Bewora Madam
INK SLINGS.
—Anyway, “Hell an’ Maria” ought
to be for Dawes.
, ——After the election General
Dawes will probably change it to “to
hell with Maria.”
—When the Grangers begin to ad-
vertise their picnic at Centre Hall we
always feel that fall is not far off.
—Here it is the 20th of June and
some farmers have not planted their
corn, while there are a few who are
not entirely through with their spring
plowing.
—Anyway the Democratic National
convention has so much splendid ma-
terial to chose from that it can scarce-
ly make a mistake in the selection of
a standard bearer.
—The Pennsylvania Military Col-
lege at Chester is to confer a degree
on Gen. Smed Butler. The under-
world of Philadelphia is hoping, of
course, that it will be the Third.
—As for us we feel that he won't
make the riffle, but we believe Oscar
Underwood to be the ablest of those
who are in the open as candidates for
consideration by the New York con-
vention.
—Already the Republican dope
spreaders are showing their lack of
faith in the Coolidge ability by sing-
ing the praises-of Dawes vociferously.
The only impression made by this ef-
fort is that of conviction that the tail
is to wag the dog in the coming cam-
paign.
—Having led the first College yell
for Edwin Erle Sparks as “Prexy” of
our alma mater we want to here say
that not a moment since that night in
the Fort Pitt hotel, in Pittsburgh, to
the moment of his sudden passing
have we felt that he brought anything
other than honor to the institution
that honored him later by the call to
become its president.
——With such perfect attention to
detail as his exploiters would have us
believe he gave to the procedure of the
Cleveland convention it is a fair ques-
tion to ask. Did the President say
who should be on the committee to no-
tify him that he has been nominated
and did he send the spokesman a skel-
eton of what he should say? Cal. is
supposed he had done everything else
and we would like to know whether
he did that too.
—Just so the old timers will know
it: Those who thought a train could
not come into Bellefonte until they
had helped congest the station plat-
form, let us tell you that the idol of
the days when you knew nothing
about stepping on the gas is gone.
“Kit Carson”—Carson Smith—the
passenger engineer who slid into Val-
ley stations so smoothly and made the
rail hot with his speed between them,
is gone. He ran into the Valley of
the shadow of death last week, at his
home in Brockwayville.
—The United States Steel Co., re-
ports the lowest amount of unfilled
tonnage orders that it has reported in
a decade; the textile mills of New
England are at a stand still; agricul-
ture is headed straight for the demni-
tion bow-wows and everything else in
business is going from bad to worse—
all under a Republican President and
a Republican Congress. Cheer up,
joy killer. Along about October, when
the Coolidge boomers think they have
convinced the country that its only
salvation is in his election business
will be made to “perk up” a bit and
then we will be told that it is dis-
counting the re-election of a Republi-
can President and Congress.
—Governor Pinchot isn’t getting a
column of space in this paper in which
to show the public how much the op-
eration of his code has saved the Com-
monwealth. A few lines would serve
the purpose better and be more con-
vincing to the averaage mind. He could
do that in four lines, if he were to fill
in the figures as follows:
Grand total of all State receipts
during last year of Sproul
administration - - So hh.
Grand total of all State expen-
ditures during same period
Grand total of all State receipts
during first year of Code op-
eration - - - -
Grand total of all State expen-
ditures during first year of
Code operation - - S00 ce Tain
Let him fill in the amounts above.
The people would understand that and
not become as suspicious as they do
when columns of subterfuge are sent
out for them to ponder over.
The very latest edict from Paris
sends the corset into the old hair
trunk in the attic where the hoop-
skirt and the bustle lie awaiting their
occasional use for masquerade parties.
To be in vogue the ladies must wear
clinging, sleezy, stuff that will display
their figure—as nature made it—and
not be bound by any stays at all.
Some will and some won’t. It all de-
pends on the amount of modesty they
have or the figure with which nature
has endowed them. Though we own
failing vision we have seen enough to
convince us that the latter class have
so little that hasn’t been on parade
already that the new mode isn’t going
to be interesting at all. Circuses and
carnivals are supposed to have cut out
the Hootchy-Cootchy dancers because
of the vulgarity of the performance,
That is the play they are making in
their advertising but it isn’t the real
reason at all. Patrons got tired pay-
ing to see something that they see
every day on the streets and that’s
why there are no more “bally-hoos”
to entice you to give up a dime to see
1 female torso wiggle.
$....%...
$....2%...
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NYY:
_ VOL. 69.
A Voice from the Middle West. |
The Kansas City Star, unquestion-
ably the leading newspaper of the
“middle west” and a journal of wide
influence, is not enamored with the
results of the Republican National
convention. It says: “The keynoter,
Burton, of Ohio, was the leader of the
fight against the improvement of
western waterways—an improvement
which would reduce the transporta-
tion charges on farm products. Mon-
dell, of Wyoming, permanent chair-
man, was one of the bitterest of the
standpatters in the Roosevelt fight of
1912. He was a champion of Balling-
er, he was against the Roosevelt con-
servation policies, he was a member
of the credentinls committee that
made up the fraudulent roll call of the
Chicago convention that put Taft
over.”
Our mid-western contemporary is
equally “ferninst” the other conspic-
uous figures of the convention. The
nominator of Coolidge is unknown in
politics and is passed over as unim-
portant but the chairman of the com-
mittee on platform is roundly con-
demned as “a standpat member of the
National committee of 1912. McKin-
ley, of Illinois, head of the committee
on credentials, was a Taft manager in
1912 although from a State that had
voted overwhelmingly for Roosevelt
in the primaries. These are the west-
erners who are expected to lure the
disaffected farm vote to the Republi-
can ticket next November. These are
the men who are expected to get the
millions of Progressives of the mid-
dle west to throw up their hats.”
This is not the complaint of a sore-
head or disappointed politician. The
Kansas City Star is not a politcial or-
gan dependent upon the favors of a
political machine. It is a great news-
paper, thoroughly independent and
fearless and represents the views,
hopes and aspirations of a vast clien-
telle covering Missouri, Kansas, Okla-
homa and Iowa. It is the potent force
which made Missouri a doubtful State
in several campaigns in which Roose-
velt was concerned, and while not
partisan as a rule, it is and has been
for many years the mouthpiece in the
middle west of Theodore Roosevelt
and the things he stood for in public
life.” If the Star:adheres to its pres-
ent attitude that section will be
against Coolidge.
———The Philadelphia Ledger says
the Republican convention might have
looked high and low, it might have
gone into the highways and by-ways
in search for a candidate for Vice
President. That’s precisely what it
did do and finally cornered Dawes in
a dark alley.
Republican Demoralization Revealed.
Mr. Frank B. Kent, the widely ex-
perienced and capable political corres-
pondent of the Baltimore Sun, in a
survey of the proceedings and results
of the Republican National conven-
tion, draws some interesting infer-
ences and conclusions. In the first
place he estimates that because of the
preponderance of strength in the piv-
otal States with big electoral votes,
the Republican party does not have to
be 100 or even 50 per cent. efficient.
That fact, he continues, “covers a
multitude of sins, gives a wide mar-
gin for mistakes, and, except where
the other side makes a perfect score,
renders 30 per cent. efficiency enough
to prevent Republican disaster.”
This result is the more inexplicable
and inexcusable in Mr. Kent’s opinion
because the friends of the President
“had all their own way in the con-
vention.” They had complete control
and “every chance not only to settle
every vital point so as to pluck full
political profit, but to consider and
arrange every detail.” Yet they bun-
gled everything they laid their hands
on and finally so disgusted those con-
cerned in the prosperity of the party
that it became difficult to get a man
to accept the nomination for Vice
President. After the nomination “had
been definitely, indignantly and curtly
declined by two men and a third had
written to his friends refusing to per-
mit his name to be presented,” Mr.
Kent writes, “the thing became a joke
all over the convention hall.”
These facts lead this widely known
appraiser of political conditions to be-
lieve that in the Cleveland convention
the Republican party fell to a level
below the thirty per cent. in efficiency
necessary to save the Republican par-
ty from disaster. But it is not an al-
together surprising result. - “All that
can be said of it,” Mr. Kent continues,
“is that it is entirely in line with the
kind of leadership Mr. Coolidge has
shown during the six months he has
had Congress on his hands. As a
leader he simply does not function. It
just is not in him. The politicians of
his own, as well as those of the other
party, know this and they make no
secret of it.”
ET ——— A ———————,
——The only really “dry” spots in
Cleveland during the Republican Na-
tional convention were the speeches
and the platform. :
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JUNE 20. 1924.
NO. 25.
Plain Duty of Wage Earners.
If the nomination of Coolidge and
Dawes means anything it implies a
direct challenge to organized labor,
and if the labor leaders of the coun-
try are wise they will promptly ac-
cept the challenge and advise wage-
earners to waste no votes on side is-
sues or hopeless candidates. In his
veto of the legislation providing for a
just and reasonable increase in the
wages of postal employees President
Coolidge disclosed his attitude on the
wage question. The bill passed both
branches of Congress by practically
unanimous votes, and would have
passed over the veto if there had been
time to give it consideration. But
the veto message was delivered late
on the last day of the session.
It is said that General Dawes takes
great pride in his record as an un-
compromising opponent of trades-un-
ionism, and while the railroad shop-
men’s strike was at its crucial stage
he headed a committee of bankers and
railroad officials in an invasion of the
White House to terrorize President
Harding into a hostile movement
against the strikers. With character-
istic vehemence and profanity he de-
clared that the military force of the
government ought to be turned
against the men who were striving in
that expedient way, because there was
no other way, to secure what they be-
lieved to be just recompense for
their labor. As a matter of fact he
almost frightened Harding into such
action.
No matter who the Democrats nom-
inate for President and Vice President
at their convention in New York next
week the obvious course of organized
labor is to strive for the defeat of
Coolidge and Dawes and they are not
promoting that result by supporting
the candidates of any third party.
Either the Democratic or the Repub-
lican ticket will be elected next No-
vember, and the interests of organized
labor will be conserved by the defeat
of the Republican candidates. No ar-
gument is needed to convince intelli-
gent men and women of this fact.
The record of the Republican candi-
dates is actual and substantial proof.
Wage earners will waste votes cast
for third party candidates.
——It may safely be predicted that
neither Senator Pepper nor Senator
Lodge will go into ecstacies over the
world court plank in the Republican
platform.
Pinchot Juggling Figures.
It may be that figures will not lie
but it is certain that they may be
juggled. In a statement frequently
made by the State Treasurer within
the past six months it is alleged that
the administration of the State gov-
ernment under the Pinchot code has
cost upward of a million dollars more
than that of any previous administra-
tion within the same period of time.
This statement appears to be sustain-
ed by the fact that taxation has been
increased twelve or fifteen million dol-
lars and the treasury balance is no
greater now than it was at the time
the code became operative. If there
has been no increase in expenditures
what has become of the proceeds of
the added taxes?
The other day Governor Pinchot is-
sued a statement in which he asserts
that the expenses of the State gov-
ernment have been materially decreas-
ed during the year since the code be-
came effective, and he gives figures as
evidence. A “reduction in payrolls in
Harrisburg employees alone,” he says,
“amounts to nearly one million dol-
lars in one year.” This would be con-
crete evidence if it were true. But it
is simply juggling figures. As a mat-
ter of fact it is the result of paying
out of special funds, such as the high-
way fund, the game commission fund,
the fund for bounties on noxious ani-
malas and other resources instead of
out of the general fund which has
been the source of supply heretofore.
If anything were needed to prove
that Governor Pinchot is an arrant
hypocrite the false pretense expressed
in this claim of economy in adminis-
tration supplies it. His pretense of
reverence for the constitution is made
ridiculous by his appointment of Rep-
resentative Fowler, of Scranton, to
the office of registrar in that city. He
knows that Fowler is disqualified by
the provision of the constitution which
forbids the appointment of any Rep-
resentative in the General Assembly
to any civil office during the period
“for which he has been elected.” The
Governor is under oath to “support,
obey and defend the constitution,”
and this act shows that he has as lit-
tle respect for his oath as for the hon-
or of the Commonwealth.
———— fp ——————.
——The promise of fine weather
would be more heartening if it were
not for the probability of an increase
in the automobile fatalities.
I ————— A ——————
——The real optimist is the Phil-
adelphian who still believes there will
ba an adequate Sesquicentennial
there in 1926. ]
New Type of Campaigning.
Having nominated a man without a
record of achievement for President,
and “lassoed” a wild man from the
west whose record is limited to a de-
gree in profanity, the Republicans
have decided to adopt a new form in
campaign publicity. This line is
drawn from the tone of the speech of
Professor Burton, of Michigan, in pre-
senting the name of Mr. Coolidge to
the Cleveland convention. He stress-
ed the exaltation of the New England
character. As an esteemed contem-
porary puts it “what he is rather than
what he has done is to be the keynote,
for the Coolidge achievements as a
leader and as an executive are not
such as to create any marked enthu-
siasm in the country.” They don’t
strike the spark.
Some of the Republican managers
are resourceful, and if they are able
to reconcile wide differences already
developed and threatening, this “mor-
al fiber” stuff dwelt on so persistent-
ly by Professor Burton might work
confusion in the minds of weak men
and women and make them forget the
delinquencies, not only of the New
England character, but of the man
they have set up to represent it. But
the majority of voters are likely to
look at the practical side of the ques-
tion and summon available records,
which show that the New England
character is a precarious asset for a
candidate for President or else that
Mr. Calvin Coolidge is a poor exem-
plar of the virtues claimed for it.
For more than two years Mr. Cool-
idge, as Vice President, with the un-
usual privilege of a seat and voice in
the cabinet councils, had opportuni-
ties to analyze and appraise the men
who dominated the Harding adminis-
tration and unless he is a very stupid
observer he must have known some-
thing of the iniquities which have
since been exposed by Senatorial in-
vestigations. Yet he retained Albert
Fall in his official family until he vol-
untarily withdrew with a certificate of
character in his inside pocket and
cherished Denby and Daugherty until
public opinion literally compelled him
to turn them out. This course was
hardly consistent with the “moral
fibre? stuff now to be invoked.
Red Cross Nursing Service to be Dis-
continued After July First.
Owirg to lack of funds, the Red
Cross nursing service will be discon-
tinued after the first of July. The
nurse, Mrs. Merrill Hagan, is so deep-
ly interested in the welfare of the
hundred-and-three babies under her
supervision in connection with the
well-baby clinic that she has volun-
teered to continue the baby clinic
through the months of July and Au-
gust and it will be held, as usual, on
Wednesdays, 2:30 p. m., in Petrikin
hall, with Dr. LeRoy Locke as con-
sultant.
The nursing service has been in suc-
cessful operation for four years, un-
der Miss Mae Peterman, Miss Mary
Royer and Mrs. Hagan, and its dis-
continuance is greatly regretted by
the Red Cross committee. An attmept
was made in March to complete a sur-
vey of the community and learn if
sufficient yearly subscriptions could be
obtained to insure continuance of a
nurse but the result was not satis-
factory. The contribution of $1700.00
to Japan last autumn, and the hos-
pital drive have undoubtedly drained
the community exchequer and, hoping
that depleted purses may be re-filled
by September, the Red Cross commit-
tee plans to then make another and
more complete survey before aband-
oning the nursing service. No more
laudable project could be launched by
any organization than to assume re-
sponsibility for the support of a com-
munity nurse and it is hoped that the
subject may be close to the heart of
every one these two months and be
brought to a happy fruition! -
During the month of May Mrs. Ha-
gan made 218 visits inclusive of 33
schools visited. In the schools visit-
ed, she gave 44 class talks, distributed
1,000 pieces of literature and inspect-
ed 233 pupils. Among the pupils in-
spected, she found defects of vision
in 38, defects in teeth of 101, defects
in nose of 40 and, in throat, of 43.
Total expenses for the month were:
nurses’ salary $100.00, up-keep of au-
to $9.90, office supplies $2.65, janitor
service $9.50, laundry $2.50, while the
fees collected amounted to $9.00.
Cr ——————e————
Only four members showed up
for the regular meeting of borough
council, on Monday evening, but for-
tunately no important business will
suffer because of the fact that there
was no meeting. It passeth wunder-
standing, however, why some men are
so anxious to be elected to council
and when they get the office soon be-
come lax in attendance. Of course,
just now the “Watchman” editors are
primarily interested in seeing Spring
street fixed up, and the chairman of
the Street committee has assured us
that it will be done.
Srm———p A —————
—Get your job work done here.
The Republican Keynote.
From the DuBois Express.
Theodore E. Burton, masterful user
of ineaninglens words, has evolved
a keynote for the Republican party in
its 1924 campaign. It is: Forget
those ridiculously exaggerated stories
you have heard of corruption in
Washington—if there was recreancy
to trust, it was due to war influences,
anyway: and hold fast to Coolidge,
for it is to him, not Congress, that the
American people look to for leader-
ship. Mr. Burton floundered a good
deal, as was both natural and neces-
sary under the circumstances, before
he reached the keynote, but finally he
sounded it bravely and becomingly.
All the Fallism, all the Daugherty-
ism and all the Forbesism Mr. Burton
ascribes unhesitatingly, almost vehe-
mently, to the war. “Violent changes”
he says, “have brought to light un-
worthy motives and grasping avarice.
But the heart of the American people
is sound, and the gross influences that
accompany and follow every war will
pass away. Our highest duty in the
midst of all these iniquities is to pun-
ish the guilty, but at the same time
condemn exaggeration and protect the
innocent. It is an infamous crime to
seek to destroy the confidence of the
American people in the government
under which they live.”
Mr. Burton must have been fairly
out of breath after this burst of
righteous indignation, but he soon re-
covered and plunged right into an ex-
planation of the congressional situa-
tion and into laudation of the Presi-
dent. “Much of the blame,” he told
the convention, “which is visited upon
Republicans in the present Congress
is not deserved, because on many ma-
jor questions their party has not com-
manded a majority in either branch.
Let us not for a minute forget the im-
portance of a Republican majority in
the next Congress, made up of mem-
bers tried and true who will stand
united. With some disappointment as
one whose public service has been in
a legislative position, truth compels
me to say that by far the greater
share of our citizenship looks to Presi-
dent Coolidge rather than to Congress
for leadership.”
The speaker’s defense of Coolidge
is somewhat illogical, but what does 2
keynoter care for logic? “Much of
the blame is not deserved,” yet most
of the criticism leveled at Congress
arose from its failure to support the
President, whose “leadership” Mr.
Burton extols. Didn’t Congress kick
the Mellon plan to pieces? Didn't it
override the presidential veto on the
bonus bill? Didn’t it come within
one vote of approving the Bursum
pension measure after Mr. Coolidge
said he would have none of it? Didn’t
the Senate utterly ignore his world
court proposal? Didn't the same
body vote that Denby should go, there-
by incurring the wrath of the execu-
tive? But Mr. Burton, holding fast
to Coolidge with one hand and to the
Republican membership of Congress
with the other, says, the legislators
are not to blame for hitting the Presi-
dent a knockout blow at every oppor-
tunity. Oh, well, there is no such
thing as understanding these keynote
speeches. They are not meant to be
understood.
The Governor’s Glass House.
From the Philadelphia Record.
“The Record” agrees with Governor
Pinchot in the belief that the Eight-
eenth amendment to the Constitution
of the United States is binding upon
Syery citizen, and ought to be enforc-
ed.
We disagree with the Governor,
however, in his attitude toward the
Constitution of Pennsylvania as ex-
pressed by his official actions. The
Governor does not seem to think that
the Constitution of Pennsylvania is of
much account. On at least three sep-
arate occasions he has violated its
spirit, and on one of these occasions
he openly and flagrantly violated its
letter, His appointment to an office
under the Commonwealth of a mem-
ber of the General Assembly during
the term to which said member was
elected is indefensible. The fact that
the Legislator has resigned one office
to take the other does not alter the
fact that the term to which he was
elected has not expired. The Gover-
nor makes a scrap of paper of the
Constitution.
This is not an inconsequential mat-
ter, as some persons may imagine.
The Governor, above all other citizens
of the Commonwealth, should set an
‘unimpeachable example of obedience
to the laws. He is specifically sworn
to do so. Even when he can find a
way to evade them to serve his own
political ambitions he should eschew
the temptation and observe the intent
of the law no less than its explicit
phraseology. 3
We should entertain a higher opin-
ion of Gifford Pinchot—and we believe
he would stand better in the estima-
tion of his fellow-citizens—were he
frankly to admit the illegality of his
latest breach of the Constitution, re-
call the unlawful appointment, and
find some means of paying his polit-
ical obligations to Mr. Fowler, of
Scranton, without prejudice to his
oath of office and without inciting oth-
ers to disrespect for law. How can
he castigate the scofflaws if he is one
of their number? Shall the pot call
the kettle black, and shall stone
throwers take up their abode in glass
houses ?
—————— A ————————
———The President’s secretary, Bas-
com Slemp, will not resign if chair-
man Butler pays to him the defer-
ence he thinks he ought to have.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Orders totaling $800,000, which will
keep the Joy Manufacturing company, of
Franklin, -busy until fall, have been an-
nounced by the president of the company,
J. F. Joy. The plant is working at ca-
pacity. The company makes automatic
loaders for coal cars.
—The contract for the general construc-
tion of a Veteran's Bureau hospital, at
Aspinwall, near Pittsburgh, has been
awarded to W. F. Trimble and Sons com-
pany, of Pittsburgh, General Hines has
announced. The bid was $760,252. Two
hundred beds are to be installed.
—Officials at the head of the Ku Klux
demonstration, which was held near
Uniontown on Saturday night, declare that
nearly $7000 was spent in arranging a
lunch for the 15,000 visitors. The com-
mittee in charge furnished 3500 loaves of
bread, 200 pounds of boiled ham, 800
pounds of cheese, 1000 cases of pop and 800
gallons of ice cream.
—Albert Spangler, a recent prisoner in
police court, at York, informed mayor E.
S. Hugentugler that he would rather spend
forty years in jail than go home and kiss
his wife." Spangler was arrested for fight
ing with his wife and the mayor proms
iesed that he would give him his release
provided he went home, kissed and made
up. This Spangler refused to do. He was
given a suspended sentence.
—The Pennsylvania Power and Light
company, of Hazleton, after months of
preparation, started work last week on its
$8,000,000 power project at Hawley, in
Wayne county. A lake fifty-one miles in
circumference will be created to furnish
power for the big power house to be built
there. There will be more than 2000 men
employed for the next several years in
building the dam and the power house.
—Examinations of 248 applications for
old age assistance, received by the State
old age assistance commission, showed
sixty-nine of the applicants owned their
homes, ninety-nine had no person to aid
in their support, sixty-seven had some
money in bank and forty-eight were mak
ing insurance payments, mainly for fire
protection on their properties, according
to Abraham Epstein, secretary of the com-
mission.
—Ebenezer Lookingbill, weather prophet
of the west end of Schuylkill county, urges
farmers to replant the crops that have
been ruined by incessant rains. He says
there will be no frost this year until No-
vember and all crops will mature. He
agrees with Yeager, the Hazleton prophet,
that the present wet weather will change
with the turning of the moon this week.
Lookingbill says there will be practically
no winter the coming season. ,
—Forty hooded Klansmen accompanied
by a member of the state constabulary at<
tended a picnic at Shrewsbury, York coun-
ty, one night last week, and put a stop to’
numerous petting parties which were in
progress. The Klansmen carried flash-
lights and used them to peer into secluded
nooks. Several girls who were caught
after their escorts fled precipitately, were
taken before the other picnickers and com-
pelled to take a pledge to reform. \
--Frank S8panard, an umbrella fixer, of
Frackville, near Mount Carmel, is minus
$300, his life’s savings, but he doesn’t know
where it got to. He went visiting one night
last week, and, when he returned home, re-
clined on a couch to rest. He fell asleep,
but was awakened a short time later by .
another boarder in the same house, who
told him he'd better go to bed. It was
then he discovered his loss. An exhaustive
search failed to reveal the money.
—Russell Bashore, of near Liverpool,
Perry county, began demolishing a desk
which belonged to his late grandfather,
Daniel Ward. It was said to be over a
hundred years old. He removed several
small drawers in the upper part and lifted
off the front part of the frame that held
them in place. Noticing an irregular hole
in one end of the drawer, investigation dis
closed a canvas bag concealed behind the
drawer. It was filled with many rare
coins.
—Walter Bird, 18 years of age, of Erie,
v ho is making his home with relatives in
Yatesboro, Jefferson county, had the splin-
ter of a bone removed from his heart on
Sunday in the Adrian hospital, and his
chances of recovery are said to be very
good. He started out to shoot mark, car
rying a revolver. While traveling through
the woods he tripped, and in falling the
revolver was discharged. The bullet en-
tered his left breast and drove a splinter
of the bone into his heart. The attending
surgeons say he has more than an even
chance for recovery.
—Hipolit Szutowicz, proprietor of the
Gresh House, at Milton, is on trial in the
United States district court in Williams-
port, charged by Mrs. Irene Dauberman,
of Lewisburg, with selling her husband in-
toxicating liquor, which she claims was
responsible for his being sent to the east-
ern penitentiary for shooting former sher-
iff Renner, of Union county. Mrs. Dauber-
man sues for $25,000 damages for the loss
of her husband. Dauberman was convict
ed of the shooting after he recovered from
a self-inflicted wound, and was sentenced
to serve from six to seven years in the
penitentiary.
—Thirteen thousand volts of electricity
went through a man’s body and stopped
the plant at McCalls Ferry, Lancaster
county, thirty miles away. Walter A. Bai-
ley stepped on a wire at a sub-station in
Coatesville, Monday. A. C. Smith, the su-
perintendent, shut off the power, saving
the man’s life. But Bailey is in a critical
condition in the Coatesville hospital. Just
a second before the accident Bailey and
Smith were standing near the machinery,
where the current is “kicked” in, discuss-
ing how dangerous it was to be working
around such a station. “I'll tell the world
I'm going to be careful of what I touch,”
said Bailey and the next instant there was
a flash of light as he accidentlly stepped on
a live wire and his body became rigid with
the action of the current.
—Five months after it had been buried,
the body of Eckless Williams, of Kane,
who was killed on December 28, last, was
disinterred and an autopsy conducted to
settle a dispute between Mrs. Williams and
the Travelers Insurance company, over the
payment of insurance under the workmen's
compensation act. Williams died sudden-
ly while at work for the Hanley Oil com-
pany. He was alone at the time, his body
being found where he had evidently fallen
in a faint. Compensation was refused by
the insurance company, which set up a
claim that he was subject to fainting spells
and had died of natural causes. The au-
topsy revealed, however, that he had sus-
tained a fracture of the nose and another
of the neck. Mrs. Williams was awarded
approximately $3500 by an agreement be
tween attorneys representing the contend-
ing parties.