INK SLINGS.
— Blair county has elected a Demo-
cratic sheriff.
. —State College voted to try one
woman on the school board.
— The election caused scarcely a
ripple of excitement in Bellefonte.
— Exit Samuel B. Miller as judge
of election in the North ward, Belle-
fonte.
— The Democrats have elected their
controller in Maryland and regained
control of the Assembly.
—_Out in Burnside township every
Democrat who ran for office was elect-
ed except the nominee for auditor
who was defeated by a woman, Miss
Berenice Bowes.
— Centre Hall borough honored two
of her women with offices. Mrs. Fre-
da Kerlin will be the inspector of
elections and Mrs. Lettie Brungard
will audit the borough accounts.
—_The Madeira islands are said. to
be delightful for tourists, but for
Charles and Zita they are a long way
from the pomp and circumstance of
their defunct throne in Hungary.
__ Let us all move to Altoona. The
school board of that city has just
made the gratifying announcement
that the millage for school purposes
up there is to be substantially re-
duced.
— Down in Northumberland county
the Democrats got together again
and made a clean sweep of it. Among
their successful candidates was a
woman elected to the office of Pro-
thonotary.
__It being reasonably certain that
Rosenthal isn’t interested in keeping
Bellefonte dry the motive in his
“squealing” on Sullivan must have
been to settle an old score with a for-
mer lieutenant in his command.
— The much maligned Democratic
Mayor of New York city has been re-
elected by the largest majority ever
given any candidate in Gotham. May-
or Hylan seems to be one Democrat,
at least, who knows how to get votes.
It doesn’t matter to us who is in
Washington. Lloyd George, Briand,
Kato and other molders of interna-
tional thought may all be there. They
are not worrying us 2 bit. We are
only deeply concerned about what
they do.
—The city of Lancaster went Dem-
ocratic on Tuesday, for the first time
in a quarter of a century. Congress-
man Griest, who has controlled the
«city politics for years, was complete-
ly repudiated; every Democratic
candidate in opposition to his ticket
having been elected. ;
—_ Unionville was probably the wis-
est district in Centre county on Tues-
day. They elected Anna Hall, Demo-
crat, tax collector up there. Not
wholly because she is a Democrat was
the choice so well advised. When it
comes to getting the money the aver-
age woman has it all over a man.
— College township evidently isn’t
ready to give the women a trial at
running the schools up there as both
the ladies running for director on the
Republican ticket were defeated while
all of the other Republican candidates
for township office, with one excep-
tion, were elected by good majorities.
—Marshal Foch has declared that
he will not violate the Eighteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States while a visitor in this
country. In many things the Mar-
shal is proving an exemplar for a lot
of us, but in none
such striking counsel as this implied
admonition against regarding lightly
a fundamental law of the land.
—_Qur Democratic friends of How-
ard have great cause for rejoicing.
For the first time in the history of
that borough they elected a number
of local officers at Tuesday’s election
—two councilmen, a school director
and Miss Dorothy Weber as judge of
election. Verily Old Democracy 1s
not dead in one district in Centre
county, at least, and we extend con-
gratulations to the officers-elect.
— Admiral Kato, the head of the
Japanese delegation to the disarma-
ment conference, has discovered since
coming to America, that women have
two legs. He says, that in Japan one
would never know whether a woman
is a biped or a centipede but in this
country their dresses are designed to
remove all doubt. Of course the Ad-
-miral is only being facetious, for were
he really without knowledge of the
matter he’d be a “poor fish,” indeed.
—Howard borough, the staunch
Republican stronghold of the lower
Bald Eagle, was too gallant to let
partisanship blind it to the novelty of
having a charming young woman as
judge of election so it voted strong
for Miss Dorothy Weber. Possibly
those foxy enemies of ours pulled one
over on us at that, for with so much
attraction at the polling place they
may feel that they won’t have to work
so hard to get their usually large vote
out at the next election.
— This is the aununiveisaiy of ihe
day on which the armistice was sign-
ed ending the most destructive war
of all time. While it is a day that we
will remember with hearts athrob
with gratitude and joy let it be a pro-
found and reverent joy. Not a super-
ficial, flippant attitude that finds ex-
pression in mere revelry.
to our knees and thank God that the
war was no worse than it was and im-
plore him to wipe selfishness from the
nations of the world so that such a
cataclysm may never fall upon it
again.
has he brought!
Let us go |
Demaen
VOL. 66.
Result of Tuesday’s Vote.
The result of the election surprised
no close observer of events in Penn-
crat. Judge Bonniwell made an earn-
campaign for a seat on the Supreme
of his candidacy has been fulfilled.
preme court bench has been continued
in the election of Justice Schaffer, but
the public will have a clearer under-
standing of these things hereafter.
That was the purpose of the cam-
paign.
Outside of Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh Judge Bonniwell polled a con-
siderable majority of the votes cast
and if there had been a hope of his
election even the manufactured ma-
jorities for the Republican candidate
might have been overcome. As itis
the party has made large and uniform
gains throughout the State, which will
inspire both hope and confidence for
year. Mother Cumberland has been
| brought safely back to her Democrat-
ic moorings, and Berks, Lehigh,
Northampton and other Democratic
strongholds which strayed away last
dizing have resumed their old places
in the Democratic column.
Outside of Pennsylvania the results
have been more favorable than was
expected and almost as satisfactory
as could have been hoped for. New
York city has elected the Democratic
candidate for Mayor by the greatest
majority ever given.
Maryland have given safe majorities
for the Democratic candidates and
| even in Connecticut large party gains
have been made. This was an “off”
| year and little was looked for in the
| way of Democratic victories. But the
| returns are better than we hoped for
and indicate a reawakening of the
| public conscience in time to organize
a political revolution next year.
\
| __One of tie Pennsylvania Sen-
| ators was absent and the other voted
| no on the soldiers’ bonus bill the oth-
|er day, but their party will claim the
| support of the soldiers at the next
| Congressional election.
| —
| Marshal Foch’s Triumphal Tour.
| No foreigner visiting the country |
{ within the period of a hundred years
| has been so cordially welcomed and
| generously applauded as Marshal
| Foch, who is now the honored guest
of the people of the United States.
Nearly a hundred years ago another
Frenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette,
| made a triumphal tour through the
eastern section from Washington to
| Boston and was feted at every point.
But the country was sparsely settled
‘then and facilities for assembling
| crowds were less. Even if the condi-
| tions had been the same, however, it
‘may be doubted if the reception of
Lafayette would have been as enthu-
siastic as that given to Foch.
There are a good many distinguish-
ed foreign visitors in the United
States now and comparisons seem
more or less invidious on the surface.
But as a matter of fact, while the
Italians have shown much enthusiasm
and a splendid spirit of hospitality to
General Diaz, and everybody has been
conventionally polite to the great
commander of the Belgian forces that
fought so valiantly throughout the
war, the idol of the public everywhere
| that he has gone from New York to!
| Washington and from the capitol
| city to Kansas City, has been Marshal
| Foch, and his modesty has been as
| marked as his welcome has been gen-
erous.
Marshal Foch will remain in this
country for several months as a mil-
itary adviser of the French delegation
lin the conference for disarmament,
| and it is safe to predict he will lose
i nothing in public affection during his
stay. He is the quiet, capable type
that commends itself to the thought-
ful and conservative American mind
and that is the sort that bind their
friendships in bonds of steel. Dur-
ing his journeys taken thus far since
his arrival he has striven in every in-
stance to gratify the wishes of the
jpn, and he has succeeded because
in doing it he has seemed to be fol-
| lowing his natural impulses.
i
|
Marshal Foch has a different
idea of the service of the United
States in the world war, than that ex-
pressed by Ambassador Harvey, but
then Marshal Foch is an intelligent
| and fair-minded man.
{
— The Senate has passed its cra-
| zy-quilt tax bill and if the House will
now concur in the amendments the
perplexities of interpretation will be
in order.
errs
Senator Vare may now safely
say that he is back to stay whether
i Penrose recovers or disappears.
sylvania and disappointed no Demo-
est, and during the brief period since ' sentiment of its members toward Am- |
his unsolicited nomination, a vigorous
court bench. But neither he nor any
of his friends expected his election
and it may be said that the purpose
The Quay method of filling the Su-'
the more important campaign next !
year in the orgie of political merchan- |
Virginia and!
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMB
! Ambassador Harvey Properly
; nounced.
| The American Legion in national
, convention in Kansas City, last week,
| refrained from expressing the real
bassador George Harvey, at the ur-
gent appeal of the delegate from Lon-
don, England. This fact proves that
the purpose which Ambassador Har-
| vey had in mind when he made his in-
famous Pilgrim Society speech has
been realized. Like any other flunky
in a new environment Harvey appeal-
ed to the prejudices of a London au-
dience by maligning his own country.
But when he said that the United
States entered the war because we
were afraid to stay out he insulted
every soldier enlisted in the army and
every citizen of the country, and the
Legionaires are justly indignant.
The subject was fully considered in
the session of the committee on res-
olutions of the Kansas City conven-
tion and assumed the form of a dec-
laration that “the words of George
Harvey at the Pilgrim’s banquet in
. London are a miserable calumny,
worthy only of a little mind dominat-
ed by envy and jealousy, and incapa-
ble of appreciating the higher ideals
of life, and therefore ascribing to
others the only motives which it is
“able to understand; we, therefore, re-
| spectfully represent to the President
| of the United States that the said
| George Harvey is unworthy to hold
‘any office whatsoever in the gift of
the American people and that a pub-
| lic rebuke and an immediate recall
‘would be punishment mild in form
| compared with the enormity of the of-
. fense.”
: The resolution was not adopted for
' the reason that a delegate from Lon-
' don, England, protested that Mr. Har-
vey was not properly understood and
that he had been misquoted. But as
a matter of fact he was thoroughly
understood and correctly quoted and
his purposes were correctly apprais-
ed. Mr. Harvey not only maligned
the soldiers but he vilified all who
| were in any way associated with the
| management of the American contin- -
gent in the war. He said that they
were not only cowards but that their
| services in the war were negligible.
“We helped you to defeat Germany,”
he said, “and that is all we did.” This
' was fine music to the ears of the Eng-
lishmen who composed his audience
but slander of America.
; The “check-off” order of Judge
Anderson, of Indianapolis, has been
suspended for a time by a higher
court. Now if a way could be found
to suspend such jurists as Anderson
for all time the industrial future
‘ would be brighter.
ee pee =
Wealthy Men and Taxation.
| When Senator LaFollette, of Wis-
_consin, during a speech on the floor of
the chamber on Saturday,
that “we have heard here from day
to day that wealth defies the govern-
' ment, that it will not pay its taxes,
but the fiscal head of this government
| has laid it down as a proposition, and
'I am going to bring it before the
' country, that we cannot make wealth
| pay and we might as well accept that
proposition, that we have got to es-
tablish a system of taxation which
will make the people pay what wealth
will not bear,” Senator Penrose, of
| Pennsylvania, and Senator Watson,
of Indiana, became very indignant.
| The fiscal head of the government,
referred to by LaFollette, is Secretary
, Mellon, of the Treasury.
. In a sworn statement made before
. the Finance committee of the Senate
| some weeks ago Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon urged the decrease
: of the tax on excessive profits and big
| incomes for the reason that unless .
that were done wealthy men would
| withdraw their funds from productive
“industries and invest it in untaxed se-
| curities, meaning, no doubt, govern-
| ment or other bonds not taxable. Of
course the Secretary didn’t say and
| didn’t mean that the wealthy men
would resist payment by revolution
| or even by false returns. But his lan-
i guage did plainly imply that they
' would avoid payment by the legal
. means suggested, which in turn might
| result in grave impairment of the in-
dustrial life of the country.
But there was no necessity for Sen-
"ator LaFollette’s comment that Sec-
| retary Mellon “ought to be retired
| from his place for making this sort
! of declaration.”
facts. The wealthy men have the in-
| herent as well as the legal right to in-
| vest their funds as they like. But
| Secretary Mellon is mistaken in his es-
| timate of the result of the exercise of
| that right in the way he suggests. If
| wealthy men withdraw their invest-
, ments in productive industry and buy
| government bonds from the less for-
' funate but more patriotic holders, the
| prices will increase and the funds
| thus placed in the hands of the pres-
ent bond owners will be invested in
| the productive industries at greater
| profit.
declared
He simply stated the |
The Limitations Conference.
|
The
| Limitation of Armaments and the Pa-
| cific and Eastern Questions, as it is
' officially known, begins in Washing-
ton tomorrow and every right minded
' man and woman in the wide world
will hope for a fruitful issue of its
labors. It will be composed of repre-
sentatives of Great Britain, France,
Italy, Japan and the United States. ,
To sessions in which Pacific and East-
ern questions will be considered del-
egates representing China, Holland,
Belgium and Portugal will be given
seats and the right to participate.
While these features of the undertak-
ing came as a secondary considera-
tion it is safe to predict that they will
occupy most of the time of the con-
ference.
The purpose of the conference is
admirable from whatever angle it is
viewed. Competition in armaments
within the last half century has cost
civilization so much that any move-
ment looking toward a cessation of
the evil should and will be cordially
welcomed. But the principle upon
which this enterprise is based is of
such a character as to inspire doubts
of its success. The five great powers
which will determine the policies and
control the proceedings may have
force enough to compel universal
compliance with the mandates of the
conference. But a result obtained by
the co-operation of all civilized na-
tions, such as was provided for in the
covenant of the League of Nations,
would have given guarantees of peace !
that can never be hoped for through
operations of force.
an imitation of the conference of Vi-
enna held after the Napoleonic wars.
It may, and we sincerely hope will,
result in the decrease of armaments
and the consequent diminution of the
cost of government throughout the
world. But it will convey the impres-
sion of compulsion to the weaker na-
tions which would have been absent
from a result obtained by delibera-
tions in which strong and weak would
have had voice.. Such. an. agreement.
might have been achieved through the
instrumentality of the League of Na-
tions. But the malice of partisan
in the United States Senate prevented
that splendid consummation and now
we can only hope for the best of a
weak substitute.
————————————————————
| The Baldridge-Henderson judicial
fight in Blair county was closer than
the pre-election dope figured it would
be. The sitting judge has a safe
enough majority, something in the
neighborhood of 400, but much more
was predicted for him by his sup-
' porters.
eee ———
of Bellefonte, through a regularly ap-
pointed committee, has appealed to
borough council to ease up on the
traffic regulations so far as the park-
ing of cars on the streets of the town
! are concerned. They represent that
the “No Parking” signs are keeping
! farmers from coming to Bellefonte to
do their trading. Bellefonte not only
needs it but wants the trade of every
farmer within reach of the town, and
, we feel certain that neither the bor-
ough council nor any officer in Belle-
fonte wishes to do a thing to discour-
age the farmers from coming here,
but it is a well known fact that Belle-
fonte as a town is less stringent in its
trafic and parking rules than any
| other town in the State. In fact park-
ing and traffic rules are enforced far |
more rigidly in State College and
some of the villages throughout the
| county than they are in Bellefonte.
| The very laxity of enforcement has |
. been one of the bughears in Belle-
fonte for years past. Day and night
| farmers as well as any other automo-
| bilists have the privilege of parking
anywhere on any street in the town
save on crossings and at fireplugs. And
| the only time there is any congestion
| is on Wednesday and Saturday nights,
especially the latter. And that is not
| because of any stricter enforcement
| of the regulations but because of the!
| great number of cars. The farmer is
! just as open to conviction and level
| headed as any other class of men, and
| none of them are going to demand the
| impossible at any time. Those who
get here early Saturday evenings al-
| ways find a good parking place in the
heart of the town, and it isn’t the
| council’s fault if late comers are com-
| pelled to park on one of the side
streets. But even at that, every car
that comes to town can be parked
| within two blocks of the Diamond,
| and still keep the crossings open to
| the constant flow of pedestrians back
and forth.
|
| ——In a conversation in which
| money does the talking the German
mark expresses itself in whispers and
the Russian ruble is dumb.
an ins
— Everybody expected that Tom
Watson would be a nuisance in the
Senate but nobody imagined his ac-
bad.
" tions would smell so
ER 11,1
international conference on
—_— n’s association
The Business Men’s association | would not be fatal to an agreement | Military
O21.
NO. 44.
i The Prophet in the Embassy.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It must be very embarrassing to
President Harding to have an Ambas-
sador in London who is so free to an-
nounce the purposes and policies of
the United States. Mr. Harding him-
self cannot predict the policies of the:
government beyond his own term of.
office, and within that narrow space
he may wish to be free to determine
his own policies. Colonel Harvey is
not gifted with second sight. He is
' even less qualified to predict the Tu-
ture than he was at the Pilgrims’
luncheon to explain the past.
We cannot believe that he had the
warrant, of his chief to announce what
the United States would never do, be-
cause the President has always been
singularly careful not to say anything
more than what was demanded by the
immediate occasion.
The suggestion of an alliance be-
tween the United States, Great Brit-
ain and France for a specific purpose,
the safety of France from attack, is
totally unlike the course Washington
' warned his countrymen against. Thatd
‘was a general union with England.
| against France, or with France
against England. Lord Derby’s sug-
gestion was for the association of this
| country and England in a guarantee
of the peace of Europe by safeguard-
ing France. That would not be the
! unprecedented thing that Colonel
| Harvey imagines.
| In the interests of peace we made
{an agreement with England to limit
| the armament of both governments
{on the Great Lakes. At a later date
{ we made an agreement with several
| European nations for the suppression
i of the slave trade. We made a treaty
; with New Granada guaranteeing its
political independence and its terri-
| torial integrity. President Roosevelt
At best this conference can only be | tore up that agreement, but it had
been in existence for something like
sixty years.
e arms conference to meet next
week was called for the specific pur-
| pose of reaching an agreement with
i several foreign nations for the limita-
| tion of navies. That contemplates a
| treaty with them, which will be per-
| manent in the sense that any treaty is
| permanent, to waive our natural and
; constitutional right to have as big a
i navy as we desire and feel like paying
for. If the conference
| to anything, it will commit our goy-
ernment to foreign governments fi! A
ter against an attack from Germany
would.
{ The world is now in a state of
| peace, and measures to perpetuate
; peace would involve no departure
| from our unlimited sovereignty that
: would not be justified by several prec-
edents. Washington spoke when Eu-
. rope was rent by the Napoleonic wars,
and what he warned his countrymen
| against was partisanship with one of
the contestants. A combination with
‘ other nations to prevent war should
! not conflict in the least with the sen-
| timents of the Farewell Address.
And if there were some conflict it
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Professor I. H. Mauser, 62 years old,
Northumberland county superintendent of
public instruction, died at his home at
Sunbury on Monday of pneumonia, after
a week’s illness. Mr. Mauser was serving
his third term as a county superintendent
of schools.
Contractors who have been at ‘work on
the Jersey Shore highway for nearly three
years have finally completed the concret-
ing of the twelve-mile roadway between
Jersey Shore and williamsport. The
highway will be opened for its entire
length in two weeks. A celebration to
mark that event is being planned by res-
idents of the city and borough.
— Complaint that when he changed his
telephone from a business to a residential
line his wife was discharged as an opera-
tor and he was subjected to annoyance
and abuse was filed with the Public Serv-
jee Commission last Thursday by Howard
Bartholomew, of Johnstown, against the
Johnstown Telephone company. He also
attacks the service as inadequate.
— The climax in the boldness of thieves
in Lock Haven and vicinity was reached
one night last week when the county jail
was robbed of a quantity of coal while
Sheriff Tom Johnston and his family and
the turnkey were in the building. The
turnkey learned what was going on and in-
formed Sheriff Johnston, who saw one of
the thieves and took after him, but failed
to get his man.
Samuel A. Youngman, of Newberry, a
graduate of the school of animal husband-
ry at Pennsylvania State College, has been
named by the city council, milk inspector
of the city of Williamsport. Youngman
will begin his duties at once to carry out
the provisions of a new milk ordinance
patterned after the State Health Depart-
ment's model legislation for clean and
wholesome milk. His salary will be $125
a month.
{Coroner Fisher, of Middleburg, has
cided that an inquest will not be neces-
sary in the death of Raymond Walters,
16 years old, who was shot to death while
hunting with Harry Renninger, 16 years
old, a neighbor and chum. According to
Renninger, Walters was walking fifteen
feet ahead of him when a rabbit jumped
out of the bush. He raised his gun to fire
when the trigger caught in his sweater,
Walters getting the charge in his head.
Young Renninger has not been held.
—His plea for reconciliation spurned,
Ralph Palmer, aged 18 years, of Indiana
county, shot his wife, Mrs. Annie Humph-
rey Palmer, aged 17 years, and then, turn-
ing the revolver on himself, fired a shot
into his right temple last Thursday night,
dying instantly. The shooting occurred
at the home of Edward Suman, in Bairds-
town, near Blairsville, where Mrs. Palmer
had been staying for several months. Mrs.
Palmer suffered a painful but not serious
wound in her right arm and right hand.
__Alderman J. W. Darby, of Uniontown,
has held for court the three men who
were arrested on warrants charging that
they robbed the George Hoover home in
that city of $250,000 in cash, jewelry, se-
curities, bonds and stock certificates, The
prisoners, Fred and George Hainbaugh,
Rh and Joseph Kurtz, were held
shall - amount Bidfiout “il.
“City detectives are search-
ing for securities and bonds valued at
as mudh | more than $100,000, which, according to
uch as an agreement with Great | tne authorities the men threw into Red-
{
|
ship | Britain and France to assure the lat- : stone creek, near that’ place.
_ Mary Bellas, a 13 year old Punxsutaw-
pey girl, is in a critical condition in the
Adrian hospital as the result of being
scalped in a horrible accident, while at
work in the Punxsutawney Silk Throw-
ing mill on Tuesday. She stooped over to
reach under her machine when her hair
caught in the quills. She was drawn into
the roll and whirled arqund four times
before her scalp gave way, laying her
skull bare of flesh far down the back of
| her neck to a point between the shoulders.
{| But slight hopes of her recovery are en-
tertained.
—Six appointments to the United States
Academy at West Point have
i .
pi England and France to protect | been allotted to the State of Penmsylva-
i 5 e atter from attack, or an agree- i nia, and examinations of members of the
' ment with England, France, Italy and | National Guard who will have had a ree-
| Japan regarding the size of each na- |
j Lore : phe]
| tion’s navy. The world’s situation 1s | be held at Harrisburg on November
ord of one year's service to next June will
09
22nd.
| altogether different from what it was | The appointments are limited to guards-
+ 125 years ago.
| the present situation,
| ment of navies would be designed to
i be, and the guarantee of France
| would unquestionably be a measure to
i preserve the world’s peace, Washing-
, ton’s approval of which—had it been
| in his time within the realm of prac-
| tical politics—would have been
| prompt and hearty.
The Contrast.
{ ——
{| From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The visitor to Vienna nowadays
| sees many a vast stone building put
{up by Francis J oseph, intended to stu-
| pefy the imagination of the beholder
with the “might, majesty, dominion
and power” of the Hapsburg dynasty.
The city of Vienna has put a few of
these stark and gloomy piles to use as
offices and museums instead of royal
palaces; but it does not know what to
do with the rest. It does not intend
again to fill them with the parasitic
burden of an imperial establishment.
In the sharpest contrast with the
luxury that might have been theirs is
the present plight of the evicted
Charles and Zita, living in two small
rooms aboard a gunboat, on their way
| to exile in the Island of Madeira.
Theirs is abundant leisure to ru-
minate the transitory nature of im-
perial glory. The tourists ashore from
the steamer buying gay-colored post-
cards at Funchal will be to them a
sorry substitute for an imperial en-
tourage.
And yet when Henry Watterson
said, “Damn the Hohenzollerns and
the Hapsburgs!” he reflected fairly
well, though impolitely, the attitude
of the world as to the desirability of
maintaining these dynasties. The re-
cent experience of Charles and Zita
has shown them just how eager the
people of the land they quitted were
| to have them back.
r——— eee
Public Opinion Respected. .
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The calling off of the railroad strike
and the defeat of the Non-Partisan
League in North Dakota are both en-
couraging evidences of the return of
public opinion to rational stability. In
each of these events the result was
due to the pressure of public opinion.
We have to deal with | men.
Adjutant General Frank D. Beary
and the curtail- | will issue orders for candidates to assem-
ple at the capitol on the 22nd for exam-
ination. There is still time to file appli-
cations. Applicants must have had High
school courses.
— Because his wife took him to task for
coming home drunk, Joseph Delbo, ot
Mount Carmel, aged 43, attempted to take
his life Monday night. After an argu-
ment with his wife he went to their bed-
room, got a 32 caliber revolver, placed the
barrel of it to his mouth and pulled the
trigger. The bullet crashed through the
side of his mouth, severed a jugular vein
and came out at the back of his neck.
Hearing the shot, his wife ran up stairs
and found him unconscious on the floor.
Te was taken to the Shamokin hospital
where surgeons hold out hopes for his re-
covery.
—Dr. Thomas E. Iinegan, State Super-
intendent of Public Instruction, has de-
clined to call a halt on the practice of set-
ting aside in the public schools a week
for the special observance of some cam-
paign. Promoters of all kinds of educa-
tional campaigns are SO desirous of en-
listing the services of the school chil-
that a solid year of “special weeks” could
be scheduled. In answer to a recent re-
quest to set aside a week for special stud-
jes along a certain line, Doctor Finegan
suggested that the schools of the country
zet together and plan one special week
for the school children to pursue their
regular, daily studies. No reply has been
received yet.
— President Judge Bailey, at Lewistown
on Saturday, sentenced Joshua Perry,
thirty-five years old, to serve fifteen to
eighteen years in the western penitentiary
and also imposed a fine of $500 and costs.
Perry was convicted of second-degree mur-
der in connection with the shooting of
George Miller, seven years old, by firing
into an automobile with the avowed pur-
pose of killing his housekeeper, Hattie
Walker. Reed Rhoades, twenty-one years
old, was also sentenced to serve two to
three and a half years and fined $5 and
costs. Rhoades gained notoriety on the
night of April 27th, when his sister, Irma
Rhoades, fourteen years old, was shot and
killed by Russell Hoffman in front of the
Hoffman farm house as she made frantic
efforts to lead her brother away from an
automobile he was trying to: steal. A few
nights after the funeral he broke into the
miners’ supply store at Naginey.