ne
INK SLINGS.
—Col. Mitchell and Mrs. Lansdowne
ought to get off the army and navy
long enough to let them come up for
air once in a while.
—We note that the striking anthra-
cite miners have proposed a parley
with the operators on the basis’ of
“give and take.” We all know what
that means: We give and they take.
—After reading the new borough
ordinance on amusement control we
see where a circus exhibiting on a lot
out of town can’t even pass bills on
our streets without paying a license.
—Some Democratic Vares have ap-
parently been discovered in Scranton.
If they really have falsified election
returns up there they ought to be
scourged as terribly as we hope the
Republican Vares of Philadelphia will
be.
—We trust that the Governor’s
committee of Seveny-six will not for-
get to suggest ways and means of
keeping intemperate candidates off
Temperance tickets when it makes its
recommendation of ballot reforms for
Pennsylvania.
—A wink is as good as a nod to a
blind horse. We want to tell our far-
mer friends that the world’s crop of
wheat is three hundred million bush-
els in excess of last year’s. When you
find the market near about a fair price
for your crops, sell.
—Uncle Sam is figuring on making
the “long green” shorter. You will
recall that last week we tried to rec-
oncile ourselves to thoughts of baked
ham or roast chicken for the Christ-
mas dinner, but if Uncle Sam is going
to do this to us we see wienies coming
into the picture distressingly fast.
—As for this aristocratic youngster,
Mr. Kip Rinelander; he made the bed,
why doesn’t he lie in it? The man
who marries a girl or the girl who
marries a man without full knowledge
of his or her antecedents, deserves no
sympathy if they discover afterward
that they have driven their pig to a
poor market.
—“Fighting Bob Evans” sailed the
Oregon around the Horn, Schley took
Santiago while Sampson was “forty
miles away” and Geo. Dewey sank the
Spanish Armada with one shot in Ma-
nilla bay. They were the men of yes-
terday. Those of today are standing,
with hands up, down in Washington,
because a frail little widow is drop-
ping bombs on them every time they
pop a head out of their dug-outs.
—Because he is the Presiding El-
der it was natural that Rev. William
B. Cox should preside gracefully at
the Billy Sunday services on Monday
morning. The Rev. knows all about
“David’s sling-shot” and Rebekah’s’
pitcher but he doesn’t know modern
sports or he wouldn’t have tried to
make us believe that it was a “pig-
skin” that Billy hurled when he was
playing professional ball before he
turncd evangelist.
—Dr. J. M. Yard has just told the
Methodists out at Delaware, Ohio,
that “the United States is the wicked-
est Nation in the world.” He said it
has one-third of the world’s wealth
and that we Methodists are giving
only seventy-five cents per head for
foreign missions. Dr. Yard is located
in Shanghai, China, and, as a matter
of course, he is presumed to know a
lot more about what is going on here
than of the condition China has been
in for the past eighteen years.
—Viscount Grey’s memoirs, just
published under the title “Twenty-five
Years,” reveal the wholly altruistic
purpose of Woodrow Wilson in throw-
ing our arms on the side of the Allies.
While Wilson was motivated wholly
by unselfishness it appears that Eng-
land and France were, in 1916, not so
clean. Then they were thinking of
parceling German territory out be-
tween them. When 1917 came things
were different and they had to beg us
to save England and France from be-
ing gobbled up by Germany.
—Up in Erie, on Tuesday, Oscar T.
Crosby told the League of Women
° Voters that the world is going to fight
us, some day, because of “our uncon-
scious arrogance of conscious wealth.”
We don’t know that Mr. Crosby knows
what he’s talking about but his state-
ment certainly clouded a prospective-
ly bright day for us. Just after read-
ing it we opened a letter from East
Hampton, N. Y., and found a ten Wil-
liam in it that was to pay a subscrip-
tion up to 1930. Well, ten smackers
at one time is something to make any
country newspaper man exude “un-
conscious arrogance of conscious
wealth,” but we froze stiff. We didn’t
exude it, for fear Mr. Crosby would
have the whole world fall on us at
once.
—The Johnstown Democrat, Col.
Warren Worth Bailey’s very able
journal, has taken up the advocacy of
proportional representation. No-
where is there a more practical illus-
tration of its need than right here in
Pennsylvania, where several hundred
thousand Democrats are as utterly
disfranchised as are aliens without
naturalization papers. The State is
overwhelmingly Republican, but it
doesn’t necessarily follow that the
principles of the minority should be
wholly debarred from finding expres-
sion, through gerrymandering the
congressional and senatorial districts
for the benefit of a party already drunk
with power. Proportional representa-
tion would speedily put an end to cor-
rupth nin Pennsylvania politics for it
would give hope of more virility in the
minority party.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
VOL. 70.
Pinchot-Mellon Correspondence Re-
sumed.
The more or less interesting but
somewhat vitriolic correspondence be-
tween Secretary of the Treasury, An-
drew W. Mellon and Governor Gifford |
Pinchot, which served to distract if it |
did not greatly amuse the public mind |
several years ago, has been resumed. |
On or about October 26th, the Gover-
nor addressed the Secretary a letter
of complaint touching the delinquency
of the federal enforcement agencies.
Last week the Secretary replied in
terms of cordial approval of the Gov-
ernor’s plans and assuring co-opera-
tion in so far as they relate to offend-
ing breweries. He inserted a sting in
the tail of his letter, however, and
“there’s the rub.” The Secretary in-
ferentially charges the Governor with
falsifying.
Governor Pinchot always travels
with “a chip on his shoulder” and the
moment he had finished reading the
Secretary’s letter he was ready to re-
ply. “Many thanks for your courte-
ous letter granting my request for co-
operation, made two years ago and re-
cently repeated, and for your assur-
ance that no federal permit will be
granted to breweries that have been
operated unlawfully. Both are good
but they are not enough,” he writes,
and adds. “Breweries are operating
at the present time which have been
caught in repeated violations.” That
might be interpreted as “the retort,
courteous,” but to the average mind
it will seem like “the lie with circum-
stance.” In any event it reveals a
different idea of duty.
The Governor is not satisfied with
the Secretary’s answer in another re- |
spect. The brewers are not the only
offenders against the Volstead law. |
“There is another field in which the
violation of the law has been even
more vicious and far more important
than the breweries,” he says, “I mean
denatured alcohol,” and strangely
enough the Secretary made no refer-
ence to or promises concerning it. The
Governor asks the Secretary to “take
action that will put a stop to these
gross violations of law by holders of
federal permits and I offer you every
the Silite police in so do-
ing.” the Secretary’s reaction
to this challenge will be remains to
be seen. It is really the crux of the
controversy. :
——Pennsylvania might have a
State fair equal to those of the Mid-
dle-west if we could induce the gov-
ernment at Washington to supply
thrilling attractions.
Plenty of Men Willing.
An esteemed Philadelphia contem-
porary, in its issue of last Sunday,
published a list of twelve or fifteen
possible, or probable, candidates for
the Republican nomination for Gover-
nor next year. The list embraced
more or less capable and fit men from
all sections of the State. Thus far
the only declared candidate is former
Governor John K. Tener, but all the
others are being groomed for the race
and some of them may be hopeful. An
attempt was made by the architect to
classify them in relation to the var-
ious factional leaders but there are so
many misfits in the arrangement that
failure is obvious. Even the attempt
to make believe that the race is “free
for all” is palpably futile.
There are no doubt fifteen or twen-
ty, and maybe more, Republicans in
Pennsylvania who would like to be
Governor and are equipped for the
service. Mr. Tener made a fairly good
Governor, though nobody expected
much of him, and former State Sena-
tor Fisher and former Ambassador to
Japan, Cyrus L. Woods, all in the
same section, are fitted by experience
and ability. Secretary of Labor Da-
vis and Lieutenant Governor Davis
are crafty politicians. Former Lieu-
tenant Governor Beidleman is an able
lawyer and an adroit “spell-binder,”
and so on to the end. Each of them
has good qualities and most of them
possess elements of availability that
commands respectful attention.
But the constructor of the list as
well as the friends of the candidates
are “kidding” themselves in imagin-
ing such a free-for-all contest for the
Republican nomination next year.
There will be only two “honest-to-
goodness” candidates for the nomina-
tion. Governor Pinchot will probably
entice some one to run in his interest
as a Senatorial aspirant and the State
machine will select a man to defeat
the Governor’s choice. It will be a
lively fight, will run with undiminish-
ed energy to the end and the chances
are the machine candidate will be sue-
cessful. We wouldn’t undertake, at
this distance from the time of nomi-
nating, to express an opinion as to the
man, but he will be “solid for Mul-
hooly.”
pn tm ——
——The football season will soon
be over and then college students may
be able to give some attention to class
work.
. was somewhat of a spectacle.
Senator Pepper’s Campaign Methods.
Senator Pepper has introduced a
new method of campaigning, accord-
ing to the newspaper reporters who
are accompanying him on his tour of
the State. He has lost faith in the
systems long followed by the prac-
tical politicians. He has discovered
that “spitting in the eye of the bull
dog” brings home little if any bacon,
and that the sounding of trumpets and
beating of drums make no appeal to
the thoughtful mind bent on acquir-
ing knowledge or useful information.
The methods of the politicians lack
ignity and a Senator is the embodi-
ment of dignity. His meetings are in-
formal but intimate contacts with the
men and women of the communities
he favors with his presence.
In the past political campaigning
Meet-
ings were widely advertised and at-
tended with a good deal of energetic
effort. The local party leaders
worked for weeks in advance in prep-
aration. Inducements were offered to
communities to attend, halls engaged
and elaborately decorated and bands
employed. At the time set the candi-
date, usually the principal orator,
walked upon the stage and the band
played “The Conquering Hero Comes,”
while the audience vociferously ac-
claimed the timeliness of the tune. It
was a great event in the political his-
tory of the community. The candi-
date “spoke his piece” and was enthu-
siastically applauded. In a few days
the opposite party repeated the per-
formance and public sentiment was
unchanged.
But Senator Pepper has adopted a
different system. “Brass bands, red
lights and garish trimmings of the
hustings are frowned upon by the
senior Senator in his quest for sup-
port for re-nomination and re-elec-
tion,” writes one of the press corres-
pondents. “Local committees of bus-
iness men, with prominent members of
the State Republican machine dis-
creetly in the background, greet the
Senator at his one-night stands, and
arrange all the details of the rallies.”
Then the Senator comes among those
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 20. 1
Coolidge Has the “Buck.”
{ We shall soon know whether the
i desire for world peace or the pecu-
niary interests of the New England
manufacturers of war materials is the
greater force in Washington. The
plans for a world parley to reduce
armaments, practically agreed upon
by Europe, have been presented to
President Coolidge. If he offers co-
operation it may be assumed that the
desire for enduring world peace pre-
dominates. On the other hand, if he
refuses to aid in the benevolent en-
terprise, on any pretext, it will be
clear that the forces which influenced
the late Senator Lodge, representa-
tive in the Senate of war material
makers, to oppose the ratification of
the covenant of the League of Na-
tions, continues in control.
The plan for a disarmament eonfer-
ence tentatively agreed upon by Eu-
rope embodies a statement “that the
League of Nations is the most efficient
agent to undertake a disarmament
program.” That is the only peg upon
which an objection might be hung. It
would be equivalent to the recogni-
tion of the League, almost an accept-
ance of it, to join in a movement thus
labeled. It is not the intention of
President Coolidge to yield on that
point. In a speech at Bradford, on
Monday, Senator Pepper declared that
“the covenant of the League of Na-
tions cannot be taken seriously,” and
the Senator is presumed to express
the sentiments of the President on
that subject, though they differ on a
minor question.
The New England war material
makers are opposed to any measure
that will put a restraint on markets
for their products. It makes no dif-
ference to them that the last war cost
the civilized world millions of times
the amount of their profits, not to
mention the cost in human lives. It
is of no consequence to them that
another war would be infinitely more
destructive both in treasure and life
than the last conflict. They want
money and the vast profits of the last
war simply increased the -cupidity
which has always been their worst
assembled and refusing to appear on | fault, Neither Coolidge nor Pepper
the stage adresses them on the inti-4 believes ‘that “the a of the
mate terms of equality. But it is not
| exactly an original plan. Pinchot
practiced it three years ago.
—More power to District Attorney
Samuel P. Rotan, of Philadelphia. He
has the chance to make himself a very
big man in Republican politics in
Pennsylvania. And it seems as though
all that is needed is courage.
Ballot Crime in Scranton.
While there is a chance that the ex-
posure of election frauds in Scranton
! and fastening the crime on a Demo-
erat is a “frame-up,” to offset the Phil-
adelphia election scandals, it is a safe
thing to assume that the charge is
well founded and that the Democratic
mischief maker is guilty. Upon that
assumption the machinery of the law
should be set in motion at once to
prosecute and punish the guilty man.
Crimes against the ballot are the most
henious evils it is possible to imagine.
They are attacks upon the basis of
just government. They ought to be
classed as “capital” and punished as
treason and murder are punished.
Elections in Scranton are notorious-
ly corrupt just as all forms of crime
are conspicuously common in that city.
It is a matter of no importance which
party is responsible for the paramount
evil. If Democrats are culpable they
do not reflect the true sentiment or
purpose of the Democratic electorate.
Ballot frauds are not committed in the
interest of party. They are perpetrat-
ed for the selfish advantage of indi-
vidual criminals. The thousand dol-
lars paid to cheat the Republican can-
didate for Mayor of Scranton could
not have promoted, directly or indi-
rectly the interests of the Democrat-
ic party of that city. A Mayor elect-
ed by fraud will be a curse rather than
a benefit to the city in which he lives.
Philadelphia is “corrupt and con-
tented.” Let it enjoy the meretri-
cious distinction which its long contin-
ued political prostitution conveys. But
Democrats should have no part in the
proceeds of crime and the wretch
who deliberately conspired to corrupt
the election in Scranton has commit-
ted an unpardonable crime against
the Democratic party, not only of that
city but of the State. His object was |
not to build up or strengthen the Dem-
ocratic party of Scranton. It was to
lay the foundation of a corrupt ma-
chine in that city which would discred-
it the party there and elsewhere.
Make an odious example of him.
Vice President Dawes is still
fighting the Senate rules. Well Don
Quixote spent a good deal of time
fighting 2 wind-mill with like result.
—— om
——Pinchot may adopt all the po- |
litical issues a futile mind can invent
League of Nations cannot be taken
seriously.” But they are opposed to
it for sinister reasons.
——The Democratic women of Phil-
adelphia are exhibiting one of the ma-
chines used for voting in New York,
to the voters of their home city. It
is an object lesson in honesty, accu-
racy and speed, but it will be a long
time before Philadelphians become
aroused enough to throw out the Vare
machine and put in an honest one.
Wickersham Rebukes Pepper.
An interesting feature of the pro-
ceedings of the State Council of Re-
publican Women in convention at Har-
risburg last week was a brief verbal
encounter between Senator Pepper
and Mr. George W. Wickersham, of
New York, who was Attorney General
in the Taft administration. Both
were on the program of the conven-
tion as speakers and by accident or
otherwise adopted the same theme, the
World Court. Mr. Wickersham spoke
first and generously eulogized the tri-
bunal which had been cordially ap-
proved by two Republican Presidents
and two Republican Secretaries of
State. Senator Pepper declared in fa-
vor of the Court with reservations.
After Senator Pepper had conclud-
ed his speech Mr. Wickersham arose
and said “if the issue comes before
the Senate as ‘adherence or non-ad-
herence,’ I am afraid of the result.
What I fear are the Senatorial efforts
to improve the Court. The Executive
Department has tried for months and
years to get the assurance of the for-
ty-eight nations now members, of res-
ervations that will be acceptable to
them. It finally obtained this assur-
ance. * * * Adherence ought to
come with the reservations we know
will be acceptable; not with reserva-
tions which the Senate thinks ought
to be acceptable but which are ac-
ceptable only in the imagination of
some of these Senators.”
Senator Pepper made no reply to
this view of the subject for the rea-
son, probably, that he recognized the
futility of disputing it. The govern-
ment of the United States is powerful
, but it is not and ought not to be pow-
erful enough to compel the whole
world to bend to the partisan whims
of some hard boiled Republican Sena-
tors. But for this stubborn attitude
of the Senate under the leadership of
the now thoroughly despised Henry
Cabot Lodge the covenant of the
League of Nations would have been
ratified five years ago and both the
i League and the Court of Justice would
| now be functioning to the satisfaction
of the whole world.
———————————
——A good many people are won-
j dering how this country got along be-
but Pepper can see no issue except fore Herbert Hoover butted into pub-
servility to Coolidge.
lic life,
925.
NO. 46.
| Reflection Upon Shenandoah Inquiry.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
The implication of the testimony
‘given by Mrs. Zachary Lansdowne,
widow of the captain of the Shenan-
doah, at the Mitchell court martial,
that an attempt had been made by na-
vy officers to dictate what she should
say before the board of inquiry into
the wrecking of the dirigible, with the
loss of fourteen lives, is plain. It is
that the navy board (to be kept sepa-
rate in thought from the commission
appointed by the President to inquire
into the whole range of questions
raised by the Mitchell charges) was
set to whitewash the higher authori-
ties of the navy, who were accused of
forcing Lansdowne to attempt the
flight against his judgment that the
weather at that time was not suitable.
However, this only brings up that no
department is likely to give itself the
worst of it in an investigation of it-
self if it can avoid it. Hence the val-
ue from the public standpoint of af-
fording an officer like Mitchell, in a
mood to talk out, a full opportunity
to have his say. At the same time the
testimony given by Mrs. Lansdowne
as to the attitude of her husband to-
ward such flights as that to state
fairs, upon which he had been sent, is
highly important, and should be given
due weight.
The public certainly does not want
to be unfair to its navy or to any of
its superiors, but there could be noth-
ing more unfair to the navy or to the
public itself than to permit any facts
in such an inquiry as this to be with-
held or testimony to be doctored. The
best service possible to the navy would,
of course, be to correct any of its poli-
cies shown to be wrong. Justice also
demands that faults of the higher au-
thorities be not laid upon subordi-
nates.
Mrs. Lansdowne is performing not
only her duty to the memory of her
husband in trying to keep blame that
should rest upon others from being
diverted to him, but she is rendering
a service to the public in helping to
force out the facts.
She should be held accordingly in
public regard.
How the War Was Ended.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Colonel E. M. House makes some.
pertinent remarks on “curious
story, which has been told before and
is now revived, that Woodrow Wilson
ended the war, and ended it too soon;
the Allies ought te have refused an
armistice and pushed on to Berlin.
Everybody with half a memory re-
calls that the war could not end too
soon for the exhausted Allies, provid-
ed Germany was disabled. It is also
of record that Marshal Foch was
asked about the advantages of ending
the war then, and he replied that the
terms of the armistice were all that
the Allies would have demanded in
Berlin, and if they could get them
then they would not be justified in sac-
rificing a life by carrying on the war
farther.
Furthermore it was well enough
known then, and is better known now,
that the German army was not de-
stroyed, and it would have offered tre-
mendous resistance in defense of its
own soil. And besides this it was be-
coming difficult to supply the Allied
armies when they approached the
Rhine. Whether the supplies could
have been kept up all the way across
Germany was doubted by some emi-
nent military authorities. Finally,
President Wilson did not end the war;
he only undertook to recommend an
armistice to the Allies, but on terms
which amounted to unconditional sur-
render, and were so understood by
von Hindenburg and von Ludendorff.
The ‘Allies were only too glad to grant
the armistice upon such terms as Mar-
shal Foch drew up.
———— Nv
Mr. Davis and Red Tape.
From the Ohio State Journal.
It is announced that Secretary Da-
vis’s first step toward slashing red
tape in the War Department is the
adoption of a tentative scheme for
maintaining progressive graphic
charts of every element of the de-
partment’s procurement program, and
we suppose it’s our ignorance but it
sounds to us like tying more on with
hard knots instead of slashing it.
ine ly em
Borah as a National Asset.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Senator Borah may be a modest
man, but he gives one the impression
that he feels he is the one and only
man in the country who could do
everything exactly right if he were
President. :
A Suggestion for Scientists.
From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Scientists have begun an investiga-
tion to ascertain the best methods of
improving on sleep. The next step
should be the silencing of automobile
horns tooted by midnight joy-riders.
mma fp A ete ee
Not to Mention Against.
From the Toledo Blade.
“Among our constitutional guaran-
tees which have not been abridged,”
remarked the man on the car, “is our
freedom to vote for what and for
whom we please.”
——— A —————————
——The Wilkes-Barre Record fa-
vors voting machines but not the kind
that operates in Scranton.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The Cambria county Congressional
contest will be to the front when Congress
meets next month, and owing to the fact
that it is the only Pennsylvania seat chal-
lenged, all the rest being Republican, na-
tional attention has been directed to it.
_—Worried over a physician's ultimatum
that he only had two years to live, Ed-
ward Hall, 27 years old, of Shamokin, com-
mitted suicide last Thursday morning.
Before he sent a bullet to his brain he
turned on three gas jets in the kitchen and
locked the doors and windows. ‘2
—Mrs. H. L. Spence, a widow. living
alone near Mt. Carmel church, in the wist-
ern part of Adams county, had everything
ready to boil apple butter, last Friday
morning, the cider being made and the fire
started to begin work when she discovered
that during the night the cider had been
stolen.
—A jury in federal court at Scranton, on
Saturday, returned a verdict of $16,171.75
for the plaintiff in the suit of Oliver F.
Starr, Philadelphia sanitary engineer,
against the borough of Nanticoke, Penn-
sylvania. Starr sued the borough because
he had not been paid for plans he made for
a sewer system in 1919.
—An electric contact formed between
wires of the Pennsylvania Power and Light
company with a metal rain spout on the
home of Harry A. Stahl, of Sunbury, last
Friday, charged the water pipes and other
metal connection until they threatened to
set fire to the home. When discovered the
pipes were already red hot in the kitchen
and bath room and the dwelling quivered.
—Blaming an unsatiated desire for gam-
bling for his downfall, A. Stanley Thomp-
son, 24 years old, of Pittsburgh, pleaded
guilty before Judge Joseph M. Swearing-
en, in criminal court, on Monday, to em-
bezzling $21,195 from the Colonial Trust
company, where he -was employed as a
coupon clerk. He was sentenced to serve
from one and one-half to three years in
the western penitentiary.
—Sunbury police are investigating the
alleged theft of $25,000 worth of jewelry
from the summer home of W. E. Lewis, of
Irish Valley. The jewelry had been taken
to a Shamokin store to be cleaned and was
returned to the Lewis home. Tuesday the
jewels were missing and the Northumber-
land detail of state police notified. The
jewelry included a brooch with twenty-
one diamonds, a platinum dinner-ring set
with thirteen diamonds, and numerous
smaller pieces.
—The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
does not have any money available to pay
the cost of erection of an aerodrome build-
ing offered by Lock Haven citizens to be
built on a plot of ground donated to the
State and the proposition has been declin-
ed by the State Armory Board. Lock Ha-
ven has a troop of cavalry and a local
committee found a building ample to meet
all requirements and provide an armory
could be bought. The money was pledged
and the offer made contingent on the State
paying the cost of erection, estimated at
$2,500.
—Farmers in the Marvin Creek valley,
McKean county, twenty miles east of Kane,
are bothered by black bears, which are so
bold that clearings on some of the farms
are visited almost daily by the animals,
evidently looking for a chance to capture
| sheep. That region has been ravaged by
bears for several years and so many
sheep have been lost that game wardens
are aiding the farmers to get rid of the
pests, and some of the farms are so thick-
ly set with traps that hunters are warned
to keep away lest some of them become
trapped instead of the bears.
“—Bound hand and foot and tied to the
bed with a rope about his neck, Calvin
Hartzell, aged 31 years, of Moyersville,
Lehigh county, was found nearly dead at
his home early Saturday morning by a
posse of policemen from Allentown, who
were summoned by neighbors. A few
hours later Hartzell’s wife and Fred Sny-
der, aged 32 years, of Mine Site, were ar-
rested on charges of having attempted to
strangle the vietim. Hartzell is in a crit-
jcal condition. He would have been dead
within an hour but for the arrival of the
police, doctors said. He told the police
that the assault took place when his wife
and Snyder attempted to remove the fur-
niture from the house.
—Patrolman Charles Bonner, of Phila-
delphia, was seriously injured, on Sunday,
in a fight with John Johnson, a negro,
whom he shot and killed after the negro
had wounded a woman with an ax. Bon-
ner was hurt when the negro hurled a
small coal stove from the second floor
landing as the policeman was charging up
stairs to arrest him. At the same time
Bonner brought Johnson down with a shot
from his pistol and both tumbled to the
bottom of the stairs together. Bonner
dragged the negro out of the house and
collapsed on the steps. Johnson was dead
when he reached the hospital and physi-
cians said they fear Bonner’s skull was
fractured. The woman, Nancy Conn, who
lived at the same house as the negro, was
reported dying as a result of her injuries.
—Paul Nino, of Kingston, Luzerne coun-
ty, proprietor of the Nino Silk company, at
Exeter, was driven in his own automobile
to Harvey's Lake on Saturday, tied to a
tree and robbed of about $2,000, most of
which represented the payroll for his em-
ployees. Nino drew the money from a
bank on Friday and took it home. As he
was about to leave his garage with his car
on Saturday morning, two men appeared
and at the point of pistols compelled him
to get in the rear seat with one of them.
The man drove the car to the lake, twenty
miles away, where Nino's arms were tied
around a tree and the money taken from
him. The robbers, both of whom were
masked, said they would leave his ear in
Kingston. Nino managed to free himself
and notified the police. He said the men
did not attempt to injure him.
—Police are searching for a bandit who
on Sunday night held up and robbed Wil-
liam Brown, Pennsylvania Railroad sta-
tion agent, at Sunbury, of $181. He took
nothing but bills, refusing all coins hand-
ed to him. Only one man was in the sta-
tion at the time and he was sleeping, giv-
ing the bandit plenty of opportunity to de-
mand the money from the station agent.
When Brown called the police they were
listening to a report of an attempted rob-
ery of the ticket agent at the Reading
Railroad station, five blocks away. There,
according to John Hoverter, the agent, the
robber ordered him to open the safe. Ho-
verter said he was unable to do so. The
robber then demanded the contents of the
cash drawer and of the agent's pockets.
Hoverter produced $10 from the drawer
and $5 from his pockets, but the robber
refused to take such a small amount.