Benoa fads
INK SLINGS.
—The anthracite strike is supposed
to be settled. The miners go back at
the old wage, but the public pays fifty
cents more a ton for coal.
—Willard Mack, the dramatist,
should worry because his fourth wife
has left him. Any fellow who could
get a fourth can soon take on a fifth.
—This is about the time for Pres-
ident Thomas to go into eclipse up at
State. Hugo Bezdek will have him in
the shadow until turkey day, at least.
—Mr. Aviator Doolittle, who flew
from Florida to California, with only
one stop, ought to change his name at
once. He has done more than any oth-
er flier.
—The Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester
Tuttle, of the Episcopal church,
thinks the girl of today is not as bad
as she is painted. We certainly hope
she ain't.
—When Pinchot asked the Centre
county farmers to back him up with a
good Legislature do you suppose he
meant that Tom Beaver should be
part of it?
—The campaign is on in Centre
county. All the big guns were
brought up to the front line yesterday
and the offensive will last until No-
vember 7th.
—Take it from us, the organization
Republicans are not going to tear
their shirts for Pinchot. Many of
them will go along, of course, but the
going will be rough.
—Did Senators Pepper and Reed
settle the coal strike? They did not.
And all this jockeying to give them
credit for something they didn’t do is
only for campaign purposes.
—Von Moltke says that some Amer-
icans recently tried to spirit the for-
mer Kaiser away from Dorn. We
question the correctness of Von's
statement. The Kaiser wouldn’t draw
in the side-show of a wagon circus in
this country. The supposed American
kidnapper was probably Grover Berg-
doll trying to slip Bill a kiss.
—The descendants of all of Capt.
Kidd’s pirate crews must be in the ho-
tel business in this country now. Why
a man can go to a city, buy a bottle
of hootch, get soused, sleep in the po-
lice station and pay his fine next
morning all for less money than he
can buy a bed at any of the hotels
that used to give him lodging and
three meals for from three to five dol-
lars.
—William I. Betts should be the
next Senator from this district and
Miss Zoe Meek the next Member of
the House. They are the candidates
of the people, bound to no machine,
and anxious only to help us all get re-
lief from the present oppressive gov-
ernmental system. Let Centre county
record her protest against high taxes
and meddlesome busy-bodies at Har-
risburg by sending two persons there
who will have the courage to help
change things.
—Reports from Centre Hall are to
the effect that the crowds at the
Granger's picnic, excepting yester-
day’s, have been much smaller than
former years. Many reasons could be
ascribed, but we fancy the realest one
to be the charge of fifty cents to the
grounds. Of course one ticket will
admit for the entire week but the per-
sons who go only once are the ones
who make up the crowds and they
can’t see fifty cent’s worth of enter-
tainment where there is only one spe-
cially interesting exhibit.
—Have you ever stopped to look for
a cause of most of the labor trouble
we have been having in recent years.
We believe them to be due to our fail-
ure to properly assimilate aliens who
come to live with us. They prepon-
derate in what is termed the laboring
class and as few of them speak or
read English they are most suscepti-
ble to the radicalism of the paid agi-
tator. The old fashioned American
family is dwindling. The average
number in a family today is only four
and four-tenths persons whereas it
was six only a decade ago. With
home-made Americans on the decline
and immigration laws not nearly dras-
tic enough we can look for little else
than trouble as the percentage of for-
eign born increases.
—What McSparran said at the pic-
nic yesterday was what strikes right
at the things that give us most con-
cern in our state government. He de-
clared for an end of the pestiferous,
persistent meddling of Harrisburg
with the affairs of the constructive
citizens of the townships and towns
of the State. We're licensed and re-
ported and taxed beyond endurance.
Born with a governmental cord of red
tape about us it strangles and strang-
les until we finally fall in death and
even then the tape cannot be loosened
until those who are left get a permit
to lay us away in peace. Every turn
we make we meet some political hack
whose salary comes from our pockets
and whose work is to tell us that the
Health Department, the Highway De-
partment, the Educational Depart-
ment, the Public Service Commission,
the Auditor General’s Department,
the Fish commission, the Game com-
mission, the Bureaus of this, that and
the other thing want us to do some-
thing else than we are doing or go to
jail or pay a fine.
Pinchot indulged in a lot of plati-
tudes and said nothing except that a
good Governor needs a good Legisla-
ture which we dope to be a disposition
on his part to start hunting a goat.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
9
VOL. 67.
BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER 8S,
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Party Responsibility and Candidates.
Mr. A. Marshal Thompson, Demo-
cratic candidate for Secretary of In-
ternal Affairs, made an interesting
and forceful point against the Repub-
lican machine ticket in his speech at
the Granger's picnic at William's
Grove, last week. “We live under a
party system of government,” Mr.
Thompson said, “and the people have
a right to look not only to the candi-
date but to the party which supports
the candidates. If we are going to
have good government we must not
only punish the candidate who fails
to come up to public expectation, but
the party which supports the candi-
date must also share the public dis-
pleasure and cannot escape this con-
sequence by repudiating its old leader-
ship.”
The Democratic party of Pennsyl-
vaniza nominated candidates whose
records in public and private life rec-
ommended them to public confidence.
But in addition to that they promul-
gated a platform of principles and
policies to which not only the candi-
dates but the party stand pledged. On
the other hand the Republican voters
sold the nomination of their party
for Governor to the highest bidder,
who happens to be a man tainted with
salary grabbing. Yet they have pre-
sented no platform as an expression
of faith or indication of purpose in
the event their candidate happens to
be elected. The people of Pennsylva-
nia know that the Republican organi-
zation stands for graft but are uncer-
tain as to Pinchot.
It is true that the Republican ma-
chine has come to an agreement with
the candidates that each may make
his own platform and promise any-
thing he likes as an individual. Un-
der that license Pinchot is out prom-
ising reforms of every description.
But his record in acquiring an increase
of salary as Commissioner of Forest-
ry refutes his reform pledges in ad-
vance. Senator Pepper has promised
to “spit in the eye of the bull dog,”
but that was a figure of speech direct-
ed to the “rough-necks” of the slums,
and didn’t mean much. The party or-
‘ganization makes neither pledges nor
promises and if its ticket is elected
will feel at liberty to pursue its old
practices of looting to the limit.
— The administration probably
means well but doesn’t know much.
It isn’t piric acid the farmers of the
middle west need. There are not
many stumps to blow out in that sec-
tion.
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False Claim for Pepper.
The Republican machine is bending
its energies in an effort to deceive the
public, especially the people of Penn-
sylvania, that Senator George Whar-
ton Pepper had much to do with the
compromise of the differences between
the anthracite coal miners and opera-
tors. Senator Penrose claimed that
he saved the party in 1902 by settling
a similar strike, when as a matter of
fact President Roosevelt literally
clubbed the coal operators into an
agreement. But the false impression
greatly strengthened Penrose as a
leader and his Bourbon successors in
the management of the Republican
machine imagine that the fiction may
now be repeated for the benefit of the
spitter “in the eye of the bull dog,”
not Vares.
The Republican machine managers
have little interest in the campaign to
elect Pinchot. If their efforts to elect
George Wharton Pepper and David A.
Reed, as Senators in Congress, and
the complete entrenchment of the ma-
chine in power incidentally helps Pin-
chot along, they will not complain.
But their first obligation is to elect
the Senators. The Pennsylvania rail-
road and the Steel trust must have
absolutely safe lobbyists on the floor
of the Senate, and the Republican ma-
chine of Pennsylvania has underwrit-
ten the obligation. Claiming for Sen-
ator Pepper an influential share in
the settlement of the anthracite strike
is a most promising feature of the
plan of campaign.
It is not surprising that President
Harding has been made a party to the
false pretense and that he is freely
giving the moral support of his high
office to the consummation of the
fraud. Every public reference to the
matter which comes from the White
House mentions Senator Pepper as
the intermediary. As a matter of
fact, however, neither the President
nor Senator Pepper had anything te
do with the terms of settlement. If
the strike is ended, as present condi-
tions indicate, it will be because the
representatives of the mine owners
and the officials of the miners’ organ-
ization have achieved the happy and
gratifying result and the Republican
machine politicians have had nothing
to do with it.
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——No President since Taft has
needed as much rest as President
Harding and no President since Wash-
ington has done as little real work.
Principal Source of Trouble.
Some of our usually level-headed
contemporaries are making the mis-
take of taking Attorney General
Daugherty seriously. In a recent
statement Mr. Daugherty declares
that “we are not having any trouble
with American citizens or those ca-
pable of becoming American citizens.
Most of the viciousness displayed in
this country at the present time has
been aggravated by foreigners. For-
eign agitators are misleading misguid-
ed persons into the belief that their
government is working against them
and that they should assert their al-
leged rights, whereupon the esteemed
New York World points out the fact
that a majority of the railroad shop-
men are native Americans and most
of the strikers are anglo-saxons.
Attorney General Daugherty is a
professional corporation lobbyist, a
pardon board lawyer and a campaign
boodle dispenser. He probably never
tried an important case in any court.
His most successful enterprise was se-
curing the pardon of millionaire Morse
by falsely representing his case to W.
H. Taft, then President of the United
States and always too lazy or too in-
dolent to investigate anything. His
only successful political work was in
supporting Warren Gamaliel Harding,
first for Senator in Congress and then
for President. His reward for those
services was his appointment to the
office of Attorney General by the just-
ly grateful beneficiary, notwithstand-
ing his deficiency in learning and
practice of law.
In pursuance of his purpose to serve
the corporations he has asked for and
obtained a temporary injunction
against the striking shop men of the
railroads which would deprive them
of the right to discuss the subject be-
tween themselves in the privacy of
their own homes. It is such things
as that that make men discontented
with their government. It is such op-
pressive measures that cause men to
resort to violence. The crimes com-
mitted at Herrin, Illinois, were net
suggested or encouraged by foreign
agitators. They are the result of in-
justices inflicted upon the poor and
outrages perpetrated upon wage earn-
ers under sanction of the government
and Bolshevism is the logical fruit.
— The election of J. Frank Sny-
der, of Clearfield, would give the peo-
ple of this district a Representative in
Congress who would have the ability
as well as the inclination to represent
them faithfully.
Macing the Brewers for Party.
Upon the most dependable authority
one of the most respectable 'news-
papers of the country has published a
statement to the effect that the price
of the product of all the beer brew-
eries of Pennsylvania has been in-
creased six dollars a barrel and that
the six dollars thus acquired by the
brewers is to be donated to the Re-
publican campaign committee to be
used to promote the election of the
Republican ticket. In view of the
professions of morality and prohibi-
tion by the Republican candidate for
Governor, Mr. Gifford Pinchot, this
seems incredible. But inquiry reveals
the fact that the price of beer has
been thus increased and other circum-
stantial evidence fully corroborates
the statement.
Mr. Pinchot prides himself on the
fact that he asked that office holders
be exempt from the customary tax
for campaign purposes and imagines
that he has made a great stride in the
direction of political reform. But if
he permits his campaign committee to
bludgeon the brewers of Pennsylva-
nia into a campaign contribution
which is likely to amount to more than
a million dollars his reform profes-
sions take on a spurious aspect. It
would be infinitely better to compel
State officials to contribute a couple
of hundred thousand dollars than to
mace the brewers, under an implied
promise to indulge violations of the
prohibition amendment and the Vol-
stead law, in consideration of centrib-
uting more than ten times as much.
As has been said, there is plenty of
circumstantial evidence to prove the
charge even if the Republican candi-
date were as morally perfect as he
claims to be. But the truth is Gifford
Pinchot has already written himself
down as a man unworthy of popular
faith. Though a multi-millionaire by
inheritance he violated his oath of of-
fice “to obey, support and defend the
constitution of Pennsylvania,” in or-
der to secure an increase of his salary
as Commissioner of Forestry by a
measly three thousand dollars a year.
That he subsequently paid an exorbi-
tant price for a nomination is in no
respect a reason for condoning the
other offense but rather aggravates it
in the minds of reasoning men.
am ———— A ————a—
——Meantime the League of Na-
tions is functioning just as if Henry
Cabot Lodge had officially withdrawn
his opposition.
Humorous Side of the Opening.
The recent “opening” of the Repub-
lican campaign at Allentown had a
humorous side which has not been ful-
ly revealed to the public. One of the
provisions of the harmony agreement
between the candidate for Governor
and the machine managers is that the
speeches of all the candidates must be
submitted to State chairman W. Har-
ry Baker, in advance of delivery. Pin-
chot is allowed some latitude in ex-
pression but his speeches are subject
to some censorship and mut be sub-
mitted in order that those of other
speakers may be held within reason-
able distance of the lines he lays down.
At the Allentown meeting Senator
Reed was to have been one of the
speakers but he didn’t appear and
there was a reason.
After the Pinchot speech had been
read by the “board of strategy,” Sen-
ator Reed’s speech was taken up by
the censors and it was found to con-
tain sentiments which directly con-
flicted with those to be declared by
the “main guy.” That wouldn’t have
been so bad if it had ended there. In
that event Senator Reed’s admirable
speech would never have been deliv-
ered and the discrepancy of opinion
between the two candidates would
never have been known. But Senator
Reeds speech had been printed and
copies sent to the newspapers. One
of these, the Philadelphia Inquirer,
not having been informed of the
change in the program, published the
speech as part of the proceedings of
the meeting, and the conflicting views
were presented in the form of “a
deadly parallel,” so to speak.
As is well known Mr. Pinchot is so
obsessed with the value of commis-
sions in government that as soon as
he was nominated he began appoint-
ing them. Senator Reed seems to take
the opposite view of the subject. In
his speech, which was printed but not
delivered, he said: “For several years
our national and State governments
have been at the mercy of theories
and faddists, until our governments
consist today of a nest of commissions
and bureaus filled with busybodies in
govgmment pay.” A lot of other as-
i 5 along the same line of
thought would have been uttered if
Reed had spoken. But it would have
put him in line with McSparran rather
than Pinchot, and caused all kinds of
confusion.
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——In Hollidaysburg, Blair county,
023 women voters out of a total of
974 have paid the school tax assessed
against them for 1921, and now the
school board has instructed the tax
collector to go after the 51 delinquents
and make them settle. Under a re-
cent ruling handed down by the At-
torney General’s Department at Har-
risburg women cannot be jailed for
the non-payment of taxes like the
male members of the species. But the
collector can levy on and sell all their
personal property, which includes
household goods, wearing apparel,
jewelry, etc., and it is quite likely the
average woman will dig pretty deep
to get the money to pay her tax in
preference to even permitting an offi-
cer to make an inventory of her cloth-
ing, ete.
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— The gratifying information
comes from Johnstown that Warren
Worth Bailey is practically certain to
be elected to Congress. That will
mean more than a local victory or per-
sonal triumph. Mr Bailey will great-
ly strengthen the influence of Penn-
sylvania in Washington.
— Even the soviet government of
Russia flouts the administration at
Washington. A request to permit an
American commission to examine in-
to conditions in Russia has been flat-
ly refused.
e——————————————————————
— The return of a Bayard, of Dela-
ware, to the United States Senate
would be a hopeful sign of a rejuve-
nated Blue Hen.
— The election is nearly two
months off but that is not so far away
that Democrats should postpone pres-
ent opportunities to strengthen the or-
ganization.
— Railway managers might try
cutting their own salaries as a means
of balancing the receipts and expen-
ditures.
——— A ———
——Many people have been attract-
ed by a peculiar conical hole in the
large plate glass window of the Pot-
ter-Hoy hardware store and the pro-
prietors are offering a Big Ben clock
to any one who can tell how it got
there. The glass is three-eighths of
an inch thick and the hole on the out-
side is about the size of the lead in a
pencil, while on the inside it is fully
an inch in diameter. And it is just as
smooth as if the glass had been made
that way. In fact the proprietors
have the piece of glass that came out
of the hole but what broke it out is
the mystery.
1922
NO. 35.
The Injunction.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Many irrational things are being
said about the government’s injunc-
tion against the railway strikers. The
first thing that will occur to a ration-
al man is that the injunction is tem-
porary. On September 11 the case
will be fully argued before a court
that can vacate the injunction, or
modify it, if Judge Wilkerson has
made it more sweeping than he ought.
The injunction will simply preserve
the status quo until there can be a full
judicial consideration.
The second rational observation is
that it is aimed primarily at acts of
violence and efforts to prevent the op-
eration of the roads. The strikers
disclaim acts of violence. Their strike
leaders admonish them to refrain from
violence. Mr. Gompers says he does
not know why strikers should be ac-
cused of train-wrecking and other vio-
lence. If they are committing no acts
of violence most of them will keep
clear of the injunction.
The third observation of a reasona-
ble character is that it compels no
man to work. If the wages are inad-
equate and the working conditions in-
tolerable the strikers need not go back
to work; they can take other employ-
ment. It is a fact that the injunction
goes beyond acts of violence, but it
does not go beyond actions calculated
to prevent the operation of the rail-
ways. And this takes us to the rela-
tive rights of the whole people and of
the very small part of the people who
are engaged in this strike. These lat-
ter are not merely abstaining from
work; they are trying to deprive the
community of the use of the roads.
The existence of the community is at
stake.
The railways are a public utility
whose continuous operation is essen-
tial to the life of the community.
Therefore the community requires the
companies to continue their operation,
under penalty of the forfeiture of
their charters. Furthermore, the com-
munity requires the companies to keep
at work for rates that the community,
through the Interstate Commerce
Commission, fixes. The companies
can’t stop, and they can’t increase
their prices. ”
As a partial protection of them from
the demands of their employees the
community by alaw has created the
Railroad Labor Board to determine
wages and working conditions when
the co i irs B
cannot agree. Obliged to operate,
and barred from increasing their
prices, the companies must yield to
every demand that the men make un-
less some measure of protection is af-
forded them. No man is obliged to
work for the wages fixed by the board,
but no man and no group of men have
a right to tie up the railways of the
country and cut off the means cf
transportation because they do not
like the decision of the board. The
decision protects them against the
greed of the companies. It affords a
reasonable assurance against oppres-
sion. If the wages are insufficient the
companies may be obliged to pay more
to get men. But the strikers have no
right to prevent men from taking the
work they give up, and they have no
right to inflict incalculable sufferings
upon the community in order to ex-
tort better terms.
The fact that the railways are pub-
lic utilities affords the men a security
of tenure that the employees of mills
and factories do not have. There is no
reason why they should have this ad-
vantage without corresponding obli-
gation. The rights of the public must
take precedence of the rights claimed
by any trade union. If the men are
not willing to work for the wages ad-
judged by the Railroad Labor Board
they need not. But they must not in-
terfere with the men who are willing,
and they must not strike at the life of
the community by cutting off trans-
portation in order to secure their ends.
But on September 11 they can have
their day in court.
Conciliation.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Men like Samuel Gompers are ene-
mies of society. They are foes of the
cause they profess to uphold and the
result of their efforts is always injur-
ious to the workers whose contribu-
tions maintain them in comfort if not
in prodigality. They sustain the same
relation to labor that individuals like
Judge Gary hold toward capital. Un-
reasonable, selfish and arbitrary, the
result of their agitation is harmful to
the entire country and especially to
the cause they profess to have at
heart. The true policy looks always
in the direction of conciliation and a
just recognition of mutual rights and
privileges. The brotherhood of man
should receive a more general receg-
nition. The problems of the employer
should become known to the worker;
the needs of the toiler should be con-
sidered by the employer. There are
reverses in business operations and
calamities in the experience of the
toiler that should receive mutual con-
sideration. Unselfishness should dom-
inate all.
———The new pump for the Phoenix
mill pumping station has arrived and
is being installed this week. If the
new machinery comes up to the guar-
antee made by the manufacturers it
will greatly reduce the bills for the
operation of the electric pump in or-
der to keep up the town’s water sup-
Ply.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—TFoster Duval and Sam Salmon were
crushed to death in a shaft mine of the
Rockhill Coal and Iron company at Wood-
vale, Huntingdon county, last Friday. Du-
val and Salmon were working alone when
a large shelf of rock became loosened from
the roof and fell.
—Mrs. Cornelius P. Spanglar, of York,
did not have much faith in banks, and last
Thursday she discovered that 1000 dimes
which she had kept in a bottle in a closet
in her home were stolen. Mrs. Spangler
told the police the last time she saw the
bottle containing the coins was about three
weeks ago.
—The Shaw and Test lands, in Cambria
county, were sold at a trustees’ sale at Eb-
ensburg, to H. B. Powell, head of the
County National Bank, of Clearfield, for
$11,000—an average of $33 an acre, which is
regarded as a reasonable price. The sale
attracted widespread attention and three
carloads of lawyers and laymen from
Clearfield alone, attended the sale.
—The Governor has approved requisition
for twenty-three Washington county min-
ers indicted for the battle in Brooke coun-
ty, W. Va., where indictments were filed
and official notice given, giving leave to
file papers in the cases of others. A num-
ber of the original ninety asked for went
to West Virginia voiuntarily. More than
twenty others are still involved in the pro-
ceedings.
—Reading Railway officials, at Emaus,
Berks county, are at a loss what to do
with a carload of bee hives, consigned to
an apiary expert of that place, but refused
on account of alleged defects. The cargo
is valued at $5000, and the freight charges
are more than $500. It is probable the
hives will be sold for a song to the natives,
there being enough to supply every home
in Emaus.
_To be attacked by an infuriated bull,
cut, gashed, bruised and broken, and be
dashed into an angle formed by a turn in
the pasture fence was the experience of
little Harry Haake, 9 years old, at the fam-
ily farm near Dingmans, Monroe county,
last week. The boy’s body was covered
with blood. Women screaming brought
the men employed on the farm, who res-
cued the boy.
—Beginning September first all ice cream
sold on the streets of Reading must be
wrapped. The new ordinance was passed °
at the instance of the big manufacturers,
street vendors assert. The new law does
not permit vendors to wrap cream in par-
affine paper, as it is sold. It must. be
wrapped at the factory. Unwrapped cream
sold at street carnivals and church festi-
vals now is barred.
— Pottstown girls between the ages of
15 and 25 years are not going to wear long
skirts, no matter what Paris dictates. A
leading ladies’ tailor there says he has
suggested to his customers that ‘longer
‘skirts are in vogue. They say they are
going to wear them knee length, so tailors
in that place are making the late summer
and early fall suits just as the girls want
them. The girls say the short ones are
more comfortable.
—The Wellsboro branch of the Corning
glass works did some tall blowing for the
year just closed. From September 6, 1921,
to September 2, 1922, approximately 52,-
700,000 glass electric light bulbs were
blown, packed and made ready for ship-
their emplo vees ment. More than 1,000,000 a week is the
| Average, “surpassing any record .in any
known factory for lime glass and tank
production in the same period of time.
The bulbs are shipped to other places for
completion.
Even though Frank Stanek, of Coal-
dale, Schuylkill county, died of tuberculo-
sis of the hip joint, his widow is entitled
to compensation, it was decided by State
officials on Saturday. Instead of going
down a ladder, Stanek, while in the em-
ploy of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation com-
pany, jumped and so injured his hip that
the disease set in. The decision is of im-
portance, as four children and the widow
were dependent on Stanek and a total of
$6,400 was ordered for their support.
— Destruction of his home by fire, ar-
rested on a charge of arson and the sui-
cide of his wife on Saturday are numbered
among the troubles of Samuel Christ, of
Knoxville, Fayette county. Last Thursday
Christ is said to have told the authorities
his wife “nagged” him to move from
Knoxville. He couldn't find a buyer for
his house and decided to burn it down, he
said. The house was destroyed Thursday
night and Christ was arrested Friday for
arson, being held without bail. On Sat-
urday, Mrs. Christ, despondent because of
her husband's arrest, shot herself.
—Thomas Samuels, of Bloomsburg.
charged with felonious assault and shoof-_
ing with intent to kill in connection with
the shooting three weeks ago of Clyde C.
Creveling, of the same place, was given a
preliminary hearing and released under
$3000 bail. The shooting took place after
Samuels had accused Creveling of being
intimate with Mrs. Samuels. Creveling is
in the Bloomsburg hospital, where he is
said to be recovering, although the bullet
penetrated both his lungs. Both are prom-
inent residents of that place, Samuels con-
ducting a store on Centre street and Crev-
eling being engaged in the trucking busi-
ness.
—~Clair Elmer Yocum, aged 15 years, of
Mt. Union, was crushed to death last Fri-
day when run over by a large truck driven
by D. S. Miller, of Altoona. The accident
happened on the state road near Mt. Un-
ion and was probably unavoidable. The
boy was pasturing cows along the river
when the truck approached, heavily loaded
with locust wood for the pin mill
Mr. Miller is lumbering near Mill Creek,
about four miles from Mt. Union. When
the truck neared the boy the lad asked for
a ride and the driver was slowing down to
allow the boy to board it, when the lad,
without waiting for the machine to come to
a stop, hopped on, his hands slipped and
he fell, the wheels passing over his body.
He died almost instantly.
—Seven car repair men recently employ-
ed at Pittsburgh, were burned to death,
ten men were injured, several severely, and
property loss of $220,000 was wrought by
fire which started at dawn on Sunday in a
bunk house in the Thirtieth street yards of
the Pennsylvania railroad and swept
through the building with almost incred-
ible speed. The building, which had been
fitted up as a bunk housse for men em-
ployed in car repair work, also contained
a quantity of materials used in car clean-
ing. The men were asleep when the fire
started, and it spread so rapidly and the
upper story filled with dense smoke so
quickly that only those sleeping near win-
dows were able to escape, They jumped
to the tracks but were injured in doing so.