Bewori Walon,
INK SLINGS.
—Having had seven weeks of solid
winter weather the usual January
thaw is on.
—Governor Pinchot is gone, but
leave it to him to see to it that he is
not forgotten.
—The hand-picked plums being all
off the Fisher tree, so far as Centre
county is concerned, the rest of the
lovers of political fruit will have to
be content with wind-falls.
——It seems that every “gold dig-
ger” who has failed to strike “pay
dirt” anywhere else recalls that poor
Ed Browning had done something to
her at one time or another for which
she forgot to collect at the time.
—William Feather says “Many
small profits are usually better and
surer than one big one” and that re-
minds us of a very wise remark that a
successful banker once made to us
when he said: One never gets poor
taking profits.”
—The Senate is on record as against
the President’s opposition to enlarging
the navy and the House rejects a pro-
posed cut in the army. All of which
might have no significance, whatever,
and then, again, it might mean a frost
for that budding third term hope.
—As for us we're utterly devoid of
sympathy for Charlie Chaplin. He
probably isn’t as black as his wife
paints him, but when men as old as he
and “Bunny” Browning go chasing fif-
teen year old girls, no matter what
the girls may be, we suspicion that
they are of very low moral fibre.
—My how times have changed. It
seems only a few years ago that any-
one caught in a Ford car thought it
his duty to apologize for being seen in
such a vehicle and Ford dealers were
few and likewise apologetic. Now,
we notice, that obituary writers are
paying special tribute to the memory
of departed ones who were pioneer
agents of the fliv.
—If we were giving prizes for the
best bits of repartee we hear last
week’s would go to William H. Noll,
Pleasant Gap merchant and former
unusual Commissioner of Centre coun-
ty. He was sitting in this office when
a subscriber dropped in to pay up for
another—rare performance indeed in
these prosperous (?) Coolidge days.
The gentleman who wanted to give us
an iron man and a half remarked that
it might be either a “subscription” or
a “prescription.” And Bill came back
with: “Well if it’s a Republican you're
subscribing for it certainly is a “pre-
scription.” He must have read our
quotation of last week as to what th
Republican friend, in Huntingdon said.
about the Watchman’s politics.
—Having had a very friendly and
cordial relationship with him as a
young man and a real respect for his
later ability as a lawyer and judge it
is quite natural that we should be
pleased with Governor Fisher's selec-
tion of Thomas J. Baldridge, of Hol-
lidaysburg, as the Attorney General of
his administration. Tom will be a
credit to the State, legally, socialy
and sartorialy. We know his taste in
vestments is conservative but costly,
for in the early nineties we started
contributing to them because in those
«ays his alma mater, Bucknell, occa-
‘sionally put the cleaner on State’s foot
ball teams and that always meant that
the other fellow wore the new winter
suit we had intended to strut in.
—1It is needless to say that we have
no regret at the departure of Dr. Ellen
Potter as head of the Welfare Depart-
ment of the State. She was one of
the kind who thinks small town hos-
pitals should be equipped and manned
as are the great institutions in the
larger. cities without a thought of the
relative ability of communities to sup-
port such institutions. It is our idea
that a people ought to be asked to do
what they can do and not what some-
one who knows nothing of their ability
says they “must do.” And we once
had the, pleasure of telling Dr. Potter
that. We trust that Mrs. E. S§ Me-
Cauley, who succeeds to the office of
Secretary of Welfare, will understand
that the problems of the country and
city hospitals are ones that can never
be worked out by the same rules.
—The fact that Bro. Dorworth land-
ed as'a Mr. Secretary indicates that
Dick Beamish, a Pinchot appointee to
the Public Service Commission, will be
ratified by the Senate. The Philadel-
phia Inquirer, on the staff of which
Beamish has been a distinguished
member, wabbled a lot during the Pin-
chot regime. We don’t know whether
it wanted to go over to Gif. or was just
“stringin” him, but he named Beamish
for a position on the Commission and
the political dope was that the new
Senate would not confirm the nomina-
tion. The Elverson interests in Penn-
sylvania politics: are to be reckoned
with, however, and it is evident that
Mr. Mellen thought it good strategy
to let Beamish pass. His confirmation
will put two newspaper men on the
~ Commission and a third would have
been overloading a semi-legal body
with mere pencil pushers so that
is pretty nearly the reason that Centre
county is happy over her political ‘re-
naissance. We can boast now of’. a
Mr. Secretary, a Cabinet officer. There
vould have been more money and a.
onger term in a membership on.the
Public . = Service
‘erred that—but who ever heard ofa’
“politics as that iow
2 ..Commission—and. |
Brother Dorworth might have pre-|
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VOL. 72.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JANUARY 21. 1927.
NO. 3.
Business in Politics.
Every move on the political chess
board since the close of the polls on
the evening of November 2, 1926, cor-
roborates the statement made by Gov-
ernor Pinchot in his annual message
to the Legislature. He said that
monied interests invest in politics to
make money through tax exemption,
extortionate rates of public utilities
and other special privileges. Mr.
Joseph R. Grundy contributed $400,000
to the slush fund used in the primary
election for the purpose of securing
exemption from a tax on manufactur-
ing corporations, and he has been re-
warded in the organization of the Leg-
islature by a personnel which guaran-
tees that result. The same organiza-
tion defeated the same tax legislation
two years ago.
But this year Mr. Grundy is not
satisfied with control of the Legisla-
ture. He aspired to name the Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth and the
Secretary of Labor and Industry.
What his reasons for controlling the
office of Secretary of the Common-
wealth are is left to conjecture. Pos-
sibly it is because that official is close
to the Governor. But the reasons for
his desire to control the Department
of Labor are plain. That office comes
close to the interests of manufactur-
ers. A strict enforcement of the laws
governing the relations between
manufacturers and their employees
might entail considerable expense to
factory owners. Mr. Grundy is a
vigilant trustee of manufacturers’ in-
terests. There were other “big inter-
ests” concerned in the slush fund but
the Mellons are interested only in
financial operations, and the fiscal
activities of the State are divorced
from the administration of the Gov-
ernor. It may be assumed, however,
that the Mellon hand is ready to take
hold of the lever in any or all the
departments in the event there are
signs of wabbling. It may be predict-
ed that Governor Fisher, himself, will
try to administer his office in the in-
terest of the people but an adminis-
tration which=is so completely sub-
merged in business and corporation
hat Gow entering upon its
tenure will have a difficult if not im-
possible task before it.
—On Sunday evening in Philadel-
phia the Jews of that city gave nine-
hundred thousand dollars for charity
in an hour’s time, which would seem
to substantiate a claim that they are
as great at giving as they are at get-
ting. .
The Goverrior’s Certificate.
Governor Pinchot threw a large as-
sortment of confusion into the Vare
organization the other day when he
certified to the apparent election of
Mr. Vare to the Senate. The laws of
Pennsylvania and the rules of the
United States Senate require that as
soon as the votes are counted and filed
in the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth of a State in the elec-
tion of a Senator the Governor shall
transmit a certificate to the Secretary
of the Senate. The law prescribes no
form and the Senate form is optional.
It has been the custom to simply de-
clare that the candidate having re-
ceived a majority of the votes cast
was duly elected. Governor Pinchot
didn’t follow that form.
On the contrary he informed the
official custodian of the Senate roster
that the votes as computed “appeared”
to have chosen Mr. Vare and in a side
letter to the Vice President he said
that Mr. Vare’s majority “was partly
stolen and partly bought.” Naturally
the friends of the candidate put up a
roar. Senator Dave Reed declared
that Governor Fisher would issue a
certificate after his inauguration and
Harry Mackey proposed a mandamus
on Governor Pinchot to compel him to
sign the sort of certificate he desired.
Investigation revealed the fact that
the Governor was clearly within his
rights and the only remedy was to
“grin and bear’ it.” Meantime the
Governor is loaded for future action.
At first view it would seem that the
form of certificate is of little conse-
quence. If there were nothing else to
trouble Mr. Vare concerning his
qualifications for the office he might
pay no attention to the Governor's
certificate. But the Governor knew
what he was doing and men of wide
information on such subjects express
the opinion that the certificate creates
an important bar to Mr. Vare’s admis-
sion to the Senate, The New York
Evening World declares “Never has
any man appeared to take the oath
under such conditions. To seat this
man under these conditions would be
to make the Senate itself a stench in
the nostrils of the people.” All news-
paper comment is on the same line. .
————i tl se
——Governor Fisher has : made a
tolerably ‘clean ‘sweep of the higher
community getting © “cocky” over a!
nere membership on a commission?
‘offices but it is npt certain that he will
carry the policy down the line.
controversy is that Mexico should be
neighbor and the two peoples have in-
Mr. Vare Makes a Silly Bluff.
Mr. Vare makes an absurd appeal to
public credulity in asking that ballot
boxes be impounded in 189 rural elec-
tion districts in Pennsylvania. He
states that he only received 400 votes
in these districts, less than four votes
to the district, and that the same
methods must have been practiced
there as in the zero districts of Phila-
delphia and Pittsburgh. Of course he
knows that votes in the rural districts
were honestly cast and computed. The
rank and file of the Republican party
in the rural districts are honest. The
election officers of his party probably
voted for him, which gave him at least
two or three votes to the district and
possibly the party committemen made
up the average.
In the primary election in May Mr.
Vare carried only two counties in the
State, Philadelphia and Dauphin. In
Dauphin county he was carried along
by the Beidleman-Baker machine, and
though every effort was made to give
him the full vote of the organization
he fell some four or five thousand
behind his running mate. The denun-
ciation of him by the leading men of
his party, notably by W. L. Mellon,
Senator Dave Reed and others, so com-
pletely alienated the honest voters of
his party that even party prejudice,
which is sometimes strong in the rural
districts, could not hold them to his
support. Moreover the high character
of his antagonist influenced thousands
of voters to “cut” Mr. Vare.
Still Mr. Vare is entitled to his little
bluff. He may make himself believe
that he was wronged in the votes of
the 139 country districts for which he
has asked that the ballot boxes be
impounded, and if the investigation
had been made by a partisan commit-
tee it might have created an excuse
for a decision in his favor. But for-
tunately the Slush Fund committee
which is making the investigation is
sufficiently sophisticated to see through
such shallow gestures. - The zero votes
in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh were
the result of fraudulent manipulation
and as such should be condemned by |
all the means . ih i .
votes for Vare in the country were.
expressions of opposition to his.
methods. 3
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—If Vare isn’t seated—and it is
looking more and more each day as
if the Senate will finally reject him—
whom do you suppose Governor Fisher
will appoint to the vacancy? There is
a political problem that those outside
the breast-works think little of, yet
we'll bet that those on the inside have
solved already. In fact, if the truth
could be dragged out, it would reveal
that there will be great disappoint-
ment in certain quarters if the Phila-
delphia boss happens to pry himself
into the Senate.
Red Herring Across the Trail.
Senator Wheeler, of Montana, cor-
rectly appraised the statement of Sec-
retary of State Kellogg with respect
to the Nicaragua affair when he said
it “was drawing a red herring across
the trail.” The Secretary of State
professes to believe that the Soviets
and Communists of Russia and all the
rest of the world are in conspiracy to
get control of the government of the
United States, and that Nicaragua has
been chosen as the theatre of opera-
tions. The Secretary seems to have
impressed some of the Senators and
Representatives in Congress with his
statement. But the best minds were
not influenced by a tale which is not
only impossible but preposterous.
The plain facts are that the govern-
ment of ‘the United States has recog-
nized: a government in Nicaragua
which’ was created by fraud and is
maintained by force supplied by the
administration at Washington. The
main difference between the factions
in Nicaragua is that the Diaz faction
wants to concede control of the banks
and’ railroads, owned by the govern-
ment, to Wall ‘Street, and the other
faction wants to retain control in the
hands of the people It is not alto-
gether surprising that. .a Republican
administration in this country should
sympathize with the interests of Wall
Street, but it is astonishing ' that it
should so openly assert its sympathies.
‘Another curious . thing about the
so suddenly brought into it. The fight
between the factions in Nicaragua has
been going on many years. Mexico is a
terests in common. But during all
the years it has never been charged
that Mexico was supplying either fac-
tion with moral or material support.
The administration at Washington has
recently made the discovery. A recent
change in the land laws of Mexico
threatens to interfere with certain
Mexican oil concessions and a war that
involved both Nicaragua and Mexico
would ‘serve “to kill two birds with one
stone.” The condition might supply a
reason.
Vare Exposing His Attitude.
The insincerity of Mr. Vare’s prom-
ise to aid in the investigation of the
Philadelphia election is revealed in the
first start on Monday to prevent the
impounding of the ballot boxes. When
Senator Reed, of Missouri, chairman
of the Slush Fund committee, proposed
to impound the boxes with a view to
having the votes fairly counted Mr.
Vare promptly expressed willingness
to assist in the work. But when the
court proceedings necessary to accom-
plish the result were begun one of the
Vare lawyers interposed an objection
and when overruled by the common
pleas court, he took an appeal which
it is hoped will hold the matter up
until after the adjournment of the
Senate.
Mr. Vare knows that a count of the
ballots in the twenty wards that gave
him most of his majority would elect
William B. Wilson and thus prove
what Governor Pinchot wrote to the
Vice President that the Vare ma-
jority was “partly bought and partly
stolen.” In other words enough votes
were taken from Wilson in computing
the result and fraudulently added to
Vare to give Wilson a majority in the
State. He came to Philadelphia
with a majority of = about fifty
thousand and a fair count in the
city would have put him in the lead.
Mr. Vare rightly believes that the re-
count of the votes under the auspices
of the Senate Committee will reveal
the facts.
In support of this movement to pre-
vent the removal of the ballot boxes
in the custody of the Sargeant-at-
Arms of the Senate Mr. Vare’s attor-
ney quoted a law to the effect that
“the ballot boxes can only be taken
and opened after the Mayor and
Prothonotary had been called upon by
some court or other tribunal author-
ized to try the merits of an election.”
The Senate committee, he said, is not
such a tribunal. Former Judge James
Gay Gordon, Sr., pointed to the absur-
dity of the whole proceeding because
the electi
Judge Gordon's view and dis-
missed the petition.
——The Canadian boy who won
$25,000 in the Catalina swimming race
may understand the purpose of it but
it is doubtful if any one else has an
idea on the subject.
Council Has Bought a Snow Scraper.
The purchase by Bellefonte council
of a snow scraper for the streets at a
cost of twenty-two hundred dollars
has set up quite a disputation among
the tax payers as to the need of such,
a machine.
It is quite within the range of ex-
perience to say that the number of
times a winter that such a machine
could be useful would not exceed four
or five. In addition to its initial cost
must be added the cost of removing
the snow from the gutters and curbs
after it has been banked up there by
the scraper. For several years the
borough has been doing this on. the
most used thoroughfares, but it will
be found that every section of town
will be calling for the scraper and then
demanding that the snow it piles up
be carted away. a
Whether it was needed or not it
seems to us that council would have
rendered the borough a far better ser-
vice had it saved that twenty-two
hundred dollars for a starter on in-
creasing the storage capacity of the
reservoir. There is a project that is
both needful and economical.
If the reservoir were large enough
to impound enough water for a larger
part of the day’s consumption more
pumping could be done at night, when
the kilowat hour rate for electricity
is lowest, and less pumping would be
necessary in day time when the rate is
highest. .
All will agree that we need more
water storage. Many are convinced
that we didn’t need a snow seraper.
—————g A £2 ere ———
—Now that the borough has bought |
a new snow scraper it will be just like
old mother. nature not to send us
enough snow to give the contraption a
chance to show its stuff.
Vare didn’t get much in the
Fisher lottery but he won’t need much
in the future. When the Senate com-
mittee gets through with him he will
retire to private life.
——1It has been ascertained that
there are more boy than girl babies
born in the United States but more
girls survive the early period of baby-
hood. : .
——Harry Baker’s presence on the
Senate desk is about the only proof
left that there was once an important
faction other than that dominant.
: | on the’endorsement. He did not k
Brother Dorworth Landed His Plun.
| It was not Secretary of Agriculture
i nor was it a place on the Public Service
| Commission that fell into the lap of
: Charles E. Dorworth, editor of the
Bellefonte Republican, when Governor
| Fisher announced his appointments on
| Sunday evening. .
It was, however, the very desirable
job of being Secretary of Forests and
Waters of the State for the next four
years. The position is one that was
dignified to the rank of a Cabinet office
by the reconstruction of governmental
departments by Governor Pinchot. It
carries a salary of $8,000. per year and
its importance is heightened just now
by reason of the fifty million loan pro-
ject for the acquisition -of more forest
lands in the State for forestry and
preserves.
Mr. Dorworth was chairman of the
commission on forests and water
under the Sproul administration so
will not be a stranger to the duties
he will assume. In fact it has been
stated that he has made a very exten-
sive study of the forests and waters
of the State.
The appointment is said to have
been a personal one with the Govern-
or as he and Mr. Dorworth have been
friends ever since the latter was a
political writer on the Philadelphia
Press and the Pittsburgh Times. We
think it was while on the Press that
Mr. Dorworth toured the State with
the late John Wanamaker in his mem-
morable campaign against Quay.
The triumph of Mr. Dorworth neces-
sarily brought about the disappoint-
ment of three other Centre county ap-
plicants for important State offices.
Col. W. F. Reynolds was an appli-
cant for the postion of Secretary of
Highways ia
Prof. R. G. Bressler, of State Col-
lege, was an applicant for the post of
Secretary of Agriculture.
Maj. H. Laird Curtin was an appli-
cant for the position that Mr. Dor-
worth landed in. He was endorsed by
the Pennsylvania Forest Products
Manufacturers Asso., and the State
en and Mill Men went 5:
at the time that Mr. Dorworth was
after the job. In fact the latter wasn’t
after any special place after he dis-
covered that his hope to get on the
Public Service Commission was futile.
As we have said, Gov. Fisher had
him in mind as along time friend and
the Forest and Water berth seemed
the suitable place.
This, of course, made it impossible
for the Governor to do anything more
for Centre county, by way of impor-
tant positions and Col. Reynolds and
Prof. Bressler and Major Curtin know
enough about politics to understand
that the political lightning only hits
one tree in a section.
ET —————— fp ——————
Senator Scott on Ten Commitices.
The organization of the Senate an-
nouncement of committee assignments
reveals that the Hon. Harry B. Scott,
Senator for our District, has been
given ten committee assignments as
well as chairmanship of the important
committee on Public Grounds and
Buildings.
Senator Scott is on appropriations,
banks and building and loan associa-
tions, education, forestry, game and
fisheries, insurance, mines and mining,
public roads and highways and rail-
roads.
As his assignments are to the most
important committees of the Senate
the honor is rather unusual for one
entering upon his first session in that’
body. :
‘Fifteen of ‘the forty-eight Senators
received no committee chairmanship.
——When paying your income tax |
keep in mind the fact that you are
paying more than necessary in order.
that there will be a surplus to boast
of during the next campaign.
Our English Critics.
From the Boston Transcript.
‘Objection to the action of the Unit-
ed States in protecting in Nicaragua
American life ‘and property—or, if
they: ' please, American interests—
comes with very poor grace from the
English newspapers. These papers
are published under a government
which has never hesitated to interfere
to its own advantage in the internal
quarrels of countless weaker nations.
It is the ' immemorial policy of the
British Government ‘to stimulate fae-
tional outbreaks in countries which it
would like to “protect,” and then,
choosing the contestnat in the case who
is: willing to accept its protection, to
interfere in his behalf and take charge’
of affairs. By what other means are
the British in India, in Egypt, in Ar-
abia,; in Zanzibar, in’ Trans-Jordon, in
Fiji, in numerous other countries that
now. acknowledge . their sway? In
reality, Britain dass Monroe Doctrine
which applies to every weak, distant
nation ix: the world where British in-
terests ¢an be cultivated.’
AoA wy lle
:
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The last official act of Governor Pin-
chot was to accept an invitation of the
Wisconsin legislature to address that body
on conservation any time this winter.
—Two armed bandits held up Morris
Baker, proprietor of a saloon in Erie, on
Saturday, and robbed him of $1500 in cash
and a ring valued at $500. They over-
looked $3,000 he was carrying in one of
his pockets.
—While Wiliam C. Redmond was driving
his automobile to a creamery at Sunny-
burn, York county, he was overcome by a
heart attack, stopped his car and died.
Charles Ademire, a boy, who was in the
car, did not realize what had happened.
He shook Redmond, and when the man
failed to revive he called for aid.
—The only divorce granted by the Mif-
flin county courts during the January term
was that of William A. McNitt, one of the
poor directors of Mifflin county, a farmer
during his entire life time who took a sec-
ond venture on the matrimonial sea. One
of his chief objections to wife No. 2 was
that she took treatments from the ‘“rub-
bin” doctors or osteopaths.
—Sunbury police are looking for a trim
and attractive blonde of 25, who wore a
fur coat, approached merchants in that city
and asked to have checks cashed, after
buying a small quantity of merchandise.
In five instances she gave her name as Mrs.
James H. Dean, and pocketed the change.
All checks were for $50, and were made
payable to her by James H. Dean.
—Suit for $25,000 damages, charging
false arrest and imprisonment, has been
filed in Erie county against George D.
Baldwin, Erie realtor and building con-
tractor, by John Garanes, former restau-
rant owner. Garanes alleges he was ar-
rested on complaint of Baldwin on a
charge of larceny but that the latter was
unable to prove the charge at the hear-
ing.
—Fire of undetermined origin destroyed
the piling department of the Logan Iron
and Steel Company plant at Burnham on
Saturday. The building was 200 by 70
feet and housed the cold shears and other
machinery used in piling scrap for ihe
puddling furnaces. The loss was $20,000
covered by insurance. Two hundred men
will be thrown out of employment indef-
initely.
—~Seized with a paralytic stroke when
she attempted to go out of her kitchen door
for wood on Saturday, Mrs. Anna Shultz,
a widow, of York, Pa., living alone, fell in
the doorway. She remained there several
hours when a neighbor discovered her and
brought help. It was found that the body
had been frozen stiff. Mrs. Shultz was
about 76 years old and is survived by a
daughter.
—Her mind unbalanced by mental col-
lapse, Miss Cora Bickell 49, Union town-
ship, Snyder county, committed suicide by
setting fire te a stable and leaping into the
flames. Her charred bones were found in
the smouldering ruins. The woman had
previously set fire to her own home and
almost perished before rescued by her half
brother, Harry Flotz, who was seriously
burned in saving her.
—Mgcre than 100 farmers who market
fresh produce have decided to lease the
will establish a de luxe market and will
install the most modern equipment. Pre-
liminary plans call for the establishment
of a nursery, where mothers can leave their
children in care of a nurse while they mar-
ket for the family larder. ‘ .
Mrs. Daniel Lahr, 49, mother of his nine
children, died at Sunbury the victim of her
husband’s bullet. It was fired in the
kitchen of their Mandata home as they
their Sunday meal. He wanted it and she
did not. Lahr, in Jail at Sunbury, when
told by Warden Reitz that his wife died,
replied: “I don't believe it,” flung himself
on his cot and buried his head in the
covers. ’ ’
John Devlin, of Phoenixville, was sentenced
Tuesday morning when he was arraigned
hefore Judge Hause in the Chester connty
court. The police charged that he struck
his mother with a milk bottle while intox-
icated. When called to plead guilty he de-
clared he was not guilty of this charge.
Questioned as to why he wanted to enter a
plea, he declared “my father did this to
keep me away from the house. I never
touched my mother. I picked up a milk
bottle and it dropped on the floor. She
slipped and fell.” : 5
~It wasn’t such a terrible thing fer his
wife to use certain parts of his body as a
target for knives, but when she insisted on
béing a waitress at a Brownsville hotel,
Charles A. Black, of 206 Catherine avenue,
South Brownsville, objected. Black said he
earned from $200 to $300 a month as a rail-
road, engitieer and that his wife had enough
to do at home. Black alleged that his wife
threw knives, an alarm clock, fruit dish
and chairs at him, but as is characteristic
of women, she was a poor shot. Later
when she obtained a position as waitress,
the husband objected and Mrs. Black de-
parted from home, taking nearly all the
furniture with her. : Hilal ,
—A 70-year-old hermit, known by the
name of “Joe,” was dragged from his cave
in West Conshohocken by State police on
Saturday and sent to prison by Magistrate
Clark, of Norristown, for . observation.
Owners of the ground on which the cave
is located had him dislodged because they
wanted to level the land and make im:
provements. He has lived there for twelve
found him. The only light was from a
Wood in large quantities was piled in the
cave and when asked by the police how he
obtained food he told them he ate rats and
cats which he caught in a trap. !
—Death from a broken heart was the
of Mrs. Margaret Ignotz, who died ‘in a
hospital. at Coatesville, last week, after re-
ment. Three months ago Mrs. Ignotz left
the home of wealthy psrents in Hungary
and came to: this country to wed .John
Ignotz, who had represented himself to her
as a professor of languages:in the public
schools, of Coatesville. She. discovered he
was. a steel mill worker and lived in hum-
ble surroundings. - One week" later 'she
signified. her intention to return to Hun-
gary. The husband .became: enraged and
shot her. He then ended his own life. Mrs.
Ignotz was wounded only slightly. Grief
stricken at the tragic end of the romance,
.she grew melancholy and frequently wishes
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ed to die.
first-floor of “tire: Awcade garage; bir Lanca§s Sen
"| ter, av an amnual rental of $20,000. They
were arguing over having ice cream for
_..—Pleading guilty of beating his mothes,
to serve six months in the county jail on
years and wore nothing when the officers .
small fire which. he had to keep warm.
verdict written by physicians. in. the case
fusing for several weeks to take nourish-