INK SLINGS.
—How do you do Senator Betts.
—We presume that county chair-
man Gray got through for both offices
he was seeking.
—Now, Democrats, get busy. It’s
our time to fight but don’t let it be
among ourselves.
—While Alter would have been eas-
jer to defeat Pinchot will be easier for
the “Watchman” to attack.
—What’s the use of fooling around
with Russia, anyway. If she wants to
rule the world let her go try it.
—The carnation invariably hops in-
to the air ship before Mother’s day
and then takes the toboggan back
afterwards.
—If you have a loose tongued ac-
quaintance the time to entertain him
or her is the night you've got the ra-
dio tuned to the proper wave length.
—As we have remarked before, a
Democratic broom is needed in Harris-
burg. Possibly Mr. Pinchot would do
all he could, but he couldn’t do enough.
—And who’d have thought that a
lady by the name of Meek would have
the honor of being the first nominee
of any party in Centre for a county
office.
——If the State didn’t lose any-
‘thing by juggling of the funds by the
Treasurer it is because the deposit-
ories don’t pay interest as the law re-
quires.
—The Hon. Harry Scott ran so well
in Centre county that there are symp-
toms of the complete abandonment of
the Alter cause by the machine work-
ers on Tuesday.
—The air plane that fell at Croton-
on-the-Hudson, N. Y., and smashed up
many quarts of good liquor that it
was transporting from Canada was
surely a joy killer.
—Well, if the Hon. Harry Scott is
wet, as many of those who were work-
ing for his defeat declared, it won’t
be because of any tears he will shed
over Tuesday’s result.
—And Billy Swoope defeated the
Hon. Evan Jones. We could imagine
Billy in Congress were it not for the
thought that Frank Snyder lowers
over the mental vision.
—Nathan Ichkowitz offered us
twenty-five cents the hundred for our
baled paper yesterday and, at that, we
believe it is more than a like amount
of Russian money is worth.
—After eighteen years of turmoil
the Eighteenth Congressional district
has rid itself of Benny Focht. He was
beaten for the nomination, on Tues-
day, by E. M. Beers, of Huntingdon.
—Probably one of the reasons the
Rebublican machine didn’t run so well
at the primaries in the State was that
Grundy wasn’t on hand with the pe-
culiar kind of grease it has used as a
lubricant.
—The Prince of Wales refuses to be
catapulted into matrimony, and he’s
right. When they’re all in the same
fruit basket, and the game is one of
grab, a lemon might be snatched just
as easily as a peach.
—Anway, Mr. Naginey was very
polite on his fight with Miss Zoe
Meek for the legislative nomination.
In fact we have heard it rumored that
he was so gallant that he just didn’t
have the heart to go out and beat her.
—The extension of the three per
cent. immigration law for a period of
two years longer is a good thing, but
it might have been better to have re-
duced it to half of one per cent. Then
we would all be sure there is no kick
in it.
—What a mess that Fordney tariff
bill must have been when it reached
the Senate. Twenty-hundred and six-
ty-seven amendments were made to it
there, so we opine that everything but
the name Fordney must have been cut
out of the original.
—If any person can prove to us that
there is any fundamental principle of
politics in the election of a Governor
of a State—other than to keep an or-
ganization or a gang intact—we have
the brown derby all brushed up for
adornment of his ivory.
—A woman is a natural born house-
cleaner. A man knows little or noth-
ing about that business and because a
real housecleaner is needed at Harris-
burg Centre county ought to resolve
now to send Miss Zoe Meek down to
Harrisburg as her member of the
house-cleaning brigade.
—Talking about obsolescence what
more in the way of elucidation could
you demand than the jingling quip
that ‘sounded so risque a few years
ago and so passe today.
—Providence sends the wicked wind
That blows our skirts knee high
But God is just and sends the dust,
That blows in the bad man’s eye.
—The proposed merger of the inde-
pendent steel companies may not be
a monopoly and it might operate to
the lowering of the costs of the pro-
ducts of the steel mills, but we fear
that it is only another way of forming
a greater steal trust, for the same big
interests will be found somewhere
back of both U. S. steel and the new
combine.
—The Hon. Ives Harvey was prob-
ably more interested in licking the
Hon. Harry Scott for state committee-
man than he was in seeing Dr. Pol-
lum lick him for the Senate. As you
know, the two Honorables are not on
just the pleasantest of political terms
and their fight for the right to sit in
the councils of their party had a lot of
significance.
Demaeralic
ALL
FEO
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 67.
BELL
EFONTE, PA., MAY 19.
“Turn the Rascals Out.”
During the primary campaign just |
ended the Republican candidates for
Governor made grave charges against
each other and proved them. Mr. Pin-
chot charged that a small group of
selfish contractors selected Mr, Alter
as the party choice, that it was made
for a sinister purpose and that Mr.
Alter was largely responsible for the
profligacy of the Sproul administra-
tion. In support of the first charge
he has shown that Senator Vare, of
Philadelphia; Senator Leslie, of Pitts-
burgh, and Senator Eyre, of West
Chester, met secretly in Philadelphia
and forced Alter to enter the contest.
In proof of the second accusation he
alleges that the revolutionary pro-
ceedings at the close of the last ses-
sion of the Legislature were conduct-
ed under the sanction and with the
help of Mr. Alter. The records of the
Legislature prove this.
On the other hand Mr. Alter de-
clares that Mr. Pinchot solicited the
favor of the contractors in the con-
test. That he violated the fundamen-
tal law of the State by accepting an
increase of the salary of the office of
Forestry Commissioner from $3000.00
a year to $8000.00, and that he was
equally culpable with others in the
Sproul administration for the profii-
gacy. Mr. Alters proves his charge
by the records of the Legislature and
the books of the Auditor General and
State Treasurer. When Mr. Pinchot
was appointed Forestry Commissioner
the salary was $3000.00. The Legis-
lature increased it to $8000.00. The
constitution of the State forbids the
increase of the salary of an official
during the period for which he was
elected or appointed. Mr. Pinchot
resigned under agreement that he
would be reappointed and the agree-
ment was fulfilled. Mr. Pinchot en-
tered no protest against profligacy
and asked that it be multiplied by
vastly increasing the appropriation to
his department.
In view of these facts it may justly
be assumed that the charges each of
these gentlemen has made against the
other have been proved amply. That
being the case it is certain that neith-
er of them should be elected Gover-
nor. Recent exposures show that the
affairs of the Commonwealth are in a
deplorable condition. The remedy is
in a complete housecleaning at the
capitol. Mr. Alter is personally hon-
est and capable, but he is so closely
related to those who have been plun-
dering the public that it would be im-
possible for him to make substantial
improvement in the methods of gov-
ernment. Mr. Pinchot may be equal-
ly honest though his juggling the con-
stitution invites suspicion. But it is
certain that John A. McSparran, the
Democratic nominee for Governor, is
equipped for the service that is need-
ed. He may be depended upon to
“turn the rascals out.”
teste freemen
—Goed morning, Governor McSpar-
ran.
renee pl ene
Pinchot Probably Nominated.
. Primary election returns available
at this writing indicate the nomina-
tion of Gifford Pinchot, as the Repub-
lican candidate for Governor by a
small majority. On Wednesday at
noon W. Harry Baker conceded this
result of the vote but later he revised
his estimate and claimed the nomina- |
Max Leslie, of Pitts-
tion of Alter.
burgh, influenced this reversal of
opinion by claiming a majority of
65,000 for Alter in Allegheny county.
The earlier returns indicated only
about 40,000 in that county and the
difference would cause a reversal of
the plurality. The 11th hour claim
will probably lead to an investigation.
Senator Pepper has been nominated
to fill the Penrose vacancy in the Sen-
ate and David A. Reed, of Pittsburgh,
to occupy the seat of the late Senator
Knox. Thus the Republican machine
has made provision for representation
of the Pennsylvania railroad and the
Steel trust in the Senate. Railroad
and industrial corporations place no
dependence in local legislation. All
their favors now come from Congress
and the administration at Washington
and the closeness of the vote for Gov-
ernor shows that the candidates for
that office were equally satisfactory to
the corporate interests. It was “every
fellow for himself and the devil take
the hindmost.”
As we have said from the beginning
of the campaign Gifford Pinchot is a
gentleman of irreproachable charac-
ter. But his election to the office of
Governor will simply serve to renew
the lease of the predatory political
machine to loot the Pennsylvania pub-
lic. No Republican is strong enough
to resist the force of the machine and
whether Alter or Pinchot is nominat-
ed the corruption will continue at the
State capitol unless the Democratic
nominee is elected. John A. McSpar-
ran can and will clean house in Har-
risburg and neither of the others can.
This fact is so obvious that no argu-
ment is needed to support it.
i
i
Daugherty Will Investigate Himself.
Te activities, professional, official
and political, of Attorney General
Daugherty are to be investigated, ac-
cording to newspaper information
from Washington. For some months
rumors current in and about the Na-
tional capital have caused suspicion
to centre about the President’s cam-
paign manager, who is said to be also
his political boss, and various at-
tempts have been made by Democratic
Congressmen to probe the matter.
Finally some Republican Congressmen
have brought charges and insisted up- |
on official inquiry and the demands
have become so imperative that an in- |
vestigation is to be made. But it is
not to be an unfriendly action. The
Attorney General will himself make
the investigation.
Nothing could be more satisfactory
to the administration. A Congres- |
sional probe might have been embar-
rassing. Some zealous and inconsid-
erate Democrat on a Congressional
committee, and the minority is enti-
tled to representation on such com-
mittees, might have steered the ex-
amination of witnesses in a wrong di-
rection and developed some facts that
were better held in concealment. It is
even possible that some too inquisi-
tive Republican might “spill the
beans” if a Congressional investiga-
ion had been ordered. In view of
these facts it was only wise but ex-
ceedingly prudent to turn the matter
ever to the department of justice. It
will give the Attorney General a
chance to be prosecutor, judge and ju-
ry all at once.
This system of probing into public
affairs is somewhat expensive, it must
be admitted, but it is absolutely safe.
Congress has appropriated half a mil-
lion dollars, at least the House of
Representatives has voted that sum to
pay the expenses. By the careful use
of that amount of money Attorney
General Daugherty ought to be able
not only to investigate but to com-
pletely vindicate himself and have a
considerable margin left to distribute
among friendly lawyers here and
there which will inspire them to in-
creased activity in future political
fights of interest to thé administra-
tion. If Daugherty had had this fund
at his command in time the defeat of
Harry New, in Indiana, might have
been averted.
Probably it’s all right to keep
the Genoa conference alive for the
present but in the not far distant fu-
ture the League of Nations will be so
robust and active that it can easily
dispense with all other agencies of
peace and perform the work of restor-
ing prosperity itself.
Lodge and the Hide Tax.
The shoe manufacturers of Massa- |
chusetts have served notice on Sena-
tor Lodge, of that State, that the tar-
iff tax of two cents a pound on green
hides must be cut out of the pending
tariff bill or else he will be cut out of
his job. Hitherto Henry Cabot has
been able to fool that important bloc
of his constituents by voting against
the tax and expressing regret that he
was unable to control the question.
Now they answer this “plea of the ba-
by act” by the statement that he had
sufficient control of the Senate to pre-
vent the ratification of the covenant
of the League of Nations and ought
to be able to strike out an item of a
two cent tax on raw hides.
This raw hide tax is a pet measure
of the agricultural bloc in the Senate
and that group seems to have the Re-
publican party in Congress “locoed.”
It would probably yield to the aver-
age farmer a revenue of something
less than one-half of one per cent. and
cost him fifty times that much on his
annual shoe bill. But the Senators
who compose the bloc reason that all
tariff laws in the past have been for
the benefit of the manufacturers and
like the epicure who orders canary
bird tongues as a dinner novelty they
are willing to pay any price for a lux-
ury of little value. No doubt Lodge
would like to oblige the Massachu-
setts shoemakers but he is afraid of
the effect on the Senate majority.
“Looking a gift horse in the mouth”
is an impolite practice and the right
thinking men and women of the coun-
try would be grateful if that senile
sinner Lodge were relegated to per-
petual private life. But the people of
Massachusetts ought to find a better
reason for defeating his re-election
than the two cent tax on raw hides.
He is notoriously selfish and sordid
and constitutionally narrow and big-
otted. Because of these evil propen-
sities he ought to be defeated and ex-
ecrated. But if his constituents want
to lick him because of the raw hide
tax let them go to it, but lick him
good and strong. His presence in the
Senate is a disgrace to the whole
country.
——Governor Sproul confidently as-
sures the public that he is a very ca-
pable, honest and efficient Governor.
Democrats to the Front.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania
have before them the opportunity of
their lives. At no time within the
voting period of the present genera-
tion have the conditions been as au-
spicious. The Republican party of
Pennsylvania stands self-accused of
every political crime in the calendar.
It is tattered and torn beyond restor-
ation. Unless half the voters of the
party are lost to every principle of
self respect they cannot vote for the
nominee. They have made. charges
against the candidate which if true
will make it impossible to support
him. If not true they are scandal-
mongers. In either even supporting
"him is stultification. They impale
i themselves on one or the other horn
| of the dilemma.
On the other hand the Democrats of
the State are happy and harmonious
.in their party. By a novel but abso-
{ lutely fair method, entirely consistent
| with the primary election laws, they
have chosen a ticket that is absolute-
ly above reproach. No man of any
political persuasion can say a word
| against any of the candidates on the
Democratic ticket. No truthful man
or woman in the Commonwealth will
dare raise a question as to the fitness,
the fairness or the integrity of our
candidates. John A. McSparran,
Charles D. McAvoy, A. Marshall
Thompson, Samuel E. Shull and Col-
ionel Fred Kerr, stand four-square in
. public estimation as men among men,
worthy of the highest honors in the
gift of the people.
Tens of thousands of earnest and
honest Republicans are ready to give
cordial and helpful support to this ad-
mirable ticket. Tens of thousands of
independent and non-partisan voters
are equally anxious to support these
candidates. It is up to the Democrats
to do whatever else is necessary to se-
cure their triumphant election and
there are abundant reasons why they
should do so. We have shared with
others the burden of needless taxation
caused by the profligacy and corrup-
tion of the Republican control for
nearly a quarter of a century. We
know of the crimes that have been
committed and the outrages perpe-
“trated by misrule. It is our duty,
therefore, to do our part in the work
of rescue and restoration.
——Our separate treaty with Ger-
many was the incentive to the sepa-
rate treaty between Germany and
Russia and that in turn was the cause
of the impudent demands of Russia at
the Genoa conference.
——
Scott Wins Nomination at Tuesday’s
Primaries.
Harry B. Scott, of Philipsburg, won
{ the nomination for State Senator at
Tuesday’s primaries, notwithstanding
the hard fight put up against him by
the temperance people and a few
members of the Republican party who
had a personal grievance against that
| gentleman. In Centre county, where
the hardest kind of a contest was
waged against him Scott won out over
Dr. Pollum, of DuBois, with a majori-
ty of 1687. The exact figures for
Clearfield county are not yet obtaina-
ble but according to most reliable es-
timates Scott will have at least 1000
majority in the district. Scott also
defeated the Hon. Ives L. Harvey for
| Republican state committeeman by
926 majority.
Another surprise of the local pri-
maries was the nomination of Miss
Zoe Meek, of Clarence, over Frank E.
Naginey, of Bellefonte, as a candidate
for the Legislature on the Democrat-
ic ticket. Miss Meek’s majority was
174. She will now contest the elec-
tion with Thomas Beaver, who was re-
nominated on the Republican ticket.
In the Twenty-third Congressional
district, composed of the counties of
Centre, Clearfield, Cameron and Mec-
Kean, the Hon. Evan J. Jones went
down to defeat at the hands of Wil-
liam I. Swoope, of Clearfield.
Pinchot sentiment ran riot in Cen-
tre county on Tuesday, the Republi-
cans contributing 1401 votes to his
majority in the State against George
E. Alter. The woman vote is the ex-
planation.
Detailed returns of the primaries
in Centre county will be found in
another column.
——— etn
——The primary fight in the Re-
publican party is certain to achieve
one good result. It has made Repub-
lican success next fall utterly impossi-
ble and will give John A. McSparran
an opportunity to clean house.
er —_— A emesis
——Now the public will listen with
deep interest to the apologies one-
half the Republicans of the State will
make to the other half for the lan-
guage used and accusations made dur-
ing the primary campaign.
mm ———— a —————————
“——1If the Russian delegates at Ge-
noa had been more reasonable they
might have got something.
1922.
NO. 20.
Behold Mr. Fordney!
From the Philadelphia Ledger.
Sometimes the general public has to
wait until a man has been many years
in public life before some lightning
flash enables it to fix his proper place.
Mr. Fordney has been in the House of
Representatives ‘so long that the pub-
lic thought it knew him thoroughly,
He was elected in 1898, twenty-four
years ago, and became prominent be-
fore his second term. He has progress-
ed so far by seniority that he is now
chairman of the Ways and Means
committee, one of the two great com-
mittees of the House.
The impression the public had of
him was that he was a rather stodgy
man with a good outfit of brains along
conventional lines, that he was digni-
fied and, above all, respectable and de-
cent. He did nothing in all those
twenty-four years to disturb that im-
pression, and now in one day he has
torn it to pieces and scattered it to
the winds. It was nothing but a
mask, a pose.
He did this in what he probably
thought was a funny speech about ex-
President Wilson. We refuse to join
Representative Connally in asserting
that it was no fit speech to be made
against a man who could not reply or
take any other action. It was no fit
speech for a man such as Fordney was
supposed to be to make about any-
body, especially any ex-President.
Calling Wilson always “the school-
master,” Fordney recalled certain lines
sung by boys at the close of a back-
woods school:
Good-by, scholars; good-by, school;
Good-by, teacher, you darned old fool.
Such epithets as “political boss” and
“glorious misfit” also figure in this
boomerang speech. President Hard-
ing, a far better politician than Ford-
ney, has had the tact to praise his
predecessor. If Fordney finds many
imitators, the Republican vote next
fall is likely to be diminished, for the
number of citizens who vote their dis-
gust instead of their joy is always
large, whether on fair grounds or not.
And disgust is the only sentiment
Fordney’s “livery-stable conversa-
tion,” as Mr. Connally aptly called it,
is likely to awaken.
However that may be, Fordney’s
coarse-minded clowning has enabled
his revolted citizens to take his meas-
ure, and if it has any effect on Wil-
son, will tend to create sympathy and
respect for him. an
co in i
Poincare’s Strategy.
From the Richmond Evening Dispatch.
The Genoa conference is on its last
legs, mainly because of the attitude
of France. To the two essential
tasks, having to do with Russia and
the limitation of armaments, the
French have erected barriers which
have not been cleared away. There
is, there can be, no hope for the eco-
nomic recovery of Europe until Rus-
sia is linked up with the rest of the
world and until a peace pact shall
have been signed. In the very nature
of things, reconstruction can be work-
ed out only upon a political basis. It
is this fact which made Secretary
Hughes’ note to Genoa almost synic-
ally ironical. The United States, he
said, would not be represented because
the conference would be largely polit-
ical, although purporting to be eco-
nomic in its aims. As though it were
possible to separate ‘the two, as though
politics and economics were not in-
extricably interwoven in our modern
world organization!
M. Poincare has played his game
excellently, checkmating Mr. Lloyd
George completely, unless the Welsh
wizard springs one of his irresistible
surprises. Poincare knows that his
siding with Belgium, touching the ti-
tle to foreign property in Russia,
means that there is little hope of es-
tablishing a relationship with the
Soviet government, which regards
this point as vital, as something to be
conceded only at the cost of its own
life. Then again Poincare accepts the
non-aggression proposal in principle
but insists that Russia shall be includ-
ed, although he knows this to be im-
possible since he has thrust the Bol-
shevists into outer darkness. Finally,
to cap his obstructionism, he claims
for France the right to enforce the
Versailles treaty by an armed inva-
sion of German territory.
One may respect the fears and the
wounds of France without justifying
her policy at the Genoa conference.
It postpones the restoration of a sta-
ble economic life in Europe. It
strengthens existing enmities and sets
new poisons in operation. The civil-
ization of the continent is a leaking
boat. All the occupants ought to be
oiligently engaged in baling out the
water. But France is thinking of who
shall boss the job. Is this the way in
which to reach the safety of A terra
firma?
——————— A sm.
A Changed Campaign Plan,
From the Ohio State J ournal.
Since that happened to Harry New
over in Indiana we have revised the
set speech we had prepared for our
coming swing around the circle, elim-
inating all references to the glorious
constructive record of our great Re-
publican Congress and inserting in
their place a few impassioned gener-
al remarks about the Old Flag, which
seem safer.
rr —— A —————————
——1If the “flapper” is half as dan-
gerous as popular comment indicates
the “slipper” treatment might be tried
as a paliative if not a cure.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—If people in the outskirts of Hazleton
want to keep goats they must tie them up,
ruled Mayor James G. Harvey in ordering
the police to arrest the owners of animals
found at large. The goats had forsaken
their traditional diet of tin cams and ha;
invaded many gardens. .
—John Goss, of mear Milroy, was liber-
ated from the Mifflin county prison on Fri-
day after agreeing to pay the costs of
prosecution, amounting to $50 and a fine
of $5 and giving his pledge to have his
children vaccinated and sent to school in
compliance with the school code.
—Edward D. Wise, of Middletown, who
died a few days ago, was the largest man
in that section of the State. He stood 6
feet 4 inches in his stockings and weighed
425 pounds. A special coffin was made to
receive his remains and eight pall bearers
were required to carry the body to the
grave. :
—Three masked and armed burglars ear-
ly last Thursday entered the parsonage of
St. Barbara’s Catholic church at Presto,
near Pittsburgh, and compelled the Rev.
A. F. Moder to open a safe. They secured
$300 from the strong box, took $50, repre-
senting a school fund, cut the telephone
wires and escaped.
—A tip received by Sheriff Gunther from
a prisoner at the Columbia county jail
Thursday night frustrated a wholesale
jail delivery that was scheduled for early
Friday morning. Steve Skript, of Ber-
wick, informed the sheriff that the bars of
the jail doors had been sawed off. Skript
was paroled the following day.
—Guiseppe Antoinnuchi, of Northumber-
land, when notified that he was the winner
of a lottery prize of $10,000, chucked his
job and was about to stage a big party
when he received word that a mistake had
been made, that he was within one num-
ber of being the winner. He called off the
celebration and asked for his old job
back.
—Fire warden Dewey Scuderini, of Shen-
andoah, has made the first claim for re-
ward offered for arrest and conviction of
a person starting a forest fire. His claim
is for $250 for causing conviction of two
men who were convicted in the Schuylkill
county courts. The reward was first of-
fered two years ago and this is the first
claim.
—Harry 8. Furst, of Lock Haven, 37
years old, legal adviser of the Clinton
county commissioners, died in the Lock
Haven hospital Sunday night of pneumo-
nia. He contracted a heavy cold on a trout
fishing expedition. He was a member of
the law firm of McCormick & Hipple, of
Williamsport. A widow and young son
survive,
—The State Supreme court on Saturday
nolle prossed the appeal of William C.
Moulton, of Scranton, from a jury verdict
in a suit involving anthracite culm banks
said to be worth $2,000,000, which was won
by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
Iron company, after an eight weeks’ trial
in the common pleas division of the Nor-
thumberland county court.
—The will of J. S. Worth, late steel man-
ufacturer of Coatesville, who ‘died last
week, was admitted to probate Friday
afternoon at West Chester. The estate is
valued in excess of $20,000,000. The will
bequeathes $42,000 outright and leaves
$169,000 in trust to present and former em-
ployees of Worth’s. The remainder of the
estate and the large residence in that city
is left to his brother, W. P. Worth.
—Authorities are investigating the mys-
terious fire late on Friday, which destroy-
ed the Methodist church and Grange hall
at Muhlenburg, five miles from Shickshin-
ny, with a loss of $6000. The blaze was
discovered by the pastor of the church,
Rev. George Metzger, when the heat broke
the windows and the flames came shooting
out. The entire interior then was on fire
and the wind swept the flames across the
road to the Grange hall. It was only by
the hardest kind of a fight that a dozen
other buildings nearby were prevented
from burning.
—Relatives of Mrs. John Mader, of Dan-
ville, whose body was found in the Sus-
quehanna river, near Sunbury, have asked
the authorities to inquire more closely in-
to the alleged drowning. According to
their statements Mrs. Mader left home after
a quarrel over whether or not .she should
go to Williamsport. The alleged * state-
ment of the husband that she might have
met her death while walking across the
Susquehanna will be.. investigated, inas-
much as there is a free bridge gecross the
stream at that point. Mader married the
woman out of the Danville asylum for the
insane, where he is a stationary boiler fire-
man.
© —Within reach of $1000 in cash and able
to take only $300 of it, robbers who used
nitroglycerine to blow a safe in the branch
house of Swift & Co., at Nanticoke, early
Friday morning, made their escape when
trapped by Policeman Caffey. That the
burglars were practiced. hands was indi-
cated in their successful entry of the plant,
where they eluded the night watchman.
Policeman Caffey traced the burglars
through an earlier attempt om their part
to enter the Pennsylvania station. He de-
cided upon an inspection of nearby prop-
erty and noticed lights in the Swift place.
The burglars had the door barricaded and
escaped through a rear window.
—“I am glad I didn’t have to go to the
pen” said Joseph Osborne, of Shamokin,
after he and Thomas Shebelskie were sen-
tenced to a $25 fine and three years in the
Sunbury jail on Monday for robbing the
drug store of C. A. Barron, of Shamokin.
Both were on parole when the crime war
committed. They pleaded guilty. Of
borne’'s sweetheart, Miss Beatrice Bra¢
of Shamokin, was in court when sente
was passed by President Judge Strs
It is believed that he counts on seein
young woman often during his «
ment. Last week the youth aske
sentence be deferred a week so °
could wed the girl, but the pares
fered and the event did not tak:
—Officials of the Penn Centre
Power company, of Johnstow
closed a contract with the Gr
company to furnish current
tion of its mine in the are
section of Cambria and 7
and have begun the cons’
mile line from Moss Cre
ty, to the Greenwich mr
cently consummated 1
company disposed of
holdings to the Mar
pany, with offices ir
ing, Philadelphia.
plant of the comp’
and the company
with power furr
company.