INK SLINGS.
— Farmers who are willing to take
a chance on the fly have been sowing
wheat this week.
— It is either an unhealthy cli-
mate or a bad season for French
champions in this country.
— The League of Nations goes on
with its work but the congressional |
peace resolution fails to function.
— Russia was the first to adopt
prohibition as a war measure and it
is now first to abandon prohibition as
a peace problem.
— It would probably be just as
well for the University of Pennsylva-
nia if General Wood’s leave of absence
were extended to the end of time.
—Soon the happy little kids will be
back in school and healthy, sunburned
faces will gradually lose their bloom
as confinement and study progress.
The miscreants who shot Lin-
coln and Garfield and McKinley also
wanted to “put the President in a
hole,” but they had nothing on Ford-
ney.
— With Walker, Johnston and Zerby
all in the fight for nomination for bur- |
gess of Bellefonte, there ought to
be something doin’ in the way of a
hot campaign.
Congress is raising an awful holla |
about the exorbitant profits in the
undertaking business. Well it might!
For Congress has more “stiffs” in it
now than it ever had before.
—Congress has adjourned for thirty
days without taking action on the
anti-beer bill, all of which gives color
to the suspicion that Congress really
doesn’t want to pass an anti-beer bill
at all.
—The poverty of the Democratic
party in organization is revealed in
the fact that we have no candidate
for Justice of the Supreme court. We
have been defeated frequently but
never dismayed before.
—Fordney and Lodge must both
have been pro-German during the
war. Their admission that they voted
for emergency war measures only to
put President Wilson “in a hole” is
proof that they were inspired by no
motives of patriotism or had no desire
to add to the efficiency or comfort of
the boys who were fighting to save the
nation.
—The Republican investigation of
Mayor Hylan, of New York city, has
cost the Empire State $400,000 and
nearly wiped out the prospect of a
fusion candidates’ being able to de-
feat the Mayor for re-election. The
Republicans hoped to capture the office
by putting Hylan in a hole, but they
bungled the job so terribly that they
‘have made him stronger than ever.
—Really we Democrats seem to be
‘the only altruists. The burgess of
Bellefonte gets nothing but cusses and
kicks for his service so no one of out
Republican friends volunteers for the
thankless job while three Democrats
are willing to immolate themselves on
the altar of public ingratitude. The
job of tax collector means something
over three thousand dollars a year and
four Republicans are out for it while
only two Democrats have appeared in
the field.
—The men who stand in best with
the women are the ones who will be
elected in Bellefonte in the fall. No
possible make-up of the tickets will
brand them as strictly partisan, so
that those who boast of never leaving
their party moorings will find them-
selves with strange bedfellows.
Straight Democrats will be voting for
some Republicans and straight Repub-
licans will be voting for some Demo-
crats, which is really as it should be,
when the welfare of the municipality
is at stake.
—Come on, fellows! Use the
“Watchman” columns to tell the ladies
and gentlemen what splendid officials
you would make, if elected. This pa-
per never has taken sides in local elec-
tions. It enjoys sitting tight most in
such contests, though it occasionally
tries to stir up the animals just for the |
fun of it. If you are too modest to
sing your own praises publicly tell us
some of the stories you are whispering
about your opponents. Well print
them and give you the credit. We
won’t try to appropriate any of the
glory.
—The Louisville Courier-Journal
reopens a very sore spot with us when
stating that “you will find out who
your friends are when you hunt for
somebody to take care of the cat for
the summer.” Having been the friend
who essayed the role of care taker of
the family cat for a part of this sum-
mer let us tell you right here that we
are now wise to the wisdom of the
Courier-Journal. Never before had we :
conceived that there was anything we
couldn’t do for a friend. Now we
know there is, because we tried it
once, but, never again.
—Secretary Weeks is having him-
self front paged on a spurious claim
of saving three hundred million dol-
lars in the cost of maintaining the ar-
my. In the first place he hasn't saved
anything yet. He just estimates that
he will. In the second, Congress cut
the army establishment nearly in two,
all of the temporary war time canton-
ments, storage yards and supply de-
pots are no longer a drain on the
treasury and we are settling back to a
peace time basis and lower costs of
maintenance; all of which would have
been the natural order of events if
Secretary Weeks had never been heard
of. This three hundred million saving
looks to us like “bull” for the 1924
Republican campaign book.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
FONTE, PA., AUGUST
26, 1921.
VOL. 66.
Harding and Lodge Disagree.
In an esteemed Philadelphia con-
temporary on Tuesday there were two
interesting statements.
quotes President Harding as writing
to Senator Jones in reference to the
expense of #®he shipping board:
“These losses must be charged to the
great war emergency and the fever-
ishness of the country to build ships
in a period of great anxiety, and to
| then establish a merchant marine on
| the basis of the abnormal conditions
! which prevailed during the war emer-
! gency.” The other quotes Senator
| Lodge as follows: “Who piled them
| (claims against the board) up? The
' Wilson administration. Who heaped
‘up these claims? The Wilson admin-
: istration. We are trying to get rid of
the high debt you Democrats have
| left behind you.”
| We place no high estimate upon the
intelligence or patriotism of President
| Harding. He was chosen for the
Presidency by a partisan machine as
corrupt as any that has ever been or-
ganized, not because of his ability or
' fitness for the office but for the reason
that Senator Penrose and his piratical
, associates believed that he would be
! docile and responsive to their purpos-
| os to loot. But in his statement of
| facts with respect to the shipping
| board he is both accurate and just.
High as the cost of the ships was at
| the board have been increased since,
! the result achieved by the operation 1s
worth the price. Civilization was pre-
served by the efficiency of the ships.
The expression of Senator Lodge is
| the natural impression of a mind
jaundiced by partisan malice sub-
| merged in a bottomless sea of bigotry.
Like Fordney, chairman of the House
committee on Ways and Means, Sen-
ator Lodge voted for the legislation
creating the shipping board and au-
thorizing its expensive but necessary
‘operations. But like Fordney he did
s0, not to supply our troops in trench-
'es with food and equipment, but to
, “put the President in a hole.” That
is all the Republican leaders in Con-
‘ gress thought of and labored for dur-
_ing the war. It is what Lodge had in
{mind when he organized his “round
| robin” against th ratification of the
peace treaty and’
League of Nations.
| News from Washington indi-
i cates restlessness of Senators and
| Representatives under the rigid rule
rand iron rod of the Anti-Saloon
| League. If those pikers aren’t care-
ful Wayne Wheeler will invoke the
whipping post as a punishment for
| their temerity.
Putting the President in a Hole.
The character of the patriotism of
Republican Congressmen was correct-
ily appraised by Representative Ford-
' ney, chairman of the House commit-
i tee on Ways and Means, the other day,
' when he said, “I voted to put the Pres-
“ident in a hole and we did it.” The
| question under consideration was that
"of adjusting the accounts between the .
' government and the railroads. Mr.
: Fordney, who is the leading member
of his party in Congress, was bitterly
_ denouncing the action of the govern-
‘ment in taking control of the rail-
roads. He was reminded of the fact
“that he had voted for the legislation
| authorizing that step and his answer
, was as above quoted, “I voted to put
| the President in a hole and we did it.”
During the world war when the gov-
ernment was striving with all its
, might to get troops into training
, camps and provide them with neces-
. sary equipment, the railroads of the
| country literally collapsed under the
| strain. Avenues of transportation
i were congested beyond the hope of re-
lief through the ordinary channels.
The railroad officials, admitting their
_impotency, asked the government to
"assume control. But the government
was unable to do so in the absence of
legislation. With the view of solving
, the great problem the administration
proposed the necessary legislation and
_it was enacted. The people imagined
that a great patriotic service had been
"rendered. The legislation was so in-
tended. .
But the Republicans in Congress
had no such ideas in their minds. Of
‘ course they knew of the menace to
civilization in the collapse of the rail-
| roads at the time, because they are not
_imbeciles. But they had no concern
' about that. Their only thought was
' to “put the President in a hole.” The
| government was in a hole and the
thousands of troops which had been
' assembling in training camps were on
| the verge of actual suffering for food.
But these were trifling things to the
| Republican Congressmen of the Ford-
' ney type. They wanted to “put the
| President in a hole” and that has been
j the only impulse that has influenced
i them since the beginning of the war.
| It is a dastardly attitude.
{
to umpire a golf game. Our jolly ex-
President never hunts trouble and
' rarely looks for work.
BELLE
One of these
| the time and much as the expenses of
' productive industries.
right as well as a wrong way of exer-
e covenant of the:
— Chief Justice Taft has declined
Usurpation Sharply Rebuked.
In the decision recently handed
down by Judge Joseph E. Boyd, of
the United States district court of
North Carolina, there is a basis for a
hope of vast improvement in the pol-
icies of the government. The decision
was rendered in the case of the Viv-
ian Spinning company vs. the Collect-
or of Internal Revenue. The ques-
tion at bar was an action to restrain
the revenue collector from collecting
a profit tax on products of child la-
bor and the court held that the feder-
al child labor law is unconstitutional
in that it is an usurpation of the au-
thority and a violation of the rights
of the State. A similar decision by
the same Judge two years ago was
sustained by the Supreme court of the
United States.
There is no tendency of the present
day more menacing to the future of
the country than that of infringing
upon the prerogatives of the States by
the federal government. Article 10
of the amendments to the federal con-
stitution declares that “the powers not
delegated to the United States by the
constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people.” As
Judge Boyd states, the regulation of
labor conditions are not delegated to
the United States by the constitution
nor prohibited by it to the States. It
is therefore a function of the State
and neither Congress nor the Execu-
tive of the United States has a right
to tamper with it.
Of course we are all in favor of the
most rigid and exacting laws for the
protection of children employed in
But there is a
cising the authority to regulate. The
States have this power through their
Legislatures and public opinion will
soon, if it has not already, compel
obedience to humanitarian impulses
on this subject. But the decision of
the South Carolina court should be
welcomed for the reason that it opens
up a way to check some of the other
usurpations of the federal government
in infringements of the sovereignty
of States in other respects. There has
been a great deal too much of that
sort of thing lately. up '
——A contemporary nominates
William Randolph Hearst as a dele-
gate in the disarmament conference.
Well, he did as much for the election
of Harding as Ambassador Harvey or
Senator Lodge, both of whom have
been rewarded, but probably he is not
quite as nasty.
Mendacity Run Mad.
The supporters of the constitutional
convention project seem to have or-
ganized a campaign of mendacity for
use in the final period of the contest.
In Sunday’s newspapers State High-
way Commissioner Sadler published a
statement containing a veiled threat
that unless the convention is held the
entire road building program will be
brought to an end in 1922. He real-
izes that not only all the farmers but
all the forward looking citizens of the
State desire good roads and hopes to
frighten them into support of the
convention by juggling a lot of fig-
ures as to past and prospective ex-
penses of road construction, and add-
ing that unless a new constiuttion is
written the funds can’t be obtained.
Mrs. John O. Mille, chairman of
the Pennsylvania League of Women
“Voters, has injected into the campaign
an equally absurd ard mendacious
misrepresentation of facts. In a let-
ter to the chairman of the Prohibition
party Mrs. Miller says: “It is al-
together strange and it seems to us
inexplicable to find you standing
shoulder to shoulder, as it were, with
the liquor interests and the reaction-
aries who are doing their utmost to
prevent the electorate revising their
constitution.” Mrs. Miller doesn’t in-
dicate which element in the opposition
is rummy and which reactionary.
Probably it is the vast body of cler-
gymen who are opposing the conven-
tion for substantial reasons who rep-
resent the liquor interests and the
Grangers who are reactionary.
As a matter of fact the defeat of
the proposed convention project will
not interfere with road construction
and improvement in the least. There
will be ample funds available for the
operations of the State Highway De-
partment, even though the present
practice of converting it into a polit-
ical machine, is continued, whether
the convention is held or not. And the
proposed convention is not for the pur-
pose of allowing the electorate to re-
vise their constitution. It is for the
purpose of permitting a hand-picked
bunch of political dependants to
write a fundamental law for the State
at the dictation and under the control
of the partisan machine which is be-
hind the sinister enterprise.
——While Centre county gardens
and farm crops have so far escaped
damage from frost the temperature
was down very close to the frost line
several nights the past week.
1
-has been prosecuted.
- made. pay t
Out of Molehills.
State Treasurer Charles A. Snyder
professes to be greatly surprised be-
cause an official of the State who em-
bezzled some seven thousand dollars
It is “making
a mountain out of a mole hill,” Mr.
Snyder declares, and that is contrary
to all the ideas of the Snyder school
of politicians. The crime was com-
mitted in the Auditor General’s of-
fice, while Mr. Snyder was Auditor
General, by a man he subsequently
took over with him into the State
Treasury. But his offence was not
unusual, according to Mr. Snyder.
Several other officers had embezzled
sums in various amounts up to hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars without
punishment. Mr. Snyder can’t under-
stand why this one should be the goat.
There is reason in State Treasurer
Snyder’s complaint. The culprit in
the case was a pet of the politicians
and in the enjoyment of confidential
relations with his chief. He had
probably known of the habit of treat-
ing embezzlers and felt entirely safe
in taking such liberties with the pub-
lic funds as suited his fancy and con-
venience. He needed more money
than the generous salary of his office
provided and felt that it was within
his right to take what he needed. Oth-
ers had done so with impunity and
why shouldn’t he? And if Snyder had
remained in the office or if his succes-
sor had been less exacting in the mat-
ter of official morals, he could have
done so. There would have been no
mole hill expansion.
Moreover the morality expressed in
State Treasurer Snyder's comment
upon the embezzlement of clerk Brin-
dle is the type of morality which pre-
vails in the official life of Pennsylva-
nia. There is no turpitude in crime if
you can get away with it and no pun-
ishment if you have influence enough
to escape arrest. Proceeding along
these lines of thought Mr. Brindle im-
agined he had a perfect right to ap-
propriate seven thousand dollars of
the public money. Of course he was
wrong. The moral ideas he had ab-
sorbed during seventeen years in pub-
lic office are not accepted in courts of
justice and Brindle will probably be
: penalty. Unlucky Brin-
e are likely to be others.
Making Mountains
dle! And th
Many Nomination Papers Filed.
Several hundred nomination papers
have been filed in the commissioners
office for the various borough and
township offices to be voted for at the
forthcoming primaries. In Bellefonte
the principal contests will be on bur-
gess and tax collector.
For burgess there are three candi-
dates, W. Harrison Walker, the pres-
ent incumbent; J. Kennedy Johnston
and W. D. Zerby, each one having filed
papers as candidates on both the Dem-
ocratic and Republican tickets.
For tax collector Thaddeus Hamil-
ton and John M. Keichline have filed
papers on the Democratic ticket and
John Curtin, Orian A. Kline, Maurice
J. Kelly and Herbert. Auman on the
Republican ticket.
The only candidate for borough
auditor is David A. Barlett, who filed
papers on both tickets.
S. Kline Woodring is the only can-
didate for justice of the peace in the
North ward.
Charles F. Cook and A. C. Mingle
are the only candidates for school di-
rector, hence will naturally succeed
themselves.
Candidates for councilmen in the
North ward are W. J. Emerick, Ben-
jamin H. Shaffer and Benjamin Brad-
ley, each one on both tickets, with two
to be elected. Thomas S. Hazel is the
only candidate in the South ward
while in the West ward William H.
Brouse and J. M. Cunningham are
candidates to succeed themselves and
James H. Rine is also a candidate on
the Republican ticket.
It might be of interest to the vot-
ers of the North ward to know that
the only candidate for judge of elec-
tion in that ward is John G. Love Jr.
— Rev. L. F. Sheetz, of Howard,
was a “Watchman” office caller on
Tuesday evening. In addition to be-
ing in charge of the church of the .
Brethren in Christ in Howard he owns '
and operates a job printing office in
the town and a child of his handicraft
is “The Mountain Herald,” which he
edits and prints himself. The second
number of the publication which he
was kind enough to leave on our desk
is a thirty-two page magazine 6x9
inches in size and replete with read-
ing matter of a high character. It is
neatly put up and well printed, evi-
dence that Rev. Sheetz intends putting
out a publication that will be appre-
ciated. - Naturally, we wish him all
kinds of success.
—The rebuilt portions of High
street from the crossing at the Potter-
Hoy hardware store to the Diamond,
and up jail hill to the south side of the
court house were thoroughly oiled and
top-dressed with screenings this week.
ere eee
—Buy your own paper and read it.
NO. 33.
In a Hole.
Irom the New York World.
“] voted to put the President in a
hole, and we did.”
The speaker was Joseph W. Ford-
ney, chairman of the House commit-
tee on Ways and Means, who had
opened the debate on the Administra-
tion’s revenue bill by attacking Mr.
Wilson for having taken over the rail-
roads during the war. Mr. Fordney,
as a Republican Representative in
Congress, had voted for this measure.
Asked to explain the seeming incon-
sistency, he replied: “I voted to put
the President in a hole, and we did.”
The railroads were taken over by
the government in the critical period
of the war, when the breakdown of
transportation had imperiled the issue
of that great conflict. Mr. Fordney
voted for it, not to help win the war,
not to aid the United States and the
nations associated with it in the war
against German imperialism, but “to
put the President in a hole.”
Mr. Fordney has spoken with excep-
tional frankness, but his confession
will bring a shock only to credulous
persons who deluded themselves into
believing that Republican leadership
in Congress during the war ever had
a higher motive than malignant oppo-
sition to President Wilson. Having
done what they could during the war
to “put him in a hole,” they pursued
the same policy with the treaty of
peace and with all measures of recon-
struction.
|
In certain respects this policy was
eminently successful. The Republi-
can leaders unquestionably “put the
President in a hole,” as Mr. Fordney
boasts. They also put the country in
a hole, and finally they managed to
put themselves in a hole, hat is
going on in Washington now is in the
nature of a desperate attempt on the
part of the Republican leaders to pull
a Republican Administration out of
the hole dug for Mr. Wilson.
Nearly ten months have elapsed
‘since the unprecedented Republican
victory of 1920, and the R
leaders are still fumbling wit
with taxation and with retrenchment.
ublican
When the election was held there were
perhaps 1,000,000 men out of work.
There are now, according to the fig-
ures of the Secretary of Labor, nearly
6,000,000 men out of work, Every
month since Mr. Harding swept the
‘country economic
grown worse, unemployment has in-'
creased, foreign trade has dings) -
ed and domestic business has dwin=
dled.
Tales of Famine.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is gratifying to learn that, just
as Secretary Hoover is preparing to .
put in operation plans for the relief
of famine-stricken Russia, conditions
in that much afflicted country are said !
to have been much exaggerated. While ,
great distress prevails, owing to the
partial failure of the crops, there
seems to be little basis for those hec-
millions of starving
peasants in wild marches in search of |
food and dying by thousands along the
tic stories of
roadside from sheer inanition. The
state of affairs is serious, thanks to
the complete breakdown of the whole
economic system under soviet misrule,
but it apparently is not one beyond
the humanitarian |
co-operating to assist
The statement by Mr.
Hoover that there will be no public
the capacity of
agencies now
the sufferers.
appeal for funds seems to indicate
that the various organizations com- |
bined for
means at their disposal.
It will be recalled that a few months |
ago a very similar agitation arose
over famine conditions in China. No
less than 15,000,000 persons were said
to be in imminent danger of starva-
tion unless speedily relieved. Ameri-
"cans responded liberally, and it was
soon discovered that the crisis had
passed without any of the doleful re-
sults predicted. For some time noth-
ing has been heard of this Chinese
famine.
|
! Cross-Country Air Mail.
. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
We are learning to economize in
"air as well as on land and sea. The
transcontinental air mail route be-
‘tween New York and San Francisco
is about to put into commission SIX
' remodeled airplanes, able to carry
twice the cargo of those now employ-
the
ed.
| These machines will carry 32,000
letters. The cost of adapting them to
the mail service was $3000. The ex-
‘ pense of new machines would have
been $15,000 apiece.
The view of the present postal ad-
"ministration is that the Air Mail Serv-
ice is of immense and increasing -im-
| portance; and despite set-backs and
| miscarriages inevitable to any pio-
| neering and experimental era, the
| constant improvement justifies san-
| guine predictions of the service. From
| May, 1918, to the end of 1920 this
service had carried nearly 50,000,000
pieces of mail matter, and the planes
had flown nearly a million and a quar-
ter miles, or about five times the dis-
tance to the moon. A few weeks ago
the planes were carrying nearly 200,-
000 letters daily. ;
None who watches the consecutive
strides that are made can doubt that
the early future holds remarkable
changes in the way of accelerated
mail communication across America
and all over the planet. Some day we
shall smile when we reflect that in
1921 any place on earth was a month
by mail from Philadelphia.
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_SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
| —William Main, of Coudersport, was
i fined $750 on three counts for violating the
: fishing laws. Unless he can pay the fine
he must serve 757 days in jail.
i —Six cents damages was awarded E. W.
. L. McElroy, of Marietta, in an action im
! Lancaster county court to recover dam-
ages from Mrs. Laura Filler because wa-
| ter from her house flooded his résidence.
| —Seeing the weeds along’ the ~Susque-
i hanna river near Nisbet, Lycoming coun-
ty, moving on Monday evening, George W.
Sweeley fired at what he believed to be a
groundhog. When he went to pick up the
dead animal he found he had shot through
the head and killed Charles W. Carroll, a
neighbor, who was setting traps.
—Joseph Stone, aged 16, of Crafton, a
suburb of Pittsburgh, was killed late on
Monday when he suffered a broken neck
while playing tennis. The ball had been
knocked into the screening surrounding
the court and Stone undertook to recover
it when it caught in the meshes some dis-
tance above the ground. He missed his
footing and the fall resulted fatally.
—Robert Smith and Roy Black, of Blair
county, and Newton Hampton, Amos Grif-
fith and Herman Griffith, of Huntingdon
county, were each fined $200 for killing
skinning and dividing among them two
does last December. K. B. Rodgers, state
game warden, of Johnstown, prosecuted
the men and the hearings were held be-
fore justice David S. Black, of Hunting-
don.
—Caught attempting to rob the Crevel-
ing store at Almedia, Columbia county,
early Saturday morning, John Shoemaker,
aged about 21 years, broke his left leg
when he jumped from a second story win-
dow to escape. His eampanion, Ray Ter-
williger, escaped, although several shots
were fired at him by neighbors. State po-
lice are after Terwilliger, and Shoemaker
is in the Bloomsburg hospital.
—Alex McGarvey, aged 75 years, night
watchman at the Montgomery county pris-
on, is in a hospital suffering from injuries
inflicted by two negro women prisoners
who beat him with a stool. The two wom-
en, Blanche Sylvan, aged 38 years, and
Mary Nelson, aged 20 years, were held
pending the outcome of McGarvey’s inju-
ries. McGarvey's cries attracted another
watchmen who prevented the prisoners es-
| cape.
—The commissioners of Potter county
offer $500 reward for the arrest and deten-
tion of William Myers, wanted for the
double murder of Arch Carling and Mark
Brown, committed in Hector township,
Potter county, on the night of August 10th.
In an interview Myers’ father said: “Will
never was a bad boy. He was always tim-
id; always afraid of the dark. We never
could get him to kill a chicken or rabbit
for dinner.”
—After smashing their way into the
Lincoln pharmacy, at Lester, Chester coun-
ty, last Wednesday morning, burglars
backed an autotruck up to the front door
and hauled away about $3500 worth of
‘ goods. Telephone boxes were wrecked and
the cash registers in the store, which con-
tained about $50 in change, were broken
i open and rifled. This robbery makes the
i fourth time the store had been robbed dur-’
ing the last three months, and the sev-
enth robbery there in less than a year.
Sproul has re-
fused a charter for the Miflinville State
i bank, of Mifflinville, following an inves-
| tigation into the circumstances of the
making of the application by Commission-
‘er of Banking John 8. Fisher. This is the
, first bank to be refused a charter follow-
"ing the policy of inquiry inte such appli-
cations arranged recently. It was found
a large percentage of the subscribers de-
sired to withdraw from the enterprise,
| that there were doubts whether it would
be successful and that there were banking
facilities convenient.
|
{ —Governor William C.
i
1
Marriott Brosius IFasnacht, a lieuten-
ant in the world war, formerly clerk of
Mayor Kennedy, of Lancaster, was sent to
the Lancaster county prison for three
years at hard labor and solitary confine-
ment. He forged the name of his mother,
an aged widow of a Civil war officer, to
notes for $1300 at two of the city banks.
After obtaining the money he left the city
and was arrested last week in New York
while it is said, he was trying to swindle
a Lancaster man of $200. He was given
the minimum sentence because detainers
are on file for him to answer numerous
charges of passing bogus checks and rob-
bery.
| Would-be robbers made a desperate
attempt to raid the bonded warehouse at
' the Johnston distillery, three miles south
of Greencastle, on Saturday night, and only
| the vigilance of the owner, George M.
i Johnston, prevented the loss of a big part
i of the whiskey stored there. Johnston
| was awakened by the noise made by the
i raiders and they fled when he shot at
i them. The raiders had three automobiles
and were evidently prepared to carry off a
‘ lot of booty. In their efforts to enter the
! warehouses the burglars broke the lock off
| the warehouse door and then used a lad-
' der to attack the heavy shutters on a sec-
! ond-floor window of the building.
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: —Mr. and Mrs. George I. Campbell and
| their son Richard, aged 3 years, who died
| of burns received in an explosion of fumes
! from roofing paint at Milton, last Tues-
| day, were buried in a single grave in the
Lewisburg cemetery last Friday. The
| Rev. J. D. Shortess, of the United Evan-
i gelical church, officiated. He was assisted
by the Rev. P. BE. Hower and the Rev. K.
{ BE. Irwin, of Milton. Mr. Campbell and his
| wife and baby went to the barn to pour
some roof paint. While at work Campbell
started to light his pipe. As the match
flame flared, a terrific explosion occurred,
presumably from the fumes of the paint.
Neighbors rescued them and they were
rushed to the Geisinger hospital, Danville,
where all three died, the father passing
away in ignorance of the deaths of the
other two.
Charges of cruelty to inmates of the
State Industrial Home for Women, at Mun-
cy, made by Mrs. Charles P. Lummer, a
state prison inspector, in an address at
Philadelphia last week, were denied by
Miss Frances R. Wilson, superintendent of
the home, but were substantiated by two
girls, who had been removed to the Ly-
coming county jail following an outbreak
at the home several weeks ago. These
girls, Marion Ludwig and Dorothy Frazer,
both declared that they had been beaten
at the home by the superintendent herself.
A probe of the charges resulted in bring-
ing to light the resignation of Mrs. How-
ard Cheyney, of Williamsport, as executive
manager of the home, who stated she had
severed connections with the institution
because of mot being in sympathy with the
manner of the conduct of the home as fa-
vored by others. Girls transferred to ther
jail asked for the return of Mrs. Cheyney.