To
INK SLINGS.
—Last year at this time most of the
corn in Centre county was in shock.
Now none of it is cut and can’t be for
several weeks.
——The ministers are all back on
their jobs and that little devil that has
been playing merry h—I around Belle-
fonte the past month will doubtless
scurry to cover.
—“There are smiles that make you
happy, there are smiles that make
you blue, but the smiles of “Miss
Smiling Bobby Jones” are not even
worth the war tax.
—Hungry Hi Johnson is ominously
silent, while Taft and Wickersham
are pledging Harding to a League of
Nations with another name. But
Taft and Wickersham may go too far.
—TItaly is in the throes of a social
revolution that her government seems
impotent to control. It has taken the
form of Sovietism and has already
gained such headway that the rest of
Europe, outside of Russia, is quaking
in its boots.
—Anyway, all of the delay in get-
ting Bishop street opened has not
been without some result. The an-
nouncement that it is to be opened to
Perry alley will inform about three
thousand, nine hundred and seventy-
nine residents that the alley in ques-
tion is Perry and not “Brockerhoff’s
alley.”
—Senator Harding’s latest eruption
of wisdom is to the effect that condi-
tions are changing so rapidly that it
is impossible for him to announce
a specific program for a new League
of Nations or a substitute for the old
League. It seems that he is so busy
settin’ thinkin’ on that front porch
that he hasn’t time to hatch a single
idea.
—Again Mr. Bryan is to head a new
party and again Mr. Bryan sees “no
reason why he should be read out of
the Democratic party.” Really, it is
funny how some minds work. If he
needs a new party surely it must be
because he no longer believes in the
principles espoused by Democracy and
if he doesn’t believe in them he reads
himself out. No one else need do it
for him.
—The enforcement of the Volstead
act will probably never be effected un-
less the government hires about fifty-
five million of our people to watch the
other fifty-five million. The orgy of
whiskey sales that is now being ex-
perienced can’t be stopped without an
army of officials. There is no use of
expecting men to do the impossible so
the “Watchman” still maintains its
previously announced opinion that the
; ad - cheapest way to solve the
to let the boot-leggers go
ant stuff is all consumed and
then there will be an end of the whole
business.
—There are just one-hundred and
sixty-nine subscribers to the Watch-
man in Bellefonte who evidently over-
looked the appeal we made for re-
mittances last week. We hope: they
will look at the labels on this paper
and accept this as a gentle reminder
that their paper is not paid
in advance as we would like to have
it. They are not the only ones, how-
ever. There are still lots of them in
other sections and as we have to have
$2040.00 by Sept. 15th we’ll have to
get some one to endorse for us if it
isn’t forthcoming soon. . And then
we’ll have to get the blue cross work-
ing again to protect the endorser
against having to pay the note.
—With the addition of the names
of ten thousand women to the voting
lists in Centre couny it will probably
become necessary to further increase
the number of precincts in the coun-
ty. In some of the larger ones a gen-
eral election has already made the
work of the election boards so volum-
inous that they have frequently not
been able to complete the count for
seventeen hours after the closing of
the polls. With the number of voters
practically doubled in these precincts
it will probably require double the time
so that unless they are divided re-
turns cannot be compiled for a day
after the voting is completed. More
precincts mean more election boards,
more constables and more incidental
expenses as well.
—The Rev. John Roach Straton,
Baptist, of New York city, rises in
holy horror to protest against the pro-
posal of the National Association of
Dancing Teachers to name a new
terpsichorean stunt, the “Wesleyan
Wiggle,” as a sop to we Methodists
who inveigh against any form of
dancing. While we agree with the
eminent prelate that most of the mod-
ern dances are vulgar and some of
them even obscene we can’t lay the re-
sponsibility for them at the door of
the National Association of Dancing
Teachers. If the mothers of the coun-
try were to train their daughters to be
the modest, refined girls that their
fathers loved and respected sixteen
years and more ago there would be an
end of this thing of wiggles and
shakes and bounces and shimmies, for
they would refuse to learn them. If a
bunch of Hootchie Kootchie dancers
were to undertake to pull off a show
in a carnival in Bellefonte tonight the
town would be in an uproar in no time
and the mayor and the police would
be deviled until the hussies were run
out of the burg. That’s what would
happen, yet at the very moment some
of our own might be putting it all
over the itinerant belly-shakers on
another dancing platform in town and
around the walls would be a lot of
mothers of fifty dressed like they were
sixteen.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 65.
BELLEFONTE. PA., SEPTEMBER 10,
Cox Properly Labels Hays.
In a speech at Milwaukee on Satur-
day Governor Cox put the right label
upon the testimony of Republican Na-
tional committee chairman Hays be-
fore the Senatorial committee of in-
quiry. He said: “Mr. Hays has de-
nied that there is any quota. I charge
that there is a quota. I charge, fur-
thermore, that Mr. Hays perpetrated
a falsehood under oath at Chicago
when he said there was not a quota.”
In support of this assertion he cited
from the “Official Bulletin” of the Re-
publican National committee a state-
ment of treasurer Upham that there
is a quota. “This contradictory cir-
cumstance,” continued the Governor,
shows that either you (Hays) are a
perjurer or Mr. Upham is a falsifier.”
There is no escape from this idict-
ment. Chairman Hays’ statement be-
fore the investigators was explicit.
His purpose was to discredit the ac-
cusation made by Governor Cox in
his Pittsburgh speech that the Repub-
lican managers had set out to raise
a vast corruption fund with which to
buy the election of Harding to the
office of President. Mr. Cox read a
bulletin issued by the Republican Na-
tional committee giving the quota of
fifty-one cities aggregating more than
$8,000,000. Chairman Hays swore
there was no quota. Treasurer Up-
ham, whose name was signed to the
bulletin, admitted, under oath, the
quota. One or the other committed
perjury and it is safe to say that it
was Hays.
Mr. Hays was named as chairman
of the Republican National committee
not because of his eminence as a
statesman or political manager. His
only recommendation for the job was
that he is “a successful money dig-
ger.” His first important campaign
as chairman of the committee was in
behalf ‘of Truman H. Newberry, for
Senator in Congress for Michigan.
He succeeded by means that have
since procured the conviction of New-
berry, before a Republican Judge by a
Republican jury in a Republican coun-
ty of a Republican State, of buying
the election. He is simply a political
huckster who has undertaken to buy
the Presidency for the use of Senator-
ial conspiracy, Cox has properly la-
beled him a perjurer.
—The Philadelphia Ledger believes |
the $15,000,000 campaign slush fund
is all right if it costs that much to
secure a Postmaster
will allow the publisher of the Sat-
urday Evening Post to rob the gov-
ernment of four or five million dollars
a year, without protest.
Senator Harding’s Third Shift.
Senator Harding has again changed
his views on the subject of the League
of Nations. In his speech of accept-
ance he declared himself as diametric-
ally opposed to the League and un-
equivocally in favor af a separate
peace with Germany. Several weeks
later he proclaimed in one of his
front porch speeches that while op-
posed to the League of Nations he is
in favor of resuscitating the Hague
Tribunal and putting teeth in it. In
an interview with former Attorney
General Wickersham last Sunday he
said he “would not wholly and finally
reject the League but would take the
lead in revising the covenant and put-
ting it into practical operation.” Thus
we have three pledges in about six
weeks.
As we have said before, probably
Senator Harding never read the cov-
enant of the League of Nations. The
purpose of the League of Nations is
“to promote international co-opera-
tion and achieve international peace
and security.” The best minds in
the civilized world collaborated on the
covenant with this object in view. But
Senator Harding says it will work the
contrary result. He declares that it
would necessarily foment strife and
cause wars. All the great minds that
labored on the creation of this peace
plan were wild and wool gathering.
Only he understands the significance
of the language employed. All oth-
ers are ignorant or perfidious. They
pretend one thing and mean another.
The alternative is, that having read
the covenant Senator Harding doesn’t
understand it. That implies a depth
of ignorance that is almost inconceiv-
able in a man aspiring to the great
office of President of the United
States. Of course, it is possible that
he has read the instrument and under-
stands it. but deliberately and mali-
ciously misrepresents it. This inter-
pretation of the matter implies an as-
persion upon Senator Harding’s char-
acter for truth and probity. Only a
man of criminal impulses would falsi-
fy facts knowingly to deceive the pub-
lic for selfish reasons. But Senator
Harding has placed himself in an at-
titude which compels the conclusion
that he is doing just that.
ene feet
—Labor day seems to have been a
busy’ day for Governor Cox. He not
only made several speeches on that
day but qualified for membership in
the race driver’s union.
General who |
Holding Our Own Sufficient.
The first gun in the Presidential
battle of 1920 will be fired in Maine ! Ohio, who attained considerable prom- |
Dig Up the Facts.
Mr. E. H. Moore, of Youngstown,
1920.
NO. 36.
| What the Borough Dads Did on Mon-
day Evening.
|
Seven members were present at the
on Monday, but the old tradition “as inence as manager of Governor CoX’s | regular meeting of borough council
| goes Maine so goes the Union,” no | campaign for nomination, who was a | on Monday evening. Mrs. Theressa
{ longer abides. Since the close of the | Witness before the Senate committee | McClure and James I. McClure sub-
! Sixty-fourth Congress the Democrats
, of Maine have had no representative
in the popular branch of that body,
"and though there have been pretty
strenuous campaigns there in recent
years, it has long been regarded as a
' Republican State. At every Presiden-
!tial election since 1848, when ‘she
: went hell bent for Governor Kent” the
| Republicans polled substantial major-
| ities, though in 1916 the difference be-
i tween Wilson and Judge Hughes was
|less than six thousand votes, and in
11908 a Democratic Senator in Con-
| gress was chosen.
{ The uncertainty as to the effect of
| woman suffrage in the State casts a
shadow of uncertainty as to the result
| of this year’s poll and both parties
have been making vigorous fights for
| the mastery. There has been less or-
i atory than usual, Franklin D. Roose-
velt, the nominee for Vice President,
[boing the only Democratic orator of
| National fame, on the stump, while
| the Republicans have had only second-
raters on the job. But Republican
National chairman Hays has been
| busy and it is a safe bet that he has
placed a considerable part of the slush
fund where it will do the most good in
the campaign. Maine is notoriously
responsive to the arguments of hard
cash generously distributed.
: Reports from the seat of the con-
| tests are to the effect that “both sides
| are confident of victory.” It is safe,
however, to assume that the -confi-
dence of the Democrats is limited to
i the belief that the usual Republican
“majority will not be exceeded. In the
| presence of the new clement in the
electorate it is hard to get anything
{ like accurate lines on the subject of
majorities. It is safe to say that the
{ women will vote as intelligently and
i probably more conscientiously than
| the men, but the matter of qualifying
i them to vote was a work of organiza-
i tion and expense and it can hardly be
i expected that the Democrats were as
successful as their antagonists in this
respect. Therefore holding our own
is enough.
—It is plain that Senator Penrose
would have worried himself into an
‘early grave if the Nineteenth amend-
ment to the constitution had failed of
ratification. Penrose
. Lochinvar of the Suffrage cause.
Important Collateral Issues.
i While the League of Nations is un-
| questionably the paramount issue in
the Presidential campaign, there are
| collateral issues of grave importance.
| The Republican candidate for Presi-
dent ‘has publicly promised the res-
| toration of protective tariff taxation,
rand his sponsors have almost openly
i pledged their candidate and party to
such changes in the Federal Reserve
{bank act as will restore to Wall
i street control of the finances of the
‘country. In the hope of the fulfill-
iment of these promises the captains
i of industry and masters of finance are
{dumping millions of dollars into a
! slush fund to buy the election.
For years following the Civil war
the tariff tax afforded a source of
graft which netted hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars annually to those en-
gaged in the manufacture of certain
commodities. For nearly as long a
period faulty financial legislation en-
abled the masters of finance to create
panics and milk the public of other
hundreds of millions. The enactment
of the Underwood tariff law shut off
one of these sources of evil and the
passage of the Federal Reserve act
the other. But for the latter the ex-
actions of the world war would have
precipitated the worst panic in histo-
ry. It is doubtful if the country could
have survived the shock it would have
occasioned.
Therefore these collateral issues of
the campaign are of great importance
to the people of the country. Those
who remember the industrial paraly-
sis incident to the panic of 1873, that
of 1883 and that of 1907, need hardly
be reminded of the menace which a
restoration of these conditions mean.
But the favored few felt none of the
pangs which distracted the sufferers.
They garnered a beautiful harvest of
prosperity out of the sufferings of the
public and are anxious for a return of
what Senator Harding calls the good
old days of Republican control. They
are willing to provide the means for
making the purchase of an “under-
shot of the government” and will do
so unless the voters are vigilant.
i ————— RL ——
—An esteemed contemporary is
glad there are only two sides to a
question, because if there were more
Harding would try to get on all of
them and might fracture something.
——Senator Truman H. Newberry, of
Michigan, also is of the opinion that
investigating campaign slush funds is
puerile.
is easily the’
inquiring into campaign expenditures
in Chicago on Tuesday, charged that
the committee is not seeking the best
| evidence it could get. “The com-
! mitte,” Mr. Moore said, “could get
i first hand evidence from many men
i proving his charge that the Republi-
cans were prepared to raise a fund,
not of $15,000,000 but $16,000,000,
while his evidence would be second
hand. If the committee wants evi-
dence,” he continued, “it should call
men who are in the confidence of the
Republican leaders. I am not.”
In this statement Mr. Moore sounds
a note of suspicion which has been in
the minds of thoughtful men from
the moment the charges were first
made by Governor Cox. All except
two of the members of the Senate
committee are Republicans, and with
one exception the committee is unani-
mously against President Wilson. It
is true that in the inquiry previous to
the nominating conventions some
rather startling disclosures were made
and some rather lively ambitions dam-
aged. But the purpose then was not
to impair the chances of the Republi-
can party but to promote the interests
of the candidate favored by the Senate
leaders. Wood and Lowden had to be
eliminated to make Harding possible.
In those circumstances certain
Republican Senators felt considerable
interest in the inquiry. But there is
no such zeal now. All damaging
testimony affects the Republican ma-
chine directly and incidentally the Re-
publican candidate. For that reason
the less that is learned the better for
those directing the investigation.
Senator Pomorene, of Ohio, was
promptly shut off by the chairman
of the committee the other day when
his cross-examination led the witness
close to an important revelation. Pos-
sibly Mr. Moore’s charge that the com-
mittee is not sincere may do some
good but we have doubts. Still an ef-
fort is worth while. There is plenty
of proof if it can be dug up.
—The anthracite miners have wise-
ly cut out their vacation and resum-
ed ‘work in forty mines. This will
enable the President to consider their
request for a rehearing of the wage
dispute.
: Many Women Kick on Paying Tax.
| Registration assessors throughout
| the county in making their returns
| last week of the registration of the
{ women in preparation for the Novem-
! ber election had various tales to tell
{ of how some women protested against
| being registered; and the bugaboo to
most of them was the fact that they
will have to pay a tax to vote. In
fact many women were quite vehe-
ment in their declaration that they
wouldn’t register because they didn’t
intend to pay the tax, however smail
it may be.
Of course the assessors registered
such women regardless of their pro-
test.. Quite a number positively re-
fused to give their names, but for the
benefit of these women it can be said
that it was the assessor’s sworn duty
to get the names and he got them, too.
And now these names will all be cer-
tified to the tax collector of the var-
ious boroughs and townships in the
county with the amount of tax to col-
lect from each woman, and it will be
the duty of the tax collector to get the
money.
Neither the registration assessor,
the county commissioners nor the tax
collector are responsible for the lay-
ing of this tax. The law of enfran-
chisement for women places them on
the same plane as men in this respect,
and now that woman suffrage has be-
come the law of the land it carries
with it the tax. And whether they
vote or not they are subject to the
same laws for the collection of taxes
that the men are.
—Mr. Bryan still remains silent on
the subject of Presidential preference
and presumably his heart is still in
the grave.
—The longest pole may knock the
persimmon, but it was the hard hit-
ting Pole that got the Bolshevik.
—Well, taking it all in all, the
Grangers have had a fine week of it at
Centre Hall.
——Farmers in College and Fer-
guson townships whose wheat crop was
badly damaged by the fly this year are
now favoring late sowing this year as
one means of combating this destruc-
tive pest. And yet, this does not al-
ways work out right. In fact one far-
mer in College township made three
sowings last fall and his early sowing
sowing turned out only about half a
crop while the other field was not in-
jured in the least.
was badly damaged by the fly, his last |b
‘mitted a written notice to council
, that the pole and wires of the Bell
. Telephone company must be removed
: from their property within ten days.
| The matter was referred to the Street
| committee.
i Secretary W. T. Kelly presented the
request of the Abramsen Engineer-
ing company that they be permitted
i to remove from the Phoenix mill plant
some machinery belonging to them.
The matter was referred to the Water
committee and borough manager for
investigation as to the nature of the
machinery and the liability of owner-
ship and report at next meeting.
A committee of the Logan Fire
company consisting of George Eber-
hart, Alexander Morrison and John J.
Bower reported that they recently
made a test of the Logan steamer and
found it in need of various repairs to
put it in working condition, and
further requested council to make
some arrangements for getting the
steamer to fires promptly. The mat-
ter was referred to the Fire and Police
committee and borough manager with
power.
The Street committee presented the
written opinion of borough solicitor
N. B. Spangler in the matter of the
erection of a stable on Boroughs
street by H. B. Kern in which he de-
cided that the question of liability
is entirely between Mr. Kern and
abutting property owners, and that
the borough has no jurisdiction.
The Water committee reported that
a new crank shaft had been put in
place at the Phoenix mill pumping
station, and that the water had been
turned into the new main on Pine
and Spring streets on Monday.
Secretary Kelly reported that the
| Bell Telephone company had installed
i a phone in the sheriff’s office for fire
alarm purposes, and that permission
had been granted the sheriff to use the
phone for calls in Bellefonte only.
The Finance committee asked
the renewal of a note for $1,080. dat-
ed September 3rd, and notes for $700
$1,000 and $12,000 dated September
6th, all of which were authorized.
An ordinance was presented and
passed first reading providing for the
sale of 1343 acres of mountain land in
Worth, Taylor and Rush townships be-
ing a part and parcel of the E. J.
Pruner estate devised and bequeath-
ed to and for the support of the E. J.
Pruner home for friendless children
in this place, to the Centre Game
Propagating company for the sum of
$3357.94, all mineral rights, etc., be-
ing reserved. The board of managers
of the Pruner orphanage have recom-
mended the sale and Tyrone council
is in favor of it, and the only ques-
tion at issue so far as members
of Bellefonte council are concerned
is that of the timber on the land.
Tyrone representatives report that
there is very little marketable tim-
ber thereon and the question of mar-
keting what is there would be one of
great expense, so that it would hard-
ly pay the cost of operation. To be
on the safe side, however, council con-
sidered it would be a wise move to
have a timber expert go over the
ground before the next meeting of
council when final action will be taken.
The borough manager called atten-
tion to the fact that a half dozen of the
properties between Stony Batter and
Pine street have no sewer connections
and the cess pools filled to overflow-
ing. The matter was referred to the
Street committee and borough man-
ager with power to act.
Mr. Harris, of the Street commit-
tee, reported that Bishop street will
be opened this week from Allegheny
street to Perry alley.
Bills to the amount of $6857.03
were approved for payment after
which council adjourned.
for
——A meeting of all temperance
forces of Centre county is called for
Saturday afternoon, September 11th,
in Petriken hall, Bellefonte. All
men and women interested are urged
to be present at this meeting. Mat-
ters of great importance will be con-
sidered. All Christian citizens should
be there.
All Together, Now!
From the Kansas City Star.
Irish sympathizers among the long
shoremen of New York seek to tie up
ocean traffic to force the British gov-
ernment to make concessions in deal-
ing in the Irish question. :
ow, if the Polish sympathizers
would tie up the industries in which
they work to force the United States
to send aid to Poland, and the Czecho-
Slovak sympathizers would tie up
their industries to get a rectification
of the boundary of Czecho-Slovakia,
and the Jugo-Slav sympathizers
theirs, and the Greek sympathizers
theirs, and the Italians theirs, all to
ring Europe to terms, what a grand
and glorious country we would have!
———Subscribe for the Watchman.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Twenty thousand cars will be requir-
ed this year to move the immense potato
crop of Lehigh and adjoining counties,
according to Reading Railway freight offi-
cials, who have promised ample facilities
to handle the tubers. Last year 14,000
cars were required. 4
—Leon H. Noll, twenty-six years old, of
Lewisberg, an electrical engineer, a grad-
uate of Bucknell University, class of ’17,
was electrocuted while at work last Fri-
day at Eldorado, Kansas. His body was
brought east and taken to Lewisburg for
burial Tuesday afternoon. ?
.—A large tract of coal land, embracing
coal north and west of Ebensburg situat-
ed in Cambria county is being optioned to
a number of eastern capitalists. The tract
comprises in the neighborhood of 3,500
acres of coal land. It is said the option is
being taken up at $200 per acre.
—A moment after he jumped from a
freight train near Irwin, Pa., and ram
around the caboose, Leon Andolnally, 20
years old, an American soldier, whose
home is in Philadelphia, was instantly
killed on Monday, when another train go-
ing in an opposite direction, struck him.
The body was dragged for several hundred
feet.
-—Married a little longer than a monih
ago, Mrs. Horace Tobias Jr., of Sunbury,
a girl bride of seventeen summers, has
brought suit in the Northumberland coun-
ty courts for divorce, alleging cruelty. The
girl is barely out of short dresses, accord-
ing to her friends and only started to wear
her hair up a short time before her wed-
ding day. She was Miss Mary Burroughs,
of a prominent Northumberland family.
—Jennie Wreskeski, five years old, died
at the Chester hospital on Saturday from
burns. Police say playmates of the little
girl soaked her clothing with oil and set
her on fire when she joined them to dance
about a blaze near her home. Attracted
by her screams, neighbors rushed to the
child’s aid and rolled her in a rug, some of
the women being burned about the hands
and arms. The girl died shortly after.
Arrests will be made.
—Mrs. Ellen Guss, fifty-seven years old,
of Lewistown, died a few minutes after be-
ing run down by an automobile on Satur-
day night. Mrs. Guss was crossing Chest-
nut street when she heard the horn of am
approaching motor car, hesitated and step-
ped backward into the path of another.
Witnesses said the driver, Frank T.
Roush, of Sunbury, was not exceeding a
speed of five miles an hour, and he was
exonerated by the coroner’s jury.
—Given up for dead for more than &
quarter of a century, Charles Struhm, who
left his home at Northampton, Lehigh
county, thirty-two years ago, and who
was- heard from the last time seven years
later, suddenly appeared at the residence
of his sister, Mrs. Alfred Muth, on Mon-
day. She at first failed to recognize her
brother, but he soon established his ident-
ity. He said he had spent most. of his
time in the west and is prosperous. He
will go back in a few days.
—Mrs. Catherine Bobb, of Sunbury, be-
queathed $15,000 to the Mary M. Packer
hospital, Sunbury, and $300 to the Loys-
ville Lutheran Orphans’ Home, according
to her will probated on Friday at Sun-
bury. ‘This was within a few hundred
dollars of all she owned, according to
friends. The will of Augustus Moeschlin,
president of the J. & A. Moeschlin Brew-
‘ing company, Inc., Sunbury, probated at
the same time, left all of his $100,000 es-
tate to his widow for life and then to his
six children.
—Natrona, a suburb of Pittsburgh, has
lost its chief of police, because after a
search of more than a half year, he was
unable to find a place to live. When M. P.
McFadden was appointed to head Natro-
na’s police department eight months ago,
he left his wife and children in New Beth-
lehem, expecting to send for them within
a few weeks. He started at once on a hunt
for a dwelling. The search was fruitless.
McFadden, baflled, resigned to go back to
New Bethlehem, where he knows of at least
one place where he can live.
James Montgomery was arrested at
Berwick on Sunday at the home of his
grandmother and the police said he con-
fessed to his part in the theft of thousands
of dollars worth of meat and produce from
Armour & Co., at Chester, about three
months ago. Montgomery declared Ches-
ter business men are also implicated and
furnished trucks in which the stolen ma-
terial was hauled away. He was taken to
Chester on Monday and has promised to
reveal the names of the business men he
implicated. According to the prisoner, fif-
teen men were in the party.
—Charges of conspiracy and forgery
have been made against Rev. J. Sechinsky,
formerly of Pittsburgh and later of the
Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Greek Ortho-
dox church, at New Salem, Fayette coun-
ty. In the conspiracy case George Miter-
ka is made a joint defendant. It is alleg-
ed in the information that Rev. Sechinsky
forged the names of the church trustees to
a promissory note for $1800 and three
checks for a total of $850. It is alleged
that Miterka apropriated about $2500
church money. Rev. Sechinsky was ar-
rested in the west two weeks ago and since
that time has been confined in the county
jail.
__After chasing the Kkidnapers of five
year old Danny Moser, of Fayette county,
to the West Virginia State line, members
of the state constabulary gave up the
chase, but reported the circumstances to
{he West Virginia authorities and asked
them to continue the hunt for the three
men. It is reported that the abductors
beat the state troopers over the line by less
than fifteen minutes. Mrs. Moser insists
that the kidnaper was her husband, from
whom she has been divorced about a year,
and it is understood that she will give in-
formation charging abduction against the
three men in the automobile in which the
boy was taken away as soon as their
identity is known.
After two days incessant grilling of
witnesses and long night sessions of court
President Judge Bailey, of Mifflin county,
ordered the jury to find a verdict for $17,
180 in favor of the defendant, J. O. Yeag-
er, against Walker D. Hines and the rail-
road administration for damages in the
burning of the coal shed and warehouses
of the defendant at Lewistown on April
10, 1918. The buildings were alleged to
have been set on fire by sparks from a
locomotive on the Mifflin and Centre coun-
ty branch of {he Pennsylvania railroad.
Witnesses testified that “the locomotive
was laboring hard to pull the heavy train
up the grade and they saw sparks as big
as hickory nuts flying from the stack.
Fifteen minutes later they saw a patch
of fire on the roof not more than six
inches square.’ The principals got togeth-
er and settled the case.