r—
the Governor to do but swng the ax.
- much less the kind the Klan was ready
Bemorrali: acim
INK SLINGS.
—With his administration growing
to a close there really isn’t much for
—The two big baskets of roses that
adorned the bench when Judge Kel-
ler took the oath of office on Monday
suggested the thought that some poli-
ticians were trying to “say it with
flowers.”
—If the Rev. Dr. McCurdy, of Phil-
adelphia, brings all his Baptists into
the Democratic fold then we will have
trouble. How will we ever convince
the country that we're dry if we get
the Baptist tag on us?
—It might have been Irving Ber-
lin’s songs that won Ellin MacKay
and it might have been Ellin who in-
spired the songs, but we venture the
prediction that it won’t be more than
two years until Ellin gives Irving
inspiration for a swan song.
—When you start to Florida to get
rich quick be sure to leave some one
behind who will keep the home fires
burning. If you make your stake you
can easy wire back to have them
doused. If you fail, the’ll look mighty
good when you stagger over the last
hill top on the long trek home.
—Of course an oath is an oath and
he’s in office, just the same, but why
did our new Judge and Jury Commis-
sioners have to swear so much harder
than the District Attorney before they
could qualify? We have heard no
campaign aftermath that might
arouse suspicion as to the methods
they employed in getting themselves
elected.
—Almost, when we walked into the
court room, last Monday noon, to see
the new Judge inaugurated, were we
persuaded that Pinchot had been ad-
vertised as the speaker of the occa-
sion. Not since he was here last time
has there been such a gathering in
the stately old hall of justice All
of which is exceedingly compliment-
ary to His Honor, Judge Keller.
—We presume the Philadelphia
Baptist minister who, on Sunday, ad-
vised his congregation to join the
Democratic party, will be excommuni-
cated. Preachers, as a rule, think the
Democratic party is something only
to be prayed for, so when one bobs up
who advocates going so far as to vote
for it there is an immediate need of
the gathering of the Synods, Confer-
ences, Classis, Conventions, Etc., to
stage a joint heresy trial.
—The New Haven, Connecticut,
chapter of the K. K. K. has given up
its charter because of the “corruption
and demoralization of the Klan.”
Arthur Mann, secretary of the Chap-
ter declares the Klan+to be
American and anti-American.” Mr.
Mann has evidently been reading
papers that tell the truth. The whole
Klan idea has been to make a lot of
temperamental and guileless people
furnish fat jobs for these smart
enough to exploit them. We discover-
ed that when a Pittsburgh plate maker
would have succeeded in getting the
Klan to pay him a salary of twenty
thousand dollars a year for twenty
years had it not been that the State
Banking Department discovered that
he was a faker and knew nothing
about editing any kind of a paper,
to believe he could produce.
—We can see where our new bor-
ough potentate is going to be as busy
as a hen with one chicken if he really
carries out the ambitious and very
commendable program he has pre-
pared. Old tires, Christmas trees, tin
cans and what not are to be faded out
of the picture so far as the limpid
waters of Spring creek are concerned.
Kids under sixteen are to be anathema
on our streets dfter nine o’clock at
night count on a bachelor or
spinster to tell us daddies how to
raise em Gouty, rheumatic and
otherwise low geared pedestrians are
to be protected from juggernautic
Gasoline Guses and Bellefonte is
going to be kept right up on her toes,
ready to race with any municipality
when it comes to a question of Civic
pride. We're for the new burgess.
He'll probably run into a helluva lot of
trouble, but well say this for him:
If its our toes he tramps on it will be
only because he has the gimp to say
what he thinks and the courage to do
what he feels is right.
—Our Republican friends from over
the county had a pow-vow here, Mon-
day afternoon, principally to settle
the question the Watchman raised for
them several weeks ago when it in-
quired as to how the Hon. Harry Scott
is going to capture the senatorial nom-
ination and M. Ward Fleming Esq.,
the congressional nomination, both for
the same county. We are not inform-
ed as to the outcome of the confer-
ence, but in fulfillment of our promise
to solve the problem for them we
would suggest that Mr. Scott run for
Congress and that Mr. Fleming re-
strict his present ambitions to be-
coming a great lawyer. There is more
of profit, more of honor and more of
eventual opportunity for a great law-
yer than there is for a dozen county
politicians. And Mr. Scott could be
elected to Congress from this District
a great deal more handily than he
can to the Senate in the coming cam-
paign. Senator Betts has made a
splendid representative, has lost none
of his popularity of four years ago
and has the District precedent of giv-
ing two terms to a worthy representa-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
VOL. 71.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JANUARY 8S. 1926.
Important Work for Democrats.
Viewed from this distance from the
date of the primary election it is
neither important nor desirable to
urge this eligible or that to become a
candidate for the Democratic nomina-
tion for Governor. There are a con-
siderable number of Democrats in
Pennsylvania who would adorn the
office and probably several who would
be willing to accept the nimination
and make a fight for the election. But
this is not a time for suggesting
factional favorites. The political con-
ditions in the State are peculiarly
auspicious. The Republican organiza-
tion is demoralized and its leaders
confused. It is not wise to distract
their attention from the business of
killing each other. Let them go on
with the good work. :
There is plenty of work for the
earnest and active Democratic men
and women of the State to do, and
this is the time to do it. The records
show that little more than fifty per
cent of the Democratic voters of the
State take the trouble to go to the
polls. The excuse of most of the
delinquents is that it is no use to
vote for the reason that the fraudu-
lent votes cast for the Republican
candidates in Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh overcome the honest votes of
the country districts. But if the extra
session of the Legislature produces
the legislation which is expected of
it the evil of currupt voting will be
absent next fall, and there is better
than a fighting chance for the elec-
tion of Democrats.
Beginning now every active Demo-
crat should direct his efforts toward
organization of the party for the next
election. Canvass every neighbor-
hood, appeal to every voter to join in
the work and secure a full vote. It
will cost a little time and may require
a small expenditure of money but a
Democratic victory in Pennsylvania
will be worth all it costs and more.
It will not only guarantee honest and
efficient administration at once but
will compel the Republicans to nomi-
nate a better class of candidates in
the future. This will be a splendid
achievement as well as a vast saving
‘“an-{ of money: to the taxpayers. Besides
it will inspire confidence in govern-
ment and contentment among the
people.
rh — a Ee
— After a few more Philadelphia
juries acquit palpably guilty ballot
thieves it may occur to somebody in
authority that a change of venue
might help some.
Machine Managers Disappointed.
As the time fixed for the extra session
approaches the anxiety of the machine
leaders increases. For some time it
was hoped that propaganda might in-
fluence in the public mind a feeling of
opposition to the enterprise. The ex-
pense was held up before the mental
view of the people as a needless
burden until it was discovered that
the demand for contemplated legisla-
tion is more potent than the price,
though greatly exaggerated. More
recently the appeal has been to the
selfishness of the Legislators. It is
pointed out that absence from home
during the period in which the ses-
sion will sit will endanger the polit-
ical hopes of those Senators and Rep-
resentatives who expect re-election.
Considerable energy was expended
in an effort to prove that Governor
Pinchot’s popularity with the people
had dwindled since his recent tour of
the State. It was plain that his pur-
pose of visiting the State institutions
was more in the interest of his ambi-
tions than the welfare of the public,
and that fact was “played up” to the
limit by the machine newspapers and
politicians. But expectations from
that line of opposition have been dis-
appointed. The average man and
woman reasons that if good comes
from a crusade against palpable evil
the crusader is entitled to whatever
legitimate gains ensue. Measured by
any available standard the Governor’s
fight against the machine promises
betterment.
We are still persuaded that too
many subjects were included in the
call for the extra session, but not-
withstanding that blunder effective
ballot reform legislation will be en-
acted during the session. Orders from
“the neck” in Philadelphia and “the
strip” in Pittsburgh may hold the
delegations from those cities in op-
position to improvement. It may be
that Luzerne, Lackawanna and Dau-
phin county Legislators will join in the
sinister oppositon to some extent.
But the State is bigger than these cen-
ters of political iniquity and the people
will demand of their Senators and
Representatives in the General As-
sembly legislation that will give hope
of honest elections in future.
A — A —————————
It having been finally decided that
Doheny bribed Mr. Fall the machinery
of the criminal court ought to be
tive in his favor.
started somewhere.
| Causes of Republican Party Confusion Good Wishes With a String to Them. ' Challenge to Senate’s Dignity.
| All sorts of reasons are given by
| those concerned for the present de-
J movalized conditions of the Republi-
can machine. Some of them are
plausible, some probable and some
| imply absurd. The most plausible is
i that the blundering frauds perpetrat-
(ed in Philadelphia, under the sanction,
| if not at the instance, of Congressman
Vare, has so outraged the moral sense
of the electorate that decent men and
women will leave the party. The
theory that Governor Pinchot’s ex-
posure of the villainies of his party
has alienated many voters is at least
probable. The most absurd excuse
thus far advanced is that State chair-
man W. Harry Baker has been too
much a leader and too little a boss.
On Sunday last the Rev. Dr. Wil-
liam D. McCurdy, of Philadelphia, in
a sermon preached from the pulpit of
Grace Baptist Temple in that city, de-
clared that “all true Christian men
and women of the city and State
should register as Democrats for the
next election and vote as Democrats
until the majority party in city and
State comes to a proper realization
of its duty toward the people.” Dr.
McCurdy may have been influenced to
his present frame of mind by purely
local conditions, also he may have
taken into consideration the various
charges of the Governor. In any event
his words made a deep impression
upon the minds of his congregation
for signs of concurrence were freely
given.
The idea that the organization has
suffered because chairman Baker ‘fis
too much leader and too little a boss”
is manifestly absurd for the reason
that no intelligent voters will prefer
a boss to a leader. It is true that the
Republicans of Pennsylvania have be-
come so inured to a boss that they
don’t understand the duties or prac-
tices of a leader. Since the time of
the elder Cameron there have been
successive bosses in control. Quay
followed Cameron and Penrose fol-
lowed Quay. At the death of Penrose
Mr. Baker assumed control by com-
mon consent and substituted leader-
ship for bossism, but it is no stretch-
say that heHag
than either of the others.
Possibly Congressman Vare
could do better then Pepper in getting
favors from the administration, and
he is willing to try.
Senator Reed’s Sob-Complaint.
Most of the sympathy and all of
the selfishness of Pennsylvania is
aroused by the sob-complaint recently
issued by Senator David A. Reed in
behalf of himself and his colleague,
Senator George Wharton Pepper.
“The people of Pennsylvania do not
understand the degree to which they
have been excluded from a voice in the
government of their nation,” the Sen-
ator declares. “They furnish a tenth
of the man power and of the taxes of
this country and their industries pro-
duce nearly a fifth of the products.
Yet the selfish demands of political
expediency have displaced Pennsyl-
vania from any representation in the
executive groups that determine our
welfare.”
The cause of this sad explosion was
the disappointment of Senator Reed
in a matter of patronage. Mr. Irvin
Laughlin, of a Pittsburgh Steel manu-
facturing family, who is at present
Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece,
aspired to the more important and
lucrative diplomatic post of Ambassa-
dor to Spain and was supported in
his laudable aspiration by Senators
Reed and Pepper. There were abund-
ant reasons for expecting a favorable
response to the request. The retir-
ing Ambassador was a Pittsburgh
man and the aspirant’s family had
been contributing freely to the cam-
paign fund for half a century. But
the President turned a deaf ear to the
petition and appointed a man from
New Jersey.
If Senator Reed were a philosopher
as well as a corporation lobbyist he
would not take his disappointment so
hard. There are various reasons why
the petition of the Pennsylvania Sena-
tors might have failed to influence the
mind of the dispenser of diplomatic
favors. But it is not necessary to
enumerate all of them. Two are suf-
ficent. Pennsylvania is so safely an-
chored in the Republican fold that it
is not necessary to pamper it with
patronage, and the party in the State
is so deficient in leadership that it is
absolutely without influence in the
wider councils. The Republicans of
Pennsylvania must have a boss who
can not only control the organization
but command attention from outside.
——There is Grundy, for instance.
He has had wonderful success as a
collector.
——1It must be admitted that the
first quarter of the century wasn’t
bad.
! y 3
| We have been deeply moved by the
many, many cards and letters express- |
ing the good wishes and felicitation of
‘readers in all parts of the country
for the continued success of the
Watchman. During the holiday sea-
son hundreds of them poured into this
office. and all freighted with some sin-
@apev expression of appreciation of the
effort the Watchman has made to be a
clean, reliable purveyor of home news.
From men and women in the eight-
ies, from those young enough to he
their grand-children, from Florida to
Oregon, from Republicans, Democrats
and Prohibitionists we have received
messages such as we are sure are not
often received in the office of a coun-
try newspaper.
what we often refer to as the unusual
bond that exists between the Watch-
man and its readers. Certainly it is a
unique relationship in the annals of
journalism when so many have come
to regard the weekly visit of a home
paper as “a personal letter from a
friend.”
We have referred to letters from
Republican readers. This would
doubtless be a surprise to many who
are so partisan-blind that they shun
the Watchman as they would a cop-
perhead snake. It might be a revela-
tion to them to know that this paper
has almost as many Republicans as
Democrats on its list and that almost
every Republican of any consequence
in moulding the thought of his party
in Centre county is and has been a
‘ reader of the Watchman. They read
it, not only to keep informed as to
what our side is doing, but for the
accuracy and completeness of its local
news and because they occasionally
enjoy the diversion of getting so
darned mad that they throw the old
sheet down, stamp on it and then pick
it up and read it clear through.
It takes all kinds of people to make
the world and ot
“There are books in the running brooks
And sermons in the stones.
There’s something good in everything
If one will only see it.”
Before us lies a letter from a friend
we have never seen. He is in a home
for .incurables, with a body broken
0 but 4 Soul that
shown more real skill in leadership | sees nothing but sunshine in its phys-
|ical prison. Think of the spirit of
i such an one who can write “I am very
well, feel fine and have had a most
wonderful Christmas”——the latter
all because a few friends did not fail
to let him know they were thinking of
him at Christmas time.
He writes us: “I take a deep inter-
est in your welfare and wish you to
come out on top in everything except
politics.”
And there it is. The good wish
with a string to it. The Watchman
has hordes of Republican friends
whom it will probably never be able to
convert, but will keep everlast-
ingly after them with the hope that
some day the one fly in the ointment
of perfect accord will be chased away.
—Lock Haven has a city planning
commission. It made its first report
during the week by suggesting that
streets in outlying sections be laid out
wide enough “for the city to expand
comfortably.” That idea of expanding
comfortably is a good one. We know
what it means, because we have just
had to have a waist-coat let out an
i inch in order to meet just such a con-
tingency.
—Senator David Reed has hay on
his horns. He wants to know why
Pennsylvania isn’t getting more by
way of plums from the federal gov-
ernment. It isn’t up to us to answer
his’ questions, but we can’t keep our
nose out of it. So we advise the Hon.
David to look into his miror for the
answer.
——While we are settling with
foreign debtors on a sixty year install-
ment plan why should we make our
own tax payers settle on a thirty-year
plan?
——That Rumanian princeling
wasn’t so wild after all. Monarchies
are declining in popularity rapidly
and in a short time he might be kicked
out.
——Possibly Governor Smith, of
New York, may be able to settle the
coal strike. The mine owners have
neither grudge against nor fear of
him.
——Speaking of spoils, if Senator
Pepper can’t get anything for the
boys why should they favor him at the
polls?
——Thus far Henry Ford has not
made an offer to buy the capitol at
Washington.
-——It is suspected that Governor
Pinchot is trying to rival Coolidge in
reticence.
They bring proof of !
From the Pittsburg Post.
There have been times when sen-
| atorial pride of opinion and dignity
| have impressed the country as carri-
red to the extreme, but it looks as if
| there has been a real challenge to the
{integrity and dignity of the body in
i the persistency with which the De-
partment of Justice has kept up what
; the whole country has for long view-
"ed as a discredited attack upon Sen-
"ator Wheeler of Montana. Of course
tif the Department feels that it has
| evidence that Wheeler has used his
i senatorial influence in the private
| practice of law it is its right and its
| duty to press its charges. But the
i point is that jury and court and sen-
atorial investigators who have heard
the testimony and arguments of the
Department have never been able to
see anything in them against the de-
dendant, this, of course, giving color
to the contention of Wheeler from the
outset that the whole case orginally
was a “frame-up” designed to dis-
credit him while he was leading in the
Senatorial investigation of the ad-
ministration of Harry M. Daugherty
as Atltorney General. In connection
with the questions raised as to wheth-
er the Department of Justice will con-
tinue its efforts to prosecute Wheeler
after his vindication by a jury in Mon-
tana, the quashing of an indictment
against him by Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia and the exonera-
tion of him by a Senate investigating
committee and the Senate itself, a
movement is reported under way in
the Senate to try to get light from
the Department of Justice on why the
case was originated, who participat-
ed in it, how much money was ex-
pended and who furnished it.
When it is said that the Depart-
ment of Justice must not be intimi-
dated, it simply brings the retort that
neither must the Senate. If the De-
partment was misused in an effort to
get back at Wheeler on mere personal
lines on account of his investigation
of Attorney General Daugherty, it
would have constituted a most ser-
ious perversion of public authority.
It would be well to bring out all the
facts in the case. Here is a situation
in which the Senate would find public
support in its fighting not: alone for
its dignity, but also to prevent mis-
use of public authority,
“Could Arbitration-Dé Worst" * |
Irom the Philadelphia Record. i
Througout all the negotiations, both
before the strike began and since the
renewal of conferences, the leaders of
the anthracite miners have stubbornly
refused to accept any plan based upon
settlement by arbitration.
Their opposition they base on three
main contentions. First, they say
that acceptance of arbitration would
mean that negotiation would always
be excluded—in other words, that the
right of collective bargaining would
in effect be surrendered. Second, they
deny that any small group should
have power to determine for the miner
his economic and social position—*“the
character of the house in which he
shall live, the kind of food he shall
eat, the degree of education he shall
receive, and his standard and status
as a citizen.” Third, they doubt the
competence and impartiality of out-
side investigators.
These objections, though not with-
out abstract force, do not have as
much weight as is attributed to them
by the union leaders. But even if
they were unanswerable in logic they
Would be of doubtful validity in prac-
ce.
During the four months of the
strike the miners have lost upwards
of $120,000,000 in wages. Could any
conceivable decision by a board of in.
quiry lay upon them a burden so
heavy, condemn them to hardships
so severe as those they have endured ?
Arbitration would have to be a prin-
ciple far more defective than the un-
ion leaders assert before it could cost
the workers as heavily as does their
reliance on the method of force
through the strike.
Western View of Women’s Rights.
From the Los Angeles Times.
Under the recent action of the Leg-
islature there must be separate bar-
ber shops for men and women in Con-
necticut. At least it is forbidden that
a barber should serve lady customers
in the same room as his male patrons.
Possibly it is thought that the Police
Gazette is still kept on file for the
shavers, but this no longer embar-
rasses the dames. The women were
supposed to have won their full equal-
ity with men before the law. They
can vote, sit on a jury and smoke
cigarettes, but if they may not sit in
the same barber shop with the men of
what use are the privileges they
have? If a maiden wants her bean
bobbed she must find some place
where men are not having their whisk-
ers singed. She must hunt up a joint
of her own kind. This is a distinct
slump toward the archaic.
A Scranton Hope.
From the Scranton Times.
Let us hope that some arrangement
will be made in a very short time to
end the calamitous conditions that
prevail in the coal regions. The com-
mittee of mayors and burgesses are
doing their best. Let us hope that
they may succeed.
m————— en —r——
—The best county paper published
tlié ground for a
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Burns suffered December 29th when
her clothes ignited while she was
dressing before an open grate in her
home at Crafton resulted in the death
of Miss Josephine Farrar, 50 years old, on
Monday night.
—More than a score of workmen narrows
ly escaped being trapped by 400 tons of
molten glass when- the bottom fell from
a tank in the Breckenridge plant of the
Atlantic Bottle company at Pittsburg
late Friday night. The damage was es-
timated at $100,000.
—Ernest Welker and Irvin Maines, both
of Bradford township, Clearfield county,
were killed last Thursday morning when
a truck loaded with hay on which they
were riding was struck by a train on the
Pennsylvania railroad just east of Clear-
field. Both men fell in front of the loco-
motive.
—Instead of the ringing of wedding
bells a funeral was held for R. O. Shultz,
25, Sunbury, who died from heart failure
last Thursday while seated in his auto.
He was to have been wedded on New
Year's day to Miss Emma Snyder, Sun-
bury, and they had much of their furni-
ture bought.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad has pur-
chased the idle plant of the National Steel
Construction company, near Bellwood, it
was announced last week. The property
consists of fifty-five acres of ground, a
machine shop, storehouse and other struct-
ures. What use will be made of the prop-
erty was not stated.
— A verdict of accidental death was
rendered last Thursday by a jury sitting
in an inquest conducted by Coroner James
M. Harkins into the death of Mrs. Emily
Stockley, 37 years old, of Ligonier, who
was found dead in a bath tub in the Roll-
ing Rock Country club apartment which
she and her husband occupied, the might
of December 29. Mrs. Stockley was ac-
cidentally electrocuted by a small electric
heater.
—Rev. George W. Lutz, pastor of the
Reformed churches at Pennsburg, Sas-
samansville and Niantic last Thursday re-
ceived his appointment as rural carrier
of the Pennsburg postoffice. Mr. Lutz re.
signed as a member of the faculty of the
Pennsburg High school on New Year's
day. It is possible he will resign from
his pastoral duties. He has been in failing
health and sought the mail job, believing
outdoor life would benefit him.
—M. D. Greiner, well-known resident of
Shamekin Dam, escaped with painful
bruises and shock in an 18-foot plunge
from the roof of a rear porch at his home
on Saturday night. The unique accident
occurred when Greiner walked in his sleep
during a frightful dream. He dreamed he
was being pursued by an enemy and, suit.
ing the physical action to his mental state,
he leaped from his bed and made his exit
through a rear window on the porch roof
and then stepped into space, crashing to
the ground.
—In an attempt to rob the Toby Mining
company Store at the village of Five
Points, Elk county, the other night, one
man aws shot in the leg when the watch-
man fired in the direction of the three
men who were fleeing from the scene after
being discovered. The men left three sacks
well filled with articles which they had
intended to steal. Blood was found on
considerable distance
after the burglar was hit, Then the trail
was lost. Deputy Sheriff Joseph May is
investigating.
—Held in contempt of court for failure
to promptly take Fred Fenzie, of Punxsu-
tawney, steward at the Elks’ clubhouse
there, to the Allegheny county jail to serve
a year for violation of the Volstead act,
Sheriff C. F. Evans, of Jefferson county,
was fined $50 and costs by Judge Charles
Corbet. The court said Evans was order-
ed to take Fenzie to jail to begin serving
his sentence on December 10, 1925, but did
not do so until December 30 following is-
suance of the contempt rule, Sheriff Evans
pleaded a rush of work.
—Highly successful rice cultivation in
the land of wheat and corn has been ac-
complished by Bert Edwards, who man.
ages a farm in Mifflin county, near Lewis-
town. He has just harvested a crop on
a 135 acre patch with the bumper yield of
65 bushels to the acre. This is the first
time that rice has ever been grown com-
mercially this far north, Lewistown be.
ing in the northern half of the State. Cul.
tivation of rice as an experiment was starte
ed two years ago. The result has been
so successful that it is planned to grad-
ually extend rice growing until there are
1,500 acres in cultivation.
—A rigid investigation of the books of
the Washington county controller's office
will be made soon. District Attorney
Hughes has announced. This is the after-
math of the arrest of R. Clyde Segner,
clerk in the controller’s office, in New York
city, November 27, last, on charge of em-
bezzlement, forgery and fraudulent con-
version of funds, amounting to more than
$25,000. Scott Boschert & Company, expert
accountants of Pittsburgh, state that the
books are in such a condition that com-
plete examination will be necessary be-
fore the exact amount Segner is alleged ‘to
have embezzled can be determined.
—Authorities are investigating the death
of Levi Gable, 69, whose body was found
Saturday night in an alley adjoining the
Brooklyn hotel, in York, Pa. There was a
deep gash on the forehead. A postmor-
tem examination revealed that his skull
was also fractured. It is not known
whether the man fell from a small balcony
at the rear of his room, or was waylaid
and killed in the alley. He used the alley
to reach a stairway leading to his room.
His divorced wife, Mrs. Lillie Gable, visited
the man in his room earlier in the evening,
and they both left about 8 o'clock, No one
saw him return to the place. By his death.
a daughter, Mrs. Mabel Belle Grove, comes
into a trust fund of about $40,000.
—A baby was killed and four other per.
sons were injured last Friday when a sec-
tion of a fly wheel, which had ripped apart
in a North Side Carnegie Steel company
mill at Pittsburg, crashed through the
walls of four nearby residences. The
wheel, weighing 2500 pounds, was shat-
tered by a broken belt. A large section
shot through the roof of the mill, travel-
ed 1200 feet and smashed into the houses.
Daniel Jones, Jr, 4, asleep in his crib,
was killed. Four other occupants of the
houses were bruised and cut. The wheel,
fourteen feet in diameter, was shattered
when the engine to which it was attach-
ed picked up speed because of the brok-
en belt. The section which caused the
damage passed through two houses, knock-
ed another from its foundation and finally
buried itself in a fourth. The damage
is the “Democratic Watchman.
was estimated at $11,000.