Deity
—The President’s pet, the ship sub-
sidy, is being treated by Congress as
though it were somebody’s houn’
dawg.
—We may be having so much snow
hy way of preparedness against the
very dry summer that the state police
ave promising for Pennsylvania.
— Anyway the fellow who has made
it a practice to cut out his tipple dur-
ing Lent won’t have as much tempta-
tion to overcome now as he once had.
—Tuesday night’s thunder, light-
ring and wind that rocked the houses
of Pine Grove Mills must have been
an attempt of March to jump into the
lap of February.
—The end of the present cold wave
is not to come before Sunday, so the
prophets say. Thus far we have es-
caped blustery zero weather and a bit
of it’ now tends to remind us that we
have been very fortunate.
—Though only a few inches deep
Monday nights’ snow was the heaviest
of the winter. That being the case
we delegated Tuesday’s warm sun-
shine to save a few muscles that are
well nigh worn out with shoveling
SNOW.
—From the number of our Repub-
lican friends who are throwing their
hats into the ring as candidates for
town and county offices one surmises
hat they haven’t the least idea cf
what is going to happen to the grand
old party next fall.
—Dr. Auto-suggestion Coue has
sailed for France with thirty-thous-
and American dollars in his jeans.
When he gets back to his beloved Nan-
cy surely he can shrug his shoulders,
rub his hands and exclaim: Every
day in every way they're getting eas-
ier and easier.
—Poor old King Tutenkhamun. He
must have been a grand old chap in
his day, three thousand years ago and
how he must be looking down from
his celestial home with horror on the
vandalism that is rifling his tomb of
all the grandeur that he had himself
. laid away in for the long journey.
—Probably the reason we haven't
heard much comment on the Hon. Tom
Beaver’s bill to put fifty cents more
tariff on the cost of a hunting license
is because it’s the fishermen who are
becoming voluble now. The hunters
are not thinking of the bridge they'll
probably have to begin crossing next
October.
—Dr. Ellen Potter, the new head of
the Public Welfare Department, has
gotten the idea, that some of the rest
of us have, that the small hospitals of
the State are being burdened with ac- |
counting systems that cost more than
any saving the systems can effect.
Accordingly she has started revising
the plans of her predecessor. More
power to the lady.
—This Markley fellow who got to
saaing things and started a fight with
himself in the library of the court
house, a few days ago, much to the
destruction of the furniture of that
stately apartment, certainly sought
seclusion for his combat. Had it not
been for the noise of overturning ta-
bles he might have been alone with
his souse in there for months without
having been discovered.
—By way of saying something com-
plimentary of our town council—and
want you to understand that
throwing bouquets at borough solons
any time, any where isn’t a popular
American pastime—we are wondering
whether the announcement made last
week that they had reduced the tax
rate five mills got bye you without
proper gratification. When the five
were put on for the purpose of paying
for those new pumpers we had a feel-
ing that it would be a long, long time
before they would come off again.
Councils often make good though very
few of those who elect them ever ad-
mit it. And in this instance we want
te be conspicuous among the few.
ve
vi
—We have heard, indirectly, that
based on present plans for distribution
of State aid to hospitals Bellefonte’s
institution would have expectation of
about six thousand dollars a year.
This would be three thousand less than
it has been receiving during the past |
two years and four thousand less than
it had received for some years prior to
1922. This should be very disconcert-
ing news to this community. By
straining and curtailing in every way
the institution is barely keeping its
head above water and such a with-
drawal of State support as is indicat-
ed means certainly only one of two
things: Either further curtailment of
hospital service or greater drain up-
on the generosity of the community
itself.
—Again we remark that the Gover-
nor must have heard from the plain
people of Pennsylvania after his an-
nouncement of what he intended do-
ing for The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege. That his pre-gubernatorial sur-
veys were not as deadly accurate as
he would have had the people believe,
is revealed by the discovery that what
he was so confident would be enough
for State’s needs during the next bi-
ennium really would result in there
being no Freshman class at all at the
people’s higher institution of learning
next year. Gifford has already retired
into a session of seclusion and review.
Let us hope that when he emerges
again it will be with a clear concep-
tion of where the State’s first duty lies
vith regard to aid to educational in-
stitutions.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
BELLEFONTE, PA., F
EBRUARY 16. 1923.
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NO. 7.
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Republicans Applaud Their Own Con-
demnation.
The terms of settlement of the debt
of Great Britain to the United States
agreed upon recently by a commission
representing both countries sitting in
Washington has been approved by the
House of Representatives by a vote of
291 to 44. Sixty-three Democratic
members voted in the affirmative and
forty-three in the negative. Only one
Republican voted against the pact and
the Socialist representative voted for
it. In the closing debate the Repub-
licans tried to pervert the question
into a partisan issue. No doubt some
of the Democratic members were in-
fluenced by this fact to opposition but
the vote showed that the despicable
trick signally failed. A majority of
Democrats voted for the approval.
In this connection the brief speech of
floor leader of the minority, ig sig-
nificant. “I share the resentment of
my colleagues, that all fair minded
men must feel, because of the way
this business has been handled by this
administration. I share the resent-
ment against the majority party,” he
said, “for its unfair tactics in the last
campaign. I share the resentment for
the policy indulged in for political
purposes in the main by which the
great after-the-war
down by the Democratic administra-
of that interference desolation spreads
over the world. For that folly, men,
Having thus pilloried the partisan
Republicans of the House Mr. Garrett
in opposing this settlement.
support it for there is a greater prop-
osition involved.
looks toward the stabilization of the
world. More than that it will ad-
vance the happiness, the prosperity
and the peace of the human race. I
am willing to forget the partisanship
manifested in this matter. I am will-
ing Lo forget the narrowness of this
get the indecencies. of the majority
party’s ign of 1920,” And this
scathing rebuke compelled the ap-
plause even of those upon whom it
was administered. It was a unique
spectacle. his
500,000 tons less than in 1921, owirg
of course to the Fordney tariff. At
this rate the business will have about
vanished before the ship subsidy bill
gets through Congress.
Scurvy Trick Defeated.
President Harding obviously had an
ulterior purpose in mind when he
linked together the British debt set-
tlement and the ship subsidy job.
There is no natural relationship be-
tween these propositions. The debt
settlement question involves justice
and honor. Great Britain owes this
country a vast sum of money and is
anxious to pay with as little distress
as possible. The United States needs
the money but in exacting it wants to
be as lenient as possible. These amia-
ble purposes on both sides appeal
forcefully to the better nature of men
and create a feeling of liberality. The
ship subsidy scheme is predicated
purely and solely on graft.
President Harding probably imag-
ined that by linking these antipodal
propositions together he would
strengthen the weaker of the two.
The appeal to generosity during the
consideration of the British debt, he
probably imagined, would carry for-
ward over the line the subsidy
scheme. Thousands of men are influ-
enced even in important matters by
emotions. Impulse is a potent force
if skillfully employed. While in a
generous frame of mind induced by
an amiable desire to be kind Congress
might easily supplement a service to
Great Britain by voting largesses to
had contributed freely to the cam-
paign corruption fund.
It was a stupid trick of a small mind
and is practically certain to fail of its
purpose. The plan to settle the enor-
mous war debt which Great Britain
owes this country will go through as
it ought to, but the iniquity which
President Harding linked to it wiil
fail if Congress is just to its obliga-
tions to the people. The ship owners
who hope to make a grab bag of the
treasury in pursuamce of a corrupt
bargain with the Republican cam-
paign committee will be disappointed.
The money they invested to elect Mr.
Harding is lost forever, for with the
expiration of the present Congress in
a trifle more than two weeks ship
subsidy will die and remain dead for-
ever.
Obviously that Turk official at
Smyrna had some weak nation in
out of the harbor. In any event he
didn’t mean Great Britain.
Representative Garrett, of Tennessee,
This settlement
—Our exports for 1922 were 5,- |
a group of grafting ship owners who '
mind when he ordered foreign chips’
Another Isthmian Canal.
The administration at Washington,
according to newspaper correspond-
ents, is seriously considering a propo-
sition to build another Isthmian ca-'
nal. It seems that receipts of the
Panama canal have been somewhat in
excess of the expenditures for opera-
tion for some time and the “best
minds” about the White House have
reached the conclusion that the fact
would justify the investment of a few
billion dollars in another ditch. It is
true that the excessive revenues have
not reached sufficient proportions to
pay interest on the money invested in
the Panama canal, but it is not likely
that interest payments were ever con-
templated. The balancing of income
with operating expenses is all that
was expected.
President Harding, having made up
his mind to be a candidate for re-elec-
! tion, it is natural that he and his
friends should be looking about for
some opportunity for achievement
that would command popular admira-
tion. The construction of a ship ca-
‘nal across the Isthmus might serve
| this purpose. It seems that there is
‘some claim to a “right of way” in
| Nicarauga and that being the case
i there would be no serious obstacle to
{ overcome in carrying out the enter-
| of course, but an administration which
i lars or so in subsidies for fifty years
! to millionaire ship owners, is not like-
to the matter of cost.
The maimed and emaciated veter-
: ans of the world war, who were prom-
| ship subsidy and less than half as
much as the proposed Isthmian canal,
may take a different view of this ques-
| tion. But the “best minds” about the
executive office in Washington don't
mind what war heroes do or think.
; The veterans were beguiled by a false
i promise three years ago and may be
: fooled again by some other plausible
‘next election. The
owners and pros
: who build canals
subsidized ship
-ing to give theirs for nothing. It is
| a great game.
4
. ——Roger Babson thinks ‘“Eurcpe
: needs religion more than reparations.”
The need of religion is beyond ques-
; tion but how it might be utilized to
: restore devastated cities is not quite
, clear.
|
Fault of a Single Track Mind.
. The is no just cause of complaint
. against Governor Pinchet’s purpose to
‘enforce the prohibition laws of the
i United States and the State of Penn-
. sylvania.
i State requires that “he shall take
‘care that the laws be faithfully exe-
cuted” and his oath of office binds him
to “obey,
. constitution.
power of his authority in the enforce-
, ment of prohibition legislation, there-
{ fore, he is simply fulfilling his moral
i and legal obligations with respect to
| this important matter. Some Gover-
| nors may have done less and he infer-
!entially charges his immediate prede-
cessor in office with such laxity. But
* it is his business to do his duty.
. But neither the constitution nor the
oath of office requires the Governor
, to exhaust all his official energy and
| executive power in enforcing one law,
to the necessary ‘neglect of other
; equally important laws. ' One ‘evening |-
{ last week, according to newspaper
' statements, a committee of the Legis-
i lature in session in Harrisburg heard
testimony concerning ballot frauds in |:
| Pittsburgh which were so gross and
rank that even Senator Vare left the
| room in disgust. But Governor Pin-
| chot was not perturbed in the least by
| the disclosures. It was freely admit-
. ted that fraudulent voting and false
returns of elections were common and
had long been practiced in Pitsburgh,
but the disclosures never turned a hair
on the gubernatorial head.
It has long been recognized that
the gravest crime in the calendar is
-debauching of elections. Upon the
, purity of the ballot depends the per- |
| petuity of the Republic. All the
| boot-leggers in the State in a genera-
i tion couldn’t do as much harm to the
{ in Pittsburgh and “the neck” in Phila-
i delphia at a single election. But
| Governor Pinchot is oblivious to the
i evils of ballot frauds for the reason
| that he and his party are kept in pow-
| er by these nefarious methods. We
1 have no quarrel with his attitude on
{ the prohibition question. But we com-
plain because of his indifference to, if
| not his actual acquiescence in, the
| ballot frauds, infinitely more danger-
| ous.
——Let us hope that broadcasting
sermons will not greatly diminish the
collection.
can supply funds te | opponents.
buy votes if the veterans are not will- |
The constitution of the:
support and defend” the
In exerting the full!
pr
Pinchot Spurns the Machine.
Every day and in every way Gov-
ernor Pinchot is growing better and
better in the art of practical politics.
It is true that he hasn’t much to con-
tend with, for Leslie and Eyre and
“Bill” Vare are pigmies in campari-
son with Penrose and Crow and “Ed.”
Vare, who obligingly left the arena
just before Pinchot actually appeared
in. “the ring.” But we gravely doubt
if any of them had anything on “Gif.”
in the matter of manipulating official
patronage. The latest demonstration
of the Governor's improvement in this
direction was his declaration the other
day that there will be no distribution
of spoils until after his legislative
program has been completed.
Of course if there were the least
bit of principle, or even a suspicion
of earnestness, behind the opposition
to the Governor's legislative plan it
would be “knocked into a cocked hat”
in a jiffy. Two-thirds of the Republi-
can members of the House of Repre-
sentatives and an equal propertion of
the Senators of that party faith are
opposed to his program. But the only
thought that enters the minds of these
Senators and Representatives is con-
, trol of patronage, and in the hope of
' securing spoils they yield to any con-
dition he imposes, and when his pur-
program laid prise. There is the price to consider, i pose has been achieved he will pro-
{ceed to dispense favors on the basis
tion was interfered with. As a result | Proposes to pay a hundred million dol- | indicated in the selection of his cah-
‘inet members.
| When Martin Brumbaugh became
women and children throughout the ily to give much serious consideration | Governor he set out to create a party
world have paid in torture and tears.” |
machine which would be obedient to
bitions.
his wishes and responsive to his am-
I
But Penrose interposed and
added: “But that does not justify me ised a bonus which in the aggregate ' though the then Governor had the
I shall | would amount to no more than the help of Ed. Vare his organization van-
lished “like the baseless fabric of a
vision.” There was something beside
spoils in the mind of the “big boss.”
He had pride of opinion as well as
fidelity to tradition and he cast all
consideration of patronage to the
winds. The result was fatal to Mr.
Brumbaugh and a warning to his suc-
cessors in office. Governor Pinchot
administration. I am willing to for- | Promise as easily shattered after the | has no such force to contend with
{and after intelligently appraising
i
i ——The Pittsburgh Dispatch passed
out of existence with the Wednesday
i issue, after a publication of seventy-
'seven years. The plant, good will,
.etc., were purchased by the other
! newspaper plants in that city. Ior a
number of years past the Dispatch
‘had been under the direct manage-
| ment of Col. C. A. Rook, and his re-
. cent appointment as director of pub-
lic safety of Pittsburgh may have had
| something to do with his decision to
. discontinue publication of the paper.
Government Comes High.
The astonishing increase in the cost
of running Pennsylvania is revealed
by the following schedule which shows
the receipts and expenditures of the
State from 1850 up to May 31st, 1921.
It cost over eighteen times as much
to keep things going in 1920 as it lid
in 1850. The figures given for 1921
cover only the first six months of the
year, as it has been impossible to com-
pile receipts and expenditures since
that time.
Receipts Expenditures
$4,438,131.51 £4,569,053.94
3,479,257.31 3,637,147.32
6,336,603.24 6,434,522.01
6,720,334.47 6,820,119.4
,9190.10 8,168,861.
17,494,211.78 15,453,718.90
28,046,424.43 27,657,390.88
32,146,978.23 29,132,646.
32,347,890.46 35,516,410.37
5,348,615.35 37,666,196.27
31,441,050.51 31,578,111.71
31,990,724.85 34,800,734.04
nT, 36,663,039.23 35,489,563.67
00... 31,700,489.35 29,360,493.19
1918........ 44,165,368.74 42,407,064.30
919........ 52,091,769.84 56,413,586.65
3920... i. 62,071,293.97 74,959,738.87
202%. civer.s 34,673,918.10 45,391,678.98
——It is said that American specu-
lators have invested a hundred million
dollars in German marks. We knew
there were a good many fools in the
United States but never imagined they
had so much money.
| ——Billy Sunday wants Samuel
i Gompers to resign his office in the
| American Federation of Labor. If
{Jaw jamming were labor Billy would
i have a right to a voice in labor or-
\ ganizations.
—Some of the Vare rocks that will
| threaten the wreck of the Pinchot ship
| government as is done “in the strip” |
began to loom up on the apparently
peaceful waters at Harrisburg on
Tuesday.
——Probably Angora has been
made the seat of government of Tur-
key for the reason that the Allies are
to serve as “the goat.”
——If Germany doesn’t reveal some
inclination to pay soon she will not
have anything to pay with after a
while.
ee—— A tan e———
If the Washington administra-
tion isn’t careful Henry Ford will get
that Mussels Shoals property yet.
the
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| France and Russia.
From the Philadelphia Record.
France has been the most determin-
ed opponent of the Soviet regime, with
the possible exception of the United
States, because the French invest-
ments in Russia before the war and
the French purchases of Russian bonds
had been enormous and the Soviet re-
pudiated the public debt and confis-
cated the private property.
The Soviet regime has been con-
suming the public and private capital
of Russia, and production has fallen
to incredibly small proportions. While
the immediate occasion of last year’s
famine was climatic, yet the reduc-
tion in agricultural production was
less than the reduction of several lines
of industrial production. The country
is not supporting itself, and it needs
money. It tried at Genoa and The
Hague to get the hated capitalistie
countries to lend it something less
than two billion dollars. But when a
man is “broke” and his business has
gone to smash his need of a loan is at
its maximum, and the disposition of
any one to lend him anything is at a
minimum. Russia was willing to
make large concessions to the ca i-
talistic countries, but at Genoa it de- |
fended its right to confiscate while
promising not to confiscate any more
if a couple of billions were lent to it.
It did not get anything.
At Genoa Russia and Germany felt
that they were treated as outlaws and
that they had common interests in an-
tagonizing the Western Powers; in
addition to the commercial interests
that had long bound the two countries,
the man-power and materials of Ras-
sia and the capital and business ca-
pacity of Germany. And so the treaty
of Rapallo was made between the two.
But Germany, with a vast indem- |
nity to pay, could not be of much
financial help to Russia, and while that
country could give great aid to Ger-
many in the event of war it was quite
uncertain whether the Germans would |
fight, ‘and rather doubtful about the
amount of aid Germany could give
Russia if the latter got into a war.
Consequently Rapallo was not quite
enough. In spite of that, Russia was
anxious to establish close relations
with France. :
France was more disposed to accept
d in ( enoa and alk SS 2 50
justification for confiscation.
France has trouble enough with Ger-
many, its relations with England are
subject to some strain, and the Turks
have turned and bitten the hand that
fed them. The economic situation in
Russia is growing worse. Both coun-
tries have felt the need of more
friends and fewer enemies, more prin-
cipal for Russia and more interest for
France.
So we learn that a French financial
and commercial mission is about to go
to Moscow, and it is conjectured that
the groundwork for an agreement on
the recognition of debts and security
for foreign capital was laid by the
French and Russian delegates to the
Lausanne conference. Sense of their
need of each other has been growing
in France and Russia since the ora-
torical fireworks with which the Ge-
noa conference closed.
i
i
La Folletteffects.
~I'rom the Detroit Free Press.
i The president of the Simons compa-
‘ny of Kenosha, Wis., announces that
, his concern does not care to live long-
er under the shadow of LaFollettism,
; and will move to Chicago, reducing the
Wisconsin plant to a branch. Turn-
ing to Moody’s Manual, one learns
that the Simmons plant covers seven-
ty-six acres in Kenosha, and does a
2 business approaching $20,000,000 2
year in metal furniture, wire mat-
tresses and similar articles.
A threat in the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture of a new law laying heavy taxes
ion industry for the purpose of estab-
; lishing unemployment insurance and a
‘new income tax law which would make
returns to income tax collectors pub-
lic are among the immediate causes of
. the proposed change in location, and
both of these laws are directly inspir-
jed by Senator LaFollette. Doubtless
| the Senator will turn all of the floods
of his oratory against Simmons’ com-
pany, and its efforts at self-protection
i will be denounced as capitalistic ruth-
, lessness; but that will not alter the
fact that business will not thrive
where laws are oppressive when bet-
. ter fields are open.
' For many years Senator LaFollette
has been preaching doctrines which
tend to make any kind of success in
business an object of suspicion and en-
vy. He always couples wealth with
some kind of wickedness, and in his
{own State, with
friends, the Socialists, he has built up
{a strong following ready to put his
{ doctrine into operation. That sort eof
thing can go on for a while, but it
cannot go far in the United States be-
fore those who imagine that antago-
i nism is the correct attitude toward
| successful industry, discover that they
| have hurt themselves more than they
, have hurt business.
|
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| The Mate That Scuttled the Ship.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A Kentucky jury has acquitted the
woman who killed the man she said
“broke up her home.” The fact that
she was a partner in the destruction
didn’t seem to have much weight with
the 12. good men and true. We'd
like to hear the husband’s opinion,
the help of his|!
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Governor Pinchot authorized the ob-
servance of April 13 and 20 as arbor days
and bird days.
—Miss Ethel K. Striebert, of Cleveland,
has been elected assistant principal of the
York High school. :
—Sitting in a rocking chair, Miss Carrie
Fiscus, aged 57 years, was found dead in
her room in New Kensington.
—From a fall in which she suffered a
broken hip, Mrs. P. H. Teats, aged 85
vears, died at her home at a Sunbury su-
burb.
—Claiming her vocation as a washwom-
an was ruined because of injuries, Filo-
mena Duprospero, of Norristown, has sued
Helen: Malecahy, of Conshohocken, for $10,-
000 damages because of being run dewn by
Miss Malcahy’s automobile, which ran on-
to the sidewalk.
—As the result of stubbing the big toe
of his right foot while walking out of his
bathroom several weeks ago, Matthew F.
Fox, aged 58, one of the best known busi-
ness men of Pottsville, died on Monday.
Gangrene set in because of the injury, and
blood poisoning of the entire system fol-
lowed.
—At a meeting before ’Squire David
Rufller, of Madera, Friday night, Mrs.
Russell Doyle, teacher of the third room of
the Beccaria school, plead guilty to the
charge of assault and battery on the per-
son of Marsco Kopilchie, 12 year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kopilchic. She was
fined $30.25, the costs of the case.
—W. M. Grant Corbet, a well known
young farmer near New Castle, met with a
terrible death last week when he was at-
tacked by a bull while performing his du-
ties about the farm. The animal’s horns
pierced his neck, his skull was fractured
and his chest crushed. Corbet was a vet-
eran of the world war and was recently
married. He served with the army of oc-
cupation in Germany. His body was found
by his wife, who had gone to call him to
the house.
—It is estimated by the officials of the
Cambria Steel company quarry that 200,-
000 tons of rock were dislodged Saturday
at Naginey, in one blast. Seven holes
were drilled with 1,000 pounds of dyna-
mite in each hole. Each hole was drilled
down through the rock 80 feet and was set
back twenty-one feet from the face of the
quarry with seventeen feet of space be-
tween each hole. Box charges will be used
by the workmen in order that the large
pieces may be made small enough to han-
| dle.
' ——As the congregation of the Methodist
‘Episcopal church at Thempsontown, Juni-
‘ata county, filed out after the morning
‘| services on Sunday, flames broke out in
the basement of the structure. Turning
fire fighters, the congregation organized a
bucket brigade and attempted to extin-
guish the fire. Their efforts were futile
and the church burned to the 2 ground,
causing a loss estimated at from $10,000 to
$15,000. The parsonage built against the
church was saved through the efforts of
the fire fighters.
—Sergeant DD. H. Austin, of the Greens-
burg troop of the state police, was fined
$25 in Common Pleas court at Pittsburgh
on Monday for failure to obey a writ of
Wa
law, and was immediately arrested by Ser-
geant Austin on the state charge. Her at-
torney obtained the writ of habeas corpus,
which the trooper did not obey. In court
on Monday the habeas corpus matter was
disposed of by placing the woman under
$10,000 bail. She was at once rearrested by
Sergeant Austin and an additional bond
placed at $10,000.
—=Social functions during the Pinchot
administration will have to get along with
Frank P. Willits, Secretary of Agriculture,
in an ordinary dark business suit or else
get along without him. The new Secre-
tary of Agriculture told members of the
cabinet at a conference with the Governor
that he never owned a dress suit and did
not propose to own one now. “I guess I'm
long on farming, but short on society,” he
said. “I've lived or a farm all my life and
have worn out a good many dozen pairs of
overalls, but I never found it necessary
yet to get into a dress suit.” The dress
suit question, as far as Secretary Willits
is concerned, is closed.
—A workman on his way to lunch is pro-
tected by the State Workmen's Compensa-
tion act, Judge George S. Criswell has rul-
ed in Venango county court. He dismiss-
ed exceptions filed by Mrs. Margaret Flan-
nigan, of Oil City, Pa., against Day &
Zimmerman and the Liberty Insurance
company. The court directed that the full
amount of the award by the compensa-
tion insurance board be paid without de-
lay. This amounts to $8 a week for 300
weeks, with $100 for expense of last ill-
ness and burial, or $2500 in all, The hus-
band, Thomas Flannigan, met his death
while crossing the tracks of the Penn-
sylvania railroad while going to lunch.
— Pittsburgh police have decided that a
woman whose body was found in a bath-
room in the Anderson Hotel in that city
on Saturday morning, shot three times,
had committed suicide. There was noth-
ing about her to reveal her identity, her
only possession being two two-cent stamps.
She was not registered at the hotel, and
the employees said they never had seen
her before. She was about 30 years old,
was dressed in an expensive tailored suit
and had silk underwear. Another element
of interest was added to the mystery when
it was learned that an unidentified woman
suffering from alcoholism had been wan-
dering in the corridors of the hotel Fri-
day night and had been arrested not far
from the bathroom where the tragedy oc-
curred. Sh& was sent to a hospital for
questioning later.
— William Hope was shot dead in a
spectacular robbery of the Eagle's club, at
Charleroi, by seven masked bandits Mon-
day morning. The men escaped with mon-
ey and jewelry estimated at $5,000. The
authorities of three counties’ and the state
‘police are searching for the gang. Kigh-
‘teen men were sitting in the club shortly
after midnight, about to leave for ‘their
hontes. Seven men, dressed in black robes
and black hoods, walked into the room and
ordered them to throw up their hands.
Hope did not get his hands up as quickly
as the others, and one of the bandits shot
him through the head. While two of the
bandits covered the e¢lub members with
their pistols, the others searched them and
rifled the cash register. They then cut the
telephone wires and ran out, driving rap-
idly away in automobiles which, with mo-
tors running, had been left standing at the
curb.