—
INK SLINGS.
——Now that the “celebrated case”
is ended the “pig woman” may go to
the dogs. :
—At the rate bucks are falling be-
fore the hunters it won’t be long until
every home . in Pennsylvania has a
mounted deer head in its hall-way or
over a mantel piece.
—New Brunswick, N. J., has some-
thing on Dayton, Tenn. Both have
passed from the front pages of met-
ropolitan papers but New Brunswick
still has its Hall of fame.
—The President says that a per-
manent cut in federal taxes would be
“a risk.” Possibly it would, but most
every tax payer would be willing to
run it long enough to find out.
Those scientists up at State
College who have cut a window in the
side of a heifer, so that investigators
may see her innerds at work making
fat and milk, declare that she suffers
not at all from it. Possibly she
doesn’t, but she’s got a pane in her
side all the same.
—Since the days of the “big wind
in Ireland,” the wet Spring of ’37 and
tha Johnstown flood we don’t remem-
ber any weather condition quite as
disheartening as Sunday, December
5, 1926. We needed the rest of “the
Seventh day,” but we didn’t get it.
By seven o'clock in the evening we
had succeeded in clearing the walks of
snow and sank, exhausted, into an
easy chair. At eight a howling wind
started to undo all of our work of the
.day and Monday morning the whole
darned job had to be done over again.
—Not having fully recovered from
the effects of playing the role of the
man behind the snow shovel last Sun-
.day and because there has been so
little in the “old bean” since the Halls
and Carpenders got out of jail and
Aimee McPherson has dropped off the
front pages and Christmas is drawing
so nigh that we don’t need to remind
you how nigh it is we think we shall
tell you a story. One that really
should be preserved:
Some years ago, it probably was
very many, but time flies so fast now
-that it seems as though it happened
only yesterday, Jerome K. Jerome,
English, and author of “Three Men in
a Boat” and Charles K. Loomis made
-a lecturing tour of “the Stoits.” Statp
College was just then becoming am-
bitious to emerge from the pupa stage
of “agriculture and the mechanic arts”
and soar into realms, cultural. The
distinguished, perigrinating literati
were offered good money—probably as
much as the Moose takes in on Satur-
.day nights, nowadays, when it shows
“Tony” and the man who, gives him
his oats, to spout their stuff at State.
The engagement caused a furore in
Bellefonte—the old Bellefonte that
.Joe Wilson—grand young man of “the
road”’—talked to us about only a few
days ago. We consulted the late
“Pop” Thomas and contracted for a
“boat,” via Buffalo Run—otherwise
the Bellefonte Central, to take the
local lterati—of whom there are few
left in town—to State College to hear
this Jerome and Lewis combination.
No need for saying anything about the
_joys of the ride up on “the rattler.”
“This story has only to do with the trip
home. Being in charge of the
“special” we hustled down to the sta-
tion without waiting to tell Prof.
Pattee what we had heard of Jerome's
comment or the way a steak should be
broiled. Seated in the smoker, next
to the stove—for then there was seg-
regation for those who used the
weed—was someone, in a “great coat”
whom we thought to be Tommy
Eadon, who used to make a parade,
once a week, of Col. Reynolds’ stallion
“Pride of the North.” We took the
seat directly behind him. Then Linn
VOL. 71
How Vare’s Machines Does it.
A Philadelphia correspondent of the
New York World gives an interesting
description of the processes by which
Boss Vare builds up majorities gener-
ally and the extraordinary majority
in that city against Mr. William B.
Wilson at the recent election. “Your
average Philadelphian greets with
racuous laughter,” he says, “any as-
Labor William B. Wilson was counted
out and William S. Vare counted in as
United States Senator November 2.
It wasn’t necessary to count him out.
The job was done beginning with the
votes were all in. “Some” Wilson
got all he wouldn’t have enough. The
real job was to see the votes were not
gotten in for him.”
The Republican organization of
Philadelphia is made up of city job
holders.
mitteemen each responsible for the
trol are 1500 division leaders who are
“kept on their toes” by promises of
promotion if they fulfill expectations.
The foundation of the structure of
fraud is laid when the assessment is
made. City Treasurer Harry Mackey
revealed the secret when he told the
Slush Fund committee of the Senate:
“If I have a man in my ward who
does not know every man in it by his
first name; if he does not know when
that man is in trouble; who does not
know where there is want and priva-
tion in a household; when one man
moves out and another moves in, he
is no good to me.”
With this system of control and ap-
peal the organization virtually bribes
some voters, dragoons others and de-
ceives the illiterates. On election day
the designated agents of the machine
go to the polls early and remain late
and as each voter approaches he is
buttonholed and requested to ask for
assistance in the booth. If he refuses
this he is a marked man and all help
in times of trouble is withdrawn. The
petty criminals, the mendicants, the
bootleggers,the habitual drunkards and
all other el >
are helpless in the hands of these pro-
fessional politicians who thus build up
The forty-eight committeemen meet a
day or two before the election and
declare the result.
——According to evidence in the oil
conspiracy case the Harding adminis-
tration hadn’t much faith in its arms
conference. The oil leases seem to
have been given to Doheney to avert
a war with Japan. \
a
Only Millionaires Need Apply.
Big business certainly cut a con-
manding figure in the politics of Penn-
sylvania this year. The revealed $3,-
000,000 cost of the Republican pri-
mary, only part of the price of nomi-
nating Vare and Fisher, astounded
the country but it seems to have failed
to arouse the public conscience. Since
that the Republican candidate for
United States Senator in Maine is
said to have spent, through his friends,
$100,000 and “got away with it,”
sertion that former Secretary of
registration and ending when the
votes have been overlooked but if he .
There are forty-eight com- |
vote of his ward. Under their con-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA.. DECEMBER 10. 1926.
Important Improvements Started.
The purpose of the leading Demo- What purpose Senator Walsh, of
crats in Congress to strive for tax re- | Montana, had in mind when, on Mon-
duction along certain lines is to be | day, he introduced a resolution to in-
highly commended. The surplus of | vestigate charges against Senator
this year is troublesome to dispose of. | Gould, of Maine, is left to conjecture
The President wants to donate it in | but it clearly indicates a policy o
the form of a rebate to the corpora- | watchfulness in the future. Senator
tions which have already reimbursed ; Gould is charged with having obtained
themselves by the ordinary processes | favors and franchises in Canada by
of trade, while some others believe a | bribery. So far as the records reveal
i better way would be to pay it on the | he hasn’t denied the charge but justi-
public debt, thus reducing the volume { fies the act on the ground that the
of public obligations and the amount | money, $100,000, “was forced from
of the interest account. It is almost him.” Senator Walsh’s resolution
unanimously agreed, however, that provides for an investigation by the
there should be no more surplusses to | Senate committee on privileges and
{ worry about, and the Democrats in elections, and a report of the result
Congress want to make sure of it by | of the inquiry to the Senate with such
‘cutting the taxes. | recoinmendations as may seem war-
| So far as current gossip on the sub- : ranted.”
ject goes nobody seems inclined to| The first thought of the Senators
‘sponser a system of tax reduction present when Senator Walsh’s reso-
Important Phase of Taxation. ]
! which could directly benefit the peo- | lution was read was that it was the
ple. Nobody objects much to paying | beginning of a movement to prevent
‘a reasonable rate of taxes if the reve- | the seating of Vare as Senator for
nues go directly toward the support of | Pennsylvania in the Seventieth Con-
the government. The income tax, for ‘gress. But Mr. Walsh promptly pro-
example, is levied on those who can |tested against such an interpretation.
| afford to pay, and properly managed | The offenses charged against Mr.
can be collected without great ex- Gould are different from those alleged
pense. A man who has an income of | against Vare. The bribery of a high
ten or twenty thousand dollars a year | official in Canada involves moral tur-
{can pay the income at present rates | pitude, and if proved against Mr.
{| without much trouble, while the man | Gould disqualifies him from member-
of family whose income is less than | ship of the Senate. The charge
three thousand need not pay because ‘against Vare is that his election was
he cannot afford the expense without invalid because of an excessive and
depriving his family. misuse of money in the primary and
{ © The onerous tax burdens and those | fraudulent voting and false returns
which should be reduced are levies | at the general election.
upon food, clothing, medicines and | But an inference may be drawn
| other necessaries of life, which are from the Gould incident that will ex-
‘ collected at public expense but never | tend to the Vare case. The Senate
‘reach the public treasury. The tariff | hag not always been punctilious with
: taxes which add fifteen or twenty dol-
| lars to every suit of clothes purchased, ago 2 Senator for Pennsylvania had
| two or three dollars to every pair of lonly a short time before escaped con-
respect to its membership. Some years
nts. of -the underworld -
shoes worn and in equal ratio reaches
the pocket of every poor man in the
country on other necessaries, contri-
butes nothing to the public treasury.
All the money thus obtained is unearn-
ed bounty to the corporations and man-
ufacturers who spend millions to keep
the Republican party in power. Some
of the Democratic leaders might give
this phase of the tax question atten-
_viction of a crime involving moral
i turpitude by pleading the statute of
| limitations and subsequently he be-
i came a potential leader in the cham-
ber. The Walsh resolution is notice
to the world that conditions have
changed. The character of applicants
for.seats in the Senate as well as the
‘methods of their election will be sub-
jects of inquiry hereafter, and Mr.
the majorities that decide elections
however unfair and unjust it may be. !
tion. | Vare will be among the first to “run
| the gauntlet.”
ncn —— res ———
——Former city treasurer Watson,
of Philadelphia, admits that he violat-
ed the law while in office. Republican
officials in Philadelphia don’t have to
obey the law.
——1It’s a good thing the people
didn’t know that we were on the verge
i of war with Japan in 1923. Some of
us might have gotten mad about it.
Pinchot Lectures Philadelphia. Thousands of Bushels of Apples Went
to Waste in Centre County.
Governor Pinchot was impressive as
well as pathetic in his address in Phil- | Thousands of bushels of prime
adelphia on the occasion of the as-'
sembling of Liberty bells in Independ-
ence hall. These bells, venerated short: of Hel tale s
p : p at picking time, there
properties of Allentown, Easton, it
Reading, Lancaster, Chester and York, | as > Dion mathe 2 Hr i
had been on exhibition at the Sesqui- ' 4} rdine i
Centennial and were assembled in In- | fhe Sea 5
dependence ball, preparatory to ship | wet and cold weather interfer very
iM i ith picking the fruit, but a
was made ceremonial, everything in } ne ia Paioiip Bind who has an
Pallajeignia Bee made eaomoniel if orchard gathered all he could use or
Passn oe i a Ie te sell, either as whole fruit or made into
; ney) J cider. They also picked all of the
Sam Gd Hove been a. 2 Sie Serious : winter variety that they could place in
rame of mind and delivered his mes- ' the limited storage capacity of their
apples went to waste in Centre county
this year because the farmers were :
sage in caustic language. And he told
cellars, and the rest were allowed to
Harris came into the car and took the | though a candidate’s legal expendi-
seat directly opposite ours. Follow- ; tures in that State are limited by iaw
ing Linn came Francis Speer, who sat to the sum of $1500. But the Repub
«down in the next seat. After the lican party and the administration in
others had all gotten aboard and the | Washington needs votes in the next
train had started backing out to the | session of the Senate and the question
Y at Struble’s Francie asked us what | of validity was decided by a Republi-
we thought of the lecture. We | can official.
answered him by asking what he | It was hoped by many thoughtful
thought of it, and this was his reply: | citizens, and believed by some, that
Shouting loud enough to be heard | the exposure of profligacy in the pri-
above the roar of the train Francie said mary campaign in this State would
“Jerome might be all right sittin’ in a | provoke public sentiment to such a
chair writin’ books but he ain’t worth | measure of indignation as to prevent
a continental damn standin’ up and evtravagance in political expenditures
talkin”. Just then the late Ross in the future. But the expense ac-
Parker, “Admiral of the Boat” came | counts filed at the State Department
into the car and whispered in our ear: iin Harrisburg, on Wednesday and
“that’s Jerome right in front of you.” Thursday of last week for the election
Talking about denouements. That on November 2, show that such ex-
the everlasting truth. : rot on the trees or hang until they
“These are the stilled voices of froze and dropped off.
America’s fathers—stilled in tone but | Centre county is not in the commer-
speaking eloquently in silent appeal,” cial apple growing belt, hence don’t
he said, “To-day, in the hallowed have the advantage of a community
shrine here, their message rises above cold storage plant, and because of this
the noise and hubbub of the city, clear | fact thousands of dollars have been
and compelling. To me that message 14st to the farmers through their in-
is a call and a warning that we have ability to gather their entire apple
failed in our duty as citizens, and a crop.
call to rise up and down the forces While many farmers complained of
that in the very birthplace of liberty I wet weather interfering with the rais-
are stealing that liberty away from ing of their potato crop Mr. Blaney
us. The foremost thing for which our | states that practically all the potatoes
forefathers fought was the right to grown were raised and either sold
govern themselves, the right to vote. | from the field or placed in storage. He
The appealing call in the bright morn- | admitted that there might be a few
ing of our country’s birth was taxa- scattered small patches but not enough
tion without representation is tyran- to amount to any great loss. ;
ny, and to-day it leaves Philadelphia |
NO. 49.
Price of Vareism.
i From the Pittsburgh Post.
| Looking over the fatal political
| swath cut by Newberryism among the
{ Republican ' Senators who voted to give
! the Michigan man the seat that cost
| admittedly $190,000, those who arc
i planning to seat William S. Vare
at a cost of $800,000 in the primary
| and a suspicious-appearing vote in the
' election, may be forced to think again.
In the first election following the seat-
{ing of Newberry, twelve of the Re-
! publican Senators who upheld him ap-
peared as candidates. Nine of them
were defeated, some of them in the
primaries. The others ran far behind
their tickets. Forty-six Senators voted
for Newberry. More than thirty of
them are now missing from the Sen-
ate roll. Death took a few, but in
the main the others were defeated on
. the issue of Newberryism. Newberry
himself resigned when he saw how
piblie sentiment was running against
im,
Thus Newberryism defeated not
only its beneficiary, but something
like twenty other Republican Senators.
When a $190,000 campaign expendi-
ture could do that, one of $800,000,
with charges of election frauds in ad-
dition, might naturally be expected
to have a still more sweeping effect
against those who attempt to support
it. Approval of it would give the Re
publican party considerable of a bur-
den to carry in the 1928 Presidential
campaign.
The Republican Senators may in-
deed ask themselves: “What is this
man Vare to the Republican party
that from twenty to thirty or more
Republican Senators should be expect-
. ed to risk their own seats to seat him?
| What is he to the party that it should
allow him to embarrass it in the Pres-
idential election? Seating him would
be at a cost too great to consider.”
In short, not a few of the Republi-
can Senators may ask the Vare outfit
if it takes them for “a bunch of dun-
derheads ?” Sa
Arbitration Pays.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Immediately upon announcement of
the arbitration award of a 7% per cent.
wage increase to the conductors and
trainmen of the Eastern lines there
was -an ~upward - spurt iw ;
stocks of from one to three points.
Foreshadowing similar decisions af-
fecting these and other classes of
labor on all the roads of the country,
the action makes probable an ulti-
mate addition of $60,000,000 annually
to the national railroad payroll. Yet
this prospect has caused, or has been
accompanied by, a sharp advance in
the quotations for railroad securities.
For this phenomenon, agreeably
surprising to investors, there are
logical reasons. A few misguided
speculators took a pessimistic view
because they saw only an increase in
: the burden of operating costs; but the
majority perceived a more than com-
pensating factor in the assurance of a
i long period of industrial peace. Trans-
lating “the arbitration award into
terms of its lasting effects, they cal-
culated that the $15,000,000 represents
only a fraction of the loss that would
be involved if a settlement of the
Eastern wage dispute were sought
through a contest of force, with con-
sequent stoppage of transportation.
Furthermore, they estimate that the
cost will ultimately be absorbed by
more economical and efficient meth-ds
of management and operation, and by
greater productiveness on the part of
labor.
Obviously there is a point beyond
which wage scales cannot be raised
without upsetting the balance in the
industry. But it has been demonstrat-
ed that arbitration, conducted by a
body in which the contesting groups
and the public are equally represent-
ed, is the soundest method of adjust-
ment yet devised.
Sr ———— fr ———
Is a New Hell Needed?
From the Pittsburgh Press.
Modern orthodoxy is seeking a new
“outline of hell,” a picture applicable
to present day understandings which
will be as arresting as was the ter-
rible picture drawn by Dante, with
the wicked suffering the most tortuous
and searing punishments.
That is the meaning of the “repudi-
]
was one. And we had thrust upon us
the best story ever. It was too good
to keep. So we rushed to the back
car, where all the ladies of the party
{ were except one solitary gentleman
whom we shall not identify—and
started to spill the joke. The roar of
“the rattler” could not drown the
stentorian tones we conjured to tell!
the story of “the smoker.” = As we
progressed we noticed two ladies rise
at the rear end of the car and gesticu- |
_late frantically at us. We had some-
thing to tell and didn’t heed them.
After we got all the good news out
of our system, we careened back along
the aisle to our attempted interrupters
and benefactresses to apologize for
not having given the floor to them.
Then came the deluge. They said:
“Why George, that is Mrs. Jerome,
sitting right beside you, when you
were telling of Francie’s faux pas.
And there we were, covered with con-
fusion, because we had made Francie’s
“break” look trifling when compared
to the one we had just spilled.
pectations have been grossly disap-
{ pointed. It seems to have cost well
onto a million dollars to elect the Re-
' publican State tickel, thirty-five Con-
' gressmen and a majority in the Gen-
eral Assembly. Maybe the achieve-
iment will be worth that much money
. to the interests that paid it.
As a philisopher of a former gener-
ation would say, “whither are we
drifting 2?” Political leaders formerly
appealed to the consciences of the
voters. Arguments were employed to
show the merits of candidates and the
value of principles. A candidate for
Governor was liberal if he paid an as-
sessment of a few hundred dollars and
his friends generous if they raised a
few thousands. But then the office
yielded only the salary provided by
law and the contributors got nothing
but “a vote of thanks.” Now there !
cold and indifferent.” |
The Governor’s remarks were listen- '
ed to with deep interest. He wasin a
solemn but militant mood as he.
warmed up to his subject. “The citi- |
zens of Philadelphia or of any com- |
munity,” he continued, “that suffer:
thieves to steal votes, are victims of
tyranny, gang tyranny; they are
dominated and their politics controlled
by a mere handful of politicians who !
have the presumpton and the cunning
to override the will of the masses.”
After describing the suffering of the
Continental army at Valley Forge the |
Governor declared “to-day the de- |
scendants of these men in Philadelphia
have lost the right to vote, not
through lack of spirit, but through |
|
indifference.”
——If the people of Philadelphia
had given the Sesqui the support it
deserved the deficit they must pay
would be much less.
——Probably King Ferdinand, of
Rumania, was only love-sick, caused
by the prolonged absence of his
“sweetie.”
——George Wharton Pepper has
just three months in which to show
why he thought he was a statesman.
——Most of the street railway
owners would be glad if busses were
kept underground altogether.
——President Coolidge “has Con-
gress on his hands” and the whole
are pickings on the side for the offi-| - — President Coolidge reverts to country is nervous about it.
cials and favors worth more than they
cost for the liberal contributors. But
the old custom of having his message |
read by the clerks. It’s probably just |
———p {em ——
——“Rugby” is a foreign product
the ultimate result is menacing. Only as well. Mr. Coolidge is not an Which fails to win the favor of foot-
millionaires can hope for office.
orator.
ball stars on this side.
ation of the doctrine of hell,” by cer-
tain English ecclesiastics. Very Rev.
Howard Chandler Robbins, dean of
the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
in New York, explains that his Eng-
lish fellow-churchmen are done with
the teaching of a literal fire and brim-
stone hell, a doctrine he stamps as
“obsolete as the pearly gates and gold-
en streets and eternal harpings on
harps which still bulk largely in our
hymns about heaven.”
Outlining a new and all-embracing
hell in this age of developing thought
and serious thinking about the future
is practically an impossibility. A new
Dante would be compelled to portray
an individual hell to fit our differing
natures and our varying ideas of what
is punitive. There are hells of lone-
liness, despair, prodding conscience,
remorseful memories and stabbing
pains of the soul.
The little devils who punish with
their instruments a pricking con-
science are more to be feared—be-
cause more real and possible of com-
prehending—than the red-bodied evil
spirits so frequently : pictured with
long and three-pronged toasting forks,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
‘—When George P. Rickabaugh, 38 years
old, a plumber, of Altoona, failed to ap-
pear at his home, neighbors broke inte his
garage and found him dead in his car, sup-
posedly from deadly gas generated while
running the engine.
—Charles E. Ross, 37 years old, died on
Friday night in the Memorial hospital,
Mt. Pleasant, of burns suffered when
showered by molten metal at the plant of
the United States Cast Iron Pipe and
Foundry company, Scottdale. A ladle
tipped on him as he walked under a crane.
—Mrs. Stanley Fultz, 28, of Burnham, is
at Dr. Black's hospital in Lewistown, suf-
fering from poisoning. According to the
statement of Dr. Black she swallowed
forty-five grains of a drug, but has made
no statement as to whether it was taken by
suicidal intent or in error for some other
drug.
—Forty-six years ago Robert W. Blum,
now 67 years old, of York, Pa., was shot in
the right leg while watching a political
parade in that city. The bullet was re-
moved from the flesh on Saturday. It never
caused him any trouble until about a year
ago when pains began to shoot through
the leg. He says he was shot by someone
who discharged a revolver in a noisy Re-
publican parade in the Hancock-Garfield
campaign.
—Disappearance in January of 1916 of
Miss Cora Hewitt, a trained nurse, of
Adams county, then 32 years of age, was
the subject of a hearing before Judge D.
P. McPherson in the Adams county courts
on Monday morning. Miss Hewitt, whose
parents lived in Huntingdon township at
the time of her disappearance, is presumed
to be dead, and an effort is being made by
the woman's mother to secure letters of ad-
ministration for her daughter's estate of
$1141.
—Postoffice inspectors arrested Charles
Green, aged 47, of Harrisburg, a Pennsyl-
vania railroad passenger conductor, on his
arrival in Altoona last Thursday with his
train, Pacific Express, from Harrisburg, on
the charge of robbing a mail storage car.
Green was held in $1,000 bail by United
States Commissioner Walter B. Bartram,
for his appearance at court in Erie, Post-
office inspectors recovered five umbrellas,
silverware, jewelry and clothing which he
is alleged to have taken.
—Posing as plumbers and working in
full view of 50 guests at a hotel across a
narrow alley, thieves looted the store of
Stauffer & Co., in Lancaster, at 8 o'clock
Sunday morning and disapperaed with 59
fur coats, worth $17,000. Arriving in an
automobile bearing a Maryland license,
three men extinguished the oil lamps used
as danger signals at an excavation in the
rear, told bystanders that they were
plumbers and commented on the low tem-
perature under which to start work.
—Rufus Lowe, who lives with his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Rebecca Fulton, 322 East Locust
street, York, Pa., last Friday celebrated his
100dth birthday anniversary. He has
seven children, twelve grandchildren and
one great-grandchild, who assisted in help-
ing him observe the occasion and there was
a family reunion and open house. Lowe
has been a resident of York about twenty-
five years. Hels in fine henlth and spirits.
He attributes his long life to hard work
and sensible living. He was a farmer and
carpenter.
—Members of the Rothrock Memorial
Commission including Major Robert Y.
Stuart, Senator Fred A. Culbertson, George
H. Wirt, Paul Kauffman and the chairman,
BE. J. Stackpole, Sr., made an inspection of
the large boulder and bronze tablet at the
public square at MecVeytown, Saturday.
Certain final treatment was authorized and
some planting will be done around the
base next spring. James Facklin, of Me-
Veytown, has been requested to act in an
advisory capacity with Mr. Kauffman, the
resident member of the commission.
—Ralph Taylor, of Milroy, has been
paroled from the Mifflin county jail by
President Judge Thomas F. Bailey and
Judges Daniel Hartzog and Lawrence
Fultz, in chambers, after serving 45 days
of his six months’ sentence and paying
fifty per cent. of his $500 fine. Taylor was
sentenced on October 16 after Judge Bailey
had turned a deaf ear to several hundred
petitioners of the Kishacoquillas Valley,
who wanted the jail sentence suspended.
Taylor pleaded guilty to misapplication of
funds and falsifying the accounts of the
Milroy Banking company after discovery
of a £15,000 shortage.
—Aroused from slumber by smoke in his
room at 5 o'clock Monday morning, Henry
C. Corl, a wealthy retired merchant of
Myerstown, went to the first floor to find
the kitchen in flames and his wife Cecelia,
aged 78, dead on the floor with her clothing
burned off and parts of the limbs charred.
The cause of the accident is a complete
mystery, the only tenable theory being
that while getting breakfast she became ill
and fell over the stove. The body was
lying in a position suggesting that she
‘was trying to get to the outside door in
her struggle with the flames. Neighbors
responded to an alarm and saved the house
from destruction.
—Arthur Jones, 33, Piteairn, a fireman
on the Pennsylvania railroad, was in the
cab of his engine eastbound near Trafford
City when he thought he saw another
engine also eastbound directly ahead of his
engine. His own train was rapidly bear-
ing down on the one ahead. There was no
engine ahead of his train on the same
track. There was a switch engine on a
track parallel to the track Jones’ train was
on. There was no crash, no wreck, but it
cost Jones his life. Jones, just as he was
certain there was to be a crash, jumped.
He fractured his skull when his head hit
a steel rail. He died on Sunday in the
Columbia hospital, in Pittsburgh.
—Whether or not Lock Haven city will
receive the sum of $4,394.26 for water rent
from the American Aniline Products Com-
pany, Incorporated, for water used by the
company from December, 1924, to date,
depends on the decision handed down by
the State Supreme Court, to which the case
was taken after Judge E. H. Baird, of
Ridgway, dissolved an injunction restrain-
ing the city from shutting off the water
supply from the company, and requiring
the plaintiff to pay the costs. Several years
ago the city council gave the newly estab-
lished plant free water for one year, and
made a verbal recommendation to future
councils to do likewise, when the plant was
taken over by a new firm at the close of
the year. Later eouncils decided to install
a meter and charge for the water at the rate
of 4 cents per 1,000 gallons.