Ei ——
Bevo
INK SLINGS.
—DMisery loves company. Poor
people must, also, because they have
so many babies.
—Anyway, we’ll give this to him.
The crown Prince of Sweden is a
rather handsome looking chap.
—If anything could look more un-
promising than the grass, wheat and
oat fields of Centre county do at this
time it must be us.
—Talking about the effort to fill
a dead man’s shoes what do you think
of Senator Borah’s effort to make the
Presbyterians believe that he picked
up the torch that Bryan threw down.
—If you didn’t say a little prayer of
thanksgiving when Tuesday’s rain
started there isn’t a farmer in Centre
county who ought to vote for you
when you run for office. We said one,
but we’re not going to be a candidate
for anything. Like a lot of the farm-
ers: We had an empty cistern.
—We’re still behind our mayor.
And we think we’ll be the one to hand
him a saw when the mob is riding him
out of town on a rail because he’s
tried to do his duty, but we can’t help
having a little fun at his expense.
You know how busy a “cluck” with
one chicken is supposed to be. Well,
that proverbial “cluck” was an ai
compared to our mayor on circus day.
—To the lady out in Crafton whose
broker told her there are no seasons
in the sto.k market we want to say
this: Brokers know more about the
stock market than we do. They can
pooh, pooh our paragraph of a few
weeks ago as much as they like, but
they can’t show us, from the tape,
that July hasn't been the most con-
sistent month of all the year to pick
up from two to five points in standard
stocks. We've watched the board for
thirty years, and that’s longer than
most of the brokers who are handling
stocks today have done, and its our
opinion that stocks bought today and
sold the thirty-first of July will yield
a profit. Not large, but a profit, just
the same.
—Among other things that Mus-
solini proposes doing is to banish
profanity from Italy. According to
the Italian Deputy, Mascarini, pro-
fanity “is a sinful indication of bad
education” and the new code is to
make its use a crime, punishable with
a severe penalty. We await the ex-
periment with much interest. Not
only because we have always abhor-
red profanity and vulgarity, but also
because it has appeared to us as an ut-
terly futile form of expression. How-
ever, if our government were to un-
dertake a crusade such as Mussolini
_ proposes there are thousands and
thousands of - Americans who would
find their vocabularies supplied with
very few words that wouldn’t land
them in jail.
—Norris Wilson Campbell— we
haver’t the remotest idea of who Nor-
ris. Wilson is—proclaimed to the
world, on Tuesday, that William B.
Wilson can be elected tothe United
States Senate. We beat Norris Wilson
to it byfourdays. LastFriday we
showed just exactly how Wilson could
be made the instrument through which
Pennsylvania can be saved from Vare.
Its entirely up to the independent Re-
publican. If he or she thinks it would
be better tohave a clean Democrat
represent the State in Congress than a
spotted Republican then Wilson will
be elected. The question in Pennsyl-
vania today is: Are there enough
Republicans who think more of the
honor of their State than they do of a
Republican machine ?
—Three western Classis of the Re-
formed church went on record last
week as being opposed to prohibition.
They justify the position by saying
that it is not “in accordance with the
word of God” and “not in accord with
the Bible.” Don’t decide that we are
“wet” advocate because we state it
to be our belief that these three great
groups of church people are right.
Everlastingly right. The Bible doesn’t
teach prohibition. It does teach
temperance in all things. And tem-
perance has been so distorted as to
mean in the mind of the Prohibitionist
prohibition of beverages of alcohole
content only. They can’t see intem-
perance in anything else than drink,
yet we doubt if there is one of them
who can prove to us that there are
not more people dying from acute in-
digestion—the result nearly always
of intemperate eating—every year
than there are from alcoholism.
—We’re in the market for two
thousand dollars. We need that
much and more to keep the old stage
coach from falling to pieces,—and to
buy help, paper and ink to keep the
paper going to those who are paid in
advance. All those subscribers who
have the figures “June 27” or further
at the right of their names in the
address slips are liabilities to us. Lia-
bilities that we are worrying about.
All those whose address slips wind up
with figures prior to June 1st, 1926
are assets. They're the ones our
hopes for the two thousand are pin-
ned to. They have never failed us
before and we have faith to be-
lieve that they won't do it now that
we have done the terrible thing. Ad-
mitted that we're hard up. .Darned
hard up. Oh, joy! What if every
body who knows he or she owes us
something would send only a dollar
and a half. If they all did that we'd
have the two thousand and enough to
have the shop windows washed.
VOL. 71.
BELLEFONTE,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
PA.. JUNE
4. 1926.
mmram——
Vare Holds the Trump Cards.
We are not yet ready to admit that
Harry Baker will be kicked out of the
Republican State Chairmanship. We
have two reasons: There is not a Re-
publican in Pennsylvania trained to
take his place, nor are factions op-
posing him so trustful of one another
that they would leave the party or-
ganization slip into a rival camp
without signed, sealed and delivered
bonds that it would not later be
turned against them.
The Mellons are not politicians.
They never were and never will be.
They have only been exploited in Re-
publicanism because of the power of
their money. Grundy is not a politic-
ian. His worth to a political organiza-
tion is measured solely by his ability
to gather up great “slush funds.” In-
mixing in with the rank and file
Grundy would act about as graceful-
ly as a kid takes castor oil. Vare is
a politician, but not the kind that the
Republician party of Pennsylvania
would dare put in control. However,
he is the gentleman who is sitting
prettiest in this triangle of opportun-
ists.
If Mr. Vare could swing Philadel-
phian’s vote so overwhelmingly
against George Wharton Pepper, emi-
nent churchman, lawyer and citizen of
Philadelphia in 1926 what might he
do with the candidacy of Senator
David A. Reed, eminent in nothing
and a resident of Pittsburgh, when
he aspires to succeed himself in 1928?
Answer that question, if you can,
without coinciding with our thought
that the Mellons will be more prone
William B. Wilson for Senator.
The unanimous nomination of Wil- |
liam B. Wilson for the office of United
' States Senator by the Democracy of
! Pennsylvania has not only inspired
hope of victory at home but has stir-
. red the Democrats of all sections of !
, the country to increased activity. The
' Democratic congressional committee !
‘assures us of its purpose to give |
every aid possible in the campaign,
which is an encouraging ‘sign. Here- !
! tofore the National and congressional |
' committees have not thought it worth
, while to direct attention to Pennsyl-
.vania. The overwhelming Republican
‘majorities in recent years have ob-
literated all chance of Democratic
success.
But this year conditions are differ-
ent. The Democratic nominee for
Senator in Congress is so far super-
ior to that of his Republican compet-
itor that State pride will compel all
right-minded voters to submerge po-
litical prejudices and give their sup-
port to a man who will reflect honor
rather than disgrace upon the Com-
monwealth. All the leading Republi-
can papers of the State are agreed in
the opinion that the election of Mu.
Vare to the office of Senator would be
shameful. The Philadelphia Public
Ledger, in an issue previous to the
primary, declared, “if you choose
Vare you get an arrogant ward boss
who is now driving the bogus issue
"of his beer cart across Pennsylvania
, Republican necks.” The Inquirer
‘said, “you must know that William
S. Vare is not of Senatorial size. He
would be a reproach to you.” The
Obvieusly a Futile Inquiry. i
The movement sponsored by Rep-
resentative Tinkham, of Massachu- |
setts, to “aseertain whether Repre- |
sentative Lewis C. Cramton, of Mich-
igan, or any other member of the
House of Representatives has receiv-
ed money or fees from the Ansi-Sa-
loon League or any other organiza-
tion interested in legislation pending |
before Congress” may be somewhat !
interesting, quite instructive and rea-
sonably amusing, but it will be futile.
It appears that Mr. Cramton recently
told a newspaper correspondent that
“from time to time he has received
money or fees” from such a source.
Mr. Tinkham also declared that the
| Anti-Saloon League paid the cam-
paign expenses of the author of the!
Volstead law. |
In a preliminary statement of his
purpose Mr. Tinkham declared, the
other day, that “the Anti-Saloon
League is an agency that controls the
government of the United States
through fear and by money” and that
“its strength is such that it consti-
tutes a government within a govern-
ment and has suppressed free action
by the American Congress, whose
committees cringe before the orders
of its agents and servants.” This is
a strong indictment, to say the least
but not the complete charge. The
Massachusetts Congressman adds
that it “has packed the Federal
bench,” has “reached into the Su-
preme court,” has “appointed United
States attorneys and dominated the
prohibition enforcement unit.”
Possibly all these charges are true,
to talk to Vare than the wet Senator- | Bulletin added “a vote for Congress- : and maybe most of them are suscep-
ial candidate will be to knuckle to | man Vare would be a vote for the ex- | tible of proof. But what is Mr. Tink-
them. He knows they don’t want him. . altation of the Vare system of poli- ham going to do about it or what can
He knows, also, that they can’t get the tics, registration list padding, ballot ; he accomplish by his resolution of in-
things nearest their hearts without box stuffing, tally sheet manipulation, | quiry?
The Eighteenth amendment
him, ‘because Vare’s votes in Phila- | public office pap, to the dignity of the | was regularly and legally adopted and
delphia can put the skids under Sena-
tor Reed just as handily as they did
under Senator Pepper.
Vare is a crude, cold-blooded poli-
Senatorial toga.”
On the other side it may be said
that the candidate offered by the’
Democrats for the office is.a gentle-
is now a part of the federal constitu-
tion. It prohibits the “manufacture,
sale, transporation, importation, or
exportation” of intoxieating liquors, |
tician. He hasn’t the finesse of his 'man of the highest character, wide “for beverage purposes.” The only
late brether Ed., who built up the | experience, fine ability and tried pa- way this provision ef the constitution
machine he inherited. There is no
sentiment in him so that he could eas-
ily forget that it was when the Mel-
lonswand Grundy had, for reasons not
favorable to Vare, forced Baker out
of his position of neutrality in the
Senatorial contest, that the State
chairman showed where his real
friendship was.
As we have said, Vare might easi-
ily forget that it was Baker’s passive
interest in Pepper that is to be the
price of his official scalp. And then,
again, he might not. If he doesn’t. nei-
ther the Mellons, nor Grundy will have |
any strings on the next chairman of
the Republican state committee.
——It is said that Congressman
Vare procured the resignation or dis-
missal of Mr. Baird as prohibition
director for eastern Pennsylvania.
Mr. Vare doesn’t want too much ef-
ficiency in that service during the
campaign.
Opening of the Sesqui-Centennial.
The Sesqui-Centennial opened on
Monday under conditions abundant in
promise of splendid achievement.
There is much to be done in the way
of preparation, for many of the build-
ings are incomplete and only a mea-
ger part of the exhibits are in place.
But the attendance on the first day
was all that could be expected and the
very considerable crowd was highly
pleased with what it saw and gener-
ously hopeful of greater attractions
in the future. Taking one considera-
tion with another the great enterprise
in honor of the greater event of a
century and a half ago was success-
fully inaugurated.
If selfishness and political expedi-
ency had been eliminated from the
program of preparation the hopeful
expectations of the originators of the
enterprise might not only have been
fulfilled but exceeded. But for a con-
siderable time there were bickerings
among those charged with the man-
agement and frequently these dif-
ferences threatened to disrupt the
plans and destroy the undertaking.
Within the last year, however, wise
councils were followed and by energy
and intelligent effort a fine work has
been accomplished. We sincerely hope
that the confidence inspired by an
auspicious opening will be justified.
The speakers were Mayor Kendrick,
of Philadelphia, who is also president
of the Sesqui-Centennial Association,
Secretary of State Kellogg and Secre-
tary of Commerce Hoover. They
dwelt largely upon the spiritual pro-
gress of the country during the period
since the birth of the nation as well
as the scientific, industrial and com-
mercial growth. It was an interest-
ing and illuminating occasion and will
no doubt lead to a better understand-
ing among the people of the world
and a kinder feeling toward each oth-
er. At least that is the ostensible
purpose of the exposition and de-
serves encouragement.
; triotism. A man of the people, he
| has won high honors both in the State |
“and Nation by merit. In Congress he
took a high rank from the beginning
of his service and in the Cabinet of
President Wilson he fitted into a
‘standard of service that commanded
the esteem of his associates as well
{as his great chief. It may be said
cof William B. Wilson that he has
"adorned every public effice that he |
has held. There ought to be no doubt !
"of the issue in a contest between these
men.
——Max Leslie is getting care-
i less. He ought to have had some bal-
i lots in that box which returned a big
"majority for Fisher.
Fountain of Glittering Generalities,
| President Coolidge is certainly es-
. tablishing a claim to the title of “the
| fountain of glittering generalities.”
‘In his oration at Arlington cemetery,
on Monday, referring to the prepara-
tory conference of nations in session
at Geneva, he said “out of that con-
ference we expect some practical re-
sults. We believe that other nations
ought to join with us in laying aside
their suspicions and hatreds sufficient-
ly to agree among themselves upon
necessity of maintenance of great
land and sea forces. This cannot be
done if we constantly have in mind
the resort to war for the redress of
wrongs and the enforcement of
rights.”
Only a few weeks ago at the cele-
bration of the Sesqui-Centennial of the
Virginia declaration of independence,
he indulged in some equally fanciful
figures of speech on the subject of
preserving the sovereignty of the
States against the constantly increas-
ing infringements of the federal gov-
ernment and within a few days issued
an order usurping the police powers
of the States more completely than
Alexander Hamilton ever dreamed of.
Thus his insincerity as well as his in-
consistency is revealed every time he
opens his mouth. His “promises to the
ear are broken to the hope.” He
creates verbal ideals and ruthlessly
shatters them to promote selfish or
partisan interests.
The time that all the nations should
have “laid aside their suspicions and
hatreds” in the interest of enduring
peace was when Woodrow Wilson re-
turned from the Versailles peace con-
ference and laid before the Senate
the Covenant of the League of Na-
tions. That was the vehicle, the place
and the opportunity to begin the lim-
itation of armaments and inaugurate
the policies which would have assured
permanent peace to the whole world.
But the suspicions, hatreds and part-
isan malice of the Republican leaders
in and out of Congress defeated this
beneficent enterprise, and Calvin Cool-
idge was in full sympathy with their
malign purposes. Peace talk now is
hollow mockery.
1
methods of mutual relief from the |
tain.
may be annulled is by a repealing
t to the constitution which
‘quired for other amendments. That
is out of the question, and those advo-
cating modification are “kidding
themselves.”
—If the city papers are to be be-
lieved there were forty thousand
i people listening to the opening cere-
monies of the Sesqui-Centennial and
‘there were fifty-five thousand gather-
ed in New York, the day before, to
see the “Afaletics” and Yankees play
basebail. One hundred and fifty years
have done a lot for this country. They
have coddled, pampered and petted
until the present generation doesn’t
know what its all about.
Snes.
* ——The declaration of the Gazette
this week to the effect that it is for
Vare is not unexpected to us. Editor
Harter has evidently had a hard
search for condiments that would
make the eating of his pre-primary
words palatable and he fools nobody
when he says he is for the “wet” can-
didate because he thinks he is “serv-
ing his country best.” We all know
who he is trying to serve best.
A ———— i ST...
——Only twenty-five years ago the
General Assembly of the United Pres-
byterian church decided to bar from
communion all members of secret or-
ganizations. :
——There is one thing concerning
the politics of this State that is cer-
It is that there will be several
Democrats in the next Congressional
delegation.
——The Prohibitionists of Pennsyl-
vania will have an opportunity to
“prove their faith by works” in their
votes for Senator in Congress this
year. .
——An esteemed contemporary be-
lieves that if a sword could write
checks it would be as mighty as the
pen.
——Mr. Vare got the ovation at the
opening of the Sesqui. The people of
: Philadelphia “are true to their idols.”
a
——Senator Borah is making him-
self solid with the church folk, but
nobody ventures an opinion as to why.
——There are still some politicians
guessing what Governor Pinchot will
do at the coming election.
——Probably Mellon wants to be
chairman in order to control his own
property.
——Excursions to the North Pole
are among the possibilities of the fu-
ture.
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
NO. 23.
The Anti-Vare Vote.
From the Pittsburgh Post.
In the contest against Vareism the
main thing, of course, is to poll the
Anti-Vare vote unitedly behind Wil-
liam B. Wilson.
The primary vote of William S.
Vare in the senatorial contest was
less than 600,000, and. of this nearly
two-thirds were received in Philadel-
phia alone.
The combined Republican vote
against Vare in the primary contest
was in the neighborhood of 800,000 or
nearly 200,000 more than his.
Vare now has to run not only the
gauntlet of the Republican majority
that was against him in the primary,
but also that of Demoerats who are
united behind Wilson.
What now of this Democratic vote ?
It can he said that in the main there
is no more faithful vote in the coun-
try. Although the Democrats of the
State, as the Republicans, may neg-
lect the primaries, they usually turn
out. fairly well in general elections.
The point is that over a period of
more than forty-four years starting
with 1880, the average Democratic
vote in Pennsylvania in Presidential’
contests has been 428,767. With only
men voting, the Democratic mark
in Pennsylvania in 1916 was 521,784.
In 1922 the Democratic gubernatorial
vote in the State was 581,625, indicat-
ing a Democratic strength alone sal
to that of Vare in the primary. The
department of the secretary of the
commonwealth gave the total regis-
tration of Democrats in the State in
1925 as 697,180—practically 700,000.
Now there is the poss
with so popular a candidate as Mr.
Wilson, and so stirring an issue as:
that of Vareism, that the Democratic
party enrollment at registration this:
fall_will be considerably increased. |.
as also is expected of the Republican
enrollment. - 8
Upon the most conservative basis
this party which has cast a vote of
nearly 600,000 and has a registration
of practically 700,000—and which for
more than forty-four years has main-
tained an average of 428,767—should
bring to Wilsen at least ,000 votes |
to join with the Republican anti-Vare
votes. Out of the 800,000 votes cast
against Vare in the Republican prim-
ary, it seems reasonable that enough
should be obtained to add to the Dem-
ocratic vote and defeat the
phia boss emphatically. =
* ‘With "its population of 9;008,000,
Pennsylvania has a possible vote of
around 4,000,000. It-is difficult to see
where Vare can increase his strength
much outside of Philadelphia, with
the citizenship of practically all the
other counties mistrustful of him.
His less than 600,000 seem anything
but formidable in the presence of the
Democratic and Republican anti-Vare
vote.
Democrats and independent Republi-
cans elected a Democratic State treas-
urer in 1905 just after Roosevelt had
carried Pennsylvania by more than
half a millon. With the record of the
election of a Democratic governor in
1882 and the election of the same
man, Robert E. Pattison, again to the
chief executiveship in 1892-—with the
added accomplishment of electing a
Democratic State treasurer some
years later—the move to defeat Vare
has much in the prospects to en-
courage it.
From the talk today, the anti-Vare
vote behind such a leader as Wilson
should be overwhelming.
———— eet crence
Senator Steck’s Opportunity.
From the Omaha Bee. 1
Senator Daniel Steck, of Iowa, th
first Democrat to be elected to the
United States Senate from Iowa since
the civil war, is fronted by an oppor-
tunity that seldom comes to a man.
Usually a Senator’s first term is
spent in laying the plans for re-elec-
tion or playing a game that will en-
able him to function as the leader of
a successful political party. Sen-
ator Steck need. not waste time in
any such efforts. If he is as wise as
his friends say he is, or even half as
wise, he will not waste any time play-
ing for position in the hopes of being
re-elected. He will not waste time
trying to organize Democratic forces
in Iowa with a view to winning politi-
cal control of the State. He is there-
fore left free to attend to the business
of being a Senator along the lines
planned by the founders of the Re-
public. He may advocate or oppose
bills as his judgment dictates, not
as support or opposition may affect
his political future.
Senator Steck is a Democrat of the
conservative type, hence he can act
according to old-time- Democratic
principles and keep his conscience
clear, instead of hobnobbing with
malcontents and turncoats who have
no other object than selfish advantage.
It might be possible, though hardly
probable, that such a course, if ad-
hered to tenaciously, might so please
his constitutents that even rock-rib-
bed Republican Iowa would indorse
his course, preferring a straight-out
‘| opponent to one who is a supporter
only long enough to secure a certif-
icate of election.
——Over at Philipsburg, last week,
dogs drove two nice bucks into the
wire fence surrounding the Jewish
cemetery, both animals breaking their
necks in the impact. Game wardens
are now trying to find out who owns
the dogs that did the chasing. .
lity that
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Air mail service between Pittsburgh
and Cleveland will be started about June
15, it is reported.
—Peter Koval, of Miners’ Mills, died
from injuries received in a rock fall at
the Miners’ Mills Coal Company mine.
‘—The chief of the army engineers has
aproved plans for imprevements on the
Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, at an es-
timated cost of $1,540,000.
——Lieutenant Jacob C. Mauk, of Troop
B, State Police, at Wyoming, has been
promoted to a eaptainmey and will be placed
in command of Troep D, at Butler.
—The Pottsvile school board at its last
meeting went on record that hereafter
it will not consider married women as
eligible for teaching positions in the
dstriect.
—=Sale of the grounds of the Milton fair
association marked the passing of anckher
of the county fairs which a few years ago
were held in almost every village in this
part of the State.
—Work on the new 25,000,000 gallon
water reservoir at Singers Gap that will
help furnish Mount Union with fine moun-
tain water and solve for all time to come
the water problem, is progressing rapidly.
—Over an inch of steel was removed
from the great toe of Miss Hannah Hin-
kle of Island Park, near Sunbury, in an
operation performed at the Mary M. Pack-
er hospital. Miss Hinkle, who is employ-
ed as a clerk stepped on a needle at her
home.
—Gler Rock is paying homage to “Ter-
ry,” an airedale dog which saved the life
of a seven-year-old boy. The youngster,
Stanley Smith, fell into the Cordorus
creek and had gone down when the can-
ine went to his rescue, dragging him to
‘the shore and safety. Terry is owned by
Dr. Clyde L. Seitz.
—Thirty thousand seedlings, received
from the state forest nurseries, are to be
phnted on the Ku Klux Klan farm, along
the Blairsville read, near Indiana, Pa.
Several hundred young trees, planted on
the farm, were destroyed early last sum-
mer when marauders visited the Klan farm
and dynamited a new home which had
been erected there.
—While walking in his sleep early Mon-
day morning, James H. Donnelly, aged
54, of Greensburg, was probably fatally
injured when he leaped from the porch
of his - home and fell 20 feet to the pave-
ment. An examination showed a fracture
of the left leg and pelvis bone and prob-
ably: internal injuries. His condition was
said to be critical. :
—When she had her hair bobbed her
husband shut off her financial supplies
for some weeks, alleged Mrs. Elsie Marion
Duffield Bean, formerly of Norristown,
now of Lower Providence, before the mas-
ter in her divorce suit, which has been
‘granted by the court against Clarence H.
Bean on the ground of cruel and barbar-
‘ous treatment and indignities. :
—J. Klinger, of Sunbury, an employe of
the Pennsylvania Power and light com-
pany, who was employed as lineman for
the company at Castanea, fell sixteen feet
from a pole on which he was working at
33 J. Saturday afternoon, and escaped with .
severe bruises and cuts on the right arm
below the elbow and the right hip. He
was able to leave for his home at Sunbury
on the midnight train Saturday night..
—Seized with cramps while swimming
in the Monongahela River, Edward Deitz,
Jr., aged 12 of Charleroi, drowned shortly
after noon on Monday before aid could
reach him. Young Deitz with a younger
brother had gone to the river to bathe,
and had been in the water but a short
time when seized with cramps. His cries
attracted the attention of several other
bathers, but he sank beneath the surface
before they could reach him.
—Two wives of James Saville, who ran
a smal farm near Scranton, and their three
children, are to share equally in the $45,-
000 estate left him, his will, probated last
Saturday, shows. Several years ago Sa-
ville obtained a diverce from his first wife.
Isabelle Saville, and then remarried, Sub-
sequently the first wife filed an appeal
from the divorce decree and an Appelate
Court set the decree aside, The second
marriage, however, was never broken up.
—As she stood beside the grave of her
husband in the South Side Cemetery,
Pittsburgh, on Sunday night, Mrs. Mary
Jones, aged 35, of Youngstown, Ohio,
slashed her throat with a razor blade, ac-
cording to police. She was taken to the
South Side hospital, where it was declar-
ed her condition is not serious. A bottle
partly filled with moonshine was found
near where she had fallen, police stated.
When Mrs. Jones fell others in the ceme-
tery ran to her assistance, picked her up
and had her taken to the hospital.
—Melvin Miller, 19, of Lewistown, died
last Thursday as the result of a bullet
wound sustained on Monday evening pre-
vious when Mrs. Mary Jane Hess, 22, enter-
ed the Earl B. Strange poolroom, hunting
for her husband, Stinton Hess, 22, with
a 38-caliber revolver and fired five shots
promiscuously, one of which entered Mil-
ler’s left side. A charge of murder will be
entered against Mrs. Hess immediately,
but the legal authorities agree it will be
hard to obtain a conviction on account
of her condition, and the lack of premed-
itation. .
—Loot amounting to $3,000 was obtain-
ed early Sunday morning by robbers who
rifled a safe in the store of the Bon-Ton
company, in Indinan, Pa. The = cracks-
men, evidently experts, succeeded in blow-
ing open the safe without attracting at-
tention. They muffied the sound by the
use of rags and merchandise they gather-
ed in the storeroom. The robbery was
discovered by Frank White, a clerk, The
intruders had gained entrance by knock-
ing off the handle of the front door. The
robbery is believed to hsve occurred be-
tween 7:30 and 8 o’clock in the morning.
—Neil Rich, of Kulpmont, a prominent
politician, is held in jail at Sunbury,
charged with the murder of Gabriel Triest,
aged 45 and married, whom Rich is alleged
to have shot in the abdomen, while defend-
ing Mrs. Annie Jones from an attack by
Triest. Triest had called on Mrs. Jones to
collect a bill, which she said she did not
owe, and followed her forty feet across a
lot to the kitchen of the Rich home. Dur-
ing the altercation Triest is alleged to
have made a lunge at the woman, and to
have been shot in the abdomen by Rich,
who is being held without bail on the
charge of murder.
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