Bewowifitdm |
INK SLINGS.
—Put a couple of “chickens” into a
Ford coupe and they'll cackle like
they’re layin’ an egg every minute.
—Some people are so busy knock-
ing the other fellow that they can’t
hear opportunity when it knocks at
their own door.
—We haven’t any bananas today,
but we've got more up to the minute
news that you are interested in than
any weekly paper you can lay your
lamps on carries.
—If Governor Pinchot settles the
coal strike he will attach to himself
a lot of glory, but if he doesn’t—well,
you know what happens to the fellow
who is caught four-flushin’.
—The recent proposal by some of
the French journalists that we forget
what Europe owes us might settle the
problem abroad, but the American
memory is of the kind that can’t easi-
ly forget.
—Fall is only three weeks off and
the back that has bent to the lawn
mower and the garden weeds since
spring will have very little respite
before it bends to carrying out ashes
and shoveling snow.
—Last week we prayed for more
power to the councilmen who oppose
passing superfluous ordinances. This
week we invoke the same strength for
the burgess in enforcing those that
have already been passed.
—1It matters little to the voters of
Centre county who gets on the Repub-
lican ticket through the primaries
next month. Sentiment is strong for
a clean out in the court house and
it’s going to be made in November.
—Tuesday’s sudden rain squall did
two things. It gave mother earth a
much needed bath and made the fel-
lows who stand on the High street
bridge from morning ’till night move
with an alacrity we didn’t believe was
in them.
—The Gaekwar of Baroda, the
richest of India’s Princes, is dead.
The announcement that he was the
only person in the world to own a
gold cannon leads us to wonder how
he escaped the fool killer long enough
to die a natural death.
—The opening of the Altoona motor
speed bowl Monday will be a thrilling
event, of course, but let us hope that
all the thrill will be gotten from the
racing and none of it from the fatal
accidents that so often accompany
such performances of the speed de-
mons.
—The “exciter” might have broken
at the plant of the Keystone Power
corporation, Saturday night, but cer-
tainly not any of those in the homes
and business places it serves with
light were out of order. For a few
hours they worked better than they’ve
done in years.
—The Prince of Wales is coming
over to recuperate on his ranch which
is located some where up about Cal-
gary, Province of Alberta, Canada.
The English are so continually throw-
ing prospective Queens at the head of
the dandy young Prince that it isn’t
any wonder they make him sick.
—There’s a lot of difference in the |
fuss that a grandfather’s clock and
an Ingersoll watch make in swinging
the circle of a day. And so it is with
people. The blustering, nervous, im-
patient fellow who acts like no one
else in the world but himself does or
has any wark to do rarely gets much
further than the complacent, even!
tempered one who strikes slower but
makes every stroke count.
—The race for primary preferment
is growing fast and furious and we're
just waiting to see what aspirants,
who are not averse to “a little off the
hip” on occasion, come through as the
standard bearer for our Prohibition
friends. In recent years some very
wet candidates have carried the dry
banner, thus laying the Prohibition
party open to suspicion as to its sin-
cerity, so far as local officers are con-
cerned.
—Probably the most exciting pri-
mary fight in Pennsylvania is going
on now in Pittsburgh where Senator
Max Leslie is fighting the Magee-Oli-
ver-Flinn combination for a place in
the sun. Were it not for the fact that
we have a friendly interest in some
of the fat that is in the fire we'd say:
Among them be it. But the Hon.
John Francies is an aspirant for the
nomination for clerk of the courts of
Allegheny county on the ticket that
Leslie isn’t for and we’d be mighty
pleased if all of our Leslie friends in
the Smoky city could find a way to
desert their leader to the extent of
voting for Mr. Francies. Most of
them are old Centre countians and
could very properly support one who
has in recent years meant so much to
Centre county as Mr. Francies has
done.
—We hear occasional conjecture as
to who will represent this District in
the next National convention of the
Democracy. While there are several
persons who would like to go we are
most interested in knowing for whom
they would like to go. It is generally
reported that the old oligarchy in our
State is split and that Vance McCor-
mick and A. Mitchell Palmer will be
in with strange political bed-fellows.
They are reported to be rivals for the
Pennsylvania delegation and already
busy trying to grab it off. The dele-
gates will be chosen at the primaries
next April, two from each of the thir-
ty-six Congressional Districts and
four-at-large. We of the Twenty-
first will select two and, as we have
said before, we are not so much inter-
ested in who. they are to be as we are
in who they are or will be legging for.
=m
CHC
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
False Claims of Economies.
Through a controversy between At-
torney General Woodruff and Auditor
General Samuel S. Lewis an interest-
ing fact has been revealed. The dis-
pute was over a plan of the adminis-
tration to pay salaries of certain offi-
cials employed in the Department of
BELLEFONTE, PA. AUGUST 31. 1923.
Treasurer Snyder Futile but Funny.
State Treasurer Snyder is funnier
than the late Artemus Ward’s famous
kangaroo. Mr. Ward cherished, or
endured, his kangaroo for the reason,
as he stated, that it was “a amusin’
little cuss.” But Charlie Snyder has
it “shaved off the map” as a source of
‘ Shipping Board’s Perplexing Problem. |
| - The problem of disposing of the
: shipping board’s merchant fleet is
| still unsolved and is increasingly per-
| plexing. The subsidy plan, that is
| the plan to pay a group of wealthy
' party pets a hundred million dollars
‘a year and expenses to take the ships
Agriculture out of what is known as | merriment. In his palpably futile as a gift, has been abandoned. But
the dog fund, being money acquired : fight against the Governor he is cut- ‘no feasible scheme has been offered to
by licensing dogs. Under the provis- ting up such pranks that the whole take its place.
ions of the dog law “all moneys in the '
dog fund from time to time are here-
by specifically appropriated to the De-
partment of Agriculture for the pur-
post of carrying into effect the pro-
visions of this act.” The code elim-
inated the bureau of animal industry
and the Auditor General refused to
approve warrants for salaries in that
bureau, no longer existing, out of the
dog fund.
In the course of the controversy
Auditor General Lewis pointed out
that all salaries for the Department
of Agriculture should be drawn from
the general appropriation to that de-
partment, whereupon it was discover-
ed that the general appropriation
made by the last Legislature is insuffi-
cient to meet other necessary expens-
es and pay salaries. After the ad-
journment of the session the Governor
boasted that a saving of $400,000 had
been affected by the decrease in the
appropriation for the Departinent of
Agriculture of that considerable sum.
Auditor General Lewis asserts that if
the payment of salaries for the De-
partment of Agriculture is made from
the dog fund there will be no saving
at all and the boast of the Governor
is a glaring false pretense.
In view of the other exposures of
Governor Pinchot’s claims of econo-
mies this is not surprising. In fact
the assertions of Auditor General
Lewis are supported by the compari-
son of the apropriation by the last
Legislature with those of the previous
session. . It is true that the correc-
tive and charitable institutions of the
State have been pared to the bone and
that some of the educational institu-
tions have been crippled by the de-
crease of appropriations for mainte-
nance. But the aggregate of the ap-
propriations is. nearly three million
dollars greater than that for the last
two years of the Sproul administra-
tion, and the taxes have been increas-
ed to the extent of nearly twenty mil-
lions. It looks as if all of Pinchot’s
pretenses are false.
Ar ———— tn
—Probably Coolidge imagined that
Pinchot would serve as a “cat’s paw
to pull chestnuts out of the fire.”
But Gif. may eat the chestnuts.
Sob Stuff About Harding.
Some years ago there was a con-
spicuous and capable newspaper cor-
respondent in Washington named
Walter Wellman. Possessed of a
lively imagination he conceived a no-
tion that he could cross the Atlantic
ocean in a craft made of silk and fill-
ed with gas. In pursuance of that
idea he invested a fortune in the en-
terprise, went up in a balloon and dis-
appeared either above the bottom of
the clouds or beneath the surface of
the sea. In any event he had not been
heard from for years until the other
day when he came to earth with a
posthumous
Harding filled with sob stuff that
would make angels weep.
The obvious purpose of the publi-
cation of the letter now was to create
the impression that the lamented
President had abandoned the policy of
isolation which his party adopted im-
mediately following the close of the
world war, and to which he adhered
until about the end of the last session
of Congress. - Probably he had chang-
ed his mind on that subject and pos-
sibly his proposition to join the inter-
national court of justice expressed his
changed opinion. But his speech in
St. Louis, delivered some time after
the date of his letter, urging the
press of the country to inaugurate a
movement for perpetual peace, reveal-
ed a willingness to yield. to the isola-
tionists by accepting reservations
which made his proposition both ab-
surd and impossible.
It is a cleary established fact that
President Harding was a peace loving
man. It might even be said that he
reluctantly participated in the oppo-
sition to the ratification of the cove-
nant of the League of Nations. But
he was so completely bound by the
thongs of party prejudice. that. he
couldn’t assert his better self when |
the malignant Lodge organized. his
“fight against Wilson.” That was the !
time and the occasion for Warren. G.
Harding to declare himself in’ the in-
terest of peace and to “make” the
world safe for humanity.”
——— A A ————————
——State Senator Snyder declares;
that he won’t pay those warrants,
notwithstanding the court action.
That means another court action.
——1If every Democrat takes a hand
in the pending campaign Democracy
will come ' into its own in Centre
! county this year.
letter from President
State is convulsed with laughter. It
is not that his purposes lack merit,
for the methods of resistance clearly
show that the administration is afraid
trative code is in conflict with the
constitution in a dozen ways. But
Treasurer Snyder doesn’t know how
to force it to a test.
Defeated by the decision of the
Dauphin county court his plan of
holding up the salaries of certain em-
ployees has been abandoned, and now
he threatens to contest the authority
of the secretary of property and sup-
plies, an office created by the code, to
function as provided in the code. Un-
der the old system, awarding con-
tracts for supplies was a prerogative .
of the Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings, composed of the Governor,
the Auditor General and the State
Treasurer, all elective officers. The
code shifts this service to the secre-
tary of property and supplies. In con-
formity with this provision the secre-
tary was about to award contracts for
furniture and supplies for the new
office building last week when Snyder
interposed a protest and declaration
that he will not pay warrants for such
service.
Of course the secretary of property
and supplies paid no attention to the
protest. Relying upon the allegiance
of the courts, revealed in the decision
on the question of salaries withheld,
secretary Berkey Boyd proceeded with
preparations to award the contracts
and Auditor General Lewis promptly
declared that he does not propose to
become involved in the controversy.
This means that Snyder will stand
alone and be bowled over again as he
‘was in the other case. Possibly he
has no other course to pursue. To
the lay mind the processes-of law are
‘confusing. But it would seem that an
appeal from the Dauphin county court
in the first case might have averted
the necessity for the second.
——Lloyd George declares that he
will not lecture during his contem-
plated visit in this country. Lord
Birkenhead’s faux pas may ‘be exer-
cising a beneficent influence on the
British mind.
Coolidge “Passes the Buck.”
As might have been expected the |The drawing for position on the var- |
hope that President Coolidge would
solve the fuel problem has been dis-
appointed. He has “passed the buck,”
and Governor Pinchot has assumed
the burden. It is an Herculian task,
but the Governor feels equal to it.
Probably it may vindicate the adage,
“fools rush in where angels fear to
tread,” and possibly it may work a re-
sult of vast importance to the country.
In any event the Governor is highly
pleased with the assignment. He
says “the President has been good
enough to call me into conference on
the coal situation and has asked me to
do what I can to help in finding a so-
lution.” What pians he has in mind
have not been disclosed.
We sincerely hope the Governor
will succeed in his great enterprise. A
strike that would stop the production
{ of anthracite coal at this time would
be a calamity of inestimable propor-
tions. The talk of fuel substitutes
may serve to allay apprehensions for
a while but is likely to prove futile in
the end. So that any man who devis-
es and puts in force a plan to prevent
.a strike will be a public benefactor
| looming large on the horizon at a time
when such distinction means much. If
| Governor Pinchot adjusts the differ-
' ences between the miners and opera-
| tors in the anthracite coal field he will
be the leading candidate of his party
for the nomination for President next
year.
| - In the nature of things something
would depend upon the means em-
ployed in achieving the result. The
employment of force, for example,
would leave an ugly frame of mind.
| Mr. John Hays Hammond, chairman
of the Coal Commission, states that
‘there can be no doubt of the sincerity
of the operators in their effort to con-
tinue production. By inference that
i lays the blame of a strike on’ the min-
ers. As a matter of fact there are
| reasons for doubting the sincerity of
‘the operators. They have yielded lit-
tle from their original position dur-
ing the long drawn out negotiations.
| The. miners may have shown a repre-
hénsible stubbornness but it is hardly
fair to say they are altogether to
blame, 199
——=We are somewhat anxious to
learn how Mr. Bok is getting on with
his peace project. It seems to have
fallen ‘into “innocuous desuetude” so
far as the newspapers are concerned.
One suggestion is
that the ships be apportioned to pri-
| vate operators to be run on profit-
- sharing systems. But only the prof-
its are to be shared under this plan, !
to join issue with him. The adminis- the losses are to be born entirely by ,
‘the government. That would be bet-
ter than the subsidy, but hardly satis- |
factory to the people.
| Mr. Carter, president of the Pacif-
ic Mail Steamship company, who was
an active supporter of the subsidy
| scheme, is an equally vigorous oppo-
i nent of government operation of the
: ships. “All business men agree,” he
| states, “that the government cannot
conduct a commercial enterprise as
efficiently as private citizens skilled in
| the business.” Probably that is true
in the main, though the successful
operation of the postoffice service sug-
gests a doubt. But the private citi-
zens skilled in the business are as a
rule exceedingly selfish and the bene-
fits of their skill and efficiency goes
to themselves rather than the govern-
ment when the government is the
partner.
But what’s the use of having a part-
ner in this government enterprise.
Skill and efficiency are valuable assets
in any business undertaking. In this
particular undertaking, however, they
are not essential. Everybody knows
that the first trip of the Leviathan
was made under the most profligate
and inefficient management, yet the
net profits of the trip were upward of
$300,000. The same unit in the ship-
i ping board’s fleet sailed from South-
| ampton on Tuesday last with 8000
| passengers on board, which is a guar-
antee of another immensely profita-
. ble voyage. In view of these figures
why not sail the ships as a business
venture ?
glibly talked about when a mine strike
is impending, but does any one know
what they are, where they are to be
found or whether they will substitute.
Candidates Draw for Position on
Ballot.
On Tuesday the official drawing by
the various candidates for position on
ithe primary ballot was held at the
| commissioner’s office. Most of the
i candidates for county office appeared
lin person and drew their own number.
ious borough and township tickets
outside of Bellefonte was made by
Harry Keller Esq., and Herbert. Au-
man, both of whom were delegated
by the county commissioners to do
the work. On the county ticket the
names will appear as follows:
Sheriff—Democrats, E. R. Taylor,
Elmer Breon. Republicans, Jacob S.
Knisely, William H. Brown.
Treasurer—Democrats, William A.
Carson, Lyman L. Smith. Republi-,
cans, James Orvis Heverly, Ira G.
Burket, Edward J. Gehret.
Recorder—Democrats, Sinie H. Hoy,
D. Wagner Geiss. Republicans, Re-
becca C. Tuten, Lloyd A. Stover.
Register—Only one Democratic
candidate. Republicans, Thomas
Morgan, G. W. Rees, Frank Sasser-
man, George W. Eaton, Harry A.
Rossman.
County Commissioner—Democratic,
James W. Swabb, John S. Spearly,
Burdine Butler, John W. Yearick. Re-
publicans, Harry P. Austin, John T.
Harnish, George H. Yarnell, John A.
Way.
For District Attorney John G. Love
drew first place on both ballots.
Position don’t figure in County
Auditor as there are only two candi-
dates on each ticket and both are to
be voted for.
——Will Hays declines the chair-
manship of the Republican National
committee, which is further proof
that he has brains enough to com-
mand a big salary.
——We have no inside information
on the subject but it is just possible’
that Pinchot tackled the coal settle-’
ment job in order to side-step the
code controversy.
-———Lord Birkenhead may have
been trying to get into the lime light,
and his reference to President Wilson
landed him there with a fool’s cap on
his head.
——The motorists do get a good
deal of the good, and a fair share of
the pleasure, of good roads but they
pay a considerable part of the ex-
pense,
————— A —————
——As it looked yesterday Gover-
nor Pinchot may avert the coal strike
but if he does the public will pay for
it.
+» wmSubstitutes. for coal. are always.
Singapore and Washington.
i From the Philadelphia Record.
. It is a curious coincidence—if noth-
ing more—that as the ratifications of
the treaties to secure peace in the
Orient are being exchanged at Wash-
ington Great Britain is planning to
create a huge naval base at Singa-
pore. The Singapore project is not
entirely new, but there was no public
announcement of it till after the
Washington conference, which was
supposed to remove all but the most
remote possibilities of war in the Far
The Anglo-Japanese treaty lapsed
with the ratification of the four-Pow-
er treaty, but as it disappears from
| view Japan shows some natural curi-
i osity to know what Singapore means.
And Japan is not alone. A few weeks
ago the Dutch government made a
pressing demand upon the legislative
body for a considerable sum to
strengthen the Dutch naval establish-
ment. Unofficially it was said that
this had reference to the Dutch fleet
in the East Indias. Not long before
this had been deferred, and no ex-
planation was offerred of the press-
ing demands of the government. Was
this also due to Singapore?
Our own government is believed to
be mildly intefested in Singapore,
though no one 15 predicting tro in
the Orient between us and Great Brit-
ain. But in order to secure the adhe-
sion of Japan to the agreements at
the Washington conference it became
necessary for us to promise not to add
to the fortifications of the Philippines
and some other islands. If we cannot
increase our defenses, we can hardly
be entirely indifferent to the creation
of a naval Gibraltar at Singapore.
The Anglo-Japanese treaty was un-
derstood to be precautionary in re-
gard both to Germany and Russia.
We did not like the looks of an An-
glo-Japanese combination in a region
where we had territorial and commnier-
cial interests of considerable magni-
tude, and when the treaty was renew-
ed a reservation was incorporated in
it that if either nation became involv-
ed in war with the United States the
other nation should not be obliged to
go to its assistance. That was only
partially reassuring, and in view of
the other agreements reached at
Washington England and Japan con-
sented to the abrogation of their
treaty. This was in accord—so far as
it went—with Mr. Wilson’s efforts to
avert war by substituting agn ts
among many nations for alliances be-
tween two or three, which generally
: provoke counter alliances, as the
Dreibund and the Triple Entente.
But Japan is eyeing Singapore with
suspicion, and the Netherlands does
, not feel quite easy about its East In-
;dies. We are quite confident that
British policies in the Far East will
not menace any interest of ours. It
is deplorable that President Harding
was not spared to see his great
achievement of the Washington con-
ference completed by the exchange of
‘ratifications.
E——————— A t——————
| “Unpleasant to Germany.”
From the New York Times.
| Former Chancellor Cuno said in the
reichstag recently that the British
note on the subject of reparations was
, “unpleasant to Germany.”
| About this there is a certain Teu-
tonic innocence. Apparently the Ger-
mans thought that Great Britain was
under a kind of obligation to make
everything easy and delightful for
them. So they were naturally disap-
pointed and hurt when they found
the British government telling them
that they must shoulder the heaviest
possible financial burdens in order to
make good the inexcusable damage
which they had wrought in the war,
and also advising them to give up
their policy of passive resistance in
the Ruhr. The German feeling seems
to be that the French themselves could
not have been more impolite and un-
feeling. Germany had been creating
a sort of imaginary good friend in
England, and now is dismayed to find
that it was only a candid friend to
convey to her the bitter and unpala-
table truth.
The fact is that there is no possi-
bility of Germany’s finding a “pleas-
ant” way out of her difficulties and
dangers. Even at home she has got
to do many things that go against the
grain.: She will have to make many
and" disagreeable sacrifices to rescue
herself from the currency slough into
which her rulers have heedlessly
plunged her. Taxes will have to be
made higher and, what is more, rig-
idly collected. Germans may go on
tearfully denying that they were guil-
ty of causing the war, but they must
submit themselves to punishment just
ds if they were. Facing Great Brit-
ain and the other allies, the German
government will have to take many
steps that will be painful to the finer
sensibilities. The sooner that this
truth, unwelcome but inescapable, is
recognized by Germany, the sooner
will she be able to escape from her
present apprehensions and miseries.
Many things in this imperfect world
are “unpleasant,” but none the less
necessary.
One Use for Chuck Holes.
From the Altoona Tribune.
Perhaps the chuck holes might be
retained as places for demonstrators
to prove the easy riding qualities of
the cars they have to sell.
_ ——President Coolidge will also de-
liver his messages to Congress in per-
son. It's a. wonder Senator Lodge
will permit such a tribute to Wilson.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Because he compelled his wife to sleep
beneath a tree, refusing to allow her to
enter the house, Adam Kosopsky, 21 years
old, a farmer, of Montgomery county, was
sent to prison for thirty days by Magis-
trate Rhoades, of Fort Washington.
—Jacob Devigilli, aged 70 years, hanged
himself on a tree in St. Joseph’s cemetery,
on the outskirts of Hazleton early last
Friday. According to the police, Devigilli
did not succeed on the first attempt, when
the rope evidently broke, necessitating the
stringing of the rope round a stronger
limb.
—Bitten by a mosquito August 9th, Har-
ry Wiley, 16 years of age, of Dillsburg,
Dauphin county, died last Thursday morn-
ing at the Harrisburg hospital. It was not
the bite that caused his death, but the
fact that he scratched it with his finger
nails, according to physicians at the hos-
pital.
—John Witches, a coal miner, of Free-
land, Pa., had a remarkable escape from
death in the Eckley colliery of the Lehigh
Valley Coal company. Working in a steep
chamber, he missed his footing and tum-
bled to the bottom, a distance of 70 feet.
When workers reached him they expected
to find him dead, but were much surprised
to learn that he was suffering only from
slight bruises, and he went back to the
job after a short rest.
—Driving his automobile through the
railing of an overhead bridge near Stav-
erstown, Jefferson county, when he at-
tempted to get out of the way of a speed-
ing machine he met on the bridge, Harry
Lentz, of Jersey Shore, plunged almost 100
feet down to the railroad tracks and es-
caped, almost miraculously, without inju-
ries. His automobile was smashed so bad-
ly that a railroad wrecking crew was
called out to clear it up. Lentz escaped
with a few scratches and one or two slight
bruises.
—Distribution of young trout planned
for late this month by the State. Depart-
ment of Fisheries will be halted by the
low condition of streams in many parts of
the State, resulting from the drought,
Commissioner of Fisheries Nathan R. Bul-
ler has announced. The commissioner ex-
plained that surveys of streams in many
counties have shown them much affected
by the drought and he declared it will be
necessary to delay distribution of the
trout until the drought is over when the
State will have a plentiful supply.
—Mayor Joseph Cauffiel, of Johnstown,
who is a candidate for re-election, was
held for court on Saturday, in $1000 bond,
charged with perjury preferred by George
C. Knox. The charge alleges that the
Mayor, while testifying in common pleas
court in 1918, gave false testimony in con-
nection with the transfer of certain shares
of the stock of the Cooper-Tungsten com-
pany, an Arizona corporation. Cauffiel at
that time was trustee for Knox and other
stockholders. The amount involved in the
transaction, Knox alleged, was $30,000.
—Three members of one household in
Bloomsburg, all charged with passing
worthless checks, were lodged in the Co-
lumbia county jail necently. While in jail,
one of the trio brought charges of forgery
against another. Numerous alleged worth-
less checks made their appearance there
within a week, and Mrs. Ethel Hess, Wil-
bur Deaner and Oscar Dewald, all occu-
pants of the same house, were arrested.
After their arrest, Mrs. Hess had a war<.
rant issued for Deaner on the charge of
forging her name to one of the checks.
—When night clerk Asaph Beaver, at the
Coleman house, Lewistown, decided he
wanted to file a long distance call on Sun-
day morning, he was astounded when he
found both booths, both telephones and
both cash retainers inthe booths absent
without leave. Mystery surrounds the dis-
appearance. Beaver claims he knows noth-
ing about it and says he didn’t know they
had gone until he endeavored to make his
call. Not content with merely cutting the
wires and eloping with the telephones, the
thieves pocketed the toll deposits and car
ried off the wooden stalls in which the
‘phones were housed.
—Messengers of life and death almost
touched each other in passing through the
home of Mrs. Helen Wilkins, of Altoona.
Her husband, George W. Wilkins, 37 years
of age, was killed in an automobile acci-
dent near Cresson, on Friday. Early on
Saturday she gave birth to a girl baby.
The untimely death of her husband was a
terrible shock to her. Physicians are
fighting to prevent the death messenger .
from paying a return visit. Meanwhile’
Mrs. Mary J. Wilkins, the mother of the
dead man, is in a critical condition from
the shock, and is not expected to live. She
has been an invalid some time, the result
of a fractured hip.
—With the offering for sale of a church
building, which will soon be torn down
and moved away, the last structure will
be removed from the site of Norwich, Mc-
Kean county, a few years ago a town of,
1200 people, with stores, schools, theatre,
| churches and many comfortable; dwelling
houses. But lumbering operations! being
finished in the town a few years ago, it
has gradually vanished from the map. The
big saw mill was torn down and moved
elsewhere, and this was the fate of all the
other buildings, St. Mary’s Catholic church
being the last to go. It must be disposed
of by fall, as the entire town site is now
part of a State game preserve.
—When Frank Materia, aged 55 years,
of Lewistown, withheld consent to marry
his 13 year old daughter from Antonio
Apostolico, aged 30, the suitor fired three
shots into his back. Materia died early
Tuesday morning after living more than a
day with a bullet embedded in his heart.
Apostolico asked Mr. Materia, who is a
Burnham merchant, for the hand of his
daughter Sunday night, but because of
the difference in ages and for other rea-
sons he was refused. Enraged, the lover
of Tennie Materia, aged 13, fired from be-
hind as Materia was standing in the front
of his store. An autopsy disclosed that
one of the bullets lodged in the heart. He
lived until Tuesday morning.
—Scott Frazer, of Huntingdon, aged 49
years, was instantly killed about 3:30
o'clock Saturday afternoon when he fell
from a Penn Central Light, Heat and Pow-
er company pole. He had just come into
contact with a high voltage wire and his
neck was broken in the fall. Fellow work-
men used all the first aid measures at their
command, but life was extinct. Frazer
was working with a corps of men perfect-
ing connections for electric current at the
Huntingdon fair grounds. Another work-
man had cautioned him as to the danger
from the 6,600 volt wire, but he replied
that he was not afraid to work so close to
it. Just then he threw out his hand,
touched it and fell. There was only a
slight burn on his wrist when he was
picked up.
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