pena fica.
INK SLINGS.
—We can save Pennsylvania from
Vare-ism by electing William B. Wil-
son to the United States Senate. Let’s
do it.
—The Dunkirk, N. Y., Judge who
spanked a forty-two year old culprit,
has another way of demonstrating
“the strong arm of the law.”
—The faculty of Princeton has
voted in favor of modification of the
Volstead law. Goodness, gosh, Agnes,
isn’t it awful? That old blue-stockin
knitiin’ mill doing a thing like that.
—With frosts almost every morning
the beans and the lettuce and parsley
that won’t poke heads through the
ground must be given credit with
more wit than we thought they had.
—Charles M. Schwab blames the
poor earnings of the steel industry on
high priced management. Charley
ought to know. He's taken down
some mighty handsome pay checks in
his day.
—Even Senator Stanchfield, of
‘Oregon, who made his campaign on
stand back of Coolidge because I did
is in the discard. This doesn’t seem
to be the season for supporting the
President.
—OQur friend Eugene C. Bonniwell
also seems to have gone to the well
once to often with his pitcher.—No,
the container Eugene carries into his
political forays isn’t a pitcher. It’s a
“growler.” :
—With Judge Shull as our candi-
date for Governor and William B. Wil-
son for United States Senator we
Democrats are sitting pretty. Well,
the cards are on the table and we in-
vite everybody to sit in the game.
—The Haugen bill was a ridicu-
lous attempt to do something for a
class that needs to be let alone more
than it needs anything else legisla-
tively, but its defeat in Congress will
lick the next Republican eandidate for
President.
—How many of the Republicans
who were praying for Maj. H. Laird
«Curtin when he essayed the manage-
ment of Vare’s campaign in Centre
county are there who are going to get
down on their knees in November and
ask for forgiveness.
—JFor Heaven’s sake, Democrats,
now that we have a chance to do
something for Pennsylvania,
listen to the plan that the Anti-Saloon
League has of taking over the man-
‘agement of our party in the State.
We haven’t much, but what there is
«of it will be shot to pieces if Homer
W. Tope and his gang gets to driving
from the back seat. - 5 asd
—Our dear old friend Mrs. Hannah
E. Osman again writes from State
College that she can’t get along with-
out the Watchman and we write this
paragraph to tell her and all others
that it isn’t the dollar and a half they
send us annually that makes the
Watchman requisite to them. It is
the assurance that it is read and ap-
preciated by a class whose opinion
counts for something that inspires us
to make the Watchmen what it is.
—The last Democratic Senator
Pennsylvania had was the late Wil-
liam A. Wallace, of Clearfield, who
served from 1875 to 1881. Senator
Wallace didn’t wreck the government.
He didn’t disgrace—he honored the
State. The Republicans who helped
send him to Washington never had
cause to regret it. Let us hope that
there are enough Republicans in 1926
as broadminded as were those of fifty-
one years ago to save Pennsylvania
in a greater crisis than confronted
the State then.
—Naturally England doesn’t like
the American made film “The Big
Parade.” John Bull is indignant be-
cause he reads between the “titles”
that America won the war. The mat-
ter of who won the war interests
America about as much today as the
identity of “who struck Billy Patter-
son” does. But we’d like to ask Eng-
land, France and all the rest of our
Allies what would have become of
them if Germany hadn’t realized,
when it was too late, what America
means when she gets up on her ear?
—Old Howard Sargent is still a kid.
He’s never put away childish things.
He’s still goofy over circuses. An
excess baggage letter we got from
him Wednesday was full of Ringling
publicity and subtle insinuation that
we are slipping. Howard had only to
walk across the street from his home
in Pittsburgh to get the smell of the
menagerie in his nostrils. We drove
clear to Williamsport for the same
thrill and came home convinced that
a circus chair in 1926 isn’t any more
of an anatomical easement than was a
circus bleacher in 1878.
—Brother Dorworth, of the Re-
publican, really pulled a big thing. He
worked the county out for Fisher
when it was set up for Beidleman.
But what is that going to get for C.
E. D.? Fisher isn’t elected yet and
if he is he’ll have to make terms with
the very people who gave brother
Dorworth the position he held under
the Sproul administration and will
have a lot to do with his ambition to
land on the Public Service Commis-
sion. Mr. Scott is the state commit-
teeman—as you will notice from the
primary returns—and Mr. Scott is
one of the kind whose desires will not
be treated lightly by whatever faction
gets in control of the Republican
State organization.
don’t’
be inthe
Aemacra
YOL. 71.
What Will Qur New County Chairman Wilson Can be Elected. Pennsylvania Not a Referendum on the Volstead
Do?
William D. Zerby Esq. has been
chosen chairman of the Democratic
organization in Centre county. Be-
fore the primaries we expressed the
opinion that it would be better for our
party to select a chairman located
somewhere else than in Bellefonte
and since the gratuitous advice
was not accepted by the voters
we hope that Mr. Zerby’s con-
structive efforts for the party will
be such as to demonstrate that the
voters were wiser on primary day
than we thought ourselves to be prior
to that date.
Our reason for personally favoring
the candidacy of Mr. Freeman, of
Philipsburg, was not personal either
as to him or Mr. Zerby. It was only
because we felt that party unity has
not been as it should be and the
virile, winning organization of twen-
ty-five years ago has been in a decline
that has left it a mere shadow. Just
why this should have occurred we
shall not discuss at this time. But
those intimately acquainted with local
conditions know enough as to its cause
to understand why we thought a
chairman removed from Bellefonte '
and without interest in or knowledge
of the squabbles the various Belle-
fonte leaders of our party have had,
one with another, would have been able
to arouse more earnest co-operation
among them. It has been voted other-
wise and we here record our accept-
ance of the verdict of the ballot and
pledge our wholehearted, unselfish
support to every unselfish move
Mr. Zerby makes to build up the
county organization and revive the
militancy of years ago.
His is a great opprotunity. Not
within our memory has such a one
presented itself to any chairman.
There isn’t a shadow of doubt but that
Centre ‘county can be brought to give
William B. Wilson a majority of two
thousand or more next fall. And
what a heartening effect such a re-
sult would have on the Democracy of
the county and what a feather it would
: ap of the new chairman. .
Political laurels look easy ‘to win
just now and political laurels are
some times very valuable assets.
Within the week dozens of Republi-
cans have come into this office to say
that they are with us to the finish in
the support of Mr. Wilson. Not one of
them has been of the type we know so
well, that jumps over the fence in
June and then jumps back in Novem-
ber. Every one of them will vote for
Wilson in November and there are
thousands like them in Centre county.
All that is needed is an organization
that will get out the solid Democratic
vote so that the accessions to the party
strength will be reflected in the re-
sult.
Mr. Vare can be defeated. The
country counties of Pennsylvania can
do it, if in every one of them there is
a local Democratic organization ready
to lead the fight.
We're hoping that Mr. Zerby will
begin now, right now, to cultivate the
fertile soil that lies before him.
We want to see Pennsylvania saved
from Vareism and we’d like to see Mr.
Zerby prove to us that we were wrong
in thinking that the chairmanship of
our party ought to have been moved
out of Bellefonte for a while.
The opportunity—and it is a great
one—is his, Will he rise to it?
Wasting the Taxpayers’ Money.
The law.is the law, of course, but
what a sorry and expensive figure it
makes of itself at times. Justice has
been holding the scales in the Centre
county court house for almost two
weeks. Thousands of dollars of the
taxpayers’ money have been spent in
order to give every man “his day in
court.” And the sum and substance
of it all is a lot of petty cases that
should never have been there at all.
+ Last week two entire days were de-
voted to a controversy over a dog
that might have been worth ten dol-
lars. This week two entire days were
taken up with a claim that was sat-
isfied with a verdict of twenty dollars.
The two cases probably cost the coun-
ty five hundred and why?
All because Justices send cases to
court that never should get there. Of
course the committing magistrate
gets more in fees, but has he no
thought of what it costs the taxpay-
er? We have always been of the
opinion that there are too many laws
but in the light of litigation in our
own court recently we think we would
favor a law that would permit juries
to place costs on Justices, insicad of
the county, in certain cases.
That would have the effect of set-
tling petty controversies where they
should be settled. It would be a con-
stant admonition to Justices that the
expensive machinery of a county court
is not to be put in operation for every
trivial controversy that comes before
them.
BEL
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Can be Saved from Vare.
Those who think that William 8S.
Vare, Philadelphia Congressman, who
is now the candidate of a minority of
the Republican party for United
States Senator, cannot be beaten
endently jump at conclusions. They
think because he can apparently count
‘as many votes as he likes in Phila-
‘ delphia county and is reasonably cer-
| tain of carrying Allegheny, Lancaster,
' Dauphin, Chester, Montgomery, Dela-
ware and Bucks that a real fight
‘ against him is tilting at windmills.
| Banish the thought. Vare can be
beaten and easily. He carried only
‘two counties—Dauphin and Philadel-
phia—in the recent primaries and
his vote in one of them will be less in
November than it was in May. Penn-
' sylvania can defeat Vare. But will
it? That is the question that is up to
i Pennsylvania.
The State is overwhelmingly Re-
|
publican. Vare is one of the politi- |
cians whose methods gave rise to the i
thought in the mind of the late Elihu
Root that his kind is only masquerad-
‘that can be milked with the hope of
Vares into politics in Pennsylvania.
Undoubtedly they would have been
sheviks had any of the latter parties
been in control of the government of
Philadelphia when - they sought city
stree{ cleaning contracts as a stepping
stone to they knew not what. There's
nothing to them, there never was--
more than the admirable trait of no-
body trying to become somebody. We
call the trait admirable because it is
when the nobody—with native genius
such as Lincoln’s read and studied
until he became somebody. Vare has
: never done that. His only thought is
as to where political control is going
to get him. If he can force himself
into the United States Senate he will
name every postmaster, every revenue
are many because Pennsylvania’s
votes in the electoral column are po-
tential.
Vare is in politics for what there is
in it. All he will ever become will
have been made out of politics in
Pennsylvania if Republicans of our
State are ready to admit that their
party is so much their fetish that the
worst Republican looks better to them
than the best Democrat.
We don’t believe all of them are.
There were enough who were not,
Pennsylvania in Congress.
who were not to help us elect Berry
State Treasurer in 1906. And there
are enough who are not to help us
tor next fall.
All of the Republican opponents of
Mr. Vare in the recent primaries, with
the exception of Gov. Pinchot, and
practically all of the leaders who
fought his nomination will come out
with pledges of their support of his
candidacy. That will mean nothing.
It is only political ethics. They would
be poor sports if they didn’t, but it
will be mere lip service and their fol-
lowers will go where they please.
Thousands of them are already look-
ing to our party as the only salvation
for the State from its most consum-
mate disgrace.
Yes, Vare can be beaten, notwith-
standing the fact that he carries so
much of the electorate of Philadel-
phia in his vest pocket. We are not
ready to believe that in the forty-four
thousand square miles of Pennsylva-
nia outside of Philadelphia there are
not enough people to overwhelm those
inhabitants of its one hundred and
thirty-three square miles who vote not
principle but at the crack of the con-
tractor’s whip.
——— et ————
Some Democrats, because they are
wet, might go to Vare in the general
election, but very few. On the other
hand many Republicans will come to
Wilson, not so much because he is dry
as because they think too much of
Pennsylvania to have it go on record
as having sent a man like Vare to
represent it in the United States Sen-
ate.
———— a t———
——Bellefonte got away to a poor
start in the new Susquehanna base-
ball league, but we'll show the river
towns how to play the game before
the season is over.
——Pennsylvania railroad painters
have been at work the past two weeks
repainting the interior of the passen-
ger depot in Bellefonte, which natur-
ally is a decided improvement.
ing as Republican. They are Repub-
licans because it is the dominant party , vote can properly be regarded as
in the State and the only political cow
‘gregate of it is not alarming it is im-
getting a good percentage of fat. '
That is the spirit that brought the | Recently, in these columns, we ex-
' pressed the hope that Pennsylvania
“will have a referendum on the ques-
Democrats or Prohibitionists or Bol- | tion.
' politics and the only way to accom-
plish that end is through a yes and no
“vote of the people. Once that question
is definitely settled there will be an
collector, every -federal appointee to
which the State is entitled—and they’
defeat of their superiors, simply be-
(cause they have declined to take a
| stand on a question that by no distor- |
i tion of the mind could have anything
to do with the duties they aspire to
away back in 1875, to help us elect : perform. We have seen the Prohibi-
William A. Wallace to be Senator for tion ballot stolen and prostituted to
There | the support of soaking wet candidates. |
were enough who were not to help us |
elect Pattison Governor in 1883 and cials in Centre county, all personally
again in 1891. There were enough | Wet as water, whose election was ac-
: complished solely by the votes they |
| received on the Prohibition ticket
which had been stolen for them.
elect William B. Wilson as our Sena- |
{ worthwhile men would not be sacri-
| ficed and nondescripts put in high
‘places all because a fa: ‘ticism has
LEFONTE, PA.. MAY 28. 1926.
: Act. :
The Vare nomination was not a ref-
erandum on modification of the Vol-
stead act. In the first place, his cam-
paign was among Republican voters
only. In the second, he had two hun-
dred thousand less votes than his two |
opponents combined. Doubtless num-
bers who voted for Pinchot and Pep-
per would vote “wet” on a straight
“wet” or “dry” issue. Certainly some
who voted fur Vare would vote “dry”
on the same question, so that the re-
sult of the recent primary cannot be
regarded as a determination of senti-
ment in Pennsylvania.
It is significant, however, that Mr.
Vare should have gotten as many
votes as he did when he had nothing
else to recommend him to the State
than his declaration for modification.
Everybody knew that. In his own city
and in Dauphin, the only two counties
in the State he actually carried, it was
machine politics that rolled up great
majorities for him. The results there
would have been the same had he been
running on a “dry” platform. In all
of the other counties of the State his
favoring modification. While the ag-
pressive, none the less.
It ought to be taken out of
end cf electing unfit men to office simp-
ily because they have been. tricky
| enough to capitalize “wet” and “dry”
sentiment as it might most effectively
further their own ends. Vare would
probably have been nominated just
the same, but he certainly would not
have received as many votes as he did
had he been running purely on his own
merits and not on an issue that ap-
pealed to a class who can never be
brought to believe that the Volstead
5 not a curtailment of their per-
Centre county would undoubtedly
vote dry. It voted for local option
years ago and every time since that
there has been an opportunity for a,
square expression on the question the
result has been the same, yet, year in
and year out, the old bogy: “Is he wet
or dry?” is trotted out to elect unfit
men for office by accomplishing the
We can cite half a dozen public offi-
Really it makes a travesty of the!
franchise. And it will continue so to
do as long as politicians can keep the !
question in politics.
A referendum would settle the
question at once. If Pennsylvania
should vote “dry” there would be no '
candidates for the United States Sen- |
ate talking about modification of the .
Volstead act. Every Congressman,
every State Senator, every member of
the Legislature would know the sen-
timent of his constituency and act
accordingly or suffer defeat should he
attempt to succeed himself. Then
i
'
warped the judgment of = great peo-
ple.
ge LC)
Figure It Out.
Let those who think there is no
chance of defeating Vare for Senator
take a look at it this way.
Cleveland had 452,000 - votes in
Pennsylvania in 1892. Bryan had
427,000 in 1896, and 424,000 in 1900,
and 448,000 in 1908. So there must
be, to say the least, 450,000 Democrats
in the State.
At the recent primaries Vare polled
592,000 votes, Pepper 509,000 and
Pinchot 336,000.
Now give Vare his 592,000 primary
vote, give him half of the Pepper vote
254,000 and give him a quarter—he
ought not to get one—of the Pinchot
vote, 84,000, and he will have 930,000.
To meet this give Wilson the 450,-
000 Democrats—and we believe there |
are more—in the State, give him half
of Pepper’s vote, 254,000, and only '
three quarters of Pinchot’s and he will
Zuisigr 956,000 against Vare’s 930,- |
————————— rae crs
——What this community needs,
and needs badly, right now is & rain
maker and one who ean really make it
rain.
ination in the Republican primaries
"of a man like Bill Vare for United
‘and protection for the people.
. enforcement of the law are chosen
| Thus, belately, he was able to tell his
it’s all true.
NO. SL.
There’s a Way.
From the Harrisburg Evening News.
Pennsylvanians whose sense of de-
cency has been outraged by the nom-
States Senator need not despair if
they are in earnest about wanting a
real man to represent them at Wash-
ington. Of course if they are party-
bound, politically provincial and pref-
erably Republican than right, theirs
is a dismal state of mind.
But for those men and women who
believed that both the Republican
party and Pennsylvania have been dis-
graced by what took place Tuesday
there is balm for their souls next
November for with William B. Wilson
remaining as a candidate for the Sen-
ate, Pennsylvania and the Republican
party need rot be humiliated at the
sight of Bill Vare, as a Senator.
There is no need for despair in
Pennsylvania over the outcome of the
senatorial primary. In Mr. Wilson
the people of the State have a man,
fully able to represent them admir-
ably. He is a man of great experi-
ence in public life. He knows prob-
lems, national and international. As
Congressman and Secretary of Labor
during some of the most critical years
in the nation’s history he came in con-
tact and determined problems and
policies a man of Vare’s experience
would not recognize if charted for
im, -
Mr. Wilson is eminently equipped
for the office of United States Sena-
tor from Pennsylvania. He has cour-
age. He has character. He has the
qualities and experience of states-
manship.
After all that has been said in con-
demnation of Vare and Vareism, their
triumph in the primaries is less a
threat to the good name of Pennsyl-
vania than if William B. Wilson’s
candidacy were not an opportunity
If half the things said by Repub-
licans about Vare are true, if the 800,-
000 Pepper-Pinchot votes were pro-
tests against Vare, of the people real-
ly are disgusted with Vare’s eandi-
dacy, the alternative is support in No-
vember for Mr. Wilson. Between now
and then the degree of sincerity of
demand for appropriate representa-
tion of Pennsylvania in the United
States Senate will be determined.
Immigration Law Silliness.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Some laws in this country may zd-
mit of humanitarian elasticity, but
never the immigration law. Whether
it is because the mere fact of one’s be-
ing an alien is such a henious offense,
or because the officials entrusted with
for their lack of a sense of humor—-
or even of plain common sense—it
does seem that no other law in our
statute books is so plentifully produc-
tive of bad breaks which are either
utterly ridiculous or atrociously un-
Just, or both.
The news columns not long ago car-
ried the strange story of Rafaele
Morello, who had been paroled and
released from the State prison at
Trenton after serving eight years for
a crime which he did not commit. It
was through his inability to command
the English language that he was
not able to speak up for himself when
arraigned in Court. He was charged
with the murder of his wife. It seems
now that he was not even aware of
the charge against him when he stood
up before the Judge, for the Court in-
terpreter himself did not understand
the particular Italian dialect. that
Morello spoke. The interpreter,
guessing at the meaning of the man’s
words, took them for a confession of
guilt. So Morello went to prison. But
in the eight years that have followed
he has learned the English language.
story. The Pardon Board heard it,
and he was released. There is no re-
dress for the injustice of those long
years of confinement, although it
must be admitted that something by
way of amends is due to him.
Morello was happy to be free—but
his happiness has been short-lived.
For now come the immigration author-
ities, who insist that he must be de-
ported. Oh, yes, he has been adjudg-
ed innocent, but he was once convict-
ed, and, having been convicted of a
grave crime of course he must be de-
ported. The law says so and the im-
migration authorities are great stick-
lers for the law. Could anything be
more ridiculous? Scarcely; but if
anything could the immigration offi-
Sisls will eventually perpetrate it, no
oubt,
It Was Not a Genuine Referendum.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
As was to have been expected, all
newspapers with wet tendencies hail
the nomination of Mr. Vare as a great
victory for the modification of the
Volstead act. They persist in looking
on it as a referendum. But it was
such only in a limited degree. It may
be accepted as a fact that the votes
cast for Vare were wet votes. But
if those cast against him are to be
counted as dry then the verdict is op-
posed to Volstead amendment for
Vare wins on a minority ballot. He is
im the minority by upwards of 200,-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Sunbury went on a tiger hunt Tuesday
and also corraled a herd of elephants that
stampeded with the tiger from a circus.
—A Pottsville jury directed the Read-
ing Railroad to pay Mrs. Mary Oneil, of
Ashland, $3476 for the death of her son at
a crossing. :
—The ‘corner stone of the new Most
Holy Sacrament church, being erected at
Greensburg, at a cost of $100,000, was laid
.| on Sunday afternoon.
—A herd of twenty-four deer destroyed
700 cabbage plants in a single night on
the farm of the Rev. C. D. Peachey, in
the Kishacoquillas valley.
-—Mrs. John Rachefski, aged 55, of Shen-
andoah, was critically burned when she
attempted to hurry a slow fire in her
kitchen range with kerosene.
—Elias Ashkan, of 2105 I'renton avenue,
Williamsport, on Sunday reported to the
police he had been knocked down and
robbed by two masked men of §79 in
money, and that jewelry valued at $4,500
had been taken from his home.
—A stone hurled by a child in Montours-
ville, struck the rear window of an auto-
mobile just as Mrs. Wilson Mendenhall
turned to look out of it. Broken glass
embedded itself in her eyeball. It is
thought the sight of one eye may be saved.
—Leaving a note asking to be buried in
his new suit and that there be no flowers
at his funeral, John A. Burkey, 55, of
Reading, committed suicide by gas on Sun-
day evening. His daughter, Mrs. Fdna
Longacre, with whom he lived, found him
dead in his room, one end of a rubber tube,
attached to a gas fixture, in his mouth.
—A quartet of bandits, two girls and
two boys, “stuck up” Harold Wise, Mifflin-
burg young man, on the State highway
just west of that city, but got only $4 and
a comb and knife. After raking him over
the bandits ordered him to beat it towards
town, which he did. When he got back to
the scene of the crime accompanied by a
young posse, the quartet was gone.
—-Jobn A Bell, former head of the Car-
negie Trust company, of Pittsburgh, con-
victed of embezzlement as a result of the
failure of the institution, has been allowed
an appeal from the decision of the State
Superior court under an order of the Penn-
sylvania Supreme court in session at Har-
risburg, this week. The case is to be
argued at the next session of the court in
Pittsburgh.
—The will of the late Mrs. Eva M. Hoff-
man, who met death in a fire in the home
of a relative with whom she was visiting at
Tioga, several weeks ago, probated last
week, shows that most of the estate, esti-
mated at between $600,000 and $700,000, has
been left to local charities. The Trinity
Memorial Episcopal church, Warren Gen-
eral bospital, Children’s Aid Society, and
Visiting Nurses Association, share in be-
quests.
—A. discarded soup bone left by a dog
in the middle of the street in West Chester,
the other day caused excitement and dam-
age there for a time. An automobile came
along, a tire pinched the bone which flew
across the sidewalk, smashed a $200 plate
glass pane in a show window of the place
of Harry Slavitz and wrecked the display.
"| Slavitz has failed to discover the driver of
the car who, unaware of the accident, kept
on his way.
—The flaming form of Samuel D. Over-
field, aged 8&8, a pioneer suminer resort
proprietor of the Delaware Water Gap
section, ‘was found by a neighbor in the
chicken yard of Ris home on Saturday
after his wife, frightened by his absence,
had summoned aid. It is believed Over-
field was using kerosene to rid the chick-
ens of vermin when it became ignited and
set his clothes afire. He died shortly after
his removal to a hospital.
—Earl Hunsicker, of Allentown, a Le»
high Valley railroad trainman, had a re-
markable escape from ferious injury, on
Saturday, when he fell sixty-five feet from
a trestle at Philipsburg, N. J. Hunsicker,
believing that the engine on which he was
riding had cleared the trestle, stepped off
the tender. His fall to a bed of mud below
was broken by telephone wires. He had a
slight scratch on his right leg, but hastily
scrambled up the bank and caught the
caboose of his train, completing his run,
—A block and tackle, used to transfer
pianos, was called into service last Satur-
day, at Pottsville, to remove the coffin con-
taining the body of Mrs. Elwood Hughes
from the third story of her home to a
waiting hearse. Mrs. Hughes weighed 300
pounds and because of the size of the
coffin, it was impossible to remove it from
the house through the doors. The appa-
ratus swung the coffin high in the air,
while the mourners looked on. Mrs.
Hughes was the wife of the librarian of
Schuylkill county court.
—Nine children and an adult were bitten
when a mad dog ran wild through West
Scranton on Friday afternoon. The dog
rushed into a group of children on their
way from school and bit them on the face,
hands and legs. All those attacked were
treated at the State and Westside hos-
pitals. Police headquarters sent a squad
of motorcycle men to the scene and the
enraged animal was shot. Four other
dogs were bitten by the mad canine be-
fore it was killed, Three of them were
captured by the police and killed.
—When Herman Kugler, aged 29, of
Harrison City, was sentenced by Judge
Charles E. Whitten in court at Greensburg
on Tuesday forenoon to serve three months
in the county jail, his mother, Mrs. Mary
Kugler, aged 67, suffered a stroke of para-
lysis and eollapsed in the court room.
Physicians were summoned and found that
it would be impossible to remove the wom-
an to a hospital. Judge Whitten then
ordered that a cot be brought into the
courtroom and placed there for her. He
adjourned court for the remainder of the
day.
—Melvin Miller, 19, Lewistown, was
fatally wounded in the abdomen on Mon-
day night when Mrs. Vinton L. Hess, also
of Lewistown, walked into the Earl B.
Strange poolroom in that place looking for
her husband with a revolver concealed in
the folds of her coat. Mrs. Hess made no
remarks, but opened fire at her husband.
Four shots were fired before the husband
got close enough to grasp her arm, and
the fifth was fired through the ceiling into
the Mifflin County Hardware Store above.
One of the bullets, all OF which went wild,
struck Miller in the left side of the abdo-
men, passing through his intestines and
lodged in his spine. His condition is re-
garded as serious. Mrs. Hess, when placed
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under arrest, charged her husband with
gambling and drinking in the poolroom.