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. —Cheer up! There’s going to be
ots of sunshine to bring the garden
and farm products along.
* —If Congress adjourns tomorrow
that’ll be that much, at least, by way
of getting back to normal.
——The impending contest seems
to be between President Coolidge and
‘the leaders of his party in Congress.
—If winter lingers much longer in
the lap of spring we see the bottom
of the coal pile we laid in for next
winter.
Mr. Vare has had a conference
with the President and possibly he
‘has been entrusted with the “Message
to Garcia.”
—If Gen. Dawes should accept the
second place on the Coolidge ticket
“gilent Cal.” won't need to say a word.
“Hell’n Maria” will do it all.
—Those Chicago youth who thought
it was no worse for them to murder a
fourteen year old boy than it is for a
scientist to impale a beetle on a needle
are the kind of philosophers that the
world is better without.
—We’d squeal like a stuck pig at
this five mill raise in the tax rate in
Bellefonte, if we were not afraid
council might forget to devote part of
it to fixing up poor, neglected Spring
street—and maybe it will at that.
— Senator Borah has declined to be
the Coolidge running mate; a perfect-
ly natural decision for the stormy
petrel from Idaho to have come to. In
many respects Borah is a bigger man
than Coolidge can ever hope to be. In
fact so big that he can’t afford to be
tail to a kite that will land him on a
political shelf.
—We are not surprised that Frank
Tinney, superb blackface comedian
has gotten himself into trouble. His
Follies sketch, some years ago, when
he was night clerk, porter and tele-
phone operator in an apartment
house, revealed that Frank knew far
too much about the “Primrose Path”
and the “Persian Kittens.”
—Of the ten minerals that produce
the greatest value in the United
States most people would say gold is
first. Most people would say that be-
cause most people always know the
least. Gold is tenth in the list. What
really surprised us is the discovery
that the products of clay are fourth
and even sand and stone are ahead of
gold and silver in creative values.
—My, how times have changed. It
seems only yesterday that the village
lamp posts were ornamented with
souses. Now Kiwanis is going to dec-
orate them with hanging flower bas-
kets. Wouldn’t it be nice if Kiwanis
would devote one basket to rye, one
to corn and one to hops. To the eye
the effect might not be so beautiful,
but to the memory: Oh, what a sigh!
When many pass by.
—Several months ago when Georges
Carpentier announced that he was
coming back to America to fight we
stated thatit was the dollar not any
title that the Frenchman was after.
He got seventy-thousand at Michigan
City last Saturday and a good beatin’,
besides, at the hands of Tom Gibbons.
Georges, no doubt, is a philosopher of
the Bill Hollenback school. It was
Bill who told us, some years ago, when
he was figuring on the commercial
side of becoming “the white hope”
that “it’s a damned poor carcass that
can’t take a good beatin’ once in a
while.”
—The high court of the Protestant
Episcopal church has adjudged the Rt.
Rev. William Montgomery Brown, re-
tired Bishop of Arkansas, a heretic.
Pretty tough for the Bishop, but when
he tries to make the world believe that
there is no place for the New Jerusa-
lem except somewhere in space that
would take millions of years to reach,
even if his statement were true—he
seems to be forgetting that millions
of years, as related to eternity, are in-
finitesimal. Our vote’s agin the Bish-
op, too. It matters little tous where
the New Jerusalem is, or how long it
is going to take to get there. All we
want is the pass.
—We learn from a report in anoth-
er column of this issue that the W. C.
T. U. has appointed a committee to
interrogate Wm. H. Noll Jr. for the
purpose of ascertaining whether he is
a fit man to represent Centre county
in the next session of the Assembly of
Pennsylvania, which means: If he is
wet he isn’t fit, and if he is dry he is.
Now isn’t that a helluvaway for a lot
of sane people to measure the ability
of a man to represent them on the
thousand and one questions that are
to arise in the next session of the Leg-
islature? Mr. Noll should commit
himself to law enforcement, but if he
goes any further than that: Well, he
won’t do it, that’s all.
—President Coolidge must be given
credit for declining to soft pedal or
mince words when he has anything to
say. His Memorial day address at
Arlington wasn’t a classic, but it voic-
ed the spirit of a courageous man.
When he said: “We here highly re-
solve that these dead shall not have
died in vain,” he was serving notice
on the Senate, in general, and Lodge
and Pepper, in particular, that he “is
one of those who believe we would be
safer, and that we would be meeting
our duties better by supporting” a
World Court under the protocol of the
League of Nations. He is going to
write his own platform and run the
convention in which he is already
nominated. The President has noth-
ing to thank the Senatorial oligarchy
for and he is to be admired for telling
it so in language into which only one
meaning can be read.
VOL. 69.
Democratic Tax Bill Approved.
President Coolidge has approved the
Democratic tax bill with apologies to
the disappointed corporations, war
profiteers and multi-millionaires who
are expected to supply the slush fund
for the impending Presidential cam-
paign. In a statement accompanying
the return of the measure he declares
that he is influenced to approval by
the fact that the Democratic bill is an
improvement on the existing law in
that it reduces taxation to some ex-
tent. But in his estimation it fails to
reform the tax system of the coun-
try because the decreases are on small
incomes instead of the larger ones.
He extends hope to the “big bugs,” |
however, in an assurance that if he is
elected next fall he will serve them.
The President still clings to the il-
lusion that taxation of big incomes
drives capital away from industrial
enterprises and into tax-exempt secu-
rities, which in turn increases the bur-
dens on individuals for State purpos-
es. Senator Couzens, of Michigan, a
multi-millionaire, completely refuted
this false pretense months ago and
practically drove it out of the oratory
of the Senate. He proved that there
is abundance of capital ready and
willing to meet the demands of in-
dustrial enterprise and that tax free
securities are justified because of ad-
vantage they gave in municipal im-
provements and progress. But it
seems that his reasoning has failed to
reach the brain of the accident in the
White House.
Possibly the tax bill enacted by
Congress and reluctantly approved by
the President falls short of perfec-
tion. It leaves a too heavy burden
upon the people. The fault is not in
the income tax schedules, however. It
lies in the taxes that keep the cost of
living at an altitude which is intoler-
able if not actually confiscatory. The | ed with the arguments of these poli-
tariff tax law which takes from the
people four or five billion dollars an- |
nually to produce revenues of less | ued,
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JUNE 6. 1924.
NO. 23.
Coolidge Rebukes Lodge and Pepper. |
. In his speech at the Arlington cem-
etery, on Memorial day, President
Coolidge served notice on Senator Pep-
per, Senator Lodge and the other
“bitter-enders” in the Senate, that
however much they pretend to be
leaders of the Republican party they |
do not represent him as Republican
President or as candidate of the Re-
publican party for President. It was
not a suitable occasion for political
discussion or declaration but it afford- |
ed him opportunity, nevertheless, to !
express his opinion as to the para-
mount issue of the coming campaign
and to indicate that the Senators in!
question are following a wrong line. |
They may represent themselves and a ;
fraction of their party but they don’t
represent Coolidge.
Senator Lodge has expressed his |
opposition to the Harding proposal of |
entrance into the permanent court of
international justice created by the
covenant of the League of Nations in
an absurd substitute which was liter-
ally ridiculed out of existence. Sen-
ator Pepper followed with a scheme
equally vicious, the purpose of both
being to antagonize the League of
Nations. The Pepper proposition has |
been adopted by the Senate commit-
tee and is now on the calendar, not
for passage but to fool the public. Re-
ferring to these makeshifts President
Coolidge said: “More than a year
ago President Harding proposed that
the Senate should authorize our ad-
herence to the protocol of the perma-
nent court of international justice.
His suggestion has already had my
approval. On that I stand.”
In other words. he condemns the
subterfuges offered by Lodge and
Pepper for the reason that they ex-
press a purpose to avoid obligations
we owe the world. He is not impress-
ticians. “I am one of those who be-
lieve we would be safer,” he contin-
“and that we would be meeting
than one billion will be the point of | our duties better by supporting it and
attack in future efforts at tax revis-
ion, and immediately after the inau-
guration of a Democratic President
next March this reform movement
will be set in motion. No slush fund
will be able to prevent this result.
——Coolidge frankly admits that
he doesn’t like the Democratic tax bill
but the action of Congress on the bo-
nus bill admonished him against using
the veto power.
Daugherty Inquiry Ended.
The promise comes from Washing-
ton that the Daugherty probe will end
this week, probably today, as Con-
gress expects to adjourn tomorrow.
It has been a long drawn out inquisi-
tion but worth the time and money
expended. It has revealed a rotten
mess and developed a dangerous con-
dition of affairs. It has resulted in
the complete exposure of the iniqui-
ties practiced by the “Columbus
crowd” and made the reorganization
of such a conspiracy of crime utterly
impossible for a generation at least,
and probably for all time. With the
passage of Daugherty and his bunch
of crooks the employment of govern-
ment agencies to protect crime will
end. That is a great achievement.
The evidence taken during this in-
quiry has proved beyond the shadow
of doubt that during the period since
the inauguration of President Hard- |
ing the Department of Justice at
Washington has been a criminal con-
spiracy to loot the public in order to
enrich a group of political pirates.
The laws have been violated not only
in the matter of speculating in per-
mits to release whiskey but in every
other thing that held out the hope of
yielding profits to the gang. The ma-
chinery of the Department has been
prostituted to frame up charges
against innocent men and protect
criminals in nefarious enterprises. It
may be that Daugherty was not alone
to blame for the conditions, but he
was the principal.
There was some lofty juggling with
facts in the testimony taken by the
committee but that was a natural con-
sequence of environment. In fulfill-
ment of his plans Mr. Daugherty had
grouped about him an assortment of
crooks, each of whom was bent upon
his own gain, and in the quarrels
which ensued bitter enmities were cre-
ated. Some of these former em-
ployees of the department may have
carried these enmities into the wit-
ness box and colored their statements
more or less. But setting the evi-
dence of such witnesses aside there
was enough left to convict Harry M.
Daugherty of every charge brought
against him and envelope his admin-
istration of the office in an atmos-
phere of crime.
re eaeien
——For the first time in a quarter
of a century Senator Lodge will be an
unimportant figure in a Republican
National convention.
i lipemia
——1In this moist weather there is
no necessity for getting up early to
catch bait. :
making every possible use of it. I
feel confident that such action would
make a greater America; that it
would be productive of higher and
finer national spirit and of a more
complete national life.” This is a
frank as well as an emphatic rebuke
to Lodge and Pepper and a gratify-
1ing sign of a tendency toward the ul-;
timate entrance into the League of -
Nations. |
— a
The statements of the A. M. E.
Bishops, recently in session, “we can-
not forever vote for a party because |
of its past history,” implies a graver
‘danger to the Republican party than |
any other recent declaration.
|
Pepper’s Moral Measure.
In an article recently written by
George Wharton Pepper and publish- |
ed in Collier's the moral measure of
the senior Senator for Pennsylvania
is clearly revealed. In the beginning !
he says that “the political party that |
develops and elects such a man as
Calvin Coolidge has the strongest!
claim on public confidence.” Having |
thus set an hypothesis he cites “the
sins of Forbes, the weakness of Fall, |
and the impaired confidence in Daugh- |
erty” as unimportant incidents in the '
life of the party which may be over-
looked because of the superb charac-
ter and record of Mr. Coolidge.
He admits that the weakness of
Secretary Fall “verged on crime,”
and that the appointment of Daugher-
ty was “a blunder.” The weakness of
Mr. Fall resulted in the sacrifice of
hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth
of property in the oil reserves of the
country and a perfidious betrayal of
the government to feed the cupidity
of a crook. The blunder in the ap-
pointment of Daugherty resulted in
the prostitution of the police power of
the government to protect criminals
in office and frame up charges against
honest and innocent men for no oth-
er reason than that they were striv-
ing to expose and force out of office a
gang of thieves who were looting the
government.
All the time that these criminal
conspirators were operating Calvin
Coolidge was closely affiliated with
them and if he was not cognizant of
their operations it was because he was
too stupid to understand obvious facts.
Even after they were exposed he held
them in his confidence and retained
them in his official family until an
aroused popular indignation compell-
ed him to order them out. It is true
that he has taken steps for the recov-
ery of the stolen property but not un-
til after it became necessary to save
himself from public condemnation as
an accomplice in their crimes.
———————— lp ———
——Former Governor Sproul is
going to the convention at Cleveland
in the hope, probably, of creating an
alibi against the charge that he is a
dead one.
——We are curious to know why
60,000 Canadians are going to Eu-
rope this summer. The Volstead law
is not in force in Canada.
Pinchot and the Convention.
According to current gossip in of-
ficial circles in Harrisburg, Governor
Gifford Pinchot and Cornelia Brice
Pinchot, his wife, are making elabo-
rate preparations to attend the Re-
publican National convention at Cleve-
land next week. They will not travel
on the “official” train which Chairman
Baker, in colaboration with General
Atterberry, is taking so much pains to
make up. Neither will they sit with
the delegation in the convention nor
share in the confidences of the hotel
headquarters. But they may get a
lot of fun and a good deal of satisfac-
tion out of their presence in Cleve-
land among the highfliers. As a song
writer says, “a bed bug has no wings
at all, but he gets there just the
same.”
It may safely be predicted that Gif-
ford and Cornelia are not going to
Cleveland at the considerable expense
the journey will involve for their
health. It is almost as certain that
they are not going for the purpose of
boosting the ambitions of Andy Mel-
lon’s particular friend, Calvin Cool-
idge. The scenery on the lakeside is
lovely but they are not influenced by
aesthetic considerations in making
this trip to Cleveland.
that they are going to Cleveland to
help Mr. Mellon dispose of some of
the accumulated product of his sev-
eral distilleries, for it is suspected
that there will be a strong demand for
such goods among the prohibitionists
assembled to nominate a Prohibition-
ist for President.
Of course all conjecture on this sub-
ject is purely speculative. Gifford
and Cornelia may be going to Cleve-
land at the convention time because
there are likely to be a good many
others there who share their views
upon the wisdom of nominating for
President a man who has been inti-
mately related in an official way with
such political “mavericks” as Harry
Daugherty, Albert Fall, Harry Sin-
clair, Jess Smith, Doheny, McLean
and Burns. Senator Couzens, Sena-
tor Johnson, Senator LaFollette, Sen-
ator Norris and hosts of others who
entertain opinions on politics similar
to their own may be there, and it
~woliad afford Gifford and Cornelia gen-
uine pleasure to pour into their ears
tales of perfidy in Pennsylvania.
Giff may not sit in the conven-
tion but if Cornelia is admitted to the
councils of the female contingent in '
Cleveland “we may be happy yet, you
bet.”
John Saxton, of Unionville, Given
Medal for Heroism.
John W. Saxton, the well known
Tyrone division operator at Union-
| ville, proved himself a hero at his
tower on the 8th of last June, when
he snatched a two-year old child from
death in the face of the fast approach-
ing Lehigh express at the risk of his
own life and limb, and was one of the
twenty-seven Pennsylvania railroad
system employees to be presented
with the company’s bronze medal for
the performance of extraordinary acts
of valor, by president Samuel Rea, at
Broad Street station, on Wednesday of
last week.
The medal, which is of bronze, is
2% inches in diameter. On the face of
it there is a reproduction of the larg-
est type passenger engine now in serv-
ice. Under this are the words, “All
honor attend you in your valor!” On
the reverse side is a large keystone
encircled by a laurel wreath. The
keystone contains a facsimile of the
official seal of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company, above which has been
inserted the name of the employee to
whom the medal is awarded, as well
as the date on which the heroic serv-
ice was performed.
The facts of Saxton’s heroic act
bear repetition at this time: He heard
the Lehigh whistle for the crossing
at Unionville station, and at the same
time saw little Andrew Jackson Rob-
inson, son of John Robinson, track
foreman at Unionville, toddle up on
the track and stop. He realized that
it was too late to pull the board on
the engineer, so he rushed from the
tower and snatched little John off the
track just a fraction of a second be-
fore the heavy express thundered by.
It was a deed of pure, unadulterated
heroism, and Saxton richly deserves
the great honor that has been bestow-
ed upon him.
rs ——— A —————————
——The Port Allegheny Reporter
celebrated its fiftieth anniversary last
week by publishing a souvenir edition
of fifty pages that would have done
credit to a metropolitan newspaper.
When the paper was started in 1874
Port Allegheny was a town of only
two hundred inhabitants but it has
grown to be one of the best towns in
McKean county. ;
——In trying to laugh off the La-
Follette third party threat esteemed
Republican contemporaries are simply
revealing their mortal fears.
———r ie
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
The Augean Stable.
From the Philadelphia Record.
As Mr. Coolidge is about as far re-
moved as possible from a Hercules, it
is going to take more than one day to
clean out the Department of Justice,
and it has taken an immense amount
of Democratic prodding to get the
President to do anything at all.
Gaston B. Means was used by the
Department of Justice until very re-
cently as an “investigator,” and un-
der the late management of the de-
partment the difference between an
“investigator” and a blackmailer or a
spy is not so very great. Now the de-
partment is prosecuting its own
agent, and a New York lawyer named
Todd has been appointed a special As-
sistant Attorney General to conduct
the prosecution.
Todd says Means is a crook, and he
can “nail” him for telling that “fairy
' story” about being robbed of his note
books by agents of the department. It
is an inspiring spectacle to see the de-
partment prosecuting one of its own
agents as soon as he begins to read
from the little black books what mis-
cellaneous information he has picked
'up about Harry Daugherty and other
It might be,
persons now or recently drawing sal-
aries from the department. Is Means
being prosecuted because he is telling
too , much about Daugherty and oth-
ers?
And as to the theft of the note
books, Mr. Todd says there was no
such incident. But Duckstein has tes-
tified that he saw his wife, who is a
special agent of the department, iden-
' tify these note books which had been
obtained from Means by agents of the
department. Is Means to be destroyed
to save some fragment of the reputa-
tions of Harry Daugherty and his
friends? And if Todd can prove
Means to be a crook, how does it hap-
pen that for a considerable period he
was doing “investigation” for Mr.
Daugherty and his subordinates?
When Senator Wheeler was inves-
tigating the Department of Justice,
Burns, who has followed Daugherty
into private life, sent three agents to
Montana to find something that would
discredit Mr. Wheeler, and the infor-
mation collected by the three agents
of the department was submitted by
"a District Attorney whom Daugherty
had picked out, and who had sought in
vain the help of Senator Wheeler in
getting a Judgeship, to a grand jury
the foreman of which was the princi-
1 political antagonist of tor
heeler. The result was an ifdict-
ment. But a committee of the Senate
has investigated the case and has giv-
en the Senator a clean bill of health.
The only dissenting voice in the com-
mittee was that of Mr. Sterling; and
after the matter had been debated at
some length the Senate voted 56 to 5
that there was no truth in the stories
of the agents of the department upon
which the indictment rested. This is
equivalent to a declaration of the Sen-
ate by a vote of 56 to 5 that the spe-
cial agents of the department and the
Montana grand jury, or the District
Attorney, or both of them, had
brought a false criminal charge
against Senator Wheeler in the hope
of stopping the investigation of the
Department of Justice.
The President has tardily and re-
luctantly changed the head of the de-
partment.
Back on the Main Track.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
Gifford Pinchot has been doing
much traveling and speaking recently.
In the main, his utterances have been
a distinct contribution. He is ap-
parently on the main track at last.
He is saying the things he should
have been saying a year ago. Hav-
ing apparently given up all idea of
riding into power on a prohibition
law enforcement program, he is talk-
ing about the things that lie close to
his heart—things concerning which he
can speak as an expert.
Governor Pinchot, during his visit
to the Middle West, advocated the
construction of inland water ways and
the pooling of electric power. Those
are two subjects of paramount im-
portance.
A Half Cent Will Do It.
From the Pennsylvania Farmer.
The soldiers’ bonus bill has become
a law, having been passed by both
Houses of Congress over the veto of
President Coolidge. The next thing
is to raise the money. The war prof-
iteers should be made to foot the bill.
Unfortunately, there is no way to get
the cash from them, so it is up to the
taxpayer. It is estimated that mere
than 2,000 millions of dollars will be
required to carry out the provisions
of the bonus act. That looks like a
pretty big load, but we can shoulder
our share more philosophically when
we consider that a half cent out of
each dollar we spend for luxuries will
pay it all during the twenty-year per-
iod fixed by the new law.
“Spying is Dirty Work.”
From the New Republic.
Spying is dirty work. Decent men
usually will not enter it, and it de-
bauches them when they do. Its re-
sults are always of questionable val-
ue and never justify the use of such
huge sums, ranging into millions, as
are now being spent for detective op-
erations by the treasury, the post-
office and the department of justice.
With Burns out of the way, we now
have the right to hope and to demand
that the whole sorry crew of wire-
tappers, keyhole watchers, letter
stealers and gossip collectors will be
dumped out as well. ch ala
: a
bruised leg and hip and is confined to her
bed. During her mother’s absence she
wandered to the fire escape through a
third story window.
—William Fitz was attacked by his
German police dog at his home in Gilber-
ton, Schuylkill county, on Thursday and
badly torn about the face and body. It
was not until Fitz lay down upon the
ground feigning death that the dog desist-
ed from his savage attacks. The dog was
brought home by Fitz from Germany at
the close of the world war.
—The congregation of the St. John's
Lutheran church in McCandless township,
Allegheny county, discovered on Sunday
that vandals had stripped the church bare
of furnishings when they arrived for the
morning service. The only rug remaining
was the one under the piano. A violin
placed upon the piano at the conclusion of
last Sunday’s services, was among the ar
ticles stolen.
—Lester, aged eight years, and Wood-
row, aged 7, sons of Willis Hoke, were
drowned in Wildwood Lake, near Harris-
burg, on Friday, when the former attempt-
ed to rescue his brother, who had stepped
into a deep hole while trying to catch a
minnow with his hands. Seeing his broth-
er in trouble, Lester tried to reach him,
and stepped into the hole. Neither boy
was able to swim.
—Plans are nearing completion for the
annual State encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Wilkes-Barre the
early part of June. The money needed to
defray the expenses of the gathering has
been raised through committees of the
Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce, which
assumed charge of the preliminary ar-
rangements at the request of the Wilkes-
Barre post of the G. A. R.
—Harold Howard, 21 years old, employed
as a shooter by the American Glycerine
company, at Bradford, of which his father,
William M, Howard, is manager, was
blown to atoms when eighty quarts of ni-
tro glycerine on a truck he was driving to
West Branch, exploded. Only minute
pieces of the body and of the automobile
truck were found after the explosion,
which rocked the countryside for miles
around. {
—After confessing to the Lancaster po-
lice on Saturday night that he had rob-
bed John Moore, proprietor of the Ex-
change hotel, in that city, of about $1,500
in bills and checks, Patrick Devlin, 21
years old, told them to look into the waste
paper basket to find the money. The bas-
ket had been emptied into a pile of rub-
bish in the station house yard and a stray
hound had slept there the early part of
the day, but in the center of the heap of
paper were found $600 in bills and addi-
tional checks.
—Twenty-two years ago, away back in
1902, Jewett Dyer, a Wilkes-Barre business
man, had a gold watch stolen from him in
Baltimore. The watch was valued at $200.
He reported the theft to the police, but
never heard of it again. Recently he re-
ceived a letter through the Wilkes-Barre
police from the chief of police in Balti
more, saying that they had recovered his
watch and asking him to identify it. Dy-
er did so and has become an enthusiastic
booster for all police departments and
their efficiency.
—A heavy production of gas in a new
shallow field near Eldersville, Hanover
township, Washington county, has caused
a rush for leases and general excitement
among oil and gas producers. The gas,
gushing at the rate of 1,500,000 feet per
day, was struck on the farm of Mrs. Mary
Lockhart, in the salt sand. The strike
wis unexpected, and the drillers were un«
prepared. Tools were blown from the cas-
ing. The flow was finally placed under
control. Deeper drilling is expected to in-
crease the production.
—A fire that destroyed two barns at
Bloomsburg early on Saturday was the di-
rect cause of the death of Mrs. W. J. Shutt,
one of the town’s best-known women, and
serious injury to Harry Johnson. Seeing
the flames from her bedroom window,
Mrs. Shutt awakened her husband and col-
lapsed, dying before a doctor could reach
her. Shock and excitement were said to
have induced a heart attack. Johnson,
owner of the burned barns and of a brood-
er house in which the fire started, was
badly burned attempting to save a neigh-
bor’s automobile.
—Entering the home of Bert Anderson,
at West Pittston early on Saturday morn-
ing shortly after Anderson had gone to his
work as a railroad engineer, a burglar
completely ransacked the house, visiting
every room except one in which Mrs. An-
derson barricaded herself and two chil
dren. The prowler remained for fully
three hours while the mother and children
remained in their place of refuge. Finally
gathering up courage the woman opened
a second-story window, slid down a rain
pipe to the ground and summoned aid,
but the intruder had fled. Nothing of val-
ue was taken.
—To begin work as an apprentice in the
foundry of Slaymaker & Durkee, at York,
Pa., June 1, 1852, and to retire as super-
intendent of the same foundry, now Eys-
ter & Weiser, June 1, 1924, thus complet-
ing 72 years of service, is the record estab-
lished by John Strickler, who was 84 years
old on Sunday. On the day he became 12
years of age he began his career and has
been ill but twice, once about 12 years
ago, and he now is recovering from an
attack of pneumonia which has confined
him to his home for the past several
weeks, In 1861 he served in the Union ar-
my for three months. This was his long-
est time away from the foundry.
—Mrs. Charles Frederick, of Mifflinburg,
plaintiff in the case of Frederick vs. Penn-
sylvania Railroad company, in which dam-
ages were sought for the death of Mrs.
Frederick’s husband in a grade crossing
accident last fall, was awarded a verdict
of $1,200 in the Union county court after
the case had been on trial two weeks.
Frederick was killed with Dr. 0. K. Pell-
man, also of Mifflinburg, in whose automo-
bile he was riding. The train demolished
the car on a crossing near Mifflinburg.
Negotiation to settle the case out of court
were said to have been ignored by the wid-
ow of Frederick, who, it was said, was of
fered $3,500 by the Pennsylvania company
before suit was filed.