Pemorralic Walduan
INK SLINGS.
—Loafing is about the hardest job
that can be given a person who is ac-
customed to work.
—Unless the weather gets warm
pretty soon the girls won’t get any
use of their furs at all this summer.
—OId J. Pluvius must be thinking
that none of the other gods care to
have a hand in weather making any
more. :
—Congress is kicking our Secre-
tary of the Treasury ‘round like he
was only a cow pumpkin and not a
good Mellon at all.
—Of course there are a lot of peo-
ple who think Congress should be
abolished, but they comprise only
those who think they could run the
government better than Congress is
doing.
—Now that the Senate has refused
to report favorably on the Ford offer
for Mussel Shoals we presume Henry
will revert to his former political at-
titude of not knowing to what party
he belongs.
—We are consumed with curiosity
to see what the trout in our out of
doors aquarium will do after the bor-
ough has diverted the sewage from
the portion of Spring creek that they
seem to love best.
—Nobody knows who our nominee
for President will be but it proves the
democracy of Democracy when, with
the National convention only a month
off, any one of a score of prospects
has a fair chance of being made the
standard bearer.
—The farm bloc in Congress
threatents to keep that body in ses-
sion until it does something for the
farmer. Better let it adjourn and go
home because everything it has done
for the farmer in the past has only
resulted in doing him more.
—The proposed scheme of colony
houses for the inmates of the new
western penitentiary might work out
very well, but it seems to us that the
saving in construction as against the
old plan of cells-en-bloc will be con-
sumed many times over by salaries
for the extra guards that may be re-
quired.
—We used to have a lot of “boys
will be boys,” but very few of them
appear to be now. Not one in a dozen
of them knows how to provide a little
costless, profitable, recreative enter-
tainment for himself. Nine-tenths of
the present generation would die of
ennui if father didn’t provide the ma-
chine and the jack for them to race to
every cross-roads where there is a
jazz band and a bunch of flappers.
—We hope that this fellow Mat-
thews, who says that he has a ‘“dia-
bolical ray” that will make it impos-
sible for any warring airship to ap-
proach nearer than fifty miles of any
city or camp protected by it, makes
good with his invention. In times of
peace there are moments when we’d
all like to have just a little “diabolic-
al ray” with which to protect our-
selves from some airships that don’t
fly.
—A story to the effect that Japan
had declared war on the United States
was picked out of the air by several
listeners in here on Sunday night. It
created considerable excitement, of
course, until it was found to have had
no basis in fact. Naturally Japan is
sore at the way our Congress acted on
the exclusion bill, but she isn’t going
to fight about it—not, at least until
she recovers more from the effects of
the last scrap she was in and the ef-
fects of the earthquake.
—Again there is prospect of the
Presbyterians—North and South—
getting together. The moderator of
the church (South) is going to pay a
friendly visit to the General Assem-
bly of the church (North) now sit-
ting in Grand Rapids. The southern
Presbyterians have ever been suspi-
cious of the orthodoxy of their north-
ren brethren so we fear that when
they get going right on the Fosdick
case out at Grand Rapids good Dr.
Whaling will hear more modernism
than he has even suspicioned as ex-
isting up here.
—Ohio Republican leaders are tak-
ing steps to circumvent the effects of
the preferential primary system and
get back, in a way, to the old party
convention manner of selecting candi-
dates. Insofar as insuring the nom-
ination of better men for office the
primary can scarcely be regarded as
a success. Pennsylvania and Centre
county have seen many men nominat-
ed at a primary and later elected,
whom neither party’s convention
would have dared to name in the old-
en days, but when that “Ohio crowd”
begins to knock the primary system
we begin to feel that maybe it has
more of good in it than we have yet
discovered.
—Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell, who
was defeated for National committee-
man, last week, after he had made the
election of Bigelow as state chairman
possible and in return was practically
double crossed by Guffey, has written
the new State chairman offering his
services in whatever capacity needed
“in building up the party organiza-
tion.” The Judge has made similar
offers before, only to be forgotten. If
he is in earnest this time, and we hope
he is, chairman Bigelow will have the
assistance of a clever, resourceful and
indefatigable political worker. Poli-
tics is the meat and drink of the Judge
and if his present determination to
throw his undeniable strength to the
upbuilding of the party holds he will
gain friends in many sections where
his past activities have been viewed
with suspicion.
the parties in this matter.
SC
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 69.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 30. 19
Help Our New Chairman.
The new chairman of the Democrat-
ic State committee, John H. Bigelow,
has already entered upon the duties
of his office in a manner which in-
spires confidence. His selection has
the complete approval of every ele-
ment in the party and driven out
whatever discord disturbed the hopes
of the voters. It is early to begin ac-
tive work but Mr. Bigelow realizes
that there is much to do and the soon-
er it is begun the better. The Repub-
lican organization is busy all the time.
Of course there is a difference between
The cor-
porations, the special interests and fa-
vored individuals contribute freely to
the expenses of the Republican ma-
chine and cost is no consideration.
But the Democratic organization is
invariably and proverbially “hard up”
for funds. There is no highly paid ar-
my of office holders to draw from for
purposes of campaigning by the Dem-
ocratic party. There are no preda-
tory corporations offering funds in
exchange for favors and the Demo-
cratic chairman must rely upon vol-
untary help from men influenced by
public spirit and civic enthusiasm.
This is an uncertain source of supply
and a long campaign is likely to be a
lean one. But if properly guided it
will prove effective and chairman
Bigelow may be relied upon to give
the coming campaign for the Democ-
racy of Pennsylvania the right direc-
tion. He is able, earnest and true to
the cause.
It is up to the Democrats of the
State to give our new chairman such
cordial and generous support as will
encourage him to the sacrifices which
he, as a prominent and successful law-
yer, must necessarily make to dis-
charge his official obligations. And
in this work there should be no delay.
Every Democrat in Centre county can
render faithful and effective service.
Local organization is the first essen-
tial to success and every man and
woman may help in this necessary
work. Begin now and continue with-
out interruption to the end. Centre
county is Democratic now, as it has
always been when the full strength of
the party is brought to the polls, and
we sincerely hope it will be this year.
——A German professor claims
that the Garden of Eden was near
Berlin. That accounts for some of
the mischief perpetrated in the Gar-
den.
Political Courruption Invited.
A complaint made by Mayor Curley,
of Boston, the other day, addressed to
Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts, re-
veals the reasons why no effort has
been made during the present session
of Congress to prevent corruption in
elections. In order to promote the in-
terests of the Republican machine the
Supreme court practically nullified
the existing law on the subject in the
Newberry case and every effort to
strengthen it has since failed. The
reason is that the Republican party
expects to prolong its power in the
government by corrupt means. With
predatory corporations and big bus-
iness given liberty to contribute to
the slush fund at will it becomes an
easy matter to buy elections.
The Walworth Manufacturing com-
pany, of Boston, has issued a circular
letter soliciting contributions to the
Massachusetts Calvin Coolidge Fi-
nance committee, in which a sugges-
tion to violate the law is plainly ex-
pressed. “There is no limit to the
amount an individual may give to his
committee,” the circular states.
“Large contributions will be so divid-
ed up as to give full observance to
the requirements of the statutes.” In
other words, if millionaire Smith con-
tributes in excess of the legal amount
part of the amount will be credited to
Jones and if a corporation which has
been favored in legislation hands
over a big roll it will be credited to
individuals. Thus the letter of the
law is safely evaded.
After the Newberry episode a prom-
ise was given that the loopholes in
the law through which the corruption-
ists escaped punishment would be
closed. But the promise has been vi-
olated. The election of Harding was
accomplished by an unexampled or-
gie of corruption and it is hoped that
this result may be repeated in the
coming election. The Mellon tax bill
was written as a preparation for this
and the opposition of the President
to the Bursom pension bill and the
soldiers’ bonus bill was based upon
this political expectation. Big busi:
ness was willing to contribute to the
corruption fund a share of the money
saved by legislation in its interest,
and the party machine provides the
way.
——Of course the President will
approve the Democratic tax bill. He
may not do it cheerfully but he will
do it just the same.
——After all the Senator for Mas-
sachusetts may be that “lodge in
some vast wilderness.”
| Senator Reed Threatens Reprisals.
Senator Reed, of Pittsburgh, pro-
poses drastic punishment of Republi-
can Congressmen who are unwilling
to obey the orders of the machine. He
declares that he will not only be read
out of the party but deprived of the
patronage within their respective dis-
tricts. The attitude of several Penn-
sylvania Republican Congressmen on
the bonus bill was the cause of the
Senator’s outburst. His youth, inex-
perience and enthusiasm are probably
his justification. In any event, if he
carries out his threat he is likely to
find himself lonesome in his partisan
camp. Most of the Republican Con-
gressmen of the country voted to
override the veto of that measure and
few if any of them have since ex-
pressed regret.
There are substantial reasons for
differences of opinion on the wisdom
or even expediency of the bonus bill.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
openly declared that it would bank-
rupt the treasury and President
Coolidge reiterated this gloomy pre-
diction in his veto message. If that
were true even the admitted public
obligation to the veterans would not
justify the enactment of the legisla-
tion. But Secretary Mellon has guess-
ed so widely of the mark in other es-
timates of the resources and require-
ments of the treasury that his opin-
ions may be overlooked, while the
President’s views on any question are
of little consequence. That being true
Representatives in Congress might
well be guided by their own judgment
or influenced by their consciences on
that subject.
But Senator Reed seems to have ar-
rogated to himself the office of “keep-
er of the conscience” of the Republi-
can Congressmen for Pennsylvania,
He commenced dabbling in politics
four or five years ago and as the late
Senator Quay would say was “cata-
pulted” into the Senate as the repre-
sentative of the Steel trust a little
later. His outburst of indignation
because some of his “political wards”
manifested a spirit of independence
may, therefore, be ascribed to adoles-
cence. But it is not likely to advance
him far in his aspirations to leader-
| ship. It may provoke resentment
rather than compliance. That would
be bad for a budding boss. It might
be even disastrous to an aspiring
fledgling.
The farm bloc in the Senate has
raised the big stick. It has served
notice that it will not consent to ad-
journment until the pending legisla-
tion in the interest of agriculture is
disposed of.
The Road to Oblivion.
It seems that the Executive Man-
sion at Harrisburg has become a sort
of way station on the road to obliv-
ion. In 1915 Martin Brumbaugh ar-
rived there under most promising con-
ditions. A schoolman of high attain-
ments and religious training, he was
hailed by the people of Harrisburg as
a certain “comer.” Flattered by the
politicians the Presidential bee soon
began buzzing in his bonnet and he
went to the National convention of
1916 as a favorite son. But before
his term had half ended his populari-
ty began to wane and at the expira-
tion of his tenure he had scarcely a
friend in the State.
Every one remembers the eclat in
which William F. Sproul began his
term as Governor in January, 1918.
The public was weary of political Gov-
ernors and Sproul came as a business
man to introduce business methods in
the administration. Everybody was
happy in the confidence of vast im-
provement and the new Governor be-
came an idol in popular estimation.
As in the case of his predecessor, the
Presidential bug came pestering and
in playing petty politics he alienated
the friends who brought him into fa-
vor. Then he organized a campaign
of profligacy and at the close of his
career was almost as completely down
and out as Brumbaugh.
The next traveler on this treacher-
ous highway of expectation was our
amusing friend Gifford. He came
with promises of reform and the
Presidential bug fully developed.
Like most professional reformers he
guaranteed impossibilities and got
away with false pretenses for a time
by setting up a smoke screen of mys-
tery. He ran with the hare and chas-
ed with the hounds until his frauds
were revealed and before a year of
his tenure had elapsed he was the
most despised public man in the Com-
monwealth. He bargained with Vare
and sang psalms with the church peo-
ple in turn and finally was dropped by
all.
——1It is safe to say that President
Coolidge will gladly trade a bushel of
newspaper fulsomeness for a peck of
Congressional support.
——Some idiot has been sending
obscene letters to Governor Pinchot.
He would better have delivered his
message in person.
Pepper Halts Progress Toward Peace.
It is eminently fit that the Senator
in Congress who cast his first official
vote to retain Senator Newberry, of
Michigan, in a purchased seat should
intervene in an effort to prevent the
United States from taking a place in
a world court created for the purpose !
of preventing future wars and pro-
moting permanent peace. Therefore
it is not surprising that Senator
George Wharton Pepper should come
forward at this time with a hypocrit-
ical proposition to substitute a scheme
of his own creation for the World
Court plan prepared by the late Pres-
ident Harding and Secretary Hughes.
His scheme is not quite as absurd as
that previously offered by Senator
Lodge, but equally impossible of
adoption.
The Harding court proposition was
not a measure of great merit but it
gave evidence of a desire for perma-
nent peace. It proposed to make the
government of the United States a
member of a tribunal created by the
covenant of the League of Nations.
It provided for reservations that
might not be accepted by the signa-
tories of the court of international
justice. But the Pepper plan would
require all the fifty-one or two mem-
bers of that court to abandon a tri-
bunal already successfully function-
ing in order to join one devised by
Senator Pepper and conceived in mal-
ice against Woodrow Wilson. It is
an enterprise as contemptible as it is
malignant in spirit.
Of course Mr. Pepper doesn’t expect
that his absurd proposition will be
adopted by the Senate. He doesn’t
want it adopted for he doesn’t want
enduring peace. The transportation
corporations and the Steel trust,
which control the Senatorial activi-
ties, make too much profit out of war
to give their consent to any movement
which might prevent future wars, and
he introduced his measure to prevent
the adoption of the Harding plan and
thus delay until after the next elec-
tion any step in the direction of per-
manent peace. But his hypocritical
subterfuge will be of little avail. A
Democratic President will put us into
the League of Nations, where we be-
lang, and where we will lead the
world.
——Senator Carter Glass, of Vir-
ginia, declares he is in favor of Mec-
Adoo for the Democratic nomination,
but it is a safe bet that if the light-
ning should strike him he wouldn’t
break.
tected.
Three weeks ago the “Watchman”
published an item regarding a re-
quest of the State Sanitary Water
Board that Bellefonte borough coun-
cil lay a pipe from the falls down
stream to a point under the High
High street bridge to carry the sew-
age discharged from the sewer just
below the falls down under the bridge.
While there hasn’t been a meeting of
borough council since the request
was made the Sanitary and Wa-
ter committees have joined in no-
tifying the State board that the pipe
will be laid, and the members of the
latter have expressed their apprecia-
tion of the prompt response of the
Bellefonte authorities. The real pur-
pose of the demand is to keep the wa-
ter as pure as possible in this portion
of Spring creek for the big trout
which inhabit the stream, and which
afford so great an attraction to
strangers visiting the town.
——A bulletin issued by the State
Department of Agriculture states that
farm work is late in all parts of the
State. In the southern tier counties
the weather has delayed planting two
weeks. In the middle belt farmers
are three weeks behind and in the
northern tier they have been delayed
a month with their spring sowing.
Most of the oats is in in Centre coun-
ty and we noticed some farmers plant-
ing corn last week, but there is still
a lot of corn ground to plow and much
of the seeding that has already been
done was put out on soil that was too
wet to work nicely.
lol gy es
——State highway changes in Cen-
tre county include the promotion of
county highway superintendent W. J.
Carroll to assistant district engineer
and the appointment of C. W. Roberts,
of Berwyn, as superintendent. Thom-
as McGovern, of Bellefonte, has been
appointed a chainman and Harry H.
McClellan, of Milesburg, an assistant
inspector.
——The State printing office at
Harrisburg is only two years behind
time, but so long as the public print-
er is in the favor of the administra-
tion a thing of that kind doesn’t mat-
ter.
————————y fp
——The fact that the Democratic
National convention will sit in New
York is unimportant so long as the
candidate is not under the shadow of
Wall Street.
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24.
NO. 22. _
Conservation Meeting at State
College Last Week.
Dr. Edwin Earle Sparks, president
emeritus of The Pennsylvania State
College, was elected president of the
Centre County Conservation Associa-
tion at a meeting held at State Col-
lege last Friday. Prof. J. A. Fergu-
son was chosen secretary and Charles
B. Steel treasurer, all other officers
being re-elected. The officers elected
will hold their positions temporarily
until a general conservation meeting
can be held when a permanent organ-
, ization will be perfected. It is hoped
| that all parts of the county will be
i represented at the next meeting.
There are now fourteen organiza-
tions enrolled in the new Conservation
, Council, which is to be a federation of
all organizations in the county inter-
ested in conservation. The State
, Conservation council includes not only
I the large sportsmen’s organizations
| but the State Chamber of Commerce,
{ the Pennsylvania State Grange, Fed-
eration of Pennsylvania Women, Au-
dubon societies and botanical associa-
tions. Two new committees were
formed in the State Council meeting,
one on farming and one on civics.
The Centre county Council should in-
clude not only hunting and fishing
clubs, although the members of these
organizations are usually the most
active in conservation work, but also
local Granges, Chambers of Com-
merce, Women’s clubs, ete.
There are now nine organizations
affiliated with the Centre County Con-
servation Council. The dues for each
organization are $2.00 a year. All
members of the organizations become
automatically members of the asso-
ciation. A series of conservation
meetings will be held next fall in dif-
ferent parts of the county, as a means
of effecting a strong Council that will
knit together all agencies looking for
the betterment of conditions in this
section of the State.
MEETING OF STATE COUNCIL.
At the annual meeting of the State
Council, also held at State College on
Friday, officers were elected as fol-
lows: President, Dr. Henry S. Drink-
er, Merion Station, president emeri-
tus Lehigh University, past president
| American Forestry Association and
president of the Pennsylvania Forest-
ry Association; first vice president,
William W. Evans, Bloomsburg; sec-
ond vice president, John M. Phillips,
Pittsburgh; third vice president, Fred
Brenkman, Harrisburg, secretary of
ithe State Grange; secretary, S. N.
Keefauver, Philadelphia, and treasur-
Big
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Bellefonte’s Big Trout to be Pro- | bhi cOreight, DuBois
| The following were elected chair-
men of the following committees:
Forestry, J. A. Ferguson, State Col-
lege; fish, J. Q. Creveling, Wilkes-
Barre; birds, Mrs. H. F. Coffin, Scran-
ton; wild flowers, Dr. E. M. Gress,
Harrisburg; education, Dr. J. George
Becht, Harrisburg, and Walter L. M.
Otto, Williamsport.
The Council went on record as ap-
proving a bond issue of $25,000,000
for the purchase of State forest lands,
and favored legislation to curb the in-
discriminate use of Christmas trees.
The game committee recommended
that no change be made in the pres-
ent game laws at the next session of
the Legislature. A civic committee
was created to consider particularly
the billboard nuisance along high-
ways. The employment of a special
publicity director was also advocated.
Sixty-five Plus.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
When Auditor General Samuel S.
Lewis announced the other day that
the State revenue for the first half of
the present biennium had gone beyond
$65,000,000 he was not only able to
substantiate claims made by him, and
which some folk doubted, but to in-
dicate that the Comomnwealth of
Pennsylvania is getting along very
well on its ordinary sources of in-
come. Mr. Lewis did some predicting
last spring about this time which in
the excitement of the legislative ses-
sion was not very closely followed,
but it came true within a few months
and now he has made good on another
financial forecast.
In view of these facts it is worth-
while observing that when Mr. Lewis
said he did not think the State would
need the emergency taxes after the
slate was cleaned next year he prob-
ably knew what he was talking about.
And yet there are reports a responsi-
ble State official recently said in_an
address to a State body that in spite
of economy measures there would be
some millions needed beyond what the
present normal taxes would produce.
Sixty-five million dollars ought to
be a pretty fair sum to travel on as
a yearly income, especially when it is
a fair assumption that the natural
growth of business will bring increas-
es and the construction of roads is
cared for by a bond issue. Why the
emergency taxes should be continued
or new ones levied to take their place
is hard to understand when we read
about $65,000,000 plus.
——Having been appointed vice-
moderator of the Presbyterian Gener-
al Assembly itis to be hoped Mr.
Bryan will direct all his activities to
religious discussions in the future.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A jury at Greensburg acquitted Wile
liam Hinton of wife murder after delib-
erating 149 hours.
—John Quinn, of Johnstown, has
brought suit against Allison Pringle, of
Ferndale, to recover $20,000 damages for
injuries sustained when Pringle is alleged
to have run into and injured Quinn, in his
automobile.
—Every house in Hazleton and West Ha«
zleton, about 6500 dwellings, will be visit-
ed on June 1st by the Boy Scouts to de-
liver free fly swatters and State Health
Department literature urging that flies be
combatted in the interest of baby welfare
and general health.
—Beryle Sparr, 8 month’s old daughter
of Harry Sparr, of Temple, died in the
hospital at Reading as the result of in-
haling talcum powder. While ploying
with a box of powder she inhaled a large
quantity, congestion of the lungs followed
and pneumonia developed.
—A verdict of $4000 in favor of Charles
W. Steese, of Mifflinburg, against Mifflin
burg borough was returned by a Union
county jury for damage sustained by water
being diverted from the head of his dam
for the operation of the town’s hydro-
electric plant. One thousand dollars of
the verdict was for accrued interest on the
amount of alleged loss.
—The body of George W. Reed Jr., aged
27 years, of Danvlle, missing since May 10,
when he went to Scranton to work with a
repair crew for the Bell Telephone com-
pany, was taken to his parents’ home in
that city and buried on Sunday. It was
found early Saturday morning in a creek
near Scranton, The man was a veteran of
the world war. It is thought he ended his
own life.
—Very considerate were two highway«
men who last Friday night held up J. Z.
Born, an Altoona furniture agent, just
after he put his automobile away. With
his hands in the air, they carefully exam-
ined and replaced papers taken from his
pocket. Then they took $9, looked at his
watch to see what time it was, replaced
the watch in his pocket and told him not
to look back.
—A thief stole the corner stone of the
Mount Zion Methodist church, about three
miles from Stroudsburg, and destroyed it’
after extracting $17 in gold and silver
coins. The coins, with a list of donors,
papers and other valuable documents were
put into the stone in 1869. Charles Hel-
lett, one of the oldest inhabitants, recalls
the laying of the stone. It was found in
a thicket, broken open.
—James Lewis, of Milton, Pa.,, who de-
scribes himself as a home-loving man, has
written to Mayor E. S. Hugentugler, of
York, asking his aid in getting a wife.
The letter contained a $1 bill, and a prom-
ise of $5 more if the executive succeeds in
finding the proper helpmate for the Mil-
ton writer. Lewis wants a wife between
35 and 40 years old, and says he has a
nice home, too, for her.
—More than 10,000 of the 100,000 licensed
hunters who have filed reports for the 1923
hunting season with the Board of Game
Commissioners killed no game of any kind.
It is estimated approximately 400,000 re-
ports remain to be filed by June 1st, for
the time for filing. Seth E. Gordon, sec-
retary of the commission has announced
the board will consider county closing pe-
titions at its June meeting.
—A verdict of $78,000, one of the largest
ever made in Philadelphia for personal in-
juries was awarded Nathan Lerner last
Thursday by a jury in Common Pleas
court. The suit was brought against the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit company for
damages in a trolley accident as a result
of which the plaintiff was said to have be-
come insane. Physicians testified that he
would never regain his mental faculties.
—Shortly after 3 o'clock on Monday
afternoon Mrs. Alice Fitzgerald, of Wil-
liamsport, was admitted to the hospital in
that city, burned from head to foot so se-
verely that the skin peeled off when touch-
ed. She was ironing clothes when a quan- |
tity of gasoline ignited and set fire to her
clothing. She ran out of the house before
«he could be reached and was so severely
burned her recovery is extremely doubtful.
—~Sophia Bilkiewicz and Joe Somake, of
Philadelphia, went to Pittsburgh last
week to get married. While the arrange-
ments were being made, they went to a Mul-
berry Way boarding house, where, accord-
ing to the woman, Somake suggested that
she place $1400, her life savings, under her
pillow. He volunteered to watch it. When
Sophia arose on Saturday morning, she
told the police, Somake was not to be
found and the $1400 was missing.
—TFred S. Winter, of Williamsport, was
attacked and gored by a bull Saturday
while he was attempting to tie the animal
in its stall in his father’s barn, near Mon-
toursville. Both collar bones were broken,
both shoulders dislocated and several ribs
fractured. The bull knocked him down
and rolled him into a corner where he was
helpless. His father heard his cries and
drove the animal off. The injured man
could not be taken to the hospital because
of his condition.
—A contract for more than $1,000,000 for
the electrification equipment of a mew steel
mill being built at Pittsburgh by the €ar-
negie Steel company has been awarded the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing
company. The awarding of the contract
was in line with the company’s recent an-
nouncement of its plan to dismantle three
of its older structural mills operated by
steam-drive and replace them with two
electrified mills. The company in its an-
nouncement termed steam-drive in steel
mills as obsolete.
—Marko Lacovich, 35 years of age, was
shot and killed at the home of George De-
rich, in Claysburg, Blair county, with
whom he boarded, on Sunday night, and
the state police are looking for Joseph
Flynn, colored, who disappeared after the
shooting. Lacovich and Flynn had an ar-
gument over the use of English a short
time before, which ended in an exchange
of blows. Flynn left the house. While
Lacovich was washing the blood off his
face, some one came to the door and shot
him, and Flynn is suspected of having
committed the crime.
—~Stanley Cole, of Watrous, is the cham-
pion rodless, lineless and baitless fisher«
man of the northern tier of counties.
Standing on the bank of a branch of Pine
creek, in Tioga county, Cole watched a big
fish hawk circle over the stream and as it
dived to the water he gave a terrific yell,
at the same time throwing a stone which
hit the water just as the hawk seized the
fish. In its fright the bird flew directly
at Cole and dropped the fish at his feet.
An examination of the trout disclosed
three deep holes in its back, placed there
by the hawks talons.
wie.