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INK SLINGS.
__So far as headlines are concerned
the Altoona papers probably count
that day lost that does not produce a
local shooting or hold-up sensation.
Tf the corn in Centre county keeps
on stretching skyward farmers who
merely top it will have to use step-
ladders when they do their husking.
— Surely there will be a flood on |
east Bishop street if the rather rotund
gentleman of the cloth who is deriv-
ing so much pleasure from the new
Hughes out-of-door swimming pool is
permitted to catapult himself into the
water from that ten-foot diving plat-
form.
—The Senate has passed the House
bill prohibiting the prescription of
beer as medicine. As soon as the
House concurs in an amendment at-
tached to it the amended bill will
probably be passed finally and then
the doctors of the country will lose
cases without number.
— The Secretary of the Treasury has
announced that ordinary governmental
expenditures for July, 1921, were
$322,000,000. Inasmuch as this was
$15,000,000 more than was spent for
governmental purposes in July, 1920,
the last year of the Wilson adminis-
tration, we rise to remark that Mr.
Harding is getting back to “normalcy”
like the old woman kept tavern out
west.
— President Harding’s much prom-
ised lessening of the burden of taxa-
tion turns out to be all for the rich
and nothing for the poor. The excess
profits taxes of the great corporations
and the surtaxes of those whose in-
comes run from fifty thousand to a
million a year are to be cut out entire-
ly and to make up what the rich won’t
have to pay higher tariffs, and con-
sequently higher prices, are to be put
on the things the poor have to buy to
subsist on.
— The elimination of the “nuisance”
taxes will naturally make a favorable
impression on the public, but it is like
throwing dust in our eyes so we can’t
see that the taxes on the essential
things have not been lowered. Ice
cream sodas, sporting goods, etc., may
all be classed as luxuries and the tax
on them is only trifling, though be-
cause we purchase such things daily
it becomes irritating and assumes far
more importance in our minds than it
should have. It is a foxy play and will
accomplish exactly what it is being
made for by convincing all light-heads
that substantial tax revisions are be-
ing made.
—_Our senior Senator has had him-
self interviewed on prohibition en-
forcement, especially as it affects
~ Pennsylvania. He has gone on record «
as favoring most drastic enforcement
of the law, and is shocked at the re-
ports that many enforcement officers
have become rich through connivance
with bootleggers and illicit dealers.
He has issued orders that the entire
force be dismissed and others assign-
ed to the work. -We would be inclined
to applaud the Senator’s stand if we
could bring ourselves to believe that
he is less concerned about what crowd
is getting rich through illegal traffic
than he is about violations of the Vol-
stead law.
—Congressman Keller, Republican,
from St. Paul, Minnesota, has just
made public a statement to the effect
that President Harding has' already
“assumed more power than any of his
predecessors.” He declares that his
party organization is bound, hand and
foot, to Wall Street, and that the pub-
lic may expect nothing good to come
of “its stupid, selfish, short sighted
policy.” We are not quite ready to
cry: We told you so! The President
hasn’t had a fair chance yet, but with
governmental expenses running high-
er even than they did last year and
plans for tax revision that will save
for the rich and mulct the poor the
President and the First Lady will have
to cut out posing for cameras long
enough for the former to make good
on a few of the promises he proclaim-
ed with such sincerity from the front
porch last year.
—Chautauqua, so far as Bellefonte is
concerned is probably gone “flooey.”
At least only sixty-three guarantors
could be secured last Wednesday
and as one hundred are requir-
ed the prospects of a course next
season are poor. It has long
been a question in the writer's
mind as to whether Chautauqua really
fills the mission it was conceived and
projected for. In Bellefonte it cer-
tainly has not and, in all probability,
other towns in the course not so
vaunting in their ambition to leave an
impression of intellectuality, are little
different from our own. It is a sad
commentary on our search for knowl-
edge but it must be admitted that the
great majority of those who have at-
tended Chautauqua here have enjoy-
ed and approved it only according as
its amusement features have compar-
ed with those of Lyceum bureaus or
regular theatrical offerings they have
seen and heard before. The splendid
lectures and the daily talks of the su-
perintendents have fallen on very few
willing or receptive ears and the gen-
ral atmosphere of the tent has given
the impression, time and again, that
they were only being endured because
of the lighter divertisement to follow.
The Chautauqua movement is a splen-
did one, but Bellefonte is really too
much occupied with bridge, one-piece
bathing suits and what old Mrs. Grun-
dy “seen and done” to see that the big
tent on the school grounds was raised
for some other purpose than to show
off a troupe of performing Japs or a
cage of trained lions.
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VOL. 66.
Extra Session Probable.
The not too cheering intelligence
comes from Harrisburg, through the
medium of press dispatches, that it
may be necessary to assemble the Leg-
islature in extra session in order to
clear up the financial confusion in the
fiduciary affairs of the State. Experts
called into service by the Auditor
General have exposed the fact that ap-
propriations made by the last Legisla-
ture, added to hold-overs of former
sessions, will exceed the revenues by
| many hundreds of thousands of dol-
‘lars. The revenue expectations of the
| State administration have been sadly
disappointed and demands on the
i treasury are so pressing that State
| Treasurer Snyder. acknowledges the
| situation is embarrassing.
In order to bring the Senators and
| Representatives in the General As-
| sembly into what he considered a
| proper state of servility to suit his
| purposes Governor Sproul encouraged
i all sorts of profligate appropriations.
| He justified himself in this extrava-
‘gance by recommending tax legisla-
tion on every conceivable subject. Tax
on anthracite coal, gasoline and sev-
eral other subjects have not yielded
! generously. The tax on coal has been
. provided by law continue to run with
| the result that an extra session of the
Legislature alone promises hope of
relief. And even that promise is pre-
carious. ’
This state of affairs has existed for
, many years and no doubt has been
known
time. But it was kept under cover as
long as possible
STATE RIGHTS AN
of Washington’s “Best
Minds.”
The Pennsylvania Republican State
committee treated the woman voters
of the party rather shabbily in mak-
ing them eligible to some unimport- |
ant places in the organization. In the
appraisement of the Pennsylvania Re-
publican State committee the women
voters of the party are “easy marks.”
Flattering one or two with bogus
badges of leadership appears to those
party leaders amply sufficient, and
Mrs. Barclay Warburton was made
vice chairman of the committee, with-
out power of succession in case of va-
cancy in the chairmanship, as full
compensation for the services of the
entire sisterhood. Recent events, how-
‘ever, indicate a different condition of
affairs in other States.
We learn through the press dis-
patches that the Republican leaders in
Congress place a higher estimate up-
on the value of women votes. The
House committee on Ways and Means,
“in revising the tax laws of the coun-
try, sends out an appeal to the women
voters of much greater potency. That
committee has tentatively agreed to
reduce the luxury tax on women’s bon-
' nets which cost over $15 each, to the
. held up absolutely and that on gaso- :
line has proved almost equally futile.
- But the expenses on the princely scale
extent of ten per cent. and a corres-
ponding decrease on the tax on silk
stockings that cost over $2 a pair; on
“shoes that cost over $10 a pair and on
"waists, petticoats and kimonos that
cost over $15 each and nightgowns
‘and pajamas that cost over $5 each.
It is inferentially admitted by these
“pest minds” that such articles cost-
“ing less are not luxuries and must pay.
to the party managers for some |
“for the good of the
' party” and the advantage of those :
taking profits out of the operations.
Some time ago an investigation by
expert accountants revealed . the em-
bezzlement of funds from one of the
departments. The culprit attempted
to commit suicide and almost “spilled
the beans,” with the result that the
investigation was called off. The oth-
er day another official was exposed,
who confessed, and thus ended that
inquiry.. But the payment of bills due
cannot be avoided indefinitely and may
Sone “an exposure that an end the
iniquity.
— There is always somebody and
It used to be said that men’s hearts
may be reached through the stomach
and there is at least a semblance of
proof of this statement in past exper-
jence. The Republican ‘members of
the House committee on Ways and
Means seem to think that the short
‘cut to the heart of the woman voter
is by way of her pocket. Women are
proverbially averse to paying taxes
“and equally eager for finery in dress.
some way to take the joy out of life.’
Just as Governor Sproul had come to
the hope that he would own a consti-
tutional convention the treasury em-
barrassment bobbed up and showed
the people that he is not a superman
after all.
Naughty “Andy” Mellon.
The incorrigible boy of the Harding
administration is Secretary of the
Treasury “Andy” Mellon. He simply
won’t “stand without hitching” and
positively refuses to be tied up. This
_is probably because he is more a busi-
' ness man than a politician. And he is
some politician at that. Not long ago
the United States district attorney for
the Pittsburgh district started an in-
quiry into the relations of some Pitts-
burgh politicians and capitalists to
the distilling industry in that section.
It is known that before going into of-
fice Mr. Mellon was rather intimately
The Republican leaders in Congress
probably put these facts into conjunc-
tion and deduced the brilliant idea that
the greater part of the female vote
could be corralled by reducing the tax
on gewgaws and fripperies dear to the
heart of women. Besides the party
had promised tax reduction on some-
thing.
The information that Russia is
‘sending $2,000,000 to help Mustapha
Kemel to maintain his usurped author-
ity is likely to dampen the ardor of
those benevolent persons who are beg-
ging money to save Russian children
from starvation. ;
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Expensive Official Luxury.
The head of the publicity bureau of :
the Republican National committee
during the Presidential campaign was
a man named Lasker, of Chicago. He
is one of those who for one reason or
another acquire the title of “live
wire” The burden of his complaint
against the Democratic party was the
extravagance of the war administra-
tion, and he published thrilling stories
“of needless expenditures for army and
associated with one of the big distil-.
leries. He got out of it in some way
but a good many people think that it
was an “accommodation deal.”
In any event the court official in
question was getting exceedingly
“warm” in his search for the facts in
relation to the Pittsburgh “whiskey
interests.”
the inquiry had not been stopped it
might have led the searchers close to
the vaults of the Mellon banks. But
it was stopped in a timely, if not ex-
actly a dramatic way. The district
attorney was removed from office and
Mr. Mellon himself took the com-
mission of his successor to Pittsburgh
and superintended the transfer. Quite
_ as suddenly as the official personnel
was changed the liquor investigation
was discontinued and has not been
heard of since. Possibly this was an
accident. But probably it was part of
the plan. ;
But this was more a business than a
political affair and while Mr. Mellon
is amenable to reason and rule in bus-
iness he is different in politics. It is
said there was an implied understand-
img in Washington that taxes would
be greatly decreased by the present
Congress in order to fulfill the prom-
ises of the campaign, and that the evil
eonsequences could be cured by defi-
ciency bills after the next Congres-
sional election, But Mellon positively
refused to join in the simister enter-
prise. He boldly declared that any re-
duction of taxes would create a defi-
ciency and that would be bad business.
He ‘furthermore demands an increase
in taxes and that wiM be ruinous.
Naughty Andy.
; We were never going to have
anything te do with the League of Na- |
‘tions or any instrumentality of that
appealed strongly to the tight-wads of
the country. As a reward for his
services to the Republican machine in
that way he has since been appointed
chairman .of the United States Ship-
“ping Board, a war emergency corpor-
"ation which spent vas:
It has been said that if
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sums during
the war.
Chairman Lasker was before the
House committee on Appropriations,
the other day, to give reasons for his
demand for $300,000,000 to meet the
requirements of the board for the next
fiscal year. He acknowledged that
there are 200 auditors at present on
the pay roll of the board but said it.
was necessary for him to employ for-
ty expert accountants at salaries rang-
ing from one hundred dollars a day to
ten dollars a day, and three attorneys
at $25,000 a year each; one at $20,000;
five at $15,000 each a year; one at
$12,000 a year; four at $10,000 a year
each and one at $9,500, making a total
of $216,500 a year for his legal staff,
besides special counsel without limit
as to number or expense.
The salaries of the officers of board
or bureau or whatever it may be call-
ed are also on a princely scale. The
published report of the affair doesn’t
state the amount of Mr. Lasker’s sala-
ry, but being a “live wire” it is prob- |
ably somewhere in the six figure class.
There are three vice presidents of the
organization, two of whom draw down
salaries of $35,000 each and the third
$25,000 and the vast army of other
employees eat up money so voracious-
ly that the $300,000,000 demanded by :
Lasker appears like a modest sum. of
course the board has other sources of
revenue to keep the wolf from its of-
fice door. The millions realized from
the sale of ships are used by it with-
out regard to accounting.
——Senator Penrosé¢ knows that the
Vare machine has been robbing the
iniquitous creation but Ambassador ' people of Philadelphia of millions of
Harvey is “sitting in” in the Supreme
Council in Paris. :
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dollars annually but he hasn’t courage
enough to call a halt.
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 12, 1921.
NO. 31.
Governor Sproul’s Vaulting Ambi-
tion.
Governor William C. Sproul has
been in control of the affairs of Penn-
sylvania for two years and a half. He
came into the office he occupies with a
! reputation for business experience and
ability that inspired absolute confi-
dence in the minds of the people of the
State. Previous to his election as
Governor he had served upward of
twenty years in the State Senate
i which gave him, or ought to have giv-
i en him, a thorough understanding of
the conditions of the State as well as
the needs and evils of administration.
There were signs here and there of
sinister motives and dubious influenc-
es in his actions but it may be said
that fully as much as any of his pred-
ecessors he enjoyed public confidence.
But soon after his induction into the
office Mr. Sproul began to reveal an
unexpected element in his make-up.
He became a candidate for President
before he was warm in the seat of the
Governor and disappointed in that am-
bition set out to achieve other distinc-
tions at the expense of public inter-
ests. Apparently he had conceived
the idea that the people have no care
for expenses so long as great results
are achieved and he plunged into am-
bitious projects in educational lines,
road building, welfare schemes and
other enterprises which kept him on
the front page of the newspapers,
plunged the people into hot water of
fear of the costs, which finally peter-
ed out because of an empty treasury.
The principal, and on the whole the
most dangerous, ambition of the Gov-
ernorship is that to own and control a
convention assembled to form a new
fundamental law. No other Governor
of Pennsylvania and no Governor of
any. other State has ever let ambition
vault to such dizzy heights as this. It
might invest him with power to con-
trol the destinies of the Commonwealth
for half a century and no human crea-
ture should have such power in a free
State. If he had proved a super man
as Governor he might have some ex-
cuse for such ambition. But according
to the best information obtainable he
gy SS STE ete
A friend of the “Watchman”
tipped us off to a good bear story ear-
ly in the week, and we confidently an-
ticipated giving it to our readers with
all the thrills, ete. It had to do with
a big, black bruin, which suddenly
made its appearance when two men
were held up in the Woodward Nar-
inspection. Now it just happened, ac-
cording to the story, that he devoted
his attention to the rear tire which
suffered the puncture and he evidently
| didn’t like it as he deliberately pro-
ceeded to give it a good clawing, rip-
ping big holes in the tire with his
sharp claws. He then sniffed around
the machine and turning tail ambled
off up the mountain. The story in de-
our attempt to confirm it met with
poor success.
| garage where the men were
part of the week, and came there with
| the tire wired together, but he did not
| tell him the trouble was caused by a
bear.
teem
| —Uncle Sam is gradually getting
| the whip hand of his family of forty-
eight children who have reached the
- dignity and supposed independence of
' Statehood. By pampering here and
' spanking there he is insidiously tak-
"ing their rights away from them so
that ere long we will have no sem-
blance of true Democracy.
eel ere ——
—The new moon is lying away
‘round in the southern skies, so that
' the weather dopesters will say that
we will have a period of warm weath-
er.
— Senator Newberry will be
whitewashed all right but the coat
will not be thick enough to conceal the
black spots on his Senatorial toga.
~~ ——If the Harding disarmament
conference accomplishes nothing else
it can be relied on to increase the pub-
lie debt and add a trifle to taxes.
——Because of Harding,
Hoover and Hays some simple minded
Washington correspondent calls it a
h—— of an administration.
: ——1Ireland is enjoying a rest any-
way and for that reason the negotia-
has upproached no such high estate.
rows as the result of a punctured tire, |
and instead of being frightened at the
dead fliver proceeded to make a close |
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navy equipment and supplies which | Gp 5 car was in his place the latter ! making any profits in
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‘on inccomes from $6,000 to $50,000
“relatively: small
Hughes,
tions between Lloyd George and De-
Valera are worth while.
—Let us hope that in sending
' American prisoners home Russia will
"not slip Emma Goldman across the
water to us.
——— A —— ——
, —Some early risers are still con-
vinced that they saw a light frost on
Monday morning. :
Meddling and Muddling.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Almost any one of the American
prisoners in Russia, just released un-
der the agreement between Secretary
Hoover and the Soviet, will be a more
dependable source of information as to
the character of the Lenine-Trotzky
regime than Senator Joseph I. France,
if we may believe the report of the lat-
ter’s behavior in Riga on the eve of his
departure for Berlin.
~ Senator France early last spring de-
serted his seat in the United States
Senate, from which he is supposed to
look after the interests of the State of
Maryland in particular and those of
these United States in general, and
with a great blare of trumpets an-
nounced that he would investigate
Russia. Later, of course, the world
was to be told the true story and to be
advised as to its future duty to that
distressed country. David R. Francis,
it is true, had attempted this, but
Francis was a Wilson Democrat; so
naturally he failed. It took France
longer than Francis to go into Russia.
He knocked at Lenine’s gate quite a
while before he was admitted. When
he got in, finally, he was personally
conducted about the country by the
Bolsheviki, and though his story was
much shorter than that of Mr. Fran-
cis’, he heard—if he didn’t see—more.
The Soviet officials were at his elbow
to tell him everything. :
About a week ago we heard that
Senator France was ready to come
home. Then came a dispatch that he
had been favorably impressed by the
present government of Russia. To
many of us this seemed a premature
and impolitic expression, and probably
not authorized. But the Senator’s un-
seemly explosion at Riga on Tuesday
night, when he publicly accused Dr.
Ryan, the American Red Cross Com-
missioner in the Baltic States, of hav-
ing instigated the revolt of Kronstadt
last winter, utterly spilled the beans.
According to the belief of men ac-
quainted with conditions in the dis-
turbed Baltic section, there is no truth
in the accusation against Dr. Ryan.
Senator France admitted himself that
he had no proofs in hand, but he had
been promised that they would be for-
warded to him from Moscow! Under
the circumstances it is rather surpris-
ing that the redoubtable Dx. Ryan was
able to refrain from carrying out his
Fo MET
—Twenty suits ‘against owners eof dogs
in Perry county who had failed to secure
licenses for their animals were started by
the State Department of Agriculture...
— Clearfield county is credited with hav-
ing 4056 persons who can not read nor
write, in a map showing the extent of il-.
literacy in the various counties of Pennsyl-_
vania, which has just been issued by =
Thomas E. Finegan, state superintendent
of public instruction. ;
Robert, three year old son of Robert
Schechterly, of Nescopeck, is seriously
burned as a result of grasping the end of
a fallen live wire. He was knocked down
twice by the electriejty and grasped the
end of the wire the third time. The wire
carried 2300 volts. He will recover, doc-
tors believe.
—When Mason Buckman, 70 years old, a
farmer residing along Nescopeck mountain,
did not come home for his supper one
night last week, his housekeeper, Mrs. Ma-
ry Serger, went to the barn to look for
him and found the aged man dying on the
barn floor. He had fallen thirty feet from
the hay mow.
— John P. Gray met with a horrible ac-
cident while at work in the Helvetia mines,
Clearfield county, last week, when his over-
alls were caught in a pump and his foot
slowly drawn into the gears and crushed
so badly before the power was shut off
that it was necessary to amputate the leg
a few inches below the knee. ’
— While Dr. G. Stabili, a noted Bucks
county nerve specialist, his wife and baby
were soundly sleeping, burglars entered
their bedroom early Monday morning and
stole the physician's trousers and $1300
which were in the pockets. A ladder was
used by the burglars and they entered the
doctor's sleeping quarters by removing a
screen, ; i
—R. G. Dunn, 60 years old, died sudden-
ly at Lewistown Saturday night while seat-
ed in a car on the Lewistown and Reeds-
ville electric railway on his way home
from the Viscose plant, where he was em-
ployed as a machinist in the reeling de-
partment. Dunn was a former railroad
man and spent years in the train service
of the middle division.
~The county treasurer of Schuylkill
county has entered suit against fifty-five
merchants for non-payment of mercantile
taxes. More than 450 others are also to be
sued immediately. The merchants against
whom proceedings have been brought will
now have to pay the taxes with the cost of
legal proceedings added, which will prac-
tically double the tax. Many are objecting
to increases made in the tax valuations by
state agents.
— In endeavoring to save his automobile
from destruction after it took fire, Harry
H. Crom, of Columbia, Pa., pulled the gas
tank from under the seat and threw it into
the street. The flaming tank struck Val-
entine Iossman, a 12 year old boy, who
was passing, The flames ignited the lad’s
clothing, and he was seriously burned all
over his body before Crom and others sue-
ceeded in pulling the flaming garments
from the boy's body. The automobile was
only slightly damaged.
__With his congregation already gather-
ing to hear him deliver his last sermon be-
fore starting upon his vacation, the Rev.
1. McGill, pastor of the Methodist Episco-
pal chureh at Homer City, dropped dead
reported threat to “punch Senator
France's head.” | amie.
That head appears not only IRIAVs
been too easily filled at Bolshevik
pumping stations, but there are in-
dications, that it is otherwise un-
worthy of the Senatorial toga drap-
ed below it. To make publicly a ser-
ious charge against a reputable offi-
cial, without tangible proofs to back
it up, constitutes behavior considera-
bly more paranoic than parliament-
ary. Ee ]
Tax Reduction for the Rich.
From the New York World.
President Harding has always tak- |
en pains to emphasize that the tax re-
vision to which his party is pledged
includes and means also tax reduc-
tion. What is presumably the Ad-
ministration’s plan of tax revision
has now been submitted to the House
Ways and Means committee by Secre-
tary of the Treasury Mellon and it!
does include a large measure of tax |
tail was a good one but unfortunately | reduction.
It would repeal the excess-profits
The proprietor of the taxes, much to the relief of the more
to have wealthy and monopolistic corporations,
only ones left
this era of Re- |
publican prosperity. It would repeal
all of the income surtaxes above 40
per cent. to the great relief of the very
rich whose incomes run from $50,000 |
to $1,000,000 a year and over. To this |
extent tax revision by the administra-
tion plan does mean tax reduction and
in an aggregate amount so large that
no one concerned cares to put out es-
timates.
But beyond this point tax revision
is to mean nothing but a still weight-
ier burden upon the backs of others
than the very rich. The surtax rate
would be increased by his plan. Let-
ter postage increased to 3 cents is an
added tax to be borne by the great
masses: of the people. Still higher
taxes. on tobaeco fall the same way.
A flat tax of $10 on automobiles, re-
gardless of value or payer, would be
for the high-priced
machinesiand large for the low-priced.
And finally, the plan embraces an up-
ward tariff revision which means a
large and general increase in taxes on
the living needs of the people instead
of on their wealth and ability to bear.
Representative Garner, of Texas,
declares that every one of Secretary
Mellon’s proposals constitutes “a
shifting of the tax burden from the
classes to the masses.” It is not too
strong a statement.
They Should Pay.
¥rom the Port Allegheny Reporter.
A United States. Senator junketing
in Germany writes that the debts owed
us by foreign governments are aral-
yzing trade with this country. f that
be the disease, it would seem that the
logical remedy would be to pay up.
Peerless Leaders.
¥rom the Utica Observer.
Fordney is a confessed failure as a
leader of the House Ways and Means
committee, and Lodge is a notorious,
failure as leader in the Senate. Mr.
Harding has several jobs rolled up in
one to take care of. Stitt
—Get your job work done here.
in his study shortly after 10 o'clock. Sun-. 3
day morning. His daughter in’ an adjoin-
img room heard him fall and went to in-
vestigate. Medical help was summoned,
but found life extinct. Apoplexy was de-
clared to be the cause. He was 66 years
old. 5
—Relatives of John Buglonas, 50 years
old, of North Scranton, who died at Hill-
side Home last Thursday, fought so violent-
ly over possession of the body that the po-
lice were called-to quell a near riot. The
former boarding mistress of Buglonas
claimed the body, asserting she was a
cousin. Buglonas’ sister had the body re-
moved to her home, from which it was tak-
en by an undertaker representing the cous-
in, during which procedure blows were de-
livered on all sides.
— The reunion of the old canal boatmen
which is to be held at Sunbury on August
27th, promises to be of unusual interest
' and will be attended by some 3000 mem-
bers of the Association of Former ‘Canal
Boatmen and a sprinkling of raftSmen.
Lieutenant Governor Beidleman will deliv-
er a modern; address, but the talks with
charm will be the conversations of the old
captains, their comparisons of notes and
personal experiences along . the line of
primitive navigation on the Susquehanna.
-—(Coal of excellent quality, mined nearly
half a century ago, is to be at once placed
on the market at Pottsville, Schuylkill
county. The culm banks are the richest in
quality of any in that region and were the
product of the old Gumboot colliery.
When abandoned the colliery was operat-
ed by King, Quinn, Ernst & Co. The
banks contain more than 1,000,000 tons of
coal. The Buck Run Coal company ‘has
acquired control. "Phe Philadelphia and
Reading Railway will begin laying tracks
to the banks at once.
—Burglars forced an entrance to the gen-
eral store of G. S. Appleby at Hyde, Pa.,
on Saturday night by using a “jimmie”
on the front door. They secured a large
stock of eandy amd tobacco, with a few
pennies that had been left in the cash reg-
ister when it was balanced the previous
night. The burglaes left a trail of candy
from the store to the farm house of D. C.
Grove, several miles distant, where a pair
of bycicles were stolen on which they made
their get-away. Phe officers are on the still
hunt for a pair of eelored men seen loiter-
ing about the store.
—Ray L. Riley, vice president and gen-
eral manager of the Valley Iron Works,
Incorporated, Williamsport, is going with
a party of Pittsburgh men to northern
British Columbia, where they will hunt big
game during August and September. They
will go to Vancouver and thence by boat
to Wrangell, Adaska. At Wrangell they
will transfer to a powerboat, in which they
will travel 150 miles up the Stikene river
to the poimt where they will gecure guides,
horses, food and other additional equip-
ment, after which they will move into the
mountains of northern British Columbia.
—_ Lansdale borough council “swiped”
about $3000 frem the borough electric
light department, paid some bills with it,
and then announced that, so far as work-
ing capital was concerned, the treasury
was “busted.” It seems that when a check
was received recently by the electric light
department, which is conducted by the
borough, the amount was, through an er-
ror, placed to the borough account. In a
scramble for money to pay current bills,
the borough depleted its working capital,
and the light plant money was’ part of that
drawn. The boreugh has dug up $8000 and
the light plant will get its money back.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
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