Donor tc
INK SLINGS.
—Soon we will have the spectacle of
a very lonely oyster in a dish of fes-
tival soup.
— Next to Santa Claus we honestly
believe the kids of Bellefonte love
Johnny Sourbeck most.
—Why the excitement over the in-
vention of flashless gunpowder if we |
are to have no more wars.
— Next Wednesday will be the an-
niversary of the day Columbus discov-
ered the makin’s of America.
—The propeller of the Mayflower
must be broken. The President hasn’t
gone cruising for a whole week.
— The new moon is in the southern
heavens, so that we may expect warm
weather during its period, at least.
—How rarely the parents of chil-
dren who go wrong look over them-
selves when seeking the cause of their
SOTTOW.
— There was a tang of winter in
the air on Tuesday and the last straw
hat disappeared and some overcoats
came out.
—The Yanks took the first game of
the world’s series from the Giants
without even putting the big Babe
Ruth battery into action.
—Almost we had forgotten that
there is a man named Coolidge in
Washington until a ‘usually well in-
formed friend asked us, the other day:
“Who is Vice President, anyhow ?”
—It may be just because we all take
more notice of it than we once did,
but it does seem that there is more
drunkenness on Bellefonte streets than
a supposedly dry town can readily ex- :
plain.
—If imitation is the sincerest form
of flattery Woodrow Wilson must cer-
tainly be chuckling at the announce-
ment that President Harding is going
to march afoot in the parade in honor
of America’s unknown hero on Arm-
istice day.
— President Harding having named
Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt as
America’s three greatest men the
. country may feel well repaid for his
eight month’s occupancy of the White
House. He has done that much, at
least, to quiet the disturbed condition
of the public mind.
— Former Vice President Thomas
Watson Marshall visited Washington
during the week and commented on
the number of drinks that he was in-
vited to take by welcoming friends.
Mi. Marshall might feel wonderfully
pleased at the generosity of his
friends in the capitol if he didn’t know
that they knew that he hasn’t taken a
drink for over thirty years.
—The Rev. R. T. Western, the mar-
rying parson of Elkton, Md., has been
dismissed from the Methodist church
by the Wilmington Conference. Rev.
Western’s “Gretna Green” is a very
profitable business. He averages
about one hundred ceremonies a month
and as the fee runs all the way from
two to ten dollars his brother minis-
ters probably thought such monopoly
should be crushed.
— Not content with a hotel steen
times as large and stylish as a town of
its size usually boasts Philipsburg is
turning an appreciative ear to a gen-
tleman, by name Curtis, who is going
to help all of the coal barons of the
metropolis of Rush township lay out
such parks, boulevards and other mod-
ern beautifiers as will make the shade
of Hardman Phillips feel like Johnny
New in a strange land.
— Will the next Governor of Penn-
sylvania be Judge Witmer, Senator
Fisher, Lieut. Governor Beidleman or
State Treasurer Snyder is the question
that factional Republicans are asking
one another? Penrose followers will
probably tell you, ere long, that he
will be Witmer. Sproul’s friends will
put you wise to the fact that he will
be Fisher and Beidleman and Suyder
followers will be telling how their fa-
vorite has been double-crossed. A big
fight is on the horizon already and un-
less it is killed a bornin’ the next Gov-
ernor of Pennsylvania might be some
good Democrat like the lamented Rob-
ert E. Pattison.
—Experimentation at the Carnegie
research laboratory at Cold Spring
harbor has produced a black skinned
chicken. The scientists monkeyed
with the chromosomes, changing the
number and shape of the germ plasms,
until a real “boogie” chick was hatch-
ed. What they did it for is a matter
of conjecture to the lay mind. But
evolution is a wonderful thing and
some day we may all be startled by
the announcement that race troubles:
have been solved by putting the re-
verse English on the Cold Harbor ex-
periment and changing the chromos-
omes of the infant darkey so that they
will produce white children.
—When Charley Schwab comes up
to State College next week he will,
probably have something to say. about
business conditions and unemploy-
ment, for Charley is a big business
man and just now is a member of the
Hoover commission on unemployment. .
Business being stagnant of course men
are idle, but need they be. There is
always something useful to do for
those who have the will to do it. How |
different the homes of idle workers |
would be if the ones out of employ-
ment were to spend their time clean-
ing, repairing and beautifying them.
Of course that would not put bread
and meat in the pantry, but it would |
put a lot of hope and pleasure in the
occupants of the home and loafing on
the streets doesn’t do either.
STA
VOL. 66.
BELL
EFONTE, PA. OCTOBER 7, 1921.
NO. 39.
Factional Fight Creates Hope.
| that neither the esteemed Philadel-
| phia Record’s suggestion of Senator
| Vare as the Republican nominee for
| Governor nor our own thought that
| State Treasurer Snyder should be
| named is likely to be adopted by the
Republican machine. On the contra-
| ry conditions appear to be shaping up
{for a regular cat-and-dog fight be-
tween the Penrose and Sproul factions
of the party for the favor. The Pen-
rose entry seems to be United States
district court judge Charles B. Wit-
mer, of Sunbury, while the Sproul fa-
vorite is still under the shelter of a
dark blanket with signs pointing to
i banking commissioner John S. Fisher,
of Indiana. In the event that these
favorites will be in contest it may be
assumed that Vare will be with Sproul
and Snyder with Penrose.
When Senator McConnell, of Sha-
mokin, was appointed State prohibi-
tion director, and Jack Glass, of the
same town, was named for United
States marshall the “Watchman” dis-
cerned the “fine Roman hand” of the
crafty jurist and suggested the prob-
ability of his nomination for Gover-
nor. These two officials, trusted lieu-
. tenants and close personal friends of
Judge Witmer, have control of a vast
amount of patronage. Neither of
them could have coveted the jobs to
which they were assigned. McConnell
is a rich banker and never revealed
‘ even symptoms of sympathy with the’
prohibition movement and Glass had
a better office in the State Highway
Department. But the patronage of
their respective new offices is a strong
lever in political manipulation and
their appointments meant something.
If this battle is staged, and it now
| seems inevitable, there will be fur fly-
ing during the primary campaign next
year. The animosity between Penrose
and Sproul, which began at the Na-
tional convention in Chicago last year,
has been increasing in volume and bit-
terness ever since. The friends of
Sproul are persuaded that if Penrose
had said the word Sproul would have
been nominated for President instead
of Harding.
ised the nomination to Harding and
entered Sproul as a “favorite son”
candidate to help rather than impair
his plans, and when Sproul took the
matter seriously and actually tried to
get the party favor, Penrose had no
alternative but to abandon Harding ov
stifle Sproul’s ambition. And the Gov-
ernor had already revealed a spirit of
rank insubordination.
Besides there are other disturbing
‘signs apparent on the Republican po-
litical horizon of Pennsylvania. Lieun-
tenant Governor Beidleman moved out
of Sproul’s path to the executive man-
‘ sion in Harrisburg in 1918 under an
implied, if not an expressed, promise
that the nomination would be given to
him next year. Penrose and Sproul
' were in complete accord then and Bei-
dleman has a just grievance against
both of them. The excuse that he has
talked too much in the interim is hard-
ly valid because he was urged to lo-
quacity by both of them. State Treas.
urer Snyder also feels that he has
been betrayed by both the big bosses
and is nursing-a grudge as big as a
Minnesota farm. Then Auditor Gen-
eral Lewis is looming in the lime light
as a reformer and minor troubles are
multiplying.
But we can see no real reasons vhy
Democrats should worry over the
anomalous sitwation. And by the
same token it would be hard to imag-
ine why the pedple of the State should
be discouraged on account of it. This
atrocious political machine has been
|
Current political gossip indicates
looting the public for many years and
has finally brought this grand old
Commonwealth to the verge of bank-
ruptey and the brink of dishonor. Out
of this interneeine quarrel among po-
litical pirates there may come endur-
ing rescue froin the brigandage that
has disgraced the recent past and the
restoration of the State government to
the control of the people. A Demo-
cratic victory next year would achieve
that result and in the circumstances
there is hope.
re le
——The public debt was increased
$1,778,000 during September. But
President Harding's letter claiming
“vast economies has already accom-
plished its purpose in New Mexico.
——The League of Nations goes
right on with §ts work as though the
proposed conference in Washington
isn’t expected to take it over.
——The unemployment conference
appears to be “passing the buck” to
the Mayors of the several cities.
Hoover is “an artful dodger.”
PR SS
The Republican leaders are still
lying about former President Wilson,
“which leads to the thought that they
are still afraid of him.
BA
— Market reports indicate that
“prices of liquor show a tendency to
take the toboggan.” Omit kidding.
Possibly a Significant Question.
Former Speaker of the House of
Representatives in Harrisburg, Hon.
Robert S. Spangler, of York, has rais-
ed a question which may develop into
an important issue in the impending
factional fight or be summarily dis-
missed as “a tempest in a teapot.” He
wants to know what the official record
and history of the last session reveals
with respect to his status in the body.
A good many other people have ex-
pressed curiosity on that subject at
one time or another since that event-
ful day when he was driven away from
the speaker’s chair by a posse of arm-
ed state constables. But thus far no
information has been given and the
official record and history of the eveni
has not been published.
The facts are that at the opening of
the session Mr. Spangler was duly and
legally elected speaker of the House
and appropriately installed in the of-
fice. He tried to be a fair and impar-
tial speaker during the session but his
sympathies were with the: Penrose-
Grundy faction, which was pretending
to favor
profligate program of “magnificent
achievement” which the Governor had
fixed upon. By virtue of his office he
was retarding the progress of the
Sproul plans and because of his oppo-
sition their defeat seemed probable.
On the Monday evening before final
adjournment, after the session had of-
ficially ended, a rump session was
called, a new speaker elected and he
was thrown out.
Upon reassembling in the morning
Mr. Spangler attempted to resume
the speaker’s chair but was forced by
the state police off the rostrum and
the newly chosen speaker assumed the
office. Mr. Spangler protested but
was bowled over as an intruder and
disturber of the peace. He properly
warned the actors in thé drama that
they were treading on dangerous
ground, but they paid no attention to
his admonition. They proceeded in
violation of law and in contempt of
justice to carry out the wishes of the
Governor. Bills were taken from
committees without legal sanction and
millions of dollars were passed in a
riot of confusion and disorder, such as
had never before been seen.
All this may be justified by expedi-
ency and the right of a deliberative
body to change its presiding officer
may be within the law. That was
practically done in the House of Rep-
resentatives in Washington some
years ago when members of his ewn
party revolted against the usurpa-
tions of Speaker Cannon. But the
proceeding in Congress was orderly
and gravely conducted in the open.
The transaction at Harrisburg was
surreptitiously conducted at a. meet-
ing that had been assembled elandes-
tinely and without authority. A judi-
cial inquiry might result in a‘declara-
tion that all business transacted after
the event is illegal and void and for
that reason the question raised by Mr.
Spangler may have much significance.
ee ere ete pA rere.
State prohibition director Me-
Connell has complained in Washing-
ton that the system of issuing permits
to withdraw liquor from bond is too
lax. Probably the Senator is having
difficulty in “getting his’n.”
->
Putting Men in Holes.
The piincigal reason which influ-
enced Republican Senators to vote
against the ratification of the Versail-
les tieaty was the desire to “put Pres-
ident Wilson in a hole,” as chairman
Fordney, of the Ilouse Ways and
Means commiitee, explained his vote
on another measure. If the Demo-
cratic Senators are similarly inclined
toward President Harding, they may
accomplish the result by voting for
the ratification of the separate peace
treaty with Germany. It represents
the basest abandonment of every prin-
ciple of honor. It violates an obliga-
tion freely assumed, to our associates
in the great war. As Senator Lodge
said in a speech delivered in 1918, “it
is an infamous thing.”
When we entered the great war it
was unanimously agreed that the step
was taken for the benefit of humanity
and the preservation of civilization.
It is not true, as Ambassador Harvey
declared, that we were afraid to re-
main out longer. No considerable
number of people feared that Germa-
ny would invade and destroy our coun-
try after her conquest of Europe was
completed. It was felt here, however,
that German victory in the war would
stifle self government and civil liber-
ty in Europe and the American blood
shed and treasure spent were to avert
that great menace. The separate
treaty with Germany will work an an-
nullment of our purpose and a sacri-
fice of our ideal.
The conquest of Germany is not so
complete as to cause an abandonment
of the hope of world control. Inter-
ested financiers and magazine writers
are painting doleful pictures of Ger-
man destitution but the junkers are
patiently and assiduously striving for
economy and oppose the:
Penrose had propys—Mmeasures covering’ appropriations of -
the restoration of the Empire and the
return of potency. The separate peace
with this country is the longest step
that has been taken in that direction.
It has been joyfully haled by the mil-
itarists and when the manhood and
womanhood of America gives it care-
ful analysis it will be universally con-
demned. The Republican party is re-
sponsible for it and the verdict of his-
tory will fasten the blame where it
justly belongs.
Evil of Industrial Espionage.
In ithe report of the commission of
inquiry of the Interchurch World
movement made public the other day
there is a statement which affords
food for grave reflection. It is that
“widespread systems of espionage are
an integral part of the anti-union pol-
icy of great industrial corporations.”
In other words, the employment of
spies by large industrial corporations
for ene purpose or another is one of
the leading causes of industrial trou-
bles in this country. “Industrial es-
pionage,” the report adds, “is confined
to the United States. What espionage
there is in Europe is a government
monopoly; no other civilized country
tolerates on a large scale, privately-
owned labor spying.”
lated to disturb the evident desire of :
Probably the original offender in
this evil is Pennsylvania. Years ago
the anthracite coal producers were au- IE DHIY Novis "ph the
thorized by law to organize and main-
tain a body of spies known as the
“coal and iron police.” The justifica-
tion for this extraordinary organiza-
tion was the Molly Maguire outrages
in some sections of the anthracite coal
region and if the force had been held
.in desiring peace.
to the purpose claimed for it in the’
beginning no great harm would have
resulted. But consequently it was per-
verted to spying on employees who
had no connection with the murderous
fraternity that brought it into exist-
ence and made an instrument of pri-
vate vengeance and personal enmity
and persecution. ;
It is said that some of the great cor-
porations in this State and in other
States employ a force of spies almost
equal in numbers and expense to the
1abésers employed and that ‘they en-
courage labor disputes in order to in-
gratiate themselves with their em-
ployers. Nothing more despicable
could be imagined and yet this body
of churchmen who have undertaken to
undivided Ireland,
, Valera has promised the majority ele-!
The Irish Conference.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The conference between the repre-
sentatives of the British government
and the Sinn Fein delegates is now as-
sured. The preliminary jockeying, as
was constantly predicted in these col-
umns, has been merely a clearing of
the air for the real test, which is now
set for October 11, with London the
scene.
Lloyd George’s final note was busi-
ness-like and brief, and de Valera’s
prompt letter of acceptance was equal-
lv free from entangling phrases. “Con-
ference, not correspondence,” says the
British Premier, “is the most hopeful
and practical way to an understand-
ing;” and he now proposes the London
conference “with a view to ascertain-
ing how the association of Ireland
with the community of nations known
as the British Empire may best be
reconciled with Irish national aspira-
tions.” There is nothing in that for
Sinn Fein to balk at. It will let both
parties to the long interchange of con-
troversial notes enter the parley with
‘their “faces saved.”
_ There was in the preliminary fenc-
ing, as has been so often pointed out
in these columns, no real danger of a
slamming of the peace-door. But with |
the opening of the parley on October |
11th the genuine battle will begin. So
far there has been no real crisis caleu-
both sides to achieve permanent peace,
but now the air becmes eolectric. “The
negotiations may not be smooth,” says
mere fact that the conference is meet-
ing proves the one thing that really
matters, that both sides are in earnest
i If that is so, it is
in a high degree improbable that they
vill part without achieving some tol-
erable settlement.”
It is now declared that the Sinn Fein
party may ask for “the restoration of
Ireland as a kingdom under the Brit-
ish Crown.” Whatever of truth there
may be in this (and nobody can speak
authoritatively of plans that have had
little time to reach more than embryo
stage), it is pretty certain that de Val-
era and his associates will fight for an
whether it be a
kingdom or a republic. Ulster, which
has held aloof from the preliminary
discussion, cannot help but figure
prominently in these negotiations. De
ment in Armagh and FF
ermanagit Sha t
their objections against inclusion in
‘the Ulster province will have his sup-
ascertain and reveal the causes of la- |
bor troubles in the industrial life of |
the country declare that such a’ condi-
tion exists. In fact, according to the
report in question, one of the spies in
a Chicago” industrial plant was in-
dicted by the grand jury for “conspii-
acy to create riots, insurrection and
murder.”
Senator Newberry Whitewashed.
The Senate committee on privileges
and elections has given Truman H.
Newberry, of Michigan, a clean bill of
moral health. ‘An Act of Congress
limits the amount a candidate for the
Senate may expend to less than ten
thousand dollars and declares that
using a greater sum for campaign pur-
poses is a misdemeanor, punishable by
imprisonment. A United States dis-
trict court in Michigan found Senator
Newberry guilty of violating this law
and sentenced him to a term in jail.
But the Supreme court of the United
States reversed the district court on
‘the ground that most of the money
was spent in the primary campaign
and the law refers to a campaign for
election. ;
A few years ago Mr. Orin D. Bleak-
ley, of Kranklin, Pa., ran for Congress
and being very rich and somewhat
reckless spent forty thousand dollars
in his campaigns, primary and gener-
al. Some one in his district less
port. Ulster will probably fight
against any rearrangement; and it is
over questions of this sort that crisis
are aimost certain to arise.
Is the Tariff Issue Fading?
Irom the Charleston News and Courier.
Two or three years ago there were
many persons who thought that the
tariff as a political issue was dead.
The war
' completely changed the world, it had
gone. That, however,
brought to the front so many new
questions of tremendous import, it
had wrought such a revolution in the
thoughts and in the very habits of
thought of millions of people that the
tariff as a leading issue seemed to be
a museum piece, a mere relic and re-
minder of an age that had passed and
was too extreme
a view. Not much was said about the
tariff in the first political campaign
after the war; but when that cam-
paign was over, and the winners of it
got down to work, it was revealed that
the tariff was the first thing in their
thoughts and tariff-making was the
business in which they proceeded to
devote themselves to the exclusion of
everything else.
The war did not change the world so
completely as some of us had suppos-
ed. The tariff is still a political issue;
vet it is doubtful whether it is such an
issue in the old sense and there are
wealthy and not quite so reckless en- .
tered suit in the United States district
court at Pittsburgh for violation of
law. After entering a plea of nolle
contendre Mr. Bleakley relinquished :
his claim to the seat in Congress and
the case was dropped. He either lack-
ed the “gall” which carried Newberry
triumphantly through the Senatorial
investigation or else Congressional
morality has taken a slump since.
In any event Senator Newberry sits
in his seat with the brand of a crim-
inal on his forehead. He bought a
seat in the Senate with money sup-
plied by his wife’s relatives and if the
Republican Senators who subscribed
to the report exonerating him enjoy
the companionship they are welcome
to the company. Among honest men
in and out of the Senate he will be
some who, in spite of its return to the |
stage in what seems to be vigorous
health, doubt whether it will hold the
stage long. There is, after all, only
one thing that can remove the tariff
from party polities, and that is its
abandonment as a fundamental princi-
ple by the party which now has it as
such a principle; and some people be-
lieve had the party which has stood so
§ OL long on the tariff as its very founda-
the congressional corrupt practices’
tion is now beginning to shift its
ground.
To these people the difficulties which
the Republican Congress has encoun-
tered this year in its tariff-making are
‘profoundly significant. They regard
held as a criminal until the end of his !
days and he deserves all the oppro-
brium which that fact imposes. A
man is known by the company he
keeps and taking one consideration
with another there is little difference
between Lodge and Newberry.
——A Pittsburgh judge has decid-
ed that women must give their ages
in registering to vote. Now the ques-
tion is: Does he really mean actual
equality of sexés or is he a coarse
creature who wants to “get news.”
those difficulties as not merely arising
out of questions of detail, but as hav-
ing a much deeper source. They in-
terpret them as signs of a change
coming over the mass of the Republi-
can party—a change much more im-
portant and far-reaching than the
rather superficial change which has
taken place in the South with regard
to the tariff question. If these ob-
servers ave right, the “come-back” of
the tariff as a political issue of the
first magnitude is only temporary and
with its aftermath had so |
!SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The State firemen’s convention was
i held in Wilkes-Barre this week.
! —¥rank Ott and Robert Walker, found
guilty of holding up and robbing P. F.
Beyer, near St. Marys, about three months
ago, were sentenced to five years each in
the western penitentiary at Ridgway on
Monday, by Judge Heck in the county
court. ;
—The Tioga county officials, commission-
ers and auditors, who took excess salary
under a recent law to which Judge Bough-
ton, of McKean, specially presiding, decid-
ed they were not entitled to, and as backed
up by the Supreme court, have returned the
same to the county treasury.
—_ Women must not quibble about their
age if they wish to vote, according to 2
decision handed down in Common pleas
court at Pittsburgh on Menday when an
appeal of Miss Elizabeth Warnock from ac-
tion of registration officials was dismissed.
The court held the exact age is necessary
for identification and that the words ‘“ap-
proximate age,” will not suffice.
—An aerial hobo is the latest thing, and
two of them dropped in on Bloomsburg
one day last week, and admitted their iden-
tity. They were Merrill Riddick and Rob-
ert Jefferzon, both originally from Phila-
delphia, who have been hoboing in the sky
across the continent twice for the last
vear. . Both are former army flyers and
Riddick was in the mail service for several
months.
—~While Mr. and Mrs. Edward Flanigan,
of Nittany valley, were away from home
last week, three of their children found a
22_caliber revolver which was loaded.
William Flanigan, aged 8 years, who was
handling the weapon, pressed the trigger
and the ball entered the forehead of his
younger brother, Jack, aged 4 years. The
ball was imbedded in the skull. His re-
covery is expected.
—Jzcob C. Brown, a Williamsport man-
ufaeturer, has olered to the American Le-
gion and the Boy Scouts of that city the
use of a plat of fifteen acres of ground in
the west end of the city for a recreation
center and athletic field. The plat fronts
on Lycoming creek and adjoins Memorial
park, the city’s largest municipal park.
The gift is a memorial to Mr. Brown's de-
ceased brother, the late Max M. Drewn.
Burns Lyons, n prosperous farmer of
Uniondale, is dying in a Carbondale hos-
pital from wounds received at_the hands
of unknown robbers who beat him up and
stole $2,000. Lyons’ farm is on the out-
skirts of Uniondale, his home being in the
town. Sunday morning he left his home
for the farm about 6 o'clock. Three hours
later he was found unconscious in a barn
on the farm with his head battered in. A
wallet which his wife said contained $2,000
when he left home was missing.
—Thieves stole a small truck from the
garage of H. G. Douthett, in New Brigh-
ton, and thén backed it up to the rear of
{ his meat market. They bored their way
i through three heavy doors of the store and
pried the safe from its moorings. They
i moved it toward the door, only to discov-
| op that the truck would not hold the safe.
{ Meanwhile the Douthett family slept in up-
| stairs apartments. The robbers were
i frightened away while pondering what to
! do. The safe contained no money or val-
~aables.
4
} —John Knoth, a Langhorne news dealer,
{fell dead on Sunday with a bullét in his
i head while talking to W. IT. Lighteap, who
' had stopped him on a country road to buy
a newspaper and for several hours the
| shooting remained a mystery. Investiga-
: tion by a state police developed that Knoth
| had been killed by a stray bullet fired by
| John A, McCarthy, who was practicing
{ with a rifle 150 yards away. McCarthy was
i locked up in the Doylestown jail for a
hearing. The police said they were con-
| vinced the shooting was accidental.
| —A contract to electrify the Chilean
! state railroad between Valparaiso and San-
| tingo at a cost of $7,000,000 has been award-
| ed to the Westinghouse Electric and Man-
| ufacturing company of Pittsburgh, it was
i announced September 28th. The equip-
| ment to supply the road includes passen-
i ger and freight locomotives, electrical ap-
{ pliances and substation materials. The
| main line of the Chilean state road is 116
"miles long and is the most important rail-
{ way line in Chile, it is said. It connects
| Valparaiso, a seaport, with the capital.
|
| —Muncy is preparing to entertain the
| Thirty-fourth infantry, Uunited States ar-
i my, on October 8th and 9th, when the reg-
| iment will stop at that place over Sunday
{on a hike through that section of the
! State. The regiment will arrive at. Muncy
ion Saturday afternoon and remain there
i until Monday morning, when it will re-
| sume its journey up Muncy creek valley.
. Monday night the soldiers will camp at
{ Mawr Glen and Tuesday at Eaglesmere.
i The regiment will be en route from Camp
| Meade to New York for a change in sta-
tion.
i —Seizing Constable D. Harvey Sykes, of
| Chester, by the neck and tossing him
| across a meat block in her husband’s
. butcher shop, Mrs. John Rykiel threaten-
! ed to administer a spanking to the law of-
| ficer as punishment for the part he took
| in a legal affair in which her husband is
I interasted. Christy, another constable, was
| delegated to arrest Mrs. Rykiel, and when
| he appeared with a warrant she threatened
| him with a butcher knife, acording to
| Christy’s testimony before Alderman Wil-
{ liam J. Leary, who imposed a fine and
{warned Mrs. Rykiel.
RA
—All records for the number of bidders
| on state highway work were broken last
| week when 200 contractors submitted 306
i bids on thirty proposed projects. On one
| pid alone, for a stretch of a little more
| than five miles in Butler county, there
! were twenty-eight bidders. The number of
! projects also was the greatest ever adver-
‘tized at one time by the State Highway
| Department, and the bids averaged ten to
{a project. A considerable drop in con-
| struction prices was shown by some bids,
i which ran lower than $40,000 a mile for
durable concrete highways. This is be-
i lieved fo be the lowest bid since war times.
the time is not far distant when the |
tariff will be out of politics.
Opened the Men’s Eyes.
From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
The speed with which a woman as |
chairman of the New York State Dem-
ocratic convention handled the meet- |
ing bewildered the male delegates. |
They must have been bachelors or
they would have understood.
It may be said now that former
President Taft has literally “entered
into his reward.” In other words, he
is actually “on the pay roll.”
; —George Miller, a negro child 7 years
i old, is dead, and Miss Hettie Walker, 27
| years of age, also a negro, is in the Lew-
| istown hospital with a bullet in her brain
| as the result of being shot, it is alleged,
by Joshua Perry, aged 45 years, a. negro,
| for whom she was housekeeper. Perry is
| in the Mifilin county jail, charged with the
crime. Perry, who lives at Sandmines,
three miles west of Lewistown, accosted
| his housekeeper as she was motoring to
! that city with Jesse Miller, his wife and
| son, George. Perry ordered the Walker
woman to return to the house and she re-
| fused. He then drew the gun and fired.
i The bullet struck the child, killing it, and
| then entered the woman's head.