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INK SLINGS.
—Girls. A vanity bag may catch a
man, but it takes a frying pan and a
good cook book to hold him.
Mr. Wallingford humbly takes
off his hat to Mr. Ponzi and tearfully
admits that Blackie Daw is a piker.
—1In the last analysis inflation is
nothing more nor less than getting
the most money for the least service.
—Senator Harding’s idea of a cam-
paign is to stand on his own front
porch and ask Governor Cox where he
stands.
—The last word in the manner of
training children almost always comes
from some one who has never had any
to train.
—1In these days of high prices and
often unobtainable maids folks are
doin’ their own reachin’ who seldom
did it before.
—If what you are doing bothers
you, do it a little better and you will
either be more satisfied with your
work or called to a better job.
—If the federal authorities really
have succeeded in arresting the kid-
naper of the Coughlin baby hanging
will be none too good for him.
—The “old skates” about town are
not cheered up by the temporary loca-
tion here of a regular skating rink, It
isn’t that kind of foot-work they were
up in.
—Mr. Harding is almost as anxious
to find out where Mr. Cox stands on
the Prohibition and League of Nations
questions as the public is to find out
where the evasive Mr. Harding stands
on the same questions.
—As a frenzied financier Mr. Ponzi, 4
of Boston, has had a career that
makes the greatest games that Tom
Lawson ever played look amateurish.
Besides, the Ponzi scheme appears to
be legally on the level.
—Of course the recent boost in
freight and passenger rates author-
ized by the Interstate Commerce
Commission was actually necessary to
save the railroads from bankruptcy
but the public will pay the bill just as
it always does.
—Many of the men who were sent
home from the trout streams of the
county last Saturday, because the sea-
son closed then, have found it quite
impossible to settle down to work un-
til all the post-mortems over the big
ones that got away have been held.
—OQur friend A. M. P. drew two
inches of space on the bottom of a
front page of one metropolitan daily
on Monday. Soon the name of the
also ran in the late presidential pri-
mary will be as hard to find in print
anywhere as is that of M. G. B,, late
Governor of Pennsylvania.
—In New York poker chips dre so
hard to get that knights of the
round table are forced to use lima
beans in their stead. Now, we pre-
sume, some Burbank will start in to
crossing limas with red, white and
blue posies so they can produce the
colors desired and then a flattening
machine will have to be employed in
order to make the beans stack.
— The American Bar association, at
its meeting in St. Louis, the latter
part of this month, will recommend
the ratification of the peace treaty, in-
cludirg the League of Nations, «with-
out change from the form in which it
was presented by the President to the
Senate. Such public action by the
lawyers of the United States will be
more or less of a surprise to the pub-
lic since it will be public endorsement
of the President’s attitude by an as-
sociation of men most qualified to
pass judgment on the treaty and the
League.
—The Altoona Times-Tribune is all
heted up because a pig has been found
in that city that can walk on two
legs. We wouldnt, for the world, say
anything mean about the Mountain
City, but personal experience there
on the occasion of the annual visits
of the Ringling shows leads us to
wonderment as to the nearsightedness
of our contemporary’s reporters in
years gone by. It seems to us that
the number of pigs that can walk
on two legs up there was rel-
atively as great as that of the ones
that can be seen in and about Belle-
fonte and every other community ev-
ery day.
—Of course the labor vote can not
be delivered to any candidate for
President by any labor leader or lead-
ers. The laboring man reads, thinks
and votes where his personal interests
lie. He will read the labor planks in
the platforms of both parties and he
will consider what the Republican
party failed to do for him in a quarter
of a century of power and he will
weigh that thought against what he
knows the Democratic party has done
for him during the past eight years
and he will vote the Democratic ticket.
Not because any leader tells him to
do it, but because his own good,
common sense tells him to do so.
—“Jimmy” Cox is talking now in
that good, hard horse sense that has
made him the idol of Ohioans for
years. In planning his campaign
speeches he has told his managers
that they must arrange his intinerary
so that his stops interfere as little
as possible with work in the various
communities he is to visit. Talking
about visiting agricultural sections of
the west the Governor says “it must
be between corn shuéking and thresh-
ing for no real dirt farmer is going
to rush off to hear political speeches
while ripe crops are lying in the
fields.” That’s the kind of practical,
common sense things our next Presi-
dent is always thinking about.
4
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
yor. 9
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST
6, 1920.
NO. 31.
Taft’s Strange Attitude.
Governor Cox Will Not Straddle.
In a special plea which is as stupid; Senator Harding is still insisting |
President who has declared himself | questions propounded on the occasion
against the vital policy which Taft | of Governor Cox’s call on the Presi-
professes to support and against a dent. He wants to know how the
candidate who is in favor of the policy | Democratic candidate stands on the
|
as it is surprising, former President | that his antagonist for the office of ! nia, pretends to be entirely hor x. |
|
in question. His reason for this at-
titude is that the party with which
he is affiliated will be strong enough
in the Senate, even if defeated in the
Presidential contest, to prevent the
fulfillment of the promise of the can-
didate of the opposition party, though
elected. If he had been frank he
would have said that he supports the
Republican candidate because he is
more a partisan than a patriot.
In his special plea, in the nature
of what the lawyers would call “in
confession and avoidance,” Professor
Taft says, “when Mr. Wilson brought
to this country the League covenant
as reported to the Paris conference I
urged on the same platform with him
! League of Nations and why. He
' hasn’t defined his own attitude on the
| subject so that any reasoning mind
could fix him firmly, but believes he
has a right to know exactly what his
opponent thinks. That is a character-
| istic of small minds. Men of his cal-
| ibre invariable “butt in.” They hope
to create confusion that will conceal
their own deficiencies by asking fool
questions.
Governor Cox will be formally
notified of his nomination for Presi-
dent at his home city, Dayton, Ohio,
tomorrow, and in his speech of accept-
ance will tell the country exactly what
he thinks about the League of Nations
and other questions of public interest.
that we join the League. I there- | And there will be no ambiguity or un-
after recommended amendments, | certainty as to his views after his
some of which were adopted into its | speech has been delivered. Jim Reed,
final form. Had I been in the Senate | of Missouri, and Senator Hitchcock, of
1 would have voted for the League and Nebraska, will not think that both of
treaty as submitted; and I advocate them has been endorsed
its ratification accordingly. I did not 'action in the Senate, as Taft and Sena-
think and do not now think that ang- | tor Johnson imagined concerning Mr.
thing in the League covenant as sent | Harding’s speech. Senator Reed and
to the Senate would violate the con- Senator Johnson were in complete ac-
stitution of the United States, or cord and Mr. Taft and Mr. Hitchcock
would involve us in wars which it! were in perfect agreement concern-
would not be to the highest interest : ing the League. But Reed and Hitch-
of the world and this country to sup- cock will not claim vindication in
press by universal boycot and, if need | Cox’s speech as Taft and Johnson do
be, by military force.” lin Harding’s.
Yet the potent leaders of the party | Governor Cox will probably say in
with which Professor Taft is affiliated | his speech tomorrow that the covenant
organized an opposition to the treaty ; of the League, as President Wilson
and the covenant, and with the active | presented it to Congress, was entirely
help of the candidate he is now sup- satisfactory to him. He may add that
porting for President, compassed its in the face of a stubborn as well as
defeat, under the pretense acknowl- | stupid opposition, he would have been
edged to be false by him, that it did | willing to accept interpretations that
violate the constitution of the United | in no respect impaired the force of the
States and would involve us in wars | treaty. The Democrats of the Senate,
of every sinister sort. And he op- | with few exceptions, assumed that at-
poses a candidate who cordially and | titude and the Democrats of the coun-
in full measure agrees with him on try with practical unanimity concur-
a question which “transcends in its |red. But Governor Cox will not try
on their |
importance any domestic issues and
would justify and require one who be- |
lieves so to ignore party ties and se-
cure this great boon for the world :
and for this country,” for the reason
that with the help of the spineless
creature he is supporting the leaders
to deceive either his political asso-
ciates or the voters of the country
by straddling the question as Sena-
tor Harding has done. He is not built |
that way.
——The ratification of the peace
Followers Not in Agreement. :
While Senator Johnson, of Califor-
William Howard Taft attempts to | President answer some more or less that candidate Harding’s speech of ac-
justify his support of a candidate for | impertinent and altogether irrelevant | ceptance commits him to absolute op- |
| position to the League of Nations, his |
i followers are not so credulous. Mr. |
| Frank A. Harrison, who was manager |
of the primary campaign for the Cali-
fornia Senator in Nebraska, and car-
ried that State for him, has issued an |
address to his friends in which he |
charges that the opponents of Johnson |
have usurped the management of the :
campaign, utterly ignored the friends
of Johnson, and declares “it is a direct !
challenge to the sixty-three thousand |
men who voted for Hiram Johnson, |
that their votes are not wanted in No-
vember.
While William Howard Taft pro-
fesses to believe that Senator Hard- |
ling, in his speech of acceptance, de- |
clared himself unequivocally in favor |
of the League of Nations, his friends |
in the Republican party are not so
easily deceived. In every section of |
' the country protests are being regis-
tered against the abandonment by the
former President, of a policy which he
has, with much energy and consider-
able ability, supported ever since the
return of the President from France,
nearly a year ago. They interpret the
Harding speech somewhat as the
Johnson followers in Nebraska con-
strue it, and refuse to support a can-
didate who is openly committed to the
isolation of the United States from
the peace-loving countries of the
world.
Hiram Johnson and William How-
ard Taft are alike aspiring politicians
and believe they will promote their
political ambitions by supporting the
ticket. Johnson’s Senatorial term is
drawing to a close and he is anxious
for a renewal of his commission to
sit in the millionaire’s club. Taft has
grown weary of the precarious life of
a college professor, with the meager
' recompense that such employment. af-
fords. They know that with the de-
' feat of Harding their hopes of future
' political service will vanish, and re-
' gardless of principle and in the face
' of inconsistency, they are stultifying
themselves by supporting Harding.
of a dif-
eir unselfish followers are
"ferent mind, however. ~~~
{
While the high cost of funerals
‘may have a restraining influence on
{ persons inclined to the suicide route,
To a Potato.
By M. V. Thomas.
Little “tater,” tell me true:
Must I now devour you?
Time was when I used to plant you,
Hoe you, dig you, pare and cook you;
When I even tried to dash you
At some disappearing dog.
Little “tater,” seldom shown,
' SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE:
—~County Solicitor Styer has begun ac-
tion to recover for Montgomery county
$7703 illegally paid to the Norristown hos-
pital for the insane for maintenance of in-
mates during the years from 1909 to 1912,
—It cost Bucks county almost $1,000,000
during twelve months to maintain its
schools, streets and roads. Figures tabu-
lated show school taxes amounting to
$428.217,80, while road taxes are $405.194.81
—A boy seven years old, smoking a ci
garette, led the police to apprehend four
Norristown boys, who later confessed to
breaking in and robbing the American Ex~
press company warehouse in Norristown
of seven cartons of cigarettes.
— William Harris, twenty-one years old.
of Sharon, threw three sevens in a crap
game Friday night at Farrell. As he
picked up the pot of $2.60 and walked
away, Haney Adams, twenty years of age,
the police say, drew a revolver "and shot
him dead. Three bullets entered the vie-
tim's chest. The police say the dice were
not loaded, but the revolver evidently was.
——The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke
Corporation operating mines in Indiana,
Cambria, Clearfield and Blair counties,
has brought suit against the Pennsylvania
How exclusive you have grown.
For so rarely do we meet you
And so very rarely greet you
And we still more rarely eat you—
You who once grew in the bog.
railroad company for not delivering the
number of cars they were assigned. The
Coal corporation asserts they lost $35,000
in the month of May because cars assigned
to them were diverted and delivered te
Little “tater,” small of size, other mines.
They have even sold your eyes.
Farmers soon will have them planted,
And the fields will then be haunted
By the folks by whom you're wanted-—
Who will look for you in vain.
Little “tater,” once my care,
For you I'll no more despair.
Tho no longer I may eat you
And but rarely I may greet you;
Yet some day I hope to meet you
Dangling from some nabob’s chain.
—A full-sized still with a capacity for
making liquor enough to supply the con-
suming public of a good-sized town was
seized when state officers raided the house
of Joe Bedona, an alien Austrian, charged
with being the owner of the still, at Ham-
ler mines, near Huey, Clarion county.
Several barrels of mash were found and a
barrel of bottled goods ready for the mar-
ket. It is believed that Bedona was tip-
ped off, as he has not been located.
—What is probably the oldest produc~
ing oil well in the world is located at
Harding Wants Explicitness.
I'rom the Philadelphia Record.
Senator Harding has delivered his
acceptance speech, and therein he
managed to straddle the League of
Nations to such good effect as to win
the support of Senator Johnson at
one end of the line and William How-
ard Taft and The New York Tribune
at the other. Everybody knows that
Johnson and Taft and Johnson and
the Tribune do not want the same
thing, but they are all for the shifty
and evasive Harding.
How explicit Mr. Harding was on
the occasion for which he had prepar-
ed laboriously one may infer from
this fact. He tried to say what would
sound well enough to the supporters
of the League and to its implacable
opponents. Here is the leading issue
of the day, which the Republ Sen-
ators have kept undecided for a year
and a half, and Harding has juggled
his words over it so that he gets the
support of the men who are for it and
those who are against it.
But the Senator demands an ex-
plicit declaration on the subject from
Governor Cox. He will have no shil-
ly-shallying, no evasive utterances, nc
“weasel words.” He has got to have
a precise, definite and explicit state- |
ment about the League from the Gov-
ernor. Why should Cox be any more
explicit than Harding?
has the Republican candidate to wag
a double tongue and insist that his’
rival shall talk straight?’
Mr. Harding was as non-committal
as a human being could be on the
well was completed in 1861 and had am
ter of a barrel a day, which at the present
price of Pennsylvania crude, $6.10, makes
it still a paying proposition. The year the
well was drilled the average price of oil
was fifty-two cents a barrel.
—Leon Grencavitch, aged 12, a Luzerne
county boy, picking huckleberries, touched
sylvania Power & Light Company, when
he climbed a transmission tower to look
for fruit bearing bushes. His clothing
was set on fire but he managed to
scramble down. Companions took him te
the State Hospital, where he is in a criti-
cal condition from terrible burns all over
his body. When Grencavitch touched the
, line he threw out for half an hour the
power service to several cities and mines.
—With an expense of $3000 yearly and
an income from sales of $1200 last year,
the Northumberland county commission-
; ers will discontinue the carpet-weaving de-
; partment at the county jail. The work
was done by prisoners, but it has been
found to be unprofitable because so few
men are in jail since the dry era as to
make it impossible to get enough work-
ers. Time was when petty politicians
would “buy” enough carpet for their needs
: and have it ‘charged’ at the court house,
!and__ thousands _ of dollars . of bad
| accounts got on the carpet-weaving books.
—While Captain D. J. Newmiller, of
; Shamokin, and Ray 8. Nutt, a mechanic,
| of the Middletown aviation field, were at-
tempting to make a landing on the Hoff-
i
1
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MsClintockville, near Oil City, and is own.
ed by Joseph E. Robinson, that city. The -
initial production of 175 barrels a day. It
is still producing at the rate of one-quar-’
a 66,000 volt high tension line of the Penn~
of the party to which -he belongs
would be able to defeat the treaty
anyway.
This, to say the least is an anomalous |
position for a man of intelligence who |
professes patriotism, to assume. If
: millions, but Senator Harding, who is | encouraging.
treaty would have cut down the ex- | the faith that the expenses of living
penses of government by hundreds of | in the next world will be negligible is
now lamenting the vast expense of
the army and navy, voted against the !
Continue the Boodle Inquiry.
question of prohibition, but the Anti- | man farm at Locust Grove near Columbia,
aloon League, a Republican organi- | at noon on Sunday, engine trouble devel-
zation, is insistent that Governor Cox | oped when the plane was only 100 feet
shall declare his warm approval of , from the ground. Their plane took a nose
the Eighteenth amendment. Mr. | dive, striking the ground with teriffic
Harding has not; why should Mr. Cox force. Captain Newmiller was instantly
the ratification of the covenant of the
League of Nations is of the vaiue to |
the world and to this country that he |
appraises it to be, one would think
that his conscience would impel him
to put the full force of his influence
behind the effort to compass the rati-
fication. He admits that the moral
effect of Article 10 would “safeguard |
the United States from any perver-
sion of the high purpose of the
League,” rather than impair our inter-
ests and sacrifice our sovereignty.
Yet he elects to support a candidate |
for President who.acts upon the op-
posite side of this question, and to
oppose one who agrees with him for
the poor reason that his associates in
supporting the candidate of the op-
position are strong enough to defeat
it.
The surprising feature of Professor
ratification of the treaty.
ree
Principal Issues of the Campaign.
The signs plainly indicate that so
far as the Republican party is con-
cerned the principal issue of the cam-
paign is to be calamity. The high
cost of living, industrial unrest and
commercial paralysis will be shouted
from the house tops. “Steel mills set
sixty days as limit before shut down”
is the headline of a review of the in-
i dustrial situation in one of the lead-
ing Republican organs of the State,
and it may be confidently predicted
that the smaller fry of the fraternity
will join in the prophesy early in the
campaign. It is an appeal to public
credulity, and that is the favorite
method of the party organs. An ap-'!
The Democratic campaign manag-
{ers are wise in insisting upon a con-
' tinuance of the Senate inquiry into
| campaign expenses. Senator Kenyon,
{ chairman of the committee that ex-
| posed the profligacy of the Republi-
| can primary campaign, has stated
| that he is willing to drop the inves-
| tigation and give both candidates
| “clean bills of health.” But Kenyon
{is a Republican and is probably in-
| fluenced to his present frame of mind
by considerations of safety for his
party. The Democrats have no such
reason to abandon a movement that
(has already accomplished a vast
‘amount of good.
| It has already been shown that the
nomination of Harding cost his friends
“close on to a quarter of a million dol-
Taft’s disingenuous plea in confession
and avoidance, however, is in his at-
tempt to put the blame for his strange
attitude upon President Wilson. He
agreed with Wilson completely until
the votes in the Senate revealed a
stubborn adverse majority. . Then he
“switched” and because the President,
whose word and honor were pledged
peal to reason is bad for them. lars. While competitors for the party
The high cost of living is a present | favor were spending much greater
and perplexing evil, and every circum- | sums, Harding’s disbursements seem
stance of time appears to favor it. moderate. But he is not entitled to
The increase in the wages of railroad | 5 health certificate of the kind Gover
employees has been followed, as Was | nor Cox may claim. The utmost en-
to be expected, by an increase in the | deavor of a partisan committee could
rates of freight and the charge for | produce evidence of the expenditure
passenger service on railroads and! of less than five thousand dollars in
both charges will be levied ultimately | his behalf, while at least one of his
upon the public, with an added sum | competitors for the Democratic nom-
to his colleagues in the peace confer-
ence, didn’t follow his bad example he
accuses Mr. Wilson of obduracy. It
is probably the most glaring exhibi-
tion of mental weakness in high life,
of recent years, and places the ex-
to cover contingencies. For example,
it is estimated that the increase in
wages on the roads will aggregate
$600,000,000, and to cover that added
expense the freight
service is increased to more than
President in the class of trimming
politicians who have to be paid for
exercising the right of franchise.
re —— A.
——A big drop in coal was an-
nounced at the mines in the neighbor-
hood of DuBois on Tuesday. Hareto-
fore coal was in demand at $12.00 and
$14.00 a ton, but this week operators
were offering it to the public for $9.50
and $10.00.
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——1It is predicted that the census
will show a greater number of women
of voting age than men in this coun-
try, but we see no grave cause of
alarm in that fact.
eer
— Mexican troubles appear to be
adjusting themselves nicely and just
at the time the enemies of the Presi-
dent were trying to make a campaign
issue of them.
PR—
——S8ir Thomas Lipton promises
another contest for the America’s cup,
but he must have discovered a lan-
guishing interest in the matter.
double. This charge will be paid by
| shippers who will shift it on to the
| consumers with a plus, and so on.
{But there is no reason why the
blame for this state of affairs may be
charged to the Democratic party. It
is the natural result of conditions in-
cident to adjustment after the war.
Some part of it might have been
peace treaty had been signed prompt-
ly. But the Republican party is re-
sponsible for the failure to ratify the
treaty and incidentally for part of the
evils complained of. In any event,
however, the complaint would have
come. Industrial discontent is the
only hope of the Republican managers
and it will be created and contin-
ved until after the vote. If necessary
strikes will be organized and lockouts
forced to achieve the result.
——A great many Democrats will
regret to learn that Mr. Bryan’s obli-
gations to the Democratic party hold
him in the ranks, even though his
heart is in the grave and the going is
good.
and passenger
avoided and would have been if the |
| ination spent more than twenty
| times as much. It is certain that
| Governor Cox didn’t buy the nomina-
| tion.
: Besides the Republican machine
has fallen into the pernicious habit of
' buying elections, and public interests
require that such an evil be stopped.
The present party majority in the
. Senate was procured by the purchase
, of the seat of Senator Newberry, of
| Michigan, and though he has been
| convicted of the crime, he continues
| to hold the seat. No doubt the Presi-
| dential nomination would have been
purchased for General Wood if the
movement hadn’t been exposed and
the investigation ought not be dis-
continued until the evil is so com-
pletely eradicated that it will no
longer be a menace to the country.
——Mr. McAdoo now realizes that
the office may seek the man, but it re-
fuses to go the limit of what you
would call diligent search.
——The tone of Harding’s speeches
would indicate that he imagines he is
still blowing a horn in that village
band.
—————p A ene ——
——1If you see it in the “Watch-
*man” you will know it’s true.
be required to?
_ Mr. Harding has succeeded in find-
ing a new suit of clothes for that
venerable and decrepit fake, “British
gold.” What was once a favorite
Republican battle cry was so palpably
false and foolish that of late years
little has been heard of it, but this
candidate of the Old Guard, whose
views of domestic and foreign policies
are about 30 years old, has revamped
this worn out folly, and tells his gap-
ing auditors on the front porch that
“certain international interests are
ready to finance the Democratic cam-
paign.”
Anything more fossilized, more
futile, more foolish than Mr. Hard-
ing’s ideas it would be impossible to
conceive. His opinions are those of
1890. He has learned nothing since.
Probably we flatter him in saying that
his ideas are those of 30 years ago. Iv
is possible that he has no ideas at all.
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Pennsylvania Shows How to Save
Game.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
It is appropriate that at the very
time when Dr. William T. Hornaday,
the naturalist, is warning that wild
life in the United States is threatened
with extinction, an officer of the Ohio
bureau of game and fish has come
here to inquire how Pennsylvania has
succeeded in restoring its supply of
game, which only a few years ago
was sadly depleted. The Buckeye
man’s mission directs attention to the
fact that Dr. Hornaday’s statement
does not apply to Pennsylvania, where
notwithstanding that half a million
men go hunting every autumn and
winter, slaughtering hundreds of bear,
thousands of deer, and millions of
rabbits, besides wild turkeys, grouse,
squirrels and other animals, the sup-
ply is steadily increasing. It will,
perhaps, make it plainer what a para-
dise for sportsmen Pennsylvania has
‘become to state that although it has
been settled for more than a century
and has a population as great as that
of the whole Dominion of Canada the
number of bears killed by hunters
here each year is greater than is bag-
ged in any other State. Not even the
vast undeveloped western States make
such a showing as we in this respect.
If wild life in America is threatened
with extermination, Pennsylvania
shows how it canbe saved. The Ohio
conservationists have directed their
inquiry to the right place. New Youl
is also interested in “The Pennsyl-
vania plan.” The method is simple,
consisting of the establishment cof
many game sanctuaries of a few thou-
sand acres each, bought with the
hunters’ license fees; in these pre-
serves shooting is forbidden and the
wild creatures given a chance to breed
undisturbed. ag
i killed. Nutt had an eye gouged out, hoth
legs broken and suffered from a frae-
tured skull. Newmiller was married only
two weeks ago. They were carrying re-
pairs for an airplane wrecked at the same
| place Saturday.
| —The outbreak of typhoid fever at Mill
i Hall seems to have been checked, with
| the total number of cases being held at
| seven. Six of the cases are being taken
i care of at the Lock Haven hospital. One
| case originated last week, the others oc-
| curring during the past few days. Dr.
John B. Critchfield, of Lock Haven, dis-
| trict medical supervisor, is authority for
| the statement that the source of the epi-
demic had not been ascertained. It is
believed, however, that it is traceable to
an old well at a farm from which the
families affected receive their milk. The
utensils used in caring for the milk are
washed in water from this well.
—A story of how, a short time after
they had robbed a paymaster of $5300, they
were stopped by a policeman in Charleroi,
a short distance from the scene of the
robbery, and after satisfying him they
were all right, went to sleep, with the
officer standing guard, to call them when
their car came, was told to detectives of
Pittsburgh, by Alexander Truesidisk, of
Richleyville, Pa., and Philip Daviduk, of
Pittsburgh. The men admitted relieving
the paymaster of the Richleyville Coal
Company of the money on July 13 last.
They were arrested in Gary, Ind., several
days ago, and taken back to Pittsburgh
to answer to the robbery charge.
—A mob of unidentified young men on
Friday night pelted with eggs that had
outlived their usefulness as food and oth-
erwise mistreated Professor W. M. Kleck-
ner, an instructor at the Susquehanna
University in Selinsgrove. He was beaten
about the head, but succeeded in escaping
and taking refuge in the home of Asher
Hower, nearby. Mr. Hower took his shot-
gun and escorted Kleckner to a street car,
which he boarded and reached his home
in Sunbury without further mishap. The
motive for the assault has not been deter-
mined. The instructor says he has no
known enemies and cannot imagine why
he should be a vietim of such an attack.
—Charles G. Wolfe, Louis 8. Frank and
Samuel M. Frank, all employed by the Ad-
ams Express company at DuBois, have
been placed under $1000 bail each on
charges of larceny and much loot is said
to have been recovered as a result of the
activities of F. J. Kronedebrock’ and Al
Casey, specidl agents for the company. A
number of valuable packages are said to
have been missed, especially one sent from
0il City to DuBois, which started the in-
vestigation by the special agents. The
three men were given hearings before Al-
derman Joseph Bogden. Wolfe is employ-
ed as a messenger on a run out of Du-
Bois and is charged with the larceny of
money and a valuable package. The Frank
brothers are drivers and are held on single
charges of larceny.