hemor, fad
INK SLINGS.
—Pinchot will keep pickin’ Col.
Miner for his state chairman until the
Colonel gets sore and that’s all he will
‘get.
——The ship owners who contrib-
uted seem to be growing impatient.
Harding has ordered a “speed up” on
the ship subsidy bill.
—The kids are through with school
and many a mother is through with
the hours of relief she enjoyed while
they were at their books.
The confirmation of the report
that Lenine is critically ill is all right
in its way but what the world wants
is a certificate that he is dead.
The controversy over Attorney
General Daugherty’s connection with
the Morse pardon is subsiding. When
Daugherty admitted that he had lied
about the matter public opinion be-
came unanimous.
——The first war swindler caught
is the chairman of the Republican
State committee of Georgia. If the
investigation is thorough a good many
other Republican leaders will head for
the Federal penitentiary.
—Well, since President Harding
has announced that The Pennsylvania
State College should be a great uni-
versity we suppose it’s up to us to
raise that two million dollar endow-
ment fund and make it one.
—The announcement of an eminent
physician that feeble minded persons
often make a success in life is about
the most consoling thing we’ve heard
for several weeks. In the light of our
present plight we are comforted with
the thought that maybe we’re not fee-
ble minded.
—Of course it was to be expected
that Senator Pepper would endorse
Baker for chairman. Pepper has
grown very regular since he has come
into the position of being a regular
fellow—one of the kind, you know,
who is looking for a cuspidor in the
eye of a bull dog.
—We are evidently going to get
what we might reasonably have ex-
pected from Washington efforts to
settle the coal strike and the coal
problem. An advance of a dollar sev-
enty-five on the price of bituminous
is about the only concrete thing that
has come out of it.
—The announcement that Bruce F.
Sterling will not be a candidate for
re-election as chairman of the Demo-
cratic state committee sets us to hop-
ing that whoever his successor might
be he will be a man who will promote
rather than undo the good work of
harmonizing begun by the committee
of seventy-two.
“—Mr. Pinchot barely squeezed
through in his expensive pursuit of a
gubernatorial nomination, but he’s up
to the point now where money won’t
count. He can’t buy control of the
Republican state committee and be-
fore he will be able to get it to work-
ing for him he'll have to come to
terms. When he comes to terms the
voters of Pennsylvania will know that
if they hope for reform they can only
have that hope fulfilled through Mr.
MeSparran.
—Lillian Russell is dead. We call
her Lillian Russell for hundreds of
thousands who knew her as the com-
ic opera queen don’t know her as Mrs.
Alexander P. Moore, wife of the Pitts-
burgh publisher. Hers was a career
of sunshine and seriousness. Noted
as a stage beauty, with a singing
voice of appealing quality and real
ability as an actress she possessed a
trio of charms that made her almost
irresistible to those before the foot-
lights. But she had another side. She
was a sericas, sensible woman who
saw life as it was away from the
bright lights and gaudy scenery of the
stage and much of her time was de-
voted to work that many another
woman trained as she was would never
have thought there could be to do.
—Mr. McSparran drew the milk in
the cocoanut with his very first cam-
paign shot. When he declared that
local communities have some rights in
the matter of the conduct of their
home affairs he stated a truth that
every one will agree with. He was
striking at the growing and pernicious
tendency of modern political machines
to enact laws effecting a centraliza-
tion of government. Centralization
means more jobs for the faithful, but
more jobs for the faithful mean less
money to the roads and schools and
hospitals that they direct, inspect,
audit and really control. A case in
point is the Bellefonte hospital. Who
knows best what service this institu-
tion should render this com inity?
Who knows best what this community
can afford to expend in maintaining
the hospital? Would you say that
Harrisburg or Philadelphia know more
as to conditions in Belefonte than the
physicians and surgeons and the men
and women of Bellefonte who have
the hospital on their minds and hearts
always? Of course you wouldn't.
But let us tell you right now that the
staff and the board of trustees of the
| Bellefonte hospital amd every other
similar semi-State institution in
Pennsylvania are so enmeshed by reg-
ulations, specifications and damna-
tions that they can’t take a step un-
less Harrisburg or Philadelphia ap-
proves. We're for a halting of such
conditions no matter who the next
Governor, the next Senator or the next
Member shall be. Mr. McSparran has
declared himself. It’s up to Mr. Scott
.and Mr. Betts, Mr. Beaver and Miss
Meek.
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Pinchot Thinks All are Fools.
Some philosopher at some ancient |
period of time expressed an opinion
that “all men are liars.” Mr. Gifford
Pinchot appears to be operating his
campaign for Governor on the theory
that all men and women of Pennsyl-
vania are fools. The ancient philos-
opher probably based his world wide
objurgation upon an experience with
a few men who prevaricated in an
emergency. Mr. Pinchot obviously
predicates his assumption upon his
own recent experience in conducting a
reform campaign on a most vulnera-
ble record of false pretense. The
most flagrant salary-grabber of the
Sproul administration, he appealed to
the public for support as a protest
against salary-grabbing. His grab of
$3000 a year is a case in point.
Mr. Pinchot admitted during his
primary campaign that the financial
affairs of the Commonwealth are in a
state of confusion, if not worse than
that. During the three years of his
association with the Sproul adminis-
tration he either knew the condition
or else he was asleep or indifferent to
the interests of the public which was
being robbed and remained silent so
that the operation might go on with-
out interruption. Now he asks the
public to entrust him with the correc-
tion of the abuses under the promise
that he will appoint an unofficial com-
mittee to recommend a remedy to the
Legislature. If he knows anything
he understands that the Legislature
to which the committee’s recommen-
dation will be made will be under the
control of the machine recently de-
feated and will pay no attention to
any recommendation from his friends.
If the voters of Pennsylvania are
deceived by this palpable false pre-
tense of improvement in methods of
government they will deserve any
punishment which the Vare-Leslie-
Eyre machine put upon them. Pin-
chot bought a nomination at a crim-
inally exorbitant price and in view of
his salary grab as Commissioner of
Forestry he is more likely to use the
office as a medium of reimbursement
than as a beneficence to the people.
His profligacy in the primary cam-
paign can ha be used as a meas-
‘ure of his altruism in'the light. of his
conspiracy to extort $3000 a year from
the public treasury by an increase of
salary in violation of the constitution
he had sworn to “support, obey and
defend.”
Pinchot can please one element
by opposing Baker for chairman and
the other by acquiescing in the choice
of Baker by his colleagues on the
ticket. That's what Davy Crocket
called “catching ’em comin’ and goin’.”
Pinchot is Up Against It.
The Republican State committee is
scheduled to meet in Philadelphia to-
morrow for reorganization, and unless
the signs are misleading the result of
the meeting will have a large influ-
ence upon tue character of the cam-
paign to follow. There are two can-
didates for the office of chairman and
Mr. Pinchot is expected to express a
preference between them. The “Old
Guard,” which since the death of Sen-
ator Penrose comprises the corpora-
tion element in the party, is support-
ing W. Harry Baker, at present and
( t tary of the “"¢ $yari
for meny years the secrppany © i cational facilities and processes local
committee, and the other element is
said to favor Representative Aaron B.
Hess, of Lancaster. This faction is
composed of ‘Mr. Grundy, Mr. Fisher
and their followers.
During the primary campaign Mr.
Pinchot denounced the “Old Guard”
with much virulence. But a great
many of his supporters in that con-
test now believe that the conciliation
of that element of the party is neces-
sary to the success of the party at the
polls in November. They realize that
if the candidate assents to the elec-
tion of Baker he will lose a consider-
able number of the idealists who are
opposed to a compromise with vice
even to secure success but reason that
it is safer to accept that prospect
rather than take the chance of losing
the support of the machine. The
“Buck” Devlin incident in the primary
vote reveals the vast possibilities of a
quarrel with the Philadelphia gang.
The curious feature of this situa-
tion is that neither of the faction lead-
ers cares a rap for Pinchot. The fight
is for control of the organization. For
some reason Mr. Grundy is anxious to
be restored to his former position as
first lieutenant of the boss. It will be
remembered that in the national con-
vention of 1920 Senator Penrose gave
all his orders to the national leaders
through Grundy and since infirmity
robbed Penrose of his power Grundy
has been in eclipse. The other faction
is equally indifferent to the interests
of Pinchot. He bought the nomina-
tion and if Grundy controls the organ-
ization it will be out of business for
life. Pinchot is “between the devil
and the deep sea.”
——Subscribe for the “Watchman
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Pinchot’s Crime Paramount.
Mr. Gifford Pinchot’s brazen boast
that under like conditions he would
again spend $125,000.00 of his own
and his wife’s money to secure the
nomination for Governor reveals that
he has no conception of the iniquity
of the transaction or the evil it in-
volves. It is not a question of the tax
upon his resources. Out of his inher-
ited millions he will probably not miss
the amount and has plenty left to buy
votes in November. He appears to
imagine his ability to pay is the only
matter of public interest. But he is
gravely mistaken. The evil is that he
has established a precedent which if
not checked will make it absolutely
impossible for any one not a million-
aire to run for an important office in
Pennsylvania.
Of course Mr. Pinchot tries to con-
vey to the public the idea that his
money was squandered, not for his
personal aggrandizement but in order
to destroy an infamous political ma-
chine. But this purpose is defeated
by the fact that he tried to enlist this
machine in his service. Senator Vare
has publicly stated that he was asked
to support Pinchot by an authorized
agent of that gentleman and assured
that if nominated the candidate would
pay all the expenses of his election
out of his own resources. Senator
Vare declined to come into line on the
terms proposed though it might have
saved him a good deal of money. But
Pinchot was willing to make the deal.
He was ready to join the gang.
In the face of this record the pre-
tense that he was influenced by benev-
olent purposes is not only false but is
criminally fraudulent. He is obsessed
with ambition to hold office and exer-
cise power and having inherited mil-
lions he is willing to buy the Governor-
ship of Pennsylvania. If charges fre-
quently made and never refuted are
true Senator Vare has indulged in
some political immoralities and the
gang which supported Mr. Alter has
been culpable in many instances. But
we submit that none of them has ever
been guilty of so grave a crime
against the interests of the public or
the cause of civic righteousness as
Gifford Pinchot perpetrated when he
bought his nomination ‘with $125,000.
——Senator Norris estimates that
at the present rate of progress it will
take several years to pass the pend-
ing tariff bill. But unless it is great-
ly improved that will be too soon.
McSparran Sounds the True Note.
Mr. John A. McSparran, in an ad-
dress before the Democratic county
committee of Lancaster, his home
county, on Monday, sounded the true
note. The profligacy of the Sproul
administration and its immediate
predecessors and the corrupt use of
money in the purchase of the nomina-
tion by the Republican candidate for
Governor afford substantial reasons
for the defeat of that party at the com-
ing election. But the fundamental is-
sue to be determined by the electorate
is the question of home rule. The
right of each community to regulate
its own affairs is a matter of such
grave importance that all others give
way to it.
In the construction and maintenance
of highways, in the distribution of
charity and in the regulation of edu-
opinion has been silenced, local activ-
ities stopped and local control stifled
by legislation enacted within the past
few years centralizing all power over
these purely local matters in Harris-
burg. As Mr. McSparran says, it is
all right for the State to exercise con-
trol over the ten per cent. of road
construction paid for by the State.
But the ninety per cent. of this serv-
ice which is paid for by the local com-
munities ought to be conducted under
the direction of local authorities. The
same is true with respect to schools
and charitable institutions.
The centralization of power over
these important elements in the life of
the Commonwealth is not intended for
the improvement of the service. The
purpose of it is to create and conduct
a vast machine under the immediate
control of the Republican party or-
ganization to be used for political
service and manipulation. No man in
the Democratic party desires to im-
pair the efficiency of educational fa-
cilities or curtail the appropriations
for public schools. No Democrat
wants deterioration in road construc-
tion or diminution in charity service.
But every Democrat and every right
thinking citizen of every party wants
honesty in the administration of these
services and local management is the
means.
———————— A ———————
Possibly the next Legislature
will pass a law limiting campaign ex-
penditures. That would be a neat way
for Vare to rebuke Pinchot.
——Somebody got the money, that’s
certain, but what became of the post
cards?
Regarding a Platform.
Senator George Wharton Pepper,
whose nomination for a full term in
the office cost something like $100,-
000.00, gave out an interview, from
his Washington office, the other day
in which he said: “We talked over
the question of a platform and came
to the conclusion that there was no
necessity for adopting one at the com-
mittee meeting Saturday. A plat-
form can be adopted later, if neces-
sary.” In this the Senator is abso-
lutely and everlastingly right. A
ticket which cost more than a million
dollars to nominate can find its plat-
form in the left over literature of the
last Presidential campaign. “Get the
Money, = Boys,” “Step on the Gas,”
“Shake Down the Millionaires,” are
admirable slogans for its campaign.
Senator Pepper’s first vote in the
Senate after General Atterbury had
chosen him to succeed Boies Penrose
was a ratification and approval of the
corrupt bargain by which Truman H. |
Newberry had purchased a seat in the
Senate. But in the same vote he en-
dorsed a resolution declaring that such
vast expenditures in the purchase of
nominations were fundamentally
wrong, grossly immoral and destruc-
tive of just government. Yet the ex-
penditures in the primary campaign
for the nomination of himself and his
associates on the Republican ticket
make Newberry “look like a piker.”
Of course such a ticket doesn’t need a
platform. In fact it can not afford to
have a platform. The $ completely
identifies and defines it.
But the people of Pennsylvania will
have the right to construct a platform
for this expensive combination of cor-
poration lobbyists and each voter can
frame it in his mind according to his
fancy. The “Get the Money” monkey
of Mr. DeMar, of the Philadelphia
Record, forms a splendid nucleus upon
and around which to build. A carica-
ture of Mr. Pepper in the act of “spit-
ting in the eye of a bull dog” would
be an appropriate side picture and a
few sentences on the art of increasing
salaries by Mr. Pinchot and a para-
graph on how corporations may defy
the laws by Major David Reed, of the
leg# staft of the Steel trust, skillful-
‘ly arranged would be certain to amuse.
the people even if it failed to entrance.
——1In another column of this pa-
per will be found a news item stating
that over eighty thousand young for-
est trees were planted in Centre coun-
ty this spring by fifty-one landowners.
The trees were furnished free by the
State and the only cost to the owners
was the labor of planting them. This
is purely a work of planting for the
future, as no one can expect to reap
any direct benefit from the trees now
planted during an ordinary man’s life-
time. But it is work that should be
encouraged, nevertheless. It not only
means the foundation of a future lum-
ber supply but also the conserving of
our mountain springs and streams.
Every land owner who has the ground
to spare ought to plant it in forest
trees, and he will be surprised at the
results in a few years.
emer Ap esse
Forest Fires in Logan District.
District forester T. Roy Morton, of
Petersburg, reports that thirty-eight
forest fires occurred in the Logan for-
est district this spring. Eighteen of
them were in Huntingdon county, sev-
en in Centre, and thirteen in Blair
county. The fires in Huntingdon
county averaged six acres per fire,
those in Centre county averaged only
two acres per fire, while those in Blair
county averaged 169 acres per fire.
Forester Morton is of the opinion
that this spring’s fire season was a
real test for the new forest fire fight-
ing organization, and he is well pleas-
ed with the way the forest fire war-
dens took hold of their work. They
detected the fires promptly and ex-
tinguished them before they did much
damage. He believes that each year
the forests will become safer from
fire.
mmes——— er,
——Dr. Joseph T. Rothrock, known
as the “Father of Forestry” in Penn-
sylvania, died at his home at West
Chester last Friday, aged 84 years.
He was the original forestry commis-
sioner of Pennsylvania and was con-
nected with the department up until
his resignation several months ago.
He is survived by one daughter and
two sons.
——The total official vote in the
Twenty-third Congressional district
shows that the Hon. W. I. Swoope de-
feated Evan J. Jones by a majority of
1988, the total vote being Swoope,
10727; Jones, 8739. Harry B. Scott
had a majority of 2081 over Dr. Pol-
lum in the Senatorial district, Scott’s
total vote being 7410 and Pellum’s
5329.
————— i ———————
——The Susquehanna trapshooters
will hold their first shoot of the sea-
son at Williamsport on June 23rd.
22.
NO. 23.
The Galled Jade Winces.
From the Philadelphia Record.
But the jade whose withers are un-
wrung cares nothing. It would be
more dignified to suppress evidence of
one’s own pain if one is entirely indif-
| ferent to the pain of others. It is
{hardly in good taste to throw mud in
the political arena and then protest
| angrily when mud is sticking to one’s
own good clothes.
| The President is indignant that so
| much criticism of himself and his Cab-
inet officers is printed in the newspa-
pars. The publications are by no
means confined to Democratic news-
papers; the Republican papers are
printing plenty of things about the
President and the Attorney General
and Congress that do not improve the
President’s appetite for his breakfast.
Probably his outbreak is due to the
unpleasant things the papers of his
own party are printing, and rather
more to the efforts of Republican poi-
‘iticians to get the Attorney General
i out of office to save the party than to
‘anything in the newspapers.
But when the entire Republican
press was alternately vilifying and
ridiculing President Wilson, Secretary
Daniels and Secretary Baker and
Postmaster General Burleson, did Sen-
ator Harding, of Ohio, utter a word of
protest? Was the Marion Star in the
habit of speaking respectfully and
justly of a Democratic President and
his Cabinet?
Since the Republicans, even more
out of the press than in it, lied about
Grover Cleveland, for which many of
the more respectable of them have
since expressed their penitence, no
President has been so maligned and
ridiculed and misrepresented and
fought in a shameless spirit of parti-
sanship as Woodrow Wilson. During
those eight years of Republican scur-
rility and falsehood and innuendo we
do not recall any effort by Senator
Harding to keep his own party within
the lines of decency?
The success of our army and navy
shamed the Republicans in some meas-
ure out of ridiculing Secretaries Ba-
ker and Daniels. Postmaster General
Burleson was abused to the last, chief-
ly by papers that he was trying to
compel to pay a reasonable part of
their own postage, but is there any
Republican so hardened that he will
dare to say that the postal service is
any better now than it was?
No member of the party 4
duced and vilified, maligned and’ ridi-
culed Grover Cleveland for eight years
and Woodrow Wilson for eight years,
and tried to force out members of
their Cabinets ought to resent criti-
cism of Warren Gamaliel Harding and
efforts to get Harry M. Daugher-
ty, attorney for C. W. Morse, out of
the Cabinet.
Under these circumstances the
President would command more re-
spect if he would keep silent when the
newspapers and Republican members
of Congress criticize this Administra-
tion, both in the White House and in
the Department of Justice.
Sharing the Blame.
From the New York World.
Given a Congress of his own party,
a President who knows what he wants
done can usually manage to get it
done. The country may not be satis-
fied with the achievement, but it will
know what it is voting about when it
goes to the polls, and the party in
power will have something on which
it can ask for a vote of confidence.
The failure of the Sixty-seventh
Congress has been almost wholly a
failure in leadership, and the full re-
sponsibility goes further back than
Mr. Harding’s nomination. In order
to manufacture a fictitious issue
against Mr. Wilson the Senators who
controlled the Republican National
convention in 1920 set up the fiction
that Mr. Wilson was a tyrant and a
despot who had tried to overthrow the
legislative branch of the Government.
In order to carry out this myth Mr.
Harding abdicated all claim to leader-
ship long in advance of his election.
The President was to go his way and
Congress was to go its way, but the
communion of the “best minds” would
make it certain that both would be
going in the same direction at the
same time.
The usurpation argument against
Mr. Wilson was thoroughly dishonest,
but the Republican Senators maintain-
ed it so vigorously that Mr. Harding
has never dared assert himself as
leader of the party, and as a result
Congress is in the worst muddle that
the country has seen for a generation.
The muddle will continue until Mr.
Harding becomes the leader of his par-
ty in fact as well as in name or there
is a new Administration.
A Congress that is left to drift is
bound to drift. There have been times
when the leadership within Congress
was strong enough to hold it to a con-
sistent program even when the Exec-
utive was weak, but there has been no
instance in which Congress was able
to function with any degree of intel-
ligence when both the Executive and
Congressional leadership was flabby.
Governor Miller, of New York, has
made a convincing demonstration of
the capacity of a strong, capable lead-
er to obtain extraordinary results
from a mediocre Legislature. If Mr.
Harding had been a Nathan L. Miller
the record of the Sixty-seventh Con-
gress would have been radically dif-
ferent. That is the whole story, and
Mr. Harding cannot get rid of his own
responsibilities merely by getting rid
of Congress. Whatever blame there
is for the record, he must share it.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—An agreement was filed in court at Eb-
ensburg on Monday for the sale of the Na-
vy Smokeless Coal company, operating. in
East and West Carroll townships, Cambria
county, to Charles D. Ames and others of
Philadelphia. The price agreed upon is
$850,000 for the 3,200 acres involved.
—Fire, which is believed to have been
started by a spark from a saw mill boiler,
Friday afternoon, destroyed the mill of
the Reese Sheriff Lumber company, near
Mill Creek, Huntingdon county, along with
100,000 feet of lumber, some mine props,
mine ties and other lumber. The loss is
estimated at $5000 to $7000.
—An order for a whole carload of spe-
cial motors manufactured by the Brook-
ville Truck and Tractor company, has just
been received by that concern from Mexi-
co City. The motors are to be inserted in
tramecars in the Mexican city, to replace
mules that have for many years been used
to draw the vehicles over its streets.
—Mrs. Edna Miller, of Catawissa, widow
of Lloyd Miller, of that place, was awarded
$6000, and Mrs. Ida S. Schiedly, of Tamau-
qua, widow of Alvin Schiedly, $20,000, in
jury verdicts following trial of their cases
against the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-
road company. The husbands of both the
women were killed in the explosion of an
engine at Mooresburg, last October.
—False whiskers worn while imperson-
ating Santa Claus in a Scranton store
caused the death of George Howe, his wid-
ow, Mrs. Lucy Howe, claimed last Friday
in seeking compensation. Mrs. Howe
maintained that the erysipelas, from which
her husband died early this year was con-
tracted in December, 1921, from the whis-
kers. The referee reserved decision.
-—Prosecutions for violation of the pure
“00d and milk acts during May numbered
108, according to the report of Director
James Foust. Forty-cight arrests were
made for sale of milk that had been water-
ed and in each case the defendant plead-
ed guilty, the report states, while forty-
three arrests were made for treating fruits
with chemicals and foods with coal tar
dyes.
—A loss of $50,000 was received by H. H.
Smith & Co., when the main building of
their big tannery at West Hickory, EIk
county, was destroyed by fire. An exten-
sive fire protection system failed to save
the structure. P. R. Smith, of Ridgway,
one of the owners, has announced that the
loss is covered with insurance and that the
destroyed building will be immediately re-
placed by a new and modern building.
—A strange disease which physicians are
unable to diagnose, has attacked residents
of Connellsville, over forty cases so far
having been reported to the board of
health. Ten physicians have been unable
to diagnose the disease, which starts with
the appearance of a rash on the soles of
the feet or palms of the hands. This is
followed by vomiting and soreness of the
joints. No fatalities have thus far been
reported.
—Preparations are being made to ask for
bids on the Milton-West Milton bridge
construction across the Susquehanna river.
The bridge there has become positively
dangerous, according to the Northumber-
land county commissioners, and it is hoped
to rebuild it before the snow flies. Under
the law Northumberland county must pay
half of the cost of renewal of this bridge,
which will eost-nearly $100,000 to build ac-
cording to estimates.
—The Keystone confectionery store, in
the business district of Fayette City was
dynamited on Saturday. Two heavy ex-
plosions blew in the front of the structure
and shattered windows in nearby build-
ings. John Capa, who resides in the con-
fectionery building, reported that he be-
lieved ‘black-handers” had dynamited the
place after he had refused to meet de-
mands for $5000. State police and county
detectives are investigating.
—Students en route to State College from
Lewistown rescued Mr. and Mrs. James
Goss and infant daughter, Claudine, from
the bed of the old Pennsylvania canal in
the Lewistown Narrows late last Thurs-
day night after their automobile had been
forced over the embankment in a collision.
Neither of the other two automobiles who
were a party to the mishap stopped to ren-
der aid and the party would have drowu-
ed only for the action of the students.
—Although he tumbled eleven stories
from the roof of the new Penn Albert ho-
tel in Greensburg, last Wednesday, where
he is employed as a plasterer, Graham C.
Reihl, 36 years old, and married was fish-
ed out of a pile of sand, where he alighted,
apparently uninjured. The man was rush-
ed to the Westmoreland hospital, but chat-
ted with ambulance attendants all the way.
Although he was tucked in bed and will
remain in the hospital for several days,
Reihl apparently has no internal injuries
and no broken bones.
—The Consoldiated Coal company, which
operates a number of mines in Somerset
county, has secured a rule from the Som-
erset county court on 62 men and 20 wom-
en to show cause why attachments should
not be issued against them for alleged vio-
lation of the temporary injunction granted
some time ago. It is alleged by the coal
company that these 82 defendants inter-
fered with miners on their way to work
between 6:30 and 7 o'clock in the morning.
The coal company claims that the women
blocked the way to the pit mouth at the
Bell operation.
—His “sixth sense” caused Robert Getz,
of Sunbury, a passenger locomotive driver,
to decide that something was broken un-
der his locomotive as it raced along with
one hundred passengers on his train on
the Pennsylvania railroad near Sunbury,
last Thursday. Getz stopped and found a
brake rigging hanging by a small shred
of a broken chain under the tank of the
locomotive. Had it dropped, railroad men
said, nothing could have prevented a bad
wreck. Getz said ‘“‘something” just told
him all was not right under him. He has
been a Pennsylvania locomotive driver for
mare than thirty years.
—XKicked by a horse, Avon Bauman, aged
8 years, son of C. C. Bauman, of Northum-
berland county, was critically hurt. His
upper and lower jaws were broken and
four teeth were driven so far up into the
jaw that they had to be cut out. He is
also badly cut and his collar bone and one
rib broken. In spite of it all, the doctors
say he will recover. Mr. Bauman took two
children with him while he was fixing a
fence, They got out of his sight for a
few minutes and the little girl, Evelyn,
came back crying that her brother had
been killed. Bauman found the boy lying
apparently dead alongside the wall. The
little girl had dragged the boy from furth«
er harm before calling her father.