you in the end, so let there be no
slackers in Centre county.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
Den
STATE RIGHTS AND
BELLEFONTE, PA; MAY 31, 1918.
Party Bossism Must End.
Mr. A. Mitchell Palmer, member of
‘the Democratic National committee
| for Pennsylvania, ought to discern in
!the returns of the primary election a
ing the Woodrow Wilson League of | pressing invitation for him to resign for him.
‘his party office. He forced upon the
i Democratic electorate an objectiona-
‘ble candidate for Governor, he antag-
| onized the renomination of a-capable
I and faithful member of Congress in
{his own district for no other reason
! than that the Congressman refused to
| recognize his right to boss and he or-
i ganized an opposition to another able,
eloquent and efficient Democratic Con-
gressman, Arthur G. Dewalt, of the
Lehigh-Berks district, for precisely
the same insufficient reason. Both are
faithful supporters of the President.
Ever since Mr. Palmer assumed
the role of party boss six years ago
he has ruled with an iron rod. Four
years ago he arrogantly usurped the
right to make the platform of the par-
ty and committed it to policies repug-
nant to nine-tenths of the voters and
subversive of the party traditions of
a century. But supplied with a bar-
gain counter laden with political pa-
tronage he bought with the freedom
of a huckster and bribed with the
recklessness of a pirate. And in all
these nefarious and corrupt operations
name of President Wilson. He knows
that every Democrat in Pennsylvania
reveres the great man in the White
House. But he sets up a fictitious op-
position in order that he may trade
upon a friendship which he once was
accused of betraying.
The plain lesson of the primary is,
therefore, that Mr. Palmer must go.
The Democratic party will endure no
bosses and he is neither mentally nor
temperamentally fit for leadership. If
the late William A. Wallace or the
late Samuel J. Randall or the late Rob-
ert E. Pattison, real leaders of men as
they were, had atempted the tricks
which Palmer has tried to pull off,
they would have been crucified by an
outraged electorate. But this self-
appointed party autocrat struts for-
ward like a colossus and crushes all
opposition to his whims. No man can
mandates. | No party deserves to en-
dure that permits such a mastery.
—Mr. Guffey didn’t do so bad
after all. He must have got at least
ninety per cent. of the Federal office
holders in the State. -
Roosevelt's Special Pleading.
Mr. Roosevelt's reply to Postmaster
General Burleson presents a specimen
of special pleading which would be
discreditable to an ambulance-chasing
pettyfogger. On May 7th, in the
Kansas City Star, Colonel Rosevelt
accused the administration of “pun-
ishing. newspapers that upheld the
conduct of it and, on the other hand,
protected powerful ‘anti-ally’ papers
that were friendly to the administra-
tion.” The Postmaster General de-
nied these accusations and challenged
Roosevelt to give the names of the
papers. In response to this challenge
Roosevelt has presented to the Senate
a long, rambling and more or less in-
coherent statement blaming the Pres-
ident.
Careful analysis of Mr. Roosevelt's
incoherent screed, however, reveals
the fact that he predecates his com-
plaint against the Postoffice Depart-
ment on a difference in the treatment
of Tom Watson’s paper and the pub-
lications of Mr. Hearst. Watson, who
has been afflicted with a mania for
opposing the government for years,
vehemently denounced every move-
ment of the administration in prepa-
ration for war, urged resistance to
the draft and boastfully paraded his
‘disloyalty. No doubt he is crazy,
and certainly his paper had little or
no influence. But under the law it
was excluded from the mail privileges
extended to reputable publications.
Some of Hearst’s publications criti-
cised the administration and question-
ed the efficiency of some of our allies.
But they stopped short of sedition
and were not interfered with.
Mr Roosevelt also complains be-
cause the Metropolitan Magazine for
March last was held by the postmas-
ter of New York, on complaint. After
investigation the embargo was lifted
and the issue dispatched in the mails.
He is likewise outraged because Mr.
George Creel, who holds some sort of
a job, criticised Collier's Weekly and
the New York Tribune. These publi-
cations support the war, he declares,
and therefore ought to be immune
from criticism. But their support of
the war is of that sinister type which
characterizes Roosevelt’s loyalty to
the government. They give all the
aid and information to the enemy
that they can gather and pretend they
are doing it for the good of the coun-
try they are betraying.
Vance McCormick would be a
fine political leader if the franchise
were limited to those he has had ap-
pointed to office. !
he has sheltered himself under the’
survive his enmity and the price of
his .favor. is servile. obedience to« his
war but criticised the administration’s:
FEDERAL UNION.
ee ESS
| Penrose’s Hard Task.
| Senator Penrose was a busy man
during the primary campaign but his
real work is just beginning. Thus
far conditions have been propitious
It is within the limits of
{reason to say that his candidate for
| Governor would have been successful
{against the rival aspirant in any cir-
| cumstances. But he was helped at
‘every turn. The alliance between
O’Neil and Scott was the first favor-
able development. It revealed hypoc-
risy and insincerity in disgusting pro-
portions. Then Brumbaugh’s affilia-
tion with the unholy outfit gave the
Penrose candidate another boost.
Even the most hardened political rep-
robates were compelled to hold their
‘noses against the stench of such a
combination.
But from this time on conditions
will break differently. Penrose is up
against the hardest problem of his
life. He has his candidate in the per-
son of Senator Sproul and a full tick-
et in sympathy with his desire to
“own a Governor.” But there are so
many conflicting elements to be rec-
onciled that the task seems hopeless.
Four years ago he fooled the liquor
interests into the belief that Brum-
baugh would serve them while Brum-
baugh corralled the temperance
‘vote under the shelter of his
Dunkard pulpit. Now the liquor
men will refuse to take his word
with respect to Sproul’s inten-
tions and the “dry” element is
equally incredulous. Those who vot-
ed for O’Neil are not likely to put
much faith in Sproul’s promise to fa-
vor prohibition, constitutional or oth-
erwise. a
It is up to Penrose to bring these
conflicting interests into harmony. If
he fails his ambition to “own a Gov-
ernor” will dissolve as Quay’s hope
disappeared with the defeat of Dela-
mater some years ago. He has his
candidate all right, and if he can gas-
bomb the public into insensibility, he
lic is not so easily hood-winked as it
was in Quay’s time. The public
schools of Pennsylvania have been do-
ing a vast work within the last quar-
teriof a century and the spread of in-
dependence makes political camouflag-
ing practically impossible. . These are
the difficulties that confront Senator
Penrose. Can he overcome them?
—Last week many farmers were
complaining that the ground was too
hard and dry to finish belated plow-
ing. Then came the deluges that solv-
ed the problem by washing much of
the ground entirely away.
President Surprises Congress.
The President gave Congress a sur-
prise on Monday by appearing to ask
for legislation that politicians hoped
to postpone. It has been known for
some time that additional revenues
are necesseary to meet the require-
ments of this year. But the Con-
gressional leaders would have post-
poned action until after the election.
There was a double reason for delay,
they imagined. First it would keep
them away from home with political
fences out of repair and secondly ad-
ditional taxation might alarm capital
and divert support from such as are
striving for re-election. But these
considerations did not appeal to the
| President. He believes in performing
duty whatever the consequences.
Thus influenced President Wilson
appeared before Congress in joint ses-
sion on Monday and stated the case
as it appears to him. He said addi-
tional revenues must be provided and
to raise too great a proportion by
loans is unwise. If the money were
not needed until next year the legis-
lation might be delayed. But it is a
present need and in order that the
people may know in advance what
they must pay and how they must pay
it, the new legislation is equally a
present need. Besides, the President
declares, “the present tax laws are
marred by inequities which ought to
be remedied.” The burdens of gov-
ernment, multiplied by war, are not
fairly distributed among the people.
Every drive for funds for the var-
ious essentials of war adds to the bur-
dens of those least able to pay. Ad-
mitting that the wealthy have given
generously to the several loans and
funds they have not given in the ra-
tio that men of smaller means have
responded. Even Mr. Stotesbury, of
Philadelphia, makes this accusation
against his class. No man of large
means has mortgaged his wages as
the mechanics and laborers of the
country have done and the President
proposes such legislation as will to
some extent at least overcome this in-
equality. He proposes to make great
incomes and excessive profits do a
fairer share of carrying the burdens
and in that he is right.
Roosevelt and Taft have “made
up,” but whenever they are drawn to-
gether Taft will put on a coat of mail
if he is wise. The Rough Rider car-
ries a razor.
might get his Governor. But the pub-
telligence and the development. of in-|
NO. 22.
' Have You Come of Age Since June
5th, 1917.
Young men of Centre county who
have attained their majority since
June 5th, 1917, and those who will be-
come of age on or before next Wed-
nesday, June 5th, are called upon by
the President of the United States to
present themselves for registration
under the selective conscription act
of Congress by the local board for
registration in their respective dis-
tricts.
This order is mandatory and failure
to comply with it will subject the
slacker to the punishment provided by
law, which is very severe.
Any person who, on account of
sickness, will be unable to present
himself for registration may apply on
or before the day of registration at
the office of any local board for in-
structions as to how he may register
by agent.
Any person who expects to be ab-
sent on the day designated for regis-
tration from the jurisdiction of the
board in which he permanently re-
sides may register by mail, but his
registration card must reach the lo-
cal board having jurisdiction of the
area wherein he permanently resides
by the day herein named for registra-
tion. Any such person should apply
as soon as practicable at the office of
a local board for instructions as to
how he may register by mail.
Any person who has no permanent
residence must register at the place
designated for registration by the lo-
cal board having jurisdiction of the
area wherein he may be on the day
herein named for registration.
Any person who, on account of ab-
sence at sea, or on account of absence
without the territorial limits of the
United States, may be unable to com-
ply with the regulations pertaining to
absentees, shall, within five days after
reaching the first United States port,
register with his proper local board
or as provided in the regulations for
other absentees.
The following persons are hereby
exempted from registration: Officers
and enlisted men of the regular ar-
my, the navy, the marine corps, and
the National Guard and naval militia
.while in the service of the United
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serve corps and enlisted men in the
enlisted reserve corps while in active
service.
The local board 'has the privilege
of holding this registration at its of-
fice in Bellefonte for the entire coun-
ty, but it has thought best, in order
to save expense for the registrants,
to designate the following registra-
tion places:
For Philipsburg, South Philipsburg and
Rush township, at Philipsburg, at the
Chamber of Commerce rooms.
For Snow Shoe and Snow Shoe and
Burnside townships, at Snow Shoe, at the
Mountain house.
For Centre Hall, North and West pre-
cincts of Gregg township, East precinct of
Harris township and Potter township, at
Centre Hall, at the Centre Hall hotel.
For Millheim, East precinct of Gregg
township, Haines, Miles and Penn town-
ships, at Millheim, at the Town hall.
For State College, College and Ferguson
townships and West precinct of Harris
township, at State College, at the Nittany
Inn.
For Bellefonte, Howard, Milesburg and
Unionville boroughs, and Bencer, Boggs,
Curtin, Halfmoen, Howard, Huston, Lib-
erty, Marion, Patton, Spring, Taylor,
Union, Walker and Worth townships, at
Bellefonte, at the office of the Sheriff.
By the order of the President of
the United States it is made the duty
of every local official, including bur-
gesses, police officers and constables,
to see that each person in their dis-
trict who is obliged to register shall
attend such registration.
War funds are flowing into the
treasury in vast volume and from va-
rious sources. Liberty bonds, baby
bonds and savings stamps are alike
producing generously. But taxation
must do its share to equalize the bur-
dens and the President has his eyes
on excessive profits and other forms
of profiteering. :
——Young men who have attained
draft age since the registration last
June are now required to register on
June 5th and the wise lads will give
the matter strict attention. Failure
to register may cause grave trouble
and is certain to accomplish no good.
——We’ll have a million troops in
France by the 1st of July according
to reports from Washington and most
of them will be in time to get the trail
home.
— General Wood may be separat-
ed from Roosevelt by his new assign-
ment but he will have an opportunity
to “grow up with the West.”
——The Huns have taken to shoot-
ing up graveyards in France but they
will occupy more graves than they
shoot up before long.
States, and officers in’ the officers” re-
of the Kaiser when he starts toward
his brother.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Two men from whom the school board
of Williamsport bought a lot adjoining
the Jefferson school, to be used as a play-
ground, later made a gift of $500 to the
school board.
—The Federal food administrator has
imposed a fine of $50 upon Henry Loechel,
proprietor of a bakery in Pottsville, for
failure to. comply with the Federal regu-
lations pertaining to making weekly re-
ports.
—The family of Mr, and Mrs. Rocco
George, at Hazleton, has been increased
by the addition of a tenth daughter.
There are no sons in the family, much to
the .disappointment of Mr. and Mrs.
George.
-—Near Towanda last Monday, an over-
turned milk pail and the sun’s rays caus-
ed a fire which destroyed the home of Hen-
ry Corner. The rays were deflected by the
pail to the side of the building and the
boards were set on fire.
—The firm of Anthony and Kline, at
Shelocta, Indiana county, has been debar-
red from selling flour for the duration of
the war, by Food Administrator J. HK.
Parnell, of Indiana county, for selling
wheat flour without the substitute.
—Increase of smallpox cases has been
so general in the vicinity of labor camps
and in country districts where strict quar-
antines were, not carried out that inspec-
tors of the State Health Department have
been urging physicians to use the greatest
care in diagnosing chickenpox and small-
pox.
—Miss Violet Huber, of Tarentum, had
a narrow escape from drowning Saturday
afternoon when a canoe in which she and
Miss Katherine Travis were riding turned
over, hurling them into the river. Miss
Huber could not swim but Miss Travis
had no trouble in swimming to safety.
John Hemphill rescued them.
—William D. Walton, of Stroudsburg,
has not worn a pair of shoes in the last
fifty-four years. During this period Wal-
ton has worn leather boots and in all that
time he has had only four pairs. Walton
is a Civil war veteran. Wednesday he pur-
chased his first pair of shoes and is wear-
ing them with much interest to himself.
—At Shenandoah last week Baird Sny-
der, as fuel administrator, closed the
Cambridge colliery, operated by the James
Brothers, for alleged violation of the ship-
ping regulations. It is charged that they
shipped coal to Philadelphia which con-
tained as much as forty-seven per cent. of
slate in buckwheat and twenty-seven per
cent. in pea coal.
—It is said at Pottsville that the ruling
of Provost General Crowder on the draft
question may affect all strikers after July,
declare labor leaders, who say that such a
strike as is now being conducted by the
Philadelphia and Reading shops may be
banned by the order. These men, many
of draft age, have been idle a week, de-
manding a thirty per cent. increase im
wages.
—Benjamin Hively, a former Easton
barber, now an inmate at the state hos-
pital at Rittersville, is being sued for di-
vorce by his wife, Mrs. Sadie E. Hively.
The action is started on the grounds of
cruel and barbarous treatment, indigni-
ties to person, and further alleging that
her husband offered her physical violence,
threatened her life and that she is afraid
of him. : :
—Louis Beck, of Pittsburgh, was sen-
tenced to an indeterminate term of two
years and nine months ‘in the Western
penitentiary by Judge G. A. Baldwin, in
criminal court at Pittsburgh on Monday
morning for the $86,000 Adams Express
company robbery. Beck pleaded guilty
to a charge of larceny, and got the maxi-
mum sentence for the charge. A fine of
$500 was also imposed and restitution ef
the stolen money was ordered.
—Peter McDermott, of Hawk Run, for-
mer representative in the Legislature
from Clearfield county, has entered suit
against William H. McClimate, John Hay-
wood Jr., and John Golden, Jr., all resi-
dents of Hawk Run, whom he charges
with having damaged his character and
heputation by circulating untruthful re-
ports and reflections upon his patriotism.
McDermott claims damages totaling $6,-
000. The cases will be placed on the trial
list for the September term of the Clear-
field court.
—At the direction of Howard Heinz,
federal food administrator for Pennsylva-
nia, Adam Black, of Broad Top city, was
fined $500 and the profits from his store
for thirty days were ordered confiscated.
Black, who is a member of the board of
County Commissioners, a member of the
county exemption board and one of the
largest coal operators and land owners in
Huntingdon county, is alleged to have
continued the sale of flour without sub-
stitutes as required under the national
food administration.
—Tossing a $50 bill through one of the
ticket windows of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road station at Pittsburgh on Monday
afternoon, a negro requested that the tick-
et agent give him one of the longest tick-
ets he had in the house. ‘Ise don’t care
where it is for, but be sure and make it
for the longest distance on the road,” the
negro requested. “Ise want one of them
T. N. T. tickets, for I want to get away
from any more of them explosions.” The
negro evidently worked at the Oakdale
chemical plant at the time of the explo-
sion.
—Patrick Phillips, of Wilkes-Barre, for-
ty-two years of age, who has a wife and
seven children, is worth nothing financial-
ly to his family, but would be worth $67.-
50 to his little flock if fighting for Uncle
Sam. This developed when Phillips was
arrestad for stealing a crate of eggs. Tes-
timony showed he had done nothing to
support his family. Phillips offered to en-
list. Wise heads figured it out that Pat-
rick’s family would receive $67.50 monthly
were he fighting. So they all agreed he
should enlist. Phillips was taken to the
recruiting station, but was rejected. Then
he was sent to jail.
—Two hours after both had been con-
victed at Sunbury on Saturday of the first
' degree murder of William Schleig, a
Johnstom City merchant, Jacob and Henry
‘ Sallada, “of Sacramento, Pa., were busy
playing a game of cards in the Northum-
‘perland county jail. The murder of Schle-
ig took place on January 5 last. He was
shot in the back of the head, and his pock-
‘ots rifled. The young men -pleaded that
| they bad shot in self defense, alleging
| that Schleig first drew a revolver on them.
| None of their relatives attended the trial.
They were arrested at DuBois and Henry
, made a confession blaming the killing on
Both admitted that they
were without funds when the man was
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