Bewrai faan
INK SLINGS.
—Davis had the brains, but Cool-
‘ idge got the votes.
. —Democracy might be a trifle dis-
figured, but it’s still in the ring.
—And to think! It’s only fifty-
eight days until Christmas. Have you
begun it yet?
——Common sense as interpreted
by Mr. Coolidge is keeping quiet
about public rascals.
——The vote hunters as well as the
rabbit chasers had fair weather for
their work on Tuesday.
——Another thing worth while is
the proof that election predictions
_.are as uncertain as weather prognos-
tications.
——We have probably seen the last
activity of the Ku Klux Klan in pol-
itics and that is something to be
thankful for.
—1It’s all over. And from an analy-
.sis of the vote we are compelled to ad-
mit that it must have been all over al-
most before it was started.
—The LaFollette strength turns
out to have been all noise. It was
terrible sounding enough, however, to
scare a lot of Democrats into the
«Coolidge camp.
—Measured by all standards of
‘ability and fitness for the office he
sought John W. Davis remains great-
er in defeat than is President Cool-
idge in victory.
—Clem Shaver might put one of
“Ma” Ferguson’s petticoats on the
Democratic donkey and ride it over
‘the country as a consolation exhibit
for the unterrified.
—It is a great satisfaction to be
licked right. When you are you don’t
lie awake at nights regretting the
failure to turn the one little trick that
might have changed everything.
Iowa will be represented by a
Democrat in the United States Senate
for the first time in sixty-five years.
Senator Brookhart has been defeated
for re-election by Daniel F. Steck.
—To move the last vestige of doubt,
that might be lingering in the minds
of the faithful, as to what happened
on Tuesday, we’re here to admit that
we're licked. And licked darn good.
—LaFollette declares he is “enlisted
for life?” What in, Bob? The Re-
publicans have read him out of their
party, the Democrats don’t want him
and his effort to make one of his own
was a flop.
—It seems that while giving Cool-
«edge nearly a million majority in New
York the Empire State did stop long
enough to figure out that something
“more than a name was desirable in
‘governing its domestic affairs.
Ld
“be high in price. It’s a sort of “dog
in the manger” spirit that prompts us
to make such an unpleasant comment,
with Thanksgiving and Christmas
drawing nigh, but it’s the truth, none-
the-less.
—The Bellefonte High football
team has a lesson to learn from the
fracas of last Saturday afternoon. To
be clean and big and outstanding in
sports it must remember that itis not
what the other team does, it’s what it
-does that counts.
—The vote given Mr. Holmes by
State College borough, as well as that
given Mr. Noll, by his home township
of Spring, were significant expres-
sions of the esteem in which the gen-
tlemen are held in the communities
that have opportunity to know them
best.
—LaFollette’s strength was all on
paper. Put there by the publicity de-.
partment of the Republican Na-
tional committee. The reason was
this: It scared a lot of votes into the
Coolidge camp and then milked them
for the boodle that enticed the Wis-
consin Senator’s support away from
him.
—These “cross word” puzzles are
threatening Mah Jong with consign-
ment to the oblivion to which Mr, Da-
vis was sent on Tuesday. What we
can’t understand about it all is the
anomaly of the man who is tickled
pink while working one of them and
then rages at the cross words his wife
is compelled to use to get him to leave
his “cross-word” puzzle long enough
to rake up the furnace fire.
—Let us hope that when the final
returns have filtered through it will
be discovered that President Coolidge
will have a Senate and Congress whol-
ly subservient to his leadership. The
country has been almost unanimous in
acceptance of his alibis and if their
causes have been removed it will nat-
urally be interested in seeing how
Coolidge can lead after he has been
given an unfettered chance. We never
did believe that he had the makings of
a leader, so we will welcome the ca-
tastrophe that gives him the chance
to show that we have underestimated
his ability.
—Now that the election is over the
interesting information is brought to
us that Mr. Holmes never asked for
the Prohibition endorsement, feels no
obligation to the ladies who flooded
the county with literature in his be-
half, and expects to vote as he pleases
when he gets to Harrisburg. If our
information is correct it would sug-
gest that our new Member has already
taken steps to flee from the sinking
Pinchot ship and line up with the reg-
ular Republican organization in the
House that will do everything but pro-
mote the legislation that the women
are working for. ;
VOL. 69.
One of the Important Lessons.
The smoke of battle having moved
off the opportunity to study the les-
sons of the campaign are offered.
They are various and important.
Probably the most significant is that
“money is becoming the predominant
influence in politics,” to quote the lan-
guage of an esteemed contemporary.
itself in the campaign for President
in 1896 when Mark Hanna, then
chairman of the Republican National
committee, literally bought the elec-
tion of the candidate of his party. In
every campaign since. the beneficia-
ries of special privilege have invested
freely in the expectation of generous
profits. They have not always real-
ized but they have persisted.
In the campaign of four years ago
vast sums of money were paid by a
group of capitalists for a pledge that
a ship subsidy law would be enacted
at an aggregate expense to the public
treasury of one hundred millions of
dollars a year. The party leaders
were unable to fulfill the promise and
the contributors were disappointed.
But the promise this year of a great
reduction of taxes on big incomes
opened up the purses of the million-
aires and it is estimated that upwards
of fifteen million dollars was paid in-
to the campaign treasury. Part of
this money was spent legitimately
but most of it was used to buy votes
in doubtful States and Congressional
timent of the people.
The miscarriage of Newberry’s in-
vestment in Michigan, the disappoint-
ment of the piratical ship owners in
1920 and the failure to deliver other
favors for which prices were paid
ought to have admonished the specu-
lators in privilege of the futility of
such investments, but they didn’t.
The Stotesberrys and Vauclains gave
as cheerfully and liberally as ever to
reward the ballot box stuffers for
their vicious work at the polls this
year.
again, of course, for Congress will not
dare enact the legislation they are
paying for. But they are drawing
cl the time when the wages of
t ill be terms in prison
of gover ment.
fe an
?
The president of the Baldwin
Locomotive company can see nothing
wrong in buying legislation which
benefits him at the expense of the
public. There are various types of
moral perverts.
Advice to Pennsylvania Hunters.
The precautionary proclamation of
Governor Pinchot prohibiting the
opening of the game season on Satur-
day was justified but futile. Most of
the city hunters were out of the reach
of newspaper information before the
proclamation was issued on Friday
afternoon. There was much danger
of forest fires at the time which has
not been greatly abated since. But
the Governor's action may have the
effect of making some of the hunters
careful and thus avert some of the
disastrous fires which come annually
with the hunting season. Such admo-
nitions ought not to be necessary.
The good sense of the hunter ought to
be ample protection.
generous to the sportsmen who de-
rive so much pleasure from their an-
nual outings in the woods in pursuit
of game. Everything possible is done
to propagate and protect game birds
and animals. But every effort in that
direction would be wasted if the for-
ests were destroyed. The protection
of the game shelters is up to the hunt-
ers. If, through carelessness or mal-
ice, they let the woods burn down the
game will seek other sections and the
sport will be lost. Every hunter
ought to exercise the same care to
prevent fires in the woods that he em-
ploys in his home or about his own
premises.
No doubt a good many forest fires
ascribed to hunters are started by
other agencies and putting the blame
on the hunters is unjust. But it is
the result of the carelessness of hunt-
ers and for that reason it should be
the common purpose of hunters to pre-
vent fires rather than create them.
There will be fires this year, do doubt,
for the conditions are favorable for
minimum and the hunters will earn
the good opinion of property owners
if they do their best to achieve this re-
sult. Forests reduced to ashes are
sad sights and bad for game and
hunters.
SER Lo GA La
——Newberry was canned some
sealed up during the next canning sea-
son.
uses. They develop the propensity
for lying and the capacity of liars.
Sr ———— fe ———_——
Now that election is over busi-
ness may be resumed at the old stand.
This sinister influence first asserted
districts to defeat the patriotic sen- |
They will be disappointed
The State of Pennsylvania is pretty °
certain that some of the damage is |
them. But they can be reduced to a |
time ago and Stotesberry ought to be |
Election campaigns have their
Clergymen Divided on War.
That all clergymen are not all ul-
tra Pacifists was revealed in an in-
teresting discussion which was devel-
oped during the annual session of the
Eastern Synod of the Reformed church
rat Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the other
day. The report of the committee on
! social service declared that “war is
contrary to the spirit of the Gospel
which we proclaim, that it is the most
destructive social sin of our age, that
it threatens the foundations of civili~
zation and the church itself, and that
as an instrument of righteousness and
the just settlements of disputes and
as a means of defense and the protec-
tion of innocent, it has outlived the
very last vestige of effectiveness.”
i Most persons, whether preachers or
' parishioners, would be inclined to ac-
cept that doctrine. But some of the
most influential churchmen of the
Synod protested that it was a step too
far. Of course such distinguished
members of the body as the venerable
Dr. Ellis Kremer, of Harrisburg, and
our own worthy representative in the
Synod, Rev. Dr. A. M. Schmidt, are in
favor of peace and against the hor-
rors and evils of war. Both these
' gentlemen have recently visited Eu-
rope and know fully its repulsiveness.
But they protested against the report
on the ground that it was premature
and that war, evil as it might be, is
justified as an expedient of self-de-
fense.
The report was finally adopted and
"it may be said to put the Reformed
| church in advance of all others and of
{all diplomacy on that subject. The
contemplation of another war in view
' of the certainty that it would be more
cruel and destructive than any prev-
{ious conflict is certainly forbidding.
{ But the idea of refusing to declare
l war in self-defense is quite as intol-
erable, and for that reason it is both
wise and expedient for the govern-
ment of the United States to maintain
such a defensive force on land and sea
as will guarantee safety. Nobody
‘wants war and the aim of statesman-
' ship should be to avert it. But not at
| the expense of sacrifice nor until oth- |T
er nations are in co-operation.
tution will never wreck the country
but corruption in politics before the
election and by politicians after may.
Tuesday’s Election in Centre County.
| For the Presidential election Tues-
day’s battle of the ballots was about
| as devoid of excitement and sensation-
!al enthusiasm as it was possible to
‘make it, and this notwithstanding the
fact that a larger vote was polled by
| about eight hundred than four years
ago. This is probably accounted for
by the women becoming more accus-
tomed to their right of franchise. The
total vote cast for the presidential as-
pirants on Tuesday was 13230, while
four years ago the total was 12401.
Of course the absence of any local
contests aside of the personal inter-
est shown in the candidacy of W. H.
Noll, for Assembly, had a lot to do
with the lack of enthusiasm. Of
course there was a large stay-at-home
vote, and also, as usual, the larger
number of the stay-at-homes were
Democrats. This is what helped ma-
terially in piling up the big majori-
ties for every Republican candidate.
Among those who went to the polls
and voted were two octogenarians,
Mrs. Nancy McMeen, of Curtin, who
is 95 years old, and Mrs. Hannah
Green, of Milesburg, 91 years old.
The complete returns of Centre
county will be found in the table on
page four of this issue.
Radio is a great thing but as a
political instrument it costs more than
it is worth. Static is a more provok-
ing interrupter than the heckler.
Diphtheria Spreading Sligthly.
There are now ten cases of diphthe-
ria in Bellefonte. The disease broke
out about three weeks ago and caused
considerable alarm, but evidently it
has been held in good control. :
| The Board of Health met Wednes-
day night to take action and after a
general discussion of the situation it
was decided that neither the schools
nor other places of public assembly
will be closed at present. However,
it urged preventive care on the part
of every one, the use of disinfectants
and temporary quarantine for all
children who have been exposed in any
way to the disease.
The measures adopted by the Board
would be published here, but they
were received too late to get in type
for this issue.
, In general the Board put in imme-
| diate effect and intends to rigidly en-
| force every quarantine regulation in
the law and asks for the co-operation
of the public in preventing what might
become a serious epidemic.
a —
——Let us hope that the next Pres-
idential campaign will be less expen-
sive.
| ANOTHER REPUBLICAN LAND-
SLIDE.
President Coolidge Swept into Office
by a Vote Almost Equalling
that Given Harding Four
Years Ago.
Unlimited expenditures of money,
fear of a red-uprising and the disor-
ganizing effect of the New York con-
vention were the factors that contrib-
uted most to blinding the public to the
real issues that were involved in the
campaign that closed with the polls on
Tuesday evening.
The voters forgot the scandals at
Washington, the wobbling foreign pol-
icy and the urge to help himself in-
stead of the predatory interests that
feed upon them and herded to the polls
to strike at the menaces to their gov-
ernment that the paid publicity agents
of the Republican organization had so
cleverly conjured up to frighten and
distract them.
The following table will show how
completely Coolidge and Dawes swept
the country:
ELECTORAL VOTE CAST BY STATES.
LaFoll-
State Coolidge Davis ette
Alabama 12
Arizona ...
Arkansas .
California
Colarado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia .
Idaho ..
Illinois
Indiana ...
Iowa
Ransas ....,.......
Kentucky .
Louisiana .
Maine
Maryland . rs
Massachusetts ......
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi .
Missouri ..
Montana ..
Nebraska .
Nevada
New Hampshire ....
New Jersey
*New Mexico
New York ....
North Carolina.....
North Dakota ...... 5
OREO ....cccvvvvnei. 24
Oklahoma
Oregon
Nennsylvania
Rhode Island .
South Carelina .....
South Dakota
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Wisconsin
Wyoming
Totals 379
*Still slightly doubtful.
Returns up to early yesterday moin-
ing gave the Republicans the best of
it in the upsets in both the House and
Senate, but it appeared that final re-
ports from all districts would be nec-
essary before there could be a deter-
mination whether President Coolidge
could expect a real working majority
in the next Congress.
Returns from 390 of the 435 Con-
gressional districts gave the Republi-
cans an actual majority—218—but in
this total are included nearly a score
of the LaFollette insurgents.
The Democrats, meantime, had
made certain of 170 seats and the
Farmer-Labor party of two.
On the basis of these returns the
Republicans had made a net gain of 16
over the Democrats, recapturing 20
seats, as against four now held by Re-
publicans, which were moved into the
Democratic column. :
At adjournment last June the House
line-up was: Republicans, 225; Dem-
ocrats, 207, and three scattered.
In the Senatorial contests the most
surprising results were in Iowa, where
Smith W. Brookhart, Republican, who
publicly repudiated his own national
ticket, had conceded his defeat at the
hands of Daniel F. Steck, a Democrat-
ic lawyer of Ottumwa Mr. Steck was
generally credited with receiving sup-
port from many regular Republicans.
REPUBLICAN GAINS IN SENATE.
The Republicans, however, appar-
ently had gained three Senatorial
seats on the basis of returns received.
These were in Massachusetts, Ken-
tucky and Oklahoma.
The Democrats had elected 11 Sen-
ators, while 17 Républicans had been
chosen or had such leads as to make
their election practically certain. In
the six remaining contests, all in
western States, where returns still
were coming in slowly, the results
were uncertain.
In Minnesota, Representative Thom-
as D. Schall, Republican, had what his
supporters regarded as a commanding
lead over Senator Magnus Johnson,
Farmer-Labor. Johnson still insisted,
however, that missing rural precincts
would return him a winner.
Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Demo-
cratic prosecutor in the Teapot Dome
investigation, was leading the field in
Montana, with a sufficient margin as
to make him appear reasonably cer-
tain of re-election.
The result in both New Mexico and
Wyoming was surrounded with much
uncertainty because of the slowness in
gathering the returns. In Colorado,
where two Senate seats were at stake,
Senator Phipps, Republican, was lead-
ing Adams, Democrat, and Rice W.
Means, Republican, was ahead of Mor-
rison Shafroth, Democrat.
A DOLEFUL RESULT IN PENNSYLVA-
NIA.
The Keystone State has given Cool-
idge and Dawes nearly a million ma-
jority. In this great avalanche of
votes for President what little repre-
sentation the Democratic party had in
Congress and in the General Assem-
924.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. a
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 7. 1
NO. 44.
Bly has been almost entirely wiped
out. :
Only two counties in the State re-
turned majorities for Davis, Monroe
and Greene. In the next House of Rep-
resentatives we will probably have
only 25 members as against 41 in the
last session and in the Senate we will
only have 7 of the 50 State Senators.
Upon the face of the returns every
one of the six Democratic Congress-
men in the State have been defeated
and the only hope of the party in the
State being represented at all in the
next Congress is through the still
doubtful contest in Cambria county
where Warren Worth Bailey, Demo-
crat, claims victory by a majority of
something over 100 votes.
PINCHOT LOSES CONTROL.
The new Legislature will be con-
trolled by leaders who are not overly
solicitous about the political welfare
of Governor Pinchot. For that reason
it was said the Governor will have lit-
tle, if any, part in organizing the
House. In this connection it has been
learned that C. Jay Goodnough,
Speaker at the last session, stands lit-
tle chance for reelection. He was put
over two years ago at the suggestion
of Pinchot. At that time, however,
Pinchot was at the beginning of his
four-year term and the regular lead-
ers, with an eye on patronage, were
inclined to go along on some of the
Gubernatorial whims.
The poor showing of LaFollette in
Pennsylvania was a surprise. In only
one industrial centre, Allegheny coun-
ty, did his vote result anything like it
was predicted it would.
TWO WOMEN GOVERNORS ELECTED.
In Wyoming Mrs. Nellie T. Ross,
Democrat, was elected to succeed her
late husband as Governor of that
State.
In Texas Mrs. Miriam Ferguson
who was running for Governor to vii-
dicate her husband who had been put
out of the gubernatorial chair by the
K. K., was elected by an over-
‘whelming majority. :
Vic Donahey, Democrat, has been
re-elected Governor of Ohio and Al
Smith’s personal popularity carried
him to victory in New York, notwith-
standing the tremendous majorities
given all Republican aspirants for the
other offices in that State.
THE RESULT IN CENTRE COUNTY.
There was heavy voting in the
towns of Centre county and only about
half the normal poll in the country
districts turned out. The result was
{that Coolidge has carried the county
by 3283, with the State ticket running
only slightly behind. LaFollette poll-
ed 693 votes, showing little strength
except in Philipsburg, State College,
the Rushes and Snow Shoe townships,
where two-thirds of his entire vote
was piled up.
The only local interest in the fight
was in the contest for Legislature.
William H. Noll, Democrat, lost to
John L. Holmes, Republican. Many
factors contributed to Mr. Noll’s de-
feat the principal one being, of course,
that it was a presidential year and a
bad time for a worthy minority can-
didate to make an appeal purely per-
sonal. Though Mr. Noll is not “a
wet” he was bitterly fought by the
“drys” because he steadfastly refused
to pledge himself to support legisla-
tion in advance of its presentation.
I'm for Ma Ferguson.
Football and Education Mix at the
Penitentiary.
In addition to conducting the night
classes twice a week at the Rockview
branch of the western penitentiary,
members of the engineering extension
staff at The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege are giving their assistance in an
athletic schedule at the “pen.”
Each week-end the prisoners enjoy
a football game between rival teams
made up of the penitentiary inmates,
and the college extension men act as
officials for the contests. Professor
C. G. Gaum, who was formerly assist-
ant football coach at Alabama Poly-
technic Institute, acts as referee, with
professors N. C. Miller and W. W. El-
der as his assistants. The games are
no pink tea affairs, but considerable
skill is shown by the players. Some
of them are of the old line plunging
school, but the modern forward pass-
ing game is the most popular. Prac-
tically all of the 500 or more inmates
at Rockview turn out for these games,
which afford them great pleasure as
they cheer for their favorites.
Academy Students Win Laurels.
While Bellefonte Academy is win-
ning laurels on the gridiron and ath-
letic field, she is also conspicuous for
her honors achieved in literary lines.
Leon Kutz, a senior at the Academy,
won second prize last spring among
about 17,000 contestants throughout
the State in an assay contest promot-
ed by the State W. C. T. U. During
the past year Edward Free, of Du-
Bois, who prepared at the Academy
for Cornell, and at graduation was
made an assistant instructor in mathe-
matics at the University, has been
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Final papers will be filed in the Su-
preme court this week in the old age pen-
sion appeal. This case and the bond is-
suance act will be argued in the Supreme
court November 24th, in Pittsburgh.
—~Charles ‘Olinsky and Mike Thomas,
were arrested in Blairsville last Thursday
for alleged complicity in the $33,000 payroll
robbery of the Russell Coal company from
a street car siding at Rising Siding im
June.
—Another gas well has been struck om
the land of the Clinton Gas and Oil com-
pany, several miles from the group of
eleven or twelve wells near Hawumersley
Fork, Clinton county. The well was struck
at a depth of 11,000 feet, and has a co-
pacity of 87,000 cubic feet a day.
—While eating a piece of pie and driv-
ing a tractor on Saturday marning, John
Clifford Pickel, aged 21 years, of Lancas-
ter, fell to the ground and the machine
passed over his body. He was injured to
such an extent that he died in the Lancas-
ter General hospital on Sunday. ®
—After deliberating twelve hours, a jury
in Warren county civil court returned a
verdict of $10,831 in favor of Miss Adelaide
Campbell, of Mayburg, who lost her right
leg on January 19, 1923, when the passen-
ger bus in which she was riding was
struck by a Pennsylvania railroad train at
a Warren grade crossing.
—Burglars broke through a skylight
over Landau’s jewelry store in Wilkes-
Barre between 6 and 7 o'clock on Monday
evening and stole diamonds valued at $3,-
000, and made their escape through a rear
door. The scene of the robbery is in the
heart of the city and hundreds of people
passed the store while the thieves were at
work.
—TFarmers living in the vicinity of Mill
Hall are alarmed over the progress of a
peculiar disease which has attacked their
hogs. The ailment is baffling the local
veterinarians and as a consequence fifty
hogs have died within a short radius. The
animals are dead twenty-four hours after
showing signs of being ill. For want of
a better name, the disease has been locally
called hog diphtheria.
—A verdict for $1000 damages was
awarded last Thursday by a Lehigh coun-
ty jury to Mrs. Clara Schmidt, of Allen-
town, in her suit for damages against Syl-
vester Kratzer, of Alton Park, for the
death of her husband, who was killed six
months ago, three hours after his mar-
riage. Schmidt and his bride and other
members of the wedding party were on
their way to Allentown when they were
run down by Kratzer’s automobile on the
Emaus pike.
—It cost Ralph Anthony, of Jefferson
county $800 for “peppering several tres-
passing cows with birdshot.” Including
the costs the case stands him $1000. It was
testified that several cows belonging to
Gust Beezer, his neighbor, trespassed on
his property and that Anthony notified
Beezer and the next time the cows set foot
on his property he shot at them. Suit for
damages followed and the case was about
ready to come to trial at Brookville when
Anthony decided to settle the bill.
—A spoon, several needles, a bone hair-
pin and several steel hairpins were remov-
ed from the stomach and chest of Mrs.
Frank A. Bostwick, forty years old of
Liverpool, at the Harrisburg hospital on
Saturday. One of the needles had punct-
ured her stomach. The metal spoon when
removed had broken in two pieces. One
of the hairpins was two and one-half inch-
es long. A handful of needles and small
hairpins were found. Mrs. Bostwick will
recover the attending physicians said.
—With dragnets thrown out for a ra-
dius of ten miles around Greensburg,
Westmoreland county, state police, detec-
tives and borough police are without a
clue as to the identity of a pretty young
woman, whose body, almost nude, was
stumbled upon by a party of hunters in a
woods near the Westmorelaand county
home on Saturday. The body revealed ev-
i'ence of a brutal crime. Until it is iden-
tified officers working on the case enter-
tain little hope of running down the wom-
an’s murderer.
— Charles Wisler, 36 years old, of Wil-
liamsburg, a student at Susquehanna Uni-
versity, where he is studying to enter the
ministry, was admitted to the Altoona
hospital on Monday morning suffering
from wounds of the right hand received
while hunting in the mountains of Blair
county. The third and fourth fingers of
the hand were torn off and the others
punctured by small shot when his gun,
which he had rested on a tree limb, was
discharged. His condition at the hospital
is regarded as good.
—An entire community, Concrete City, in
Luzerne county, will disappear within one
month as a result of the decision of the
Glen Alden Coal company to destroy its
forty homes rather than meet tax demands
of Hanover township. Notices have been
served on the families to vacate the prop-
erties by November 30. Decisions of the
company to destroy the properties was
reached after officials of the State Depart-
ment of Health had served notice that the
homes must be attached to the township
sewer system. To do this work would re-
quire at least $250,000, an expense which
would have to be borne by the company.
—When the big engine which drives the
machinery in the Hyde City plant of the
American Nickel Alloy company ‘ran
away,” last Friday, it killed one man, injur-
ed a number of others, and wrecked the
engine room of the plant. Some sections
of the broken fly-wheel went clear through
the roof of the building and landed many
hundreds of feet from the plant. Paul
Teats of Rockton, was killed when a piece
of the fly-wheel hit him. The plant start-
ed up that morning and the engine driv-
ing the machinery moved along smoothly
for a few hours and then it became un-
manageable, and despite the efforts of the
engineer he was unable to stop it. It
gained such speed that the big fly-wheel
burst.
—Believed to be dozing over a letter at
a table in her kitchen late Sunday night,
Mrs. Emma Stover, 63 years old, wife of
M. G. Stover of Nazareth, Northampton
county, accidentally knocked a lamp off the
table on to the floor. Her clothing was ig-
nited and she ran screaming through the
three first floor rooms, setting fire to the
house. Neighbors broke in through a win-
dow and found her lying on the floor in
flames. Claude Messinger extinguished
the fire by wrapping her in a rug, but she
was so terribly burned that she died on
Monday morning in the Easton hospital.
Her: husband, ;who is quite ‘deaf slept
through the excitement, and was awaken-
ed only after the fire, which did not as-
made editor in chief of the Scientific | sume serious proportions, had been extin-
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guished.