INK SLINGS.
—In nine days Christmas will be
here. How near ready for it are you?
—The fact that Popocatepetl is in.
a state of violent eruption does not
indicate that hell's broke loose in
Mexico.
— Which does the hunter enjoy
most: The thrill of the chase and kill-
ing the buck or the vanity of carrying
the head and hide home from the
hunt?
—The attitude of Japan's delega-
tion to the arms limitation conference
seems to be one of demanding every-
thing and being perfectly satisfied
with whatever they get.
—Ireland got so much more than
most people expected she would that
it behooves her to settle down and
make so much of the liberties she has
been given that more may be secured
later.
— Judge Landis’ decision in the |
case of Babe Ruth is not without
precedent. The court of public opin-
ion long ago handed down a decision
that the Judge has no right to “make
money on the side.”
—The accomplishments of the arms
limitations conference will be many
outside of matters of international
Demortatic Wate
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VOL. 66.
Big Stick of the Big Four.
cratic Senators in Congress to vote
for the ratification of the treaty sign-
ed in Washington, on Saturday, by
the representatives of the United
States, Great Britain, Japan and
France, for the reason that the pur-
pose it aims to achieve is precisely
the same that was expressed in the
covenant of the League of Nations
| and the Versailles treaty. It has less
‘merit than the other because it sub-
stitutes force for suasion. It creates
an offensive and defensive alliance of
| four big powers to dominate or de-
| stroy weaker nations that fail to obey
| mandates. It is the recognition of
'the “Big Stick” in diplomacy as
It is the plain duty of the Demo- |
against a mutual agreement among
importance, and the revelation of | gl] the civilized nations, great and
Senator Lodge as the grandest hyp- | small.
ocrite of all time is not the least of | The principal objection raised
them. against the covenant of the League of
— Marshal Foch left our shores on Nations was that Article X, of that
Wednesday. While here he was easily instrument, created a super govern-
the champion of everything and when ment. Article X provided that “the
he sets foot on his beloved France | members of the League undertake to
once more he can tell Carpentier and respect and preserve, as against ex-
Mille Lenglen that he was neither ternal aggression, the territorial in-
knocked out nor quit. tegrity and political independence of
—_ Auditor General Lewis contin- | all members of the League. In case
wes a fly in the Harrisburg dumplin’ of any threat or danger of such ag-
of extravagance. His lates effort to | gression, the Council shall advise up-
throw a wet blanket on magnificent
| on the means by which this obliga-
achievement is his refusal to approve | tion shall be fulfilled.” This express-
payment of bills for the clothing of
ed an intolerable thought to the jaun-
drivers of state automobiles.
| diced minds of Senator Lodge and his
, —The “Watchman” has in mind a.
mai who would make a splendid’
standard bearer for the Democracy in |
the next gubernatorial fight in Penn-'
sylvania. We are not informed as to
whether he would answer such a call |
of his party so will defer announcing |
i
his name until that assurance is given. |
— Mr. Bertram Donald Holderman,
psychological phenom of The Penn-
sylvania State College wears the green
cap of a Freshman probably with far
less disturbance of his superabundant
prosencephalon than is occasioned by
heralding him as an “infant prodigy”
as some of the metropolitan journals
are doing.
. —Everybody ought to be happy
over the prospects of an early ratifi-
cation of the Pacific treaty. Nobody |
will be deceived by it; however.
Twist, jarble, read into or out of Arx-
ticle II as you may and it remains in
spirit and principle the same as Arti-
cle X of the covenant of the League
of Nations.
— Boston elected 4 Democratic may-
or on Tuesday, and as only one of the :
four candidates for the office was a!
Republican the result was another
straw. showing that the political pen-
dulum is swinging back strong. With
three Democrats in the field to divide
the vote of their party, it would
seem that the one Republican ought
-to have romped away with the race.
—The United States railroad labor
‘board has made a new ruling that
cuts common labor, of course. Why
‘it is that all the slashing is done to
‘the poor souls who earn least we can’t
fathom. Common labor is low enough |
“at thirty and thirty-five cents an |
‘hour. The disparity between what it
receives and what skilled labor com-
mands is too great. In most instan-
ces the man without a trade, the
common laborer, is just as essential
to industry as the man with one and
{it is wrong to grind him down to the
‘point where mere subsistence is his
lot while others who contribute rela-
tively no more to the economic struc-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 16, 1921.
NO. 49,
| Hope for Democratic Victory.
The official returns of the recent
election show that over half a million
votes were cast for the Democratic
candidate for Justice of the Supreme
court of Pennsylvania. The candidate
of the party, Judge Eugene C. Bonni-
well, was nominated by the use of
“stickers.” Until within a week of
the primary election he didn’t know
he was going to be a candidate and
no one else had such an idea in mind.
But an impression had gotten out that
the managers of the Democratic or-
ganization were willing to allow Gov- !
ernor Sproul’s friend, Judge Shaeffer,
to have an unopposed election. To
prevent that Mr. Bonniwell was pre-
vailed on to offer his name. It was
too late to get on the primary ballot.
The primary election was held on
' weeks before the general election.
But for some time after the primary
the Democratic organization remained
oblivious to the fact that the party
had a candidate and the burden of dif-
fusing the information was upon the
candidate himself and such others as
care more for principles than person-
alities. The candidate was the only
speaker in the campaign. Former
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
offered to come into the State but the
supporters of the party hadn’t enough
‘money to meet the expenses of an
"active campaign. Nevertheless Judge
Bonniwell received more than half a
Republican associates in the Senate. million votes and carried several coun-
They imagined it involved odious ob-
ligations. :
"Article II of the treaty agreed up- that the Democratic party of
(on in Washington on Saturday de- sylvania is strong enough and
I clares that
“if the said rights are
threatened by the aggressive action
of any other power the high contract-
ing parties shall communicate with
one another fully and frankly in order
to arrive at an understanding as to
the most efficient measures to be tak-
en, jointly and separately, to meet the
exigencies of the particular situa-
tion.” The difference between these
propositions is simply that “twixt
twedledum and twedledee” that once
| disturbed the mings of a couple of
fools. But it set¥es to show that the
Republican objections to the League
of Nations were not only absurd but
| were equally insincere. The objection '
was to Wilson.
The League of Nations presented
to the eivilized governments of the
wars by diplomatic negotiation. The
new treaty serves notice upon a group
of weak tribes or governments in
Asia that unless they kowtow to
big bosses the mad dogs of war will
them. It is a cruel method of accom-
plishing a desired result but in the
absence of the League of Nations is
probably the only available way, and
therefore it might as well be adopted
people of the United States come to
an understanding of the facts they
will cast out the malignants and join
the League of Nations.
ert ere
' ties that had gone wrong.
The plain lesson of this result is
Penn-
the 20th of September, just seven '
' Lamentations of Republican Leaders.
Mr. W. Harry Baker, of Harris-
burg, Secretary of the Republican
State committee, has been “stirring
up the animals,” so to speak, in
Washington. Mr. Baker is indisputa-
bly the shrewdest politician in the Re-
publican organization of Pennsylva-
nia, and he seems to be greatly
alarmed over party conditions.
less the spoils of political warfare are
made available for the faithful who
served in the trenches,” Mr. Baker
declared to the Senators and Repre-
sentatives of the party in Congress,
doom the sons of America
“Un- ?
“there will be little use in making 2°
campaign in several Congressional
' districts in Pennsylvania,” next yeat.
The remarks were addressed to the
Congressional delegation but were in-
tended for the Postmaster General.
The Philadelphia North American,
one of the most servile Republican
newspapers in the State and easily
the most hypocritical, bewails the
present condition of the party. Sen-
ator Crow, it declares, “represents a
new type of Pennsylvania Senator.
He is wholly and solely an exponent
of machine politics,” and referring to
Lieutenant Governor Beidleman, it
adds, “after all possible weight has
been given to testimony in his favor,
Beidleman’s unfitness for the post of
chief executive of the Commonwealth
remains glaringly apparent.” The
purpose of this attack upon the party
organization is not apparent but it
may safely be said that the North
| American will support both men next
' fall for the offices to which they as-
pire. mae
League of a Few Nations.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Two years ago the Republicans
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shouted that our liberties were endan-
gered by the proposal to enter the
League of Nations.
We would be es- |
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Charles Klines, of DuBois, was killed
while hunting in the woods Saturday when
he was attempting to put a rabbit which
he had shot, into the pocket of his coat.
He was standing on a log at the time and
his gun slipped and was, discharged, the
load of shot ploughing through his body.
_Dr. F. W. Black, chief surgeon at the
Lewistown hospital, offers a reward of
$1000 for the arrest and conviction of the
party who shot him in the back in his of-
fice on the morning of November 15th. He
was shot in his office some time during the
early hours of November 15th, when he
came downstairs in answer to a night call.
Auditors sent to Meadville by Samuel
S. Lewis, Auditor General, to investigate
the accounts of Harry F. Miller, of Craw-
ford county, Register and Recorder, said
they had found a shortage of $13,256 in his
accounts. They added he had failed to
turn over sums collected as inheritance
taxes. Miller is under arrest in Memphis,
Tenn.
Mrs. John Miller, 67 years old, is in
tablishing a super-government of the ! the Cottage State hospital at Philipsburg
world; we would destroy the constitu-
tional powers of Congress; we would |
the wilds of Patagonia in
| with a bullet
to death in | working at her home between Madera
conflicts be- | Houtzdale, in the Mountz settlement when
in her shoulder as the re-
sult of an odd hunting accident. She was
and
tween the Auricanians and the Terra i a bullet from the gun of hunters shooting
Del Fuegans if we should sign that | at game
atrocious pact brought to us by Wood- | kitchen,
200 yards away, entered the
hit the stove and richocheted into
TOW Wilson, a weak man who was put- | her shoulder.
ty in the hands of European states- |
men,
One divorce to every six marriages is
I and at the same time a man of | the record made in Columbia county thus
iron will and unyielding stubbornness, far this year.
Last year the proportion
who would not obey the Senate Re- | was one divorce to nine marriages. And
publican caucus.
And therefore,
while the number of divorces is growing,
the Senate rejected the number of marriages continues to de-
the treaty of Versailles, and the great | crease. The price of marriage licenses has
American people arose in their might ! been boosted during the year from §1 to
and sustained the Senate by a majori- | $1.50. Fifty-eight divorces to 349 mar-
ty of 17,000,000, and the country heav- | riages is the total to date for this year.
ed a deep sigh of relief—according to |
. —TRobbers early on Monday entered the
all the Republican newspapers—when y y
) 3 { home of Dr. John Whann, at Kittanning,
Woodrow Wilson was cast into the attacked him and then left him lying un-
i Bg of piivsis Jife, 554 the { conscious on a bed after they had set fire
§ : i to the house. The fire was discovered by
Homing Sos felt upon the tiller of the | employees at a nearby power plant. They
A Mui 416 the present rescued the doctor and then extinguished
: 3 | the fire. Dr. Whann was removed to a
Vs Yarding has Top oles BR impor. | hospital where his condition was report-
an nr Me a ed as serious. State police and county de-
: : ’ . i tigating.
naming in his message by referring pty re Ves agating thei int sist
to All the Presidents Sho had refased |, -7°Dn Beam, of Jonnsiony, 2 aft early
‘to obey the injunction to abrogate the hour Friday night shot and killed his
commercial treaties in the Jones ship- | FiI Aunt. then fired a shot into his own
ping law of last year. { brain. Both died almost instantly. The
The President would not think of ! tragedy was discovered a half hour later
introducing the United States into the
League of Nations, but he has nego-
tiated a treaty to make the United
, States a party to a League of a Few
| Nations. We notice at the outset
| But the statement of Secretary Ba- that, while one of Woodrow Wilson's
suffi-
ciently alive to fight a winning battle
for Governor next year. No candidate
t ever encountered such adverse condi-
tions as those which confronted the
nominee for Supreme court Justice
"last month. The most hopeful Demo-
crate dispaired of siecess and law-
yers, proveérbially anxious for the fa-
vor of appelate courts; had pledged
themselves to his opponent before
they knew of hi candidacy. Yet he
polled a great voté and if there had
been in the public mind even the shad-
ow of a belief that he could win, if
would have been increased vastly and
he might have been elected.
Where there’s a lot of smicke
usually some fire, but Secreta~
ry of the Treasury Mellen declares
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there’s
: world én invitation to join in an ami- he’s not going to resign.
| cable agreement to prevent future
|
Fooling the Service Men.
Senator Penrose has notified the
four managers of the Republican machine
of this State that in framing the tick-
‘be let loose to scourge and destroy et for next year
a world war service
man must be named for the office of
Lieutenant Governor. Neither Sena-
tor Crow nor Mr. Beidleman served in
the war and the third place on the
ticket is to be offered to the overseas
'as a temporary expedient. When the heroes as a token of appreciation of
their courage and patriotism. This
is precisely in pursuance of the meth-
ods of Senator Penrose’s predecessors
' as boss of the Republican machine.
Immediately after the organization of
—__Of course a letter is always the Grand Army of the Republic, suc-
‘looked for by those of your family ceeding the Civil war, some such sop
| who are permanently away from the
| old home, but a letter is essentially a
. personal message. It doesn’t give
| them all the news like a good, live
home paper. Why don’t you send
| them the “Watchman.” It would tell
| them all the things you forget or
haven't time to mention and wouldn’t
A | mi ek in its visits.
ture find life comparatively easy. | aS% 2 Weel an fis
—All this publicity about how much |
cof -a _stickler for civil service
JR—— ed
— Next Wednesday,
was thrown to the war veterans to
hold them to the party.
But popular intelligence has vastly
increased since the close of the Civil
war and it is not likely that service
men of the world war will prove as
credulous as those of the Civil war.
The record will be scanned more care-
fully now than during the period be-
| tween 1865 and 1890. In other words,
subordinate favors and specious prom-
December :
pr ¥ : ises will not fool the war veterans of |
Post- ' 21st, will be the proverbial shortest yp, hyesent time in the face of records
“master General Will Hays has become day of the year and the beginning of (}ion prove insincerity. Such rec-
since taking over Burleson’s job iS | the winter season.
pure
adelphia Record “play 1
their news sections as offending seek- | lengthen the cold strengthens.”
: The weather so : il
“bull” and we can’t understand ' far, though cloudy and wet, has been ors Fi now and will be
why Democratic organs like the Phil- | comparatively mild, but bear in mind perershure
’
ker and the lamentations of the news-
paper may be said to express the act-
ual political conditions in Pennsylva-
| nia today. The appeal of Baker for
spoils will probably be recognized and
satisfied in the near future. The
Postmaster General has been tardy in
“shaking the plum tree,” and Senator
Crow and Lieutenant Governor Bei-
dleman are quite as bad as they are
painted. But they will both be nomi-
nated next fall and unless the people
the perversion of power, they will be
elected. The remedy is in the hands
of the voters, however. If they will
support capable and fit candidates of
| the Democratic party the problem will
be solved.
, ==—Secretary Hughes congratulat-
ed Senator Lodge on his speech pre-
. senting the treaty to the conference.
' And there are persons who think
Hughes has no sense of honor.
Judicial Investigation Needed.
The right minded people of Penn-
sylvania will be glad to learn “that
the constitutionality of all bills passed
by the rump session of Pennsylvania's
House of Representatives is to be test-
ed in the courts whenever it pleases
“the convenience of the powers that be
at Harrisburg to publish the Legisla-
‘tive Journal.” These measures in-
clude some of the biggest and most
most shocking indecencies was ap-
pointing himself a commissioner to
negotiate the treaty of Versailles, !
Warren Gamaliel Harding has ap- |
pointed himself negotiator of the Pa-
cific Quadrilateral.
We observe in the second place that
while the Republican Senators insist- |
ed on the right of the United States
to get out of the League of Nations,
if it should enter it, at any moment,
this Pacific treaty binds the
States absolutely for ten ye
d that for a ye
Republican party has lost all its: in-
terest in the universal and unquali- |
fied freedom of action of this coun- |
ry.
Nothing stirred the patriotic souls
of Republicans two years ago so much
as that England was to have six seats
in the Council of the League, and the
United States only one. The League
Council had to act unanimously, so
the United States could not be out-
United oovered the service of the road in May,
BT 1
, by a neighbor, who went to the Beam res-
| idence to use the telephone. Mrs. Beam
| was sitting in a chair dead, her husband
| lying stretched out on another chair. Ray
| Carrol, aged 5 years, a grandson of the
: couple, was in the room when the shoot-
ing occurred. Five children survive.
— Ira C. Neyhart, aged 65 years, of Wil-
liamsport, one of the oldest engineers in
point of service on the Williamsport divis-
jon of the Pernsylvania Railroad, began
his work with the company in 1877, and
became an engineer in 1883. The oldest
engineer in point of service on the Wil-
liamsport division is J. Theodore Cherry,
of Bellefonte, who runs a locomotive on
the Bellefonte branch between the Centre
county capital and Sunbury. Mr. Cherry
and was sine 3u engineer on. April.
2 Judge Wickersham, of Harrisburg, on
Friday refused to grant a new trial or set
aside a jury verdict awarding $15,600 dam-
: ages to Mr. and Mrs. Millard F. Zelters, of
Middletown, for injuries which they re-
ceived two years ago when struck by an
automobile driven by Samuel H. Zimmer-
man, an attorney. The verdict held Zim-
merman and his wife jointly responsible.
They asked that the damage award be set
aside as excessive. A witness for the
voted by six or sixty members from plaintiff testified at the trial that the car
the British Empire; but from one end hurried away after striking Zelters. Zim-
of the country to the other the Re- merman and his wife were shown to be
publicans voted against the treaty be- | joint owners of the car.
cause England would have six seats
and America but one. What is our
astonishment, therefore, to find the
President has negotiated a treaty to
which not only the King of England
is a signatory, but representatives of |
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and
India are signatories! |
The essence of Article I is that the
high contracting parties “agree as be-
tween themselves to respect their
rights in relation to their insular pos-
sessions and insular dominions in the
regions of the Pacific Ocean.” These
{ ¥riday morning,
objectionable appropriation bills and
the news that their validity is to be
judicially investigated justifies the
. hope that the government of the Corn-
' monwealth may escape proceedings in
bankruptcy. If the expensive Depart-
ment of Public Welfare is wiped out
and a few of the other profligate
measures are annulled the revenues
‘may be sufficient to pay just claims
| against the State.
words mean nothing, or else they,
mean a guarantee as between the par- |
ties to the treaty. If a controversy
, should arise, all four shall confer on
means of adjustment, which is pre-
cisely what the Council is to do in the
League of Nations. If the rights of |
any of the four shall be threatened by |
an outside party, they shall confer |
with each other “in order to arrive at
an understanding as to the most ef-
—Burglars entered the First National
bank at Claysburg, Blair county, early
pried open forty-nine
safety deposit boxes, stole all the Liberty
bonds in them and escaped. The work
shows that at least two men were in the
bank. They forced open a rear window.
Using an acetylene flame, they burned a
hole six inches square in the steel door of
the vault, which gave them access to the
safety deposit boxes and the bank safe.
The safe was not opened. School and oth-
er bonds in the boxes were tossed aside
for the Liberty bonds, the value of which
cannot be determined until the box hold-
ers report the amount of bonds they own-
ed.
— After deliberating eighteen hours, a
civil court jury was discharged by Judge
William W. Hargest, in Dauphin county
on Saturday, for failing to reach a verdiet
in the $50,000 insurance suit brought by
the Harrisburg Trust company in behalf
of the estate of James Magee, 2nd, of
against the Mutual Life In-
For example, in |
But that is not the only or the
greatest reason why the proposed le-
gal proceedings should be undertaken.
The legal officers of the Legislature
were thrown out of their lawful posi-
| tions and deprived of their lawful au-
thority by force, not openly but clan-
| destinely. The House had been ad-
: » io Tennessee, two war serv- | . : |
him up” in the fact of that old saw, “as the days jee men were refused appointment as I of
ers. of spoils. It does nothing more |
nor less than leave the impression on |
the public that General
ing his Department out of politics and
thereby becoming a great public serv- ‘oe annual reports for four years in
ant rather than continuing the mere
politician he was sand is... When
anybody tells us that anybody gets a
postoffice from this administration for |
any other reason ‘than for political
services rendered or expected he’ll
have to prove it.
— The Hon. Harry B. Scott, of Phil-
ipsburg, spent a few hours in town
Tuesday in consultation with some of
his political and business associates.
Rumor had it that Mr. Scott was to
become interested in some big busi-
ness undertakings on this side of the
mountain, but rumor and fact often- |
times get very far apart. He is going |
to be a candidate for Senator from
this District, however, and from what
we can gather from those of his party
who are in a position to know he will
probably have little if any opposition.
Centre county has not been represent- |
ed in the Senate since the late Sena- |
tor Heinle was honored with the of-!
fice and we will be entitled to name
the successor of Senator Miller.
Whether he will be Mr. Scott or a
good Democrat remains to be seen.
Hays is tak- |
The State administration would
| have been all right if the newspapers
. hadn’t been so “nosey.” The suppres-
| until the press got busy.
|
Mr. De Valera complains that
| Ireland didn’t get all she wanted from
| the London conference. Hardly any-
' body ever does but Ireland got more
| than some earnest and faithful friends
hoped for.
Funny things happen, strange
| stories are told and imagination soars
| absurdly. State Treasurer Charley
. Snyder thinks he is a candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania.
————— A ——————
— Senator Lodge spoke solemnly
enough in presenting the four big
powers’ agreement for approval of
the conference
“laughed in his sleeve.”
BAC LMR La
The amiability of the Japs is
the surprise of the world. Anything
that anybody asks of them in the
| Gir it |
postmaster and a politician v ith .ess was no power to reconvene the body
rating in civil service examination ap- | except those provided by “orders,” le-
pointed. 2
ficient measures to be taken, jointly | Bloomsburg,
and separately, to meet the exigencies | surance company, of New York. The con-
of the particular situation.” That is . troversy arose over an insurance policy
precisely what the Council of the and Mr. Magee’s sudden death. Mr. Ma-
League is to do in Article X, which gee had applied to the defendant company
the Republicans singled out for at- | for $100,000 worth of insurance, and a $50,-
' tack. The Council was to advise what 000 policy was issued before his death.
ought to be done. | The other $50,000 policy was held up and
| Every constitutional objection of- | before the matter was settled Mr. Magee
| fered to the treaty of Versailles lies - died.
against the Pacific Quadrilateral, and | _ (1; relatives of John Chilcoat, of
the latter proves that there was not ,. ,
ron, Ohio, were gathered at the home of
one honest and truthful word uttered ther, Mrs. Rebecca Chilcoat, at
| against the League of Nations of a ' Alexandria, Huntingdon county, awaiting
In New Mexico a similar case is
noted. Charles Mann Jr., with a rat-
g of 96.40 and a splendid war rec-
| kept the people in blissful ignorance ord, was thrown down and Menard L.
| Albers, a politician, with a rating of
| 82.53 appointed postmaster. A num-
ber of similar cases might be cited
but these are sufficient to prove the
insincerity of Republican professions
of friendship for the soldiers of the
great war. But Senator Penrose im-
agines he can fool the service men of
Pennsylvania by putting one of them
on the ticket with two machine poli-
ticians for office next year. If he de-
sired to honor the soldiers he might
declare for and secure the nomination
for Governor or United States Sena-
| tor for one of them. There are plen-
ty fit.
The Chinese delegates to the
but he must have Limitations Conference in Washing-
ton will take home the awards with
“5 amile that is childlike and bland.”
— The Washington treaty will be |
ratified, of course, but the League of
Washington conference is freely and Nations will continue to function just
cheerfully allowed.
the same.
gally adopted. Notwithstanding these
ed and without authority of law pro-
| ceeded to enact legislation, not ac-
| cording to law, rules or “orders,” but
| in violation of all of them. When the
! legally elected Speaker undertook to
resume his seat on the following
morning, he was prevented by uni-
formed police force.
If such acts of disorder and violence
principles of government are subvert-
ed. The constitution of Pennsylvania
declares that “no bill shall be consid-
ered, unless referred to a committee,
returned therefrom, and printed for
the use of the members.” During the
| facts the House was illegally conven- |
can be perpetrated with impunity the | nah a Marine guard fired at three men
|
! Few Nations.
This Marine Shot to Kill.
| From the Philadelphia Record.
In the course of time the bandits
| will find out to their sorrow that mail
| cars are guarded by men who can
i shoot. Either they did not know of
the new policy, or they failed to ap-
preciate its significance, and several
of them have been shot. Near Savan-
who were robbing an express car, per-
haps under the impression that the ju-
risdiction of the guards was limited
to mail cars. Two of the men are re-
ported to have been badly wounded.
After a few more shootings the ban-
| the arrival of the former's remains, news
| of whose reported sudden death at the
| Greenland theatre, Akron, late Saturday
night, had been telephoned, the mourning
party was turned into one of rejoicing
{ when a long distance phone message from
| the young man in question assured rela-
! tives that reports were very much exag-
gerated, that as a matter of fact, he was
very much alive, Some unknown person
telephoned the parents Saturday night of
the young man’s death and now an inves-
tigation has been started to discover the
perpetrator of the hoax.
— Mrs. Margaret Scripko, of Cumbola,
Schuylkill county, placed a novel claim
before the State Compensation Board ref-
eree at Pottsville last week, when she ask-
ed compensation for the death of her hus-
| dits will begin to understand what the
rump session of the House assembled | Marines are there for. In the mean-
clandestinely at midnight, bills were | while Governor Blaine, of Wisconsin,
taken from the committees and put |is very indignant because the Post-
upon passage without having been | master General will not surrender the
voted upon by the committee or | guard who shot a man. The Governor |
“printed for the use of the members,” | wants him tried for murder. Of |
in direct violation of the constitution | cOUTSe if he could be convicted it,
and in defiance of order and decency. | would afford much encouragement to
It is important that the validity of the bandits.
such legislation shall be tested by the | ET
| eonrts regardless of its merits. — The political pot is beginning |
| to boil and the chances are that some '
of the candidates may get scalded.
—Subsecribe for the “Watchman.”
band, who was shot by bandits while on
his way home from Eagle Hill Colliery,
August 11th, with his semi-monthly pay.
The man was killed because he did not
hold up his hands promptly when told
to do so by the bandits. The Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron company will
contest the claim, inasmuch as the man
was not killed while in the course of his
employment, but the United Mine Work-
ers are backing up the widow and claim
that, while the man was returning from
work, he still was acting as an employee,
and the killing took place on the compa-
ny's premises,