Beworraic Wap
INK SLINGS.
—The moonshine of today takes all
of the sunshine out of tomorrow.
—Mr. Mussolini may not think he
is riding for a fall, but they all get it,
some time. 2
—President Coolidge has really ar-
rived. The ladies are wearing some-
thing that is called “Coolidge brown.”
—Really if the Grangers hadn’t had
that deluge on Wednesday they might
have thought old Jupe Pluvius was
“holdin’ out” on them.
—As the late, lamented Francis
Speer would have said: Yes, Pinchot
settled the coal strike. “He did, like
the old woman kept tavern out west.”
—Well, Altoona has had her big
day and it was marred, as we hoped
it would not be, by an accident that
snuffed out the life of one of the rac-
ing motorists.
—If Senator La Follette had hap-
pened to be in Japan instead of in
Russia there would have been a pos-
sibility that we would have fewer
earthquakes about Washington next
winter.
—Italy evidently isn’t in the dire
straits that we have been led to be-
lieve her to be. No thoroughly ex-
hausted nation could be flourishing a
“big stick” as she has been doing late-
ly.
—As a rule “climbers” meet with
poor success. Not so with Mexico. She
has been “climbing” for years with a
persistence that has finally brought
recognition from the U. S. A., and
France.
—Since the burning cross of the
Ku Klux Klan was seen on Halfmoon
hill, Saturday night, there are said to
be a lot of men and women both, in
Bellefonte, who are watching their
step like they’ve never done before.
—We are wondering. Wondering
just why the good Lord permits such
horrors as have befallen Japan. No
satisfactory explanation comes to
mind unless it be a Providential
means of reducing an overcrowded
country.
—France and Germany are getting
so close together that all that is need-
ed, so the Paris and Berlin dispatches
say, is the payment of the reparations
and then they’ll live happy ever after.
Let us think. Wasn’t it the payment
of the reparations that caused the
squabble in the first place?
—We could name the Republican
county ticket right here, but we're
not going to do it, because all the fun
your'e having guessing as to who is
going to win would be over. We'll
“you into the secret this far, how-
rel oy Wilkinson is going to be
the nominee for Prothonotary. =~
—The Philadelphia Ledger, Mon-
day’s edition, tells the world, in a big
headline, that an “Auto Falls in the
River.” What we are curious to know
is what was this particular “auto” do-
ing wading around in the river before
it fell. We don’t believe an auto ever
fell in a river. Thousands have fallen
into rivers, however.
—The school directors of Butler,
having decided that all circus days in
that place shall be holidays in the
schools, probably have contributed
much to the happiness of the good lit-
tle boys and girls but taken all the
joy out of life for the ones who loved
to play hookey and then sneak in un-
der the canvas.
—With five aspirants for the Re-
publican nomination for Register most
any one of them is likely to slip in.
It’s their fight, of course, but we're
interested in what is going to happen
to Eaton. Rumor has it that he has
the favor of several of the leaders of
his party, while several others do not
look so helpfully on his aspirations.
If this be so the result would reveal
to us who’s who in Republican circles
in Centre county.
—We agree with those who think
most of our state highways are too
narrow, but we are convinced that
there would be just as much dangér in
having them too wide. To our mind
a clear right of way on either side
with enough room in the middle for
safety in passing a slow moving ve-
. hicle ahead when another is approach-
ing from the opposite direction is all
that is necessary. Four track roads
would be veritable speedways and
bring on far more collisions than we
now have.
—The gentleman who wrote from
Lynchburg, Virginia, to know how we
noticed a consignment of “Four
Roses,” that stood on an express truck
in this place for several hours one
day last week, is respectfully inform-
ed that the things we can’t have are
the ones we notice most. Since ar-
riving at the age when we can’t “pick
up” the best looking skirt on the Dia-
mond we find solace cultivating roses
in the back yard. We have crimson
ramblers, Dorothy Perkins, La France,
American Beauties and all—but “Four
Roses.” Ah, the bouquet of that va-
riety! That’s what we want most.
—When the Legislature in 1897,
passed the law making it impossible
for any person not holding a certifi-
cate of proficiency to mine anthracite
coal little thought of the possible re-
sults entered the public mind. Today
it is unlawful for any one to mine coal
who is not a certified miner and all
the certified miners are out on strike.
Till they get good and ready to go
back to work the public can freeze
stiff, if it wants to, because it gave
the miners a monopoly. in the coal
mining business, There was some
reason in the law, at that, but in the
present dilemma few are disposed to
: see it. i dans lat
‘Nations. And if
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 68.
BELLEFONTE, PA. SEPTEMBER
Blame Will be Upon Us.
If the United States Senate had
ratified the covenant of the League of
Nations when that great question was
pending there would have been no in-
vasion of Germany by French troops
now in possession of the Ruhr valley,
and the present trouble between Italy
and Greece would be a problem easily
solved. The League of Nations has
gone on and accomplished much good
without the moral and material sup-
port of the government of the United
States. But with that support its ac-
tions and mandates would have been
accepted without question by the en-
tire civilized world. All internation-
al troubles that have occurred since
are ascribable to our delinquency in
that matter. :
That President Harding had come
to realize the vital mistake of the past
is shown in his efforts immediately
before his untimely death, to get in-
to relations with the League of Na-
tions by entering the world court.
Even in that movement he was de-
ceiving himself in the pretense that
there is no connection between the
two tribunals and that membership in
the League of Nations involved a sur-
render of sovereignty. The League
of Nations created no super govern-
ment or supreme power. That was a
figment of the vicious mind of Henry
Cabot Lodge and could have held no
permanent place in any rational brain.
But it served the purpose of an ex-
cuse for continued refukal to enter the
League and still favor the purposes
for which the League was created.
The failure of the United States to
enter the League of Nations natural-
ly weakened that beneficent organiza-
tien. It was because of that weak-
ness that France, in conformity with
provisions of the League but against
the protest of other members, invad-
ed the Ruhr. It was incidentally be-
cause of that that Italy, in violation
of the provisions of the League, com-
mitted an act of war against Greece
which may ultimately result in anoth-
er world war more horrible and de-
structive than that which devastated
Europe between 1914 and 1918. Such
a calamity may be averted by the
wisdom and energy of the League of
‘it comes the blame
will be on our failure to join the
League.
——We are again reminded by news
from Europe that the ratification of
the League of Nations at the proper
time would have prevented the war
clouds now hovering over Italy and
Greece.
Roadbuilding and Costs.
One of the important questions to
be decided at the coming election is
that of an increase of the State debt
to the extent of fifty million dollars
for road construction and mainte-
nance. A proposed amendment to the
constitution authorizing such increase
for that purpose has successively
passed two sessions of the Legislature
and in conformity with the decision of
the Supreme court will be on the bal-
lot for approval or rejection in No-
vember. Thus far little, if any, op-
position has been developed. Every-
body favors good roads and most men
and women are willing to bear a just
share of the expense of building and
maintaining them. Good roads are
valuable assets in every community.
But public opinion in Pennsylvania
is not unanimous in approval of the
methods employed by the Highway
Department. It has been charged,
and practically proved, that highway
construction is and has been vastly
more expensive in Pennsylvania than
in neighboring States. For example,
the cost of construction per mile in
Ohio has: been little more than half
that in Pennsylvania, and New York
roads have cost nearly one-third less
than ours, If our roads were corres-
pondingly better than those of Ohio
and New York the difference in cost
might be overlooked. ‘But as a mat-
ter of fact any difference in merit is
on the side of the neighboring States.
Their roads are better and more en-
during.
The voters of .Pennsylvania will
probably decide in favor of the bond
issue. But they will insist on better
and cheaper service of the Highway
Department. For years it has been
used as an asylum for party “lame
ducks” and political recruiting sta-
tions. The great army of employees
has been used as “party pickets” in
campaigns for local and general of-
fices and if a new supply of funds is
provided for the Department a new
system of disbursement should be
adopted. If properly used the fifty
million dollars which it is proposed to
appropriate for constructing and
maintaining highways will give Penn-
sylvania the best roads in the world
and Pennsylvania is entitled to that
distinction.
——Whatever else happens in poli-
tics and legislation it is a safe bet |.
that farmers of the middle west will
never again be fooled with a tariff on
wheat.
| Governor Pinchot “Kids” Himself.
When Governor Pinchot stated, in
setting forth his plan for the solution
of the anthracite coal problem, that
an increase of ten per cent. in the
wages of miners would enhance the
cost of coal production sixty cents a
ton and that this might be taken out
of the profits of the operators and
distributors, he was obviously “kid-
ding” himself. He may have imagin-
ed that he was fooling the miners or
deceiving the public but he was doing
neither. The operators, carriers and
distributors never assume burdens
that they cannot shift, and the exper-
ience of all time teaches that every
form of taxation is paid by the con-
sumer, and the additional cost of pro-
duction is a tax which the consumers
must pay.
When the coal strike of 1902 was
settled by an increase of the wages
of miners the price of coal was imme-
diately increased about double the
amount of the increased wages. A
few years later the Legislature lev-
ied a tax on anthracite coal which was
subsequently declared unconstitution-
al by the Supreme court of the State.
But the price of coal was increased
at once and has never been reduced
since. Moreover the increase was
qual to more than twice the amount of
the tax. Following the tax created
by the Legislature of 1921 the price
of coal was increased vastly more
than the tax and though the consum-
ers complained and have continued to
complain ever since there has been
no decrease.
Of course the coal operators under-
stand that the consumers pay for all
increases in wages and all taxes and
the miners are equally wise. The only
reason that either side objects is that
neither is willing to assume responsi-
bility for another increase in the
price of coal and is not certain which
the public will blame. In any event
the Governor has contributed little
toward settlement of the dispute and
absolutely nothing toward the protec-
tion of the public from extortion. In
fact he sort of pointed the way by
which both sides together might fleece
the consumers by increasing the
oe ae amount to the cost of the pro-
uct.
——The American Bar Association
favors our entrance into the world
court. But in that they are acting as
lawyers, not as politicians.
Advice of Doubtful Value.
In a letter recently addressed to the
Southern Publishers’ Association Pres-
ident Coolidge offered some advice of
doubtful value. The theme of his
communication was “How newspapers
could best serve the federal govern-
ment.” His first suggestion is that
“they always uphold the constitution
and the legislative acts in accordance
with the constitution.” He may have
had in mind the prohibition amend-
ment and the Volstead act and most
newspapers, north and south, have an-
ticipated him in that matter. As a
rule newspaper editors and publishers
are law-abiding and even in case they
question the wisdom of the legislation
they believe in enforcement as a me-
dium of hastening repeal.
But we can see no moral obligation
or legal reason for supporting bad
laws. There is a wide difference of
opinion as to the value of the Vol-
stead law. It has not fulfilled the
promise of its sponsor and the expec-
tation of its friends that it would
eliminate intoxication and empty the
jails. A great many intelligent peo-
ple sincerely believe that it has in-
creased a greater evil, that of using
pernicious drugs, more than it has de-
creased the evil of drunkenness. Nev-
ertheless it is a public duty to enforce
it so long as it is a law and newspa-
pers as a rule have urged enforce-
ment. The suggestion of President
Coolidge to the southern publishers
was not needed in that particular
case.
The President’s second suggestion
to the southern publishers is equally
faulty. He tells them to “never crit-
icise adversely without pointing out
constructively how the faults may be
rectified.” In other words, unless you
have a remedy for an evil you should
let it run wild in a community in-
creasing in volume as it goes until
the neighborhood is polluted. The
late Boss Tweed had the same idea in
mind when he asked the authorities
in New York to “let us alone” while
he was successfully looting the treas-
ury. Corrupt public officials could
have a “halcyon and vociferous” time
of it if all the newspapers followed
the advice to withhold all criticism
until a remedy were provided.
——The Free Staters won in the
Irish elections but their majority is
not great enough to guarantee perma-
nency.
I —— Rp ————————
——President Coolidge, having tak-
en a jaunt in the Mayflower, it may
be said that he is now really installed
in office.
_the miners and adding dou,
Fifty Years Ago Col. Spangler Was
a Journalist.
A paragraph in the Williamsport
Gazette and Bulletin’s “Fifty Years
Ago Today” column, appearing in its
issue of September 4th, started a lit-
tle reminiscence in this office. It an-
nounced that on September 4th, 1872,
Jack L. Spangler, then a law student
in the office of the late John H. Orvis
had become associate editor of the
“Watchman.”
Reference to our files revealed that
our issue of December 20th, 1872, was
the first one in which Col. Spangler’s
name was carried as associate editor.
He remained on the paper until Au-
gust 22, 1873, when he was compelled
to retire because of inability to carry
the burden of newspaper work and do
justice to his law studies. In his vale-
dictory as a journalist Col. Spangler
admitted having been kicked around
by his contemporaries very much
like a houn’ dawg, but withal evident-
ly regarded it as a very pleasant and
profitable experience.
He came to this paper to succeed
Joe. W. Furey, who had left it to take
editorial charge and part ownership
of the Williamsport Standard. Mr.
Furey remained in Williamsport until
September 5th, 1873, when he return-
ed to the “Watchman” and remained
many years before finally leaving
again to take charge of the Clinton
Democrat at Lock Haven, in which
city he died.
Anent the high prices at hotels
these days it is interesting to know
that when Col. Spangler was writing
for the “Watchman” and studying
law the late Gov. Hastings was also
a law student here. He was boarding
at the Bush house, paying seven dol-
lars a week for room and board while
the Colonel was boarding out opposite
the Big - Spring, with the family of
’Squire Sammy Foster and paying on-
ly four dollars. Hastings left the
Bush house and went to Foster’s, be-
coming a bedfellow of Spangler and
they remained bedfellows in every
other respect from that day until
Hastings died.
~—Had the United States been in the
| League of Nations Mr.. Mussolini
would never have openly flouted its
authority and we fancy there are
enough powers now in it to make the
gentleman sit up and take notice that
Europe is already done to death with
wars. On the other hand, if the
League, even as at present constitut-
ed, can’t settle the trouble between
Italy and Greece without further
bloodshed it had better close the doors
at Geneva, nail up the shutters and
go home.
Friends Approve Court of Interna-
tional Justice.
Friends quarterly meeting was held
in their meeting house near Storms-
town September 1st to 3rd, inclusive.
This meeting consists of representa-
tives from Centre, Clearfield and Bed-
ford counties, and holds regular quatr-
terly sessions on established dates at
Unionville and Stormstown, in Centre
county; at Fishertown, in Bedford
county, and at Grampian, in Clearfield
county.
In addition to-the regular quarterly
meeting business routine there was a
community conference called for Sun-
day afternoon as a union service in
which representatives of the meeting
were joined by two hundred or more
people from the community surround-
ing the church. The subject for con-
sideration was the best method, or
any method, for promoting peace
among nations.
The impracticability as well as im-
possibility of the United States, or
any nation, isolating itself in this age
of progress and enlightenment, as
well as moral obligations due other
nations by the United States for past
favors, was forcibly presented by Dr.
0. Edward Janney, of Baltimore, and
others, and a resolution was unani-
mously adopted by a rising vote (not
the usual method of deciding ques-
tions in Friends meetings) that the
United States should unite with other
nations in establishing a permanent
court of international justice, and the
chairman was directed to report this
action in a fraternal letter to Presi-
dent Coolidge and our United States
Senators.
——~ Senator Magnus Johnson de-
clares that he believes in books, but
it may be said that he learned most
of his lessons in the school of hard
knocks.
——Strangely enough, of all the
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress now sojourning abroad not one
happened to be in Japan last Satur-
ay.
———Maybe one of the reasons Pres-
ident Coolidge doesn’t play golf is
that he is not proficient in that kind
of language. :
——Even the most exaggerated
of overworked Presidents fail to de-
crease the number of aspirants for
the office.
7. 1923.
right to Fiume,
NO. 35.
The Balkans Again.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The assassination, the ultimatum,
the terms that invite war because it
is almost impossible to accept them,
all reproduce the events of midsum-
mer 1914. The resemblance, however,
goes deeper than these. The object of
Austria’s demands upon Servia was to
secure a pretext for establishing Aus-
trian primacy in the Balkans. The
first Balkan war resulted in the de-
feat of Germany’s friend, Turkey, and
the success of Russia’s friend, Servia.
The necessity of reversing this posi-
tion was stated with little disguise in a
speech to the Reichstag by the Ger-
man Minister of War explaining why
it was necessary to add 136,000 men
to the army.
Italy has long been an aspirant for
the position in the Balkans claimed in
rivalry by Russia and Austria. These
two are now hors du combat, and Ita-
ly sees its opportunity. It has long
been jealous of Greece, and while the
latter’s extensive ambitions have been
punctured by the Turkish defeat and
the treaty of Lausanne, the murder by
Greeks of five Italian boundary com-
missioners affords Italy an opportuni-
ty which it is not disposed to throw
away. A rival in the Eastern Med-
iterranean and primacy in the Balkans
might be attained by a swift stroke.
In 1914 Germany and Austria were
aching for war, or for results that
could hardly be obtained without it.
France and Russia were scarcely less
ready; whatever England’s army
might amount to, everybody knew
what its navy was, and how essential
to its safety were the coast of Bel-
gium and the northern coast of
France. Now England is extremely
pacific; France has everything it can
attend to on the Rhine; Germany,
Austria and probably Russia are out
of the list of combatants. It does not
seem as if there were any one to ob-
ject, no matter what Italy might do.
And yet there are nations that may
resist the subjection of Greece to Ita-
ly. Rumania has dynastic ties with
Greece, and it aspires to primacy in
the Balkans. It lost much during the
war because it was betrayed in cold
blood by Russia. It recovered some-
thing in the peace. But it wants no
Italian domination in the Balkans.
Jugo-Slavia contains Servia, an ally
of Greece in both the Balkan wars. It
contains Croatia, which Italy in the
pact of London, 1915, conceded had a
stance appropriated Fiume; Jugo-
Slav rights there are shadowy. On
the Dalmatian coast, too, Italy has by
force taken territory it did not claim
in the pact of London. The purpose
of Italy to dominate both sides of the
Adriatic is obvious enough.
England is not likely to undertake
military operations, but the Mediter-
ranean is an important highway for
Great Britain, and the scene is favor-
able for naval operations. If Italy
will not submit the controversy with
Greece to the League of Nations the
British fleet in the Mediterranean
may bcome active.
Of course, the assassination of the
boundary commissioners was a great
outrage, and Greece has got to pay a
heavy penalty. But the Italian de-
mands are excessive. They seem like
the Austrian demands upon Servia,
framed to make compliance impossi-
De ard thereby afford Italy a free
and. .
State’s Power Resources.
From the Wilkes-Barre Record.
In the organization of the board
created by the recent Legislature to
make a survey of Pennsylvania’s pow-
er resources the first step has been
taken in what should develop into a
gigantic enterprise. It is necessary
to know what we have before we can
proceed along intelligent lines. The
survey may extend over a long period
of time, but if two years or even three
or four years are required to place be-
fore the people a definite idea as to
how the production of power can be ad-
vanced and cheapened the time will
not be too long.
What the people have particularly
in mind is a wider use of electricity
at a cost that will compare favorably
with the use of coal. Electricity can
be produced by water power, by coal
at the mines, and by numerous indi-
vidual plants located close by the in-
dustries. The latter ‘plan is now in
use. Industries requiring power se-
cure it from electricity generated
close at hand. A few generating
plants serve a wider territory. Elec-
tricity generated in power plants at
the mines would serve a much wider
territory than is now served by the
individual plants. The third plan
means electricity generated from wa-
ter power and transmitted over wide
sections of territory.
The use of water power would do
away with the cost of coal and with
the cost of distributing coal. Heavy
railroad charges would be eliminated.
But for some regions coal miners may
be more advantageously located than
the available water power sites, thus
cheapening the cost of transmitting
electricity.
rtm ————— po ————————
That Eight-Hour Day.
From the Chester Times.
With less pay and more leisure in
which to spend it, of course those
twelve-hour steel workers will be dis-
satisfied, and then people will call
them ungrateful. Still, as a philoso-
pher once remarked, it’s “divine dis-
content” that makes human progress.
A——— A ———————
——1It is plain to be seen that Mus-
solini is trying to drive Lenine off the
front page.
1 .
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The Lutheran Synod of Central Penn-
sylvania and the Susquehanna Synod of
the Lutheran church will unite as one syn-
od at Sunbury next Wednesday.
—After 54 years of continuous service
with the Pennsylvania Railroad, Harry T.
Glasgow, aged 66 years, machinist at the
East Altoona roundhouse, was retired o
a pension. :
—C(Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, member of
the State Forestry Commission, publisher,
author and historian, has just been re-ap-
pointed a member of the State Historical
Commission by Governor Pinchot.
—H. E. Henry, residing on the “Jim”
Taylor farm in the Kishacoquillas valley,
sowed No. 44 State College wheat and
reaped 80 bushels from one and three-
quarter acres. Twenty bushels to the
acre is the average yield in that section.
—Mrs. George Povlosky, 45 years old, of
Mahanoy City, went to a christening at
Girardville, early on Monday, taking a
large sum of money with her, her hus-
band said. He reports she has not been
seen since and that she had indulged in
considerable liquor. State police are
searching for her.
—Nelson Hoch, a Honey Hole farmer,
has demanded $600 damages from . the
State Game Commission because a herd of
deer invaded his land and trampled down
an entire field of onions, which he values
at the above sum. The State will send a
warden to inspect the scene and deter-
mine if Hoch should be compensated.
—The Lock Haven Gas company plant
was formally transferred this week to
Ralph Benton, of Columbus, Ohio, at a
meeting of the stockholders of the com-
pany. The purchase price was $50,000 at
a par value of $30 per share for each of
1,000 shares of stock. Benton is the own-
er of similar plants in the Middle West.
—His counsel having withdrawn a mo-
tion for a new trial, Tony Capello was sen-
tenced, at Lock Haven, on Saturday, to
serve 14 to 13 months in the western peni-
tentiary. At hig first trial for the murder
of Elizabeth Harley, Capello was acquitted,
after the jury was out five days. He was
tried again on the charge of enticing and
convicted.
—Elmer Newberry, a farmer living near
Northumberland, is said to have found a
party of automobile spooners along his
farm road last Thursday evening, and used
a fence rail to break it up. He was held
on £300 bail for September term of court
on a charge of assault and battery.
“Spooning makes marriages,” remarked
Squire Teirney, as the bail bond was sign-
ed.
—Hal Hawk, a young boy, was so ser-
iously injured that he lost his sight, while
watching a block of twelve houses burn
in Rossiter, Jefferson county, early on
Tuesday. Firemen fighting the flames
turned water on a window. It broke, and
the flames darted across the street to
where Hawk was standing, enveloping him
and burning his eyes. One hundred per-
sons were made homeless by the fire.
—Thieves operating in Seven Valleys,
York county, robbed two homes of $1,050
in Liberty bonds and small amounts in
cash on Saturday. The victims were John
E. Slyder and Silas Miller. Two $500
bonds were taken from Slyder’'s house
while the occupants were away for the
.day. . At Miller's home a $30 bond was
stolen. This is another argument in fa-
vor of keeping your valuables in a bank.
—Attempting to rescue a child's kite
which had become entangled in some elec-
tric wires near their home, Clarence Ri-
der, aged 25 years, and Frank Snyder 27,
of Enola, Dauphin county, were electro-
cuted late last Friday. Rider was killed
instantly, and Snyder died on the way to
a hospital. Rider was using an iron rod
to disentangle the kite, and Snyder was
holding his arm when the rod hit the wire.
The men were cousins.
—Robert ¥F. Klinedinst, of York, Pa.
walks about the streets with a broken
neck. On Friday he visited the office of
Dr. W. 8S. Weakley, to whom he had been
taken about three weeks ago after work-
ing half a day with his neck broken. The
injury was suffered while installing a
pressing machine in the tailoring estab-
lishment of John E. Sweigert. His neck
is now supported in a plaster cast which
‘he will wear for several weeks more.
—Governor Pinchot has named Mrs. Ma-
bel Virginia Gray sheriff of Lycoming
county to succeed her husband, Thomas
M. Gray, who died last week. Mrs. Gray
is the first woman sheriff in Pennsylvania.
She will hold office until January 1, when
her successor to be elected in November,
will take over the office. Her appointment
was made at the suggestion of Republican
leaders in that county who desire to have
her complete the term of office to which
her husband was elected four years ago.
—A Duncannon young couple recently
enjoyed the romance of being married in
a rowboat in the Susquebanna river. Missy |
Frances Amelia Hinkle and Merle Duncan
Clouser, visiting in Maytown, invited the °
Rev. J. W. Gable, of Maytown, to accom-
pany them and two friends on a trip up
the river. After being on the river above
Accomac a short time the young man pre-
sented a marriage license to the minister,
asking him to perform the ceremony. This
he did while the little craft drifted mid-
stream.
—Samuel A. Grabbe, 40 years old, of
Lewistown, committed suicide Sunday
while attending a family reunion along
Penn’s creek, near Centreville, Snyder
county. Grabbe, who had been ill and
melancholy for several weeks, had made
threats of dorwning himself on several oc-
casions. Sunday he left the dinner table
in the grove and sauntered out in the
woods, where his father-in-law, Frank
Buoy, found him an hour later hanging
from a tree. He is survived by his wife,
three sons and two daughters.
—John Banemnes, of Blackwells, Ly-
coming county, aged 28 years, was shot
and fatally wounded by his brother, Ren,
in a petty quarrel on Saturday. The two
men lived in a shanty along the New York
Central railroad at Blackwells. Both were
employed by the railroad company. Sat-
urday morning John was engaged in shov-
eling cinders along the track, while his
brother was operating the pump of a wa-
ter tank. In a playful mood John tossed
some cinders on his brother. The other
resented his action and a quarrel ensued.
Ren ran into their shanty and, returning
with the shotgun, fired it at his brother.
Two bystanders saw the affair, ' Banemnes
helped to carry his brother into the shan-
ty and remained with him while others
hastened to summon a doctor and officers.
The wounded man died in a few minutes,
but his’ brother was found at his side by
the officers when they arrived to arrest
him.
Ades vm Ca.