Demon dpe
INK SLINGS.
—Instead of taking the hides off of
those who wear shoes the Senate has
decided to have the proposed duty off
of hides.
—If the coal strike keeps up a few
months more we’ll see a lot of people
sawing wood whom we’ve never seen
saw before.
——Senator Pepper imagines that
returning flippant answers to inquir-
ing letters is the same as “spitting in
the eye of the bull dog.”
— It may be significant that the
corporations once made chairman
Cooper, of the Railway Labor Board,
Governor of Tennessee.
— Apparently Senator Jim Reed has
won his fight for renomination in Mis-
souri. He ought to have been licked
and because he wasn’t we must admit
admiration for the only admirable
characteristic he has, his nerve.
—Nothing can bear more convine-
ing witness to the passing of the old
Bellefonte than the failure of the
Chautauqua. The new picture won’t
look right in the old frame but it’s
coming into place, just the same.
—Won’t some woman please marry
old man McCormick and won’t that
Ozer fellow please marry Mathilde
and have an end of McCormick pub-
licity. Everybody’s growing tired of
speculating who are to be the next to
stick their feet under McCormick ma-
hogany.
— What President Harding needs
more than anything else is somebody
to accept the offers he is making.
Every morning a new proposal to set-
tle the rail or the coal strike emanates
from the White House and every
night it wanders back because nobody
appears to want it.
—If we didn’t feel reasonably cer-
tain that the editor of the Clinton
County Times clipped the fool stuff
and is not responsible for it himself
we would ask him how he expects to
retain the respect of intelligent read-
ers after blaming the Democrats for
the money tourists spend abroad.
—“Republican revolt may revise
tariff” said a head line in one of the
Philadelphia Republican papers on
Tuesday. While we love to see our
friends in revolt we hope there’ll be
none of it over the Fordney-McCum-
ber abortion. We want that to pass
just as it is, for its passage will re-
move all doubt of Democratic success
in 1924.
__TIt isn’t what it costs to produce
things that makes prices high. It is
what it costs to buy them after they
are produced. New York State dai-
rymen are getting four cents the
quart for niilk that is sold in the cities
for eighteen. Between the cow and
the table there must be either a lot of
profiteering or needless waste in
handling.
—The budget bureau at Washing-
ton is reported to be clipping down es-
timates of the expenses for the fiscal
year 1924 and hopes to get them to
the point where it won't cost more
than three billion to run the govern-
ment. Isn’t it awful how complacent-
ly we take things. It seems only a
few years ago that we were throwing
fits because a Congress appropriated
one billion dollars for governmental
affairs.
— Baron Hayashi, the Japanese
member of the conference of al-
lies now in session in London, must
be the Will Hayes of Nippon. When
Lloyd George, Premier Poincare and
the delegates from Italy and Belgium
had all aired their views the foxy Jap
arose and said: “I think the single
object of the allies should be to get all
the money possible.” The next thing
we know the Baron will be running
the movies in Japan.
—A recent straw vote taken in
Bielefeld, Germany, showed an over-
whelming preponderance of sentiment
for prohibition. This is surprising, to
say the least for if any country in the
world might be expected to be wet it
would be Germany. Another surpris-
ing and interesting fact revealed is
that Germany annually drinks up
three billion, five hundred million gold
mark’s worth of alcoholic beverages.
Possibly it is Germany’s thrift only
that is back of the recent swing to-
wards prohibition. If she saved the
money spent on drink her reparations
and other post war problems would be
more than half solved.
— Sir Auckland Geddes has stirred
up quite a bit of excitement—if ex-
citement is the proper word to use in
connection with the average stolid
Englishman—in London by telling his
people to brush up in their knowledge
of the United States. He is their
Ambassador to the court of Uncle
Sam, you know, and laments the fact
that they know so little of what our
aims and purposes in life really are.
English insularity is proverbial. The
world’s history reveals no period when
they were not a self centered people;
convinced that they were on a plane
just a bit too exalted for any others
to attain. John Bull always did know
that the sun never sets on his Empire
and naturally said to himself: “I
should worry.” But is John Bull the
onl yone? We opine tha Peter Stuy-
vesant, otherwise New York city,
at least feigns as little knowledge of
the rest of the United States as Eng-
land admits through such blunders of
her newspapers. Not one New York-
er in ten thinks that there is anything
worth while transpiring off Manhat-
tan Island and almost we would think
they were English if we didn’t know
the most of them are not.
= Demacral
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7
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
‘VOL. 67.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 11.
Senator Gooding’s Conscience.
Senator Gooding, of Idaho, contin-
ues to assert that his conscience is
clear notwithstanding his vote for a
tariff tax of about fifty cents a pound
on wool. The rules of the Senate and
an unwritten law of Congress forbid
a Senator from voting upon any ques-
tion in which he is financially inter-
ested and Senator Hitchcock, of Ne-
braska, and one or two others who are
interested in the publishing business
refrained from voting on the question
of taxing wood pulp. But Gooding is
one of those “goody-goody” statesmen
of the Pinchot type whose consciences
are differently constructed. He can
see no harm in voting money into his
own pocket even though he votes it
out of the pockets of others who owe
him nothing.
Senator Gooding admitted on the
floor of the Senate the other day that
he owns about 8000 sheep. The aver-
age “clip” is about five pounds so that
his flocks would yield about 40,000
pounds of wool. Fifty cents a pound
on this product would amount to $20,-
000 a year to Senator Gooding and
possibly as much or more to three or
four other western Senators. But it
will cost the people of the United
States well onto a billion dollars to
pay this trifling unearned largess to
Senators whose consciences are not
even seared by such selfishness. It
would save money to make an appro-
priation direct to these Senators of
whatever amount the tariff tax on
their wool crops would come to at the
schedule they have fixed.
However, these selfish Senators are
not “pulling the wool over the eyes” of
the public as they imagine. They
bought their seats in the Senate for
the purpose of influencing legislation
which would repay them many times
over and they may enjoy temporary
success in their enterprise. But a tar-
iff tax so obviously destructive of the
industrial life of the country as the
pending measure will not endure long
and the Goodings and Bursoms will re-
tire at the expiration of their present
terms dishonored and despised. No
question is settled permanently in this
country until it is settled right, and
legislation which in or-
will not continue long.
——The Steel trust is coming into
its own. It hasn’t had a real live rep-
resentative in the United States Sen-
ate since the death of Senator Knox,
nearly a year ago, but the appoint-
ment of David A. Reed, chief of the
legal staff, will supply the want.
Centralization the Gravest Danger.
Senator Borah, of Idaho, in address- |
ing the Judiciary committee of the
Senate, the other day, declared that
pending legislation plainly indicated
the purpose of ‘taking from courts,
from local self-government, from the
States, from constitutional authority
in every shape and form, the conduct
of the people’s affairs and the control
of those things that local communi-
ties have controlled during the whole
history of this government and stick-
ing it somewhere in a hidden bureau
here in Washington.” A precisely
similar condition exits in Pennsylva-
nia. Rural communities have been
deprived of every semblance of local
self-government.
burg are in absolute control.
The government of the United
States is based upon the principle of
home rule.
declares that “The powers not dele-
gated to the United States by the con-
stitution, nor prohibited to it by the
States, are reserved to the States re-
spectively or to the people.” The gov-
ernment of the State is predicated
upon the same principle. In so far as
possible the determination of local af-
fairs were left to local authorities.
During recent years, however, there
has been a constant and increasing
trend toward centralization of power
at the National and State capitals. It
gave greater opportunities for graft
and multiplied facilities for strength-
ening political machines.
The result is that the people of a
community who know better than any
one else what the neighborhood needs
have no voice in the matter. They are
not allowed to build an addition to the
local school house until the bureau at
Harrisburg gives consent. A farmer is
not permitted to move an outhouse
without the sanction of a bureau at
Harrisburg and a break in the road
cannot be repaired until a bureau at
Harrisburg gives permission. As
Senator Borah says, this is a greater
danger to the country than any that
has preceded it. It converts a popu-
lar form of government into a bureau-
cracy and subverts every principle of
democracy to the base uses of cor-
rupt politicians.
— mie iscasiee
—A figure man estimates that
the pending tariff bill will increase the
cost of meat to the consumers of this
country $231,000,000. No wonder
“the cow jumped over the moon.”
Bureaus in Harris- |
The Federal constitution’
Senator Reed’s Nomination.
The renomination of Senator James
A. Reed for another term by the Dem-
ocrats of Missouri has disappointed
the hopes of a vast number of Demo-
crats throughout the country. Elect-
ed as a Democrat six years ago Sena-
tor Reed has been a most helpful sup-
porter of the Republican machine in
its nefarious schemes. In opposing
the ratification of the covenant of the
League of Nations he did more than
the spiteful and malicious Lodge to
defeat the sublime purposes for which
the world war was fought and the su-
preme sacrifices were made. What in-
fluenced his mind to the course he pur-
sued has never been revealed. But in
any event his actions disqualified him
as a representative of the party he
pretended to serve.
We are not moved to expressions of
regret that he is nominated entirely
by his attitude of opposition to former
President Wilson. A Senator in Con-
gress is entitled to his own views on
public questions and when they hap-
pen to run in a direction opposite to
those of the President, though they be
of the same party, he is within his
right to express and pursue them. But
he has no right to set himself up
against a vast majority of those in
whose name he holds his commission.
If he is in such an attitude he ought
to resign. He is no longer a repre-
sentative of his constituents. Senator
Reed’s renomination is not a vindica-
tion of his course in the Senate. It
was brought about by other reasons
and vastly different influences.
On a direct issue upon the question
of Senator Reed’s attitude on the
League of Nations, he would have
been defeated. There were a good
many German sympathizers in Mis-
souri during the war and there are a
good many cross currents on various
questions in that State now, and all
of these were brought into action dur-
ing the very intense primary cam-
paign in his interests. The Republi-
cans contributed largely toward his
success, moreover, because they im-
agine he will be easier to defeat at the
general election than his opponent.
In this expectation they may be dis-
. robs millions r- | app inted and his re-election will eon-
‘der to pay unearned bounties a ne “In the Senate a stormy I
3
who will give them as much trouble
in the future as he gave comfort in
the past.
——Congress may force the Ford-
ney tariff bill through before the elec-
tion but the smell of the scandals
which have been developed during its
consideration will not be entirely
abated within that period.
Pennypacker and Pinchot.
i In the public life of Pennsylvania
there has never been a figure freer
from vice and corruption than the late
Samuel W. Pennypacker. A philoso-
pher and scholar his simple life was
spent in the fulfillment of his obli-
gations as a citizen and public serv-
ant. As a judge on the bench he was
| kindly but careful, lenient but just.
When he entered upon the duties of
the office of Governor he was without
a selfish or dishonest impulse. Yet
during his administration the greatest
crimes against the people were perpe-
trated and the biggest scandals of his
generation were developed. Nobody
believed then that he was implicated
I and nobody imagines now that he was
culpable.
But when Samuel W. Pennypacker
entered upon the duties of the office
of Governor of Pennsylvania he affil-
iated himself with the Republican
machine. He meant well and thought
he was strong enough mentally and
morally to guide his official actions
and those of his subordinates in office
safely in the interests of the people
whom he loved as a father loves his
children. He was exceptionally strong
mentally and morally but before his
administration was a year old the
sinister influences of a corrupt party
machine had so completely overcome
him that he was as helpless as a babe
in its toils and the corruptionists pro-
ceeded to loot the treasury and rob
the people in every conceivable way.
If the Republican machine candi-
date for State Treasurer had been
elected in 1905 these iniquities might
never have been revealed, and the
looting operations would have contin-
ued indefinitely. We are in a practic-
ally similar situation now. Mr. Gif-
ford Pinchot may be as honest as he
and his friends claim, though his meth-
od of getting his salary as Commis-
sioner of Forestry increased suggests
a doubt. But if elected he will be as
completely under the control of the
political machine as Pennypacker was
and quite as helpless. The election of
John A. McSparran is the only guar-
antee of an honest administration of
the office. He will have no political or
personal friends to shield or favor.
en a———— A saan —
——There may be a difference be-
tween a machine bossed by Grundy
{ and one bossed by Vare but it isn’t
perceptible to the naked eye.
Another Tariff Scandal Revealed.
Tariff scandals multiply in Wash-
ington. Last week the Gooding ex-
posure “raised a storm in the Senate”
when Senator Caraway, of Arkansas,
proposed an investigation. This week
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi,
brought to the attention of the coun-
try a conspiracy in which Senator
Smoot, of Utah, largely concerned in
the sugar beet industry, proposed to
tax the consumers a few hundred mil-
lion dollars a year in order that he
might put a few thousand dollars in-
to his own pocket by means of a tariff
on sugar. His plan was to limit the
crop in Cuba so that prices might be
increased in the United States, the
tariff tax being high enough to keep
the product of other countries out.
Senator Smoot, who is the head
Apostle of the Mormon church in
Utah, and the head master of the Re-
publican machine in the United States
Senate, presented his plan to General
Crowder, who occupies a position of
influence in Cuba as representative of
the government of the United States
by appointment of President Harding.
“I am sure,” Mr. Smoot wrote to Gen-
eral Crowder, “the limitation of the
Cuban crop of sugar for the present
year to 2,500,000 tons, will be a so-
lution of the problem, not only for Cu-
ba, but for the United States as well.
So sure am I of this that I think it
would be wise to have incorporated in
the pending tariff till a rate of duty
of 13 cents per pound. I am sure
Finance Corporation, is ready to as-
sist in financing the sugar refiners on
their exportation of sugar to foreign
countries.”
Senator Smoot hoped to enlist the
President of Cuba in his enterprise to
mulet the consumers of sugar in the
United States. In his letter to Gen-
eral Crowder he says: “I hope you
will lay before the President of Cuba
my attitude toward the sugar indus-
try both of Cuba and of the United
States.” He no doubt felt that he had
a “cinch” on the authorities of the
United States through General Crow-
der and the Mr. Meyer, of the Finance
Corporation, but he needed the co-op-
guarantee success in his scheme to in-
crease the cost of living in the United
States. With such men in control of
the legislation in Washington we have
a gloomy future before us.
——Probably Secretary of State
Hughes ‘will spend his vacation look-
ing for something of real value that
has come out of the Washington con-
ference.
——The appointment of Toner E.
Hugg as deputy revenue collector in
the Twelfth district of Pennsylvania
is naturally a reward for his subserv-
iency to the organization at all times
and under all circumstances. In his
case, at least, it has paid to “stick
with the gang.” A number of years
ago he was made an inspector of
streams under the State Health De-
partment. Then he was appointed an
investigator of deaths in Centre coun-
ty, for inheritance tax purposes in the
Auditor General’s departmént, but as
the emoluments of this office are only
$1200 a year and necessary expenses
he was not loath to resign and accept
the position of deputy revenue col-
lecor, which pays $2500 a year and
expenses. The headquarters of the
Twelfth district are in Scranton but
Mr. Hugg will work in the division
with headquarters in Williamsport
where Harry B. Speaker is in charge.
——W. E. Tobias has resigned his
position as postmaster at Clearfield
after serving about two years and six
months. The office pays a salary of
$3300 a year, but Mr. Tobias claims
he is compelled to work thirteen hours
a day seven days a week to earn it,
owing to the fact that the Postoffice
Department will not allow him suf-
ficient clerical help to do the work.
The business of the Clearfield office
last year exceeded $63,000 but post-
master Tobias was compelled to get
along with a force of nine clerks,
whereas other offices with much less
business have from twelve to fifteen
clerks. Mr. Tobias’ resignation was
effective July 81st but he will contin-
ue to serve until his successor is ap-
pointed.
———— Qn
The Harding smile is a potent
force but it is not entirely satisfying
as a medium for paying dividends on
funds contributed to the slush fund
in 1920.
rt —— Ame
——Premier Lloyd George and for-
mer Premier Asquith threaten to
write books and if they carry out the
purpose heaven help the public.
———— MS ——————
— Rich men running for office
may think they are expressing a form
of philanthropy but they don’t fool
half the people half the time.
en —————— A e—————
1922.
that Hon. Eugene Meyer, of the War
the authorities in Cuba to
——Subseribe for the “Watchman.” .
NO. 31.
Need of Political Change.
From the Philadelphia Record.
There are several reasons why Mr.
McSparran ought to be elected Gover-
nor, but the one comprehensive and
compelling reason is that set forth
when Mr. McSparran said that the
cause of the political scandals in the
State was the fact that one party had
held uninterrupted control of it.
It is inevitable that the character of
a party’s administration of a city or a
State should deteriorate. The men
who can use politics for their person-
al benefit in one way or another can
devote more time and energy and
money to politics than men who have
simply disinterested desire for good
government. The men who are in pol-
itics for what they can get out of it
in wealth or power or the satisfaction
of their ambitions will be no more
scrupulous than is necessary. There
is always the temptation to yield, and
if there is no danger to offset it the
yielding is a foregone conclusion.
The Republican party in this city
and State is not afraid. The opposi-
tion to it has not for a long time been
potent enough to scare it into assum-
ing a virtue when it did not possess it.
It made little difference how obnox-
ious the candidates were; the manag-
ing politicians felt sure of the party
vote. They felt no necessity of “pan-
dering to the better element” because
the “better element” would vote the
regular ticket and ask no questions,
and content itself with sighing after
the election that politics was corrupt
and politicians were a bad lot.
Law is evaded here as it would not
be if the pary in power were in the
least fear of the opposition. Take the
salary of Mr. Pinchot, for example.
The object of the law against increas-
ing itis perfectly plain and perfectly
proper. But it was evaded by Mr.
Pinchot’s resignation of his $5000 of-
fice and his reappointment to it the
next day at the enhanced salary of
$8000. Take the position of Mr. Kep-
hart. The law requires a State Treas-
urer to make way for a new man. It
is a perfectly proper law based upon
an obviously good reason. The safety
of the State’s funds requires that a
man should not be able to cover up
his management—or mismanagement
—of the public funds beyond his own
term of office. There should be an op-
portunity for a new man to get at the
books and find out things. The law
3a Cropmsented by creating the of-
ce of Assistar “for Mr.
fee Of Desistant Treasurer ‘f rap
There was no defalcation. But mon-
eys were advanced to politicians. The
State lost interest on tax collections
that were kept out of the Treasury
for considerable periods. Funds much
in excess of the limits fixed by law—
here was a direct violation of the law
—were deposited in certain banks..
What service did they render to Mr.
Kephart or the Republican party that
they should be favored with large de-
posits of State funds in violation of
law?
. It is the simplest common sense, it
is the exercise of the prudence with-
out which a man could not avoid bank-
ruptey, that the State of Pennsylva-
nia should not leave the correction—
or the covering—of the scandals to a
man under obligations to the Repub-
lican party, but should elect the Dem-
ocratic candidate for Governor.
——————— ee ————
Equally Guilty.
From The Philadelphia Public Ledger.
John L. Lewis, speaking for the
anthracite miners of Pennsylvania,
says he will be “glad” to confer im-
ediaisly with the anthracite opera-
ors.
S. D. Warriner, the operators’ chief-
est spokesman, says that the anthra-
cite operators will be “glad” to confer
immediately with the anthracite min-
ers.
Mr. Lewis adds that he “will not be
the one to call a hard coal conference.
Mr. Warriner does not seem minded
to extend an invitation setting a time
and place for a meeting that must in-
evitably come.
Both assert a willingness to settle,
but neither group will invite the oth-
er. There is evasion, jockeying, play-
ing for time.
Meanwhile there is no hard coal
above ground and winter is coming.
There is a coal shortage now. There
will be a dangerous shortage before
the first freezes harden the ground.
It is so late in the year now that a
shortage will exist if the strike should
be settled tomorrow and the mines
Nor working at top pressure the next
ay.
When the coal starts coming up the
railways will be swamped and smoth-
ered by it. Coal cannot be moved fast
enough to avert coal famines showing
all over the map. Soft coal and coke
and fuel oil cannot take the place of
the hard coal that a vast area, crowd-
ed with homes, is dependent upon.
Today both sides are seeking to
place the blame upon the other. They
wait and evade while the forces of
winter are gathering up there in the
north. The operators want to throw
the responsibility on the miners. The
miners seek to throw the blame on the
operators.
The public is about ready to throw
the blame on both sides and equally.
Every day that passes with the strike
unsettled is bringing days of privation
and suffering next winter.
It is high time for stitf-neckedness
to come to an end. It is time for both
sides to move for peace.
——The “Watchman” gives all the
news while it is news.
=
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Clyde Creveling, one of Bloomsburg’s
best known men, was shot through the
breast and perhaps fatally wounded on
Monday by Thomas Samuels, who was ar-
rested and held to await the outcome of
Creveling's injuries.
—John F. Short, of Clearfield, formerly
United States marshal fer western Penn-
sylvania, and now in charge of the public-
ity department of the Democratic State
committee, announces that the “History of
the First Bathtub in Clearfield” is ready
for publication in his paper, The Clearfield
Republican.
—Socrates Santis, aged 22 years, a bak-
er, was drawn into the bread-mixing ma-
chine at the Dan and Henton bakery, Ell-
wood City, early last Friday and smoth-
ered to death in the dough. His hand
caught in the machine and he was pulled
in head foremost. No one was in the room
at the time and he was dead when found.
—Harry Keppley, of Womelsdorf, a
plumber employed by Harry G. Schaeffer,
of that place, knows what it is like to be
buried alive. A trench in which he was
working caved in and three feet of earth
covered the man. Other workmen began
digging frantically, expecting to find him
dead. The debris, however, formed a sort
of air pocket which kept Keppley alive un-
til he was uncovered.
—Harvey Sellers, aged 10 years, of Hol-
lidaysburg, and a number of companions
on Friday found a can containing blast-
ing powder, some of which Sellers placed
in a trouser pocket. The boys then ap-
plied a match to the remainder and the
flames set fire to Sellers’ clothes, igniting
the powder in his pocket. Terribly burn-
ed, Sellers jumped into a stream to extin-
guish the flames and was nearly drowned.
—Thieves using auto trucks, in one night
last week tore down the bleachers, fences,
grandstands and clubhouse of the base-
ball park, at Drifton, Luzerne county, and
carried away the lumber. The sport field
was given to the people of Drifton in 1910,
by Eckley B. Coxe Jr., who at his death
a few years ago bequeathed to the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania $500,000 for the
carrying on of archeological research in
Egypt.
—The Schuylkill county commissioners
on Saturday paid $621,000 as the county's
share of the construction of the new high-
way between Vulcan and Hometown. The
State has paid the same sum, making a to-
tal of $1,242,000 for sixteen miles of con-
crete roadway. The new highway will not
be opened at once for traffic, although all
the road building is completed, as the con-
struction of a bridge at Kohinoor colliery
will occupy several weeks.
—Treasure hunters in search of a pot of
gold said to be buried at Jumonville, Fay-
ette county, during the French war have
dug large trenches in that section of the
mountains, according to M. J. Phillips, a
resident of that place. It is a tradition
that the gold was buried by a French pay-
master when the defeat of the French was
certain. Recently property owners at
Jumonville have been asked to issue per-
mits to dig up adjacent acres in further
search for the pot of gold.
—Tirst blanks for information as to the
number of hogs on Pennsylvania farms
and the possibilities for the swine indus-
try were distributed last week by agents
of the State Department of Agriculture in
the western and central counties, follow-
ing a meeting at Lancaster. It is estimat-
ed there are 1,000,000 hogs on Pennsylva-
nia farms, but there is an opportunity for
profitable raising of many more, as the
State does not supply 75 per cent. of the
pork and products it consumes.
—Mrs. Ethel G. Felcher, a policewoman
at Reading, is on duty from 4 p. m. to
midnight. Her work is among women and
children. She gets around to the play-
grounds, dance halls and other places
where young people gather. She was a
park officer until appointed to the regular
police force. Her salary is $1350 a year,
which is $200 less than a male policeman
receives, but her day is four hours shorter
and there are no deductions from her pay
for summer and winter uniforms.
— What is declared to be the biggest
strike of natural gas in the east for years,
and the largest east of the Tidioute dis-
trict, was made Wednesday on Kettle
creek, forty-three miles from Lock Haven.
Officials of the Clinton Natural Gas and Oil
company estimate the flow at 3,000,000 cu-
bic feet. This company has five other
wells in that region, and ‘already enough
natural gas has been tapped to supply
Lock Haven and other adjacent. towns. The
members of the company are SO elated
over the big strike that they will proceed
at once to put down additional wells.
__Peter Sarako, employed in a tannery
plant at Ludlow, nine miles from Kane,
was struck by lightning on the main street
of that town on Sunday afternoon, and
was dead when picked up. Sarako had
just left his work in the tannery and was
walking along the street with two boys.
He was in the act of handing an umbrella
to one of the boys when the bolt struck.
The man and boy were hurled to the
ground, but the lad escaped uninjured.
There were no marks on Sarako except a
slight discoloration near the left eye. He
was 34 years of age and leaves a wife and
two children.
—The largest check for inheritance tax
ever received by the register of wills of
Chester county was paid into the office at
West Chester last Thursday from the es-
tate of the late Sharpless Worth, million-
aire steel magnate, of Coatesville. The
amount paid in was $403,750, and Register
of Wills John 8. Graff will receive about
$5000 of the amount. The amount paid is
supposed to be one-tenth of the appraise-
ment of the estate, reputed to be in all
about $10,000,000. Investigators for the
register will make a thorough investiga-
tion into the estate to determine if the
amount paid is correct.
—The Workmen's Compensation Board
has awarded Mrs. Muriel M. Ulsh, widow
of constable Thomas M. Ulsh, of Liverpool,
Perry county, compensation for the death
of her husband, who was slain in the Dan-
jel Benner home, in Juniata county, Sep-
tember 1st, 1921, while serving a warrant
on Daniel Benner. The board found that
Ulsh, as a policeman of the borough of Liv-
erpool, was acting in his line of duty when
executing a warrant issued by a justice of
the peace of the borough, although the de-
fendent was found in another county. The
case was reargued before the board by dis-
trict attorney John J. Patterson, of Junia-
ta county, for the widow, February 1st
last. The board awarded the widow and
her two children the sum of $5287.01. For
the killing of the constable one member
of the Benner family was convicted of
murder in the first degree and another is
now serving time in the penitentiary.