INK SLINGS.
—A warm rain or a few days of
real sunshine would bring a flood of
damaging proportions.
~ —Anyway, the Leglsiature adjourn-
ed when it said it would. That's
something by way of keeping faith
with the people.
——The organization is cock sure ii
has Pinchot down and out but it was
equally certain of that four years ago,
at this stage of the campaign.
—Every time we get set to say
something mean about the weather a
wee voice, from somewhere, keeps
piping: Don’t do it, it might be worse.
——1It is generally admitted that
whoever Secretary Mellon favors will
be the Republican nominee for Gover-
nor, but nobody can‘ get Andy to
speak above a whisper.
—My, what a happy week it would
have been for us if Helen Wills had
defeated the Lenglen woman. She
didn’t do it, however, so we’re just
trying to be happy, anyway.
—The further we read into the diary
of Col. House the more amazed are
we at the versatility of the silent
Texan. As a private citizen he certain-
ly essayed roles never before under-
taken by men clothed with supreme
authority.
—Now that the coal strike is ended
the public should worry over the con-
troversey as to who settled it. Pin-
chot, personally, and friends of Sproul,
Davis and Grant started a precipitate
scramble for the glory. Nobody cares
who gets it. All the public wants is
the coal.
—Natural ice costs so little that few
people care to bother about putting it
up. If someone should corner all the
ponds in Centre county and charge
more for it than the artificial product
could be bought for there would
probably be a wild scramble to clean
out and fill up all the old ice houses in
the neighborhood.
" —Efforts of some of the Republican
papers of the State to pin a wreath on
Secretary of Labor Davis for having
settled the coal strike make it appear
to us as though mention of his name
in connection with the gubernatorial
nomination has not been as casual as it
seemed. This attempt to glorify the
Secretary looks very much like he was
being groomed for the race.
——
—During the year just closed Ash-
land planted ten thousand trees,
Bloomsburg four thousand, Chambers-
burg fifteen hundred, Williamsport
seven hundred and fifty, York over
twelve thousand and other towns and
cities planted in great numbers. And
during the same year Bellefonte did
~mothing but-cut-— down some of her
stateliest elms and maples .
—VFarmers should not attempt to
laugh off the warnings against the ad-
vance of the European corn borer. It
is probably the most dectructive pest
agriculturists in this country have
ever had to combat. Some years ago,
when science warned against the
chestnut blight the skeptics said: “Oh,
that’s just another of them things.”
What happened ? Living chestnut trees
are as scarce as hen teeth.
Talking about a scarcity of
good Democratic gubernatorial tim-
ber, why the woods are full of it.
Right now our mind is wandering up
the Bald Eagle valley and in Tyrone
looms J. K. Johnston. Where could a
cleaner, better type of successful bus-
iness man be found? And, besides,
Mr. Johnston knows his Pennsylvania,
its past problems and its present
needs and never having been in poli-
tics he would prove a leader behind
whom all factions could heartily rally.
—Mrs. Maude Seymour, vice presi-
dent for Pennsylvania, made a signif-
icant statement before the Pottsville,
W. C. T. U., on Monday evening. Mrs.
Seymour called attention to the fact
that four years ago every candidate
for Governor was “dry”, whereas at
present every presumptive candidate
is “wet.” Necessarily Mrs. Seymour
views the situation with alarm. We
don’t. The country is dry and going
to stay dry, unless the Eighteenth
amendment is repealed and nobody
alive today will live to see that done.
The sooner there is an end of befog-
ging every election with an issue that
has been settled the sooner the coun-
try will get down to the matter of
electing men to office because they are
fitted for it and mot because they have
taken a drink on occasion or refrained
from it.
—The front page of Monday’s
papers were certainly mirrors that
the country couldn't have much pride
in looking into, nor were they design-
ed to dispel the general gloom of the
day. All of them were devoted to fog,
hail, rain, thunder, moral turpitude,
stock dynamiters and sucker lists, the
Salm baby, boot-legging and mystery
killings. The only uplifting thing we
could find was the announcement that
young Rockerfeller is to give ten mil-
tion for a museum in Egypt and that
lifted us only high enough to see gaso-
line go up another cent a gallon. With
the metropolitan papers filled with
nothing but murders, infidelity and
trials of government officials caught
with “grease” on em and our own
crowded with notices of festivals, bake
sales, thimble bees, card parties and
this stuff what in the world is there
for a person who abhors sensation and
tittle-tattle to read? Its back to the
cross-word puzzle and the dictionary
for us.
VOL. 71.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. FEBRUARY 19. 1926. .
NO. 8.
Defy Decent Public Sentiment.
When the extra session of the As-
sembly on the second legislative day
of its existence fixed the day for final
of assembling the Watchman suggest-
ed that it might have a good or evil
effect on the work before it. If the
purpose had been to expedite business,
to give assiduous and honest attention
to the work for which it had been
called, it was a commendable act. On
the other hand, if the early date of
adjournment was set in order that the
ed off the caiander by dilly-dallying,
proposed legislation might be jockey-
ed off the calendar by dilly-dallying,
frequent and long continued recesses
and other methods of killing time, it
was in a high - degree reprehensible.
That fact must have been obvious to
all men.
We hoped, though it was a feeble
emotion, that the proceedings of the
session would reveal the high purpose.
We thought that at least a majority
of the Senators and Representatives
would make a show of responding to
public sentiment. Common sense
plainly dictated that policy. The Leg-
islators were chosen not to express
their individual prejudices or personal
interests. They were expected to rep-
resent the sentiments of their constit-
uents. It is impossible to believe that
a majority of the men and women of
Pennsylvania favor corrupt elections.
Yet their representatives in the Gen-
eral Assembly have so registered
them. They have chosen to entrench
fraud.
Senator Bonebrake voiced the pur-
pose of those who have prevented bal-
lot reform legislation when he said
that a declaration by Governor Pin-
chot that he would not be a candidate
for Senator in Congress would present
the proposed reform legislation in a
different light. They know that with
an honest vote and fair return the
Governor would defeat their pet can-
didate by a large majority. If the
Governor is a candidate, they want
the opportunity to debauch the elec-
tion, continued. But they are “cher-
ishing up wrath against the day of
wrath.” The people of Pennsylvania
are mere concerned for honest elec-
tions and just government than they
are for individual candidates, and
unless the signs are misleading they
will show it next fall.
——Just as a subject for mental
speculation we predict that the defeat
of the ballot reform bills will do Gov-
ernor Pinchot more good than harm.
Tax Bill Giving Trouble.
The tax bill, known as a bi-partisan
product, has passed the Senate after
a somewhat acrimonious debate and
is now in the hands of a conference
committee. As the measure passed in
the House of Representative it pro-
vided for tax reductions estimated at
$327,000,000. In the Senate commit-
tee additional cuts made a probable
tax reduction of about $356,000,000.
As passed in the Senate the reduction
would amount to at least $456,000,000.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon rec-
ommended cuts to the total of $300,
000,000. The ranking Democrat on
the House committee on Ways and
Means, and the ranking Democrat on
the Senate committee on Finance pro-
tested that a cut of $500,000,000 might
and should be made.
The administration in Washington
is much perturbed over the condition
which the action of Congress implies.
In a recent speech Mr. Coolidge boast-
ed of the economy which enabled him
to effect a saving of the $300,000,000
which his plan contemplated and
promised other decreases at intervals.
The decrease in taxation this year was
expected to appeal to voters in the
Congressional campaign this fall and
the next Congress could make a simi-
lar appeal to serve in the Presidential
campaign of 1928, when he expects to
be re-elected. But the present de-
crease of $456,000,000 will disappoint
his expectations, It will leave enough
revenue to meet the requirements of
the government, but little surplus.
Senator Simmons believes that a
cut of half a billion dollars might have
been made at this time without im-
pairment of the service and he is prob-
ably right. But the Republican party
is in the majority in both branches of
Congress and it was impossible to
secure a greater decrease in taxes.
The figures in the bill now in confer-
ence are much closer to his estimate
than to that of the administration, but
a strenuous effort will be made to alter
it. If by application of the party
whip the taxes are increased to the
figure which the administration is now
willing to concede, $356,000,000, the
country will have the Republican party
to blame. It will be taxing the people
for other than revenue purposes.
——The trouble with Senator Borah
is that he imagines nobody is good
enough to associate with him,
adjournment five weeks from the time '
Settlement of the Coal Strike.
1
|
| An agreement having been arrived .
at between the coal miners and mine
! owners for resuming operations a new
and vexed subject of controversy has
arisen. The Republican political ma-
chine has set out to show that Gover-
nor Pinchot rendered no aid in the
achievement. Considering that the
Governor has been investing much of
his time and thought in the matter
ever since the negotiations began in
August at Atlantic City, and that one
of the plans considered was known as
his plan, this would seem to be a diffi-
Grave Offense if True.
If the charge publicly made by
Governor Pinchot that Auditor Gener-
al Martin “padded” his expense ac-
“count in responding to the resolution
cult undertaking. But the machine
politicians are resourceful and un-
restrained by conscience and may be |
able to confuse the minds of a good
many well meaning people on the sub-
ject.
Thus far the only palpable progress
asking for a comparative statement of
the expense of his administration as
compared with those of some of his
predecessors is true, the Auditor Gen-
eral is guilty of an official atrocity
that has an only parallel in the act of |
former Attorney General Daugherty
when he sent secret service men of the
government to “frame up” something
against Senator Wheeler, of Montana.
The purpose of the resolution was to
' show that Governor Pinchot’s claims
of economy were false and that in-
stead of saving money for the State
, he wasted vast sums.
made in this direction is the setting
up of a claim that the influence or the
effort of Secretary of Labor Davis, a
possible candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor, and former
Governor Sproul, who also indulges
political aspirations, accomplished the
result. It is true that Secretary Davis
maintained “a listening post” during
the Atlantic City conferences but
thera is no record of any plan of set-
tlement or suggestion of terms made
by him, while no mention was made
of Mr. Sproul’s activities during the
entire period of the strike. President
Coolidge frankly declares that neither
he ner any agent of the federal gov-
ernment had anything to do with the
matter.
The truth is that the coal miners
and mine owners settled the differ-
ences between themselves for the rea-
son that they were alike convinced of
the folly and futility of further con-
i tention. It had already cost the
{ miners something like $150,000,000
rand the owners vast sums, and both
sides had wasted as much as they
[could afford. The late President
‘Roosevelt acquired the Nobel prize for
getting Russia and Japan to agree to
| terms of peace when both combatants
| were so completely exhausted that it
i was physically and financially impos-
‘sible to continue the struggle, and the
{ Republican politicians are now trying
| to emulate his example by securing
for some party favorite a more or less
valuable political prize.
|
: Congressman Vare is gradually
, getting down to his proper level. First
i he demanded the nomination for Sena-
, tor. Next he aspired only to name the
‘candidate for Governor. Then he
| dropped back to a plea for the candi-
i date for Secretary of Internal Affairs.
| Maybe in the end he will be allowed
to select the candidate for constable of
‘the First ward.
Ballot Reform Defeated.
Among the ballot reform bills de-
feated in the Senate, on Monday even-
ing, were compulsory opening of bai-
lot boxes on allegation of fraud: re-
striction of assistance to voters; per-
mitting citizens to inspect election
records; eliminating the chain ballot
system; requiring jail penalties for
election law violations; and prompt
computation of the vote. There were
others upon which honest men might
disagree, but it is not easy to see how
or why an honest man or woman could
object to the purpose of the measures
enumerated. They could do no harm
to any candidate or party who or
which had a majority of the votes in
the voting district. The only effect
they could have on the result would
be to guarantee justice.
An analysis of the discussion of the
measures in the Senate reveals the
impression that the opposition was
based on a theory that the bills were
administration measures. That is
absolutely false. It is true that Gov-
ernor Pinchot favored the legislation
but he did not originate it or put it in
form. After the exposure of gross
frauds in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and
Scranton, last fall, the Governor in-
vited a group of high class citizens to
assemble, investigate and suggest
remedies for the evil which was uni-
versally admitted. This body of
eminently respectable and admittedly
intelligent men and women framed the
legislation.
It was neither partisan nor faction-
al in construction or purpose. It was
simply, in the estimation of the volun-
tary commission, a medium of pre-
venting fraud in the casting and
counting of votes. The Republican
organization opposed the legislation
for the reason that the leaders of that
party realize the fact that an honest
vote and fair count in Pennsylvania
will drive the party out of power and
might send some of the leaders into
prisons. It remains to be seen whether
or not the people of the State will
justify such a betrayal of faith. If
they are just to themselves, if they
are true to the voice of their con-
sciences, the conspirators will be dis-
appointed in their expectations.
' given period of time.
The fact is that administrative ex-
travagance is not measured by the
amount of money distributed within a |
If that were
the standard it might be possible to
show that the Pinchot administration |
has been expensive. It is certain that
the revenues were increased consid-
erably by doubling the gasoline tax
and adding other items to the subjects
of taxation. But the increased reve-
nues were needed to pay the increased |
appropriations made by the same
Legislature that added to the revenues
and to meet the demands upon the
treasury caused by deficits of the
Sproul administration. When Gov-
ernor Pinchot assumed office there was
a debt of nearly $30,000,000 hanging
over his head. This has been paid
and there is now a big balance in the
treasury.
As a matter of fact the Governor
has very little to do with the disburse-
ments of the State except in so far as
he approves the appropriations made
by the Legislature. He can exercise
some discretion in exacting full ser-
vice for the money paid and may cut
the appropriations to a point within
the limit of the revenues. But he has
no right to expend money without ap-
propriations, or in excess of the ap-
propriations, and this seems to have
been the cause of complaint against
his predecessors. No one has accused
Mz. Pinchot of this form of misfeas-
aneé and no one has a right to juggle
figures to make the public believe that
his administration has been profligate
instead of economical, as he claims.
—The House diary of his associa-
tion with Woodrow Wilson ought to
be of intense interest to every one,
since it is a close-up of what went on
during the greatest crises that ever
confronted our country. It is of pecu-
liar interest to us because it aids in
the obfuscation of three old Democrats
who stopped reading the Watchman
because, after devoted advocation, it
realized that Mr. Bryan was a forlorn
hope as a presidential possibility. We
have reason to believe that each one
of our critics fell for the K. K. K.
movement. And just because we know
they are klansmen we take an unholy
delight in hoping they will see this
paragraph because it is written only
to tell them that it was Bryan who
urged Wilson to put a Jew and a
Catholic in his cabinet.
——We are not yet convinced that
the groundhog has anything to do with
the weather, or is any more competent
to prognosticate than the paid gov-
ernment forecasters, but whether he
has or not, we have had nothing but
real Simonpure winter weather since
Candlemas day. But there is an end to
all things and March will soon be here
when we may naturally expect some
nice days scattered among the dis-
agreeable ones.
——Senator Pepper somewhat in-
dignantly denies the rumor that he
had entered into an agreement to
make Vare a Senator in Congress.
We don’t blame him for resenting such
an aspersion.
——The man who ended the coal
strike has become enveloped in the
mystery which has so long concealed
the identity of “the man who struck
Billy Patterson.”
——The income tax payers are in.
debted to the Democrats in Congress
for the reduced levies. Even Secre-
tary Mellon ought to feel grateful.
——1If Governor Pinchot should not
become a candidate for Senator the
Republican leaders will wonder why
they made fools of themselves.
oa.
——Premier Mussolini has managed
to maintain power in Italy longer than |
was expected, but present indications
are that he is getting: too gay.
——The Tener gubernatorial boom
is creating little comment these days
but it is still hovering around.
A mss nmmm————
——The man who embarks on the
sea of matrimony should never rock
the boat.
| Who Did It?
From The Philadelphia Record.
i The identity of the miscreant who
struck Billy Paterson is one of the
insoluble enigmas of the age, and even
‘the victim of the historic assault is
known but by a shadowy name. To
that baffling mystery is now added
; another: Whose was the genius, if
‘any, that accomplished settlement of
| the anthracite strike?
After the months of dreary and
profitless wrangling over such triv-
‘ialities as the fate of a great industry
rand the rights of the public, it is a
‘relief to turn to a controversy not
less intense and a good deal more en-
| tertaining. The agility and prompt-
-itude exhibited by the claimants and
| their partisans have evoked universal
‘admiration. Governor Pinchot is even
j accused of snatching for fame with a
| premature announcement of the peace.
: The Secretary of Labor modestly
| broadcast an account of his own
achievements. President Coolidge,
Senator Copeland, the Republican
party, the Democratic party, policies
of intervention and policies of master-
ly inactivity—all these were instantly
and clamorously acclaimed. Perhaps
the most effective voice was that of
Richard F. Grant, a coal operator of
Cleveland, who caught the public ear
with a satirical repudiation of all
political influences whatsoever and
pinned the medal of distinction upon
his own breast.
The scramble for credit has pro-
duced highly diverting spectacles. The
Republican leader in the House con-
gratulates that body upon having
saved the situation by refusing to at-
tempt or advise intervention. Mr.
Copeland declares that the Senate
“precipitated the settlement” by pur-
suing a course exactly the opposite,
while he himself is decorated by Sen-
ator Pat Harrison. The New York
Herald Tribune prostrates itself be-
fore “the President’s sound policy,”
while the White House spokesman
emphatically disclaims any part in the
affair. Meanwhile an anti-Pinchot
organ laboriously seeks to brand the
Governor as a marplot, and to exalt
Secretary Davis and former Governor
Sproul—a partisan performance which
is sufficiently discredited by a cordial
tribute to Mr. Pinchot from the leader
of the miners.
All these attempts to attribute the
settlement to a single influence are in-
consequential and patently absurd.
The result was due to many diverse
causes and forces. Both sides were
under financial strain, which to the
miners was becoming insupportable.
Adjustment of the consumers to the
subject of Governmental regulation,
use of substitute fuels not only de-
prived the contending groups of sup-
port from the public, but warned them
that the market for anthracite was
being permanently impaired. Laws
making the industry a public utility
as proposed three years ago by the
Federal Coal Commission, were being
advocated in Congress and by Gov-
ernor Pinchot, and both the operators
and the union shrank from the ‘Pros-
pect of such control. If there was one
factor of outstanding importance, it
was the rational plan formulated by
Alvan Markle, the rejection of which
left the deadlock without a shred of
justification.
. In a word the struggle was term-
inated when the cumulative effects of
the various considerations forced a
compromise. The voluble Mr. Grant
had the good fortune to be accept-
able as mediator in the final negotia-
tions, but his idea that he is the only
figure in the parade of peacemakers
Is a rather amusing delusion.
The Motor of Faith.
By B. C. Forbes, in Forbes Magazine.
Pity the human being that is not
able to connect a motor of faith with-
in himself with the Infinite. The man
without faith is as a ship without an
anchor, as an airship without a rud-
der, as an auto without a steering
wheel. More, he is as a tree whose
roots have no water, a human being
trying to breathe without oxygen. The
man whose inner motor of faith draws
power from the unseen has within him
a strength unconquerable, a spirit in-
vincible, a confidence that can move
mountains.
He who has not faith has ego—ego
swollen to the nth degree. And that
never has a happy ending. He who
has faith has also humility. He
knows his own littleness by and of
himself; but he has an inward res-
ervoir of courage, hope, confidence,
calmness, an assuring trust that all
will eome out well—even though to
the world it may appear to come out
most badly. Is not the acme of
‘achievement by the human soul the
attainment of that state whereby it
can say with all sincerity and rec-
onciliation and cheerfulness, “Thy will
be done ?”
Is not faith after all, the only abid-
ing fount of human happiness? And
is not that what we mortals thirst
for most of all?
——The extra session will cost ex-
actly $254,000. The machine controll-
ed newspapers which declared it
would “waste a million dollars” were
about as nearly correct as usual.
——The improvement in the meth-
ods of collecting’ the gasoline tax will
yield more than the cost of the extra
session and all the other benefits will
be cledr gain.
. SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Bloomsburg bricklayers have given
notice that after March 15 they will in-
crease their rates from $1.25 to $1.50 an
hour,
—Charles H. Hoffman has been elected
secretary of the Lewistown Chamber of
Commerce to succeed Charles I. Myrick,
who disappeared in December.
—The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the Altoona diocese of the
Catholic church will be celebrated by the
laying of the cornerstone of the cathedral
in Altoona on May 30.
—A verdict of $10,389.50 has been return-
ed in the Franklin county courts in favor
of Jacob R. Statler, farmer, in his action
for damages against the Pennsylvania
Railroad company, as the result of the
burning of his barn in 1923. The Statler
farm is adjacent to the railroad tracks.
—An aerolite which weighs sixty-five
pounds has been presented to the Histori-
cal Society, of York county. This rare
curiosity of astronomical science landed on
the farm of Emanuel Knaub, near the
borough of Manchester, about two years
ago. The stone is composed of nickel,
iron, silica, sulphur, aluminum, manganese,
ete.
Facing charges of forgery and embazzle-
ment, Mrs. Mary D. Camwell, 32, pretty
widow, a clerk in the Midland Savings &
Trust company, of Midland, is in the
Beaver jail in default of $10,000 bail for a
hearing on Friday. Information against
Mrs. Camwell was made by W. C. Ferry, an
examiner of the State Department of Bank-
ing in Harrisburg.
—A sentence of not less than ten or
more than twenty years in the eastern
penitentiary, was given Quentin Tarr,
Shamokin negro convicted of the murder
of Edward Purcell, av Shamokin last
month. He was convicted of second de-
gree murder, just a month after the
killing. District Attorney Raker said it
was the quickest conviction for a major
case in the history of Northumberland
county.
—One of the largest verdicts returned
against the city of Pittsburgh in recent
years as a result of personal injury was
found by a jury in common pleas court
before Judge Nelson McVicar last Thurs-
day, in the case of Henry Harris who was
awarded $10,500 for permanent injuries
suffered October 22, 1922, when he stepped
into a hole on Creighton road, in the
Twentieth ward. The plaintiff, who is
62 years old, was unable to appear in court
and his testimony had to be taken in a
deposition at his bedside.
—“Ring,” J. L. Headlee’s black and tan
coon dog which had the distinction of be-
ing the first canine prisoner ever lodged
in the Greene county jail, was sold for $60
to Clarence Taylor last week by Sheriff
Arno S. McClelland. His value had been
placed at $100. The sale attracted a large
crowd of coon hunters and bidding on the
dog was lively. The dog was seized by
Sheriff McClelland when he executed a
lien on Headlee's personal property for
nonpayment of a debt. The dog was the
only property Headlee had.
—Mrs. Minnie Torrance, of Parnassus,
who last week was granted a divorce from
William P. Torrance, was a good pro-
vider, according to her testimony in the
divorce actien in which she charged cruel
and barbarous treatment and desertion.
Mrs. Torrance told the master that when
married 12 years ago there was mo honey-
moon. Determined to have a wedding
trip, Mrs. Torrance said she earned $100,
after which the couple went to Niagara
Falls, at her expense. She paid her hus-
band's tailor bills, his liquor bills, and
finally, when her husband gave three
notes for $100 each on money he borrow-
ed, she paid them.
—Learning on Friday of the agreement
to settle the anthracite strike, William
Kittson aged 29 years, who was in Potts-
town in search of work, and who was
practically penniless, started to walk from
there to Shenandoah, a distance of skventy
miles, in order to be ready for work in
the mines when the official order was given.
He tramped day and night over the snow-
covered raods, having had no sleep, and
had reached St. Nicholas on Sunday,
almost fagged out and only a mile from
home, when he was run down by an auto-
mobile driven by Chester Klechner, of Bos-
ton Run, and now lies in a eritical condi-
tion in the State hospital.
—A 10-pound piece of cast iron, hurled
through the air for half a mile, from
Atlantic furnace of the Republic Iron and
Steel company, at New Castle, which is be-
ing dismantled, crashed through the roof
of the home of J. R. Gush last Wednesday
night and just missed Bud, 6 years old,
and Irene, 3 years old, who were playing
in a second floor room. The iron broke
one of the roof rafters, tore off a clothes
press door and made a large hole in the
floor where it stopped. A baby on the
first floor under the point where the iron
stopped would have been crushed had the
iron gone through. The Gush home is
situated at an elevation of at least 200
feet above the site of the furnace.
—Lawrence I. Ewing, former chief of
police of Juniata, is under arrest charged
with breaking into and robbing Harry E.
Leonard's poolroom in Juniata last Tues-
day morning, $1,500 worth of merchandise
being taken. A search of Ewing's house
resulted in the finding of several hundred
dollars’ worth of silk in rolls and dresses
supposed to have been stolen from Miss
Lydia Lang's dry goods store in Juniata
last April. The goods were hidden under
a partition in the attic of the Ewing home.
The goods taken from the poolroom were
also found. Ewing is employed as a brake-
man in the Juniata yards of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company. During his ser-
vice as chief of police he shot and serious-
ly wounded a man he was attempting to
arrest on a charge of disorderly conduct.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. T. McFadden, their
daughter, Madeline, 11, and their sons,
Thomas, 9; Merle, 4, and Walter, 2 years
old, of Bellwood, were painfully injured
on Saturday afternoon when a touring car
driven by the father skidded off the bridge
in Mann's Narrows, turned over and land-
ed on the top in Kishacoquillas creek,
twelve feet below. All would have drown-
ed only for the prompt action of the in-
mates of other cars who saw the accident
and fished them from their perilous posi-
tion. Mrs. McFadden sustained a fracture
of the nose. The others escaped with con-
tusions, lacerations and an icy bath. The
bridge is a one-way temporary span, built
by the State Highway Department one
year ago after a furniture van had gone
into the creek, endangering the lives of
two men,