Dew Witdan
INK SLINGS.
—Next Tuesday ground hog day
will be here and then we’ll know to
what further extent we need be inter-
ested in the ceal strike.
——Possibly Amundsen is laying
the foundation for a claim that he dis-
covered the North Pole. He says that
neither Peary nor Cook has proved the
achievement.
Former Judge Renshaw is now
Registration Commissioner in Phila-
delphia and may be able to make the
Vare gang wish it hadn’t.cheated him
out of his seat on the bene¢h.
The extra session has. spent
more than half its allotted life and
the only measure on the calendar ap-
proaching completion is a resolution
providing for payments of the salar-
ies.
The present General Assembly
hasn’t improved during the time since
adjournment last -Spring. It began
the extra session by blundering just
as the regular session was begun a
year ago.
—That Philadelphia chiropractor
might not have premeditated the
murder of the Dietrick girl, but the
revolting atrocity of the crime makes
it a double-distilled first degree of-
fense in the eyes of the world.
- —By the way, have you noticed how
rarely you hear of the once popular
oyster supper since dealers started
selling the bivalves by the piece. It is
strange, too, for no one ever expects
‘to get any oysters in the church festi-
val soup.
—Owen Johnson, author and pros-
pective candidate for a niche in the
Hall of Fame of the muchly-married,
is to assume the yoke for the fifth
time next Monday. Johnson once
wrote that “if the average girl of to-
day knows anything about domesticity
it isa ‘mere accident.” He ought to
know what he wrote about, but we
don’t think he does.
—Prof. MacMillan, authority on
dynamic astronomy, has figured it
out that Judgment day will come when
Earth is swallowed up by Jupiter an
eventuality that most. astromoners
are agreed will come to pass. Of
course it is always wise to have your
house in order, but there is no imme-
diate néed of doing ‘any extra dusting
because of Dr. MacMillan’s recent
statement because he admits that it
will be another million billion years
before Jupe gets us.
—The Adams county Republican
woman's club has called off a banquet
‘to which it had invited Mxys. Pinchot |
to be the guest of honor and principal
speaker. The Gettysburg ladies were
afraid Cornelia might say something
to the detriment of Senator Pepper
and to the advantage of Gifford. What
if she should 7—They could take it or
let alone, as their personal preference
motivates. Such a public = affront to
the first lady of the State indicates
that the daughters of the dames of
the battle-field town are either a
weak-kneed generation or very for-
getful of its traditional courtesy.
—This seems to be the open season
for experimental government by new
mayors. Bosses of towns all over the
State have cornered the new broom
market and are starting cleaning up
with a vengeance. All of the innova-
tions are well intentioned, most of
them ought to be heartily supported
and only a very few that we have
noticed would better be abandoned.
Over in Clearfield “Bill” Hagerty is
the new mayor and with character-
istic Hagertyan versatility Bill has
thunk up a new one. Instead of fining
drunks five-twenty-five or boarding
them in the borough lockup for five
days he is sentencing them to five
nights attendance at Salvation Army
meetings. And we always thought
Bill had .a heart.
—Dr. Louise Stanley, who is head
of the newly formed bureau of home
economics of the federal Department
of Agriculture, told a woman’s club
in Philadelphia, last Friday morning,
that “country people are just begin-
ning to learn the value of preserving
their fruits and vegetables.” Just
what “country people” did Dr. Stanley
refer to. Certainly they must be of a
kind specially conjured up by the De-
partment Dr. Stanley exploits. The
“country people” we are familiar with
preserved and pickled and jammed
and jell’d and canned everything they
could get their hands on long before
the Department of Agriculture went
PUY 'S19UIQEY USUI YIM SulgLiy 03
they kuew their value as food stuffs
else they wouldn’t have been doing
it.
—3Since the first of the year the
Watchman has been having difficulty
in making seme of its mail connec-
tions. This has been due to the re-
tirement of one of the most depend-
able and conscientious operatives con-
ceivable in any industry. It is only
after such a one is gone that a real
appraisal of what they have contri-
buted in the way of service can be
made. It will be a long time, if ever,
until we find a replacement for the
link that is broken in our organization
and until that is measurably accom-
plished we don’t look for smooth sail-
ing. The only readers who might note
that their papers arrive a bit more
irregularly than has been the custom
are those residing in points west. All
other mails are being made as usual
and we hope to continue making them.
‘versal.
VOL. 71.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JANUARY 29, 1926.
NO. 5.
. Futile Cres Agoingi Pinchot.
The attempt to divert popular favor
from Governor Pinchot by charging Evans, of Allegheny
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An Investigation of That Kind.
On Monday evening Representative
county, intro-
him with profligacy in administration | | duced a resolution for an investiga-
calls to mind the adage; “A drowning :
| Mr. Evans represents the Assembly
man will clutch at a straw.” The dis-
tressed and demoralized Pepper. or-
ganization realizes that something
must be done to keep the Governor out
of the contest.. They have no fear
of .Vare as_.an opponent. He is so
completely immersed. in a sea of popu-
lar condemnation. as to. be harmless
against.any candidate. . The other
names casually - mentioned . now and
thenas possible or probable aspirants
are not menacing. But the Governor
is a potential figure, constantly grow-
ing in public estimation, and the sup-
porters of Pepper know he will win if
he runs. :
The plain plan of campaign: of £ the
Pepper supporters is to force or
frighten Pinchot out of the fight. The
hope of achieving this result lies in
turning popular favor against him.
With this purpose in view they are
now charging that considerably more
money has been spent during the three
years of the Pinchot administration
than was disbursed during the four
years of his predecessor’s term. This
is unquestionably true. The records
in the ‘office of the Auditor General
show it and anybody is welcome to
examine the books. But paying just
debts is neither extravagance nor pro-
fligacy.
And a considerable part of
the debts which have beeri ‘paid within
the last three years were inherited
from his predecessor.
The General Assembly, in its wis-
dom, properly increased the appropri-
ations for educational purposes by
several millions of dollars. . The men
and women of Pennsylvania have ar-
rived at the conclusion that the best
use of public money is in educating
.the boys and girls who will be the
men and women of the future. Gov-
ernor Pinchot wisely made up his
mind at the beginning of his adminis-
tration that honor and honesty alike
demands the payment of debts overdue.
Both these wise purposes have been
fulfilled during the three years of Mr.
Pinchet’s eaten. The books
are balanced. “All the debts are paid
and instead of a big deficit the treas-
ury of the. State shows a, large sur-
plus,
. Goyernor Pinchot may well say: “If
that i is a crime against the people of
Pennsylvania, make the most of it.”
——We are not in the confidence of
the Republican machine leaders but
it is no longer a secret that they are
“scared stiff” over the
strength of Senator Pepper.
Chairman Baker Woke Up.
Republican State chairman Baker
must have been “asleep at the switch”
when the House committee on Mines
and Mining stifled the Pinchot anthra-
cite bills last ‘week. The day before
the session opened Mr: Baker person-
ally assured the Governor that his pro-
posed legislation would receive cour-
teous consideration. This expressed a
fair frame of mind without obligation
of any kind. But one of the first offi-
cial ‘acts of the Legislature was to
secretly kill two of the most import-
ant measures on the administration
programme. Without giving oppor-
tunity for defense one of the bills
was indefinitely postponed and an-
other ordered to be reported with a
negative recommendation.
The shock served the purpose of
awakening the State chairman from
his nap, however, and presumably
through his influence an order was
promptly issued from headquarters to
the committee to stultify itself by re-
It is not expected that this
change in plans of the machine will
result in approval. of the bills or
giving them a place on thé calendar.
But it is welcomed by fair-minded
observers as a concession to decency
and by the Governor as giving him a
chance to deliver his argument, not
particularly to the Legislature but to
the public. The Governor has plausi-
ble reasons for offering the legislation
and a persuasive way of presenting
them.
The principal reason for the dis-
courtesy to the Governor is not to be
ascribed to weakness of the measures
he proposed. It may be admitted
that both the murdered measures had
faults. But the action of the commit-
tee was based on political expediency.
The Republican machine has set out
to destroy the Governor’s influence
with the people. The managers of the
organization imagine that the Pinchot
ambitions rather than public inter-
ests are influencing the Governors
actions. Possibly that is true, but
what of it? If promoting the public
good helps the Governor in his aspira-
tions it is a just reward for fidelity
to the people of the State.
——Let us hope the members of the
committee on Mines and Mining en-
joyed their “feast of crow.”
waning |"
tion of the State Banking Department.
district in which the Carnegie Trust
company was located, and the hun-
dreds of swindled depositors in that
institution are sensitive on the subject.
But the question will never be pressed.
A motion to refer it to the Committee
on Banking was made but it was net
insisted on for the reason that it had
not been printed. Ultimately it will
be referred to that or some other
friendly committee and “pickled.” The
Republican leaders are not prepared
for any investigation that might re-
veal full particulars of the Bell bank
failures.
If an investigation of the Banking
Department of the State could be held
to operations of the department dur-
ing the Pinchot administration the
machine members of the Legislature
would have fallen over themselves in
their zeal to rush it through. But
they understand, as everybody else
knows, that opening up that subject
to searching inquiry would reveal a
condition of affairs that would send a
lot of the party leaders to State pris-
on. The Banking Commissioner is not
entirely responsible for the iniquities
that are easily traceable to the misuse
of funds of the State. Those higher
up have the regulation of such things
and the evil has been in existence for
many years.
In a communication to the tous
committee on Banks and Banking, on
Tuesday, Governor Pinchot disclosed
one of the several reasons why the
resolution of Representative Evans
will be pigeonholed in the committee.
He said that Former State Treasurer
Gephart and former State Treasurer
Snyder had borrowed large sums of
money from banks in which State
funds. were deposited, and intimated
that the favors to the banks were
given in consideration of accommoda-
tions to the officials.
may be startling to many but will not
even cause surprise to those familiar ij
with practices at Harrisburg. It has
been an uninterrupted custom sinee
the time the late Senator Quay :held
the office and grew rich.
— The western farmers are com-
ing to understand that a tariff law |
that promises protection on commod-
ities never imported and produced
by them and actually gives high pro-
tection to commodities consumed by
them is not beneficial.
— le
Cloture in the Senate. .
Most thoughtful students of the
problems of government will deeply
regret that it became necessary on
Monday last to invoke the cloture in
the United States Senate. The rules
of the Senate, almost since “time out
of mind,” have zealously guarded the
right of free speech and full debate.
In years past it has frequently served
the useful purpose of preventing
hasty, ill-digested and unwise legis-
lation. In so large a body as the
House of Representatives, such re-
straints may be necessary. But condi-
tions have seldom arisen in the Senate
to justify an expedient only once’ be-
fore resorted to, in order to prevent
a complete stoppage of business in the
body.
On December 17 Senator Swanson,
of Virginia, offered a resolution to
consider the question of entrance into
the World Court. It was well under-
stood that there would be strong op-
position to the measure and ample op-
portunity was given to all so inclined
to express their dissent. Before the
debate had gone on long it became
known that the opposition was feeble
and largely spiteful. Led by Senator
Borah, of Idaho, and Senator Reed, of
Missouri, all the devices of parliamen-
tary practice were invoked to prevent
a vote. Finally on a minor question a
test vote was obtained which revealed
the fact that less than a score of the |
Senators were opposed to the pending
resolution.
Appeal after appeal was made to
this handful of irreconcilables to per-
mit a vote but without effect. The
Democratic Senators were reluctant to
take a step that might be construed
as a sanction of the gag. But after
weeks of effort to inject reason into
the heads of the bitter-enders, they
were finally forced to consent to the
cloture. On Friday last the cloture
motion was presented in the hope that
the meager minority would yield to
the inevitable but this expectation was
disappointed, and on Monday it was
put and carried by the vote of sixty-
eight to twenty-six. Thirty-one
Democratic Senators voted for and
seven against the motion and the peo-
ple will approve the action.
——The more we learn about Harry
M. Daugherty, Attorney General
under President Harding, the more we
wonder how he kept out of jail.
This information
Cordell Hull Pressing His Point.
. Cordell Hull,
determined ‘to ‘smoke out” the admin- |
istration on its tariff policy. In a
statement issued the other day he de-
clares that “the true interests of in-
dustry, labor, capital and agriculture
are “wrapped in moderate and liberal
economic policies in lieu of the ham-
stringing, stagnating and trade war
tariff of the Coolidge administration.”
In support of this idea he cites the
futile efforts to check the rubber and
coffee conspiracies. which have been
looting American consumers of. those
necessaries during the past several
months. Mr. Herbert Hoover has been
proposing reprisals against corpora-
tions responsible and governments
sheltering them, but no redress has
been found.
The rubber trust has been exacting
exorbitant tribute from the consumers
of that commodity for months, in-
creasing the price from seventeen
cents a pound to more than a dollar.
The Coolidge solution of this problem
is to raise the price of some essential
American product used in Great Brit-
ain in equal ratio. The leading coffee
growers in Brazil some time ago ap-
plied in New York for a loan and in-
dicated a willingness to sell coffee at
a moderate price to pay the obliga-
tion. The favor was refused with the
assent of the administration and the
Brazilian coffee = growers turned to
London where they were promptly ac-
commodated. But the consumers of
the products in this country are mulet-
ed,
The prosperity of the country de-
pends upon the markets of the pro-
ducts. It doesn’t matter a great deal
whether crops are abundant or meagre
if there be no market to dispose of the
surplus when abundant. - There can
be no market for our products abroad
if our trade policies make it impossi-
‘ble to exchange with the producers
abroad. In the last public utterance of
‘his life the late President McKin-
ley. declared we cannot expect others
to, buy from us if we refuse to buy
from them, and the excessive tariff
tion upon imports. make it prac-
- impossible to buy from. them.
A tariff tax for revenue is not’ only
proper but desirable, but a tariff tax
that yields little revenue and imposes
heavy taxes on the consumer is not
only unjust but immoral.
——Maybe former Governor Tener
has terrorized all the other aspirants
for the Republican nomination for
Governor.
Snow Fences Prove Useful.
When the trucks of the Highway
Department were hauling great rolls
of a cheap looking fencing material
out of here last fall many were the
conjectures as to what use it was to
be put to. Some knew, but - “many
didn’t.
Those traveling the highways dur-
ing the fore part of the week had
frequent opportunity to see what the
fencing was for. While the snow of
last Thursday night was only four
inches deep it was very light and the
high winds of Friday and Saturday
caused it to drift in many places.
Especially was this the case along the
Buffalo Run road, where the drifts
were of sufficient depth on Saturday
morning to stall at least one milk
truck. Geo. Stevenson had to shovel
his way out of two snow banks. He
might not have been able fo get
through at all had it net been that
snow fences at the known worst drift:
ing sections of the road had served
their purpose so well.
Along that road, and we presume
it is the same all over the county,
the fencing has been placed on the
sides of exposed cuts only. There are
none along flats where drifting has
occurred always. This is probably
because it is thought that the snow
shovels can push the drifes to the side
on flat sections of road, whereas in
cuts that would be impossible.
Mr. Stevenson has been driving
the Buffalo Run road all his life. He
knows just where to expect drifts.
Years of experience have taught him
that and he was surprised, on Satur-
day morning, to find what good work
the fencing had done to protect sev-
eral cuts that under other conditions
would have been level full of snow.
It was in the unprotected flat zones
that he stuck because the big shovels
had not yet appeared to push the
drifts aside.
Snow fencing has been used for
years by railroad companies, especial-
ly those with west and northwestern
lines. Miles upon miles of fencing
and sheds trail the steel rails that
traverse the Rockies and the Sel-
kirks. And we recall that the Belle-.
fonte Central protected its tracks
from Struble station in to State Col-
lege years ago with a solid board fenc-
ing, but few ever thought of the pub-
lic roads in Centre county being thus
protected from the drifting snows,
The world do move.
‘and a big business man, wan
thing more than
‘regulate crop production
ederal
"acter of the demand.
‘vary the ‘quantity
Crops and Credits.
of Tennessee, . seems | From tha Philadelphia Record.
The House of Representatives seems
disposed to pass the Haugen bill of
co-operative marketing of farm crops.
Co-operation in selling crops seems to
have proved of real benefit to the
farmers and would probably be more
useful in alliance with the Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Yet it should
not be forgotten that there is a large
measure of co-operation in the pro-
duce exchanges which the farmers are
disposed to regard with deep hostil-
ity. Were there no open trading
there would be no open price, and
every farmer would. sell his crops to
a buyer in most cases much better in-
formed of world conditions than he
can be, and the chance of his getting
the best possible price would be small.
There is competitive buying on the
exchanges, where all the grain news
in the world is concentrated, and if
there are ' occasional combinations
from which the farmer suffers he bene-
fits generally from the. Sompetifive
buying of the brokers. The mani
lated markets are almost invariabl
bull markets; the telegraph ie
the news of buying and prices to every
farm village, and the farmers benefit
always from bull movements. They
are seldom obliged to lose by bear
raids, for they can hold their crops
a few weeks, by which time the raid
will have expired. The co-operative
marketing, however, with the sup-
port of the Department of Agricul
ture, would give the farmers the bene-
fit of competitive buying without the
occasional danger
of the market by a clique.
. But, ex-Governor Lowden, wp hs
the reputation of being a big
‘wants som
market-
ing. In a Than ColopRrE bi] 10is
‘Agricultural Association he
a Federal farm board '
er as the Fi
justs nation-wide cro Facilities for
the industrial world.”
There is no analogy between crops
and credits. The credits can be in-
creased or decreased by varying the |
price, the discount rob according
the amount of the supply or thec
L it you san’s
in any such way. a
over-production very much”:
mind, and he ‘thinks that, ‘acting
through co-operative groups repre-
senting certain crops, a farm board
might expect to prevent the ruinous
over-production which from time to
time confronts ‘agricultural produc-
ers.”
But is over-production ruinous? |
If the price is low the farmer at least
has the satisfaction of knowing that
he has a great deal to sell.
of the ruinous corn crop of Iowa has
been pretty well exploded, though it
may still affect the judgment of
Mr. Lowden. The cheap corn crop of
Iowa in 1925, turned into pork and
beef, was worth from $50,000,000 to
$100,000,000 more than the crop of
1924, according to Professor Curtiss,
of Iowa State College, and Mr.
Thompson, of the Towa Homestead,
puts the gain at the higher of these
two figures, or a little more than that.
Mr. Lowden may have exaggerated
the evil of over-production.
The board he proposes might con-
ceivably store an excess and there-
fore sustain a price, but it could not
affect production. When the farmer
decides on ‘the area he will devote to
a certain crop he knows nothing about
weather, which may give him a bum-
per crop or a very scanty one. After
the scwing the crop depends entirely
upon the weather, so that there is the
widest possible difference between the
crops and the credits which Mr.
Lowden treats as though they were
analogous subjects of regulation,
Keep Thoughts ts on Boys’ Lives.
Fionn the Plitsburg Post Post.
Leaders of the Senate majority
favorable to- American membership in
the world court are described as re-
luctant for “sentimental reasons” to
apply cloture to the little band of “ir-
reconcilables” that has been holding
back the desired action for something
like three years and is now conduect-
ing a filibuster against the measure.
It is understandable that the ma-
jority of the Senate, with each mem-
ber jealous of his own rights of speech
should seek to avoid anything that
would look like ruthless crushing of
a minority. There also may be a
sense of shame at the thought that
cloture should be necessary to permit
the United States to take one of the
most enlightened steps in its history.
Nevertheless it would seem that pa-
tience ‘with the obstruction of this
comparatively trivial minority against
the court proposition has ceased to
be a virtue.
Then there is an infinitely larger
question of sentiment involved in the
situation than that for the faces of
any group of Senators.
It is sentiment for saving the lives
of our young men from any war that
can honorably be avoided.
The world court is an important
step in that direction.
Let the majority keep their
thoughts on the lives of the boys of
the land and go roughshod, if nec-
essary, over any mere sentiment of
prejudice that gets in the way of war
prevention.
———— A ———.
Get your job work done here.
r of the domination
‘Produce |
has
Sl
The myth |
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The stockholders of of the Mifflin Coun-
ty Mutual Fire Insurance Company elect-
ed Ben Ruble president.
—The Brookville Title and Trust Comp-
any has promoted Assistant Treasurer
Frank B. Jones to be treasurer.
—Forty persons will be employed in a
new industry at Lucinda, near Clarion, a
plant to finish and polish plate glass.
—To promote a better feeling between
the farmers of that section of Fayette
county and the business men of Connells-
ville, a big banquet was held Tuesday
evening.
—~County Detective Davis arrested James
Wiliams, colored, at Hawstone, charged
with “robbing the window of the Mifflin
County Jewelry Company's store at
Lewistown, last Sunday.
—Two tramps narrowly escaped with
their lives early on Monday when the Dan-
ville lock-up caught fire and was damaged.
An overheated stove is blamed for the
blaze, which gave firemen a stubborn fight
for an hour before it was out.
—Only one jar out of 1000 jars of fruit
in the cellar of the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. M. Wenner, of I'ishing Creek township,
Columbia county, was broken when re-
moved while the home was burning. The
house, more than 100 years old, was a land-
mark and was destroyed with $8000 loss.
—State. authorities are being confronted
with possibility of losing some fine forest
lands which had been marked out for pur-
chase when the State gets money avail-
able. In the Bald Eagle district private
purchases have been large and may inter-
fere with State plans. It i§ a case of
where money talks.
—Westminister college stidénts have de-
clared, that is, the boys have declared,
that auburn hair is the prettiest. Out of
the 221 co-eds on the campus grounds,
47 girls had red fluffy hair, while the
blonds were considerably in the minority.
The boys were strong in favor of not so
much “fussing” by the girls on the school
grounds.
—A kindly old lady of New Castle has
asked- city council if she could not donate
a lot she owned for the purpose of erect-
ing a hospital for horses, dogs and cats.
The council members were quite stunned
by the offer, but it is altogether likely
that it will be accepted in good faith, and
that the poor animals of that city will be
well taken care of in the future.
““—The State Highway Department has
issued instructions to the motor patrol
that not more than three persons shall be
permitted to ride on the driver's seat of
‘an automobile, when the car is in motion
on a highway; and that at no time are
passengers to be permitted to ride om rum-
i ning boards, hoods or other places than
“those intended by the makers of the car.
: —Relatives of Steve Rodenizer, a na-
tive “of Huntingdon county: who became
‘strangely missing eleven years ago, have
‘instituted a nation-wide search for him.
At ‘the time of his disappearance he was
worrying over domestic trouble, it is said.
0 | Rodenizer was last’ seen at Johnstown,
‘Pennsylvania. A sister, Mrs. Jane Hag-
aus, and several brothers reside ‘near
Nefr's Mills, Huntingdon ‘county.
~The Lewisburg chair works were re-
cently sold .by order of the’ United States
district - court .at public sale “to Charles
Steele, of the Lewisburg Trust ‘and Safe
Deposit company, representing the stock-
holders and employes, who had formed a
corporation for the purchase of the plant,
which has been in receiver's hands for
the past two years.. The entire factory
and complete plant was sold for $200,000.
It had an appraised value of over $600.000.
—Calvin- E. Buck, 58 years old, died in
the Adrian hospital at Punxsutawney a
few hours after being injured in the Buf-
falo, Rochester & Pittsburgh roundhouse
as a result of an odd combinativn of cir-
cumstances. Employed as operator of the
turntable. at the local roundhouse, Buck
swung back a pair of huge doors to allow
a locomotive to enter. ‘He neglected to
fasten one of the doors securely and it
swung to, knocking Buck beneath: the
wheels of the engine.
—Mayor Hagerty, of Clearfield, has an-
nounced that hereafter he will impose a
sentence of five nights of attendance” at
Salvation Army meetings instead of "$5.25
fine on habitual drunks who appear in
police court.. A number of such individ-
uals have been before him several tihies
this month and when they could not ‘pay
the fine they were placed in the lockup
for five days. Their stay in the lockup
required meals and took up se mich’ of
an officer's time that the mayor believes
it will be cheaper to try to reform the of-
fenders.
—One of the worst fires that ever menac-
ed Dubois for some time occurred on Sat-
urday when the “Old Red Mill,” owned
and operated by The Dinger Milling comp-
any was completely destroyed, with a large
stock of grain and machinery. - The loss
will exceed $50,000. The mill was one of
the oldest manufacturing plants in that
section. It was built by Charles Notter,
30 years ago, and for many years turned
out practically all of the grist for the
farmers in that vicinity. The plant was
recently purchased by the Dinger Mill-
ing company, from L. M. Dinger.
—Caught under blazing timbers as the
roof of her home collapsed and later drop-
ped to the frozen ground from a second
story window by her frantic father, who
believed some one underneath would catch
her, Margaret, 15 year old daughter of Mr,
and Mrs. Leo Lovejoy, of Canton Pa. was
so serious injured lute Friday that she
died en Saturday night. Her brother,
Willard, 11 years old, also trapped, lived
but a few minutes after being carried out
by Lazelle Thomas, a fireman, who went
into the roaring furnace to save him. Carl
Lovejoy, 16 year old brother, and the
father also were burned, but will recover.
The mother, prostrated from grief, is in a
serious condition.
—R. Clyde Segner, aged 32, former clerk
in the office of county controller T. J. Un.
derwood, at Washington, Pa., entered a
plea of guilty on Monday afternoon to
charges growing out of speculations in
which he secured $27,310, and was sen-
tenced' by Judge James I. Brownson to
serve from two and one-half to five years
in the Washington county jail. A check
by experts shows that there ware fifty-
seven counts against Segner, twenty-eight
of forgery and twenty-nine of larceny. One
count referred to $19,147.50 worth of re-
deemed but not canceled county bonds and
interest on coupons, which Segner had
locked in his personal strongbhox. They
were discovered after his arrest.