i
INK SLINGS.
—Only sixty-eight days until spring
will be here. Do you think your coal
pile will hold out?
—Things are not what they used to
ha, We haven’t had that old “January
thaw” for a number of years.
—Even if France doesn’t succeed in
making Germany pay she can give the
werld bully of 1914 an object lesson
and we hope she does it to the limit.
—Anyway, if he does see his shad-
ow today all we ask is that the six
more weeks of winter weather will be
as pleasant as the past six have been.
—The last of the Herrons took
flight from Bellefonte, Monday, and
the same day landed at their new
nesting place on the banks of the Ju-
niata, opposite the town of Hunting-
don.
—To our way of thinking Pennsyl-
vania would make a better showing in
educational lines if she were to pro-
vide properly for her one legitimate
n¥spring before she starts adopting
two more.
—We are wondering whether Mrs.
Poindexter would have had the temer-
ity to stir up Washington society had
her husband, the Senator from Wash-
ington, not been chucked into the dis- |
card last fall.
— There seems to have been a great
many feet that the shoe we threw last
week just fitted. We have been sux-
prised that there are so many people
who have so few home responsibilities
themselves. Certainly theirs is the en-
viable lot.
With five thousand acres of fer-
tile land beautifully located in the
centre of the State, why this. propa-
ganda for more sites for penitentia-
ries in Pennsylvania unless politics is
creeping in to blast the completion of
a great project merely because it
threatens the elimination of a few
jobs elsewhere.
—At the age of eighty Willian
Hall, of Lewistown, who has been
baid-headed most of his life, is grow-
ing a luxuriant head of hair. About
two months ago he was run down and
injured by an automobile and with his
recovery from the injuries is coming
a wonderful growth of hair. Almost
we are persuaded to visit William to
view with our own eyes this miracle,
for if it be true we intend to hunt up
the car that hit him and tell it to do
its dangdest to us.
__Governor Pinchot is said to have
had the trustees of The Pennsylvania
State College “on the carpet” last
rviday night and given them hades ,
for playing politics. If this be true
it throws a possible side-light on the
Governor's budget allowance for the
State’s one institution of learning, as
well as on his reported demand for the
transference of the department of for-
estry at State College to Mont Alto.
Certainly such an attitude doesn’t re-
veal the Governor as the broad, open-
minded man that many of his admir- |
ers think him to be and we opine that
if he ever comes “back to the people,”
25 he has so repeatedly said he would
do, he will find that the common peo-
ple of Pennsylvania won’t stand for
an injury to their College kecause of
the personal grudges of any man.
If the thirteen new election bills
that Senator Flinn, of Pittsburgh, ex- :
pects to father in this session of the
Legislature, should be enacted into,
lave, there may be a lot more purity ,
and honesty in elections, but there’ll
be no joy left, whatever. There would |
be ro watchers, nobody but an election
officer could assist another and then
only after he had made affidavit as to |
disability, no candidate or any person
in his behalf could furnish transpor-
tation to or from the polls for anoth- |
er, nor could a candidate or others in |
his behalf hire a band, flags, torches,
cockades or distribute buttons ex-
ploiting his candidacy. A candidate
could not entertain his friends at din-
ner or contribute to any charitable in-
stitution other than he might regular-
lv have done before. Anybody opening |
a “bar’l” or a pint from primaries to
election is threatened with a year’s
imprisonment and a five thousand dol-
lars fine. Verily, if Senator Flinn gets
his across we're going to study for
the Methodist ministry for there’ll be
more pep in one of their conferences
than we’ll have in the future political
battles inn Pennsylvania.
—The more we study the activities
of Ciovernor Pinchot the closer we get
to his big idea. The whole scheme
seems to be revealing itself to us and
is this: If he can buffalo the present
Legislature into giving him what he
wants in the way of legal authoriza-
tion instead of being impotent, as
most Governors are during the last
session of their administration, he
wiil be more powerful.
sily do without a Legislature at all,
for there could scarcely be anything in
the way of control that he won’t have
that even an absolute dictator might
long for. With his own personal ap-
pointees in charge of all the roads, all
the schools, all the police powers, all
the funds to be devoted to charity in
the State it seems te us that from
Milford, up in Pike county, has come
ore deluded with the idea that he is a
super-man. It is not so much
what we fear Governor Pinchot
might do with such powers; we
prefer to think him an altruist,
as it is what his successors will
do with them when the machine gath-
ers itself together for the orgie of
plunder that the precedents he is try-
ing to establish will make possible.
He might ea- |
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
Means Well But Inconsistent.
Governor Pinchot may mean well in
his proposed reforms in the adminis-
address he set forth as among the fun-
from Harrisburg. The Finegan school
system left nothing to the discretion
of the local school authorities and the
laws regulating the Highway Depart-
ment lodged all control of cperations
in Harrisburg. The creation of the
Health Department a few years ago
distributed a horde of office holders
{ under the direction of the Commis-
| sioner of Health to regulate purely lo-
i cal affairs.
| Two years ago the creation of the
| Department of Public Welfare, at the
instance of the political machine,
i seemed to be the “last straw” in the
| matter of centralization. It vestedin
! the Commissioner of Public Welfare
! powers over the charitable and correc-
| tive institutions of the State almost
| absolute control. But still there re-
‘mained in the representatives of the
people in the Legislature the right to
determine how much or how little
! financial aid the State would give to
| those institutions. But Governor Pin-
chot’s budget will, if it becomes ef-
fective, knock the pins from under
this last prop to local self-govern-
‘ment. It gives to the Commissioner
! complete control of the finances as
well as the government of local hos-
pitals.
Governor Pinchot probably imag-
! ines that his election gave him a man-
{ date from the people to do whatever
‘he liked in all matters pertaining to
: the affairs of the Commonwealth. But
‘he forgets that in his primary plat-
| form he promised an increase rather
than a diminution of the powers of
the people over their local affairs.
His election did not invest him with
{liberty to curtail home governmeut.
It did give him full authority to
“clean up the mess at Harrisburg.”
But so far as the proposed budget
touches the matter of local hospitals
it will create rather than clear up
that feature of his program unless he
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‘messes. He “wauld--bétter abandon
wants the whole structure to collapse.
——With war clouds assembling
over Germany in menacing form it is
small wonder that Grover Bergdoll is
looking for a safer retreat.
Mistaken Possibly but Not Unjust.
It is hard to appraise the wisdom: or
folly of the French invasion of the
Ruhr valley in Germany. It is less
difficult to estimate the justice of it.
If Marshal Foch, who appears to be
the sponsor of the movement, is able
to force Germany to at least make a
decent effort to pay the war indemni-
ty fixed by the treaty of peace signed
by German representatives, the wis-
“dom of the movement will be estab-
lished. It is fairly clear that Germa-
ny intended to repudiate that obliga-
tion. The deliberate depreciation of
the currency and the hoarding of the
‘resources of the country by the rich
bankers and manufacturers is substan-
tial and convincing evidence of that.
But if the purpose and expectations
of the French in the matter of collect-
ing the claims are disappointed, and
if the enterprise should, as now seems
possible, result in another disastrous
and destructive war, the folly of the
' enterprise will be beyond computation.
Germany might have paid in part if
the demands had been modified, or in
full if sufficient time had been given.
In the event that the French method
‘fails, therefore, within a brief period
of time, the entire sum owed will be
lost and a vastly greater debt created
‘to be taken care of in the future after
! other thousands of precious lives have
| been sacrificed. It is a gloomy sub-
| ject for contemplation.
| After the war of 1870 Germany
exacted even severer terms from
! France and enforced her conditions
i relentlessly. France suffered but paid.
: In that war no material harm had been
{done to Germany. There were no
cities destroyed within the German
lines and no factories razed. In fact
| there ‘was no claim for reparations.
In the recent war France was devas-
| tated to an extent far in excess of the
reparations demanded or allowed by
the peace conference, and though the
peace conference was guided by a spir-
it of benevolence Germany refused to
pay, or even seriously try to pay the
indemnity. In the effort to collect by
force France may have been mistaken
but she was not unjust.
——1If it be true that the ex-Kaiser
is unhappily married he will have to
look to the stars for sympathy.
[r———
The Governor appears willing
to show some respect for the constitu-
tion put he does it grudgingly.
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——If you want all the news read
the “Watchman.”
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budget but when the Legislature gets
Senator McCormick’s False Ideas.
Senator Madill McCormick, of Chi-
cago, who has just returned from a
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both the pending bills for the relief of
damentals of his plan the decentrali- | the farmers, he said, but added that
zation of dispensing all authority A “such measures alone should not be ex-
pected to restore agricultural prices
in view of other economic influences
at home and abroad.” What these are
he leaves to conjecture, but careful |
reading between the lines of his’
speech makes them reasonably clear.
“Europe needs bread-stuffs more than
she can buy,” he states. She needs
“$500,000,000 worth of American
wheat and corn.” He might have
added that she needs other products
of American farms, factories and mills
in greater volume.
Under the customs of civilization
there are only two ways of acquiring
commodities needed or desired. One
is buying and the other stealing them. |
If you buy you must pay in cash or
commerce. Europe is at present woe-
fully short in cash. In fact it is prac- |
tically impossible for her to dig up |
enough currency, that is worth any- ,
thing in the United States, to meet |
immediate home demands. But she is
able and willing to pay in trade and
thus open up her markets to the pro-
ducts of our soil, mills and factories,
affording the producers profits on
what they sell and what they get in
exchange. The pending bills for the
benefit of farmers fail in this essen-
tial element of helpfulness.
Before Senator McCormick sailed
for Europe the Congress of the United
States, with his help, enacted a tariff
law which prevents Europe from buy-
ing our products on the terms of com-
merce for the reason that the tariff
tax on the products of Europe is so
great that no importer can take
chances of trading. This crazy legis-
lation created the economic conditions
that closed the markets of Europe to
the products of the United States and |
acts of Congress regulating prices
that will afford profit here are impo-
tent to open them. If Senator McCor-
mick were half as intelligent as he is
facts and avoid such blunders as he
made in his speech on Monday.
—The Hon. Tom Beaver has intro- :
duced a bill that aims to make it un- |
lawful to fire a gun within one hun-
dred and fifty yards of a house with-
out the consent of the tenant. It is to!
protect farmers and others from the !
dangers of indiscriminate shooting by !
hunters of small game principally. |
Proposed Election Reforms.
So many changes in the election '
laws are contemplated during the |
present session of the Legislature that |
the public mind is confused. That
there is urgent need for greater pro-
tection of the ballot is freely admit-
ted by all who favor honest elections,
but past experience compels a doubt
as to the sincerity of purpose of the
professional reformers who usually
sponsor legislation on the subject.
The changes now under consideration
are both numerous and radical, and
some of them quite obvious. But oth-
ers are experimental and of doubt-
ful merit. It will be up to the Sen-
atrs and Representatives to separate
the wheat from the chaff and that will
require careful thought and action.
One of the most important changes
proposed will involve an amendment
to the constitution of the State. It is
the elimination of what is known as
the “poll tax.” Article VIII, Section
1 of the constitution provides that “if
twenty-two years of age or upwards”
the voter “shall have paid within two
years a State or county tax, which
shall have been assessed at least two
months and paid at least one month
before the election.” In view of this
provision there is no immediate pros-
pect of action. It will require four
years to make the change even if it is
favored by a majority of the people.
By that time conditions may be such
that public opinion has reversed itself
on the subject.
The reference to the matter, how-
ever, directs attention to the inequal-
ity of this tax as levied under the con-
stitution. In ‘Philadelphia the poll
tax is twenty-five cents and the re- |
ceipts may be purchased in job lots by
any one who desires to invest in them,
just as cabbages are bought in the
market stall. In other sections of the
State the tax is anywhere from fifty
cents to a dollar and can only be pro-
cured by the individual tax payer or
upon the presentation to the tax col-
lector of a power of attorney signed
by him. The reason for this discrim-
ination is plain. In Philadelphia a
vast proportion of the voters are in
this class and the machine gets their
votes at small cost.
It may be by courtesy called a
through with it it will be “knocked
into” something resembling a “cock-
ed hat.”
BELLEFONTE, PA.,, FEBRUARY 2. 1923.
Signs Point to a Flare Up.
The executive axe continues to do
good service at Harrisburg and the
tration of the State government but | trip to Europe, told a doleful tale to machine is beginning to wince. Two
he is not consistent. In his inaugural his colleagues on Monday. He favors | pet heads fell on Monday and a resig-
nation on Tuesday decimated the!
ranks considerably. County Commis-
. sioner Berkey H. Boyd, of Westmore-
land county, was given the comforta-
ble $7000 a year job as Superintend-
ent of Public Grounds and Buildings
which has been occupied by Thomas
W. Templeton for several years. Mr.
Boyd served a couple of terms in the
Legislature, some years ago, and was
a follower of Roosevelt. That fact
scored against him in his legislative
activities, for when the Penrose ma-
. chine was in full flower, independents
were not in high favor.
Mz. Charles E. Carothers, chairman
of the Republican committee of Wash-
ington county, was dropped from the
pay roll as Deputy Secretary of Ag-
riculture at the same time and the
commission handed over to Mr. John
Milton McKee, also a resident of
Washington county, but an attache of
State College. Mr. Carothers has
held the office, which pays $5000 a
year, since 1916, and was considered a
fixture. He left his post a few weeks
ago to manage the campaign of Colo-
nel Barnett, for State Senator. Pos-
sibly his failure to secure the election
of his candidate is the cause of his re-
moval. But that is not likely, for we
have reasons to believe that Colonel
Barnett is not in favor of the Gov-
ernor.
The resignation of Mr. Biles, as-
sistant to the Commissioner of High-
ways, was more of a surprise to the
public than the other changes refer- |
red to. He, too, is in high favor with
the old machine and the salary of the
office was fixed at a figure considera-
bly above that of his chief some time
ago. But he resigned on Tuesday and
the public is left to conjecture as to
the cause. He has never been openly
active in politics though it is an open
. secret that the Department has been
used for partisan purposes. The Gov-
‘ernor may have got onto his curves
or his new chief may have objected to
oIn-any event, things.
are moving in the direction of a flare
up and it is likely to come soon.
paper is a brief item stating that the
men who are installing a new laun-
dry on south Water street will put in
a filter to purify their wash water be-
fore allowing it to run into Spring
creek and perhaps injure the trout or
drive them away, and that the owner
of the City laundry will also construct
a cesspool into which to drain his
wash water in order to keep from dis-
charging impure water into the creek.
All the gentlemen interested are to be
commended on their public spirited
policy in so cheerfully and willingly
co-operating with the commission at
Harrisburg in keeping the waters of
Spring creek as pure and as clear as
possible for its finny inhabitants.
Bellefonte has two natural attractions
—one is the big spring, the like of
which cannot be found anywhere else
in the State, and the other its numer-
ous big trout in Spring creek which,
according to no less a person than
William Jennings Bryan, cannot be
seen anywhere else in the world. As
a matter of fact more people stop at
Spring creek to look at the trout than
go out to look at the spring, and every
resident of Bellefonte should have
enough of pride to do all they can te
protect the fish, And in carrying out
what they propose to do the laundry-
men above referred to are doing their
part in protecting the fish.
RA
This is groundhog day and
whether the pesky little critter sees
his shadow or not we can all take
consolation in the fact that this is the
shortest month in the year and winter,
officially speaking, is half over.
The rumor that Henry Ford as-
pires to be President is probably only
a joke, but the present administration
is a joke in ghastly form.
——1If the President ever finds out
what the foreign policy of the United
States is he will probably declare him-
self in emphatic terms. ;
The illness of Attorney Gener-
al Daugherty is a perfectly good alibi
for another postponement of the trial
of the war grafters.
——If Secretary of the Common-
wealth Clyde King measures up to
the expectations of the Governor he
will be a wonder.
The investigation of Foreign
embasies for rum leaks has been
called off. Wonder which Ambassador
has sore corns?
Probably Mr. Bryan imagines
that under some other system he
might be elected President.
In the local columns of today’s
NO. 5.
| Funding Britain’s Debt.
' From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The disclosure from the White
House that a basis of agreement for
the funding of Britain’s debt to us
had been reached by the American
and British representatives and only
awaited the approval of the London
government before being submitted to
, Congress is gratifying news. When
a settlement of the debt is arranged
and formally ratified by the two coun-
tries, a long step forward will have
: been made toward attacking and solv-
ing the whole problem of inter-Allied
indebtedness.
An agreement between the two
creditor nations of the world will make
easier the examination and revision of
France’s debt to Great Britain and to
us. If the opportunity affords, after
the results of the French occupation
of the Ruhr become clear, for the
United States and Britain to assist
in fixing the sum that Germany can
pay France, the negotiation will be
simplified by the corcumstance that
the British debt to us has been satis-
factorily funded.
It is greatly to be desired that Con-
gress be given an opportunity to con-
firm the funding plan for the British
debt before adjournment on March 4.
It is the expectation and hope that
word may come from London by next
Wednesday or Thursday that Bonar
{ Law and his Cabinet have accepted the
j terms that Stanley Baldwin and our
| representatives agreed upon at their
| recent meetings at Washington. Pend-
"ing their acceptance by London these
terms are not publicly disclosed,
though they are known in confidence
to many representative members of
i the House and Senate and to financial
| interests both in this country and
i abroad. The plan now under consid-
, eration and awaiting acceptance is an
American proposal.
The British representatives brought
“with them to Washington a plan for
i funding the debt and a mass of data
to support their proposal. Their at-
titude made an excellent impression
on the American representatives, in-
cluding Secretary Mellon and Mr. Gil-
bert, of the Treasury, and Senator
Smoot and Represeentative Burton, of
the War Department Commission.
Long and minute examination of the
British proposal followed its presen-
tation. An inquiry developed that it
would not be acceptable to: the Meuse
merican proposal
and Senate. An
was drafted that would meet the ap-
proval of Congress. It called for the
payment of a larger sum than the
British had suggested. It is that plan
on which a decision is now awaited
from London. Mr. Baldwin, Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Nor-
man, Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land, who represented Britain in the
negotiations at Washington, have ac-
cepted our terms as the only plan that
can be got through Congress at this
time. :
: A settlement made now will have
‘much greater value and usefulness
than an agreement reached a year or
two years later. The importance of
this element of time is being impress-
ed upon the British Cabinet by Mr.
Baldwin and Mr. Norman. Their own
financial relations settled, the United
_ States and Britain not only set an ex-
ample but will be enabled by the mere
fact of having no point of dispute or
friction between them to act with
' greater effectiveness in assisting their
‘war time allies and associates. An
agreement having been reached be-
i tween two major principals concern-
ied in the inter-Allied indebtedness, it
! will be easier to extend the solution of
| the whole problem. If and when the
i terms now under consideration are
| published, it will be found that the
, United States has not been harsh and
| grasping, but has based its proposal
on its debtors’ ability to pay. This
i should have its effect abroad.
Finegan’s Fool Suggestion.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Of all the fool suggestions going
around, the prize fool proposition
comes from Dr. Finegan, State Super-
intendent of Public Instruction. It is
that the Constitution be so amended as
to provide for a special election day
throughout Pennsylvania to select
members of school boards.
Where members of such boards are
elected now they are selected on the
regular election day, when mayors of
cities, chief burgesses of boroughs,
commissioners, supervisors and other
local officers are chosen.
The doctor certainly has a poor
opinion of the brain power of Penn-
sylvanians, since he appears to believe
that they suffer from brain fag by be-
ing compelled to pick out a township
supervisor and a few school directors
on the same day.
But why get excited over it? Dr.
Finegan is doing some big things, but
he will not force his proposed extra
election day soon enough for this gen-
eration of men, women and children
to become agitated over his proposal.
That’s Something Else, Again.
From the Detroit Free Press.
The Soviet government is reported
to be opposed to the Santa Claus tra-
dition, but it has not yet objected to
Uncle Sam when he plays that part in
the famine area.
——1If the United States Senate
had been just to the people of this
country and those of her associates in
the war the Turkey wouldn't be strut-
ting as it is now.
x
ed.”
father investigated and it attempted to
bite his finger.
The snake was killed and was twenty-eight
cubic feet.
V. Clinger, of Tidioute, and Franklin and
velop a new field.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Postmaster M. J. Gladfelter, of Logan-
ville, found his wife dead in bed from par-
alyss.
— More than 2000 men and women of
Fayette county will be called upon for jury
duty this year.
—D. Stuart Griffiths, aged 56, assistant
treasurer of the Union Trust company, of
Lancaster, was found dead in bed.
—The office of the Flicksville Milling
company, near Bangor, was robbed by bur-
glars of $330 in Liberty bonds and §10 in
cash, ;
—John and Paul Marquette, both for-
mer Altoonans and sons of “Bud” Mar-
quette, assistant manager of the Capitol
theatre in Altoona, met instant death on
Saturday at a Monaca, Pa., grade crossing.
—DPeter Kendion met death in a pecu-
liar accident at Pitt burgh, Saturday night.
He slipped on an icy sidewalk and rolled
over a sixty-foot embankment. He suffer-
ad a fracture of the skull, which resulted
in death.
—William Thompson, a West Indian,
who is said to have admitted that he shot
and killed Charles Brown, at Luzerne, near
Brownsville, last Saturday, has apealed to
the British consul to come to his assist-
ance, on the ground that he is a British
subject.
—A sign on the door of the office of Dr.
John 8S. M. Pratt, of Coatesville, that reads
“ring the bell and walk in” tempted a thief
to enter without ringing. Finding the
place unoccupied, he forced open a safe and
stole $2000 in checks. He also took an
overcoat.
—Mr. Rhodes, of Monroe county, Demo-
cratic floor leader in the House, on Mon-
day night offered a resolution protesting
the seating of all but four Democratic
members at the rear of the hall and de-
manding that the minority members be
re-seated in a compact group on the left
side of the House. ‘
—Robert Hinkle, who has just resigned
as superintendent of the Freeland Water
company, is enjoying his first vacation after
forty-two years of continuous labor. He
began work at the age of eight as a slate
picker ‘a a coal breaker and says the days
seen ‘ong but he has decided to live up to
his program of a long lay-off.
—A residence distillery with a daily ca-
pacity of 135 gallons of whiskey was put
out of business in Pittsburgh on Monday
by federal prohibition agents. Four stills,
operating at full capacity were found in
the house located on the edge of the down
town district. Philip Lerner and Julius
Rubin were arrested. A warrant was is-
sued for the arrest of Isaac Stein.
—Mrs. Noble R. Henninger and four chil-
dren, of Shamokin, were forced to flee from
their dinner last Thursday when a big au-
tomobile truck ran away on a hill and
crashed through the side of the house,
stopping against the dinner table. Accord-
ing to August Leonard, the owner, the
brake failed. Part of the framework of
the home had to be taken away to remove
the truck.
—(Coal trains six miles in length and ¢ar-
rying nearly 800 cars, or 36,000 tons of an-
thracite leave Hazleton every night, offi-
cials of the Lehigh Valley Railroad com-
pany announced last Saturday in empha-
sizing the rush to meet the demands of the
tuation for fuel. The coal is taken from the
sidings at the collieries as soon as the
day's loading is dome. War-time records
are being made in production.
—Just at noon on Saturday an eastbound
freigh train on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Johmsonburg, struck Charles Martin,
aged 45 years, as he was walking along
the tracks and hurled him into the Clarion
river. Men dragged the river for more
than two hours before the body was re-
covered. His death is believed to have
been caused by drowning as the body was
not mutilated to an extent noticeable on
hurried examination.
—The January mceting of the trustees
of the mothers’ assistance fund of Clinton
county was held on Saturday at the home
of the secretary, Mrs. Ross W. Barrows, in
Lock Haven. The report of the trustees
showad that sixteen widowed mothers,
having seventy-three children, are at pres-
ent receiving assistance in Clinton county,
while nine widowed mothers, representing
twenty-six children, are waiting for an in-
creased appropriation.
—The Chauncey breaker of the George
F. Lee Coal company at Avondale, near
Wilkes-Barre, was completely destroyed by
fire Sunday morning. The breaker, which
had a eapacty of 1,200 tons a day, was built
in 1018 at a cost of $250,000. It was elec-
trically operated and the flames which
were discovered in the head house at the
top, are believed to have been caused by a
defective wire. Work of rebuilding is to
begin as soon as possible.
—A. De Carlo and several customers were
thrown into a panic when a black diamond
rattlesnake was discovered in a bunch of
bananas in the former's store at Sharon,
on Saturday night. The bananas came
from South America several days previous.
De Carlo’s daughter saw what she suppos-
ed was a banana that had become ‘‘speck-
She later noticed it had moved. Her
He sent for the police.
inches long.
—The largest gas well in northwestern
Pennsylvania in years and the largest yet
recorded in the Tidioute field, has been
brought in on the Wheelock farm, two
miles south of Tidioute.
The daily pro-
been estimated at 10,000,000
The producer is owned by A.
duction has
Pittsburgh men. The gasser is a little
over a mile to the northeast of the Car-
nahan discovery. It is believed it will de-
The roar of the escap-
ing gas can be heard for some distance.
The well is down 1,400 feet and is four
feet in the sand.
— Charles O. Yessler, aged about 42 years,
who was arrested and committed to the
York county jail on Saturday on charges
of selling habit-forming drugs, committed
suicide by hanging himself by the upper
berth in his cell early Sunday morning, his
lifeless body being discovered by the turn-
key, George A. Hort, about eight o'clock.
Yessler was a drug addict and when ar-
rested told the authorities that he pro-
cured hs supplies from peddlers in the vi-
cinity of Callowhill
and Eighth streets,
Philadelphia. He gave them a list of
names of Yorkers, men and women, who
had bought drugs from him. A quantity
of the drug and one thousand dollars were
found in a cigarette box on his person when
he was arrested. Yessler is survived by
his wife and daughter.
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