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this is a new kind of “Normalcy.”
INK SLINGS.
— Where is that cold wave that was |
scheduled for this week? |
— Vote No on the proposal to hold a
constitutional convention.
__The constitution of Pennsylvania
is all right. Why spend a million dol-
lars on a convention to frame a new
one?
— Fatty has joined Doug. and Mary
in the twilight zone. The public is
very fond -of the movie stars but they
must come clean.
— Slowly the shamrock and the rose
are abandoning the hot houses and
showing signs of endeavor to thrive
under the same gardener.
—_Who robbed the booze department
of the postoffice? Surely the fellows
who did it will never admit having
been parties to such a bungling job.
—_Bellefonte’s weekly band concerts
are over for this season and right here
we want to express our gratitude to
the bsiness men’s association for hav-
ing made them possible.
—Japan’s idea that if we are really
going to reduce navies the strongest
naval powers should reduce until they
are no stronger than the weakest is!
theoretically sound but impracticable. |
There is probably no reason to
fear that the Ku Klux Klan will be- |
come popular in the North. The |
Know Nothings, about three-quarters
of a century ago, gave us a lesson nev- |
er to be forgotten. |
— Mrs. Renshaw couldn’t possibly |
have been chosen Women’s Democrat-
ic chairman because of fidelity to par- |
ty principles, and it is equally impos- |
sible to imagine that she was select-
ed on account of ability as a reasoner.
— Next Tuesday will be the day
when every one will have his or her
chance to have a say as to who shall
have a chance to fill local offices. Vote
only for the men or women whom you
think are really fitted for the positions
they aspire to.
—Crago is one of the Congressmen !
"who voted against every proposal to!
give the soldiers a bonus. He wants |
to go back to Congress. The boys who |
did the work in France will have a
chance next Tuesday to catch him out
in No-Man’s land.
—-In Boston unemployed men are
voluntarily going to a public auction
- block and having themselves sold to
the highest bidder for their services, |
often being knocked down at nothing
more than board and keep. Surely,
—We have changed our mind, We'
PR w=sare not going to give the brown derby °
“brought her here to play for the bene-
to the man who gets the most noise
out of one of Henry Ford’s contrap-
tions. We are going to set it on the
ivory dome of the leader of the crowd |
that stole the booze from the post:
office cellar and then couldn’t think of |
a safe place to hide it. ;
-—Reports have it that Congressmen |
are not enjoying their vacation as
much as they thought they would
when voting for a month’s recess. The
folks back home want to know about :
too many things that were promised '
and haven’t been done during the six
month’s session and don’t seem in-'
clined to stand for more stalling.
—_The sensational attempt to revive
the old steam heat works had Belle- |
fonte in a frenzy of excitement Tues- |
day morning. Had the company had
a little of the kind of bottled heat
cached there when it busted up in
February, 1918, and left its patrons
freezing with the thermometer away |
below zero there probably wouldnt:
have been as much crabbing as was.
registered then. ;
— The Mr. Crago who is up for re- |
election as Congressman-at-Large at
the special election next Tuesday, is |
the same Mr. Crago who voted against |
Woman Suffrage when it was before be expected to come from a packed
the House. He didn’t want to give the |
ladies a chance to vote, but they got it |
VOL. 66.
Defeat the Convention Project.
The hope of the supporters of the
constitutional convention project rests
on the credulity of the women voters,
apparently. We have already refer-
red to the activity of Mrs. J. O. Mil-
ler, chairman of the League of Wom-
en Voters, and Mrs. Barclay Warbur-
ton, chairman of the Women’s Repub-
lican committee, both of whom have
been inferentially promised seats in
the convention if it is created. Re-
cently Mrs. Clarence Renshaw, wom-
an’s chairman of the Democratic com-
mittee, has been enlisted in the en-
terprise, and she is quoted in the Sun-
day papers as urging all Democratic
| women to vote for the convention. |
Presumably she has received assuranc-
es of some sort that the Governor will
name her for membership. |
Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Warburton
have substantial reasons for the atti- |
tude they have assumed on the ques- |
tion, for they are partisan Republi-
cans, and naturally favor any propo- |
Democratic principles and destruction |
of Democratic interests. But Mrs.
Renshaw has no such excuse, for by |
virtue of her office in the Democratic
party, she is morally bound to an op-
posite purpose. Yet she deliberately |
advises the Democratic women voters ;
to join in an effort which is palpably |
intended to strengthen the corporate
grip on the affairs of the Common- |
wealth and strangle whatever is left
of Democratic sentiment among the
people. Personal preferment hardly
justifies such perfidy.
Happily, however, Mrs. Renshaw’s
reasoning is so feeble that it is not
likely to work great harm. She says
that the adoption of the Nineteenth
amendment to the federal constitution
makes necessary adjustment of the
| State constitution “to give the newly
enfranchised women her just rights.”
That is simply absurd, or it might be
characterized by an uglier word. The
Nineteenth amendment fixes as fully
and firmly as possible the citizenship
of women, married or single, because
! State laws whether fundamental or
statutory, must conform with the pro-
visions of the federal constitution. The
questionof service, which Mrs.
Renshaw says is in doubt, has been
settled by the courts in favor of the
women,
Mrs. Renshaw’s next reason for a
constitutional convention is the desir-
ability of a “budget system.” But
there is no necessity of going to a mil-
lion dollar expense to get that. The
Legislature has full power under the
present constitution to adopt the bud-
get system. Congress has taken that
step recently with respect to the gov-
ernment at Washington and the sys-
tem is in operation with the militant
and profane General Dodge at its
head. Mrs. Renshaw’s demand for a
“charity chest” has also been antici-
pated in the so-called “Welfare De-
partment” created by the last Legis-
lature and recently organized. As a
matter of fact Mrs. Renshaw’s contri-
bution to the convention propaganda
is puerile.
No unselfish citizen of Pennsylva-
nia, male or female, has yet given a
forceful reason for assembling a con-
vention at an expense of a million dol-
{lars or more to write a new constitu-
tion for the State. The present or-
ganic law may be defective in unim-
portant particulars, but it is infinitely
better than any instrument that might
convention at a time when public sen-
timent is chaotic and industrial and
BELLEFO
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
The “Culminating Atrocity.”
| on soup houses and bread lines to
! which communities have been forced
| to resort during industrial depres-
| sions that have occurred while Demo-
cratic Presidents were in office. The
l.same conditions occurred at other
times but they were conveniently
| overlooked or forgotten for the rea-
' son, probably, that Democratic news-
! papers are not in the habit of indulg-
ing in that sort of comment and Re-
publican prints kept quiet “for the
good of the party.” During the last
Roosevelt and the Taft administra-
tions soup houses and bread lines were
frequent incidents of industrial paral- |
ysis and were passed over without
comment.
But last week for the first time in
the history of the country jobless
white men were put upon the auction
block and sold to the highest bidder
| sition which will work impairmen{ of ' as the only available means of avert-
ing starvation. As the auctioneer
stated, they were not loafers and
bums who were forced to this expedi-
ent by want.
industrious men willing and anxious
to work at any price that would yield
them sufficient food and raiment “to
keep body and soul together.” The
sale was not a great success for the
reason that even upon such terms
there were few jobs available. Plen-
ty of witnesses to this distressing ep-
‘isode were in full sympathy with the
| suffering men but they were unable to
' give relief.
| And this incident occurred during
the administration of a Republican
‘ President. While the campaign was
in progress last year newspapers and
orators in every section of the coun-
try were sounding the praises of Re-
publican statesmen and declaring that
that party is the only one capable of
managing the government successful-
the government six months ago and
from that date industrial and com-
mercial conditions have been going
from bad to worse and the auction
block for willing and capable workers,
in Boston last week, is the “culminat-
ing atrocity.” Will our Republican
contemporaries give as full publicity
“to this as they did to the bread lines
of a few years ago.
——Anyway the Monroe Doctrine
has nothing to do with disputes be-
tween countries on this hemisphere.
It is only the people of the other hem-
isphere who are warned to “keep off
the grass.”
Better Late Than Never.
The proposition which comes from
certain labor leaders that public
meetings be held throughout the
country with the view of solidifying
sentiment in favor of the disarma-
ment, deserves to be encouraged.
Every sane man and woman in the
country realizes that the vast expen-
ditures for maintaining big armies
and navies constitute the principal
cause of excessive prices. So long as
these drafts upon the resources of the
country continue high taxes will re-
main. High taxes make high rates
for everything else and will ultimate-
ly result in national poverty and indi-
. vidual suffering. In view of these
‘facts disarmament movement
should ba cordially supported.
The proposition to hold these pub-
"lic meetings is timely, moreover.
4h na
just the same and if they vote for commercial life in confusion. The ence of nations called by the President
Crago next Tuesday they are
we never called names when speak
of or to the ladies, but if they vote
lot.
—Mile Suzanne Lenglen, ;
tennis champion, has been compelled
to cancel all matches in this country
because of her shattered health. The |
little lady who made such a fiasco of |
her first contest here is probably in a
more serious condition than was sup- |
posed when she blew up on the For- |
est Hill, N.Y. courts a month ago, but |
|
be that as it may she has the love and |
sympathy of all of America because |
of the self-sacrificing spirit that |
fit of her stricken compatriots.
— Remember, that you will receive | ply unfit for the service, “going
around urging the approval of the
convention,” is severely and justly
two ballots when you go to the polls |
next Tuesday. The smaller one will |
for that reason.
The Legislative committee of the
State Grange has the correct idea on
this subject. It contends that dele-
gates to a convention assembled for
such a purpose should be as close to
the people as possible. In a recent
statement of the case the committee
the State will be without representa-
tion, while others with no greater pop- il
| ulation and possibly less, may have ‘but it is better late than never.
two, and the spectacle of candidates
for membership, some of them palpa-
rell | iti invest : ? :
el! ; proposition to. inves the. Governor in the interest of disarmament, they
ing with power to appoint nearly one- will not only solidify public opinion
for | third of the members of a constitu- 3 oy
. : 5 bi 3 on the subject but will give moral sup-
ou + i . . .
Crago we reserve the right to think a | tional convention 1s insulting to the ort to the delegates sitti in the
| intelligence of the people, moreover, + :
: conference in behalf of the United
the French ‘and the project ought to be defeated | States. When President Wilson was
‘working his heart out and wearing his
health away in a similar benevolence
_ the Republican leaders of the country
! joined in an effort to defeat his pur-
! That was not only shamefully
! pose.
i perfidious but actually treasonable.
| We are glad to see that Democratic |
leaders areinclined to a more patri-
| shows that many of the counties of py
i The disarmament project came late
The
right time to take the matter up was
immediately after the armistice and
the right way was in joining the
i League of Nations as promptly as
England, France and Italy joined it.
If that had been done national condi-
be that of the special election to elect |
’ condemned. If the people of the tions would have been adjusted on a
a Justice of the Supreme Court, a State are wise and awake to their in-
Congressman-at-Large and decide the |
constitutional convention question.
The other ballot will be for the prima- |
ry. On it you must mark a cross op-
posite the names
you deem best fitted to fill the offices
they seek. On the bottom and to the
right of the smaller or special election |
ballot you will find two blank squares
opposite the words “Yes” and “No.
Take our advice and mark an
square opposite the word “No.”
time is not propitious and the method
. of constituting such a convention is
not on the square. Don’t be a party to | form
- the trickery.
of the candidates
X in the | ty
terests, the project will be over-
whelmingly defeated.
have made him a nuisance.
— Penrose has declared for re- carding the straw ha
but the people are inclined to
| take it as a joke.
_ peace plane two years ago, the United
. States would now be not only the
i leading but the most prosperous coun-
‘try in the world, and taxation could
——Mr. Bryan says forty years in ‘have been reduced a couple of billions
| politics has made him an optimist. He ' 3 year by this time.
might add that the last dozen years have had no selling of men on the
auction block in such circumstances
and the colossal vanity of Senator
—— Tt must be admitted that “Fat- | Lodge would not have been fed as it! at the coming primary.
» Arbuckle carried his fun too far is being fed now.
The | in the case of Miss Rappe.
+ by the weather.
Our esteemed Republican contem- !
poraries have grown exceedingly ex-
| uberent at times in commenting up-
They were healthy and |
NTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 16, 1921.
Crago Opposes Both Woman Suffrage
and a Soldier Bonus.
Considerable interest is being man-
ifested throughout the State in the
special election to be held on the same
day as the primaries, September 20,
at which a Congressman-at-Large is
to be chosen to fill the vacancy creat-
ed through the death of M. M. Gar-
land. For some time electors believ- |
“ed that each party would nominate a
candidate for this office at the prima-
ries, but since learning that the nom-
inations were made by the respective
state committees and that the elec- |
tion of a Congressman-at-Large wiil
be made on primary day, there has
been considerable activity among the
friends of the respective candidates.
To vote for Congressman-at-Large,
cach elector will receive a ballot sep-
!arate from the usual party nominat-
ing ballots. These ballots will be held
in 2 separate box and a separate re-
turn made by the election boards.
Four parties have nominated candi-
| dates for Congressman-at-Large. The
| candidates, in the order in which they
will appear on the ballot, are Thomas
S. Crago, Republican; John P. Brack-
i
ist; B. E. P. Prugh, Prohibitionist.
peared among women and soldiers in-
asmuch as he, when in Congress, vot-
ed against woman suffrage and the
! soldier’s bonus, according to the offi-
cial records of the House of Represen-
tatives. Members of the marine corps,
particularly, are active against Crago.
The women and soldiers are giving
their support to candidate Bracken,
who is a veteran of the Spanish-
American war. During the world war
he gave much of his time and money
in aiding the soldiers. He is a mem-
ber of the United Spanish war veter-
ans, Mr. Bracken is a business man
and’ a member of the Pittsburgh
Chamber of Commerce and the Pitts-
| burgh Association of Credit Men.
ly. They.assumed complete control of ;
Supporters of Mr. Bracken have
remaining days of the contest they
publicans have joined in the campaign
work for Bracken. His friends are
confident he will be elected on Sep-
tember 20th. Every elector, regard-
less of party affiliation, is entitled to
a ballot on which to vote for Congress-
man-at-Large, inasmuch as it is the
same as at a general election.
— Whether business is good or
bad President Harding enjoys himself
| in one way or another. Taft may have
the long distance record for Presidents
but Harding is ahead in the matter of
! frequent absences.
Choice of Evils in Philadelphia..
After an earnest, prolonged and ex-
between the Republican factions in
Philadelphia. There are many and po-
tent reasons for “deep feeling” on the
subject. There is an old adage that
“when . rogues fall out honest men
come by their own.” That of itself
should arouse the spirit of partisan-
in the contention. But political perfi-
ity have so depleted the Democratic
force in that city that there is not
On
the eve of the meeting of a confer- |
But we would ! polls.
enough left to take advantage of op-
portunity.
As between Senator Penrose and
State Senator Vare one might work
up some semblance of enthusiasm in
behalf of Penrose. But it is almost
impossible to believe that the dividing
line is drawn there. One might easi-
ly choose between Mayor Moore and
the coterie which controls the city
councils, moreover. Mayor Moore was
a confirmed machine politician before
his election, but the responsibility of
office and his obligation to the public
| seems to have worked a complete
! change in his methods and by fideli-
' ty to duty he has earned popular re-
spect. But we can’t persuade ourself |
| that the issue is between the Mayor
| and the perfidious councilmen.
| Two years ago the better element
| phia appeared to have gained substan-
| tial victory over the vicious machine
which had been looting the city for
years. But within a few weeks after
the election the corruptionists had de-
| bauched a sufficient number of the of-
| ficials elect, to nullify the triumph.
| The indications are that the same re-
| sult will follow this year in the event
| that the better element wins at the
That cloud in the horizon pre-
|
| what appears now to be a hopeful
prospect of the defeat of the machine
ease pA eee.
| ——1It isn’t so much pride as rapac-
— Fashion may fix a time for dis- ity that is interfering with charity
t but the wise , work in Russia.
wearer will be governed in the matter ment officials wan
The Soviet govern-
"the people are starving.
en, Democrat; Cora M. Bixler, Social- |
Strong opposition to Crago has ap-
been waging an aggressive campaign
quietly for many weeks. During the
have ed to put a lot of “pep”
toile Rg. - Many prominent Re-
hausting effort we are compelled to
give up hope of arousing enthusiasm |
for either side in the pending quarrel :
ship in behalf of one side or the other |
dy, selfish ambition and sordid cupid- |
of the Republican party in Philadel- |
| vents any measure of enthusiasm over |
t the money even if
NO. 36.
West Virginia’s Troubles.
From the Philadelphia Record.
When the West Virginia miners
shall have returned to their senses and
their homes and order shall have been
completely restored there ought to be
an investigation into the cause of the
‘ long-standing trouble there by a thor-
‘oughly impartial body. To be sure, a
| committee of the Senate is supposed
| to be making such an inquiry, but no-
' body ever pays any attention to Con-
. gressional recommendations. The
hearings may drag on indefinitely, and
public interest may have disappeared
long before a report shall be made.
In the not unnaturally heated lan-
guage of President Samuel Gompers,
of the American Federation of Labor,
“the mines of West Virginia constitute
the last refuge of autocracy in the
mining industry. In these mines an
unrestrained, unlimited greed domi-
nates absolutely. Absentee owners
hold immense tracts of rich mining
lands, demanding only dividends.”
There is exaggeration in this, of
| course, but the fact remains that ab-
sentee ownership is one of the flagrant
evils of the situation, and that the ac-
quisition of great tracts of coal and
lumber lands by companies and indi-
viduals who take no interest whatever
"in the workers has caused great bit-
terness of feeling.
i Another element contributing to the
existing disorder is the character of
many of the miners. These are Amer-
icans of sturdy stock which many
{ years ago became marooned in the
| mountains of West Virginia, Xen-
, tucky, North Carolina and Tennessee
. and has remained there ever since.
The high pay offered by the mines has
attracted these mountaineers from
! their secluded homes, and they have
|takenup an industrial existence for
| which their training has not well fitted
i them. Suspicious, sensitive, undisci-
-plined and long accustomed to deeds
of violence in the primitive life of the
' mountains, they become very inflam-
mable material when the thought finds
lodgment in their minds that they are
being exploited and oppressed by soul-
less corporations. Resistance to the
| authorities appears to them as natural
o4d well justified as the drawing of
“blood in a family feud. 352
This is a situation which obviously
calls for a great deal of tact and for-
, bearance, and unhappily the dmir-
{able qualities seem to have been. sin-
‘gularly lacking on both sides: Many
cof the miners are fierce and lawless,
“equally reckless in their employment
. of force. Many years ago there was a
very similar condition of affairs in
| Pennsylvania, culminating in the great
| anthracite strike of 1902. That led to
the establishment of Boards of Concil-
' jation, and a little later the state con-
: stabulary was formed, replacing the
"old Coal and Iron police, the private
detectives and the deputy sheriffs,
, whose aggressive mistakes had done
' much to anger the miners. For nearly
twenty years now there has been
i peace, followd by prosperity, in the an-
! thracite regions. Apparently there is
i no reason why West Virginia should
i not achieve equally happy results if
. both sides could be brought together
lin a conciliatory spirit and made to
see that their interests are identical.
eee pl ree.
0il in Our Politics.
| From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
| To read France on Russia is to feel
that one has read the worst thing in
| propaganda that may be read. The
! only thing possibly worse than France
{ on Russia is Stephen Bonsal on Mex-
i ico.
{ “Five important oil men,” begins
| Bonsal. “have gone to Mexico for a
| conference” with President Obregon.
Bonsal’s bubbles are all made of oil.
i It was in the cards. For months it
"has been in the cards. Certainly since
| March 4 last, this thing called “oil”
‘has been in the cards now
i ed at Washington. :
Oil helped to nominate Harding.
Oil helped to elect Harding. ;
Oil carried Oklahoma, New Mexico,
| Arizona and many another State for
Harding. : : ;
Behind the scenes, the big prizes In
| the campaign were oil. :
| Colombian oil ratified the Colombian
| treaty that had been hanging fire for
! 15 years and more.
{Oil persuaded Henry Cabot Lodge
i and others to reverse their positions
‘on that treaty and to vote $25,000,000
‘to Colombia, although Lodge, as well
' as others, had for 15 years denounced
| the proposition as “blackmail.”
0il placed Albert B. Fall in the cab-
i
inet.
Oil leased a big tract
Nation in Oklahoma to
: viduals.
i 0il named Scott Bone to be Gover-
| nor of Alaska.
Oil set up Henry P. Fletcher as Un-
der-Secretary of State. :
0il wells or oil tanks, afire and in-
| extinguishable, in Tampico petroleum
' fields have been the pillar of cloud by
i day and the pillar of fire by night to
i Charles Evans Hughes in formulating
' his Mexican policy.
0il’s “the thing!”
re ——— A ——————
in the Osage
private indi-
Corn is Again King.
rom the New York Herald,
Corn is king this year as usual, and
“in its habit of growing sturdily and
' complacently in spite of adverse con-
ditions, it is the symbol of the Nation
which devotes so much soil and ener-
gy to its cultivation.
———— ee ————
—Get your job work done here.
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Apple trees in some sections of Fayette
county are blooming for the second time
this season, Two on the Moser farm, near
White House, are out in full bloom.
—Arthur Summerson, a Clinton county,
farmer, committed suicide one night last
week by shooting himself in the head. A
shotgun was the weapon used. He is sur-
vived by his wife and several children. -
— (Governor Mproul has granted a respite
staying the electrocution of Sydney A.
Rhyne, Delaware county, from the week of
September 26th to that of October 24th.
His case will be presented to the State
Board of Pardons.
Dominick Pelaggim, keeper of a board-
ing house at Madera, was shot to death by
John Cavalier, a boarder, police say, when
he attempted to drive the latter away from
his house. Cavalier, who suffered a gun
wound in his right leg, says the shooting
was done in self-defense.
— Levi Welkin, a Negro, aged about 30
vears is an inmate of the Clearfield county
jail, charged with robbing Tony Araker, of
Madera, of $1,300 in money, a shotgun and
other articles. Previous to going to pris-
on Welkin confessed and turned over the
money and other articles to the officer who
arrested him. :
—Wkhile leavigg a hunting cabin in Clear-
field county for the purpose of shooting at
a chicken hawk, one of the steps of the
porch broke, and the gun carried by Frank
Ross was accidentally discharged, the bul-
let striking Leslie Derrick, causing a
wound which resulted in his death a short
time afterward.
—Dr. M. L. Emerick, of Lancaster, and
his chauffeur, James Stauffer, charged with
arson in connection with setting fire to
the Aluminum Paint company’s plant at
Dalmatia, waived a hearing before ’Squire
W. Landis Zerbe last Thursday, and gave
bail for their appearance at the Septem-
ber term of Northumberland county crim-
inal court. An effort is being made to
have the prosecution dropped, it is under-
stood.
—Timely intervention by Berwick police
about midnight Saturday night saved Wil-
liam Bailey from a coat of tar and feath-
ors at the hands of an angry crowd which
had failed in its efforts to effect a recon-
ciliation between Bailey and his wife after
she had accused him on the street of be-
ing intimate with another woman. The
crowd quickly gathered when the argu-
ment started and sympathized with Mrs.
Bailey. Men were getting the tar and
feathers when the police took Bailey to
safety and guarded him the remainder of
the night.
—@eorge Bossinger, aged 14 years, of
Lewistown, was accidentally hanged last
| escape in a waiting automobile.
| the police say, implicated in the plots, Gil-
being play- |
Triday evening while playing in the barn
at his home. He was swinging on the rope
on a carrier, in the barn, that is used to
carry hay to different parts of the mow,
and in some way the lad became entangled
in the rope and he was strangled to death.
When the boys’ father, William Bossinger,
found him, the body was still warm and
he was bleeding from the nose. The fath-
er was frenzied with grief and in trying to
get the boy loose severely cut his hands
on the rope. Death was pronounced due to
strangulation. ;
—Making six million feet of gas, a well
wis drilled in by the Pinccreek Gas com-
pany in Pinecreek township, Jefferson
y . 1 county recently—a comparatively new field.
“and the mining companies seem to be | 3 > y
After great efforts by a large crew of men
the well was capped and shut in. The well
was drilled in the southwest corner of a
500 acre lease and as prior developments
showed a gas streak extending north and
east the lease looks like a valuable prop-
erty. Pay sand was struck at 2200 feet.
It is understood that the Humphrey Brick
and Tile company, of Brookville, has the
largest individual interest in this lease and
that the major portion of the gas produc-
ed will be used at their works.
—A confession that plans had been made
to rob the First National bank of Juniata,
and also the bank at Bellwood has been
obtained, the Altoona police say, from
Warren VanZandt, following his arrest a
day or two ago. It was the intention to
hold up the banks in banking hours and
VanZandt,
bert MeCloskey, Edward Yon and George
Lafferty, all of Altoona, arrested on the
charge of holding up the Manhattan Limit-
ed several weeks ago, and also charged
with the murder of William E. Niehaus, an
insurance claim agent, in Altoona several
days later. Others also were connected
with the plot.
— Harrisburg police are trying to solve
the motive behind the slaying of Roy
Bruce, 40 years old, of Wormleysburg, who
died on Saturday after having been found
Friday night with his skull crushed, ly-
ing under the grandstand of the old Tri-
State ball diamond on Island Park, now a
Harrisburg city park. So far not a clew
has been discovered. Bruce was alive and
able to stand up, although bleeding pro-
| fusely from wounds in his head, when two
small boys directed a park guard to his as-
sistance. He was unable to talk, and shed
no light as to who his assailants were. The
only fact the police have to work upon is
the story of the boys that they saw several
men running away from the grandstand,
— Attorney Porter W. Lowry, aged 66
years, for more than 40 years a prominent
member of the Butler county Bar Asso-
ciation, was sentenced to from eight to
nine years in the western penitentiary on
Saturday and fined $2200, after he had
pleaded guilty to two charges of embezzle-
ment, one of forgery and one of larceny
by bailee. Upon entering his pleas the at-
torney strongly importuned the court to
show no mercy and, in addition, pledged
himself to redeem his debts upon his lib-
eration from prison. The defaleations in
the case were connected with the settle-
ment of the estates of Mrs. Mary F. Hyde,
of Ithaca, N. Y., and Mrs. Elizabeth
Thompson, of Los Angeles, and amounted
to $41,500.
The Girard Mammoth coal company, of
Pottsville, lost its $1,000,000 suit against
the Raven Run Coal company when the
court dismissed the bill of injunction
granted the Girard Mammoth company and
refused to direct specific performance of a
contract. The case involves the owner-
ship of lands of the Raven Run company
worth $1,000,000. It is alleged the Raven
Run company agreed to sell out to the
Girard Mammoth company, but the deal
was called off when the question of some
of the land titles became involved. As a
result, the Raven Run company held the
$20,000 deposited by the Girard Mammoth
company as a guarantee. Efforts were
made by the Girard Mammoth company to
go through with the deal with the Raven
Run company. -.