Demon adn
ed
- INK SLINGS.
—Spring will be here in thirty-six
days, but your coal pile will have to
* hold out longer than that.
— There has been no recent splash-
ing in the judicial puddle because
there are no more candidates to jump
in.
— Let us hope that we are not to
pay up for this warm February
weather by getting the cold kind in
April and May.
—Why complain about the present
Legislature’s do-nothing policy. Isnt
it nearly a certainty that the less it
does the better we'll all be off ?
—_If Soviet Russia sticks long
enough to its present penalty of the
death sentence for grafters the old or-
der of thihgs will eventually be re-
stored in that benighted country.
— Congress has only sixteen days
left in which to do some of the things
it set out to do, but it will be so busy
preparing for adjournment that it
won’t have time to do many of them.
—_The Los Angeles woman who de-
serted her husband after three weeks
of married life because she had had
enough of it ought to write a sequel
to Eleanor Glynn's story of “Three
Weeks.”
Down at Atlantic City the girls
are starting something designed to
‘become as ridiculous a fad as were
flapping galoshes. They are wearing
bows of variegated hues sticking out
from their ankles.
—By way of consolation to those
farmers who didn’t let go of their
wheat when it touched two-five we are
urged to remark that it might jump
back there——and even higher—and,
then again, it might not get off the
toboggan at all.
—_We have been working on the
‘banks of Spring creek for forty years
and nine out of every ten threats the
stream has made to put us temporari-
ly out of business have come on
“Thursday, the day it doesn’t suit us
.at all to entertain floods.
— The Johns Hopkins’ school of Hy-
giene announces the discovery of a
new germicide that is fifty times as
strong as carbolic acid, yet so harm-
less to human beings that they can
swallow it without ill effect. Happy
.day! When a bed-bug runs down the
throat of a snoring sleeper he can go
right after it with the new dope and
‘be sure of getting it and not himself.
— The Governor says there'll be nine
million dollars more for the Legisla-
ture to appropriate than Auditor Gen-
.eral Lewis says the revenues of the
.State will amount to. Naturally, the
Auditor General’s estimate is the one
based on the more intimate knowl-
.edge, but then there bobs °% p- the
the thought that it might be based
also on who is going to have the big-
gest finger in spending it.
__At last “Nick” Longworth is to
‘have opportunity of making his own
noise. No longer will he be heard
only through the rustle of “Princess
Alice’s” skirts or be pointed out as
«the son-in-law of T. R.” The Penn-
.sylvania delegation has thrown its
strength to him, assuring his election
as speaker of the next House of Rep-
resentatives in Congress. Who can
tell? Once out of the petticoat
.eclipse “Nick” might show something.
—If, as the present condition indi-
cates, it should turn out that the hand-
full of Democrats in the Legislature
do really hold the balance of power
between the contending Republican
factions wouldn’t Centre county insti-
“tutions that are looking for fair treat-
ment in the way of appropriations be
“sitting pretty” if W. H. Noll were
representing us there. John Flynn,
the master mind of the House, can
make a host out of his thirteen Dem-
.ocratic colleagues if the opportunity
presents and they have sense enough
‘to let him steer them.
—_While we are not ready to believe,
with some, that once a criminal is al-
ways a criminal, we have been im-
pressed by a statement in the recent
report of superintendent James W.
‘Herron, of the Industrial reformatory
‘at Huntingdon. A survey of the in-
mates of that institution for the last
biennium reveals the fact that nearly
‘thirty-six per cent. of them admitted
serving time in other institutions be-
Fore being sent there. This being so
it {is presumable that the boys had
been in similar corrective institutions
prior to going to Huntingdon. With-
out bringing into question the relative
value of the various confinement
schools for erring youth it is a debat-
able matter as to whether the best
| .condiictéd of them is ever able to re-
form some characters.
—One of the big insurance compa-
‘nies advises every one to “beware of
the month of March, the danger
month.” Following this admonition
against getting wet feet and sitting in
drafts, a big burial case company
sends these hopeful words to its sales-
man: “Wait for March, the month of
opportunities.” Such direful prophe-
_ cies by business that ought to know
! what it is talking about are not cal-
_ culated to bring joy to anybody but
"the undertakers. If March is as dan-
' gerous as they intimate we feel that
we didn’t escape much , when = Mrs.
Rowan’s effort to bring the world to
an end last Friday ‘night. “flopped.”
The Mt. Carmel Item undertook to
turn that scare to its own advantage
- by urging all its delinquents to pay up .
* before the catastrophe because its
- collectors weren't keen to “chase all
‘ sover hell collecting accounts.”
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 70.
Pinchot Appeals to Women Voters.
Wisely or otherwise, Governor Pin-
chot continues to pin his hopes to the
apron strings of the women voters.
Last week he addressed a letter to
the Friday Morning club of the Lea-
gue of Women Voters, then in ses-
sion in Philadelphia, in which he
urged the women of the State to “sup-
port the administration’s legislative
programme and general policy, par-
ticularly with reference to institution-
al work.” In this he was supported
by his Secretary of Welfare, Dr.
Ellen C. Potter, in an address to the
League who assailed “political and
other groups that would hinder the
forward march of good government”
as expressed in the work of the ad-
ministration thus far.
ernor’s plans depends upon the fidel-
ity of the women voters of the State
to the ideals they profess. While the
women voters are not a majority of
the electorate it is certain they are
in sufficient number to constitute a
“balance of power” amply able to con-
trol in every contest between civic
righteousness and corrupt govern-
ment. The obvious purpose of the
Governof is to enlist this potent force
to oppose with all their strength
“any legislation that sacrifices good
government to
Past experience has hardly justified
his faith, but “hope springs eternal
in the human breast,” and the future
may develop a different point of
feminine view.
The main purpose of the joint ap-
peal of the Governor and Dr.
Potter is to create sentiment in favor
of the blanket form of appropriating
funds to community hospitals and
other local charitable institutions.
There are many and grave reasons for
getting away from the old “log-roll-
ing” method of dispensing these bene-
volences, hut legislators are reluctant
to adopt a policy which would de-
prive the men and women of commun-
ities all voice in the management of
institutions they have made sacrifices
to create, and there is reason for the
hesitation. The Governor’s plan may
become as vicious as the worst feature
{of the ald gystemuand a8 difficult to
——It may seem strange but is
nevertheless true that when Mr.
Taulane was tendered a seat on the
bench in Philadelphia he withheld
acceptance until after he could con-
sult the machine leaders.
Discrepancies to be Explained.
Nobody takes much interest in what
State Treasurer Charles Snyder says
an any subject and when he is talk-
ing about Governor Pinchot he doesn’t
seem to be very particular what he
says. But in his somewhat melancholy
swan song delivered in Harrisburg
the other evening, in the form of his
last annual report to the Legislature,
he makes assertions that require ser-
ious condition. For example, in ref-
erence to the $29,000,000 deficit
which the Governor declares he in-
herited from the Sproul adniinistra-
tion, Mr. Snyder boldly states “I now
again, in the most emphatic manner,
deny that such deficit ever existed,
and challenge confirmation of the
same from the books of the fiscal
officers.”
This claim of rescuing the State
from bankruptcy has been the prin-
cipal asset of the Pinchot administra-
tion from the beginning. Upon that
achievement he has constructed his
clain that the “mess” at Harrisburg
has been “cleaned up”, and the Com-
monwealth not only set safely on a
solvent but a “pay-as-you-go” basis.
If there were no such delinquency
Governor Pinchot has been making a
false pretense and to a very consider-
able extent “getting away with it.” If,
as Mr. Snyder states, such deficiency
never existed, the fraudulent claim
| should be exposed. If the books of
the fiscal officers will reveal the facts,
and they ought to, it is the public
duty of the fiscal officers to produce
the records.
In other paragraphs of the State
Treasurer’s report it is alleged that
the Pinchot administration expended
$60,000,000 more during the first two
years of its control than the Sproul
administration spent in the previous
two years, and that instead of de-
creasing the cost of the State govern-
ment for salaries by $1,372,000 in the
biennium covered by the Pinchot ad-
ministration, there was an increase
in this item of $4,500,000. These
discrepancies are too great to pass
over without careful scrutiny and if
the Governor is perpetrating such a
fraud on the people of Pennsylvania
he ought to be exposed. None of us
is likely to take Charles Snyder's
word on the subject, but the books are
official.
~The failure of the world to end
last Friday may have disappointed a
few but most of us are fairly well
satisfied.
The success or failure of the Gov-'
partisan politics.” |
Amendment of Doubtful Value.
If the effort to amend the pending
legislation entitled the “enabling act
for the sale of the $50,000,000 bond !
issue for good roads” had even the
semblance of public interest in view, it
{ might be justified. But the plain pur-
: pose of the proposed amendment is to
humiliate the Governor. The act as |
' drawn vests in the Governor the con-
‘trol over the disposal of the bonds.
‘The proposed amendment creates a
board composed of the Governor, the
Auditor General and the State Treas-
urer to exercise this power. The ori-
ginal act is practically the same as
the law under which the last highway
loan was disposed of. In fact it is
said that all previous bond issues have
been so regulated.
The Auditor General and State
Treasurer, recently elected and to be
inducted into office in May, are shin-
ing lights in the temple of the State
Republican machine. In any matter
of disagreement between the Gov-
ernor and the machine in the disposi-
tion of the bonds or the employment
of the funds obtained by sale of the
bonds, the machine would have a ma-
“jority of the board and the Governor
"would be a nonentity in the proceed-
ing. We are not over-confident of
the wisdom of the present Governor
but the Republican machine, as re-
cently reorganized, is neither noted
for wisdom nor celebrated for pro-
bity, so that no great good will be
accomplished by the proposed amend-
‘ment to the pending measure.
The people of Pennsylvania want
good roads and “they want what they
| want when they want it.” Governor
, Pinchot has been an earnest advocate
of what the people want in this par-
ticular matter and he has not allow~
led politics or any other extraneous
| influence to interfere with his pur-
pose to make the Highway Depart-
, ment an efficient agency in the work
for which it was created. If it had
| been the custom to include the Audi-
' tor General and State Treasurer in
| administering this trust there would
‘be no harm in the proposed amend-
| ment. But even at that there is dan-
' ger in giving Bill Vare and Joe Grun-
.dy control in the disbursing .of . so
{large & sum of ‘money: ~~ “oo
| ——The combine “reckoned with-
out its host” when it practically
‘forced State chairman Baker and
Governor Pinchot to join hands. It
framed a fight between brains and
. brute force.
Pinchot’s Prohibition Message.
For the third time this session, Gov-
“ernor Pinchot addressed the Legisla-
ture in joint session, on Tuesday
! afternoon. On the occasion of his ap-
' pearance to present his budget mes-
| sage he was coldly received. Accord-
ing to the newspaper reporters his
| presence caused a chill that threat-
ened to transform the chamber into
i a pneumonia factory.. This time he
staged the performance much better.
We learn from the newspapers that a
! number of women and State employ-
ees were present and led in a demon-
stration that seemed like an enthus-
| iastic reception. The Governor has
| grown wise.
{ The purpose of his address to the
General Assembly on Tuesday was to
urge the enactment of certain prohi-
bition legislation which failed of pas-
sage during the session of two years
.ago. And it is not exaggerating to
say that he urged it with great force.
He alleged that Philadelphia is a
principal centre of the United States
for the manufacture of illegal drink
from denatured aleéohol and that Pitts-
burgh is the centre for illegal beer.
Within two years Philadelphia pro-
duced 5,000,000 gallons of denatured
alcohol and there are 100 breweries
now operating in the State produc-
ing illegal beer.
The Governor not only revealed the
colossal proportions of the business
but gave in detail the processes by
which those engaged in it are able'to
avoid the penalties. His purpose is
to stop this traffic and he believes the
legislation he proposes will accom-
plish that result. It is said that the
Senators from Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh smiled derisively at his state-
ments but they will regard them in a
different light before the session is
ended. We predict that the bill in
question will pass and that any coun-
try Legislator who votes against it
will be on the retired list from the
snd of the session to the end of his
ife.
One reason why Grundy op-
poses the Pinchot budget is that a
treasury deficit might compel the
levy of a tax on manufacturers.
——Senator ‘Leslie, of Pittsburgh,
may be an expert. “slum worker” in
politics but he understands Harry
Baker’s influence in the Senate.
- This is Friday, the thirteenth,
so if you are at all superstitious knock
on wood.
General Mitchell’s Charges.
'eertainly the most disturbing sub-
t of discussion in Washington dur-
ing the past week has been the testi-
with re-
Congressional committee,
won distinction as an airman,
| the opinion that the air service of the
! government ought to be under a sep-
arate control rather than that of the
War and Navy departments. The Sec-
mony of Brig. Gen. Mitchell, before a |
BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 13. 1925.
|
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The State’s Child Labor Vote.
i Probably the most interesting and From the Milwaukee Journal,
It cannot be charged faizly that the
thirteen States which have rejected the
child labor amendment to the consti-
tution want childhood exploited. For
all of them have State shild employ-
i ment laws of their own. And among
{
i
spect to the efficacy and efficiency of | these States that make it impossible
the air service of the government. It to have ratification now are Ohio, one
seems that General Mitchell, who has | of only two States with the employ-
is of | ment minimum as high as 16 years,
and Kansas, that has held the lead in
“reforms” since the day of Carry Na-
tion. Nor will any one . seriously
think that the campaign against the
amendment by certain textile inter-
| retary of War and the Secretary of ests, on the ground that it was an
| the Navy, reluctant to
i part of their authority,
relinquish any entering wedge for Bolshevism, has
take the op- frightened the legislatures into hasty
| posite view of the subject and resent ' action. Each of the forty-eight States
{ the criticism of their subordinate.
| General Mitchell holds that the
' maintenance of an air service bureau
jor branch in the Navy department
and another in the War department
impairs the value of the service for
the reason that duplication is in-
evitable. Besides, he intimates that
both branches thus maintained are
under direction of officials not well in-
formed on the subject and in support
of his contention he cites cases in
| which the service was glaringly in-
efficient. Officials of both the War
and Navy departments deny these
statements and Secretary Weeks
of the War department threatens to
court martial the offender. That
would be a hardship because the as-
sertions were made not as an officer
or individual but as a witness.
The point at issue between the
heads of the War and Navy depart-
ments and the aviator are technical,
but borrow public interest for the
reason that the authority of Congress
and the interest of the public are
somewhat involved. If an army or
navy officer is not allowed to tell the
truth as he sees it Congressional in-
vestigations of military and naval
questions would degenerate into
farces and the public would have no
means of ascertaining the facts in
any dispute. That would be an in-
tolerable situation., On the other
hand, if witnesses wearing uniforms
ee compelled to perjure themselves
(tify an even worse condition would
i be created.
——Of course we’re not giving
{credit to the groundhog but the
| weather of the past week has been
i mild enough to result in a general
‘ breakup of the long spell of winter
! and the melting of the greater portion
| of the deep bed of snow. It has also
! resulted in raising all the streams in
the county and should in a great meas-
ure relieve the water famine that has
existed in some sections the past
month or six weeks. Spring creek
was quite high on Monday night and
came near reaching the danger point
at the “Watchman” office. But for-
tunately the high mark was about a
foot below our press room floor and
then the water began to recede. While
the greater portion of the snow on the
roads and in the fields has melted
there is still an abundance of it in the
mountains, but it is to be hoped that
it will go away gradually and not re-
sult in any damaging flood.
— With all the melting of snow in
consequence of the warm weather of
the latter part of last week it was not
until Monday that local streams were
the least bit discolored. It is a mat-
ter of much speculation as to where
the snow went to. The ground was
frozen so that very little or any wa-
ter was taken up that way and as
there was very little running it is evi-
dent that most of it must have been
taken into the air as moisture by the
sun’s rays. Having been a very light
snow of course its melting didn’t make
as much water as a heavier one would
have done.
—— During the years 1923 and 1924
five boys were sent to the Industrial
reformatory at Huntingdon by the
Centre county court, making our
total number there eight. Of this num-
ber two were pardoned during the
biennium, three paroled, four later
given final release by court order,
while three still remain in the insti-
tution. It has cost the county $1107.-
82 to maintain them there during the
two year period.
i ——— A ———————
— Treasurer Snyder has exposed
the “nigger in the woodpile.” He ad-
mits that the amendment to the bond
enabling act is intended to delay work
on the highways until after Pinchot’s
term expires.
——1It is said that Senator Pepper
will make a fight for re-election. In
other words, George Wharton is about
to “spit in the eye of a bull dog.”
o—— I —————
Following the example of Davy
: Crocket’s coon - the Vare—Grundy
combine capitulated when it saw the
Pinchot guns pointing at it.
i
i will have to be sought elsewhere.
already has child employment laws of
varying stringency and so knows how
much of Bolshevism there is in this
kind of legislation.
The main reason for this rejection
It
is not hard to find. When the pro-
hibition amendment to the constitu-
tion was adopted, few realized that if
! experience showed a need for revision
Congress hands were tied. The amend-
ment has been interpreted judicially to
mean that physicians may be rigidly
limited in the amount of liquor the
may prescribe for patients. Suc
rigidity was not contemplated. More-
over, enforcement has been a continu-
ous brawl, with revelations of cor-
ruption that not even the most ardent
antagonist of the amendment had
prophesied. With this awakening to
the inflexibility of the eighteenth
amendment has come a distrust of
anything labeled “An amendment to
the constitution.”
Here is the explanation for the
quick rejection of the child labor
amendment. And this suspicion of
amendments shows a healthful trend
in public thought. For we have been
moving along toward a consolidated
republic with an all powerful central
government in place of a federal
union. Protection of childhood from
inhuman treatment is no new thing.
For three-quarters of a century the
States have been enacting laws to pro-
tect their children, and the scope has
been extended and enforcement made
more rigid as public opinion grew in
support of such laws. re is noth-
ing to prevent the States from writ-
irg upon their statutes - laws
they want for children.
now best serve their purpose by bend-
ing their efforts to educational work.
Lawlessness in New York.
From the Philadelphia Record.
“The Record” is astounded to
learn, from New York advices, that
the ballots cast in the November elec-
tion in the Fourteenth Congressional
district of the Empire State are being
recounted by the Board of Elections,
and that as a result of the opening of
ballot-boxes in some : precincts and
the correction of returns from others
a Democratic candidate, who was
shown to have been defeated by 126
votes on the original count, may
prove to be the victor over his
Republican opponent.
The most cursory reference to the
outcome of the election in the Twen-
tieth Pennsylvania district, and to the
decisions of our Courts thereon, will
demonstrate that what is going on in
New York is very irregular. In the
Johnstown case the Republican can-
didate was found to be the victor on
the face of the returns. It was dis-
covered that some of the returns were
false, and the election officers asked
the permission of the Court to correct
them. This permission was granted;
but when the Court discovered that a
correct count would result in the elec-
tion of Mr. Bailey, a Democrat, its
Republican members decided that it
was illegal to go behind the face of
the returns. The Court consisted of
one Democratic and one Republican,
who held opposing views; so a third
Judge, a Republican, was called in,
and he decided the case, holding in
effect that it was not the number of
votes cast for a candidate, but the
number originally counted for him,
that must determine the result. The
highest Court of the State refused
to upset this decision.
If this is good law in Pennsylvania,
it ought to be good law in New York;
for it was mot Pennsylvania law,
which permits the correction of er-
roneous or fraudulent election re-
turns, but Federal law and practice
that guided our Judges; and Federal
law is the same the country over.
Why does the New York Board of
Elections waste its time recounting
the ballots cast in the Fourteenth dis-
trict and correcting the errors made
in the original returns? How did a
Grand Jury have the nerve to open a
ballot-box used in an election for a
United States office and expose the
fact that a candidate har been done out
of 22 votes in one precinct alone?
The New York method may be
based on common sense, and may be
consonant with the principles of jus-
tice; but what of it? Who wants
justice when he can get law?
Costly Tax Gathering.
From the Washington Observer. -
One of the many evils of this sys-
tem is that it fosters increase in local
taxation to make fatter fees for the
collectors. Another is that the cost
of living is increased because the cost
of doing. business is increased. = An-
other is that political machines are
financed by fees. .
em pe —————— SE———— a
* Five hy
‘supporters of the amendment may
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—H. H. Dewey, of Gaines Junction, Pa.,
master of the Pennsylvania State Grange,
announced on Monday that the next meet-
ing of the organization will be held in
Johnstown December 8, 9 and 10.
—A verdict awarding a $5,000 accident
insurance policy to Mrs. Ruth M. Norlund,
rendered in the Lycoming county court,
and appealed by the Reliance Life Insur-
ance company, Pittsburgh, was affirmed
on Monday by the State Supreme Court.
—The Berwick plant of the American
Car and Foundry company has received an
order for one thousand sixty-five-ton steel
box cars for the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western railroad. It is the largest
order booked by that plant in some
months.
— Three small children of Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Wingert were burned to death in their
bedroom, on Monday evening, while their
parents were doing evening chores at the
barn on their farm six miles from Cham-
bersburg.
—Harry Kantner, 48 years of age, fell
down a stairway twice Friday night at the
home of Emory Miller, in Reading, where
he was visiting. He was not hurt in the
first fall. After the second fall, he was
picked up about midnight by Raymond
Price, a lodger in the house, with a broken
neck. The fall had killed him.
—Boys throwing stones at giant icicles
that hung from a water tank of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad at Barnesboro, last Wed-
nesday afternoon cost the life of Frank
Gosch; aged 13 years, son of John Gosch,
of that place, who was caught under one
of the icicles when it fell. His skull was
fractured and his back broken, and he
died half an hour after the accident.
—Charges have been made against Sam-
uel Alley, a Syrian, before Alderman
Mantz, of New Castle, alleging that he at-
tempted to force his daughter, Annie, 15
years old, to marry a man as old as her
father. The father was to receive $1500 in
the transaction, it is alleged. The charges
have been preferred by county detective J.
M. . Dunlap and humane officer W. W.
Stevenson. '
— After writing a note in which she de-
clared there was “no place in this world
for a widow and her children,” Mrs. Rose
Hall, 34 years old, of Albion, Erie county,
according to police, administered poison to
her two sleeping daughters and then took
a quantity of the poison herself with fatal
results. The two children recovered. The
woman's husband was killed in a railroad
accident six years ago.
—Although picked up on a street in
Pottsville, last Saturday, after an automo-
bile had run over him and flattened him
out, Heber Kramer, aged 20 years, 4 still
living at the Pottsville hospital, and early
this week was believed to be actually im-
proving. It was necessary to lift up the
auto to get Kramer from under and his
chest was crushed, five ribs broken, lungs
and liver punctured and his skull frac-
tured in two places.
—Calvin Hime, aged 57 years, of Ephra-
ta, Lancaster county, was so amused by
the antics of a fellow townsman under the
influence of “white mule,” that he laughed
himself to death. Hime was standing out-
side his home in the borough when George
Riddle appeared on the scene, Riddle
showed the effects of too much moonshine.
; 8 the ge of under-
coat. Af the height otibe
excitement Hime fell dead.
—Amos Tecuran, a Negro, employed at
the mines at Black Run, Schuylkill county,
was so sure on Friday that the world was
coming to an end that he gave away all
his clothes and jewelry, including a fine
gold watch. On Saturday he wanted the
articles back, but the recipients refused to
return the goods and when Amos tried to
have them arrested the justice of the peace
told him his gifts were perfectly legal and
the articles could not be recovered.
—Ruth Angelo, 21 years old, of Sharps-
burg, Westmoreland county, alleged ac-
complice of George W. Trost, sentenced to
serve from eleven to twenty-two years in
the western penitentiary for his attempted
robbery of the Delmont National bank on
November 10, decided to enter a plea of
guilty. She was sentenced to serve not
less than four and not more than eight
years in the western penitentiary on
charges of attempted robbery and forgery.
—Frank L. Clinefelter, a former employe
of the Lawrence Savings Trust Company
bank, in New Castle, entered a plea of
guilty to forgery and smbezzlement in the
Lawrence county court on Saturday morn-
ing. He was sentenced to serve from six
to twelve years in the western penitentiary
by Judge S. P. Emery. The amount alleg-
ed to have been taken from the bank was
$17,000. The confessed theft occurred dur-
ing a period preceding three years ago,
when Clinefelter was employed by the
bank.
—John Oliver, of Wilkes-Barre, is
mourning the loss of his wife, and savings
of $000. John Patony, a border, has dis-
appeared also. Oliver has five children.
Mary Oliver, the mother, departed without
warning after being married fourteen
years. Oliver consented to take in a
boarder to help finance the enterprise of a
new home last year, and when the wife de-
manded, several days ago, that the money
be placed in her hands so that she might
apply it to the debt, Oliver gave it to her.
The next day the wife, the money and the
boarder disappeared.
—Miss Paula Rossler, who is a patient
in the Williamsport hospital under guard,
being charged with having disposed of her
child and then tried to burn it in the fur-
nace at the home in which she was em-
ployed, and Gustave Schaefer, who has
been arrested as the father of the child,
were married in the hospital on Friday by
the Rev. Theodore Beck. It is understood
that the charge against the man will not
be dropped. An information was made be-
fore Alderman George B. Allen the day of
the wedding in which the woman is charg-
ed with “concealing child murder,” and a
warrant was issued for her arrest.
—George Hopper, a legless shoemaker,
late on Monday prevented the escape from
the Columbia county jail at Bloomsburg of
Alexander Green, colored, of Philadelphiy,
serving twenty years for murder, Hopper
saw Green scale the wall with a rope blan-
ket and telephoned to sheriff Gunther.
Deputy sheriff Whitenigst was only a min-
ute or two behind Green and caught him
within two blocks of the jail. Green was
taken to Bloomsburg eighteen months ago
from the eastern penitentiary and had been
a model prisoner. He was in the jail yard
when he climbed ‘the rope made of blan-
kets, fastened to the bars of his cell.
Reaching the top of the wall he pulled the
rope up after him and dropped it down
on the outside. .