Bema Hl
INK SLINGS.
—The Senate has passed the “unit-
ed dry bill” on first reading. It isthe
one Governor Pinchot and the Anti-
"Saloon League compromised their dis-
agreement on and its principal fea-
tures are regulation of distilleries and
breweries.
—As the Republican floor leader in
Congress the Hon. “Nick” Longworth
‘was only a partial success. Maybe he
was cut out for eminence as a floor
‘walker and not a floor leader. Now
that the first baby has come into his
home “Nick’s” real efficiency on the
floor might be revealed.
—Actions at Washington all go to
prove that the “Watchman” was pret-
ty close to the truth when it stated
that the net result of the disarma-
ment conference called by the late
President Harding would be the scrap-
ping of a lot of perfectly good war
ships so that there would be an ex-
«cuse for building new ones.
—The finding of Floyd Collins,
dead, in the sand cave which he had
-attempted to explore, near Cave City,
Kentucky, was a heart scald to the
-army of volunteers who had organized
for his rescue, but not one of them re-
gretted a moment of the time or the
limit of energy they had been spurred
on to give by the hope that they would
find him alive.
—Chlorine gas is now an accepted
«cure for cold. It will stop it with an
hour's treatment. Science is making
new discoveries every day. Knowing
‘this we live in hope of the announce-
‘ment that a cure has been found for
pip. That’s what we've got. We're
perfectly satisfied with our own diag-
nosis. We've doctored for every ail-
‘ment recorded in the materia medica
and either those who have prescribed
for us are punk or we've got the pip
for which we want a cure discovered.
—Friend John Francies, clerk of the
«courts of Allegheny county, is evi-
-dently going about his work in that
.office with the same methodical and
‘thorough going determination to have
everything right that characterized
‘his work when warden of the western
penitentiary and superintendent of
construction of the new institution in
‘this county. We notice that the Com-
missioners of Allegheny have consid-
erably increased the budget for his of-
fice upon ‘his request that he be given
sufficient funds to bring the records
up to date. “Up to date” is a hobby
.of John’s in everything but cooking
-and if there ever was a back number
an the art culinary he is it.
—We're glad Pennsylvania has re-
fused to ratify the child labor amend-
‘ment which Congress proposed to the
federal constitution. Glad,
this thing of tampering with the con-
‘stitution every time some one discov-
ers a new cure for ingrown toe nails
is threatened with a back-set; glad,
‘because Pennsylvania Senators have
had sense enough to see that Pennsyl-
vania knows how to treat her own
sons and daughters without being
compelled to accept the advise of Or-
egon, Texas, Florida, Maine and all
the rest of her sister States; glad, be-
cause it is an indication that people
are beginning to realize the wisdom
of that fundamental principle of De-
mocracy that has been the “Watch-
man’s” motto for seventy years:
“State Rights and Federal Union.”
—The Commercial club, of Philips-
‘burg, on Monday night, passed a
lengthy resolution calling on the Com-
missioners of Centre and Clearfield
counties to “forget and lay aside such
a trifling excuse” as they gave for
declining to build an inter-county
bridge over the Moshannon creek at
the foot of Pine street in our sister
borough. The excuse in question was
to the effect that Philipsburg and
Chester Hill have not exhausted their
borrowing power and should erect the
bridge themselves. We know little of
the merits of the controversy. FPhil-
ipsburg already has two very good
bridges spanning the Moshannon, but
her citizens might have been thinking
that since the proposed two mill in-
crease in county tax has been pre-
dicated on anticipated cost of new
‘bridge building the way was open for
them to turn some of it to their need.
—By way of adding another bone of
contention let us suggest to those
would-be law makers who are plan-
ning to shorten the trout fishing sea-
son, limit the catch to fifteen, make
you keep the little ones, pay more li-
cense fees and prohibit the use of
more than one rod or two hooks, that
they incorporate in their act a clause
that will prohibit fishing with min-
now for trout in any stream in which
the native brook trout predominate.
Live minnow is the most alluring and
deadly bait for trout. It has a pe-
«culiar appeal to the large fish. It is
cast on tackle so strong that once they
‘have struck they have little chance of
escape. The native brook trout sel-
dom exceeds eighteen inches in length
and is very rarely too heavy to be
landed, if skillfully played, with a
twelve or fourteen hook. On a min-
now hook—large as a ship’s anchor,
it has no chance at all. The conse-
quence is minnow fishermen in native
trout streams deplete them of the pro-
lific spawners and the fish commission
wonders why its herculean efforts to
keep the streams stocked show such
trifling results. Let those who will
fish with minnow in brown and rain-
bow planted streams, varieties that
grow heavy, but keep them off the
speckled trout streams and a sport—
the like of which there is no other—
will be saved for Pennsylvanians.
VOL. 70.
Pinchot’s Triumph Over the Machine.
The strengthening effect of Gover-
nor Pinchot’s prohibition message, de-
livered to the General Assembly last
week, is clearly perceptible in every
direction. It was easily the best piece
of political work the Governor has
ever done. His arraignment of Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh as the centers
of illegal distillation and brewing, re-
spectively, has created a profound
impression throughout the State.
Even Washington has been gravely
disturbed by it, and according to in-
formation from reliable sources Sec-
retary Mellon has admonished Sena-
tor Leslie, of the Pittsburgh “strip,”
to “lay away” from Vare. If this
means anything it marks the begin-
ning of the end of the Vare-Grundy
combine.
It may be safely assured that a
considerable majority of the people
of Pennsylvania favor prohibition.
It is equally certain that a vast ma-
jority of them recognize the danger
as well as the iniquity of the exist-
ing form of commerce in liquor. Gov-
ernor Pinchot’s speech drew the line
between his purposes and those of
his opponents with respect to this
question so clearly that even a men-
tally blind man must see it. No mem-
ber of the General Assembly, not com-
pletely servile to the machine, will
venture to support the machine in the
circumstances. Such action would
bring upon him an avalanche of rep-
robation to overwhelm him. Even
machine favor could “hardly afford
recompense for such disaster.
But it must not be assumed by the
Governor and his fool friends that
this triumph means a restoration to
the popular favor expressed in his
nomination for Governor three years
ago. This reaction should not be in-
terpreted as a “call” for other politi-
cal honors. It has been intimated
that he intends to capitalize his vic-
tory over Vare and Grundy as a basis
for his ambition to be Senator in Con-
gress. If that be true he is organiz-
ing the most complete defeat ever
administered to an aspirant in Penn-
sylvania. Pinchot is the deadest
"” that has ever encounter-
ent of a political flood tids.
[His false pretenses and hypocricies
will never be forgotten or forgiven,
“dead duc
L &d the curr
The Vermont Legislature
hasn’t much . on the Pennsylvania
Senate. The Vermont Legislature re-
jected the child labor amendment by
a vote of 229 to 3 and the Pennsylva-
nia Senate negatived it 43 to 4.
The Child Labor Amendment.
The decisive defeat of the resolu-
tion to ratify the child labor amend-
ment to the constitution of the United
States by the State Senate, on Mon-
day evening, may be regarded as the
final disposition of the question so
far as Pennsylvania is concerned. A
similar resolution may be offered and
considered in the House of Repre-
sentatives with the same result,
though the adverse majority might be
smaller. The measure is entirely too
drastic to expect favor in an indus-
trial community like Pennsylvania,
where eighteen year old boys and
girls cut an important figure in the
bread-winning activities of the family.
But Senator Barr, of Pittsburgh,
was strictly within the limit of truth
when he declared in a speech advo-
cating the measure, that the Repub-
lican leaders in the chamber were be-
traying the pledges of their party in
opposing the ratification. The nation-
al Republican platforms of 1916, 1920
and 1924, pledged the party to such a
constitutional amendment and the
Allegheny county Senator imagined it
was a sincere promise to the believers
in such legislation. He forgets that
the Republican leaders were ready and
anxious to make any promise which
would get votes for their candidates
in each of the three campaigns refer-
red to, and that a violation of party
pledges is not a blamable offense
among Republicans.
It is not only wise, but a moral
obligation on the part of adult men
and women of the present, to con-
serve the health and morals of the
children. But youths upward of six-
teen years of age are not likely to be
harmed much by indulgence in light
employment, while they are capable
of doing much good for their parents
who may be infirm if not old. But
such regulations have no place in con-
stitutions, State or National, and are
not the proper subjects for Congres-
sional legislation. They come within
the province of the police power of the
State and the Legislatures of the sev-
eral States should dispose of them.
——If the Washington junket item
is stricken out of the budget, and that
is possible, the Pinchot party would
be an expensive project.
Purposely or otherwise the
Governor slighted Vare by leaving
him out when he invited Grundy to his
party.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 20. 1925.
Hans Brightman Outdone.
Since the late lamented Hans
Brightman “Giff a Barty,” long since
embalmed in song and entombed in
memory, no social function of equal
importance has been held. But the
near future promises an event of
much greater expense and signifi-
cance. Gifford and Cornelia Pinchot
have issued invitations to 104 of the
six million people of Pennsylvania to
become their guests in a junket to
Washington to witness the inaugura-
tion of President Coolidge. “If, as I
very keenly hope, you will find it pos-
sible to accept this invitation to repre-
sent Pennsylvania at the inaugura-
tion of President Coolidge,” the Gov-
ernor writes, “the detailed arrange-
ments will be supplied as soon as
they are completed.”
Snugly tucked away and skilfully
concealed in the verbiage of the bud-
get bill presented to the Legislature
two weeks ago a provision is made to
defray the expenses of this rather
ambitious social adventure. The
amount is $10,000,00, which is not
too much in consideration of the fact
that an entertainment includes “an
informal lunch” at the Governor's
Washington residence, after the in-
augural ceremonies are completed.
Fortunately for those favored with
invitations to participate this pleas-
ant diversion from the official routine
of the inauguration will not cause
much trouble, for the Governor's
Washington residence “is not far
from the line of march and the auto-
mobiles which take part in the parade
will come straight to the house.”
Of course it is necessary to curtail
‘appropriations to worthy charities
and deprive deserving wards of the
State ‘of soothing and satisfying com-
forts in order that the Governor may
entertain captains of industry, execu-
tives of railroads and leaders in
finance with becoming sumptuous-
ness at a time and under circumstan-
ces that the eyes of the world are
focussed on their movements. Those
who suffer the deprivations may not
be able to see the matter in the same
light, but that is their misfortune
rather than the Governor's: fault.
. >
Taking care of himself -is
feature of his philosophy and who
knows but that Hans Brightman's
parties were less elaborate because he
paid all expenses himself.
——Probably Bill Vare will take
the action of the Pennsylvania dele-
gation on the Speakership as an
admonition to limit his political acti-
vities to the city.
Sesquicentennial Probable.
The President having given his ap-
proval of the project and asked Con-
gress to co-operate, it may now be
said that the sesquicentennial will be
put across in Philadelphia next year.
It will probably not be the ambitious
enterprise which the late John Wana-
maker had in mind when he proposed
it several years ago. The prepara-
tions for such an exposition would
require a long time and a large
amount of money. The time was
available and, with Mr. Wanamaker’s
influence behind the effort, the money
might easily have been obtained. But
there were so many Cross purposes,
not to say selfish motives developed,
that the friends of the enterprise be-
came discouraged.
Among the “pull-backs” responsi-
ble for the failure was the present
Mayor, but he seems to have had a
change of heart and with a bunch of
friends visited Washington the other
day and got out of the President the
concessions which inspire hope of a
creditable show. If the Wanamaker
plans had been fulfilled the greatest
exposition of all history might have
been accomplished. The industrial,
commercial and scientific life of the
civilized world would have been stir-
red to highest achievement in order
to get for each exhibitor the best re-
sults. Of course it will be impossible
to do this in the brief time now avail-
able. But with proper energy and in-
telligent management a good show
may be organized.
President Coolidge has promised to
invite all nations of the world to par-
ticipate, and a good many of them
may do the best they can to oblige.
Modern methods and improved pro-
ceesses have marvelous power in
hastening results and the managers
of the movement will make the most
of these advantages. But at best it
will require the limit of effort and
resources to match the event of fifty
years ago, when there was more
civic pride and less selfish purpose-in
the actions of leading citizens of Phil-
adelphia. Those concerned may find
encouragement in the fact, however,
that all the people of Pennsylvania
will be in full sympathy with them in
their tardy action.
Any Senator or Representa-
tive who has been invited to the Pin-
chot outing will be an ingrate if he
votes against the budget.
Ca wd
| Coolidge Cabinet About Completad.
With the naming of former Senator
and now Ambassador Kellogg, of
Minnesota, for Secretary of State, and
William M. Jardine, president of the
Agricultural college of Kansas, for
Secretary of Agriculture, it is be-
lieved the new cabinet of President
Coolidge is completed. There is a
probability of a vacancy in the office
of Attorney General, as the Senator-
ial opposition to Charles B. Warren, 4
of Michigan, for that portfolio con-
tinues with the chances in his favor.
Both the Michigan Senators are op-
posed to his confirmation, and that
overworked entity known as “Sen-
atorial courtesy” may prevent. But
the opposition to Attorney General
Stone’s confirmation was quite as
strong and he was confirmed easily.
The principal reason for the oppo-
sition to Warren is his previous as-
sociation with the Sugar trust. The
Michigan Senators may have other
causes of complaint against him, but
if so they have not publicly revealed
them. They may imagine that his
relationship with the Sugar trust is
sufficient to cause an adverse vote. If
that be true they are likely to be dis-
appointed. Most of the Coolidge ap-
pointments are men who have had
similar relations with big business.
Only the other day he appointed a
federal district judge at the request
of a member of the Pierpont Morgan
firm, apparently without any other
endorsement, and he was promptly
confirmed after the source of his
influence was exposed.
It may as well be known first as
last that the Coolidge administration
will be dominated by big business.
Mr. Coolidge has always been a cor-
ration man, not in the sense that
he’ supported corporations in courts
as a lawyer. He had never attained
the rank 2s a lawyer that large cor-
porations require. But corporations
have invariably chosen him as their
candidate for office and he has as in-
variably served them in his official
capacity. Besides corporations fur-
nished the money to conduct his cam-
paign for the Presidency, and though
‘js proverbially silent he has never
a nt a AAR
one consideration with another it may
be predieted that Warren will be con-
firmed and the cabinet completed.
—Harrisburg is struggling with the
recommendations of the Giant Power
survey board. Few people understand
the pet project of the Governor and
not more than a few will bother them-
selves with an effort to become in-
formed on it. Briefly stated it is a
plan to make a common pool of pow-
er; giving the Giant Power companies
rights of eminent domain in taking
water power, other natural resourec-
es, with which to generate electricity,
and then to carry it over any lands
whatsoever for public use at a cost to
be regulated by a commission of the
State. It is a very constructive pro-
ject, wholly practical and could be
made of inestimable value to the peo-
ple of Pennsylvania. But would it?
Will it be controlled by such altruistic
minds as have conceived it or might
it ultimately fall into the domination
of political mercenaries? We're for
the Giant Power bills if in them there
is a provision that the people can re-
call any franchises given. If there is
no such provision we’re against the
project, beneficial as it appears to be.
—Of course it didn’t matter that
every industry depending on electrici-
ty to keep its wheels turning was
brought to a stand-still by the break-
down in the service of the Keystone
Power corporation. But there was an
awful holler from the people who had
to eat cold breakfasts because their
electric stoves refused to warm up.
And it all happened on Friday, the
13th.
——Secretaries Weeks and Wilbur
are in grave trouble. Congress has
asked them for information on a sub-
ject they appear to know nothing
about.
——Floyd Collins, victim of a Ken-
tucky cave disaster, was dead when
rescuers reached him but the recovery
of his remains was worth the labor it
cost.
tf Apt,
——Senators and Representatives
in Congress will soon begin to wonder
why they voted for the child labor
constitutional amendment.
——The Governor has ordered “full
steam ahead” on prohibition legisla-
tion, and it is a safe bet the Legisla-
ture will obey the order.
——Over a thousand bills have been
introduced in the Legislature already,
and the early adjournment leaders
are plainly worried.
——Moreover if the cost of col-
lecting taxes were reduced to a fair
level the proceeds of the levy would
go farther.
~~Taking |
NO. S.
Opposition to Warren,
From the Philadelphia Record.
The opposition to Charles B. War-
ren, of Michigan, for Attorney Gen-
eral threatens to prevent his eonfir-
mation. Indeed, it is said that the
administration forces do not seek a
showing of hands and would welcome
the chance to keep the nomination in
the Senate’s Judiciary committee, be-
lieving that he might fare better when
the new Congress comes in on March
To many persons it has appeared
strange that opposition to the Presi-
dent’s nomination for a Cabinet of-
fice should appear in the Senate, for
it is the common notion that as the
President is charged with full respon-
sibility for his administration he
ought to be free-handed in the choice
of heads of departments. In one of
his early papers on governmental
functions, written during the second
administration of Grover Cleveland,
Woodrow Wilson stated the Presiden-
tial prerogatives in this respeet ad-
mirably.
“The President,” said he, “may
make what selections he will in pro-
viding the administrative departments
with their chief officers, and keep in-
disputably within his literal constitu-
tional powers. The Senate must, in-
deed, confirm his appointments, but it
has long regarded its function in this
respect, not as a right to assist or dic-
tate to the President in his choice of
Cabinet officials, but merely as a check
upon the nomination of men touched
in some degree by scandal or known
in some way to have shown gross in-
competency for assuming = public
trusts.” A011.
In Mr. Warren's case, as the dis-
cussions have. been behind. closed
doors, it is not known definitely pre-
cisely what the charges are that have
caused the two Michigan Senators to
oppose him and to make his confirma-
tion a matter of doubt. It is stated
that they have to do with certain ac-|
tivities of his in connection with the
| Sugar trust, and if proofs are forth-
coming that he had too close a con-
nection with that ogre of a past gen-
eration it will probably keep him out
of the trust-busting job which the
President has assigned to him as At-
torney General Stone’s successor.
The Inexhaustible Patience of Science.
From the New York Worl. . ..... q. |
Fifty times as powerful as carbolic’
acid in its power to destroy disease
germs and yet harmless in its effect
upon the human system is the descrip-
tion given of “hexylresorconol’ by the
Johns Hopkins scientists who have
perfected it. The importance of this
new antiseptic, reports the Associated
Press, is that it has been applied to
infections of the kidneys and cleared
up cases of long standing. It may
prove another blessing to the human
race.
We know of “hexylresorcinol” only
what these brief dispatches tell us;
but no layman can read the story of
this research at Johns Hopkins with-
out fresh admiration for the spirit of
the scientist. For ten years Dr. Vea-
der Leonard and his associates have
worked to find the formula which
after years of failure they achieved.
The patience of successful science is
inexhaustible. And the spirit with
which it fires its workmen is impres-
sive. Doctor Leonard fed this anti-
septic, many times as strong as car-
bolic acid, to a rabbit. The rabbit
lived. Doctor Leonard swallowed
some of it himself. He was not harm-
ed. Then he and six of his assistants
made test cases of themselves, began
taking daily doses of increasing size
to study its effect upon the human
body. :
That is the way science works and
why it so frequently achieves its goal.
New Penal Code.
From the Scranton Times.
Broadly speaking, the report of the
Pennsylvania penal code commission,
if adopted by the Legislature, would
serve to equalize penalties and define
the difference between felonies and
misdemeanors. The report recom-
mends that all crimes punishable by
a maximum penalty of five or more
years be termed felonies while offens-
es carrying a lesser sentence be class-
ed as misdemeanors.
Realizing robbery is undoubtedly
encouraged in Pennsylvania because
of the comparatively light sentence
which this crime carries, the com-
mission urges that where a convie-
tion is secured for robbery imprison-
ment up to ten years may be imposed.
The need for a new penal code in
Pennsylvania has long been apparent.
There has been practicaily no attempt
to codifying our penal laws since 1860,
Nothing Safe Now.
Irom the Pittsburgh Press.
Now they accuse the cockraoch of
carrying the cancer germ. Rats carry
the bubonic germ. Flies carry the
typhoid germ. Cats and dogs carry
the tubercular germ. Not one darn-
ed companionable thing left in the
house, save the proletariat bedbug,
and they'll find him carrying some-
thing, when ‘hey catch him.
——The Vare—Grundy combina-
tion is already on the run. Harry
Baker has been “unlimbering” his ar-
tillery.
Probably the Governor im-
agines that his Washington party
will reinstate him in popular favor.
! chinery
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Despairing because he could find no
moonshine in jail, John Crozak, of McAdoo,
committed suicide in prison on Monday.
—George B. Stevenson has been elected
president of the board of directors of the
Annie H. Ross library, Lock Haven, to
succeed Reese Kintzing, resigned.
—Warren N. Drum, principal of the
Lock Haven Normal school, has tendered
his resignation as head of the school, to
the trustees. No action has yet been tak-
en on the matter. Mr. Drum has stated
that he intends to go into business in New
York as soon as a man to replace him is
secured.
—Several foxes are seen about the streets
of West Chester, every night, having left
the open country to seek shelter and food.
They are making their homes between
porches and sheds and living on the garb-
age. On frequent occasions they have
been started by hounds in the outskirts
and some lively chases have resulted.
—Margaret Dorsey, Negress, 35 years old,
was burned to death Friday night, in her
home near Leith, Fayette county, as a re-
sult, it is said, of a lighted cigaret ignit-
ing her bed. Pedestrians passing saw
smoke pouring from windows and called
the Uniontown fire department. The wom-
an was dead when the firemen arrived.
The house was damaged to the amount of
several hundred dollars.
—A ring on her right hand probably
saved Miss Mary Jasper, of Manheim,
Lancaster county, from losing her hand.
Miss Jasper, alighting from a P. R. R.
train on Monday, had her hand caught be-
tween two cars. It was necessary te un-
couple the cars before she could be re-
leased. The ring was bent almost flat,
but the girl escaped with nothing more
serious than a bruised hand.
—The Pennsylvania Power and Light
company last Thursday took options on
additional parcels of land at Hummel's
wharf, opposite Sunbury, where, according
to announcement, it will build a $7,000,000
superpower plant. The indications are that
it is seeking rights of way for a railroad
line to Selinsgrove, four miles away. The
prices offered are the largest in the his-
tory of that hamlet, as much as $5,000 an
acre being paid for farm land.
—John William Jones, of Spangler, has
brought suit against Jacob F. Smith, of
the same place, to recover $5,000 as dam-
ages for injuries alleged to have been re-
ceived . because of the negligence of Mr.
Smith. It is claimed that the latter op-
| erates a motion picture house in Spang-
ler and while the plaintiff was in his thea-
tre ‘he fell down an unguarded and im-
properly-lighted stairway, as a result of
which he was severely injured.
—Through a decision of the U. 8. cir-
cuit court “of appeals, in Philadelphia
on Monday, M. J. Dempsey and William
W. Walsh, president and secretary-treas-
urer, respectively, of the Keystone Brew-
ing company, Dunmore, Pa., must go to
jail for six months and each pay a fine of
$1,000 for violating an injunction issued
by Federal Judge Witmer, at Scranton,
Pa., prohibiting them or their corporation
‘from manufacturing or selling high pow-
—The Misses Sarah J. Hellen, sand Mar-
garet Hellen, of Uniontown, Pa. have five
barrels of five-year-old apple brandy.” They
ly. The
was left with the rest of the estate to his
wife, Mrs. Grace E. Hellen. At her death
the liquor was willed to the two daugh-
ters. Under the law an asset of an estate
may not be destroyed and the eighteenth
amendment prohibits the sale of liquor.
—With his arm caught in pumping ma-
chinery of an oil well, crushed to a pulp
above the wrist, Charles Swanson, 50 years
old, of Kane, was held prisoner for an
hour on Monday before aid reached him.
Swanson attempted to cut his mangled arm
off with a pocket knife, but dropped the
knife out of reach. Glen Gorden, attract.
"ed by Swanson’s cries, had to start the ma-
to release the victim. Swanson
walked half a mile to the Kane hospital,
where the arm was amputated, He will
recover.
—Amanda Heisey, for more than twenty
years housekeepeer for the latee Isaac W.
Zug, wealthy retired farmer, banker and
for many years well-known horse dealer,
of Lebanon, has been rewarded for her
faithfulness in the will of the late Mr.
Zug, filed at the court house, at Lebanon,
late Saturday afternoon, when letters tes-
tamentary were granted to Phares 8S.
Nolt. She is to receive a cash reward of
$8,000, and a portion of the furniture. The
estate, according to reports, is valued at
$100,000 and about $35,000 also in personal
property.
—Entering pleas of guilty in court at
Ebensburg, on Monday, to charges of
larceny in connection with the theft of a
$3,300 payroll of the Emmons Coal com-
pany last November 9, Arthur Etienne, for-
mer paymaster of the coal company, and
Arthur Kelly, also of Emmons, were sen-
tenced to pay the costs of the case, make
restitution and serve from one to three
years in the county jail. Etienne told
police at the time of the robbery that he
had been held up by bandits. The pay-
roll with the exception of $300 was recover-
ed by the authorities.
—Prisoners in the Lycoming county jail
in Williamsport, may start in business as
the result of the transfer of Dennis Lewis
| to the jail from the eastern penitentiary,
to which he was sentenced for burglary
and larceny. Lewis was sent to prison
three years ago and while there began the
manufacture of curtain pullers and beads.
As the business grew he began to employ
inmates to work for him. Sheriff Little,
who knew of Lewis’ activities in the pen-
itentiary, has said he is willing to have the
men work for Lewis in the jail, as there
are no established industries in the insti-
tution,
—An attempt to rekindle a stove fire by
pouring oil on the heated coals cost the
life of a woman and the serious burning
of her husband and their daughter early
on Sunday when fire resulted that destroy-
ed their home and two adjoining dwell:
ings at Hillsville, Lawrence county. Mrs:
Annie Sackin, aged 27 years, is declared by
authorities to have poured the oil in a
small heating stove on the second floor of
the home. An explosion resulted and the
woman’s clothing was set ablaze. Her
husband, Andrew Sackin, attracted by her
screams, attempted to rescue her but thé
woman was burned so badly that she died
almost instantly. The husband succeeded
in rescuing ‘their 9 yed#r old ddughter but
both were severely biirned and were re-
moved to a hospital. The Sackin home
and the two adjoining &wellings were de«
stroyed at a loss estimafed at $12,000.
wish to djgpose of it legally and discreet- .
andy, upen the death of Wil-.
liam H. Hellen, . former hotel proprietor, .