Bonovra Wacom
INK SLINGS.
* —Next week the green hunter will
be passing the buck right.
—If you can’t have turkey eat roast
pork on Thanksgiving day and be
mighty thankful you've got that.
——1It is not proposed to reduce ar-
mies, probably because France would
throw a fit if such a thing were men-
tioned.
—Butchering season is at hand and
isn’t it too bad that a lot of road hogs
can’t be thrown into the scalding
trough.
—We have been wondering ever
since Secretary Hughes laid our cards
on the table whether he put the joker
down too.
—Naturally the ship builders and
ordnance makers were most dazed by
Secretary Hughes’ proposal for dis-
armament.
——If children had the power to
determine the matter Marshall Foch
would easily be the most popular man
in the world.
—Secretary Hughes’ proposal left
no doubt in the mind of any of the
foreign members as to what disarm-
ament meant.
——Of course it may be only an ad-
vance impression but it looks as if
Japan’s representatives in Washing-
ton are doing most of the talking.
——Postmaster General Hays has
“told it to the marines.” He told
them to kill or be killed when they
meet anybody trying to rob the mails.
—Probably not more than one out
of every ten of the youth of Pennsyl-
vania who know all about Hugo Bez-
dek could tell you who John M. Thom-
as is.
——The proceedings of the disarm-
ament conference will be intensely in-
teresting, no doubt, but all other
news ought not to be crowded out of
the papers.
—Disarmament will reduce the bur-
den of taxation but it won’t neces-
sarily decrease the possibility of war.
Little boys fight just as much—and
more most times—as grown men.
—The snow of Saturday night and
Sunday reminded us of course that
winter is approaching, but we hope it
doesn’t get here before we have had
a bit of the loveliness of Indian sum-
mer.
' —Of course the fellows who make
the ships, the guns, the powder and
the gases are not for disarmament,
Pi wa
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wii
but the fellows who have to make the |
money to pay for them all are and we
are one of them.
—Surely Christ was very close to
that little company that gathered in
the court house in- Bellefonte, last
Friday morning, for a reverential ob-
servance of Armistice day. It could
not otherwise have been so over-
whelmingly impressive.
— Eighty-four cents out of every
dollar of revenue the government col-
lects goes to pay for our wars of the
past, present and future. What a
millennial day it will be when the
whole “buck” is spent in making this
country a better place to live in.
—Maybe we'll all be more thankful
the day before than we are on Thanks-
giving day. The merchants of Belle-
fonte are organizing for a great mark
down sale next Wednesday and cheap-
er commodities sounds better to a lot
of us than fat young turkey.
—The recount of the contested votes
for judge in Blair county gives the
Hon. Thomas Baldridge a majority of
342 over his opponent, Robert A. Hen-
derson Esq. Judge Baldridge had a
close shave for re-election and it is
thought in some quarters that if the
campaign had gone a week longer he
would probably have been defeated.
—We are strong for disarmament.
We were strong for a League of Na-
tions. We're strong for anything that
will work toward the prevention of
wars and the reduction of taxes.
Narrow Republicans kept us out of
the League of Nations because they
thought it would be too crowning an
achievement for a Democratic admin-
istration. We are not of that ilk.
Let all the glory be theirs. Let the
great heart of the American Republic
sing peans of praise to them forever.
Only let us have peace. Lasting
peace.
—More power to the parent-teach-
ers of Bellefonte who are moving to
have more demure dressing adopted
by the school girls of Bellefonte.
Girls will be girls and one must dress
just as well as the other regardless
of the parental earnings. Few of
them realize it, but we venture the
assertion that many are living in
rented houses today because their
clamor for finery has to be silenced
by the dissipation of the little funds
that their parents hoped to lay aside
against the purchase of a home of
their own.
—The next Legislature of Pennsyl-
vania will have to appropriate mil-
lions for dormitories and department-
al expansion at The Pennsylvania
State College unless some team can
be found to beat that blue and white
football aggregation. They will be
turning thousands instead of hundreds
away there next fall if something
isn’t done to get those Nittany Lions
out of the limelight. They work fifty
minutes on a Saturday afternoon and
get pages of publicity for the institu-
tion and Dr. Watts and his staff of
scientists work fourteen years devel-
oping a variety of wheat that will
produce fifty bushels to the acre and
get three inches among the “Farm
Notes.” Such is fame.
| powers in exact ratio.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 45.
“VOL. 66.
BELLEFONTE, PA., N OVEMBER 18, 1921.
Limitations Conference in Action.
of welcome to the foreign delegates
in the Limitations Conference and Sec-
retary Hughes’ frank satement of the
purposes of the government of the
spires hope of achievement. Presi-
dent Harding said: “Gentlemen of
the conference, the United States wel-
harbor no fears; we have no sordid
ends to serve; we suspect no enemy;
we contemplate or apprehend no con-
quest. Content with what we have,
we seek nothing which is another’s.
We only wish to do with you that fin-
er, nobler thing which no nation can
do alone.” Secretary Hughes propos-
ed not only a naval holiday but a sub-
stantial decrease of naval forces.
an international movement for a pres-
| ent decrease and future limitation of
armaments, which is the principal
purpose of the conference. The Sec-
retary’s plan, moreover, is scrupu-
lously fair to all concerned. It con-
templates the reduction of the pres-
ent naval forces of the three great
The propor-
tion of the strength of each now will
exist then, if the plan is adopted, and
the enormous expense of maintenance
of the present forces and of carrying
out the programs of increase will be
correspondingly reduced. That is a
consummation devoutly to be wished.
But nothing in the speech of the
President or the statement of the
Secretary gives promise of the avoid-
ance of future wars. No promise of
enduring world peace can even be in-
ferred.
The covenant of the League of Na-
tions provided for the decrease of
armament on both land and sea and
best hopes of the Limitations Confer-
ence are fulfilled, therefore, the re-
suit will fall short of those which the
President Harding’s adroit address
United States in the enterprise, in-.
comes you with unselfish hands. We
This was an auspicious opening of :
the prevention of future wars. If the!
| Beidleman to be Shunted.
As might have been expected the
result of the election has caused
' another shifting of scenes by the Re-
publican machine. When Senator
Crow was appointed to the vacancy
in the United States Senate the signs
plainly indicated the nomination of
Lieutenant Governor Beidleman for
| Governor. The Sproul machine ap-
peared to be triumphant and invinci-
‘ble. With W. Harry Baker in control
' of the machinery it seemd as if the
opposition to the loquacious Lieuten-
ant Governor wouldn’t have “a look
in.” But the horizon has changed.
The profligacy of the Sproul admin-
istration, as revealed by Judge Bon-
niwell, has so horrified the public
“mind that even the machine leaders
! are badly frightened.
. Mr. Beidleman being closely asso-
i ciated with the Sproul machine is sus-
ceptible to a share of the blame for
the recent iniquities of Harrisburg,
| and that fact has saggested a ques-
| tion as to his availability as a candi-
i date for Governor while the subject
| is fresh in the public mind. In a few
years, it is reasoned, the crimes of the
, present will be forgotten, and Mr.
| Beidleman may then come into his re-
! ward. But now his nomination would
' be a hazardous adventure and the
wiser minds of the gang are working
out a plan to shunt him off the track.
Last Sunday Senator Vare, of Phila-
delphia, and Senator Leslie, of Pitts-
burgh, spent a day trying to solve the
problem. But they have not succeed-
ed as yet.
Vare and Leslie are “two of a
kind.” They are as destitute of con-
science as a frog is devoid of hair.
But they are unable to agree on a
candidate. Vare insists that tax re-
ceiver Kendrick has all the qualifica-
tions. Kendrick is the “pet aversion”
: of Senator Penrose, which may be the
reason Vare has picked him. Leslie
wants John A. Bell, a rich Pittsburgh-
er, who has been a liberal contributor
to the slush fund recently, as the can-
didate, and holds out that he would
not be offensive to Penrose. But it
looks as if Penrose’s preferences are
League of Nations promised. Great
Britain or Japan will be as capable of
making war after as before the adop-
tion and, ratification of any agree-
ment arrived at.. The small nations
created under peace freaty will be
as helpless after as before the work , man on the machine. In any event
of the conference is completed. None | the outlook promises an interesting
of the thousands of American soldiers
who lie buried in France and Flan- |
ders gave his life to reduce arma-| ___Great Britain accepts the prin-
ments. The declared reason for our | ciple expressed in Secretary Hughes’
entering the world war was not to re- | plan of decreasing armaments but has
duce armaments. It was for the | not adopted the methods proposed.
| greater achievement of preventing fu- | Probably Lloyd George will come
ture wars; to make the world better | around when he gets a closer view of
and safer for humanity. | the question.
If, as the result of the great worid |
war, the world has gained nothing |
more than a reduction of the naval |
forces of Great Britain, Japan and | There are unusually interesting les-
the United States, the magnificent | sons to be learned from the results of
ceremonial attending the burial of the | the recent election in Pennsylvania.
unknown hero at Arlington on Armis- | From a review of the field published
tice day was an absurd mockery. His | in the Philadelphia Record of Sunday
life was not sacrificed for that. He | we learn that the city of Scranton
bared his breast to the bullet of the | elected a Democrat, John Durkin, as
Hun for a higher and a nobler pur- i mayor, and Lackawanna county a
pose than that of saving money. In| Democratic sheriff. Berks, Northamp-
addressing the multitude assembled in | ton and Lehigh counties gave nearly
reverence to the memory of that he- | old-time Democratic majorities and
ro President Harding said: “He | Perry, Cumberland and York counties
fought and died believing in the in- | have returned to the fold. Franklin
disputable justice of his country’s! county, which has been a Republican
cause. Conscious of the world’s up- | stronghold for years, elected a Demo-
heaval, appraising the magnitude of | cratic treasurer and Chambersburg a
a war the like of which had never hor- | Democratic mayor. Lancaster city
rified humanity before, perhaps he be- | elected a Democratic mayor and
lieved his to be a service destined io | Schuylkill county gave Judge Bonni-
change the tide of human affairs.” well a majority.
In other words, this nameless hero | These results are significant for the
reel
Lessons of the Election.
of no value and Vare To Fores Hiv by oi
i as well as a bitter fight. =
died in the hope and for the purpose
of preventing the recurrence of a war,
“the like of which had never horrified
humanity before.” And his reward
for this supreme and sublime service
to the world is what? The money
grubbers who survive him will be
saved a few dollars which would have
been required to pay the expenses of
a foolish rivalry among silly nations
to exceed in armies and navies and de-
vices to destroy life and property. It
is a poor recompense but the only one
possible since the malignancy of the
Republican Senators prevented the
ratification of the Versailles treaty
and the covenant of the League of
Nations.
——“The Girl, a Horse and a Dog”
reason that they show the trend of
public sentiment in favor of the Dem-
ocratic party, notwithstanding the en-
tire absence of a Democratic organ-
ization throughout the State. In
Schuylkill county, for example, the
Democrats placed no county ticket in
the field because there was no Demo-
cratic organization and no hope. But
Bonniwell made several speeches in
that county exposing the profligacy
of the Republican machine and not
only carried the county himself but a
Democrat, running as an independent,
carried the county by a substantial
! majority. After an intense contest
| Cambria county elected a Democrat,
{ John H. McCann, judge of the courts.
i Everybody knows that the Demo-
crats of Pennsylvania were utterly
is the name of 2 new serial story | unprepared for the campaign. While
which will begin in the “Watchman” | there are State committeemen in every
next week. It is by that well known | county to be used by the treacherous
author, Francis Lynde, and one of the | party bosses in organizing the State
most interesting and captivating sto- | committee, the party is absolutely
ries ever put out by this writer. The | without working organizations in at
interest begins in the first chapter least three-fourths of the counties.
and continues through to the very end. | Notwithstanding this fact, however,
If you are not a regular subscriber of substantial gains were made in every
the “Watchman” it will be worth your | county and the victories above enu-
while to enroll at once, just to get { merated achieved. If there had been
every installment of this story. efficient and honest party organiza-
tions in all the counties it is safe to
re fp emer
ing season is less than two weeks been elected. Such organizations may
away, and deer hunters all over the be acquired for the more important
county are beginning to get their campaign of next year if the Demo-
camping outfits in shape for a week crats so desire.
of two in the mountains.
—Let us have a law prohibiting the organization in Philadelphia some-
rt fy A en ———
use of “cut outs” on any motors used . thing like that which occurred in
iin Pennsylvania. Schuylkill county might happen.
The opening of the deer hunt- ! say that Judge Bonniwell would have |
If there were no Democratic
Wrangling Without Results.
{ Another week has passed and the
revenue bill is still in the air. For
| more than six months Congress has
been wrangling but without result.
| Before the election the country was
‘ assured that within a few weeks
after the inauguration.of a Republi-
can President tax rates would be cut
“to the bone,” and a great part of the
burdens of the people removed. When
Congress assembled in May the work:
was begun. But it was begun badly.
The schedules were ¢ut down but no
attempt made to reduce expenses.
Then the more intelligent called at-
tention to the fact that cutting off
revenues without reducing expenses
would create a deficit which would be
more menacing to prosperity than
high taxes.
The tariff bill has been abandoned,
practically. It passed the House of
Representatives some months ago
but was drawn in such a slipshod |
manner that it had to be re-written
in the Senate, which work has not yet
been completed. But it is well for the
country that it is so. Instead of re-
ducing the burdens of the people that
absurd measure would vastly increase
them. But that is not the worst. It
{ would completely paralyze interna-
tional commerce and cripple, if not
, altogether destroy, industrial enter-
: prise. Taking one consideration with
another the country has been benefit-
ted by the impotence of the Republi-
can Congress.
Of course the Limitation Confer-
ence may point a way to relief from
the onorous tax burdens, unavoida-
i ble heritages of the war. Scrapping
a large number of war ships make
possible a considerable reduction in
the personnel of the navy, thus sav-
ing the salaries of officers and wages
' of mén. The ten year naval holiday
, will also cut out a considerable chunk
of the expenses of the government.
| But these improvements cannot be
| felt for some time to come and it
| would, be folly to cut down revenues
| until ®xpenses are decreased in the
| same ratio. Much money might have
been #94
ies in the departments, but
; such economies would have impaired
' the happiness of the “lame ducks.”
The scrapping process will be
expensive but after all it may be a
good way to get rid of a navy. Ger-
many sunk hers.
Tribute to Woodrow Wilson.
The outstanding figure, the one man
outside of the coffin of the unknown
hero, at the Arlington ceremony of
Friday, who received the reverence of
the public, was Woodrow Wilson, for-
mer President of the United States.
It was his first appearance in public
since he left the White House on
March 4th, a broken victim of parti-
san malice, envy and revenge. As an
invalid of the war he participated in
the ceremonies attending the burial
of the unknown, in the capacity of a
private citizen. But everywhere he
was “given a demonstration,” accord-
ing to the Associated Press reporter,
and after the event an ovation in
front of his home.
There were conspicuous figures in
that mourning cortege who willfully
and malignantly contributed to the
impairment of his health and there is
i justice in the circumstance that
though holding high office, they mov-
ed silently while he was applauded
and acclaimed at every point along
the line because the people under-
stand that the known and unknown
dead of the war gave their lives for
the high ideals which he represented
and for which he is now suffering.
The applause which greeted him
everywhere was a manifestation of
that understanding and an apprecia-
tion of his patriotic work for liberty
and humanity.
No man in this country, no Ameri-
can of any time, has suffered and en-
dured as he has since his election to
the office of President. There are in
public life a lot of venomous crea-
tures who imagine that none except
Republicans have a right to election
as President, and when Woodrow
Wilson was elected the second time
their spite became uncontrolable. But
the people, those right-minded men
and women of America who love jus-
tice and appreciate merit freely and
cheerfully, pay the tribute of their
admiration and affection to that great
invalid of the world war, Woodrow
Wilson, whenever and wherever they
can.
——Sunday’s snow fall was a gen-
tle reminder that winter is coming
and everybody will be looking for en-
tertainment and amusement indoors.
The one place you can find both is at
the Scenic, watching the motion pic-
tures. The Scenic’s reputation for
tablished that there is no need to
dwell upon that. Good programs can
be seen any evening in the week.
——Come here for your job work.
! A Decade of Naval Holiday.
From the Philadelphia Record.
There is nothing lacking of defi-
niteness in the proposal submitted by
Secretary Hughes to the Limitation
Conference at the very beginning of
its deliberations. It need not grope
around for some tangible proposal to
study and discuss. In behalf of the
United States government Mr.
Hughes proposes a suspension of na-
i val construction for ten years, and the
immediate destruction by America,
| England and Japan of 66 capital
' ships, with a tonnage of nearly two
millions. These are ships projected,
or in process of construction, or the
older and nearly obsolete ships. With-
in three months the capital ships of
the United States would be reduced
to 18 of a tonnage of half a million;
those of Great Britain would be re-
duced to 22 of a proportionately larg-
er tonnage, and of Japan to 10 with a
tonnage of about 300,000. The re-
placements would allow the mainte-
nance of such forces, except that
Great Britain’s tonnage would be re-
duced to half a million. Subject to
| the ten-year naval holiday, the capi-
tal ships could be replaced when 20
years old, and no replacement ship
would exceed 35,000 tons. A propor-
tionate tonnage of cruisers, flotilla
leaders and destroyers is proposed for
each of these nations, and there is a
limitation of the submarines of each
Power.
The United States is favorably sit-
uated for making these proposals to
England and Japan. We offer a great-
er reduction potentially than we sug-
gest to them. We have the resources
of providing the greatest navy of all.
An analysis of the building programs
of all, which has recently been pub-
lished by an unofficial authority, in-
dicates that in 1924, which is not far
distant, our navy will be considerably
greater than that of Great Britain.
We have the larger wealth and the
lighter taxes, and if this naval race
shall continue we shall in less than
three years have considerably the
largest naval force in the world.
Under Mr. Hughes’ proposal we
would waive our intentions in this di-
*
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Run down by an automobile while
crossing Third street, Clearfield, on Satur-
day, Mrs. Kate Hechberger died at the
Clearfield hospital some hours later. H.
B. Snyder, driver of the car, was arrested
and held in $1000 bail for court on a
charge of manslaughter.
—One hundred and seventy-five arrests
for failure to license dogs have been
made in Westmoreland county by agents
of the State Department of Agriculture,
under the direction of James G. Fox, the
special agent. The agents found many of
the unlicensed dogs were on farms.
—Lebanon county by resolution of its
board of county commissioners is pledg-
ed to the expenditure of $80,000 for the
improvement of roads providing the State
expend a like sum in the undertaking.
The commissioners have adopted a reso-
lution petitioning the State to co-operate
in the work.
—Howard S. Jones, 20 years old, who
was born and lived at Kane until a few
weeks ago, was electrocuted at his home
in Erie Friday morning. He was search-
ing for a pair of boots in the cellar of his
home and took hold - of an overcharged
wire. Death was instantaneous. He is
survived by a widow,
—Skunks are not only numerous but
“friendly,” in Tioga county. Arthur Judd,
of Elkland, was down on his knees repair-
ing a cellar wall when he felt a cat jump
on his shoulder. When he turned to ca-
ress the animal he found it a beautiful fat
skunk. Arthur put the beast down gently
so as not to “spill” anything, and made
his get-away safely.
' The most severe sentence ever impos-
ed by Mayor Hugentugler in the York po-
lice court was that Saturday . afternoon
when Wilbur E. Slade was ordered to pay
fines totaling $250 or spend ninety days in
jail. He was charged with insulting wom-
en the public highway, resisting an officer,
drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The
prisoner was committed to jail.
_ —Herman Froebel, of Dingman Run,
Potter county, when attacked by a vicious
bull as he entered his barn, was saved
from certain death by two sets of heavy
harness hanging in the building. They
fell on the bovine as he bore Froebel to
the floor, and so entangled the beast’ that
Froebel, though badly injured, got away.
The bull was immediately killed. ;
—Four pouches of mail were opened by
burglars who broke into the freight sta-
tion and depot of the D. L. & W. Railroad
at Plymouth early on Saturday. The
pouches arrived from Northumberland in
the early evening and were not delivered
at the postoffice because the Plymouth of-
fice was closed in observance of -Armistice” °
day. ‘The value ‘of the mail stolen cannot
be determined until postal inspectors from
Philadelphia arrive.
—Q@eorge Lafferty and RBdward Yon,
convicted of murder in the second degree
at the October term of criminal court for
their part in the murder of William E.
Niehaus, at Altoona, were sentenced to
serve mot less than nineteen years and six
months nor more than twenty years in the
within the last two years | &
rection. Of the vessels building or
’ v en western penitentiary by Judge Thomas J.
projected which it is proposed to
Baldridge, at Hollidaysburg, Monday. In
abandon 30 are ours and 36 belong to | addition they were fined $50 each and sen-
England. and J apan. Under this PIO- | tenced to pay the costs of prosecution.
gram a ean. an Brigg nel ‘iMrs. ©atherine Cardon was shot to
18 Spon: su Y- a “desth as shé sat rocking her five year old
2 maser of fact, c e Qo 2% a Head 30 daughter to sleep Saturday night, in her
gr avy as ‘area Lritsm, € home at MeKees Rocks. The baby was
: : i
lave tow onlyie Py and ‘also fatally wounded .by the bullets, fired
. | through a window, in revenge for Mrs.
materials. Bu By
country, our r in he ge of ; Cardon’s failure to pay $500 demanded in
mone ani d our present rank Fg | threatening letters. Neighbors saw two
val Yeon OE us un Fhe oo rind men flee in an automobile... Police are
Vary ee sya 0 aT] th | seeking James Bruno, a Philadelphia Ital-
g p y ian, suspected of being one of a gang
showing good pictures is so well es-
same force upon the seas that Great |
Britain has. |
The Japanese navy is now much in-
ferior to ours and the British, and the |
limited resources of Japan, and its re- |
stricted need, justify leaving that
country’s naval force a third, with a
large interval between it and the two |
great fleets. To cut our force below
that of Great Britain, or to allow
much expansion of the Japanese fleet,
would materially alter the relative po- |
sition of the three countries, and no |
agreement to that effect could be ex-
pected. The status quo cannot be
much altered.
It is idle to speculate about the
chances this program has in the con-
ference. Ten years is a long time to
bind any nation. There may be some
demur to this. Great Britain may in-
sist that it should be allowed a larger
fleet than the United States, but if
there be no limitation by agreement,
it is possible for us to exceed Great
Britain. The British delegates can-
not be unconscious of this. France
and Italy are omitted from the Secre-
tary’s memorandum. Presumably
their standing would be third and
fourth in the list, with Japan ranking
fifth, but Japan has intense national
pride, and its navy is greatly endear-
ed to it. It may demur to being out-
classed by four Occidental Powers.
emmy eee.
The Publicity Expert.
From the North American Review.
Twenty-five years ago the press
agent was known to newspaper men
as the genial distributor of circus
tickets, and as the facile chronicler of
the wonders of the jungle and the ro-
mances of the fat woman. He kept
reporters apprized in gorgeous fash-
ion of the coming of new plays and
took a kindly interest in recovering
actresses’ lost jewels. For the rest,
he left the reporters to go their way
unaided to get their news as best they
could, and to present it with that ap-
proximation to truth that comes from
the detached appraisement of conflict-
ing statements and dug-out facts. He
was the scarcely recognized poor rela-
tion of the journalist.
Today the press agent belongs to a
numerous, well-recognized and well-
{ paid profession. His handsomely fur-
nished office is next door to that of the
| president of the great corporation; he
| is the consultant of the organizers of
| great philanthropies, the mouthpiece
| of political leaders, the window dress-
jer of government departments. He
‘lays upon the desks of the leading
| newspapers every day enough copy to
fill their pages, news, editorial and
| advertising, twice over. And he suc-
' ceeds in getting enough of this print-
ed to earn his salary to the satisfac-
tion of employer, to establish his own
importance in the eyes of publicity
seekers, and to color effectually the
| picture of American life in its sup-
rosedly spontaneous movements pre-
sented to the American people. i
i ders
known as the Good Killers, similar to the
Black Hand.
—Two men are dead and two others are
in the Northumberland jail, accused slay-
ers, as the result of a quarrel at Kapps
Heights, a suburb, of Northumberland,
Sunday night. The dead are A. Toni Fagi
and Guisseppe Rosso, while Ben Carabello
and Nickola Rosso, a brother of the dead
man, are under arrest. Fagi was shot and
stabbed to death and Rosso died late on
Monday at a hospital in Sunbury as a re-
sult of bullet and knife wounds. The fight
was the result of Fagi's infatuation for
losso’s fifteen year old bride.
—Lying in a pool of blood, flowing
from gunshot wounds in his back, Antho-
ny Thuroway, aged 42 years, of Mahanoy
City, a bridegroom of three weeks, was
found by hunters Saturday in a clump of
bushes near the mining village of Buck
Mountain. Thuroway died shortly after
his removal to the Iountain Springs
State hospital, without being able to make
a statement. He had left his home early
on Saturday to hunt. It is believed he
was shot by another hunter accidentally.
His two hounds were lying beside him
when he was found.
—Jesse Nyhart, 29 years old, six feet,
six inches tall, purchased a hunting li-
cense Thursday at the office of county
treasurer W. P. Shearer, at Lewistown.
Nyhart is a brakeman on the Pennsylva-
nia railroad, running from Enola to Wil-
liamsport, on the Central division. He has
grown six inches during the past year,
grown out of two suits of clothes and is
now so tall that his fellow workers say he
is gaining an advantage over them by be-
ing able to stand on the bumper of an or-
dinary box car and give signals to the en-
gineman by simply waving his hand above
his head.
—William H. Reed, a Concordville far-
mer, who did not believe in banks and
carried his money wrapped up in a piece
of cloth in a pocket, lost all he possessed,
$650, at West Chester on Saturday, and
the police are investigating. Reed went to
West Chester on Friday and went to Mar-
shallton to visit a friend. After spending
the night there he went back and took a
trolley car for Philadelphia, and before
traveling far discovered his loss. He re-
turned to West Chester and revealed his
loss to the police, who paid his car fare
home. He had no idea when the money
was lost or stolen, but said he had it when
he left Marshallton.
— Fannie Wilcox, of New Albany, Brad-
ford county, mother of three children and
convicted murderer, will not have to go
back to the State hospital for insane in
Allentown. She was freed forever from
the likelihood by the State Supreme court,
which refused the plea of William G.
Schrier, district attorney, from the sen-
tence of Judge William Maxwell, of Brad-
ford county. Mrs. Wilcox was convicted
two years ago of shooting to death C. Geo.
Mattesen, of New Albany. She pleaded in-
sanity and was sentenced to the State hos-
pital, but was released on Maxwell's or-
after three months. The Supreme
court now upholds that order.