: INK SLINGS.
—The days are lengthening, but we
‘can all do without the cold strength-
ening.
—Marvelous how gay a lot of peo-
‘ple have gotten since they are sure
that Gifford is no longer in the saddle.
—The season for spiritual revival is
on. Always when the body gets cold
the preachers start in to warm up the
soul.
—We're going to give the Hon.
Holmes a rest this week. He needs it
against the time when he'll have to
0. to the mat with Pinchot, Baker,
Vare and Grundy, all at once.
. —Martin G. Brumbaugh has re-
turned to Huntingdon. The erstwhile
Governor and peripatetic pedagogue
‘is about to dedicate himself, eye-brows
“and all, to the conduct of Juniata Col-
lege.
—Anyway, up to this time, the
snows have been so light that the old
man has not had to do any of the
shoveling through fear that it would
‘he too heavy for the boys to handle.
‘We're strong for light, fluffy snow.
' —We don’t helieve Governor Davis,
of Kansas, either sought or took a
‘bribe. We base our disbelief purely
on the amount in question. Jonathan
‘might be a piker, but $1250 pikers
rarely get to be chief executive of a
Commonwealth as erratic as Kansas—
“if there be another.
' —The real inwardness of the Cabi-
net disintegration will probably never
be known. Only three of Harding’s
‘advisers remain and rumor has it that
they will have tendered their resigna-
tions ere March 4. It would be inter-
esting to know whether they actually
‘want to quit or whether Cal wants
them to.
—To add to the general slowing up
in business places and households the
“Watchman” is this week making a
contribution. We are inviting you to
solve our series of cross-word puzzles.
We want you to try them. Get prac-
ticed up, as it were, for we're ulti-
mately going to offer a grand prize to
the best solver. We haven't yet de-
cided what the prize will be.
~ —1If they want to move the eastern
penitentiary to the country why don’t
they move it to Rockview. The State
‘already. owns five thousand acres of
land there, with enough air, water and
opportunities for healthful out-of-door
life to suffice for all the convicts Penn-
sylvania will have for all time. If
politics hadn’t been in it the State
would have concentrated and econo-
ized in one prison long ago. Be-
cause politics is certain to remain in
it this sensible move will probably
—The' judicial race was one of ad-
dition all fall... As spring approaches:
it will ‘assume the nature of subtrac-
tion.
publican last week ‘James: C. Furst
Esq., took down his lightning rod and
awe are assured that others will follow
suit, ere long, so that the danger of
all the lawyers being on the hustings
by spring, with no one left to look
after clients, gradually abates. We
have heard by way of State College
that there is a prospective new align-
ment of the dry forces. One that is
very intriguing to discover the moti-
vating purpose.
—The first thing that greeted us
when we reached the desk Monday
morning was a cheery little message
from an old Clearfield friend. He is
away out in Spokane, Washington,
now, but still keen for Central Penn-
sylvania people and politics and, as
his name is John, a brother of the late
Senator George Dimeling, we opine
that he’ll never get over his interest
in the latter. We don’t know whether
he dabbles any out there or not, but
from this distance Washington looks
capable of cutting political capers
very much after the fashion of Clear-
field county when John was helping to
pull the strings over there.
— Philipsburg, Clearfield, Osceola
and Houtzdale are beginning to take
notice that the baseball season ap-
proaches. None of them, so far as we
have been informed, contemplate .es-
tablishing spring training .camps on
Six Mile run or any place like that,
but they are beginning to pump air
into the deflated Clearfield-Centre
baseball league. Rather naively the
Philipsburg Journal suggests the pos-
sibility of Bellefonte’c joining and
making it a five instead of a four-
town circuit. The suggestion takes us
back tp 1892, when with our lamented
friend, Sam Graham, of Philipsburg;
Jimmy McGuire, of Houtzdale, and
Bill Bradley, of Clearfield, we helped
organize the Mountain League and
started something that we couldn’t
stop until every sport about the town
had his name on a note in the bank
the proceeds of which went to import-
ing players. Them were the days.
From well-planned intention to use
none but local players the urge to win
swept every community into a fren-
zied scramble for professionals, no
‘matter what the cost, and by the time
September rolled around the rocket
came down, nothing but a stick—
stuck is the real word. We got out
from under after several years’ pinch-
ing and scraping and therefor feel
qualified to advise Bellefonte to think
‘before it is seduced by the Ledger or
any one else. If they'll stick to ama-
teur ball Bellefonte could find much
enjoyment in joining. If they don’t,
Bellefonte will save herself a lot of
embarrassment by getting out while
the getting’s good.
is
on
In a graceful letter to the: Re-!
VOL. 70.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
JANUARY 16. 1925.
NO. 3.
Mr. Hughes and His Successor.
The reasons which influenced
Charles E. Hughes to resign the office
of Secretary of State is left to con-
jecture, and there are a ood many
politicians throughout the country
guessing on the subject. Practice of
his profession would be much more
lucrative and many will believe that
he adopted the expedient to increase
his revenues. Others may imagine that
the Presidential bee is still buzzing
in his bonnet and that he resigned in
order to be in position +> “toss his hat
into the ring” in 1928. More cynical
observers may jump at the conclusion
that a disagreement with the Presi-
dent is impending, or that he dreads
intimate contact with the new chair-
man of the Senate committee on For-
eign Relations, Mr. Borah.
Either of these reasons would be
sufficient and neither may be the real
cause of action. Mr. Hughes has been
in public life a long time, and though
acknowledged :to be a great lawyer
has had little opportunity to prove it.
During the four years between his de-
feat for President and his appoint-
ment as Secretary of State he is said
to have earned large fees and such ex-
periences are enticing. But having
acquired ample means the quiet dig-
nity of private citizenship is alluring
and possibly Mr. Hughes resigned in
order to enjoy that luxury during his
declining years. In any event he had
a legal and moral right to resign and
everybody imbued with the right spir-
it will wish him well.
Of his successor in office less is
known. As a Senater in Congress for
on Foreign Relations and subsequent
tenure as Ambassador at the Court of
St. James were fitting primary schools
in diplomacy. As Senator he favored
the ratification of the covenant of the
League of Nations with the reserva-
tions proposed by the committee and
was invariably classed among the sup-
porters of corporate interests for
which he was punished by defeat for
re-eleetion. But he was never a “bit-
ter-ender” or in sympathy with the
1 policies expressed by Senater Borah,
so that there may be “breakers
ahead.”
nia will hope Warren Worth Bailey
will win his seat in Congress, and the
right way to express it is by contri-
bution to the expense fund.
Compulsory Liability Insurance.
One of the
scheduled for consideration during the
present session of the Legislature will
be a bill requiring all automobile own-
ers to carry liability insurance. At
first glance this would seem like levy-
ing tribute on motor vehicle owners
for the benefit of insurance corpora-
tions. But as a matter of fact it will
afford a needed protection to victims
of autgmobile accidents.
farmers who own machines are con-
cerned such legislation would not be
sible for any damages they cause.
But so many joy riders driving en-
cumbered machines occupy the high-
ways that some method of protection
against carelessness ought to be de-
vised.
It. is reasonable to believe that a
State law requiring liability insurance
would, in some measure at least, sup-
ply this need. If damage is done
through carelessness or otherwise by
an irresponsible driver, there would be
a certainty of recompense, and it may
be assumed that insurance companies
would take reasonable care to issue
enough to be careful. In that event a
reckless driver would be unable to get
insurance and the highways might
thus be relieved of the most prolific
source of automobile accidents. The
security against loss on account of ir-
responsible and careless drivers would
amply compensate responsible car
owners for the expense of insurance.
{industry and commerce are required
to insure their employees against ac-
cidents. When this law was first sug-
gested objection was made that it
would work a hardship on employers
and would cause the organization of
wild-cat insurance companies. It has
caused neither of these evils but has
saved the families of many an unfor-
tunate wage earner from suffering.
The State organization created for the
service of the industrial insurance
could be adapted to cover the propos-
ed automobile liability, and while the
car owners would have an option to
use other insurance concerns there is
no valid reason for assuming that the
purpose is to make business for ex-
isting companies.
Srr——— pr ———— —
~—1It would be funny as well as
surprising if President Coolidge
should adopt the big stick method of
getting support in Congress.
Every Democrat in Pennsylva- 7
important measures i : Soh :
. Grundy-Vare coalition is that Con-
gressman Vare will be a candidate for
{ United States Senator at the expira-
! tion of Mr. Pepper's term of office. It
is universally agreed that Mr. Pepper
He started well by prom-
| in the eye of a bull
| dog” and do other absurd things that
appealed to the “rough element” in
‘the “neck” in Philadelphia and the
“strip” in Pittsburgh. But he didn’t
The best he has
ever done in this way was to eulogize
Griest, of Lancaster, and some other
He ought to have
| known that that sort of lip service
of the
Pennsylvania Republican machine. He
So far as:
needed, for as a rule they are respon- |
policies only to owners who had sense:
Employers of labor in every line of |
A Mare’s Nest Discovered.
Ledger has discovered a
Nest.”
notwithstanding.”
have the appropriation
tatives.
Previous to the service of the late
William S. Stone, as Governor, the
authority to veto distinct items in ap-
propriation bills was exercised under
the provision of Section 16 of Article
Follow-
; session of 1899 Governor
| Stone enlarged this prerogative by
slicing chunks or cutting out parts of
| appropriations with the view of keep-
ing the disbursements within the lim-
it of the revenues. There was a good
deal of dissatisfaction expressed by
Legislators whose districts had suffer-
ed by what seemed like a usurpation
of authority on the part of the Gov-
ernor, and it was promptly proclaim-
ed that thereafter all appropriation
. bills would be passed in time to re-
4 of the State constitution.
ing the
pass them after a veto.
i
I
benefit of all. Probal
first time the Speaker has butted
with a suggestive letter, but it is safe .
to say the system will endure.
| men
ends.
Vare and Grundy in the Discard.
‘must go.
i ising to “spit
|
|
!
. fulfill his promise.
' offensive bosses.
! would not satisfy the managers
didn’t measure up.
The principal reason that influenced
Vare to affiliate with Grundy in an
enterprise to destroy Pinchot and
eliminate chairman Baker was his am-
bition to become a Senator in Con-
By the same token it may be
predicted that the same reason will
work a speedy dissolution of the pe-
Grundy will not
stand for Vare as Senator and as the
signs of the Vare aspiration are al-
ready being hung out, an early break
may be predicted. It will not result
in the restoration of Pinchot to favor
but it is more than likely to force Sec-
Senator Reed and
chairman Baker into a combination
that will make both Vare and Grundy
gress.
culiar partnership.
retary Mellon,
| look like a plugged fi’ penny-bit.
“a shuffle of the cards.”
candidates.
ness.
be “done for.”
——— A ——————.
budget.
The esteemed Philadelphia Public
“Mare’s
By diligent scraping of the
underbrush of politics our contempo-
rary has found out that the Senators
and Representatives of the General
Assembly are conspiring to pass gen-
erous appropriation bills, “the objec-
tions of the Governor to the contrary,
The plan to ac-
complish this nefarious purpose is to
measures
brought up early in the session, pass-
ed promptly and presented to the Gov-
ernor for approval in time to pass
them over his veto, if he disapproves.
The proof of the conspiracy is con-
“tained in a letter recently dispatched
by the new Speaker to the Represen-
At or immediately before every ses-
Minnesota, Mr. Kellog ranked fairly | sion of the Legislature since, the
high. He is also a well equipped law- | statement has been made with consid-
yer and his service on the committee | erable solemnity that appropriation
| bills would be sent to the Governor in
time to pass them over the veto in the
‘event of disapproval in part. But the
threat has never been carried out.
The passage of appropriation bills is
a product of log rolling, and whether
introduced late or early are left for
| consideration at the close of the ses-
sion after John Doe has had ample
: time to arrange with Richard Roe for
‘ a reciprocal mutual aid society for the
Probably this is the
as butted: in
——1In proposing to read progres-
sive Congressmen out of the party
Representative Longworth may stifle
the majority before the next session
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Of course the question of the party
nominee for Governor is more or less
involved and Baker is not in accord
with Mellon and Reed on that subject.
The chairman still cherishes a hope
that his boyhood friend Beidleman,
may be chosen for that honor, and
Mellon and Reed are averse to that
But differ-
ences of that sort may be adjusted
easily and amicably. Mr. Baker is
getting into the habit of withdrawing
It is his greatest weak-
He withdrew Beidleman three
years ago and Harer the other day
and he can easily do so with his gu-
bernatorial candidate next year if nec-
essary or expedient. The only thing
certain is that Vare and Grundy will
We are not likely to get the full
measure of fun out of government un-
til the Legislature tackles the Pinchot make automcbile
Politics Again in the Saddle.
The appointment of Charles B. War-
ren, of Michigan, to the office of At-
torney General looks very much like
a recurrence to the Harding form.
‘When Harry Daugherty was forced
out of the Cabinet a real lawyer was
put in his place. But that was before
the election. Now that the office is
again vacant and there is no real ne-
cessity for placating public opinion,
Mr. Warren, essentially a politician, is
named. One of the Michigan Sena-
tors and all of the Michigan Repre-
sentatives in Congress protested
against the appointment, but to no
purpose. He has been nominated by
the President and will be confirmed
by the Senate either out of courtesy
to the executive or in consideration of
patronage.
When President Harding was scur-
rying among the best minds for Cab-
inet timber he selected Albert Fall,
Edwin Denby and John W. Weeks for
statesmanship; Andrew Mellon for
financiering and Harry M. Daugherty
for politics. Daugherty was a mem-
ber of the bar, which was the only
reason for putting him in that office
other than his personal services in
politics. He had been manager of the
campaign for nomination and won a
surprising victory. Mr. Warren, of
Michigan, didn’t serve as manager of
any campaign but he wrote the plat-
form adopted by the Cleveland con-
vention and it was a marvelous per-
formance. It reconciled the negro
voters to the Ku Klux candidate and
“snatched the flower victory from the
nettle danger.”
In the Harding Cabinet Mr. Hughes
was the small quantity of leaven
“which leavened the lump” and in the
Cabinet to come he will be missing.
Fortunately Fall, Denby and Daugh-
erty are not available for seats at the
table, but Warren may be depended
upon to fill Daugherty’s place and
produce results “equally as good.”
He may not need the little green
house on K street, but he will find
place and opportunity to meet every
political contingency as it arises and
keep the machinery in motion full
me. ‘His appointment is a sign that
{though the President is cold he is not
without a sense of appreciation, and
that those who served him well or to
his liking will be taken care of.
—To pay American citizens for loss-
es during the war and to compensate
our government for the maintenance
of our army of occupation the Allies
have agreed to give us six hundred
million out of the German repara-
tions. That sounds like a pile of mon-
ey and it is, but our Congress would
spend it in less than six months.
Highway Department Equipped to
Keep Roads Open.
So far this winter travelers by au-
tomobile or horse-drawn vehicles have
not been handicapped with drifted
roads, principally because of the fact
that snowfalls have not been follow-
ed by high winds. But should such a
thing occur before the winter comes to
an end the State Highway Depart-
ment is better equipped than hereto-
fore to open the lines of travel on
state highways, and any blockade
would be of short duration.
As a matter of fact the department
keeps a night watch for snow storms
and when a snow reaches a depth of
two inches the snow-plow gang is call-
ed and sent out to clean the highways.
This occurred on Sunday night, or
rather Monday morning, when the
gangs started out at 1:30 o’clock and
by nine o’clock had made the rounds
of all the roads in this section.
removing an ordinary snow fall from
the road-ways the department uses a
light plow pushed by a two and a half
ton, four wheel drive truck, weighted
down, if necessary, with a ton or two
of iron or stone. For big drifts they
have two ten ton traction engines,
with two huge snow plows. These
will go through drifts four feet deep.
Past experience has shown that the
worst sections in Centre county for
drifting snow are from Centre Hall to
Potters Mills and from State College
to Pine Grove Mills and down through
the Glades, consequently one of the
engines and plow is kept at Centre
Hall and the other outfit at State Col-
lege so as to be as near as possible to
where their services may be required.
The smaller road cleaning outfits are
kept in Bellefonte. Prior to Sunday
night’s snow the state roads were en-
tirely clear, and while a number of
people commented upon the fact very
few realized it was due to the watch-
fulness and work of the Highway De-
partment.
——That affair in Kansas may lead
to the impression that real “dirt far-
mers” are too credulous to be Gov-
ernors.
r————— fp ——————
——One thing may be relied on.
| The Legislature will find some way to
users pay more
taxes. :
SIR
For |.
| Judge Dale Disposes of Various Pleas
of Guilty.
At a session of court yesterday
morning John A. Wilk plead guilty to
escaping from the Rockview peniten-
tiary and was sentenced to serve an
additional sentence of eighteen months
to three years.
James H. Ryan plead guilty to for-
nication and Judge Dale imposed a
fine of $1, costs and fifteen days in
jail. Mr. Gettig informed the court
that he could not impose a jail sen-
tence when Judge Dale changed the
sentence to $10 fine and costs and to
stand committed until the sentence
is complied with.
Homer Johnson plead guilty to
adultery and was sentenced to pay a
fine of $100, costs and three months in
the Centre county jail.
James Leitzell plead guilty to fail-
ure to pay a board bill of $10 and sen-
tence was suspended for a period of
three months on condition that he pay
the bill and costs.
John Hart pléad guilty to possess-
ing and transporting intoxicating
liquor and was sentenced to pay a fine
of $10 and go to jail for thirty days.
This was the first liquor law violation
to come before Judge Dale.
Grace Page was brought before the
court to answer to the charge of har-
boring and aiding and abetting an es-
caped prisoner, and after the court
suspended sentence for a period of
three months, he warned the girl that
any harboring of prisoners in the fu-
ture would result in her and any oth-
er members of the family implicated
being given the full penalty of the
law. |
William Confer and Boyd Musser,
of Gregg township, plead guilty to
breaking and entering and larceny.
The charge was based on:their having
gained entrance to two tool houses of
the Pennsylvania Railroad:company,
along the Lewisburg railroad, and
stealing three pairs of gum boots.
After hearing evidence in the case
Judge Dale sentenced each of them to
from one to two years in the western
penitentiary.
Moose Hearing a Perfunctorysdfair.
The hearing held before justice of
the peace S. Kline Woodring, last Fri-
day afternoon, as a result of the raid-
ing of the Bellefonte Lodge of Moose,
on Tuesday evening of last week, was
a very perfunctory affair, being con-
fined principally to offering sufficient
evidence to warrant holding the act-
ing steward, Jesse Dunlap, for trial at
the February term of court. The
prosecution was represented by dis-
trict attorney Ivan Walker, who wis
instrumental in having the search
warrant sworn out prior to the raid-
ing of the Moose club, while W. D.
Zerby and John G. Love represented
the defendant.
Sergt. J. V. Buckley, of the State
police, testified to the raid on the club,
although he was not in charge. State
policeman Kelly, one of the men par-
ticipating, testified that when the
raiding party entered the club Jesse
Dunlap was in charge, and so admit-
ted; and that he saw him sell the
home-made brew and take money in
payment thereof. He stated that the
stuff confiscated included one hundred
and seventy-one and a half cases of
home-made brew, twenty-four pint
bottles to a case; four fifty gallon
crocks filled with the brew in process
of fermentation; one empty .erock;
bottle stopper, bottle washer, a quan-
tity of malt and sugar and other in-
gredients. Six of the bottles were
turned over to David Washburn, chem-
ist, for analysis.
‘Mr. Washburn being called, testi-
fied that he had made an analysis of
the six bottles and they ran in alco-
holic content from 1.274 to 3.14. Officer
Kelly was asked by counsel for de-
fense if they put anything into the
bottles before turning them over to
Mr. Washburn for analysis, and he
stated that they had put bichloride of
mercury in to hold the alcoholic con-
tents. Mr. Washburn was then asked
if he found any mercury in his analy-
sis and stated that he hadn’t made an
analysis for that and therefore didn’t
find it.
That ended the hearing and justice
Woodring held Mr. Dunlap in one
thousand dollars bail for trial at the
February term of court, Curt Gingery
going on his bond.
~———That Philadelphia magistrate
who complained that one of the lead-
ing hotels violated the Volstead law
must be trying to break up the Vare
organization.
——Congressman Tillman is un-
duly concerned about the reputation
of Congress. The last one left the
body without a reputation.
an s——— pS ———————
———Secretary of State Kellogg will
serve big business generally quite as
well as Hughes but his sentiments on’
oil are not so well known.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The desperate efforts put forth by M.
¥. Hammell, of Parkesburg, of Chester
county, to raise sufficient funds to meet an
alleged shortage in the school board funds
are declared to have proved successful.
Hammell is president of the Parkesburg
National bank, which failed some time ago
on account of embezzlement of the funds,
and is also the treasurer of the school
board.
—Five masked men early on Sunday
held up and robbed two messengers of the
Bank and Trust company, of West Phila-
delphia, of aproximately $14,000 in cash
and $7,500 in checks. The robbers escaped
in a motor car. The loot represented Sat-
urday’s business at a branch bank, a day
and night institution. Officers said the
money was insured and there would be no
loss to the institution.
—Arrangements for distribution of al-
most a million dollars to municipalities of
the State as their shares of the tax on pre-
miums of foreign fire insurance companies
originating in Pennsylvania have been
made at the State Treasury. Hundreds of
checks will be required. Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh will receive the largest sums.
in addition to cities, boroughs and first
class townships’ share.
—When C. T. Thompson, a Salona meat
dealer, slaughtered a cow he purchased
from a neighboring farmer, he found iu
her stomach nails of all sizes and kinds,
a piece of wire and a gold ring with L. H.
H. S. on it and the name “Richard Gum-
mo” inside. It developed that Richard
Gummo, a student at the Lock Haven
High school, had lost the ring in the corn-
field when he was working for the farmer
from whom the cow had been purchased.
—Eight hundred dollars is the capital
which the average newly married couple
should have to start their wedded life in
the opinion of Bloomsburg merchants, who
have been busy during the last few weeks
furnishing many new homes. Of this sum,
$500 is for furniture and $300 for inciden-
tals. Many couples manage with a small
initial investment, according to the merch-
ants, but usually they expend that total
before they have sufficient furnishings for
comfort.
—Engineer V. J. O’Brien, of Buffalo, was
killed and fireman William Breen, also of
Buffalo, was fatally injured on Monday
afternoon when the Philadelphia-Buffalo
express on the Pennsylvania railroad left
the tracks near Keating. The locomotive
rolled over on its side but the baggage car,
dining car, two day coaches and two Pull-
mans, although leaving the rails, did not
overturn. None of the passengers were in-
jured beyond suffering slight bruises and
scratches.
+ Mother forgiveness does not await Miss
Ethel Galloway, 16 years of age, of Glas-
gow, Bucks county, who on Wednesday
was married to her-first cousin, James O.
Smith, aged 23 years, of Lewistown, some-
where in Maryland. Mrs. John Galloway,
mother of the girl, received a letter from
her son-in-law stating that they had been
married and that they would stay at his
home in Lewistown for a while. Instead
of preparing a welcome for the newly-
weds, the mother has threatened legal ac-
tion to have the marriage annulled.
—Police have no trace of two Negro ban-
dits who late Saturday night held up Wil-
liam Arnovitz, proprictor of a“ smait store
at Sharon, and robbed him of $800. * The’
Negroes, unmasked, entered the store and
asked for some cigarettes. When Arno-
vitz turned to get them one of the robbers
shoved a gun in his side and told him to
hand over his money. “Make a sound and
we'll kill you,” they said. Searching Ar-
novit’s pockets, they took his money and
secured $182 from a cash register. This
was the third robbery of a similar nature
in Sharon in two months.
—Hospital doctors at Allentown marvel-
ed on Sunday that a 150-pound man could
withstand the full force of a collision with
“a 125-ton locomotive, plus the weight of
fifteen loaded cars, yet live and be little
the worse for his experience. The man in
the case is Hugh Quinn, aged 55 years, of
Rose, N. Y., who Sunday night was struck
by a New Jersey Central freight train,
running at high speed, as he was plodding
along the tracks through the deep snow.
He was picked up unconscious but when
taken to the Allentown hospital it was
found that he was not injured. He was
discharged after being permitted to rest
from the shock.
—Constable Russell Kephart, of Decatur
township, Clearfield county, was removed
from office on Saturday by Judge Chase,
who said, “Kephart has so conducted him-
self that it is apparent he is wholly uhfit
to be a constable.” Kephart, with other
constables, and justice of the peace, would
zo out on the public highway, hold up au-
tomobiles, and search them for liquor. Of
the many cars stopped, not one was found
to contain liquor. When constable Kep-
hart attempted to search a car filled with
young men, a near-riot occurred, and when
no liquor was found, Kephart arrested the
men for resisting an officer. Judge Chase
discharged the defendants, and fired the
constable.
—Andrew Laconey, living just across the
borough line from Berwick, in Briar Creek
township, Columbia county, refused to pay
firemen when his home caught fire and told
chief Henrie to “let her burn.” The chief
did, and the building burned to the foun-
dation walls while the Berwick fire depart-
ment looked on. The loss was $4,000. Hose
had been laid to the house and the firemen
were ready to turn on water when Laconey
refused payment. Apparatus had been
damaged in other fires outside the borough
and when township supervisors refused to
pay the borough for the fire protection,
the companies were instructed not to give
aid unless property owners would assume
the expense.
‘Directed to the cellar of thé home of
his sister, Mrs. Gray, of Brownsville, Pa,
by a note left when he died, by Oliver IL.
Weston, appraisers of his estate found =a
jar of gold. The money was hidden away
beneath the floor of the cellar and was
easily found by the searchers. In $5 and
$10 pieces the gold totaled a little more
than $4000. Many of the coins were more
than 50 years old. It was known that
Weston had an aversion to banks and had
stored his surplus funds away. At the
time of his death the man was 65 years
old. In addition to the jar of gold another
jar of gold and silver coins was found in
the Weston home. This amounted to §124.-
50. The personal property totaled $20,-
957.64. For many years Weston was em-
ployed in a hardware store in South
Brownsville, and the members of his fam-
jly were greatly surprised when they learns
ed of the wealth he left.