Dem iatdn.
INK SLINGS.
— Next Tuesday will be the thirsty |
first of July.
—What will Mr. Barkeep make of
himself after next Monday.
—Tomorrow Bellefonte will look and
feel like the morning after the night
before.
— Wheat harvest will be on in Centre
county next week and a bumper Crop
it will be.
—Two weeks of glorious sunshine
were all forgotten in the dreary weath-
er of yester lay.
—The “Watchman” has been right in
its repeated declarations that the Ger-
mans would sign.
—Pennsylvania has ratified the suf-
frage amendment. Ours was the sev-
enth State to do so.
—Everybody seemed to enjoy the air
evolutions except a few of the distin-
guished visitors from Lock Haven.
—Few thought that grape juice
would outlive William Jenning Bryan,
but its era is just about to commence.
The next unconditional surrem-
der will be staged in Washington. The
Senate will ratify the treaty “as she
is wrote.”
—The daily fiights of airships over
this section are causing a lot of people
to look up, who never thought of doing
so before.
—Traveling carnival companies
might have to spend more time at their
“cash registers” if they spent less in
“crabbing.”
—It was probably because Centre
county had planned for a whale of a
time that the weather man sent enough
rain to keep the whale comfortable.
‘Which is the ‘“‘deadest,” Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, or Senator
Reed, of Missouri, would be a fit sub-
ject for a juvenile debating society.
There may be an abundance of
food in the world, as Mr. Herbert Hoo-
ver states, but at present prices the
question of quantity is unimportant.
—Now that all of the war excitement
and celebrations are over candidates
may hope for a patient hearing of their
peculiar fitness for the office they seek.
—If some people could put the at-
mosphere in which they seem to be
congealed to practical use there might
be relief from the ice shortage we are
suffering now.
—The Legislature of Pennsylvania is
adjourned. In doing so little it really
did a great work for the Common-
wealth, for there is nothing so danger-
ous as too much law.
—Nobody complains that the new an-
ti-sedition law is an infringement of
his rights except the fellow who fears
proper punishment for infringements
on the rights of others.
—Anyway the sinking of the surren-
dered German fleet in Scapa Flow re-
moves from the realms of possibilities
any unpleasantness over the mooted
question as to how the ships should be
disposed of by the Allies.
—So far as Centre county is concern-
ed the war is formally over. We have
welcomed the boys home, there is
enough money in sight to pay the bills
and all that remains to be done is set-
tle down to business again.
—With Germany deflant even at the
moment of signing the peace terms a
League of Nations to keep her in her
place doesn’t look bad to peace loving
people who want to keep their sons at
home and get rid of paying war taxes.
—The “Watchman” will not greet
vou again until after the great drouth is
on. It hopes that by July 11th the last
of the obsequies over poor old John
Barleycorn will have been through with
and the country reconciled to a liba-
tion of buttermilk.
—The big noise is really all over and
Fourth of July in Bellefonte will be
about as noisy as a cemetery, but in
Snow Shoe: Ah, that will be the place
on the Fourth, if a real old fashioned
rip-roarin celebration is possible with-
out something to light it up.
— William Howard Taft is the best
chance the Republicans have for a
Presidential candidate. We are not
long on predictions, but we are of the
opinion that he will be the nominee of
that party and the League of Nations
will not be a political issue in the next
campaign.
—Talking about how nice big crowds
will be when there is no booze to spill
over in them they can’t possibly have
anything on the one that was in Belle-
fonte yesterday. Either two and
three-quarter per cent. beer hasn't
any power in it or everybody was get-
ting in training for we have seldom
seen so few jags.
—Great big Williamsport and Liycom-
ing county didn’t raise as much for
their welcome home celebration as we
did tor ours and they have a deficit of
nearly a thousand dollars. They never
did seem to know how to do things
down there and. this is probably one of
the reasons Lycoming motorists look
with such covetous eyes on the good
roads through Centre county.
—If President Wilson takes our ad-
vice he will decline to take any further
action on the war time prohibition
measure. He recommended that Con-
gress declare no further need for
it and Congress refused to act
upon the advice. Had it done so
neither party could have claimed any
advantage of consideration for the
wets, but since it has refused the
President would clearly lay himself
open to the charge of a play for the
wet vote if he were to take the matter
in his own hands and by declaring the
army demobilized make the law inop-
erative until January 15th next. From
the very first the “Watchman” has had
no patience with attempts to tempor-
arily prolong the leases of life of the
liquor traffic. It is to no purpose.
The country is going dry and the
quicker the drouth comes on the quick-
er it will become adjusted to it. In
other words, it will get alcohol out of
its system and be in a position to
judge whether it has been for the bet-
ter or worse.
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VOL. 64.
STATE RIGHTS AN
nmarape, SoC =
D FEDERAL UNION.
7, 1919.
Trying to Defeat Ratification.
The Republicans who are organiz-
ing opposition to the ratification of
the peace treaty have followed the
example of the liquor dealers who are
trying to nullify the prohibition
amendment to the Federal constitu-
tion. That is to say they have em-
ployed former Secretary of State Eli-
hu Root, of New York, to devise a
plan or create a path which they may
follow. In his efforts on behalf of the
liquor dealers Mr. Root has not thus
far met with substantial success. He
procured an order from one of the
Federal courts in New York to re-
strain revenue agents from interfer-
ing with the sale. But a higher court
has already dissolved the injunction
and the enforcement of the amend-
ment is left to the revenue agents.
Mr. Root is a good lawyer and re-
sourceful. Before he had been re-
tained by the Republican Senators to
guide them in their fight against the
peace treaty he had openly expressed
the opinion that it should be adopted.
Only a few days ago he advised
Lodge and his associates that the Sen-
ate has nothing to do with treaty
making under the constitution until :
the work has been completed by the
President and submitted for ratifica-
tion. But since he has been retained
as attorney for the objectors he has
undertaken to achieve their purpose
without infringing upon the preroga-
tives of the Executive. In other
words he suggests that in the ratify-
ing resolution they insert a provision
which may influence the other signa-
tories to refuse acquiescence or con-
cur in something they may claim as
their own.
‘If the result were refusal to acqui-
esce the treaty would, of course, fall,
and the triumph which had been
achieved at so great a cost in life and
treasure, be nullified. Meantime,
however, the. American troops would
have returned home and the allied ar-
mies disbanded, so that Germany
could begin a new war under the most
auspicious conditions. If the amend-
ments proposed by Root were concur-
red in by the other nations in inter-
est, the Republican Senators could
claim that the world peace was their
master work;.and that Woodrow Wil-
son deserved no credit. - Either of
these results would be entirely ‘satis-
factory to them for they would rath-
er deluge the whole world in blood
debt than see President Wilson hon-
ored.
——He laughs best who laughs last
maps
and the fun the Republican Senators
are now having with President Wilson
will look like the dreariest gloom when
compared with the fun President Wil-
son will have with them when he is
vetoing their tariff legislation.
Germany Signs the Treaty.
RAT
The German National Assembly, sit-
ting at Weimer on Sunday, voted 237
to 138, to sign the peace treaty agreed
upon at Versailles and based on the
fourteen points suggested by President
Wilson in his address to Congress in
January, 1918. It was the only course
to pursue. General Foch, with an ar-
my of half a million trained troops,
was on the border, ready to move on
Berlin. The memory of the depreda-
tions and destitution inflicted in
France and Flanders during the four
years of hostilities, rankled in the brain
of every soldier in that vast force.
The time limit for action was ap-
proaching and the new Chancellor of
the German government could discern
no alternative
The peace terms may have seemed
hard to the Germans but they are not.
During half a. century Germany has
never revealed a single generous im-
pulse. Obsessed with lust for power
those in control of the destinies of that
empire invoked every form of cruelty
to terrorize those they desired to sub-
due. They murdered women and chil-
dren ruthlessly and destroyed cher-
ished property wantonly in the war -
just ended. The idea of exempting
them from the just penalties of their
crimes could not be entertained for a
moment. A demand for full and com-
plete reparation would have been with-
in the bounds of reason and justice.
But it would have been impossible of
fulfillment within a thousand years.
The war was begun by Germany as
a speculative investment. It was
prosecuted in the cruelest forms that
wicked hearts could conceive. It was
lost to the perpetrators of the crimes
because the Allies and associated peo-
ple could not be terrorized. The agree-
ment to sign made on Sunday at Wei-
mar was the beginning of the end. The
signing will complete the greatest vic-
tory for humanity and civilization
since the birth of the Savior. There
are no reasons to sympathize with the
sufferers. They deserve all they can
possibly get in the way of punishment.
They approved the cruelties inflicted
by their armies and merit the full
measure of the penalties.
The G&rman government was
cruelly unkind to the Republican Sen-
ators and Jim Reed in agreeing to sign
just at the time that the Senators im-
agined their help was materializing.
Senator Knox has a special reason for
complaint.
————————————————
The President will be home in a
few days and he will be welcomed by
Republican Senators in Washington as
cordially as a smallpox patient in a
crowded play house.
BELLEFONTE. PA., JUNE 2
Senator Sherman’s Visions Lie.
ator Sherman, of Illinois, was speak-
ing the exact truth when he said the
other day that he was making his
speech “against the advice of many
of his friends.” The speech to which
he referred was delivered in the Sen-
ate last Friday and in it he made the
amazing statement that the League
of Nations may “bring the civilized
world under the domination of the
Vatican.” is appeal to religious
. bigotry was inspired by the fact that
| several of the countries which will be
| included in the League, when it is
i formed, are known as Catholic coun-
! tries. In support of his statement he
; enumerated the countries in which the
| populations profess the faith of the
1 Catholic church.
By inference Mr. Sherman said
| that because of the religious faith of
{ those peoples and for the reason that
i “the occupants of the Vatican have:
believed in the inherent right of pa-
' pal authority to administer civil gov-
ernment,” the creation of a League of
Nations is a menace to the Protestant
religion. “The Vatican,” he added,
“is a most earnest advocate of the
covenant of the League of Nations,”
and he asserted that the Pope was in-
fluenced to that conclusion by Presi-
dent Wilson, who visited him during
his recent sojourn in Rome. “It was,”
he continued, “a miraculous conver-
sion of the deep, traditional wisdom
of the Holy See.”
Unless the Illinois Senator was too
drunk with prejudice to know any-
, thing he knew that his utterance on
' that subject was a malicious lie. The
Vatican has made no claim to author-
since Italy established a civil govern-
ment independent of the Vatican in
Rome and neither the Pope nor an¥
one in his behalf has pretended infal-
libility for nearly as long a time. The
present Pope is an ardent advocate of
peace and if he was converted to the
support of the League of Nations by
any influence it probably was the be-
lief that it is the surest and quickest
way of guaranteeing enduring peace
to a world that has recently been dev-
astated by the wickedest war of all
time.
on.
—Von Hindenburg refused to sigh
the treaty for the reason that it would
seem like signing his own death war-
rant. He is among those who will be
summoned to trial for the atrocities
perpetrated during the war.
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| The Legislature of 1919.
The 1919 session of the Pennsylva-
nia Legislature is a completed though
not a perfect page in the history of the
Commonwealth. It was a session of
varying moods and surprising episodes.
It began in bright promise, dragged
along in aimless inactivity and wound
up in fairly creditable achievement.
The ratification of the suffrage amend-
ment to the Federal constitution was
its best performance. But that was
less the work of the Legislature than
the will of the Governor. From begin-
ning to end the session was servile to
a boss. The Governor and Penrose al-
ternated in control. In the final oper-
ations Mr. Sproul was master and in a
benevolent mood. :
The value of the work of the 1919
session of the General Assembly is a
matter of conjecture. The Prohibition
amendment to the Federal constitution
was ratified under compulsion and sub-
sequent legislation went to the limit
in the direction of nullifying it. The
Philadelphia reform measures were
cut and slashed to such an extent that
no estimate can be made as to their
utility. The appropriation bills were
constructed in a hap-hazard manner
that alternately caused hope and dis-
pair. But there is some reason to hope
that in the end something like justice
has been obtained. The State College
appropriation was finally brought to a
figure that will enable that splendid in-
stitution to fulfill its great work.
In the matter of volume the record
of the session leaves nothing to be de-
sired. An unusually large number of
bills were introduced and more than
the usual number were passed on to.
the Governor. But quantity is not the
measure of value in legislation and it’
would be difficult at this time to pick
out enough meritorious work to justify
the long session and considerable ex-
pense attending it. If, however, the
new charter for Philadelphia and the
reform election bills enacted will
guarantee something like fair elect-
tions in that city, the work of the Leg-
jslature will be worth all it cost and the
people of Pennsylvania may rise up
and bless it.
Now that nothing more can be
done for the Kaiser the Republican
Senators in Washington might turn
their attention to helping Villa in
Mexico.
———And Senator Knox hoped that
his perfidy would get him the Republi-
can nomination for President where-
as it has only procured popular con-
tempt.
——Mr. Lenine, of Russia, has cer-
tainly operated an expensive machine
for a considerable time on small re-
sources.
— The news from France ought
to admonish Mexico to behave.
——Subseribe for the “Watchman.”
It may easily be believed that Sen-
ity to administer civil government
! Knox’s Resolution Buried.
Senator Knox’s plan to prevent the
! ratification of the peace treaty has
' proved a dismal failure. After all his
' labor in preparing his resolution and
‘ the speech supporting it, his fellow
' conspirators have practically aban-
'doned him to public ridicule. In de-
livering the oration at the funeral
Senator Lodge said he would like to
have seen the resolution adopted. No
doubt that is true for next to the Kai-
' ser himself there is no human crea-
ture as anxious to embarrass Presi-
dent Wilson as Senator Lodge. But
the scheme was so absurd that even
_ malice couldn’t stand behind it “with
a straight face” and the pressure of
important business gave a plausible
‘ excuse for letting it drop. :
| But Senator Knox’s resolution can’t
“be buried without putting Senator
| Knox's reputation as a constitutional
| lawyer in the grave with it, or in
‘ another grave by its side. The ques-
tions involved are purely and entirely
constitutional. The fundamental law
provides the processes of making
treaties and until Elihu Root, of New
York, was called into the case the Re-
publican Senators may have actually
believed that they had a right to in-
tervene at any stage of the proceed-
ings. But Root promptly warned
them to “keep off the grass.” He told
‘ them how and when they had author-
lity to act and his instructions left
! them no alternative to the fact that
Knox’s plan was preposterous.
Meantime the. Peace Conference at
Versailles went on with its work, ap-
parently oblivious of Senator Knox
{ and his absurd scheme to defeat the
peace treaty, and completed it while
he was “wind-jamming” in Washing-
ton. Taken together these incidents
were too much for Lodge and Borah
and Reed and Lodge as the chief
mourner was called in to perform the
obsequies. It was a grim joke from
the beginning and properly ended as
a farce comedy. It created hope for
a short time in Germany and promis-
ed to make a holiday for the Hohen-
zollern family. But it began too soon
and couldn’t be kept up to any other
conclusion than that which was reg-
istered when Senator Lodge preach-
ed the funeral sermon.
“INTERESTING AVIATION NEWS.
"A big White truck, skillfully cam-
ouflaged, pulled into Bellefonte on
Monday morning with representatives
of the U. S. army aviation service.
i Major A. H. Gilkison was in charge
| and with him were John P. Wood-
{ ward, Arthur E. Bittle and C. S.
| Thornton. They came from the avia-
tion field, Mineola, L. I., and their bus-
| iness was checking up the Wilson
| aerial mail route to see whether it
i will prove available for use in con-
| junction w.th the army service. The
{ men spent Sunday night in Sunbury
i and it developed during their stay
"here that officials of that town are
| making strenuous efforts to land a
| station for that place, even going so
! far as to assure Major Gilkison that
, they rarely have any fog in that
town. Major Gilkison was shown the
aviation field in Bellefonte and all the
. advantages of this locality, and in or-
der to give him a clearer idea of the
{lay of the land in this section of the
| State he was taken to State College
"and shown the big topographical map
,in the corridor of the main building.
Then to give him an idea of the coun-
| try hereabouts he was taken on to-
ward Pine Grove Mills, to the high
i point in Ferguson township, from
: where the big white cross on the top
' of Point McCoy, put down as a mark-
| er, was plainly visible with the naked
; eye. While the Major gave no inti-
‘ mation of what his report would be
he seemed favorably impressed with
‘the advantages of Bellefonte and
| treatment shown him while here. The
' party left Monday afternoon for
points further west.
oo H. Praeger, son of Otto Praeger,
' and Herbert Blakeslie, not a relative of
| fourth assistant postmaster general
James I. Blakeslie, both of Washing-
ton, D. C., arrived in Bellefonte on
Sunday and will remain here as part
of the official force of the aviation
. field. E. F. White, the daring avia-
tor who recently made the non-stop
' flight from Chicago to New York, was
' also an arrival in Bellefonte on Sun-
day under orders to report at the
Bellefonte aviation field.
No Paper ‘Next Week.
No paper will be issued from this
office next week, in accordance with
an old established custom of giving
the employees a midsummer holiday
of one week. The office, however, will
be open as usual for business and our
friends are always welcome. Come
in and see us when in town.
— Now that you have officially
welcomed the soldier boys home show
your heart is in the right place by
giving them the first jobs you have at
your disposal. It will be the best way
to show your gratitude for what they
have done.
——For high class Job Work come
to the “Wa an” Office.
ipm—
second assistant postmaster general,’
Philander’s Motive.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Peace Conference began its ses-
sion on January 18, and it has, there-
fore, been nearly five months in per-
fecting the terms of the peace treaty,
the most elaborate document of the
kind in the history of the world and
epoch-making in its importance. The
work has been enormous and the diffi-
culties almost insuperable because of
the conflicting interests of the na-
tions engaged in the task. This is so
nearly finished that it is expected to
give Germany the final terms aua to
demand a definite answer from that
country this week. In view of all the
obstacles encountered the time spent
in drafting the Lace treaty is not
considered remarkable. According to
ex-Senator Root between 2000 and
3000 men have been engaged in this
labor.
. Now along comes Pennsylvania's
junior Senator, Mr. Knox, with the
bright (Suggestion that practically
everything that has been accomplish-
ed in five months of hard work should
be scrapped and a fresh start be
made according to ideas of his own.
This statesmanlike view is hardly
likely to commend itself to the reprc-
sentatives of the 32 nations gathered
at Paris. Just as they see the end in
sight Philander proposes to cut out a
new job for them that wet!ll require
months more of study and discussion.
Of course, the delegates of other
countries assembled at Paris can’t be
expected to know that this is only a
move in the American Political game,
and that Mr. Knox really has no ser-
ious convictions on the subject of the
peace treaty or the League of Na-
tions. He has, however, some well-de-
fined opinions on the desirability of
Republican success in 1920 and the es-
pecial availability for the Presidential
nomination of a distinguished corpor-
ation lawyer from Pennsylvania. So
he projects himself into the limelight,
even at the possible expense of his
own country’s welfare ‘and of great
international confusion. Doubtless
the German peace delegates are well
pleased with Mr. Knox's sideshow. It
is difficult, however, to see why any-
body else should approve a move
which is so obviously political in its
origin and which, if successful, will
only complicate an already difficult
situation. :
Get Back to a Peace Basis.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
At the recent Democratic national
conference in New Yor]
os k, 8. olwion
: e
National committee ‘advecating the
repeal of the Espionage Act, the aboli-
tion of postoffice censorship and op-
osing compulsory military. training.
t is a pity that these three matters
were tied together in one resolution,
for opinion upon the last named is not
likely to be as unanimous as upon the
other two.
The war fully convinced a good
many people that universal military
training would be a mighty good thing
and that, for a at war, selective
draft is the only just and effective re-
liance, but there is very little dis-
agreement upon the advisability of
getting rid of such war-time necessi-
ties and nuisances as the Espionage
Act and the postal censorship; meas-
ures not at all to the taste of the
American people or of any people who
value personal liberty and don’t like
official nosing in private affairs.
It may be that we will yet need, for
a considerable period, some such safe-
ard against the sinister plotting of
oreigners as the Espionage Act sup-
plied, but it would seem that that
should be furnished by a new meas-
ure particularly designed to meet
Bolshevist and other crazy propagan-
da rather than by the Espionage
Act, which was made to deal with
furtive menace of the sort offered by
the late German government.
As for inquisitive postal censorship,
we should have no use for any other
form of it than may be necessary for
keeping the mails as clean and harm-
less as possible.
The National Democratic commit-
tee may be expected to consider these
matters in the right spirit and par-
ticularly with a determination that
the Democratic party shall hold the
leadership in putting the country
back on a peace basis, while seeing to
it that it is also a basis of ample pre-
paredness for war until such time as
the League of Nations, or other ef-
forts toward millennial peace, shall
show reassuring progress.
France to | Buy U. S. Equipment.
From the Williamsport Sun.
A commercial transaction before
.utes.
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| SPAWLS FROM THE KE® ONE
—Pleading guilty in Blair c¢ iy court
to operating an automobile v . le intoxi-
cated, George M. Hoover, of Y_llow Creek,
was sentenced to pay $150 fine, serve until
September 1 in jail and lose his license.
Hoover said he never would run a car
again.
—The final account of an estate in Mer
cer county was filed in the office of the
clerk of court the past week and among
the items charged was one of $15 by the
son-in-law of the deceased for horse feed
and meals for the mourners who atteng-
ed the funeral. “a Weems I
—Captain W. C. Kress, of Lock Haven,
has celebrated the eighty-third anniversa-
ry of his birth. Captain Kress has been
an attorney in Clinton county for nearly
60 years, and for several years was Su-
preme court reporter. He is one of the
few surviving members of the old Cata-
ract Steam Fire Engine company, of Lock
Haven.
—Mrs. Charles Yurasleviz, 20 years old,
a bride of five months, was killed by
lightning during a severe storm on Fri-
day at her home near Hazleton. Teresa
Titer, aged 14, a berry picker, was killed
by lightning near Tompickeni, and her sis-
ter Mary was badly burned. Fourteen«
year-old Mary Pinter was struck by light-
ning in her home at McAdoo and died in-
stantly.
—Walter 8S. Greevy, superintendent of
the State Employment Bureau, Altoona
office, was acquitted on Saturday of the
murder of Edward H. Steckroth, near the
Greevy home, May fourth. The trial last
ed four days and the jury was out a little
more than an hour. Greevy is the son of
Thomas H. Greevy, prominent attorney,
and is the man who instituted the Belle-
fonte Lodge of Moose.
—DMissing since May 4th, when they
broke out of the Northumberland county
prison, John Culp, of Shamokin, and
Charles Herod, of Milton, held for trial
for the alleged robbery of a number of
Milton stores, have joined the United
States field artillery, according to word
received by Warden Barr, of the Northum-
berland county prison. It is considered
probable no effort will be made to bring
them back.
—St. Marys is to have a modern, fully-
equipped hospital. The old Benedictine
Monastery building has been secured for
such an institution. The equipment will
be furnished by the three daughters of the
late Andrew Kaul, Mrs. Julia K. Reilley,
Mrs. Bertha K. Kistler and Mrs. Joseph-
ine K. Powers, It is planned to secure
the services of an architect, working in
conjunction with a committee of physi-
cians, to draw up plans for remodeling
the building.
—A tribute was paid to Lieutenant Dan-
iel 8S, Keller, son of Superior Court Judge
William H. Keller, by the Lancaster bar,
when a painting of him in uniform was
unveiled and placed on the wall near the
Judge's bench on Saturday. The lieuten-
ant got a furlough while in training at
Camp Meade to go home to be admitted to
the bar. He was the youngest member
and he was the first to be admitted to
practice in full uniform. He was killed in
the Argonne at the head of his company.
—Farmers in Blair county are complain-
ing that the elderberry bushes are being
denuded of their blossoms by persons who
desire to provide against the long dry
spell. The elderberry blossoms make a
wine which, when it becomes a little aged,
has a decided “kick” in it. But there will
be no shortage of berries. Reports from
the rural districts show there will be an
immense crop of huckleberries, raspber-
ries, blackberries and elderberrics, if the
wine distillers do not ruin the latter crop
by taking all the blossoms.
—Patrolman Tracy Miller, of Scranton,
proclaims himself the champion egg eater
in the United States. This announcement
was made after he had eaten forty-eight
eggs in twenty-four hours. Miller's feat
was started when a wager was made that
he couldn’t eat twenty-four in fifteen min-
Miller won easily. A few hours later
another wager was made that he could
not duplicate the feat. At the end of his
day’s work he ate the twenty-four eggs
and complained that he was hungry and
would like to have a steak.
—Charging that his wife was atacked by
a big rooster and that as a result of fright
she died two weeks later, William Frank
Naylor, of Newburgh, N. Y., last week
started suit against J. M. Fey, a Hazleton
grocer, asking $30,000 damages. In Janu-
ary, 1919, Naylor charges that he and his
wife lived near the Fey residence in Ha-
zleton. The rooster came to the Naylor
yard, it is charged, and as Mrs. Naylor at-
tempted to pass it the bird flew at her.
Mrs. Naylor, her husband alleges, suffered
a nervous breakdown and died two weeks
later.
—Lancaster county farmers have dis-
posed of their fat cattle at fancy prices,
as fancy in soce cases as 18 cents, and
they made money feeding them, but cattle
dealers have been less fortunate. The
turn in the tide of high prices was to be
expected. Nevertheless, dealers remained
bulls on steers, and they are believed to
have lost barrels of money. When steers
go up in price beefsteak keeps perfect step
to the rise, but when steers come down in
price it has no more effect on the price of
beefsteak than if the steers were coming
down the lane.
— While on the mountain near Blakely,
‘Lackawanna county, on Friday, looking
after the family cow, Peter Knapp, seven
years old, sat down to eat a sandwich,
Oliver Deider, aged ten, and John Dell,
aged fourteen, came upon him, command-
ing him to hold up his hands, while Dei-
der pointed a revolver at Knapp and it
was discharged as Dell took the sand-
wich, Knapp falling over dead. The re-
which all other deals that have mark-
ed this as the greatest age of business |
in the history of the world pale into |
insignificance, is soon to be completed |
between the United States and!
France. Negotiations, which have
been under way for some time are to
be completed with the sale to France |
of all the overseas’ property of the!
American Expeditionary Forces, cost- |
ing $1,500,000,000. The selling price
is not yet divulged and may not be
when the transaction is completed but
it will not be over the original cost as
value of much of the property is no
longer estimated on wartime stand-
ards. The property includes the larg-
est ice plant in the world, the Bor-
deaux harbor improvements, ware-
houses, railroad tracks and supplies,
motor equipment, foodstuffs, lumber
mills and many other materials.
France will undoubtedly get a bargain
but that method of disposing of this
vast equipment is nevertheless the
only feasible one.
——TFor high ciass job work come
to the “Watchman” office. |
volver was stolen early in the week from
the room of State Trooper Merrifield, at
Mahon's hotel, Olyphant, by Deider. His
mother is employed there. The boys con-
fessed their crime, telling its full details
to the state police.
After shielding her father, James De-
cello, until he escaped, Margaret Decello,
16 years old, of Kane, McKean county, last
Friday confessed that her father, and not
she, shot and killed Tony Grecco at the
Decello home on New Year's night. Until
last week the girl was charged with the
murder on her own confession that she
killed Grecco when he attacked her. Since
the night of the tragedy she has been a
prisoner at the county jail at Smethport,
and was to be tried at the next term of
court. In making her new confession Miss
Decello said that her father killed Grecco
because he was an all-around bad man, a
«Black Hand” operator who had terroriz-
ed Italians, among them was her father.
Four weeks before the murder Grecco
came to the Decello home, the girl said,
and under his threats her father gave
Grecco It is believed that the girl's’
father 13 now in Italy.