INK SLINGS.
—-Harding ought to be an easy man
to defeat.
—Now if the Democrats should
take Cox wouldn’t the fur fly in Ohio?
— Besides Colonel Proctor has
plenty of soap with which to “wash
his hands of the affair.”
—Again let us remind you that we
believe the next President of the Unit-
ed States will be a Democrat.
— San Francisco will tell the world
who the next President of the United
States will be. Chicago merely nam-
ed a runner-up.
— Grover Bergdoll seems to be as
unsuccessful in his search for that
pot of gold as those who are still dig-
ging for Captain Kid’s treasures.
—They say the fly is in the wheat
and the cut-worm is at the corn. My,
what troubles we farmers have during
the crop growing season and then we
have them in the fall, too, for the
barns are never large enough to hold
the crops that the flies and the worms
have not destroyed during the sum-
mer. .
— Bellefonte has again demonstrat-
ed her ability to withstand the ravag-
es of time. According to the tele-
graphic warnings she was to have
been blown clean off the map on Tues-
day. You have this paper in your
hand now so that you know she was
still doing business at the old stand as
late as Thursday night.
—Reports from the south and west
lately are to the effect that the bottom
has dropped out of the leather and
wool markets and that $2.50 shoes are
in sight. Far-sightedness is one of
our disabilities but we must say that
it hasn’t become acute enough as yet
to bring any such welcome sight as
cheaper foot-wear within our range of
vision.
—Harding has announced that he
will make few pre-election talks be-
cause he believes “whirl-wind”
speech-making beneath the dignity of
the highest office of the land.” In
other words, Hughes and Roosevelt
and Taft were all grossly undignified
when they swung around the circle
telling the people who had a right to
know just where they stood on the
great questions at issue. Verily
this country printer from Ohio stops
not at shattering idols in the hope that
the dust from their falling will ob-
scure a real vision of himself.
—The Republican national platform
is broken down with its own weight of
wind-shattered planks. It does not
contain a single constructive thought.
It reverses itself on the League of
Nations, it is neither “wet” nor “dry,”
it ignores suffrage and labor and is
non-committal on every other vital
ues ion presented to the country for
solution. It is nothing more nor less
than a Senatorial effort to throw dust
in the public eye so that a President
can be gotten into the White House
who will do what Penrose, Lodge and
other Senators of their ilk tell him to
do.
—During the week we have met
quite a number of Ohioans and, nat-
urally, the topic of conversation was
the nomination of Harding for Presi-
dent on the Republican ticket. With-
out exception every one of the gentle-
men we refer to were Republicans
and men of consequence in their com-
munities and in business affairs. With-
out exception every one of them ex-
pressed the opinion that Governor Cox
would carry Ohio over Harding; a
few went so far as to say that Am-
bassador Davis could do the trick also
and all but one of them said they
would personally vote for Cox, Davis
or McAdoo in preference to their own
“favorite son.”
—Dr. Finegan, state superintend-
ent of public instruction, made his
first visit to The Pennsylvania State
College this week. While there he re-
vealed a part of what is in his mind
for the educational system of the
Commonwealth. If, as a friend of the
great Centre county institution of
learning, you have read with appre-
hension the current stories of the
foundation of a great university as
the seat of higher education to which
all the common schools will guide the
children of the State, let us assure you
that it is not in Dr. Finegan’s plan to
have such a university unless The
Pennsylvania State College is its cap-
stone. We make this statement here
because we heard Dr. Finegan make
substantially the same one at State
College on Tuesday morning.
— Those of our readers who are in-
terested in politics may recall having
read in this column of the “Watch-
man,” issue of February 27th, a state-
ment directing attention to the sig-
nificance of the hurried visit of Sena-
tor Harding to Senator Penrose be-
fore the latter left for Florida. They
might also recall another statement
published in this column on April
23rd, after Senator Watson, of Indi-
ana, had paid a visit to Spruce street,
Philadelphia, calling attention to the
interview he gave to newspaper men.
He said, “Senator Penrose has in mind
some man of the type of Senator Har-
ding for the Republican nomination.”
Our comment at the time was: “A
nod is as good as a wink.” The
“Watchman” is not pinning any med-
als on itself as a prophet but in light
of the fact that it so easily linked
up Penrose and Harding and stead-
fastly refused to believe that either
Wood or Johnson would have a show
we do sort of feel that its dope on the
result of the big Republican game was
about as good as anybody’s and a lit-
tle better than most of them.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 65.
BELLEFONTE. PA., JUNE 18, 1920.
Impressive Lesson from Chicago.
The action of the Republican Na-
tional convention in Chicago last week
conveys several lessons to the Ameri-
can people, one of which should make
a strong impression on the Democrats
who will assemble at San Francisco
ten days from today. It may be con-
fidently assumed that General Wood
was the favorite, by long odds, of
the Republican voters of the country.
It is equally certain that his candidacy
was better advertised than that of
either of the other candidates. It is
not going far afield, either, to say
that Governor Lowden, of Illinois,
was best qualified of the lot for the
service, though Senator Johnson has
had considerable experience in public
life and has good ability.
But Wood and Lowden were bowled
out of the running because of the vast
sums of money which had been ex-
pended in their behalf. It was shown
by evidence taken before a Sen-
ate investigating committee that
$1,200,000 had been spent in behalf of
Wood, and about half a million in
behalf of Lowden. The Wood money
was contributed by wealthy men who
could afford to give it and the Low-
den money came out of his wife's
pocket. But the idea of squandering
so much money was repugnant to the
average mind, suggestive, at least, of
corruption and the candidate so gen-
erously favored by his friends and
the one so profligate with his wife’s
funds were turned down because of
fear that voters would be repelled.
Of the candidates who will ask the
San Francisco convention for the
priceless favor of a nomination for
President, the only one who has
spent considerable money in the pri-
mary campaign is Mitchell Palmer and
his expenditures were relatively great
as those of the candidates rejected by
the Republican convention. Moreover
the contributions to his fund were
from more objectionable sources. Be-
sides the thousands of dollars con-
tributed by beneficiaries of the candi-
date, other thousands were taken,
practically by force, from the meager-
ly paid Federal officials in Pennsyl-
vania who could hardly afford to give
up the money. If Wood and Lowden
committed an offense, Palmer is guilty
of an atrocity. : “om he
Governor Sproul wasn’t nomi-
nated but he learned a lot about poli-
tics during the convention which may
serve him well in the future. He
knows now that it is unsafe to mon-
key with the real boss even though he
be sick a’bed.
The Republican Platform.
The Republican platform excels in
verbosity, in ambiguity and in vapid-
ity. It has no other characteristic.
It covers nearly a page of newspaper
space and expresses neither principle
nor policy. It denounces President
Wilson for everything imaginable.
That was to be expected for Senator
Lodge is so obsessed with hatred of
the President that he has no thought
of anything else, and Senator Lodge
present, and Senator Penrose absent,
composed the convention. But the
the platform is an anomaly. It ram-
bles from pillar to post, denounces
evils, misrepresents facts but offers
no concrete remedies for anything.
Obviously “too many cooks have
spoiled the broth.”
Of course the platform makers had
a difficult task to perform. The
party is faction torn and in the effort
to satisfy the various parts of the
whole it was necessary to dissemble.
But even that was poorly executed
and the insipid platitudes employed
contradict each other. Upon the
question of the League of Nations
this is especially apparent. A sop is
thrown to the irreconcilables in the
assertion of a selfish purpose to de-
mand reparation and a promise is
made to the ear of the mild reserva-
tionists in the assertion that the “Re-
publican party stands for agree-
ment among the nations to preserve
the peace of the world.” But in its
reference to conditions in Mexico the
spirit of war is the dominant note.
All in all the Republican platform is,
as an esteemed contemporary states,
“the most impudent and preposterous
document ever adopted by a political
convention.” It is an appeal to ev-
ery element of the human mind that
is execrable. There is a concealed
“quid pro quo” in every sentence of
the long drawn out and absurdly con-
structed instrument and a poorly
masked condemnation of every Ameri-
can ideal expressed in our recent war
activities. If the American people
will stand for such sordid and sel-
fish purposes as are expressed in the
Republican planform they are un-
worthy of the high place in civiliza-
tion which the wisdom and patriotism
of Woodrow Wilson has given them.
ee ee
——Republican leaders have been
boasting that they could “elect a yel-
low dog” President this year, but it
may be said that isn’t the reason that
Senator Harding was nominated.
Harding isn’t a yellow dog.
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Harding the Penrose Puppet.
The nomination of Senator Warren
G. Harding, as the Republican candi-
date for President, is strictly in line
with the logic of events. Any
of the other candidates named might
have been favored and if the Senator-
ial investigation had not revealed the
prifligate use of money in his behalf,
Governor Lowden, of Illinois, would
have been chosen. Senator Harding
was the original choice of the Old
Guard, and was indicated by Senator
Penrose some months ago. But upon
his failure to carry his own State for
the nomination, Governor Lowden
became the favorite of that element.
But the too free use of his wife’s mil-
lions in the primary contest interfer-
ed with that plan and Harding
became a necessity.
Senator Harding is a nice, clean,
colorless nonenity in politics and just
such a figure as Penrose and his as-
sociate professional political manipu-
lators require to entrench themselves
in power and license them to loot the
country for a few years. He never
had an idea above servile obedience to
the party boss and never aspired to a
higher station than that of member-
ship in the party machine. For this
reason he has been favored more fre-
quently in recent years and because
of these facts he was chosen as the
candidate early in the campaign for
nomination. That he was finally se-
lected may be ascribed to the fact that
Penrose was afraid to trust Sproul
for a word from the sick room in
Philadelphia would have made our
Governor the candidate.
From the Democratic viewpoint,
however, it is probably better as it is.
Governor Sproul would not have been
a strong candidate for his labor record
as well as his vacillation on various
subjects would have counted strong
against him. But Harding has noth-
ing in his favor except that he is the
choice of Penrose, which position he
attained after careful consideration.
If Harding should be elected and Pen-
rose lives, the seat of government will
be wherever Penrose happens to be
and the purpose of government to
perpetuate Penroseism and all that
it implies. We are not ready to be-
lieve that the people of the United
States are willing to fasten such a
yoke upon their necks. ;
errs reese
—— The nomination of Harding
wasn’t the greatest achievement of
the Old Guard at that. Taming Hun-
gry Hi is no easy task and it is be-
lieved that he is now sufficiently do-
cile to eat out of Lodge’s hand.
Punishment of Sproul.
The failure of Governor Sproul to
get the Presidential nomination of
his party was disappointing to many
of his friends throughout the State
who had been “fed up” to the belief
that he had a chance of such a party
honor and favor. It is not likely that
the Governor was himself fooled by
the hopeful prophesies of the more or
less sycophantic followers who were
urging him. He is too old in the
game of politics and too wise to the
devices of politicians to be deceived
by the transparent tricks employed to
keep him in the field as an aspirant
until the leading candidates had spent
their strength. But many of his sin-
cere friends were deceived and are
disappointed accordingly.
Governor Sproul might have been
nominated in Chicago if he had been
independent as a |
less sincere and
man. In fact there was a short per-
iod during the primary campaign in
which it looked as if he might be nom-
inated in spite of the machine. It
was because of that fact that Sena-
tor Penrose introduced Senator Knox
into the running. That was notice
that Sproul was no more wanted than
General Wood or Senator Johnson.
As both Penrose and Mayor Moore, of
Philadelphia, have since admitted
Governor Sproul’s name was kept on
the list of candidates only for the pur-
pose of holding votes away from
Wood and Johnson and the purpose !
was achieved with “neatness and dis-
patch.”
Possibly some of the friends of Gov-
ernor Sproul will “forget and for-
give” the trick thus played on them
through the Governor, but all of them
are not so amiably inclined. When
the Governor exercised his constitu-
tional right to select men of his own
choice for important official services
he became anathema to the machine
and the bosses determined to humil-
iate him.
path of a laudable ambition
point where a fall would prove disas-
trous, they adopted the most cruel
process of punishment, but the most
certain and effective. So far as fu-
ture political advancement is concern-
ed Governor Sproul is done for and
that is precisely in accordance with
the plans.
— Happily Colonel Proctor does
not need the half million he spent in
the effort to nominate General Wood
and the other contribuvors to the fund
may find an oil well in Mexico.
In leading him along the |
to a]
| Third Party Movement Certain.
The announcement by Mr. Amos
Pinchot, following the adjournment of
the Chicago convention, that there will
' be a third ticket nominated this year,
| may be accepted as practically a cer-
i tainty. Senator Johnson may have
made such terms with the reaction-
aries in his party as will exclude him
from participation in the work of or-
ganizing the new party, but there are
plenty of others ready and willing to
act and the California political fire
brand will no doubt give it moral if |
not material support. No condition
could be more auspicious for such a
movement. Organized labor is just-
ly indignant at the action of the Re-
publican convention and both the wets
and the drys have reason to complain
of its action on the subject.
Last fall a tentative organization :
was created for political service this
year. Among those interested in the
movement were, besides Mr. Pinchot,
Mr. Owen R. Lovejoy, Herbert Bige-
low, Glen E. Plumb, David Starr Jor-
, dan, Bishop Charles D. Williams and
many others. These are names to
conjure with and it is said they had
supporters in a number of the States.
' Their code of principles as indicated
in advance literature may not appeal
| to conservative minds but is certain
"to prove attractive to a considerable
| number of voters who have heretofore
been affiliated with the Republicon
‘party. They declare for public own-
ership of utilities, free speech, equal
economic, political and legal rights
. and other reforms.
1t is expected that the Farmers’
i Non-Partisan League which has al-
| ready developed considerable strength
in some of the northwestern States
will affiliate with this new organiza-
tion and a meeting has been called in
Chicago for July 10th, to take the pre-
liminary steps for putting a ticket in
the field. A considerable sentiment
in favor of Senator LaFollette as the
candidate for President has already
been expressed and the attitude of his
friends in the Republican convention
last week would indicate that it is not
| without his sanction. In any event it
' may safely be said that the third par-
'ty movement is already under way
and i is likely to give Penrose and his
gang a good deal of trouble.
1 4
1
| ——What has become of the old-
! fashioned farmers who every year
| planted a half acre or more in garden
truck and regularly every Tuesday
and Saturday mornings drove to Belle-
fonte with well laden wagons to at-
tend the curb market? Now-a-days
Bellefonte is not only without such a
market, but so few farmers bring
fresh vegetables, berries, ete., to Belle-
fonte, that a wagon loaded with gar-
den truck is a real novelty in Belle-
fonte. During the past few years
Bellefonte council has made over-
tures for an old-time curb market but
farmers gave as a reason for not
raising more truck the scarcity of
farm help on account of the war. The
war has now been over eighteen
months and farmers continue to be
short of labor, owing to the high wag-
es paid in other lines of industry, and
the outlook is no better for a curb
market this year. This is one reason
why every Bellefonter who has the
ground to do so is cultivating his
own garden. He is compelled to do
| so in order to have the delicious green
vegetables during the summer season.
— Times used to be when the bor-
ough lock-up was an institution in
daily demand and a well trodden path
led thereto. Today the calaboose is
almost a relic of the dark ages. The
path to the building is grass grown,
large burdocks grow in rank profusion
in front of the door and the iron
fence partially surrounding it is rusted
off and broken down. If this is one
of the results of prohibition, the fact
must be admitted that it is a com-
mendable one, and the old lockup
should be allowed to rot on its founda-
tion as a memento of the times that
{ have passed and gone.
. ——Summer will officially begin
| next Monday according to the calen-
| dar, and that is naturally supposed
| to be the longest day in the year; but
| the fact is that beginning Sunday
| four days will be of equal length, 15
| hours and 17 minutes, the sun rising
at 4:23 in the morning and setting
at 7:40 in the evening. But the dif-
ference will hardly be noticeable as
today is only one minute shorter.
eel lee.
——The nomination of Harding ap-
pears to have given universal satis-
faction. The Democrats are quite
as well pleased as the Republicans and
a good deal more sincere in their ex-
pressions.
ni to
——If Amos Pinchot gets his third
party movement going Gifford may
get some consolation out of Penrose’s
disappointment.
——As a member of the village
band Senator Harding, early in life,
learned to “blow his own horn.”
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NO. 25.
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| A Woman’s Description of Harding’s
Nomination.
| By Janet Stewart in the
! North American.
THE COLISEUM, Chicago, June 12,
| The tenth ballot is in % y
it is evident that Harding will be
i nominee.
i Fifteen thousand people have gone
mad in a frenzy not so much of en-
‘ thusiasm as relief. Hell is loose. In
' an orgy of dementia, aging, shrieking,
reeling men linked to heat-and-excite-
. ment-crazed women surge and sway in
“an inconcievably restricted space.
The noise would deafen any but ears
already deadened to the cruelty of it.
The world is in eruption. Nothing
I not even the day of judgment, could
: be so awful.
It is impossible not to believe that
| Harding has not been the breathless
i hope of the whole Republican party
| for the last seven years.
Men who hate and distrust him
| dance drunkenly in an agony of hap-
piness at having him nominated over
their months of protest. 2
If madness were infectious this
would be a pesthouse of dangerous
lunatics. ‘
As it is, it is a stampede of brain-
bereft humanity, hemmed into a clos-
ed hades of heat, yelling like jungle
creatures and writhing like huge
monsters in a bestial debauch.
Sense has fled. Decency is dead, pa-
triotism is paralyzed and realities are
reeling.
The lid is off and the world can go
to hell.
Men who could have had the best
have chosen the worst and stagger
with the success of their own defeat.
The American flags pulse in the
withering heat over the defeat of Am-
erican prineiples, as they have over a
thousand such defeats, and will again.
The old guard that was announced
so utterly slaughtered apparently nei-
ther dies nor surrenders.
Jonnson was right. It was a “fam-
ily quarrel” and delegates throw their
hats at each other in congratulation
that it is over.
In the bedlam, men and women em-
brace one another for joy in having
done what none of them wanted to.
Bunches of Harding’s photographs
float through the fetid air.
A large portrait of him preceded by
the colors of the United States leads
a procession through the mass of dele-
gates, :
Wisconsin stands like a stiff little
pisiand against the waves of unanim-
AY id waa WE, TNE i
. Pennsylvania, which any time since
| the third ballot could have precipitated
a nomination, is called. She casts
sixty votes for Harding, and it is
all over. Harding’s nomination is as-
sured and other States come tumbling
into the bandwagon.
It is the climax. The achieving of
the nomination leaves the revellers
with no further heights—or depths—
to which to go. The climax is an anti-
climax. The official announcement of
Harding’s nomination by comparison
with what had gone before falls flat.
To thousands it is like the awakening
from a nightmare—or a debauch.
An old political observer who has
seen many national conventions re-
called the scenes in the Coliseum in
Philadelphia
an
the
1912.
“At that time,” said he, “the con-
vention was ruled by highwaymen,
who lived up to their parts to the end.
This time it is more like men who
i had been robbing henroosts.”
The nominating of Calvin Coolidge,
of Massachusetts, for the vice presi-
dency, drags the doubting of the dis-
integrated Progressives and cements
the family reunion.
If to be a whirling Dervish is a
state of bliss, the Republican party
is tonight in paradise.
An Old Guard Candidate.
From the New York World.
Senator Harding is the perfect flow-
er of old guard politics. He is an
Ohio country politician with the mind
of an Ohio politician, and he sees the
world through the eyes of an Ohio
country politician. Being weak and
colorless and mediocre, he appealed
powerfully to the managing politi-
cians who control the Republican or-
ganization, most of whom are Sena-
tors themselves. They know Harding,
and they know that he will be a faith-
ful agent of the organization. They
have worked with him and they can
prove that he never had an original
idea or entertained a thought that was
outside the routine of a well-trained
and well-disciplined party servant.
The Senator's friends are fond of
comparing him with McKinley, but
the resemblance is mainly superficial.
Both came out of Ohio, but if Hard-
ing is a McKinley he is a McKinley
without McKinley’s personal charm,
a McKinley without McKinley's ex-
traordinary skill in managing men, a
McKinley without McKinley’s wide
experience in public affairs.
Senator Harding was nominated be-
cause the old guard Republicans want
a President to whom they can give
orders—a President who will take
orders. Accordingly they present
their puppet candidate in the person
of Warren G. Harding, of Ohio.
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Afraid of the Soldiers’ Bonus.
From the DuBois Express.
Running true to form the Republi-
cans were afraid to include in their
platform anything specific on the sol-
dier bonus. The buncombe spread in
Congress evidently is to be continued
in the campaign, as they fear to pay
the price of a definite promise.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
d Jefferson county.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A Clearfield contractor who has been
remodeling the County National Bank im
that town was unable to get some of the
fixtures for the interior, shipped on ac-
count. of a freight embargo. He found
it necessary to have the fixtures placed im
a refrigerator car, with a lot of ice to
make the bluff stronger. The shipment
was labeled strawberries, and came
through in a hurry.
—The Mifflinburg to Montandon auto bus
line, which was operated by C. W. Klose,
of Mifflinburg, made its last trip lasg
week. ‘The bus line was started to SII
a vacancy in the train service early in
the morning and late in the evening, but,
according to Klose, it didn’t pay for the
gas and another transportation bubble
burst. The public service commission
granted Mr. Klose the privilege of dis-
continuing it.
—The T. W. Phillips Gas and Oil Com-~
pany has brought in a good gas well
on the T. S. Brownlee farm, near Pekin,
The well is now making
about 4,000,000 feet a day. It is in the
shallow sand and was secured at a depth
of about 800 feet. At that depth it is
not probable that the flow of gas will !ast
long, as wells of that kind have created
considerable sensation in the past, but do
not have the staying qualities.
—Two new fire wardens have been nam-
ed by the department of forestry for
Clearfield county. They are James D.
Connelly and Grant Butler, of Clearfield,
and they will serve in Lawrence and Pine
townships. Mr. Connelly is Democratic
candidate for Congress from the Twenty-
first district. He is a member of the
Clearfield fire department and took a com-
spicuous part in extinguishing the recent
forest fires in the vicinity of Clearfield.
—Charles Sotousk, a burglar, of Schuyl-
kill county, who hanged a Mine Hill wom-
an in chains to her own ceiling and left
her apparently dying after severe tortures,
was committed to jail without bail by
Justice Flynn, of Minersville. Mrs.
Michael Pernosky, the woman, testified
her life was saved only by the fact that
the chains slipped. Later the burglar at
tacked two women at Marlin, but was
driven off with a hatpin by one of them.
—Marion Heights, a coal region borough,
on Saturday appealed to the Northumber-
land County Commissioners for financial
aid. It was declared the town is bank-
rupt, without borrowing capacity, and
with no taxes coming in for more than a
month. Anthracite properties for which, it
is alleged, more than $1,000,000 was paid,
are assessed at $35,000, and, with this
small valuation unchanged, there will be
no relief for the next three years, it was
alleged. - Because of no money, the
maximum wage of teachers? ‘was only
$85 a month. The commissioners will
take some action this week. ;
—Being his own banker has proven
costly for George Mareno, of Chester, who
for several years has been hoarding his
money in an old trunk, which he kept
locked in his room. When Mrs. Mareno
and other members of the Mareno house-
hold urged George to patronize a bank,
after his savings had accumulated to a
snug sum, he replied, ‘I don’t believe in
them.” Now George thinks banks are the
proper place to deposit money. He reach-
ed that conclusion Monday when he found
that the trunk had been opened with
a cold chisel and hammer and one-half
of his savings gone. The thief took $500
and left the same amount. Mareno says
he had an even thousand in the trumk,
—Mrs. Margaret Eichelburger, whose
husband, LeRoy Eichelburger, was mur-
dered as he slept at his home in West
Grove, Chester county, on the night of
June: 1, by Mrs. Mary Frances Dunlop,
whose lover he was, after which she kil-
led her daughter and herself, has retain-
ed counsel at West Chester and will en-
ter a suit against the estate of Mrs. Dun-
lop for $25,000 damages for the loss of
her husband. The papers will be filed in
the courts within a short time and the
case thus started. Mrs. Dunlop is reput-
ed to have left an estate of between $40,000
and $50,000, although Robert W. Dunlop,
the husband, declares that this will be
reduced greatly by investments made by
his wife in oil stocks through importuni-
ties of agents some time ago.
—Injuries he sustained due to a Kkick-
ing mule won an $18,000 verdict for Wm.
J. Varrol, of Mt. Carmel, in the Northum-
berland county court, at Sunbury last
week. The accident occurred at the Alaska
colliery of the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal & Iron Company in 1915. According
to the testimony, the young man was
driving a team attached to a trip of eight
cars. One of the mules kicked and in
dodging to get out of the way he fell un-
der the wheels and as a result he lost the
use of his right leg. The case was tried
last year and ended in a disagreement
after the jury was out twelve hours. This
is the last suit for civil damages due to
accident that will be tried in court, all
such matters in the future being handled
by the State compensation referee. Law-
vers will lose thousands of dollars in fees
as a result. =
—Charging the father of her 17 chil-
dren with cruelty, Mrs. Delmar ¥. Camp-
bell, 46 years old, of Lower Augusta town-
ship, Northumblerand county, has brought
suit for an absolute divorce. At the
same time she asked the Court for an
injunction restraining her husband from
disposing of any of the present crops on
their farm. She alleges that the prop-
erty is in her name and that it was
deeded to her in 1909. She also as-
serted that in 12 years he has collected
and kept $11,500 of her money from
products of the farm. Fourteen of the
Campbell's children are living, seven are
more than 21 years old and seven are
under age. She says her husband’s un-
kindness has lasted for some time, but
does not indicate the nature of his alleg-
ed cruelties. The Campbells have been
married more than 30 years.
—H. B. Loop, proprietor of the Upde-
graff hotel; Thomas D. Casale, proprietor
of the Casale hotel; James Burrows, pro-
prietor of the New Federal hotel; ¥rank
Hemig, bartender at the Updegraff and
Harry Walker, bartender at the
New Federal, all of Williamsport, were
before United States Commissioner, W. D.
Crocker, Thursday, charged with violat-
ing the national prohibition act. The
warrants were served by United States
Marshal Harvey Smith, All waived a hear-
ing and gave bail, the proprietors in
$1,000 each and the bartenders in $500
each for their appearance at the next
session of the United States court, at
Scranton, October 18. The arrests were
made upon information made by A. E.
Rudisill, special agent in the enforcement
of prohibition, and specific dates were giv-
en when whiskey was purchased at $8
per half plat.