- from his eyes and he is advocating a
“morning.
Bown
INK SLINGS.
—What Harrisburg needs right now
is some one who can discover some-
thing that could be taxed without
making a holler about it.
—1If, as the Public Ledger would
have us understand the Governor will
carry on just as effectively without
that $250,000 special fund for law en-
forcement as with it, what did he
want it for in the first instance.
—Such an eventuality as Woodrow
Wilson’s coming out for a modification
of the Volstead act in 1924 will sound
like the veriest rot to many of his ad-
mirers now, but news from inside
sources in Washington suggests the
possibility of such action on the part
of our former President.
—1If, as the astronomers claim, the
present cool weather is caused by the
dissipation of a lot of the spots that
have been accumulating on the sun for
the past ten years, we hope no more
disappear. After Wednesday night’s
experience we are pessimistic enough
to look for ice skating on the Fourth
of July.
—Cork hats are the latest fad for
men for summer wear and they are
said to be replacing straw at the east-
ern resorts because they are so much
lighter and also water-proof. The
average man should take kindly to the
novelty. He always did identify cork
as having to do with something that
goes to the head.
— The recently compiled list of the
twelve greatest American women in-
cludes not a one from New England,
which we have always been told is the
centre of grey matter in both sexes.
Pennsylvania furnishes two and might
lay claim to a third in the list, so we
are convinced that sausage and buck-
wheat cakes are quite as good brain
food as baked beans.
—Scientists are trying to worry us
with their notion that a few thousand
years hence the Earth will pass into
another glacial period and be covered
with ice entirely. If some of our
preacher friends who think that hell
is to be right here on earth there may
be a lot of people, a few thousand
years from now who’ll need all the ice
scientists are predicting.
— Last week Senator Vare told the
world that he would support Governor
Pinchot in everything possible. He
shouldn’t be held responsible for the
failure of Gif. to get that $250,000 for
special law enforcement through the
House. Bill Vare isn’t Ed, by any
means, and the Philadelphia delega-
tion wouldn’t take orders from him,
that’s all there was to it. Bill only
said he’d do everything possible. And
that was impossible.
—John Bull must have gotten out
ow
sent an ultimatum to Russia and
stingingly rebuked France for her
Ruhr position. Both questions are the
ones that we know the least about
but be that as it may every time some
one talks rough in Europe we begin to
worry about the millions of boys who
might be called from their peaceful
homes here to join their sleeping com-
rades in Flanders fields.
—James M. Cox is out for Hard-
ing’s proposal of a “World Court” and
Jim’s declaration now proves what we
contended two years ago that he was
a bigger, broader man than the Presi-
dent. Cox was for the League of Na-
tions when he knew. Harding was a
Senator then and against it because
he didn’t know. Having had his vis-
jon broadened by two years in the
White House the scales have fallen
World Court and Cox is for it.
If the lion cage that rolled over
the embankment on Linn street, on
Sunday, had tumbled clear down into
the old canal in all probability the two
beasts of the jungle would have es-
caped and taken to the woods. Then
for the next thirty years every wierd
noise heard in Central Pennsylvania
would be ascribable to one of those an-
imals from Main’s circus, just as they
are today the cries of some of those
that didn’t escape from the same cir-
cus when it wrecked at Gardner sta-
tion thirty years ago.
— Noises there are a plenty in this
hurly-burly, work-a-day life of ours.
All of them annoy. Many of them ir-
ritate and set our nerves on edge, but
who ever heard the rattle of a circus
wagon and called it an annoying or
irritating noise? The peculiar, woody
clatter of the wheels of the circus
wagon is a noise unlike any other you
have ever heard and it’s music to the
ears of young and old alike, whether
it be passing through the streets on
the way to the circus lot at five o’clock
in the morning or on parade at ten.
— Railroads are dying all over the
country and the communities that
have been damning them ever since
they were a year old are panic strick-
en over the corpses they have talked
to death. The Chicago, Peoria and St.
Louis, two hundred and thirty miles
long, is the latest one to go to the
junk pile because its workers refused
to run the trains for less money than
the communities they served would
pay for freight and passenger fares.
While knocking didn’t kill the Central
Railroad of Pennsylvania it had a lot
to do with it and the Nittany valley
has lost hundreds of thousands of dol-
lars through its abandonment. Knock-
ing has reduced the Bellefonte Central
to a shadow of itself and State College
and the western end of the county
Demo
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VY NYY
FRO
NX
VOL. 68.
STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 11. 1923.
Concrete Proof of Perfidy.
That Gifford Pinchot’s pretense of
Sowing Seeds of Anarchy.
The summary dismissal of the
reform is false and fraudulent be- charge of conspiracy to violate the
comes more apparent every day. He prohibition amendment and legisla-
was elected by fraudulent votes pur- tion by former State Senator W. C.
chased in violation of law with money | McConnell and others shows that the
contributed by himself and his family ‘machinery of the courts have been
for the purpose. Ever since his inau- prostituted to the base uses of the
side of the bed Tuesday
efoFe ot the a over he To
guration his office has been a trading
post for corrupt traffic in spoils. But
in spite of these obvious facts he pur-
sues his hypocritical way to promote
selfish ambitions. While bartering
with Vare to perpetuate corrupt gov-
ernment in Philadelphia he is deceiv-
ing the women’s clubs and religious
organizations into the belief that he
is striving with all his energy to en-
force the prohibition legislation.
Representatives Rhodes, of Monroe
county, Democratic leader in the
House, put up to the Governor the oth-
er day a proposition that is likely to
prove embarrassing, if it doesn’t actu-
ally “smoke him out.” During the
campaign last fall, in a speech deliv-
ered in Pittsburgh, the Kephart treas-
ury scandal was brought up. Mr. Pin-
chot then said: “As to any part of
this kind of mess which still remains
to be uncovered and dealt with I need
only repeat my pre-primary pledge to
recommend to the Legislature a legis-
lative investigation for the purpose of
uncovering any and all improper use
of State funds.” When Mr. Rhodes,
last week, introduced a resolution to
investigate the subject he appealed to
Pinchot to give it moral support. But
instead of such help Pinchot’s spokes-
men in the House hastened to “pickle”
it in the committee on Appropriations.
It would be impossible to present a
more concrete case of failure to ful-
fill reform pledges. A thorough and
searching investigation would reveal
all the crooked transactions in the of-
fice of the State Treasury during the
Kephart administration. It is well
known that Kephart’s plea of nolle
contendre was for the purpose of pre-
venting such an exposure, while Pin-
chot’s campaign pledge bound him to
reveal the facts. But instead of doing
that he set his friends in the Legisla-
ture to the dirty work of preventing
the exposure and thus securing the
participants in the crime from the
Ji,
this is covering up, if not actually
compounding a felony.
— Little progress is being made
toward the settlement of the trouble
between France and Germany, and it
is a safe guess that little will be ac-
complished until Germany shows some
disposition to be honest.
Senator Pepper Still Juggling.
Senator Pepper neglects no opportu-
nity to open a way to the back door
of the League of Nations. In a speech
before the Chamber of Commerce, of
Washington, Pennsylvania, on Monday
evening, he juggled figures of speech
so as to justify our refusal to enter
the League by the front door and
sneak in by the side entrance. The
front door, he intimates, presents me-
chanical difficulties and adds that the
difficulties may be overcome. “If the
thing itself is worth doing, and we
make up our minds to do it,” he said,
“a way will be found to do it wisely.”
The moulding of public opinion so that
the discussion of foreign relations
would center on fundamentals, is his
method of procedure.
That is a rather ambiguous state-
corrupt party machine of Pennsylva-
‘nia. Only a week previously the Kep-
‘hart trial in Harrisburg was turned
into a farce with the consent of the
Attorney General for the palpable
purpose of protecting the criminals
concerned in that operation. This
equally plain miscarriage of justice in
the United States district court at
Philadelphia proves that the evil is
not limited to one locality, but exists
generally and in Federal as well as
State courts.
Judge Hargest, of the Dauphin
‘county court, was not altogether to
blame for the fiasco which meted out
to a recreant and perfidious public
official a penalty which might be ex-
pected for assault and battery. The
Attorney General, who is the voice of
‘the Governor in such matters had giv-
en it his approval. Judge Thompson,
who presided at the trial of McCon-
nell and his partners in crime in the
Federal court in Philadelphia, was not
to blame for the farce perpetrated in
his court. The district attorney, some-
how or other lost inculpating evidence
from his office to such an extent that
proof of the facts was impossible.
| But these two incidents taken to-
gether reveal the menace to public or-
der which the corrupt party machine
{of Pennsylvania involves. There can
‘be no civil government when the agen-
Icies of justice are corrupted. Ballot
box frauds go unpunished and prac-
‘tically get the approval of the high
| officials who are benefitted by them.
'Crimes against the laws are patched
over by corrupt officials so that the
perpetrators are almost, or altogether,
immune from punishment. And yet
‘men and women wonder that there is
discontent and disorder in the com-
munities in which such things are pos-
sible. In these mistrials in Pennsyl-
vania there were sown more seeds of
anarchy than a rank Russian red
could distribute in a life time
— S—
e see no reason to worry over
the possibility of Henry Ford running
for President. The experience of Sen-
ator Newberry is sufficient admonition
to a business man against commercial
polities.
No Additional Taxes Needed.
There is no just reason on earth for
‘additional taxation in Pennsylvania at
this time. It is true that the criminal
profligacy of the last two Republican
administrations of the State govern-
ment has plunged the Commonwealth
into a deep ocean of debt. But a ful-
fillment of the promises made by Gov-
'ernor Pinchot before his election
last fall will discharge all obliga-
tions of the past and meet all the ex-
penses of the present without a dollar
of additional burden upon the people.
Last week we expressed the belief
that the Democrats in the General As-
‘sembly would prevent any additional
‘levy. Now we are only hopeful of this
‘achievement. The Republican majori-
ty, hungry for spoils, may force addi-
tional tax legislation.
Without the least impairment of
‘machinery of government it is easily
possible to save ten million dollars a
Hall
ment of the matter. Of itself it means year in administering the government
nothing. But it may be inferred that of the State. Without a cent of ad-
what he means is that the discussion ditional expenses the existing revenue
of foreign relations should be open
and in simple language so that it
would be within “the comprehension
of the men in the street.” That would
be fine. It must have been the thought
uppermost in Woodrow Wilson’s mind
when he was framing the covenant of
the League of Nations. There is no
finer example of that sort of action
and language. But it doesn’t satisfy
Pepper. “Just because our foreign
policy must be one easily understood
by all,” he said, “so it is essential that
everybody should learn to look the
facts squarely in the face and do some |
thinking on his own account.”
Obviously Senator Pepper’s purpose
is to confuse the public mind and to
that end he leads into a forest of ver-
biage from which there is no line out.
The British have a clearer conception
of things, he imagines, or at least de-
clares. “The Americans and the Brit-
ish looked upon the League of Na-
tions from different standpoints,” he
said, “the American taking it literally,
while the English, like Lord Robert
Cecil, for example, put little stress on
the letter of the covenant. But the
English,” he continued, “have a gen-
ius for taking almost any kind of for-
mula and making something out of
it.” He might have added that the
Republican Senators revealed a gen-
ius for stupidity in the matter of the
League.
——The Legislature of West Vir-
can’t appraise the loss they would suf-
fer should the line be abandoned and
the P. R. R. fail to build a spur to car-
ry heavy freight to that section.
ginia has reduced the salary of the
Governor from ten to eight thousand
dollars a year, but there are no profes-
sional uplifters in action down there.
{laws might be made to yield five mil-
{lion dollars more in revenue. In less
than four years that saving and that
| improvement in collection would cov-
{er the forty million dollars already
stolen from the treasury and distrib-
‘uted among the spoilsmen and the
'current expenses of government dur-
ing the period. The proposed addi-
i tional tax is simply to enable Gover-
| nor Pinchot to aspire to higher honors
‘as a phenomenal administrator, while
the people are forced to “pay the
freight.”
It may be safely said that the Dem-
‘ocratic Senators and Representatives
in the General Assembly will do their
‘best to prevent this outrage on the tax
| payers. There may be one or two de-
linquents in the group who are influ-
enced by selfish considerations to aid
la vicious conspiracy. But most of
them will be faithful to their obliga-
tions, their party policies and politic-
al traditions. Additional taxation at
this time is legalized robbery of the
people. There is need for adjustment
‘and equalization of taxes, but none for
increased taxes. But the ambitions of
the Governor and the lust for spoils of
the Republican machine leaders, vast-
ly in the majority in the Legislature,
may compass the crime.
——The bees of the United States
produced 250,000,000 pounds of honey
last year, which shows they are doing
their best to beat the sugar trust.
Anyway, Ford didn’t get ahead
of Rockerfeller by cutting wages and
increasing prices of his products.
| Concerning Prohibition Enforcement.
Governor Silzer, of New Jersey, cre-
ated consternation at a meeting of the
Federation of Women’s clubs of that
State, at Atlantic City, the other day,
when he asked all women present who
had not violated the Volstead act or
seen it violated in their own homes, to
rise. Less than forty per cent. of the
women present responded to the chal-
lenge, thus establishing the presump-
tion that a considerable majority of
those who advocate obedience to the
law are themselves violators of it.
The speaker then added: “How can
you expect to enforce prohibition on
the rest of the country when it is not
being enforced at Washington?” Cur-
rent rumors make that inquiry entirg-
ly relevant.
These rumors based on statements
made in Congress indicate an entire
absence of respect for the provisions
of the Volstead law in official life in
Washington. Drinking is said to be
common in homes of Senators, Repre-
sentatives, diplomats and bureau
heads and even cabinet officers have
been accused, in whispers, of serving
wines and liquors on festive occa-
sions. Of course no efforts were made
to verify or refute the statements,
though congressional investigations
were suggested, The boot-legging in-
dustry in th& congressional office
buildings is too well protected and
serves its patrons too well to be thus
jeopardized. Even the prohibition
agents are too wise to interfere.
But a new complication has arisen
that may alter conditions at the cap-
ital somewhat. President Poincare, of
France, has filed a protest against the
literal interpretation of the recent Su-
preme court decision that foreign
ships may not bring liquors into
American ports, even closely sealed,
and the President is inclined to yield
in so far as to apply the law “with
that consideration for other nations
that belongs to international comi-
ty.” Of course that means that for-
eign ships coming into ports in this
country will not be too closely scru-
tinized and if it happens that they
have on board more or less of the “joy
of life” the inspectors will be blind.
But Governor Silzer is everlastingly
The movement for promotion of
more adequate transportation inaugu-
rated by the Pennsylvania System
should meet with the encouragement
and co-operation of every one. The
time has come for the public to boost
instead of knocking our transporta-
tion systems. With the burdens put
upon them by organized labor and the
restrictions imposed by the legislation
of the past eight years, together with
the breaks made in organization and
morale by the war the railroads have
been struggling to readjust them-
selves to the new order of things.
Gradually they are emerging from the
maize of operative bewilderment into
which they have been kicked by the
use to it than a “houn dawg.”
pense and with the net constantly
falling it is rather an heroic under-
taking for the Pennsy to propose more
adequate transportation. It can pro-
mote it only with public co-operation.
Let us all give it that.
Evidently our Presbyterian
friends are fearful that Mr. Bryan
may do to their church what he did to
the Democratic party. They are fight-
ing to keep him from becoming Mod- |
erator of their coming General Assem-
bly for fear he may cause a split in
the church. Strange as it may seem
in his church fight Mr. Bryan is a con-
servative whereas always in politics
he is progressive. And we are with
him in his advocacy of the simple
faith of our fathers. The application
of the teachings of Christ might be
as Dr. Fosdick would have the Pres-
byterians do.
Up to yesterday it appeared
that tobacco and gasoline will have to
be the goats to bear new revenue rais-
ers for the State. The House report-
ed out a bill which puts one cent ad-
ditional on a gallon of gas and five
per cent. on the retail price of cigars,
cigarettes and chewing gum, with
three per cent. on other forms of to-
bacco.
— One thing may be said in favor
of the marathon dancing craze, and
that is it didn’t last as long as some
other fool evils that preceded it.
——The idea that it is more impor-
tant to preserve the health of men,
women and children than trees is gain-
ing ground in Pennsylvania.
— Sugar refiner Claus Spreckles
calls Herbert Hoover “a political cha-
meleon” and thus wins the medal as
the best guesser.
—————— A ————————
—Tuesday’s rain helped a lot, but
three days of it would help more.
Education in the Presidency.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It is unfortunate that more of our
statesmen cannot have the advantages
of a Presidential education. The cur-
riculum covers four years, and the
number of students is limited to one.
But the educational influences extend
somewhat beyond the President; they
ought to be of very great advantage
to the Cabinet, and through Adminis-
traticn influences ought to bear fruit
in Congress and in the nation at large.
A Washington dispatch in “The Rec-
ord,” giving on the authority of the
White House the information that the
President will not make a personal is-
sue of the World Court project, says:
It was added that Mr. Harding
was firmly convinced no President
could leave the White House with
a belief that the United States
can, or should, remain aloof from
the rest of the world. The Presi-
dent was represented as holding
that ‘phases of international rela-
tions arising every day bring the
realization that there is no es-
cape from intercourse with the
rest of the world.
The President has been attending
the White House school of Interna-
tional Relations for a little more than
two years, and he has learned a great
deal. As a Senator he would never
have learned it, and his campaign
speeches three years ago gave no evi-
dence of his comprehension of what
he is now perfectly convinced of. The
information flows directly to him;
the responsibility rests upon him; he
understands things that he never un-
derstood till he entered upon the Pres-
idency.
We have already drawn attention to
the similar phenomenon in the case of
William McKinley, who, as chairman
of the Ways and Means committee,
had the most narrow and parochial
conceptions of international trade.
When his own tariff bill was pending
he stood out for two weeks against the
effort of Mr. Blaine’s friends in the
Senate to fasten a reciprocity section
upon the bill. When the Dingley bill
was drawn he was President, and the
bill provided for very extensive reci-
procity arrangements, some of which
i required the consent of the Senate and
‘some did not. Mr. McKinley took full
advantage of the authorization of the
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
Announcement that a drive for a §1,-
000,000 endowment for Grove College, at
Grove City, Pa., is causing great interest
‘among the students.
__Internal injuries he received when a
belt slipped from a pulley at the plant of
the Bloomsburg Furniture company and
struck him in the stomach, caused the
death on Monday of Albert Tinsley, aged
17 years, of Espy.
Plant No. 1 of the Conewango Refining
company at Warren, was damaged to the
amount of about $600,000 by a fire that
started at noon Tuesday, presumably from
a spark from a shifting engine. Lewis
Johnson, an émployee, was severely burn-
ed when a large petrolatum tank exploded.
—Ray H. Rossman, of Spring Mills, em-
ployed as a brakeman on the Williamsport
division of the Pennsylvania railroad, was
seriously injured on Sunday when his foot
caught in the mechanism of a switch as he
was about to board his train, He was
thrown to the ground and struck by the
tool box of an engine.
—TFollowing a decision by General
George W. Goethals to accept an appoint-
ment as consulting engineer to plan for the
elimimation of grade crossings on the Read-
ing Railway at Reading, the city council
has passed a resolution employing General
Goethals at $1500 for a week of six days,
and at $250 a day for any subsequent time
he is engaged.
— Charles F. Leibrich, aged 72, of Titus-
ville, died late Saturday night following
burns sustained on the body when he was
assisting in fighting a grass fire near his
home. Mr, Leibrich was one of the oldest,
if not the oldest member of International
Typographical Union of America, having
been a member of the union for fifty years.
He had served four years as police mag-
istrate of Titusville.
—TLouis Rabananowitz is in jail at Pitts-
burgh charged by Harry Lowenthal as be-
ing the man who robbed him of $800 at
Harrisburg, last October. Lowenthal caus-
ed the arrest of Rabananowitz when he
met the man in a restaurant. According
to Lowenthal he recognized Rabananowitz
as the man who forced him to stop his au-
tomobile and then robbed him. The pris-
oner has been held without bail pending an
investigation.
—Alex Young, a negro aged 30 years,
was killed when a bucket in which he was
being lifted out of a mine shaft at Sykes-
ville, Jefferson county, one day last week,
tilted near the top of the hole and drop-
ped him a distance of 230 feet to the bot-
tom. Death was instantaneous. A post
mortem examination showed nearly every
bone in his body had been broken. Young
was employed by a contracting concern
making repairs to the mines.
—A call to become their pastor has been
extended by the Upper and Lower Tusca-
rora Presbyterian churches in the Acade-
mia section of Juniata county to the Rev.
Joseph M. Woods, of Lewistown, soon to
finish his studies in the theological semi-
nary at Princeton. The Rev. Mr. Woods
is the youngest son of the late Judge
Joseph M. Woods, who was a pioneer
pdary” judge in Pennsylvania, when he pre-
!sided over the courts of Bedford, Hunt-
ingdon and Mifflin counties.
law, but all the agreements which in- | —Barricading himself in the house of
{volved the ratification of the Senate Charles Floberdale, near Fairchance, Fay-
r ette county, Paul Kaiser terrorized the
failed; the Senate was still gh all
(of bitterness and the bonds of ini mily by firing bullets dangerously close
y. o TER ies LE sR SA
f Mr. McKinley made many speeches | children prisoners in an upstairs room.
of a commercial character while he He riddled the inside of the house with
was President, and in all of them, es- bullets, according to county detective John
pecially in the one delivered two days | Russell, who was compelled to use the
before he was shot, he insisted on butt end of his revolver to subdue Kaiser.
more liberal commercial relations with The neighborhood was aroused by the
foreign countries. The Presidency had | shrieking of the children and the report
5 ten aud for a time held several Small |
public as though they were no more
Oper- '
ating revenues have been increasing,
but not in proportion to operating ex- |
modernized but never the principles, '
taught him a great deal. It is teach-
ing Mr. Harding a great deal. But
My. McKinley made no impression up-
on his party.
_ Whether Mr. Harding can make any
impression we shall not know. till next
winter, and perhaps not until next
year. Chief Justice Taft knows how
hard it is to win the Senate from the
ways of war to those of peaceful set-
tlement of controversies. He failed
with the Senate, just as Mr. McKinley
had done, and as Mr. Wilson did later.
Millions.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Henry Ford, it is reported, is the
richest man in the world. The state-
ment is based on assets of more than
half a billion dollars for the Ford Mo-
tor company, listed with the Massa-
chusetts Commissioner of Corpora-
tions. One of the outstanding ro-
mances of American industrial life is
the story of Ford’s rise to affluence and
influence from the day twenty years
ago when he and his wife tried in vain
to get credit for $1.50 from a Detroit
shopkeeper when they wanted a chick-
en for their Sunday dinner.
At the same time the wires bring
the story of a bequest of $1,000,000
to a boy of fourteen. He must wait
till he comes of age to get it; but for
ithe next seven years he will be aware
that when he is twenty-one he comes
into a fortune by no exertion of his
own, except to sign on a dotted line.
{ Ford, starting with nothing and work-
ing up with pertinacity and unremit-
ting application, sets a more whole-
some example than that of his mere
inheritance of great riches.
No Limit to Taxation.
From the Clearfield Republican.
| With the State piling on additional
millions of taxes, the counties, the
borough and townships and the school
following suit, the property owner has
only one way out and that is to move
over into Ohio, where there is a rea-
sonable limit fixed by law, above which
no taxing authority can go. Ohio
property is taxed less than one-half
what Pennsylvania property pays and
has been paying for years and years.
The taxing system in this State is a
relic of the feudal days, when the serf
carried all of the burden. Then if the
| people received anything like adequate
i return for the tax levied and collected
there might be a semblance of con-
tentment.
| ——The United States will never
consent to any league or convention
|in the interest of world peace so long
as corporations that make profits out
of wars control the Republican party.
—If Lasker can only devise a
method of getting the liquor to the
three mile line he will be able to re-
open the bars on government ships.
of the numerous shots.
—DMrs. Anna Miller, 78 years old, of Ma-
pleton, widow of David B. Miller, started
a fire in her range early one morning last
week, using kerosene to hasten its pro-
gress. The fire communicated with her
clothing, and in shrieking agony she fled
for help into a bedroom, where 14 year old
Dora Querry was dressing. The latter's
clothes ignited, and she rushed into the
street screaming and tearing them from
her, thus saving her life. Mrs. Miller was
so badly burned that she became uncon-
scious and died in a short time.
—Shot by her sweetheart, who killed him-
self after she had: refused to marry him
immediately, Miss Edna Brown, of Hast-
ings, Pa., a nurse, died at the Passavant
hospital, in Pittsburgh, early on Saturday.
The shooting occurred at the nurses’ home
last Tuesday night. Stephen Mamula, a
bank clerk, the rejected suitor, died in-
stantly when a bullet pierced his heart.
When Mamula’'s body was taken to the
morgue two insurance policies for $1000
each, payable to “Miss Edna Brown, my
future wife,” were found in his coat pocket.
— Elmer E. Persun, aged fifty-eight
vears, was drowned Saturday evening in
the Susquehanna river, within sight of his
home, near Williamsport. Persun lived in
a cabin along the bank of the river and
was bringing a boatload of stone across
when the boat began to sink. Realizing
his danger he shouted for help and jumped
from the boat. Men put off from the shore
in boats to aid him and he swam toward
the shore. Before they reached him he
went down. His body was found later,
face down, in water two feet deep, close to
his own home,
— Three years of litigation by W. P. Un-
ger, attorney and banker, against the
Edgewood garage, at Shamokin, seeking to
have the establishment declared a public
nuisance and removed from its present lo-
cation, fell flat when Judge Strouss in the
Northumberland county court on Monday
handed down an opinion dismissing his
| proceedings and directing that the garage
pay the costs. Unger, whose home adjoins
the plant, brought injunction proceedings
to restrain the owners of the establishment
from building an addition and to have the
place declared a nuisance and removed
from that location.
— Mrs. William 8S. McCord 38 years old,
of Lewistown, sustained a fracture of the
skull late last Friday when her hair caught
in the shaft of an electric machine. Mrs.
MeCord, who has an ice cream parlor and
confectionery store in Lewistown, had
stooped over to mop some water that had
dripped on the floor when her wealth of
hair caught in the shaft that drives the
washer. Each stroke of the machine
brought her head in closer contact with the
shaft until finally the steel pin that con-
nects it with the drive wheel was pressed
into her scalp. Frank Shreffler, a freight
conductor on the Pennsylvania railroad,
who resides next door, heard her screams
and running into the house shut down the
motor and released the injured woman.
While her injuries are serious she has a
chance to recover.