mms pe
INK SLINGS.
—In six days we'll all be wearin’
©’ the green. :
—March is nearly half gone and
then April and a few summer months
and winter again.
After awhile this country will
be as anxious to join the League of
Nations as Germany is now.
—Up to this writing we have heard
of no Democrat with ambitions to rep-
resent this District in Congress.
—OQur invitation to investors to get
in on the dandruff cure seems not to
have been couched in pulling enough
language. As yet no one has offered to
take a “flier” in our proposed infant
industry.
—If*the new litigation in the Centre
county bank case really gets started
going again the creditors are likely to
discover that the old “Trail of the
Lonesome Pine” didn’t know anything
about “a long, long trail awinding.”
—Let us hope that the two hundred
thousand dellar verdict that this Mrs.
Brewster got against her eriant
spouse has more substance back of it
than it would have were ‘the same
debacle to have occurred in our family.
—And the prophets say we are to
have ‘two more real snows and a bliz-
zard before we can begin to talk of
saplin benders, onion snows, poor
man’s manures and all the other va-
rieties of light falls that may be
looked for in April.
—Bishop Hughes, who has just
:come in from Chicago to preside over
a few Methodist conferences down in
Jersey .and our ewn, soon to be held
in Berwick, seems never to have
‘grown old. Tt is our dope that he
didn’t duck to the storm cellar or hide
his head in the sand when he saw the
.... waves of ultra-modernization surging
over the land. Bishop Hughes evi-
dently jumped right onto the crest of
them and has been riding them out,
for he speaks mouthsfull when he says
that the bobbed hair and short skirts
of today are incomparably prettier
and more sensible than were bangs
and bustles of the eighties.
. —The Democracy of Pennsylvania
is going to have a great chance to do
something for the State this year. The
opposition is leaderless and torn
‘asunder by factional strife and per-
sonal ambition. The signs of good
‘omen were never as vivid on the polit-
ical horizon as they are today. But
we’re worried lest the meeting of the
State Committee which chairman
Bigelow has called for the 18th will
gum the works. Just as sure as the
gentlemen who gather in Philadelphia
“point the finger of preference at any
candidate for any office hope will be
gone. "If there is a fair field and no
favor on May 18th, when the primaries
are to be held, a majority of the Demo-
crats of the State will name our candi-
dates and, after such an uninfluenced
expression of the majority has been
recorded, those who do not support
the ticket are not Democrats. The
real fundamentalism of Democracy is
‘the will or wish of the majority and
that can not be expressed by the gen-
tlemen who will gather in Philadel-
phia on Saturday.
—A New York broker is evidently
obsessed with the idea that the Watch-
man thinks the country is going to the
“‘demnition bow-vows.” We never have
thought such a thought. In truth we
are continually rhyming the Coueism
that every day in every way things
are getting a bit better. The indirect
correspondent quotes from James
Gould Cozzen’s “Michael Scarlet” to
prove that England, after her war
with Spain, thought just the same—
and was fooled—as is misconceiving
America today, that the present gen-
eration is all wrong. The gentleman
isn’t going to get a rise out of us.
We refer him to another paragraph in
this column in which we admit that
Bishop Hughes has the right idea.
We're for the Bishop’s conception of
things until some one shows us that
there are less children answering
“present” in the Sunday schools, fewer
adults attending church and a shrink-
age in the contributions of Christians
to the cause of world-wide evangelism
for they are the straws that indicate
the trend of the times.
—One of the local enigmas to us is
why Bellefonte doesn’t grow. While
we have no building booms anyone
who walks about the town will see a
house here and a house there under
construction. We are almost con-
tinually building and rarely tear-
ing down, yet the accretion to popula-
tion is so slight as to be almost negli-
gible, unless the next census has in
store for us a very agreeable surprise.
Of course, if the corporate limits of
the borough were extended to take in
all the territory served by our public
utilities the town population would
jump materially, but the gradual
building we refer to is within the bor-
ough and that is why the question has
always appeared so inexplicable to us.
There is only one explanation that has
ever approached explaining the
anomoly. It is that we are threatened
with race suicide. The families of six
and eight and ten of yester-year have
dwindled to two and four and six to-
day. It isn’t a pleasant outlook, but
its a fact, none the less, that the
greatest danger of the future in this
country will be brought about by
under production of enough native
sons and daughters to maintain our
ideals against the foreign idea that is
coming to live among us.
VOL. 71.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Obligations of Democrats.
In the confusion which envelopes
the Republican organization in Penn-
sylvania the Democrats of the State
should keep in mind the fact that they
have obligations to meet in the im-
pending campaign for Governor, Sena-
tor and other important offices. By
its acts during the special session of
the General Assembly the Republican
organization has committed itself to
electoral frauds.
confession that upon a fair vote and
just return it is unable to maintain
its ascendency in the government of
the Commonwealth. This acknowl-
edgment creates the dominant issue
of the campaign. The question to be
determined is whether honest or dis-
honest elections shall prevail.
In this civic obligation the Demo-
crats of Pennsylvania have an im-
portant part to perform. They will
meet this obligation by nominating
candidates who have no greater claim
on public confidence than that they
are consistent Democrats of good
repute and decent life. The Repub-
lican candidates are likely to meet
this requirement and there would
be no persuasive reason for selecting
one group as against the other. The
candidates of the minority party must
present an appeal to the voters that
will command attention. In this year
of opportunity the Democratic candi-
date for Governor, Senator and the
other offices to be filled must be out-
standing men, not only militandy
honest but essentially fit for the ser-
vice.
It doesn’t matter much under ex-
isting conditions whether the candi-
dates be men who favored the Eigh-
teenth amendment to the constitution
or believe in the modification or main-
tenance of the Volstead act. They
must favor law enforcement and have
ability and courage to fulfill their
obligations under the law. But there
is no issue of “wet” or “dry” and no
obligation to enforce one law more
than another or wink at infraction of
one law because the party might be
benefitted by such conduct. If the
Democrats of Pennsylvania nominate
such-meny~and there are plenity of
them within the party, their success
is certain.
——Judge Johnson, of the Federal |
court for this district, seems to be an
unusual official. He protests against
an additional judge and declares that
he is able to do all the business of the
court.
Pinchot’s Peculiar Attitude.
Governor Pinchot “has lost his cun-
ning” or else he is fooling the public
on the question of his candidacy for
Senator in Congress. He is letting
his opportunities slip away, if he in-
tends to be a candidate, and is hardly
fair to his friends if he doesn’t. The
primary is only a few weeks off and
organization is a slow process. Thus
far the Governor has given no sign of
his purpose. If he had a fairly per-
fect organization, fairly well equipped
for instant and effective action, there
might be reason in the inactivity. But
he has no such organization in sight
and no signs of it in perspective. |!
Under the circumstances his plans are | served notice on him that he must |¢
“out of joint,” or his preparations
wanting.
The Pepper orgainzation is well
equipped and abundantly supplied.
The Republican organization is behind
it with all its force and energy and the
corporate interests are ready to “go
the limit.” The candidate has not |
made strong ' appeal
though admired for his dignity and
ability, and accepted as a necessity.
Vare has his machine drilled up to the
highest point of efficiency and the
“wets” are very earnest for him. But
Pinchot is neither prepared nor con- :
cerned about the matter. The natural
inference is that he is either out of the
race or indifferent to the future of his
friends. He has lost his cunning or
else he is sacrificing his friends un-
justly.
If the Governor intends to run for
the office of Senator he ought to take
the necessary steps to organize. If
he doesn’t intend to be a candidate he
ought to release his friends so that
they might make other alliances as
between the remaining candidates. A
good many ofthe supporters of Pin-
chot might prefer Pepper to Vare, in
the event Pinchot is not a candidate,
and it would be only fair to give them
a chance to exercise the choice. But
possibly Pinchot is indifferent as be-
tween the other candidates and cares
only for himself. He has been charged
with selfishness in politics as well as
in other things and possibly character
doesn’t cut much ice with him.
—If Mayor Kendrick, of Philadel-
phia, should become an aspirant for
the Republican nomination for Gov-
ernor we would suggest to his oppo-
nents that they have Gen. Smedley
Butler detailed for a short service in
“Pennsylvania,
It has made open |
to the voters,
Vare a Candidate for Senator.
determined to become a candidate for
the Republican nomination for Sena-
tor. He deliberated a long time on
the subject and estimated the chances
from every angle. He is not deceived
on the subject of his personal popu-
larity.
colleagues as a scarlet fever patient at
a Sunday school picnic. But he accur-
ately figures that he has the goods and
| control of the market. The city of
| Philadelphia, according to his esti-
. mate, can poll one-half the entire
| State vote at the primary. The Vare
' political machine can poll ninety per
cent. of the Philadelphia primary vote
and control the vote of the State.
' If the extra session of the Legisla-
ture had enacted legislation to pro-
tect the vote from fraud Mr. Vare
would not have been a candidate for
Senator and Senator Pepper’s renomi-
nation would have been assured. But
the friends of Senator Pepper allowed
the Vare machine to lull them into a
false impression that frauds would
not be practiced against them but
would be reserved for their Democrat-
ic opponents at the general election.
They are now waking up to the hor-
rible fact that Mr. Vare uses his am-
munition wherever it promises re-
sults, and at present the greatest ex-
pectations come from the primary
vote. Pepper mayhave all the strength
he expects in the country but the city
vote will swamp him.
t It is not flattering to the vanity of
State chairman W. Harry Baker that a
man of the mental calibre and equip-
| ment of Vare could have so completely
hood-winked him in the matter of bal-
i lot reform. With a fair primary vote
| Vare never could have had “a look-in”
'in a State-wide contest. His methods
have long been under popular con-
, demnation among the voters of the
| country districts, and it may be doubt-
“ed if he could have secured a consid-
erable majority in Philadelphia, Pitts-
burgh and Scranton, But with the op-
' portunities for fraud now available it
‘may be doubted if Pepper will get any
. votes at all in the machine controlled
| districts. And there would be some-
| thing like justice in such a result.
——Of course our advice has not
been asked but we have the right to
suggest that the defeated candidate
for the Republican nomination for
. Governor, four years ago, is fitter for
i the office than any of the candidates
| thus far mentioned this year.
Bill Vare Thrown Down.
The latest development in Repub-
lican factional politics almost forces
fair minded observers to an expres-
‘sion of sympathy for Congressman
{ Vare. From the beginning of his
. somewhat sinister career in public life
: he has been a servile tool of corporate
| interests. And just as he had attain-
ed what he believed to be the reali-
‘zation of his ambition the in-
terests he has so slavishly served gave
; him notice that his hopes must be re-
: linquished. On Monday last, accord-
ing to current political gossip, the
corporate interests of Philadelphia
| step aside in order that George Whar-
‘ ton Pepper may continue to represent
them in the Senate at Washington.
There is little in the record of Con-
. gressman Vare to enlist popular sym-
pathy. He has always been a sordid,
selfish and grasping boss. He has not
~only monopolized the offices but the
honorary favors of his party. Such
honorary offices as delegate to con-
ventions, chairmanships of meetings
and similar favors have been forced
from reluctant followers as natural
heritages of his boss-ship. It may be
true that “he pays the freight” to a
considerable extent in the maintenance
of the organization, but a generous
man would show some consideration
for the ambitions of those who helped
and hand a compliment here and there
to a willing worker who had shared in
the achievement.
But even in the face of this long
drawn out record of selfishness it is
more or less pathetic to see a boss of
the type of Vare literally thrown
down and tramped upon by the inter-
ests he had slavishly served for years,
not because his attitude with respect
to them has changed but for the rea-
son that his limited capacity creates a
doubt as to his efficiency in the future.
He dcesn’t measure up to the require-
ments of present day corporate in-
terests. He may do well enough as the
agent of monopoly in city hall or in
the House of Representatives in
Washington. But the lobbyist in the
Senate must be a man of larger equip-
ment and George Wharton Pepper
more nearly fills the bill,
——At present
party in Pennsylvania is shy on
leaders. Later on it may be shy on
voters. Teli
Congressman Vare has prectically |
during the extra session of the Gen-
He understands that he is;
about as popular among his party |
the Republican |
: Bad Legislation Killed.
The veto of the resolution adopted
eral Assembly providing for a com-
mission to codify the election laws is
a fitting finale of a most shameless
conspiracy to perpetuate and legalize
crime. Senator Schantz, of Lehigh
county, who appears to be of the hard-
boiled variety of political buccaneers,
was the author of the resolution and
he made no concealment of his pur-
pose to prevent real ballot reform leg-
islation through the medium of this
“smoke screen.” It would have opened
up a vast field in which to cultivate
might have been instrumental in keep-
ing such party leaders as the Lehigh
Senator in office for some time.
The Schantz resolution contemplat-
ed a commission, four-fifths of the
membership of which have been con-
firmed political crooks. These masters
in ballot polution would have been
authorized to spend a few years in the
study of devices to commit and pro-
tect fraud and finally report at a sub-
sequent session of the Legislature.
The report would be rejected, of
{ course, but the purpose of its author
would have been accomplished, which
was to prevent immediate ballot re-
form legislation. It is not likely that
men of the Schantz type will long re-
main in public life but they will strive
by every process of fraud to hold on as
long as possible. The veto of the res-
olution in question hastens their end.
Senator Schantz imagined that the
majority of the people of fhe State
could be deceived by such a palpable
false pretense. He assumed that the
average voter would accept as in good
faith a promise of a future remedy
for a present malady. The opportun-
ity was present to make instant appli-
cation of the remedy. But he pre-
ferred to give promise for the future,
It is the easiest way of meeting obli-
| gations. But in the case in point it
| hadn’t even the virtue of sincerity.
The only way to treat it was that
adopted by the Governor. It is as
“dead as a door nail,” and nothing re-
gins of it except an unpleasant mem-
ofy and a bad smell, but these may
endure for a long time.
Price of Spuds is “Slipping.”
Inquiry of Bellefonte grocers this
week brought forth the information
that the price of potatoes is “slip-
ping.” For several weeks past the
spuds have been selling at $2.00 a
bushel and according to one grocery-
man he has had calls from a number
of farmers who would like to unload
their surplus stock at that price, but
every indication is for a drop in price
and dealers are not stocking up very
heavy. On the other hand, county
agent R. C. Blaney is of the opinion
that the big bulk of last year’s crop
has been marketed and that there is
very little surplus stock held by the
farmers of Centre county.
Over in Clearfield county, it is said,
there are still thousands of bushels
in the farmer’s bins, which are being
held for a still further increase in
price, <
mare yh
——We want to go on record with a
declaration that we have more respect
or the groundhog than ever before,
There was a period of less than five
minutes on February 2nd when that
crafty little animal was able to see his
shadow but it evidently sufficed to
scare him back into his hole. Now we
are really not superstitious enough to
credit the wood-chuck with having
anything to do with regulating the
weather, and it is a long stretch on
our credulity to believe that he is in
the same class as a prognosticator as
Wesley Jarrett is as a prestidigitator,
I but there is no denying the fact that
our severest winter weather has been
from the first of February to date,
with comparatively few warm days,
and we are pining for the balmy days
| of springtime. Fortunately the hog-
ship reign will end next Monday, in
‘just nine more days spring will be
‘here and its only thirty-five days until
the opening of the trout fishing sea-
son.
atte A rt Poe
—With the failure of Senator Mag-
‘nus Johnson of Minnesota, to win his
jcontest for Senator Schall’s seat
‘another of the accidents of politics
‘ goes back into oblivion.
——American songbirds appear to
, be coming into their own. Three suc-
i cessful aspirants have appeared on
the stage within a few weeks.
——We will know in a few days or
so whether Vare has courage enough
to buck the machine.
——Heaven spare the country from
“hearings” on the prohibition modi-
fication’ bills,
. —=Still Vare might take a notion
to run. anyway and that would make
trouble.
ballot corruption of various kinds and | ters of the American Revolution Were
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MARCH 12, 1926.
NO. 11.
To a Voice.
And, when I heard you sing,
It made me think
Of all the joy and gladness
You would bring
To those who listened well,
And sensed the lovely, vibrant thing
We call the Voice:
God’s pulsing bell.
—W. B. Meek-Morris.
D. A. R. Holds Two Very Interesting
Meetings.
Following the custom of meeting
alternately at State College and Belle.
fonte the local chapter of the Daugh-
guests of Mrs. P. H. Dale, Mrs. W. W.
Braman, Miss Goddard, Mrs. W. R:
Ham and Miss Thompson at the Uni-
versity club in State College the even-
ing of February 4th, and Mrs. John I.
Olewine, Mrs. Louisa V. Harris, Mrs.
N. B: Spangler and Mrs. Ivan Walker
at the Brockerhoff house, in Belle-
fonte, on the evening of March 4th.
Good music made the February
meeting memorable and so, in no less
degree, did the travel talk of Dr.
Lucretia Van Tuyl Simmons, of State
College, the March 4th one. ' In point-
ing out the many American shrines
abroad Dr. Simmons so linked the old
country with the new that in imagina-
tion there did not seem to be an ocean
between, nor truth on the pages re-
cording periods of discord. Brighten-
ed every here and there with sparkles
of humor the theme was developed
convincingly, the mother country is
not without “national feeling,” our
Washingtons and Lincolns are honored
within her borders; and with the ring
of the unanswered historian Dr. Sim-
mons said that the Puritans showed
more broadness of mind than have
their detractors, and that the fineness
of texture and the substantiality of
the American make-up came from the
fact that the English were predomi-
nantly our forbears; that if we had
been of French, Italian, Spanish ori-
gin these qualities would have been
lost.
And now—where is the-man ‘who
can live without dining—thopdallger
ual feast, the hostesses “and Mr.
Landsy, the proprietor of the Brocker-
hoff house, saw to it, was followed by
the quietly, skillful serving of refresh-
ments of quality and variety -epicu-
rean.
A Government rolling stock in-
spector visited Bellefonte on Tuesday
and condemned two of the switching
engines in use in the Bellefonte yards
as well as the engine in use on the
Bellefonte and Snow Shoe railroad.
The third switching engine was con-
demned so far as use on a main track
is concerned. As a result of the ac-
tion of the inspector shifting work in
and about Bellefonte was considerably
stagnated until other locomotives
could be brought here.
——eear mers
Prolonging Prosperity.
From The New York World.
The frequent warnings during re-
cent months that the high rate of
business activity would usher in an-
other period of price inflation may or
may not have been necessary. If nec-
essary, they were certainly heeded;
for no inflation has developed. The
trend of commodity prices is distinet-
ly downward, and last week Irving
Fisher's index number reached the
lowest point of the year. Some in-
fluences conducive to inflation have
certainly been present, but their effect
so far has been confined to real estate
and securities.
_ The country is now showing its abil-
ity to maintain a fair degree of pros-
perity without the development boom.
The typical business cycle of past
years with its four phases of expan-
sion, boom, depression and recovery
spanning an average period of about
40 months, has not been with us for
some time. Business still has its
fluctuations, but they have become
narrower in scope and of shorter dura-
tion than formerly.
For this change there are several
explanations. Business men are more
familiar with economic principles than
ever before and are utilizing this
knowledge so as to keep their individ-
ual businesses on an even keel. The
Federal Reserve system has also
proved a steadying influence. Like-
wise, the excessive productive capac-
ity of many basic industries has
proved a corrective of inflationary
tendencies. A sharp advance in prices
is quickly checked by an expansion of
output. This combination of influ-
ences has made the business curve
smoother, and this has meant stead-
ier employmerit for workers and bet-
ter prospects of fair returns for em-
ployers and investors.
——There is some comfort in the
thought that Gerald Chapman, the
Massachusetts fiend, will be a long
time dead if they ever get him across.
i ——Happily Secretary. of Labor
Davis likes his job, for the Pennsyl-
‘'vania ‘machine has nothing better to
offer him.
ied ©
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Fire Saturday night destroyed the
Nixon Theater and pool room at Carrol-
town, owned by Elmer Schroth, causing a
loss of $15,000. .
—Her clothing igniting from fire in the
kitchen stove, Mrs. John Burge, 70, of
Grampian, near Clearfield, was burned to
deatlt Thursday. 3
—The frozen body of Isaac Buck, 50, a
farmer near Bloomsburg, was found on
Sunday in a snow covered field by William
Heimbach, a neighbor. Buck lived alone,
and his absence went unnoticed. :
—With three policemen patrolling the
section of Chester within a square from
the police headquarters, thieves Thurs-
day night entered the store of Warren
Shipley and hauled away goods valued at
$4,500. ;
—A United States mail flier, swooping
down low over the Susquehanna Silk Mills
at Sunbury, frightened Clinton Herb, who
was working on the roof, and he lost his
balance and fell down an elevator shaft,
suffering serious injuries.
—Two firemen were injured while fight-
ing a fire early on Sunday merning when
the Liberty Theater, of New Castle, was
destroyed, causing a loss of nearly $100,000.
Defective wiring is believed to have started
the fire in the top of the theater.
Following a “free-for-all” with State
policemen, William F. Clauss, wealthy real
estate operator and former sheriff of
Lehigh county, was placed under arrest on
seven charges, grawing out of an incident
in which the automobile driven by Clauss
ran down and injured Trooper L. L.
Tuckey.
—Freeing Daniel Scarfino, of Norris-
tewn, after his wife refused to prosecute
him for choking her when she present-
ed him with a girl instead of a boy, Mag-
istrate Clark warned the husband not to
beat his wife again, but to come to his of-
fice when he feels the fighting urge, prom-
ising to accommodate him.
—Declaring that as “a younger man who
has not demonstrated his ability,” he did
not desire the same salary as his predeces-
sor, the Rev. A. Ray Petty, of New York,
who accepted the call of the Grace Baptist
Church, of Philadelphia, to succeed the
late Dr. Russell H. Conwell, asked that his
salary be cut from $10,000 to $8,000.
—Claiming that his wife left him fifteen
years ago because he went to a picnic
party where beer was served, John J.
Minnich, of Milnersville, was granted a di-
vorce by Judge Garman from his wife, with
whom Minnich parted eleven months after
their marriage. During this period, his
wife lived at Latimer, only a mile away.
—A mother and two of her five children
were burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed the home of Vincenzo Santini at
Wishaw, near Punxsutawny, on Saturday.
Mrs. Santini carried four children to safe-
ty and withan eleven-year-old daughter
returned for a four-year-old boy. All
three perished. Tantini was away from
home at the time. An overheated stove
was believed to have caused the fire.
—W. F. Stamm, aged 35, dropped dead
at Northumberland, it is believed, from
grief for the death of Mr. and Mrs. John
K. Moeschlin, who were killed on a Sus-
quehanna River bridge at that place last
fall when their automobile collided with
a street car on which Stamm was a mo-
torman. Although it was no fault of his,
Coroner Fisher found Stamm had not
worked since and had been suffering from
a nervous breakdown.
—Damage which will reach $100,000 was
done by a fire which syept the mill and
yards of the Fisher Lumber company at
Williamsport, on Monday. The blaze,
which is believed to. have been of incen-
diary origin destroyed about a million and
and a half feet of lumber. The blaze oc-
curred within 36 hours of a similar fire
which destroyed the mill and supplies of
the Lilly Building Supply company, across
the river, with a loss of practically. the
same amount.
-—With the exception of three houses, the
entire town of Snedekerville, nestling down
in the Bradford county hills, has been sold
by Lucy M. Snedeker to Jerry R. Ryan of
Syracuse, N. Y. The property transferred
includes the postoffice, Pennsylvania rail-
road station and dwelling combined, 12
other houses, farm bulldings, 741 acres of
farm land, 35 acres of muck land, and all
farm property and equipment. The new
state road, over the construction of which
Paul D. Wright and Governor Pinchot
differed leading to Wright's resignation as
secretary of highways, runs through the
town,
—Carl Moore, 16 years old, a machinist
of Smithfield, was shot in the left thigh
by Constable Kish of North Union town-
ship, Fayette county, following an argu-
ment at the ice rink at Shady Grove Park
near Connellsville Saturday night. The
boy was removed to the Uniontown hos-
pital. One of the lads who accompanied
him to the hospital, told the hospital au-
thorities that the constable had an argu-
ment with another boy at the rink and
struck him in the face with his gun.
Moore, he stated, then interfered. Kish
then ordered him to stand back and upon
his refusal shot the lad.
—Albert Klinger, aged 26, of Lewistown,
died Saturday evening from bullet wounds
inflicted Thursday evening by Harry C.
Bankes, aged 26, of Harrisburg, who al-
leged Klinger broke up his home and
caused his wife to divorce him. District
Attorney Wilson entered a charge of mur-
der against Bankes, who was held by
Justice of the Peace Wheeler without bail
for the May term of Court. State Sena-
tor Frederick W. Culbertson, who cleared
“Red” Davis of a charge of murder in
connection with the shooting of John Mul-
len, of Jersey Shore, 18 months ago, will
be retained as one of counsel for the de-
fense of Bankes.
—Rev. Joseph B. Diehl, of the Halifax
Interdenominational church, suffered scalp
lacerations, a broken collar-bone and in-
ternal hurts, and Rev. A. 8. Bierly, of the
Verdilla Lutheran church, a broken shoul-
der bone and numerous lacerations when an
automobile was struck by a Philadelphia-
Williamsport express train on the Read-
ing Railway at Sunbury on Saturday. Re-
turning from a Milton store, Rev. Bierly
called at the other minister's home and
they started to market in Sunbury. At
the grade crossing they saw the train and
the driver applied the brakes, but the car
slid upon the tracks. The pilot of the
locomotive struck it squarely and tossed
it high into the air. It turned around in
the air three times and landed on an ad-
joining track 60 feet away.