Bemorrali alm
INK SLINGS.
—Certainly this has been an unusu-
al season. Our colored brethren had
their picnic on Wednesday and it
didn’t rain.
—Did you know that when Presi-
dent Coolidge ran for the Senate in
Massachusetts he ran on a “wet” tick-
et? And he was elected.
—Every time our venerable colored
friend, Leander Green, informs us
that he is desirous of a “very private”
conversation we know we are in for a
“touching” incident.
—Of one thing we are absolutely
certain; If nobody else wants the
next nomination for President on the
Republican = ticket either George
Wharton Pepper or Gifford Pinchot
will take it.
—Pancho Villa’s death removed one
of the biggest causes of Mexican un-
rest and it may be that the capture
of Eamonn De Valera, which was an-
nounced yesterday, may bring tran-
quility to Ireland.
—Pity the kids! Congratulate the
mothers! In three weeks all the lit-
tle ones will be back in school and it
will be back to the simple life for the
old lady and an occasional nap in
peace for the old man.
—Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who hap-
pens to be overseer of Zion, the city
that Dowie built, is trying to make us
believe that the world is flat and prob-
ably all those as flat headed as Wil-
bur will agree that he is right.
—Another reason why the Volstead
act should be cheerfully respected is
that statistics show that the average
cost of water to the consumer is only
twelve cents a ton, whereas the same
amount of “moonshine” would cost
six thousand dollars, at least.
—One of the questions that puzzles
us a lot is why don’t the coal miners
and the coal operators talk their trou-
bles over in March and April instead
of August and September? Why do
they always stage their fights for the
eve of winter? There is a reason, of
course, and we think the time has
come when the public should no long-
er stand for it.
—The new President has been func-
tioning a week or more and on Tues-
day gave out his first real interview
to the Washington newspaper men.
What Cal. said then wouldn’t fill more
than two or three sticks, but what
might be read between the lines of
what he did express would fill col-
umns and columns if the conjectures
of all the worried Republicans were
to be sent in for copy.
The interesting part of the Mary
Miles Minter fight with her mother is ;
the admission, on Mary’s part, that
she is past twenty-one. Personally,
we think Mary must have been a very
good little girl to have given all her
great earnings in moviedom to the old
lady up to the time she reached her
majority, but she soars far beyond
goodness when she publicly admits
that she is now really more than six-
teen.
—The world must move on. Yes-
terday we were bent under the blow
that was struck in San Francisco.
Today Warren Gamaliel Harding is
only a memory. Even the news of his
widow, who is packing up his treas-
ures in the White House, for ship-
ment back to the little city of Marion,
is crowded on the inside pages. The
world is not fickle. It must move on
and sometimes it remembers. It will
remember Harding. Most, because he
was a christian man.
—Always we have played the role
of peace maker but if we can do any-
thing to help along this gasoline war
lead us to it. At the present price here,
twenty-five cents the gallon, we can
afford only one ride a week. More
power to the Governor of South Dako-
ta, who started it. He got sixteen cent
gas for his constituents. What’s Giff.
going to do for us? - Maybe, call the
Legislature back into extra session to
put two or three more cents tax on it
so he can get more money to run the
State cheaper than it has ever been
run before.
—When it comes down to really ex-
plaining the success of Henry Ford
let us tell you this: He gets more
free publicity than any living man
and publicity for Henry is publicity
for Lizzie. Just now he is an epheme-
ral candidate for President and a real
grabber off of columns of newspaper
space that doesn’t tost him a cent.
Really Henry would get more return
in actual advertising if he were never
more than a candidate than he would
earn if he should happen to run and
be elected President of this great and
glorious country of ours.
—Everybody seems to. be doing it
now. Within the week half a dozen
new candidates have shied their hats
into the political ring and next Sep-
tember 18th promises to be a busy
day in Centre county; especially
among the Republicans. It may not
be the closest but certainly the most
interesting contest will be that be-
tween Gehret, Heverly and Burket
for nomination on the Republican
ticket for treasurer. Up to the time
of the Burket entry it was a plain or-
ganization versus Pinchot battle, with
Gehret carrying the organization
symbol, but the gentleman from
Stormstown is an organization man,
also, and has the claim of once hav-
ing sacrificed himself on the party al-
tar. If Burket should divide Gehret’s
following then Heverly might slip in
as a Pinch-hitter.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
When Penrose is Missed.
Political gossip indicates confusion
and uncertainty among the Republi-
can bosses of Pennsylvania. The sup-
port of Mr. Harding for renomination
had become a settled fact, though
there was little enthusiasm on the
subject. At a meeting of the congres-
sional delegation, held at Atlantic
City less than a year ago, an adverse
purpose was expressed. At a later
meeting held at the hotel of Congress-
man Keiss this purpose was reversed
and it was agreed to support the Pres-
ident. Upon his death the uncertain-
ty returned. A considerable number
of the followers of Roosevelt entertain
a kindly feeling toward Senator John-
son, of California, and there is renew-
ed talk of the entrance of Governor
Pinchot into the race.
Immediately following the death of
the late President, Senator Pepper and
Governor Pinchot held several confer-
ences at Washington and it is said that
exceedingly friendly and intimate re-
lations have been established between
them. The question of prohibition en-
forcement in Pennsylvania is said to
have been the principal subject of dis-
cussion at these conferences but some
time was given to the consideration
of politics. On the subject of prohi-
bition enforcement Senator Pepper is
said to have come into complete agree-
! m2nt with the ideas of the Governor,
i and upon every other subject the Gov-
| ernor expressed unequivocal acqui-
i escence in the views of the Senator.
| What is likely to result from this mu-
tual understanding is left to conjec-
ture.
It may be assumed, however, that if
Governor Pinchot becomes a candidate
for the Presidential nomination Sen-
ator Pepper will give him his support,
and on the other hand if Senator Pep-
per should “cast his hat into the are-
na,” and there is a growing impres-
sion that he is anxious to do so, the
Governor will try to get him the unan-
imous support of the Pennsylvania
delegation in the convention. ' Both
know that it is only an empty compli-
ment, for the party leaders feel that
the vote of Pennsylvania is safe in
any event and the eandidate will be
taken from a section in which local
pride will create a boosting sentiment.
It is in such a erisis as this that Boies
Penrose is missed. If he were living
there would be no uncertainty.
——1Ireland is to be admitted into
the League of Nations on equal terms
with other member nations. In this
fact there is “food for reflection” in
the minds of those Irish-Americans
who opposed the league.
Germany Has a New Chancellor.
The resignation of Chancellor Cuno
and the organization of a new cabi-
net in Germany does not inspire great
hope of a speedy settlement of the
troubles in the Fatherland. Chancel-
lor Cuno did the best he could in the
circumstances and his successor in of-
fice, Dr. Stresemann, is not likely to
accomplish more. The trouble with
Germany, if it lies within the German
border, is ascribable to the industrial
leaders. France and Belgium believe
that they could pay the indemnities if
they wanted to, and that opinion is
shared by a vast number of people
outside of France and Belgium. The
invasion of Germany is the result of
this conviction, and the new Chancel-
lor is not likely to change the policy.
The invasion has not helped France
a great deal but it has injured Germa-
ny very much. The French hope that
in the long run it will achieve the pur-
pose for which it was undertaken,
that in the course of time Germany
will take steps that at least will indi-
cate a desire to fulfill its obligations
under the treaty of Versailles. But
the confusion and discontent of the
laboring element discourages this
hope, and meantime the cost of main-
tenance of the invasion is threatening
the solvency of France, while that fact
together with the attitude of Great
Britain is encouraging Germany to
adhere to her poliey of - resistance.
What is needed is a change of public
sentiment in Germany rather than a
new cabinet.
The new Chancellor is said to be
eloquent and capable. But he is iden-
tified with the element which is said
to have influenced his predecessor in
office. In other words, he has been as-
sociated with the industrial activities
since the war, and presumably with
Stinnes and the Krupp crowd. He is
president of the German-American
Economic league and has been striv-
ing to create trade relations with the
United States, which will be helpful.
But activities in that direction, how-
ever capably managed, will not reduce
the excessive cost of living or feed
the hungry stomachs of idle and riot-
ous laborers. Some action that will
accomplish those results is nécessary
to restore order and prosperity in
Germany. :
——— lp ———
——It is nevertheless true that he
who laughs first has an equal chance
with the other fellow to laugh last
and best.
BELLEFON
Forestalling the Rabble.
A formidable movement has already
been started in Washington to make
President Coolidge the Republican
nominee next year. It may be safely
said that this action is not inspired by
affection for the new President, or in
appreciation of his past service, or be-
cause of his eminent fitness for the
office. The party leaders may be very
fond of him, and he may have given
valuable service to the party and the
country and be splendidly equipped
for the great office. But none of these
elements entered into the equation in
starting the Coolidge boom for the
succession so soon after his induction
into the Presidency. The paramount
reason for the movement is to head
off the other fellows.
Probably the first thought that oc-
curred to the mind of the average Re-
publican Senator and Representative
in Congress after the death of Presi-
dent Harding was that there would be
a horde of ambitious misfits rising up
in all sections of the country clamor-
ing for the party favor, causing all
kinds of trouble and confusion. There
is LaFollette, Hi. Johnson, Lowden,
Leonard Wood, who gave so much
trouble the last time; Herbert Hoover,
Wadsworth, Borah, Pinchot and last,
but most menacing, Jim Watson, of
Indiana. With all these jockeying for
place in an unfriendly race for the
nomination the convention would de-
generate into a bedlam out of which
enmities would necessarily flow freely
and last long.
So the “wise guys” of the party
hurriedly put their heads together and
evolved a plan to put Coolidge into
the running in the hope that it would
stall all others off. They reason just-
ly that the office holders will carry the
votes of the south to the convention in
their vest pockets, that New England
will be influenced by local considera-
tions and the office holders of the west
and north will be able to lasso enough
additional votes to make up a major-
ity. It’s a great scheme if it works
out, and Coolidge proves as docile as
they hope he is. But in the event that
he should disappoint their expecta- |
tions there will he “hell to pay.and no
pitch hot.” = Still there is plenty of
time to find out. ec
——The Governor continues to
complain that the Legislature failed
to provide adequate revenues to meet
the proper expenses of the State. Yet
in the beginning of his administration
he declared no new revenues would be
necessary.
Smoot Convinces Smoot.
Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, has
returned from Europe where he had
been on a visit of observation. Some
time ago Senator Johnson, of Califor-
nia; Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
and several other radically inclined
statesmen announced their intentions
to go abroad to study and possibly
correct the political and industrial
troubles over there. It is said that
the late President Harding asked
Smoot to make the journey, also, with
the view probably of counteracting,
or else confirming the reports which
they might make. Smoot returned on
Monday and reports conditions quite
as bad as reported by his colleague
from California.
To an interviewer on his arrival in
New York Senator Smoot stated that
“unless there is an economic read-
justment in central Europe there will
be another war. Conditions cannot
exist much longer as they are. The
hatred between France and Germany
is intense.. I think it best for the
countries of Europe to get around a
table and settle their affairs without
American participation.” As Jack
Bunsby would say “the walue of this
obserwation lies in the application
on’t.” In other words it would be ea-
sy to adjust the troubles of Europe if
the disputants in the disputes were in
a frame of mind to “get around a ta-
ble and settle their affairs.”
But unhappily the countries of Eu-
rope are not in that frame of mind.
When the fighting in France and
Flanders ended nearly five years ago
all Europe was ready and anxious for
just that sort of session but the Re-
publicans in the United States Senate,
including Smoot, under the malign in-
fluence of Henry Cabot Lodge, set
their faces against such an easy and
rational way of adjusting their trou-
bles and settling their disputes. The
peace congress held at Versailles laid
the lines for such an issue of the trou-
ble. But for the reason that the rat-
ification of the treaty might redound
to the glory of Woodrow Wilson it
was defeated. !
Prsident Coolidge felt it neces-
sary to take long walks before break-
fast while his office was in the hotel.
Now that he occupies the White
House he will find the lawn mower a
splendid matutinal appetizer,
——————e—————————— '
——Possibly a coal strike next
month may be averted but the mine
owners will not make the necessary
concessions.
Conditions in Two Wars.
In the interesting feature, “Twenty-
five Years Ago Today,” published in
the Philadelphia Record recently, we
find these statements: ‘Charges were
made by the medical department of
the army that the entire Santiago ex-
pedition under General Shafter was
bungled as far as any care for the
troops was concerned. Surgeon Gen-
eral Sternberg made public the report
of Captain Munson, who stated that
no medical-supplies were landed from
the transports. * * * Attempts
made by members of the House and
the Senate to investigate Secretary of
troops were blocked by administration
leaders.”
‘In the issue of July 26th is the
statement that “advices received in
Washington stated that unless some-
thing was done to stop the spread of
yellow fever in the American troops
at Santiago, the army would be una-
ble to undertake the fall campaign.”
In the issue of July 27th appears:
“General Shafter’s report on the
spread of yellow fever stated that
there had been 639 new cases during
the day, making a total of 3770 fever
victims.” July 28th, “822 new cases
of yellow fever among the American
troops were reported, making a total
of 4122 under treatment.” July 30th:
General Shafter’s official report on the
spread of yellow fever among the
American troops at Santiago report-
ed a total of 4279 which approximat-
ed over one-fourth of his entire com-
mand.” August 4th: “The command-
ers of troops under General Shafter
signed and presented him with a
“Round Robin” statement that the ar-
my at Santiago must be moved or it
would perish as less than ten per cent.
of the troops were fit for duty.”
The army referred to and the troops
mentioned in these dispatches of twen-
ty-five years ago were the army and
troops engaged in the Spanish-Amer-
‘ican war of 1898. There were a couple
of hundred thousand of them in all
d the operations were conducted un-
r a Republican administration. With
ypproximately four millions, half of
which served across the sea in trench-
es, there was less sickness and no ep-
idemics, for the reason mainly that
under intelligent and efficient man-
agement such evils were averted. Yet
there are men in and out of Congress
who have the temerity to say that the
American troops in that war were not
properly managed or cared for.
Are — A —————
——A new candidate has jumped
into the political arena as a Republi-
can candidate for County Commission-
er in the person of John A. Way, of
Halfmoon township. Mr. Way was in
Bellefonte on Monday and in speaking
of his candidacy stated that while he
is a little late in publicly announcing
his candidacy he has not been sleep-
ing meantime. It has been a good
many years since Halfmoon township
has been represented in the court
house ring and it remains to be seen
how much recognition Mr. Way will
get this fall from his party voters.
——From the Perry County Demo-
crat we learn that John Bartruff, of
New Bloomfield, is a candidate for As-
sociate Judge in Perry county and as-
suming that he is the same John that
a number of years ago lived in. Belle-
fonte and sold buggies and other ve-
hicles we hasten to extend our best
wishes for his success.
——— ee ——————
——Since printed pictures show
that Edison wears a vest in mid-sum-
mer we are no longer surprised at
some of his opinions on other things
than electricity.
——It must be admitted that mo-
torists get a large share of the bene-
fits of good roads but they pay a gen-
erous toll for what they get. y
——With Magnus Johnson states-
manship is to be only a “side line.”
While he is in the Senate his wife will
run the farm.
——The value of the office of Vice
President increases every time a Pres-
ident dies while in office.
——Grover Bergdoll has reached
the first page again but this time it
wasn’t his own fault.
————— pp ——————————
——There will be a meeting of the
Fish and Game association of Belle-
fonte and vicinity, in the court house,
Wednesday evening, August 22nd, at
8 o’clock, to discuss the distribution of
fish and game for the coming season.
Mr. Mosher will be present and have
something of interest to tell you.
‘ at
——The fifth tournament of the
Susquehanna trapshooter’s league will
be held in Mifflinburg on August 22nd
instead of at Milton, as originally
scheduled. t
I ——————— i ——————
——The colored Masons picnicked
at Hecla park on Wednesday.
TE, PA., AUGUST 17. 1923.
War Alger’s actions in the award of |
! clothing and food contracts for the
NO. 32.
Calendar Gives New Election Code.
Ten new election laws are summar-
ized in the annual issue of the “Po-
litical Calendar,” issued by George D.
Thorn, superintendent of elections,
department of State and Finance, the
Commonwealth’s election expert.
Among the new laws is the Absen-
tee Voters Act, which provides that
voters who expect to be absent una-
voidedly from the county on the day
of the primary or the election, may
apply not more than thirty days and
not less than three days next preced-
ing the election days, to the County
Commissioners of the county in which
they reside, for a certificate of quali-
fication and an official absentee vot-
er’s ballot.
The other new election laws, passed
by the 1923 Legislature, are: An act
| providing that a candidate nominated
# army in the great war of 1917 of | j
-at a primary may withdraw his name
by filing a request in writing, duly
acknowledged, with the Secretary of
State at least twenty-five days prior
i to a municipal election and fifty days
prior to a general election.
An act repealing an act of 1834 ex-
empting women from arrest and im-
prisonment for the non-payment of
taxes.
An act amending an act of 1839 by
providing for pay of justices of the
peace for keeping ballot boxes at the
rate of $3 a year for one ballot box
and $1 for each additional box.
PRIMARY DATE CHANGED.
An act changing the date of the
September primary, in Presidential
years, from the third Tuesday of May
to the fourth Tuesday of Apel
An act providing that when any of
the members of the computing board
of election returns are candidates for
office and not qualified to act, the re-
maining officer or officers who are not
candidates shall perform the duties of
the board. : 3
An act amending. the act providing
for computing the votes for candi-
dates at the primary when the County
Commissioners, the judges or judge, or
Prothonotary, are disqualified to act
by reason of their being candidates, by
providing that the sheriff shall act as
the return board.
An act amending an act of 1919,
which provided for the registration in
cities of the first and second class of
ersons smbloyed in the service of the
tate or the Federal government, by
[) | 3 £0
employee In the
ing personally before the registrars.
An act providing that the domicile
of a married woman, for the purpose
of voting or holding office, shall be de-
termined for all purposes as if she
were unmarried.
There are but five political parties
which must nominate their candidates
at the primary election. They are the
Republican, Democratic, Socialist,
Prohibition and Progressive.
REGISTRATION DAYS. ©
The primary this year will fall on
Tuesday, September 18, and the gen-
eral election, Tuesday, November 6.
On both days the polls will be open
from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m.
The last days to be assessed in bor-
oughs and townships for the Novem-
ber election are Tuesday and Wednes-
day, September 4 and 5. The last day
to pay tax to qualify for the Novem-
ber election is Saturday, October 6.
One point emphasized by Superin-
tendent Thorn in his book is that all
previous registrations have expired.
The registration in Philadelphia fol-
lows: Tuesday, August 28; Tuesday
September 4, and Saturday, Septem-
ber 8. The hours when the registrars
sit are from 7 a. m. to 1 p. m. and
from 4 p. m. to 10 p. m.
"Cities of the third-class: Thursday,
August 30; Tuesday, September 4,
and Saturday, September 15. The reg-
istrars will sit from 8 a. m. to 1 p. m.
and from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. and from
7p. m. to 10 p. m. :
There will be nominated and elected
this year one Judge of the Superior
Court, and in Centre county, all coun-
ty, township and borough offices are
to be filled.
Sm—— fp res
Self-Support.
From the Kansas City Star.
‘Nearly ten years ago Calvin Cool-
idge, elected president of the Massa-
chusetts Senate, made an address
which was reprinted in the Star Sat-
urday. It reveals practical knowledge
of life and straight thinking. One
paragraph is particularly noteworthy:
The people cannot look to leg-
islation generally for success. In-
dustry, thrift, character, are not
conferred by act or resolve. Gov-
ernment cannot relieve from toil.
It can provide no substitute for
the rewards of service. It can, of
course, care for the defective and
. recognize distinguished merit.
The normal must care for them-
selves.” Self-government means
self-support. :
‘Mr. Coolidge might have spoken
these words with the precise situation
of 1923 in view. At a time when there
is so much disposition to turn to the
government for help, it is well that a
national leader give the warning that
people must work out their own suc-
cess; that they cannot expect it to be
handed to them by the government.
‘ Suspension. is. Different Now.
From the Altoona Tribune.
The Georgia official who charged
that convicts in that State are sus-
pended by: their thumbs probably
wanted to show that suspension by
the neck is being abandoned in Geor-
gia.
n the privilege of register-
ing by petition instead of by appear-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Miss Mabel G. Wetzel has succeeded
John W. Runkle as postmistress at Mid-
dleburg, Snyder county.
—A building of the Mount Union Tan-
ning and Extract company was destroyed
by fire Saturday. The structure had been
used as the extract works of the company.
The loss is estimated at $45,000.
—In a flapjack eating contest of fifty
members of Troop No. 7, Lewistown Boy
Scouts at their camp in the Seven moun-
tains Saturday, Robert Mauery won first
prize, eating thirteen flapjacks made of ap-
ples. The fifty Scouts ate a total of 301 of
the flapjacks.
—Oscar Williams, aged about 30 years,
married and residing at Centre Hill, was
caught under a fall of rock at the clay
mine at Bigler, operated by the Harbison-
Walker Refractories company, on Monday
morning, about 10 o'clock. His legs and
hips were crushed. He was taken to the
Clearfield hospital in a serious condition.
—The electric chair at Rockview peni-
tentiary was cheated of a victim last
Thursday when Charles Ernest, sentenced
to be electrocuted for the murder of Mrs.
Fannie Harris, of Harrisburg, died in a
cell at the Dauphin county jail. Ernest,
a negro, maintained his innocence up to
the time of his death, which was due to
tuberculosis.
—Oliver Shaw, of North Grove street,
Lock Haven, was instantly killed on Sat-
urday afternoon when a Winchester shot-
gun he was cleaning was accidentally dis-
charged, shooting away the left side of his
face and head. He was about 28 years old
and leaves a widow and infant son. He
was a blacksmith in the New York Central
railroad shops at Avis. His parents are
residents of Jersey Shore. Shaw did not
know the gun was loaded.
—Hanging on the trail for eleven years
and ten months, detective Jacob Cookes ar-
rested John K. Knaub, at York, Pa., on
Saturday, on the charge of desertion and
non-maintenance of his wife, Daisy Knaub,
and her three children. The information
was made before Alderman Alfred F. Ow-
en, October 12, 1912. Returning to that
city a few days ago, almost the first per-
son Knaub passed on the street was his
wife. Much expense has been incurred in
an effort to locate the man.
—Sunbury Treasurer Heckert, last week
issued tax warrants against more than 500;
women who are delinquent in last year’s
taxes. They are now being served by con-
stables. Women who fail to pay will not
be placed in jail, but their husbands may
be. Scared by the threat of jail, more’
than $15,000 in back taxes for women were
paid last week, Heckert says. Liens were
entered against delinquent property own-
ers, and their realty will be sold for col-
lection of taxes if they are not paid, it is
asserted.
—A flattened and twisted Lincoln penny
brought $5 at Pittsburgh, last Thursday,
when a small boy sold the coin, which had
been run over by the Harding funeral
train, to a woman. Lads lined the right-
of-way as the slow-moving, draped special
train rolled through that city, placing
coins on the rails to keep as pocket pieces.
Elders who wanted coins were unable to
get. close enough and bought them up at
fabulous prices. . Several nickels brought
$3, and innumerable sales of pennies at $1
were recorded.
““LFloating in’ Chest creek, about ome mile” ~~ en
west of Patton, the body of Alex Hutehin-
son, 66 years old, for twenty-five years jan-
itor at the Patton station, was found by
the crew of the Altoona-Hastings coal
train early on Saturday afternoon. Mr.
Hutchinson had been in ill health for a
week and had not been working. Follow-
ing an autopsy, it was said the man’s death
was caused by acute dilation of the heart.
It is thought he was stricken while walk-
ing along the bank of the creek and top-
pled into the water. ’
—Ralph Galbraith, fifty-five years old,
was roasted to death, at Jeannette last
week. His body was found late Saturday
in a subway connecting the gas-producing
plant with the furnaces in the American
Window Glass Machine company’s plant.
Galbraith had been missing since Tuesday.
At that time he reported for work, appar-
ently intoxicated, and was sent home. It
is believed that he crawld in the subway,
which was cool at that time. When the
heat was turned on he was unable to get
out or be heard. The temperature of the
subway reaches 425 degrees.
—Twenty-eight stockholders of the City
Bank, of York, Pa., which institution was
wrecked by the defalcations of its cashier
and his assistants, will be made defend-
ants in suits in equity brought by the
State Banking Department in an effort to
recover $38,700, the amount remaining un-
paid on the stockholders’ liabilities under
the law. Attorney Ebert S. Spangler, spe-
cial counsel for Banking Commissioner
Peter G. Cameron, is ready to institute
equity proceedings against all stockhold-
ers who have failed up to this time to pay
over their shares due under the law.
—Bail totaling $45,000 was posted at
Somerset on Saturday by officials of Dis-
trict No. 2, United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica, to effect the release of seven members
of the Jerome local held in the Somerset
county jail on a charge of dynamiting the
Baltimore and Ohio bridge, near Jerome,
several weeks ago. The men had been held
on $5000 each to answer to a charge of dy-
namiting, and $2500 each on a federal
charge for the same offense. John Good-
isky, another of the defendants, made a
confession at habeas corpus proceedings
implicating himself and the seven miners.
—Charged with passing two worthless
checks for $25 each on E. R. Taggart, a
Watsontown merchant, Mrs. Howard
Swisher, alias Mrs. Frank M. Smith, was
placed in the Sunbury jail last week. Ac-
cording to’ the woman, her husband, How-
ard Swisher, wrote the checks and forced
her to get them cashed. Then the couple
fled but later the woman returned. Sun-
bury police say Swisher is a bigamist and
assert that he has been married five times
and all his wives are still living. One is
in Sunbury, one in Danville, one is in the
Sunbury jail and one is in England, they
say.
—Parents and friends of Miss Mary
Rohe, a Lock Haven school teacher, who
disappeared Monday of last week, in Phila-
delphia, are still eagerly seeking informa-
tion as’ to her whereabouts. Miss Rhoe,
who is one of the best known teachers in
Lock Haven, was attending the summer
session of the University of Pennsylvania.
On Monday morning of last week she com-
plained of feeling ill and went to the home
of a cousin, leaving there in a short time
for a ‘doctor’s office. Investigation shows
she never arrived at the doctor’s office and
she has not been heard of since that, al-
though the Philadelphia police have been
searching for her. She is 38 years of age
and has lived all her life in Lock Haven.