ro
BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—This is flag day.
Tt is certain that the German
advance on the western front is not
rapid enough to afford exercise for
Hindenburg.
— Remember, that if you are able
to do it and don’t store your “winter
coal now you might be responsible for
much discomfort your negligence
might force on your less fortunate
neighbors next winter. i
—My, what a coup it would be and
how encouraging if the French could
only continue to advance their left to
the point where it would be possible
to pinch off the German salient that
has been pushed out toward Paris.
In the course of time Mr.
Roosevelt may find out that we are
actually participating in the war. In
other words the Colonel is liable to
wake up. The May report of ship
building operations made a loud noise.
—If requests for the “Watchman”
continue in such number as they have
been received since so many of our
boys have landed in France we fear
that we will have to open a branch
office Somewhere over there and issue
a French edition.
— Let us see to it that Centre coun-
ty takes first place in our district in
the matter of sales of war savings
stamps. Friday, June 28th, will be
the national pledge day and let us
each and every one bite off a little
more than we can chew and chew it.
—Experts who have studied the ra-
tions of all armies declare that Amer-
ica’s soldiers are the best fed fighting
men in the world. And the cabled
news indicates that the Germans are
finding out that good food, clean liv-
ing and a righteous cause makes an
American soldier a desperately hard
foe to overcome.
—King George of England has
bought a fourteen dollar suit and in-
tends to wear it justto set a further
example of economy for his subjects.
In looking over the advertisements of
clothing stores in this section we are
forced to the conclusion that there
ain’t no such a thing as a fourteen
dollar suit in this country.
— Foreign experts having approved
our new Liberty motor and urged our
government to hasten the output in
quantity will doubtless prove a very
gratifying matter to Secretary Baker
and a corresponding disappointment
to that small army of discontents who
can see no good in anything that
doesn’t originate with themselves.
© _The “Watchman” calls attention
to the ticket that heads column one
on page four of this issue. If you
are interested in Pennsylvania you
should be interested: in this ticket, for
it affords the only opportunity of
bringing about such a state house-
“cleaning as we have not had since
Robert E. Pattison was elected Gov-
ernor.
__If one or two air raids have
caused such panic in Germany as re-
ports indicate it might be well to in-
crease the visits of our bombing ma-
chines to the Kaiser’s land. A regu-
lar, systematic dose of their own kind
of machine might not save our hos-
pitals and cemeteries from Hun dese-
cration, but it would afford a lot of
satisfaction.
—If everybody who imagines he
has seen a periscope along our Atlan-
tic coast is to be believed there must
be more Hun U-boats on this side than
there are in foreign waters. That the
scare is wonderfully exaggerated
there is no doubt and just to show how
careless some metropolitan dailies are
for the reputation they are supposed
to be building we need but cite one
instance in which one of them stated
that there were probably five U-boats
operating in American waters and
then in parallel columns published
stories of the reported sinking of ten
of the five.
— Talking about old fashioned
Fourth of July celebrations it seems
to us that they will remain only in
memory. Because the doctors are
afraid of tetanus and because we have
to save the explosives for use in the
war fire-crackers, Roman candles,
rockets and pin-wheels are taboo at
least until after Germany is settled.
By that time, perhaps, national pro-
hibition will be in force and all the
pep will be gone. Whoever heard of
an old fashioned Fourth of July with-
out a fireman’s parade, a lot of good
scraps and a bunch of leather-lunged
patriots whoopin-er up from daylight
until the whoop! became smothered
under the anasthesia of spirits fru-
menti? No, there can’t ever be an old
fashioned Fourth of July again if the
fireworks are to be left out and old
Mr. John Barleycorn is to be told to
keep away.
—The Treasury Department has
authorized disapproval of a chain let-
ter plan which has been started by
some enthusiastic workers for the sale
of war savings stamps. The Red
Cross repudiates a chain letter start-
ed at Seattle for the purpose of found-
ing a hospital in France for treatment
of wounds in the face and jaw. In
fact the Federal authorities are op-
posed to all chain letter schemes for
the reason that they congest the mails
and are often resorted to by swindlers
who hope to dupe the public by ap-
pealing to patriotic impulses. Unless
you know personally of the purpose
for which funds are being raised
through chain letters we would advise
you to pay no attention to any such
correspondence even though it is re-
ceived from a friend. For the chances
are that he or she has not made care-
ful inquiry as to the cause before link-
ing you up with it.
VOL. 63.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 24.
Reorganization of the Democratic
Party.
The Democratic State committee
has been called to meet in Harrisburg
next Wednesday, the 19th instant, for |
the purpose of reorganization. The |
term of the present chairman, who
has never been able to serve on ac- |
count of his military obligations, has
expired and his successor must be
chosen. It would be wise to make a’
complete “house-cleaning” at the
same time. The organization has
fallen into the pernicious habit of
creating and cultivating party fac-
tions and in the reorganization there
should be a guarantee expressed or
implied that that evil will be stopped.
The party organization is not main-
tained for the purpose of promoting
factions.
It is the concensus of opinion among
fair-minded Democrats throughout
the State, moreover, that the party
nominee for Governor should have a
controlling voice in the selection of a
State chairman. Years ago the prac-
tice was to allow the candidate to se-
lect the chairman and the results
achieved indicate that it was a wise
policy. Our candidate for Governor
has already expressed a claim to a
voice in the matter this year and there
ought to be no opposition to his de-
sire. He has vastly the greater in-
terest in the result of the campaign
and his wide experience in political
work as well as his splendid reputa-
tion as a party manager guarantee
the wisest action.
In any event preparation should be
made at the reorganization of the
party next week for an earnest and
aggressive campaign. The signs
clearly point to a Democratic victory
as a result of the impending contest
and this expectation can only be dis-
appointed by slackers in the party.
Every trend is in our direction. An
overwhelming majority of the people
of . Pennsylvania are heart and soul
in sympathy with the President in
his aim to bring the world war to a
spedy and triumphant conclu-
sion and all who take the trouble to
think know that the surest and best
way to support him is to elect his
personal and political friends to im-
portant administrative offices.
— Whatever you may think about
Christmas shopping the present time
is none too ‘Soon to begin the work of
preparing for the coming election.
See that all voters are assessed and
taxes paid within the period fixed by
law. Even now it may be too late to
get everybody.
Prussianism Pervades Germany.
In an address delivered by Secre-
tary of State Lansing in Schenectady,
New York, on Saturday, the real at-
titude of Germany with respect to the
war is expressed. We have been ac-
customed to exculpating the German
people from blame not only for the
war but for the atrocities perpetrated
and putting the whole burden upon
the military group which has long
dominated the government. Mr. Lan-
sing shows that in every thought and
act these conspirators have been en-
couraged and supported by the Ger-
man people and that not only must
Prussianism be subdued but that the
spirit of Prussianism which permeates
all Germany and German people must
be eradicated.
The German people have come to
believe that they are a superior race :
in which is vested by divine authority
the power of domination. This idea
has been drilled into their minds by
the military cabal headed by the
Kaiser and fostered by the teachers
and writers of the Empire. But it is
none the less harmful because of that.
It has become the doctrine of the’
country, taught in the schools and
preached in the pulpits and has been
working its evil consequences for
more than a generation. For these
reasons, though our present aim - is
and should be to dethrone the cause |
we will not have fulfilled our full pur-
pose until the effect is completely ob-
literated. :
Peace on any other basis will be fu-
tile because it will not endure. As
Mr. Lansing said “Prussianism and
peace will not mix.” But Prussian-
ism is no longer limited to the Kaiser
and his military cabal. It embraces
all Germany and has a place in every
German mind. The Kaiser accurately
measured the thoughts and purposes
of the German people before he enter-
ed upon his great enterprise to con-
quer the world and force obedience to
his mandates throughout the length
and breadth of civilization.
not, the German lust for gain and
power and he promised them both as
a consideration for support in his am-
bitious schemes.
but fools will learn in no other
school.” If the Kaiser had known
everything the war might have been
whenever the American troops have
hit the German lines the Kaiser has
become convinced that America is
| awake.
He un- ;; : hs
derstood, if the rest of the world did | is possible and give it soon. The man
— “Fxperience is a dear teacher
Pp
postponed until after the millennium.
—1It may be safely said that '
Denny on the Sproul Band Wagon. :
Mr. J. Denny O’Neil has announced |
his intention to support his victorious |
competitor for the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor, Senator William
C. Sproul. During the primary cam-
paign Mr. O’Neil denounced Senator
Sproul in the strongest language he
could command. He declared that
Sproul is and always has been the
willing instrument of the whiskey
ring. That his pretense of favoring
the ratification of the Sheppard pro-
hibition amendment to the constitu-
tion was false and fraudulent and that
his nomination and election to the of-
fice of Governor of the State would
be equivalent to putting our grand
old Commonwealth on the toboggan
headed for the “demnition bowwows.”
We had little faith in Denny’s pro-
fessions of fidelity to the principles
of morality as expressed in his plat-
form from the beginning. He is a
professional office-grabber and has at-
tached himself at one time or anoth-
er to every faction of the Republican
party and swern allegiance to one
boss or another as the promise of of-
fice loomed large or small from the
time the late C. L. Magee ‘“catapult-
ed” him into public notice. His
prompt spring into the Sproul band
wagon confirms our judgment of him.
Support of Sproul offers the only
hope for party spoils for him and he
avails himself of the first opportunity
to get within the radius of the lime
light. Before long he will be striv-
ing for the center of the stage.
Of course Mr. O’Neil knows as every
one else understands that Senator
Sproul is not in favor of the Shep-
pard prohibition amendment to the
constitution of the United States.
But like O’Neil he imagined that the
pretense of favoring it was essential
to success and that he might safely
make the promise while Penrose held
the proxy of the liquor dealer’s organ-
ization. The party prohibitionist is
usually a political huckster and fre-
quently a Republican pensioner so
that the safe and sly practice of
“playing both ends against the mid-
dle” bulked in the fertile brain of the
Republican boss. The zeal of Dr.
Swift and Denny O’Neil in getting
aboard the Sproul wagon proves his
wisdom.
—1It is not altogether obtuseness
that influences some Frishmen to fa-'
vor Germany. -Cupidity is more large-
ly responsible. The Sinn Fein pocket
is probably lined with German gold.
The Situation in France.
The conditions in France are prac-
tically the same as a week ago. On
Sunday another German drive was
begun ,and thousands upon thousands
of lives were sacrificed to the Kais-
er’s ambition and von Hindenburg’s
lust for slaughter. A few rods of
space were gained in the centre of the
line, according to the published re-
ports, but no perceptible advantage.
The French and British troops held
their lines on the sides, and thus
made worthless the gain in the centre.
But the Crown Prince was gratified,
no doubt. The troops under his com-
mand were in the centre and stood up
to the sacrifice manfully. The Kaiser
may congratulate his son again
and bestow upon him a new decora-
tion.
The lesson of this persistence in
criminal folly is that this country
must reconcile itself to a long and
costly war. So long as there are men
and boys in Germany to offer and
Hindenburg continues to delight in
the flow of blood, there will be no
peace. The Kaiser and Hindenburg
realize that peace holds no recompense
for them. - When peace come® they go
either before a firing squad or into a
dishonored obscurity. Therefore,
they are enjoying the slaughter for
which they are responsible and will
continue it as long as possible. We
may exercise some influence in deter-
mining the duration of the war, how-
ever. We may hasten the end by in-
creasing the energy we put into it. It
is up to us to close the tragedy.
Meantime the American public can
rest assured that every effort will be
made to conserve the lives and secure
.the comfort of our heroes “over
. there.” Many will be killed and more
| maimed in this great contest for free-
dom of thought and liberty of action
| throughout the world. But the soon-
er it is ended the fewer will be the
victims and the more prompt and gen-
,erous we are in supplying the mater-
als, the sooner the end will come.
| For these reasons it is the duty of
i every man and woman to give all that
| who offers his life makes the supreme
| sacrifice. Let those of us who are to
| be benefitted by his sublime act do
| what we can.
|
——1If you haven’t paid your income
tax get busy. After Saturday night
the amount will be greater and the
difficulties in paying will be multi-
plied. p
——If you have given all you can
spare to the various war funds put
another reef in your expense sail and
give a little more.
BELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 14, 1918.
Tariff Grafters Getting Busy.
As might have been expected the
consideration of the proposed reve-
nue legislation has brought the insa-
tiate tariff grafters to the front. On
the first day of the hearings scheduled
by the House committee on Ways and
Means, the other day, a delegation of
Boston tariff mongers appeared to in-
sist on a great increase in the tariff
taxes. Naturally their arguments
were as absurd as their purposes were
selfish. But they chattered away on
the old theory that tariff taxation or
tariff levies are essential to industrial
prosperity and that the first duty of
Congress is to diminish the revenues
by levying prohibitory tariff taxes
upon the few products, mostly raw
materials, now being imported.
The purpose of the pending bill is
to increase the revenues of the gov-
ernment. The extraordinary expens-
es of the war make a vast increase of
revenues necessary. Logically every
intelligent person contemplating this
subject realizes that the additional
revenues must be as certain as possi-
ble. It is equally well agreed among
that type of thinkers that the burden
should be placed where it may be most
easily borne. Influenced by this wise
idea the President suggested that
most of the additional taxes be levied
on war profits, excessive incomes and
needless luxuries. But this doesn’t
suit the tariff graftérs. They want
their profits, incomes and luxuries to
come as cheaply as possible.
Between the hazard of ocean
freighting, the scarcity of commer-
cial shipping and the necessity of in-
vesting all energies in the production
of war materials, the business of im-
porting has been reduced to a mini-
mum that threatens entire disappear-
ance. However high the tariff taxes
they produce no revenues where there
are no imports and soldiers depend-
ent upon such sources for food would
soon grow hungry. It is proposed to
increase the revenues four billion dol-
lars a year while the war lasts and
that sum can easily be obtained by
taxing war profits, excessive incomes
to the extent that they are taxed in
England and luxuries, and the hun-
gry, selfish tariff mongers who object
ought to be kicked.
The “Watchman” acknowledges
the receipt of the “First Annual Pub-
“fication of the Pennsylvania Alpine
Club,” compiled and edited by the sec-
retary, J. Herbert Walker, of Lewis-
burg. The Alpine club was organized
in 1917 and has as its object the ex-
ploration of the woodland and moun-
tain fastnesses of Pennsylvania. Col.
Henry W. Shoemaker, of the Altoona
its members include men who revel
ests and seeking out the beauties of
nature in the mountains of Pennsyl-
vania.
© Candidates Expense Accounts.
The various candidates at the re-
cent primaries have filed their expense
accounts in the office of the prothon-
otary of Centre county and some of
them make very interesting reading.
For instance:
Dr. John Richelsen, of Bradford,
the out and out temperance candidate
for the nomination for Congress, in
his statement acknowledges a contri-
bution from Lewis Emery of $1,000,
paid expenses of $2,193.48, and unpaid
bills of $60.45. In his list of expens-
es were $160.00 each to the Keystone
Gazette
of this place, for “advertising,” and
$260.00 to the Bellefonte Republican
for “printing and circulating letters to
the voters of Centre county.”
Evan J. Jones, of Bradford, the
man who won the Republican nomi-
nation, received no contributions,
spent $1147.90 and has unpaid bills
aggregating $418.60.
W. I. Swoope acknowledged a con-
tribution of $2500 from his brother,
H. B. Swoope, and gives his expenses
at $2665.06.
W. E. Tobias, the Democratic nom-
inee, spent $255.50.
Harry W. Brown, of Osceola Mills,
who made a try for the Republican
nomination, spent $59.63, and owes
$12.00.
For State Senator, Matt Savage
spent less than fifty dollars and S. J.
Miller $111.14.
It cost Harry B. Scott $351.29 to
make his unsuccessful run for the
Legislature while I. L. Harvey, who
won out, spent but $125.39, seventy-
five dollars of which is unpaid and due
to N. E. Robb.
Hon. John Noll filed an affidavit
that he spent less than fifty dollars.
— Von Hindenburg says he needs
exercise and on his trip home from
the western front he is likely to get |
plenty of it and in many forms.
— You don’t have to “tell it to the
Marines” any more. The Marines
just “hand it” to the Germans.
— Nothing sounds more musical
in the ear of patriotism than the si-
lence of Senator Chamberlain.
—The grain and grass fields show
every sign of causing an early harves
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
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in Centre county. : .
Tribune, is president of the club, and |
in the delights of tramping the for-
and Bellefonte Republican, |
. An Army that Will Win the War.
From the Public Ledger.
| President Wilson’s speech in New
‘York on Saturday will take its place
among the great utterances of the
' commander-in-chief of the military
and naval forces of the United States,
_ deepening the nation’s patriotism,
‘strengthening its determination not to
{turn back until the task it has assum-
‘ed shall be performed. The two deep-
{1y significant passages in that address
| which will rivet the attention of the
‘world are those in which he said that
‘no limit should be placed upon the size
| of the American army, save the phys-
!ical limit imposed by our shipping fa-
| cilities, and in which he made clear
this far-seeing understanding of the
insincerity of the Hun “peace offen-
ive.
The President has made it plain to
Congress that the purpose of the gov-
ernment is not to stop at the enroll-
ment and training of five million men,
i should that number be needed to “win
| the war.” And. the country is happily
in the mood to stand solidly behind
him in that purpose. The paramount
duty of the hour is to make good our
pledge to civilization to spare no ef-
fort to bring every ounce of the na-
tional power to its defense. We are
not going to be diverted from that du-
ty by the sort of peace overtures that
have thus far come from Teutonic
! sources, nor are our eyes going to be
{blinded to the sinister motives that
| have inspired them. The world now
knows only too well what Prussian
promises are worth and what any
“peace” dictated by the “predatory
Potsdam gang” would be like. And
‘all Americans will read with profound
satisfaction and relief the President’s
| definite assurance that he—proved
{lover of peace though he be—is not
| deceived by and will not entertain
| “any insincere approaches” upon the
| subject. He has recognized, them for
what they are—a scheme to give the
Huns a free hand “to carry out pur-
| poses of conquest and exploitation.”
|" There was one passage in the New
| York speech that ought to be engrav-
{ed upon the hearts of every Ameri-
{ can, that in which the President said:
| «There are two duties with which we
i are face to face. The first duty is to win
| the war. And the second duty, that goes
{hand in hand with it, is to win it greatly
{and worthily, showing the real quality
i of our power not only, but the real quality
|
| of our purpose and of ourselves.”
| It is with this spirit that America
iis going forward, prepared for any
| sacrifice until its purpose shall be
i achieved, ready to bear any burden
| which may be found necessary, to pay
{any price. Amd the Presclent has
| phrased it so plainly and clearly that
‘his message will bring new courage
‘and an added strength to the allied
forces in Europe now holding the line
‘that separates civilization, honor and
humanity from barbarism, devasta-
.tion and diabolical perfidy.
Is Holland’s Turn Next?
; From the New York Herald.
. There is nothing fanciful in pictur-
.ing Holland as between the devil and
‘the deep blue sea. The announcement
| of Foreign Minister Loudon to the
| Chamber of Deputies at the Hague
{that the difference with Germany is
| “most serious,” coming on the heels of
{the reported withdrawal from the
| capital of each country of the minis-
ter representing the other, would seem
"to indicate that the diplematic situa-
tion is extremely critical. While de-
tails concerning Germany’s ultimatum
"are lacking, it is known that the de-
| mands made upon Holland are such
that compliance there-with would be
‘ tantamount to violation by that coun-
| try of its own neutrality, which it has
‘been struggling so hard to preserve.
| Have the German war lords decided
{that the time has come to overrun
{ and crush little Holland as. Belgium
{ was overrun and crushed?
| American Marines Hold Five German
i Divisions. -
London, June 12.—“The Germans
| are taking seriously the American
| thrust at the apex of their line in the
| Clignon valley (northwest of Chateau
| Thierry) and thus far have used five
divisions in attempting to counter it
| but entirely without success,” Reuter’s
| correspondent at French headquarters
| telegraphs under Tuesday’s date.
“Two fresh divisions were thrown at
the American center at Bouresches
this morning and a fruitless attempt
made to recapture the village.
“Trusting to the deep woods north-
east of the village and the twisted
spur of a hill to conceal them, the
i leading divisions advanced in mass
| formation.
They, however, were ob-
served from the Bois De Balleau and
were brought under a destructive hail
of shrapnel before they could deploy.
The fire was so severe that the attack
was disorganized and no progress
could be made for some time.
“When the Germans did succeed in
penetrating the defenses they were
met with such enthusiasm in cold steel
that their only choice was death or
surrender.
“In the capture of the wood to the
northwest of Bouresches the Ameri-
cans had to deal with machine gun
nests a game at which they are becom-
ing expert. Gun after gun was cap-
tured and turned upon its late posses-
sors and the advance never was ma-
terially delayed. i
“Fierce fighting continued when the
fringe of the wood was reached, the
Germans being afraid of the open
slopes behind them and over which
their retreat had to be conducted.
When at last they broke from the cov-
er of the wood they came under a tem-
pest of bullets. Surrender being im-
possible they turned and ran, but very
few reached the ground where they
could find refuge.”
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—State game warden E. Woody Kelley,
of Clearfield, has turned $1650 into the
State Treasury for violations of the fish
laws this season. A party of fishermen
with seventy-four undersized trout taken
from a Clearfield county stream was ap-
prehended by Woody the other day. Mem-
bers of the party paid fines aggregating
$750.
—Drivers of Blair county’s trucks are
now paid within $300 a year as much as
the County Commissioners. They had beem
receiving $100 a month until recently when
one of the drivers resigned saying he had
been offered $125 a month. Rather than
lose him the Commissioners met the new
price. The Commissioners themselves re-
ceive only $150 a menth.
—Three of the large iron grey horses
belonging to the Ringling Bros.’ circus
died during their stay in Lewistown on
Thursday. The carcass of one of the ani-
mals which died enroute from Altoona to
Lewistown on Wednesday night was sent
to the rendering plant at Milroy. Two of
the horses were suffering from lung fever
and the third was injured by one of the
heavy wagons. . z
—John Clayton Rutter, who was to have
been ordained as a minister of the Epis-
copal church at Sunbury today by Bishop
Darlington, is dead. He was buried on
Thursday from his home at Bloomsburg,
Bishop Darlington officiating. While walk-
ing with Carl McBride, aged 15, Sunday,
Rutter was shot in the eye by McBride,
who was trying to kill a blacksnake. He
died on Tuesday.
—W. E. Patterson, a butcher of Nesco-
peck, Pa., lost his watch, advertised it and
then discovered it in the head of a dead
bull. The watch disappeared while he was
killing at Mifflinville. He hunted for it
several hours, and the next day, when cut-
ting up the beef, found the watch lodged
in the head. Presumably, he had drepped
the watch from his pocket and into the
gash he had inflicted in the bull's neck.
—The borough of Mapleton is giving no-
tice of a hearing to be held Wednesday,
June 26th, before the State Public Service
Commission, of its intention to purchase
the capital stock and physical plant of the
Jack’s Mountain Water company. This
company has two reservoirs in the moun-
tains and sustains the potential possibili-
ties of supplying a town several times the
size of Mapleton with the purest of sand-
stone water.
—Lloyd Hall, aged 57, a laborer employ-
ey at the Pennsylvania village for feeble
minded women, near Laurelton, was
caught in a slide of dirt while digging a
sewer last Saturday and crushed to death.
Hall was working in the ditch which was
about twelve feet deep when the ground
gave way and he was buried alive. He
lived two hours after workmen had uncov-
ered him. He is survived by a wife and
one daughter.
— Warning to officials of a number of
counties where constables have failed to
enforce the dog license hass been issued
from the State Department of Agriculture
whose chief plans to take up the matter
of enforcing compliance with the Attorney
General. It is likely that the course
adopted in McKean county where state po-
lice shot unlicensed dogs and arrested
owners and constables who did not com-
ply, will be adopted.
—The body of little Harvey J. Heiler,
Jr., who, together with W. Hayden Myers,
of Altoona, was drowned on Memorial day
in the Juniata river at Red Rock, near
Mill Creek, was found at about eleven
o'clock Sunday morning near Newton
Hamilton. The little corpse, badly de-
composed, was found lying on a rock some
three feet above the level of the water,
which leads to the belief that it had been
exposed there for almost a week.
—In the arrest of Mrs. Mary Snyder, 45,
of McKeesport, in Pittsburgh on Tuesday
the police believe they have made an im-
portant capture. When taken to the police
station under the technical charge of be-
ing a sugpicion person, the matron found
$2,500 in bills sewed in her dress. Detec-
tives then went to her home to investigate.
Pictures of the Kaiser and his sons were
pasted over the walls and other German
pictures on tables. There were at least 50
German books and dozens of letters and
pamphlets written in the German language
in the rooms. The prisoner refuses to
answer any questions.
—The biggest coal deal in Cambria coun-
ty for some time was closed on Monday
when C. M. Blanchard, of Binghamton, N.
Y., purchased from County Commission-
er T. Stanton Davis and associates a tract
of 4,000 acres, which had been in progress
of assembling for many months. The con-
sideration is in the neighborhood of $1,-
000,000. The development of the mineral,
which lies in Cambria township, will be-
gin at once, according to the statement of
Mr. Blanchard. The first shaft to be sunk
will have a depth of 355 feet. Shipments
will be made over the Pennsylvania and
New York Central railroads.
—_Wanstant Valisensky, after shooting his
brother-in-law, Adam Sostek, and attempt-
ing to kill Mrs. Sostek, according to the
police, was run down by patrol driver
James Adams and special officer Joseph
Abrahams in West Taylor township, Cam-
bria county, on Monday and shot through
the head in a gun battle with the officer.
Valisensky halted when called upon to do
so but drew a gun and fired at Abrahams
when he approached. Abrahams dodged
behind the police automobile patrol. Vali-
sensky then turned the weapon on Adams,
who then shot. Valisensky will probably
die. Sostek has a dangerous wound
through the body. :
— President John Howard Harris has
tendered his resignation to the Bucknell
University Board of Trustees, the same to
take effect July 1, 1919. In his written
resignation President Harris calls the at-
tention of the trustees to the fact that
he has served for thirty years as presi-
dent of the institution, which, during that
time, has had a marvelous growth. Pres-
ident Harris said that war conditions
would mean & great deal of attention to
college work, consequently he was giving
the executive board more than a year's
notice, during which time they could find
some availdble man for the responsible
position as president of Bucknell Univer-
sity.
—Caught in a whirlpool of water in
Clearfield creek, near Fallen Timber, Cam-
bria county on Sunday afternoon, Adam
Delgosky, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Del-
gosky, of Mountainsdale, was drowned be-
fore he could be rescued. The lad had
gone to Fallen Timber Sunday with a
number of companions on a delivery truck
and all were having a delightful time in
the water when Delgosky was caught in a
swift current. An effort was made to res-
cue him but without success and it was
some time before his body was recovered.
Had he lived until August 29th of this
year he would have been 16 years of age.
Besides his parents he is survived by two
brothers and a sister.