Bemus itd.
Tay NEE SLINGS.
——The “Irishman’s | s flea” has nothing
on a French Cabinet.
—Isn’t it funny! The people who
can best afford to buy coal run off to
Florida for the winter. : :
—State’s football schedule for next
year is a good one. Let us hope her
team will be equally as good.
—Football is over but college boys
have basket ball, wrestling and box-
ing to study before spring sports open
up. .
——Possibly France might borrow
General Butler to run its government
and thus save Philadelphia from much
anxiety.
—Every time we get the notion that
Indian summer has at last arrived it
blows up cold and we lose hope of get-
ting any at all.
—Many a Centre county pig went
into the scalding trough yesterday,
thus ending its chance to make more
of a hog of itself.
—So completely was Thanksgiving
observed that the streets of Bellefonte
showed less activity yesterday than
they usually do on Sunday.
——Scranton’s electoral scandals
haven’t attained the proportions of the
Philadelphia variety, but Scranton is
a comparatively small city.
An electric light company in
western Pennsylvania has applied to
court for permission to reduce rates.
This may be a false report.
——A blanket decision forbidding
interference with the machine, consti-
tution or no constitution, would re-
lieve the minds of many party lead-
ers.
——The Italian debt commission
had no trouble in coming to an agree-
ment with Washington. The Italian
vote in this country is large and in-
creasing.
—This is the season of the year
when one is likely to read paragraphs
like this: Erastus Whimple came
down from Somewhere last week to
help with the butchering of his par-
ents.
—Texas is still after Governor
“Ma” Ferguson and if they impeach
her one of the Ferguson kids should
enter the next gubernatorial race with
a platform of vindication for both
£6 a” and “Ma.” -
—The Supreme court of Pennsylva-
nia has ruled that there are some
things that even Governor Pinchot
can’t do. One of them is fire mem-
bers of the Public Service Commission
without preferring charges. When
Messrs. Benn and Shelby get through
thumbing their noses at Gifford hell]
probably be feeling like firing the Su-
preme court.
—“Red” Grange has given up his
amateur status for that of a profes-
sional football player. As an ama-
teur, the Wheaton, Ill., iceman might
have been an iceman all the rest of his
life, while for six professional games
he stands to take down one hundred
thousand dollars. Besides, what did
“Red” go to college for? Wasn't it
to learn football ?
—Do us a favor. After reading
this paragraph look at the label on
your paper. On it you will find your
name, the month and year to which
your subscription is paid. If it is
somewhere back of 1925 do us another
favor. Send us a check or something
with which to pay for the paper, ink
and time we have given to supplying
you with what an appreciative reader
yesterday called “the best little old
home-town paper there ever was.”
—The committee of Seventy-six to
suggest changes in the election laws
has reported progress, by making
twelve recommendations. Among
them: is one designed ‘to correct the
abuse of the right of a voter to call
for assistance in marking his ballot.
This has long been a loephole for de-
bauching of the ballot and when it is
made less easy for the person” who
sells his vote to call the buyer or his
agent in to see delivery “of the goods
there will be less inclination to buy.
Twelve and one-half cents out of
every dollar you earned in 1924 was
taken for taxes of some sort or other.
Taxes have doubled since 1913 and are
likely to go higher and higher as the
public demand for governmental med-
dling in everything grows. Every
phase of human . activity, the flora
and fauna, the minerals, “oils, rock,
dirt and water of the country’are in
the hand of bureaus, commissions,
inspectors, investigators and snoop-
ers who must be paid. The army in-
creases daily and will’ continue so to
do up to the very moment that the
country wakens up and declares itself
able to'get on without so much offi-
cial meddling.
—Personally we are of the opinion
that neither the President nor the
Governor will be serving a good pur-
pose by interfering in the anthracite
strike. For years the miners have
made it a practice of quitting work
just at the time coal is most needed.
They use the public discomfort as a
club to'beat the operators into revis-
ing wage scales upwards and granting
other costly concessions which are
paid for through higher coal prices.
If there is official interference now
there'll be another strike next fall.
The public is greatly discommoded by
inability to get anthracite but it is get- |
ting used to it and for its own future
comfort it ought to keep its feelings
repressed until miner and operator
have fought it out to the point where
they can get together and ge back to
work,
Demonic
VOL. 70.
STATE RIGHTS AND J IFEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER _27. 1925.
Hope for Ballot Reform Legislation. Dastardly Attempt to Defeat Justice.
The sub-committee of the committee
of Seventy-six, recently appointed by
the Governor to suggest legislation to
prevent ballot pollution inthe future,
reported to the full committee at a
meeting held in the Executive man-
sion, Harrisburg, on Monday. The
sub-committee recommended eight
changes in the existing election laws
and the full committee unanimously
accepted the report. It makes open-
ing of ballot boxes on petition manda-
tory; prohibits assistance to voters
unless physically incapable; requires
the computing of returns immediately
after the polls close; prompt return of
boxes to the prothonotary; the use of
voting machines where desired, if con-
stitutional; permanent registration
and jail for violators of election laws.
In conclusion the committee declar-
ed “we believe that the changes sug-
gested should be made without delay.”
That is equivalent to urging an extra
session of the Legislature and prac-
tically removes all doubts on that
question. It is generally believed that
the Governor has been inclined that
way and the moral support afforded in
the recommendation of this commit-
tee, composed of unselfish and right-
thinking men and women, will influ-
ence him to favorable action. If it
will result in the correction of the
evil which has made Pennsylvania an
object of popular scorn throughout
the country, Governor Pinchot will
have performed a greater service to
public and political morals than any
other citizen of the State within a
generation.
There are other subjects of legisla-
tion urgently needed at this time but
we sincerely hope the Governor will
limit the work of the body in his call
to the single purpose of improving the
election laws. The court, which on
Monday nullified a provision of the
constitution to serve the purposes of
the political machine, ought to be re-
buked by legislation: but that matter
may well wait a regular session. En-
forcement legislation should be enact-
ed or the provisions o the prohibition
lay oii, elay of. a few
ill Nt deer much harm i in that
soil If fraudulent voting is
prevented in.the future, as it may be
if an extra session is devoted to that
purpose, the other reforms will come
in due time, for the corrupt machine
will be destroyed.
——Boss Vare is probably dividing
his mental energies between consider-
ation of the committee of Seventy-six
and the activities of district attorney
Rotan.
New Booms for the Governor.
Probably the weakest false pretense
thus far revealed by the opponents of
Governor Pinchet, in the campaign for
the Republican nomination for United
States Senator next year, is expressed
in the statement that “he has lost
caste among the agricultural interests
of the State; that his strength among
the farmers and small town workers
is less potent than he and his associ-
ates estimated it to be.” This opinion
is based upon the fact that Mr. Fred-
erick Rasmussen has been made chair-
man of Senator Pepper's campaign
committee and Miss Alice M. Bently,
representative in the General Assem-
bly for Crawford county, is a member
of that committee. Both have been
identified with ‘the activities of far-
mers.
Mr. Rasmuissh was Secretary of
Agriculture during the administration
of Governor Sproul and probably
shares with other members of that ad-
ministration in a feeling of resent-
ment against Governor Pinchot's
somewhat severe criticism of the
Sproul policies and practices. © Miss
Bentley is a rdther “straight-laced”
regular Republican, and possibly en-
tertains some feeling against the Gov-
ernor because of his attitude toward
some of the leading party IEnages
in western Penngylvania.
In the light of these facts it is not
surprising that they should be aligned
with the Republican machine in a con-
test which may involve the life of the
faction now dominant in the party.
But it doesn’t indicate a waning of
the Governor’s strength “among the
farmers and small town workers.” On
the contrary all’ signs point to a ma-
taerial increase’ in the Governor's
strength in those quarters and every
recent act of the machine has contrib-
uted fuel to the fire of enthusiasm in
his behalf. The Governor’s recent
tour of the State, though incomplete,
and the recent déeision of the Supreme
court nullifying the constitution in or-
der to reinstate’ Public Service Com-
missioners, deposed, are new booms.
. ——————————————
——The Sesqui may not reach the
proportions dreamed of by the late
| John Wanamaker but it will be big
enough to serve the purpose.
—— enn
——Probably cold weather came
|
1
In the military court trial of Colo-
nel William Mitchell, for insubordina-
tion, now in progress in Washington,
some surprising evidence has been
brought out and some curious results
followed. For example, Mrs. Lans-
downe, widow of the late lamented
victim of the Shenandoah disaster,
testified that one Captain Foley, sec-
‘retary of the Secretary of the Navy,
visited her home and after urging her
to modify her testimony before the
court offered her a written statement
to be sworn to as her testimony in the
case. Captain Foley was subsequent-
ly cited before the court and upon the
ground that naval regulations requir-
ed him to ascertain in advance what
witnesses would swear to he was ex-
culpated.
If the act of Captain Foley can be
labelled at all it should be classed as
“subornation of perjury.” An at-
tempt of that kind upon a woman in
the mental anguish of recent bereave-
ment was a dastardly effort to defeat
justice, and any court, civil or mili-
tary, influenced by principles of right,
would not only have condemned him
as a cowardly miscreant but would
have haled him before whatever tri-
bunal that had jurisdiction, for imme-
diate trial and severe punishment.
But in the anxiety of the existing
court to find Colonel Mitchell guilty of
something, this slavish instrument of
a cruel organization was justified and
the helpless victim of conspiracy prac-
tically condemned as a perjurer.
It ought not to be difficult to con-
vict Colonel Mitchell of insubordina-
tion. He admits it frankly and freely.
But he justifies it on the ground that
it was “for the good of the service”
as well as a duty to the country. Near-
ly all the evidence has been in support
of this claim. Every witness who un-
derstands the subject corroborated his
criticism of the administration. Every
practical “flying man” in or out of the
service expressed the same estimate
of the inefficiency of the equipment
and incapacity of those in control of
it. Maybe it is insubordination to in-
form the. public of facts in relation to
national defences but “you can’t fool
all the people all the time” and there
will be a reckoning. 7
——Boston merchants are offering
“parking space” to customers free.
In some cities such a policy would re-
quire large investments in real estate.
Good Advice to Democrats.
Mr. Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, for-
merly chairman: of the Democratic
National committee, and William A.
Oldfield, present chairman of the
Democratic Congressional committee,
have joined in an appeal to the Demo-
crats of the country to return to the
fundamental principles of the party
and leave the isms and phobies the
leaders have been pursuing in recent
years alone. They point out that up-
on the issue of “tariff for revenue
only” four Presidential elections have
been carried and majorities secured in
‘eight Congresses within the last half |
century, “and urge that ignoring all
side issues the coming campaign for
Congress and President be’ predicated
upon the tariff question.
This seems to us sound advice. No
subject touches the people so intimate='|
ly as the excessive tariff taxes. Under:
the - existing law the people of the
United States are compelled to "pay
from two to three billion dollars an-
nually, of which less than a million
finds its way into the treasury. On
every article of wearing appatel pur-
‘chased the consumer pays a tax of |
from thirty-five to sixty per cent., and
the charge runs whether the commodi-
ty is produced ‘at home or in foreign
fields of industry.
return for generous contributions to
‘the campaign fund of the dominant |
party.
Compared with this burden upon
the consuming public the income tax
Of course under the exist- |
is a trifle.
ing income tax law the man or woman
who receives large incomes pays in
proportion to the
ocratic party is now and always has |
been the friend of the common people, |
and if the voters of that element of
the population are fully informed as
to the facts they will give their sup-
port to the party that benefits them.
We hope, herefore, that the advice of.
Mr. Hull and Mr. Oldfield will be fol-
lowed in the future. It will restore
the government to the people.
Maybe Pinchot will be too busy
to meet Secretary Mellon until after |
the nomination for Senator next May.
But Mellon won't care.
pe frisbee
——Whoever happens to become
early this year as a protest against | Mayor of Scranton will look ashamed
the anthracite strike.
1 if he is in any way sensitive.
If domestic pro--
duction the price is fixed on a level |
to cover the tax levy and the increas-
‘ed profit goes to the manufacturer’in
income, and the :
‘wage earner is comparatively favored. |
‘But in the tariff tax the favor is all
on the side of the wealthy. The Dem- |
~ Important Office Created.
A new office has been created in
Washington, though in the absence of
full information it is impossible to de-
fmine whether it is in the interest
of economy or otherwise. The title of
the new official is “assistant to the as-
sistant Secretary of State as in charge
of the office of ceremonials for the
White House and Department of
State,” for brevity or convenience des-
ignated “ceremonial officer” and offi-
cially known as “Foreign Service Offi-
cer No. 4” He will have desks
both in the White House and in the
State Department. His duties will be
“preparation for all State entertain-
ments and for the reception of all for-
eign Envoys” at the White House and '
adviser as to forms at the State De- |
partment.
For these important services Mr. J.
Pierpont Moffit, of New York, “mem-
ber of that exclusive group of young
diplomats known as ‘career’ men ”
has been chosen. He graduated from
Harvard in 1917. According to news-
paper gossip he “came from a wealthy
and distinguished New York family,
and, though not yet 30 years old, is
possessed of all the charm and savoir
faire of the man of the world and the
trained diplomat.” Obviously he is
“the right man in the right place” and
will do credit not only to the social
life of the White House but to the fine
discrimination of the President in the
exercise of his prerogative of select-
ing public officials. An ordinary clod-
hopper would have been an anachron-
ism at the job.
The office of ceremonial officer is a
development of the office of social sec-
retary originated during the Roosevelt
administration when the social obliga-
tions of the first lady of the land be-
came too onerous and Mrs. Roosevelt
appointed a capable young lady as so-
cial secretary. The custom was fol-
lowed by her successors in the White
House until the increased social bur-
dens compelled Mrs. Coolidge to em-
ploy two secretaries, the second being
styled private secretary. Since the
close of the world war official ceremo-
#ia:s have - so increased that it was
deemed expedient to create the new
office and the occupant “will ocupy a
similar position to that of “chamber-
lain to the court of a King.”
——Any way Mr. J. E. B. Cunning-
ham is a good lawyer and a decent
citizen and his election to the Super-
ior court bench will do no harm.
Hard Coal Supply in Bellefonte
Practically Exhausted.
Not since the stringent days of the
world war has. Bellefonte’s hard coal
supply been at such a low ebb as’it is
at present. All. told there are only
about 130 tons in the Bellefonte yards,
and this is of sizes not in general de-
mand. The Bellefonte Fuel & Supply
company on Tuesday had in stock 25
tons of buckwheat and 25 tons of egg,
but 15 tons of the latter had been en-
gaged and will be delivered this week.
The M. J. Thomas coal yard has in’
stock 30 tons of egg and 65 tons of
pea, while’ Nathan Kofman’ does not
have a pound of hard coal in his yard.
{ Of course many people in Bellefonte
‘stocked up during the summer and
probably have on hand a sufficient
supply to last them until next spring,
so that they are not worrying. In
fact, up to this time there has not
been any general complaint as to the
shortage of anthracite. - So many peo-
‘ple during the war were compelled to
resort to the use of bituminous coal |
‘and finding it satisfactory have con-
tinued, so that they are not worrying
over the shortage of hard coal. It’s
price during the past few years makes |
‘the use of it almost prohibitive by the
average family at any time. |
While there is little hard coal in the
town there is no shortage of bitumin-
ous coal, coke, etc. All the yards are
well stocked and as some of them have
placed their orders effective up into
January there is no immediate indica-
tion of any increase in price. All told
there are probably from three to four
‘thousand tons of soft coal and substi-
‘tutes in stock in Bellefonte.
——The word obey has been offi-
‘cially eliminated from the Episcopal
marriage ceremony but. this is prob-
"ably an unimportant incident.
—— Senator Pepper indignantly de-
‘nies a rumor that he will withdraw.
As he has no opposition thus far with-
‘drawal would be premature.
——“When Greeks joined Greeks,
then was the tug of war,” and when
Mellon joins Pinchot, there will be
“something else again.”
——Probably it was the success of
the “wets” in New Jersey that influ-
enced Strassburger to “butt in.”
me ———— ol ——————
——It’s no trouble to “keep cool
with Coolidge” so long as the coal
strike continues.
NO. 47.
Christmas Suggestions,
It's four weeks before Christmas
And all through the town, 3 :
There are myriads of lovely thing
Scattered around. EG
There are toys for the youngsters
And games for them, too;
There are ice-skates and coasters,
And wagons—all blue.
There are “togs” for the “grown-ups”
And for ones—just half-grown;
There is something for every one—nice
In this town.
So let’s all begin early
To make Christmas cheer;
Don’t wait ‘til December—
The last week in the year.
To a few kindly thoughts
Stowed away in your heart
Add a good portion of love
And you'll have a good start.
If you give this—to all
‘Whom you meet every day,
T'will be Christmas indeed
And a Christmas to stay.
1925. WINIFRED MEEK-MORRIS.
{A New Slant on the Cause of the
Coal Strike.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Responsibility for the present an-
thracite coal strike was placed on the
shoulders of the people of Pennsylva-
nia by George H. Cushing, of ash-
ington, D. C., an authority on all phas-
es of the coal situation, who ress-
ed the Manufacturers’ Association of
West Philadelphia at their annual
banquet in the Manufacturers’ Club
last Tuesday evening.
Mr. Cushing, who has participated
in nearly all the important conferenc-
es between the miners and operators
during the past 20 years, roundly
flayed Governor Pinchot and John I.
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers of America, and declared
that the strike was a child of the neg-
lect of the citizens of this State of
their public duty.
“Anthracite in quantity is found in
Pennsylvania,” Mr. Cushing said. “For
years it sustained the growth of your
railroads. For a longer period it has
supported your Sounty, and State go
ernments in Ta i poi d :
3D on
every dollar oe 0 in Pennsylvania
is paid by the people of other States.
“They are still willing to put money
into your laps, but they can’t give you
their money now because they can’t
get the coal. Pe ivania has allow-
4 the production of anthracite to be
stopped by another gentleman, who,
like myself, is temporarily a guest in
your city.”
“These users of anthracite cannot
invade your State and revive the pro-
duction of what they want to buy.
They can’t take the place of your
State government. They are helpless
before the fact that Pennsylvania is a
sovereign Sta
“And ‘what the people of other
States cannot do—force ‘the _resumip-
tion of anthracite production—you
people of Pennsylvania not do. I
know that you will ‘say in explana-
tion—or shall I say excuse. You will
say that you have a TOT:
you will blush Shen you say it—who
is neglecting his jo
“Yes, you ars a SE who de- |
ing the fact that while standing on
your soil the absentee president of a
union;says that Pennsylvania shall not
has, taken his toll from the grestest
industrial machine that has ever been
created in any coal field on earth.
“So long as that situation prevails,
your Governor and your State admit
that they have a new master. But
where’
from? He is your Governor, isn’t he?
And he didn’t iseize the office; you
‘| humiliation of Pennsylvania is the
child of your own neglect of your pub-
lic duty.
“When you. come to. think of it,
where did John Lewis get his power
which enabled him, an alien. to stop
the production of Pennsylvania’s an-
thracite? Your Legislature gave it to
him. It passed a law which says that
only certificate holders shall mine an-
thracite; that no one shall have a cer-
tificate until he has been an apprentice
in those mines for two years, and that
such certificates shall be issued only
by other miners.” .
“When you granted to these men
that monopoly,
certificate holders into his union and
then called all of them out of the
mines until you should satisfy his de-
mands. It was your Legislature which
did that .thing. But after all it was
your Legislature, because you elected
its members. I am’ sorry ‘to say it,
but this is a situation of your making,
and, if it is bad, it is a child of your
own neglect of your public duty,
; Election Reforms.
From the Clearfield Republican.
We are with Governor Pinchot to-
day in his efforts to bring government
back to the people via honest elections
in Pennsylvania. We ‘were for the
same thing three years: ago and for
today is that Governor: Pinchot has
been guilty of the grievous sin of pro-
crastination in his honest election ef-
forts behalf. ' However, we are with
him any way. His late conversion to
honest elections is a good sign, never-
‘ theless. More power to his elbow.
livers lectures on temperance, ignor-
fulfill her obligations to her own citl-
zens and to nine other States until he |
id such a Governor come |
elected him to do it. The present
Lewis organized those:
years and years before. - Qur only kiek:
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The annual State Gr Grange meeting will
be entertained in Johnstown on December
8, 9 and 10. It is expected that more tham
2,000 delegates will be in attendance.
—TFortunato Calabro, of Johnstown, con-
victed in Federal court; at Pittsburgh, last
week of possessing and selling $46,000
worth of counterfeit war savings stamps,
was sentenced on Saturday to four years’
imprisonment in the Atlanta penitentiary.
—Hunters last Saturday invaded the
Emigh farm near Warriorsmark and shot
the eyes out of a valuable Ayrdale dog be-
longing to Mr. Emigh. The animal's face
, | was so badly mutilated it had to be killed.
And yet hunters wonder why farmers post
their lands!
—Joseph Raver Jr., aged 15 years; died
at the Lewistown hospital last Friday, of
injuries received while hunting near his
home on the outskirts of that town, early
the same day. He was dragging his shot-
gun through brush, it being accidentally
discharged when a twig struck the trig-
ger. The entire charge passed through his
body.
—Thieves broke into the Lehigh Valley
freight station at the eastern end of Ash-
land early last Thursday morning and got
away with approximately $2,000 worth of
canned goods, such as corn, tomatoes, etc.
State troopers from Reading barracks are
working on the larceny. Fifty dollars’
worth of goods were found abandoned om
the hillside near the station.
—=Six men, one of them a detective for
the Pennsylvania railroad, who have been
rounded up the last several weeks in con-
nection with the robbing of the Vander-
grift Savings & Trust Co. paying teller, on
November 4, and escaped with $75,000 after
they beat the teller unconscious, confessed
to the crime on Saturday night, state po-
lice say. Over $70,000 of the stolen loot
has been recovered by the police.
—Three thousand acres of hardwood
timber in McKean county is to fall to the
axe during the coming season, ‘the State
Department of Forests and Waters an-
nounces. The tract is owned by Frank
Morrison and Edward G. Anderson, of
Warren, and the cutting is expected to
produce several million feet of veneer logs,
75,000 to 100,000 standard railroad ties and
about 60,000 cords of chemical wood.
—Facing deportation to Greece, as an
undesirable alien, Christ Kalas, 42 years of
age, of Erie, Pa, on Saturday shet and
killed his wife in their home in that city.
Kalas, suffering from a rare malady, had
lost both legs by amputation. The shoot-
ing was the cplmination of a long stand-
ing feud in the family, the husband charg-
ing that the wife was seeking to have him
deported. It was witnessed by their four
small children.
—Colonel U. G. Lyons, 58 years old, of
Warren, Pa. president of the Lyons Re-
fining company, of Warren, and veteran of
the Spanish-American and world wars, was
drowned on Saturday afternoon when his
power house-boat, the “Frances Jane,” in
which he was making a leisurely trip to
New Orleans, fell over dam No. 3 in the
Allegheny river near Springdale. Blaine
Jones, 19 years old of Warren, Colonel Ly-
ons’ chauffeur, the only other person in the °
av. host, was resened exhausted.
—Her reputation = a ple vaker “Agured
largely ina case lasting two hours before
Squire Mareh, at Pottstown, last Friday,
when Mrs. Irvin H. Kelley had her fourth
husband arrested for making threats and
hiding a revolver and a club under their
bed. Kelley, choking with emotion, testi-
fied that his wife could not bake pies or
cakes, while she stated that out in Missou-
ri, where she formerly lived, she had the
reputation of being one of the best pie
bakers in the State. The couple agreed to
separate on the husband’s promise to give
her $100 so she could go back to her two
children in Missouri. They were married
last March.
—The first steps toward organizing a
new bamking institution at Parkesburg, .
Pa., were taken Friday night when a group
of fifteen persons agreed upon the forma-
tion of a State bank with the idea of de-
veloping it into a trust company. Dr. T.
¥. Windle was chosen president and Fred-
erick J. Coates, secretary, as temporary
officers. An arrangement ‘with Miss Isa-
bella Darlington, receiver for a former in-
stitution which went into bankruptey
about a year ago, resulted in the new or-
ganization taking over the old banking -
house. It was agreed to capitalize at $50,-
000, fixing the par value of the stock at
$50 to sell at $60.
2A sawmill, a horse, a boy and a hunt-
er, the latter roaming through the woods
some distance away and ignorant of the
trouble his reckless shooting caused, fig-
ured in a remarkable series of accidents at
Round Top Valley, northwestern Berks
county, on Saturday. The hunter fired in
the direction of the sawmill, while Clarence
Zeller, son 6f Frank Zeller, the sawmill op-
erator, was unloading wood. The shot
peppered the horse and it bolted... The
wagon struck the engine and young Zel-
ler was thrown on the boiler. He was bad-
ly burned in trying to get off the hot met-
al, a glow process because of the danger of
falling into the engine immediately next
the boiler.
—With sizzling flat irons as weapons,
Barbara Bartunck, 26 years of age, and her
sister, Mary Bartunck, aged 30 years, of
Pittsburgh, battled desperately last Fri-
day, each being severely burned during
the fight. The women appeared in morals
court, their heads, arms and.bodies band-
aged. According to the elder, she was
ironing clothing when her sister started
an argument. The fight was . well under
way, when a policeman arrived. According
‘to the policeman the women were running
the hot irons over each other’s faces and
arms and breasts. It was some time be-
fore he could pull the battling amazons
apart as they were swinging hot irons in
his vicinity without thought of his feel-
ings.
-ZAn unusual railroad train left BEddy-
stone, near Philadelphia, on Friday, for
Cuba. It consisted only of locomotives—
nine of them, only the first of which was
under steam. The remaining eight; were
gleaming, new engines comprising a com-
plete shipment from the Baldwin locomo-
tive works to Cuban railroads. The new
equipment includes three Mikados, weigh-
ing 265,000 pounds each, for the Cuban
Railway company, three Mikados for the
Cuba Northern Railways, and two Moguls,
weighing 145,000 pounds each, for the Cen-
tral Cuba Sugar “company. Four expert -
engineers accompanied: the train,.each liv-
ing ‘during the journey in one of the en-
gine cabs ‘which had been boxed in and
fitted with a bumk, a stove and provisions
for the trip.