Sheet it is printed on.
INK SLINGS.
—Surely June has given us a few
rare days.
—Again Delaware has refused to
ratify woman suffrage.
— Senator Moses is at Chicago and
already he sees the promised land
with Wood in it.
— What would a National Republi-
can convention do without a lot of
contesting negro delegations from the
South.
__Now the time that she once spent
in the class-room the sweet girl grad-
uate can devote to her ear muffs and
do post-graduate work in cosmetics.
—A month ago all work was at a
stand-still because it was too wet to
get anything planted. Now most all
vegetation is at a stand-still because
it is too dry for it to grow.
—Of course the President could do
nothing else than veto that Congres-
sional peace resolution. Woodrow
Wilson doesn’t look upon the consti-
tution as “a scrap of paper.”
— Look at the label on this paper.
If it doesn’t indicate that your sub-
scription is paid in advance don’t fail
to send us a remittance. We need the
money and we don’t want to have to
get out a “blue cross” at this time.
— Anyway General Wood has a lot
of very liberal friends. A man who
can raise over a million with which to
gratify his ambition to run for an of-
fice has something on the rest of us
who can scarcely raise enough to run
to the market with.
__ It remained for the two big
events, Memorial day and a circus,
celebrated on the same day, to bring
more “jags” to town than have been
seen since the great drouth began.
Where do they get it? Ah, that is the
thing that worries those who don’t
know the trail of the joysome Ive
more than it seems to worry the offi-
cers of the law.
—The Pennsylvania delegation to
the Republican National convention
has unanimously endorsed the candi-
dacy of General Sproul so that the
delegates from this District will not
be able to vote for General Wood un-
til after Sproul is out of the running.
Col. Boal pledged himself to be for
Sproul first, but we do not recall that
Gillette made any other promise than
to vote for the preference of the ma-
jority of the voters of the District.
— The paper that this “Watchman”
is printed on now costs a fraction over
three cents a sheet. Think of the pre-
dicament of the poor country printer
who maintains a plant, pays his em-
ployees and gives you the best coun-
try weekly newspaper - published at
less than the actual cost of the white
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must be a “nut” or a liar. We have
the bills in this office to prove that he
isn’t the latter so that you can draw
any other conclusion you care to.
—A frightful tragedy occurs at a
railroad crossing. Three lives are
snuffed out by the carelessness of one
of the victims. Immediately a renew-
ed demand springs up for the aboli-
tion of the grade crossing. To do this
the railroads would have to expend
millions of dollars; and where are
they to come from? All of us will
contribute through higher passenger
and freight rates. Carelessness does
not get any one anywhere and often
its penalties are imposed on genera-
tions yet unborn.
—_In the future when you address
Theodore Davis Boal, of Boalsburg,
don’t call him Major, as his title now
is Lieut. Colonel, he having been ap-
pointed to this office in the National
Guard of Pennsylvania. As the ap-
pointment was announced last Sunday
there will likely be some speculation
.as to whether it came as a reward for
the wonderful fight he made as a can-
didate far national delegate from this
District, or as an incentive to be long
on Sproul and short on Wood when he
goes to Chicago as a delegate to the
Republican convention. :
—Judge Bonniwell and A. Mitchell
Palmer locked horns across the wit-
ness table in the Senatorial Presiden-
tial primary investigation room, in
‘Washington, on Wednesday. The
Judge told Mitch. that his campaign
in Pennsylvania has been “a ghastly
and debasing degredation of law.”
Mitch. fired back the statement that:
“In Pennsylvania Judge Bonniweil’s
word is not evidence of fact.” It was
a cade of the pot calling the kettle
black, for everyone knows that both
are politicians and will resort to any-
thing to advance their own interests.
In this particular colloquy, however,
we have reason to believe what Judge
Bonniwell said to be a fact and, there-
for, Palmer’s implied charge that he
is a liar can not hold.
__ “Crowding in ahead” may be of
temporary advantage, but eventually
leads to disaster. The habit is a bad
one to form or cultivate. The man
who elbows you out of your place at
the ticket window; the one who en-
tices the clerk behind the counter to
cease waiting on you and supply his
hurried calls; the one who thunders
along the highway and forces you in-
to the ditch; the one who interrupts
your conversation with another; the
one who is continually “crowding in
ahead,” wherever he goes, is gradu-
ally learning to disregard the civili-
ties of society, and the sign posts of
danger and smothering the spirit of
restraint. Restraint is not effeminate.
Caution is not fear. They are essen-
tials of good breeding and common
sense and unless you have them the
day is marked when disaster will
overwhelm you.
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VOL. 65.
Palmer Not a Piker, Anyway.
The Senatorial inquiry
campaign operations of the several
candidates for President reveals the
fact that Mitchell Palmer is not a
“piker” in the Democratic field. As a
matter of fact Mitch is the “high
gun” among the Democratic aspirants
for the honor as he is also the ferret
through the operations of the Alien
senting wealthy clients accused of try-
ing to defraud the government have
been uncovered. But the aggregate
yield from these sources amounts to
considerably upward of fifty thousand
dollars and is far and away above the
total contributed in the interest of
President. It is nearly as much as
that of all others.
contributions take on the form of
vestments more than donations.
most liberal contributor is Joe Guffey,
dreds of millions of dollars’ worth of
property was disposed of a very small
per centage of commission would pro-
vide the $10,000 he contributed.
Judge Covington, who is treasurer of
the Palmer campaign committee, is
an attorney under the Alien Property
Custodian at a large salary and coun-
sel for some of the alien corporations
prosecuted. His fees for such service
to which he was called on the recom-
mendation of Palmer, amounted to
many thousands of dollars so that he
was probably within the truth when
he stated he could afford to pay the
amount he subscribed to the Palmer
fund.
Of course these big fees were justi-
fied by the services rendered to the
German corporations which paid
them! As counsel for the Alien Prop-
erty Custodian and attorney for the
Alien corporations he enjoyed oppor-
tunities for reciprocity between plain-
been impossible under any other con-
ditions and as subordinate to Mr. Pal-
mer in both positions it is easy to see
how he might reimburse ‘himself for
any contributions to the Palmer cam-
paign committee by working “both
and mechanically. Mr.
manager, a Virginia lawyer whose
principal practice is as a Washington
lobbyist, subscribed in the same gen-
erous ratio to favors received from
Mr. Palmer, and so on to the total
greater than was ever raised for a
tion in the history of the party.
But the real pathos of the affair has
not been brought to the surface. The
contributions of those mercenaries is
ate committee into the operations of
the Pennsylvania “drive” for slush
funds, however, the cruelty of ma-
chine politics will be revealed. The
postmasters and other postal em-
ployees and the revenue officials were
not allowed to determine as Judge
Covington did, whether they could af-
ford to give or not. They were liter-
ally “maced” by the so-called Demo-
cratic State committee and the Pal-
mer campaign committee and it is said
gave up from ten to fifteen per cent.
of their meagre compensation in or-
ite son.”
gives the Eighteenth amendment
another safeguard. The Legislature
of the act of the Assembly.
has been decently buried Colonel Proc-
tor may divert his mind by singing:
“For I'm forever blowing bubbles,”
soap bubbles in the air.
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— The former Kaiser, Francisco
hate President Wilson and lots of oth-
er folks love Wilson “for the enemies
he has made.”
— If everybody out of jail who
ought to be in will vote for Debs his
incarceration will be a great help to
him in his campaign for President.
Don’t worry about Senator
Lodge’s honor. As Sarah Gamp
would say, “there ain’t no sich thing.”
— Happily there is no law restrict-
ing the working of the dandy little
dandelion to an eight hour day.
——They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
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the effect of our failure to join in
League of Nations, even if the Lodges |
and the Knoxes of our own country do |
not. In a recent avowal King Faysal
declares: “Alas,
assistance we yearned for, America |
which entered the arena of war on the
stipulation that secret treaties be
abolished, has withdrawn, and with |
its withdrawal the foundations of |
modern diplomacy have been shaken.”
Like all the other small and weak na-
tions of the world Syria relied upon
the help, moral if not material, of the
government of the United States, but
her expectations have been disap-
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It may be said, however, that these | tered the war for the benevolent pur-
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The | Syrians to self-determination in gov-
ernment four millions of our bravest
best young manhood enlisted or
war and nearly one hundred thousand
of them sacrificed their lives in pur-
suance of that philanthropic ideal.
But we have failed to fulfill an im-
plied agreement with them for the
reason that Senator Lodge imagines
that he has a grudge against the
President and other Republican lead-
ers believe that partisan advantage
may be gained by rejecting the treaty
of peace and refusing to join in the
League of Nations. .
All the bloodshed and every other
evil which has resulted from the gue-
rilla warfare in Russia, Poland and
on the Adriatic sea since the signing
of the armistice in 1918, may be as-
cribed to our failure to ratify the
treaty of peace and join with those
associated with us in the war in the
League of Nations. All the wretch-
edness, misery and suffering that has
been felt since the cessation of hos-
tilities is the result of the bitter par- |
tisanship of Republican machine pol-
tiff and defendant which would have | jticians who hope to coin victory out
of such material, in the coming Pres-
idential contest in this country. The
complete defeat of their partisan
plans will be a just rebuke and the in-
dications are that it is certain to
come.
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,——Whatever doubt there may be as
to the identity of the guy who “put
salt in the sea,” nobody will deny that
Colonel Proctor injected soap into the
Presidential primary campaign.
Worse Than a Scandal.
The suggestion of Hon. Champ
Clark that legislation limiting expens-
es in Presidential primaries be enact-
ed, is fully justified by the facts re-
simply a division of the spoils among | ,ont1y revealed. The Senate inquiry
men associated for purposes of lun- | . y
der. When the Pe As eg | into the matter shows that $2,157,145
have been expended in the primary
campaign of the Republican party this
year and $121,297 on the Democratic
side. Of the Republican fund $1,180,-
043 has been expended in behalf of
General Leonard Wood, nearly half
the total while on the Democratic
side $59,610, about the same ratio,
was disbursed in behalf of A. Mitchell
Palmer. General Wood’s fund was
drawn largely from corporate and
financial sources and Palmer’s from
beneficiaries of his own official boun-
ty.
This exhibit is worse than a scan-
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der to make Mitch look like a favor: dal. It is a positive and pressing
menace. On the Republican side it
shows a plain purpose to subvert the
——The recent decision of the Su-| government to the sinister uses of
preme Court in the Tennessee case | monopolists and on the other side to
an equally dangerous agency, machine
politics. It is hard to say which of
of that State ratified the amendment | these elements is the more reprehen-
but it was claimed that it was in vio- | gjple. They are alike selfish and sor-
lation of the initiative and referen- did. The ultimate result will be the
dum law in effect there and that it |game whichever succeeds. Wood's
would have to be referred to popular | glection would condemn the country
vote. The Supreme Courts’ decision | 45 industrial slavery and Palmer’s |
nullifies this contention and practic- | would as certainly commit it to spoli-
ally rules that there is no going back | 4tion, Such a riot of venality as Pal-
mer might inaugurate could only be a
trifle less destructive than the orgie
—__ After the General Wood boom | of corporate excesses which Wood
might establish.
Both these candidates ought to be
hopelessly beaten at the nominating
conventions. There is not and never
has been any danger of Palmer’s nom-
ination as the Democratic candidate.
candidacy is simply an exhibition
of an absurd ambition fostered by the
servile flattery of sycophants whom
he has favored with official spoils.
But the defeat of General Wood is not
so certain. Within a few days of the
convention he is still in the lead and
the exposure of the evil methods em-
ployed in his behalf appears to have
had no deterrent effect. His nomina-
tion would be a public calamity be-
cause of the danger that the same
methods might compass his election.
—_There is one thing certain about
the Hoover boom. It’s collapse was
complete and everlasting.
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— Mitchell Palmer counts dele-
gates as Jack Falstaff counted ban-
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Veto of the Knox Resolution.
If President Wilson had curtly re-
constitutional | turned to Congress the Knox peace
realizes | resolution with information that it
the | could not be approved without violat-
ing his oath of office, he would have
been fully justified in the minds of
thinking men. Peace is not made by a
resolution of Congress repealing
another resolution of Congress. It is
made by treaty and the authority to
make treaties is lodged exclusively in
the hands of the President. If the
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress have no respect for the consti-
tution they are sworn to ‘support,
obey and defend,” the President, who
takes the same oath, has, and in obe-
dience to that obligation he vetoed the
resolution.
But the President was more courte-
ous than the circumstances required
and he gave several other reasons for
his veto and left the constitutional
point to be inferred. He said in sub-
stance, as Senator Lodge had pre-
viously declared, that he is unwilling
to “become a party to an action which
would place uneffaceable stains upon
the gallantry and honor of the United
States.” It would be enjoying advan-
tages of a treaty without contribut-
ing a share in the burdens involved.
It would be like enjoying the rights
and privileges of an organization and
refusing to pay a just share of the ex-
penses of maintenance. It would be
hard to conceive a more detestable po-
sition to occupy.
12 an article written by Senator
Lodge and published in the Forum,
New York, in November, 1918, he de-
clared “we cannot make peace except
in’ company with our Allies. It would
brand us with everlasting dishonor
and bring ruin to us also, if we under-
took to make a separate peace.” To
avert such a dishonor which Lodge
and his associates were trying to fas-
ten upon the country, the President
vetoed the Knox resolution, for the
reason that it “is, or ought to be in-
conceivable, is inconsistent with the
dignity of the United States, with the
rights and liberties of her citizens and
with the very fundamental conditions
of civilization.” And those are good
and. sufficient reasons.
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wth the Alien Property Custodian’s
office who hasn’t contributed to the
Palmer campaign fund the Attorney
General would like to know who and
where he is.
Calamity Howls Futile.
The calamity howler appears to be
working over time. Prices are high,
the cost of living scandalous and
profligacy is rampant. But the coun-
try hasn’t gone to the dogs, as some
people imagine, and is not even head-
ed in that direction. The evil specter
is largely a political bogie man. It is
being used now by Republican politi-
cians and mercenary adventurers in
the hope that it will help the Republi-
can party back to the proverbial pie
counter. Those who are so industri-
ously and vehemently howling calami-
ty are paid agents of the Republican
machine wind-jamming for their own
advantage. Pay no attention to them.
After the election of a Democratic
President next fall they will change
their tune.
The Republican machine politicians
in and out of Congress are responsi-
ble for the present high prices as well
as for the other evils of which they
so persistently complain. If they had
given a helping hand after the cessa-
tion of hostilities industrial activities
and commercial prosperity might have
been restored a year ago. But those
boneheads imagined that hard times,
high cost of living and business par-
alysis would deceive the voters into
the belief that the administration of
the government is derelict or ineffi-
cient. The expectation has not been
fulfilled. Nobody has been fooled ex-
cept the calamity howlers themselves.
The influence of the public schools has
prevented such deception.
Ours is the richest country in the
world, intellectually, mechanically and
| physically. Our only deficiency is in
| patriotism. We tolerate mischief
| makers and malignant falsifyers as
| no other people will. We allow poli-
| ticians to impair prosperity and dis-
turb industrial progress in the name
of liberty until it becomes license.
But we are not always deceived,
though we may seem to be. A vast
majority of the people realize that we
have been hampered in our work of
reorganization and restitution after
the war by calamity howlers and that
while we indulge them we pay no at-
tention to their lugubrious songs of
imaginary distress. We are in good
shape now and after the election will
be better off.
——The McAdoo $10,000,000 cam-
paign fund seems to be as elusive as
Captain Kid's treasure or Grover
Bergdoll’s pot of gold.
—As Alien Property Custodian
Mitchell Palmer seems to have farmed
the office as well as the property.
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NO. 23.
The Hunting of the Snark.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Congressional smelling commit-
tee has got scent of an “invisible
boom” for Mr. McAdoo. As the boom
is invisible, it can only have been by
the sense of smell that the committee
got the idea that there was such a
thing. It also smells a $10,000,000 in-
visible fund to support the invisible
boom. The hounds are on a hot trail.
They smell the ten million fund. If
there is money around, or merely the
trail of money, Republicans will fol-
low the scent; they can smell money
further than any other hunters that
ever lived.
The Democrats never had a $10,
000,000 fund, or the half of it. It nev-
er was worth $10,000,000 to any bunch
of plutocrats te have a Democratic
victory. A Democratic victory is
worth hundreds of millions or even
billions to the country as a whole, but
the benefit to each individual is so
modest that campaign assessments
could not be levied on it. But the Re-
publican party can legislate millions
into a few pockets the owners of
which might invest a small fraction
of their prospective gains in financing
a Republican campaign. But the
Hunting of the Snark would be legit-
imate business compared with a hunt
for a $10,000,000 fund for any Demo-
cratic aspirant for a Presidential nom-
ination. .
It was a Republican ex-Secretary of
the Treasury who, upon retiring from
office and going into the banking bus-
iness, sent out a circular letter to
bankers reminding them of the favors
they had received from the Treasury
and suggesting that there was a con-
venient opportunity for reciprocity.
The Republican politicians are very
business-like. The simple-minded
Democrats lack the highly-developed
commercial instinct. It was a Repub-
lican Senator who wrote that the con-
vention of his party would probably
nominate for Vice President some
very rich man who could put up for
the campaign expenses, and another
Republican Senator who described the
customary plan of financing a Repub-
lican campaign as IYoR the fat out
of the manufacturers.” The Republi-
can politicians see no reason why a
high tariff should not be promised to
the manufacturers in return for big
contributions to a campaign fund.
There are no $10,000,000 funds for
the booming of any Presidential as-
but if there were, one it would
tican can-
if elected, could sign acts
of Congress worth millions to individ-
uals or groups of eminent business
men. The Democrats never saw so
much money.
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The Wood Campaign Scandal.
From the New York Sun.
The testimony taken by the Senate
committee now investigating the mat-
ter of preliminary campaign expendi-
ture has astounded the country. There
is more to come. The revelation of
methods and the disclosure of figures
lined up after the almighty dollar
mark are only partial so far. Fortu-
nately, we are now getting, in advance
of the meeting of the supreme coun-
cils of the two great parties, an in-
structive exhibit of the folly and fu-
tility of a system which results in
substituting for the open convention
a subterranean campaign, or sets of
campaigns, contrived to forestall the
action of the convention and conduct-
ed with a secret pecuniary outlay for
promotion, in the false name of ‘“pub-
licity,” on a scale that would have
staggered the audacity of the boldest
and most reckless manipulator of the
franchise in the old days of the fat-
frying and blocks of five.
The record of huge amounts ex-
pended this year for anti-convention
politics was started by the frank ad-
mission of Governor Lowden, of T1li-
nois, that out of a total of about
$415,000 for his preliminary publicity
all but less than $36,000 came from
the pockets of himself and his wife. |
Then came the equally frank but even
more surprising testimony of Colonel
Procter, as to the expenditures in the
interest of General Wood's candidacy.
Here the totals amount magnificently
into the yet unexplored unknown. We
can oaly consider the indications.
A very serious reflection must occur
to those admirers and supporters of
General Wood who are now noting
and deploring the effect of these reve-
lations upon his chances for the nomi-
nation. Even as practical politicians
they must be impelled by the testimo-
ny before the Senate committee to
contrast the present situation with
that which would have obtained had
his name gone before an open conven-
tion signifying nothing more than a
dark hore possibility upon whose
promotion not a dollar—to say noth-
ing of hundreds of thousands or mil-
lions of dollars—had previously been
spent for “publicity” and “education-
al work.”
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A Pen Picture of “Hi” Johnson.
From an Interview with Alfred Holman,
Wditor of The San Francisco Argonaut,
Senator Johnson is a man of con-
siderable powers. He has a good ed-
ucation, both generally and profes-
sionally. For 25 years he was a crim-
inal lawyer. He has an instinet for
hatred and a talent for unction. He
is perpetually indignant. He has a
heavy mind which works best under
the influence of anger. His method is
to get into a rage and denounce some-
body or something. His instinct and
capabilities are destructive. No man
who knows him can imagine Senator
Johnson considering any great public
question in a calm, judicial frame of
mind. His usual mood is anger.
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Baggage which was lost by Dr. J. M.
{ Fleming, of Huntingdon, at Tours, France,
| more than a year ago, was returned te
him this week in good condition. He serv-
ed as a surgeon in the First battalion,
221st field artillery, with the rank of first’
lieuterant.
—Spruce Cabin Inn, owned and operated
by Price Brothers, one of the largest sum-
mer resorts in the Pocono Mountains, was
practically destroyed by fire Sunday night.
The loss is close to $100,000. The house
was filled with holiday guests, some of
whom lost personal effects. There were ne
casualties.
—A wide search of two weeks for $5000
worth of Liberty bonds which Harry M.
Page, of Williamsport, could not find in
their usual resting place in his safety box
ended the other day when Page discovered
the securities hidden under some other pa-
pers in the box. Bankers, police and
newspapers had helped in the search.
John Getz, 35 years old, was fright-
ened to death, surgeons declared, at the
Lebanon plant of the Bethlehem Steel
company. He was employed in the facto-
ry department, when he felt a slight ting-
ling of the electric current in his fingers
as he turned on the current. Getz had
previously expressed great fear of electric-
ity.
—Clarence H. Hopkins, of Westwoods,
Schuylkill county, accidentally killed his
three year old daughter on Sunday when
the child walked in the pathway of his
truck, which was being backed into the
garage. The father was unable to see what
was occurring until the child was killed.
He rushed the girl to the Pottsville hos-
pital, where she died in two hours.
—After an idleness of two years, the
Columbia rolling mill, purchased by the
Reading Iron company from the bond-
holders of the Susquehanna Iron company,
will begin operations next Monday and
will give employment to 350 men. The
Susquehanna mill, purchased by the same
company, will resume operations about Ju-
ly 1st, after being shut down two years.
—Burglars who robbed the home of Mrs.
H. T. Hatfield, of Hazleton, State superin-
tendent of publicity and literature of the
W. C. T. U., Friday night while the family
was at church, stole $35 and two silver
watches. Mrs. Hatfield does not care
about the money, but mourns one watch,
which was brought from England by her
grandfather more than one hundred years
ago. .
After being in business for twenty-five
years the Hazleton Steam Heating compa-
ny closed up its affairs permanently on
Monday. This will necessitate the instal-
lation of private heating plants in most of
the business houses in the central section
of that city. The heating company is a
subsidiary of the Harwood Electric compa-
ny and shortly before the war completely
re-equipped its system at an expense of
$100,000.
—Fred Carlos, a Lewistown young man
aged 18 years, who is connected with one
of the shooting galleries at the Krause
shows, now in Lock Haven, was accident-
ally shot in the abdomen Monday evening
by the discharge of a gun which he was
handling carelessly and from which he
thought the ball had been shot. The young
man was taken to the hospital where an
operation was performed on him in an ef-
fort to save his life. His condition is ser-
A0US.. led
—Isaac Gaines, 53 years old, a resident
of Hyde City, was crushed to death on
Tuesday evening, May 25th at the Nickel
Alloys plant near Clearfield, when a mag-
net weighing 1,800 pounds dropped, strik-
ing him on the shoulder and crushing his
body. Mr. Gaines was employed as a la-
borer and was passing a car where the
magnet was being used to unload metal
when the clutch on the foot brake slipped,
allowing the magnet to drop. He is sur-
vived by his wife and one child.
—Boiled alive in a cloud of live steam,
William P. Livingston, a former resident
of Clearfield, died on Wednesday, May
26th, at the Chester hospital. Livingston
was employed at the Sun Shipbuilding
plant, and was scalded by a bursting
steam pipe at the shipyard. The deceas-
ped, aged 59 years and 6 months, was born
in Bradfor township, Clearfield county.
He resided .n Clearfield for years, leaving
there almost five years ago. He is surviv-
ed by his wife, one son, two daughters.
—Kugene McDonald went up to Scranton
from Philadelphia to spend Memorial day
with his mother, attending services in hon-
or of soldiers and sailors who gave their
lives in the world war. He heard his name
read off as having been killed in action.
Later he saw his name inscribed on the
bronze tablet. McDonald served with the
old Sixty-ninth regiment in the war and
was left for dead on the battlefield after a
charge. He was rescued by a comrade,
but on the record is marked down as “kill-
ed in action.”
— Rodney A. Mercur, of Towanda, was
elected chairman and Deputy attorney
General B. J. Myers, secretary of the state
commission on revision of county, munici-
pal, school and poor tax laws which began
its work at the state capital last Thurs-
day. The commission arranged to hold
meetings at Bedford when the state bar as-
sociation meets; Stroudsburg when the
gathering of the boroughs association
meets; Wilkes-Barre for the county com-
missioners association, and York, for the
third class city league.
__At Clearfield on Wednesday afternoon
of last week, the jury in the case of Cle-
menti Pistilli, charged with the murder of
Themistocles Cavaterra, brought in a ver-
dict of murder in the second degree. The
verdict was reached after a few hours of
deliberation. The murder occurred on the
night of December 5th, 1919, on a side
street, in Curwensville and was not dis-
covered until the next morning. The au-
thorities went to work promptly on the
case and the arrest of Pistilli occurred
shortly afterwards. Angelo Tucci has been
arrested in connection with the case and
will be placed on trial at once.
—Madly in love with a married man, ac-
cording to the police, Mrs. Mary Frances
Dunlop, living on a farm near West Grove,
Chester county, shot and killed J. LeRoy
Richelberger, the object of her infatuation,
as he lay asleep in bed with his wife and
infant, early on Tuesday and then drove to
her own home and killed her 11 year old
daughter and herself. Mrs. Dunlop was 36
years old and Hichelberger 30. At a coro-
ner’s inquest at which the jury found that
Mrs. Dunlop had done the killing, Mrs.
Eichelberger testified to her husband's re-
lations with Mrs. Dunlop and of her hav-
ing left him. She returned to him only
Monday night. Robert Dunlop said he was
convinced his wife was insane as she had
several times threatened to kill herself. He
had been separated from her for two years.