—We have balloon tires and bal-
loon trousers. We might have balloon
skirts if there were enough to them to
inflate.
—That Chinese astronomer who in-
sists that the earth stands still is
partially right. That part of it called
China does.
—>So long as circuses are able to get
seats we will know that the forests
have not been entirely denuded of
their hard wood.
—It must be possible to wear out a
strong physique with talking. Mr.
Bryan had to sit while delivering a
lecture in Pottsville a few nights ago.
—Let us hope that Bryan has more
success in his campaign to “save the
world” than he had in the various
ones he inaugurated to save the Dem-
ocratic party. :
——One borough councilman out of
town and three on the sick list did not
leave enough active ones to constitute
‘a quorum, consequently there wasn’t
-any meeting on Monday evening.
—Henry Ford’s peace ark didn’t
get the boys out of the trenches be-
fore Christmas, but that’s no reason
‘why the government shouldn’t sell
him the sea going white elephants it
‘has on its hands.
—Just when we were beginning to
‘think that Mr. Volstead had written
the swan song for jails we come face
to face with the probability of having.
to build them larger in order to ac-
scommodate all the “illegal possession”
-guests.
—The Governor’s veto of the salary
raise for Judges doesn’t seem to have
caused any of the contestants in the
‘Centre county race to change their
minds. Possibly they are thinking of
getting the job first, then getting
.another Governor.
—Governor Pinchot has been deco-
rated with the Roosevelt medal for
“distinguished service to the Ameri-
«can people.” President Coolidge, when
he pinned the medal on Gifford’s chest,
-didn’t state just what the distinguish-
ed service was so we are all left to
decide for ourselves whether he got it
for settling the coal strike or getting
rid of Finegan.
—The blab that is coming out of
Washington because three hundred
and fifty naval vessels, all armed to
the teeth, have blockaded rum row, off
the New.Jersey coast, reminds us of
the early days of the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. Every time one of our capi-
tal ships captured a Spanish fishing
boat in Cuban waters we turned three
‘handsprings and got out an extra
-edition to celebrate the victory.
—Those Penn State students who
rough-housed a poor little traveling 4
“tent Show Monday night have “set
another college record—but one they
have little reason to be proud of. Big
shows, with crews strong enough to
give rowdyism what it deserves, some-
times venture into College towns and
have trouble, but this is the first time
we have ever heard of college boys.
mauling a cripple with its own crutch.
—One assurance we have that the
world is growing better is that we
haven’t seen a Police Gazette in a bar-
ber shop since the women started to
having their hair bobbed. Another is
that there has been no protest from
what is left of the old “blind horse”
‘gang in the West. ward of Bellefonte
to having the polling place for that
precinct transferred from the alley of
half-pints to the basement of a church.
—=Snow Storms in May are very
unusual. That may have been the
reason we were attracted to a store
‘window in town where an imitation
storm is designed to create atmos-
phere for an advertising feature. It
isn’t a bad imitation, at that. The
only criticism we have to make is that
the thread on which the snow flakes
.are pendant is too heavy. It would
have been much more realistic had
the designer used invisible hair like
-ours.
—It seems that nobody is too poor
to have an automobile. A woman who
was begging cast off clothing at a
back door in Bellefonte, a few days
ago, was given such a lot that the
donor was afraid the burden of carry-
ing them home was too great for the
recipients’ strength. When she ex-
pressed her thought the very poor
woman who needed the clothes to
cover her family’s nakedness replied:
“Oh, I've only a little distance to go.
Our automobile is waiting just around
‘the corner.”
—With one sweep of the pencil the
Philipsburg Ledger makes fun of us
for not knowing where Sykesville is.
With another it undertakes to help us
.get into the A geography class by
stating that “Sykesville is in the only
county in this State that is honored
by the name of Jefferson.” With
still another it denies that Sykesville
was taken into the Centre and Clear-
field baseball league because, as we
had hinted, the other teams were look-
ing for something soft. Finally, it
adds insult to its raillery by declaring
that if they had been out for soft op-
ponents they would have made over-
tures to Bellefonte. We ought to
stay in the B. geography class for not
knowing a softer spot to get a rise
out of than the Ledger office. The C
and C. did make overtures to Belle-
fonte and Bellefonte wasn’t soft
enough to go in. That’s that. But
what we want to know is how many
counties in = Pennsylvania does the
Ledger think ought to be “honored by
absence of 4
VOL. 70.
Centralization in Worst Forms.
During last Saturday’s session of
the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, at Philadelphia,
Colonel Oscar T. Crosby, of New
York, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury in the Woodrow Wilson ad-
ministration, gave the audience and
incidentally the public some valuable
information on the subject of foreign
obligations to American bankers.
Ambassador Houghton, in his recent
Pilgrim club speech in London, made
some reference to this subject and
admonished the debtor nations of the
world that unless they did certain
things required by President Coolidge
their credit would be curtailed or cut
off in this country. Colonel Crosby
reminded Mr. Houghton that the gov-
ernment should have nothing to do
with transactions, financial or other-
wise, between American bankers and
foreign creditors, whether govern-
ments or individuals. eis
The speech of Ambassador Hough-
ton meant one of two things. It im-
plied that the administration at Wash-
ington would forbid the loaning of
money or extending credit to Euro-
pean nations or persons unléss the
transaction was first approved by the
administration, or else it ‘meant that
money loaned or credit advanced by
individuals or syndicates in this coun-
try would be collected by forces of
the government in the event of default
in payment. Col.Crosby protested that
either or both of these premises were
revolutionary and unlawful. The ad-
ministration at Washington has no
authority to regulate ‘the business
transactions of citizens of the United
States, and if individuals in their free-
dom of action make bad investments
the administration at Washington has
neither the right nor the power to
enforee> payment, even- “though the
advice had been given.
This is the most dangerous form of
paternalism which has developed in
Washington during recent years, and
all forms of paternalism are haz-
ardous. One of the speakers, a New
York banker named Lisman, had sug-
gested that applications from abroad
for help should be‘ submitted to the
administration for approval and in the
fused. To This proposition Colonel
Crosby replied “it is all very well for
American bankers to. ask advice on
foreign loans but if the government
gives the advice ten years from now
some loan is bound to fail and then
heard of your bond, will be sent out
to be shot in its support.” This is
the truth in a nutshell. It is against
such conditions that the people must
move if they desire to avoid wars or-
ganized to protect banking in busi-
ness.
———————r lp ————
Passing of an Old Newspaper.
The absorption of the Philadelphia
North American by the Public Ledger
is more a triumph of monopoly than
a service to the reading public. There
have been and probably are yet com-
hunities in which too many news-
papers are burdensome to the busi-
ness and reading public. But it may
hardly be assumed that the purpose
of this merger was to correct that
evil, for simultaneously with the
transaction the owners of the merged
property began the publication of an-
other paper. But it removed from
competition a medium of considerable
force and influence which frequently
expressed views on public questions
directly opposite to those held by the
absorbent journal. i
The Philadelphia North American
was the oldest daily newspaper in
that city and probably the oldest in
the country. Its friends and admir-
ers imagined that it was traceable
back to the time of Benjamin Frank-
lin and even claimed that it grew
from a plant established by that il-
lustrious philanthropist, statesman
and printer. In any event it existed
under one name or another for more
than a hundred years as a daily news-
paper and it may safely be said that
during the last period if its existence
it enjoyed a more vigorous life and
exercised a larger influence on the
public mind than at any previous per-
iod. It certainly revealed no sign of
“infirmity of age.”
The owner of the Philadelphia Pub-
lic Ledger seems to be fostering an
ambition to monopolize the newspaper
service of that city. With the new
daily publication started on Tuesday
morning he has control of three of the
six daily newspapers in the city be-
sides a number of monthly, weekly
and class Publications in Philadelphia
and New York. Possibly he is influ-
enced by the opportunities for profit
which this control affords. But there
is a suspicion that the desire for
monopoly is responsible in part at
least for his aequisitions. Happily he
is not likely to extend his holdings in
Philadelphia by further acquisitions.
ithe name of Jefferson?”
The other three daily papers there are
‘beyond his reach. :
some boy in Kansas who has never | Congres bok foo les bide
‘STATE RIGHTS AN
Handing an Olive Branch to Vare. |
Senator Pepper, like the late Mr.
Barkus, “is willin’”, but timid.
Pursuant to announcement of Senator
Reed, on his return from Europe last
week, the two Senators and chairman
Baker held a conference in Philadel-
phia last Saturday. Senator Reed
urged his colleague to make prompt
and positive declaration of his can-
didacy for re-election. Senator Pepper
adopted the opposite view of the sub-
ject. He admitted that he is a candi-
date and expressed the belief that
everybody knows he is a candidate.
But he questioned the expediency of
public announcement of the fact. In
other words, he imagines that the
few months that will intervene be-
tween now and next spring may be
used to better purpose in negotiations.
Senator Reed is of the opinion that
Congressman Vare is of no conse-
quence in the existing conditions.
Outside’ of Philadelphia he has no in-
fluence and little strength. Senator
Pepper concurs in this opinion in so
far as it relates.to securing votes for}
Senator. But in Philadelphia he is a
potent figure and has power to throw
a vast number of votes to any candi-
date he favors. For that reason Mr.
Pepper proposes to conciliate him, if
possible, rather than enrage
him. In obedience to this notion Mr.
Pepper proposes to delay public an-
nouncement of his candidacy until
after Mr, Vare’s return from Europe
and a conference is held. Such recog-
nition of Vare might secure the float-
ing vote. of Philadelphia.
As the Watchman has heretofore
suggested, there is a good deal of
uncertainty concerning the alignments
and attachments of the leading Re-
publicans in Pennsylvania. For ex-
ample, if Vare and Grundy should
support Pinchet for Senator:against’
Pepper there would’ be plenty of room
for doubt as to the result of the poll.
Pinchot has the “ultra dry” vote se-
curely “wrapped up” and Magee, of |
Pittsburgh, and Vare, of Philadelphia,
are able to hand him a considerable
block of the “wet” element, For this
reason Mr. Pepper is reluctant to take
any step that might influence Vare
would “take the bull by the horns”
after the Penrose fashion.
——The death of Senator Spencer,
of Missouri, will not impair. the Re-
publican majority in that branch: of.
that State at the next election.
Dr. Haas to Head the Schools.
There are few reasons for criticism
and many for praise of the appoint-
ment of Dr. Francis B. Haas to the of-
fice of Superintendent of Public In-
struction, which was announced by
Governor Pinchot on Monday. He is
an experienced educator, a capable ad-
ministrator and was recommended for
appointment by the State Eudecational
association. He began teaching in his
native city, Philadelphia, in 1906, im-
mediately after his graduation from
the School of Pedagogy. In 1920 he
entered the State Department as as-
sistant director of the teachers’ bu-
reau. In 1922 he was promoted to di-
rector of the administration bureau
and in 1924 was advanced to the office
of Deputy Superintendent.
In this continued service in the
schools of the State Dr. Haas fulfilled
every obligation in full, and with
credit to himself. As teacher, district
superintendent of schools or business
manager of the State Department he
was equally efficient. When Dr. Becht
became an invalid last fall a large
part of his work devolved upon Dr.
Haas and he met every requirement,
and as Governor Pinchot states, “his
contact with the Legislature during
the last session has made it clear that
he is eminently qualified to carry on
that important portion of the work of
the department which deals with leg-
islation and appropriations.” No
doubt this experience had influence in
commending him to the favor of the
Governor.
Since Dr. Finegan came from New
York to administer the school code of
Pennsylvania there has been little
change in the policies of the Depart-
ment of Public Instruction. The code
made for centralization and Dr. Fine-
gan was in entire sympathy with its
provisions. His successor in office,
Dr. Becht, introduced no material
changes in practices. If what Gover-
nor Pinchot says on the subject is
true, the installation of Dr. Haas will
bring changes. “There will be the
minimum of friction in this field,” the
Governor states, “because Dr. Haas
believes thoroughly with me in the
decentralization of school work and in
local initiative and home rule.” It
may well be hoped this will work an
improvement.
——— Ay t—
——It is now known exactly who
won the world war. Rear Admiral
fluenced by
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 22. 1925.
Attacking the Two-third Rule.
- If there were even a hopeful chance
of success in ‘his enterprise the an-
nouncement that Mr. William G. Me-
Adoo is now in Washington for the’
purpose of organizing a movement to
abrogate the rule of the Democratic
National committee which requires a
two-third vote of the National con-
vention to nominate a candidate for
President, it would be a matter of con-
siderable importance. The rule is over
a hundred years old and a custom of
that antiquity is hard to up-root. It
was adopted for what were consider-
ed good reasons and has withstood
many attacks. The proceedings of
the New York convention of last year
have stimulated opposition to it and is
probably responsible for the present
mevement.
The “two-thirds rule,” as it is called,
has merits as well as faults. It made
Woodrow Wilson the nominee of the
party, and incidentally gave the coun-
try one of the greatest Presidents in
1912. If it had not been in force in
the Baltimore convention Champ
Clark would have been nominated and
the party might have been defeated
that year. On the other hand it pre-
vented the nomination of Stephen A.
Douglas at the Baltimore convention
of 1860 and the election of Abraham
Lingoln, which followed, gave the Re-
publican party a foothold in authority
hieh it held without interruption for
more than thirty years. Possibly
another candidate might have been
nominated last year under a majority
e but not a fitter one. 2
ajority rule is a fundamental
principle of Democracy, but for rea-
sons which may only be measured by
conjecture the two-thirds rule was
adopted by the founders of the party
and it seemed to them not only wise
but just. - Conditions have changed
since then, however, and possibly the’
abrogation of the rule would have a
harmonizing influence on the party.
itating the subject and this is as
a time as any to give it considera
On the eve of a convention, or at a
time when candidates are laying
liies to control a nomination, impar-
-could hardly be secur-
In any event there is no harm in ag-
on.
the highest motives and
hope he: will persist.
—T, J. -Smull, of Mackeyville,
will celebrate his 91st birthday anni-
.versary on Sunday. Born in Brush
valley, Centre county, in 1834, he nat-
urally was a Democrat and for this
reason his parents named him Thom-
as Jefferson and the tradition has
clung to him ever since. Seventy-six
years ago he left Brushvalley and lo-
cated at Mackeyville, where for three
quarters of a century he has been
among the town’s best citizens. In fact
nothing was ever done or transpired
in Nittany valley that had anything
of good in it that Mr. Smull was not
identified with in some way. He was
one of the leading spirits in the or-
ganization of the Centre-Clinton coun-
ties business men’s ‘association years
ago and could always be depended up-
on for a spirited talk at the annual
picnics at Heecla park. - His many
friends will be glad to know that he is
enjoying splendid ‘health and is still
interested in the welfare of his home
community. ? : Eu
——Heavy frosts prevailed on both
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings of
this week, but we have had so many
of them this spring that all kinds of
vegetation ought to be frost-proof by
this. time.
——The Atlantic rum fleet has
practically disappeared and wet goods
landed on the Pacific slope have a
long and rocky road to travel before
they reach Pennsylvania.
——Everybody takes a shot at. the
farmers. Baseball commissioner Lan-
dis has put a partial embargo on the
“farming” operations of the big
league managers.
—————— ee ———————
——The success of the recent thor-
ough-bred sale at Lexington, Ken-
tucky, refutes the idea that horses
are going out of the life of the coun-
try.
——It may be merely a coincidence
but the fact is that as soon as Corne-
lia got away on a trip to Europe Gif-
ford began arranging for a vacation.
—— c——— fp re a—————————
—It is to be hoped that Henry
Ford’s offer to buy ships will not pro-
voke as much discussion as his offer
to take over Muscle Shoals.
———————— pp ————————
——It looks as if Von Hindenberg
will disappoint everybody except those
who hope for peace and prosperity of
the German Republic.
———————— A ——
——Whatever else may be said for
or against Gifford Pinchot it must be
Fiske “owns the soft impeachment.”
Sein
admitted that he has set a high rec-
ord for vetoes.
is in.
Bios-opsis.
Fades the rose and falls the leaf—
Would you have no flower or tree?
Though our life seems all too brief
Better ’tis than not to be.
Life is good: ’tis worth the while
To behold the sky's parade, d
Evening’s veil and morning’s smile,
Endless fugue of light and shade.
Worth the while by stabs of pain
To be roused to consciousness;
Truth and virtue to attain
Through the spirit’s storm and stress.
Precious is the welcome shining
From the face of friend and brother;
Priceless is the love entwining ;
Heart of child with heart of mother.
Painless, deathless,—man would move
Like a soulless, sad machine;
Worse than Wandering. Jew he'd prove;
Love would leave the earth, I ween.
Life with death is ever blending
In a pauseless onward wave; :
Life is good, e'en though its ending
Be the silence of the grave. z
C. C. ZIEGLER.
—— ees
Perseverance of Women Voters.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
There is a significant feature in the
announcement of the program for dis.
cussion at the meeting of the Western
Pennsylvania members of the League
of Women Voters to be held in Beaver
June 11. It is that arrangements will
be considered for a survey of the cost
of county and other local taxation for
a renewed effort to change laws:
for the assessment and collection of
taxs. A renewed effort. That Shin
of .perseverance is one of the.
that singularly appears to have been
overlooked in most of the learned at-.
tempts of masculinity to analyze the
feminine vote, . We hear repeatedly.
that the women are such novices in
politics that they appear. to be getting
nowhere; that their influe
political field is negligible.’
that ‘their force has a :
‘in politics ie extent expec gd. t
give them time—as 7 a husband
and father will Tot
home affairs, CHT
It is true’
The Pennsylvania League
en Voters apparently was nr 0S!
iously defeated in Bs
recent session of the Lagis
obtain revision of e Teo
sures of local tax; hee wre.
T. 7 2 fou votes for its profess. Th
Tax Collectors’ Associat
rs’ Association omen.
tarily permitted itself to believe that
that was the last that would be heard
of the reform program of the women
voters.
Scarcely had the 1925 session end-
ed, however, until we heard of the re-
sumption of activities of the women’s
league for the cause of tax revision,
The 1927 session will find the same
demand before it as was presented to
that of 1925. A still more thorough
survey of the subject will be made
and the educational campaign for it
conducted with more vigor.
It is a reminder that among the
things that women do not appear to
know is when they're defeated. Sur-
render is a terry that does not seem
in such instances as this to be within
their ken. Regularly for something
like 50 years they were defeated in
‘heir campaign for woman suffrage.
Then one day it dawned that they had
won.
The Pennsylvania tax barons might
as well yield gracefully while they
may.
They have drawn upon themselves
the opposition of a force of voters who
will keep on fighting along the same
line for 50 years or more, if necessary
—who will never stop until they have
won. ;
Distorting Mexican History,
From the Philadelphia Record.
. Admiral Fiske and Secretary Dan-
iels did not get on well together in
the Navy Department, and this threw
upon the admiral the entire burden of
saving the country and winning the
world war. He has admitted that he
did it, but it over-worked him, and he
does not feel kindly toward the Wil-
son administration. This explains his
amusing account of the relations of
Mr. Wilson to Mexico’s decade of law-
lessness, which touched the facts of
the case occasionally, at considerable
intervals.
The Madero revolution oceurred
while Mr. Taft was President. An-
other revolution overthrew Madero,
put him in prison and assassinated
him. President Taft had already con-
centrated all the available regular
troops on the Mexican border, and he
left to his successor, who was to be-
come President in a few days, the task
of recognizing or rejecting the gov-
ernment of the man whose duty it was
to protect Madero, who was under
strong suspicion of conniving at the
assassination, and who was the chief
beneficiary of it.
Beyond refusing to recognize Hu-
erta President Wilson took no part in
Mexican politics, He was ready to
recognize any government that had a
colorable title, and he recognized Car-
ranza as promptly as he decently
could. He would not recognize a man
who was President by virtue of a mur-
der, his complicity in which was
strongly suspected.
——President Coolidge paid a mild
complinient to Governor Pinchot the
other day in bestowing the Roosevelt
medal but itis’ suspected ‘that the
honeyed words concealed: 4 mental
reservation.
lence in the:
- —Cecil Kerr,
‘| Arcadia, Allegheny county, was fined $300
EEE eens remem
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
« KE ——— 4 Cia
—Six motor vehicles confiscated by the
Police while being used in rum running
were sold at the Hollidaysburg jail last
week for $137. i 5 7
—Declaring he had been unable to sleep
for three weeks, Thomas Reught, 32 years
of age, walked into police headquarters at
Pittsburgh, last Thursday, and confessed
to the robbery of $5,000 worth of diamonds
from the jewelry store of M. Saunders at
New Kensington, three years ago.
—The plant and equipment of the Com-
mercial Drop Forge company was sold at
Warren on Tuesday, by the receiver, Har-
ry D. Kopf ,to W. W. Beaty for $50, sub-
ject to a mortgage of $100,000 held by the
Warren savings bank and trust company,
$60,000 and accrued interest being still out-
standing.
—Posing as a solicitor for a local volun-
teer fire company and soliciting advertise-
ments for a card bearing the fire alarm
signals, a stranger on Monday swindled
Cresson business and professional men out
of sums varying from three to twenty dol-
lars, the total being estimated at between
$125 and $150.
ed to the ground about 3 o'clock Saturday
morning in what is believed to have been
an incendiary blaze. The loss will reach
about $3,000. All the instruments of Ma-
ler’s band and a valuable piano were lost.
Owing to the fact that there is no water
in that section the fire companies were not
called. te 3
—Buried alive when a large quantity of
earth fell upon him while he was working
in a new sanitary sewer trench at Johns-
town, George McKeam, 60 years old, died
shortly after being extricated by fellow
workmen on Saturday afternoon. He was
buried only a brief time and it is believed
that death resulted from shock rather thao
suffocation. : :
—Notice of the arrest of Ralph I. Orr,
treasurer of the Home Trust company, of
New Castle, charged with misappropria-
tion of funds, was announced on Saturday
at the Department of Banking. A depart-
ment examiner reported discovery of a
shortage of about $75,000 in his accounts.
The bank was not affected as complete res-
titution was made.
—S8eeing a light in his big garage at 11
o’clock last Friday night, Thomas McEl-
wee, of Mount Carmel, went to the main
door, to be informed by some ome inside
that the door was locked. He then went
around the corner to climb in a windew
and was hit by the lookout man of the
thieves, and when he awoke an hour later
[found a large quantity of his tools had
been stolen. .
—As a reesult of a gun battle in a
shanty eccupied by five miners, two miles
southeast of Stoyestown, George Lyton,
aged 60 years, was shot through the head
and killed; John Harness, aged 45 years,
was ‘shot through the neck, and Pete Boy-
cick, aged 35 years, was shot through the
:| face, the bullet lodging in the right shoul-
der. Harness will die. John Selesky and
Michael Oliskey, were arrested. }
formerly postmaster at
by Judge F. P. Schoonmaker, in United
| States district court at Pittsburgh, on Sat-
‘urday, after Kerr pleaded guilty to em-
bezzling $1,072.28 of postal funds. He was
{also paroled for two years. E. J. Galla-
re | gher, a postoffice inspector of the Arcadia
Was appointed parole officer, The
fine was ordered paid on a basis of $12.50
monthly.
.—Mrs. Lulu Williams is in a serious
condition in a Washington, Pa., hospital
from stab wounds inflicted by her drink-
crazed jealous spouse, Arthur Williams,
on Sunday night in the presence of Mrs.
Donna Lee, her sister, and Charles Struth-
ers, who are held as material witnesses.
Williams is held in jail without bail,
awaiting the outcome of his wife’s in-
juries. It required 196 stitches to close
the wounds.
—Warren Henderson has been dismissed
from the position of postmaster at West
Downingtown because of his political uac-
tivities and a commission has been given
to Howard E. Harvey, a world war veter-
an, who took charge of the office on Mon-
day. The dismissal of Henderson followed
his announcement that he is a candidate
for the Republican nomination for county
controller at the next primary. He has
been a worker for the party for several
years.
—Newton H. Drake, of Lake Wesauking,
near Towanda, received fatal injuries last
Thursday when he was gored by a four
year old bull in the barn yard of the farm
where he was born and spent his entire
life. Tuesday of last week he celebrated
his sixty-sixth birthday and. his fortieth
wedding anniversary. Drake went, to water
the bull and was preparing to take it from
the stable when it rammed its horps
through him, piereing his heart. A few
moments later he was found dead hy a
farm hand. 13 ‘
—Roy Diamond, of Annville, on Monday
pleaded guilty to sending twelve hacksaw
blades to Mrs. Steve Bradley to deliver to
Philip A. Hartman convicted of first de-
gree murder for the slaying of Trooper
Francis L. Haley, and now confined in the
Adams county jail. Hartman planned to
saw his way out of the prison. Instead of
delivering the saws, the woman turned
them over to Sheriff Shealer. Diamond
was sentenced by Judge McPherson to the
eastern penitentiary for not less than one
year nor more than two years for conspir-
acy.
—Experts from the Pottsville Depart-
ment of Public Safety were astonished on
Saturday at the pranks played by light-
ning in a storm at Branchdale Friday
night. They reported to Mayor Bearstler
that a bolt lifted the roof off the residence
of Edward Gehris, bulged out the side of
his home and twisted and broke up nearly
all the furniture, but left the occupants
unhurt. The investigation showed _that
lightning has been striking close to the
same spot at Branchdale for years, and an
effort is being made to learn what is the
attraction, a
—The judges who presided at the trial
of charges against Sheriff John W. Norris,
of Cameron county, in J. anuary, on Saturday
handed down decisions in which petitions
for new trial were refused. Sentence was
immediately imposed upon the defendant.
Judge Alfred Smith, of Montrose, Susque-
hanna county, before whom Norris‘ was
tried and convicted of gross ‘negligence
and of wilfully permitting a prisoner to
escape, sentenced Norris to from two to
four years in the western penitentiary, and
a fine of $500 and the costs. Judge J.
Franklin Graff, of Kittanning, before
whom Norris had been convicted of extor-
tion, imposed a sentence of from one to
two years in the penitentiary.
—The Morrisdale Ftalian hall was burn-.
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