Sewell
INK SLINGS.
—The flood on Spring creek reach-
ed its peak at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon.
—Next week we will observe Me-
morial day. Let us be sure that we
observe it and not celebrate it.
—Court adjourned Wednesday
night, having completed the work of
a rather uninteresting session.
— The signs indicate that instead
of Congress re-assembling a poison
gas factory has been established at
Washington.
—Germany is clinging to the hope
that the pen of von Brockdorff-Rantz-
au will prove mightier than the sword
of Hindenberg.
—Now that the streams are too
high and muddy for fishing there are
a lot of fellows who have no excuse
for not catching up with their work.
—How much time do you suppose
Germany would have given any of the
Allies to haggle over the peace terms
she would have laid down had she
been victorious ?
— Continuous rain interference with
Milesburg, in her efforts to break in-
to the Red Cross league, leads us to
suggest “the Ducks” as a good name
for the team from our neighboring
town. :
—High water is causing much dis-
tress in the low-lands of Centre coun-
ty, but strange as it may seem the
heavy rains have not washed the fields
nearly as bad as might have been ex-
pected.
—Maj. Terry Boal’s plans for his
ancestral estates in Harris township
are so prodigious that we fear all the
magnificent forests will have to be de-
nuded to furnish eamp-fires for the
veterans of the 28th who are to have
open sesame there.
— Bolshevism is petering out abroad
for the very good reason that the il-
literate fanatics who advocate it are
accumulating enough sense, at least,
to figure out that it avails them little
to seize a business or a government
that they don’t have brains enough to
manage.
—O0ld John Barleycorn has had a
slight recovery. The President’s mes-
sage urging that the ban be lifted on
wines and beer has caused him to sit
up and take notice. It can’t be for
more than six months, however, so
that there is no hope of his perma-
nent revival.
—Congress is in session and, being
Republican in complexion, will have
the time of its life until the President
gets home. Then it will be different,
for without enough power to pass
bills over his veto it can do little but
play to the grand-stand for effect on
the fall elections.
—The success of American aviators
in making the first trans-oceanic
flight will carry all the more of con-
viction to the world that this great
young Republic of the west has be-
come its real leader. It seems to us
also the beginning of the end. of all
doubt as to man’s dominion of the
earth, the sea and the air.
—The fact that no candidate has
entered the field for the Democratic
nomination for prothonotary seems to
be giving some of the slate makers
considerable concern. There’s time
yet for a good man to jump into the
arena and if he is a good one there is
a splendid chance that he will be nom-
inated and elected to the best paying
office in the court house.
—Governor Sproul has gone to New
York to find a man properly equipped
for Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion. Of course there is nothing
wrong with the idea of going outside
the ‘State for a good man. But there
must be something radically wrong
with the native born educators since
none of them have sized up to the
Governor's demands for qualification
for the office.
—A young woman canteen worker
in France, who was one of only two
women, constantly in contact with
from fifteen to thirty thousand dough-
boys, recently told the writer that she
had worked among them for exactly
five months before she heard an oath
or a vulgar word, and that was utter-
ed by an officer. Of course the boys
swore and indulged in vulgarity. No
one thinks they didn’t but the refin-
ing, restraining influence of a good
woman needs no stronger testimonial
than the incident recited above.
—Hawker’s attempt to make a non-
stop flight across the Atlantic was
the most daring undertaking that has
been recorded since air machines have
come into practical use. Unhappily
it was ended in disaster and the loss
of the life of a gallant man. Some
may call his attempt foolhardy, but
we look upon it as a pure contribu-
tion to science. Every great forward
movement has been built on just such
a sacrifice as Hawker has made and
when shins are finally flying from
New Foundland to the Irish coast it
will be, partially so at least, because
of Hawker’s initial attempt to wing
the uncharted course through air.
—The metamorphosis that has
transformed the former teamster in-
to a motor truck driver has evident-
ly given him a new idea of earning
capacity. When he was a teamster
he kept his horses and his stable
cleaned on his own time, helped throw
on his own load and then helped throw
it off. Now he sits leisurely behind
the steering wheel while he rambles
over state highways with a ton or
more of crushed limestone and when
he reaches his destination dozes or
reads a paper while one of the road
gang shovels off his load. Is it any
wonder it costs eight hundred dollars
a mile to keep up an ordinary macad-
am highway?
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
President Wilson’s Message.
From the beginning of his career
in public life President Wilson’s dom-
inant purpose has been the welfare of
wage earners. Since his inaugura-
tion as President six years ago more
has been accomplished in this direc-
tion than in the fifty years preceding.
Logically, therefore, in his message
to Congress the question of labor has
the first place in importance. He
urges Congress to supplement the
good work along these lines already
achieved by legislation that will make
for a better understanding between
capital and labor and without impair-
ing the rights of capital will enable
“the men and women who do the dai-
ly labor of the world to obtain pro-
gressive improvement in the condi-
tions of their labor to be happier and
to be served better by the communi-
ties and the industries which their la-
bor sustains and advances.”
The President is equally anxious
for the future of the soldiers of the
country who have returned, are re-
turning and will return from the war
in Europe and renews his recommen-
dation of a year ago that legislation
be enacted by which “returning sol-
diers may be helped to find and take
up land in the hitherto undeveloped
portions of the country which the
Federal government has already pre-
pared or readily can prepare for cul-
tivation.” In the matter of taxation,
always a perplexing problem, he ex-
presses the hope that “it shall rest as
lightly as possible on the productive
resources of the country, that its rates
shall be stable and that it shall be
constant in its revenue-yielding pow-
er.” He favors income, excess and
estate tax, placing the burden where
it may be most easily borne, but fa-
vors protection of infant industries
such as dye-stuffs and chemicals and
retaliation taxes where needed.
As he has always dome since the
agitation of the question has become
nation-wide the President favors the
woman suffrage amendment of the
constitution and since the necessity
of conserving food to the extent re-
quired in war times, no longer exists,
he recommends the repeal of the act
of 1918 which prohibits the manufac-
ture and sale of wines and beer. He
also recommends the restoration of
the rail and wire service to their own-
ers under conditions and “as soon as
the re-transfer can be effected with-
out administrative confusion” and “so
soon as the change can be made with
the least possible inconvenience to the
public and to the owners themselves.”
The perverse action of the Republican
minority in the last Congress proba-
bly moved him to this recommenda-
tion. By defeating the necessary ap-
propriation for the maintenance and
operation of the railroads the public
was inconvenienced and the value of
the properties impaired.
Of course the Republicans in both
branches of Congress are greatly dis-
appointed at the tone and tenor of the
message. They wanted the President
to be resentful because of their petty
and unpatriotic treatment of him dur-
ing his absence in the performance of
his arduous and important labors and
they hoped he would be silent on cer-
tain subjects upon which they intend-
ed to legislate. But he is neither re-
sentful nor silent. He has taken the
ground from under their feet by pro-
posing the legislation in advance of
their action and forever estopped
them of making a false claim of in-
itiating the policies upon which they
expect to predicate their Presidential
campaign next year. In other words
Woodrow Wilson has beaten them to
the point they expected to occupy and
left them looking like lost “babes in
the woods.”
Notwithstanding the fact that
the trout fishing season is over five
weeks old no remarkable catches have
been made in any of the trout streams
of Centre county. And aside from the
enthusiasm among the fishermen the
first few days of the season there has
been very little stir among the disci-
ples of Izaak Walton. Of course, the
protracted cool weather and frequent
rains keep down the ardor of most of
the enthusiasts, but when Old Sol be-
gins to work overtime and the
streams attain their customary crys-
tal purity, it is very likely that the |
trout streams will furnish an excuse
for many men being “away from
home.”
An alliance between Cabot
Lodge and Jim Reed may prove effec-
tive for the purpose it is formed to
promote but it will not create a pleas-
ant perfume in the atmosphere of |
Washington.
Senator Penrose is too busy in
Washington to spend time in Harris-
burg this week. Public interests may
“go hang” when his fences need re-
pairs.
If it be true that Mexico does
not understand the Mbnroe Doctrine,
she has nothing on some of the Unit-
ed States Senators.
— Besides the Germans under-
stand that if the peace treaty is not
signed Foch “will resume business at
the old stand.”
Germany and the Peace Terms.
The report that Count von Brock-
dorff-Rantzau, head of the German
contingent in the peace conference at
Versailles, had left the conference and
would refuse to sign the treaty is no
cause for worry. The cunning Count
was simply “playing possum.” His
purpose was to feed German vanity by
fixing up a claim that the peace terms
he will sign, or somebody else will
sign in his place, is a “negotiated”
rather than a “dictated” peace. The
American and Allied representatives
bition by giving the German delegates
fifteen days in which to submit objec-
tions to the terms. The German dele-
gates have construed this courtesy as
a concession. But it isn’t anything
of the kind and the wily old Count is
back in Paris jockeying for any kina
of a concession he can get.
The people of the United States,
Great Britain, France and Italy are
determined that the terms of peace
shall be “dictated” to Germany. In
the German army with the cordial ap-
probation of the German people, no
other terms are to be considered.
Properly the terms are mild compared
with those Germany has enforced up-
on conquered enemies in the past and
would have forced upon the United
States and the Allies in the present
instance if the victory had gone the
other way. A pen picture of the con-
ference of Versailles after the Fran-
co-German war, published recently, is
ample proof of that fact. Bismarck
was not only intolerent but insulting
to the helpless French emissaries
when they set up a plea for justice
tempered with mercy.
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau has
returned to the conference at Versail-
les and will sign the treaty as dictated
or else that service will be performed
by another conspicuous, if not capable,
German statesman. Every thinking
man in Germany understands the al-
ternative. If the treaty, as it is writ-
ten, is not signed within a reasonable
time, the march to Berlin will be re-
sumed and when the next armistice is
‘many left to justify a spirited dis-
pute over. The present aspect of
Austria should serve as an admonition
further contention about the terms of
peace. If they fail to profit .by the
lesson they will pay the penalty.
The House of Representatives
at Harrisburg has resolved to adjourn
finally on June 19th and until that
time the people of Pennsylvania may
live in apprehension of all sorts of
legislative evils.
Budget System Favored.
One of the first reforms promised
by the new Republican Congress is
the introduction of the ‘“‘budget” sys-
tem of making appropriations. That
it is a wise policy may be inferred
from the fact that the Democratic
party in and out of Congress has been
contending for it for more than a
quarter of a century in the face of
the resistance of the Republican ma-
chine. Among the merits claimed for
it is that it will abolish the odious
“pork barrel,” which has been a
source of graft fostered by the Re-
publican party ever since the Civil
war. It is also believed that it will
effect a considerable decrease in pub-
lic expenditures without materially
diminishing efficiency in the public
service.
The Democratic plan for putting
the system in operation is expressed
in a bill prepared by the chairman of
the House committee on Appropria-
tions of the last Congress. It would
create a “budget committee” in the
cabinet with a “Director of the Bud-
get” to be appointed by the President.
As stated by one of the Washington
newspaper correspondents, “he would
| attend to the scientific and detail
{work of preparing a co-ordinated
statement of the governments’ expen-
| ditures and recommend the ways and
| means of meeting it with revenues.”
! The plan also provides for an Audit-
| or General and an independent bureau
! of audit. This bureau would “advise
| with the committees and help them
{ check up the expenditures.”
i This would certainly provide effi-
| cient machinery for the purpose in
view. But it will hardly be accepted
‘by the Republican majority. The
| gentlemen who will direct the activi-
| ties of the Republican majority in the
| present Congress will not consent to
an appointment by the President of
| any official. Neither will they agree
{ to any solution of the problem which
| will completely eliminate graft. That
| party has been sustained for nearly
! fifty years by funds stolen from the
. government in one way or another,
| and the present pretense of favoring
| the “budget” system is essentially
| false and fraudulent. It is hoped
i that such false pretense will deceive
| the people and that is its only present
! purpose.
! If the across-the sea flying ma-
chine could be transformed into a
dove of peace it might find pleasant,
present and profitable employment in
the neighborhood of Paris.
in the conference encouraged this am- :
view of the atrocities prepetrated by |
made there won’t be enough of Ger- !
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 23, 1919.
Comedy in Harrisburg.
The Comedy of Errors is dragging
its slow length over the stage at Har-
_risburg, Governor Sproul acting as
i master of ceremonies. The latest in-
i formation from the scene is to the ef-
fect that the Philadelphia reform
bills are to be made over. Penrose is
still absent, contesting with Senator
Borah, of Idaho, for mastery of the
Republican machine in Washington
and Vare appears io be recovering
i the ground lost a couple of weeks
ago. At all events it is now predict-
ed that Vare will have his way in the
i matter of councils and contracts,
| which is about all he wanted. The
! new charter will provide for a larger
i body than the reformers desired but
i will invest in councils the power to
{ make contracts.
| So that all the fuss and feathers
| about reform in Philadelphia have
| blown off in the wind. Senator Vare
| pretended an interest in other mat-
| ters but it was a false pretense. He
| wants control of the contracts and
the new charter will give him what
he wants. With a small council of
: twenty-one members, chosen by the
city at large, his plans might have
been defeated and his power broken.
| But the body, large or small, chosen
| by wards will give him precisely the
grip he has enjoyed in the past and
he will set it to his personal advantage.
In fact by a bill pending increasing
the force of the bureau of Weights
and Measures he will have greater
opportunities than ever. He will
have more patronage to trade with.
Thus it has ever been. Old Nick
takes care of his own and while the
Philadelphia reformers were fooling
away time in negotiating terms with
| Vare that crafty politician gets away
i with the loot. No matter what other
| changes are made in the charter if
| the power of making contracts is left
: in the hands of his personally picked
councilmen, whether they be many or
few, he will get his plunder and the
taxpayers may console themselves
with the privilege of paying the ex-
penses. The vote of last year showed
| that a city-wide vote, honestly re-
turned vote, might defeat Vare. But
{a vote by wards will give him the
i same proportion of a small body that
| he has with the large, and reform
to the German authorities against | Hopes will go glimmering.
| —President Wilson will have a
{ good many. important things to at-
| tend to on his return to Washington
be getting rid of Postmaster General
Burleson.
What Investigation Will Reveal.
No man in this broad land will
more cordially welcome a searching
and thorough investigation of the war
work of the administration than
Woodrow Wilson, President of the
United States. Such an inquiry can
have but one result. It will show
that under the direction of our great
Democratic leader this country
achieved the greatest results ever
registered by any people since the be-
ginning of time. The whole world
was amazed at the things accomplish-
ed and Germany, educated to the
highest point in the science of war,
believed they were impossible. Even
our own people, familiar with the
grit and go of American manhood,
had doubts of the success of the great
enterprises undertaken and fulfilled.
These things cost money, of course,
but they brought victory and honor
and glory. Lives were sacrificed and
men were crippled and maimed, but
justice was vindicated and humanity
benefitted. Men are born to die and
the usefulness of their lives is meas-
ured by the work accomplished. By
the death of each of the heroes who
lie buried in consecrated graves in
France and Flanders, civilization was
advanced and the spirit of justice,
liberty and right was promoted to a
degree beyond parallel in the history
of the world. A thorough and
searching investigation of the war
work of the administration of Wood-
row Wilson will reveal these facts to
the plain view of every honest mind.
As Admiral Schley said after the
destruction of the Spanish navy. in
1898, in these achicvements there is
“enough glory to go around.” But a
searching investigation of the war
work of the administration at Wash-
ington sill accomplish more. It will
show thai though these great things
were achieved, though greater sums
of money were obtained and disburs-
ed than ever known before in a sin-
gle enterprise, there was no trace of
corruption, no sign of venality, not
even a symptom of graft. Even the
sordid politicians of the Republican
party, consumed with envy and prej-
udice, have been unable to “point the
finger of suspicion” at any of those
charged by the President with the
work.
— In going to New York for a
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Governor Sproul pays scant compli-
ment to the educators of this State.
—Ttaly is entitled to what is
coming to her and will get it to the
last farthing. But she can hardly
claim the whole cheese.
and one of the most perplexing will
NO. 21.
‘Repeal of War Time Prohibition Rec-
ommended by President Wilson.
| Washington, May 20.—President
Wilson, in his message to Congress
| today, recommended repeal of the
| war-time prohibition law—so far as
| it applies to wine and beer only; an-
| nounced definitely that the rail sys-
| tems and telegraph and telephone
: lines would be returned to private
ownership; urged a revision of war
| taxes, particularly to abolish the man-
ufacturers’ and retail sales excesses
and outlined generally a program re-
specting labor.
These were the “high spots” of the
President’s message cabled from
Paris.
He again urged enactment of the
woman suffrage constitutional amend-
ment; recommended that the tariff
laws be supplied with teeth to pro-
tect American industry against for-
eign attack; spoke for legislation to
facilitate American enterprise through
the expansion of shipping, and back-
ed Secretary Lane’s program for land
for returning soldiers.
-Of the Paris Peace Conference and
the League of Nations the President
merely said it would be premature to
discuss them or express a judgment.
He also avoided discussion of domes-
tic legislation at length because of
his long absence from Washington.
Congress heard a unique document;
the only one of its kind ever trans-
mitted across the ocean from a Pres-
ident on a foreign shore. For the
first time in six years it heard a
Presidential message read by a read-
ing clerk instead of assembling to
hear the President deliver an address
in person.
The recommendations for the repeal
of war-time prohibition and for re-
turn of the rail and wire systems,
while not unexpected by some, con-
tained the greatest element of sur-
prise and provoked the most wide-
spread comment of the many tasks
set before Congress by the President.
In his reference to prohibition, the
President did not enter extensively in-
to the considerations involved. De-
mobilization, he said, merely, “has
progressed to such a point that it
seems to me entirely safe now to re-
move the ban upon the manufacture
and sale of wines and ” This
ban, laid several months ago to be-
come effective on July 1st, could be
removed, the President said, only by
Congressional enactment.
His recommendation regarding re-
turn of the railways and wire. lines
was the first authoritative declaration
by the administration of future
{otiey and greatly surprised many
embers who had interpreted the de-
velopments of the last few months to
mean that Mr. Wilson eventually
‘would propose some form of perma-
nent government operation.. On the
contrary the directness of the Presi-
dent’s declaration on that point left
no doubt that he was through with
any possible scheme of permanent re-
tention.
On tariff revision the President
said the United States should have
the means of properly protecting it-
self when there was danger of dis-
crimination against it by foreign na-
tions.
“Though we are as far as possible
from desiring to enter upon a course
of retaliation,” he said, “we must
frankly face the fact that hostile leg-
islation by other nations is not be-
yond the range of possibilities and
that it may have to be met by coun-
ter legislation.
“Although the United States will
gladly and unhesitatingly join in the
program of international disarma-
ment, it will, nevertheless, be a poli-
cy of obvious prudence to make cer-
tain of the successful maintenance of
many strong and well equipped chem-
ical plants.”
Torrential Rains Produce High Water.
Neither the farmer nor anybody
else in this section of the State can
complain at the present time of any
lack of rain, because we have had
enough of it this week to soak the
ground literally from top to bottom.
And it was not a moderate, steady
rain, by any means, but hard showers
and torrential downpours with some
thunder and lightning mixed in to
give it character. The result, natur-
ally, is high water everywhere.
Wednesday night there was a three
and 2 half foot flood in Spring creek
but fortunately it did not get high
enough to reach the “Watchman” of-
fice press-room or do any material
damage elsewhere, but from the color
of the water it looked as if the plow-
ed fields along the course of the
stream have suffered to some extent.
There has been a five to six foot flood
in the Bald Eagle and most of the low
lands along that stream have been
flooded. Down Nittany valley Little
Fishing creek was literally a boiling
torrent, running away out of bounds
over the low fields in the neighbor-
hood of Hublersburg and on down the
valley. Fishing creek was also very
high and Cedar creek, in Little Nitta-
ny valley had a big flood with the re-
sult that the state highway from Ce-
dar Springs towards Mill Hall was
under water eighteen inches and it
was necessary to detour travel via.
the hill route.
Down at Millheim the lower streets
on Tuesday were all under water so
that only those pedestrians equipped
with hip boots could do any traveling.
But the water was not quite high
enough to reach the first floors of any
of the buildings. Parts of Coburn
were also flooded.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—A Hebron, Tioga county farmer, who
i sold four veal calves for $117 spot cash,
; says they did not pay for the milk which
i they consumed in their short lives. It
i would have brought more money at fac-
! tories.
i —There were only 116 men engaged in
teaching in Lancaster county in the school
year now ended or soon to end. The num-
ber of women thus engaged is 747. This
is the smallest percentage of men in the
teaching body that ever was known in
that county.
—The Forest county bear crop is report-
ed to be plentiful this year. A report
from Mayburg says that when James
Babb Sr., of that place, was going to work
he spied a wee bear cub up in a tree which
he captured and took home as a pet for
his grandson.
—Robert McCulloch, of Jersey Shore,
bought an expensive team of big black
horses last week for use on his farm near
that town. They got scared the first day,
ran away and dashed headlong into a trol-
ley car standing on Main street and both
equines were killed outright.
—Officials of the Hazleton and Mahanoy
division of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
have received notice from the railroad ad-
ministration to be economical in the use
of ice in coolers in cars, stations and of-
fices, owing to the scarcity of the natural
ice crop the past winter and the consequent
high price.
—A Providence township, Lancaster
county, trucker who generally puts out a
lot of ground in tobacco and who has
just sold his last year’s crop, will plant
the same lot in lima beans this season.
Last year he realized more out of the Ili-
ma beans than he would had he planted
the same acreage in tobacco, and he had
no difficulty in disposing of his crop.
—As a result of an agreement made
thirty years ago that the one surviving
should preach the funeral service of the
other, the Rev. L. 8. Colburn. of Colum-
bus, Ohio, last week had charge of the
services at the funeral of the Rev. F. M.
Cunningham, of Ohiopyle, Fayettte coun-
ty. Mr. Cunningham was the chaplain of
the Fayette county Weterans’ association.
—Two men, Charles Packer, of Bald Ea-
gle township, Clinton county, and Willard
Bridgens, of the Bagley garage, Lock Ha-
ven, with Packer's four daughters, rang-
ing in age from four to seventeen years
plunged into Bald Eagle creek Sunday
afernoon, when Packer lost control of his
automobile above Fairpoint, at a turn in
the road 300 feet from where it branches
off toward Beech Creek. All were rescued.
—Men undoubtedly should be chloro-
formed at 60, but be sure the job is thor-
oughly done. A young highwayman shov-
ed a gun under the nose of a man named
McHale, aged 65 years, at Kane, McKean
county, and demanded his money. When
“Mac” got through with him, “Mac” had
the revolver, a handkerchief and $5 be-
longing to the marauder, and the reason !
he didn’t have his assailant’s clothes was
they gave way while he was stripping _
him. ;
—A car load of leather was among the
merchandise saved from the Sabula tunnel
fire caused by a wreck on the Pennsylva-
nia railroad at that Clearfield county town.
But after the car had been withdrawn
from the flames the people living in the
vicinity seemed to think the leather pub-
lic property, and much of it disappeared.
New the railroad detectives have given
those appropriating the leather a few days
in which to return it, and it is coming
back rapidly. 3
—The other day workmen started peel- °
ing bark on a big tract of timber near
Grahamton, and soon the cutting and saw-
ing will begin on 14500,000 feet of original-
growth pine and hemlock and a small
amount of hardwood. The tract is known
as the Woolridge place and was purchas-
ed from Edward Woolridge, former sher-
iff of Clearfield county. The Wallin-Gra-
ham company, recenly organized, will op-
erate and inside of a month will have a
big sawmill on the tract.
—The firm of Deiley Brothers, of Beth-
lehem, has brought suit against the Phila-
delphia & Reading Railway for a claim of
$700 for loss on a carload of potatoes pur-
chased at Philadelphia June 14th, 1917,
and shipped to Bethlehem on the above
named railroad, not arriving till June 20,
and because of the delay in a spoiled con-
dition. The potatoes were sold for $984,
whereas if they had been shipped without
delay, the plaintiff considers that they
would have sold for $1,684.
—Boldly confronting a burglar who was
elimbing through a window at her home
in North Wales, Montgomery county,
shortly after midnight Saturday, Miss Lu-
lu Frank, daughter of William H. Frank,
told him she was going to shoot and the
intruder dashed away. Miss Frank, who
was unarmed, was aroused from her sleep
by a noise downstairs, and she went to
investigate. She saw an open window and
was about to close it when the man start-
ed to climb through from the ouside.
—It has cost Tioga county $2,866.90 for
sheep damages since January 1, 1919. This
includes one hundred and fourteen sheep
kiled and one hundred and twenty-nine
injured. This is an extraordinarily large
amount to pay out for sheep damages for
so short a period. It is supposed that this
is caused by dog owners not obeying the
law, and. lack of diligence on the part of
the constables whose duty it is to see that
the dog law is properly enforced. Last
year Tioga county’s sheep killing bill was
over $8,000.
—While crazed with drink Alexander
Gangulosky, of Shamokin, drove his wife
from home after hitting her with an iron
bar, and then, apparently remorseful over
her refusal to return, shouted good-bye to
the world from the front porch of his
home and fired three shots into his own
body. Attracted by the shots neighbors
found him unconscious with one bullet
hole in his neck and two in his abdomen.
That he should have the fortitude to shoot
himself three times makes his rash act one
of the most spectacular attempts at sui-
cide ever known in that locality. He was
rushed to the Shamokin hospital where it
was announced that he had no chance for
recovery.
—The mystery attached to the destruc-
tion by fire on May 13th, 1916, of the Ly-
ceum theatre, Allentown, which at that
time was firmly believed to have been of
incendiary origin, is believed to have been
cleared up by the arrest during the past
three days of three alleged accomplices in
the crime. Frank Emmet, proprietor of
the theatre when it was destroyed and the
present owner of the Regent, is accused in
a written confession in the hands of the
district attorney, of being the instigator
and paymaster in the plot while Frank
Wernett, moving picture operator, and
Roy W. Middlecamp, also an operator, and
both employees of Mr, Emmet at the time,
are accused of being the perpetrators of
the crime.