INK SLINGS.
| —Anyway, Judge Shull would make
an impressive looking Governor.
+ —It is said that Secretary Mellon
can’t make a speech. But his money
talks in several languages.
. —The Governor appears to be get-
ting a good deal of fun out of the
campaign at the expense of his dear
friend “George.”
_ —Maybe the freeze of Tuesday
morning was only by way of getting
the Bellefonte atmosphere ready to
keep cool with Coolidge—if he comes.
* —Don’t believe all that you read in
the subsidized organs of the Pepper—
Fisher campaign committee. =~ They
are only whistling to keep up their
courage. If given half a chance Pin-
chot will beat both Pepper and Vare
and Beidleman will beat Fisher—
Tener isn’t in it. The Mellon crowd
is only playing up the Vare scare to
draw votes away from Pinchot in
order to pull Pepper through. The
same game was played here in Centre
county last fall, when hundreds of
Dale supporters were pulled over to
Keller at the eleventh hour with the
ruse that unless they deserted Dale
the victor in the Judicial race would
be Walker.
- —We presume. that the many dis-
tinguished Centre county Republi-
cans who have been given columns of
space in this issue to air their views
on the family fight they are having
know what they are saying. It is
‘possible, however, that most of them
don’t. Especially those who are urg-
ing loyalty to the Pepper-Fisher tick-
et because of its loyalty to Coolidge.
On that ticket is Col. Ernest G. Smith,
candidate for Lieutenant Governor. If
Col. Smith isn’t a Democrat he has
been making a noise like one for
years. He is editor of the Wilkes-
barres Times—Leader, a Democratic
paper and no paper in Pennsylvania
has pounded Coolidge harder.
Z_If our report of council proceed-
ings is right—and it must be so be-
cause Gates wears the belt for the
longest and most uninterrupted serv-
ice in the chamber of that august as-
semblage and knows what the bor-
ough solons have in mind almost be-
fore they do themselves—we want to
record our approval of member Em-
‘erick’s idea that if certain streets are
‘to be repaired this year they should
be repaired now. Do it and be done.
Don’t wait until August, ‘September
‘or October when cool nights will pre-
vent proper setting of the “binder”
and winter will be approaching ‘with
‘its frosts and freezings to puff up the
surface of the road-ways so that they
will disintegrate with the spring
thaws.
—England is industrially paralyz-
ed. Five million workers, one eighth
of the entire population of the “tight
little Isle,” have laid down their tools
and struck. Why? Because England,
resorting to her proverbial propensity
for putting off the inevitable, gave a
bonus to her miners at the close of the
war. Gave them something that they
did not earn. And England, now that
she has discovered that the bonus was
not economically sound, finds herself
on the verge of civil war because she
wants to withdraw the bonus. Pater-
nalism—and that’s what a bonus of
any sort is—is certain to lead any gov-
ernment into dangerous fields. Gov-
erment isn’t designed to provide sub-
sistence for any of its subjects. It grew
only out of the necessity of the indi-
vidual to have some sort of mass pro-
tection while he eked out his own
subsistence. As a matter of fact
pensions—except for disability in war
—Dbonuses, subsidies, State-aid, fed-
eral grants to this that and the other
thing, are all wrong. They sap at the
individual initiative and build up a
class that thinks the government
ought to pass a law if it gets an in-
grown toe-nail.
—We like old Bishop Berry. ‘He
stayed over night at our house once
and shortly after that visit about the
only nice thing we ever saw in print,
with us as the subject, appeared in
the Chicago Epworth Herald—or
whatever the name of the church
paper he was editor of at the time
was—but we can’t resist laughing at
the predicament he finds himself in.
He’s gotten mixed up in politics to
the extent that Harry Mackey has
publicly asked him to explain why
he preached an eulogistic funeral ser-
mon over the late Senator Ed Vare
and now condemns his brother Bill.
In truth, Ed created the very organi-
zation that the Bishop finds so odious
in the hands of Bill, but Ed. was more
clever than Bill and used it in a less
brazen way and the Bishop, because
he knows nothing of politics,—where
there are no ethics—finds himself in
the difficult position of squaring what
he said several years ago over Ed. with
what he is saying now about Bill. He
was perfectly right in paying tribute
to the devotion of a son to the mem-
ory of a saintly mother, but he has
been all wrong in getting into politics,
where people who scruple at nothing,
and don’t or won’t understand, are
given opportunity to charge the
church with inconsistency. Bishop
Berry is a Methodist—our church—
but we are only using his predicament
as a club to knock the idea into the
heads of the clergy of every denomi-
nation that they are admitting their
failure to make real christians of men
from their pulpits when they go mull-
ing in politics.
VOL. 71.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE. PA.. MAY 7. 1926.
New Complication and Suspicion.
The cordial reception tendered by
the Grundy organization to the Phil-
lips emissaries in Philadelphia, the
other day, has opened another basis
for mental speculation in relation to
the increasingly bitter contest for
nominations of the Republican party.
Mr. Phillips is palpably “leading a
forlorn hope” for the nomination for
Governor on a drippingly wet plat-
form. Mr. Grundy is making an
almost as hopeless a fight for Mr.
John -S. Fisher on a “hard-boiled”
reactionary platform. The only pos-
sible effect of the Phillips candidacy
will be to draw votes from Mr. Beidle-
man, who is the choice of State chair-
man Baker, and on a platform of law
enforcement with a possible wet res-
ervation.
Last week a contingent of Phillips
supporters arrived in Philadelphia
from the West for the purpose of
opening up headquarters in the
stronghold of Vare and presumably
an atmosphere friendly to Beidleman.
The managers of the Grundy organi-
zation welcomed them with open arms
to generous hospitality. Nething was
too good for the Pittsburgh pilgrims
or too much trouble for the Grundy
satellites. Suitable quarters were ob-
tained for campaign purposes and
every sign of fraternity and sympa-
thy extended. If the two forces had
been brought together to celebrate a
victory in which there was a common
interest there could have been no
greater cordiality in the meeting.
This incident - quite naturally
aroused the suspicien that Mr. Phil-
lips is simply serving as a “stalking-
horse” for Fisher and an investiga-
tion, it is claimed, has confirmed the
suspicion. While Mr. Fisher has re-
mained silent on the subject it is as-
sumed that few of the wet voters will
give him support. It is generally con-
ceded that his strongest opponent for
the nomination is Beidleman and con-
currently reasoned that every vote
drawn from Beidleman is a help to
Fisher.. Because of this obvious fact
some of the friends of
ly assex#'that Grundy. is f
in the fight.. In view of Mr.
wealth this is surprising.
Fd
Call to Democrats of Pennsylvania.
A movement to rejuvenate the
Democratic party of Pennsylvania re-
cently suggested by a Democratic
citizen of Philadelphia has been cor-
dially approved by the Philadelphia
Record and the Pittsburgh Post and
deserves the earnest encouragement of
the Democratic men and women of the
State. The party has been going
“from bad te worse” for several years,
and though the candidates nominated
have been worthy of support the
electorate has not responded to the
appeals which have been made in their
behalf. There are various reasons for
this default in party fealty but none
of them so formidable that they may
not be overcome if the proper effort
is invested in the work.
Heretofore : in recent years move-
ments looking toward the rejuvena-
tion and reorganization of the party
have failed for the reason that they
were inspired more by a spirit of
factionalism than a sentiment of
patriotism. It is probably true that
the party officials in the big cities of
the Commonwealth have been recreant
and that the decline in the party
strength in Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh may be justly ascribed to the
selfishness of political traders who
willingly sacrificed the interests of
the party in order to promote their
own ambitions for what is known as
the “minority offices.” - But the de-
linquencies have extended beyond the
limits of the big cities, though in a
lesser degree.
If the Democratic men and women
of Pennsylvania would join together
in an earnest effort to rejuvenate the
party there can be no doubt of vast
improvement and at least a reason-
able hope of actual victory in the
State. The Pittsburgh Post points
out the fact that in the campaign of
1922 the Democratic candidate for
Governor carried thirty-one of the
sixty-seven counties in the State and
polled within 34,036 of an even split
in all the counties outside of Phila-
delphia and Allegheny. A more ear-
nest effort might have improved this
record, but it is sufficient to justify
the belief that on a fair vote and hon-
est count Pennsylvania might yet be
rescued from the corruptionists.
presen,
—After a careful analysis of their
speeches and letters we are forced to
the belief that what the Republican
candidates are saying about each
other is in the main true. j
—Whoever wins in the Republican
primaries President Coolidge stands
to lose. Only two of his faithful fol-
lowers can be nominated out of seven.
{
|
i
the people of Pennsylvania because. it |
that threatens to
Political Rainbow Chaser.
A staff writer and expert political
progagandist of the Philadelphia Pub-
lic Ledger states in the issue of Sun-
day that “Cyrus E. Woods, manager
of the Pepper-Fisher campaign, went
to the western end of the State Fri-
day to consult with leaders there. Mr.
Woods was in an optimistic mood. The
assaults on the Vare and Pinchot can-
didacies during the week had indicat-
ed to his mind, a sweep of sentiment
toward the Mellon ticket and in his
view this movement will continue to
grow in all parts of the Common-
wealth during the final stages of the
campaign. The concensus of Pepper’s
leaders is that the Vare movement is
constantly becoming weaker and that
the Pinchot campaign has collapsed.”
This would be a comforting frame
of mind for the managers of the “Mei-
lon party” if it really existed. But
every gesture of the managers shows
that so far from entertaining such an
opinion they are actually in a state
of panic over the distressing situation
they have encountered. The constant
“sniping” of stragglers, as shown in
the accession of Max Leslie and Pat |
Joyce, and the recklessness as ex-
pressed in the speech of Mayor Kline,
of Pittsburgh, indicate anything than
the confidence that manager Woods
professes to feel. No doubt the Mel-
lon ticket has been gaining in strength
since the Mellon millions have been
placed at the disposal of the Mellon
party managers, but it is not safe yet.
The “Mellon ticket” is composed of
reasonably good and fairly fit men,
though Mr. Pepper’s brief experience
inn public life has not enhanced his
reputation for civic virtue. His vote
in favor of Newberry mace a bad be-
ginning and his offer to “spit in the
eye of a bull dog” to enlist the favor
of the Philadelphia rough-necks was
unfortunate. Mr. Fisher is also a
decent citizen, though as Com-
missioner of Banking he “slept at the
switch” while Bell, of Pittsburgh, and
Treasurer Kephart were manipulating
the funds. But the success of the
Mellon ticket would be a menace to
erg
bind labor to the
chariot of capital.
Cullen Gets Verdict of $36,607.21
Against Rowland Estate.
At 9:10 o'clock on Saturday even-
ing the jury in the case of James H.
Cullen against the estate of the late
Congressman Charles H. Rowland, of
Philipsburg, returned a verdict in
favor of the plaintiff for a total of
$36,607.21, of which sum $27,318.82
represented damages and $9,288.39
interest and damages for delay in
settlement. The total verdict is $8,-
466.11 less than that returned by the
jury in the first trial of the case be-
fore "Judge Miles I. Potter, at the
February sessions of court, 1925, and
is just about fifty per cent. of the
damages claimed and set forth in the
plaintiff’s statement of the case.
‘The case was on trial all of last
week, the plaintiff calling in support
of his case fifty or more witnesses. It
took the defense just about a day to
present it’s evidence. The case was
argued on Saturday, Judge Keller
completing his charge to the jury at
4:30 o'clock. The charge was regard-
ed as very fair and impartial, Judge
Keller laying special stress upon the
points of law bearing upon both sides
of the case. It took the jury four
hours and a half to reach a verdict.
Attorneys for the defense have not
yet intimated whether a motion for
another new trial will be made or not.
Centre County Scholarship at Penn
State.
The Pennsylvania State College has
announced two scholarships open ex-
clusively to graduates of Centre coun-
ty High schools of the first class. A
McAllister scholarship for the fresh-
man year, worth $120, is open to both
boys and girls. The Olewine scholar-
ship, for girls only, the gift of Mrs.
M. Elizabeth Olewine, is good for one
year and worth $100. These scholar-
ships are awarded only to those appli-
cants accepted by the Registrar for
admission to the college.
Applications for these two scholar-
ships may be made to the County
Superintendent of Schools or to Dean
A. R. Warnock, of the college.
rms rns fp Rp rm in
The weather of the past week
has felt as if summer is here to stay,
which is just like the Scenic. It is
here to stay and will continue to show
the best and latest pictures made in
all filmdom. Every fan in Bellefonte
and surrounding community goes to
the Scenic because they know the
pictures shown there will be new and
not several years old, Then the
music of that new pipe organ has an
appealing taste that adds to the even-
Candidate Porter Visits Bellefonte.
At noon Wednesday Judge Samuel
E. Shull, of Monroe county, one of the
three aspirants for nomination as the
Democratic candidate for Governor,
visited Bellefonte and spent an hour |
and a half here. : |
The Judge and his party arrived
without blare of trumpets or advance
publicity and stopped merely on their
way from Lock Haven to Lewistown
but a goodly number of Democrats.
had gathered at the Brockerhoff house
to greet them and during their short
stay several hundred called, quite
enough to turn the casual visit into
something more significant than an
informal reception.
As we have said, Judge Shull is one
of the three aspirants for our party’s
nomination for Governor. He should
not be unknown to the Democrats of
Centre county for many will remem-
ber the brilliant speech he made in the
court house here in 1922, when he was
our candidate for United States Sena-
tor. : i
Judge Shull is a scion of a family
long noted for its continuous and ef-
ficient service to the Democratic
| party. He. has upheld the best tradi-
tions of his family and it is largely
due to his devotion to the party that
his home county, Monroe, is one of the
few in the State that still votes solidly
Democratie.
Judge Shull has always been one of
the leaders in business and philan- |
thropic enterprises. Before his eleva- |
tion to the bench he assisted in the
control and management of the
Stroudsburg engine works, the
was a director of the Security Trust
company, treasurer of the Monroe
blishing company, president of the
Stroudsburg Chamber of Commerce,
and has been president of the Chemi-
cal Fire company, No. 1 of Strouds-
butg, since its organization in 1909,
He is 48 years old. He was born and Allegheny countie
.cratic party in this State usuall
| gives the Republican a real fight. The
| 65 other counties are credited with
college and was graduated from | SrocShires a the. P
and has lived continuously in Monroe !
county, was graduated from South
Easton High school, attended Lafay-
NO. 19.
Where State Democracy Must Build
Up.
From The Pittsburgh Post.
On this page yesterday reference
was made to Democratic statistics of
Philadelphia, showing how the minor-
ity party there has been running down
through bipartisanship in which the
| Republican machine apparently has
| been playing a part in the selection
' of minority office-holders. Under the
‘leadership of Lewis C. Cassidy, one
of the Democratic candidates for Sec-
retary of Internal Affairs, and with
the indorsement and co-operation of
the Democratic “Record” of that city,
an effort is being made to rebuild the
minority party organization in that
' district upon a basis leaving no ques-
| tion of its distinction from the major-
ity party and its putting principles
above mere office-holding. Mr. Cas-
sidy and “The Record” and all join-
ing with them deserve the heartiest
commendation of Democrats through-
out the State who are interested in
the building up of the minority party.
Much the same conditions have
“been operating against the party in
Allegheny county. Here, as in Phila-
delphiu, it has been accused of lack
of virility and of lack of independence
of the Republican machine. Here, as
in Philadelphia, statistics have been
printed showing how far certain local
candidates for minority officés have
‘run ahead of the Democratic ticket
can
help for them. Here also, as in Phila-
In his home community | delphia, there is a movement to re-
habilitate the party upon a distinct
basis of principles and as an agency
in . the main, indicating
of public service.
Democrats in all the other counties
| of the State who have seen hopes of
| the party shattered again and again
Ne hy the weakness or indifference of
Thomas Kitson & Son woolen mill, | Democracy in the two. big city
I triets naturally are heartened Ts
movements in Philadelphia and Al-
dis-
the
EE I
SPAWLS FROM THE KE
—Falling down a flight of stairs in his
boarding house in Wilkes-Barre, Joseph
Barsavage; 36, of Sugar Notch, suffered a
broken neck, dying before aid could reach
hip, ==. LRE ob eta
—A silver loving cup has been presented
by the citizens of Vandergrift to the mem-
bers of Troop A, State police, in recogni-
tion’ of their services in capturing the ban-
dits who robbed the Vandergrift Savings
and Trust company of $75,000.
— The mine fire which has been raging
for years in the abandoned Jersey mine in
Plymouth and which has already con-
sumed millinos of tons of coal, is now re-
ported to have spread to the Avondale col-
liery of the Glen Alden Coal company.
—Allentown detectives are seeking the
owner of a bank pass book issued at Dick-
son’ City, near Scranton, and which ‘was
found at the home of Raymond McGee, of
Allentown, whose body was discovered in
the kitchen of his home Monday morning,
six hours after he was shot to death.
—TForcing their way into the office of
the William Penn Coal company near New
Alexandria, on the William Penn High-
way near Greensburg, safecrackers during
last Wednesday night blew open the com-
pany's safe and escaped with money and
valuable papers, bonds and insurance pol-
icies. ’
—The Rhody Lumber Co., of Patton,
has instituted suit for $50,000 damages
against the New York Central Railroad
Co. The suit is the result of a fire which
destroyed the lumber company’s mill and
vard, near Kerrmoor, last summer. The
fire is alleged to have resulted from sparks
from a shifting engine.
—%“She bit a chunk of flesh out of my
hip,” is one of the allegations of Joseph
Allshouse of North Charleroi, who filed a
suit for divorce from his wife, Mary Alls-
house at Washington, Pa., on Monday. “It
was a good sized chunk, too,” said Alls-
house, who declared indignities and cruel-
ties suffered since his marriage in 1908
have become unbearable.
—The Enterprise Stamping company,
of McKees Rocks, makers of cans, has
given a contract to the Austin company
for the construction of a three story com-
bination warehouse and manufacturing
plant adjoining their present building.
The structure will cost $150,000. The
building will contain 200 tons of steel and
will be of built “mill type.” Work will
start. immediately. . F
~—When Rose Kram, of Pittsburgh,
bought a case of beer ‘she 'did not bargain
for the insects she claims it contained
‘and’ therefore she is suing for $25,000 dam-
ages. In the suit filed against the Tube
‘City Brewing company in commen pleas
‘court at Pittsburgh, last week, Mrs. Kram
alleges she found insects in heer bought
: Eh from the company. These were not dis-
legheny county ox They gation of covered until they lodged in her throat
if these two counties did their part [she vers = = |
for Democracy the two-party system —The C. B. & C. steel and wooden tip-
would be restored forthwi: in Penn- | ole at Rossiter, near Punxsutanney, was
sylvania. Outside of: Philadelphia | practically destroyed by fire early on Sat-
lation ‘of
the Demo-
urday with a loss of $30,000. The fire
means the closing of the Rossiter mine,
one of the largest in that section, for at
least a month, It is one of the few mines
‘working under the Jacksonville agree-
ps, “of the Uniyer- State a noerats, t that has been operating steadily. The
ity 0 3 Department of the ented’ e hav up. the SPIEL {ite was caused by the bursting of a Nose
£ 8 f ; plaver and the | hat ected a ti : of an acetylene torch.
ame as'a football playe was ; ernorship in 1882 and elec! him to | ..—Becanse Paul Ziegler, 43, of Reading,
first northerner ever to be elected cap- ‘it again in 1890; the spirit that elect- | resented long and loudly his wife's short
tain of the football team. Following ed a Democratic State urer in | locks, he was arrested on Sunday and held
graduation he was admitted to the bar |
of Monroe county and elected its Pres- |
ident Judge in 1917.
As Judge, he has presided in many
counties other than those within his
own District and is recognized every-
where as an able jurist, well grounded
in the principles of our laws and in-
stitutions. It is well known in his
Judicial District that all laws, crimi-
nal and civic are promptly and justly
administered. No decision of his has
ever been reversed by the Supreme
Court. :
i.
Let Us Give the Academy Minstrels
a Great House.
It is up to this community to recog-
nize in a more material way than it
has been doing one of our local insti-
tutions. Most any other town in Penn-
sylvania would be - turning hand
springs in enthusiastic backing of
such athletic teams as the Bellefonte
Academy produces. To the champion
prep school foot ball team of the
United States, to a base-ball team
that hasn’t been defeated in two years
Bellefonte has remained stolidly in-
different. None of their home games
have been greeted by more than a
corporal’s guard; whereas away from
home they are a great drawing card.
Possibly it is because the Academy
has been here for one hundred and
twenty-one years and “a prophet is
not without honor save in his own
country.” If this is the reason its
time for a shake up. Its time that
Bellefonte begins to show some ap-
preciation of a durable, steady in-
dustry that has been pouring $150,000
regularly every year into the streams
of local trade.
If we can’t work ourselves up to |Y
enthusiasm over its superior sports
exhibitions let us view it as good busi-
ness to pat it on the back and help
along, because that’s what it is.
For years the Academy minstrels
have been giving their exhibition to a
mere handful of people. The min-
strels are one of the traditions of the
Academy. Youth loves play-acting
and the diversion is one of the at-
tractions that draws boys to the
School in the Mountains, boys whose
tuition and personal expenses con-
tribute to the $150,000 aggregate that
is spent here every year.
They have given good shows in the
past without much encouragement.
They are going to give a great one
1905, and which takes pride in stand-
for the principles
of Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland and
ing up constant!
Wilson.
The Democrats in those 65 counties
pitched in with a vim behind the State
ticket of the party in 1922. They car-
ried 31 of them and ran close with he
@
Democratic and Republican votes in
those counties that year totaled 979,-
Of these the Democrats re-
ceived 472,930 to 506,966 for the Re-
publicans. They came to the big city
counties only 34,036 behind—“only.”
because in a vote of nearly 1,000,000
such a difference cannot be consider-
ed great. If the political conditions
of Philadelphia and Allegheny coun-
ty had been normal, there still would
have been a fair chance for the Dem-
Republicans in many others.
896.
ocrats to win.
Now mark the Philadelphia vote
Those not familiar with
conditions could scarcely think of it
as having been cast in the same State
with the vote of the other 65 counties,
in which the Democrats received a
little more than 48 per cent. of the
The Dem-
ocratic vote in Philadelphia was away
below even half the average of the
party showing in the 65 counties.
Whereas in the latter the minority
party vote exceeded 48 per cent. of
the Democratic-Republican total, in
Philadelphia it could squeeze past the
Republican machine and its fraudu-
lent counters only about 21 per cent.
It produced only 65,111 votes to 245,-
that year!
ballots of the two parties.
812 “credited” to the Republicans.
The party which had passed
through more than two-thirds of the
voters of the State only 34,036 be-
hind was 214,287 behind after the
“counting” of the abnormal vote in
Philadelphia. It was 250,071 behind
after the counting of the Allegheny
county vote.
Allegheny county, however, did con-
siderably better by Democracy that
ear than the Quaker City. A favor-
.ite son of the Republicans here had
been defeated in the primary, and
of the machine lieutenants
“could not see” Pinchot at all. Here
some
hie Democratic vote was 43,584 to 79,-
18.
had held up, its vote would have been
more than 59,000. When it is reflect-
ed that in 1916, with only men ballot-
ing, the Democratic vote in Allegheny
county was nearly 53,000, it is no
wonder that there is a crying out
now against ‘its being permitted to
drop to around 22,000 with women as
well as men voting.
nn.
—Veterans of our several wars are
Nevertheless the Democracy
here also fell far below the showing
of the party in the 65 counties. If it
ing’s entertainment.
this year. Much unusual talent has
been uncovered for the show on May
20th and it ought to be greeted by a
good house.
Lef’s go. Let’s show the Academy
boys that we appreciate them and the
institution they represent.
not enthusing much over Senator Pep-
per. They recall that it was his vote
that killed their pension bill .in the
Senate.
—as
—The “Watchman” gives. all the
news when it is news. Read it.
for disorderly conduct. Ziegler went home
late Saturday night and did not discov-
er until Sunday that his wife had her hair
bobbed. Howard Houck, who protested
Zieglers arrest, declaring that a man ought
to be allowed to kick if his wife cut her
hair, also was taken into custody and
charged with interfering with an officer.
—Orders were issued on Monday by Dr.
H. C. Harper, county medical officer, that
all dogs in the West Pittsburgh district
be quarantined for 90 days. This action
was taken following the report received
from Philadelphia on the head of the dog
Pittsburgh. The analysis showed that the
sons are said to have been bitten by the
dog and they bave been advised to undergo
the Pasteur treatment at once.
—-A score were injured, several seriously,
either by falling debris or in the mad rush
for safety, when the ceiling of the Savoy
Theater, at Wilkes-Barre, fell on Monday.
The accident occurred: when the theater,
one of the largest movie houses in that
city was partly filled. The section, which
fell was 45 feet wide and more than 50
fect long and weighed approximately 11
tons. Electric wires were carried down
and several persons received severe shocks.
City officials believe the collapse was
caused by vibration of a motor beneath the
stage, used to operate the organ bellows.
—With the record of forty years in the
Eastern Penitentiary and county prisons,
principally for stealing chickens, “Abe”
Buzzard, notorious leader for years of the
Welsh Mountain gang of outlaws, was
freed by a jury at West Chester last Fri-
day afternoon in a trial for taking fowls
believed to be a frame-up” on the part of
unfriendly persons to get him convicted
once more. A nephew was convicted re-
cently for stealing chickens and after his
conviction made a statement implicating
“Abe,” who was making his home with
him. Buzzard, who is seventy, proved a
complete abibi.. . .
—W. Gould, 43, wanted in Pittsburgh
in connection with an alleged shortage of
$25,000 in his account as treasurer of a
drug company, plunged to his death from
a fast passenger train near Enon, Butler
county, on Friday. He disappeared two
weeks ago, and was arrested in Des
Moines, Towa, Wednesday. He waived ex-
tradition and was being brought back by
Detective John Crouse. As the train
neared Enon, the prisoner complained of
being ill, and was permitted to go to the
wash room. He broke the glass in the
window and jumped out. He leaves a
wife and three children.
—Hva Estelle Miller Hoffman, widow of
Otis Fremont Hoffman, of Warren, who
was burned to death Saturday night in a
fire which destroyed the home of her sis-
ter-in-law in Tioga, was one of Warren's
wealthiest and most prominent women.
She motered to Tioga, accompanied by her
nephew, Otis Miller of Warren, who was
badly burned trying to save his aunt, and
by her chauffeur. Mrs. Hoffman, since the
death of her husband, always felt she
would die on the anniversary of his death
and has always spent that day away from
Warren, That was the reason for her visit
to Tioga, and her premonition came true.
that recently attacked a woman in West
dog was suffering from rabies. Three per-—
STONE.